You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

7
THE NEW DREAM

Heav­en on Earth

I WANT YOU TO FORGET EVERYTHING YOU HAVE learned in
your whole life. This is the begin­ning of a new under­stand­ing, a new
dream.
The dream you are liv­ing is your cre­ation. It is your per­cep­tion of
real­i­ty that you can change at any time. You have the pow­er to
cre­ate hell, and you have the pow­er to cre­ate heav­en. Why not
dream a dif­fer­ent dream? Why not use your mind, your imag­i­na­tion,
and your emo­tions to dream heav­en?
Just use your imag­i­na­tion and a tremen­dous thing will hap­pen.
Imag­ine that you have the abil­i­ty to see the world with dif­fer­ent eyes,
when­ev­er you choose. Each time you open your eyes, you see the
world around you in a dif­fer­ent way.
Close your eyes now, and then open them and look out­side.
What you will see is love com­ing out of the trees, love com­ing out
of the sky, love com­ing out of the light. You will per­ceive love from
every­thing around you. This is the state of bliss. You per­ceive love
direct­ly from every­thing, includ­ing your­self and oth­er humans. Even
when humans are sad or angry, behind these feel­ings you can see
that they are also send­ing love.
Using your imag­i­na­tion and your new eyes of per­cep­tion, I want
you to see your­self liv­ing a new life, a new dream, a life where you
don’t need to jus­ti­fy your exis­tence and you are free to be who you
real­ly are.
Imag­ine that you have per­mis­sion to be hap­py and to real­ly enjoy
your life. Your life is free of con­flict with your­self and with oth­ers.
Imag­ine liv­ing your life with­out fear of express­ing your dreams.
You know what you want, what you don’t want, and when you want
it. You are free to change your life the way you real­ly want to. You
are not afraid to ask for what you need, to say yes or no to any­thing
or any­one.
Imag­ine liv­ing your life with­out the fear of being judged by oth­ers.
You no longer rule your behav­ior accord­ing to what oth­ers may think
about you. You are no longer respon­si­ble for anyone’s opin­ion. You
have no need to con­trol any­one, and no one con­trols you, either.
Imag­ine liv­ing your life with­out judg­ing oth­ers. You can eas­i­ly
for­give oth­ers and let go of any judg­ments that you have. You don’t
have the need to be right, and you don’t need to make any­one else
wrong. You respect your­self and every­one else, and they respect
you in return.
Imag­ine liv­ing with­out the fear of lov­ing and not being loved. You
are no longer afraid to be reject­ed, and you don’t have the need to
be accept­ed. You can say “I love you” with no shame or jus­ti­fi­ca­tion.
You can walk in the world with your heart com­plete­ly open, and not
be afraid to be hurt.
Imag­ine liv­ing your life with­out being afraid to take a risk and to
explore life. You are not afraid to lose any­thing. You are not afraid to
be alive in the world, and you are not afraid to die.
Imag­ine that you love your­self just the way you are. You love your
body just the way it is, and you love your emo­tions just the way they
are. You know that you are per­fect just as you are.
The rea­son I ask you to imag­ine these things is because they are
all entire­ly pos­si­ble! You can live in the state of grace, the state of
bliss, the dream of heav­en. But in order to expe­ri­ence this dream,
you must first under­stand what it is.
Only love has the abil­i­ty to put you in that state of bliss. Being in
bliss is like being in love. Being in love is like being in bliss. You are
float­ing in the clouds. You are per­ceiv­ing love wher­ev­er you go. It is
entire­ly pos­si­ble to live this way all the time. It is pos­si­ble because
oth­ers have done it and they are no dif­fer­ent from you. They live in
bliss because they have changed their agree­ments and are
dream­ing a dif­fer­ent dream.
Once you feel what it means to live in a state of bliss, you will love
it. You will know that heav­en on earth is truth — that heav­en tru­ly
exists. Once you know that heav­en exists, once you know it is
pos­si­ble to stay there, it’s up to you to make the effort to do it. Two
thou­sand years ago, Jesus told us about the king­dom of heav­en, the
king­dom of love, but hard­ly any­one was ready to hear this. They
said, “What are you talk­ing about? My heart is emp­ty, I don’t feel the
love that you are talk­ing about; I don’t feel the peace that you have.”