A Course In Miracles from My Perspective

May 22nd 2014  Lesson 23

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

Today's idea contains the only way out of fear that will ever succeed.  If the cause of the world you see is attack thoughts, you must learn that it is these thoughts which you don 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 effect will change automatically. 

• Intention:  Five practice periods are required in applying today's idea, allowing a full minute for each.
     
• Practice: As you look about you, repeat the idea slowly to yourself first, 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: 
    
  I can escape from the world I see
  by giving up attack thoughts about ________.
          
  
• Application:   In the practice periods, be sure to include both your thoughts of attacking and of being attacked.  Their effects are exactly the same, and even though you may not recognize this as yet, when you do you will be ready to let the cause go.  Also be sure to apply today's idea to any attack thoughts that arise during the day.
     

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Insights/comments:

• Today's lesson stresses the fact that our perception of "external reality" is a pictorial representation of our own attack thoughts.  Fantasy is the process and hallucination is the result.  Our only means of escape is to change the cause of our hallucination by releasing attack thoughts.

I and my Creator are One.