WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.480 --> 00:00:04.960 Hi, good morning, and this is the lesson of the 2 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:06.839 day from the work book of A Course of Miracles. 3 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:10.400 And I'm really glad that you're here, obviously, being the 4 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:13.919 twenty first of January, we are on the twenty first day, 5 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:21.280 which is amazing because well, I could just start reading it, 6 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.519 but uh F, I do this practice for myself, and 7 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:32.200 that is I find it always helpful to, let's say, 8 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:36.640 get a perspective as to what I am doing. And 9 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:40.280 what I am doing it's obvious, and yet I find 10 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:46.079 it beneficial to review these ideas in my mind and 11 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:51.439 cause remember we are in a mind training and today's lesson, 12 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:54.439 I am Determined to see things differently, of course, is 13 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:58.359 a carry on of yesterday's lesson of I am determined 14 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:04.519 to see and he talks about I'm just going to 15 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:08.519 go back to yesterday's lesson for just a moment and 16 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:18.920 highlight a few ideas, all right, So he says here 17 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:22.760 that we've been casual about how we've been doing it, 18 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:26.280 but that doesn't mean it's not important. Okay, I know 19 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:29.920 we read this all yesterday, but again, for me, it's 20 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:38.640 always helpful to get a bigger perspective or remind myself 21 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.799 why I am doing it because it is as Eric 22 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.000 was saying on Friday, it's a constant forgetting. It constantly 23 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:51.120 escapes my mind because that is the nature of having 24 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:56.680 identified myself as separate. All right, So we have not 25 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:02.319 lost sight of the crucial importance of the reversal of 26 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:07.200 your thinking. It's the reversal of my thinking. So if 27 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:10.919 it's the reversal of my thinking, it cannot do it 28 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:14.960 cannot have anything to do with the way I am 29 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:21.080 thinking in objective reality, or this idea that we are 30 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:26.039 apart and discreet and separate from one another. Okay, the 31 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:30.759 salvation of the world depends on it. Well, that's a perspective. 32 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:36.159 Think about it. Yet you will not see if you 33 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:40.919 regard yourself as being coerced and if you give in 34 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:49.080 too resentment and opposition. Okay, this idea of being coerced, 35 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:54.719 meaning that oh, I'm just going to make myself do 36 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:59.759 it because well something tells me I should, rather than 37 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:06.240 seeing that I am the complete beneficiary of my practice 38 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:12.199 of the performance of the mind training. All right. You 39 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:16.000 want salvation, you want to be happy, you want peace. 40 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.800 You do not have them now because your mind is 41 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:29.159 totally undisciplined and you cannot distinguish between joy and sorrow, 42 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:35.759 pleasure and pain, love and fear. You are now learning 43 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.560 how to tell them apart, and great indeed will be 44 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:46.000 your reward. All right. So we are in a mind training. 45 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:51.080 And there is just one other idea that I want 46 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:56.719 to bring into focus before we embark on our practice 47 00:03:56.759 --> 00:04:02.319 for today. And this is actually was written by the 48 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.280 master teacher of a course in miracles, and it was 49 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:08.960 in our out of time journal from the Endeavor Academy. 50 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:14.960 And this is the invitation because we're in a mind training. 51 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:20.360 Is a learning process, as a transformative learning process, it's 52 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:26.959 the reversal of the way I think now, the way 53 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:33.879 of objective thinking. All right. It is important to remember 54 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:42.160 that the transformative learning process is not an accumulation or 55 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:51.480 exchange of information between teacher and student, all right, So 56 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:55.079 it is It is not an accumulation in exchange. That's 57 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.560 not what we're doing. We're training our minds in a 58 00:04:57.639 --> 00:05:02.680 whole other way of thinking. I am determined to see 59 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:08.160 things differently, okay. And then there's one other idea that 60 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:13.639 I want to bring to light here. All true learning 61 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:21.240 is a form of conversion or revelation. That's amazing. So 62 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:27.120 it's a revelation. It's a revealing is already there all right? 63 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:33.839 So today's lesson, I am determined to see things differently. 