ACIM workbook lesson #51:
Today we begin 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=51
[Marsha's thoughts]
In the first 50 days of the year, we have started to recognize what is reality and what is illusion. We have learned that what we think we see is actually taking the place of true vision. By realizing that nothing means anything, we are giving ourselves permission to drop beliefs and accept spiritual facts. Everything I think I see is colored with judgment, both mine and others. This judgment has given me whatever meaning I've placed on anything. These meanings make no sense and cannot be understood because they have been interpreted through erroneous thought and belief. By seeing through the illusions we've made, we free ourselves to see Truth. When we accept that these thoughts mean nothing, we let go of the self-importance we've attached to everything we think. Then we are able to release them and replace them with the inner knowing that is God. When I become upset, it is never for the reason I think. In order to justify these incomprehensible beliefs, I have made up a complex defense system of attacks and retreats which only serve to leave me in a state of disharmony. I don't want this crazy fantasy to be my life! I want to follow the leadings of Love, to hear through Spirit, to see with Soul, to live Life.
Mary Baker Eddy quotes:
“Spiritual perception brings out the possibilities of being, destroys reliance on aught but God, and so makes man the image of his Maker in deed and in truth.”
Science & Health Page 203:13-16
