1. Do you believe that truth can be but some illusions? 2They are dreams because they are not true. 3Their equal lack of truth becomes the basis for the miracle, which means that you have understood that dreams are dreams; and that escape depends, not on the dream, but only on awaking. 4Could it be some dreams are kept, and others wakened from? 5The choice is not between which dreams to keep, but only if you want to live in dreams or to awaken from them. 6Thus it is the miracle does not select some dreams to leave untouched by its beneficence. 7You cannot dream some dreams and wake from some, for you are either sleeping or awake. 8And dreaming goes with only one of these.
2. The dreams you think you like would hold you back as much as those in which the fear is seen. 2For every dream is but a dream of fear, no matter what the form it seems to take. 3The fear is seen within, without, or both. 4Or it can be disguised in pleasant form. 5But never is it absent from the dream, for fear is the material of dreams, from which they all are made. 6Their form can change, but they cannot be made of something else. 7The miracle were treacherous indeed if it allowed you still to be afraid because you did not recognize the fear. 8You would not then be willing to awake, for which the miracle prepares the way.
3. In simplest form, it can be said attack is a response to function unfulfilled as you perceive the function. 2It can be in you or someone else, but where it is perceived it will be there it is attacked. 3Depression or assault must be the theme of every dream, for they are made of fear. 4The thin disguise of pleasure and of joy in which they may be wrapped but slightly veils the heavy lump of fear that is their core. 5And it is this the miracle perceives, and not the wrappings in which it is bound.
4. When you are angry, is it not because someone has failed to fill the function you allotted him? 2And does not this become the “reason” your attack is justified? 3The dreams you think you like are those in which the functions you have given have been filled; the needs which you ascribe to you are met. 4It does not matter if they be fulfilled or merely wanted. 5It is the idea that they exist from which the fears arise. 6Dreams are not wanted more or less. 7They are desired or not. 8And each one represents some function that you have assigned; some goal which an event, or body, or a thing should represent, and should achieve for you. 9If it succeeds you think you like the dream. 10If it should fail you think the dream is sad. 11But whether it succeeds or fails is not its core, but just the flimsy covering.
5. How happy would your dreams become if you were not the one who gave the “proper” role to every figure which the dream contains. 2No one can fail but your idea of him, and there is no betrayal but of this. 3The core of dreams the Holy Spirit gives is never one of fear. 4The coverings may not appear to change, but what they mean has changed because they cover something else. 5Perceptions are determined by their purpose, in that they seem to be what they are for. 6A shadow figure who attacks becomes a brother giving you a chance to help, if this becomes the function of the dream. 7And dreams of sadness thus are turned to joy.
6. What is your brother for? 2You do not know, because your function is obscure to you. 3Do not ascribe a role to him that you imagine would bring happiness to you. 4And do not try to hurt him when he fails to take the part that you assigned to him, in what you dream your life was meant to be. 5He asks for help in every dream he has, and you have help to give him if you see the function of the dream as He perceives its function, Who can utilize all dreams as means to serve the function given Him. 6Because He loves the dreamer, not the dream, each dream becomes an offering of love. 7For at its center is His Love for you, which lights whatever form it takes with love.