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Pastimes : Metaphysics and Spiritual Practices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: O'Hara who wrote (193)	11/19/1997 2:39:00 PM
From: Tomato	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 650

ACIM Lesson #8 "My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts" No one really sees anything. He sees only his thoughts projected outward. The mind's preoccupation with the past is the cause ofthe misconceptioin about time from which your seeing suffers. You mind cannot grasp the present, which is hte only time there is. It therefore cannot understand time, and cannot, in fact, understand anything. The one wholly true thought one can hold bout the past is that it is not here. To think about it al all is therefore to think about illusions. Exercise: Say, "I seem to be thinking about______" "But my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts" Lesson #9 'I see nothing as it is now" It is difficult for the untrained mind to believe that what it seems to picture is not there. Yet that does not preclude applying it.... Say, "I do not see this e.g. computer as it is now." Lesson #10 'My thoughts do not mean anything" We began with the idea that The thoughts of which you are aware are meaningless, outside rather than within; you look at their past rather than their present status. Your mind is really a blank. "this idea will help to release me from all that I now believe" "My thought about _____ does not mean anything. Lesson #11"My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world" Lesson #12 I am upset because I see a meaningless world" You think that what upsets you is a frightening world, or a sad world, or a violent world, or an insane world. All these attributes are given it by you. The world is meaningless in itself. What is meaningless is neither good nor bad. Why then should a meaningless world upset you? If you could accept the world as meaningless and let the turth be written upon it for you it would make you indescribably happy. Beneath your words is written the Word of God. The truth upsets you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see His. That is the ultimate purpose of these exercises.