A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 21

I am determined to see things differently.

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Learning begins by recognizing that there may be something to learn.

Oneness, only, is true.

You erroneously believe that differences and distinctions are true.

It is possible to use this error to correct this error.

The experience of illusion is a learning tool.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 20

 I am determined to see.

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“God is not good, or else he could do better.”

Meister Eckhart

Without sight, the “Good” of God is unknowable. It is a “good” without a corresponding “Bad” to contrast with.

There is nothing so splendid or desirable in this world of opposites as this “Good”.

This is the “Good” that is Only-ness.

The Reality of God (Only-ness) is your birthright. The development of sight facilitates the experience of this Reality.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 19

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.

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The One-mind that accepts multiplicity seems to experience many minds. However, the mind is One, as God is one.

Because the mind is truly One, a change in any seemingly separate mind must change the One.

That is why I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 18

 I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.

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The One-mind that accepts multiplicity seems to experience many minds. One way home for the mind in this state is to recognize that all seemingly alone minds are joined in the One-mind; the joining of what-could-never-have-been-broken.

Alone means “someone else” is possible but not available. In this sense, it may be more correct to say that Oneness does not mean loneliness but

“Only-ness”.

There can be no “alone” in Only-ness.

Only-ness means the mind is One as God is one.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 17

I see no neutral things.

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Oneness is love with no opposite “outside” and no distinctions “within”.

Oneness is pure, simple, and eternally joyful: perfect peace.

The ego must “paint over” this profound and perfect peace with stripes of different shapes, colors, and sizes, then sell you the idea that it is reality. This makes you a perceiver.

Everything you perceive is perceived as it compares and contrasts with something else. Before you can question this sell-job, the ego shouts, “Look out there!” or “Watch out for that one!” or “Here! Protect this one instead of that one!”. While you deal with disturbing “problems”, you forget to question the source of the stripes you perceive. Your thought system remains enmired in “separation mode”.

The separation mode of thinking is the source of the illusion-of-a-world you experience and why you seem to be in it.

The freedom of Oneness is currently beyond your experience. The recovery of the experience of this freedom requires that you first accept your current mode of thinking, just as it is. This acceptance is the first step in unlearning it.

Although this fact is hidden from you, your mind is the source of this illusory world. The challenge is to accept that your mind’s hidden sourcing of the illusion is like water “hidden” from a fish.

To reveal your mind, you must pay attention to and respect what shows up in the illusion.

In the illusion, any perception can be experienced at any time. No “order” is imposed from “outside” of this illusion. If this were not true, you would, indeed, be a “victim of the world you see”.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 16

 I have no neutral thoughts.

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Simply stated, Oneness cannot contain “things”, and there can be “no-thing” outside Oneness. The challenge we confront today is that our perception is filled with many “things”.

Perception requires differences and distinctions.

The body is your most perceptible experience. Care of this body makes differences seem important. As long as you seem to have a body, you must respect the body you seem to have. As long as you seem to have a body, you must respect the likelihood that you believe differences are important.

While you believe differences are important, you will never question the function of your eyes as organs that seem to see “things” that are there. While you believe differences are important, you will experience barriers to the experience of Love’s presence.

This Course is mind training for letting go of these barriers.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 15

My thoughts are images that I have made.

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Simply stated, Oneness cannot contain “things”, and there can be “no-thing” outside Oneness. The challenge we confront today is that our perception is filled with many “things”.

Perception requires differences and distinction.

The body is your most perceptible experience. Care of this body makes differences seem important. As long as you seem to have a body, you must respect the body you seem to have. As long as you seem to have a body, you must respect the likelihood that you believe differences are important.

While you believe differences are important, you will never question the function of your eyes as organs that seem to see “things” that are there. While you believe differences are important, you will experience barriers to the experience of Love’s presence.

This Course is mind training for letting go of these barriers.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 14

God did not create a meaningless world.

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“Complexity is not of God. ²How could it be, when all He knows is One? ³He knows of one creation, one reality, one truth and but one Son. ⁴Nothing conflicts with oneness.” (ACIM, T-26.III.1:1-4)

The world you see is complex and full of conflict. The ego is “comfortable” with the world. As you identify with the ego, you embrace this conflict.

You may find it challenging to accept conflict as “comfortable” to you; you do not notice how often you define your “self” by what you are against. Think of complexity as swaddling you have become comfortable with, even though it is constraining and confining. This swaddling is, of course, a barrier.

Because of your identification with the ego, your tolerance of Oneness has limits.

“The mind that taught itself to think specifically can no longer grasp abstraction in the sense that it is all-encompassing.” (ACIM, W-161.4:7)

If Oneness is true, there can be no barriers, only a “space” that is perfect and open yet full, complete. Learning to tolerate the presence of this “open space” will enable the choice to identify with your Real self.

Practice is required. There may be discomfort in this process, and this is understandable.

In this, you are not alone.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

A Course In Oneness Blog

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 13

A meaningless world engenders fear.

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What you are is that “open space” into which meaning is drawn; it is your function to choose meaning. You have limited tolerance for this “open space” because you identify with the ego and not with the Oneness of God.

The ego you have identified with is like a person who finds quietude disturbing and must fill the air with talk (chatter). The “ego chatter” provides the meaning of perceptions based on separation. This meaning is, therefore, impossible. Impossible or not, you believe the meaning given to your perceptions.

“What is everything leaves room for nothing else. (ACIM, T-26.III.1:12)”, means that Oneness, God’s Reality, is the only Reality. The meaning provided by the Holy Spirit is of an “open space” (what you are), which resembles the Reality of Oneness.

Developing tolerance for the presence of this “open space” will allow you to identify with your actual Self; practice is required. There may be discomfort during this process, which is understandable.

In this, you are not alone.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.

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Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 12

I am upset because I see a meaningless world.

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The ego-mind is distressed by the Oneness of Reality, being neither good nor bad, in nor out, up nor down, right nor left.

The ego is comfortable with differences, and distinctions because they justify separation. Therefore, the Oneness of Reality must be painted over with the stripes of differences and distinction, else the ego is distressed.

These stripes of difference and distinction have no meaning in themselves but make partitions and barriers to separate this from that. Once painted, however, distress remains.

We have accepted that we must be alone and isolated because of these barriers. We hide behind them for protection from the “other”, forgetting that the barriers themselves are the only justification for our fear.

We forget Oneness. We forget to laugh. We forget what we are. We are upset. Fear is our experience.

Without barriers, there is simply Oneness; there can be no “other” to fear.

This is why fear has no place in Oneness.

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PURPOSE:

This blog aims to assist you in deepening your understanding of A Course in Miracles by clarifying the Course’s concept of Oneness.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Read the workbook lesson

(Click the “LESSON” or “Intro” title link).

1. Browse back to read the commentary on the lesson (in italics above)
2. Follow the instructions in the workbook lesson

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To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter a period, the lesson number, plus a dash. For example, LESSON 467 would be “.467-“.

When the desired commentary is found, click it.