How to Use

Personal Messages Take time at the beginning of each day

with the daily lesson.
(It is preferable to align the lesson
with the particular day of the year
i.e. Lesson 1 on January 1...)
Having spent time allowing the lesson to be activated in you,
Lessons 1 to 60 taking particular note of all instructions within each lesson,
read the appropriate message presented here. These messages
arose in response
to my application of each lesson.
- The Jubilee Lessons – They simply assist in opening the mind
to facilitate broader application.
A Taste of Freedom
May their expression enhance your commitment.

In LOVE . . .

Part 1 – The Undoing of the Ego

To be used daily in conjunction with
Lessons 1 to 60

Sound B.as.is Publishing

Copyright (C) Barbara Eastwell 2011
Email: eastwell.barbara@gmail.com
Web site: www.soundbasis.com.au

The Workbook of A Course in Miracles

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 The First Fifty Lessons – in groups of seven. Review of fourth group of seven lessons
1. Nothing I see means anything. 29. LOVE is in everything I see.
2. I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me. 30. LOVE is in everything I see because LOVE is in my mind.
3. I do not understand anything I see. 31. I am not the victim of the world I see.
4. These thoughts do not mean anything. 32. I have invented the world I see.
5. I am never upset for the reason I think. 33. There is another way of looking at the world.
6. I am upset because I see something that is not there. 34. I could see Peace instead of this.
7. I see only the past. 35. The mind of the Self that I AM is part of LOVE. I am very holy.
Review of first group of seven lessons Review of fifth group of seven lessons.
8. My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. 36. Holiness/Innocence envelops everything I see.
9. I see nothing as it is now. 37. Holiness/Innocence blesses the world.
10. My thoughts do not mean anything. 38. There is nothing my holiness/Innocence cannot do.
11. My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. 39. Holiness/Innocence is my salvation.
12. I am upset because I see a meaningless world. 40. I am blessed as an expression of LOVE.
13. A meaningless world engenders fear. 41. LOVE goes with me wherever I go.
14. LOVE did not create a meaningless world. 42. LOVE is my Strength. Vision is LOVE’s gift.
Review of second group of seven lessons Review of sixth group of seven lessons.
15. My thoughts are images which I have made. 43. LOVE is my Source. I cannot see apart from LOVE.
16. I have no neutral thoughts. 44. LOVE is the Light in which I see.
17. I see no neutral things. 45. LOVE is the Mind with which I think.
18. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing. 46. It is from LOVE that I forgive.
19. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts. 47. LOVE is the Strength in which I trust.
20. I am determined TO SEE. 48. There is nothing to fear.
21. I am determined TO SEE things differently. 49. LOVE’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.
Review of third group of seven lessons. Review of seventh group of seven lessons.
22. What I see is a form of vengeance. 50. I am sustained by LOVE Itself.
23. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.
24. I do not perceive my own best interests. Review of entire fifty lessons over ten days of Review
25. I do not know what anything is for.
26. My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
27. Above all else I want TO SEE.
28. Above all else I want TO SEE things differently.

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 1. Nothing I see means anything. 2. I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me.

Remember, this is the ONLY lesson for this day. This lesson is the foundation stone for forgiveness and healing.
So, focus on it alone. Since I decide on the meaning of everything I see . . .
See everything that happens today through this lesson. I can set aside this subjective meaning . . .
Don‛t look ahead wondering what tomorrow‛s lesson will be? and allow the meaning of everything to be shown to me.
Stay with the moment. Today‛s lesson is a small step in the direction of release from
limitation . . . and the return to the freedom of wholeness.
Each time I remember to apply the lesson today,
This process of thought reversal occurs step-by-step.
I am expressing my willingness
It takes discipline . . . and my mind is still undisciplined.
to partake of this mind training,
Effort IS required . . . though excessive effort
which leads to a complete reversal in perception,
is a ploy of the self-identity . . . in the name of spirituality.
the miracle that restores true SEEING . . . or Vision.
When I become impatient, disappointed
or stressed with my apparent “progress”,
The statement, “Nothing I see means anything” negates
I am listening to the voice of the self-identity, the voice of judgment,
the self-identity‛s offering of personal, separate individual
whose purpose IS to discourage . . .
meanings. As the mind begins to open
an attempt to lead to abandonment of this mind training.
with the activation of this very first lesson, this
statement, “Nothing I see means anything” is now seen as
These early lessons may seem too trivial and simple
a solution
to give them full value.
rather than being seen as
Yes, they are simple. Truth IS simple.
a problem or obstruction or limitation.
The ego, the self-identity, IS the worship of complexity . . .
Complexity is a distraction from the simplicity of the Reality of LOVE.
Giving these lessons full value
allows me to receive full value from the lessons.

So, with this lesson, I begin to see why

“Nothing I see means anything”.
I give everything meaning from my subjective past experience . . .
from my choice of responses or reactions
to every situation, character and thing
that moves through my field of potential.
The experiences that I catalogue are stored in memory as a record
of these choices of response or reaction.
It is from this record bank or framework that I allot meanings,

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 and I certainly HOLD FAST to the meanings I give.
I admit that I have actually worshipped my opinions . . .
even though at times I have known
that they have no sure foundation.
Yet, it is still always MY choice
to refuse or to accept a particular perception. As I
let go my allegiance to this bank of responses,
I am free of the bondage it offers me.
Now, I am free to allow a meaning to be given me . . .
a current meaning . . . one that has no past reference,
yet is applicable to the given situation . . .
offsetting the particular package of beliefs which comprises my self
identity . . . my world. It takes a miracle . . . a reversal of
perception . . .
to invite, allow and embrace this true meaning
which ALWAYS restores me to Peace . . . through forgiveness,
which is . . . letting all things be exactly as they are
without judgment. . . in fact . . . prior to judgment.
And, what is my part?
As I call on the Holy Spirit of LOVE . . . my link to Source . . .
which I have kept hidden . . . have avoided . . .
asking for LOVE‛s response to each moment,
LOVE‛s meaning is revealed to me.
I know that it is true . . . when I discover the Peace of LOVE in it.
Peace always accompanies what is of true value . . .
for what IS of true value has no need of defence . . .
always resting in Peace.
As I go to rest at the end of the day,
I call on the Holy Spirit of LOVE
to guide my thinking during the night,
allowing the night ‘dreams‛ to be effective opportunities
for any necessary correction or consolidation to be offered to me . . .
as surely as the day ‘dream activities‛
are my school for learning during the day.
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3. I do not understand anything I see.
While I think that I understand, I am not open
to receiving the true meaning from the Spirit that is LOVE.
So, this lesson requires that I step back . . .
and remember that I do not understand anything that I see from the
distorted thinking base that I set up in mind . . .
the thinking that denies the Reality of LOVE . . .
the thinking that desires to oppose LOVE‛s meaning.
As I experience any disturbance in my day . . .
feel the slightest twinge of annoyance . . .
THAT is the time . . .
to remember that I do not know the meaning of whatever
seems to be happening in my story. See myself as a baby in
understanding.
Ask that my mind be innocent and open as a baby‛s.
As I relax in the Peace of LOVE,
knowing that as my mind is healed
of stubbornly identifying all situations, of stubbornly asserting that
it already knows and understands, this letting go opens the way for
true understanding to be received, for it IS already given.
What I think that I understand is recognised as coming
from a past reference, which came from another past
reference, which came from a belief
which came from an opinion that I chose
when I first responded or reacted to a similar situation . . .
and, in order to be safe . . .
set it up as an automatic answer or understanding that I could rely on.
I then set this storehouse in stone, to be defended at all costs.
What imprisonment! What limitation! How fearful!
The distorted view of the self-identity places great value
on one who exhibits “understanding”.
 Arrogance is seen as self-assurance.
Self reliance is idolised.
So, this world that I have made out of distorted thinking
puts on a pedestal . . . “understanding how to do things” . . .
having systems which work . . . being efficient . . . being organised.
Yet this demand by me that I must understand “how things are” is
the very barrier to allowing the Truth of LOVE to be revealed as it
is right now – always has been – and always will be!
Instead of being afraid . . .
to admit that I do not understand anything I see, why not simply
be joyous in NOT understanding? This IS the road to freedom.
The self-image is horrified by the admission
that I do not understand anything I see. It
sees its throne of superiority topple
and it sees its ideas being knocked off their pedestals.
It sees its own powerlessness.
Its control is being eroded.
This denial of what the self-image offers . . . hierarchy of value . . .
IS asking for the Truth that only LOVE reveals . . .
which, to the ego, the self-image, appears to be death.
Yet, why would I choose a fantasy over Reality?
Why would I choose limitation over limitlessness?
By handing direction over to the Holy Spirit that IS LOVE . . .
to bridge the apparent gap between illusion and Truth . . .
I receive the understanding . . .
the guidance of LOVE . . . in everything . . .
SEEING everything through eyes of forgiveness.
My part is to be still . . . to step back . . .
and to ask for true understanding . . .
always seeking the direct experience
of the Truth according to LOVE alone.
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4. These thoughts do not mean anything.
What a parade of thoughts runs through my mind!
What a shock to discover
that though I evaluate thoughts as ‘good‛ and as ‘bad‛, yet I am
told that the ‘good‛ make sight difficult, while the ‘bad‛ make
sight impossible.
So neither offers me true Sight . . . Vision. The ‘good‛
make true seeing a struggle, and the ‘bad‛ make true
seeing impossible.
Is this what I would choose? Struggle TO SEE truly?
or face the impossibility of SEEING truly . . . at all?
Yet, all the time, these thoughts are meaningless?
What I think I am thinking
with the mind that opposes LOVE, the self-identity‛s thought system,
is merely a substitute for the real Thoughts that I think with LOVE,
the LOVE that I AM as created.
The thoughts that I have considered to be meaningful are
meaningless unless they come from LOVE . . . and I do not
know what LOVE is until I let go of the meaning I have placed
on LOVE . . . and let it be shown to me.
When I add emotion to my meaningless thoughts,
I place another barrier to my freedom.
I become trapped in the emotion . . . giving it Reality,
and set up beliefs about what I am
based on these emotional patterns arising from meaninglessness.
This takes me one step farther away
from owning the meaningless thoughts,
as I become distracted by the emotion I have attached to them.
The only Power my meaningless thoughts have is the
Power that I give TO them. So, if I simply let them go,
they are powerless as well as meaningless.
 It behoves me to check the source of my thinking. Am I
coming from fear, lack, loss, pain, my idea of LOVE?
If so, I have the Power to proclaim, “No, not that!”
and ask to be shown from a true source . . . LOVE Itself.
While these thoughts run rampant apart from awareness,
I become a victim of my own thinking, and cannot SEE beyond.
They become my “reality”. Yet they are not real.
I have simply decided they are real.
I have bought their sales pitch.
As I hold on to meaningless thoughts, I
am not aware of what is meaningful.
Meaning waits for me to wake up to the meaninglessness of my
own pathetic, limited thoughts . . . which are discovered to be,
in fact, nothing at all.
First observe the frantic pace of the meaningless thoughts . . .
and the pedestal on which I place my little ideas
in worship of my self-image . . . my self-concept.
As I SEE and accept their meaninglessness, I
am open to the thoughts
which emanate from what is true . . . LOVE Itself. But, until I
actually experience and acknowledge the source of my limited
thinking, I am convinced that the world that I made with these
thoughts is real.
Judging myself for having meaningless thoughts
is simply a plan of the self-identity to keep me in judgment.
So, I hand over to the Spirit of LOVE,
and ask to be shown what is real . . . what has true meaning.
This appears daunting . . . as I see that my entire belief system
Quite a simple part, often seen as being too small and
insignificant . . . to be of any real value. Don‛t be fooled.
That is simply another meaningless thought
presenting itself . . . to maintain false perception.
Everything that I have held dear is now seen to have no value at
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5. I am never upset for the reason I think.
This lesson is presented in such a gentle way.
Nothing is excluded from learning
that “I am never upset for the reason I think”.
The pivotal idea presented is that the form of the upset
does not matter . . . so different from what I have
accepted. In the past, I have perceived countless
forms . . .
all keeping me busy sorting ‘problems‛ that I make up.
In fact, they are all equally upsetting.
Thinking that is self-orchestrated demands frantic activity
as a distraction . . . from the natural state of Peace.
Accepting that there could BE a problem . . .
that something other than LOVE could exist . . .
thus calling something a problem . . . is easily solved.
Simply acknowledge there is ONLY LOVE . . .
no matter how a situation may be interpreted . . .
I am given the opportunity to admit what
“seems” to be real TO ME in the moment,
yet am reminded me that “seeming” is NOT Reality.
I do not need to remain transfixed by my ideas of upset . . .
which have ruled my day-to-day experience.
I need to be patient with myself in this process
of undoing this belief in “problems” that I have held
which has bound me to meaninglessness . . .
this belief that I have defended “to the hilt”.
around the idea of problems is being eroded away,
as I welcome the powerful idea that only LOVE is real.
Problem solving has been the foundation of my life story, and
it is now being shown to be a futile foundation.
all. How encouraging to hear that my part is simply
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 to be willing to be shown . . .
that the world of problems that I think is real is NOT so . . .
that all that is asked of me is a little willingness to be shown that all
forms of upset are the same idea . . .
that upset is a valid response to what I perceive is opposing.
Upset is simply a perception . . . a judgment of “what is”.
resentment, unmet expectations, and so on . . . all the same idea of
This is our first peek at cause and effect.
First I imagine or perceive . . .
then the perceived is confirmed . . . by my experience.
And yet this lesson denies neither
the apparent source of the upset nor my
feelings as I experience the upset.
In the about-turn . . . the undoing . . .
nothing that “seems” to be part of my experience is denied . . .
but is used by the Spirit of LOVE to lead me
beyond the many forms that perception comes up with . . .
to the simplicity of the Truth of LOVE . . .
underlying the fragmentation that perception offers.
From the fear that arises as I first look at this idea,
and recognise that nothing that I have established AS real IS real,
it takes practice to learn that every form of upset is an equally
unreal judgment . . .
Finally, I call on Peace to replace the upset.
Upset comes in many forms . . . anger, hatred, jealousy, pride,
“upset”.
This process of discovery calls for gentleness.
There is no need for any control or manipulation on my part . . .
for LOVE leads me through in the perfect timing . . .
transforming my mind till it SEES no problems . . . SEES ONLY LOVE.
It is important, therefore, to follow the instructions impeccably.
It is very easy to skip over and think I have “done” the lesson.
As I honour each word of instruction,
I receive the fullness of the message offered.
I stay in gratitude for the ever-present guidance given me,
remembering that nothing IS against OR in opposition.

When I feel the slightest bit upset – as I remember to say, “I am

never upset for the reason I think”,
I am replacing the meaningless thought
that I KNOW the reason that I am upset . . .
as I willingly step back . . . and am shown
that I really do NOT know the reason that I am upset.
I discover that, in fact, there IS no reason TO BE upset.

LOVE IS eternally changeless.

What HAS value . . . is changeless LOVE.
Yet, all within time and space changes.
So all that appears to change HAS no value . . . IS not real. This idea
is foreign . . .to the pattern of thinking that I have embraced as the
trusted source of my perceived reality. Only through the guidance of
LOVE
can I begin to discern the real from the unreal,
the true from the false.
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 6. I am upset because I see something that is not there.
Through these ideas being presented, I am facing ideas
which have formed the very basis of my perception of Reality.
And it is all about my seeing . . . the source of my seeing . . .
Nothing I see means anything
except what I have already decided it means.
And that meaning I have given it fits in
with all the other ideas and beliefs that I have decided are true.
So I keep confirming my picture of reality by supporting it with
the meaning that I offer everything.
Well, that being so . . . then of course I do not understand
anything I see, because I do not know what anything means, apart
from the meaning that I have given it. So, how can I possibly
understand what I see, when my seeing is amiss, is false,
and therefore not truly understandable?
Till now, I have worshipped my thoughts.
However, for most of the time, with an untrained mind,
I am not even aware of many of my thoughts.
I am used to going about my day quite mindlessly.
When I realise that Life IS thought . . .
I begin to see that I am constantly thinking.
Yet, I am not aware of most of these thoughts.
At least, I am not aware of the source of these thoughts.
I am not present to them OR their source.
Now I am discovering my lack of willingness to recognise
that my “upsetness” arises from unconscious thoughts.
I am not aware that I have been ‘thinking‛
till I have an emotional response or reaction.
And by then, I am not aware of the source of the ‘thinking‛ that
resulted in the upset.
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Hence, I acknowledge that these thoughts
are as meaningless as the things that I see.
The only meaning they have
IS the meaning that I have assigned to them.
By this time I AM feeling upset.
The foundation of my world is falling apart.
Nothing that I have relied on ‘as being so‛ really has a leg to stand on.
So, of course, I am upset.
I am being tipped off my set position . . . and I feel threatened.
Yet I am assured that I am NEVER upset for the reason that I think.
So, no matter what the form of the upset, it is all the same thing.
I am being turned upside down from my set perception of what is so.
This is where I need the guidance of the Spirit of LOVE . . .
to discern the real from the unreal . . .
the real from the illusion . . . the real from the dream.
In discovering that every time I am in a state of upset, I am
seeing something that is not there . . . this idea begins to
make sense to me.
I must be deciding that something is in opposition to my idea, that
something is against me.
So I decide that I had better defend myself against this apparent
threat . . . that I had better fix the situation, till it fits in with my
chosen ideas.
I think this will solve the problem that I perceive.
I want to play “god”. I want to be in control.
So, I choose to be upset . . . and come up with a reason for the upset
which, in my eyes, will validate this state of unhappiness. I will thus be
justified in my upset.
I would rather be right than happy.
And then, of course, I continue to try to fix
what I have decided . . . is outside me . . . apart from me . . .
whether it be a person . . . or a situation . . . rather than go
to the source of the images that I see . . . my perception . . .
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and ask to see the situation differently . . . without judgment. 7. I see only the past.
So, what I am seeing with the body‛s eyes is not really there.
The first fifty lessons are grouped in seven sets of seven lessons
It is simply a projected perception
with the fiftieth lesson as the Jubilee Lesson . . . celebrating
whose purpose is to validate my current, acquired view
freedom from slavery to judgment.
of the world . . . of myself . . . of others.
Lesson 7 begins by recapping the first six lessons . . .
The energy required to be upset is a distraction from the Peace
showing that all seven lessons are related.
that is inherent in me . . . the Peace that IS what I AM.
All seven ideas come together as one . . .
In the instant that I have a thought of war, of upset, the
thought of Peace is always available for me to choose. When I in line with the purpose of the exercises . . .
deny that I am responsible for my thoughts, then I see myself which is to train the mind in a systematic way
as a victim of my thinking. to a different perception of everything in the world.
In fact, when I recognise that I have the Power to choose the
Ideas about sequential or linear time are now introduced.
thoughts that I entertain, then I am acknowledging my
responsibility for my state of mind, whether it be of Peace, or All these ideas that I have taken for granted
of upset. are being put forward to be looked at.
So, any reasons that I may come up with for the upset I begin to see how accustomed I am
that I experience in any moment . . . is a distraction . . . to viewing everything from a past reference.
from the decision . . . the choice . . . that I can make I attempt to slot everything in to my vault of references
TO SEE the situation differently . . . based on past choices, decisions, opinions and beliefs. That has
thereby choosing Peace instead of upset. always been my practice.

It is now time to look at that practice . . .

and see just how flawed it is.
The past is over . . . until I hold on to it . . .
and keep it as my reference point for future decisions.
Where is the present moment in this practice?
There IS neither past. . . nor future . . .
when present in the Presence of this present moment.
IN the present moment . . . all of time, past and future, collapses.
A glimpse of eternal timelessness is in this moment.
This decision to be fully present has NOT been my practice.
This calls for mind training.
Active practice of the ideas presented is essential.
It takes commitment for this training to bear fruit.
This commitment begins with a little willingness.
Noting all responses and reactions in the mundane daily activities . . .

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 becomes the practise . . . for activating these ideas. My
commitment, my willingness draws to me situations in
which the practice is best able to be implemented.
Then, it is up to me whether I use each scenario to install
this new program of response . . . this program of forgiveness,
or whether I forget it . . . and fall into my old practised way . . .
relying on the past to interpret the present . . .
the patterns that I have established
to deal with opportunities presented.
In my willingness to let go of this old pattern,
to let go of using the past to give meaning to the present . . .
which has only imprisoned me in my self-constructed world, I
discover that holding on to the past,
trusting the past as my guide, IS unforgiveness.
Instead . . . I am being guided to forgive . . .
to accept all . . . exactly as it is . . . without interpretation . . . not
So, having first considered objects (only according to my
coloured by my ideas . . . without judgment . . . right here, right now!
Without the past . . . I am free of all grievances . . .
for all grievances are sourced in past judgment, past opinion . . .
I am free to BE here NOW in the fullness of forgiveness . . .
where I simply await the answer to my call to LOVE
to reveal to me the true meaning of what seems to be occurring.
There is NOW no place to go . . . nothing to do . . . nothing to think . . .
except as directed by LOVE Itself.
understand anything that I see or think, why do I get upset? why am I
Giving no power to either past or future frees me . . .
to listen within to true direction . . .
acknowledging LOVE as the Source
of all that is of true value . . .
acknowledging that, as created . . .
I AM eternally the extension and expression
of LOVE Itself . . . Life Itself . . . whole and complete in Self.
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First Review
Seven lessons:
1. “Nothing I see means anything.”
2. “I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me.”
3. “I do not understand anything I see.”
4. “These thoughts do not mean anything.”
5. “I am never upset for the reason I think.”
6. “I am upset because I see something that is not there.”
7. “I see only the past.”
What an idea to begin the undoing of an erroneous thought system.
I am introduced to the idea that nothing that I see means anything.
Since I have given everything that I see
the meaning that I perceive in it . . .
nothing that I see IS really understandable . . .
except on my terms, which are totally unreliable.
interpretation) as examples of what I see,
I then look at thought forms, which in fact
are the cause of what I see in objective form.
Of course, they, too, do not mean anything.
I am being helped to clear my mind of all past associations in
order TO SEE things exactly as they are now,
and TO SEE that, in fact, I understand nothing about anything. Since
nothing that I see or think really means anything, and since I don‛t
not at Peace?
Based on my thinking,
which I have just discovered is meaningless,
I come up with a reason that I think calls for upset.
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 So why am I upset?
Because what I think I see,
my interpretations or opinions
of what I see, or what is happening,
IS NOT SO, for it is subjective . . .
based on the past . . . not a sound basis for trust.
Though nothing that I see or think means what I think it means . . .
I am reminded that my real thoughts, the only thoughts of value . . .
are being covered up by my meaningless thoughts.
So it IS comforting to know that I am being led to their uncovering,
in order to find true meaning and understanding.
The trump card that reveals WHY what
I see and think is meaningless IS . . .
“I see only the past.”
All my interpretations
from my personal seeing, my personal view, both
with my eyes and with my thinking (my imaging),
are based on past reference.
I see nothing but my thoughts projected outward . . .
and those thoughts are based
on past judgments . . . NOT on forgiveness. Past judgments are thus
meaningless NOW in the context of forgiveness. My mind has been
blank . . .
yet entertaining meaningless thoughts.
What I thought was there was not there . . .
And, since the past consists of my own projected images, which
a pivotal idea for opening the way to Vision . . .
true SEEING . . . based on forgiveness.
that I maintain in order to keep me safe from the present purity
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8. “My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.”
What a breakthrough!
So, what I think I see is only the product of
my own image-making . . . projected outward.
What I think I see are images of responses
that I have experienced, placed in a memory bank,
and added to with each new experience, and each new response.
I deposit all responses and reactions into this bank.
My world is made up of the projections of these images
that I have constructed and maintained as real.
In my honesty, I admit that I am preoccupied with the past.
The past is all that I see in my world. Yet, my past
consists of my projections that are now stored in
memory.
So in fact . . . I see nothing.
Yet, here I AM now. Where IS that? Where IS now? My
now comes from my preoccupation with past ideas, which I
attempt to convince myself is valid now.
I do this to avoid being here now . . . without a past. This
that I call present is totally coloured by my past thoughts
and associations, which are personally determined, so are
totally limited.
In fact, I actually bypass now.
I remain in a past which is over and done.
are based on my opinions
. . . the innocence . . . the neutrality of now . . . I really do see
nothing. The most I can say is,
“I seem to be seeing ……” “I seem to be thinking about….”
Asking to be shown what is really of value . . .
is practising letting go of the past . . . all the meanings
that I have attributed to everything and everyone.
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 While my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts,
there is no room for the Truth of LOVE, of Peace . . .
the essence of all that is real . . . to emerge.
In declaring that I seek direct experience of Truth alone, I
am occupying my mind with an opening
for LOVE . . . for Peace . . . to be revealed.
I am able to be here now without the constant dialogue of past
ideas, opinions and beliefs, ramming down my throat judgments
of whatever is seemingly occurring.
I see that being free is always one thought away.
I SEE that stopping . . . stepping back . . .
and asking to be shown . . . to be given direction by LOVE Itself,
is really very quiet . . . still . . . even easy . . .
I begin to let go of the idea that I am on a journey TO LOVE . . .
with a very long future ahead before arriving home IN LOVE . . .
AND that this journey must be a struggle.
I am struck by the simplicity of the Truth of LOVE . . .
this “process” has no time in it . . . for LOVE is always present.
As my preoccupation with the past falls away, I am freed of all
the baggage of my self-constructed world of ideas . . . which
have only ever kept me from the Innocence . . . the purity
of the LOVE of THIS forgiven moment . . .
uncontaminated by my judgments . . . so timeless.
Within this particular set of seven lessons,
I am being led through another turnaround in my thinking,
emerging with the final offering . . . “I see only the past.”
An undoing IS taking place . . . all IS being exposed . . .
nothing on any “level” of my self-constructed world
IS being left out.
Restoration to the LOVE that IS Creation is complete
with the removal of all hidden agendas . . .
all vestiges of residual conflict and opposition
to LOVE‛s eternal Presence.
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9. “I see nothing as it is now.”
There is a change occurring.
I am aware that everything that I have trusted as being so . . .
every idea that I have gathered to myself as sacrosanct . . .
in fact, my entire thought system . . . is being shown have no real basis.
It has no sound foundation.
There is actually no valid, changeless foundation to it at all.
I begin to reel with the implications of these ideas.
This is all part of the falling away
of the way that I have been seeing . . .
the way that I have been viewing everything.
It is experienced as a period of shattering!
I have not been SEEING anything but the projection of
images from my memory bank. It is dawning on me . . . that I
see ONLY the past . . .
that in fact, my mind is preoccupied with projections of the past
from the point of view of a separate identity, which has no reality,
being itself a conglomeration of projections.
Everything that I think I see . . . is rooted in time . . .
and depends on my NOT learning these new ideas.
My mind cannot grasp the present . . . the only time that is real. So,
of course, my mind cannot understand time, or in fact, anything,
since all my ideas come from a past which is not here . . .
and yet these ideas are accepted as the basis for the future.
Do I find myself thinking about the past? Of course! So,
I actually think about what is not here? I‛m delusional?
How often is my mind blank?
How often am I picturing the past or anticipating the future?
That is how often my mind is blank!
Through this mind training, I am learning to recognise
when my mind is not thinking at all . . .
that is, when I am preoccupied with the past or the future . . .
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I am beginning TO SEE that I have always avoided just being here now.
The discovery that my mind has been blank,
rather than being filled with real ideas,
is the very first step to opening the way to Vision.
Once again, the word “seem” clarifies this.
Has my mind been actively resisting the idea
that what seems to be pictured before it is, in fact, not there? Have I
found myself saying, “But what about . . . ?” All I am asked to do is
apply each idea.
I am simply given a daily instruction . . . with steps to be taken.
Am I taking them? I am assured that each step
will clear away a little of the darkness.
Do I feel threatened by the idea
that I do not understand anything that I see?
I am assured that understanding will finally come to
lighten every corner of mind that has been cleared
of the debris that seemed to darken it.
Applying the lessons in the mundane situations that arise
throughout each day, regardless of my response or reaction
to the perceived outcomes of applying them,
IS this very clearing away of the debris.
Be gentle on myself. Trust.
I have asked for the direct experience of the Truth of LOVE alone.
What I have requested is already mine . . . claimed in the asking.
Nothing is against. There is no opposition.
LOVE simply is the answer to all doubt . . . to all question.
I AM the Creation of LOVE.
There is no Power apart from LOVE Itself.
Nothing IS apart from LOVE.
Forgiveness is letting all things BE exactly as they are now . . .
minus judgment . . . which is always from the past . . .
which is NOT HERE now.
Rejoice! As the extension of LOVE . . .
I am . . . in Truth . . . HOME . . . in LOVE Itself.
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10. “My thoughts do not mean anything.”
The purpose of applying these Lessons IS TO SEE truly. To
enable Vision to be restored,
I am being taken through a correction process.
I am being led in a very structured way
through all aspects of the prison that I have made to support
my personal agenda . . . to maintain my self-constructed limited
identity . . . all to deny the very powerful Identity that IS mine
AS created . . . ...LOVE...
I am very joyous as the pennies drop . . .
as the correction takes place.
The key is to practise as instructed.
When following the instructions given,
I am exhibiting acceptance . . .
that IS non-judgment . . . that IS forgiveness . . .
Full commitment to each lesson gives me freedom . . .
enabling the practice itself to give me . . . to offer me . . .
the experience that is the gift of the correction.
The Law of LOVE IS . . .
Giving and receiving are one. Fully give? Fully receive!
In stepping back from my thoughts and observing them,
rather than identifying with them, I can SEE that
they have no meaning other than that which I bestow
on them.
The cause of my particular thoughts is my opinions and beliefs . . .
a product of past evaluation . . . which has NO validity now.
The reason that I see in the way that I do . . .
is the opinions and beliefs that I hold . . .
resulting from perceptions that I have allied myself with . . .
and grouped in my memory bank . . . some I own, some I disown . . .
but they are all part of my belief system . . . my thought system.
What I think I am thinking has no Reality.
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 The very presence of these “thoughts” that I think I am thinking
means that I am NOT THINKING at all!
My mind is really blank.
MY “thoughts” take time . . . are of time . . . come from the past.
My thoughts are always “about” . . .
always associated with a belief . . . an accepted idea . . .
from my preoccupation with the past.
So, to state, “My thoughts do not mean anything” . . .
to practise with specific “thoughts” by repeating,
“This thought about …… does not mean anything.”
followed by
“My thoughts do not mean anything.” . . . and finally . . .
“This idea will help to release me from all that I now believe.”
a shift . . . a correction . . . begins to take place.
I cannot orchestrate this shift.
I can simply be willing to allow it.
In the past, I have accepted that my thoughts ARE what I am; I
have accepted that my thoughts identify me as me.
So, to tell me that my thoughts do not mean anything . . . implies that
the identity that I have accepted as me . . . is also meaningless. My
initial response to this is fear . . . fear of the loss of identity.
As I discover that I have simply been mistaken; that my Identity has
nothing to do with my self-proclaimed identity; there dawns a
glimmer of a possibility of uncovering an Identity which I have
completely disowned.
What is being asked of me in the lessons now seems reasonable.
It is at this point that I realise that I have no idea
how to claim . . . or come to . . . the Certainty of this Identity . . .
as a moment-to-moment awareness . . . that I AM LOVE . . .
emanating from LOVE . . . the Source of Identity.
Practising this lesson throughout the day
is a stepping stone to this Certainty.
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11. “My meaningless thoughts are
showing me a meaningless world.”
MY thoughts are the cause of the world that I see.
Since my thoughts are meaningless . . .
the world that I see must be meaningless as well.
So, to change anything that I perceive is out there in the world,
I must first look at my thoughts
which are the source of what I see as a world.
I have thought that my world
is the cause of my experience . . .
rather than seeing
that my world is the result of my thinking . . .
that my experience OF the world is the result of my thinking.
So let‛s look at this meaningless world.
What happens when I perceive that I am ill?
I immediately look for what it means . . . for what
could be the cause. I look for something to blame . . .
the weather, someone else sneezed, a spider bit me,
it‛s a family weakness . . .
I justify my every emotional response
to the world that I have made.
My reactions and responses always seem reasonable . . .
because I have given what I see all the meaning it has for me.
I have a checklist of meanings for the world as I see it . . .
all coming from my past reference bank of possibilities . . .
from the meanings that, at some point in time, I have given
everything and every one.
I certainly do not first look at my thinking . . . my perception.
Somewhere in my search for reason . . . I discover that the
reason for my search for meaning IS FEAR.
I have a fearful picture of what is seemingly occurring . . .
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 when it doesn‛t fit in with my ideas.
I certainly have not considered
that the world of my perception is meaningless. I have not
considered that my thoughts are meaningless. However, I am being
led through my resistance to these ideas as I practise what is asked
of me.
So, what IS happening . . . in my mind?
To find out . . . I have to stop . . . step back . . .
and see where my thoughts are based. Am I succumbing to the
loudest voice, the shrieking of conflicting ideas?
to my store of comfortable, familiar ideas?
Or am I handing over
to the Source that knows . . . LOVE Itself . . .
to be shown the falsity of all of my ideas . . .
and the meaninglessness of the world which
arises from these meaningless thoughts . . .
to which I have given all meaning, and all Power in me?
Am I remembering that my meaningless thoughts
are the CAUSE of the meaningless world that I see.
So, I begin to see that I have accepted a meaningless basis for
every perception . . . relying on personal judgment . . . in order to feel
in control.
I have accepted the false as true . . . the unreal as real . . .
bowing down to the dream state that I have decided IS Reality.
All my ideas have come from limited perception.
I have thought that the body is my reality . . .
that my life story is my reality.
This roller coaster ride is the offering of my perception.
What if this entire experience . . .
that I have called life . . .
were handed over to LOVE . . .
for cleansing of the meaning that I have given it?
What if I were shown another way of SEEING? Of thinking?
What if I were to own . . . to acknowledge . . .
the Power that I have given to my thinking? . . .
the Power that is mine . . . to surrender my perception . . .
the thought system that I have worshipped . . .
for a complete reversal of my current perceptual thinking?
My perception simply maintains a dream.
Yet, there is no sense in trying to make sense of dreams.
The only thing to do . . . is to wake from the dreaming.
When I am told
that the key to forgiveness lies in the idea
that my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world,
AND that forgiveness IS my function here . . .
then my sole task and my joy today IS to practise this idea.

