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A NEW WAY OF

SEEING THE WORLD

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If, like me, you have struggled with deep anxiety about death,
A Course in Miracles turned everything in my world on its sickness, and suffering, I’ve got good news for you. What you
head — and then answered every big question I’d ever had in a really are is love, and love only. Your true nature actually
completely new way. exists in an eternal state, a creative state in which you are
entirely happy and at peace.
Who Are We Really?
You cannot die; you cannot become sick; you exist forever; and
You are not who you think you are — and this is glorious news. you will know yourself even after this body is laid aside.
You are not your fear, your anxiety, or your worry. You may feel
that these things define you, because they are really good at You’ve probably heard teachings like this before. But we’re
capturing and overpowering your attention. That is their pur- going to work toward experiencing the truth of these words,
pose. But the fearful, freaked-out, anxious you is not the true for it’s the experience of these teachings that provides relief
you, despite how compellingly real that fear and anxiety seem. from anxiety.
What you really are is way more awesome. I promise.
You have forgotten the eternal love that you are made of
because right now you believe you are confined in a body, in a
particular time and place. But, in fact, you are a pure, Loving
Mind. This Loving Mind exists independently of your ego per-
sonality and also of the “mind” generated by your brain. Your
reality is actually abstract, not physical. You are not your body.
Yes, you do seem to have a body right now, just like you have
clothes — but everyone knows that their clothes aren’t their
real selves. The clothes are just something useful to keep us
warm and protected, and perhaps to express our personalities.

The idea of existing beyond your body may be hard to grasp
or even imagine at first, because we are literally asleep to it
most of the time. We have forgotten our existence in eternity
and mistakenly think that the world we see is our home. I’ve
always gained comfort from this Course quote, which helps me
begin to understand a world that is very different from the one
we see:
Sit quietly and look upon the world you see, and tell yourself:
“The real world is not like this. It has no buildings and there
are no streets where people walk alone and separate. There
are no stores where people buy an endless list of things they
do not need. It is not lit with artificial light, and night comes
not upon it. There is no day that brightens and grows dim.
There is no loss. Nothing is there but shines, and shines for-
ever.” (ACIM T-13.VII.1:1–6)

So in truth, we’re perfectly at peace. We are eternal, united
in joy, equally loved and loving; we shine forever.

Excerpted from the book From Anxiety to Love: A Radical New Ap-
proach for Letting Go of Fear and Finding Lasting Peace. Copyright
©2018 by Corinne Zupko. Printed with permission from New World
Library — www.newworldlibrary.com.

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