Lesson 069: ”My grievances hide the light of the world in me.”

AI Reframe: Clinging to old pain makes it hard to recognize my inner clarity.

Suggested Practice:
For the longer 10-15 minute practice, begin by spending a few minutes focused on what we’re attempting to do: reach the light within us. Then do this visualization exercise:

You see before you a circle, surrounded by layer of heavy, dark cloud, unaware that there’s a brilliant light hidden by these clouds. You think the clouds are your reality, since that’s all you can see.

Very quietly now, with your eyes closed, try to let go of all the content that generally occupies your consciousness. ²Think of your mind as a vast circle, surrounded by a layer of heavy, dark clouds. ³You can see only the clouds because you seem to be standing outside the circle and quite apart from it.

“Therefore, you do not attempt to go through them and past them, which is the only way in which you would be really convinced of their lack of substance.” Step forward determined to go past the clouds. “Reach out and touch them in your mind. Brush them aside with your hand; feel them resting on your cheeks and forehead and eyelids as you go through them. ⁵Go on; clouds cannot stop you.” Allow yourself to be lifted and carried ahead by the light within.

For the shorter practice periods—done as often as possible—focus on “the importance of today’s idea to you and your happiness, remind yourself that your grievances are hiding the light of the world from your awareness. Remind yourself also that you are not searching for it alone, and that you do know where to look for it. ³Say, then”:

My grievances hide the light of the world in me. ⁵I cannot see what I have hidden. ⁶Yet I want to let it be revealed to me, for my salvation* and the salvation* of the world.

Also, be sure to tell yourself:

If I hold this grievance the light of the world will be hidden from me,

if you are tempted to hold anything against anyone today.

* BTW…Salvation is simply the choice to let go of guilt and see the world—and everyone in it—through the eyes of love, thereby waking up from the dream of separation.

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Message

Today’s practice was so powerful that I sobbed for fifteen minutes—it would have gone longer, but I had a Zoom call.

The vision of the clouds was so dense with grievances that I couldn’t separate one from the other. It wasn’t about the individual grievances, but about how they all worked together to block my light.

I was flooded with memories of every time and way I’ve blocked my light. The visual that came to mind: my hands shackled and chained behind me by a crowd of angry people in shadows. I am desperate to move toward this huge bonfire of light, but the shadow people are just as desperate, holding me back.

Yesterday I defined a grievance as anything that overshadows, blocks, or disconnects me from my true Self—love, peace, and joy. Today I’d like to expand on that:

A grievance is the insane decision to hold onto the chains (the past) because we are afraid that letting them go would mean disappearing into a light we don’t yet trust.

Doing the practice today helped me remember that I hold the key to the shackles. Ultimately, I am the one holding myself back from the light.

My ego-mind fears that if I let go of these grievances, I am saying what “others” did—or what I did—was okay. It fears I will lose my identity as the “wronged” one. The Course says the exact opposite: letting go of the grievance returns me to my true Identity as one with the light.

“My grievances are the voice in my head that’s not me. The Course calls it my ego.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout

Blessings & Peace,

Maureen,
The Mandala Lady

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