Review 1 Lesson 57

1. (31) I am not the victim of the world I see.
2. (32) I have invented the world I see.
3. (33) There is another way of looking at the world.
4. (34) I could see peace instead of this.
5. (35) My mind is part of God's. I am very holy.

The world I look upon has taken on the light of my forgiveness, and shines forgiveness back at me. i begin to see what my illusions about myself kept hidden. I begin to understand the holiness of all living things, including myself, and their oneness with me.

Addendum ( from Elena. )

We've been our own jailors for years. "We've been sitting in the shadow of our thinking minds and wandering why we don't see any sunshine" (Ram Dass). We became accostomed to darkness and fearful of the truth's light.

“Prisoners bound with heavy chains for years, starved and emaciated, weak and exhausted, and with eyes so long cast down in darkness they remember not the light, do not leap up in joy the instant they are made free. It takes a while for them to understand what freedom is. “

“Eyes become used to darkness, and the light of brilliant day seems painful to the eyes grown long accustomed to the dim effects perceived at twilight. And they turn away from sunlight, and the clarity it brings to what they look upon. Dimness seems better; easier to see, and better recognized. Somehow, the vague and more obscure seems EASIER to look upon; LESS painful to the eyes than what is wholly clear and unambiguous. Yet this is NOT what eyes are FOR. And who can say that he PREFERS the darkness, and maintain he WANTS to see? “
(T-25.VII.2)