From Way of Mastery, Lesson 8
Illusions can seem to take many forms, yet they all have one source: a decision to perceive oneself as separate from God.
Illusions, then, while the form of them may seem to be many, are really one. And healing occurs when, in the depth of the mind, the decision is made to surrender, to give up the insane idea that one’s self could possibly exist apart from the Mind of God.
Surrender means to settle into the position of the servant, the conduit through which the Mind of God, the Love of God, can be expressed. The mind that exists in perfect surrender sees absolutely no purpose to any moment of experience save this. The mind in perfect surrender looks out upon a world that has been healed from its own misperception that the world has had power over it. It sees that at no time has it experienced anything but its own outpicturing. This is why all events are neutral. It is mind that interprets an event, draws a conclusion, and then bases behavior upon it.
The mind that is healed, and that rests in surrender, looks out upon an innocent world that has been touched by its blessing of forgiveness. And that forgiveness is simply a step in which that mind recognizes that the world it had thought was there was nothing more than its own mental creation–and smiles and laughs and sees that the world has held no power, and that all events that have arisen, all interpretations of events, have been generated from within the kingdom of the mind–the one place that it is given unto you to assume responsibility for, as your domain. The mind that has been healed of illusion has been healed of all illusions. And while time and space seem to last, the last outpicturing of a tiny, mad idea–called the physical body–can be given over to something else, can be transformed into a simple communication device that no longer communicates separation and judgment, but rather, forgiveness and innocence. It becomes nothing. And it is picked up and used only in those ways that can speak, gesture, move, act, make something in the world that touches the world with the blessing of the good, the holy, and the beautiful
The mind that is surrendered looks out upon all things and quietly says within itself, There has only been God. And I am the Created of That. And the source of my being, the source of my reality, rests in surrender into That, and That alone.
You are free now to entertain one idea totally insane to the world: I am awake now. My dream has not occurred. No separation has occurred. No distance has been traveled. Grace has already restored me, and I am free to perceive the real world.