Tuesday, January 13, 2015 Lesson 13: “A meaningless world engenders fear.” It helps tremendously when we see the reality of what the ego does. The ego gets upset when it can’t make sense of things. This inevitably causes us suffering. When the ego can’t give everything an accurate definition,...
Archive for month: January, 2015
1-12-15 Lesson 12 Laurie’s Reflections
Monday, January 12, 2015 Lesson 12: “I am upset because I see a meaningless world.” In this lesson, it cuts right through to the reality of what our ego does. We learned in yesterday’s lesson that we are having meaningless thoughts and they are the cornerstone of our meaningless...
1-11-15 Lesson 11 Laurie’s Reflections
Sunday, January 11, 2015 Lesson 11: “My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.” How would we practically apply such a lesson as this? Suppose we are feeling troubled because we have been doing really nice things for people to demonstrate our love, but the other people are...
1-10-15 Lesson 10 Laurie’s Reflections
Saturday, January 10, 2015 Lesson 10: “My thoughts do not mean anything.” This lesson focuses on “my thoughts” instead of “these thoughts.” The Course teaches us to make sure we understand that everything is personal. Everything is a direct result of our own viewpoints. We were told before that...
1-9-15 Lesson 9 Laurie’s Reflections
Friday, January 9, 2015 Lesson 9: “I see nothing as it is now.” We are getting multiple practices at coming to terms with the reality that we are focused on the past and almost never entirely in the now. We are asked to realize this is the root of...
1-8-15 Lesson 8 Laurie’s Reflections
Thursday, January 8, 2015 Lesson 8: “My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.” Our minds are the place of imbalance when we are not in our right minds and feeling the energy of God. The ego’s mind actually becomes obsessed with past thoughts. This is what being preoccupied does...
1-7-15 Lesson 7 Laurie’s Reflections
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 Lesson 7: “I see only the past.” We use the past as a means to inform us about the present. The present in the ego’s world is generally just a picture of the past, recreated in the moment. The Course is teaching us how to...
1-6-15 Lesson 6 Laurie’s Reflections
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 Lesson 6: “I am upset because I see something that is not there.” This is an important step in the process of undoing the thinking we currently have. The last lesson said, “I am never upset because of the reason I think…” This initial step...
1-5-15 Lesson 5 Laurie’s Reflections
Monday, January 5, 2015 Lesson 5: “I am never upset for the reason I think.” Our thoughts and minds are wholly connected. The world generally interprets every thing to be mechanized. We see every thing as a machine that is not connected or affected by everything else. We founded...
1-4-15 Lesson 4 Laurie’s Reflections
Sunday, January 4, 2015 Lesson 4: “These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place). The Course is training us ultimately to not be attached to our thoughts. The previous lessons used our...