April 24, 2012
What do we really believe about ourselves? For what we believe about ourselves is how we treaty and what we think about another. What we don’t like about ourselves we project on another and believe them deserving of blame, guilt, and attack. The form is unimportant. The form is actually irrelevant for the form is an illusion. We will find a form that suits our belief and our projection. It will most likely not resemble that which we don’t like about ourselves. That makes the projection more unrecognizable to us and therefore justifiable. What we believe about ourselves is that we are sin, and so we think we must see another as sin to distract us from what we believe about ourselves.
This mode of thinking is self-accusation. Deep down we believe we are the accused and so to preserve our self-worth we project that belief on another, our brother or sister and they become the accused. This keeps us distracted from the original mistaken thought, the thought that when changed or healed will change our life. This is the change in thought that will change the world around us through the changing of our perception rather than the changing of the physical world. Here is the lesson we must learn, the idea we must believe, that shortens the time to knowing and experiencing who we really are. We must practice this idea diligently, as often as we must, so that it becomes our first response to the temptation to blame another because we believe that we are anything less than who we really are.
It has become habit to believe that we are sinful. And it has become a deeper habit to project the belief in our own sinfulness on another and believe they are sinful and deserve attack. The projection of our believed sinfulness on another is the total of our attack on that brother or sister. The form of the attack is irrelevant and unimportant. We may have even rationalized that our “attack” on that one is loving and gentle, but we believe it is well deserved. Now that we understand what we are thinking and how those thoughts keep us from the awareness of who we really are, we can begin to change our habit, the habitual way we think and choose the thoughts we believe.
Let us take a moment each time we start to think any thought about someone else. Before we act on that thought, look at it carefully. Is it a loving thought? Does it reflect what we know and believe about who we really are? Does the belief that we are sinful or whole lie beneath the thought? As we take a step back and look objectively at each thought applying the lessons we have learned, we can decide whether this is a thought we want to be in our mind or a thought which we want to let go. The practice of being conscious of what we are thinking and where that thought is coming from, and whether that thought reflects the truth of who we really are, is the establishing of a new habitual way of thinking. It brings us to the awareness of the Mind of God that is already our mind. In this way we join our split ego mind with the Mind in which we are all joined. Take this step. Practice and make a new habit. And be who you really are in the One Mind of Oneness.
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