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Lesson 20 2026

I am determined to see.
1. We have been quite casual about our practice periods thus far. ²There has been virtually no attempt to direct the time for undertaking them, minimal effort has been required, and not even active cooperation and interest have been asked. ³This approach has been intentional, and very carefully planned. ⁴We have not lost sight of the crucial importance of the reversal of your thinking. ⁵The salvation of the world depends on it. ⁶Yet you will not see if you regard yourself as being coerced, and if you give in to resentment and opposition.
2. This is our first attempt to introduce structure. ²Do not misconstrue it as an effort to exert force or pressure. ³You want salvation. ⁴You want to be happy. ⁵You want peace. ⁶You do not have them now, because your mind is totally undisciplined, and you cannot distinguish between joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, love and fear. ⁷You are now learning how to tell them apart. ⁸And great indeed will be your reward.
3. Your decision to see is all that vision requires. ²What you want is yours. ³Do not mistake the little effort that is asked of you for an indication that our goal is of little worth. ⁴Can the salvation of the world be a trivial purpose? ⁵And can the world be saved if you are not? ⁶God has one Son, and he is the resurrection and the life. ⁷His will is done because all power is given him in Heaven and on earth. ⁸In your determination to see is vision given you.
4. The exercises for today consist in reminding yourself throughout the day that you want to see. ²Today’s idea also tacitly implies the recognition that you do not see now. ³Therefore, as you repeat the idea, you are stating that you are determined to change your present state for a better one, and one you really want.
5. Repeat today’s idea slowly and positively at least twice an hour today, attempting to do so every half hour. ²Do not be distressed if you forget to do so, but make a real effort to remember. ³The extra repetitions should be applied to any situation, person or event that upsets you. ⁴You can see them differently, and you will. ⁵What you desire you will see. ⁶Such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world. (ACIM, W-20.1:1–5:6)
2025
Something I noticed about this lesson is that Jesus explained why it is so simple and so short, and he explained what it would do for us. But he doesn’t tell us how to achieve what we are determined to do. I think this is because the ‘how’ is inferred. What is needed to achieve the outcome of truly seeing is the firm decision to do so. That is all.
Well, how hard can that be? I will state my intention and repeat it a few times, and that will be that. I will have traded my belief in what my eyes show me for real vision. Why do I need all those other lessons? Actually, I know why. After all these years of practice, I can still become confused about what I want to see.
First, let me be clear. When we see something in a particular way, it is because we want that perception of it. We want the emotional charge that goes with it. Or we want to prove something. For instance, last night, I had a frightening thought of something awful happening to my son. It seemed to come out of the blue, and once it was there, I found myself focused on it as if I could not look away.
All of this was for something that was not happening. There was no reason to expect it to happen. I was scaring myself for reasons I didn’t care to examine. But this isn’t my first rodeo. I know how this goes, and I am not as ignorant of why as I used to be. It is simple. I wanted to be afraid, as strange as that sounds. Fear felt imposed on me, but it wasn’t. It was chosen—because fear still seemed to offer me something.
So, maybe not so strange. After all, people go to scary movies and ride roller coasters. They parachute out of perfectly good planes, and rappel up mountains for no good reason. And most of us are perfectly willing to sit around with friends and share our personal everyday fears.
I may run out of money, and then what will I do? What if this politician gets elected, or that one? I wonder if my husband/wife is cheating on me? I had weird pains in my chest. When absolutely nothing is going wrong at that moment, we are willing to project fear into an unknown future. In other words, we are afraid because we want to be afraid. Anticipating the worst can become a bad habit. None of these fears were happening—but they gave my mind something to do.
But knowing this is true, I can now watch my feelings and my thoughts, and when I see this happening as it did last night, I can choose again. I can choose to forgive the former choice for fear and simply be in the moment where nothing is happening. Even if it seems I must drag my reluctant mind into the present, I will do it as I turn to the Holy Spirit for another way to see. I am determined to release the imagined horrors. I am determined to see.
2026
This is such an important lesson. I want to touch on a few things that it tells us. First, Jesus is a perfect teacher. He knows how to be firm but gentle and is infinitely patient. He understands that if we feel pushed or coerced, we will balk, dig our heels in, and resist our own salvation. So for the first 19 days, he has asked very little of us. The lessons were so simple and asked so little of us that we found it easy to go along with them. Today, Jesus is asking us to step up our game.
