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.

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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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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.

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Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 11

 My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.

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What you currently call thinking occurs as a voice in your head.

The voice chatters on about differences and distinctions seen in the world. It chatters about why these differences are important.

It chatters on about the threat that results from these differences. To the extent that you believe these differences are important, forgiveness can be difficult.

You have identified with this “chatterer” and accept all its chatter as though it were you, “thinking”. You un-mindfully equate thinking with being the listener, the audience.

Because of your identification with this voice, you accept the world-view of the chatterer, and you seldom question it. When you do question the validity of its chatter, you do so based on its worldview. You question this voice in one area but not in another because that area is different, and that difference is important (says the voice).

Your challenge is that the world you see is based on this worldview. And this worldview imagines that there are barriers to the experience of love’s presence.

There can be no barriers that separate if Oneness is true.

Oneness is true.

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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 10

 My thoughts do not mean anything.

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What you now call “thinking”, is experienced as a voice in your head.

The voice chatters on and on about the differences and distinctions that separate and why these differences are important.

It chatters about the threat resulting from these differences, which is upsetting. This upset and the seeming importance of these differences distract you from questioning the lie of separation.

You have identified with this “chatterer” and accept all its chatter as though it were you “thinking”. You un-mindfully equate thinking with being the listener, the audience.

You are not alone in this experience.

In Oneness, actual thinking occurs outside of time and space. What “becomes known” to you through real thinking is “the always-known”. What comes to you in time, when realized, feels always and ever-present as though it belongs to you, or, in a sense, IS you eternally.

In Oneness, the known and the knower are no different.

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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 9

 I see nothing as it is now.

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What we call “seeing” is an attempt to cut (shatter) what is Whole, Complete, Perfect, and One.

You “see” what-is-Whole through a lens that shows you a shattered existence, much like using a kaleidoscope as a looking glass. You have convinced yourself that each different color, shape, and angle is a sane reflection of reality. You have assigned meaning to this “sane reflection of reality” where there is none. This meaning allows you to organize parts of what you see, while other parts defy meaning and organization.

The importance that you give those parts of what you assign meaning to differs from the importance you give to other parts you see. This seeming importance distracts you from questioning the lie of differences, distinctions, and separation.

In your past, you taught yourself the meaning and importance of things. This clouded lens is why you see nothing as it is now.

This is upsetting because the recognition of Truth, known to you as wholeness and completeness (Oneness), is buried in your mind. There are no parts in this Oneness. You are upset but are not fully aware of this upset because it is like a constant, dull pain that you would only recognize when it is absent.

Actual seeing occurs outside of time and space. Actual seeing will notice differences but find them unimportant, like the boundaries of a shadow falling across a leaf. The shadow does not cut the leaf that it falls across. A “cut leaf” can only be true if the difference between the shaded and unshaded areas is of profound significance.

There is no “significance” 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.