64 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:43.720 The idea for today is obviously a continuation and an 65 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:49.199 extension of the preceding one. This time, however, specific mind 66 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:54.439 searching periods are necessary in addition to applying the idea 67 00:05:54.519 --> 00:06:00.160 to particular situations as they may arise. Five practice periods 68 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:05.839 are urged, allowing a full minute for each. In the 69 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:14.079 practice periods, begin by repeating the idea to yourself, I 70 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:19.480 am determined to see things differently. Then close your eyes 71 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:28.879 and search your mind carefully for situations past, present, or 72 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:36.600 anticipated that arouse anger in you. The anger may take 73 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:43.439 the form of any reaction, ranging from mild irritation to rage. 74 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:50.319 This requires honesty. Obviously, the degree of the emotion you 75 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:57.759 experience does not matter. You will become increasingly aware that 76 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:02.160 a slight twinge of annoyance is nothing but a veil 77 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:07.720 drawn over intense fury. That is a that is a 78 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:11.759 wowur because the deception in the game that I would 79 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.959 tend to play with myself is that, oh, a mild 80 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:20.000 irritation doesn't matter. But it's exactly the same. And see 81 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:27.240 this course requires honesty. But it's being honest with myself 82 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:32.399 because an and I will also say that. And again 83 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:36.439 we're only sharing our own realizations as we do. This 84 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.839 is that And I've lost my thought already. Oh, I 85 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:49.519 did not have, uh, let's say, a standard if I 86 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:51.839 can say it that way, a standard in which to 87 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:59.319 I could uh use to I. I don't, I don't. 88 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:01.120 I don't know how to express this. But there's not 89 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:04.000 a way that I would know that I was being 90 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:09.920 dishonest with myself because I needed a whole idea, a 91 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:16.639 consistency or an impeccability and a And the only word 92 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.879 I can say is a wholeness because nothing is left 93 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:25.360 out by which I can know that I am deceiving myself, 94 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:30.480 because again it requires honesty. Is this clearer? Okay? So 95 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:34.320 this is what has all been offered us, is that 96 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:40.360 we have this basis. Okay. So therefore, try therefore not 97 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:45.000 to let quote unquote little thoughts of anger escape you 98 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:52.679 in the practice periods. Remember that you do not really 99 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:58.759 recognize what arouses anger in you, and nothing that you 100 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:04.679 believe in this case connection means anything. I am never 101 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:12.879 upset for the reason I think you will probably be 102 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:17.679 tempted to dwell more on some situations or persons than 103 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:22.600 on others, on the fallacious grounds that they are more 104 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:29.600 obvious in quotes. This is not so. It is merely 105 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:33.320 an example of the belief that some forms of attack 106 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:40.759 are more justified than others. As you search your mind 107 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:46.919 for all the forms in which attack, thoughts present themselves, 108 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.679 hold one. Hold each one in mind while you tell yourself, 109 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.840 I am determined to see in the name of the 110 00:09:54.879 --> 00:10:01.480 person differently, I am determined to be I am determined 111 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:08.399 to see and specify the situation differently. Try to be 112 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:14.480 as specific as possible. You may, for example, focus your 113 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:18.639 anger on a particular attribute of a particular person, believing 114 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.679 that the anger is limited to this aspect. If your 115 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:27.120 perception is suffering from this form of distortion, I love 116 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:30.279 this way, he says. If your perception is suffering from 117 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:35.759 this form of distortion, say I am determined to see 118 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:44.080 specify the attribute in the person differently. See because you 119 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:48.360 have made your anger specific, and so it has to 120 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:57.799 be addressed in your mind specifically. Okay, so now we 121 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:01.639 are going to apply bye this lesson. We're going to 122 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.840 devote the minute right now to applying this lesson. I 123 00:11:05.840 --> 00:12:58.519 am determined to see differently and and okay, I'm just 124 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:02.759 gonna turn this down and we're going to just review 125 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:07.399 once again that during the course of the day, apart 126 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:12.519 from the practice periods, that you can apply the idea 127 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:18.080 to anything that arouses anger in you throughout the day. 128 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.919 I mean, this is really, when you think about it, 129 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:28.720 what the mind training is is to be alert. One 130 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:33.320 of the other things you'll notice with this lesson, which 131 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:36.960 we also cover it in our recent lessons, is there 132 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.159 actually is no difference between seeing and thinking. That they're 133 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:45.279 actually simultaneous, because when you say I want to see 134 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:49.960 things differently, you really are seeing that it is your 135 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:54.919 own thought association that you're dealing with here that projection 136 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:59.679 makes perception or perception. Projection makes perception and you cannot 137 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:06.600 see beyond it. So this is there. They are simultaneous. 