The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still. It reaches gently from that quiet time, and from the mind it healed in quiet then, to other minds to share its quietness. And they will join in doing nothing to prevent its radiant extension back into the Mind which caused all minds to be. Born out of sharing, there can be no pause in time to cause the miracle delay in hastening to all unquiet minds, and bringing them an instant’s stillness, when the memory of God returns to them. Their own remembering is quiet now, and what has come to take its place will not be wholly unremembered afterwards. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.I.11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
A chaotic series of thoughts seems to be constantly flowing through our mind. Many seem to be completely disconnected from the others. Others seem to be connected to each other but lead nowhere. These are the thoughts fed to us by the ego thought system. They do not come from our true Self, which has only one Thought, that It shares with God.
Our true Self’s singular thought is the joyous extension of the Thought of Love, Which created us and extends through us. It does not help to try to do battle with the ego’s chaotic thoughts in an attempt to manage the chaos. That is simply asking the source of chaos to manage its own chaos.
The way out of the chaos is to simply let it pass by without participating in the chaos. In this world the ego thoughts will enter our minds. As we learn to give them no attention, they pass by with no effect because the ego’s thoughts have no substance and no energy. It is the attention we give to the ego thoughts that seem to give them effects in our life experience.
To quiet our minds, we can notice the ego thoughts and let them pass by. As we withdraw our attention to these thoughts, we make way for the Thought of our true Self to rise to our awareness. Like the sound of a railroad train passing by fades off into the distance, our minds return to quiet as we no longer feed the ego with our attention. Now the way is clear to remember the Thought of Love that created us. Now we have freed ourselves to extend the Thought of Love and let It shine on all our brothers. Now we remember our Father and we rest in His peace.
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