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 defence, 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.
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