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 which 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 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 which bar the door
to freedom from the world, and go beyond all little values and
diminished goals.
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.”