In this audio recording, Lyn Johnson and Bruce Rawles read and talk about ACIM Workbook Lesson #23: I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. The fifth paragraph in this less lesson states:
“The idea for today introduces the thought that you are not trapped in the world you see, because its cause can be changed. This change requires, first, that the cause be identified and then let go, so that it can be replaced. The first two steps in this process require your cooperation. The final one does not. Your images have already been replaced. By taking the first two steps, you will see that this is so.”
We REVEAL our identity investment in ego’s ‘promise but never deliver’ strategy when we look at our less-than-joyous thoughts with our Inner Kindness Teacher (a.k.a. Holy Spirit or the Jesus of the Course) … then we RELEASE that poor investment in moments of sanity when we realize (again with help from that aforementioned wise counsel) that ego’s “seek but do not find” approach isn’t working, and in the third step, we merely allow – without interference – Holy Spirit to REPLACE our maladaptive thoughts with an unchanging peace that isn’t contingent on anything in our dream world of space, time, bodies, personas and their source in the inner oblivion nightmare of sin, guilt and fear.
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