Mind is the cause of its own experience.
ideas do not leave the mind “Ideas leave not their source.” Nothing you think or feel or believe can be “thrown out”. You ALWAYS reap EXACTLY what you sow.
Belief - Perception - Interpretation - Feeling - Thought - Action - Experience….. The cycle is that our beliefs guide our interpretations which become our perceptions which produce our experience which loops back around and reinforces our beliefs.
- From section“Waking to Redemption”, (T-11.VI.1-4).
I am the cause of my own experience
Experience is the effect of where you choose to focus the attention of your consciousness
EVERYTHING I experience I have created, I have made myself a vibrational match too, I have co-created, I have drawn into my life-experience through my state of consciousness….
The Responsibility Prayer
This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:
I am responsible for what I see.
I choose the feelings I experience,
and I decide upon the goal I would achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked.
Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear. T-21.II.2.
You Experience only what you choose
Nothing that you experience is caused by anything outside of you. You experience only the effects of your own choice. Your experience is always the effect of where you choose to focus the attention of your consciousness
Merely look with the wonder of a child and see what it feels like and ask yourself, Is this an energy I wish to continue in, or would I choose something else?”
In each and every moment, what you are experiencing in the realm of your emotions and mind, and the effects, to a latter degree, within the body, are there because you — from your infinite freedom — have simply selected that experience, that energy, to focus your attention on, so that you can see what the effects are. The insanity, which you experience as your pain and as your suffering and your seeking and your dramas, comes only from your mistaken choice to become identified with what arises in the field of your awareness. You, therefore, lose the sight of innocence. For, indeed, all events are perfectly neutral, and you are free to see them any way you want.
cultivate within you the decision to turn your attention upon your own mind, upon your own behavior, upon what is true and real for you, moment to moment — to study it, to consider it, to feel it, to breathe the Light of Spirit through it, and to constantly retrain the mind so that it assumes complete responsibility in each moment. *I’ve done this to myself. I did it, I must correct it. No one is to blame. The world is innocent.”
- way of mastery, lesson 1
there cannot be at any time, at any place, in any dimension of this drama—this dream that some of you think is real—there cannot be a single set of circumstances that hold the power to destroy your right to choose peace. Nothing.
- wom