If you pay close attention to the thoughts that come into the mind, you’ll find attack, defense, guilt, blame, unworthiness, anxiousness, fear, envy, desire, righteousness, victimization, judgment, regrets, manipulation, selfishness and hate, to name a few. If you look at the world, you’ll find these qualities there too. That’s because these thoughts come from the ego’s illusion and these thoughts make the ego’s illusion. It’s a loop of cause and effect. Thought causes manifestation, and one type of manifestation is thought, so thoughts of a certain type create more thoughts of the same type.
Today’s workbook lesson says:
Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions.
NTI Ephesians says something similar. It says:
Watch the thoughts carefully. Do not choose those which you would not deliver, knowing all that is delivered can be given back to you.
Today’s workbook lesson is a beginning step towards realizing that you do not want to believe every thought your mind receives, because many of those thoughts do not serve you, nor do they serve the world.
Homework for this week
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- Homework Assignment A: ACIM Workbook Lessons 15-21a. Note: Lesson 20 asks us to repeat the lesson to ourselves twice per hour, preferably on the half-hour. One can set an alarm to remind one’s self, but it is generally better if one remembers because of the desire to remember. Recommend ending each 30-minute practice with a heartfelt intention to remember again in 30 minutes. Whenever you notice that you forgot, remind yourself how important this is to you and begin again in that moment.
- Homework Assignment B: Read NTI Ephesians (p. 339-347).
