Lesson 130

W-pI.130.1. Perception is consistent. ² What you see reflects your thinking. ³ And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. ⁴ Your values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to see, believing what you see is really there. ⁵ No one can see a world his mind has not accorded value. ⁶ And no one can fail to look upon what he believes he wants.

W-pI.130.2. Yet who can really hate and love at once? ² Who can desire what he does not want to have reality? ³ And who can choose to see a world of which he is afraid? ⁴ Fear must make blind, for this its weapon is: That which you fear to see you cannot see. ⁵ Love and perception thus go hand in hand, but fear obscures in darkness what is there.

W-pI.130.3. What, then, can fear project upon the world? ² What can be seen in darkness that is real? ³ Truth is eclipsed by fear, and what remains is but imagined. ⁴ Yet what can be real in blind imaginings of panic born? ⁵ What would you want that this is shown to you? ⁶ What would you wish to keep in such a dream?

W-pI.130.4. Fear has made everything you think you see. ² All separation, all distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up the world. ³ They are not there. ⁴ Love's enemy has made them up. ⁵ Yet love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no consequence. ⁶ They can be valued, but remain unreal. ⁷ They can be sought, but they can not be found. ⁸ Today we will not seek for them, nor waste this day in seeking what can not be found.

W-pI.130.5. It is impossible to see two worlds which have no overlap of any kind. ² Seek for the one; the other disappears. ³ But one remains. ⁴ They are the range of choice beyond which your decision cannot go. ⁵ The real and the unreal are all there are to choose between, and nothing more than these.

W-pI.130.6. Today we will attempt no compromise where none is possible. ² The world you see is proof you have already made a choice as all-embracing as its opposite. ³ What we would learn today is more than just the lesson that you cannot see two worlds. ⁴ It also teaches that the one you see is quite consistent from the point of view from which you see it. ⁵ It is all a piece because it stems from one emotion, and reflects its source in everything you see.

W-pI.130.7. Six times today, in thanks and gratitude, we gladly give five minutes to the thought that ends all compromise and doubt, and go beyond them all as one. ² We will not make a thousand meaningless distinctions, nor attempt to bring with us a little part of unreality, as we devote our minds to finding only what is real.

W-pI.130.8. Begin your searching for the other world by asking for a strength beyond your own, and recognizing what it is you seek. ² You do not want illusions. ³ And you come to these five minutes emptying your hands of all the petty treasures of this world. ⁴ You wait for God to help you, as you say:

W-pI.130.9. God will be there. ² For you have called upon the great unfailing power which will take this giant step with you in gratitude. ³ Nor will you fail to see His thanks expressed in tangible perception and in truth. ⁴ You will not doubt what you will look upon, for though it is perception, it is not the kind of seeing that your eyes alone have ever seen before. ⁵ And you will know God's strength upheld you as you made this choice.

W-pI.130.10. Dismiss temptation easily today whenever it arises, merely by remembering the limits of your choice. ² The unreal or the real, the false or true is what you see and only what you see. ³ Perception is consistent with your choice, and hell or Heaven comes to you as one.

W-pI.130.11. Accept a little part of hell as real, and you have damned your eyes and cursed your sight, and what you will behold is hell indeed. ² Yet the release of Heaven still remains within your range of choice, to take the place of everything that hell would show to you. ³ All you need say to any part of hell, whatever form it takes, is simply this: