Opening to Mind

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ACIM Workbook Lesson #24: "I do not perceive my own best interests.”

Today’s lesson is a step in opening the mind so that learning can begin, a step in seeing that there is a need for another way of looking at everything. This is not a need for another action, or a change in the world; rather it is a sincere and humble desire to allow divine Mind to show our mortal mind the nothingness of perception. To quote a passage from today’s workbook lesson: “If you realized that you do not perceive your own best interests, you could be taught what they are. But in the presence of your conviction that you do know what they are, you cannot learn. The idea for today is a step toward opening your mind so that learning can begin.” It’s always difficult to admit that we don’t know things — at least it is for me! We need not seek for our identity, as the reality of our being is right here and now, in all its perfection, waiting for us to find it!

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

“John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life and its demonstration, — reducing to human perception and understanding the Life which is God.” Science & Health Page 561:16-20