A Course in Miracles Lesson #149
Review of:
#137 "When I am healed I am not healed alone."
#138 "Heaven is the decision I must make."
The main thought to hold to in this review:
“My mind holds only what I think with God.”
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| "St. Petersburg Quartet with 11-year-old Claire Luan Wells" photo from the Lovely County Citizen |
The language of the symphony is so exquisite! Recently, I've been finding the most wonderful performances on the internet. These musical masterpieces are performed wordlessly in the language of beauty and harmony, excitement and grace. As a result of this listening, I've been practicing the same thing with music which we are doing with words denoting things and circumstances in these daily ACIM workbook lessons. If I've heard a piece of music before, it's very likely I have put some material meaning onto it. It may be a melody I remember hearing with a loved one, or something played on the piano at a particular occasion, or any of a multitude of interpretations I've placed upon the piece of music. Through the practice of releasing any meaning which I've placed on anything, I'm learning a new language. This is the language of Spirit, which we're discovering in our study of divine metaphysics. For instance, the word "Spirit" as I used it in the last sentence has an entirely different meaning than how the Ghost Tours at the Crescent Hotel may refer to it! The capitalization of this word not only creates a synonym for God, but incorporates all the other nuances which are a part of its spiritual interpretation. For instance, Spirit is tangible; Spirit is substance. It "blesses the multiplication of its own pure ideas". (MBE) As with the learning of anything new, we must practice until it becomes natural to us; until we incorporate these ideas into our lives without specific thought. As we bring this Truth to our illusionary beliefs, we realize the healing we practice is universal, we see there is no choice between heaven and anything else, and we find it All in "what we think with God".
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness.
Science & Health Page 264:15-19
