“I have no neutral thoughts…. I see no neutral things… I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing… I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts….I am determined to see…”
I am alone in nothing. Everything I think or say or do teaches all the universe.
100% responsible.
Only one question must be answered: “Do I want to know my Father’s Will for me?”
Life is thought. And from thinking comes vision or image making… Ultimately, there is One Mind; the Mind we share with God…
Yet, utilizing the perspective of a ‘split mind, housing two exclusive thought systems, is crucial to the awakening procedure the Course lays out. It leads, through forgiveness corridors; to the recognition that we are the one-mind dreamer of the dream…This is critical awareness to our eventual realization of the ‘unreality of the dream. And produces the ‘waking-up to the ‘reality’ of what always was and is… already… God…
Within this perspective of illusory world, it always boils down to, “What do you treasure and how much do you treasure it?” Love or fear; those are your options. Those are the two kinds of thinking: withhold or forgiveness, oneness or separation …
In training the mind to think only with God, a touchstone is continually to ask ourselves, “Am I thinking with God through the Holy Spirit within my mind or am I thinking through the ego belief within my mind? All person-hood thoughts, all judgments, are merely the ordering of our thoughts into hierarchies. Regardless of what they seem to be, they are but what the ego deems minor preferences, to blatant ‘right and wrong’ rules. These include all body concerns (self and others), various types of relationships; good and bad, romantic or platonic, hate or love, and basically the entire ‘choice’ smorgasbords, all falling into the separation category.
Everything comes from some source, yes? That source or cause is then the core structure from which the full spectrum of characteristics are then extended by thought.
God is First Cause. God is the Source. Period. God is love, whose characteristics are always whole, eternal, formless, inclusive, changeless, free…
Separation as Source simply cannot be. Its characteristics do not represent the Cause of life. So, it stands to reason, that it is illusory.
For the purposes of this unlearning/learning Course, however, we use its vernacular to illustrate its unreality. Separation’s core structure is to separate-out; ‘special-nesses’ from other ‘special-nesses’, good from bad, right from wrong, with individual names and meanings, naturally therefore, gives birth to forms and fragments and differences and meanings… It relies on a duality based thought system, which is itself, an illusion, by definition, to give it a seemingly reliable structure. Yet by its nature, it cannot be relied on. It must continually do what it must do, does so exponentially, since to split or separate by definition, ‘must come apart’.
But, now, consider this: since the seeming separation fathered by that ‘tiny mad idea’ never really occurred in truth ~can this really be called thinking? Isn’t it really just fantasy about nothing ~ or not really thinking at all? So again, the choice is between nothing and life eternal…
Up against reason, it simply can’t stand… When seen with reason, or right-mindedness, the choice is obvious …
The thing about how it works in this world, is that how we heal our missed-perception is by looking directly at what we have already out-pictured, in other words, the world around us, and notice how we feel. Where we feel icky or less than peaceful, loving and happy, we accept we are the makers of the situation, the hub, from which we see it, and because we don’t like the way we feel (internal guidance system), we must have judged the situation wrongly. From this place of ownership we can be and usually are, willing to see things differently. Or as the Course tells us, to actually ‘see’…
Recognizing the shared nature of my thoughts, I am determined to see. I would look upon the witnesses that show me the thinking of the world has been changed. I would behold the proof that what has been done through me has enabled love to replace fear, laughter to replace weeping, and abundance to replace loss. I would look upon the real
Let today be one of Clarity, let us join in looking upon a forgiven world because we chose once again and let our thoughts be of One Mind…
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