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Seeing the maze
Lesson 45 of A Course in Miracles
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.
God is the Mind with which I think. (ACIM, W-45)
This is lesson tells us two things:
- God is mind.
- My thoughts come from God.
Which means…
My thoughts do not come from the external world. My thoughts are not a response to stimuli.
What, then, are those seeming thoughts that respond to stimuli?
Perhaps they’re just that: responses to stimuli. The physical organism is always in survival mode. Maybe the whole range of emotions just help the body survive, but we are not our bodies.
We are God. When the body dies, we’ll still be.
So, real thoughts come from our eternal nature, and not from temporary bodies.
Leaves me wondering, then, what the bodies are for. Maybe they’re used to be enjoyed, and only God’s thoughts can make that happen. For the person who doesn’t know their eternal nature, it’s scary.
I imagine it’s like being born in a hedge maze, unaware that it’s just for fun. One person may think there is never a way out, no way to be liberated from it. Another person, however, is aware that it’s only a maze and we’re here to enjoy the walk.
Maybe the latter is thinking with God’s mind.
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