We are asked to commit to our salvation. To accept that what we call seeing when we use our eyes, is only showing us what we want to see, not what is really there. And it is causing us to suffer. But there is something real to see, something that will bring us happiness and peace of mind, and we can see it if we really want to. This is our purpose today, our practice: to be determined to see.
The ego doesn’t give up easily, of course, and there is no need to be disturbed by its intrusion on our lesson for the day. As soon as I was ready to look at the lesson this morning, I felt reluctant to look at it. If that reluctance were put into words, it would be something like this. Heavy sigh. Another lesson to contemplate. Another job to do. I’ve learned to accept that the ego wants to persist and fights the idea of salvation, so I ignored that idea.
I am determined to see, and I see that I love these lessons and I love writing and sharing my thoughts about them. The ego showed me a burden, but my determination to see showed me a privilege. So here I am, excited about this lesson. I notice that I feel a little different about it this year. I have experienced sight shifting into vision in little ways all last year, and so when I say that I am determined to see, I know what this lesson offers me. I really do want more of this.
I find myself returning over and over to paragraph 3, which tells us that our decision to see is all that vision requires. Our minds are very powerful, and decision is the way we use that power here. I am determined to see is such a decision. It is power that takes form. What we want is ours. We want to save the world, and Jesus asks us to consider this question: And can the world be saved if you are not?
I save the world by saving myself. The world is an outward projection of an inward belief. I believe the outward projection of the belief that we are separate from our Creator and living in a world of our own making is true. This belief is what I must be saved from, and I will see the Holy Spirit’s corrected version of the world. Do you wonder how this could be? I did and my doubt kept me from vision, but this year I am determined. Jesus tells us why we can do this in spite of any lingering doubts. ⁷His will is done because all power is given him in Heaven and on earth. ⁸In your determination to see is vision given you.
I am writing on my calendar today that I am determined to see. I am also writing that my will is done because all power is given me in Heaven and on earth. My determination to see will give me vision. I keep my calendar open on my desk, where I will see it often during the day. This action taken is my expression of my decision, as is my remembrance to do the lesson twice an hour every hour. It is the way I reinforce in my own mind what I really want. These actions don’t create vision; they witness to the decision that vision is what I want.
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Lesson 19 2026

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
1. The idea for today is obviously the reason why your seeing does not affect you alone. ²You will notice that at times the ideas related to thinking precede those related to perceiving, while at other times the order is reversed. ³The reason is that the order does not matter. ⁴Thinking and its results are really simultaneous, for cause and effect are never separate.
2. Today we are again emphasizing the fact that minds are joined. ²This is rarely a wholly welcome idea at first, since it seems to carry with it an enormous sense of responsibility, and may even be regarded as an “invasion of privacy.” ³Yet it is a fact that there are no private thoughts. ⁴Despite your initial resistance to this idea, you will yet understand that it must be true if salvation is possible at all. ⁵And salvation must be possible because it is the Will of God.
3. The minute or so of mind searching which today’s exercises require is to be undertaken with eyes closed. ²The idea for today is to be repeated first, and then the mind should be carefully searched for the thoughts it contains at that time. ³As you consider each one, name it in terms of the central person or theme it contains, and holding it in your mind as you do so, say:
⁴I am not alone in experiencing the effects of this thought about _____________.
4. The requirement of as much indiscriminateness as possible in selecting subjects for the practice periods should be quite familiar to you by now, and will no longer be repeated each day, although it will occasionally be included as a reminder. ²Do not forget, however, that random selection of subjects for all practice periods remains essential throughout. ³Lack of order in this connection will ultimately make the recognition of lack of order in miracles meaningful to you.
5. Apart from the “as needed” application of today’s idea, at least three practice periods are required, shortening the length of time involved, if necessary. ²Do not attempt more than four. (ACIM, W-19.1:1–5:2)
2025
I have been studying and practicing ACIM for over 43 years. I have read these lessons many times. I have done them as Jesus asks, or as close to it as I could, many times. But even so, sometimes, as I contemplate one, I can still understand it differently than I did before. Or notice that I overlooked something before.
