Workbook 107
- Truth Will Correct All Errors in my Mind
- What can correct illusions but the truth?
- And what are errors but illusions that
- remain unrecognized for what they are?
- Where truth has entered errors disappear.
- They merely vanish, leaving not a trace
- by which to be remembered. They are gone
- because without belief, they have no life.
- And so they disappear to nothingness,
- returning whence they came. From dust to dust
- they come and go, for only truth remains.
- Can you imagine what a state of mind
- without illusions is? How it would feel?
- Try to remember when there was a time, –
- perhaps a minute, maybe even less –
- when nothing came to interrupt your peace;
- when you were certain you were loved and safe.
- Then try to picture what it would be like
- to have that moment be extended to
- the end of time and to eternity.
- Then let the sense of quiet that you felt
- be multiplied a hundred times, and then
- be multiplied another hundred more.
- And now you have a hint, not more than just
- the faintest intimation of the state
- your mind will rest in when the truth has come.
- Without illusions there could be no fear,
- no doubt and no attack. When truth has come
- all pain is over, for there is no room,
- for transitory thoughts and dead ideas
- to linger in your mind. Truth occupies
- your mind completely, liberating you
- from all beliefs in the ephemeral.
- They have no place because the truth has come,
- and they are nowhere. They cannot be found,
- for truth is everywhere forever, now.
- When truth has come it does not stay awhile,
- to disappear or change to something else.
- It does not shift and alter in its form,
- nor come and go and go and come again.
- It stays exactly as it always was
- to be depended on in every need
- and trusted with a perfect trust in all
- the seeming difficulties and the doubts
- that the appearances the world presents
- engender. They will merely blow away,
- when truth corrects the errors in your mind.
- When truth has come it harbors in its wings
- the gift of perfect constancy, and love
- which does not falter in the face of pain
- but looks beyond it, steadily and sure
- Here is the gift of healing, for the truth
- needs no defense, and therefore no attack
- is possible. Illusions can be brought
- to truth to be corrected. But the truth
- stands far beyond illusions, and cannot
- be brought to them to turn them into truth.
- Truth does not come and go nor shift nor change
- in this appearance now and then in that,
- evading capture and escaping grasp.
- It does not hide. It stands in open light,
- in obvious accessibility.
- It is impossible that anyone
- could seek it truly, and would not succeed.
- Today belongs to truth. Give truth its due,
- and it will give you yours. You were not meant
- to suffer and to die. Your father wills
- these dreams be gone. Let truth correct them all.
- We do not ask for what we do not have.
- We merely ask for what belongs to us,
- that we may recognize it as our own.
- Today we practice on the happy note
- of certainty that has been born of truth.
- The shaky and unsteady footsteps of
- illusion are not our approach today.
- We are as certain of success as we
- are sure we live and hope and breathe and think.
- We do not doubt we walk with truth today
- and count on it to enter into all
- the exercises that we do this day.
- Begin by asking him who goes with you
- upon this undertaking that he be
- in your awareness as you go with him.
- You are not made of flesh and blood and bone,
- but were created by the selfsame thought
- which gave the gift of life to him as well.
- He is your brother, and so like to you
- your father knows that you are both the same.
- It is your self you ask to go with you
- and how could he be absent where you are?
- Truth will correct all errors in your mind
- which tell you you could be apart from him.
- You speak to him today, and make your pledge
- to let his function be fulfilled through you.
- To share his function is to share his joy.
- His confidence is with you, as you say:
- Truth will correct all errors in my mind,
- and I will rest in him who is my self.
- Then let him lead you gently to the truth,
- which will envelop you and give you peace
- so deep and tranquil that you will return
- to the familiar world reluctantly.
- And yet you will be glad to look again
- upon this world. For you will bring with you
- the promise of the changes which the truth
- that goes with you will carry to the world.
- They will increase with every gift you give
- of five small minutes, and the errors that
- surround the world will be corrected as
- you let them be corrected in your mind.
- Do not forget your function for today.
- Each time you tell yourself with confidence,
- “Truth will correct all errors in my mind,”
- you speak for all the world and him who would
- release the world, as he would set you free.
