Rethinking thought

 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. 

Lesson 54 

Today we're reviewing:

(16) I have no neutral thoughts. (ACIM, W-54.1:1)

(17) I see no neutral things (ACIM, W-54.2:1)

(18) I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing. (ACIM, W-54.3:1)

(19) I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts. (ACIM, W-54.4:1)

(20) I am determined to see. (ACIM, W-54.5:1)

I was most intrigued by this:

If I did not think I would not exist, because life is thought. (ACIM, W-54.2:3)

I've said it before, in these commentaries and elsewhere, that it doesn't seem to me that I can control my thoughts all the time. New thoughts come with new experiences. Just as new experiences may be unpleasant (e,g.,you find yourself in an area that smells bad), some thoughts that pop up might be unpleasant.

I might not be able to control incoming thoughts, but I can control my thinking. If a sad thought comes up, I can recognize it, dismiss it, and move to thoughts that make me feel good. Or, I can re-think the thought, knowing that a thought that produces fear or sadness must be coming from a misperception.

Yesterday we reviewed "My thoughts are images that I have made." (ACIM, W-53.5:1)

Change the images. Reinterpret what you think about so that they move you away from sadness and  to love and abundance.

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