When reading about private thoughts in the Text, I identified these private thoughts as ego thoughts. And yes, that is true, but this morning, I am seeing it a little differently. The point Jesus makes is that we want to believe that we have a private mind. We want to think that our thoughts belong to us and only us, and that what we think is a secret and has no effects outside our minds.
That is our error; it is not that we have private thoughts because we don’t, but that we believe we do. Our thoughts, all of them, affect all of us because our minds are joined.
The implications of this are enormous. We are in this together, literally. The idea of a world, of bodies, of the pretense of separation, all of it. It was once strange enough to think that what I did could affect people across the world. Nowadays, this is easy to believe. A disease starts in one country and quickly spreads to all countries. But to realize that what I think affects everybody everywhere.
I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing or my thoughts because the only thing remotely real about me is my mind, and —and mind is joined. How on earth did I ever believe that I was not my brother’s keeper? I keep him imprisoned within this ridiculous dream of separation, or I save him from this. And he, me.
2026
I woke up at midnight, and my mind started spiraling out of control, thinking about a problem I haven’t solved. It was all over the place with these thoughts. This happens sometimes but last night it was different. Instead of trying to find some way to avoid all this, I accepted it. I let myself notice what was going on. I was not solving a problem, that’s for sure. But I was feeling uneasiness turning into fear. I felt the fear in my stomach, in the clinching of my jaw, the tightening of the muscles in my neck and upper back.
I didn’t jump out of bed and find a distraction. I just let it be. I was still and quietly doing nothing as Jesus instructs us. I just looked at it with the Holy Spirit, waiting for Him to decide for me what was needed. The stress began to slowly ease, and the physical manifestations of the thoughts eased as well. I didn’t get a brilliant idea about solving my problem. I was just released from fear and the need to think about it. I was quite pleased that my intention to surrender all decisions to the Holy Spirit held even in the middle of the night, even with a problem that has huge ramifications.
So when I woke in the night with fearful thoughts running through my mind, I was not experiencing them alone. That fear was moving through the Sonship because it was moving through me. And when I relaxed my mind and allowed the Holy Spirit to decide for me what this meant and what was needed, that movement changed. The fear subsided, and with it the ripple it had set in motion. Perhaps peace replaced it somewhere I will never see. Perhaps a quiet correction occurred in a place I will never know. I don’t need to know. It is enough to recognize that choosing peace is never a private act.
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Lesson 18

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
1. The idea for today is another step in learning that the thoughts which give rise to what you see are never neutral or unimportant. ²It also emphasizes the idea that minds are joined, which will be given increasing stress later on.
2. Today’s idea does not refer to what you see as much as to how you see it. ²Therefore, the exercises for today emphasize this aspect of your perception. ³The three or four practice periods which are recommended should be done as follows:
3. Look about you, selecting subjects for the application of the idea for today as randomly as possible, and keeping your eyes on each one long enough to say:
²I am not alone in experiencing the effects of how I see _____.
³Conclude each practice period by repeating the more general statement:
⁴I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
⁵A minute or so, or even less, will be sufficient for each practice period. (ACIM, W-18.1:1–3:5)
2025
Our thoughts are projected outward, and our eyes show us these thoughts. Our mind then interprets the thoughts to give meaning to them, which is referred to as our perception of what is happening. Add to that the new fact that our minds are joined, and it is clear that our thoughts are never neutral or unimportant.
My eyes do not inform my mind; they report what my mind has already chosen to believe.
I learned to watch my thoughts carefully, choosing to keep those that reflected love and release those that reflected fear. As a result, I am far more peaceful than I used to be, and I have put less darkness into the mind we share.
I always assumed that everyone saw objects in the same way. But this isn’t true. I looked at my computer this morning and realized that my history with computers is different than some people’s. I love my computer because it keeps me in touch with other ACIM friends. Otherwise, I would be alone in my study and joining with others has been so very beneficial for me. Others may perceive the computer as a handy tool. I know some who perceive it as the bane of their existence because it causes more problems than solutions for them.
Because I perceive my computer as something I love and appreciate, each time I sit down to it, I settle into a peaceful state and am generally productive in whatever I am doing. I use a Mac, but when I was working, we had PCs. I did not feel the same way about this computer. I perceived the PC to be a problem, and so that is what it was for me. Apple and Apple users convinced me that this brand was much better, and so that is what it is for me. Our minds are very powerful.
