ACIM Workbook Lesson 128 ~ May 7
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" Lesson 128
"The world I see has nothing that I want."
The world you see has 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 he would leave this 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 has 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 yourself. 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
has 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[s] 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 [aims].|
[Peace] 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 a while.
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,
[and] tell yourself with quiet certainty:
"This will not tempt me to delay myself.
The world I see has nothing that I want." "
~ Urtext of ACIM
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