Instead of the Peace, relaxation, and freedom from worry promised

in practising these lessons . . .
I surround myself with a plethora of events and emotions
which leave me breathless, at war, anxious, confused and weary . . .
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 12. “I am upset because I see a meaningless world.”
It is upsetting to find that the world that I see is meaningless.
I have given everything in my world meaning . . .
specific meaning . . . meaning that I cherish.
Do I have to give up all the meaning
that I have given the world?
What would be left?
That‛s all that I have . . . a world of my meaning . . .
a world that I am convinced is real . . . as I see it . . .
because I have given it my meaning . . . so it is real TO ME! If it IS
meaningless, what am I left with?
Without my meaning . . .the world is neutral . . . neither good nor bad.
AS I give it meaning . . . it becomes real and meaningful TO ME.
AS I take away the meaning that I have given it . . .
I discover it is meaningless.
It is at the point of accepting
that it IS a meaningless world . . .
when my limited meaning is imposed on it . . .
that I am opened to true meaning, LOVE‛s meaning.
This takes stopping . . . stepping back . . . listening . . .
NOT imposing my meaning on the world . . .
and awaiting LOVE‛s true meaning
which is written beneath my meaning.
I have been so busy putting my meaning on the world, defining all in
terms which suit my plan, fitting all in the jigsaw I have put together.
Now I see that my outpicturing of the world is just that . . . a picture
that I have put out . . .
to give me the feeling of being in control of my world.
It is shattering . . . to say the least . . . to discover
that it is not based on the Reality of LOVE . . . but on fantasy. It
certainly upsets the apple cart!
The question is . . . Do I want what IS real?
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Do I want what IS meaningful? Or am I willing to
accept as real what is not real, and has no meaning?
Do I accept that there IS nothing real . . . apart from LOVE?
Do I accept that LOVE is the ONLY true meaning?
LOVE . . . IS true meaning . . . IS Spirit . . . not reliant on form.
So, as LOVE‛s extension . . . as LOVE‛s Creation . . .
as the expression of LOVE . . . I, too, AS Spirit . . .
am the extension or expression of the Truth that is LOVE.
It is not possible that there could be
a world apart from LOVE . . . apart from LOVE‛s Creation,
apart from LOVE‛s true extension?
As I decide to step aside from the world of my making, and
ask to see it truly . . . this simple action of mind frees me to
receive LOVE‛s true meaning.
Up till this decision . . . I have felt compelled to write upon
the world MY meaning. Yet this meaning changes over and
over again . . . because it is not rooted in the Truth of
LOVE. It has a foundation of shifting sand . . . changing at
every whim . . . whatever is the flavour of the month . . .
whatever fits in with the current philosophy.
A world separate from LOVE
is an illusion . . . is a dream . . . is meaningless.
Yet I have considered
that I am part of this world of conflicting ideas.
So, the “I” that sees itself as part of this separate world
is also an illusion . . . a dream . . . meaningless.
That IS upsetting to this “I”.
Why am I upset by a meaningless world?
How could a meaningless world be upsetting?
The meaning that I give the world is always a judgment, an evaluation,
involves comparison . . . whether I see it as good or bad.
I see levels and degrees within everything . . . from my perception.
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That‛s the nature of perception based on opinion and interpretation.
A world seen through eyes of LOVE alone . . . That‛s something else!
What would I DO if I did not determine what everything means?
What would I DO with every apparent happening in the world?
I‛d be left with no opinions . . . nothing to talk about!
So, what would there be for me to say?
What would direct my actions?
when I am operating in response to the voice of this self . . . when
What would give me purpose
without my “meaningful” world –
the one I made up?
The Truth of LOVE
would replace my divisive seeing . . .
so . . . I would be indescribably happy! With this realisation . . . a
shift occurs . . . and I am ready to begin to release my meanings,
opinions, beliefs and judgments.
LOVE . . . and have given the self . . . that idea of separate, individual
where comparison and evaluation, via interpretation, are the key notes.
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13. “A meaningless world engenders fear.”
This world of my interpretation seems locked in to the
meaning that I have given it. The constant struggle of the
self that I call “me” to give meaning to everything . . .
in order to support its tenuous existence
IS what each day‛s story consists of . . .
I am accepting as real
the character that I seem to play in the dream.
I have not realised the constancy of effort involved
in maintaining and bolstering the meaning that I give the world.
I was not aware that this has been my bid for identity . . .
my bid to replace my Identity with one of my own making.
So . . . letting go of the meaning that I have given the world . . .
thus seeing an empty slate . . . IS fearful. To see my own
production as meaningless . . . IS fearful. I have kept hidden from
awareness the possibility
that this task that I have taken on of giving meaning to everything is
a meaningless exercise . . . that it is not my true function . . .
because I have been unaware of what I really am . . . as created. I
made up a separate identity to deny my Reality as the extension of
identity . . .
the function of giving meaning to everything.
When identifying with this self, the meaning given
is always one of hierarchy, of different degrees, levels, and orders,
Thus . . . confusion obviously reigns.
However, Reality is simple.
I seem to be afraid of the simplicity of LOVE, Truth, God, Reality,
because I am practised in confusion, relativity, possibilities . . .
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 So, in fact, as I admit that the world as seen by this self . . . 14. “LOVE/God did not create a meaningless world.”
IS meaningless . . . since all that I have done as a separate identity is
to confer my meaning . . . a meaning with no real basis . . . then I am Letting go of the thoughts
able to admit that I really do think that I have already written on the world IS the
that I am in competition with LOVE and Its meaning. current learning. This letting go seems to take
steps.
As I equate myself with the self, Being the learner, it is up to me to take steps . . . as directed.
I fearfully rush in to fill the void of meaninglessness. The letting go is the miracle that occurs as I exhibit a little
Without meaning, this self will have no purpose. willingness to let go.
The goals of this self will also be meaningless. All that is asked of me is to use the lessons throughout the day.
A void is fearful to the self . . . whose purpose is
While my mind remains frantic,
to maintain its identity, its self-established meaningfulness. It sets up
racing around trying to learn to let go,
an eternal search for what it presents as LOVE, which, on its terms, is
there is no room for the miracle to occur.
impossible to find. This is true . . . since what it promotes
So, stop . . . slow down . . . listen . . . read every word slowly . . .
is NOT LOVE . . . but fantasy based on lack, on neediness.
allowing the meaning of the instructions to sink in . . .
If the void were to be allowed and accepted,
because nothing is more important this day
there would be no reason for the self,
than to use this lesson . . . to apply it . . .
and its assumed function of replacing LOVE, the Self of Creation.
paying full attention to my part . . . exactly as suggested.
Am I intensely anxious as I recognise what is meaningless?
If the lesson becomes a ritual . . .
Then I am seeing my self through the eyes of the self.
and my mind is not fully engaged . . .
Do I feel impelled to continue to give meaning to everything? Then I
the letting go is slowed down.
am listening to the self.
I may begin to assume that . . .
How long will I continue to endow the world with attributes
since I have a ”basic understanding” of the theory
that it does not possess? and crowd it with images
of what is being presented . . . I am participating.
that do not exist . . . simply to fulfil my self-appointed identity?
Intellectual grasp of theory IS NOT letting go.
Do I fear that I will have no function if LOVE‛s meaning replaces mine?
Don‛t be fooled by the subtle suggestion
Am I shocked that I could dream up
that partial commitment is “okay”.
this opposition to LOVE . . . that is my Source?
As I take on board these lessons,
The Truth is that this competition with LOVE IS simply a dream,
my meaning is being exchanged for LOVE‛s meaning . . .
I am able to let go this fear . . .
replacing my divisive thought system
and open to the Truth of What I am . . .
with Thoughts that emanate from LOVE.
open to the LOVE beyond the dream self . . .
This exchange or replacement IS what “salvation” is. I am
and discover the indescribable happiness that awaits me reminded that these steps that I am taking can be quite
as I relinquish the separate identity that I simply dreamed up. difficult and even quite painful.

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 So . . . no surprise if this IS my experience.
In hearing that some of these steps will lead directly into fear, the
fearful self pushes that aside . . . not wanting to acknowledge that
what is really feared IS HIDDEN from awareness.
I am aware of a lot of “surface fears” . . .
but underlying these is the pit of fear
that I have always managed to avoid.
The form of that fear in me lies in the very situation
that I do not want to confront.
That fear operates in the mundane . . . and has many faces . . .
seen in my basic responses and reactions . . .
yet affects my entire experience . . .
because it always blankets the honesty . . .
by my refusal to acknowledge the limits that keep me chained to
the dream . . . the nightmare called life.
I express with gusto my willingness
to go TO that fear . . . and THROUGH it . . .
until the fundamental fear . . .the founding fear . . .
Remember, my mind HOLDS only what I think with LOVE. All
that fear at the very base of my denial of the Reality of LOVE
ideas NOT aligned to LOVE . . . are nothing, meaningless. So, AS
is “in my face” . . . confronting me.
That is when I discover my willingness is shaky.
I face my own fraudulence . . .
revealing that my willingness to walk cautiously over my surface,
pseudo fears . . . is but an attempt to be seen to “take the steps”
without really “taking the steps”. That‛s the action of the self
identity in full swing . . . pseudo willingness . . . pseudo
transformation . . . pseudo Peace . . . while the fear hangs heavily
over every moment of delay.
I reclaim the freedom . . . the simplicity . . . of LOVE‛s meaning . . .
How encouraging to hear
that when I choose to face my fear . . . go into it . . .
allow it to rise . . . exposed . . . to the surface of awareness
from the depths in which I have hidden it . . .
I will not be left high and dry.
In fact, I will go far beyond . . . to my inheritance . . .
perfect safety and perfect Peace . . .
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I am being restored to my natural state.
I discover it is much easier to apply the lesson to ideas
that I have placed at a distance . . . general ideas of war
and horror.
As I open to the practice, I move deeper and deeper
towards the source of the horrors,
the very epicentre of disaster,
the fear IN ME . . . found in my fearful thinking.
General fear . . . is the macrocosm of fear . . .
while specific personal fear . . . is the microcosm of fear.
Both are the same idea . . . FEAR.
What I see in my outer world
IS but a reflection of my state of mind.
Both are equally unreal . . .
Since neither is LOVE‛s Creation . . . neither exists.
However, in my perception . . . it may seem real to me.
Any ideas in my mind NOT of LOVE . . . are meaningless.
I acknowledge
that the personal meaning
that I have given everything
has no foundation . . . no substance . . . is not real . . .
because it does not come from the Truth of LOVE Itself . . .
THEN I am freed from these fearful, opposing thoughts.
They have no hold on me.
As I abandon my meanings . . .
no longer having to make up and maintain meaningless meanings
that build a complex world of conflict.
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 Second Review The direction of the focus NOW becomes up close and personal . . .
Seven Lessons: not just “thoughts” . . . but “my thoughts” do not mean anything.
So the world that I see with these meaningless thoughts
8. “My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.”
9. “I see nothing as it is now.” is equally meaningless.
10. “My thoughts do not mean anything.” The very world that I had seen as being able to be understood
11. “My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.” (because, after all, I gave it its meaning)
12. “I am upset because I see a meaningless world.”
13. “A meaningless world engenders fear.” is now seen to be meaningless.
14. “LOVE/God did not create a meaningless world.” It is quite upsetting to find that the world that I see
is determined by my thoughts
The process of thought reversal is in its early stages. and not the other way around . . . where it seems that the
My goal is Peace. So I continue. world (what seems to be happening) determines what I
Since my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts, it is impossible to see perceive.
anything as it is NOW, given this framework of my seeing.
I am upset because what I have trusted in . . .
I am encouraged to hear that my interpretation of events and things . . .
“each step will clear a little of the darkness away, and understanding will finally come to
lighten every corner of the mind that has been cleared of the debris that darkens it.” is shown to be meaningless.
I am becoming aware that how I see events and things
At this point I have not been exposed to real thoughts. Emphasis is now comes directly from my thinking.
on the lack of Reality of what I think I think, rather than on the lack of I feel fearful, . . . particularly in view of my basic distrust of
Reality of the things around me. Initially, I discover that the thoughts the possibility of any meaning other than mine . . .
of which I am aware are outside rather than within, and the possibility of there being another way of seeing.
and the emphasis has been on their past
I have enjoyed the game of deciding on the meaning of everything,
rather than on their present status.
based on hierarchies . . . comparisons . . . and opposites.
Now it is emphasised that the very presence of these “thoughts” means I have felt in control . . . have valued the busyness of thinking.
that I am not thinking . . .
A moment of defensiveness arises.
reconfirming the idea that my mind is really blank.
Yet, I am assured that in this idea –
I begin to recognise nothingness when I think I see it . . . “that my thoughts determine the world I see” –
obviously . . . a prerequisite for Vision. is my release made sure . . .
To do this, I seek release from all that I now believe. and the key to forgiveness lies in it.
This idea contains the foundation for
the Peace, relaxation and freedom from worry
that I seem to have lost.

If only I recognise and accept

that the world as I see it is meaningless . . .
accept this without fear . . . and let the Truth be written upon it . . .

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 I will be indescribably happy.
The Truth of LOVE . . . being eternal . . . is already in place
beneath the meaning that I have decided upon.
All that I have to do is be willing to have my meaning erased . . .
and the Truth of LOVE . . . will be uncovered.
However, to the self identity . . . illusions are safety devices.
So when I equate myself with this self,
I look to illusory ideas for safety,
and continue to give my meaning to everything.
This shows that I think that I am in competition with LOVE . . .
for I offer my meaning to everything . . . denying LOVE‛s meaning.
I thus make LOVE my enemy.
Thus I fear LOVE‛s vengeance . . . for my opposition.
What a discovery . . . that a meaningless world is impossible!
And the reason? What LOVE did not create does not exist,
and everything that does exist exists as LOVE created it.
The world that I see has nothing to do with the Reality of LOVE.
It is of my own making, and it does not exist.
So an exchange is taking place . . . my thought system . . .
for the Word of LOVE, the Thought of LOVE. I am told these
early steps in this exchange can be quite difficult and even quite
painful; that some of them will lead me directly into fear. I am
assured that I will not be left there
but will go far beyond the fear . . .
to perfect safety and perfect Peace.
This final lesson is upfront . . .
It expresses the possibility of pain, of difficulty
in the confrontation of fear . . .
yet I am encouraged that I will make it through,
for I am in the hands of LOVE, the Source of Peace.
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15. “My thoughts are images which I have made.”
Whenever I open my eyes and “view” anything . . . I
am aware that I think that I see what I‛ve decided
to see. Yet, I am an image-maker. I imagine.
I replace Vision with illusions or images that I make up.
The images that appear in form
are the result of the thoughts that I think.
I have given the body‛s eyes the job
of identifying and confirming these thoughts
that I think I think . . . and the images that I have made.
So I am using the body to convince me
that what I see is really there as I see it.
Wow . . . the circular ploy of the self-image in full strength.
Having practised the lesson,
am I checking to see if there are little edges of light
around the objects with which I am familiar? Remember,
that which checks is DOUBT . . . a thought from my
thought bank . . . my self-made image bank; that is
seduced by the thought
that it is on a long, arduous journey seeking for LOVE. But,
remember, the self‛s search for LOVE is neverending.
LOVE is not to be found on the path of the self,
because the self IS the denial of LOVE.
It has no intention that LOVE be found . . .
or else the self itself would disappear.
Of course, the self does not want me
to find the Self . . . LOVE . . . as created of and by LOVE.
So let go checking my rating as a good or bad student!
Of course, to the self, it is not possible
that I would be among those
who see these little edges of light around objects.
That would shorten the search.
So, in simply looking at this suggestion,
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If I choose to fit the “failure” image,
I will not see the edges of light.
If I decide on the “success” image,
I will immediately imagine the edges of light.
Right in the midst of this unfamiliarity, just when I think I am
getting a grasp of this transformation process,
I am confronted with a temptation, a testing.
The ploy of the self is . . . How do I rate?
Am I one who is beginning to experience real Vision?
Or have I not even begun?
This very lesson offers the answer.
What image am I deciding is “appropriate”? “true”?
“not acceptable”? “longed for”?
When being directed by the self . . . my opinions fit in
with the criteria that self promotes!
On top of this, I am told
that I may have many “light episodes”; that they “may take many
different forms, some of them quite unexpected.”
Then I‛m reassured not to be afraid of them.
Obviously, some of these “episodes” will seem fearful.
At this point, the self, in its fear of being out of control, pipes up,
“What are the other forms of “light episode” that are possible?
Will I recognise them?”
And so on, and so on . . . My focus is tempted . . .
Will my focus change . . . from practising the lessons as
instructed, to one of searching for signs of my eyes opening AT
LAST? Am I going to give place to fear?
This desire for phenomena is a distraction
from the simplicity of the lesson.
For some . . . phenomena become the entire focus . . .
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where a world of phenomena replaces the current
illusory world with another illusion of a world.
Awaiting phenomena as a sign of worth
puts time in the process . . . instead of shortening time.
Phenomena may be valid experiences,
but are not the aim . . . are nothing of themselves.
If I choose this new goal of phenomena
to give me a new identity . . . it still sets me apart . . .
where I begin to evaluate each of my images (companions) on the
“seeing scale” based on their avowed “light episodes” and their
“demonstration” of their “opening eyes”.
This is not to deny the experiences . . .
but to acknowledge the possible trap
of being sidetracked from the given aim . . .
“undoing the thought system of the self-identity . . .
and replacing it with the Thoughts of God, my real thoughts” . . .
to a different aim . . . actually offering support
TO the thought system of the self . . .
in the guise of “doing the lessons”, “practising the lessons”,
“letting the lessons do me”
BY having “the physical, sensory experience”
to prove that I am on the way . . . and not only that . . .
but to prove that this self is quite advanced in its transformation.
At this point I am reminded that these signs do not persist,
because they merely symbolise true perception,
and are not related TO KNOWLEDGE.
“Light episodes” and “knowledge” are NOT in the same realm.
The one is of time . . . of perception.
The other is apart from time . . . of eternal knowing.
The one is illusory. The other is true.
The exercises have the simple function
of preparing the way TO knowledge.
Knowledge simply IS.
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be received . . . to be restored . . . I am well-practised in closing
the door to knowledge.
Even with this potential distraction of phenomena,
the full picture is given . . .
so that I don‛t remain stuck in a phenomenon . . .
which is simply another illusion in my image-making repertoire,
to which I could give undue value and attention, and thereby
miss the gift of the lesson itself.
I am so grateful
for the impeccable thoroughness in these lessons,
for bringing up ideas within ideas,
so that I can not avoid looking at the thinking
that makes up my world of images . . .
and my propensity for jumping over . . . avoiding . . .
rather than going through.
I am on the bridge. I am not alone.
I am being held in the everlasting arms of Peace.
The Spirit that is LOVE is leading me across.
Nothing is in the way . . . unless I make something . . . of nothing.
16. “I have no neutral thoughts.”
My meaningless thoughts show me a meaningless world.
Just because those thoughts are meaningless . . .
does not mean they have no effect.
The world that I see IS the effect of my thoughts.
I certainly give Power to my thoughts
by banding them together to form opinions and beliefs
out of which I make up the world that I see.
It is my belief in my meaningless thoughts
that produces the meaningless world that I perceive.
When I let go of my meaningless thoughts . . .
asking for true meaning to replace my meaning . . .
then I begin to discover
what IS meaningful and what IS meaningless.
I have certainly taken on board the thought system of the
self identity that I made to compete with LOVE. These
thoughts offer no real meaning . . . only further illusion and
meaninglessness.
A mix of true and false thoughts gives a rollercoaster ride of
Peace and war . . . LOVE and fear.
This is the experience offered by a mind
that is split in its allegiance to the Truth of LOVE alone . . .
entertaining thoughts of comparison and conflict.
Do I want to contribute to Truth? or Illusion? Is not my
declaration of purpose . . . to seek direct experience of
Truth alone?
When focussed on the Truth of LOVE . . . then each thought
contributes to experiencing Peace and LOVE.
Each idea in denial of LOVE brings with it war and fear.
It‛s time to turn . . . to return to the Truth alone . . .
seeking LOVE‛s ever-present guidance . . . that changeless Spirit . . .
the link which guides me to LOVE with LOVE . . .
leads me to clarity . . . where I am able to distinguish between
meaningful and meaningless . . . real and unreal.
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 To introduce the meaning of miracles is the declaration . . .
“Nothing real can be threatened. How amazing to find
Nothing unreal exists. that in simply resting my glance on each thing in a room . . .
Herein lies the Peace of God.” as I use the name given to identify it . . .
Very succinct . . . very simple . . . what comes forward is an entire history of the thing.
a very quick answer to the entire process . . . First I see my immediate judgment of the particular item . . .
given by that same Guide . . . always present within . . . yet with a flood of ideas surrounding it.
always awaiting my call. Even within the short time it takes to simply repeat the idea,
“I do not see a neutral ...... because my thoughts about ....... are not neutral”,
I have a practice to attend to . . . Be present to my thoughts . . . Be
while resting my glance on a particular thing,
alert to the source of my thinking . . . Check how I am feeling . . . for
thoughts rush in with such great speed . . . whirling around . . .
this is a barometer of the source of my thoughts . . . a measure of
gathering the complete past association that I have with it . . .
whether I am at Peace . . . or at war.
flavouring my perception, while stirring the whole pot of “meaning”.

As I recognise that I have no neutral thoughts,
each thought that arises is now ready
for correction or acceptance.
The correction may ask
that I go into the fear which has been exposed . . .
and be taken through till it falls away of itself . . .
loses the Power that I have given it . . . and is no longer.
Fear thoughts are not to be dismissed as unimportant.
Fear thoughts are to be encountered . . . met . . . and dealt with.
Otherwise the hidden fear continues to affect me.
Brought to the Light of awareness . . .
“I do not see a neutral ….. because my thoughts about……. are not neutral”.
fear‛s lack of Reality is revealed.
This is NOT a theory to add to my bank of ideas.
This IS an experience . . . the gift of commitment!
So look at my thoughts . . . allow them passage . . . let go the false . . .
entertain and nurture only those offering Peace and LOVE . . .
Each thing/person/situation is given its own special meaning . . .
constantly aligning with the Self that is LOVE‛s Creation.
I definitely have no neutral thoughts.
17. “I see no neutral things.”
Meanwhile the lesson is working on me.
I see the intricate system of pigeonholes that I have made
to categorise and evaluate my entire world . . .
out of fear . . . out of lack . . .
considering that I am safe within this system . . .
where I maintain the meaning that I have given everything.
Thus I maintain my time-constrained identity of littleness,
which, in my blindness, I think IS what I am . . .
which I think IS my identity.
Yet, all that flashes by . . .
in the period of time it takes to state . . .
Since my thoughts are meaningless, obviously
the world that I see is meaningless, too.
However, having constructed all those pigeonholes . . .
it is undeniable that I see no neutral things.
its own special place or pigeon hole . . .
from my resource pool of endless possibilities of specialness.
I become very aware of the decision that I have made
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 I am also very aware of the guidance being offered. LOVE is not found apart from, that is, separate from me.
This is apparent as I read the comment that I To reclaim LOVE, I turn within . . .
not out to the things that I have made
“do not see anything which is really alive and really joyous
with my meaningless thoughts.
because I am unaware as yet
of any thoughts which are true, and therefore really happy”. How can they possibly give me Joy and Happiness?
Joy and Happiness are gifts of Creation . . .
I have been seeing time . . . a beginning and an end . . . in everything. found within . . . not from my separate thoughts . . .
This brings home clearly that I have been seeing death in everything. but from that well of wholeness . . .
I have focussed on the denial of LOVE . . . and not on the Truth of the LOVE that is my home . . . my essence.
LOVE.
When I tap into that Source,
I have dwelt on the limited . . . not the eternal.
what I SEE comes from Thoughts which are true . . .
I have waited for the sadness . . . to follow the temporary Joy.
Thoughts which I think WITH LOVE . . .
I have NOT been truly happy.
not my thoughts of opposition and denial of LOVE . . .
This comment in the lesson shows me more fully
which result in the chaotic, limited, fearful, meaningless,
the depth to which I embrace the thought system of the self . . .
lifeless, joyless world of my making.
which confirms that I am separate from the Truth of LOVE . . .
having my own personal brand of ‘truth‛ . . . Time to let go of that world of pigeonholes . . .
where I can choose to fragment . . . that band of pain and sorrow, of limited Peace, and limited Joy.
rather than experience the Unity that is LOVE‛s Reality. As I embrace seeing anew . . .
I see a meaningful world . . . one which arises from
At the same time, the Light of LOVE shines within . . .
forgiveness . . . LOVE‛s reflection . . . which is the basis of
revealing another way of thinking . . . thus another way of seeing . . .
true Sight . . .
one that touches on what is REALLY alive and REALLY joyous.
where the meaningless is given no Power . . .
I am being directed along the path
is allowed to be nothing.
to full remembrance of the Truth of One Self . . . LOVE . . .
In its place . . . I choose LOVE‛s meaning.
and the activation of true thoughts which lead
Then I see that the meaningless has no place.
to the happiness that I AM in the Truth of LOVE alone.
There IS only LOVE, Peace, Joy . . . true meaning.
Life IS Thought.
To be fully alive is to BE
the Thought of LOVE . . . exactly as created.
The joyousness that I value
is the expression of the Life that I AM . . .
the extension of LOVE . . . the Creation of LOVE.
The Source of Joy, the Source of Happiness . . . lies within . . .
This Source is LOVE . . . the very essence of Life. 18. “I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.”
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I have been shown that the world that I see results from
my particular thinking. My self identity consists of
the input of the thoughts that I entertain
resulting in the way that I see everything . . .
birthing all my opinions and beliefs . . .
forming this identity called ‘me‛.
How I see things has come from
whichever training program I have accepted along the way.
As an opinion or a belief forms from my scattered ideas . . .
it becomes part of my self-constructed identity.
I draw to myself support for these tentative ideas . . .
in order for them to be entrenched . . .
so that I am able to say, “THIS is what I am.
THIS is what makes me what I am.
THIS is my identity.”
From a very early age,
I learn to manipulate circumstances
to confirm my beliefs . . .
in order to maintain this identity.
To consolidate these ideas,
I gather around me those who agree.
Those who don‛t agree are pigeonholed as ‘enemies‛.
I try to convince these ‘enemies‛ . . .
by continually declaring how I SEE these ideas.
This practice could only come from my own uncertainty . . .
and my desire to convince myself.
This is how the self identity works.
The self identity always comes
from uncertainty . . . from doubt. . . from fear.
That is its function. That is what it IS . . .
doubt . . . denial . . . of LOVE . . . of Certainty. So,
of course my self-constructed identity is fearful. Do
I want to continue to amass beliefs that reinforce
an identity which keeps me separate, apart and special?
Am I happy with a limited self-constructed identity that
IS my world?
My mind is being trained to look at
how I am seeing things . . . from moment to moment!
Am I continuing to see through the eyes
of the self-constructed identity . . .
which relies on the banks of opinions and beliefs
which it has bought . . . and nurtured . . . as true? Or
am I asking TO SEE beyond
the limited perception that I have espoused?
Am I willing TO SEE the Truth of LOVE
in everything that I SEE?
If so . . . it is time to go within . . .
beneath the false self-constructed images . . .
to the Truth of what IS . . . LOVE . . .
and to call on LOVE to be the Source of my SEEING?
I can SEE the LOVE . . .
the true Source of everything I SEE . . .
if I but choose TO SEE it!
I remember an incident where I was very angry at
what I saw to be an injustice being offered me.
In the guise of seeking release from the pain of this upset,
I decided to visit a particular woman.
As I came to her driveway, I stopped abruptly.
I couldn‛t go in. I turned around.
I had been going to see this particular woman for solace . . .
for confirmation of my grievance.
Something stopped me. It was just one thought.
A change arose in how I was seeing this situation.
I returned home.
Another person entered . . .
one who would not buy into my drama . . .
one who would allow me to express my grievance,
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 yet direct me to the Truth . . . that I was not SEEING . . .
and, in fact, could not see clearly . . . with grievous eyes.
My entire demeanour changed . . . my voice, my words, my request.
Now I was asking for a true solution . . .
a change in my perception.
I joined with her thinking . . . recognising
that she was offering me everything that I really wanted . . .
to forgive . . . to reverse my familiar stance of judgment . . .
In accepting that offering . . . my world was different . . .
because at last I was SEEING it differently . . .
through eyes of LOVE . . .
rather than eyes of judgment and blame.
This story remains as a reminder that I am not alone in
experiencing the effects of my seeing; no matter what my choice
of seeing. It demonstrates that Peace awaits a change in my
thinking.
I had heard a voice . . . a still, quiet voice . . .
that directed me to stop what I was doing . . .
and look at what I was seeing . . .
then look to the thinking . . .
that was resulting in the seeing.
And I listened . . . and followed the direction.
are never neutral or unimportant.
Each encounter offers me the choice of how to see it!
Am I joyously preparing TO SEE
what is true and real . . . LOVE . . .
in whatever is presented?
knowing that how I see . . . the source of my seeing . . .
IS important and is definitely NOT neutral.
I either reinforce the Truth of LOVE . . .
or the error of conflict . . .
by my choice of guide for seeing . . .
the Self, the Spirit that is LOVE . . .
or the self of perception.
Since minds are joined, what IS MY offering?
The choice I make determines what I teach.
As I open to LOVE‛s Vision . . .
I draw to me opportunities to offer this Vision.
What I have received myself . . . is now what I have to give to all.
Therefore . . . I state with Certainty,
“I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.”

Had I continued with the visit . . . as planned . . .

