I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
This is an amazing idea, one that probably most people take entirely for granted.
Why when you have 10 people (or 100 or 10,000 or 100,000 people) standing around, they can all agree when they see a sign, or an animal, or a building collapsing. They all see the exact same thing. Have you ever watched a really beautiful woman walk into a room? Almost all heads turn. Everyone looks, even women. Everyone sees the woman from a different perspective based on their own perceptions – some think she is conceited, some will feel jealous, some will think she is striking and wish to be like her, some will want to go to bed with her … but everyone sees a woman who made their head turn and if you ask them all later about the experience, they will all say: yes, I saw her. The woman in the red dress. If a football game is on a television in a bar and there are 100 people in the bar, everyone will all agree there was a football game on television. They will agree on the team that won, and who played, and what happened.
You have probably never questioned this before in your life.
You think, that’s just the way it is … a building is collapsing, and we all see it.
Really? Are you sure?
How is this possible?
The scientists are already agreeing the world is a construct of your own thinking. If this is so, then how come other people see the same thing you see?? Wouldn’t everyone be seeing different worlds?
The answer is because MINDS ARE JOINED.
We are all seeing the same world, yet private worlds do differ based on perception. But fundamentally everyone agrees there is a war going on in Iraq. Some people like a war in Iraq and other people despise it. No matter how you feel about it, almost everyone can agree there is conflict over there in Iraq and people are getting killed. We can all agree that there is a Statue of Liberty in New York. You have an image of it in your mind. We can agree that the Eiffel Tower is in Paris, and you have an image of it in your mind. Most everyone knows the work of Beethoven, Picasso, and Harry Potter and can distinguish them from each other. We’re all having similar experiences. How is this possible?
How do we all see the same thing?
If we each had separate minds, doing separate things, the world would be totally chaotic. There would be no order at all. Think about it. Try to wrap your brain around it.
Lesson 19: “the idea for today is obviously the reason why your seeing does not affect you alone. You will notice at times the ideas related to thinking precede those related to perceiving, while at other times the order is reversed. Thinking and its results are simultaneous, for cause and effect are never separate.”
“Today we are again emphasizing the fact that minds are joined.”
MINDS ARE JOINED.
We are all thinking exactly the same thing. We all want the same things. We all have identically the same needs.
We all want to feel safe, loved and protected. We want to feel appreciated. We want to be happy.
If this is what you want … then this is what your neighbor wants and what everyone else in the entire world wants.
So, if you want love … and you know that everyone else wants love … why do you give anything else????????
Why give attack?
Why suspicion?
Why judgment?
Why bad mouth anyone?
Why tell someone they are stupid? Do you want someone telling you that you are stupid? If the answer is no, and you don’t want people calling YOU names, then don’t call other people names.
Simple. A Course in Miracles is for first graders.
Give only what you want to receive … and don’t give anything else.
The audio daily lessons are back up, in case you haven’t noticed. ACIM Lesson with Lisa Natoli. It’s the Talkshoe blue box in the right sidebar, under the Donation button. Just click the lesson you want to listen to, and click play. We’re going through all 365 lessons.
*** also, I got several messages yesterday from people who just barely found this site, and who are are excited to do the 365 workbook lessons in a year … yet they were bumming out that we are already on Day 18 and they are 18 days behind. So, can you please start to spread the word about Gorgeous for God to anyone you know who has A Course in Miracles and who you think would be interested in doing the lessons this year.
I would appreciate it.
This website is a place for transformation. That includes physical transformation, and the falsity sometimes with spiritual journeys is that they give the impression that one day you will wake up and all your troubles and addictions will have miraculously disappeared.
But in my own experience, it’s not like that.
In my own experience, you have to CONSCIOUSLY DECIDE to stop your addictions, and let your problems go.
You have to say, “Okay, that’s enough of that. Time to put my toys away”
So let’s turn up the heat in here:
Starting on Monday, I want you to let an addiction go. It can be anything. This gives you the weekend to prepare yourself.
You already know what it is.
For me, years ago, I wanted to give up drinking and cigarettes. I tried everything. I prayed about it every day. I couldn’t do it. I was powerless. I tried to find causes for the reasons I drank and smoke. I tried to quit, only to start again several days later. And then one day, a miracle occurred: someone told me to STOP IT and said that I COULDN’T DRINK OR SMOKE and that was 7 years ago.
Somehow, having someone other than myself telling me to STOP IT did the trick for me.
It’s a miracle. The desire to drink and smoke was lifted from me forever.
So here I am, offering you a miracle now.
STOP ABUSING YOURSELF.
I want you stop it.
Whatever it is you’re doing that is harming you, I want you to stop it.
I mean it. I’m not kidding. This is not a game. I want you to put your toys away and grow up.
You’re playing in the big leagues now.
It can be drinking, cigarettes, gossiping, overspending, overeating, sugar, soda, tv, cheating, lying, laziness, bitchiness. Whatever. You know what your stumbling block is … and I want you to let it go.
