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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 6

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 6

I am upset because I see something that is not there.

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You believe the voice in your head; you call it “My thoughts”.

Notice that, among upsetting things, one thing is always more upsetting, more special than another. This makes them both special and different. You are upset and do not remember that differences cannot be true if Oneness is true.

Consider these questions:

Are you the “thinker” of these thoughts or simply the audience for this voice?

Do you have these thoughts, or do these thoughts have you?

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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

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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 332

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part II

What is the Ego?

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 332

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

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The world (of separated, dis-unified, contesting parts) is bound together in fear like warring elements in a cage. The voice for peace and Oneness can be challenging to notice.

Remembering Forgiveness creates the necessary quietude to hear the freedom song of God’s Love above the battlefield.

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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-“.

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Lessons

LESSON 316

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part II

What is the Last Judgment?

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 316

All gifts I give my brothers are my own.

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In Oneness, the light can have no single point of origin.

In Oneness, there is no barrier in space (or time) to block this light.

Therefore, the light of what I am can cast no shadow.

This must also be true for my brother.

 

As Oneness is true, there is no aspect of my brother that I do not truly share with him.

This is why giving and receiving are the same in Oneness.

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INSTRUCTIONS:

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

  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.

Comments are welcome and appreciated!

To browse to a different LESSON, use the search area above (the magnifying glass). Enter the lesson number (also try using Coarse notation). Examples: LESSON 467 would be “467” (or W-pii.467). When the desired commentary is found, click it.

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Lessons

LESSON 41

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 41

God goes with me wherever I go.

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Oneness and separation cannot both be true.

The remembrance that God is always where you are turns your mind back toward the truth of Oneness.

Alone with your thoughts, your experience is of the seemingly separated. This “seeming” is simply the result of your belief in the possibility of separation.

Although separation seems evident all around you, Oneness remains the only 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.

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Lessons

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.

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

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 6

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 6

I am upset because I see something that is not there.

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You believe the voice in your head; you call it “My thoughts”.

 

Notice that, among upsetting things, one thing is always more upsetting, more special than another. This makes them both special and different. You are upset and do not remember that differences cannot be true if Oneness is true.

Consider these questions:

Are you the “thinker” of these thoughts or simply the audience for this voice?

Do you have these thoughts, or do these thoughts have you?

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

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 4

A Course In Oneness Blog

Instructions below *

Intro to Part I

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Oneness Commentary:

LESSON 4

These thoughts do not mean anything.

They are like the things I see in this room

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

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You have questioned the meaning that you have given the experiences of your perceptions. It is time to consider the thoughts that supplied that meaning.

You may notice that most of these thoughts are about “something-else” and about what makes “something-else” special.

A Course In Miracles states, “What is everything leaves room for nothing else.“ (ACIM, T-26.III.1:12)

This means that Oneness, God’s Reality, is the only reality. “Something-else” is not possible.

Many accept intellectually that Oneness is true. However, generally speaking, if you seem to be “here”, you believe in “something-else”. If you did not believe in “something-else”, you would not seem to be “here” in this room, on this street, in this place.

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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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