I would still not have been alone
in experiencing the effects of my seeing . . .
And those effects would have been painful to all concerned.
However, with the different choice,
I was not alone in experiencing the effects
of the way I chose to see the situation . . .
the effects being LOVE, Truth, Peace . . . and with it, Joy. How
often is this my decision? Or do I continue to reinforce false
perception, judgment? The thoughts which give rise to what I 19. “I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.”
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 What I think . . . results in how I see.
“What I think” is the cause.
“How I see” is the effect.
Yet there is no time . . . no gap . . .
between the thinking and the seeing.
Projection is the attempt to separate cause and effect.
This is where I distance cause from effect . . .
my thinking from my seeing . . .
and then decide that the effect
causes my experience of upset or joy . . .
rather than seeing
that the cause of my upset or joy
is my own thinking thoughts . . . other than LOVE.
In fact, cause and effect are simultaneous. Only projection could
make them seem separate, and offer a scheme for denying
that I am responsible for my thoughts and my seeing. To
acknowledge cause and effect as one idea . . . not separate,
means I can no longer be a victim.
Since I choose the source of my thoughts, I alone can change
the source of my thinking . . . so I alone can change my seeing.
Taking responsibility for the world that I see is the first step.
THIS is the beginning and the end of the idea of a separate self.
To remember that I do not know what anything means
reminds me to ask for true meaning . . . true perception . . .
with LOVE as the Source.
With LOVE as my Guide . . . I become One with LOVE . . .
aware of but One meaning . . . One Mind . . . LOVE.
In this awareness . . . all I SEE IS One . . .
all I AM IS the expression of LOVE.
So, of course, the self . . . the rebel . . .
presents the tempting idea
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of ‘private thoughts‛ in ‘private minds‛
as a way of diverting attention
from the Reality of One Mind.
The self provides its tools
of attack and defence of this privacy . . .
to keep me busy . . . off LOVE‛s track.
In acknowledging that there are no private thoughts . . .
having discovered that I am not alone in experiencing the
effects of my thoughts . . . I see the opportunity to
extend Thoughts of LOVE . . . and therefore SEE only
LOVE . . . with LOVE . . . choosing to let go of divisive
thoughts
willing to receive the correction that LOVE offers.
LOVE then becomes what I teach . . . instead of
what I teach when I support a substitute for
LOVE.
As the world of my making . . . obviously illusory . . .
since it arises from my meaningless thinking and seeing . . .
no longer receives my support . . .
it falls away . . . disappears . . . for it has no substance.
Its only claim to existence
is the attention and belief that I give it . . .
and so it seems to exist.
However, nothing real can be threatened;
and nothing unreal exists.
The self and its world . . . both vulnerable to threat . . .
are therefore unreal . . . so do not exist.
The self sees its power lies in having its own special ideas.
What a blow to discover they are just meaningless ideas.
Throughout time, the self is just one thought away
from being all powerful or meaningless . . . to me . . .
depending on the source of my thinking in each moment.
Am I caught off guard by the idea that minds are joined?
that there is but One Mind?
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These ideas are introduced in the perfect timing . . .
within the structured sequencing of these lessons . . .
as each of my ideas is challenged . . . one by one.
The fullness of the implications dawns
as the ideas are practised as instructed.
It appears to take time
to replace the self-made thought system . . .
the system of thoughts not sourced in LOVE . . .
for it has been entrenched.
Salvation IS . . . being saved
from the effects
of thinking thoughts not sourced in LOVE . . .
by accepting only thoughts sourced IN LOVE.
When I think sourced in LOVE . . .
I SEE only LOVE . . . so offer only LOVE. When I think
sourced in conflict . . . I see only problems . . . so spend my
time trying to solve the problems
that I made up in the first place
through thinking . . . sourced in conflict.
The thoughts that I entertain . . .
the thoughts that I hold on to . . .
the thoughts with which I identify . . .
expose the thought system that I am espousing in any moment.
I am not alone in experiencing the effects of these thoughts.
So, what is the source of my thoughts?
The illusion that is self? limited . . . able to be threatened?
Or the Self . . . as created . . . by and of LOVE Itself?
20. “ I am determined TO SEE.”
The reversal of my thinking is crucial if I am to
experience Peace and Joy. How important IS this to
me?
The lessons up till now have shown me
the erratic, yet calculated nature of my thinking . . . its source . . .
the view that results . . . and the experience and effects that
follow my thinking and seeing.
It is quite obvious that my mind is totally undisciplined!
What associations come to mind with the word, “discipline”?
What reaction or response arises as I hear the very word?
Is there resistance to the idea of being disciplined?
Do I associate discipline with being a victim?
powerless? restricted? under authority?
Do I resent the suggestion that I am undisciplined?
Is my self-identity threatened as I read this lesson?
Do I agree that I cannot distinguish between
joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, LOVE and fear?
Just for a moment, allow my mind to SLOW DOWN . . .
to really look at these pairs of “opposites” . . .
and discover the “grey areas” within each pair . . .
the overlap in my experience.
I certainly want to be saved from this uncertainty.
Iwant to distinguish the difference . . . clearly . . .
so that I can make decisions
from a place of complete Certainty.
I want certain Peace and Happiness.
Within my current chaotic thinking . . . this seems impossible.
And, in fact, within the thought system
with which I am familiar . . . it IS impossible.
The very idea of personal selves each with separate thoughts
oozes with chaos and uncertainty . . .
certainly no room . . . for true Peace and Certainty.
So . . . What IS this way of thinking
that assures Peace and Certainty?
I am willing to do whatever it takes!
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 It is obvious that half measures are useless.
I want what true perception offers!
I am willing to fulfil my part.
Salvation of the world depends on me.
From personal experience, it is obvious
that the thought system of the personal self . . .
with its limited thinking . . . its limited view . . .
relies on chaos and confusion.
So the world remains a chaotic idea in my mind . . .
needing salvation from its sorry state. Since it is I who see the
world through personal interpretation . . .
and as I am part of this world that I make up . . .
I need salvation . . . I need to be saved from
my own thinking and seeing and interpreting.
VISION is sourced in LOVE . . .
the home of Peace and Certainty.
How much do I want VISION?
I have been simply imaging . . .
thinking that imaging IS seeing! The
“seeing” to which I am accustomed
shows me a meaningless world
arising from meaningless thoughts . . .
and offers nothing that I really want. That is not VISION.
All that VISION requires . . . is my decision to see.
VISION is a given when I am determined to see . . .
It takes an action of mind . . . a decision . . . a decisive thought . . .
for the Truth of LOVE to be my experience. Why
not invite that thought, activate it . . . and SEE?
So, today‛s instructions are very clear, very explicit . . .
Repeat . . . “I am determined to see” . . . SLOWLY and POSITIVELY
at least twice and hour . . . attempting to do so every half hour.
And that‛s not all. Extra repetitions are to be applied
to any situation, person or event which seems to upset me.
I am assured that I CAN and I WILL see them differently.
That means that I don‛t EVER need to choose upset . . .
once I begin to truly see . . . to see truly . . .
I decide how to see . . . and I see accordingly,
For . . . Being LOVE‛s extension . . . I have all Power
to accomplish my Will . . . which is the Will . . . of LOVE.
Of course I get the results . . .
of how I choose to see . . .
whether it be seeing what is . . . as created by LOVE of LOVE . . .
or seeing my interpretation of what appears before me . . .
based on my opinions and evaluation.
So, what do I desire to see?
How willing am I to see LOVE . . . in everything that I see?
I know how willing I am to see with the eyes of LOVE
by the degree to which I acknowledge
that my brother IS exactly as created . . . by LOVE . . . of LOVE . . .
and NOT what I have made OF him through my interpretation.
THIS IS forgiveness in action.
When led by the self image that is LOVE‛s denial . . . my body‛s eyes
always see my brother as limited, separate, and guilty . . . for they
look through judgment, comparison and evaluation . . .
a fickle basis for arriving at the Truth
of what he is . . . as created of LOVE.
To make the change, my single, clear purpose is
to be led BY LOVE . . . TO SEE with LOVE. With
the determination to see ONLY LOVE . . .
I face all obstacles to LOVE‛s Presence
with a renewed Certainty of Purpose.
It IS my choice to listen
to the Spirit of LOVE . . . in each moment,
and to be guided past
all obstacles which must surely be presented in the overturning
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 or reversing of my way of thinking and seeing.
The patterns of thinking and seeing that I have used
to construct the world AS I SEE IT . . . are being undone . . .
First of all I identify the patterns of thinking
that are responsible for my world . . .
the world AS I SEE IT . . . then . . .
recognising their inadequacy to bring Peace and Certainty . . .
I surrender them to LOVE . . . listening ONLY to LOVE . . .
to learn HOW to see . . . through eyes of LOVE.
Since I am the Creation of LOVE . . . the extension of LOVE . . .
true seeing is already in place . . . as given in Creation . . .
simply awaiting my remembrance . . .
awaiting my request to be restored to Vision . . .
where I see ONLY LOVE . . . through eyes given TO LOVE.
LOVE has given me the freedom to discover
that all that I really want is LOVE Itself.
I have not been forced or coerced into
seeing the way that I have been seeing.
It has always been my decision. The chosen source of my
thoughts has always directed my seeing. Now I determine to
see truly . . .
from the true Source . . . LOVE. I decide to see with LOVE, as
LOVE . . . the inheritance that simply awaits my awakening to its
Presence.
The reversal of my thinking . . .
is the miracle taking place.
I choose the miracle.
I am determined to see.
21. “I am determined TO SEE things differently.”
Am I truly determined to see things differently?
Is it clear that how I choose to see everything
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makes the world of my experience?
I elect the way that I experience everything. All the pain or
joy, anguish or delight, sadness or happiness, anger or
acceptance
that I experience . . . result from my way of seeing.
In remembering this . . . I am aware of the inroads of grievance in me.
Anger infiltrates every aspect . . . along with
the sense of powerlessness it evokes . . . of being wronged.
I see that anger arises with any apparent opposition to my plan . . .
which is founded on beliefs and opinions based on the past . . .
from the vault of treasured ideas which form my self-identity.
Whatever threatens this established identity,
this self-image . . . brings anger.
However, ‘Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the Peace of LOVE.’
This very fragile, tenuous self-concept has no reality.
So there is no real reason for anger . . .
apart from my decision to give reality to my own thinking and seeing.
Then there must be a solution to the dilemma of anger which is
enmeshed in my seeing.
All that I see is filtered through my interpretation.
What is behind this self-constructed identity of mine?
this web of interpretation? Where am I? What am I?
In determining to see things differently, I acknowledge that I want a
different guide for my seeing, a different guide for my thinking . . . a
guide other than my inconsistent interpretations.
There IS a true Guide that is always present and available.
I have ignored this Voice . . . this quiet Voice of LOVE . . .
heard only in the stillness of my mind.
I have listened instead to the loud voice of my personal judgment. I
have followed its raucous shrieks of direction, and have accepted
the limited identity it offers . . . as if it is real . . . instead of simply
accepting the Truth of What I am as created . . .
the extension of LOVE Itself.
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I am determined to see differently. As I listen within
to this Voice of LOVE . . . my True Voice . . . I find the way of LOVE
that gives me what I truly want . . . Peace and LOVE.
Instead of seeing anger, war and grievance . . .
I now see LOVE, Joy and Peace . . . in everything . . . in everyone . . .
Instead of attack thoughts directing my seeing,
I embrace loving thoughts sourced in LOVE . . . my Source.
As I see my brother through the eyes of LOVE . . .
I remember myself AS LOVE.
As I wipe the slate clean of all preconceived images that I have
made, I am no longer directed by old thinking patterns.
This new intention to see differently is fuelled by my remembrance of
the insanity which has ruled my thinking, together with its very painful
and chaotic effects.
The opinion-based self is the epitome of “busyness” . . .
with a frantic scurry of thoughts . . .
all rushing in and demanding subservience.
Till I am committed to see things differently . . .
I remain a willing servant of the aggressive domination of this self . . .
which convinces me of the need for attack and defence.
How alert am I to what is going on in my mind? How
quick am I to catch the finest nuance of defence
when it arises in me . . . as I buy into the “vulnerability program” that
I have willingly installed in my mind
to compute the direction of my thinking and seeing?
Instead of recognising the invulnerability
of my true Identity . . . the extension or offspring of LOVE . . .
I have denied what I am . . . and have accepted an identity reliant on
my defence and attack of preconceived ideas. In applying this lesson
as directed, I look at the question,
‘Did you have any difficulty whatsoever in finding situations
past, present or anticipated, which arouse anger in you?’
I certainly admit that I had no difficulty.
In fact, I discovered that defence, with its attendant, anger,
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are rife in my daily experience . . .
Defence number one! ALL my daily plans . . .
which are made to protect my self-image.
Anything that hints at obstructing those plans or ideas that I value
brings up defence‛s attendant, anger . . . with its plan of action, to
thwart the supposed threat . . .
with whatever weapons it chooses from its arsenal.
And . . . in that moment . . . I do consider attack is justified.
All upset is either overt or covert fury.
There are no degrees. I am either happy and at Peace . . . or not.
I am reminded that I do not really recognise
what arouses anger in me . . . and anyway . . .
nothing that I believe in this connection means anything!
So, I simply allow the lesson to do its work in me,
remembering I am being led to where I have been afraid to go . . .
to the very source of this self identity . . . the source being
that one idea of competing with LOVE, my true Source.
When all support for competition falls away, I
come to where I willingly accept the Truth . . .
that this identity is meaningless . . .
and that I do not have to give it validity any longer . . .
for I am home in LOVE.
Now I claim my heritage as the offspring of LOVE,
the extension of LOVE without opposite,
which has been waiting in the wings for this moment in time . . .
my awakening from the dream that I substituted for reality.
I abandoned LOVE. I abandoned the Truth that I AM the Creation . . .
the emanation of LOVE Itself . . . of Life Itself.
Remembering that I AM LOVE IS what Peace IS . . .
Third Review
Seven Lessons:
15. My thoughts are images which I have made.
16. I have no neutral thoughts.
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17. I see no neutral things.
18. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
19. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
20. I am determined to see.
21. I am determined to see things differently.
“LOVE did not create a meaningless world.” (Lesson 14)
set the stage for these seven lessons.
The exchange has begun . . . my thought system for the Word of
LOVE . . . the LOVE that I AM. It is encouraging to be assured
that I will make it through this process . . .
though it is also pointed out . . . that some steps
can be quite difficult and even painful . . .
that some WILL LEAD ME directly into fear.
This is the framework from which I begin these lessons.
In the very first lesson (15) I meet a temptation to be waylaid by
competition . . . comparison . . . through the idea of “little edges of light”
being seen around familiar objects.
The opportunity is presented for me remain focussed . . .
OR to be distracted . . . paying attention instead
to evaluating my level of awakeness . . .
and then to set up a hierarchy of states of enlightenment . . . whose only
claim to this ranking is “little edges of light”
plus other unspecified forms of “light episodes”.
With these ideas . . . threat has a field day.
The lesson itself answers this desire . . .
for phenomena to be proof . . . of some spurious level of awakeness. “My
thoughts are images which I have made.”
Was I distracted by this?
Since I have no neutral thoughts (16)
each thought that I have produces an effect . . .
and that effect is the indicator of the source of the thought.
How I am feeling is a simple measure of the source of my thinking.
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LOVE and Peace? . . . or conflict and fear? So even though
meaningless . . . my thoughts are shown to be anything but
neutral . . . witnessed to by their effects ON ME. The practice of
looking at my thoughts
and experiencing their non-neutrality really helps.
My bank of object identification with their multi-faceted histories
testifies to the beliefs and opinions (always non-neutral)
that surround each thing or idea in my world.
In fact, I have allotted an identity to each thing that I see . . .
which invariably includes an element of time and death . . .
certainly not neutral !
I am responsible for how I see things . . .
Whatever I choose as the source or basis of my seeing . . .
whether judgment or forgiveness . . .
I can be certain that the actions that take place
in response to my choice . . . will definitely be received
and felt by those involved in the episode. Thus . . . I am
not alone in experiencing the effects of how I choose
to see things.
How devious is the self-construct! The self IS deviousness itself!
Rather than admit that my thoughts are the cause
of my reactions and responses to my world, the self-identity
reverses this and says the world/situation/person/event is
responsible for my responses/reactions.
That‛s why the self uses projection . . . to avoid taking responsibility.
My images are projected onto my world screen
so that eventually I may discover
that I am solely responsible for the world that I see.
How perverse to think
that I would rather remain a victim of the world
than take responsibility for my own thinking and seeing . . .
my perceptions . . . that make up the world as I see it.
Lesson 19 presents another temptation . . .
‘private thoughts’ . . . ‘private minds’ . . .
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This is total denial of Mind . . . the One Mind of LOVE . . .
expressed through LOVE‛s extension. It
is quite easy for the self-image to set up
‘private thoughts’/’private minds’ as fact . . .
because the self is the denial of the One Mind of Self . . .
It sets about establishing the body as the identity
which it says houses a ‘mind‛ and ‘thoughts‛.
The self says that I am alone . . . that no-one else experiences
the effects of my thoughts . . . because they are private.
The self-image is the denial that minds are joined as One . . .
the denial of the Power of the One Mind of LOVE.
The self denies that it is an image maker . . .
asserting instead that it is a creator . . . replacing LOVE as Creator.
And all along “my thoughts are images that I have made”.
The insanity that IS the self . . . the deviousness that IS the self . . .
the drawing together of ideas in a quasi-logical construct . . .
knows no bounds.
When I listen to the self . . . as my guide . . .
know that this is the basis of my operation . . .
deviousness and insanity.
How can I remove myself from the tentacles of the self-based
thought system? One declaration sets the wheels in motion . . .
“I am determined TO SEE.”
So finally, by Lesson 20, I agree
to the up-turning, the reversal of my thinking and seeing.
This declaration, “I am determined to see”, is my agreement
to practise the entire Part 1 of the Workbook . . .
which provides “the undoing of the way I SEEnow”.
My way of thinking is being undone.
It is pointed out that my mind is totally undisciplined.
So, in order for this undoing to take place . . . I am given my part.
Following instructions impeccably as given in each lesson is a start.
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It takes discipline to read in the way being asked of me, that is . . .
SLOWLY and POSITIVELY . . . allowing the meaning to be absorbed in a
very present way . . . enabling the working of the Spirit of LOVE by being
a willing receptacle for the turnaround in my thinking.
VISION is now my focus. Remember my declaration,
“I seek direct experience of Truth alone”?
So, I seek only the direct experience of true Vision.
What is my part in this? Decide to SEE!
My “seeing” shows me a meaningless world.
Vision is not related to my “seeing” . . .
Although . . . when in the experience of Vision,
even eyes accustomed to being used for my “seeing”
are given a new purpose . . . to SEE TRULY . . . with Vision!
Any situation, person or event which seems to upset me
CAN be SEEN differently . . . so I don‛t need to choose upset.
“Upset” is the response to the decision that my plan, as the self,
including my opinions and my beliefs,
is being threatened or thwarted.
So, I am informed that there may be obstacles
to this reversal of my thinking/seeing . . . this installation of Vision.
The Holy Spirit of LOVE, my Guide, assures me that I will be led
through and past these obstacles . . . which have a very necessary role
in the replacement of the meaningless system
with the gift of VISION.
The final lesson triggers the enormity
of the inroads of this perverse thought system . . .
and the dedication with which I have worshipped its every tenet.
I have faithfully rendered my Identity, LOVE . . . unconscious . . .
and have enthroned my self-constructed identity in its place . . .
leaving barely a trace of the Truth that I AM LOVE.
It‛s no wonder it can be experienced as difficult and painful,
when I have virtually buried the Self of LOVE . . . and taken on
the self that I have identified with . . .
and all because I, limited self, constructed it.
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In the prison that I have constructed for the Self that is LOVE . . .
Life has been waiting to be freed. At last I see the prison door is
ajar.
The door seems very heavy at times. But it is, in fact, open.
Self is restored . . . freed from its banishment.
Each choice to defend or attack closes the door somewhat.
It takes time for the entrenched system to be dismantled.
We complete these seven lessons with the powerful declaration . . .
in the face of exposure of the extent of my grievance and anger . . .
“I am determined to see things differently.”
With this new, strong intent installed . . . it takes me to the very
place that I am afraid to go . . . the very source of this identity
that is in the process of being replaced. Until I reach the very
heart of this impostor, I am not ready to see
that beyond this apparent identity
is LOVE ITSELF . . . the Truth of What I am . . .
the Truth of all that is real.
22. “What I see is a form of vengeance.”
So I am being taken to the very source of the world that I see.
I have visited the depth and breadth of anger
which underpins my every thought.
To nail that anger in place calls for a world outside of me. To see
that I project my ideas . . . my conflict . . . my anger
on to a world that I see as separate from me . . .
reminds me that the world that I see
is simply a reflection of my state of mind.
My thoughts are images that I have made . . .
a world of images, a world of my thoughts . . . in fact . . .
a projection of what is occurring in my mind to convince myself
that a world of separate bodies and separate minds is real.
That‛s why I make up this world of my perception . . .
to hide my unacceptable ideas . . . to disown them . . .
In doing so, grievance remains within . . . hidden at times . . .
then bursting out . . . as I see a world attacking . . .
or about to attack me . . .
in the many forms that attack is seen to occur.
As I, in my fury, would strike at anything that obstructs my plan,
so I defend myself from potential attack . . .
by attacking first . . . in the name of self-defence.
And all this arises from the source of my thinking and seeing.
In looking at my underlying anger in its many forms . . . I see
my preoccupation with thoughts of attack and counter-attack . . .
all in order to protect my self-made identity . . . my plan . . .
in every moment of the day . . . when aligned with
the idea of being a separate identity.
In that state of mind . . . that way of seeing . . .
the entire world is peopled with my ideas of attack and defence.
What a savage fantasy!
With this preoccupation . . . Peace of mind IS impossible.
All of that opposition in the world . . .
which I see and believe is really in the world . . .
is what I MAKE . . . what I dump on it.
My attack thoughts are the cause
of what I hate and want to attack and kill.
So, of course I separate myself . . .
I distance myself from acknowledging this . . .
by seeing the images that I make . . .
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 projected on to a screen that I call the world.
What I see outside . . . or apart . . . IS a form of vengeance . . .
for it demands that I am separate, alone and distant from LOVE.
What I see is the very denial that I AM eternal LOVE.
Since I make this all up in my mind . . . I CAN ESCAPE . . .
What I am seeing is not actually REAL . . .
The fear that feeds the anger has no purpose . . . so does not exist.
For fear is born of threat . . . and nothing real can be threatened.
Thus . . . I see that I am afraid of my own thoughts.
Yet they are my thoughts.
The source of all fearful, angry thoughts
is an identity that thinks it is separate and alone . . .
which, of course, sees a world separate from itself . . .
with no possible link between each little cocoon of separateness.
How freeing it is to know that this world is not real . . .
I escape from this crazy circus . . . from this vicious cycle
of hatred, war, anger and fear . . . just by changing HOW I see.
When identifying with the self . . . my self-constructed identity . . .
I place vengeance in whichever form suits me in the moment . . .
in my quest to maintain my ‘rightness‛ in defending or attacking.
When I finally admit that I see
only the perishable and nothing that lasts . . .
I then hate what I have made . . . because it is ‘proof‛
that this self-identity is powerless to create as LOVE creates . . .
for LOVE creates the changeless . . . the eternal . . .
and what the self comes up with is changeable . . . temporary.
It is not eternal . . . so not to be trusted.
This self-identity cannot make anything that is real.
It is not a creator . . . but an image-maker.
Seeing death and time in everything
(the perishable and that which does not last)
IS a form of vengeance to the one who is seeing thus,
because it reveals the seeing as being unreal,
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for what is seen can be threatened . . .
and hence the source of this seeing . . .
(the one seeing through the eyes of this seeing)
is unreal as well.
This seeing proves the unreality of the self . . .
for what it sees IS threatened . . . therefore cannot BE real.
To be reminded of the unreality of self
IS a form of vengeance . . . to self.
“What I see is a form of vengeance”,
opens up its gift for me to be able to state with Certainty . . .
“This is not the world I really want to see. I
want to see a world of LOVE, Peace, and Joy, not
one of fear, anger, fury, attack and defence.”
I have decided to SEE.
At last, I am asking for another way of seeing . . . Vision . . .
where I see ONLY the eternal . . . ONLY Peace . . . ONLY LOVE . . .
for this seeing is sourced in eternal Peace . . . eternal LOVE . . .
the Self that I AM . . . the Creation OF LOVE.
Instead of making worlds through projection of my ideas . . .
I now CREATE . . . by simply extending LOVE Itself . . .
by BEING LOVE . . . as created.
23. “I can escape from the world I see
by giving up attack thoughts.”
I see a very unsafe world. That‛s because I feel threatened.
When I feel threatened, I defend and attack.
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 I judge everything as against me, or potentially against me . . .
so I prejudge . . . thinking this will assuage my fear.
Yet . . . at the same time . . . I wait for retaliation.
So my mind is occupied with attack and defence.
Comparison and evaluation are my tools.
With these . . . I construct opinions of everyone and everything.
The cause of the world that I see is my attack thoughts.
So I live in fear . . . resulting from my own thoughts.
The time has come. It dawns on me
that the only solution to this fearful world . . .
is to deal with these attack thoughts that have been directing my
way of thinking. Yet, I don‛t know how to do that.
I am convinced that the way that I think . . . is just the way I think.
I have certainly learned well the system of thinking
that is the very denial of the way of LOVE. The
very basis of my thinking has been fear.
And of course . . . fear begets fear.
What I see as a world are all the images
that I have projected . . . from this very fear-ridden thinking.
Each image that I see is a symbol of its source – fear, attack, pain.
“Each of my perceptions of ‘external Reality’
is a pictorial representation of my own attack thoughts.”
‘Hallucination‛ certainly is a more appropriate term
for this world that I see, the effect of my projected imagery.
In order to hold on to grievance . . . I have denied
that my thoughts are the cause of the world that I see. What
would there be . . . without grievance?
To the self . . . in its story . . . grievance IS life. Grievance,
judgment, attack and defence make up the world of this self.
Remove those thoughts that make up this world . . .
and where is the self with its story?
where is its world? where is its life? where am I?
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if not operating from this thought system that
I came up with to deny LOVE and its extension.
What if there were another way of thinking, another way of seeing
to replace this whole system of fear, of doubt, of inconsistency?
What if I were to give up thinking these thoughts?
That would mean . . . no more attaching my meaning to things . . .
no more comparing, evaluating, setting up hierarchies . . .
no more coming from lack . . . no more opposing, defending, attacking?
Then I could not see the world that I think I see now. But what
WOULD I see then?
This lesson reminds me of my declaration in Lesson 21,
“I am determined to see things differently.”
Now I am being shown the steps to bring this about.
It is reassuring to hear that
“VISION already holds a replacement for everything I think I see now.”
I don‛t have to make up a replacement. What a relief!
Having “to do it all” is so tiring.
That‛s the way of the self and its plans . . .
tyrannical, non-stopping, allowing no rest, all-controlling.
But . . .no . . . the replacement is not up to me.
How fearful am I to hear that? I‛m so used to efforting.
At first, I think that I would like to have a say in the replacement.
That is the self talking . . . wanting to maintain its control.
How grateful in the next breath . . . to welcome the feeling of
safety to know that the replacement . . . is already in place.
And my part is simply to receive it? The fear underlying opposition to
LOVE promotes such control . . . that the effect is great weariness.
What a promise . . . the very same images that I have made out of hate
will be transformed, so that instead of hating them, I will LOVE them,
because I will not be making these images alone.
In my decision to see things differently, I hand over the direction
of my seeing to the Spirit of LOVE. It is this Spirit of LOVE that
directs the replacement
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 of my limited way of thinking and seeing.
At last I am calling on the help that I really need,
asking for the direct experience of the Truth of LOVE alone . . .
not available in the thought system of the self-image.
At last, I am willing to co-operate with the Spirit of LOVE Itself.
The first step I am asked to take is to identify the cause of a
particular situation in my world that I bring to mind. I see that the
cause is always my thinking . . .
regardless of the situation.
The second step is to let go of my thinking
regarding the particular situation . . . to actually release my hold on
the opinion or set of thoughts surrounding the situation . . .
thus dislodging my belief or opinion from its stronghold.
Only then can I see before me a clean slate.
The clean slate occurs as I follow the first two steps.
In the releasing of the attack thought, the replacement thought is
right there. It has always been there.
I just haven‛t paid it any attention.
In doing today‛s exercise, it is important
to read the instructions SLOWLY . . .
so that I can register their full import.
in the opposite direction from the norm that I have established . . .
I am told to . . . “Hold each attack thought in mind AS I SAY ,
“I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts about.........”
and then “dismiss that thought . . . and go on to the next attack thought”.
So I hold the attack thought in mind AS I SAY THE WORDS.
It is so easy to miss the next part . . . dismiss that thought.
If I forget this part of dismissing the thought that I am processing,
I am simply gathering the thoughts of attack together . . . rather
than giving them up . . . as I‛m declaring them.
Thus I become heavy laden with attack thoughts . . .
when the purpose of the exercise is . . . to let them go.
I need TO SLOW DOWN to do this lesson.
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It is now the fourth week of lessons . . . the very
middle week in the seven weeks of the Jubilee . . . the
fifty lessons. On reaching Lesson 21, the final lesson in
the third week of lessons,
“I am determined to see things differently”,
a new level of activation is set.
Today‛s lesson opens to yet another level of intensity.
For me, this is one of those lessons that lead directly into fear.
Then I remember . . . this is to be expected.
The very powerful, dominant place
that I have given the self . . . is on the line.
Its very existence is being threatened.
It does not give in without a fight.
So, expect its head to rear up in even greater opposition.
I find myself fighting accepting
that I am responsible for the world that I see.
I demand that it change – or else!
If only so and so would change,
then I would not have to be so judgmental.
If only this would change, then I would be at Peace.
To do these lessons . . . I actually have to look
which has been to blame . . . what I see as outside of me . . .
for my reactions and responses . . . for my state of mind. Thinking
that I am inferior OR superior are both attack thoughts. That‛s
all I have ever done! And it has never worked!
The world has not changed,
and I‛m left with acute upset, anger and hatred.
Judgment Day is all day, every day in the framework of a self.
In choosing to give up my thoughts
of attacking and of being attacked,
I am choosing to do what I‛ve never done before . . .
which is take full responsibility
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 for my experience of the world
that I have made of hate, of attack.
Now, I am being directed to look within at my thinking . . .
to allow the transformation of my thinking . . .
in order to see differently.
It feels impossible at times.
And so I simply follow the instructions and do the exercises.
In the end, I will find Truth in the idea,
“LOVE is just around the corner”.
As a matter of fact, I discover that I constructed the corner
as an obstacle to remembering . . . that LOVE is in everything I see.
My part is to give up attack thoughts . . . to quit giving them Power.
Into the bargain . . . I discover that I do not want
to escape the world that I find . . . with this new seeing.
24. “I do not perceive my own best interests.”
Childhood was the stage for introducing the pursuit of getting
what I think I want. What a drama!
All the weighing up . . . the pros and cons, the conniving,
the niggling doubt that something has been overlooked . . .
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the stress of bringing it to pass, the obstacles . . .
My plan? . . . getting what I think I want! Then?
. . . getting it, and finding . . . ‛That‛s not it!‛
And the let-down. What a rollercoaster ride!
And that I have called LIFE?
The choices that I make day by day
relate to my plans to reach my goals.
The goals are often unidentified, and are often lost in
the demand that the immediate plan come to pass . . .
by hook or by crook.
Yet, through practice, I have just been seeing how the
world I see based on my perception, the projection of my
thoughts, my images . . .
is made of hate, defence and attack.
From this insane platform,
how could I possibly trust my goals or my plans?
With the source of the world . . . that I see being my thinking,
then my goals within this world are part of that thinking.
And that thinking . . . with its world . . . is what made me decide
that I wanted another way of thinking and seeing.
So, I set a goal ... “I am determined to see things differently.”
Have I then relinquished all other goals? Or am I still
relying on my old thinking and the goals and plans set
up in the past?
When I remember that my thoughts are meaningless,
and that my meaningless thoughts
are showing me a meaningless world,
surely that is not the source I would choose for my plans?
Otherwise, I will be perpetuating the very state
which brought me to declare in the first place,
“I am determined to see things differently.”
Any goal or plan that I choose from this oh-so-familiar place in mind
will eventually come back to that same declaration once again.
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 to stop . . . wait . . . and listen . . .
Without the transformation of this thinking, till the direction is clear . . . uncluttered
how would I have a clue . . . what is in my own best by the contradictory goals and meaningless interjections
interests? Today‛s lesson exposes the impossibility
of the limited self . . . whose voice I am accustomed to following.
of perceiving my own best interests in anything.
The direction pointed out by This Voice
In looking at specific situations, and drawing forth
always leads me to true purpose . . . certainty of purpose.
the many overt and covert goals . . . what a shock to find how
When I listen to This Voice . . . in every moment . . .
varied . . . and often contradictory . . . are my goals. It is
there is a Peace that falls on all that I do . . .
hard to believe how much I demand of each situation.
because I am not “doing” . . .
On top of this . . . I have no really unified outcome in mind.
in order to accomplish limited goals.
The demands that I make of a situation that have absolutely
nothing to do with the situation . . . show me that I am simply responding to the Voice of LOVE.
somehow . . . The constant offering of this Voice IS LOVE . . . Peace. . .
I‛m always trying to confirm my beliefs and opinions,
The anxiety present . . . when following
and will even turn a situation around . . .
my own goal-oriented, self-centred direction
to make it fit my theories, my ideas.
is noticeably absent.
But those ideas are meaningless.
No longer do I need to pout like a little child
I transfer the anger that simmers below my awareness
when goals are unmet.
to each situation . . . and then set up a goal to relieve it . . .
I have handed over to the Holy Spirit of LOVE.
by projecting the anger on to the situation.
With the goal of Peace . . . the outcome is always Peace.
What gratitude is present in me
Till now, I have thought
for the simplicity of the way of Peace that LOVE reveals!
that it is up to me to choose
my values, my companions, my career,
where I live and what I do.
I am learning that it is insane
for me to make decisions on my own, because I do not
perceive my own best interests. There is within my mind
a point of wholeness, in the stillness, in the silence, 25. “I do not know what anything is for.”
where I ask for the direction
Exactly half way through the Jubilee of Lessons that
of the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of LOVE. If I but listen to
offer a microcosm of the undoing process. The message
This Voice, my direction is made clear. I simply have to step
of this lesson
aside from the worn pattern
brings a depth and breadth of Peace and LOVE
of rushing in with my goals, and their proposed outcomes.
not experienced before.
It takes learning . . . it takes practice . . .
It has been tiring “to have to know what everything is for”.

