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Gentle Healing Journal Day 3

Journal for Day 3
Lesson 3
I don’t understand anything I see.
I’m happy to say that I find this idea very freeing. As I realized when I read all three lessons together, I don’t understand anything I see because they are meaningless and I gave them all the meaning they have for me. And I know I did this with my ego thinking mind. It might seem to be very depressing to think that all of this is meaningless, but now I can ask what it is for and that is a much more profitable question. This is the question that leads to freedom.

July 30, 2018, Daily Quote
Within you, there is a place where I am and you are and there is no difference between us. This is a state of oneness, where the two are joined, and they are the same one. There is no loss in this state of awareness. There is only more. This is why I have asked you to inquire deep and broad. Within depth, there is expansion.
~ From the Inner Guide, Thoughts of Awakening

This could be Jesus and me, or you and I, or the clerk at Market Basket and I, or it can be the self and the Self – i and I. It is all joined as one. When we are aware of our oneness there is no loss, just expansion. What an important truth that is! I know that I used to think that being one meant that I was somehow diminished as if I would miss this body and this personality that I borrowed for the present incarnation. I seem to long for union now. I gladly release the idea of this temporary self to know myself as One with All.

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Gentle Healing Journal Day 2

Journal for Day 2
Lesson 2
I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me.

I followed the directions and looked at various things around me saying that I have given this thing and that all the meaning it has for me. I noticed that my mind often found the meaning I had given it. For instance, I looked at a knickknack and knew that I gave it the meaning of being a symbol of love because my brother gave it to me. It is also a symbol of loss because he never does stuff like that anymore.

I look at my router and felt both grateful for it and uneasy about it because I have had so much trouble with these things. I know that if my daughter looked at her router, she would have a different meaning attached to it. I know this because she likes her router and thinks it is the best one on the market and is proud of herself for finding it. I, on the other hand, question why I seem to be singled out for trouble with routers, and thus question my own worth. How strange this line of reasoning. But all of that ran through my mind as I glanced at this piece of electronics.

And so it goes for nearly everything I looked at. Clearly, I give meaning to all things I see, which implies that they have no meaning otherwise.

Contemplation of Daily Quote

Rest the mind frequently today, as often as you remember, and notice as you take a moment to do nothing and to think nothing that you exist. Just notice this. Notice that nothing needs to be done for this one magnificent fact to be true. Nothing needs to be thought to realize this truth. The fact of existence already is. It is now. It is true. It is complete. And take a moment to thank your Father for the gift of existence.
~ Thoughts of Awakening

Wow! This is worth contemplating. It is worth remembering. I felt a powerful sense of gratitude as I realized that I don’t have to do or think anything to exist. I was immediately aware that I spend a lot of time justifying my existence in thought, word, and deed. Clearly, I don’t need to do that. Thank you, God for my existence.

NTI Luke 12

Luke 12 is about being aware of our thoughts and doing so without guilt. I am very comfortable with this part so there was not anything that was new for me. However, there were some helpful reminders. One of those was this:
“To be on the path, and aware of the path and thinking of the path is enough.”

Relax, Myron. You’re doing fine.

Another one that is helpful is this:
“The only two experiences that you will know as we travel this path together are the experience of your willingness and the experience of resistance.” Also, “When you are not happy, it is because you are resisting accepting truth. To be happy again, all you need do is return your heart to your willingness.”

Again, this is very simple and it does not invite guilt or judgment.

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Gentle Healing Journal Day 1

Journal for Day 1
Lessons
After reading the first three and doing the lesson as described for lesson 1, I was surprised when my eyes landed on a statue. I said that this statue does not mean anything and noticed that I felt like it did mean something. I thought that it meant the giver of the statue loves me. She went to a lot of trouble to do this for me. Then as I looked at Lesson 2, I realized that it has meaning because I gave it meaning. And reading Lesson 3, I realized that the reason I don’t understand anything I see is that it is meaningless and I have obscured that fact by giving it meaning. I noticed that I wanted to rush through Lesson 1 thinking I didn’t particularly need it, but clearly, I do.

July 28, 2018 Daily Quote
The Heart that is beyond words is not beyond you. It is only thought that would tell you so. It is only thought that can deceive. Put aside thought, if only for a moment, and then ask, “Am I, when thought isn’t?” Surely you will notice that you are not dependent on thought. Then ask, “Am I, when thought is?” Surely you will notice that whatever you are, it is present both with and without thought.
~ Thoughts of Awakening

I am grateful to know that I am not thought. For the brief moments when thought is not present in my mind, I still exist. Even when thought is a constant chatter in my mind, I exist. So it must be that thought is separate from me. I am relieved to know this because if I were thought, I would not be stable. I would be one thing now and another thing later. I would be bad when the thoughts were bad. I would have to strain to keep only good thoughts in my mind. I’ve tried to do that and it doesn’t work.

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