Welcome to Active Meditation.
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 129 Beyond this world,
There is a world I want.
You cannot stop with the idea the world is worthless.
For 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 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.
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.
This world holds nothing that you really want.
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 behold.
And yet,
Your mind can see the light plainly and can understand.
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.
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.