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 The defence and tension needed to bolster the belief
that “I know what everything is for!”
certainly do not bring Peace.
And I am always left with doubt, uncertainty and inadequacy . . .
in the face of the assertion . . . that I do know.
True purpose IS the true meaning of everything. The meaning
that I give everything is in place ONLY to fit my personal
goals . . .
and yet the meaning that I give
comes from limited, meaningless thoughts.
So my goals are thereby . . . as meaningless as
the thoughts which give rise to them.
As I set a goal . . . everything in my world
is then give a meaning to accommodate the goal.
The purpose . . . of the goals that I set . . .
is to maintain my separate, private identity . . .
so cannot be in my own best interests.
This limited purpose that I see in the things around me
denies their real purpose.
I stop short of real purpose
by limiting each situation, person and thing
to the purpose that I decide feeds into my limited goals . . .
simply to sustain my limited identity . . . my self-image.
True purpose IS meaning prior to the imposition of my meaning . . .
in spite of the machinations of the self
bent on supporting meaningless goals . . .
In discovering that I do not know what anything is for, I am now
open to asking to be shown what it IS for, how it is FOR . . . with
the assurance that everything IS in my own best interests.
Nothing IS in opposition.
The true meaning of everything is waiting
for me to step back from my own meaning
so that I can see the true meaning that is already in place.
THIS is correction . . . simply a course correction.
Now . . . I am on course . . . being guided to true purpose.
The mistaken meaning/purpose is being replaced by true purpose,
the real meaning inherent in all situations, events and things. This
is true perception . . .
where everything has a single purpose or meaning . . .
which is FOR . . . not against . . . Peace and LOVE.
This is At-one-ment. This is true purpose. This is salvation.
I am being saved from my meanings . . .
having them replaced with true meaning . . .
only recognised when I remember
that AS a separate identity . . . I DO NOT KNOW . . .
However, that Spirit of LOVE that IS the ONE Identity . . .
that voices Truth . . . that does know . . . awaits my call.
And I call on that! LOVE is the only answer!
For how can LOVE be against?
LOVE saves me from my meanderings into the meaningless.
I am given REASON to see LOVE‛s meaning in everything I see!
to see true purpose in everything I see!
Instead of my tight-knit plans with my tight-knit meanings . . .
AS I admit that I do not know what anything is for . . .
NOR that I perceive my own best interests . . .
I am left with the space to ask of LOVE . . . at all times . . .
What is this FOR?
Then each situation opens out
for me to experience the freedom
when receiving the real gifts of LOVE offered by the situation . . .
instead of closing down to LOVE‛s offering,
thus experiencing the prison walls of limited meaning surround me . . .
when imposing my meaning on the situation . . .
together with the bounds of limited expectation and demands
that my superficial plans for the situation . . . call for.
With this lesson is a greater fullness to the declaration,
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 “I am determined to see things differently.”
VISION . . . seeing
through the eyes of true perception . . .
always LOVE based . . .
reveals that Vision has nothing to do with these eyes . . .
for these eyes simply respond to the message
of the voice that I am choosing to hear . . .
to the meaning that I am choosing to accept.
If the source of the seeing is LOVE . . .
then the question, “What is this for?” is asked of LOVE . . .
and I am asking for the Truth of the situation . . .
and not my interpretation of it.
May I continue to seek
the direct experience of the Truth of LOVE alone!
26. “My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.”
I realise that I have actually thought
that someone‛s opinion of me . . . could demolish me.
I see how defended I have been.
When I listen to what I am saying . . .
I hear myself presenting ideas . . . only to the degree
that what I say and how I say it . . . will keep me in safe bounds.
Then I realise that I‛m actually spouting crap . . . all in order to fit in.
I have to have a strong opinion about everything . . . and I
even come up with one in the middle of someone else‛s
expression . . . finishing the sentence of another . . .
interrupting . . .
terrified of not having a place in a group . . . or even with one other.
I see how much I want to be seen to know . . .
to be in control . . . to be wise . . . clever . . . right.
I continually feel that I‛m being diminished . . .
if someone disagrees with me.
It‛s as if I have to defend every idea . . .
because my very existence depends on my being right. And it‛s
true that the very existence of the self-image DOES depend
on its being right.
So, when my thoughts are aligned with the thinking of this self . . .
I maintain its existence . . . by allowing it to rule my thinking.
Without my support . . . it has no existence . . .
These fearful thoughts . . . that I allow to rule me . . .
are the denial that I am LOVE‛s eternal Creation . . .
insisting that I am weak and powerless . . . afraid . . .
in a dangerous world that is against me.
THIS IS a total distraction from remembering
that I AM LOVE Itself . . . being LOVE‛s extension . . .
so I AM invulnerable . . . Nothing IS dangerous or against what I am.
Only when I accept and hold on to fearful thoughts of doubt . . .
which attack LOVE‛s reality . . . which attack LOVE‛s invulnerability . . .
do I experience these as real.
Today is an opportunity “not to buy into” these
underlying, sabotaging ideas . . . which are designed to
separate me
from the remembrance of the LOVE that I am.
As I raise these potential saboteurs to doubt . . .
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 I feel the presence of the Spirit of LOVE
releasing me from the prison that these thoughts offer.
As I watch the procession of thoughts moving through me today,
whether they be personal thoughts or projected thoughts
being acted out by those around me, or on the world stage,
I am being offered the healing of these MY attack thoughts.
In owning and releasing these thoughts . . .
I receive the blessing of the experience of Freedom and Peace
which allows me TO BE the LOVE that I am . . . expressing LOVE.
At the very moment that I perceive
weakness or danger . . . in any situation . . .
I set up defences for protection . . .
no matter whether the observation be personal or general. Any
time that I set up circumstances
to protect the future . . .
I expose my belief that I can be attacked.
I decide on limitation‛s declaration
that I am not the Creation of LOVE . . .
that there is no room for the LOVE that I am as created . . .
and that I am weak and very unsafe . . .
and so is every one and every thing.
The reality of LOVE becomes buried
under the chosen fearful caricature of life . . .
which is so far removed from the Truth of Life . . .
yet feels so very real as I give it meaning . . . thus power. Once
again . . . remember that
as I FEEL threatened by any idea presented . . .
nothing real can BE threatened,
and nothing that is unreal exists.
So, whenever I feel unsafe or vulnerable . . . I am simply
choosing to identify with what does not exist . . . and I am
accepting the non-existent . . .
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as powerful . . . as real . . .
In the moment that I become aware of
an idea of weakness or vulnerability . . . it dawns on
me that the answer lies in LOVE‛s correction . . .
I AM LOVE . . . LOVE IS the answer.
My part is to stop supporting fearful thoughts. It is
only through recognising and acknowledging that these
thoughts are present in me . . .
that the world can be transformed from the fearful
place that I‛ve made of it to the benign, gentle
world that it is. There is no reason to entertain
ideas of defence and attack . . .
because they are seen to be meaningless . . . I remember
the LOVE that waits beyond my judgments and
projections . . . and is . . . in fact . . . the Source
of everything seen . . . when seen truly.
I thus begin to offer LOVE . . .
and therefore LOVE IS all that I see.
This is possible in every moment.
There is no gap of time
between the acknowledgment of LOVE . . .
and the turnaround from fearful thinking . . .
if I remain present in the activation of LOVE.
Thus, I reclaim the experience of fulfilling my function . . .
by extending LOVE . . . by BEING LOVE.
27. “Above all else I want TO SEE.”
So far, I have been shown that I “see” all the time.
Each thought of mine makes up part of the world that I “see”.
Yet, THIS is not “SEEING”.
I am simply an image-maker . . . imaging . . . not SEEING.
This world that I “see” consists of my projected images
containing all the meaning that I have given them.
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arising through current interpretation . . . not reliable at all.
Since, in fact, this “seeing”
has been the basis of my experience,
I recognise that its only service has been to show me that I no longer want
“to see” through these eyes from the source that I have called on in the
past. I have invested my “seeing” . . . my perception . . . with “reality” which
is now shown to be “unreal”.
Thus the world that I “see” . . .
from the basis of this false “seeing” . . .
must be meaningless . . . cannot be real . . . so is NOT what I want.
I want ONLY what is real . . . what is true!
I want Vision restored.
I AM determined TO SEE . . .
I want to SEE exactly what is . . . how it is . . . with LOVE as Source . . .
NOT to imagine . . . based on fluctuating opinions and evaluations.
Till now, imaging has replaced SEEING . . . replaced true Vision.
This has not brought . . . and can not bring
the Peace and LOVE which are the natural state
when identifying with the true Source of Vision . . . LOVE.
The desire to be shown how to SEE truly
has been met with ideas which, when practised daily . . .
make this possibility of SEEING with Vision real in my experience.
Occasional practice has opened out the potential.
However, in between, I admit that I have reverted
to the old, limited, familiar imaging . . .
and received the results of the thinking that this brings.
It‛s time for a deeper commitment . . .
to actually choose SEEING with Vision . . . above all else.
Do I feel that, if I make this commitment,
I may miss out on something that I think I want?
If so, this doubt appears.
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Yet, even this block to commitment
is removed by the declaration,
“Vision has no cost to anyone. It can ONLY bless.”
The Spirit . . . that is LOVE . . . certainly knows ME . . .
not only what I am in Truth . . . the Creation of LOVE . . .
but also the separate identity
that I have mistakenly decided is real.
This Spirit knows how I have learned to believe the unbelievable . . .
and is very aware of the blocks that I put up . . . to the decision
to withdraw allegiance to the limited identity, and give
totally to SEEING . . . to true Vision. To make that
conviction sure . . .
I simply declare . . . “Above all else I want to SEE” . . .
then spend the day learning to reinforce this new intent . . .
using a specific time interval agreed upon by me at the outset.
The support that is offered me is unbounded.
Not only am I shown how the practice can
easily be incorporated in my day,
but also am reminded not to judge myself
if I miss any applications of the idea . . .
with the implication that I would be my only judge in this.
After all, I am a practising student, a novice . . .
given all the encouragement and support
of a truly loving Guide.
It is obviously insane to try to judge my progress . . .
I either SEE . . . or image . . . moment to moment.
When I remember . . . I SEE. When I forget . . . I image.
There IS no time frame . . .
in the exchange of imaging for SEEING.
“If only once during the day, I feel I was perfectly sincere
while repeating, ‘Above all else I want to see’,
I can be sure that I have saved myself many years of effort.”
So all the efforting in the world offers NOTHING
compared with ONE DECLARATION
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How gracious is this way!
The impeccable sequencing of these lessons is so apparent today.
Yesterday‛s gift of reminding me experientially of the insanity of the
way I have been “seeing” using image-making . . . my familiar, unreal,
chaotic thought system,
could not but lead to the choice
to REPLACE this “seeing” with true SIGHT . . . VISION.
To replace it indicates that I do not need
space or time for practising false “seeing” . . .
so, 15 to 20 minute intervals in the day . . .
though sounding impossible to start with . . .
is found to be reasonable and essential to this replacement.
Half measures avail nothing.
With gratitude I receive this ongoing, certain, pure assurance
as I acknowledge One Self today . . . with full intent TO SEE.
The Self SEES. The self images.
The Self SEES only LOVE. The self interprets . . . makes up meaning.
As I open to SEEING . . . SEEING is restored..
How simple is salvation from imaging!
What a blessing to receive this instruction . . . this guidance . . .
which leads home to the Truth of What I am . . .
to the remembrance of the LOVE . . .
that is the Reality that I have denied
in my pursuit of nothing . . .
28. “Above all else I want TO SEE things differently.”
Declaring
“Above all else I want to see.”
bears an unexpected gift.
What occurs is . . . a . . . slowing . . . down.
Instead of the lesson fitting in with the daily activities . . .
the daily activities settle around and reinforce the lesson.
The activities offer a practise ground for application of the lesson,
How beautiful is the structure of this programme of lessons!
With this change of pace . . . the slowing down . . .
and this emphasis on priority . . . “above all else” . . .
I wake to the idea, “Above all else I want to see things differently”.
This idea rests in the support . . . in the strength
of the practice of yesterday.
The importance of committing to these lessons . . .
and following the instructions with great specificity . . .
is borne out in this sequence of ideas
currently being presented for activation.
The surface identification that I have given all things
is seen to be just that . . . cursory, fickle, and shallow . . .
latched on to . . . in order to create an air of being in control, in
an attempt to convince myself that I DO know what everything is
for.
In discovering that true meaning and purpose are delivered with
the decision to see things differently . . . above all else . . .
I am thus released from the tedious identity
that I have taken on . . . of being the author . . .
when it is quite obvious that I am not.
What freedom when my preconceived notions are relinquished . . .
and I open to allow the intrinsic meaning or purpose to be shown me.
Thus . . . the Life or Light of everything . . . is revealed to me.
I no longer want to impose . . . or force my meaning.
Instead of separate and limited meaning or purpose,
I begin to experience single purpose . . . single meaning . . .
the essence . . . of all things.
Till now . . . I have allotted separate meanings . . .
and therefore focussed on individual, separate meanings . . .
noticing only differences . . . hierarchies of order . . .
and variations in value . . . that I have imposed.
What if I were to quit apportioning specific identity and value?
Then I‛d see with Certainty that there IS only LOVE . . .
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that all seemingly separate things simply are the extension Have I recognised that I spend a lot of the day
and expression of LOVE. Since only LOVE exists . . . I must not really SEEING at all?
BE that . . . LOVE . . . That is when I “see” a lot of separate things about me.
That‛s when I see a story . . . an interpretation of what is.
Finally I am asking to SEE in everything the Light of Truth.
As I choose to abandon this old practice,
I begin to SEE what is the same . . . rather than different.
I find that I am committing myself simply to SEEING . . .
I begin to identify with the common Source . . . LOVE . . . unqualified SEEING. I experience a falling away
of my practice of evaluating . . .
In making a series of definite commitments
and my assertion
to withdraw my meaning . . .
that I know what everything is for.
it is evident that I can ONLY commit NOW . . .
to open my mind . . . to discover the Reality of
As I let go . . . I begin to listen within . . .
what any thing, any one, or any situation IS . . .
and hear from within the stillness and the quiet . . .
and, in particular . . . WHAT IT IS FOR.
that I have always kept filled
As I do this NOW . . . I experience
with meaningless strident demands . . .
a falling away . . . a withdrawal of my control . . .
a still, small Voice
and I receiving true meaning . . .
which gently, quietly directs my day.
beyond the limits of my interpretation.
This director . . . IS the Source of LOVE‛s Flow.
To receive true meaning . . .
Abandon control . . . and I join the Flow . . .
I have to ASK the question . . .
no longer demanding
What IS this? What is this FOR?
to be a separate identity
And then be willing to RECEIVE the answer . . .
“seeing” other separate identities . . .
in whatever way it is given.
but melting in
I am actually going under . . . or beyond . . . my ideas,
to the Self that IS LOVE‛s Extension.
which are the veil covering real purpose,
purpose that I share with all Life.
Fourth Review
The undoing of my way of “seeing” . . .
is certainly up and running. Seven Lessons:
My experience witnesses to it.
22. What I see is a form of vengeance.
I am determined to meet any fear or tentativeness in me. 23. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.
This IS a practical course. 24. I do not perceive my own best interests.
That is why I am asked to practise these ideas. 25. I do not know what anything is for.
It is their USE that will give them meaning to me . . . 26. My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
and will show me that they are true ideas.