138 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:11.039 And of course, as we do these lessons, these early lessons, 139 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.919 they don't take much time, so we have time left 140 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:21.799 we can review again something in the text. But I 141 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.879 have to confess right now, I'm very undecided because I 142 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:34.279 found myself getting into as I read this morning, the 143 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:37.879 invitation that we had in the out of time journal 144 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:46.399 and this idea that a learning transformative learning process is 145 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:50.840 a form of conversion in this revelatory that you know, 146 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:57.080 all true learning is revelatory. And you know, the other 147 00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:01.440 day Walter was reading something from the text and it 148 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.679 was from chapter twenty eight the Greater Joining, and I 149 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:10.799 was just looking at what has what he was reading, 150 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.399 and what was given us. And if we attempt to 151 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:20.600 approach understanding and I put the word understanding in air quotes, 152 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:26.919 if we try to approach the idea of understanding based 153 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:33.960 on an assumption of ourselves, that is not true. So, 154 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:39.759 for example, learning in the world is this idea that 155 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:45.559 you are the stable factor here and are acquiring, as 156 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:52.799 we said, this information or exchange of information. But it's 157 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:55.080 not true. So you're not going to be able to 158 00:15:55.159 --> 00:16:00.399 take anything and grasp it that it is through the 159 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:05.159 rev revealing or the undoing process, or in the practice 160 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:12.600 of the release of my anger. I'm determined to see 161 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:22.200 things differently that what is present with me by virtue 162 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:28.960 of the fact of our minds being as we are, 163 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:36.480 as they are, as God created us. That is there already, 164 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:39.399 it is already present, It is here, it is now, 165 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:43.440 It is the removal of the obstacles to the awareness 166 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:51.559 of Love's presence. So I'm determined to see things differently. 167 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.480 So this also brought me, because this is a miracle's 168 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:00.519 healing center, it always brought it. It also so brought 169 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:07.240 me to the idea that we have miracles healing stations. 170 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:14.400 And the very first one was does anybody remember determination? Determination? 171 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.119 And for those of you who are listening, you can 172 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:22.680 go to the Miracles Healing Center dot com and pull 173 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:25.640 it up on your screen and it's the healing Stations. 174 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:34.599 And I'm just gonna talk about this for a second. Well, 175 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.599 let's first read what has been given us, And again 176 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:40.920 this is from the master teacher of a course of miracles. 177 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:49.839 Here is the simple truth of it. Here is the 178 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:56.880 simple truth of it. Every human body, association of life 179 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:02.599 is uniquely included with the eternal power and love of 180 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:10.920 the whole universe. Spontaneous healing and miraculous occurrences and instantaneous 181 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:18.359 cures are only demonstrations of the innate, singular wholeness of 182 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:24.960 reality that we share. I love this word. Innate is innate. 183 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.839 Where you can't eliminate, you can't get rid of it. 184 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:34.359 It's not possible it's innate, and we share it. We 185 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:40.440 are convinced that the only disease we could possibly suffer 186 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:49.960 is the entire condition of human existence. That's the only 187 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:58.720 disease human existence. Experience the curing power of renewed faith 188 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:03.880 in the solitude, the miracles, healing stations. You are invited 189 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:09.359 to circulate freely among these private prayer stations, all the 190 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:13.519 helpful reminders of your dedic of your dedication to the 191 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:18.640 healing process of your mind and body. Sorry, let me 192 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:22.640 read that again. All have helpful reminders of your dedication 193 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:28.799 to the healing process of your mind and body. So 194 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:36.519 these are helpful reminders of your dedication. It's your dedication, 195 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:40.079 the only thing you can be dedicated to. You can't 196 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:46.119 be dedicated to anything else. Okay, So I'm just gonna 197 00:19:46.160 --> 00:20:03.319 read all of them. We have determination, perseverance, forgiveness, gratefulness, love, peace, light, joy, mind, power, 198 