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Accepting Our Home in the Eternal Now

What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? ²And what can save the world except your Self? ³Belief is powerful indeed. ⁴The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth.

Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. ²Now the source of thought has shifted, for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. ³You free the past from what you thought before. ⁴You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.

The present now remains the only time. ²Here in the present is the world set free. ³For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world.

The world is nothing in itself. ²Your mind must give it meaning. ³And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real.

There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. ²Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. ³Ideas leave not their source. (A Course in Miracles, W-132.1:1-4;2:1–3:3;4:1-3;5:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

We are in control of the world we see. If we want to have a unique and separate identity, we will see a world of differences and conflict. Its seeming reality is a result of what we want to be real.

But we can change our wishes. When we choose to accept our Identity as given us by our Creator, we will see the reality of Love everywhere. Because Love is eternal and changeless, there are no thoughts of past or future. We live in the joy and peace of the present moment. This is our natural habitat.

Because we have so strongly invested in the value of our unique identity, in which we have somethings others do not, we need help to learn that the price for this identity has cost us our true happiness and peace.

The Holy Spirit has been given us to help us see past our mistaken wishes to the presence of Love in which we truly live. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to guide us in the way of Love, for we want to be free of the past, and experience the peace and happiness of the eternal now.

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