to confusion and despair.Yet has He never left His Thoughts to die,
without their Source forever in themselves. He has not left His
Thoughts! He could no more depart from them than they could
keep Him out. In unity with Him do they abide, and in their
Oneness both are kept complete.
There ISno road that leads away from Him. A journey from
YOURSELFdoes not exist. How foolish and insane it is to think that
there could be a road with such an aim! Where could it go? And how
could you be made to travel on it, walking there without your own
reality at one with you? Forgive yourself your madness, and forget all
senseless journeys and all goal-less aims.They have no meaning.You
can not escape from what you are. For God ISmerciful, and did not
let His Son abandon Him. For what He is, be thankful, for in that is
your escape from madness and from death. Nowhere but where He
is can YOUbe found.There ISno path that does not lead to Him.
SELF CONCEPT VERSUS SELF
The learning of the world is built upon a concept of the self adjusted
to the world’s reality. It fits it well. For this an image is that suits a
world of shadows and illusions. Here it walks at home, where what it
sees is one with it. The building of a concept of the self is what the
learning of the world is FOR.This is its purpose; that you come
without a self, and make one as you go along. And by the time you
reach “maturity,” you have perfected it to meet the world on equal
terms, at one with its demands.
A CONCEPTof the self is made by YOU.It bears no likeness to
yourself at all. It is an idol, made to take the place of your reality as
Son of God.The concept of the self the world would teach is not the
thing that it appears to be. For it is made to serve two purposes, but
one of which the mind can recognize. The first presents the face of
innocence, the aspect acted ON.It is this face that smiles and charms
and even seems to love. It searches for companions, and it looks, at
times with pity, on the suffering, and sometimes offers solace. It
believes that it is good, within an evil world.
This aspect can grow angry, for the world is wicked, and unable
to provide the love and shelter innocence deserves.And so this face is
often wet with tears at the injustices the world accords to those who
SELF CONCEPT VERSUS SELF