What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions.
Besides your recognizing that thoughts are never idle, salvation requires that you also recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war; either love or fear. A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible. There is such a temptation to dismiss fear thoughts as unimportant, trivial and not worth bothering about that it is essential you recognize them all as equally destructive, but equally unreal. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 16, W-pI.16.2:2-3;3:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 16 Insights.)
A distinguishing characteristic of all fear thoughts is that they disturb our peace. Fear thoughts show up in many forms, some of which we may not think of as fear thoughts. Jealousy, impatience, sadness, irritation, all are forms of fear thoughts, for they all disturb our peace. They are as equally destructive as intense rage because they all stem from the mistaken idea that we are separate, which is the denial of the oneness of Love we were created to be.
Thankfully we are not stuck in the illusion of justified fear. We have help in our minds to teach us to recognize that what we thought was cause for fear was really nothing. The practice of opening our hearts and minds to the Holy Spirit’s loving, patient teaching will help free us from the destructive thoughts of fear so that they are freely replaced by our natural ongoing extension of Love. As we extend Love, we experience God’s gift of peace.
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