Are You Creating or Perceiving
Posted on June 28, 2008
Filed Under Belief, Creation, Error, Illusion, Perception, Truth
as originally posted May/2007
“Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death for yourself, and can therefore abolish both. YOU are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of your Creator. Everything else is your own NIGHTMARE, and doesn not exist. Only the creations of light are real.” ACIM Chapter 1, 1:24.
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“To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances. Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform.
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it; and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH.
To look upon the appearance of disease will produce the form of disease in your own mind, and ultimately in your body, unless you hold the thought of the truth, which is that there is no disease; it is only an appearance, and the reality is health.
To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corresponding forms in your own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; there is only abundance.
To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease, or to think riches when in the midst of appearances of poverty, requires power; but he who acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND. He can conquer fate; he can have what he wants.
This power can only be acquired by getting hold of the basic fact which is behind all appearances; and that fact is that there is ONE Thinking Substance, from which and by which all things are made.
Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held in this substance becomes a form, and that man can so impress his thoughts upon it as to cause them to take form and become visible things.”The Science of Getting Rich
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“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Philippians 4:8
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What is TRUTH? According to Wallace Wattles, the author of the Science of Getting Rich; “To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH”. A Course in Miracles defines truth as “The creations of light”, which is to say only those things which we create in the likeness of our creator are real.
Thoughts create. There are two type of thoughts we can choose to think, they are TRUTH or ERROR. Many sources refer to these also as LOVE and FEAR, or REALITY and ILLUSION. Regardless of the specific words you use to define them, they are two very different ways of thought.
Truth is thought which is not reliant upon your perception. This can better be defined as “Knowing” really, as it is not reliant upon your physical senses and the resulting perceptions of your ego mind. Instead it is more a visualizing of Reality or knowing of truth as you decide it is. When we see truth, we choose not to view the reality of our physical perceptions and instead look upon the reality we choose for ourselves. This is truth.
Error is thought based upon memory and perception. Memory and perception are tricks of the ego or physical mind which use your belief in linear time and cause and effect to make you believe what you see with your eyes and experience with your body is TRUTH. If you function from this state of physical awareness, you are not experiencing truth. You are not creating, you are simply perceiving in error.
Cause and effect in the physical realm - or manifested realm is not the same as in the realm of TRUTH. We create in what first appears to be the opposite way of how we believe “Cause and Effect” works.
Creation is not dependent upon anything other than Desire and Decision. You may examine your life at this moment and perceive many things, be they illness, unhappiness, poverty, or chaos - but what you see is only real in the sense that it is the product of all your past thoughts, it is a memory of all that you have produced for yourself. It does not have to remain your reality. If you choose to - in this very moment, you could look at it and decide it is an illusion made in error and you can cast your thoughts upon TRUTH - and imagine your life just as you desire it to be in every detail, and you can CREATE that for yourself.
The secret to creating the reality you truly desire is to see it. Not with your physical eyes, but with your mind. The secret is that no matter what you perceive with your physical body, it is only TRUTH if it is what you DESIRE it to be. Anything which is not exactly as you desire it - is simply an ERROR, which can be changed through thought.
Stop looking back at all that you created before, memories are illusions which become chains that hold us in bondage and prevent us from using the awesome power of creation lying within us to manifest our life and the world the way we DESIRE, THINK and BELIEVE it is.
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