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:11.680 freedom and home. And if you notice, determination, perseverance forgiveness 199 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:21.000 are actions in your own mind and what is experienced 200 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:26.599 and what emerges by virtue of your willingness to practice 201 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:34.240 what we have been given. Gratefulness, love, peace, light, joy, mind, power, freedom, 202 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:40.359 and home. So all has been given all I have 203 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:42.839 to do. All you have to do is take the step. 204 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:48.680 Take the step. That step is now. That step is now, 205 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:54.359 the step is now. I am determined to see things differently. Okay, 206 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:57.599 I go about my day something. I'm determined to see 207 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:04.799 things differently. All true learning is revelatory. Okay, let's take 208 00:21:04.839 --> 00:24:17.920 a break and I'm gonna play Amazing Grace. So what 209 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:20.519 I would like to do now is read a section 210 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:23.200 from chapter fourteen of the text. And this is the 211 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:32.039 equality of miracles. When no perception stands between God and 212 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:39.559 his creations, or between his children and their own, the 213 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:46.319 knowledge of creation must continue forever. The reflections you accept 214 00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:51.279 into the mirror of your mind in time bring but 215 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:57.440 bring eternity nearer or further see there's nothing again, there's 216 00:24:57.480 --> 00:25:03.480 no neutral. Oh this is fourteen, the Equality of Miracles. 217 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:08.440 Sorry about that. Pardon me, Oh, it's it's section ten. 218 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:16.599 I'm sorry, all right, I will just start it again. 219 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:21.000 When no perception stands between God and his creations, or 220 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:24.960 between his children and their own, the knowledge of creation 221 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:31.279 must continue forever. The reflections you accept into the mirror 222 00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:36.440 of your mind in time, but bring eternity nearer or further. 223 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:42.400 Notice again, This is the idea of there's no neutral thought, 224 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:47.960 and you see no neutral things. The reflections you accept 225 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.559 into the mirror of your mind again thinking and seeing, 226 00:25:55.519 --> 00:26:01.359 but eternity, yourself is beyond all time. Reach out of 227 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:05.000 time and touch it with the help of its reflection 228 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:09.799 in you, and you will turn from time to holiness 229 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:14.559 as sure as the reflection of holiness calls everyone to 230 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:21.039 lay all guilt aside, reflect the peace of heaven here, 231 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:28.400 and bring this world to heaven. For the reflection of 232 00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:34.319 truth draws everyone to truth, and as they enter into it, 233 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:43.200 they leave all reflections behind. In heaven, reality is shared 234 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:51.440 and not reflected. By sharing its reflection here is truth 235 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:56.079 becomes the only perception the Son of God accepts, and 236 00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:00.599 thus remembrance of his father dawns on him, and he 237 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:06.680 can no longer be satisfied with anything but his own reality. 238 00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:16.720 You on earth have no conception of limitlessness, for the 239 00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:24.079 world you seem to live in is a world of limits. Okay, 240 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.839 As I am in this world, I have no conception 241 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:38.279 of little limitlessness. That is something I am instructed in 242 00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:42.319 that idea. So I have no basis on which I 243 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:46.519 can evaluate because I have no conception of it because 244 00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:52.839 it's beyond conception. So again it is the transformative learning 245 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:58.440 process is revelatory. It's not I can hold myself as 246 00:27:58.440 --> 00:28:03.240 I believe I am and think I can learn something different. Now, 247 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:06.119 all I am getting is the reflection of what I 248 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:10.920 think I am. So in this mind training, I am 249 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:17.039 going to let truth be reflected by the release of 250 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:22.599 what I believe I am. Okay, I have no basis 251 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:29.599 to know. I am determined to see things differently. That 252 00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:31.920 is really the same as into thy hands I commend 253 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:42.039 my spirit. In this world, it is not true see 254 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:48.000 that anything without order of difficulty can occur. The miracle 255 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.920 therefore has a unique function and is motivated by a 256 00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:58.839 unique teacher who brings the laws of another world to 257 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:06.799 this one. The miracle is the one thing you can 258 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:13.279 do that transcends order, being based not on differences but 259 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:20.559 on equality. Miracles are not in competition, and the number 260 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:24.079 of them that you can do is limitless. They can 261 00:29:24.119 --> 00:29:29.920 be simultaneous and legion and just as a personal thing. 