 Okay everyone, welcome again to A Course in Miracles Workbook Lessons. And today we have reached Workbook Lesson 128. The world I see holds nothing that I want. Some of you are familiar with a scroll that was discovered that contained what is now called the Gospel of Thomas. And in the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus teaches, I think it's one of the shortest teachings. The teaching is Be Passers-By. And I think that's delightful, Be Passers-By. And a lot of people have felt, wee, that sounds really good, Be Passers-By. What does it mean? Today you get to find out what that means, what it means to be a passer-by of the world. Today we're going long, far, far beyond the phrase be in the world, but not of it. Today we're going to the Passers-By state of mind. So here we go. Workbook Lesson 128, the world I see holds nothing that I want. The world you see holds nothing that you need to offer you. Nothing that you can use in any way, nor anything at all that serves to give you joy. Believe this thought, and you are saved from years of misery, from countless disappointments, and from hopes that turn to bitter ashes of despair. No one but must accept this thought as true. Believe if he would leave the world behind and soar beyond its petty scope and little ways. Each thing you value here is but a chain that binds you to the world. And it will serve no other end but this. Where everything must serve the purpose you have given it until you see a different purpose there. The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by without delaying to perceive some hope where there is none. Be you deceived no more. The world you see holds nothing that you want. Today, the change you place upon your mind when you perceive salvation here. For what you value you make part of you as you perceive yourself. All things you seek to make your value greater in your site limit you further. Provide your worth from you and add another bar across the door that leads to true awareness of your Christ self. Let nothing that relates to body thoughts delay your progress to salvation, nor permit temptation to believe the world holds anything you want to hold you back. Nothing is here to cherish nothing here worth one instant of delay and pain one moment of uncertainty and doubt the worthless offer nothing. Certainty of worth cannot be found in worthlessness. Today we practice letting go all thought of values we have given to the world. We are free of purposes we gave its aspects and its phases and its dreams. We hold it purposeless within our minds and loosen it from all we wish it were. Thus do we lift the chains that bar the door to freedom from the world and go beyond all little values and diminished goals. We pause and be still a little while and see how far you rise above the world when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. It will be grateful to be free a while. It knows where it belongs, but frees wings and it will fly in sureness and enjoy to join its holy purpose. Let it rest in its creator there to be restored to sanity to freedom and to love. Give it 10 minutes rest three times today. And when your eyes are opened afterwards you will not value anything you see as much as when you looked at it before. Your whole perspective on the world will shift by just a little every time you let your mind escape its chains. The world is not where it belongs. And you belong where it would be and where it goes to rest when you release it from the world. Your guide is sure. Open your mind to him. Be still and rest. Protect your mind throughout the day as well. And when you think you see some value and aspect or an image of the world refuse to lay this chain upon your mind but tell yourself with quiet certainty. This will not tempt me to delay myself. The world I see holds nothing that I want. I was sharing with Lisa this morning that many many years ago I was speaking at a church. And a friend of mine named Mason had invited me to to this church in Lexington, Kentucky to give a talk. And I was getting the talk. And during the talk, I said, Oh, I mentioned this workbook lesson 128. I said what a lovely lesson this is. This is truly a lesson to free the mind instantly. And I said the lesson is the world I see holds nothing that I want. And my friend Mason who was in the audience he was the one who was hosting me and organizing the event he raised his hand. And he said David David. And I said yeah what is it Mason he said. This was the lesson 128, the world I see holds nothing that I want. This is the lesson where I closed the book. This, this is the lesson where I stopped doing the course of miracles workbook lessons I stopped at this lesson and he said the reason I stopped is because when I read the lesson, I said, Oh, no. He said, he said, Oh, no. No, no, this. This world does hold things that I want to close the book. And I laughed and left and then I said to him I said, Oh, Mason. You stopped right there he said yeah yeah that said that was my last workbook lesson I closed the book and stopped doing the lessons at that point. And I said well. Lesson 129 is such an amazing spectacular lesson, which is first the next lesson, and he said really. What was that lesson. That beyond this world is a world I want. Jesus never leaves you hanging. He just gives it to you straight, the world I see holds nothing that I want he's just, he's just being honest with you that if you want to know God you have to let go of all value of the images of the idol images and the ego and the belief of this world all the beliefs of this world, all the concepts of this world. And so, beyond this world is a world I want is actually very, very hopeful. If this one is like a roto router that goes into your mind and cleans the drain so to speak, then, then tomorrow he will come with all the light and love and happiness and joy and and take us into the happy dream, which is the world that I really want beyond this world is the world I want is really a world without judgment, a world free of judgment just a very happy dream in which there's no judgment. But today we rejoice in being passers by, as Jesus says. Yeah, the only thing that this world holds is that you, you pass it by, and don't look further for something to to give you a sense of worth in the world. Worth is given by God and nothing I think or say or make or do can establish my worth because God is the eternal worth Establishers being pure divine love. Along with this lesson today I thought I would just give you a little reading from the text and this text, it looks like it's chapter 16. And we're going to go into the section that's called the bridge to the real world since I've done a little foreshadowing about the real world and tomorrow's lesson. And I've talked about beyond this world is a world I want. All right, I did a little sneak peek there I'm going to give you some, some beautiful teachings from Jesus so that while you're practicing our beautiful be passers by lesson today, do it enjoy because I assure you. There is some big time joy and love and light coming for your