I’m not preaching on high over here because I have a huge huge huge addiction, and I’m about to give it up: SUGAR.
So, I’ll be right here with you.
You don’t need the thing that is holding you back. You don’t need years in therapy talking about it. You don’t need to look at childhood causes of WHY you overeat, drink, smoke, whatever.
You already know what your particular problem or addiction is, you’ve tried giving it up in the past, you’ve failed, and now is the new beginning.
Forget about your past failures. Ignore your fear. Step right into a new space.
Let go. Let God.
We’re taking this journey, together.
If you are doing the workbook lessons with me, it’s means that you want to be brand new. You want something to change in your life. You’d like to be different.
And now is the time.
We’re moving into new territory. We’re together. We’ll help each other.
You can write me anytime:
lisanatoli2@gmail.com
And for more simple (hilarious) advice:
Really funny Bob Newhart skit on Youtube, click to watch.
I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
Today’s lesson is short, but powerful.
It is another step in learning that your thoughts are what make the world you see.
This is what “The Secret” talks about. Every idea you have about yourself contributes to the world you see. But this course is not about “attracting” things, because everything is already inside of you. This is the reason so many people cannot seem to get The Secret to work for them. A lot of people are now selling e-books and seminars to give you “the missing key” that was not contained in The Secret. Which just makes me shake my head. Why would anyone hold anything back? Why not give everyone all the information they need to live a happy life? Why all the secrecy???
The Secret? Give me a break. It’s no secret.
You are not attracting things to you like a magnet, as if a thing was outside and now you are attracting it to you. No, No, No.
There is nothing outside of you.
The missing key is that you are buried in muck – in the form of old ideas, habits, addictions, and fears – and now we are allowing all of that to be undone to get to the treasure which is your natural birthright, given to you by God Himself.
It’s no secret.
You are now starting to uncover the false ideas you’ve learned about yourself (that you’re separate, that you’re male/female, a certain nationality, a certain religion) and getting to the truth of who you really are: PURE LIGHT.
Pure Love. One with God.
One with everything.
This is what you are, and what you’ve always been.
Before Abraham was I am.
Obviously, once you know you are one with God, the idea of “attracting” things will become utterly absurd. Why would you need to attract things, when you ARE what everything is??
You have everything you need already, you just don’t know it yet.
It’s buried under a whole lot of fear.
That’s why we are uncovering. Excavating. Getting out the crap ideas you hold about yourself. Cleaning out the limitation and guilt. We’re digging, digging, digging until we find that treasure. It’s there. You gotta strip off the layers and get rid of the dirt. It’s buried down deep, but the treasure chest is there.
The lessons of A Course in Miracles will uncover the dirt.
*There is a fast track, and that is to become the thing you are looking for now, today.
It’s no secret.
Be rich and you become rich. Be love and you become love. Be bright and you become bright. Be gorgeous and you become gorgeous.
As always, give it a try. Don’t take me at my word for it. Practice and let me know how it goes.
But you can’t pretend, just so you can get what you want. YOUR MIND KNOWS. You can’t fool your own thought system. And it can’t just be a temporary thing to test out till you reach your goal. If you make a decision to be brand new, with a new life, totally changed from the way you used to be … if this is really what you want … if this is your goal … then you must begin to allow those changes to permanently take place in you.
How would you be if you were totally rich? With no cares or worries?
How would you be if you found true love and had the best relationship in the world, with someone you knew would never leave you? Who loved you totally and gave you everything.
How would you be if you discovered your creative talents? How would you spend your days?
What if you had a perfectly vibrant perfect body, with tons of energy? How would your life be different than it is now?
Once you find your treasure, these are the questions you will be asking yourself. So why not go ahead and ask the questions today. If money was not as issue, if you were secure in love, and you found your creative talents, how would you be and how would you spend your day?
Then BE THAT today. Give, love, create.
And don’t forget to do today’s lesson.
I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
Anne Murray has a great song called IT IS NO SECRET. I tried to find something free for you to listen to, but no luck, here’s the main lyrics:
It is no secret what God can do
What He’s done for others He will do for you
With arms wide open He’ll pardon you
It is no secret what God can do.
So there you have it: there is no secret.
The audio is back up. Still scratchy because I’m still waiting on a microphone. Thank you for your patience. Patience is the 8th characteristic of a teacher of God.
But it is there for you to listen. Some of you might not agree with this, but I believe in CONTENT, rather than picture-polished-perfect-plastic.
I’m not thrilled about the sound quality, but given a choice to wait till it’s perfect or put it up now, I choose to put it up now because the content is good.
I’m a sound believer in showing up in your life fully TODAY, and not waiting till all the pieces are in place to start living your life. If it’s a little messy, that’s the beauty. Just show up and be alive.