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27. Above all else I want to see.
28. Above all else I want to see things differently.
All lessons so far have been focussed on my thinking and seeing.
Each lesson has split open
the falsity of what I think and see . . .
and revealed how strong has been my conviction
that what is, in fact, false, is true.
My identification with my false self-construct
precludes any opening to the acceptance of Reality . . .
even denies the possibility that I could be mistaken.
To admit that the world of my “seeing”
results from the projection of images that I have made . . .
that my “seeing” is simply my perception
which arises from choices of responses and reactions
that I have made throughout time
to situations, people, and things . . .
that I have amassed together as my guide for “seeing” . . .
is a huge step in taking responsibility for this world of my “seeing”. It
is a giant step in coming to the recognition
that I do not particularly like the way that I have come up with . . . and
so I am determined to see things differently.
Becoming aware that my way of “thinking” and “seeing” relies on
questioning WHAT IS . . . LOVE . . . I see that I have chosen attack and
defence as my tools of trade. I see that I have decided on a world of
pain,
sickness, loss, sadness, lack and death . . .
ideas that totally oppose what is real . . .
the very opposite of Life . . . the very opposite of LOVE.
LOVE knows NOT of pain, sickness, loss, sadness, lack and death.
In order to discover what I have hidden from remembrance
(the Truth of What I am as created . . . LOVE)
I have to be willing to acknowledge
the fantasy that I have used
as a veil to cover the Self.
A fantasy is not true.
A fantasy is not real. It is nothing.
Until it is experienced as nothing . . .
it seems to be everything.
No wonder my whole way
of “thinking” and “seeing”
has to be undone.
I have been validating nothing . . .
in order to hide the Truth.
I have cut myself off from Self.
To dispel the myth . . . of this world
of separate bodies, situations and things
that I have made to replace the singular Reality of LOVE . . .
I am given glimpses of the Truth of LOVE . . .
beyond concepts . . .
flickers of true seeing . . .
of remembering before taking on board thoughts
of difference, of other, of opposition to LOVE.
The lessons lead me
into the very painful scenario of my world,
and the depth of anger . . .
which lies under all my experiences
as a separate identity . . .
with the duality of LOVE/hatred . . . LOVE/fear . . .
in which my fictitious identity operates.
I have finally felt in every fibre of my being
the extreme nature of the denial of LOVE . . . of what is. I
have denied . . . opposed . . . the Truth of LOVE . . . totally.
The LOVE that I am familiar with
is always offset by hatred, or by fear . . .
so even what I think is ‘LOVE‛ is not ‘LOVE‛.
Nothing in this world of separate ideas has any real meaning.
I have simply made up meanings . . .
but the source of those meanings
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 is a separate state . . . not the fullness of LOVE.
The thought system of the separate self . . .
is a system of thought that is opposed
to everything that is real . . . to everything that is true.
All it “thinks” and therefore “sees” IS opposition
in the form of attack, defence, hatred, pain, anger,
suffering, loss, lack and vengeance.
This series of seven lessons follows my declaration
that “I am determined to see things differently”.
As soon as this declaration is made . . .
what is presented is the horror of my current “seeing” . . .
showing me that what I “see” IS a form of vengeance.
The only way to escape this world of my “seeing” . . .
is to give up the attack thoughts
which are behind this “seeing” . . . which I have projected
on to a benign world, an innocent world.
The purpose of this attack and defence has been to
protect any identity that I construct in opposition to One
Self . . . to “prove” to myself that I am my own creator . . .
that One Self is not enough . . . is lacking . . .
Instead of extending One Self as created of LOVE,
I entertain a thought of lack . . .
and decide to ‘create‛ opposition.
The very creative Power out of which I am created . . .
I now use to oppose the Creative Source of Self . . . LOVE.
Of course, in Truth, this is impossible,
but from that one errant thought of using Creative Power
for a purpose other than true purpose . . .
arises an entire world of opposition . . . in my experience.
The self (the errant thought system of opposition)
wants no reminder of its unReality . . .
so hides from awareness
the idea that nothing real can be threatened . . .
that nothing unreal exists.
That idea itself IS a form of vengeance . . .
to the thought system of the separate self.
How reassuring to be told that VISION
“already holds a replacement for everything I think I see now.”
A transformation of my way of thinking
is the promise given if I hand over the directing of my seeing
to the Truth of LOVE . . .
which will direct the replacing of falsity
with the Truth of LOVE.
I seek direct experience of the Truth of LOVE alone.
I am given exercises
in which I co-operate with True Source, LOVE,
in relinquishing the source of my world . . .
my attack thoughts, the self identity‛s henchmen.
With a true intent to release my patterns of thinking . . .
by activating the instructions given . . .
I experience directly the replacement thinking
that awaits this conscious choice
to dismiss the attack thoughts.
So next I am directed to look at my plans and their origin.
They all come from attack thoughts, desire to control,
feelings of lack, hierarchy of values . . .
all to protect the self-constructed identity.
I have thought it is up to me to choose values, companions,
careers, where I live and what I do.
Yet I have no idea what is in my own best interests.
Once again, I turn to true direction . . .
learning to go within to the LOVE that
waits in the stillness . . . in the silence.
I learn to ask for true direction each moment . . .
so that my days of planning are over.
Having relinquished the reins . . .
I begin to discover true purpose.
I have decided to submit
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The Freedom and Peace that arise as I acknowledge
that I do not know what anything is FOR . . . evoke a gratitude
for the way of the Truth of LOVE being offered me . . .
through my willingness to commit to these ideas. To be shown
true purpose and meaning in everything rather than to
struggle to enforce my limited ideas is so gratefully
welcomed.
No longer is there a need for me to interpret. So the key
question . . . “What is this FOR?” not asking of my self
identity . . .
but of the Truth of the LOVE within . . .
not only saves time and heartache . . .
but reveals true purpose.
Enter the saboteur . . . attack thoughts . . .
the self‛s attempt to distract me . . . from remembering
this newly remembered true direction . . . true purpose.
I AM . . . AS all that LOVE creates . . . invulnerable.
So the very moment of feeling threatened and vulnerable
is the signal that I am entertaining the self-identity . . .
with its unwanted direction . . .
and I can choose again my Source of direction . . .
the Truth that is LOVE.
Being determined “to see” things differently
introduces this series of ideas.
This declaration is now taken up a notch.
I am not only determined “to see” things differently,
but above all else, I want to SEE.
This transformation of my seeing is my number one priority.
My total commitment is to VISION.
So every 15 to 20 minutes during the day is given as an
indication of this commitment . . . with the encouragement
that “One declaration with full intent and perfect sincerity
will save me years of effort.”
And effort is the operative word
in the plan of the self . . .
effort . . . and with it . . . struggle.
I am being directed
to the discovery of true purpose in everything
through my willingness
to see things differently . . . above all else.
Under my ideas . . . which are simply a veil . . .
I find the single, true purpose
that I share with all the universe.
As I let go my tight hold . . . my control . . .
I begin to listen and hear deep within . . .
a still, small Voice . . . which gently, quietly directs my day.
I simply stop all my endless, chattering thoughts . . .
and in that silence . . . I hear the message beyond them . . .
the Voice of LOVE . . . the Voice that is true . . .
taking many forms . . . a feeling . . . an idea . . . a voice.
It is unmistakeable. It is certain. It is not arrogant.
It is from knowing. It is real and true.
And it is my direct experience.
29. “LOVE is in everything I SEE.”
All purpose and meaning can be seen in
any one thing, any one person, and any one situation;
because there IS no separate meaning or purpose in Reality.
ONLY LOVE IS real . . . so true purpose and meaning IS LOVE Itself.
As I SEE only the single purpose and meaning . . . LOVE . . .
separate things . . . as I “see” them, . . . have no meaning.
I begin to appreciate ONLY LOVE . . . in all things . . .
for that One Source . . . LOVE . . .
IS all Purpose . . . IS all Meaning.
Any apparent separate thing
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 shares the single purpose of LOVE . . . In giving Power to the idea
which obviously shares the purpose of its Creator . . . that LOVE is in everything I see . . .
and that Creator is LOVE. I am learning to make the shift from physical
seeing to spiritual Vision. As I SEE through inner
So, it all depends on how I look on all things. Vision . . .
Am I looking on all things . . . I become aware of LOVE‛s Presence . . . in all that I see.
that I have seen as separate . . . This inner Vision is SEEING through the eyes of LOVE . . .
without judgment, without evaluation, without emanating from LOVE . . . through Its extension . . .
prioritising? Do I look with LOVE, appreciation and open- which IS what I AM in Truth.
mindedness on all that I have identified
as individual, separate and unique? Beyond the form that I see with my eyes
is the LOVE that is present in everything . . .
That is what becomes clear when I apply this idea.
SEEN only through Vision.
This is certainly a different way of ‘SEEING‛
It does require an open mind to make that shift
from my way of ‘seeing‛. from “seeing” to SEEING.
Does this mean holding on . . . to NO opinions? Does this If I am not SEEING LOVE in everything . . . I am “seeing”.
simply mean a decision to recognise that there is ONLY
As I SEE LOVE . . . I am SEEING true purpose and meaning.
LOVE . . .
In spite of my limited perception,
no matter what appears according to my interpretation?
LOVE is always there . . . beyond my “seeing”.
no matter what value I have apportioned?
I am either SEEING through Vision,
That is why I ask . . . Show me what this is FOR!
or am being given the opportunity . . .
Let me see how LOVE is the gift of this situation!
to hand over my “seeing” . . . and to receive Vision.
For LOVE may be construed as fearful . . .
So, there is a lot more to SEE
if the circumstance appears to shatter my old ideas.
than I am accustomed to “seeing”.
Since my “seeing” is a filter of my opinions and beliefs, I
That LOVE is in everything I SEE . . .
have not really SEEN anything truly.
is the basis of Vision . . . of SEEING
As I relinquish the meanings and purposes
Till now, I have not SEEN
that I have allotted everything . . .
the single, common, holy purpose and meaning
then the very heart of my mind IS opening . . .
which runs throughout.
and a LOVE and appreciation that I have not known
I have looked for purpose and meaning . . . apart from
is emerging . . . in my experience.
LOVE and Its expression and extension.
My little range of “seeing” has not included
As I identify with the Self . . . LOVE . . . as created by LOVE . . .
a pure purpose . . . devoid of interpretation.
I always recognise LOVE in everything I SEE.
I am now being given the opportunity
to see everything in a brand new way. I SEE ONLY LOVE . . . so I SEE what is real.
“See” differences . . . and there is no way that I SEE LOVE.
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Since I am one with LOVE . . . being LOVE‛s Creation . . . Its extension,
I CAN SEE and experience LOVE . . .
in any moment that I so choose.
Why not choose LOVE . . . choose Vision . . .
NOW and in every moment!
Should I make a choice to align with
the separate world of my making . . . of my seeing,
as soon as I realise that this IS the choice that I have made, I call
on LOVE . . . to replace this insanity . . .
with the sanity of making the only real choice . . . the choice for what
is true . . . the choice for LOVE. In that very instant . . . I experience
the LOVE that I AM . . . and quietly . . . yet joyously . . . open to
extending this gift of LOVE to all I meet or SEE . . . Thus I SEE LOVE
returned TO me . . . for LOVE is the SOLE purpose and meaning . . . of
all that is presented.
30. “LOVE is in everything I SEE
because LOVE is in my mind.”
In my determination to SEE is Vision restored.
Vision already holds a replacement
for everything that I think that I see now.
I am not trapped in the world that I see . . .
because its cause can be changed.
That cause is in my mind. That cause is my thinking.
I thought I knew the purpose of everything.
I have seen my meaning emblazoned in everything.
I have set goals around my meanings.
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Yet not only do I not know what is in my own best interest, but I
do not know what anything is FOR.
Then, I discover that everything is IN my own best interest.
THAT is the meaning and purpose of everything.
So, I give first priority to being willing to learn TO SEE that this is so.
Above all else, I do want TO SEE . . . certainly not the way that I have
been seeing till now, but in a way that brings all these ideas together
in a practical way.
I am a fledgling. My feathers are sticking together.
I am not quite ready to fly with these ideas.
I call on LOVE to help me allow Vision
to replace the projection of my limited thinking
which I thought was true.
I am being taken gently through this relinquishment of the
system of chaotic, whimsical, separate thinking. It is being
replaced by
singular, all-powerful, uncompromising LOVE . . .
which is also in my mind . . .
but emanates from Certainty . . . not from interpretation.
My feathers are being unstuck in readiness to fly.
I am opening to Vision . . . sourced in LOVE.
I could gain this Vision from any one thing that I choose TO SEE if
I could withdraw all my own ideas from it,
and then look upon it with a completely open mind.
Whatever I choose TO SEE can offer me real purpose . . .
the single purpose shared with all that exists . . .
Vision reveals true purpose.
SEEING true purpose in everything IS Vision.
I have been reminded . . .
that I can SEE all purpose in any one thing . . .
because, in fact, nothing IS separate from true purpose.
There IS only single purpose.
The whole basis for Vision IS that LOVE is in everything I SEE.
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 Wow! It is possible to SEE LOVE in everything?
That‛s how I can look on ALL things?
being symbols of the LOVE with which I am seeing?
As I practise, I begin TO SEE all with LOVE, with appreciation, and
without any preconceived notions . . . opening my mind to SEEING and
thus receiving LOVE . . .
the SOLE purpose and meaning of everything.
Nothing IS as it appears to my interpretation.
I have not really been SEEING anything . . . AS IT IS . . .
only my separate meanings . . . which have no sound basis.
Vision shows me a world that lights up with LOVE.
To experience this, I apply these lessons without reservation.
As Vision replaces my limited projection, I can not settle for less.
As Vision dawns . . . my struggle to learn TO SEE makes no sense at
all. The miracle of the turnaround from hallucination to Vision
occurs in an instant. Any instant that I choose to SEE . . .
I SEE . . . instantly . . . There is no time in it at all.
All lessons to this point have moved in a very systematic way . . .
UNDOING my way of “seeing” . . . and OPENING me to Vision.
The entire way that I have learned “to see” . . .
is being turned around . . . up-ended . . .
Now, instead of projecting what I do not like outside of me
in an attempt to get rid of it . . . having been unwilling
to own responsibility for my projections . . .
I am asking to join with what I SEE . . .
rather than keep it apart from me and separate.
What I now project does not depend on the body‛s eyes.
In fact, the only Source of real Vision is Mind.
‘Near‛ and ‘far‛ are meaningless when the Source is seen to be Mind.
I am now SEEING in my world
the LOVE that is in my mind . . . choosing to join with it . . .
rather than naming it as separate and different.
LOVE is in my mind . . . and that‛s what I choose TO SEE.
LOVE is what I choose to project.
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As I SEE LOVE in everything, I SEE the Truth of . . .
Single Purpose . . . True Meaning . . . LOVE . . . in everything.
Vision SEES no separation . . . no difference.
Vision SEES ONLY what is . . . LOVE extending and expressing.
No wonder the idea for today is the springboard for Vision. It
IS a giant leap . . . a dive . . . coming TO SEE the Oneness of
true Vision . . . single purpose . . . LOVE . . .
having been accustomed to dithering in fragmentation,
multiple meanings and interpretations
in the cumbersome denial of the simplicity of the Reality of LOVE.
Wow! The brilliance of Vision . . . the uncovering
of the LOVE in my mind . . . that I have hidden under my ideas
that something other than LOVE has reality.
As the walls of the maze of my futile thinking tumble down . . .
LOVE is exposed as the essence of my Being.
With the blocks to its Presence dissolved . . .
I can SEE nothing BUT LOVE.
All my interpretations are seen to be imposters . . .
attempting to deny the beauty and Power of LOVE.
The Peace and Joy that Vision brings are indescribable.
In the arms of gratitude . . . Life . . . that IS LOVE . . . simply flows.
31. “I am not the victim of the world I see.”
The world that I see comes from my thinking.
It is my world . . . resulting from my thinking.
The role of my self-identity is to offer me denial
of all that I AM as LOVE‛s extension . . . as LOVE Itself.
The self presents problems . . . difficulties.
The self is simply a way of seeing everything
that enhances the apparent split in my mind . . . that emphasises the
denial of LOVE‛s Reality. So, whenever I see problems . . . feel
lacking, weak or powerless . . . I am choosing to ignore the Light of
LOVE that I AM . . . and am seeking answers and responses
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or denial that I choose is against Self . . . the LOVE that I AM.
I AM LOVE. That IS my True Identity.
To oppose and deny this is the role
of the great opposer . . . the self-made identity.
This self is given many names . . . many covers . . .
for example . . . the devil, “me”, demons, satan . . . to name a few. Yet,
in Truth, nothing IS against LOVE. Nothing IS against what I AM.
Only the self puts forward opposition to the natural state . . .
of Peace, gentleness, strength and trust.
LOVE begets only LOVE.
As I accept the only true Identity, LOVE . . . I see, in fact,
that denial is meaningless . . . that opposition is impossible.
To deny the denial . . . I simply accept there IS only LOVE.
So, whenever I feel weak or think I am a victim . . .
I am in denial of the Truth of the invulnerability of LOVE . . . of Self.
As I buy into thoughts of lack, deprivation, sadness, guilt and pain . . .
I am opposing the One unified Self . . . that is ONLY LOVE.
As I see myself as a victim . . . for example . . .
“I don‛t fit in! I‛m not ...... enough! I can‛t do this!
I‛m too .......! I‛ll never be able to....... !”
then I am simply the victim of my own thinking.
And the source of that thinking is NOT the Self . . .
for Self is whole and complete.
The source of that thinking and seeing is the opposing self, the self
of interpretation, of comparison . . .
which supports the duality of victim/perpetrator.
So, who can change this way of thinking? Only I can.
Because I am so rehearsed in this way of thinking,
having allied myself with the self-made self identity . . .
I need help . . . NOT from within the system
which produced this effect. . .
BUT from the Source . . . LOVE Itself.
I ask LOVE to facilitate my release from the addiction
to these limiting ideas . . . and thus free me . . . restore me to sanity.
As I recognise my feelings of guilt and victimhood . . .
I declare once again, “Above all else I want to see differently.”
I then remember, “LOVE is in everything I see because LOVE is in my mind.”
These two lessons demonstrate the
transformation of thinking required
to release me from my concerted effort to be a victim.
Correction of this misperception . . . this insane thinking . . .
is given . . . as I turn to the Holy Spirit of LOVE for guidance.
Many thoughts of dis-ease rush in . . .
to support the initial catalyst for this state of victimhood.
This calls for a committed choice . . .
a definite choice . . . to see differently.
Time to interrupt the trajectory of my downhill thinking.
Thinking that is self-orchestrated has but one direction . . .
downhill . . .to wallowing in lack, pain, devastation and falsity.
It is totally undisciplined.
Yet, it takes one true Thought emanating from LOVE . . .
one tiny idea . . . to break the pattern.
That One Thought is supported
by LOVE in all its manifestations . . . all its forms . . .
Everything leans towards me to bless me . . .
as I accept the Thought and all it means . . . I AM LOVE Itself.
As I accept thoughts of guilt, of feeling sorry for myself . . .
I set up a world that reflects the same.
I may for a moment gather around me sympathy . . .
which simply extends the painful state a little longer.
There comes a moment when I can stand it no longer.
Then a tiny sane thought of LOVE pops in.
I remember to ask for help. I call on surrender.
I surrender the meaningless thoughts . . . handing them over
to be replaced with what is true and real . . . LOVE.
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I am always making a choice . . . Peace or problem . . .
Yet a problem comes only from my own mind, from my perception.
Change my perception, and problems disappear. Changed perception is
the miracle of the reversal of the limited system of thought
founded on a belief in problems . . . a belief in opposition.
The Spirit of LOVE lights the way . . . as I release
my thinking, my evaluating, my judging . . .
and discover that everything is FOR me.
In freedom there is nothing in opposition.
The small world of the victim is so small.
Set my sight on everything . . . and I find everything is FOR me.
A simple change in the source of thinking . . .
a simple exchange . . . pain, sadness, anger, lack, fear, hate . . .
for . . . LOVE, Joy, Peace, Freedom, Happiness.
Insanity . . . for . . . sanity.
Yet, until it is accepted that self-orchestration is insane . . .
arising from denial of what is . . . spurred on by my interpretations . . .
then LOVE takes a back seat . . . seated by the self . . .
whose purpose is to crush LOVE . . . and demand its own throne.
32. “I have invented the world I see.”
How exciting to discover
that what is seen with the body‛s eyes
is simply of the imagination . . .
to remember that the limited self is an image maker.
My thoughts are images that I have made.
As I think . . . so I see.
Cause and effect are not separate.
The world that I see is a dream in my mind.
Since I made this world up in my mind . . . I can give it up.
The meanings that I have given everything can be withdrawn.
I can see differently. I have choice!
So I can choose to see differently!
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There‛s no point giving another set of meanings to my world
from the same bank of ideas
from which I invented the world that I see now.
I can see LOVE in everything . . . if I so choose . . .
because LOVE is in my mind.
While I see LOVE as separate from me . . .
I can not possibly experience seeing LOVE in everything.
Until I see LOVE as the Source of Life Itself, I can not see
LOVE in everything.
LOVE is the Source . . . of a brand new way of seeing.
Wow! LOVE IS IN my mind!
Why not choose that LOVE . . . as Source of my thinking?
I‛m then able to see LOVE . . . in everything that I see . . .
rather than see what I have invented to replace LOVE . . .
an invention of my imagination . . . by a self that I invented.
The world of my invention comes from a self that I invented . . .
a very small, fragile, limited, separate, disjointed self-identity.
The self seems so powerful and real,
because I have given it power and decided it is real.
Now, I am being shown that what I call ‘Life‛
is only a story . . . a dream in my mind. The only thing
for me to do is – WAKE UP! In each moment . . . I
make an agreement . . .
to continue to dream . . .
to invent a world in my imagination . . .
or . . . to WAKE UP to LOVE alone . . . to release
the world of my invention . . . my imagined world . . .
and see LOVE in everything!
I align either with the self (invented) . . . or the Self (created).
I sleep . . . or wake!
The world that I see results from this choice!
With these “body” eyes . . . the eyes of the self . . .
I see a world of form . . . with separate identities, divided,
a system of duality, with degrees and hierarchies
from which I set up a value system
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It is obvious that I am not the victim
of the world I see . . . since I invented it.
I brought it into existence . . . in the precise form that I see it.
The way that I choose to experience the world
is a component of this invention.
All the parameters of this world that I have invented
have been set by me . . . the self of my imagination.
I have made up my own prison . . . a dream . . .
and have believed it to be real.
Yet, it has been made of attack thoughts . . .
thoughts chosen as a denial of the Reality of LOVE . . .
chosen to keep me apart from LOVE . . . separate from Source,
excluding Oneness . . . and valuing individuality instead.
As I begin to release these ideas which have blocked LOVE from
my awareness . . . the world that I have seen . . . is being replaced.
At last, I see LOVE in everything . . . because I remember the
Truth that I AM of LOVE . . . and the Light that I see in
everything
is the Light in my mind . . . of the LOVE that I AM.
As I hold on to my invention . . .
that Light of LOVE within . . . is darkened . . . I cannot see what is
hidden from my awareness. If I could see it . . . it wouldn‛t be
hidden. If I were to forget for a moment to hold on to my
invention, that Light would not BE hidden.
And I would see differently . . .
no longer would I see the falsity of an invented world . . .
but the Truth of LOVE which the invented world was made to hide.
So I watch my thoughts . . . and their effects.
I am responsible for the world that I see.
Do I choose to see difference?
Do I think thoughts
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which separate . . . or join? hurt . . . or heal? Do I think
with LOVE? . . . or apart from LOVE? Does LOVE seem
distant from me? . . .
or am I aware that LOVE abides within?
What is my chosen guide?
Do I seek direct experience of the Truth of LOVE alone?
Or am I willing to settle for a world of my invention?
My intent? . . .
Choose to be aware . . . in each moment . . .
of the source of my thinking . . .
listening to my responses
to the situations and conversations and identities which arise . . .
listening to my responses very carefully.
Am I imagining? dreaming? inventing?
Or am I seeing only LOVE?
The Source/source of my thinking is thus revealed.
It‛s time to be present to One Self as Created . . . LOVE . . .
and to let the self of my imagination . . . of my invention . . . go.
33. “There is another way of looking at the world.”
How do I look at the world?
How IS my world?
Am I seeing LOVE in everything I see?
Am I seeing other than LOVE?
seeing problems and differences?
Each day presents a stage for the opportunity
of seeing the world . . .
without defence . . . without attack . . .
without seeing myself as a victim of the world I have made.
Now that I am aware that I invent the world I see . . .
what sort of world am I inventing?
All I have done is invent and re-invent a world . . .
in the image which suits me in the moment . . .
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 to fit each situation . . . as I so choose . . .
to maintain my identity as an inventor . . .
calling this self a creator.
This self-identity tries to convince me that the only way TO SEE
is the way that I see now . . . That‛s because the self-identity is
not my real Identity . . . and the way I see now is the way of the
self-identity. My real Identity . . . as created . . . is LOVE. The
self-identity doesn‛t want me to see as LOVE sees. Or . . . the
self-identity would have no purpose . . . would not exist.
I am open to another way of seeing . . . of looking at the world.
What if all that is seen AS a problem . . .
all ideas of lack, pain, suffering and chaos . . .
could be SEEN differently . . .
through a whole new way of SEEING?
It is not really a surprise to hear that . . .
“I do not see anything which is really alive and really joyous because I am
unaware as yet of thoughts which are true, and therefore really happy.”
I would be happy . . . if I were aware ONLY of true thoughts.
If I were fully joyous through SEEING in this other way . . .
there would be no need of a self-identity.
The self-identity IS the belief in
a dream world . . . an invented world . . . an unreliable world . . .
an unhappy world . . . the world of the self-identity . . .
a world that embodies dualistic thinking.
That‛s the way that I have been looking at the world.
That IS the world that I have been seeing.
If I were to ask myself . . . “What is the one thing that would
make me happy?” it would become obvious that in fact
nothing in this world as I see it would make me truly happy.
For example . . . I think along the following lines . . .
“If only I had .......... THEN I‛d be happy.”
Yet . . . on receiving that panacea . . .
I would once again be searching for happiness.
The self-identity . . . IS my invention . . .
IS dissatisfaction itself.
It IS the idea of lack.
It sets me on an eternal search FOR happiness
within the invented drama . . .
which offers no lasting happiness.
Today‛s idea . . . that there IS another way of seeing the world . . .
which means another way of thinking . . .
shines a Light on the self-identity‛s mode of seeing . . .
exposing its limited offering of seeing apart from LOVE . . .
All this can be replaced by Vision . . . SEEING with LOVE . . .
which is the Source of true happiness . . . lasting joy.
Since I am determined TO SEE . . . I will SEE things differently.
VISION is the answer . . . not just as a theory . . .
but as a direct experience . . . a way of LIFE.
I no longer want to see a world . . . inner OR outer . . .
that is a pictorial representation of attack thoughts.
I no longer want to hallucinate . . . seeing a projection
of my own unreliable, vacillating ideas . . .
and thus experiencing both attack and defence.
VISION already holds a replacement
for everything that I think I see now.
The very images that I project from hate and fear
can be transformed . . .
because I can extend LOVE . . .
and see Light in everything . . .
as I call on the Spirit that IS LOVE . . .
to re-interpret . . . and thereby replace
the thinking and seeing of the self-identity.
This change occurs in my mind.
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to surrender my self-identity and accept LOVE as my Identity.
LOVE sets in motion my recognition of the false . . .
and shows me how to release it . . . how to let it go . . .
What is true now shines bright . . . ready for my acceptance.
I have been shown my part . . . leading to this step.
With each attack thought . . . I identify its single cause . . .
which is always . . . the source of my thinking.
As I choose LOVE as the Source of my thinking . . .
I am able to let go of my old source of thinking . . . to dismiss it . . .
and where each attack thought stood before . . .
there stands a thought of LOVE.
The Spirit that is LOVE honours my asking
which is included in my decision to dismiss the attack thought.
Taking these steps as directed brings forth a different SEEING!
How much of my seeing is not SEEING at all?
where I see only separate things . . . where I see differences?
How practised am in SEEING LOVE in everything?
How practised am I in SEEING
ONLY LOVE‛s meaning and purpose?
I am reminded today to remain uninvolved in both my inner and
outer world . . . remaining unattached, . . . as I propose . . .
“There is another way of looking at the world.”
Following this instruction
helps me TO SEE what I SEE . . .
as one world of MY making . . .
one way of MY seeing . . .
that I am experiencing.
So . . . what is being replaced . . .
IS this one way of seeing.
The steps required in this process are:
Stop all thinking! Step back!
Remember to ASK to be shown the way . . . by LOVE Itself.
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Hand over . . . surrender . . . my thinking . . . for LOVE‛s thinking.
Identify the limited and limiting thought!
Let it go! Wait for LOVE‛s replacement.
This sounds easy . . . and it is . . .
when I fully surrender my way of thinking.
Yet, without surrender . . . the very hardest thing to do . . .
IS to follow those simple steps . . .
The self-identity neither wants . . . nor has any intention . . .
of stopping , , , stepping back . . . and handing over. It
wants to rush ahead . . . jump in . . . and take over!
Be aware of the steps it offers . . .
and declare . . .
“No! Not that!
I choose the way of Peace and LOVE . . .
everything that I have denied . . .
by following the dictates of the self.
I accept that there IS
another way of looking at the world.
THAT is the way I choose TO SEE.”
34. “I could see Peace instead of this.”
I‛m calling on VISION . . . a different way of SEEING.
I no longer want to see through attack thought.
So . . .I practise activating the very foundation of this SEEING.
Instead of seeing through eyes
which focus on differences and problems . . .
I am shown that I can SEE through eyes focussed on Peace.
This SEEING does not rely on the outer world . . .
but an inner state of Peace . . .
“Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter.”
Only my judgments, my interpretations, my denial of Peace
disrupts Peace . . . thus keeping me blind to Peace.
Where IS Peace? What is the Source of Peace?
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of the world of the self identity . . .
the world of attack and defence arising from separate,
dysfunctional thoughts. To think I am separate from my
Source . . . LOVE . . .
is an attack on the Peace that LOVE extends.
Peace is not an attribute of dysfunction.
LOVE is within . . . so Peace is within.
It is eternal Presence . . . within . . . awaiting re-instatement
through my decision to remove the blocks to Its Presence.
Blocking awareness of LOVE‛s Presence IS
blocking awareness of the Presence of Peace.
I do this by holding on to thoughts . . . to images I make . . .
of war . . . of opposition . . . of separation . . . all simply responses in
denial of the eternal Presence of LOVE and Peace.
In practising saying, “I could see Peace instead of this”,
I become aware of how often I allow Peace to be disrupted.
Yet Peace is the natural state of a unified mind . . . a mind at ease.
The lack of discipline in my thinking is therefore quite evident.
I continue to harbour thoughts which disrupt Peace.
That‛s why practise is essential.
In Chapter 19 of the Text of A Course in Miracles, I
am encouraged to acknowledge the benefits
of making this my constant practice.
“As this Peace extends from deep inside yourselves to embrace all the Sonship
and give it rest, it will encounter many obstacles
(based on guilt and fear).
Yet . . . Peace . . .
*will gently cover them . . .
extending past . . .
completely unhindered. . .
and
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“Every obstacle that Peace must flow across
is surmounted in just the same way;
the fear that raised it . . .
yields to the LOVE beneath . . .
and so the fear is gone.”
(the fear disappears for lack of attention)
LOVE prevails.
“The extension of the Holy Spirit’s purpose (LOVE) from
your relationship . . . to others . . . to bring them gently in,
will quietly extend
to every aspect of your lives,
surrounding both of you with glowing happiness . . .
and the calm awareness of complete protection.
And you will carry its message of LOVE and safety and freedom
to everyone who draws nigh unto your temple
(this “drawing near” being the joining, the resonating, the relating)
where healing waits for him . . .
When the Peace in you
has been extended to encompass everyone, the
Holy Spirit’s function here will be accomplished.”
Practising Peace has far reaching effects.
It offers not only true Sight . . . Vision . . .
but the gift of a world no longer perceived through attack.
As I SEE through eyes of Peace . . . I offer Peace to all I meet.
As Peace is received . . . it is ready to be extended.
So, now I practise SEEING Peace
instead of the constant shuffle of thoughts of
anxiety, worry, depression, fear and hatred (the
obstacles that “Peace gently covers”)
that led me to decide that lasting Peace is impossible.
In Chapter 14, it is clearly stated,
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“If you want Peace
you must abandon the teacher of attack.
The Teacher of Peace will NEVER abandon you . . .
He gives the gift of Peace
to everyone who perceives the need for Peace,
and who would have it.
Make way for Peace . . . and it will come.
For understanding is in you . . .
and from it . . . Peace MUST come . . .
Leave room for Peace.”
(This IS the stopping . . . the stepping back , , ,
the asking . . . the waiting . . . the receiving . . .)
“and you will find yourself
so filled with Power
that NOTHING will prevail against your Peace.
And this will be the test
by which you recognise
that you have understood.” . . .
and again. . .
“I cannot extend Peace
unless I KEEP Peace.
I am the centre
from which Peace radiates outward,
to call the others in.
I am its home; its tranquil dwelling-place,
from which it gently reaches out,
but never leaving ME.
If it would spread across the whole creation,
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it must begin with me,
and FROM me
reach to everyone who calls,
and bring him rest by joining me.”
THIS shows me my function.
I am being given the keys.
Am I receiving the keys?
Am I turning the keys in the door of my locked perception?
Am I opening the door to my function of extending Peace?
I MUST decide . . .
“I could see Peace instead of this.”
Am I choosing Peace?. . . NOW?
It takes practice . . . practice . . . practice!
Time to be about it!
35. “My mind is part of LOVE. I am very holy.”
While I continue to believe in my self-image,
to say that I am holy seems arrogant.
This means that I trust my own judgment and opinions
rather than the Truth that I am LOVE.
Each idea I hold about myself is a fantasy . . . an illusion . . .
imagined . . . to compile a separate identity where I
can compare and contrast myself with other
separate identities . . .
and so find my place within this illusion of a world.
The self-image . . . the self-identity . . . is NOT what I am.
It is nothing but an image . . . not real at all.
Each moment . . .
I am reinforcing an aspect of this self-image.
As I face a situation . . . my reaction identifies
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situation to situation. I discover, as I search my mind with honesty,
that I can move from seeing myself
as being helpful to being unhelpful; loyal to disloyal;
disciplined to undisciplined; honest to dishonest.
What a confused identity! How unstable!
How COULD I trust this identity? What a chameleon!
Bringing to the Light my self-assessments of this multi-faceted
self-image . . . that I have made . . . and continue to make . . .
shows me how flimsy is its basis.
In exposing the self-image that I have made up . . .
and in surrendering this limited, false, chaotic self-image to the
Truth that LOVE is my Identity . . . I am offered the healing of my
mind . . .
the restoration of whole mind . . .
relinquishing the false to embrace ONLY what is true.
That which I am unwilling to admit
remains hidden . . . yet active . . .
keeping me locked in to my self-image,
revealing my willingness to stay asleep . . . to remain in the dark . . .
unaware of the simple Truth . . . that LOVE is my ONLY Identity.
In searching my mind for aspects of my self-perception, at times I
feel guilty with self appraisal. It feels as if my self-perception . . .
has been a secret . . . even from myself. Yet
my self-perception has been the very basis
of operating in the world.
I see how exhausting it is to keep re-inventing an identity,
while also having to protect it from exposure.
All the while, my Identity . . . as created by LOVE . . . remains intact
. . . untouched . . . unaffected by my imaginings. My thoughts and
actions have . . . for the most part . . . been on ‘automatic pilot‛ . . .
the pilot being
As I embrace the Self that is of LOVE . . . I begin to see truly.
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the identity-inventor . . . the imagined self.
The lack of awareness . . . of my thoughts . . .
and the actions which follow those thoughts . . .
is now very obvious.
Accepting this idea establishes that my Source IS LOVE . . .
so my true Identity is thereby established.
From the idea,
“LOVE is in everything I see, because LOVE is in my mind”,
I am now given,
“My mind is part of LOVE. I am very holy.”
This is foreign territory to the self-image.
The self offers a fearful, vulnerable, lonely image.
Yet here am I being included in LOVE Itself.
I am NOT separate from LOVE.
LOVE . . . in fact . . . IS in my mind . . .
and my mind IS part of LOVE.
Since ONLY LOVE is real . . .
I am no longer different or apart from anyone or anything.
I therefore reclaim the Self . . . created of LOVE . . .
eternally safe . . . innocent . . . very holy.
Truth is the absence of illusion . . .
illusion is the absence of Truth.
Truth IS LOVE. Illusion IS the absence of LOVE.
There really IS no choice!
As I hand over . . . or surrender . . . my self-assessments . . .
having recognised them . . . I have the opportunity
to confirm and perceive the Truth . . . devoid of illusion.
“My mind is part of LOVE. I am very holy.”
The illusory self-image is not holy.
It is just that . . . illusory . . . not real . . . not true.
As I remember Self . . . the holiness of LOVE . . .
and dwell on its purity alone . . .
the self of my image-making is miraculously replaced.
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As I open to the idea of being the Self of LOVE‛s Creation,
“sudden expansion of the self takes place with my desire for this holy instant.
It calls me to be myself . . . within its safe embrace.
There in its embrace are the laws of limit lifted FOR me,
to welcome me to openness of mind and freedom.
Come to this place of refuge . . . where I can be myself in Peace.
Not through destruction . . . not through a “breaking out” . . .
but merely by a quiet “melting in”.
For Peace will join me there simply because
I have been willing to let go the limits I have placed upon LOVE,
and joined it where it is and where it led me,
in answer to its gentle call to BE at Peace.”
(Text, Chapter 18, Dreams and the Body, last paragraph)
My Self IS Holy . . . my self is nothing.
Fifth Review
Seven Lessons:
That is my single purpose . . . all that has meaning.
I am restored to the Unity of all . . .
that heretofore I chose to name as separate identities.
So, I look to Unity . . . instead of fragmentation . . .
by withdrawing my meaning . . . always asking . . .
What is this FOR?
I begin asking to be directed to real purpose and meaning,
rather than demanding my own personal purpose and meaning.
It is this asking and listening . . . this quiet humility . . .
which sets the stage for these seven ideas.
Creation obviously emanates from the Creator.
The Creator IS . . . LOVE Itself.
The shared purpose . . . the shared meaning . . .
of all apparently separate things,
the common denominator . . .
is thus LOVE.

29. LOVE is in everything I see. Am I looking for differences? ways of differentiating?

30. LOVE is in everything I see because LOVE is in my mind.
31. I am not the victim of the world I see. Or am I seeing Unity? LOVE in all that I see?
32. I have invented the world I see. No matter what value I have accorded things in the past, I
33. There is another way of looking at the world. am willing to let that go.
34. I could see Peace instead of this. No matter what the form seems to be . . .
35. My mind is part of LOVE. I am very holy.
ONLY LOVE . . . is in everything I SEE. This is how I
begin TO SEE differently. I begin to recognise that
These seven lessons arise out of
“Above all else I want to see things differently.” this SEEING is a gift or faculty of Mind . . .
SEEING is given priority. not of the physical eyes . . . not of limited perception.
I have declared that! So, am I simply seeing the physical?
Or SEEING . . . beyond the physical?
Am I extending Self or projecting self?
Am I seeing LOVE Itself?
or limited, self-constructed LOVE?
Am I seeing the eternal or the temporal?

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Each day exposes the way I am seeing. In the exposure lies the
opportunity to reclaim VISION.
Nothing is as it appears to me.
I have not been SEEING anything.
I have held everything apart and separate.
Now I ask to join with what I see . . . including all . . . as One.
When aligned with self-based thinking . . .
I see myself as a victim of the world.
Yet I made this world up. It is my invention.
My thinking is the perpetrator of my own victimhood.
This pattern of thinking has ruled my experience.
Yet it takes only one true idea
to break that pattern . . .
and thus discover that everything is FOR me.
I am NOT the victim of my world.
In fact, everything supports me . . .
as I seek to SEE truly.
The world that I have invented in my imagination . . . is not real.
My world consists of projected images . . . of my invention.
While I see LOVE as being apart from me . . . separate . . .
it is impossible to see LOVE IN anything.
While I see a God as an entity . . .
and NOT as abstract LOVE . . .
I am making up a separate form that is meaningless.
LOVE is the Power that IS the Source of Life Itself . . .
Thus . . . I can SEE LOVE . . . in everything.
I quit seeing LOVE in my image, and see Self in LOVE‛s image.
I begin to wake up to LIFE . . .
rather than stay asleep in a dream of life.
Do I want to remain an inventor in competition with LOVE?
Or do I want to create with LOVE . . . extending Creation . . .
extending LOVE and Peace, Happiness and Joy?
As I listen carefully to my responses
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to all situations and conversations which arise during the day,
the source of my thinking is very evident.
Have I been paying lip service to these lessons?
Am I still harbouring blame and judgment?
Do I still see myself as the victim . . .
of a world that I have invented? My
world is one of attack and defence.
It is one in which . . . if I am not in the victim role . . .
I find myself in the perpetrator role.
Am I happy to struggle on in this way?
Thankfully, there is another way of looking at the world. All
that I want is true and lasting Peace, Happiness and Joy,
not only for myself . . . but for everyone! I see that this
must include all . . .
because true and lasting Happiness is not possible until
everyone is freed from the identities and roles imposed
on them by the self-identity . . .
until all are SEEN . . .
to be the One . . . extension or expression of LOVE. The
answer is definitely not in the world as seen by the self!
It is in this other way . . . of looking at the world.
So, what would it be like . . .
to no longer see any victims? Or perpetrators? How
would it be if I were to take responsibility as inventor
of my world?
Another way of thinking is the answer.
I have been given exercises to bring forward . . .
to expose . . . my thoughts of attack . . .
which, of course, includes my thoughts of defence.
This is where I learn to STOP thinking this way.
There is no point looking for answers
from a source that denies LOVE . . .
a source that harbours attack thoughts . . .
that way of thinking . . . where attack and defence rule! I
consciously let that way of thinking go . . .
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 by giving it no Power . . . no meaning . . . so dismiss it!
I ASK for help . . . SURRENDER my solutions by stepping back . . .
LISTEN . . . and WAIT on the Spirit of LOVE . . . with Its answer.
BE AWARE . . . of the presence of this other way of thinking . . .
thinking sourced in LOVE alone . . .
eternally awaiting my acceptance . . .
eternally present in the stillness . . .
in the quiet within.
This is the final step: Accept thoughts only from LOVE . . .
I begin to see behind . . . that is . . . beyond the form.
I see the Unifying Power . . . LOVE . . . in everything.
I start to see through eyes directed by PEACE.
This PEACE always awaits my call for it.
PEACE never left me! I left Peace!
I simply ignored its Presence . . .
and opted for its substitute . . . warring, attacking thoughts.
Making way for PEACE each day . . . takes practice.
Only as I step back . . . and KEEP PEACE . . .
am I able to extend PEACE.
It seems a giant leap . . . to the final lesson of this series, “My
mind is part of LOVE. I am very holy.”
To relinquish my self assessments . . .
and accept my Holiness . . .
takes true HUMILITY . . .
Acknowledging that my mind IS of LOVE . . .
and that I am very holy . . .
can ONLY come from HUMILITY.
To accept my own assessments is ONLY ARROGANT.
This series began with the declaration,
“Above all else I want to see differently”.
Then I began to look at my current way of seeing . . .
and the source of that seeing.
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Now I am introduced to this different way of seeing . . .
getting to know a Self I have barely identified with . . .
a Self that is holy . . . wholly of LOVE.
I have been led through an amazing set of ideas with
which I have experienced in a very practical way the
way of seeing . . . that I now choose to relinquish. I am
aware that this final lesson is leading me
into another episode . . . another batch of ideas
which will extend these ideas . . .
in order that I may come to full acceptance of the
Truth of my Reality . . . LOVE . . . and the VISION
that LOVE alone offers.
Gratitude abounds!
36. “My holiness/Innocence envelops everything I see.”
The springboard for this idea is in yesterday‛s lesson,
“My mind is part of LOVE. I am very holy.”
This puts my identity on the line! All
those ideas that I have about myself
are seen to be attacks on the Self.
Yet, they feel very true and accurate descriptions
of myself . . . as I see myself . . .
even though they are often contradictory . . .
and dependent on each situation for validation.
A very chameleon-like existence . . .
ruled by fear . . . and the need to be
either on top of . . . or the victim of . . . each situation,
attempting to find safety . . . in unsafety,
always seeking a particular role and function . . .
to prove I have a niche . . . an individual, special purpose.
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The idea that LOVE is in my mind . . .
and that my mind is part of LOVE . . .
just doesn‛t fit my old ideas of my self-identity.
I see the importance of practising this new idea . . .
in order to introduce this new way of SEEING myself . . .
a new way of SEEING the world.
This idea is foreign to the self-identity.
And, let‛s face it, I have identified with the self-identity!
The self-identity sees LOVE
as separate and distant . . . the enemy . . .
since the self-identity IS t
he very denial . . . of LOVE being my Identity .
The self does not trust LOVE.
It lives in fear . . . of punishment . . .
that it sees as warranted . . . for its sins.
In Chapter 19, Sin Versus Error, it is stated: “It is essential
that error be not confused with “sin”, and it is this distinction
which makes salvation possible. For error can be corrected . . . and
the wrong made right. But sin, were it possible, would be
irreversible”.......
“To sin would be to violate Reality . . . and to SUCCEED. Sin is
the proclamation that attack is real and guilt is justified. It assumes
the Self is guilty,
and has thus succeeded in losing Its innocence,
and making Itself what LOVE created not”........
“The Self can be mistaken . . .It can deceive Itself; It can even turn
the Power of Its mind against Itself. But It CANNOT sin.
There is nothing the Self can do
that would REALLY change Its Reality in any way,
nor make It really guilty.
That is what sin would do . . . for such is its purpose.
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Yet for all the wild insanity inherent in the whole idea of sin . . .
it is IMPOSSIBLE.”
With sin impossible . . . therefore no reason for guilt . . .
what is it like . . . to see through eyes of Holiness?
In Chapter 19, Healing of the Mind, we read,
“ Each one appears just as he is perceived in the holy instant,
united in your purpose to be released from guilt.
You saw the Self in him, and he was healed
because you looked on what makes faith forever justified in everyone.
Faith is the gift of LOVE, through the Self Whom LOVE has given you.
Faithlessness looks upon the Self, and judges him unworthy
of forgiveness. But through the eyes of faith,
the Self is SEEN already forgiven,
free of all the guilt he laid upon himself.
Faith sees the Self only NOW . . .
because it looks not to the past to judge him,
but would see in him . . . only what it would see in YOU.
It sees not through the body’s eyes, nor looks to bodies for its justification.
It is the messenger of the new perception, sent forth to gather
witnesses unto its coming, and to return their messages to you.
Faith is as easily exchanged for knowledge as is the real world. For
faith arises from the Holy Spirit of LOVE’s perception, and is the
sign you share it with LOVE. Faith is a gift you offer to the Self
through LOVE, and wholly acceptable
to the Father, LOVE . . . as to the Self.
And therefore offered YOU.”
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To accept that LOVE is in my mind and that my mind is part of LOVE is
to deny the self-identity‛s stance that I am separate and alone; that I
am weak, powerless, lacking.
This lesson offers an opening to the wholeness that is LOVE . . .
where there is ONLY Holiness, Faith, LOVE and Peace . . .
where judgment is meaningless . . . nothing.
This holiness in my mind . . .
bears ONLY holy thoughts . . . which see ONLY holiness.
As I see mySelf as wholly of LOVE,
my self-identity‛s opinions and value judgments are seen to be divisive.
They have no place in this true way of SEEING that I am remembering.
It is holiness that I now project . . . instead of blame and guilt.
Holiness envelops everything I see . . .
as I reclaim the holiness within . . .
and extend it through my Sight.
37. “My holiness/Innocence blesses the world.”
As I relax my body . . . allowing the breath to flow through . . .
enlivening all the cells, and slow down to go within . . .
my thoughts of past and future fall away . . .
as I arrive at the very centre of my being . . .
where LOVE abides.
This is the very Source of the holiness
which is the Truth of my Identity.
It is this holiness which is Creation . . . LOVE extended.
I am that Creation!
I am not apart from
the holiness of the LOVE that created Me.
I am a whole and perfect Creation of LOVE.
As I reclaim this wholeness of LOVE . . .
I realise it is always present . . . has never left.
It is only when I choose to depart from LOVE . . .
and deny or oppose the Truth of LOVE‛s eternal Presence . . .
that I see a world separate from Self.
Then, I find that even I seem to be separate from this Self.
I look through eyes that no longer recognise wholeness,
holiness, the single Reality of LOVE.
And this takes ONLY one moment!
But an entire universe is set in motion
by one opposing thought being entertained
in an undisciplined mind.
From Self recognition in the heart of LOVE . . .
I now see a self that is a body in a world
of separate minds, separate bodies and separate things.
It is insane that I would make such a choice!
Yet, to the self-identity, it seems sane.
That is the very nature and purpose of the self . . .
to appear sane, to appear natural, to deny what is true.
It sets up a search for what is true . . .
without ever leading to the Truth of LOVE . . .
leading only to even more fragmented possibilities . . .
with even more elusive promises.
Yet . . . all the while . . .
Self awaits my acknowledgment
that I AM as LOVE created me . . .
the extension and expression of LOVE . . . of holiness.
My holiness IS LOVE‛s holiness. I am one with LOVE.
And so I return to stopping, stepping back, asking for help,
waiting, listening . . . and I am restored to Self. . . LOVE.
Today my purpose is declared
in its simplicity . . . very clearly.
My purpose is to SEE the world
through my own holiness.
“What is my function?” and “Why am I here?”
These questions are answered today.
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everyone gains . . . for I refuse to see through judgment
which diminishes True Identity as the extension of
LOVE . . . to a parody of the Self that is LOVE.
I no longer agree to sacrifice True Identity . . . LOVE, for a
limited, projected evaluation
which inevitably includes guilt and blame.
There is no loss or sacrifice possible
when I SEE only holiness.
All that is possible is blessing.
As I see from wholeness . . . from LOVE . . .
I have no needs . . .
so demand nothing of anyone . . .
and thereby free everyone
from the cycle of neediness and demand.
That I am one with the world is seen
through my quiet recognition
that all things are blessed
“in my holiness”.
As I see through holiness . . . all I see IS holiness . . .
so in fact, there IS no world of separate people and things.
There IS only holiness . . . only blessing. That‛s how the world
is saved. It is saved from judgment by my holiness . . . which
knows no judgment.
I ask for the direct experience
of the Truth of LOVE alone . . .
and I am given that . . . as . . . in quiet . . .
I let go of all my little goals and self-made purposes . . .
and give myself totally to the practice for the day . . .
whose gift is my direct experience of true purpose:
SEE ONLY through my holiness . . . and the world is blessed.
I now choose to free the world
by blessing it with my holiness
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instead of condemning it with my judgment.
Until this is a direct experience in me,
it is simply a theory, a philosophy . . . meaningless.
It is the little willingness
to devote myself to each lesson
that removes any doubts presented
as the self-identity attempts to dissuade me from full endeavour, as
it struggles to regain my attention and my allegiance.
I simply ask my Guide, the Holy Spirit of LOVE,
to support me through any temptation or doubt that arises,
to help me be about my purpose . . .
the salvation . . . the freeing of the world . . .
asking for the direct experience of my holiness . . .
and offering it to bless the world.
38. “There is nothing my holiness/Innocence cannot do.”
My holiness reminds me that I am whole.
My holiness is of LOVE . . . indivisible . . .
simply LOVE . . . simply One LOVE.
All Power IS whole . . .
for there is no lack, no threat
to that which IS complete, full, and whole.
LOVE IS unlimited Power . . . IS my holiness.
This world is a place of limits, of time, space and distance.
This world is not real.
It is of my making, of my invention.
Yet my holiness is unlimited.
The doing of this world revolves around
problems, difficulties, pain and sorrow.
So what appears as ‘life‛ . . . the many stories of careers,
“bringing up” children, government, religion . . . are all set up
to prevent or solve problems.
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In Truth, in holiness, there is no opposition.
This world is made AS opposition.
It epitomises the opposite of the Truth of LOVE .
So . . . my holiness reverses the laws of the world. The
world‛s laws are established to maintain problems in the form
of sickness, pain, sorrow, etcetera, ideas all coming from lack
...
with the pretence of solving or healing them.
That IS the world‛s busy...ness!
Fixing without fixing . . . a game
of trying “to put Humpty Dumpty together again.”
Remember the rhyme,
“Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream.
Merely, merely, merely, merely, Life is but a dream.”
That‛s this world‛s idea of life.
Happiness is a dream . . . to the world.
It is out of its scope . . . out of its range . . .
not a possibility . . . a fantasy.
LIFE has nothing to do with a dream. The Truth is . . . this world
is a dream. Of course, the self-identity proposes that my
holiness is the dream . . .
and that problems are Reality.
It is obvious, then,
that my holiness reverses the laws of the world.
The laws of this world are set up to extend the dream.
Without my holiness . . . the Power of LOVE
is not made manifest, is not made available.
So, I experience the world as if it is real . . .
filled with problems . . . not solutions.
The search for solutions is seen to be . . . “life”.
Finding solutions is NOT part of the plan of the self-identity.
This is reversed as I embrace my holiness . . .
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fully aware that it is the only solution.
To acknowledge AND experience
the Reality of my holiness
is a major breakthrough
towards fulfilling my function.
Remember that to SEE the world through my holiness IS
my purpose and function. THE UNDOING
of my allegiance to the world‛s thinking, to
the limitation that the world offers . . .
HAS BEEN activated and IS taking place.
Remembering my holiness IS becoming my practice.
As I focus on my holiness . . .
as I start with the idea of my holiness being true . . .
rather than my unworthiness being true . . .
I am directed to SEEING what is real . . .
and so begin offering a real solution. I
acknowledge the Power of my holiness when I
identify with it . . .
and offer the Power of my holiness to what I
perceive and believe to be problems. The focus is
now on the Power rather than the perceived
weakness.
It is obvious that in withdrawing the Power
that I have given to the perceived problems
by choosing to SEE them through my holiness . . .
as I identify with my holiness . . .
my perceived difficulties are not to be found.
The assurance that there is nothing my holiness cannot do
releases me from the fear that holds together
all my perceived problems and difficulties.
As I apply the idea . . . they simply disappear . . .
and I welcome my Holiness as a true experience . . .
no longer just a wishful possibility.
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39. “My holiness/Innocence is my salvation.”
My denial that LOVE is my Source . . .
my belief that I am separate from LOVE . . .
or that LOVE is separate from me . . .
is the basis for my guilt. . .
with the added fear of vengeance
for my denial . . . for being separate . . .
fuelled by the guilt.
That I think I am separate from everybody . . .
a distinct identity . . . with an individual, personal agenda . . .
is where guilt plays out.
I project my guilt on to the players I have made,
the images of my world.
I think that I am separate from LOVE.
To be separate from LOVE means I am NOT LOVE,
so can‛t express LOVE.
Hence . . . unloving thoughts result.
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My unloving thoughts reflect my guilt . . .
for this ONE idea . . .
that I could be separate from LOVE.
The idea . . . ‘separate‛ . . . has no place IN LOVE.
Competition, differences, levels,
confusion, doubt, and insecurity . . .
are the antithesis of LOVE.
It is ONLY when I believe I am not OF LOVE,
when I believe I am apart FROM LOVE,
that these ideas are given an airing . . . fill my thinking . . .
and thus fill my seeing and my experience.
Guilt for thinking that I am separate from LOVE is hell.
ONLY guilt stands between me and my innocence . . . my holiness.
Yet, since I AM the extension and expression of LOVE . . .
it is impossible that any of these ideas can be true.
LOVE creates ONLY LOVE.
LOVE CANNOT be separate from Itself. So the idea
that I could be separate from LOVE . . . my Creator . .
. is absurd. The only answer to every idea of guilt
must come from my holiness . . . as created.
My holiness blesses the world.
There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
So, the only answer to guilt IS my holiness.
As I turn from, or relinquish . . . my invented, illusory self
and re-discover my holiness . . . GUILT is NOT possible. My
holiness is my salvation from guilt.
My holiness has no questions.
My holiness is the answer to all questions.
Questions come ONLY from doubt.
My holiness . . . being the Certainty of LOVE . . . knows no doubt.
I am encouraged to bring to the light any unloving
thoughts (guilt‛s offspring) which I have kept hidden
from awareness
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 in order to maintain guilt. I free my self and my world . . .
As the light of my holiness shines on them . . . I am saved . . . and begin to create as LOVE creates.
from the guilt of NOT accepting the LOVE that I am. So I release my judgments . . . my unloving thoughts . . .
I see the insanity of holding on to unloving thoughts. thus removing the guilt . . .
I see how many unloving thoughts and teach only LOVE . . .
stand between me and my salvation. for that IS . . . what I AM.
I gladly allow them to surface.
I no longer want to hide them . . .
in order to continue to feel guilty.
As they are transformed
through my holiness . . . guilt has no place.
I am free. I am innocent.

