Lesson 145. My mind holds only what I think with God.
(129) Beyond this world there is a world I want.
(130) It is impossible to see two worlds.
When I look out at the world I see from the perspective of this body/mind/personality, it appears to be a place of sorrow and suffering. If I allow what is seen by the body’s eyes to tell me who I am, I too suffer. I understand that I have an alternative choice. If I turn my looking inward, and ask the silence who I am, I do not experience the suffering of the world. Rather, I experience peace and joy unaffected by the world or its events. I see the world beyond this world as I remove my believing attention (my belief in my thoughts about it) and sit in the truth of silence.
If I give my believing attention to the events and the “laws” of the world, I continue to experience the world as solid—fact based—reality. I have been graced with the vision to understand that this world is not reality. Only by removing my thoughts from the world and my seeming place in it, do I make room for the truth to be seen by me. I cannot believe in some aspects of the world I see (like the one’s I like) and withdraw my belief from other aspects. I either invest in this world – and so imbue it with seeming reality – or I recognize that what this world would show me has no relation to the truth.
