Comments on: Lesson 9 http://www.the-course-in-miracles.com/acim-forum/workbook-part1/lesson-9 Workbook and Teacher's Manual Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:36:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Rev Myron http://www.the-course-in-miracles.com/acim-forum/workbook-part1/lesson-9/comment-page-1#comment-11 Rev Myron Wed, 14 May 2008 20:30:09 +0000 http://www.the-course-in-miracles.com/acim-forum/?p=54#comment-11 I see nothing as it is now. What does today’s lesson mean to me? The first thing that jumps out at me is that I am being told I don’t understand. Further, that is a good thing. I know this is true. If I thought I understood, my cup would be full and there would be no where the Holy Spirit could pour the truth. I am entirely ready to be at square one and to simply practice. The lesson seems to be telling me to watch for the more subtle forms of resistance and exclusion. How can I apply this lesson in my life right now? In a way these are the hardest lessons to do because there is nothing for the mind to grasp, and of course that has been the problem in the past. I have allowed ego to come into everything with its debates and arguments and its philosophizing and psychoanalyzing. Anyway, today I lay all that aside, and simply apply the lesson. My message from Holy Spirit. How can you see anything as it is now if your mind is preoccupied with the past? Another small step, Myron. Be patient with yourself during this undoing process. It is only the ego that wants to analyze and understand. You are not the ego. Let Me guide you instead. You are not giving up anything when you (in your ego identity) step back and let Me guide you. I am leading you into the experience of your true power. My message to Holy Spirit. Thank you. I am doing my best to relinquish my sense of control, knowing that it is a false sense anyway. I give You my mind and invite You to be my Guide. I see nothing as it is now.

What does today’s lesson mean to me?
The first thing that jumps out at me is that I am being told I don’t understand. Further, that is a good thing. I know this is true. If I thought I understood, my cup would be full and there would be no where the Holy Spirit could pour the truth. I am entirely ready to be at square one and to simply practice. The lesson seems to be telling me to watch for the more subtle forms of resistance and exclusion.

How can I apply this lesson in my life right now?
In a way these are the hardest lessons to do because there is nothing for the mind to grasp, and of course that has been the problem in the past. I have allowed ego to come into everything with its debates and arguments and its philosophizing and psychoanalyzing. Anyway, today I lay all that aside, and simply apply the lesson.

My message from Holy Spirit.
How can you see anything as it is now if your mind is preoccupied with the past? Another small step, Myron. Be patient with yourself during this undoing process. It is only the ego that wants to analyze and understand. You are not the ego. Let Me guide you instead. You are not giving up anything when you (in your ego identity) step back and let Me guide you. I am leading you into the experience of your true power.

My message to Holy Spirit.
Thank you. I am doing my best to relinquish my sense of control, knowing that it is a false sense anyway. I give You my mind and invite You to be my Guide.

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