Wisdom at Your Fingertips
“I follow in the way appointed me.” This may seem like the instruction for an automaton, but the opposite is true. Inner guidance is your ticket to Freedom: being free from compulsion, habit, looped patterns, past trauma, expectation, obsolete notions, and so on. Inner guidance leads to living and being in harmony with and in
Review: “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” 199) “I am not a body. I am free.” If you are not a body, then what are you? The Course explains that you are a thought in the mind of God, which means that you are a
The following statements are given for review: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” 153) “In my defenselessness my safety lies.” “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” 154) “I am among the ministers of God.” “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” Attack, blame, expectation: They keep you
“Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.“ Let’s look at the various elements of this statement. A grievance is an expectation turned sour, a resentment. An attack is an attempt to harm. God’s plan for salvation is forgiveness, which is the release from attachment to the world’s images. Together: Resentment hardens the
“My grievances hide the light of the world in me.“ A grievance is an expectation turned sour. The gall of resentment darkens your outlook both inward and outward. Full text of Workbook lesson 69 in ACIM
“Love holds no grievances.“ A grievance is the sensation of holding on, against your better judgment, to an expectation that is not being met. An expectation is always related to the world of form and appearances and to the past; and so is a grievance. We have seen that the world as you experience it,
Five ideas for review: 6) I am upset because I see what is not there. 7) I see only the past. 8) My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. 9) I see nothing as it is now. 10) My thoughts do not mean anything. Today’s five review statements continue to guide you away from seeing