“Your ego thoughts can never share the truth with you nor with anyone else. The ego invented the idea of ‘telling’ the truth and using it as an opposite to telling an untruth or lie. Thus were born ideas of being able to keep truth a secret, one of the most ridiculous ideas of the ego thought system. (A Course of Love, 31.25)”
Affirmation: “I forget my ego’s version of the ‘truth’ today.”
Reflections:
1 – Non-Dualism
A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love present a non-dualistic view of reality. This non-dualism is the fact that God is All, and that anything else is illusion, projection, or dreams. Thus the “truth” of the ego, which is illusory, means nothing. All of this is part of the theology of both ACIM and ACOL.
2 – Don’t Let Theology Delay You
If the theology bothers you, don’t let it cause you to dismiss ACIM and ACOL out of hand. Jesus says in ACIM that theology can delay us, and we would not be delayed. We would have the universal experience that he says is possible. And a universal expereince threatens no one. A universal theology, on the other hand, is impossible. (These are paraphrases from ACIM.)
3 – Personal Experience
We need to tell the truth. We need to drop lies from our pantheon of impulses. But that does not mean that the truth has any truth in it when the idea that we are expounding comes from the ego. It is quite possible even to tell the ego’s truth in your nighttime dreams; I did that just last night. And I awoke in a good mood, but I quickly told myself that this good mood was an appeal to my ego, and not something that I wanted to encourage. The ego dies hard in us, even when we have studied carefully for years.
4 – Appeal to Sanity
Today’s passage is an appeal to sanity. The ego is not sane (and neither was my nighttime dream). We would drop the insanity or madness from our lives, and the only way to do that, if we are working in the framework of our courses, is to be diligent in our practice of the tenets of ACIM and ACOL. (There are, of course, other ways to reach God, but our way is ACIM and ACOL, if we so choose.)
5 – The Ego
Don’t fret or worry if the ego intrudes, as it did in my nighttime dream. Don’t resist, either, for the ego is strong in strife. Just turn aside gently, and choose again (an ACIM tenet). Choose again on this journey without distance.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
The truth is not a secret, kept from us. We are fully able to ascertain Your truth, but we must do so without the intrusion of the ego.
I would know Your truth today. I would drop all egoic and egotistical ideas from my mind slant, and I would welcome You instead.
Be with me as I walk along my pathway for today. There is nothing that being with You in Your presence will not improve. Thank You.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 