Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
What can correct illusions but the truth? And what are
errors but illusions that remain unrecognized for what they are? Where
truth has entered, errors disappear. They merely vanish, leaving not a
trace by which to be remembered. They are gone because without belief
they have no life, and so they disappear to nothingness, returning
whence they came. From dust to dust they come and go, for only truth
remains.
Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is?
How it would feel? Try to remember when there was a time—perhaps a
minute, maybe even less—when nothing came to interrupt your peace; when
you were certain you were loved and safe. Then try to picture what it
would be like to have that moment be extended to the end of time and to
eternity.
Then let the sense of quiet that you felt be multiplied a
hundred times and then be multiplied another hundred more. And now you
have a hint, not more than just the faintest intimation of the state
your mind will rest in when the truth has come.
Without illusions there could be no fear, no doubt, and no
attack. When truth has come, all pain is over, for there is no room for
transitory thoughts and dead ideas to linger in your mind. Truth
occupies your mind completely, liberating you from all beliefs in the
ephemeral. They have no place because the truth has come, and they are
nowhere. They cannot be found, for truth is everywhere forever now.
When truth has come, it does not stay a while to disappear
or change to something else. It does not shift and alter in its form,
nor come and go and go and come again. It stays exactly as it always
was, to be depended on in every need and trusted with a perfect trust in
all the seeming difficulties and the doubts that the appearances the
world presents engender. They will merely blow away when truth corrects
the errors in your mind.
When truth has come, it harbors in its wings the gift of
perfect constancy and love which does not falter in the face of pain but
looks beyond it, steadily and sure. Here is the gift of healing, for the
truth needs no defense, and therefore no attack is possible. Illusions
can be brought to truth to be corrected. But the truth stands far beyond
illusions and cannot be brought to them to turn them into truth.
Truth does not come and go nor shift nor change, in this
appearance now and then in that, evading capture and escaping grasp. It
does not hide. It stands in open light, in obvious accessibility. It is
impossible that anyone could seek it truly and would not succeed.
Today belongs to truth. Give truth its due, and it will
give you yours. You were not meant to suffer and to die. Your Father
wills these dreams be gone. Let truth correct them all. We do not ask
for what we do not have. We merely ask for what belongs to us, that we
may recognize it as our own.
Today we practice on the happy note of certainty that has
been born of truth. The shaky and unsteady footsteps of illusion is not
our approach today. We are as certain of success as we are sure we live
and hope and breathe and think. We do not doubt we walk with truth today
and count on it to enter into all the exercises that we do this day.
Begin by asking Him Who goes with you upon this
undertaking that He be in your awareness as you go with Him. You are not
made of flesh and blood and bone but were created by the self-same
thought which gave the gift of life to Him as well. He is your brother
and so like to you your Father knows that you are both the same. It is
your Self you ask to go with you, and how could He be absent where you
are?
Truth will correct all errors in your mind which tell you
you could be apart from Him. You speak to Him today and make your pledge
to let His function be fulfilled through you. To share His function is
to share His joy. His confidence is with you, as you say:
*Truth will correct all errors in my mind,
And I will rest in Him Who is my Self.*
Then let Him lead you gently to the truth which will
envelop you and give you peace so deep and tranquil that you will return
to the familiar world reluctantly.
And yet you will be glad to look again upon this world.
For you will bring with you the promise of the changes which the truth
that goes with you will carry to the world. They will increase with
every gift you give of five small minutes, and the errors that surround
the world will be corrected as you let them be corrected in your mind.
Do not forget your function for today. Each time you tell
yourself with confidence, “Truth will correct all errors in my mind,”
you speak for all the world and Him Who would release the world as He
would set you free.