I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.
1. The idea for today contains the only way out of fear that will ever succeed. ²Nothing else will work; everything else is meaningless. ³But this way cannot fail. ⁴Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. ⁵It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed.
2. If the cause of the world you see is attack thoughts, you must learn that it is these thoughts which you do not want. ²There is no point in lamenting the world. ³There is no point in trying to change the world. ⁴It is incapable of change because it is merely an effect.
* Remember that this is not an effect that is real but is the result of belief in separation from Father.
* I SEE the world of separation as unreal through SPIRIT. I also SEE Christ in all that is. In form, I wish to be close to Christ, but I want to remember that the closeness is within FIRST AND FOREMOST. Holding THIS awareness will allow me to navigate in the world of form where there are minds that feel separate and abandoned.
* From there I must listen to Father’s Guidance through SPIRIT and proceed with the Peace that knowing GOD IS brings, Happiness that knowing that ALL will come to know this, and Joy in existence however it presents. This is my experience today and why I claim that I know Heaven and Eternal Life.
* I wonder if this is why I have been able to endure so many “good-byes” in my life. Because inside I absolutely know these things are true. I recall one intimate relationship that I had that was based on this. (I would not have been able to describe it this way at the time at all.) He enjoyed my willingness to be so “giving” in saying goodbye that he stayed around until I got comfortable enough to think he might stay, then he left. It took nine years and a lot of ups and downs but my confidence finally grew and I knew my value. He did not know his though and preferred my willingness to leave at the drop of a hat. It maintained his sovereignty but at the expense of my security and he got to take advantage of my many skills without any real commitment of his own.
* I wonder if that is the “adrenaline rush” that my current relationship is enjoying? He is “certain” there is no way I could love him. And this allows him to be the martyr and show kindnesses, without allowing me any comfort of his stability or respect for my “being” or having an identity of my own beyond what serves him and his idea of the world.
* 1. Remember these are only my reflections and are meant to teach me and may have no bearing on who they are. 2. The Course says do not try to “fix” anything which I understand, at the same time I may use ALL that presents itself in my awareness to understand who I am better under the instruction of Father through SPIRIT.
* These are not thoughts of attack. They are reflections on how (and if?) two “empty forms” can come together in remembrance of FATHER and partake in the delight of cohabitating in Heaven. 😉😊 (In other words, I am doing my best to take away the “FUCK -which means attack,” FEAR, and MANIPULATION that comes with sexual activity.)
* I am determined to find out how FATHER views this where HE IS because that is where I AM and where I want to be with other parts of the Sonship in VARIOUS types or forms of relationships that are able to express through touch without guilt, shame, or jealousy. Through each I would want to recognize both the Father, and the Son and nothing else, so fear and its BS is set aside or ‘seen’ as unreal. This I can do from within the True Forgiveness of the Atonement and witness of Heaven’s Reality HERE on Earth.
⁵But there is indeed a point in changing your thoughts about the world. ⁶Here you are changing the cause. ⁷The effect will change automatically.
3. The world you see is a vengeful world, and everything in it is a symbol of vengeance. ²Each of your perceptions of “external reality” is a pictorial representation of your own attack thoughts. ³One can well ask if this can be called seeing. ⁴Is not fantasy a better word for such a process, and hallucination a more appropriate term for the result?
* We have literally taken Heaven and removed the witness of God from it. It is like the Son in his delirium has chosen to shun God Who LITERALLY IS HIS EYES AND EARS IN HEAVEN while being on earth.
4. You see the world that you have made, but you do not see yourself as the image maker. ²You cannot be saved from the world, but you can escape from its cause. ³This is what salvation means, for where is the world you see when its cause is gone? ⁴Vision already holds a replacement for everything you think you see now. ⁵Loveliness can light your images, and so transform them that you will love them, even though they were made of hate. ⁶For you will not be making them alone.
* Father IS here. We want to remind ourselves of this and let SPIRIT continue to reveal Him.
5. The idea for today introduces the thought that you are not trapped in the world you see, because its cause can be changed. ²This change requires, first, that the cause be identified and then let go, so that it can be replaced. ³The first two steps in this process require your cooperation. ⁴The final one does not. ⁵Your images have already been replaced. ⁶By taking the first two steps, you will see that this is so.
6. Besides using it throughout the day as the need arises, five practice periods are required in applying today’s idea. ²As you look about you, repeat the idea slowly to yourself first, and then close your eyes and devote about a minute to searching your mind for as many attack thoughts as occur to you. ³As each one crosses your mind say:
⁴I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts about _________.
⁵Hold each attack thought in mind as you say this, and then dismiss that thought and go on to the next.
7. In the practice periods, be sure to include both your thoughts of attacking and of being attacked. ²Their effects are exactly the same because they are exactly the same. ³You do not recognize this as yet, and you are asked at this time only to treat them as the same in today’s practice periods. ⁴We are still at the stage of identifying the cause of the world you see. ⁵When you finally learn that thoughts of attack and of being attacked are not different, you will be ready to let the cause go.
* What “cause” could be the same in both “attack and being attacked?” Separation from God, the One Original and Universal Creator that brings in shame, guilt, fear, envy, inequality, lack, and so on.
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