> On Tue, 6 May 2008 10:58:01 -0700 (PDT), george
>
> hotmail.com> wrote:

>>If I can not percieve with the Holy Spirits perception. Why are there
>>two ways of seeing everything? The egos way, that the world IS a
>>horrible place and what is the way I've been choosing instead that the
>>world is perfect, and sinless and only for my benefit?

>
> I don't think the ego necessarily sees the world as "a horrible
> place".

> a game of "seek but do not find".  We are always playing that game.
> It's about special love relationships, wealth, power, recognition, all
> those carrots on strings we're chasing which never seem to satisfy
> even when we succeed in getting them.  "Seek ye first the Kingdom of
> God" is alien to ego thinking so it reinterprets the tacked on "And
> all else will be added unto you" to refer to the same old carrots and
> off we go again, only now we're using righteousness to get what we
> want.  People can and do even use ACIM this way.  They read the word
> "abundance" and off they go again, using ACIM as a way to chase the
> same old carrots.  Any form of belief in the world, whether it is a
> strong attachment or a strong desire to escape, is ego based.
>
> "In the world but not of the world" strikes me as the only right
> thinking way to see ourselves here.  It reminds us that we're here on
> a temporary tourist visa, so to speak, but doesn't give rise to the
> "Well, life is short, might as well get as much as you can out of it"
> mentaliity.  Life is not short, it is eternal, and God is the love
> that sustains us.