January 26, 2021
Lesson 26 –
My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
The Course teaches us that we see and perceive ourselves according to the thoughts we think. No matter what the world looks like around us we perceive ourselves as either vulnerable or invulnerable. Our perception of ourselves determines how we experience our journey in this world. The real world is nothing but love and peace. And it cannot be threatened. Most of us would say that the world is threatening. How could this be if we are really whole, complete, and holy? How could this be if we are really unchangeable and invulnerable? The key lies in whether we are fearful of being attacked. What do we believe about who we are?
Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other. W-pI.26.2:1-5
We are learning the power of our thoughts and how they affect our perception, in this case, about ourselves. We cannot believe conflicting ideas about ourselves for they are incompatible. The truth about us, thought unchangeable, is blocked from our awareness when we believe anything that contradicts it. Truth knows we are invulnerable, so it takes a back seat and waits until we ae ready to believe or even entertain the truth about us. Though we may believe we are vulnerable to attack thoughts and fear attack, our higher Self knows better and refuses to attack us or force us into the insanity we would endure in our minds from these totally confliction thought systems. The Course explains it this way:
The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are. W-pI.26.3:1-5
Take a step away as you practice this lesson today. Set aside your beliefs just for a moment or two. We are beginning to learn how what we believe about ourselves and who we are affects our perception, and thus, our experience of the world we journey in and through. Be willing to entertain the thought that the fear of attack we feel may be founded on untrue beliefs about ourselves. Look up the lesson. Follow its direction for practice. Be open to the change it offers us. The truth is we are invulnerable and our attack thoughts affect only our awareness of our invulnerability. Relax and accept the awareness of the light within us the Course offers us. Remember, nothing real can be threatened and our true Self is certainly real.
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