awareness as you are a passers by of this world as you pass this world by you're passing by the past, and you're opening your heart to the eternal present, and that is beautiful. I'll start on paragraph five here in this section. Here's what Jesus has to say, you see the world you value on this side of the bridge. You see the world of separate bodies seeking to join each other in separate unions, and to become one by losing. That's Jesus's commentary on interpersonal relationships. I have to read that sense again. On this side of the bridge you see the world of separate bodies seeking to join each other in separate unions and to become one by losing. To join into exclusive partnerships and to seek to find union by losing. Yeah, losing awareness of God. This world was made as an attempt to make up something that substitute for divine love. And Jesus is giving us a clue there. Two individuals seek to become one. They are trying to decrease their magnitude. Each would deny his power. With a separate union excludes the universe. Far more is left outside than would be taken in for God is left without and nothing is taken in. If one such union were made in perfect faith the Union, the universe would enter into it. Yet the special relationship, the ego seeks does not include even one whole individual. The ego wants but part of him and sees only this part and nothing else. So much for bodies relating. These are joined bodies are not across the bridge it is so different. For a time the body is still seen, but not exclusively, as it is seen here. The little spark that holds the great rays within it is also visible, and this spark cannot be limited long to littleness. When you have crossed the bridge, the value of the body is so diminished in your sight that you will see no need to at all to magnify it. For you will realize that the only value the body has is to enable you to bring your brothers to the bridge with you and to be released together there. How do you bring your brothers with you using letting the Holy Spirit use the body as a communication device and speaking smiling laughing hugging shining sharing extending love. Let the Holy Spirit use the puppet for a little while and then everyone joins the mind everyone is joined at the bridge to the real world. The bridge itself is nothing more than a transition in the perspective of reality. On this side, everything you see is grossly distorted and completely out of perspective. What is little and insignificant is magnified and what is strong and powerful cut down to littleness. The world of images and glitz and glory and money and the search for physical power and what is it that's cut down to littleness, kindness, gentleness, patience, heart to heart connections. Yeah, you don't see that on the news very often. What is little and insignificant is magnified. All the power and glory and wars and bombs and guns and greed and fame and fortune. What is little and insignificant is magnified and what is strong and powerful cut down to littleness. It's a meat for they shall inherit the earth. It's worlds backwards and upside down. You probably have noticed that. In the transition. There is a period of confusion in which a sense of actual disorientation may occur. Fear it not for it means only that you have been willing to let go your hold on the distorted frame of reference that seemed to hold your world together. This frame of reference is built around the special relationship. Without this illusion, there could be no meaning. You would still seek here. And to graph eight fear not that you will be abruptly lifted up and hurled into reality. Time is kind. And if you use it on behalf of reality, it will keep gentle pace with you in your transition. The urgency is only in dislodging your mind from its fixed position here. This will not leave you homeless and without a frame of reference. The period of disorientation which precedes the actual transition is far shorter than the time it took to fix your mind so firmly on illusions. Delay will hurt you now more than before, only because you realize it is delayed, and that escape from pain is really possible. There is no hope and comfort rather than despair in this. You could not long find even the illusion of love in any special relationship here. For you are no longer fully insane. And you would soon recognize the guilt of self-betrayal for what it is. So here is a very deep day. First we start off with our lesson of the day 128. World I see holds nothing that I want. And then as we let go of valuing everything of this world, as we see that there is nothing that will last forever in this world, it's all temporary. God is eternal. Christ is eternal. Heaven is eternal. But everything of the cosmos of time and space, everything without exception is temporary. As it says in Corinthians, you know, we look upon a darkened glass but it also says, you know, that that which is temporary will pass away and that which is eternal will last forever. And basically the Bible is telling us there in Corinthians it's saying same thing that we're talking about today. That just value God and value spirit and value Christ value eternity and be happy and and let go of any other values that block you from from that direct awareness. That's the only way in my life where you know I seem to be going along and working typically, you know, my parable of David in the 20s trying to get a good education and then get a go to graduate school and get a degree degrees and then, you know, have a successful career and earn money and spend money and grow old and sick and get and die. For a while. But then, in my late 20s, that was my track but Jesus intercepted that track. And, and intercepted and took it the other direction. I told you like football, Jesus pulled off a pick six. He intercepted the direction my so called life is going into the future. And then he took it back to the holy instant for for a touchdown pick six. So, what's beautiful is. Opening today to pass by the world to re actually rejoice that there's no value in this world and to rejoice that that who we are in God forever is all value, and there is zero value in the ego and the egos cosmos of time and space. And let's just be grateful today that that God did not create a meaningless world that we don't have to be anthropomorphic and we don't have to try to assign human characteristics to the God of eternity. We simply have to be willing to realize that nothing that was invented, nothing that was made, nothing that was attempted to be added on to the kingdom of heaven that wasn't eternal, which is what this world is it's it's not eternal. And it doesn't really go well with eternity so we're not going to let time and eternity conflict in our mind anymore. Today, we say to time, time, you and your world hold nothing that I want and we say to eternity and God and Christ. Yes, to you. Yes, to my eternal creator. Yes, to my divine self, and goodbye to temporary illusions. Thank you. My heart is singing today, the world I see holds nothing that I want be passersby today of all of the world. Amen. Love you. Joy.