Oct 26th 2015 Review II
Lesson 82
Review of Lessons 63 - 64
- Intention: We are now ready for another review. We will begin where our last review left off, and cover two ideas each day. The earlier part of each day will be devoted to one of these ideas, and the latter part of the day to the other. For each idea, we will have one longer exercise period, and frequent shorter ones in which we practice each of them.
- Long Practice: Spend a total of about fifteen minutes thinking about each each idea and its associated comments. Devote some three or four minutes to reading them over slowly, several times if you wish, then close your eyes and spend the rest of the time listening attentively.
Repeat the first phase of the exercise (slow reading) if you find your mind wandering, but try to spend the major part of the time listening quietly but attentively. There is a message waiting for you. Be confident that you will receive it. Remember that it belongs to you, and that you want it.
Do not allow your intent to waver in the face of distracting thoughts. Realize that, whatever form such thoughts may take, they have no meaning and no power. Replace them with your determination to succeed. Do not forget that your will has power over all fantasies and dreams. Trust it to see you through, and carry you beyond them all.
Regard these practice periods as dedications to the way, the truth and the life. Refuse to be sidetracked into detours, illusions and thoughts of death. You are dedicated to salvation., Be determined each day not to leave your function unfulfilled.
- Short Practice: Repeat the original form of the idea often, and apply it for general situations. When appropriate, use the specific forms included in the comments which follow the statements of the ideas. These, however, are merely suggestions. It is not the particular words you use that matter.
(63) The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.
My forgiveness is the means by which the light of the world finds expression through me. My forgiveness is the means by which I become aware of the light of the world in me. My forgiveness is the means by which the world is healed, together with myself. Let me, then, forgive the world, that it may be healed along with me.
Suggestions for specific forms for applying this idea are:
Let peace extend from my mind to yours, [name]
I share the light of the world with you, [name].
Through my forgiveness I can see this as it is.
(64) Let me not forget my function.
I would not forget my function, because I would remember my Self. I cannot fulfill my function if I forget it. And unless I fulfill my function, I will not experience the joy that God intends for me.
Suitable specific forms of this idea include:
Let me not use this to hide my function from me.
I would use this as an opportunity to fulfill my function.
This may threaten my ego, but cannot change my function in any way.
Insights/Comments:
- Being the light of the world means that it is our responsibility to bring peace to every mind through our forgiveness by keeping the world free of darkness. Darkness diminishes clear perception which leads to faulty conclusions, which in turn lead to mistaken and therefore ineffective thoughts and actions. Darkness may for example cause us to mistake a rope for a snake, and such a mistake in perception can lead to all sorts of defensive thoughts and actions, which greatly diminish our sense of peace. Thus our function as the light of the world is to radiate the light of truth that keeps perception clear and brings peace to every mind through our forgiveness. Forgiveness is the means to fulfill our function as the light of the world, and what we must forgive are all the apparent contradictions to the eternal truth that we are one with God.
That we exist is clear and apparent. That God is the omnipresent source of all that is, and further that we being part of existence must therefore be one with Him is the truth we aspire to know and experience completely. To know this truth we must engender the vision that shows the apparent perception of separateness for what it truly is, a grand illusion that caused us to believe we are what we perceive, as apposed to what God created us to be--perfect, Spirit, free! There is great hope in the knowledge that a god remains a god, even when clothed in tattered garments. See through the apparent appearance of all things knowing that in truth we are looking only at the one omnipresent God dressed in various garments.
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