- (16) I have no neutral thoughts.
- (17) I see no neutral things.
- (18) I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
- (19) I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
- (20) I am determined to see.
The mad idea of separation had to be shared before it could form the basis of the world I see. Yet that sharing was a sharing of nothing. Real thoughts share everything with everyone.
2 comments:
(1) Neutral thoughts are impossible because all thoughts (including EGO's thoughts) have power. "All thinking produces form at some level." (T-2, VI.9) Our thoughts are creators of our reality. They also affect others "What your brother thinks you will experiences.." It can be gladness or pain. Our thoughts can get us deeper in the world of fear or they can help us to undo the ego's world. The problem is that we are often in denial because we push our dark thoughts into the dark corners of our mind then project them onto others. As a result, we don't understand the effect of our thoughts.
Addendum from Chapter 2:
[You] believe that you ARE responsible for what you DO, but NOT for what you THINK. The truth is that you ARE responsible for what you THINK, because it is only at this level that you CAN exercise choice. What you DO comes from what you think.
Whenever you are afraid, it is a sure sign that you have allowed your mind to miscreate, i.e., have NOT allowed Me [HS] to guide it. It is pointless to believe that controlling the outcome of mis-Thought can result in real healing. When you are fearful, you have willed wrongly. This is why you feel you are responsible for it.
You must change your MIND, not your behavior, and this IS a matter of will. You do not need guidance EXCEPT at the mind-level. Correction belongs ONLY at the level where creation is possible. The term does not really mean anything at the symptom-level, where it cannot work.
The correction of fear IS your responsibility. When you ask for release from fear, you are implying that it isn't. You should ask, instead, for help in the conditions which have brought the fear about. This condition always entails a separated Mind-willingness. At this level, you CAN help it.
You are much too tolerant of Mind-wandering, thus passively condoning its miscreation. The particular result never matters, but this fundamental error DOES. The fundamental correction is always the same. Before you will to do anything, ask Me if your will is in accord with Mine. If you are sure that it IS, there will BE no fear.
Fear is always a sign of strain, which arises whenever the WILL to do conflicts with WHAT you do. This situation arises in two major ways:
1) You can will to do conflicting things, either simultaneously or successively. This produces conflicting behavior, which would be tolerable to the self (though not necessarily to others) except for the fact that the part of the will that wants something ELSE is outraged.
2) You can BEHAVE as you think you should, but without entirely WILLING to do so. This produces consistent behavior, but entails great strain WITHIN the self.
If you think about it, you will realize that in both cases the will and the behavior are out-of-accord, resulting in a situation in which you are doing what you do NOT will. This arouses a sense of coercion, which usually produces rage. The anger then invades the mind, and projection in the wrong sense becomes likely. Depression or anxiety are virtually certain.
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