2026
Since I am absolutely convinced that my eyes show me what my mind thinks, and my perception of what I see determines my experience with it, you would think I would choose to see only love and experience only peace. But you would be wrong. I have seen lack and experienced the grief of loss. I have experienced hate because I believe in fear and guilt. At first, it seemed out of my hands, that sometimes the world caused these things, and I had no choice in the matter since I couldn’t change the world. However, I am learning differently.
I feel fear when I forget who I am and where I am. So I remind myself that I am the holy Son of God, and I am where He established me. All else is an illusion, a dream. I remain safe and loved. And sometimes that is not enough because while the world is not real, this experience of it is. So I have compassion for myself rather than feeling like a bad Course student. I forgive my errors and ask the Holy Spirit for help in seeing differently. I ask that He heal my mind and remove the false beliefs that I am using to cause myself this distress.
I found this passage from Chapter 8 to be helpful.
2. The distractions of the ego may seem to interfere with your learning, but the ego has no power to distract you unless you give it the power to do so. ²The ego’s voice is an hallucination. ³You cannot expect it to say “I am not real.” ⁴Yet you are not asked to dispel your hallucinations alone. ⁵You are merely asked to evaluate them in terms of their results to you. ⁶If you do not want them on the basis of loss of peace, they will be removed from your mind for you. (ACIM, T-8.I.2:1-6)
I have put this to the test, and I know it will work if I really want the thoughts removed for me. I’ve also experienced it not seeming to work, and I understand why. Sometimes I want to be free of the effects of my thoughts, but I am not ready to release the thought. That’s okay because if I continue to choose the idea of freedom, I will convince myself I want the actual freedom, and then it is done.
Often it is the feeling of fear that keeps me in the fear. I remind myself that emotion happens, but it cannot hurt me. It is just a physical response to something I believe. Change the belief, and the emotion fades naturally, without being fought or denied. I’m learning to disregard the emotion of fear, but I still respond to it at first. I just don’t have to continue to believe it. Instead, I can let it be a message to let me know that my beliefs need to be evaluated and released.
And we are back to the purpose of this lesson. Thoughts cause the world, and my perception of their effects decide my experience of it. Now we can add one more component; we are not alone in experiencing the effect of our seeing. Our minds are connected, and my fear affects the whole. It is as if adding my fear to the whole tilts it toward a tendency to choose fear. Or, choosing love tilts it more toward that choice. I know what I want to add to the mind we all share. So I am open to correction when I move toward fear. Knowing this, I do not condemn myself when fear arises. I simply become willing to be corrected, because what I choose is never for myself alone.
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Lesson 17 2026

I see no neutral things.
1. This idea is another step in the direction of identifying cause and effect as it really operates in the world. ²You see no neutral things because you have no neutral thoughts. ³It is always the thought that comes first, despite the temptation to believe that it is the other way around. ⁴This is not the way the world thinks, but you must learn that it is the way you think. ⁵If it were not so, perception would have no cause, and would itself be the cause of reality. ⁶In view of its highly variable nature, this is hardly likely.
2. In applying today’s idea, say to yourself, with eyes open:
²I see no neutral things because I have no neutral thoughts.
³Then look about you, resting your glance on each thing you note long enough to say:
⁴I do not see a neutral _____, because my thoughts about _________ are not neutral.
⁵For example, you might say:
⁶I do not see a neutral wall, because my thoughts about walls are not neutral.
⁷I do not see a neutral body, because my thoughts about bodies are not neutral.
3. As usual, it is essential to make no distinctions between what you believe to be animate or inanimate; pleasant or unpleasant. ²Regardless of what you may believe, you do not see anything that is really alive or really joyous. ³That is because you are unaware as yet of any thought that is really true, and therefore really happy.
4. Three or four specific practice periods are recommended, and no less than three are required for maximum benefit, even if you experience resistance. ²However, if you do, the length of the practice period may be reduced to less than the minute or so that is otherwise recommended. (ACIM, W-17.1:1–4:2)
2025
The point of this exercise and the ones before it is to be sure we understand cause and effect and get the order correct. Thought comes first, always, with no exceptions. From thought comes the illusory world I used to believe in. Now, I sometimes believe in it briefly, and then I go back to remembering that the world is the effect of thought. Also, how I see it, that is, my perception of it, is the effect of my thoughts.
