Lesson 144. My mind holds only what I think with God.
(127) There is no love but God’s.
(128) The world I see has nothing that I want.
For the review we are to practice repeating the two lessons each hour after we gave the first five minutes to the central idea of this review section. But how are these thoughts connected?
The Thoughts of God would have to refer to our true nature. Because our true nature is all that exists, Lesson 127 could also say, “There is nothing but love.” It couldn’t have anything to do with form. There is no independent life in form. Life is eternal and formless. Then I went back and read lesson 128, “The world I see has nothing that I want.” That lesson also says, “For what you value you make part of you, as you perceive yourself.” I want to experience the Love that I am.
1 Corinthians 13 says, “When you look on the world you see the reflection of your mind, which makes the world through thought. What you believe and what you accept is seen in the world. There is division [in the world], because there is division in your thought. This thought is not love.”
If the world is in my mind and my beliefs are what is reflected there, then I certainly want to believe my mind holds only love. So again, how does this connect to “There is no love but God’s”? If love is what I am and this world is intended to offer me the experience of something other than what is, then love can’t really be known within this temporal reflection. Our beliefs keep love blocked from our minds. Lesson 127 says, “The world that seems to hold you prisoner can be escaped by anyone who does not hold it dear.” I hold it dear by giving my thoughts about who I am my believing attention.
Again, 1 Corinthians 13 says, “Become as an empty shell to know Love.” I think that is the connecting idea. Just what we have been learning. First, we must removing our believing attention from the thoughts that purport to tell us who we are. In the space made empty, we find that awareness watching awareness is the portal to Real Vision and Love.
