Category Archives: ACIM Daily Lessons

I have no neutral thoughts. Lesson 16 of A Course in Miracles is a wonderful opportunity to make contact with what a Zen Buddhist might call call “monkey mind.” Where recent lessons have asked us to bring up particularly frightening thoughts, this one asks that we make no discrimination whatsoever. It asks us to recognize thatContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 16”

My thoughts are images that I have made. Few lessons in A Course in Miracles are as confusing or troubling as Lesson 15. For one thing, it’s a flat-out strange idea for most people – we only think we think the thoughts we think and we only take them seriously because they show up asContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 15”

God did not create a meaningless world. We are scared because we believe in a world that does not exist. Reality is hidden from us because we insist that we – and not God – know what meaning is and where it is to be found. Lesson 14 is the calm reminder that the meaninglessContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 14”

A meaningless world engenders fear. ACIM Lesson 13 is the first time in the workbook that we encounter the phrase “the ego” (W-p1.13.2:2). This is a significant textual development, because it subtly introduces the concept that we are not the “we” we think we are. As well, this lesson includes powerful language about our activeContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 13”

I am upset because I see a meaningless world. Again, with this lesson we build on previous lessons – working increasingly to both understand and take responsibility for the role our minds play in creating the world that we see and experience. Lesson 12 drives the point home. Our upset – call it anger, fear,Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 12”

My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. The first ten lessons are essentially an introduction to how our bodies function with respect to meaning and purpose. We are being invited to rethink – literally – the way in which mind is experienced in and as a body. The upshot of those lessons isContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 11”