January 25, 2022
Lesson 25 –
I do not know what anything is for.
This lesson comes out of the teaching that we have misperceived everything as we perceived through the lens of the egoic thought system. As we grow and learn, we will remind ourselves that we have developed a habit of misperceiving all that we see. We will gently learn, step by step how to undo this habit of misperceiving and relearn how to perceive correctly. Confusing? It certainly is to our egoic thought system.
Purpose is meaning. Today’s idea explains why nothing you see means anything. You do not know what it is for. Therefore, it is meaningless to you. Everything is for your own best interests. That is what it is for; that is its purpose; that is what it means. It is in recognizing this that your goals become unified. It is in recognizing this that what you see is given meaning. W-pI.25.1:1-8
Everything we experience and encounter has a purpose. It all has a unified holy purpose designed to lead us back to the recognition of who we really are, our sinlessness and our holiness. Our egoic thought system has directed us to perceive everything otherwise. We believe everything is attacking us and separating us. Yet, it all is actually providing us opportunities to see ourselves and others joined in Oneness and connected in the One Mind. Our journey in this world is to reconnect with the awareness of our true nature, our holiness, our sinlessness, our Oneness. To begin this journey without distance we begin to change the way we perceive ourselves and the world. We begin by starting to understand that what we currently believe and perceive is mistaken. We have made a world that is based on mistaken perceptions and thus a world of illusion. We see the world, but are mistaken about what it means and what its purpose is.
Another way of describing the goals you now perceive is to say that they are all concerned with “personal” interests. Since you have no personal interests, your goals are really concerned with nothing. In cherishing them, therefore, you have no goals at all. And thus you do not know what anything is for. W-pI.25.3:1-4
We are embarking on a journey to change our perception by first realizing and letting go of the belief that everything we think is real. We start by opening our minds to the idea that we may have perceived mistakenly and then believed those mistaken perceptions as true and factual when they are indeed open to other interpretations. Right now, it may seem incredulous that our believed ideas may have another meaning. For the time being, relax and just be a little willing to be open to another interpretation of what we now believe is truth. Be assured, Spirit is guiding us in this journey. Spirit will guide us in steps we can handle and understand. Take a step away from your thoughts and go to the lesson link above and follow the instructions for practicing this idea. Open your mind and let the lesson sink in, even if you don’t think you understand it.
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