Here is another way of interpreting this well-known quote:
"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want...
YOU MADE UP THIS WORLD. IT DOES NOT EXIST. WILL YOU DENY IT?
"You made sickness and death and therefore can abolish both."
"The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self...
In this world, everything which is held to be most true and cherished is actually the most false, fake thing imaginable.
It will be considered highly controversial and even insensitive and deranged to suggest, for example, that every victim wants to...
Beyond the physical world, there are other universes. There is a spiritual universe, a higher universe, the christ universe (which is the "real world"), and Heaven.
If you are primarily located in the physical world, seeing God in it and saying...
Both sides of every war are run by the ego. The war is symptomatic of the ego attacking itself. War is self attack.
When you believe that one side of the war is the good guys and one side is the...
It is a scene in the mind. It is an imagined scene. A dream.
It is inside of a mind. It is made of thought. It presents images but these images are only there because of imagination.
Physical matter is not fixed...
You can't sell God, because God is not tangible. So what's the dam issue with supposedly being guilty for selling spirituality?
You can't really sell spirituality because you can't sell Spirit. You can't hoard and deny spirit to someone and then...
For karma to be possible, you'd have to believe that you are capable of really doing something to someone else.
The only thing that can ever really be shared is love. You are only ever attacking yourself. And you do not...
When I recently started to recognize that the whole world is fundamentally unreal, I started to experience "faith" in God. It seemed to require an UNBELIEF that this world is "true", in order to shift my allegiance and dependence over...
Those course students who believe they are only supposed to correct their own perceptions - perceptions of the physical world, as though the physical world is reality and you simply need to see it without judgement in order to keep...
What do you want more, this world, or God?
What do you want more, to be in a real body, or unlimited in God?
What do you want more, to trust that the real world of suffering and sickness and death is...
When the ego attacks, it does not see you for who you really are.
Its belief in sin and guilt heavily skews its perception. It perceives in you a sinful guilty person, which isn't really in you.
It then addresses that sinful...
There are two worlds before your eyes.
1) An illusory world
2) Your belief that the illusory world is reality.
You are meant to correct your misperception of the ILLUSORY world, by undoing your belief that it is REAL.
That's what it means...
You are in an illusory world.
But you believe this world is real.
THAT is your problem. THAT is the distortion of perception that's happening in your mind that you need to correct.
You're not correcting your view of a real world, you're...
You are in a dream world. Everything here is symbolic. Nothing that appears visible is whole, because symbols are not the whole of something. Symbols represent something beyond themselves, and all physical matter is symbolic of something greater.
Physical matter, at...
Sorry this is a bit longish... it's hard to explain.
The physical world is a holographic dream. But the way that it is holographic isn't very obvious. And most people do not believe it is a dream!
Firstly, a hologram is not...
Should you change the world?
There are many parts of ACIM which SEEM to suggest you should not. Such as:
"Seek not to change the world, but seek to change your mind about the world."
Also Jesus tells us we need to correct...
You may think that you have the freedom to do anything you want in this world. You conceive of jumping off mountains, swimming in the ocean, running through forests, or lounging on your deck sipping your favorite beverage. Whatever it...
"Salvation lies in the simple fact that illusions are not fearful because they are not true. They but seem to be fearful to the extent to which you fail to recognize them for what they are; and you will fail...
The only way that A Course in Miracles can really make any sense whatsoever, is if there is a CLEAR distinction between what is real and what is illusion.
Every way in which you are confused about which is which, is...