Lesson 045: ”God is the Mind with which I think.”
AI Reframe: My clearest thoughts come from a wiser inner intelligence.
Suggested Practice:
Three three-to-five practice periods today. Begin by stating the idea as you close your eyes. Spend a short period of time thinking about thoughts relevant, relating to the idea. Now, repeat the idea again and tell yourself gently:
My real thoughts are in my mind. I would like to find them.
Then try to go past all the unreal thoughts (ego-based, fear-based) that cover the truth in your mind.
The point of the practice is to recognize and re-member that “under all the senseless thoughts and mad ideas with which you have cluttered up your mind are the thoughts that you thought with God* in the beginning. They are there in your mind now, completely unchanged. They will always be in your mind, exactly as they always were.”
NOTE: If it helps with the practice, feel free to use whatever “God” term resonates for you.
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Message
Today we practice noticing real thoughts over unreal ones.
Unreal thoughts arise from the ego-mind. They tend to be small, fearful, and limiting.
Real thoughts arise from the Mind of God*—Universal Mind, Divine Mind, Truth. They feel expansive. Loving. Peaceful. Joyful.
Here’s a vision that came to me regarding today’s idea:
I’m in a vast white room with high ceilings. Splitting the room in half is a wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling partition of frosted glass. I am alone on my side. I sense something happening on the other side, but all I see are shadows and all I hear are muffled sounds.
I walk up to the glass, wanting to see more clearly. When I touch it, I realize it isn’t frosted at all—it’s simply fogged up. I wipe away a small patch with my hand.
Through that clearing, I see people joyfully playing table tennis. It’s competitive, yes—but playful. There’s laughter. There’s lightness. There’s connection.
And I realize: I want what they have.
Like yesterday’s vision, today’s continues the theme that we don’t have to go it alone. We don’t have to remain on one side of the glass, believing we are separate.
From the Lesson:
²We will attempt to leave the unreal and seek for the real. ³We will deny the world in favor of truth. ⁴We will not let the thoughts of the world hold us back. ⁵We will not let the beliefs of the world tell us that what God* would have us do is impossible. ⁶Instead, we will try to recognize that only what God* would have us do is possible.
We will also try to understand that only what God* would have us do is what we want to do. ²And we will also try to remember that we cannot fail in doing what He would have us do. ³There is every reason to feel confident that we will succeed today. ⁴It is the Will of God.(ACIM, W-45.4:2–5:4)
I’m reminded here that God’s* Will for us is perfect happiness. When we seek real thoughts—thoughts from a higher Mind—we begin to see what is actually possible. The limits imposed by fear, by society, by the ego-mind start to dissolve, like fog on glass.
And what remains is clarity. Direction. Joy.
Or as Captain Picard would say:
”Make is so”
*Feel free to substitute “God” with whatever word resonates for you.
“When I choose kindness and generosity in whatever situation I find myself, to whomever happens to be in front of me, it opens a crack to see a whole different reality’.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
The Mandala Lady
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