The Substitute Reality

In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God. Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols; pills, money, "protective" clothing, influence, prestige, being liked, knowing the "right" people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness that you endow with magical powers.

All these things are your replacements for the Love of God.

Workbook Lesson 50
I am sustained by the Love of God.

Everything‟s incredible, if you can skin off the crust of obviousness our habits put on it. Every object and event contains within itself an infinity of depths within depths. Nothing‟s in the least what it seems or rather it’s like several million other things at the same time. From Point Counter Point by author, Aldous Huxley ( 1894 – 1963)

Those who see themselves as whole make no demands. W-37.2:7

You respond to what you perceive, and as you perceive so shall you behave. The Golden Rule asks you to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This means that the perception of both must be accurate. The Golden Rule is the rule for appropriate behavior. You cannot behave appropriately unless you perceive correctly. Since you and your neighbor are equal members of one family, as you perceive both so you will do to both. You should look out from the perception of your own holiness to the holiness of others. ACiM - Text Chapter One - The Meaning of Miracles - Section 3 Atonement and Miracles

The miracle is a sign that the mind has chosen to be led by me in Christ's service. The abundance of Christ is the natural result of choosing to follow him. All shallow roots must be uprooted, because they are not deep enough to sustain you. The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened, and thus made to hold, is one of the distortions on which the reverse of the Golden Rule rests. As these false underpinnings are given up, the equilibrium is temporarily experienced as unstable. However, nothing is less stable than an upside-down orientation. Nor can anything that holds it upside down be conducive to increased stability. ACiM - Text Chapter One - The Meaning of Miracles - Section 5 Wholeness and Spirit

When you seem to see some twisted form of the original error rising to frighten you,
say only, "God is not fear, but love,"
and it will disappear.
The truth will save you.
It has not left you,
to go out into the mad world and so depart from you.
Inward is sanity;
insanity is outside you.
You but believe it is the other way;
that truth is outside,
and error and guilt within.
Your little,
senseless substitutions,
touched with insanity and
swirling lightly off on a mad course
like feathers dancing insanely in the wind,
have no substance.

T-18.I.7:1-7

ACiM - Text Chapter Eighteen - The Passing of the Dream - Section 1 - The Substitute Reality