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ACIM Workbook Lesson #143:
Review of: #125 "In quiet I receive God's Word today." #126 "All that I give is given to myself." And the main thought to hold to in these review: “My mind holds only what I think with God.”
Two things which, in reality, do not exist -- mortal mind, as termed by Mary Baker Eddy, and ego as it's called in ACIM -- want you to think you would no longer be you with the admission that you are One with all that Is. What if free will does not exist unless you DO give up what you think of as individuality and embrace Oneness? I'm beginning to see that I have no will of my own if I'm simply regurgitating well-rehearsed lines from the history of my life. I'm starting to glimpse the freedom which comes from throwing off the chains I have bound myself with through a lifetime of fears and learned behavior. A dear friend related a story about thinking his stepmother had never liked him. Then one day he found out she was practically deaf, and the actions he had interpreted as slights to him were actually moments of confusion on her part. He now sees their relationship with the freedom of understanding. Today I will quietly listen for that still, small voice which frees me.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“There is but one I, or Us, but one divine Principle, or Mind, governing all existence; man and woman unchanged forever in their individual characters, even as numbers which never blend with each other, though they are governed by one Principle. All the objects of God's creation reflect one Mind, and whatever reflects not this one Mind, is false and erroneous, even the belief that life, substance, and intelligence are both mental and material.”
Science & Health Page 511:11-19
