Lesson 111. Review of Lessons 91 and 92.
Wow! Here we are, Lesson 111 and our third review! Read the instructions for the review carefully. Notice that we are given this review as an opportunity to re-devote ourselves to our own Awakening. Notice that we are asked to be gentle but firm in our resolve. Notice that we are asked to recognize any resistance we find and to meet it with the discipline of our true desire.
We will use this period of review to enhance our contemplation skills. The tips each day during the review will help you learn the art of contemplation.
Contemplation brings clarity to the mind, so that the mind can operate with wisdom instead of through ignorance. Contemplation provides the opportunity to learn from within yourself, to be guided from within yourself and to receive vision from within yourself.
Regina wrote the following in her contemplation of the art of contemplation: “Contemplation is not thinking or trying to understand. Contemplation is silent diving into the restful, devotional, open heart of the words, and there being; just being in the state of contemplation without seeking to understand or get answers.”
When you contemplate, write down what comes and review it several times throughout the day. It may come in words, as a picture, as a vision or as a feeling. If it comes as one of the latter three, consider making a few notes that will remind you of the experience later.
Here is my personal contemplation of Lesson 111.
Miracles are seen in light.
Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.
Miracles are that which is seen through the heart. This is where the light resides. Every single thing is a miracle. It all has such depth and beauty. This is what is missed when thoughts intrude. The heaviness–the burden of the world–is its darkness. It is this I am ready to release. And how is it released? By listening to the heart. What does the heart say? Rejoice! Be glad in each thing and in all things. My strength is who I am. My weakness is believing that other than this could be so. This is what is held at arms length by definition, distinction and distortion. Hold life lightly. It is no coincidence that those words, light and light(ly), are the same.
Strength and light and truth and joy are one. These blessings can only be found within my heart because this is what I am. In my weakness I return to that upon which I have always relied—the thinking mind. Weakness is not evil, but confusion—or lack of sight.
As I reach for the light that is my own true nature, I will feel its strength within me and I will see with vision. This seeing is the miracle.