262 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:32.440 This I this use of the word legion I found 263 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:38.400 quite interesting simply because in the King James version of 264 00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:42.799 the New Testament, probably in other versions too, when uh 265 00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:48.079 they come to collect Jesus. Uh, I guess I guesssemine. 266 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:52.559 You know when they Judas brings Uh the soldiers to 267 00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:56.799 Jesus to arrest him, and he says, you think that 268 00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:59.519 I can pray and that the uh the angels that 269 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:04.279 will appear aren't legion. You know. It's this idea that 270 00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:10.960 the miracle is always present. It is through prayer, through 271 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.680 the asking, which is simultaneous with the release of the 272 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:22.759 idea of myself. Okay, So they can be simultaneous and legion. 273 00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:27.279 This is not difficult to understand once you conceive of 274 00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:32.759 them as possible at all. What is more difficult to 275 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:38.079 grasp is the lack of order of difficulty that stamps 276 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:41.480 the miracle as something that must come from elsewhere, not 277 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:49.200 from here. From the world's viewpoint, this is impossible. Okay. 278 00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:55.359 Now he's going to bring us into our own thinking 279 00:30:55.480 --> 00:31:01.039 process so that we can see how this is. Perhaps 280 00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:05.039 you have been aware of the lack of competition among 281 00:31:05.079 --> 00:31:09.519 your thoughts, which, even though they may conflict, can occur 282 00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:13.920 together and in great numbers. You may indeed be so 283 00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:18.119 used to this that it causes you little surprise. Yet 284 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.160 you are also used to classifying some of your thoughts 285 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:27.720 as more important, larger, or better, wiser, or more productive 286 00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:32.319 and valuable than others. This is true of the thoughts 287 00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:35.480 that cross the mind of those who think they live apart. 288 00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:40.880 For some are reflections of heaven, while others are motivated 289 00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:47.200 by the ego, which but seems to think. The result 290 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:52.440 is a weaving, changing pattern that never rest and is 291 00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:59.559 never still. It shifts unceasingly across the mirror of your mind, 292 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:04.000 and the reflections of Heaven lasts but a moment and 293 00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:09.960 grow dim as darkness blots them out. Where there was light, 294 00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:14.200 darkness removes it in an instant, and alternating patterns of 295 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:19.920 light and darkness sweep constantly across your mind. The little 296 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.200 sanity that still remains is still held together by a 297 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:28.799 sense of order that you establish. The very fact that 298 00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:32.920 you can do this and bring any order into chaos 299 00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:37.559 shows you that you are not an ego, and that 300 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:43.680 more than an ego must be in you, For the 301 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:48.000 ego is chaos, and if it were all of you, 302 00:32:48.599 --> 00:32:53.480 no order at all would be possible. Yet though the 303 00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:57.000 order you impose on your mind limits the ego, it 304 00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:02.319 also limits you. To order is to judge and to 305 00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:08.000 arrange by judgment. Therefore, it is not your function but 306 00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:13.200 the Holy spirits. This is again a reiteration of the 307 00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:18.599 idea that there are no small angers. There's no small 308 00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:23.319 idea of anger that you know. The slightest annoyance is 309 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:28.920 a veil over an intense fury. I'm never upset for 310 00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:31.920 the reason I think, Okay, I'm just going to take 311 00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:37.599 a break here and we're going to play and straight 312 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:38.119 the path. 313 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.519 No more said. 314 00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:26.320 Bad. 315 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:43.039 Now you remain you all aways live, So now don't wait. 316 00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:54.719 Straight the bathom, narrow the game, straight the bath and 317 00:34:55.239 --> 00:35:06.320 narrow the game. Don't speak of sad. 318 00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:19.719 For no, you found the world worth any prize, so. 319 00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:30.239 Love, don't wait, straight the bath and arrow the game, 320 00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:38.320 straight the bath, and arrow the game. 321 00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:56.320 No more said good bad for now you remainer you've 322 00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:58.559 all always been. 323 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:00.800 So he. 324 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:15.039 No, don't wait straight the path and narrow, the straight 325 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:28.960 the pathom narrow the game. Don't speak of sack que fu, 326 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:39.599 for you found the barn Wortheny bros. 327 00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:41.360 So he. 328 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.360 No, don't wait. 329 00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:56.760 Straight the bathm narrow the game, straight the bath and 330 00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:59.480 narrow the game. 331 00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:06.280 No mo. 332 00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:17.920 Glues for no, you remind you all. 333 00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:28.920 Always spend live, So now don't wait straight the bath 334 00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:39.920 and narrow the game. Straight the bath and narrow the game. 335 00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:54.280 Straight the bath, and narrow again. Straight the baths narrow 336 00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:03.760 the game read back and namal. 