Workbook 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 His mind has not
- accorded value. And no One can fail
- to look upon what He believes He wants.
- Yet who can really hate and love at once?
- Who can desire what He does not want to
- have reality? And who can choose
- to see a world of which He is afraid?
- Fear must make blind, for this its 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 of panic born?
- What would You want that this is 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, and
- 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 they have
- no cause, no being, and no consequence.
- They can be valued but remain unreal.
- They can be sought but they cannot be found.
- Today We will not seek for them nor 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. They 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.
- It 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 and
- reflects its source in everything you see.
- Six times today, in thanks and gratitude,
- We gladly give five minutes to the thought
- that ends all compromise and doubt, and 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 searching for the other world
- by asking for a strength beyond Your own,
- and recognizing what it is You seek.
- You do not want illusions. And 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,
- “It is impossible to see two worlds.
- Let Me accept the strength God offers Me
- and see no value in this world, that I
- may 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.
- Nor will You fail to see His thanks expressed
- in tangible perception and in truth.
- You will not doubt what You will look upon,
- for though it is perception, it is not
- the kind of seeing that Your eyes alone
- have ever seen before. And You will know
- God’s strength upheld You as You made this choice.
- Dismiss temptation easily today
- whenever it arises, merely by
- remembering the limits of your choice.
- The unreal or the real, the false or true,
- is what You see and only what You see.
- Perception is consistent with Your choice
- and hell or heaven come to You as one.
- Accept a 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.
- All You need say to any part of hell,
- whatever form it takes, is simply this,
- “It is impossible to see two worlds.
- I seek My freedom and deliverance,
- and this is not a part of what I want.”
