February 28, 2012 - Real Thoughts

ACIM Lesson #59

Today is the ninth of a ten-day review of the first lessons. For a guide to this review, and a short description of each of the five, go to this link:**http://acim.org/Lessons/lesson.html?lesson=59

"Reflections in Glacier National Park"
photo by Aaron Springston

As usual, today's review offers so many avenues to explore that I find it impossible to settle on one! Of course, it all comes back to one thing: I Am One with All That Is. And so it is that God goes with me wherever I go; God is my strength, and vision is Its gift; God is my Source, and I see only Truth; God is the sight with which I see; God is the Mind with which I think. I have also been considering the writings of yesterday, in which I was filled with negative and erroneous thought. My stated way of coming back to Truth was through deeper spiritual study in every way, and an allowing of the purity of nature to show me my Real thoughts. A dear friend reminded me that only the inner voice, the relaxing into Truth as discerned from within, is necessary to get "back in tune". Of course, I know this is so -- and yet I find it difficult to still the illusory voices which seem to come from within! And this is why I resort to outside influences such as the writings of people whose works mirror what I've come to know as True. They bring me back to the realization that I Am One, that any seeming disruptive thoughts come from without, and allow physical senses to take a backseat to the spiritual sense which replaces material appearances. I look forward to the day when a moment of stillness will accomplish what I seem to strive for now! This harmony is my true Being -- so why won't I allow it in every moment? A Course in Miracles calls it ego; Christian Science refers to it as mortal mind. It doesn't matter what it's called as it's all unreal.

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

"This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace."

Science & Health Page 265:10-15