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Lesson 53 ~ A Course in Miracles ~ Zoom Call Video: My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.
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Overview
1. (11) **My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.** ²Since the thoughts of which I am aware do not mean anything, the world that pictures them can have no meaning. ³What is producing this world is insane, and so is what it produces. ⁴Reality is not insane, and I have real thoughts as well as insane ones. ⁵I can therefore see a real world, if I look to my real thoughts as my guide for seeing.
2. (12) **I am upset because I see a meaningless world.** ²Insane thoughts are upsetting. ³They produce a world in which there is no order anywhere. ⁴Only chaos rules a world that represents chaotic thinking, and chaos has no laws. ⁵I cannot live in peace in such a world. ⁶I am grateful that this world is not real, and that I need not see it at all unless I choose to value it. ⁷And I do not choose to value what is totally insane and has no meaning.
3. (13) **A meaningless world engenders fear.** ²The totally insane engenders fear because it is completely undependable, and offers no grounds for trust. ³Nothing in madness is dependable. ⁴It holds out no safety and no hope. ⁵But such a world is not real. ⁶I have given it the illusion of reality, and have suffered from my belief in it. ⁷Now I choose to withdraw this belief, and place my trust in reality. ⁸In choosing this, I will escape all the effects of the world of fear, because I am acknowledging that it does not exist.
4. (14) **God did not create a meaningless world.** ²How can a meaningless world exist if God did not create it? ³He is the Source of all meaning, and everything that is real is in His Mind. ⁴It is in my mind too, because He created it with me. ⁵Why should I continue to suffer from the effects of my own insane thoughts, when the perfection of creation is my home? ⁶Let me remember the power of my decision, and recognize where I really abide.
5. (15) **My thoughts are images that I have made.** ²Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. ³It is my thoughts that tell me where I am and what I am. ⁴The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. ⁵Yet God’s way is sure. ⁶The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. ⁷My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him. (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/456#1:1-5:7 | W-53.1:1–5:7)
Subjects Discussed: 1 – Meaningless thoughts come from the ego’s fear-based judgment-centric mindset. 2 – Simplify so that you can apply. 3 – Seeing through the ego’s lens you can’t see what is being offered to you by God. 4 – Your real thoughts are those that are aligned with God/Love. 5 – If you are upset it is because you are viewing the world through the ego. 6 – The ego’s sight is chaos, conflict and confusion. 7 – If your life is chaotic it is because you are choosing the ego as your guide. 8 – Free will allows you in any moment to choose God’s loving vision over the ego’s distorted sight. 9 – If aligned with the ego, free will allows you in any moment to choose once again. 10 – Wisdom is the application of knowledge. 11 – There is false perception and true perception, one is of the ego, one is of God. 12 – The ego’s sight produces and sees fear base thinking. 13 – If you are suffering it is not because of the world but of whose guidance you are choosing to follow. 14 – Each and every moment is a gift from God to you, but you have to see it through Love lens to see what is truly being offered. 15 – Before every interaction set your goal to see it through Love’s lens. 16 – During the interaction ask yourself if you are aligning with your goal. 17 – After the interaction, review how you did, correct yourself in order to do better in the next interaction. 18 – If your thoughts are loving in nature then the truth in you is in control of your thoughts and thus of mind and life. 19 – No matter the drama the ego make, you are always just a simple and gentle choice away from peace. 20 – Ego thoughts are insane thoughts and not a true part of you. 21 – If your thoughts are unloving in nature then know the ego is in control of your thoughts and thus of your mind and life. 22 – When you respond with any of Love’s expressions you are fulfilling your function as the light of the world. 23 – What you really want is what God wants. 24 – In each moment be the loving expression that the moment seems to be requesting.
