Welcome to Daily Miracles, a running commentary on the 365 lessons of A Course in Miracles, an influential spiritual text from the 1970s. I am James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as I go through this material for the first time.
I see only the past. (ACIM, W-7)
We connect everything we see to a past experience, a past memory. Most of them are likely neutral and repetitive, such as the example of the cup in today's lesson.
Some things are connected to sad memories, others to joyful memories. Many things are linked to what we've been told about them; we're afraid of some things because we've been told they're dangerous, and we are excited to see some other things because we've been told they're enjoyable.
In any case, memory and only memory makes the connection between what we see and how we feel about it. Because thoughts come from feelings, memory seems to be a source of thought. Perhaps the only source of thought. In any case, the thing-as-it-is isn't necessarily the same as the thing-as-it-was according to one's memory.
Perhaps "mindfulness" is awareness that the present thing is not the past thing, and that an unpleasant memory about the past thing is irrelevant to the present moment.
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