Sean love this especially the peice about the ego doing ego things reminds me of Jesus telling us about how his servants came to the master to tell him about the wheat been infected by weeds . And like forrest gump that's all I'll say about that. I'm still in a void but I'm at peace
After reading this a second and third time, it led me here:
6 It is not difficult to relinquish judgment, but it is difficult indeed to try to keep it. ²The teacher of God lays it down happily the instant he recognizes its cost. ³All of the ugliness he sees about him is its outcome. ⁴All of the pain he looks upon is its result. ⁵All of the loneliness and sense of loss, of passing time and growing hopelessness, of sickening despair and fear of death; all these have come of it. ⁶And now he knows that these things need not be. ⁷Not one is true. ⁸For he has given up their cause, and they, which never were but the effects of his mistaken choice, have fallen from him. ⁹Teacher of God, this step will bring you peace. ¹⁰Can it be difficult to want but this?
And then this: “Sometimes a man humbles himself in his heart, submits the visible to the power to see, and seeks to return to his source.” Somehow this idea of submitting the visible to the power to see (though it seems challenging to me to comprehend) feels like a way to practice the relinquishment of judgment.
Thank you Kimberley. This is helpful. Yes, I think it becomes clearer as we practice that "I am doing this to myself" refers not to behavior but to a way of thinking that priviliges judgment and evaluation (i.e., not just noticing differences but organizing them by supposed value to us). And AS it becomes clearer we understand it's not a gift but a curse, not inevitable but a decision. The last sentence in the previous quote (M-10.6:10) feels vital - can it be difficult to want but this? Where "this" refers to peace and the means is not only academically obvious - e.g., what the ACIM material says - but obvious too in application, in practice. We just have to be clear on our goal - peace - and then the means comes into focus, i.e., "stop judging." The implication is that so long as we remember the goal then we don't have to do anything other than notice what fails to serve that goal.
Sean love this especially the peice about the ego doing ego things reminds me of Jesus telling us about how his servants came to the master to tell him about the wheat been infected by weeds . And like forrest gump that's all I'll say about that. I'm still in a void but I'm at peace
Thank you Sean! ONe of my favorite parables . . . I am glad you are well, and grateful that you're here.
~ Sean
After reading this a second and third time, it led me here:
6 It is not difficult to relinquish judgment, but it is difficult indeed to try to keep it. ²The teacher of God lays it down happily the instant he recognizes its cost. ³All of the ugliness he sees about him is its outcome. ⁴All of the pain he looks upon is its result. ⁵All of the loneliness and sense of loss, of passing time and growing hopelessness, of sickening despair and fear of death; all these have come of it. ⁶And now he knows that these things need not be. ⁷Not one is true. ⁸For he has given up their cause, and they, which never were but the effects of his mistaken choice, have fallen from him. ⁹Teacher of God, this step will bring you peace. ¹⁰Can it be difficult to want but this?
[CE M-10.5-6] https://acimce.app/:M-10.5-6
And then this: “Sometimes a man humbles himself in his heart, submits the visible to the power to see, and seeks to return to his source.” Somehow this idea of submitting the visible to the power to see (though it seems challenging to me to comprehend) feels like a way to practice the relinquishment of judgment.
Thank you Kimberley. This is helpful. Yes, I think it becomes clearer as we practice that "I am doing this to myself" refers not to behavior but to a way of thinking that priviliges judgment and evaluation (i.e., not just noticing differences but organizing them by supposed value to us). And AS it becomes clearer we understand it's not a gift but a curse, not inevitable but a decision. The last sentence in the previous quote (M-10.6:10) feels vital - can it be difficult to want but this? Where "this" refers to peace and the means is not only academically obvious - e.g., what the ACIM material says - but obvious too in application, in practice. We just have to be clear on our goal - peace - and then the means comes into focus, i.e., "stop judging." The implication is that so long as we remember the goal then we don't have to do anything other than notice what fails to serve that goal.
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~ Sean
Love these words….Thank u 💜
Thank you for reading, Debby 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Beautiful, thank you Sean 🙏💚☘️
You're welcome, Patricia - thank you for reading 🙏🙏
~Sean
Thank you for walking it with me 💕
Thank YOU Dee 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Thank you Sean.
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Thank you for the precise pointers and the comforting 🙏 🙏🙏
You are welcome, Aysin. Thank you for being here 🙏🙏
~ Sean