This is a bit like yesterday's post, and begins to account for the issue I had, which is the commonality of thought. How do we collectively see the same illusion? The Course says a couple of things I need to sit with. 1) it says that thinking and its results are simultaneous. It says they are because cause and effect are never separate, but I wonder if our limited concept of time bears on this conversation? In other words, we think of time linearly so we perceive a cause and effect relationship. If time is in fact not linear, then I guess I could more fully grasp the concept of thinking and its results being simultaneous. 2) The course says that minds are all joined, there is no privacy of thought, and this is the way it must be if salvation is possible.
So when I say "create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me," it's not selfish because I'm praying for the cleansing and renewal of all humankind?
Today's exercise has me stop and be with the thought that: “I am not alone in experiencing the effects of this thought about ___.”
So I'm not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts about the Liberty's ability to win a championship. At the same time, I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts about the Liberty never having won a championship. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts about the Liberty's ability to win a championship...
We'll see how this plays out tonight....
On another note, I had a chat today with my contact in Jerusalem with whom I'm planning a CME Israel trip for 2011. It looks like it will be the first couple of weeks of November. I am excited!!!
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