Lesson 148. My mind holds only what I think with God.

(135) If I defend myself I am attacked

(136) Sickness is a defense against the truth

We are beginning to think (or not think) from a new perspective. Many of us, until recently, have been wrong about what we think we think and how the mind works or doesn’t work. We are now aware enough that we know we don’t want to come from that unconscious chatter that claims to be us. We want to stop defending ourselves. Aren’t we cognitive enough to ask, ‘who would I defend myself from?’

I’m ready to change. Until recently I used defenses casually, almost jokingly to justify everything. I forgot to do so and so, oh I must be getting old. I never have been good with numbers, you will have to figure it out. I was raised to think _____ so I can’t go there. I always let my husband do that because men do that sort of thing. When we use defenses like I’m too old, too fat, too ugly, too poor, too sick, too tired, too weak, or too busy we are confirming with more power than we might realize our limitations as we unconsciously believe them. This is an attack against ourselves. These are attacks on truth because the mind, the perceiver of life as we know it, believes it when we say and think these concepts.

Some might say we are just protecting ourselves, but in so doing we are hiding the truth about ourselves from ourselves. Maybe you just think you need for some things to change in order for you to be happy or safe or whatever you are defending yourself against. Nevertheless, when we defend ourselves we are making a choice, conscious or not, to identify with the deceived mind, attack ourselves and others and keep our minds focused in the world. I’m ready to let go of these interpretations, mind chattering concepts and justifications. I’m ready to drop the habit of ignorance and turn attention toward the heart, towards truth.

Lesson 147. My mind holds only what I think with God.

(133) I will not value what is valueless.

(134) Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.

I am struck by how different this lesson appears to me now. There was a time when I believed that I was somehow being asked to give up that which I valued and exchange it for something else that someone else thought was more valuable.

I will not value what is valueless. What is valuable?  What is valuable is what we have identified as that which “I think with God”: peace, love, joy and oneness. These qualities engender the knowledge that all is well, cause me to greet everyone and everything with an open embracing acceptance, give me an inherent sense of freedom—a sense of soaring from within—and cause me to feel an intimacy with everything. I know the value of these inherent characteristics of my being from my own direct experience. What could possibly be more valuable than this?

Forgiveness is the invitation to experience only this. Forgiveness is to let go confusion over who I am so that I experience only those qualities inherent in Source and thus inherent in me. Forgiveness is, in fact, the embodiment of those very things: knowing all is well, practicing open embracing acceptance, experiencing and extending an inherent sense of freedom and experiencing an intimacy with everything. Forgiveness is recognizing that anything I seem to think or experience that is different from those qualities is simply untrue.

I am grateful for the simplicity of “salvation”/freedom.

Lesson 146. My mind holds only what I think with God.

(131) No-one can fail who asks to reach the truth

(132) I loose the world from all I thought it was

“I loose the world from all I thought it was.” This declaration is saying I was wrong about what I think I am, what I think the world is and what I think the world’s source is. Now I recognize that the mind contains the world. If this is true, I want to loosen my grip on the thoughts I thought were true and see from another way. If I am starting to recognize my thoughts have been wrong about everything I want to allow this doubt of validity to be the impetus for finding the truth.

Lesson 131, “No-one can fail who asks to reach the truth.” Now that this idea has been proposed, and that I have been wrong, that my perceptions are wrong, I want to open my mind to a new perspective, a shift in the way I perceive. I want to actively seek this new perspective. And the good news is we have been given the tools with which to find it. We can find it by becoming as an empty shell according to 1 Corinthians 13, “Become as a empty shell to know Love.” We seek it through our spiritual aspiration and through Awareness watching Awareness, as well as, practicing the Loving All Method. It is exciting to let the old go and to contemplate Life from the perspective of truth. Glory be to God and Truth.