Lesson 128
- The World I See Holds Nothing That I Want
- The world You see holds nothing that You need
- to offer You, nothing that You can use
- in any way, nor anything at all
- that serves to give You joy. Believe this thought
- and You are saved from years of misery,
- from countless disappointments, and from hopes
- that turn to bitter ashes of despair.
- No One but must accept this thought as true,
- if She would leave the world behind and soar
- beyond its petty scope and little ways.
- Each thing You value here is but a chain
- that binds You to the world, and it will serve
- no other end but this. For everything
- must serve the purpose you have given it,
- until You see a different purpose there.
- The only purpose worthy of Your Mind
- this world contains is that You pass it by,
- without delaying to perceive some hope
- where there is none. Be You deceived no more;
- the world You see holds nothing that You want.
- Escape today the chains You place upon
- your mind when You perceive salvation here.
- For what You value, You make part of You,
- as You perceive Your Self. All things You seek
- to make Your value greater in your sight
- limit You further, hide Your worth from You
- and add another bar across the door
- that leads to true awareness of Your Self.
- Let nothing that relates to body thoughts
- delay your progress to salvation, nor
- permit temptation to believe the world
- holds anything you want to hold you back .
- Nothing is here to cherish. Nothing here
- is worth one instant of delay and pain,
- one moment of uncertainty and doubt.
- The worthless offer nothing. Certainty
- of worth cannot be found in worthlessness.
- Today We practice letting go all thought
- of values We have given to the world.
- We leave it free of purposes We gave
- its aspects and its phases and its dreams.
- We hold it purposeless within Our minds
- and loosen it from all We wish it were.
- Thus do We lift the chains that bar the door
- to freedom from the world and go beyond
- all little values and diminished goals.
- Pause and be still a little while, and see
- how far You rise above the world, when You
- release Your Mind from chains and let It seek
- the level where It finds Itself at home.
- It will be grateful to be free awhile.
- It knows where It belongs. But free Its wings
- and It will fly in sureness and in joy
- to join Its holy purpose. Let It rest
- in Its Creator, there to be restored
- to sanity, to freedom and to love.
- Give It ten minutes rest three times today.
- And when Your eyes are opened afterwards,
- You will not value anything you see
- as much as when You looked at it before.
- Your whole perspective on the world will shift
- by just a little, every time You let
- Your Mind escape Its chains. The world is not
- where It belongs. And You belong where It
- would be and where It goes to rest when You
- release It from the world. Your Guide is sure.
- Open Your Mind to Him. Be still and rest.
- Protect Your Mind throughout the day as well.
- And when You think You see some value in
- an aspect or an image of the world
- refuse to lay this chain upon Your Mind,
- but tell Yourself with quiet certainty:
- “This will not tempt Me to delay My Self.
- The world I see holds nothing that I want.”
