Welcome to Active Meditation.
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 129.
Beyond this world,
There is a world I want.
Beyond this world,
There is a world I want.
This is the thought that follows from the previous lesson.
You cannot stop with the idea the world is worthless.
Or unless you see that there is something else to hope for,
You will only be depressed.
Our emphasis is not on giving up the world,
But on exchanging it.
For what is far more satisfying,
For what is filled with joy,
For what is capable of offering you peace.
Do you think this world can offer that to you?
It might be worth a little time to think once more about the value of this world.
Perhaps you will concede there is no loss in letting go all thought of value here in this world.
The world you see is merciless indeed.
The world you see is unstable,
Cruel,
Unconcerned with you.
The world you see is quick to avenge and pitiless with hate.
The world you see gives only but to rescind.
The world you see takes away all things that you have cherished for a while.
No lasting love is found,
For none is here.
This is the world of time where all things end.
Is it a loss to find a world instead where losing is impossible?
Where love endures forever?
Is it a loss to find a world where hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning?
Is it a loss to find all things you really want and know they have no ending?
And know that these things will remain exactly as you want them throughout time.
Yet,
Even these things will be exchanged at last for what we cannot speak of.
For you go from there to where words fail entirely.
You go into a silence where the language is unspoken and yet surely understood.
Communication unambiguous and plain as day.
And God speaks to the child as the child speaks with God.
Their language has no words,
For what they say cannot be symbolized.
Their knowledge is direct and wholly shared and wholly one.
How far away from this are you who stay bound to this world?
And yet,
How near are you when you exchange this world for the world you want?
Now is the last step certain.
Now you stand an instant space away from timelessness.
Here can you but look forward,
Never back to see again the world you do not want.
Here is the world that comes to take its place.
As you unbind your mind from the little things the world sets forth to keep you prisoner.
Value these little things not and they will disappear.
Esteem them and they will seem real to you.
Such is the choice.
What loss can there be for you in choosing not to value nothingness?
This world holds nothing that you really want.
But what you choose instead you want indeed.
Let it be given you today.
The world you really want waits for you to choose it.
To take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.
Practice your willingness to make this change.
Ten minutes in the morning and at night and once more in between.
Begin with this practice.
Repeat after me.
Beyond this world there is a world I want.
I choose to see that world instead of this.
For here is nothing that I really want.
Now close your eyes upon the world you see.
And in the silent darkness watch the lights that are not of this world.
Light.
One by one.
Until where one light begins another ends.
And all lights lose all meaning as they blend in one.
Now watch as the lights appear one by one.
Observe the lights as they blend together.
Notice as they come together they merge into one.
Today the lights of heaven bend to you.
To shine upon your eyelids as you rest beyond the world of darkness.
Here is light.
Your eyes cannot be whole.
And yet your mind can see the light plainly and can understand.
A day of grace is given you today and we give thanks.
This day we realize that what you feared to lose was only loss.
Now do we understand there is no loss.
For we have seen its opposite at last.
And we are grateful that the choice is made.
Remember your decision hourly.
And take a moment to confirm your choice.
By laying down whatever thoughts you have and dwelling briefly only upon this.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind after me,
The world I see holds nothing that I want.
Beyond this world there is a world I want.
Ponder on this.
The world I see holds nothing that I want.
Beyond this world there is a world I want.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
