 We start off this night with laying the foundations, so today is uniting the world. I thought I would open the book up and read a quote from the Course that's in here. What page are you on? This is on page 227. It's a quote from Chapter 15 of the Course. Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? Yet that is what time is for, to learn just that and nothing more. It even rhymes. So, unlearning the world, in order to learn this perfect stillness, we talked about yesterday, this choiceless awareness, and unlearning the world is basically unlearning all concepts of the world and all those concepts have to do with safety, security, comfort, convenience. When you think about modern life, convenience seems to be something that is pretty sought after. There are a lot of things and gadgets and devices that basically serve convenience, and convenience isn't of a spirit. I would say ease is divine ease. There is a flow and that you are that flow and that you can tell when you are in divine ease, because everything is so easy and effortless and joyful. And yet convenience is more trying to bring about ease in your life through inappropriate means. And by that I mean by manipulating time and space or manipulating the world. Where we are asked not to change the world, but rather to change your mind about the world, to really have a total shift in perspective which brings you into that divine ease. And you might say that conveniences are more, it's more like fake it till you make it. That's why it's not really truly inspired. It seems to have some value in a very temporary way, but it doesn't have lasting value and we're going for that which is a lasting. The other thing is comfort. It's not like the spirit is against comfort in any way because the peace that passes the understanding of the world that the Bible talks about is comfort. So that's comfort by the capital C and Jesus had talked to the women at the well. Some of you remember the passage in the Bible, drink of me and you will never thirst again. You could just say we reinterpret that. Find comfort in me and you will never be restless again. Find comfort in me, the Christ, and you will never have discomfort again. You will find your eternal comfort because without that kind of context, it just seems like it's pretty harsh actually. I don't think comfort is so bad, but we have to lift it up higher to like a divine comfort, a comfort that doesn't come and go. Comfort that's consistent. And in that sense you can start to say well there is something that could be attractive about this divine comfort. It's good to see what I quote that I just read about having no cares, no worries, no anxieties, be quiet and calm all the time. So when we talk about unlearning the world, it's really a major convincing job for the Holy Spirit. Because the ego has made up so many pseudo comforts and pseudo conveniences and substitutes for the real thing that it seems to the mind that it's quite addicted to these comforts and conveniences and pleasures and so forth that heaven would actually require a sacrifice of something that's pretty good. Even we can say something that's not all bad. And certainly if you talk to anybody who has experiences with the world they could possibly agree with you that it's not all bad. It's not all good they might say, but it's not all bad. It's the not all bad part that keeps the mind from dropping the deception like a hot potato. I mean, think of it, if it was all bad then the ego wouldn't have much of a chance of keeping you attracted to it or addicted to it, you would drop it very quickly. So that's part of the self-deception that makes it, that's what makes temptation so seductive, so alluring.