This is a very different way of looking at things. Even noticing that nothing I looked at was neutral was interesting, not having thought about that since I last did this lesson. What I am learning is not just that thought comes first, but that my experience faithfully follows it.
For a while, like many people, I got caught up in politics. I would read about some politician and judge his or her behavior. But here’s the thing. Whether I thought they were wonderful or awful, those judgments came before I saw them in the person.
I wasn’t seeing a politician and deciding who it was. I was looking for guilt or innocence and found what I was looking for.
No wonder we are told that we shouldn’t judge. We don’t even admit to ourselves that we decided what we would see before we saw it. Clearly, with such a fundamental error, we don’t know or understand anything.
People want the world to be a better place. In other words, we want other people to do better, so we like our world better. Now that we have cause and effect in the right order, there is only one effective thing we can do. We can look within for the source of the problem and let the Holy Spirit correct our thoughts.
2026
Having decided that I want the Holy Spirit to make all decisions for me, I expect to level up. I might need to practice this because it is not my accustomed way of thinking, not the paradigm I’m used to. But maybe not. Listening to a Rabbi talk about this, I saw another way. He said that if trauma can happen in a moment, healing can too. An insight, an inner seeing, can create a shift instantly, and I am open to that as well.
Can you imagine your life if the Holy Spirit made all your decisions for you? Can you see that life would be utterly peaceful, joyful, interesting, and carefree? Do you feel a little pang of resistance, like, maybe that would be boring? I used to think that, but even with the incomplete healing I have experienced, I have not found my life boring at all. It is full and very satisfying.
I look forward to seeing what it is like to live a fearless life, free of guilt and judgment. With these things gone, all that is left is love, peace, and joy. I have experienced enough of that to know it is what I want all the time, without these interruptions that occur when I make decisions with the ego. I know that what I see begins with what I think, so I have a clear mirror to reflect back the problem should I stumble along the way. It will always be a thought, a belief that needs to be seen and forgiven, let go, so that my mind returns to peace.
If I look on a world in chaos, I ask the Holy Spirit to correct my thoughts. When my mind is single, there will be no divisive thoughts, and I will no longer see chaos. At first, I wondered how that could be when so clearly there is chaos everywhere I look right now. But then I heard someone say that they didn’t understand that. They thought everything was great right now. Oh, yes, that’s right. I always see what I look for, not to fix it in the world, but to heal it in my mind. So I asked the Holy Spirit to help me see differently.
Then I saw divisiveness rising up before me, but only so that I could heal it. Same thing with hate and fear, coming to my attention so that it could be healed. The world is delivering that message to me, and I am finally becoming aware of it. I know what to do now. I look around and see brothers and sisters not lost in their fear, but rather each finding their own way through this illusion, and I just want to help. I do so as I let the Holy Spirit replace judgment and suspicion with love and trust.
My vision of the world looks different now because my thoughts are different. That’s always the way it works. Thought first, then sight. I see what I choose to see, and my thoughts determine my choice. I am happy to look to the Holy Spirit for correction when what I see alerts me to an error in my thinking. The Holy Spirit will give me another way to view the world, and each time I do this, my mind clears a bit more, bringing me closer to true perception and a happier, more peaceful life.
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Lesson 16 2026

I have no neutral thoughts.
1. The idea for today is a beginning step in dispelling the belief that your thoughts have no effect. ²Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. ³There is no exception to this fact. ⁴Thoughts are not big or little; powerful or weak. ⁵They are merely true or false. ⁶Those that are true create their own likeness. ⁷Those that are false make theirs.
2. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of “idle thoughts.” ²What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. ³Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions. ⁴You can indeed multiply nothing, but you will not extend it by doing so.
3. 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. ²A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible. ³There 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. ⁴We will practice this idea in many forms before you really understand it.
4. In applying the idea for today, search your mind for a minute or so with eyes closed, and actively seek not to overlook any “little” thought that may tend to elude the search. ²This is quite difficult until you get used to it. ³You will find that it is still hard for you not to make artificial distinctions. ⁴Every thought that occurs to you, regardless of the qualities that you assign to it, is a suitable subject for applying today’s idea.
