There can be know peace or freedom as long as we hold conflicts within our mind. There is but one choice to make, turn in and experience God. The thinking mind will always want to chatter about opposites so it remains in Chaos. Who is right, and who is wrong, better or worse and on it goes. Relax, we are powerless over such nonsense. When we turn inward to connect to God , the Power flows through and directs our life. The key is choosing to want nothing else. Desire only Heaven.
A Course in Miracles
Workbook Lesson 138
(This is the first-4- paragraphs and last few lines of the lesson-for entire lesson go to workbook lesson 138)
In this world Heaven is a choice, because here we believe there are alternatives to choose between. We think that all things have an opposite, and what we want we choose. If Heaven exists there must be hell as well, for contradiction is the way we make what we perceive, and what we think is real. Creation knows no opposite.But here is opposition part of being "real." It is this strange perception of the truth that makes the choice of Heaven seem to be the same as the relinquishment of hell. It is not really thus. Yet what is true in God's creation cannot enter here until it is reflected in some form the world can understand. Truth cannot come where it could only be perceived with fear. For this would be the error truth can be brought to illusions.Opposition makes the truth unwelcome, and it cannot come.
Choice is the obvious escape from what appears as opposites. Decision lets one of conflicting goals become the aim of effort and expenditure of time. Without decision, time is but a waste and effort dissipated. It is spent for nothing in return, and time goes by without results. There is no sense of gain, for nothing is accomplished; nothing learned.
You need to be reminded that you think a thousand choices are confronting you, when there is really only one to make. And even this but seems to be a
choice. Do not confuse yourself with all the doubts that myriad decisions would induce. You make but one. And when that one is made, you will perceive it was no choice at all. For truth is true, and nothing else is true. There is no opposite to choose instead. There is no contradiction to the truth.
Heaven is the decision I must make.
I make it now, and will not change my mind, because it is the only thing I want.
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