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?
Belief is powerful indeed.
The thoughts you hold are mighty.
The illusions you hold are as strong in their effects as the truth.
What can save the world except yourself?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You are as God created you.
There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source.
You maintain the world within your mind in thought.
How can a world of time and place exist if you remain as God created you?
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.
Repeat after me,
I who remain as God created me.
I would release the world from all I thought it was.
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 free along with you.
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 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.
I would know my own reality.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
