Welcome to active meditation.
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 130 It is impossible to see two worlds.
Perception is consistent.
What you see reflects your thinking.
And your thinking,
But reflects your choice of what you want to see.
Your values are determiners of this.
For what you value,
You must want to see.
Believing what you see is really there.
No one can see a world their mind has not accorded value.
No one can fail to look upon what they believe they want.
Who can really hate and love at once?
Who can desire what they do not want to have as reality?
Who can choose to see a world of which they are afraid?
Fear must make blind.
Fear's weapon is that which you fear to see,
You cannot see.
Love and perception thus go hand in hand.
But fear obscures in darkness what is there.
What then can fear project upon the world?
What can be seen in darkness that is real?
Truth is eclipsed by fear and what remains is but imagined.
Yet,
What can be real in blind imaginings born of panic?
What would you want that this has shown to you?
What would you wish to keep in such a dream?
Fear has made everything you think you see.
All separation,
All distinctions,
All the multitude of differences you believe make up the world.
They are not there.
Love's enemy has made them up.
Yet,
Love can have no enemy.
And so,
Everything you think you see has no cause,
No being,
And no consequence.
Everything you think you see can be valued but remain unreal.
Everything you think you see can be sought but cannot be found.
Today,
We will not seek for them.
We will not waste this day in seeking what cannot be found.
It is impossible to see two worlds which have no overlap of any kind.
Seek for the one,
The other disappears,
But one remains.
The real and the unreal are the range of choice,
Beyond which your decision cannot go.
The real and the unreal are all there are to choose between,
And nothing more than these.
Today,
We will attempt no compromise where none is possible.
The world you see is proof.
You have already made a choice,
As all-embracing as its opposite.
What we would learn today is more than just the lesson that you cannot see two worlds.
This lesson also teaches that the one you see is quite consistent from the point of view from which you see it.
It is all a piece because it stems from one emotion,
Fear,
And it reflects its source in everything you see.
Six times today,
In thanks and in gratitude,
We gladly give five minutes to the thought that ends all compromise and all doubt.
We go beyond them all as one.
We will not make a thousand meaningless distinctions,
Nor attempt to bring with us a little part of unreality,
As we devote our minds to finding only what is real.
Begin your search for the other world by asking for a strength beyond your own,
And recognizing what it is you seek,
You do not want illusions.
You come to these five minutes emptying your hands of all the petty treasures of this world.
You wait for God to help you,
As you say,
Repeating after me,
It is impossible to see two worlds.
Let me accept the strength God offers me.
Let me see no value in this world.
Let me find my freedom and deliverance.
God will be there,
For you have called upon the great unfailing power,
Which will take this giant step with you in gratitude.
You will not fail to see God's thanks expressed in tangible perception and in truth.
You will not doubt what you will look upon,
For though its perception is not the kind of seeing that your eyes alone have ever seen before.
And you will know God's strength upheld as you make this choice.
Let's practice.
Say to yourself,
Repeat again after me.
It is impossible to see two worlds.
Let me accept the strength God offers me.
Let me see no value in this world.
Let me find my freedom and deliverance.
I'll be silent as you ponder this.
It is impossible to see two worlds.
Let me accept the strength God offers me.
Let me see no value in this world.
Let me find my freedom and deliverance.
Dismiss temptation easily today,
Whenever it arises,
Merely by remembering the limits of your choice.
The real or the unreal,
The false or true.
This is the choice you see and only what you see.
Perception is consistent with your choice.
And hell or heaven comes to you as one.
Accept the little part of hell as real and you have damned your eyes and cursed your sight.
And what you will behold is hell indeed.
Yet,
The release of heaven still remains within your range of choice.
To take the place of everything that hell would show to you.
Now,
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
It is impossible to see two worlds.
I seek my freedom and deliverance.
This is not a part of what I want.
This is all you need to say to any part of hell,
Whatever form it takes.
I'm not going to think on these things now.
I'll be quiet.
It is impossible to see two worlds.
I seek my freedom and deliverance.
It is impossible to see two worlds.
I seek my freedom and deliverance.
This is not a part of what I want.
It is impossible to see two worlds.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
