All things I think I see reflect ideas.
Lesson 325 is is one of my favorite lessons. It flipped my mind the first time I read it. It continues to flip my mind. It’s trippy, exciting and true:
All things I think I see reflect ideas.
“This is salvation’s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own. From insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a kindly home where he can rest a while before he journeys on, and help his brothers walk ahead with him and find the way to Heaven and to God.”
The world is a hologram of light.
What if you knew you were dreaming?
“The end of dreaming is the end of fear, and love was never in the world of dreams” – ACIM, Chapter 28, Section 4
“There can be no salvation in the dream as you are dreaming it.” – ACIM Chapter 29, Section 10, The Forgiving Dream:
How can God’s Son awaken from the dream? It is a dream of judgment. So must he judge not, and he WILL awaken.
The real world still is but a dream. Except the figures have been changed. They are not seen as idols which betray. It is a dream in which no-one is used to substitute for something else, or interposed between the thoughts the mind conceives and what it sees. No-one is used for something he is not, for childish things have all been put away. And what was once a dream of judgment now has changed into a dream where all is joy, because that is the PURPOSE that it has. Only forgiving dreams can enter here, for time is almost over. And the forms which enter in the dreams are now perceived as brothers, not in judgment, but in love.
FOR TIME IS ALMOST OVER.
Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from Your but make up dreams.
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Lately, with these lessons, they make me laugh out loud. They make me soooo happy. How simple is salvation. God’s ideas reflect the truth, and my thoughts apart from God’s but make up dreams. It gets easier and easier and easier. Just think with God! All day long, think with God! Those thoughts reflect the truth.
Everything else but makes up dreams.
Father, Let me behold what only Your Thoughts reflect, for Yours and Yours alone establish truth.
What I see “out there” reflects only (and always!) the thoughts that are contained in my mind. What a gift. If I don’t like what I see, I can change my mind.
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over here………..Love it! Father, Let me behold what only Your Thoughts reflect, for Yours and Yours alone establish truth.
It’s possible to live in the real world all the time. It’s still a dream … but look how it’s changed!
The Investment in Reality-Chapter 11, Section 4
If only the loving thoughts of God’s Son are the world’s reality, the real world must be in his mind. His insane thoughts, too, must be in his mind, but an internal conflict of this magnitude he cannot tolerate. For a split mind IS endangered, and the recognition that it encompasses completely opposed thoughts within itself IS intolerable. Therefore, the mind projects the split, NOT the reality. Everything you perceive as the outside world, is merely your attempt to maintain your ego identification, for everyone believes that identification is salvation.God DOES love the real world, and those who perceive its reality cannot see the world of death.
What is the Real World?
The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God’s Son no longer sleeps. His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father’s Love; the certain promise that he is redeemed. The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless.
The Forgiven World-Chapter 17, Section 3
The real world is attained simply by the COMPLETE forgiveness of the old; the world you see WITHOUT forgiveness. Nothing you see here, sleeping or waking, comes near to such loveliness, and nothing will you value like unto this, nor hold so dear. Nothing that you remember, that made your heart seem to sing with joy, has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you. FOR YOU WILL SEE THE SON OF GOD. You will behold the beauty that the Holy Spirit loves to look upon, and that He thanks the Father for. He was created to see this FOR you, until YOU learn to see it for yourself. And all His teaching leads to seeing it, and giving thanks with Him.
This loveliness is NOT a fantasy. It is the real world, bright, and clean, and new, with everything sparkling under the open sun. Nothing is hidden here, for everything has BEEN forgiven, and there ARE no fantasies to hide the truth. The bridge between that world and this is SO little, and SO easy to cross, that you could not believe it is the meeting-place of worlds so different. Yet this little bridge is the strongest thing that touches on this world at all. This little step, so small it has escaped your notice, is a stride through time into eternity, and beyond all ugliness, into beauty that will enchant you, and will never cease to cause you wonderment at its perfection.
The Vision of Christ-Chapter 11, Section 7
for the real world is the gift of the Holy Spirit, … He will show you the real world, because God gave you Heaven. …
The Problem and the Answer-Chapter 10, Section 8
The world as YOU perceive it cannot have been created by the Father, for the world is NOT as you see it. God created ONLY the eternal, and everything YOU see is perishable. Therefore, there must be another world which you do NOT see. The Bible speaks of a NEW Heaven and a NEW earth, yet this cannot be literally true, for the eternal are not RE-created. But to PERCEIVE anew is merely to perceive again, implying that before YOU WERE NOT PERCEIVING AT ALL. What, then, is the world that awaits your perception WHEN YOU SEE IT? The real world can ACTUALLY BE PERCEIVED. All that is necessary is a willingness to perceive nothing ELSE.
The Only Purpose-Chapter 30, Section 6
The real world is the state of mind in which the only purpose of the world is seen to be forgiveness.
Wow. The ENORMITY of the gift that has been given to me is practically beyond comprehension … but I accept it!
Thank you very much!!
Thank you Jesus!
holy crap….just gotta say…loving your graphics girl.
WE ARE ALL BLESSED!!! And ALL of our needs are met as we CO-OPERATE AND CO-CREATE (SHARE) IN, OF AND AS LOVE!!!! I SOOOO appreciate this because through it I am (we are)-at every moment -given the opportunity to choose to see and live LIFE—–JOYFULLY!!!