“My thoughts do not mean anything”…
Perception is not a fact, but rather, it is a reflection of the beliefs of the perceiver. So far in the lessons we are beginning to open to the idea that perhaps life is not as it has seemed…
let’s take for example, the mechanism that you are reading these thoughts on (computer, blackberry, etc.). Each individual sees its purpose just slightly different, based on our experience, values and beliefs, yes? For the longest time, a computer was but a piece of office furniture to me… and that was all the meaning it had for me. For someone else, it literally represents their “life”, yes? I’ve heard people say, ‘my planner is my life, I would be lost without it.’ We plainly choose the purpose or meaning of everything in every situation in our lives and that is what it becomes for us…
This lesson easily slides into place from the previous lessons. First; we introduce to our perception, the idea that all things in this world are essentially void of meaning aside from the meaning or value we have assigned it. We therefore do not understand its intrinsic meaninglessness.
The process as I have experienced it goes something like this: As I am suspending all meaning as I know it, of the thoughts that make up my so-called ‘life’, I simultaneously recognize that they mean nothing in and of themselves; and I recognize somewhere deep within me, that they were not even ‘real’ thoughts.
‘Real’, by definition, would have to be unchanging and everlasting…
Once my mind is open, I can then become available to allow the Holy Spirit to "think for God, for me" so that the truly meaningful becomes apparent.
The more I empty out, practice the lesson, don’t try to ‘get it’ but let the lessons work the miracles they are established to facilitate, the more I begin to see Christ-light shining behind all thoughts reflected in this seeming life of mine.
Simultaneously, I sense a deep, abiding peace spread out and interwoven, like a blanket beneath and surrounding all things and beings and situations. The comforting thought that seems present behind this peace is; 'all things work together for good'…
Ahhh….
“My thoughts do not mean anything”…
Dear Danet - thanks so much for your commentary on the lessons - It's really helping me see the application of the lessons a bit more deeply so I can really check in what I think I'm thinking about something and bring it to the surface and some thoughts that have been held in mind and believed as if they're true are bubbling up and being released. Thankyou for being explicit with the process which seems to be taking me a zillion years to "get" so I can really apply the lessons correctly.
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