Lesson 24: I do not perceive my own best interests.
Today is a big day because we are opening our minds to having been wrong about everything … AND being glad that we have been wrong because NOW learning can begin. Learning is actually UN-learning all that the ego has taught.
“Let me repeat that the ego’s qualifications as a guide are singularly unfortunate, and that it is a remarkably poor choice as a teacher of salvation.” T-9.IV.8:3
Jesus advises in Lesson 24, “If these exercises are done properly, you will quickly recognize that you are making a large quantity of demands of the situation which have nothing to do with it. You will also recognize that many of your goals are contradictory, that you have no unified outcome in mind, and that you must experience disappointment in connection with some of your goals, however the situation turns out.”
Notice how often Jesus uses the word “recognize” which means “re-cognize” which means “re-know”. We are simply trading off the teacher who prefers fantasy and insanity to God’s Knowledge and Sanity for becoming aware of what we already know, have, and are: the Light of God.
Jesus also recommends honesty. Honesty, in A Course in Miracles, is the equivalent of sincerity and innocence. And innocence, in ACIM, is the same as Wholeness and Holiness. Take a few minutes to relax and breathe that in and out.
