NTI REVIEW OF 2 CORINTHIANS
Simply put, we create our life experiences.
What we experience is also the result of our perception.
Perception is a limited point of view and can be changed.
We can choose to change our experiences and our perceptions of them.
Since we are One, our thoughts effect the One.
Hold to your True thoughts (this is the creation of a New Heaven and a New Earth).
The ego, the world (our learned perception of the world) are continually telling us they are right and true. Essentially they are always saying, “Just look around, separateness is real.”
There is another source of evidence and that is the Heart. We can choose which one we listen to, our perception of the world or the Heart.
From Chapter 2
4But now I ask you to look in a new place for evidence. 5I ask you to look, not at the world for proof of what is true, but to look within your Self where the truth about you is known. (v 12 – 18)1The world was made to tell you that you are what you are not. 2But this is a lesson you can never fully learn, because the truth of what you are is written on your Heart. 3Seek there! 4Ask your Heart what you are, and the answer will be given clearly. 5Then look at the world, which gives you a different answer, and say to it, “I will believe the answer of the Heart. 6I will let that answer shine unto you.”
P. 313-14 (v 13 – 15)1Your belief is expressed through thought. 2Above all else, watch your thoughts. 3What are you allowing your thoughts to think? 4Are you thinking of the illusion of the world as if it is real? 5If so, you are expressing your desire to accept the veil of darkness. 6Is this your true desire? 7If not, why do you permit yourself to express it through the activity of your thoughts?
(v 16 – 18)1Fix your eyes and your thoughts on the true desire of your Heart, not because it is your hope for the future, but because it is your reality now. 2You are what your Heart tells you that you are. 3Only you do not see it, because you do not focus yourself there. 4Focus on the world, and you will believe the world. 5Believe the world, and you choose to keep the veil, which hides your truth. 6Focus on your Heart in all your thoughts, and you choose against the veil. 7You choose, instead, that the veil may be lifted, that you may see your truth and your brother’s truth and know in the joy of your Heart that it is true.
- 315 vs. 3-15
3Here is how you are to practice: 4As you suffer, choose not to suffer. 5Let the experience of the body continue without the desire for the experience to be different. 6Rejoice that the experience is not your reality. 7When you are afraid, choose not to be afraid by remembering that what you fear is not real. 8It is of the world or it is born of thoughts of the world. 9It is an experience, but it is not real. 10It is not real, and so it is not your truth. 11When you are joyous because the world seems to be going your way, and today seems to be your day, remember that is not your joy. 12Your joy is your truth, which is beyond the world. 13Be happy and be joyous, but let your joy come to you apart from your experience. 14Let your joy come to you from the truth in your Heart. 15Relax in your joy and be your joy, beyond your experience of the world.
We are not separate from the mind of God, therefore we are not separate, and never have been, from total and complete Love.
Be aware of your thoughts, if they are not loving, let them go.
Since your thoughts are part of the One mind, they effect the One mind.
p. 321 11This is why I ask you to stay focused within. 12Look within your mind and your Heart before you look at the world. 13Know your purpose, which is the true desire of the Heart. 14Let your purpose lead you in all things. 15In this way, all actions that you take will be an expression of the true Heart, so all actions shall be giving of the thought of Love.
- 323 ff
4Seek only for a moment to test your thoughts by the true desire of the Heart, and the light of the Heart shall shine, that you may see your thoughts truly.
1You are not defined by the world. 2You are defined by the Voice Within, which is where you are. 3This is why I ask you not to look at the world. 4You seem to be in a world, but if you are in the Mind, the world can be nothing to you. 5It cannot affect you, if you remember where you truly are. 6You are protected from it by the nature of your being. 7For your truth is beyond the world and beyond the images that seem to be the world. 8Your truth is eternal, as is the truth of all thoughts within the Mind of God. 9For what is thought in God’s Mind is God, just as your true thoughts are the truth of what you are.
10I have told you that your mind is tricky, because your mind is split. 11But the tricks of the mind will not fool you if you remember what you are. 12The thoughts that tell you that you are in the world and subject to the world do not know who you are, so they are not your true thoughts. 13They are a mirage. 14If you approach them closely, you will see that they disappear. 15For they cannot stand in the Light of the true desire of your Heart, which is you. (v 11)1Your true thoughts are below the thoughts of the world, closer to your Heart, because they stem from there. 2They stem from your truth, and so they are your truth. 3Listen to your truth and know, within, who you are. (v 12 – 14)1Within the Mind all is one, for there is no separation of any kind. 2All mind is of one Source, so all mind is one through its Source, which cannot be apart from Itself. 3Love one another, for you are of one Mind. 4In loving one another, you love your truth. 5In this love, you are one. 6Amen.
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