I've certainly heard about the course over the years but I never really paid a lot of attention to it. I think this was because of the very heavy use of traditional Christian terminology which proved problematic given my experience with the institutional church.
Recently I came across this guy Aaron Abke who has a YouTube channel and Playlist on the channel devoted to ACIM and I must say his commentary has really hit home and resonates with something deep and true, so much so I have begun to take some notes in an effort to better internalize the teachings. Of course the goal is to actually bring this wisdom into practice in daily life, as with all yoga teachings.
Here are a few notes I have taken recently.
The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master.
You do not breathe the lungs or beat the heart nor do you think the thoughts. You can only choose to pay attention to thoughts. Thoughts are not who you are.
We become imprisoned by thoughts by identifying with them
Thoughts are not real. We give them fuel by paying attention to them. Retrain the mind to think thoughts that bring you into harmony with your true nature.
The separate self is not real, it is just a collection of thoughts
Nothing that is real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists
When acting and speaking ask is this my true nature acting or speaking
Give attention to thoughts of love, expansion, openness, compassion, kindness, beauty.
The feelings associated with thoughts represent how much attention has been given to them in the past. Be with the emotion and not the thought. Don't feed the thought ( this gives it a sense of realness)and don't suppress the emotion.
God's voice does not always show up as a thought. Higher wisdom is quickly downloaded from source. It can be instant.
God's voice is alive whereas thoughts are dead.
What we give attention to we give reality.
You can not truly see what you are because you are already looking from it. You can only experience what you are in the absence of what you are not.
If you are looking for what you are, you must be looking from a false point of view.
You can't use the Buddha to seek the Buddha because seeking the Buddha is already a denial of your true nature.
Only the christ nature can see the false. Two chairs in a room. Ego chair and God nature chair. You can not sit in both. Only from the God nature chair can you see what you are nto. From the ego chair you can not see your true nature. The false can't see itself because it always looks true from the position of the ego.
Take your thoughts into self inquiry and see if they align with your true self.
Let your thoughts that don't align with your true nature be like thieves in an empty house. Nothing here to attach to. Nothing here of value.
What thoughts come up that don't align with true nature?
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