Welcome to Active Meditation.
The Course in Miracles Review Lessons 31-35 Take a few moments to prepare for meditation.
I'll be silent while you do this.
I do not know the thing I am,
And therefore do not know what I am doing,
Where I am,
Or how to look upon the world or on myself.
I am not the victim of the world I see.
How can I be the victim of a world that can be completely undone if I so choose?
My chains are loosened.
I can drop them off merely by desiring to do so.
The prison door is open.
I can leave simply by walking out.
Nothing holds me in this world.
Only my wish to stay keeps me a prisoner.
I would give up my insane wishes and walk into the sunlight at last.
I am not the victim of the world I see.
I have invented the world I see.
I made up the prison in which I see myself.
All I need do is recognize this.
And I am free.
I have deluded myself into believing it is possible to imprison the child of God.
I was bitterly mistaken in this belief,
Which I no longer want.
The child of God must be forever free.
We are as God created us,
And not what I would make of God.
God is where God would have God be,
And not where I thought to hold God prisoner.
I have invented the world I see.
There is another way of looking at the world.
I see everything upside down,
And my thoughts are the opposite of truth.
I see the world as a prison for God's children.
It must be then that the world is really a place where God can be set free.
I would look upon the world as it is,
And see it as a place where the children of God find their freedom.
There is another way of looking at the world.
I could see peace instead of death.
When I see the world as a place of freedom,
I realize that it reflects the laws of God instead of the rules I made up for it to obey.
I will understand that peace,
Not war,
Abides in it.
And I will perceive that peace also abides in the hearts of all who share this place with me.
I could see peace instead of death.
My mind is part of God's.
I am very holy.
As I share the peace of the world with my brothers and sisters,
I begin to understand that this peace comes from deep within myself.
The world I look upon has taken on the light of my forgiveness and shines forgiveness back at me.
In this light,
I begin to see what my illusions about myself kept hidden.
I begin to understand the holiness of all living things,
Including myself and their oneness with me.
My mind is part of God's.
I am very holy.
I am not the victim of the world I see.
I have invented the world I see.
There is another way of looking at the world.
I could see peace instead of death.
My mind is part of God's.
I am very holy.
The inner is the cause of the outer.
Remember only this.
You need not believe the ideas.
You need not accept them.
And you need not even welcome them.
Some of them you may actively resist.
None of this will matter or decrease their efficacy.
But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains.
And whatever your reactions to the ideas may be,
Use them.
Nothing more than that is required.
The inner is the cause of the outer.
Take a few deep breaths.
And as we return to time and space,
We acknowledge,
I am aware.
I am.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
