"I have no neutral thoughts…”
Minds are joined, and thoughts make or create our reality as we believe… All thought results in experience based on who we believe we are. Furthermore, all thought comes from one of two camps.
True thoughts: thoughts of creation; which in this world reflect a unified purpose in God. The presence of these thoughts is easily recognized because they are accompanied by a deep sense of peace and certainty and trust… trust in our brother, the Holy Spirit , trust in God. We naturally let all things be exactly as they are.
False thoughts: are lonely and afraid thoughts, always on the defensive and filled with agendas of reciprocity.
The original error began and is one of authorship. God is First Cause. He created us by His extension of the love that He is. We are the effect of His extension, therefore endowing us with the same loving creative nature from which we came.
The ego is an image the mind made of the idea of being outside this oneness, an existence where one fathers oneself, where there is ‘me’ and others.
Here’s the pivot-point: what I believe I am. ~ Do I place my faith in my recognition (however slim or vague) in my identity as God’s Son or do I permit an self- concept or image I have made as a person (ego), which then determines the world I see. Each of us, in a moment of total insanity identified with the ego as ourselves and forgot our true Self, or we would not be here…
The lessons of the Course are reversing the process and training our minds.
I have no neutral thoughts. We align always with either love or fear.
Through the mind training we learn to suspend judgment long enough to ask to be shown the meaning by One who knows. This requires a leap of faith and can feel quite precarious at times. At first we don’t even attempt it until the life we made has failed for us... at which time, we are willing to see another way.
I love this part, stated below, from today’s lesson…
“There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of "idle thoughts." What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions. You can indeed multiply nothing, but you will not extend it by doing so.”
Mind watching twenty-four seven, I mean really paying attention to my thoughts… that has been the challenge. The denial and distraction techniques so fundamentally interwoven into my (this worlds) basic make up~ oh, their good –very good… I see so clearly the convoluted, contrived design of it to distract and allure~ It says, “don’t look, keep busy, complain, blame, explain ~ compromise…”, anything to keep us from turning our minds back on our Self to the truth which we could never really be without…
One of the things I love most about the Course (Oh, who am I kidding? … I love every precious symbol of the Course, with all my heart and gratitude!) Anyway, the thing that has consistently given me a sense of trust and security is that the Course is completely uncompromising, so to, I have found that practicing the principle of Atonement is uncompromising.
The Course says that compromise is the belief that salvation is impossible. I see now that was always the reason I sought compromise… I had no faith in Love, no faith in my brother or my self. I see now the actuality of what the Course means when it says that a miracle is an ‘act of faith – it is the recognition that your brother can do it, by calling to the one mind in him.’ …um, it feels good to trust…
This is what makes the Course so simple and possible, just because it makes NO compromise. And I have come to see that all my difficulty is proportionate to my belief that compromise is possible.
“…Besides your recognizing that thoughts are never idle, salvation requires that you also recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war, either love or fear…”
The Course says ‘you will except the course completely… or not at all’… This was been a difficult pill to swallow for me (when in my wrong mind) yet, impossible to deny. ~ Love or fear, God or nothing…What God did not create can only be in my mind that thinks it thinks apart from His. Therefore it really has no meaning. It isn’t real. But that doesn’t mean that it has no effects~ this entire dream is the effect: a dream ‘made’ by just such an idle (idol) thought…
Joyously, I came to realize that the reason nothing in this world holds any appeal for me is because, in itself, it is meaninglessly representing a world made by idle thought, as a prison for oneness~ and then gave the key to the gatekeeper named denial.
As the Course says, ‘Image making is not seeing’, and meaningless is nothing. So, but because of this, I feel impelled to write upon creation what I would have it be.
Yet… why not let the Holy Spirit/ the Truth be written for me. …Beneath my words is written the word of God; “I am as God created me.” Words cannot describe the Truth of what I am. Yet, joyously I see that truth through accepting the Atonement for myself. This is my only purpose. I am realizing my function of forgiveness here, which words can speak of and teach ~ I wish only to exemplify His word in me…for you and I are one… “Teach only love for that is what we are”…
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