I recognise the pattern that I have adopted of responding

and reacting FIRST with unloving thoughts. I see the lack
of mindfulness . . . the lack of discipline in my thinking. 40. I am blessed as a Creation
And I am excited to see that this mind training works. of LOVE Itself (Son of God).
Until I am saved from my guilt, I cannot save.
Yet, my holiness is the salvation of the world.
Throughout this week of lessons,
So, it is my holiness that saves me. It IS what I am.
I have been engaging the experience of the Power of LOVE
that is manifest through my holiness . . .
What an idea! No more guilt!
that confirms that there is nothing my holiness cannot do.
The end of hell and its many manifestations: depression,
The world is blessed, and I am saved by my holiness
fear, worry, anxiety, anger, attack, uneasiness, insecurity.
from the hell that I make with unloving thoughts. My
My holiness IS totally unlimited in its Power,
holiness is the answer
and through my holiness . . .
to all problems and questions that could ever arise.
the Power of LOVE is made manifest.
In acknowledging and welcoming my holiness,
Why give guilt a place?
I am now given a whole day to focus
Simply accept my holiness . . .
on the attributes to which I . . . being holy . . . am entitled.
receive my own salvation . . .
I am LOVE‛s Creation . . . not a cardboard cutout.
and offer salvation to the world.
As the Creation of LOVE . . . I am whole and complete.
I am LOVE‛s extension and expression.
The result?
As I accept the Truth of my holiness,
All problems solved . . . all questions answered.
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 the Strength and Certainty of LOVE comes forth
in my expression and extension.
Today is a day of rejoicing. The requirement is very simple. The
very LIFE of the LOVE that I am is given predominance.
This focus on the Reality of Creation
supports calling on Vision . . .
rather than calling on the judgment of limitation.
Thus the thought system arising from true Vision . . .
sourced in LOVE . . . replaces
the judgmental thinking and seeing of the self-identity.
Thus there is no room for judgment today.
While my mind is preoccupied with What I truly am,
what I have thought I am
(based on past and future) disappears.
Today is for centring attention on completion . . . on fullness.
I call on the Spirit of LOVE . . . to be Source of my seeing . . .
with the declaration,
“I am blessed as a Creation of LOVE Itself.”
Temptations arise to meet this declaration.
The self-identity does not give up its pursuit of my allegiance . . .
particularly as I make this declaration . . .
and draw forth the very qualities that mirror wholeness . . .
which . . . in fact . . . deny the power
of the self-identity‛s interpretations.
Today is Day 40.
I have spent 40 days
in the wilderness of an apparent split in my mind,
hungering and thirsting after the Truth of my Identity.
I have been led through all the ideas
which have held me back . . .
all ideas that set up the nightmare
of pain, sorrow, lack and death.
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I have been given the opportunity
to confront all unloving thoughts
which have kept me in hell . . .
and I am now at the turning point in this jubilee of lessons. A
very powerful UNDOING of this self-based thought system
which has directed my thoughts and actions till now . . .
has been occurring in my mind
throughout these 40 lessons.
I am practising listening to a true Voice,
a Voice that was once drowned out
by the strident demands of the self-image.
The celebration of true hearing and seeing begins today.
These fifty lessons are the offering of a taste of freedom . . .
a jubilant return to wholeness . . . in my awareness.
They contain the entire package of ideas, in an initial form . . .
which brings about the full return
to the awareness of Reality.
Following this jubilee and its review
are three sets of 40 lessons. The
ideas presented in them
round out, support and expand this current process
of undoing the self-identity‛s way of thinking and seeing . . .
ensuring that nothing is overlooked in the cleanup.
This year of lessons offers me
a total transformation of mind.
Am I ready today
to rejoice in the Truth of Self
as created of LOVE by LOVE?
Am I willing . . .
to accept my inheritance . . .
and to declare with gratitude . . .
“I am blessed as a Creation of LOVE (Son of God).”?
As I approach this day . . .
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I am made aware of the gift of these lessons . . . in particular . . .
the gift of LOVE . . . that I AM as the True Creation of LOVE.
As I remind my Self of the many aspects of LOVE
as they are revealed to me by the Spirit of LOVE . . .
I become aware of my function
to bless the world with holiness . . . with innocence . . .
to create . . . through the extension and expression
of the very attributes of LOVE Itself . . .
in whatever way is given me for me to do.
41. “LOVE goes with me wherever I go.”
The effects of that one idea . . .
that I am ALONE . . . separate from Source,
a separate identity in a world of separate identities have formed
the basis of my experience in this world. ALL who think that they
are separate
find themselves unhappy . . . to one degree or another, and set up
situations to consolidate the sense of anxiety, helplessness, and
intense fear of loss
that “being separate” generates.
That ONE IDEA that I am separate
is the idea that directly and consciously OPPOSES the fact that
LOVE goes with me wherever I go.
It is the REFUSAL to acknowledge this Truth.
THIS is the Power I give to opposition . . . the rebel self-identity.
Yet, I am NOT separate from LOVE.
I am AT ONE with LOVE . . . being the extension of LOVE.
I cannot BE alone.
LOVE is the Reality of my essential nature.
Source and its expression are ONE LOVE.
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In spite of the belief in separation,
the ONENESS of LOVE is not affected. The
awareness of the ONENESS of LOVE has simply
been hidden.
In my denial of the Truth of LOVE . . .
I have practised a replacement set of ideas designed
to drown out the remembrance of the Truth of my
Reality . . .
the purity of LOVE that IS my holiness.
There is no fear in LOVE.
The fear that is the glue
that holds together ideas of denial of LOVE‛s omnipresence . . .
is the very opposite of the Truth of LOVE.
My holiness is my inheritance from LOVE.
It is the vehicle that I have inherited
to activate in the world the Power that is LOVE. While my
holiness remains apart from my awareness, I continue to
demand that lies BE the Truth . . .
that LOVE is not my Source . . . is not omnipotent . . .
and that I have another identity . . . one that I have made up.
Today I am free to go within . . .
to bypass all these demeaning ideas
that are in the way of my recognition
of the Truth of my perfection as LOVE‛s Creation.
I am shown the simplicity
with which I can go deeper and deeper inwards, past all
the thoughts which want to bind me to falsity. This
practice offers such a simple solution . . .
an easy path to full awareness of LOVE‛s Reality.
Through the absolute non-acceptance
of the remote possibility that these beliefs
in sorrow, pain, fear and loss . . . could be true . . .
my holiness is ready to shine through me . . .
and so “cure” these impossible presumptions.
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for its allegiance to these false ideas.
Instead, I am fully alive, joyous, at Peace . . .
the full expression of my perfect holiness.
What insanity . . .to withhold
the perfection . . . the holiness . . . the glory
which awaits my decision
to allow it to flow through me AS me . . .
rather than to continue to block its path in denial . . .
refusing to accept LOVE‛s Presence . . .
and its Power to heal this crazy fantasy.
In identifying with Reality . . . LOVE . . .
I find there ARE no problems to be solved.
I have believed that problems are real . . .
basing their reality on a false foundation . . .
THE DENIAL of what is real and true.
“LOVE goes with me wherever I go.”
This idea holds the key to re-igniting that tiny flame
which my denial has been hoping to extinguish. It is as
bright as ever. It has seemed dim because I have
covered it over in innumerable ways. The self-identity‛s
very obvious seductive trap has been to search this world
. . . to go out. So, of course, the true answer is . . . to go
in.
It is a turning inward, an action of mind
in a direction hitherto avoided . . .
entering “very deeply into your own mind” . . .
NOT into everyone else‛s ideas or theories . . .
but past all those useless “idle” worldly thoughts.
It involves a deliberate, conscious decision
to go in . . . and dismiss all meaningless thoughts . . .
which till now have always managed to divert my
attention from the Peace that awaits that simple step.
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Look at the words used:
“sink down . . . inward . . . past . . . away . . .
try to leave appearances . . . approach Reality . . .
These are words which dismiss . . .
and words which draw toward and invite.
I am told that instant success is possible.
I am encouraged to think of what I am saying,
and concentrate on true Identity . . . LOVE.
This is no mere ritual affirmation.
This is about very active participation. . .
offering very practical results.
The gifts are reassurance and trust in the following:
1. I am not alone. LOVE is ever-present.
2. I have an unfailing companion . . . LOVE Itself.
(unlike the world‛s companions
which come and go, here one day, gone the next)
3. I am surrounded with complete protection . . .
releasing me from any fear whatsoever . . . and . . .
4. The Power of LOVE is activated in me . . .
AS I own my holiness, my wholeness, and
thus SEE only holiness (wholeness).
When these assurances become Reality . . . to me . . .
my entire experience is transformed. Adhering
to the instructions given today certainly brings
a direct experience of the Truth of LOVE alone.
Am I willing to offer my little willingness . . . by giving
full attention to the steps outlined . . . in order to
receive the gift that is being offered? Or do I want
to extend time . . . and wait another day . . .
to commit to the simplicity of this offering?
It takes time to save time.
Give the time NOW!
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42. “LOVE is my Strength. Vision is LOVE’s gift.”
Do I feel too weak . . . to withstand the onslaught of the
temptation to hold on to attack thoughts? That in itself IS an
attack thought.
Do I find myself in doubt about
a course of action . . . or a direction to take?
That idea, too, attacks my invulnerability.
I am invulnerable because LOVE is my Strength.
When relying on my own personal direction . . .
I find I am either arrogant and bombastic . . .
or weak and terrified.
I HAVE no Strength apart from LOVE.
As I practise being in the Presence of LOVE . . .
which knows no lack . . . no doubt . . .
I am calling on the Strength of LOVE
that is always there for me to accept.
LOVE is found within . . . not without.
Knowing that LOVE is my Strength . . .
is my assurance that I am safe . . .
that I am exactly where I need to be . . .
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doing exactly what I need to do . . .
at exactly the right moment.
I relax in the trust . . . that there is nothing to fear . . .
for LOVE is my Strength . . . my support . . . my guide.
Peace is the gift of this knowing.
I become gently aware of the gift of each moment
as it opens to me . . . and as I open to it.
LOVE goes with me wherever I go.
What comfort is extended in this idea!
And what is my part?
Receive the Strength to accept LOVE‛s Strength
instead of demanding to be strong in my separate identity.
As I draw from the Strength of LOVE . . . I SEE truly.
No longer am I imposing my meaning and purpose on everything . . .
from my personal bank of past ideas . . . deposited throughout time
to establish a separate identity . . . with a separate mind.
I FIND my invulnerability . . .
by calling on the Strength of LOVE . . .
to free me from my unloving thoughts.
Without the Strength of LOVE . . . I am powerless.
It is in that state of powerlessness
that the self-identity calls on control . . .
as a way of maintaining a semblance of Power.
It is not Power . . . because it does not rest in LOVE.
Control is the weapon of the self
made to replace the Power of LOVE . . .
and so sustain the idea of its limited ability to offer safety.
However, safety lies in the Strength of LOVE . . . all-Power . . .
not in the control of that which perceives threat.
With just a little willingness . . .
combined with the Strength of LOVE Itself . . .
I cannot fail to SEE truly.
Vision . . . SEEING truly . . . is LOVE‛s gift.
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 What I see through the body‛s eyes . . . is meaningless. I am truly helpful . . . ONLY
It is imaging . . . not SEEING. when I call on the holiness
of the LOVE that I AM . . .
I cannot SEE . . . of my self. to direct each day.
I cannot do what is asked in these lessons
without the Strength given by LOVE . . .
and the VISION that is mine, being LOVE‛s gift.
I am created by LOVE‛s Strength, and with LOVE‛s gift of Sight.
It is the acceptance of LOVE‛s Strength and Sight
that allows the true purpose and meaning of everything
to be remembered by me.

Any moment that I feel threatened . . . vulnerable . . .

or see . . . through eyes of judgment . . .
ideas of guilt and punishment . . .
I am trusting my self opinions, and agreeing with falsity. As it
dawns on me that I am not at Peace,
I ask that my false images . . . my false seeing . . .
BE DISMISSED . . . and REPLACED with the gift of LOVE . . .
VISION, which simply awaits my call. It takes LOVE‛s
Strength . . .
to dismiss . . . or release . . . these limited ideas
and restore me . . . to the Truth of LOVE . . .
whereby I SEE through forgiveness.
Whenever I feel I cannot deal with a situation,
just for a moment I have forgotten that
the Strength of LOVE is always with me.
Today gives the opportunity to practise feeling this
Strength . . . so that as situations arise . . . I will remember this
Strength and be open to allowing LOVE to move me through.
Nothing is too big, or too difficult, when I remember my
invulnerability, the Strength of LOVE within . . .
the Power TO SEE . . . beyond the appearance . . .
accepting true meaning . . . true purpose!
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Sixth Review
Seven Lessons:
36. My holiness envelops everything I see.
37. My holiness blesses the world.
38. There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
39. My holiness is my salvation.
40. I am blessed as an expression of LOVE.
41. LOVE goes with me wherever I go.
42. LOVE is my Strength. Vision is LOVE’s gift.
Discovering that my experiences come
from my way of seeing things . . . from my interpretation . . .
I begin to desire TO SEE things differently.
Since the source of my seeing, my imaging . . . is now exposed . . .
I declare that I want TO SEE with LOVE . . .
rather than apart from LOVE.
I begin TO SEE LOVE in everything I SEE . . . when I recognise . . .
that LOVE . . . the Source of Peace . . . is in my mind.
I am invited to access . . . in my mind . . . the VISION
that IS mine as given by LOVE in my Creation.
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The lead-in to these seven lessons
is through humility . . . in owning the Truth . . .
that my mind . . . being part of LOVE . . . is holy.
With this comes the acknowledgment
that my judgments are meaninglessness . . . for their foundation . . .
being opposition to WHAT IS . . . lacks validity.
This opposition, in turn, comes from the desire
to value opinions arising from preoccupation with the past . . .
rather than accepting joyously WHAT IS NOW!
The essence of these lessons is SEEING
through the holiness of LOVE . . .
that has now been identified . . . as the singular Reality.
The focus is the Oneness . . . the purity of LOVE . . .
denied in my judgments.
Through my judgments . . . I have felt guilty . . .
and have constantly sought to blame.
I receive a glimpse of the basis of my holiness . . .
the Faith, LOVE, and Peace that are LOVE . . .
through practising SEEING only holiness in all I SEE . . .
as I learn to project holiness instead of limitation.
As I accept the holiness within . . .
and extend it through true Sight . . .
holiness envelops everything.
My purpose is TO SEE the world through holiness.
Before that is possible . . . I first have to remember holiness.
As I tap into holiness . . . by turning within
to where LOVE dwells . . .
I discover that my holiness IS the holiness of LOVE . . .
since I am one with LOVE . . . LOVE being my Source.
When I decide TO SEE ONLY holiness in my brothers . . .
loss and sacrifice are replaced by blessing.
Wholeness . . . where obviously nothing is lacking . . .
has no demands . . . needing nothing . . . to BE fulfilled.
So as I offer holiness . . . I free my world
from the cycle of neediness and demand.
When SEEN through my holiness . . . all I SEE is a blessed world.
Rather than condemning the world with my evaluations,
I begin to bless it with my holiness.
This IS the new way of SEEING.
This IS VISION.
SEEING through holiness . . . reverses the laws of the world.
Holiness SEES no problems . . . no opposition . . .
so the laws that the world sets up . . . to solve problems . . .
must be reversed.
Instead of extending the dream . . .
my holiness dissolves it . . . by removing the reason for dreaming.
My holiness is full awareness of the Truth of LOVE . . .
and since there is nothing that holiness cannot do . . .
all perceived problems and difficulties are reversed . . .
Problems become blessings.
They disappear . . . as they are replaced by blessings.
All that stands
between me and my holiness . . . my purity . . . my innocence, is
my guilt . . . for the ONE belief
that I am separate from LOVE.
Yet, my holiness is the ONLY answer to this guilt.
It‛s in the very action of turning my mind
from this belief in guilt
that opens me to my holiness . . . where there IS no guilt.
My holiness . . . in effect . . . saves me from guilt.
It is that inner Certainty of Innocence . . .
where there are no questions, no doubts . . . only answers.
All unloving thoughts are no longer hidden . . .
no longer holding me back from loving.
As LOVE shines on these thoughts . . . they are transformed.
That which is nothing . . . drops away.
That which is whole and perfect and true . . .
shines through . . . and is offered to all.
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 The training of my mind IS bearing fruit.
I am becoming mindful of my thinking and my seeing.
I am choosing loving thoughts sooner rather than later.
SEEING through my holiness saves my world
from the guilt I had assigned it.
Now I SEE . . . in the world . . . ONLY freedom . . .
because that‛s what I am offering.
I am saved from the guilt of NOT choosing LOVE . . .
by seeing the Self . . . as holy.
After all . . . holiness is totally unlimited in its Power.
Everything is freed when SEEN through holiness.
Being holy . . . I explore its attributes.
My mind is occupied with being here NOW . . . AS LOVE‛s extension . . .
grateful for the blessing of being what I AM.
Many attributes of holiness are presented
to assist in fulfilling my function of blessing the world.
The very Strength of the statement . . .
“LOVE goes with me wherever I go” . . .
removes the barrier that I build
when choosing to feel separate.
I am NOT separate from LOVE.
I am fully supported by LOVE at all times, and in all places,
for I am, in fact, LOVE‛s extension and expression.
Turning within ensures that I bypass
all demeaning qualities that I might assign to myself
when viewing myself through judgment, through comparison.
Turning within IS re-turning to LIFE . . .
away from the death offered by destructive judgment. This practice
of sinking down deeper and deeper inward, past my meaningless
thoughts and their false appearances in order to approach the Reality
of Self
in its perfection, holiness and glory,
basking in the Peace of LOVE . . .
is very Power full.
I turn inward . . . deep into my own mind . . .
an action of mind . . . a conscious decision
to reverse the action of rushing outward
in a mad search for the Peace, Joy and LOVE
that quietly await within.
It takes effortless movement . . .
to dismiss the meaningless and reclaim the meaningful.
All that I have ever wanted is offered me.
I am not alone. My companion, LOVE, will never fail me.
I am surrounded with the complete protection of LOVE.
I get TO SEE ONLY holiness.
I get to experience innocence, freedom and endless joy.
How can I access all this?
Through the Power of LOVE . . . which is my Strength.
It‛s in the acceptance of this Strength
that I am assured that I am safe . . .
always in the right place at the right time . . .
with nothing to fear.
With LOVE as my Strength, my Support and my Guide . . .
I no longer decide . . . alone.
I also have an “inbuilt” gift . . . VISION. I no longer SEE alone.
I SEE only through holiness . . . only through VISION.
As I let go of my control . . . I access the Power that is LOVE.
Time is no longer in the way . . . for I release the past . . .
and place the future in the hands of LOVE . . .
in the hands of the Power that is the Truth of LOVE.
The Strength of VISION . . .
is TO SEE only true purpose and meaning . . .
having relinquished my own limited interpretations.
VISION SEES through forgiveness . . .
lets all things be . . . exactly as they are . . . in Truth.
I need change nothing.
I need do nothing of myself.
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 All my doing is given over . . .
to be directed by the Spirit of LOVE.
I have no goals . . . but to listen deep within
to the Voice of Certainty which speaks from Strength,
and to activate LOVE‛s gift of VISION
which enables me TO SEE . . . beyond appearances,
TO CHOOSE true meaning . . .
TO OFFER complete LOVE to all I meet.
43. “LOVE is my Source. I cannot SEE
apart from LOVE.”
Perception is the realm of the self . . .
which is the idea of a split from LOVE.
Yet . . . LOVE IS all there is. LOVE HAS no opposite.
So, the self-identity . . . together with its perception . . .
does not exist.
There IS no split, nothing apart from LOVE.
Perception would convince me otherwise.
LOVE is the Source of Knowledge.
Perception has no place in LOVE . . . no place in Knowledge.
Being the extension of LOVE . . .
I am created holy . . . in LOVE . . . of LOVE. Perception
was made to deny this very holiness . . . the attribute
that I share with LOVE. This denial . . . or unholy
purpose . . . must be addressed before holiness can be
restored to my awareness.
The Spirit of holiness is the powerful link
created by LOVE to purify false perception.
True perception leads back to Knowledge.
LOVE gives perception a meaning very close to LOVE Itself.
This purified, healed perception reclaims my holiness.
Through healed perception . . .
I forgive my brothers . . . and thereby forgive myself.
It is a cleanup process.
It is an undoing of an apparent lapse . . .
in which an idea is entertained . . . for a moment . . .
to try TO SEE . . . apart from LOVE.
LOVE . . . has no need of perception.
LOVE has no needs. It is complete and whole.
LOVE is Knowledge Itself.
To try TO SEE . . . apart from LOVE . . .
necessitates the setting up of opposition . . . perception.
What could BE? apart from LOVE?
Any meaning or purpose that is not of LOVE is of perception.
I am very practised in this false seeing . . . perception.
I have equated perception with Knowledge.
Yet, I am mistaken. I think I SEE.
Yet, what I see . . . perceive . . .
is seen as if apart from me . . . as if separate.
That is perception. That is not SEEING.
Apart from LOVE . . . I SEE nothing.
As a perceiver . . . I am an image-maker.
I make images . . . and project them.
I add emotional responses and reactions
and perceive a whole world . . . a world of perceptual ideas,
invented by me with no reference at all to the Source, LOVE.
I cannot rely on my perception and interpretation.
Perception changes . . . yet LOVE is changeless.
I become aware that attack thoughts rule perception . . .
for perception IS the denial
of SEEING truly . . . of SEEING ONLY LOVE. Perception
does not allow situations, things or people simply to be
what they are . . .
vehicles or opportunities for LOVE to be extended.
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 Perception forces interpretations and meanings . . .
and then judges these to be real.
Perception refuses to ask to be shown.
Perception wants to be in control of the world . . .
thinking that control makes perception powerful.
Yet, the source of control is fear.
So . . . control reveals perception‛s weakness . . . not its strength.
Strength is in LOVE alone. Vision is LOVE‛s gift.
Why struggle to maintain an identity separate from LOVE?
Vision is freely available . . . in fact . . . it is a given.
I simply have to be willing to be shown . . .
to go within . . . where answers lie . . . where Vision awaits.
Vision . . . true SEEING . . .
is the tool of the Spirit of LOVE.
Vision . . . sharing LOVE‛s purpose . . .
of leading back to Knowledge . . . is real.
Any seeing apart from that purpose . . .
is nothing but perceiving.
Once again, I simply ask to be shown how TO SEE with healed
perception. With true perception . . .
I offer forgiveness rather than judgment . . .
in order to receive forgiveness . . .
that is . . . to recognise that I AM forgiven.
THAT is salvation . . . the undoing of what never was . . .
being saved from thinking that perception IS SEEING.
So this is the process in which I am engaged as a result of my
request to learn . . . above all else . . . TO SEE differently.
Everything IS leaning towards me
to bless me in this endeavour,
as I acknowledge my holiness . . .
and begin TO SEE through my holiness.
My world changes as my perception is based on wholeness
rather than on unholiness or lack or denial of LOVE.
There IS no distinction between what I have made separate
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through meanings and purpose that I have imposed . . .
AS I begin TO SEE only LOVE . . . only Peace . . . in all.
How could I entertain insanity . . . to replace sanity?
How could I buy a dream . . . to replace Reality?
What a price to pay! Yet, insanity . . . a dream?
Neither is real. Neither exists.
I have never left my Source.
I am LOVE. That IS my Reality.
All that IS real IS of LOVE.
Nothing unreal EXISTS.
Nothing apart from LOVE . . . exists.
44. “LOVE is the Light in which I SEE.”
Light IS! It is not something I can make.
Without it, I cannot SEE.
The light that I see with these eyes . . . is NOT
the Light that is LOVE . . . is NOT the Light of
SEEING! The Light of LOVE is within . . . is not
distant.
Light reflects Life.
So, apart from Light, I am not alive.
Apart from LOVE . . . I have no Life.
What I have called my ‘life‛ . . . is nothing.
This identity has no Life.
It is a dream of a separate existence.
It is a series of episodes of the outplaying of ideas
that I have made up, invented, apart from LOVE. I
have given it all the meaning it has TO ME . . . and
called it . . . ‘life‛.
Its source is that which denies the Source of Life.
Life and Light are of Creation . . . of LOVE.
What I have called life and light and creation
are the substitutes I have made
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 to give myself an identity
separate from the Creation of LOVE . . .
deeming myself creator of my world.
This world of my making . . . is in darkness . . .
until I access the Light in my mind.
For me ‘to see‛ in my world . . . I use the body‛s eyes.
To SEE with LOVE does not require the body‛s eyes.
SEEING is of the mind.
It is the Light that makes SEEING possible.
This Light is eternal. It is all-encompassing.
There are no degrees. Light is total Light.
I am either SEEING with VISION . . . through the Light . . .
or not SEEING at all.
As I embrace the Light of my mind . . .
there are no shadows.
Nothing is hidden. All is exposed.
That which IS Light IS real.
There are no degrees of LOVE . . . in the Light.
So, any LOVE that I consider to be special . . . has no Light in it.
That LOVE is based on fear.
That LOVE is of my imagining.
In the Light . . . Peace reigns.
Apart from the Light . . . chaos rules.
The key given to enter or ignite the Light of my mind is to let
go all my thoughts and beliefs . . . which constitute my identity.
This IS my release from the hell that I have made.
I am on the threshold of losing this self-identity . . .
a fearful idea . . . to the self-identity . . .
until the self-identity is SEEN . . . as baggage . . .
which denies the Light, Truth, and Peace of LOVE.
My identity has denied my true Identity
as LOVE‛s Creation . . . created of LOVE.
My identity has kept me separate
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from the Self of Creation . . . the Self of LOVE.
Today, I turn homewards.
As the prodigal son, I discover
that, in abandoning my father,
and searching outside for LOVE, Peace, and Truth, I
cannot find them in a world of my making. That‛s why . . .
in this instant . . . I return to Source . . . within . . .
where I am welcomed with open, loving arms to
all that I have denied . . . in choosing darkness.
I bathe in the Light of forgiveness.
I am home, where I never left . . .
except in a dream of forgetting.
As I remember that LOVE is the Light in which I SEE . . .
I call on holiness . . . on LOVE . . . as the vehicle for SEEING.
This SEEING includes all decisions that I make . . .
throughout the day . . . ‘little‛ ones as well as ‘big‛ ones.
I stop my thinking . . . step back from my opinions and schemes . . .
go within to the Light of my mind . . . ask for direction . . .
wait . . . and listen for the answer . . .
then follow the direction given.
No longer am I willing to jump
to the demands of the self
that cannot SEE . . . even though it thinks it can . . .
with its schemes within schemes . . .
the frantic self-orchestrated way of ‘seeing‛ . . .
which is, in fact, image-making . . . NOT SEEING at all . . .
leading ONLY to unhappiness . . . denial‛s very purpose.
And so I claim the Light of my mind . . .
divest myself of my dream costume,
my entire self-made identity . . .
and trust LOVE . . .
with Its clarity, Peace and the Joy of Life.
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Through practice, I discover the Light of LOVE
in all that I SEE . . . in all that I do . . . in all that I say.
In this timelessness . . . grace abounds.
Gentleness and patience . . .
awaiting this unfolding . . .
brings Peace.
LOVE is my Source . . . the Light in which I SEE.
I cannot see apart from LOVE.
45. “LOVE is the Mind with which I think.”
Being a Thought in the Mind of LOVE Itself . . . I am very holy.
In thinking thoughts contrary to holiness,
I introduce what is unreal . . . and forget what IS real.
I lose sight of what is true.
In embracing these unreal thoughts,
I practise making an unreal kingdom . . .
a world of ideas which have no true meaning, no true purpose . . .
arising from my imagination . . . as I try to think apart from LOVE.
These images that I have made, these thoughts that I think I
think, are very convincing.
I have actually considered them real.
However, beyond these self-constructed ideas, past them, under
them, through them, beyond them, lie the thoughts that I think
with LOVE.
I do not orchestrate this thinking.
I do not have to make these thoughts up.
They are whole . . . complete in themselves . . . eternal.
There is no question or doubt surrounding them.
They do not rely on my acceptance for their Reality.
They simply are True.
Their Source is LOVE . . .
all Power . . . all Knowing . . . eternally present.
Nothing hinders them.
They are constant . . . unwavering.
They stand . . . unchanging . . . yet vibrantly alive.
I have removed myself from these Thoughts
in my desire to be different, separate, unique, individual, special.
So I make up worlds within worlds of ideas and thoughts . . .
ever-changing, fickle, opposing, unreliable thoughts that have a
beginning and an ending, a birth and a death. Attached to these
meaningless thoughts are emotions which swing like a pendulum at
the whim of the current ideal. Unreal thoughts scurry along
unabated . . . making up my daily story. All my attention and
allegiance has been given
to these “thoughtless thoughts”
and the world that represents their effects.
Yet, in my mind, Truth prevails. True Thoughts go nowhere! Am
I willing to find these real thoughts? those which commune
with LOVE?
those which are my link with Reality?
those where my mind joins with the Mind of LOVE?
Do I want a foundation that is changeless? worthy of trust?
Am I ready to leave my imagined worlds behind?
and return my mind to the Mind of LOVE?
to the very Source of Truth . . . to the quiet stillness . . .
where Peace resides . . . to the Thoughts of LOVE?
As I rejoin and reclaim my holiness . . .
I extend the very Peace and LOVE which are my heritage.
This is a quiet . . . still . . . effortless process.
Use the breath! Relax the body!
This will burst the balloon of defensiveness that blows up
at the mention of being still, of slowing down, of being present.
This Presence is the natural state . . .
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 yet feels unnatural . . . to the mind that has split itself off . . .
in opposition to its natural state.
It is impossible to fail to find my real Thoughts . . .
not only because they are in my mind . . .
but also because LOVE wills that I do so.
How grateful am I that this is so.
If it were not LOVE‛s Will . . . LOVE would be opposing Itself
by excluding me (part of LOVE) from being in LOVE‛s Presence.
LOVE would be against Itself . . . split! Impossible!
To come to the Certainty
that I would like to find my real Thoughts
IS to initiate its occurrence.
Without the desire, and the asking,
I am choosing my own exclusion.
If it feels daunting to accept my real Thoughts . . . of LOVE . . .
remember it is simply the final attempt of the self-identity
to dissuade me from abandoning the false and welcoming the true.
As I cease participating in a ‘race to enlightenment‛ . . .
I find there is no speed . . . no-where to go . . . in timelessness.
So . . . let go of thinking . . . I‛m going to miss out!
I‛m always the last to ‘get‛ things! I can‛t do this! I don‛t know
where to start! All these ideas deny that I AM LOVE
eternally . . . that there IS no goal . . . no journey . . . I simply
step back and willingly follow LOVE‛s direction.
I stay in gratitude for the holiness of my mind . . .
focusing on thankfulness that at all times
LOVE IS the Source of my real Thoughts . . .
Now I experience BEING One with what IS real . . .
above the battleground of meaningless thoughts . . .
forgiving the false and welcoming the true.
As I practise being present . . . in LOVE . . .
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I am activating, cultivating, nurturing and giving top priority
to developing the habit of thinking with LOVE
throughout the day . . . in all situations . . .
and with all people I meet or even think of. My old patterns of
meaningless thinking . . . sourced in denial of my Reality . . . LOVE
. . . are being undone.
There is a renewal taking place . . . so that I begin to SEE only
Oneness, only Innocence and offer only LOVE . . .
as I think only with the Mind at One with LOVE . . .
acknowledging that I AM LOVE . . . One with my Source.
46. “LOVE is the Source of forgiveness.”
There IS ONLY LOVE.
LOVE has no little corner
for judgment, for condemnation, for opinions.
LOVE is wholly, completely, holy LOVE.
LOVE IS the Mind with which I think.
Condemnation arises
with but one tiny thought in denial of LOVE.
With that thought, the Mind that is of LOVE appears to be split. . .
It is in this attempt to deny LOVE
that there is a need for forgiveness.
Forgiveness simply reminds the mind that it is mistaken.
Forgiveness catalyses the return to Innocence . . . to LOVE . . .
I have . . . in fact . . . never been apart from LOVE.
All is complete . . . in LOVE . . .
Nothing needs to change or be changed.
All is perfect exactly as it is.
It is only in a decision to find differences . . .
to own opinions . . . apart from the Certainty of LOVE . . .
that forgiveness has a part.
There is no separate world . . . in LOVE.
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 The world is the effect of separate ideas . . . a projection . . . I thus . . . forgive . . . myself.
not found in LOVE alone . . . but found in denial of LOVE . . . Self-forgiveness is mirrored . . . in forgiving my brother.
through seeing or imagining . . . diVision . . . separate ideas, SEEING my brother through eyes of LOVE . . .
bodies and things. The very moment of an opinion . . . is the and allowing him to be
beginning of a world. Yet an opinion is a meaning given to the expression of LOVE that he truly is . . .
establish an identity apart from LOVE . . . a meaning that relies apart from my opinions, my criticism, and my judgment . . .
on a past set of opinions IS activating LOVE . . . through forgiveness!
In letting him BE LOVE . . . which is what forgiveness is . . .
which formed a set of beliefs
I am forgiving myself . . . letting my Self BE LOVE . . .
which comprises the identity of the opinion holder.
since the judgments . . . that I now withdraw . . .
Yet the past is gone . . . has no existence.
come from limited thinking . . .
Now is the only time there is.
come from imagining . . .
Instead of coming from the Certainty of LOVE . . .
of a self NOT sourced in LOVE.
opinions are entertained to establish competition with LOVE . . .
I am no longer held in and by illusion.
Yet, in LOVE . . . all questions are already answered . . .
I am no longer fooled or fooling myself.
for in LOVE . . . there is no uncertainty demanding opinion.
Whenever I fear . . . or am dissatisfied . . .
Condemnation does not necessarily mean negative ideas. It
or feel lack . . . or uncertainty . . .
simply means judgments . . . or opinions
I am opting for an identity
which I refuse to raise to doubt . . .
that is separate from LOVE . . . a self-made identity.
ideas I stubbornly maintain as true . . .
I am denying my true Identity . . . LOVE . . . the Self of Creation.
as I defend them . . .
This self-made identity condemns . . . attacks . . .
in my fear of the guilt of being wrong.
judges . . . demands change . . .
Remember: Nothing real can be threatened.
in what is seen as outside of this self . . .
Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of LOVE.
as separate from Self.
So . . . what IS real IS LOVE.
If only the world were different! If only this could be changed! So
The world of separate bodies is where threat is found.
the self becomes a healer, a teacher, a greenie, a soldier, a banker,
So this world is unreal and does not exist.
a solicitor, a counsellor, a doctor, a politician, a businessman, a
It is a world of illusion.
labourer . . . all to make a better separate world . . . to give this
Forgiveness frees from illusion.
self . . . me . . . a place . . . where I can assuage my guilt . . . abandon
LOVE and bury my self in an illusion of an answer.
As I allow LOVE to interpret all situations . . .
as I own my opinions as the condemnation that they are . . . Forgiveness undoes condemnation.
and withdraw them . . . am I forgiven. It SEES nothing to condemn . . . nothing to judge . . .
Since it is I who receive release . . . nothing to value . . . in an illusory world.
from the illusions I made up . . . In projecting, or extending ONLY LOVE . . . I SEE ONLY LOVE . . .
when I stop making up illusions . . . so there is nothing for me to oppose . . . or deny.
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 Forgiveness is active. It is NOT apathetic, or resigned.
Forgiveness is joyous . . .
offering the gift of its Sight . . . VISION . . .
SEEING with eyes unclouded by illusion . . . eyes alive . . .
making the Truth of LOVE visible in everything . . .
That Sight . . . through eyes of forgiveness . . .
takes me to the very threshold of Peace Itself.

