I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. · Wb.23

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Contents

Opening

Introduction

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Part I

Lessons 1 - 50

50 lessons

1.Nothing I see in this room[on this street, from this window in this place] means anything.

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2.I have given everything I see in this room[on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me.

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3.I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].

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4.These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].

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5.I am never upset for the reason I think.

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6.I am upset because I see something that is not there.

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7.I see only the past.

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8.My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

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9.I see nothing as it is now.

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10.My thoughts do not mean anything.

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11.My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.

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12.I am upset because I see a meaningless world.

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13.A meaningless world engenders fear.

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14.God did not create a meaningless world.

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15.My thoughts are images which I have made.

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16.I have no neutral thoughts.

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17.I see no neutral things.

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18.I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.

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19.I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.

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20.I am determined to see.

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21.I am determined to see things differently.

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22.What I see is a form of vengeance.

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23.I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.

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24.I do not perceive my own best interests.

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25.I do not know what anything is for.

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26.My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

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27.Above all else I want to see.

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28.Above all else, I want to see things differently.

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29.God is in everything I see.

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30.God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.

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31.I am not the victim of the world I see.

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32.I have invented the world I see.

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33.There is another way of looking at the world.

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34.I could see peace instead of this.

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35.My mind is part of God's. I am very holy.

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36.My holiness envelops everything I see.

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37.My holiness blesses the world.

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38.There is nothing my holiness cannot do.

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39.My holiness is my salvation.

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40.I am blessed as a Son of God.

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41.God goes with me wherever I go.

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42.God is my strength. Vision is His gift.

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43.God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.

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44.God is the Light in which I see.

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45.God is the Mind with which I think.

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46.God is the Love in which I forgive.

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47.God is the Strength in which I trust.

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48.There is nothing to fear.

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49.God's Voice speaks to me all through the day.

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50.I am sustained by the Love of God.

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Part I

Review I [51 - 60]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 61 - 80

20 lessons

Part I

Review II [81 - 90]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 91 - 110

20 lessons

Part I

Review III [111 - 120]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 121 - 140

20 lessons

Part I

Review IV [141 - 150]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 151 - 170

20 lessons

Part I

Review V [171 - 180]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 181 - 200

20 lessons

Part I

Review VI [201 - 220]

20 lessons

Part II

Introduction

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Part II

Lessons 221 - 230

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 231 - 240

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 241 - 250

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 251 - 260

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 261 - 270

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 271 - 280

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 281 - 290

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 291 - 300

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 301 - 310

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 311 - 320

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 321 - 330

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 331 - 340

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 341 - 350

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 351 - 360

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 361 - 365

5 lessons

Closing

Epilogue

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Part I · Lesson 23

I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.

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1The idea for today contains the only way out of fear that will ever succeed. Nothing else will work; everything else is meaningless. But this way cannot fail. Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work if your perception of the world is to be changed.

2If the cause of the world you see is attack thoughts, you must learn that it is these thoughts which you do not want. There is no point in lamenting the world. There is no point in trying to change the world. It is incapable of change because it is merely an effect. But there is indeed a point in changing your thoughts about the world. Here you are changing the cause. The effects will change automatically.

3The world you see is a vengeful world, and everything in it is a symbol of vengeance. Each of your perceptions of "external reality" is a pictorial representation of your own attack thoughts. One can well ask if this can be called seeing. Is not fantasy a better word for such a process and hallucination a more appropriate term for the result?

4You see the world which you have made, but you do not see yourself as the image-maker. You cannot be saved from the world, but you can escape from its cause. This is what salvation means, for where is the world you see when its cause is gone? Vision already holds a replacement for everything you think you see now. Loveliness can light your images and so transform them that you will love them even though they were made of hate. For you will not be making them alone.

5The idea for today introduces the thought that you are not trapped in the world you see, because its cause can be changed. This change requires, first, that the cause be identified and then let go, so that it can be replaced. The first two steps in this process require your cooperation. The final one does not. Your images have already been replaced. By taking the first two steps, you will see that this is so.

6Besides using it throughout the day as the need arises, five practice periods are required in applying today's idea. As you look about you, repeat the idea slowly to yourself and then close your eyes and devote about a minute to searching your mind for as many attack thoughts as occur to you. As each one crosses your mind say:

7I can escape from the world by giving up attack thoughts about _____.

8Hold each attack thought in mind as you say this, and then dismiss that thought and go on to the next.

9In the practice periods, be sure to include both your thoughts of attacking and of being attacked. Their effects are exactly the same because they are exactly the same. You do not yet recognize this, and you are asked at this time only to treat them as the same in today's practice periods. We are still at the stage of identifying the cause of the world you see. When you finally realize that thoughts of attack and of being attacked are not different, you will be ready to let the cause go.