LESSON SIXTEEN

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

I have no neutral thoughts.

Herein lies the necessity for the watching of Your thoughts, for none of them are random or ineffective.  Since all is consciousness, how could thought be anything but reactive?  Thus does it behoove You to not indulge in idle thinking, which gives all control of consciousness over to the ego.

Reclaim Yourself for the Holy Spirit.  For thinking ego thoughts is like being a ray of the sun refusing to shine; just insisting upon being darkness.  You still shine.  You’re just not aware of it.

Ego thoughts do not create a new reality.  They are pure illusion, a waking dream with no more substance to it than the sleeping one.  It is lacking God’s understanding standing under it: i.e. it hasn’t got a real foundation.

Yet when You believe it to be real, You do suffer from it, that is from Your very own believing.  Like nightmares from which You don’t awaken.  At any moment, though, You could be free.  Choice is always Yours.

¹ The idea for today is a beginning step in dispelling the belief that your thoughts have no effect. Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. There is no exception to this fact.

– None whatsoever. –

Thoughts are not big or little, powerful or weak. They are merely true or false. Those which are true create their own likeness. Those which are false make theirs.

The choice itself is very simple: Reality and Joy, or dream suffering?  Which will You create?  On this clear simple choice rests Your whole experience, whether  Awake or dreaming.

² There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of “idle thoughts.” What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle.

– Do not let this passage slip right by You. –

Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion;

– so watch Your thinking! –

either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions. You can indeed multiply nothing, but you will not extend it by doing so.

How can You multiply what isn’t there?  You do it all the time in dreams.  What Your belief is, You experience..

³ In addition to never being idle, salvation requires that you recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war, either love or fear.

Life as Spirit or as seeming ‘matter’.  For what seems so ‘real’ to You, whether war or fear or the solidity of things, they are unreal.  While things You think of as ephemeral: Peace, Love, Life, Spirit, They are Both Real and Eternal, ever-present.

They stand, very patiently, waiting for Your glad acceptance.  For All of Heaven does but wait on You. “The whole creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight of the [Sons and Daughters] of God coming into their own.”₁

A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible. There is such a temptation to dismiss fear thoughts as unimportant, trivial, and not worth bothering about that it is essential you recognize them all as equally destructive but equally unreal.

– It’s so important to watch Your thinking! –

We will practice this idea in many forms before you really understand it.

What You think, You will but find out-presenced, seemingly apart from You. It isn’t.

You may think Me repetitive or else instructive, and what You think, so will I be for You, unless You change Your thinking.

However You do think of Me, I Love You, and You may feel My loving Presence as You work with the Lesson, and always.

⁴ In applying the idea for today, search your mind for a minute or so, with eyes closed, and actively seek not to overlook any “little” thought which tends to elude the search. This is quite difficult until you get used to it. You will find that it is still hard for you not to make artificial distinctions. Every thought that occurs to you, regardless of the quality which you assign to it, is a suitable subject for applying today’s idea.

⁵ In the practice periods, first repeat the idea, and then as each one crosses your mind, hold it in awareness while you tell yourself:

⁶ This thought about _____ is not a neutral thought.
  That thought about _____ is not a neutral thought.

⁷ As usual, use today’s idea whenever you are aware of a particular thought which arouses uneasiness. The following form is suggested for this purpose:

⁸ This thought about _____ is not a neutral thought,
because I have no neutral thoughts.

⁹ Four or five practice periods are recommended if you find them relatively effortless. If strain is experienced, three will be enough. The length of the exercise period should also be reduced if there is discomfort.

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¹ Romans 8:19 Phillips translation: The New Testament in Modern English.

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[Thank you Dear Brother]

*Sun~Rose is the scribe of the recently published book, “YOU ARE LOVED AND SAFE: PREP NOTES FOR EXPERIENCING GOD’S LOVE“, Jesus’ Guidance on the Miracle Principles

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