As I let go of my ideas . . . as I forgive all story . . .

I become aware of the Self of LOVE . . .
the Identity of LOVE‛s Creation . . .
and experience the LOVE that I am.
This saves me from the web of illusion that I have called home.
Forgiveness brushes away the web . . .
and illusion disappears . . .
as I face LOVE Itself . . .
and rest in LOVE‛s welcoming embrace.
Just by declaring . . .
“LOVE is the Source in which I forgive” . . .
or . . . “LOVE is the Source of forgiveness” . . .
the degree to which I practise condemnation . . .
is brought to attention . . .
Condemnation is a fear-borne practice . . .
now being undone . . .
through practising forgiveness.
As I reclaim my projected condemnation
and SEE its absurdity in the face of Peace . . .
I laughingly put it aside . . . for it has no value . . . no purpose.
I call on the direct experience of the Truth of LOVE alone!
Through forgiveness . . . I find . . . the direct experience of
Peace . . . the Peace of LOVE Itself! I return to LOVE . . .
forgiven . . . story-free.
that I have missed them . . . for I have been looking afar.
47. “LOVE is the Strength in which I trust.”
The final week of the Jubilee!
Jubilee celebrates the return to freedom
from the domination of the self-constructed identity.
The very existence of this self is threatened
as I embrace these lessons.
This is the week when doubts arise.
Do I really want to do these lessons?
Do I really want to be free?
My commitment is put to the test.
It feels as if everything is coming to an end.
And it is true.
The very foundations of the kingdom of the self
have been shaken and are crumbling.
I am experiencing directly . . . what is real!
In the past . . . I have searched for freedom in vain.
I have looked . . . outside of me . . . in the world.
Now I am looking in the right direction . . . WITHIN!
In an instant . . . an amazing journey . . . I find within . . .
everything that I have been searching for . . . without!
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 The answers are so simple . . . too simple
for one bent on searching in complexity.
No wonder discovery of the Kingdom of LOVE
has been likened to finding one single pearl of great value.
All else pales into insignificance.
Without recognition of the Truth . . .
that LOVE is in my mind,
I operate from a very fearful, tenuous base.
There is no Certainty apart from LOVE.
Certainty is quiet assurance, gentle, powerful.
The self, in its uncertainty . . .
is arrogant, forceful, a blustering bully . . .
hoping to hide its inadequacy in a show of being in control. Is this
how I choose to live? Is this living? Is this LIFE? Apart from LOVE . .
. directing life decisions is exhausting . . .
There is no sound basis for trust in self . . . nothing to be relied on . . .
for the self has no sound basis . . . the self is not even real.
Now, I am being re-directed to true Strength . . .
which I have pushed aside . . . wanting to establish my self
as an identity in competition with LOVE.
So, of course, self esteem courses abound . . . in an attempt to
address the fear, anxiety, depression, anger and sorrow
which prevail as a result of abandoning the Truth of LOVE.
The self always leads on a merry chase to a pseudo solution.
It is like moving a chair on the deck of the Titanic in order to feel
more comfortable . . . when abandoning ship is the answer.
Of myself, I cannot predict or control any situation.
I am always coming from trial and error . . .
from the uncertainty of a maybe . . . a perhaps. I have no idea how to
resolve ANY situation which would guarantee only good.
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I don‛t have all the facts in any situation.
I don‛t see the full picture.
I rely on snippets of information
that I put together and give meaning to.
Yet, that is the modus operandi in the world of the self . . .
the world that I make up and then accept as real.
How grateful I am at last to recognise the frailty of the self . . .
that I established . . . as a separate identity.
How amazing to discover that I need do nothing of myself.
I simply stand aside . . . go within . . .
to the Certainty and safety . . . that is in LOVE . . .
the ONLY true direction . . . that is in LOVE.
I ask to be shown what to do in every situation.
To answer my need for Strength . . .
and protection from my shallow fantasy . . .
the falsity of my “life” as a separate self . . .
I call on the Strength and protection of LOVE Itself.
LOVE is sure. LOVE is certain.
I listen to LOVE‛s Voice . . . the Source of real Strength . . .
that quiet Voice that I have overlooked
in order to hear my own frantic, limited voice.
I have total confidence in the Strength of LOVE. I tap
into this Strength . . . by reaching deep within my mind to
real safety . . . the place of total trust . . . which I
recognise as I feel a sense of deep Peace.
To do this . . . I have to bypass
the froth that would distract me . . .
and dive deeper.
Thus I enter perfect Peace . . . the Kingdom of LOVE . . .
In LOVE . . . there are no questions . . . only answers.
In LOVE is total support . . . true safety.
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I receive the Peace that is my rightful inheritance.
The Strength of LOVE . . . in which I trust . . . lies within . . .
Restored to LOVE . . . my true Identity . . .
I am strong . . . complete . . .
48. “There is nothing to fear.”
I have found perfect Peace . . . deep within.
It has always been there.
I have simply not been aware of it. I have been too busy
scurrying around in the fluff of my surface mind.
Is that where I now abide?
Is Peace my choice? Is it the Voice of Peace that I hear?
If so, I am identifying with what is real . . . what is changeless.
I am accepting the Reality of Peace . . . that is LOVE‛s gift.
It takes but one meaningless thought
to interrupt that Peace . . . and open to fear.
And, of course, that meaningless thought
is given full meaning by the self.
That one thought arises from questioning Peace . . .
from a refusal to be still . . . to accept . . . or to trust.
It comes from a tiny doubt . . . an idea that opposes Peace.
That doubt in my mind sits right beside Peace.
I am accustomed to turning to doubt for my answers.
Doubt IS fear. So I look to fear for answers.
Fear is compounded by guilt for having the doubtful thought.
From here, I wait for punishment . . . for choosing
to compete with Peace . . . to compete with LOVE.
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When I decide on a future based on the past . . .
the fear that ensues remains hidden in unawareness.
Peace simply IS. It is ever-present. It has no past or future.
“Between the future and the past
the laws of LOVE must intervene, if you would free yourselves.
Atonement stands between them, like a lamp that shines so
brightly that the chain of darkness in which you bound
yourselves
will disappear.”
(Chapter 13, The Shadow of Guilt)
In perfect Peace . . . nothing is impossible.
It is home to the Strength that LOVE offers.
With my trust in LOVE‛s abiding Presence . . .
there is nothing to fear.
All the Power of LOVE is my safety in every circumstance.
LOVE‛s Voice tells me exactly what to do
in order to call on real Strength and protection.
All unloving thoughts are fearful.
In forgiving . . . I am calling on LOVE.
As I judge, criticise or condemn . . . I am responding to fear.
As I let things be exactly as they are without judgment . . .
I undo what fear produces . . .
because I return my mind
to the Peace that is LOVE‛s answer.
Fear arises when I look to my own strength . . .
when I try to see apart from LOVE.
I fear . . . when I see no solution except a painful one . . .
when I feel out of control . . . because I see no solution.
Then I remember . . .
“I do not know what anything . . . INCLUDING THIS . . . means.
And so I do not know how to respond to it.
And I will not use my own past learning
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Such a tiny shift:
Let LOVE‛s Strength, through the Self . . .
take the place of the weakness of the self identity.
To recognise my own identification with frailty
IS a necessary step in the correction of my errors . . .
where frailty is replaced with LOVE‛s Strength.
As I reclaim my holiness . . .
since I AM LOVE‛s Creation . . . and LOVE is holy . . .
fear has no place . . . does not exist.
Fear is powerless in the face of my holiness.
Through my holiness, it dawns on me that fear is
nothing. Everything leans towards me to bless me as I
offer blessing to the world.
There is nothing to fear.
I cannot be but in the right place at the right time.
Such is the Strength of LOVE.
Why not ask for and receive
the gifts of Strength that LOVE offers?
Why buy into fear?
LOVE . . . the Source of my holiness, my joy, my Life
goes with me wherever I go. LOVE . . . with its Strength
. . . is in my mind. Nothing can destroy Peace of mind.
I can deny its Presence, but Peace IS eternal.
There is nothing to fear.
If I forget for a moment What I am,
fear awaits this cue . . . and there it is . . . full blown.
So . . . be present to my thinking.
Recognise the source of my thinking in each moment . . .
and trust in the Strength that is LOVE.
Ask myself . . .
What am I seeing?
Am I SEEING through holiness?
If so, there is nothing to fear . . .
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because holiness is the answer to every question that was
ever asked . . . is being asked now . . . or will be asked in
the future.
Stick with the holiness of LOVE . . . and fear disappears.
49 “LOVE’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.”
Today is a day of quiet listening . . . listening to the still, small Voice,
the Voice of One crying in the wilderness, the Voice of Authority,
the Voice of Truth, the Voice of Peace. Hear One Voice today. Hear
and be silent.
As I hear . . . so will all hear . . . who ask for the Truth.
As I listen and receive LOVE‛s Message, I become LOVE‛s messenger.
No Peace is possible till LOVE‛s Word is heard around the world . . .
until my mind . . . in quiet listening . . . accepts the message of Peace,
and then shares it with the world.
“As LOVE communicates to the Holy Spirit in you,
so does the Holy Spirit translate
LOVE’s communications THROUGH you
so YOU can understand them.”
(Chapter 14: The Shift to Miracles)
“Listen to the Holy Spirit . . . and to LOVE . . . through LOVE’s Spirit.
LOVE speaks of you to YOU . . .
LOVE can communicate ONLY to the Holy Spirit in your mind
because only LOVE’s Spirit shares the knowledge
of what you are with LOVE.
And only the Holy Spirit can ANSWER LOVE for you,
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Everything else that you have placed within your mind CANNOT exist, for
what is not in communication with the Mind of LOVE has never been.
Communication with LOVE is life.
Nothing without it IS at all.”
(Chapter 14: Guilt and Guiltlessness)
So, I still my meaningless desires . . .
find that place of quiet . . . where I am silent . . .
and await LOVE‛s Word.
LOVE‛s Voice is in my mind, nearer than my heart.
“The Holy Spirit speaks to YOU.
It doesn’t speak to someone else.
Yet by your listening, Its Voice extends because you have ACCEPTED what
It says.” (Chapter 27: The Healing Example)
LOVE‛s Voice is My voice, as I accept LOVE‛s Will as mine.
“Come to this place of refuge . . . where you can be yourself in Peace.
Not through destruction . . . not through a “breaking out” . . .
but merely by a quiet “melting in”.
For Peace will join you there
simply because you have been willing
to let go the limits placed upon LOVE . . . and joined it where it is and where it
led you . . . in answer to its gentle callto BE at Peace.” (Chapter 18: Dreams and
the Body)
I remain completely undisturbed as I rest in LOVE,
recognising Its Voice.
It is the Voice of the Good Shepherd (John 10)
and I am of his flock.
The voice of the self-made identity
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is the voice of the man hired to look after the sheep.
He is not the shepherd.
He runs away when the wolf approaches.
He does not care for the sheep.
Let me not listen to that voice today.
It has been the voice that I thought was my own. I was mistaken.
Do I run when I hear a stranger‛s voice?
In the parable, it is stated . . . “My own sheep listen to my voice; and I
know them; and they follow me.
I give them eternal life; and they will never perish,
and no one will snatch them from my hands.”
Do I recognise the Good Shepherd‛s Voice?
Yes! I have found the true Shepherd.
I do recognise this Voice.
Am I listening in the stillness of mind . . . trusting that I cannot be
attacked or abandoned? Do I trust the Word of Truth? . . . and follow as
directed? . . . knowing that I am safe?
I have found that holy sanctuary . . . deep within . . .
that boundless circle of Peace . . .
and now invite all to enter with me
where we are One.
The One message is for all.
I listen to the Voice of LOVE as I open to hearing It.
I have been closed to the Truth of LOVE . . .
seeking solace in this self-made dream world.
Now, this world‛s voice is fading.
It has nothing to offer.
LOVE‛s Voice . . . as it speaks to ME all through the day . . .
offers Peace, joy and happiness.
Am I familiar with that place within that is calm?
always at rest? and wholly certain?
It is here that I can hear . . .
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It is impossible for me to fail in this today.
Listen to the Voice remind me
that I am the Creation . . . the extension of LOVE . . .
that I am One Self . . . united with my Creator. My eternal
link with LOVE cannot be broken, only obscured by my own
imaginings.
My real thoughts await being uncovered.
They have been hidden
under blankets of forceful substitutions demanding attention.
as gently as if you were being carried along a quiet path in summer.
Let all the falsity go as I dive
into the deep pool of silence . . . of stillness . . .
where the cacophany of divisive thoughts
is drowned out by the Peace of LOVE Itself.
“The still small Voice for LOVE is not drowned out
by all the self-identity’s raucous screams and senseless ravings
to those who WANT to hear it. Your whole belief in what you ARE depends
entirely on the voice you choose to hear . . .
and on the sights you choose to see.”
(Chapter 21: Reason and Perception)
“No-one can fail to come where LOVE has called him if he close not the door
himself upon LOVE’s welcome.” (Chapter 14: Out of the Darkness)
As in the story of the Prodigal Son . . .
LOVE waits to welcome me home.
Once there . . . I see that I never left.
I have simply been asleep to my real home . . .
thinking that I am a body . . .
identifying with a body . . .
in a dream world of my making.
Yet, my real home is within the stillness . . .
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within the silence . . .
My home is NOT in the world of my making.
“The trumpets of eternity resound throughout the
stillness . . . yet disturb it not. The stillness speaks in gentle
sounds of LOVE the Son of LOVE remembers . . .”
(Chapter 28: The Present Memory)
“When you have learned how to decide WITH LOVE,
all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing.
There is no effort, and you will be led
Only your own volition seems to make deciding hard.
The Holy Spirit will not delay at all
in answering your EVERY question what to do.
It KNOWS.
And It will TELL you . . . and then do it FOR you. You who are
tired might consider whether this is not more restful than sleep.
For you can bring your guilt into sleeping . . . but not into this.”
(Chapter 13: The Way of Salvation)
“This is a year of joy . . .
in which your listening will increase,
and Peace will grow with its increase . . .
Whenever you have listened to LOVE’s interpretation,
the results have brought you joy. . .
LOVE’s Voice has spoken clearly . . .”
(Chapter 16: The Magnitude of Holiness)
LOVE‛s Voice speaks to me all through the day.
Listen well! Attend well!
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Seventh Review
Seven Lessons:
43 LOVE is my Source. I cannot SEE apart from LOVE.
44. LOVE is the Light in which I SEE.
45. LOVE is the Mind with which I think.
46. LOVE is the Source in which I forgive.
47. LOVE is the Strength in which I trust.
48. There is nothing to fear.
49. LOVE’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.
The catalyst leading to these final lessons is Lesson 42,
“LOVE is my Strength. Vision is LOVE’s gift.”
How very crucial . . . is this turning towards the real
Strength that enables the undoing . . . this turning
towards LOVE!
The gift of VISION from True Source releases me once and for all
from thinking I can see apart from Source.
VISION is the answer . . . not seeing through these eyes
of a separate body . . . but from within a mind at one with LOVE.
VISION . . . this reclaimed way of SEEING . . . is the tool of the Holy
Spirit. Aligning with the Holy Spirit‛s purpose,
VISION leads to knowledge . . . not found in the realm of perception.
Through forgiveness . . . which replaces judgment . . .
this tool of true perception restores me to knowledge.
As I forgive . . . as I cease judgment . . .
I KNOW that I AM forgiven . . .
I KNOW that I AM as LOVE created me . . . a perfect Creation.
Salvation is the apparent erasure of what never WAS . . .
through acceptance of what always IS.
I begin to see in everyone and everything LOVE and Peace
where once I chose to see pain, fear and conflict. Everything I
see lights up
as I see the Life . . . the Truth of LOVE . . .
in what I once saw through darkness, death and falsity.
I see Light in all answers to the self-identity‛s confusion and doubt.
The Light of Certainty and Clarity SEES what is true . . .
beyond dreaming, beyond form, beyond identity.
I no longer WANT to see through the filter of limitation . . .
but through the all-Powerful Light
of wholeness . . . the holiness of LOVE.
Thoughts of LOVE require no orchestration on my part.
My part is simply to step back
from my self-constructed opinions and theories and suppositions
and their associated emotional see-sawing.
As I empty my mind of this refuse . . .
as I glide past . . . it disappears . . . since it all emanated
from the imagination of a dreamer.
Now I am awake to the Light of LOVE . . .
to unified Thought . . . where there IS no conflict.
I reclaim the holiness that is the Reality of whole Mind.
I return to Source . . . to LOVE.
In the Certainty that I want only what is wholly real . . . that is what
immediately presents. As doubt is handed over . . . surrendered to
the Holy Spirit of LOVE, I receive the direct experience of the
Truth of LOVE alone.
It is LOVE‛s Will that I be restored to the Truth of LOVE.
Being distracted by one thought of conflict
is all that can get in the way of LOVE being restored NOW.
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step back . . . and SEE only LOVE . . . only innocence . . . and offer
only LOVE . . . as I think only with Thoughts of LOVE.
Forgiveness is my only function here.
SEEING through Innocence . . . SEEING only LOVE being
demonstrated
in everything exactly as it is . . . without my adjudication . . .
uninterrupted by my hierarchy of values . . . IS true forgiveness.
As I allow LOVE to interpret all situations,
as I withdraw my opinions . . . I find forgiveness.
As I SEE my brother truly . . . I SEE myself truly.
As I forgive my brother . . . I forgive myself.
With the mist of illusion evaporating . . . I arrive home.
Forgiveness is the key.
It unlocks the door which has seemingly blocked my passage home.
That door has been built of my condemnation and judgment.
As the key of forgiveness turns in the lock . . . it sets me free.
It also sets my world free.
For, as my world crumbles . . . I SEE
that I have placed my trust
in a self . . . and a world . . . that I imagined.
As I turn within . . . I find true Strength. This is where I discover
with Certainty that my only safety is in LOVE . . . in Source. I trust
this Strength, the Source of Self. I call on this Strength and
Protection
to lead me throughout each day. I place the future in the hands of
LOVE . . . of Self. I tap into that Strength of purpose,
by dropping within . . . till I find deep Peace
assuring me of its Protection,
and its guidance that is worthy of trust.
Here I find all the answers.
Here I find support and safety.
Abiding in true Strength . . . where Peace prevails . . .
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my confidence in LOVE has blossomed . . .
for there IS nothing to fear.
I recognise that all unloving thoughts of
questioning and doubt . . . are fear-based.
So I call on LOVE to undo . . . to replace my fearful, unloving thoughts.
Should fear arise . . . that is the signal
that I am looking to my own strength for my seeing.
It is up to me to make the shift!
Stop the fearful thinking. Step back!
Replace my weakness (seeing or interpreting through perception),
with LOVE‛s Strength (SEEING with LOVE‛s VISION).
With the Holy Spirit as my Guide, fear disappears.
The secret is out! Go within!
Listen to the Self . . . created of LOVE. LOVE‛s Voice is
heard as I dive deep through the clouds of opinion and
judgment to the stillness of the waters of Peace.
Quietly melt in. Immerse myself in these waters. Gently bubbling
up from these waters is the message of Peace given to me to share
with all who would hear. As these still waters begin to bubble,
they form a flowing stream of Peace, of LOVE, of Joy.
That stream goes forth to all the world,
awaiting the call of those who seek LOVE‛s true solution . . .
Peace, LOVE and Joy.
As a member of LOVE‛s flock,
The Voice of the Good Shepherd is heard deep within.
I trust This Voice . . . for I know that LOVE will never leave me nor
forsake me . . . and will always protect me and LOVE me . . . for
LOVE IS what I am.
Gratitude is abundant for remembering to go within to
receive the message offered by LOVE‛s Voice as it speaks to
me all through the day.
I am not alone. Being LOVE‛s extension, LOVE is always with me.
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and I walk through . . . dry shod . . .
from the worldly dreams . . . to the Promised Land . . .
my eternal home in LOVE.
Behind me, all false ideas and fantasies are washed away
by the tidal wave that covers my tracks
as I move through and cross the Red Sea . . . or the Jordan River . . .
to the Reality of all-encompassing LOVE . . . the Promised Home!
There is no past or future . . . just BEING in LOVE . . . now.
50. “I am sustained by LOVE Itself.”
It is LOVE . . . in which I forgive . . .
where I trust allowing everything to be
exactly as it is . . . without my interference.
LOVE bears no resemblance
to the LOVE of the world that I have made.
The LOVE of the world differentiates.
It sees through specialness.
It puts on a pedestal
whatever is the “flavour of the month” . . .
only to be dashed
as another is chosen to replace it.
That LOVE is not born of LOVE . . . but of fear.
It arose from the desire to be safe . . . apart from God.
It is short-sighted, fickle, with no grounds for trust.
Comparison is its trademark.
Fear of lack, fear of loss, fear of pain, fear
of death and fear of rejection lie at its feet.
As I see myself as a body in a world of bodies
I realise that each is competing for the same safety,
each has the very same goals.
Pills, money, protective clothing,
influence, prestige, being liked,
knowing the “right” people, property ownership, etc.,
are the symbols deemed to be saviours . . .
to be acquired at any cost.
Where is LOVE in these?
These are symbols of hatred, of divisiveness, of fear.
They do not sustain except in short bursts . . .
followed by a shattering . . . a gathering of troops . . .
and a search for replacements.
This is the “process” called “life” in this world.
There is no stability, no on-going safety, nothing to trust,
no true strength in these flimsy protective devices.
As I review the story of my ‘life‛, I see many idols,
the proposed panaceas to the longing for answers . . .
the longing for LOVE . . .
sought in the situations I faced.
As I look back on them . . . I recognise
the utter futility of trusting such uncertainty . . .
and the very meaninglessness of the goals
that I worshipped with false hope . . .
thinking they would bring me LOVE and Peace and Safety.
My idea of “LOVE” was certainly mistaken.
This lesson promises everything that I ever really wanted.
All my plans and hopes and dreams are as nothing in light of
the simplicity it offers.
These lessons are certainly arranged in a systematic way
to lead me to a different perception of everything in the world.
Using them as directed has given them meaning to me . . .
and has shown me that they are true.
I have been given the experience of going deep within
to where the Truth of LOVE resides.
I have received a direct experience of the Truth of LOVE . . .
my holiness . . . the Strength of LOVE in which I trust . . .
SEEING through the Light of true Vision . . .
the LOVE in which I find forgiveness . . .
the true direction . . . for my daily activities . . .
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experiences prove to me that I am sustained by LOVE
alone.
My old solutions are nowhere to be found.
I bypass them as they scamper around
in the frantic framework of the self-identity . . .
desperately trying to be noticed.
I give them no attention.
My attention is undivided . . .
as I identify only with the eternal.
I rest in the stillness and Peace,
hearing LOVE‛s Voice call to me
from a very calm, restful Certainty within.
I have faith in LOVE alone.
LOVE is changeless. LOVE will never fail.
because I have simply agreed with meanings that suit me . . . the self . . .
I claim the promise that LOVE will
lift me out of trial, raise me high above all my perceived fears,
and transport me into a state of mind forever calm.
As I rejoin this LOVE within . . .
I find solutions to all my apparent difficulties.
I am given what to say and do at all times.
No longer do I figure things out, and weigh things up.
This day of Jubilee . . .
I am nurtured and sustained . . .
given back the Life that I denied
when trusting in this world.
I declare my release . . . from the belief in idols . . .
as I admit that I am unconditionally sustained by LOVE.
There is nothing to fear. I have rediscovered Source.
I have begun to SEE . . . and think . . . with LOVE.
Light and LOVE shine on me
as I trust the Strength of LOVE in which I forgive.
I listen to the Voice of LOVE . . . and I AM SUSTAINED.
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The search is over.
I have found the answer within.
JUBILATION! CELEBRATION! I AM FREE!
I am released from the bondage of the misguided search . . .
set up by the self-identity that I made in denial of LOVE . . .
IAMHOMEINLOVE...IAMLOVE...ONLYLOVEIS...
Review Lessons 51 to 60
Lessons 1 to 5... (Review 51)
I do not know what SEEING is.
What I think I see . . . is simply my judgment projected.
I decide . . . what I want to see . . . so I see . . . exactly as I have decided.
At no time are these judgments of mine valid . . .
not meanings emanating from true Source . . . LOVE.
My seeing comes from a pseudo-source . . . perception . . .
I‛ve simply projected my substitute ideas . . . my perceptions . . .
all coming from a personal slant . . . from personal opinions.
Yet a personal slant is a limited perception
based on a personal choice of response and reaction
held over from previous encounters . . .
relied on to source current judgments and opinions.
If only I‛d let interpretations go, I would be able
to SEE and UNDERSTAND and THINK . . .
from the true Source . . . LOVE Itself.
All it takes is a little willingness to surrender to LOVE.
Otherwise, I‛m constantly upset . . . trying to validate my ideas.
I do think that I understand.
I actually find opposition to my ideas
in order to justify my anger and attack . . .
all to keep in place my illusory self-identity.
With a simple change . . . trusting LOVE . . . the Source of Truth . . .
this illusion of a separate self . . .
could be replaced with the Self . . . the Creation of LOVE.
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This thought system, this way of thinking that I have valued
is certainly NOT in my own best interests.
Since it does NOT emanate from LOVE . . .
it does not bring consistent Peace.
Am I willing to let it go?
Am I willing to have the whole system replaced
by a thought system based on the Truth of LOVE . . .
One which always brings Peace?
One which SEES ONLY LOVE?
Lessons 6 to 10... (Review 52)
I see what I decide to see . . . NOT what is there to be SEEN.
This interpretation of mine is in denial of what is to be SEEN.
The thoughts that I call my own . . . are past ideas projected outward to
prevent me from SEEING . . . as LOVE SEES . . . NOW. . . thus obscuring
all that can be SEEN right now!
All I need do is let go of the past . . .
release all my ideas that are based on the past . . .
and I WILL SEE with LOVE . . . as LOVE SEES . . . through forgiveness . . .
by simply letting everything be as it is . . .
prior to imposing my judgment . . . my meaning . . . my interpretation.
Instead of being upset . . .
simply because of my judgment
of what seems to be in front of me . . .
I discover that what I think I am seeing is not really so.
So in fact, there is no reason for being upset.
My upset was founded on nothing at all . . .
except an interpretation of what I was seeing . . .
an erroneous perception that I deemed to be true.
Aha! Now that I am aware of this . . .
I am free to bless everyone and everything . . .
instead of judging or misperceiving them.
Thankfully, I AM the Self of Creation . . .
and am not affected in any way
by any of the pathetic interference
of the meaningless ideas of a meaningless self
that I seek to impose on all.
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My perceptions are misperceptions based on limitation.
I do not really SEE anything . . . as it is . . .
through limited perception.
I invite VISION to replace my non-seeing . . . my perceiving.
I call on the Light of the Reality of LOVE . . .
to dawn on me . . . till I am in full sun . . .
no longer wasting time in dream land . . .
but awake to true meaning and purpose . . .
always sourced in the Creative Power that is LOVE.
Lessons 11 to 15... (Review 53)
When guided by real thoughts . . . I obviously SEE a real world.
Otherwise I am looking through insanity . . . and so see only insanity.
Nothing affects me unless I give it value . . . which is giving it power.
A chaotic world can not bring me Peace and LOVE.
When seeing chaos in the world . . .
I am actually seeing my own chaos . . . being projected
to prevent me from owning the thoughts as mine.
So, quit valuing chaotic thinking.
By giving no further support to chaotic thinking,
and trusting the Reality of LOVE instead . . .
there is nothing to fear . . . for nothing is a problem. Trusting in
chaotic thinking is fear-based, and produces a chaotic world of
problems and problem-solving.
Real meaning IS in my mind . . . beyond my limited thinking.
It is up to me to ask to be shown real meaning . . .
then to accept . . . and to choose . . . what is revealed.
My thoughts are the basis of what I see.
Seeing suffering, loss and death
means I am choosing my insane thoughts, which are not real.
It is certainly not my will to worship these thoughts.
It is up to me to let them go . . . to stop entertaining them!
Choose peaceful, loving thoughts . . .
and SEE Peace and LOVE reflected.
That‛s SEEING through the eyes of LOVE . . .
instead of through eyes of false perception.
My real Source is LOVE.
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In acknowledging LOVE as my Source . . .
ONLY thoughts of LOVE and Peace arise.
Peace and LOVE are all I see when I decide to see with LOVE.
No matter what appears to be happening . . .
look for LOVE in it . . .
What I think I am seeing . . . apart from LOVE . . . disappears.
There ARE no problems . . . in LOVE.
Only my false judgment would say otherwise.
Lessons 16 to 20... (Review 54)
My thoughts are certainly not neutral . . . They are powerful.
They make a world representing their Source/source . . .
either the Truth of LOVE . . . or the illusion of something other than LOVE.
Are these thoughts I am thinking true? . . . or false?
Notice what I am seeing, and that will tell me.
Am I seeing peace? . . . and happiness?
Do I see LOVE, laughter and abundance? Or fear, weeping and loss?
Life IS thought. So what is my life like?
Check my state of mind and I can pinpoint the source of my thinking.
As ideas of limitation are expressed . . . they attract the same in others,
and a world of limitation is the world that is seen.
That does not make that world real . . .
but it is seen as real . . . till the thoughts that make it change.
When only LOVE is extended or projected . . .
LOVE is awakened in others . . .
enabling them to see the world as LOVE‛s expression.
So, I am alone in nothing.
I simply cannot be alone in anything.
LOVE is in my mind . . . so everything that I think or say or do with LOVE
has powerful effects . . . on me . . . . and thus on my world.
Every thought entertained affects the entirety of my experience.
So I have the power to change every mind along with mine.
Why not think and see ONLY with LOVE? . . .
ONLY what is true? . . . ONLY what is real?
That‛s how I choose to see . . . through LOVE‛s eyes.
I choose to see LOVE instead of fear . . .
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laughter instead of weeping . . .
and abundance instead of loss.
Thus I KNOW that LOVE is my Will!
So, what am I offering right NOW?
What is the Source/source of my thinking?
I am willing to be corrected. . . right now!
I call on LOVE to correct me . . . to give me total willingness to
surrender my thoughts to LOVE Itself. Since there are no
private minds . . . the correction given me . . . becomes my gift to
all. Lessons 21 to 25... (Review 55)
I am the One Creation . . .
the extension of LOVE Itself . . . whole and perfect.
Is this what I see in my world?
What I see is many bodies, many things,
each valuing its individual meaning, each separate and in competition.
That cannot be the Truth of LOVE . . .
because LOVE. . . . being whole and complete . . . has no opposite.
LOVE can not BE separate . . . or broken into distinct parts.
My seeing . . . my thinking . . . must be insane.
It does not reflect what I AM . . . LOVE.
My thinking shows that I have forgotten
that I AM the expression of all-encompassing LOVE.
So with my thinking . . . seeing my world . . .
I have distanced my Self from LOVE.
Thus . . . I do not understand LOVE . . . or the Self of LOVE . . .
or I would SEE only witnesses to LOVE . . .
I certainly would not see pictures of disease, disaster and death.
I don‛t want to see in this divisive way any longer.
I want to wake up from this dream . . . this nightmare.
All I see about me is attack . . . difference . . . comparison . . .
so I must be harbouring attack thoughts.
Where are my thoughts of LOVE?
Let me SEE only LOVE reflected . . . Then . . . I can be at Peace.
First . . . give up entertaining attack thoughts . . . all thoughts “about”. . .
Simply allow things to be . . . as they are . . . without my interfering
thoughts, without my ideas
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then I will BE safe . . . at Peace . . .
and since I will not be competing against . . . or comparing . . .
or struggling to be in control. . . by opposing what is . . . as it is . . .
I will be content . . . and even joyous.

