Commentary on a Course in Miracles: Lesson 10

Meaninglessness

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.

My thoughts do not mean anything. (ACIM, W-10)

A few months ago I wrote an essay saying that thought is The Real Sixth Sense, because we can’t really control a thought that enters our mind any more than we can control what we smell when we drive along a highway or control what song is played on a radio station.

When we encounter something unpleasant in our other five senses, our impulse is to make an immediate change in the environment: we keep driving, we switch stations, change shirts, watch something else, order a different dish.

With the unpleasant thought, however, we often refuse to let it go. We dwell in that unpleasant state.

I’m thinking this might help us understand today’s exercise.

• “What I see does not mean anything.” (This has been part of previous exercises.)
• “What I hear does not mean anything.”
• “What I touch does not mean anything.”
• “What I smell does not mean anything.”
• “What I taste does not mean anything.”

You can just let the thought go the way you can turn off unpleasant noise from the radio station. Because it doesn’t mean anything.

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