April 11, 2017
The world we see is in our mind. It is perceived through the lens of our thoughts and experiences. We use our thoughts and experiences indiscriminately to make the world we see around us. Is this world we see reality? It is a twisted and distorted version of reality we believe is real. Yet, it doesn’t resemble reality because we have seen it and continue to see it through the distortion of a mind that believes it is separate from Source. One cannot see realty as it really is while believing the distorted perceptions we hold are real.
The betrayal of the One Child of Source – Us – lies only in illusions, and all our “sins” are but our own imagining. Our reality is forever sinless. We need not be forgiven but awakened. In our dreams we have betrayed ourselves, our brothers and sisters and our Source. Yet what is done in dreams has not been really done. It is impossible to convince the dreamer that this is so, for dreams are what they are because of their illusion of reality. Only in waking is the full release from them, for only then does it become perfectly apparent that they had no effect upon reality at all, and did not change it. Fantasies change reality. That is their purpose. They cannot do so in reality, but they can do so in the mind that would have reality be different. T-17.I.1:1-10
Our egoic thought system cannot change reality, but it can cause us to see reality distorted. When we choose to use our power of creation in this way, we see fantasies and illusions we choose to see as reality. Yet, it is not reality at all, just a distorted version of reality that hides reality from our minds. We cannot give reality to fantasy, for they are completely incompatible. However, we can bring fantasy to truth to be used to reawaken our minds to truth and the reality of who we really are.
When we maintain that there is any order of difficulty in miracles, we withhold some things from truth. Very simply, our lack of faith in the power that heals all pain arises from our wish to retain some aspects of reality for fantasy. If we only realized what this must do to our appreciation of the whole! As long as we would have it so, will the illusion of an order of difficulty in miracles remain with us. For we have established this order in reality by giving some of it to one teacher, and some to another. And so, we learn to deal with part of the truth in one way, and in another way the other part. To fragment truth is to destroy it by rendering it meaningless. Orders of reality is a perspective without understanding; a frame of reference for reality to which it cannot really be compared at all.
When we try to bring truth to illusions, we are trying to make illusions real, and keep them by justifying our belief in them. But giving illusions to truth enables truth to teach that the illusions are unreal, and thus enable us to escape from them. We must not reserve even one thought from truth, or we establish orders of reality that must imprison us. There is no order in reality, because everything in reality is wholly true.
Be willing, then, to give all you have held outside the truth to Source Who knows the truth, and in Whom all is brought to truth. Salvation from separation would be complete, or will not be at all. Be not concerned with anything except your willingness to have this be accomplished. Source will accomplish it; not you. But forget not this: When you become disturbed and lose your peace of mind because another is attempting to solve their problems through fantasy, you are refusing to forgive yourself for just this same attempt. And you are holding both of you away from truth and from salvation. As you forgive another, you restore to truth what was denied by both of you. And you will see forgiveness where you have given it. T-17.I.6:1-8
Bring all you hold in your mind to truth and reality. Hold back no thoughts whatsoever. Spirit will sort them out and reveal what is real and what is not. Awaken! The result will be to free our minds from the clutter of fantasies and illusions and awaken us to the peace of mind we desire. This peace is already within us. Release all thoughts with abandon, for nothing real can ever be lost to us. The freedom of reality is ours for eternity.
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