Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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1 Today we will review the following:
[11] My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.
2 Since the thoughts of which I am aware do not mean
anything, the world which pictures them can have no meaning. What is
producing this world is insane, and so is what it produces. Reality is
not insane, and I have real thoughts as well as insane ones. I can
therefore see a real world if I look to my real thoughts as my guide for
seeing.
[12] I am upset because I see a meaningless world.
3 Insane thoughts are upsetting. They produce a world in
which there is no order anywhere. Only chaos rules a world which
represents chaotic thinking, and chaos has no laws. I cannot live in
peace in such a world. I am grateful that this world is not real and
that I need not see it at all unless I choose to value it. And I do not
choose to value what is totally insane and has no meaning.
[13] A meaningless world engenders fear.
4 The totally insane engenders fear because it is completely
undependable and offers no grounds for trust. Nothing in madness is
dependable. It holds out no safety and no hope. But such a world is not
real. I have given it the illusion of reality, and have suffered from my
belief in it. Now I choose to withdraw this belief and place my trust in
reality. In choosing this, I will escape all the effects of the world of
fear because I am acknowledging that it does not exist.
[14] God did not create a meaningless world.
5 How can a meaningless world exist if God did not create it?
He is the Source of all meaning, and everything that is real is in His
Mind. It is in my mind too because He created it with me. Why should I
continue to suffer from the effects of my own insane thoughts when the
perfection of creation is my home? Let me remember the power of my
decision and recognize where I really abide.
[15] My thoughts are images which I have made.
6 Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts
which tell me where I am and what I am. The fact that I see a world in
which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing
only the representation of my insane thoughts and am not allowing my
real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s
way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because
it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no
other gods before Him.