“Beyond this world there is a world I want.”
This is the thought which follows from the one we practiced yesterday.
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
what is far more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you
peace. Think you 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. The world you see is merciless
indeed, unstable, cruel, unconcerned with you, quick to avenge and
pitiless with hate. It gives but to rescind, and 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, hate cannot exist, and vengeance has no
meaning? Is it loss to find all things you really want and know they
have no ending, and they will remain exactly as you want them
throughout time?
Yet even they will be exchanged at last for what we cannot
speak of, for you go from there to where words fail entirely, into a
silence where the language is unspoken and yet surely understood.
Communication, unambiguous and plain as day, remains unlimited
for all eternity. And God Himself speaks to His Son as His Son speaks
to Him. 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 it for the world you
want. Now is the last step certain; now you stand an instant’s 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 little things the world
sets forth to keep you prisoner there. Value them not, and they will
disappear. Esteem them, and they will seem real to you.
Such is the choice. What loss can 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. It waits but for your choosing 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:
“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.”
Then 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 begins, another ends, loses all meaning as they blend
in 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 it 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 by whatever thoughts you have, and dwelling
briefly only upon this:
“The world I see has nothing that I want.
Beyond this world there is a world I want.”
Brittany Shawley added:
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. The world you see is merciless indeed, unstable, cruel, unconcerned with you, quick to avenge and pitiless with hate. It gives but to rescind, and 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, hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning? Is it loss to find all things you really want, and know they have no ending and they will remain exactly as you want them throughout time? Yet even they will be exchanged at last for what we cannot speak of, for you go from there to where words fail entirely, into a silence where the language is unspoken and yet surely understood.
Practice your willingness to make this change ten minutes in the morning and at night, and once more in between. Begin with this:
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.
Then 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 begins another ends loses all meaning as they blend in 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 can not behold. And yet your mind can see it 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 by whatever thoughts you have, and dwelling briefly only upon this:
The world I see holds nothing that I want.
Beyond this world there is a world I want.
