Waking Up in a Busy World: Review I

Friday, February 7, 2020

Review I

The purpose of your learning is to enable you to bring the quiet with you, and to heal distress and turmoil.
ACIM-W-Review I: 4:4

At the end of so many lessons, ACIM provides a review for the learning of the lessons just covered. This review will cover the next ten lessons.

It is important to review. As an educator, I relied heavily on doing reviews after a session was covered to highlight the important areas of learning I wanted my students to master. It is cool to see A Course doing the same.

Key points of the last fifty lessons:

What we think we see with the body's eyes is actually taking the place of real vision
Our self destructive judgments give false meaning to everything we see and are not based on reality. Therefore we do not understand anything we see and what we do see means nothing.
We are never upset for the reasons we think we are. We are upset because we are constantly having to justify these unreal thoughts we have and because we have replaced reality, which is always peaceful, with illusion which too often isn't.
We often see through eyes of conditioning, of past and our minds are often "stuck" in that, therefore we are unable to see anything as it is now. We need to learn to forgive and give the past away.
We do not recognize that our mind cannot be apart from God and tend to focus only on our "little me" thoughts which mean nothing
These meaningless thoughts the little me creates are showing us a crazy, chaotic, and scary meaningless world. This upsets us and causes fear. We need to remind ourselves that God did not create a meaningless world and that our thoughts are just false images we have made.
Our thoughts...the ones we create without God are not neutral...we are always thinking in terms of black or white so we cannot see neutral things. Everything we feel or experience then are a result of our judgments.
We need to realize that what we see or think impacts the entire world and therefore must be determined to see clearly, to see things differently, to see things through eyes of Love instead of eyes of vengeance/attack and defense
We are invulnerable but our attack thoughts make us feel vulnerable. In order to tap back into that invulnerability we need to remember that God is in everything we see because God is in our mind. To see differently we need to remember Who we are.
We are only victims to the mind the little me uses to create fear. There is another more peaceful way of looking at the world. We can choose peace instead. We are after all very holy because our minds are parts of God.
This holiness surrounds everything we see, blesses the entire world and can do absolutely everything. Most importantly this holiness, as a blessed child of God, frees us from our mind.
God is with us wherever we go giving us strength and clear vision. God is our Source and we cannot be apart from Him. He is the light by which we see and the mind by which we think.