LESSON 155
I will step back and let Him lead the way.

1. There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. 2You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. 3Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. 4And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. 5Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.
2. The world is an illusion. 2Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. 3Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. 4What other choice is really theirs to make? 5To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. 6But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.
3. This is the simple choice we make today. 2The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. 3They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. 4And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.
4. If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. 2Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. 3And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. 4Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.

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