337 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:11.119 Thegety straight baths narrow. 338 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:21.760 The string bast. 339 00:38:23.559 --> 00:38:37.880 Street, the bar stan, the strict st. 340 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:56.039 Strat, strat strat. 341 00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:40.920 Thank you so much that mis Mitch, let's continue with 342 00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:45.519 this section. It will seem difficult for you to learn 343 00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:49.000 that you have no basis at all for ordering your thoughts. 344 00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:53.360 This lesson the Holy Spirit teaches by giving you the 345 00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:57.840 shining example of miracles, to show you that your way 346 00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:01.639 of ordering is wrong, that a better way is offered you. 347 00:40:03.320 --> 00:40:08.280 The miracle offers exactly the same response to every call 348 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:13.400 for help. It does not judge the call. It merely 349 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:19.679 recognizes what it is and answers accordingly. It does not 350 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:23.000 consider which call is louder, or greater or more important. 351 00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:28.360 You may wonder how you, who are still bound to judgment, 352 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:31.039 can be asked to do that which requires no judgment 353 00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:36.960 of your own. The answer is very simple. The power 354 00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:46.960 of God, and not of you, engenders miracles. The miracle 355 00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:50.360 itself is but the witness that you have the power 356 00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:56.679 of God in you. This is so key, here is 357 00:40:56.760 --> 00:41:02.639 the power of God in you and not you, not 358 00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:10.960 of you, not of you. I really love this and 359 00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:14.519 and I'll tell you where my thinking has gone with this. 360 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:22.159 You know there are there is uh s s, some 361 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:24.360 I don't know how what they call themselves. It doesn't 362 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:26.360 really matter what they call themselves. But the guys that 363 00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:31.000 the Christians that do like centering prayer and things like that, 364 00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:34.320 which centering prayer is amazing because it is a vacation 365 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:38.039 of the mind. It is a complete release of the mind. 366 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:44.920 And many of us here and those listening have had 367 00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:50.280 amazing experiences. But what we what I and I can 368 00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:54.000 only speak for myself. What I did not have was 369 00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:59.159 uh a framework for any of this. And furthermore, it 370 00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:04.559 I didn't have a means that I knew of that 371 00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:11.800 I could integrate those experiences, that things could come together 372 00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:16.400 in my mind and not have this appearances of having 373 00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:20.519 let's say, a foot in both worlds sort of speak. Okay, 374 00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:22.960 And this has really been given us from the very 375 00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:26.480 beginning of the mind training. Nothing I see means anything. 376 00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:28.719 I've given everything I see, all the meaning that it has. 377 00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:33.880 It's all in this idea that truth is true and 378 00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:41.320 nothing else is true. And so in this training of 379 00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:48.440 depending on the power of God that is innate in you, 380 00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:56.559 that takes care of all of it. And so you 381 00:42:56.719 --> 00:43:01.440 are not actually living in two orders of real And 382 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:11.239 so what appears to be limited, separate, victimized, you know, 383 00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:13.760 all the things that come with living in this world, 384 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:19.239 it has nothing to do. It's not even there. And 385 00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:23.639 so the key is really in my hand. The key 386 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:29.360 is really in your hand of really letting and allowing 387 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:35.280 this to be true, and that becomes your That is 388 00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:41.719 your dedication. It's your only purpose for being here, of course. Okay, 389 00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:44.400 so let me just get back to this. The power 390 00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:49.199 of God and not of you in Gender's miracle. The 391 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.280 miracle itself is but the witness that you have the 392 00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:57.159 power of God in you. That is the reason why 393 00:43:57.239 --> 00:44:01.320 the miracle gives equal blessing to all who share in it, 394 00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:06.800 and that it is also why everyone shares in it. 395 00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:14.239 The power of God is limitless and being always maximal, 396 00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:20.239 it offers everything to everyone, to every call from anyone. 397 00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:25.239 There is no order of difficulty here. A call for 398 00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:31.159 help is given help. The only judgment involved is the 399 00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:35.360 Holy spirits. One division into two categories, one of love, 400 00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:39.800 and the other the call for love. You cannot safely 401 00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:44.639