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 a while 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 flow 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 can not 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 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 is 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 self-same Thought which gave the gift
of light 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.