[acimlessons_list] Lesson 067--March 8

Tue Mar 8 13:34:26 EST 2005

    COMMENTARIES ON LESSONS FROM THE WORKBOOK OF A COURSE IN MIRACLES
    by Allen Watson, with Practice Summaries by Robert Perry
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Lesson 67-March 8

COMMENTARY

The Course spends a disproportionate amount of space telling us what we are,
how we were created like God, Who created us, and how that reality is
eternally changeless (2:1). The title of Lesson 229 virtually duplicates
today's thought. Review V has us repeat the thought, "God is but Love, and
therefore so am I," every day for ten days. And then there are all the
lessons on the theme, "I am as God created me;" three lessons with that
direct topic (the only lesson given more than once in the same words, in 94,
110, and 162), several others in which the idea is repeated (132, 139, 237,
and 260), and twenty review lessons (201 to 220) in which we repeat a
version of the same idea daily. Evidently the Course thinks this idea is
worth repeating!

In fact, today's lesson tells us exactly why this thought is so important,
and why repetition of it is so vital: Because we have such a huge investment
in the ego, we need constant reminders of our true Self (5:2). We have
taught ourselves a false self-image, and we have taught ourselves very, very
well; therefore, we need to go through an intensive unlearning process in
order to undo the false self-image we have made. "Teach only love, for that
is what you are" (T-6.I.13:2), is one of the most famous sayings in the
Course, and emphasizes the same thing about our true nature: What we are is
Love, because Love created us like Itself.

How many of us, if asked, "What are you?" would find the word "love"
springing immediately to our minds? For most of us, to think of ourselves as
being love and only love is, to be kind, a stretch. We may think we have
<some> love in us, but to think that we are <only> love and nothing else?
Not hardly. That's why we need so much repetition, why we need to repeat the
idea today four or five times an hour or more (5:3) during the day. That's
something like eighty times today, if we are awake sixteen hours.

I am Love. That is why I have such a powerful role in the salvation
process-because what I am <is> the salvation of the world. (1:2-5) How
differently would I live today if I knew this about myself?

Notice that the lesson does not expect us to "get" this idea all at once. If
we were expected to grasp it right away, we wouldn't have to repeat it
eighty times. All we are looking for is a <temporary> realization of our
true nature (1:6). Love is in us as our true Self, and we are attempting to
get in touch with the Love within ourselves (3:2-3). We may not contact It
directly today, but even the effort is worth it. Even if nothing seems to
happen, each practice period <will> help us to take another step toward our
goal (4:4).

Some day, some time, we will succeed; perhaps even today. It's inevitable
because we cannot hide forever from what we are, we cannot escape from what
is within us. At some point it will happen; eventually, we will recognize
the Love that is our true nature, our true Self (4:3).

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and understanding of the author and are not necessarily endorsed by the
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