The Creator of your World
from The Divine Eye: Seeing the Good in Everything and Everyone, March 24, 1995, Oasis Bookstore, Amherst, Massachusetts
If you are the creator of your world, you can recreate your world or, indeed, create your world as you wish, and as you are capable, as you are aware of how to do it. But, if you are the victim of the world, if, for example, you are up there on the movie screen and everyone else is watching you, then there is nothing you can do, except take the shape and the motions that the next frames in their movies have got planned for you. This is only an attitude of the mind. But the mind’s attitudes are very deep, like ruts that have been driven into a road after centuries of carts passing over the same way.
The habits of the mind are very difficult to change and one of the ones that is hardest to change of all, is one’s judgment. The mind loves to judge because it justifies its existence.
You see, when you came into this world you had perfect conception and knowledge of your Godlihood. Because you came directly from God, you had no doubt about your Godly nature. But upon entering this world, you left, by your own free will, a lot of that awareness behind. So that you could learn from this life; learn from struggling back toward God. But, when you landed on this world, without the feeling of closeness with God that you had before you came.
And let us just say, as an aside, if you ever feel close to God in this life, not only is that right and true, but it is also one infinite part of the true feeling you will have when you are removed from this world. So, your bliss in this world is the barest drop in an ocean of ecstasy. That is the reality you will know, and that you have known before. But let us say, when you came into this world, you went from that ocean to the drop, hm?
And some went not even with the drop. They came in with a feeling of no-God. The mind saw its opportunity then. It said, “Ah well, if there is no God, I will be the God. I will make the world and I will create it well for you.” And now the mind has convinced itself that it is doing that. Even the things that come from God, the mind believes, come from the mind. And one of the things the mind loves to do the most is to say, “This is good, and that is bad.” It loves to judge! And it loves to place things into this container, or that container. “You are better than you.” “You are bigger than you.” “You are wiser than you.”
This is what the mind says to people as it walks around in the daytime. “You are good, because you are like someone else.” “I have decided to be good.” “You are bad; because you are like someone else, I have declared to be bad.”
The mind instantly makes these decisions and passes them along to you, almost as though it is your own private world news transmission. And you are, by long habit, those deep ruts are there, you are the passive recipient of this news. You are— almost as though you are sitting watching the television of your mind being informed, “Today we met twelve good people, and fourteen bad people.” And your heart, your nature, takes that in as truth.