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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, please go to
www. acim.org
In the first 50 lessons, we have begun to make the distinction between reality and illusion. We are learning 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 my own and that of 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 looking through the illusions we've made, we free ourselves to see Truth. When we accept that these thoughts mean nothing, we can let go the self-importance we've attached to everything. Then we are able to release these thoughts and replace them with the inner knowing which is God. We also have been asked to see that when we become upset, it is never for the reason we think. In order to justify these incomprehensible beliefs we have set up, we make up a complex defense system of attacks and retreats, which only serve to leave us 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 quote:
“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
