Lesson 23: I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.
This lesson has a huge impact on me. Let’s break it down:
Title: If attack thoughts are given up (released to the Holy Spirit), “I,” the dreamer of the worldly-human dream, can escape from the seen world, the world eyesight proffers.
Paragraph 1: Today’s idea contains the only way out of fear that will ever succeed. This way cannot fail. But it is not our seeing that needs changing — it is our thoughts. Why?
Paragraph 2: Cause and effect. One of my favorite lines in A Course in Miracles is, “There is no point in lamenting the world.” Or as Jesus puts it in Chapter 21, “Seek not to change the world. Choose to change your mind about the world.” In other words, the world is an effect of a thought; an attack thought that, believed in, has power the power to make us insane and delusional. So, if we change the source of our thoughts, we address the cause of the world we see.