T. 25. II. 1 – 4. Jesus: “Is it not evident that the world the body’s eyes perceive fills you with fear? Perhaps you think you find a hope of satisfaction there. Perhaps you still fancy to attain some peace and satisfaction in the world as you perceive it through the body’s eyes.
Yet it must be evident the outcome does not change. Despite your hopes and fancies, always does despair result. And there is no exception, nor will there ever be. The only value that the past can hold is that you learn it gave you no rewards which you would want to keep. For only thus will you be willing to relinquish it, and have it gone forever.
Is it not strange that you should cherish some remaining hope of satisfaction from the world you see? In no respect, at any time or place, has anything but fear and guilt been your reward. How long is needed for you to realize the chance of change in this respect is hardly worth delaying change of mind that might result in better outcome?
Is it not strange that you should cherish some remaining hope of satisfaction from the world you see? In no respect, at any time or place, has anything but fear and guilt been your reward. How long is needed for you to realize the chance of change in this respect is hardly worth delaying change of mind that might result in better outcome?
For one thing is sure; the way you see, and long have seen, the very basis of your perception, gives no support to base your future hopes, and no suggestions of success at all. To place your hopes where no hope lies must make you hopeless. Yet is this hopelessness the matter of your own choice, as long as you would seek for hope where none is ever found.
Is it not also true that you have found some hope apart from this; some glimmering – inconstant, wavering perhaps, yet dimly seen – that hopefulness is warranted on grounds that are not found in this world? And yet your hope that there may still be something here in this dream of separation prevents you from giving up the hopeless and unrewarding task you set yourself.
Is it not also true that you have found some hope apart from this; some glimmering – inconstant, wavering perhaps, yet dimly seen – that hopefulness is warranted on grounds that are not found in this world? And yet your hope that there may still be something here in this dream of separation prevents you from giving up the hopeless and unrewarding task you set yourself.
Can it make sense to hold the fixed belief that there is reason to uphold pursuit of what has always failed, on grounds that it will somehow suddenly succeed and bring what it has never brought before? Its past has failed. Be glad within your mind that it is gone, to no longer darken what is there. Take not the form you see for content, for the form is but a means serve the content. And the frame is but a means to hold the picture up, so that it can be seen.
A frame that hides the picture has no purpose. It cannot be a frame if it is what you see. Without the picture is the frame without its meaning. The frame’s purpose is to set the picture off, and not to emphasize itself.”