Lesson One (Continued) : Change Your Thoughts not the World.

The greatest difficulty is the mental resistance to things that arise, and the underlying assumption that they should not be.

-Eckhart Tolle

When we talk about the importance of changing our thoughts we must consider the above quote from Eckhart Tolle.  We must be willing to put aside our resistance to what is.  We need to stop looking at the world around us and what it supplies as "attack" or potential attack. 

A Course in Miracles refers to our view of the world as one of "vengeance"...always anticipating that we are going to lose something from it, or we will not get it...or someone will take it away...  so we constantly defend and attack with our resistance.  We cannot change the world...but we can change how we think about the world and when we do that the world changes.  For as Lesson 23 states: ," every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see".

You are creating the world you see.  You are the image maker.

There is no point in lamenting the world.  There is no point in trying to change the world.  It is incapable of change because it is merely an effect. But there is indeed a point in changing your thoughts about the world.  Here you are changing the cause.  The effect will change automatically.

All is well.

References:

ACIM...Lesson 23...page 34

Foundations for Inner Peace.(2007) A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume. Third Edition. Mill Valley: Foundations for Inner Peace.