5. In the practice periods, first repeat the idea to yourself, and then as each one crosses your mind hold it in awareness while you tell yourself:
²This thought about _________ is not a neutral thought.
³That thought about _________ is not a neutral thought.
⁴As usual, use today’s idea whenever you are aware of a particular thought that arouses uneasiness. ⁵The following form is suggested for this purpose:
⁶This thought about ____________ is not a neutral thought, because I have no neutral thoughts.
6. Four or five practice periods are recommended, if you find them relatively effortless. ²If strain is experienced, three will be enough. ³The length of the exercise period should also be reduced if there is discomfort. (ACIM, W-16.1:1–6:3)
2025
I woke up with anxiety this morning. It was mostly about my children. My daughter had surgery yesterday, and it was rough. My son, who is living with me now, has been deeply depressed. Thoughts about them crowded my mind. Those thoughts were not neutral, and they were creating in their likeness. Yikes! It was like I had not learned anything from the Course.
So, what I did was to review all the lessons up to this one because I knew the answer was there, but the ego thoughts were obscuring it. At first, it wasn’t helping, but I persisted. Soon, I began to smile. It is easy to get caught up in the story that is unfolding and forget the purpose. I can use the story to go more deeply into the illusion or give it to the Holy Spirit to lift me out of the darkness. I chose the Holy Spirit, and He never lets me down.
2026
We have talked about the importance of our thoughts as we’ve read the previous lessons and also from the Text. Today, Jesus wants to take us deeper into this understanding. There is so much for us to learn about our thoughts in this one lesson that we cannot have neutral thoughts. He begins by reinforcing a previous idea that all thoughts have an effect. In fact, everything you see is an effect of thought. Our thoughts projected outward make up the world we see. He emphasizes this as he tells us that ³There is no exception to this fact.
Last night, for a few minutes, I entertained the idea that the world is coming apart at the seams. All kinds of fear thoughts showed up to support this idea. When I looked at the world, I saw what I believed in that moment. I read something in the news that caught my attention, and the more I thought about it, the worse everything seemed.
If I had continued in that vein, I would have been deeply depressed, and I would have convinced myself that I am here and here is real.
But I do understand the power of thought, and this is not what I want to share within our one mind. I don’t want to strengthen these ideas and help them gain more momentum. I asked Jesus for help to untangle my mind from this kind of thinking, and I received it. But this very uncomfortable situation had a message for me. It reminded me that if the world seems out of control, it is because the mind is simply unhealed in that moment, not wrong. We can bring our thoughts back into alignment with Love, and the world will take on that form.
Actually, it already has for me. This morning, I look at the world, and I see many untrue thoughts rising to the surface to be seen and transformed. That’s a far different world than the one I was seeing last night. I changed my mind, and I changed the world I saw. I also added light to a darkened place in the mind, and so I helped thousands of others who were ready to make that shift. I am learning to respect the power of my thoughts.
This idea is reflected in Lesson 106 which says this:
Be still and listen to the truth today. ²For each five minutes spent in listening, a thousand minds are opened to the truth and they will hear the holy Word you hear. ³And when the hour is past, you will again release a thousand more who pause to ask that truth be given them, along with you. (ACIM, W-106.9:1-3)
In Chapter 2 we are told that ¹³There are no idle thoughts. ¹⁴All thinking produces form at some level. (ACIM, T-2.VI.9:13-14) This is echoed in today’s lesson. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of “idle thoughts.” We are told that our thoughts produce form, and they also decide how we perceive what we have brought to form. It is not my thoughts alone that produced the form we see today, but they played a part. Even that I believe I can think apart from others is a major misconception. There are no private thoughts. We think with the same mind, and that cannot be too often noted.
I am watching my thoughts and choosing to forgive those I don’t want to propagate. When I see someone else expressing thoughts that are not in our best interest, I forgive that, too. Now that I understand the impact of my thoughts, I see this as a profitable way to spend my time, and it takes almost no effort on my part. When a friend expressed her anger at a political decision that she didn’t agree with, I didn’t try to talk her out of her opinion. I just love her and support her as she finds a way to navigate her path to enlightenment. I do the same for myself.
Forgiveness is simplified as I now recognize that there are no neutral thoughts and so no neutral effects. I know each thought brings me either peace or war, love or fear, and then I choose the effect I want to experience, and forgive the other and let it go. So simple.
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