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ACIM Lesson 4 2025

These thoughts do not mean anything.

“I love this first cup of coffee. I wish I had gotten up earlier. I hope I have time to do my Text work today. I feel anxious when I get behind.” These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room.

I could have gone all day without these thoughts… literally. I’ve probably had the same thoughts, and many like them, thousands of times. Even more. All they do is hide my real thoughts from my awareness. I think of thoughts as the veil that hides reality, the veil I am learning to lift and will soon recognize as nothing. Just illusion. When that happens, it will disappear completely, and I will see the real world.

So, I continue this lovely practice of lessons and whatever else the Holy Spirit guides me to do. I will continue to watch the veil thin, and the Love that is the stuff of reality is exposed more and more. Even now, I feel such joy and peace, and I feel it for no reason that I can discern. It must be that joy and peace are simply natural when we turn from the illusion and toward God.

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ACIM Lesson 3 2025

I do not understand anything I see.

The point of the exercises is to help you clear your mind of all past associations, to see things exactly as they appear to you now, and to realize how little you really understand about them.

I do not understand this cup of coffee. I find it remarkably difficult to suspend my judgment and to do this simple exercise without thinking about what I understand about the objects around me. The mind really wants to argue the point. And, of course, that is the point. How can I discover the truth when I think I already know it? Dear God, I pray for the humility of an open mind.

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ACIM Lesson 2 2025

I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me.

Oh, yes! I see this is true over and over again. Now, I never doubt it. If I am upset or judging in any way, I recognize that I give all things the only meaning they have for me. My car needs some bodywork on a side panel. At first, it was driving me crazy not getting it done. Every time I saw it, I cringed. But it will be a costly job, and so I have put it off. Remembering that I give this situation all the meaning it has for me, and therefore, I am depriving myself of happiness and peace of mind, not because the panel is damaged, but because I have decided this means I should be upset about it. So, since I am not as insane as I used to be, I changed my mind about this. I decided that it was ok that there was damage and that maybe one day I would have it fixed. And maybe not. Now, I am happy either way.

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ACIM Lesson 1 2025

Nothing I see means anything.

As I did this morning’s lesson, I noticed at first that “nothing I saw in this room meant anything” didn’t mean much to me. Then, I applied it to a computer camera, and I had the thought that it meant I would make better videos. Oh, yeah, now I get it. I think I know what it means according to the function and importance I gave it. But I am willing to let that go and accept, instead, that it means nothing. I don’t have to understand these lessons. I only need to do them. I trust my Brother Jesus. So I am willing.

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Conversing With the Holy Spirit about Lesson 262

Excerpt from Lesson 262: Let me perceive no differences today.
(ACIM, W-262)

This is a conversation I had with the Holy Spirit when I was just learning to see differently.

Me: Holy Spirit, what do you have to say to me this morning about today’s lesson? How can I move past what my eyes show me, that is, a world of differences, and see a world of one?

Holy Spirit: Precious one, the eyes show you only what the mind wants to see. Look upon the world, and you will see your wishes played out before you. Then it is a matter of changing your mind about what you want, and as you change your mind about what you want to see, your perception changes.

Me: And so the raging monster becomes the frightened child acting out his fear?

Holy Spirit: Yes, that is so. And what seemed to be a disaster, with acceptance and love, becomes your next step home.

Me: Holy Spirit, yesterday I noticed separation thoughts in the form of judgment. These two people keep coming back into my life, and each time I find myself in judgment of them. Why is it so hard to let go of this feeling of separation in their cases? They have not done something really horrible. I don’t understand my resistance.

Holy Spirit: What have you failed to forgive within yourself that you have projected upon these holy children of God.
All hatred is self-hatred. Do not search your mind but simply rest in God a moment and allow the answer to rise gently to the surface of your awareness. Your resistance to knowing what needs to be forgiven is your resistance to seeing it and knowing it has made a home in your mind.
I assure you that you are not condemned because you have carried an ego belief. It seems to you yet that some ego beliefs are worse than others, and therefore you are afraid to look within that you might find the one unforgivable thought. But I tell you that all ego thoughts are one ego thought. Any thought that is not love is simply a thought that is not love. The many forms these ego thoughts take distract from this fact but do not change it.

Me: Holy Spirit, the word that keeps coming into my mind is value.

Holy Spirit: Yes, if you value the ego thought, you will keep it.
One of the ways to keep a thought that is not true is to justify it. You look upon the actions of a brother and see wrongdoing rather than error; in this way, you justify your failure to forgive. Another way you keep a thought is to “turn a blind eye” to it, that is, to refuse to understand what is happening. If you have a thought in your mind, you know very well it is there.

Me: You caught me! I am guilty of doing just that. I said yesterday that I did not know why I cannot forgive these people.

Holy Spirit: No child, you are not guilty; you are merely placing a value on keeping a certain thought. This is not a sin, only an error. You have given value to what has no value. Are you willing to know you are wrong about being guilty?

Me: Thank you, Holy Spirit. I don’t know how to express my gratitude that you remain within me, unchanged and ever ready to take me to the truth.

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