Wiping Out Error

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ACIM Workbook Lesson #10 “My thoughts do not mean anything.”

It may seem insulting to yourself, demeaning even, to think all day long that your thoughts do not mean anything. But this exercise is helping us to release the untrue thoughts of separation, freeing us to welcome divine Mind’s all-encompassing Idea. Are there some instances in your life where you felt you said or did the wrong thing, and this situation repeats in your thought all too often? Maybe you think you don’t look good, or aren’t smart enough, or made wrong decisions, or were gullible, naive, or just plain foolish. These thoughts mean nothing, and releasing them leaves us with a clean slate, allowing Truth to rewrite our story. The goal is to be just as Love created us, allowing any other thoughts to return to the nothingness from which they came. What a beautiful, peaceful day we shall have!

Mary Baker Eddy quote: 

“Truth bestows no pardon upon error, but wipes it out in the most effectual manner.”  Science & Health Page 11:17-18

January 4, 2014 - What Do My Thoughts Mean?

ACIM Workbook Lesson #4

“These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].” 

I heard Wayne Dyer tell us that the average human has around 50,000 thoughts a day. Unfortunately, he said, those thoughts are the same ones we had yesterday! I think this realization makes it easier to see the meaningless-ness of our thoughts. They are, for the most part, by-rote responses to circumstance. Recently I told you that I've been having vivid dreams and wake up wondering what they mean. Today's practice of seeing the lack of meaning to our thoughts is just what I need! It doesn't matter what these dreams mean, because it's all meaningless material interpretation I'm wondering about. By seeing the non-sense of this exercise I've been involved with, I'm freed to forget about it and seek to establish spiritual sense in place of these illusions. I look forward to a universal epiphany of understanding that thought is, in its truest form, Spirit. That time of viewing reality as spiritual, not material, is visible to all who want to see. 

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

"Thought will finally be understood and seen in all form, substance, and color, but without material accompaniments. The potter is not in the clay; else the clay would have power over the potter. God is His own infinite Mind, and expresses all."

Science & Health  Page 310:6-10