Being out of touch with what I AM . . . LOVE . . .

I have to admit that I don‛t know what is best for me.
What I think is good for me . . . only emphasizes my separate state.
Yet, I call on remembrance of what I truly am . . . the expression of LOVE . . .
I am willing to listen within . . . so LOVE can reveal what is best for me. Lessons 26 to 30... (Review 56)
I gave the world the purpose of convincing me
that my illusions are real . . . that all my opinions and beliefs are true. I AM the extension of LOVE.
I wanted the world to confirm my opinions . . . The inheritance of LOVE
so I projected my beliefs and opinions on to my world . . . is perfect safety and total fulfilment.
gave everything and everyone particular roles . . . LOVE is invulnerable. Nothing threatens LOVE.
to bear witness to my ideas . . . in order to validate them . . . So, when I think I‛m under threat,
and thus entrench my self-made identity . . . know that I am mistaken . . .
thereby ousting the Identity of Creation, the Self of LOVE. know that I am identifying with partiality . . . di-Vision . . .
LOVE cannot suffer loss, be sick, in pain, or die.
And I accepted this purpose . . . If I think any of these is occurring,
Yet it doesn‛t present a very pretty picture. I am agreeing with and identifying with a false notion of myself
In fact, it‛s quite frightening. whilst denying my true Identity as whole and perfect LOVE.
It is obvious that I do not know what anything is for . . . It means I am listening to the self-image . . . self chatter . . .
and I do want to be open to being shown what everything is really FOR. rather than real thoughts that I think with LOVE.
To do this . . . I need to withdraw the purpose I have imposed . . .
and humbly ask to be shown. Above all else, I do want to SEE with LOVE
As I turn my life over to my inner Guide . . . LOVE . . . only what is true.
the conflicting ideas that have filled my mind . . . no longer have power . . . I no longer want to see a world
So . . . without conflict . . . I am at Peace. that reflects a fearful self-image.
I want to SEE charity and LOVE.
I remember the LOVE that I AM as that One Self of Creation. LOVE has no As I SEE charity and LOVE
limits whatsoever . . . so I can now express LOVE to everyone and everything . . in all that I project . . . that is . . . in my world . . .
. everywhere . . . at any time . . . no matter what seems to be occurring. then I SEE charity and LOVE in myself.
The LOVE that I AM . . . I now willingly extend.
That‛s what I choose! While I hold on to fear . . .
Life that is LOVE extended and extending! I cannot SEE anything but fear.
I trust that I am exactly in the right place at the right time . . . Fear becomes a barrier . . .
and so is everyone and everything a door closed to Truth . . . closed to LOVE.
that seems to be apart and separate. As I let this barrier fall away . . .
as I look beyond the fear . . .
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As I look beyond the images that I have made, . . .
behind the veils that I have held up . . .
and the insane wishes that I have demanded . . .
I am now able to reunite with the Will of LOVE . . .
which is Changeless and Light with LOVE.
I now SEE through the falsity of what seems to be occurring,
and recognise the simple Truth
of what everything is FOR . . .
ALWAYS ONLY
the extension of LOVE.
I finally know for myself
that all is LOVE . . . One forever . . .
and that any idea apart from the Unity of LOVE is false.
The Truth of LOVE is always in my mind . . .
so is therefore IN everything that I SEE.
All that I need do is bypass the barriers that I have set up . . .
and go straight to the Source . . . eternal LOVE . . .
no longer willing to be fooled by appearances . . .
willing only TO SEE the eternal
in every situation, in every thing, and in every one.
Loss, sickness, pain and death have no place in LOVE.
As I embrace LOVE . . .
these ideas disappear from my awareness . . .
for they do not exist . . . in the Presence of LOVE. Focus
on the Truth of LOVE leaves no room for such error!
Whatever is not of Joy and Peace and LOVE in my Life . . .
I bring to the Light of this Truth . . .
and by the Strength of LOVE . . .
I let it go . . .
till there is only
Joy . . . Peace . . . and LOVE . . .
in my world . . . and thus in me.
That‛s when I am at home . . . totally at Peace . . . free . . .
no longer trying to maintain the façade of power that my time-
consuming, exhausting manipulation has offered me . . .
as a substitute for the Power of LOVE . . .
which is gentle, quiet, and still.
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Lessons 31 to 35... (Review 57)
Freedom . . . to claim freedom . . . is my choice.
Nothing is stopping me. I‛m not a victim.
I can walk away from this world . . . as I see it . . .
by giving up my insane wishes . . .
by giving up my ideas of attack and defence . . .
my belief in limitation . . . that I could be vulnerable . . .
It is these false ideas that keep me locked in to this world of mine.
I simply remember that I made this world as I see it
through my choice of thinking.
I actually thought that I could imprison the Self that LOVE created . . .
and make up a self of my own imagining . . . to take Its place.
But, this is not possible. Self as created is limitless. . . as is LOVE.
I do not want to hold on to limited ideas and beliefs and opinions.
By valuing ideas sourced in limitation . . . I have forgotten the Self that I am.
The Self that I AM . . . being LOVE . . . must be free, whole and complete . . .
just as created . . . and not what I made the Self out to be . . .
a self locked into ideas of littleness . . . lack and di-Vision.
I gave the world the purpose of keeping everything separate . . . by naming all
I see . . . handing out separate identities . . . making up problems and
difficulties . . . through ideas of competition . . . and hierarchies of self-
determined values. HOW I see this world . . . is upside down . . . the very
opposite of what is true. How insane to continue fantasising in this way . . .
when I am free to make another choice . . . and thereby SEE only what is true!
While I wallow in differences . . . in lack . . . in opposition, I do not SEE
that the world is a place where I can be set free from this insane thinking . . .
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The real world . . . where there is unity . . . not di-Vision . . .
is the world that I want TO SEE.
I no longer want to see a meaningless world arising from meaningless thoughts.
I no longer want to be the victim of my meaningless thinking . . .
of laws I made up to bring about a world divided and at war . . .
a world that is apart . . . separate from me . . .
a world on which I have projected a limited script . . .
a script limited by my interpretations.
I want TO SEE Peace and LOVE reflected in the world.
I want TO SEE a reflection of the Law of LOVE . . .
whereby giving and receiving are the One idea.
So I now choose TO SEE with Sight sourced in the Law of LOVE.
When I see Peace and LOVE reflected in the world . . .
then I know that I am SEEING through eyes of Peace and LOVE . . .
acknowledging the Self of Creation that IS Peace and LOVE . . .
and projecting Peace and LOVE on to the screen of the world.
I recognise that Peace has been hidden deep within . . .
covered by a self I have proclaimed as substitute for Self.
It‛s up to me to reclaim that Peace . . .
bypassing personal interpretation and limited thinking.
As I log on to Mind that IS Peace and LOVE . . .
then Peace and LOVE are mine . . . to share with all.
As I let all things be . . . exactly as they are . . . arising from LOVE . . . then all
that I SEE is viewed through eyes of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the Light of
LOVE that shows me what is true and real. This is the Light that shows me
that I truly AM
an expression of LOVE . . . a vehicle . . . for LOVE‛s manifestation.
I am no longer hidden behind all the busy, upsetting,
chaotic thinking that I decided was my identity . . .
I renounce that limited identity . . . and claim the Truth . . .
I AM LOVE‛s Creation . . . complete, and healed and whole.
Now, as I look around me, I SEE nothing but innocence . . .
ONLY LOVE . . . the Source of all that lives.
I no longer see myself separate and alone . . . but One with Life Itself.
I have always been free to choose TO SEE this way . . .
but I have mistakenly chosen the painful road of uncertainty . . .
which is death . . . by seeing through eyes of limitation.
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I am grateful that I can always choose again when . . . by mistake . . .
I see what is not there . . . TO SEE . . . rejecting what IS there.
What is always there is LOVE . . . in some form.
So, now I choose the joyous gift of Life . . . Life eternal.
I begin to smile . . . to laugh . . .
to rejoice . . . to LOVE . . . and to be at Peace . . .
free at last to claim my Self. . . as the self disappears in LOVE.
I extend ONLY LOVE . . . Joy . . . Peace . . . and Happiness . . .
as I create with LOVE.
Lessons 36 to 40... (Review 58)
No attack! No judgment! ONLY forgiveness! As I forgive and
allow everything simply to be itself without my imposed
meaning, without my interference in the simplicity of What Is,
then there IS no doubt . . . no opposition.
So nothing is SEEN as separate . . . as different.
ALL is SEEN as part of One Perfect Whole . . .
ALL with the same purpose . . . harmonious, joyous Being.
Being forgiven . . . I am free to be . . .
no longer guilty of being separate from LOVE . . . no longer
guilty of SEEING anything separate or apart from LOVE.
Holiness . . . assured in Creation . . . IS Innocence . . .
I accept my Innocence.
This is true understanding . . .
SEEING ONLY wholeness, holiness, or Innocence in my world
because I‛m SEEING ONLY wholeness, holiness or Innocence in my Self.
What release! What freedom!
No more struggling to defend myself or others.
How joyous! How enriching!
Everything that I SEE in the Light of Innocence
shares this joyous enrichment.
All is joyous! That is freedom!
There is ONE LOVE . . . ONE Light.
The LOVE that I AM . . . is the LOVE that IS my brother.
It is the same LOVE.
The Light of this Truth shines on everything.
It is ONE Light . . . the same Light . . . THE Light of LOVE extending.
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Innocence is the solution to the complex, illusory world of guilt.
Declaring wholeness and Innocence is a powerful assertion of the
Truth of what I AM . . . as created . . . so undoes all limited ideas
that I have held about myself.
Recognising my Innocence IS my salvation from all guilt.
This recognition also saves the world from guilt . . .
since I no longer project guilt on to the world.
Innocence is not affected
by mistaken beliefs in pain, guilt and fear.
Without guilt, being wholly Innocent . . . I have nothing to fear.
So my innocence IS my salvation FROM fear . . .
Innocence is LOVE‛s gift to me and my world.
Being innocent means that
I cannot experience ‘missing out‛ . . . or loss . . . or pain.
I am LOVE‛s extension.
As LOVE . . . all I receive IS blessing.
As the extension of LOVE,
I am totally supported, protected and cared for.
As I ask OF LOVE . . .
I am given direction in everything that I am to do.
At last I relax . . .
knowing that my guidance is sure . . . certain.
I bypass doubt . . .
hearing the exact direction
that leads to Peace.
It takes practice to ask.
It takes practice to listen.
It takes practice to follow direction.
Only blessing is intended for me. Only blessing exists.
What opposes blessing does not exist.
It is with joy and gratitude
that I acknowledge my Innocence
by receiving ONLY blessing.
Thus I have ONLY blessing to give.
I know I am blessed as I offer only blessing.
Should I forget the Truth of this whole, innocent, holy Self . . .
I have a Guide That reminds me of What I am.
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All I have to do is accept the invitation
to return Home to the One Self of LOVE . . .
the very heart of my Beingness . . .
where I stand in Strength . . .
holding the Light and LOVE that is my Self.
Lessons 41 to 45... (Review 59)
No more suffering?
No longer alone? doubtful? unsure?
No longer disturbed by anything?
Is this possible?
LOVE goes with me wherever I go.
I am surrounded by LOVE and Joy.
Perfect Certainty and absolute Peace are mine.
And all I have to do is accept this.
As I make the connection
with the Source of Peace within . . . LOVE . . .
all Life merges as One.
I plug in . . . switch on . . .
and the current of LOVE with its Peace and Joy . . .
is carried to everything and everyone . . . including myself.
Having received these gifts of LOVE . . .
I extend them with joy . . .
by maintaining connection to the Source . . . LOVE.
Without this connection . . . this alignment with Source . . .
I cannot SEE what is real . . . sourced in LOVE . . .
but only imagine . . . thus perceive separate images
that I invent as substitutes for what is . . . in fact . . . wholly LOVE . . .
Through my belief in my invented world . . .
I experience suffering, abandonment, doubt and upset . . .
and this certainly seems real.
This is not what I could possibly really want.
It makes sense . . . to let go of my self-constructed world,
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embrace LOVE‛s offering . . . a world free of my meanings,
a world of unknown . . . unlimited potential . . . able to be claimed
when I agree to be carried on the wings of LOVE‛s true purpose.
Throughout this apparent encounter
with the nightmare world of my experience,
what I AM . . . as created . . . has never changed.
I am perfect . . . as created.
It is through the Strength of LOVE Itself . . .
that I am able to remember
the Reality of LOVE . . . my Source . . .
beyond the world of my making.
I decide to ask for the guidance of LOVE . . .
not found in the world of my imaginings.
I learn to listen within . . .
beyond the raucous demands of limitation . . .
and follow directions given by LOVE . . .
in response to the humble request
of the quiet Voice of Certainty within.
I call on the Vision of the Self . . .
LOVE‛s extension . . . given in Creation.
Till now . . . this Vision
has been seen to be separate . . . thus unclaimed.
With the inner Light of Vision as my Guide . . .
all of my limited . . . false interpretations . . .
all of the illusions that I see through the body‛s eyes . . .
are no longer acceptable.
They fall away . . . disappear . . .
for I SEE ONLY LOVE.
As I discover the Truth of LOVE
in everything that I SEE . . .
I glimpse timelessness . . . a flicker of eternity . . .
I think ONLY with Thoughts of LOVE . . .
which are the Source of VISION.
All that I SEE . . .
through the Light that is LOVE . . . through VISION . . .
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is a benign world . . . awaiting my discovery
of its LOVE-given meaning and purpose.
LOVE‛s Will for me is perfect happiness!
Having found that happiness within . . .
I SEE only happiness in the world.
For . . . giving and receiving . . . are One . . .
I claim LOVE‛s happiness now!
Lessons 46 to 50... (Review 60)
To recognise my Innocence . . .
I simply need to forgive.
Forgiveness is a reflection of LOVE on earth . . . in my world.
Forgiveness refuses to impose personal meanings,
Forgiveness refuses to judge and condemn . . .
Forgiveness simply accepts everything
as perfectly in order just as it is . . .
Forgiveness SEES ONLY blessing.
In accepting the perfection . . . the Innocence . . . of all . . .
by seeing there IS ONLY perfection . . . ONLY Innocence . . .
I am transported home to LOVE‛s Presence . . .
out of the morass of my limiting judgments.
THIS is forgiveness . . .
It is the stirring of the Strength of LOVE in me
that makes forgiveness possible.
LOVE‛s VISION catalyses forgiveness . . .
as I recall the LOVE . . . that I chose to forget.
Now, instead of being doubtful and afraid . . .
I SEE everything and everyone leaning toward me to bless me.
The never-ending call of LOVE‛s Voice . . . is for forgiveness.
LOVE‛s Voice is ever-present
in directing my thoughts . . . guiding my actions . . .
and leading my feet to my only goal – the Truth of LOVE Itself!
My part?
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 LISTEN . . . therefore I am sustained by LOVE.
OPEN MY EYES . . . SEE with the Light of LOVE.
FORGIVE . . . recognise ONLY Innocence
LOOK with VISION . . . remember my Identity as LOVE‛s extension . . .
so it is only with LOVE that I SEE truly.
Summary of the First Sixty Lessons
Since nothing that I see or think means anything . . .
and since I do not understand anything that I see or think . . .
how come I get upset?
My meaningless thinking suggests a reason for me to be upset . . .
which I accept and run with . . .
until I find that I was mistaken in my perception. My opinions are not based
on the Truth of LOVE. All my interpretations and opinions are based on
past interpretations and opinions.
These are irrelevant now . . . for the past is over . . . not here NOW . . .
except through the fantasy of my rose coloured glasses . . .
and my memory bank.
I have to admit that my mind has actually been blank.
At last I am being honest. I am ready to ask for another way of being . . .
another way of living . . . another way of seeing.
It is obvious that my mind has, in fact, been preoccupied with past ideas.
The dominos begin to fall.
I actually see nothing just as it is . . . right now . . . without a history.
I‛m faced with the meaninglessness of the world that I think I see.
This is definitely upsetting . . . for it certainly seems very meaningful to me.
If it is meaningless . . . I am afraid . . .
Where will I find meaning? . . . if my meaning is not true?
I am reassured that LOVE did not create a meaningless world.
So, show me the world that LOVE did create?
I‛m glad that a meaningless world is impossible.
So, where is this world that has meaning?
I examine my thoughts . . . and find that I‛m an image-maker, not a thinker.
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My ‘thoughts‛ are not neutral . . . and nor is what I see.
I get to see where my ‘thoughts‛ originate . . . in interpretive thinking.
It is obvious I am opinionated about everything.
I am certainly not alone in experiencing the effects of my thinking and seeing,
because I make them widely known.
I impose my ideas whenever I can . . . to gather witnesses to my world.
Yet I am responsible for the world that I see . . . and not the other way around.
The world is not responsible for my responses and reactions. . . . I am . . .
They are my choice . . . Nothing outside of me can affect me.
I am affected ONLY by my thoughts. My way of seeing does not work.
I am determined to SEE differently . . . knowing that my grievance and anger
is to be fully exposed. My self-identity is under threat.
So this is the half way mark, a pivotal point in the undoing . . . Time to
look at the impact of my choice to use attack and defence as my tools
for seeing.
I hear that my world will disappear . . . as I give up attack thoughts.
The world of itself is innocent . . . until I impose attack and defence.
From one errant thought of using Creative Power
for a purpose other than true purpose
(which is forgiveness and the extension of LOVE)
an entire world of opposition to LOVE . . . of denial of LOVE . . . arises. With
this thought system that I have considered true . . . it is not possible to
perceive my own best interests.
So I no longer pretend that I have a clue what anything is for.
Yet all the while, I‛m in judgment, attacking only myself . . .
since there is nothing outside of me except my projections.
I thought that I was determined to SEE differently.
Now, I know for sure that I want to SEE above all else.
I want to be shown true purpose and meaning.
I am committed to VISION.
Creation must have a Creator . . . The Creator IS LOVE.
The shared purpose and meaning of all apparently separate things . . .
the common denominator . . . is LOVE. There IS only LOVE.
Nothing separate is real.
Having seen and held everything apart and separate . . .
I am now being asked to join with what I SEE . . . as One . . .
SEE LOVE in all . . . SEE One Self in all.
Since I invented my world . . . I am not the victim of it.
Yet my day consists of seeing perpetrators and victims . . .
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 sometimes with role reversals . . . depending on the situations. I place my trust in the Strength of LOVE.
The programme now becomes very specific: I trust the guidance that comes
As an attack thought or judgment arises . . . I stop entertaining the thought . . . from the deep Peace within . . . no longer afraid. I trust LOVE‛s Vision.
ask for help to dismiss it . . . step back from the situation . . . listen . . . All that I need remember is to go within to the Voice of Peace.
and wait on LOVE to replace this meaningless thinking. Peace answers as I call on the peaceful solution.
This other way of thinking is already present within my awareness . . .
but I am not familiar with it. The sustenance of my world is unstable and unsafe.
In the stillness . . . is the home of LOVE. . . where real Thoughts reside. It sustains . . . to eventually destroy.
Time to accept ONLY these Thoughts. The goals of my world do not bring LOVE and safety.
I begin to SEE LOVE and Peace where once I saw pain, hate and chaos. They offer substitutes that cannot satisfy. They offer temporary placebos.
Can I humbly accept that my mind is of LOVE . . . and that I am thus very holy? As I identify with the eternal, I am nurtured, sustained and restored to LIFE.
LOVE sustains me as I declare my release from bondage of the self-identity . .
My focus IS the Unity of complete LOVE . . . of complete Peace. . from the belief in idols . . . substitutes for LOVE . . . that I made up.
My judgments and their associates, guilt and blame, deny LOVE and Peace. As I rest in LOVE, I listen to the Voice of LOVE . . . and I am sustained.
As I project Innocence . . . I SEE only Innocence. I am grateful that this gift of LOVE that is given me . . .
To find my Innocence, I drop within to where LOVE abides. is now mine to offer and extend to all.
What is whole has no lack, so makes no demands. What is full needs nothing.
By offering Innocence . . . the cycle of neediness and demand ends.
All I give and receive is blessing.
Innocence SEES no problems . . . so there is nothing to solve.
What were SEEN as problems are now SEEN as blessings.
The belief that I am guilty of being separate from LOVE has no validity . . . as
my experience of Innocence convinces me that I am not separate from
anything.
I meet the Certainty of my Innocence . . . since I AM the offspring of LOVE.
I begin to free my world from the guilt that I had offered it.
I begin to choose LOVE . . . no longer guilty of denying or withholding LOVE.

As I accept the Truth of What I am . . . what I thought I was no longer exists.

I begin to light up with the Certainty of what is true . . . beyond the littleness
of separate form and identity. With effortless ease, I tap into Thoughts of
LOVE, as I step back from considering that my input has great value . . . and
humbly accept the Voice of the Truth of LOVE. True Thoughts . . . arising
from LOVE . . . are freely available . . . and need nothing but my acceptance.
Doubt is replaced with Certainty. All the guess work is taken out of the
equation . . . as the Truth of LOVE rises with powerful clarity. As I allow LOVE
to interpret all situations . . . and withdraw my opinions . . . I find
forgiveness . . . which is LOVE‛s interpretation. In forgiving, I am forgiven. I
am set free . . . as I set my world free.

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 TRANSITION ASSIGNMENT
And so the Jubilee Lessons are complete.
If I have been consistent in applying the Lessons throughout each day, I will
have received – as a personal experience – a taste of freedom.
For the remainder of Part 1 of this Workbook of Lessons
which offers total freedom through the undoing of
the thought system of the self-identity
that has kept me bound to a world of my own making,
a world of dualism, a world of opposition and denial of LOVE,
the Lessons are presented in three groups of forty lessons . . . each lesson
offering a replacement for the limited ideas that oppose and deny Peace.
It is helpful to see each lesson in the context of this idea of forty days so
that I will be aware of where I find myself in this period of undoing.
It is urgent that I continue actively participating in the lessons with greater
consistency and a firmer commitment. This renewed dedication bears its
own fruit.
As I become mindful of the source of my thinking, then in any moment
that I find myself distant from the Peace that belongs to me,
I have the opportunity to once again choose LOVE
as the Source of my thinking
instead of choosing the conflictual patterns of opposition and denial
that are so entrenched as my way of thinking. And
so I reap the rewards of this mind training,
whose purpose is to lead to a different perception of everything I see. As I
see through forgiveness, I find a forgiven world,
and begin to see and live from my own Innocence.
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Publications by Barbara Eastwell /Caulley
1. “Self Revealed” Seven Books: A Practical Daily Guide to the
Workbook of A Course in Miracles
2. “Elijah Incorporated” Rediscovering Self through Story . . . The Gift of Metaphor
Using the Biblical Story of Elijah.
3. “Soul Harvest” . . . Song of Celebration Remembering the Home Coming Journey
–The Seven Festivals given to Moses . . . for me NOW!
4. “I am Life Itself” . . . One Tree of Life . . .The Catalyst: Middle East conflict
5. “Fine Tuning...” Love magnified . . . The Return to Source.
The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount
6. “Personal Messages” . . . Responses to the 365 Lessons. Expands application.
7. “Personal Reflections” . . . A Book of Diagrams showing relationships
between ideas in Part II of the Workbook
8. “Soaring on the Wings of Surrender” . . . Short bursts of ideas on the seeming
journey to surrender... and the inherent gifts of Peace, Flow, Abundance.
9. “…In Brief…” 365 Lessons… The essence of the 365 messages
of the Workbook Lessons … personal responses.
10, “Behind the Beatitudes” The eight keys to remembering what I AM … LOVE… the
Source of Happiness
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11. Series of 16 booklets on the Fourteen Questions of Part II of the Workbook Including
all lessons, parables, questions for application and personal responses.

12. “Prayer . . . expanding the Lord’s Prayer”…viewed through the eyes of LOVE Itself.

For all enquiries, including purchase of books, email eastwell.barbara@gmail.com

Details of book contents are found on web site . . . www.soundbasis.com.au
Barbara Eastwell 2011

…In gratitude...

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