Welcome to active meditation.
A Course in Miracles Lesson 132 I release the world from all I thought it was.
What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs?
What can save the world except yourself?
Belief is powerful indeed.
The thoughts you hold are mighty.
The illusions you hold are as strong in their effects as the truth.
A madman thinks the world he sees is real and does not doubt it.
Nor can he be swayed by questioning the effects of his thoughts.
It is but when the source of his thoughts is raised to question that the hope of freedom comes to him at last.
Yet,
His salvation easily achieved,
For anyone is free to change their mind.
And all their thoughts change with it.
Now,
The source of thought has shifted.
For to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think.
You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.
The present now remains the only time.
Here in the present,
The world is set free.
For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears,
You find escape and give it to the world.
You have enslaved the world with all your fears,
Your doubts and miseries,
Your pain and tears.
All your sorrows press on the world and keep the world a prisoner to your beliefs.
Death strikes the world everywhere because you hold the bitter thoughts of death within your mind.
The world is nothing in itself.
Your mind must give it meaning.
What you behold upon the world are your wishes acted out.
So you can look on these wishes and think them real.
Perhaps you think you did not make the world but came unwillingly to what was made already,
Hardly waiting for your thoughts to give this world meaning.
Yet,
In truth,
You found exactly what you looked for when you came to this world.
There is no world apart from what you wish,
And herein lies your ultimate release.
Change but your mind on what you want to see,
And all the world must change accordingly.
Ideas leave not their source.
This central theme is often stated in the text of the Course and must be borne in mind.
If you would understand the lesson for today,
It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see.
It is not pride which tells you that the world changes as you change your mind.
But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself,
Impervious to what you think,
And quite apart from what you chance to think the world is.
There is no world.
This is the central thought the Course attempts to teach.
Not everyone is ready to accept it,
And each one of us must go as far as we can to let ourself be led along the road to Truth.
We will return to this road and go still further,
Or perhaps we will step back a while and then return again.
Healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world,
And can accept the lesson now.
Their readiness will bring the lesson to them in some form which they can understand and recognize.
Some see it suddenly on point of death and rise to teach it.
Others find it an experience that is not of this world,
Which shows them that the world does not exist because what they behold must be the Truth.
And yet,
What they behold clearly contradicts the world.
Some will find it in this Course and in the exercises that we do today.
Today's idea,
I release the world from all I thought it was,
Is true,
Because the world does not exist.
If the world is indeed your own imagining,
Then you can release it from all things you ever thought this world was,
By merely changing all the thoughts that gave the world these appearances.
The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness.
The dead arise when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death.
The lesson,
Earlier repeated once,
Must now be stressed again,
For it contains the firm foundation for today's idea.
You are as God created you.
There is no place where you can suffer.
There is no time that can bring change to your eternal state.
How can a world of time and place exist if you remain as God created you?
What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your Higher Self is the salvation of the world?
To free the world from every kind of pain is to change your mind about yourself.
There is no world apart from your ideas,
Because ideas leave not their source.
You maintain the world within your mind in thought.
If you are as God created you,
You cannot think apart from God,
Nor make what does not share God's timelessness and love.
Are timelessness and love inherent in the world you see?
Does this world create like God?
Unless it does,
This world is not real and cannot be at all.
If you are real,
The world you see is false,
For God's creation is unlike the world in every way,
And as it was God's thought by which you were created.
So it is your thoughts which made the world,
And must set it free that you may know the thoughts you share with God.
Your real creations wait for this release,
Not of illusions,
But as God in truth.
God shares his Fatherhood with you,
Who are his child.
For God makes no distinctions in what is God and what is still God.
What God creates is not apart from God,
And nowhere does God end and the child begin as something separate from God.
There is no world because the world is a thought,
Apart from God,
And made to separate the father and the child,
And break away a part of God,
And thus destroy God's wholeness.
Can a world which comes from this idea be real?
Can it be anywhere?
Deny illusions,
But accept the truth.
Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world.
Release your mind,
And you will look upon a world released.
Begin the fifteen minute periods in which we practice twice today with this.
Repeat after me,
I who remain as God created me,
Would release the world from all I thought it was.
For I am real because the world is not.
Now,
Merely rest,
Alert,
But with no strain,
And let your mind in quietness be changed,
So that the world is freed along with you.
I who remain as God created me,
Release the world from all I thought it was.
I am real because the world is not.
I would know my own reality.
Today,
Our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever held about it.
To free the world from all the idle thoughts about all living things we see upon it.
They cannot be there,
No more can we.
For we are in the home God set for us,
Along with them.
And we,
Who are as God created us,
Would release the world this day from every one of our illusions that we may be free.
Let's practice again.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
I,
Who remain as God created me,
Would release the world from all I thought it was.
I am real because the world is not.
I would know my own reality.
Let your mind be quiet.
Let your mind be changed,
So that you are free,
So that the world is free.
I release the world from all I thought it was.
I am real because the world is not.
I would know my own reality.
I remain as God created me.
I am real because the world is not.
You need not realize that healing comes to many brothers,
That healing comes to many sisters far across the world.
That healing comes to the ones you see nearby,
As you send out these thoughts to bless the world.
But,
You will sense your own release,
Although you may not fully understand as yet,
That you could never be released alone.
Throughout the day,
Increase the freedom sent through your ideas to all the world.
Say,
Whenever you are tempted to deny the power of your simple change of mind,
Say,
I release the world from all I thought it was.
I choose my own reality instead.
There is no world,
Because the world is a thought.
Ideas leave not their source.
I release the world from all I thought it was.
I choose my own reality instead.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
