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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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I Seek My Freedom As I Allow My Brother His

T-20.III.9. Prisoners bound with heavy chains for years, starved and emaciated, weak and exhausted, and with eyes so long cast down in darkness they remember not the light, do not leap up in joy the instant they are made free. 2 It takes a while for them to understand what freedom is. 3 You groped but feebly in the dust and found your brother’s hand, uncertain whether to let it go or to take hold on life so long forgotten. 4 Strengthen your hold and raise your eyes unto your strong companion, in whom the meaning of your freedom lies. 5 He seemed to be crucified beside you. 6 And yet his holiness remained untouched and perfect, and with him beside you, you shall this day enter with him to Paradise, and know the peace of God.

We have imprisoned ourselves within our own minds’ hallucinations for so long that it takes time to adjust to the truth. ACIM is so helpful in this adjustment process, both in the Text, which gives us a foundation for this new understanding, and in the Workbook, where the daily lessons redirect our thinking without demanding more of us than we are able to give at this point.

I am reminded of the Ark story in the Old Testament. The animals went into the safety of the ark two by two. This is a metaphor for our passage back Home. We take our brother’s hand and travel this path two by two. At first, it may seem doubtful that we can do this, and even more doubtful our brother can do it. We look with the body’s eyes and we judge with the ego mind and find him wanting. But as we move forward in trust, we learn to see differently, and his true visage becomes more apparent to us, and we move forward in confidence.

Who is this mysterious brother with whom we walk? It is whoever is before us at the moment. There is no one special; each one we meet on our path home is equally God’s beloved Son and our brother seeking the way home alongside us. I will not let myself be distracted by the character they are playing in this story.

I will not let the sadness or even the awfulness of the story distract me from its perfection. Our chosen stories hold all we need to awaken. They do not reflect our truth, only the mistaken thoughts in the mind. Together we release those beliefs and with their passing the real world is revealed.

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What Is Next, Holy Spirit?

The following is from my journal from a few years back. The answer to my question changed the way I think

Holy Spirit, what would be helpful right now in taking my next step in awakening to the truth?

Sweet Myron, you are doing exceedingly good work, and it would help if you would remember that. The thoughts that you are not doing enough or doing it wrong are coming from the split mind. You tell everyone who will listen that they should not listen to the ego and should not judge themselves based on this made-up character. Take this advice to heart and accept that it is equally true for you.

You don’t have to spend every waking moment “working” at this. You don’t have anything to prove and no one to impress. We are not assessing your every move and judging your sincerity. No one is keeping score, honey. We are grateful to you and love you very much.

We know you feel guilty for not working harder at meditation, and while it would be good for you to become quiet as often as you can so that you can feel our presence and feel your own presence, you are not guilty of failing to do so. When you practice meditation, don’t make such a big deal of it. Don’t time yourself, and don’t set expectations. Just think of it as visiting with us for a while, just sitting with us and keeping us company.

Thank you, Holy Spirit.

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