Lesson 8: “My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.” This lesson reminds us, “Very few have realized what is actually entailed in picturing the past or in anticipating the future. The mind is actually blank when it does this because it is not really thinking about anything.” This clarification...
Miracles Lesson 8
Laurie Prez, , Laurie's Course In Miracles Workbook Reflections, And the end is the place we resort to trying to make hopeful possibilities in the future, I seem mind always goes immediately into the past or the future- trying to designate how I look at history and determine how I feel now, If the mind is blank- we can instead rush to God and invite God to occupy our minds, Our minds come closer to being healed because we are not sure of the illusion anymore when we remember that they cease to exist, Remember that the past and the future are those things we go to battle with because we feel judgement about them both, The Course says that if this is tru-i if we are thinking about the past and the future- and suddenly we accept that we are not thinking about anything when we think of them, The ego focuses every last bit of strength on concentrating on the past and the future because the ego prefers dealing with illusions- so the past and the future are the ego's rightful territory, The Present is when we accept all we see and we are not at war with the picture because we forgive the present and we heal our perceptions of the past and the future, We want to focus all of our energy on being in the Present because this is where we locate God, 0