This whole world, as now seen, is nothing but a dream illusion that never was. . . .

"A simple switch in your viewpoint will swiftly increase your insight into yourself and others. Here is the switch: See another person as a mass of inner conditions, not a unified outer personality. This detaches your own distorting likes and dislikes toward someone, freeing the clear vision of non-desire." Vernon Linwood Howard

"Change but your mind on what you want to see,
 and all the world must change accordingly.
  Ideas leave not their source."

ACIM Lesson 132.5.2-3

 The world as now seen really is a fiction when you see the Truth.

It turns out to be a dream. First you'll see it as a dream, then you'll see it as a dream that never was. It is exactly as happens in a night dream. While you're in the night dream you have a body there are other bodies, there's action, interaction, there's good and there's bad. And so long as you remain in that night dream everything there is real to you. When you awaken from the night dream you say, ‘‘my gosh it was just a dream! It never happened! This dream was all in me!” And exactly in the same manner you awaken from this dream called the waking state. You come to see that it was only a fiction of your imagination, it was only a dream, and then you let go of it lock, stock and barrel and what is left over is the infinite you! Then you call yourself fully realized totally free. . . . This whole world is a dream illusion, which means that it isn't. Session recorded in New York City, September 28, 1964.

 This whole world, as now seen, is nothing but a dream illusion that never was. . . .
The example I like best is that what goes on in this world is exactly the same as what goes on in a night dream. While we're in the night dream it's very real, we are there, there are other characters, it's either beautiful orugly, and when it's a nightmare, we're being killed. It's a real struggle. All the time we're in the dream, it is real to us. But when we awaken we say, “Oh, my gosh, it was only a dream, it never really was.” And that's exactly what happens when we wake up out of this waking-state dream of the world. Session recorded in New York City, September 21, 1964.

You may and can contact Jesus, to the degree you actually accept the fact that you can. Were you to accept that you could talk to Jesus in a physical body, then you would meet with Him in a physical body. If you can accept meeting with Him in a vision or in a dream, then you would meet with Him in that manner. If you can accept Him as a presence ,then you will feel His presence and receive His support. It is all up to you. Session recorded in Los Angeles, December 16, 1965

You went to sleep and you had a dream and you dreamed that you were born into a little infant body and you went through one year, two years, three years, into youth, middle age and old age, all the way up to ninety years. And it took ninety years to get up to that old body. It was a long, long time, right? Ninety years? Until you woke up and then realized it was a dream and it might have taken a second or two. The dream lasted a few seconds and in that time you went through a ninety-year period! And it seemed like ninety years while you were in the dream. It wasn't until you woke up that you realized it was only a few seconds. Some day you'll see that creation is instantaneous, with the mental concept of time in it. Session ecorded in Los Angeles. February 10.1966.

In this dream-illusion there's a thing called thought. And thought determines and is the cause of all matter.

  And we should know that God is within. Even though Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within,” we still look for God without and He's not out there, He's only within. He turns out to be our very own Beingness. The word “I” with nothing added to it is the God we seek. When you say “I am something, “-that isn't, or “I and something,” that too isn't God. But just pure “I” and only “I,” that is God. That is why it is said that God is closer than flesh, it's “I,” and how close is “I”? It's closer than the flesh is, and that is God, your very own Self!

Christ is not the man Jesus. Christ is the title of Jesus who has attained the Christ Consciousness.

The second coming of the Christ is when we attain the Christ Consciousness.

KEYS TO THE ULTIMATE FREEDOM

Thoughts and Talks on Personal Transformation

By Lester Levenson