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LESSON 8

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 8

 My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

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You believe that time is true.

Time can only be true if difference and separation are true.

Time is an attempt to separate eternity into different parts; each moment is different in that it seems to follow in a sequence with other moments. These moments are in your past, your present, or are imagined to be in your future.

 The past seems well worth your attention because you imagine that it allows you to control and predict the future. This makes time seem even more important. This seeming importance distracts you from questioning the lie of difference and separation.

Real thought occurs outside of time, now and now and now and now; each “now” is the same “now”.

In Oneness, there is only this one NOW, and there is no “not now”.

There is no time.

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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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Lessons

LESSON 2

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 2

I have given everything I see in this room

[on this street, from this window, in this place]

all the meaning that it has for me.

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Your default tendency is to overlook the fact that you have assigned meaning to the things you perceive. This assigned meaning increases or decreases that thing’s “specialness” compared to other things.

If the assigned meaning is particularly significant to you, you will take that thing seriously. Perhaps you will even see it as a threat. You forget to laugh. You, then, become unable to see things as they are.

This process magnifies separation in your mind.

This is how Oneness seems to be shattered into a multitude.

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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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Lessons

LESSON 1

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 1

Nothing I see in this room [on this street,

From this window, in this place] means anything.

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Your task is to begin questioning the nature of the experience you call “living”.

The purpose of this questioning is not to adopt new beliefs in place of the old ones. This is not an insistence that you should believe something you do not. Imagine, instead, that you are a photographer and that a lens is being added to your existing stock of lenses.

This is an opportunity to consider another possible view without resting on any default assumptions you may already have. After years of going along with such default assumptions, you may forget that there is a choice in how you see things.

This questioning is a vital step on the road to allowing Oneness to enter your mind more fearlessly.

This questioning is a courageous step that must be taken with trust and open-mindedness. It will become clear that you do not take this step 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

++++

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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Lessons

LESSON 8

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

W-pi.8-

Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 8

 My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

+++

You believe that time is true.

Time can only be true if difference and separation are true.

Time is an attempt to separate eternity into different parts; each moment is different in that it seems to follow in a sequence with other moments. These moments are in your past, your present, or are imagined to be in your future.

 The past seems well worth your attention because you imagine that it allows you to control and predict the future. This makes time seem even more important. This seeming importance distracts you from questioning the lie of difference and separation.

Real thought occurs outside of time, now and now and now and now; each “now” is the same “now”.

In Oneness, there is only this one NOW, and there is no “not now”.

There is no time.

++++++++++++

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

++++

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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