Things just keep getting weirder and weirder in the world. I never know what real anymore with all the photoshop, plastic surgery, sound bytes, speech writers, and behind-the-scenes guys. Everyone is polished. That’s why we’re obsessed with Britney Spears: it’s refreshing to see someone without the makeup artists and scripts. She’s not polished. Not even close. And yet she’s herself, totally exposed, and we can see the charade falling apart.
Lately when I look at things presented in the media or in magazines, I can feel a whole production team behind a person. It’s annoying. I want to know what a person has to say without their publicists. I want to know what people would say if they were not concerned with the paid endorsements being taken away. We got a glimpse with this year’s botched Golden Globes and what the actors look like when you take away the writers.
A pretty person in a pretty dress with nothing to say.
Sometimes I even wonder if this “pretty person” would be pretty without their money, plastic surgery, hair extensions and wardrobe of fabulous clothes.
It’s like watching a puppet show … everyone on strings being pulled by someone else.
If everyone was stripped down to basics and all strings removed … who would shine?
A Course in Miracles talks about this – moving beyond the pretty picture and frame to see the content. LOOK AT THE PICTURE. Don’t look at the frame.
It’s good advice.
Stop being deceived by appearances.
Which is today’s lesson: I SEE NO NEUTRAL THINGS.
You never see what’s really there. Everything is clouded over in a fog, wrapped in your perceptions. The result is no one knows what’s real anymore.
Which is a great starting place – now the journey can move inward.
The only thing that’s real is love. Everything else is illusion.
“Everything you see is the result of your thoughts.”
Last night an amazing thought came to me, about Lesson 16. Thoughts are merely true or false, and there is only ONE TRUE THOUGHT and that is love.
So whenever I am participating in any other emotion, action, or behavior that is not love, I am participating in an illusion. I am nowhere, doing nothing.
The Course says I am “multiplying illusions”.
Knowing this, I become vigilant to watch my thoughts and change them. I can ask myself in every situation:
1. is this love? is this gratitude? is it appreciation?
2. or is it some other emotion, which means I am multiplying illusions?
Forget about other people. There are no other people. Don’t worry if someone else is participating in attack or judgment. Don’t try to get other people to be loving, grateful and appreciative. Just ask YOURSELF the question. Are you extending love? Are you appreciating everything? Are you in a state of constant gratitude?
As you clean your mind of false ideas and old habits, “people” will change.
That’s the miracle. As you change your mind, the world changes.
Last night I was thinking about how much I want a new microphone to make these audio recordings great, and this went on for like a half hour until i caught myself and realized MY MIND IS BLANK. I’M THINKING ABOUT NOTHING. AND THIS THOUGHT MULTIPLIES ILLUSIONS.
It seems innocent enough, right? I’m thinking about a microphone. But don’t be deceived. It was not a loving thought, which means it is multiplying illusions.
What’s the correction? To be grateful for everything I have in this moment. To stop thinking about a future time when I’ll have a microphone and life will be better.
This is a simple example so you can see how the lesson works.
“Lack implies that you would be better off in a state somehow different from the one you are in.”
Amazing. So while I am thinking about a microphone, I am not being present.
There are no neutral thoughts.
This thought about a microphone is the reason I see chaos. This might seem too extreme for you, but it’s true.
The thought is not love and it is not gratitude and it is not appreciation … which means that I’m multiplying illusions.
The mind-training helps me catch thoughts and change my mind. In the instant I saw what i was doing (thinking about the future, and thinking about how things would be better if certain circumstances were changed), I changed my mind.
I started counting my blessings for all the things I have … now.
I’m grateful for this moment, for my friends, for my cats, for this room, for my family, and for you reading this message, for your willingness to do the daily workbook lessons with me. Thank you.
I am grateful to know I am never alone, and that Jesus is with me, and angels hover around.
I’m grateful to have a great computer, with an internet connection
I’m grateful for the donations which allowed me to buy the audio program.
I’m grateful for the internal microphone on the Mac which means I can still do an audio recording tonight.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to extend myself.
I’m grateful that I can change my mind in any second and go from ideas of lack to happiness.
So, Lesson 17. I see no neutral things.
The thought comes first, and then you see it outside of yourself. Everything you think you see, you put it there.
And now all you have to do is change your mind and the picture will change.
On the audio – Lesson 16 – I talk about how someone left a negative review about my book on Amazon and gave it one star and said the book is AWFUL and GARBAGE and I was actually happy that the person read the book, and took the time to post a review. And then I laughed right out loud at myself, to see how much my mind has changed. Nothing affects me anymore. The positive reviews are equally the same as the negative reviews: false.
I say THANK YOU GOD to everything.
Why be upset about anything??
It’s all happening in my own mind. I’ve located both the cause of the problem and the solution: in my own thinking. My thoughts are the problem and the solution.
I can respond to everything in my life with gratitude and appreciation.
This is what the mind training of A Course in Miracles will offer to you: a new way of looking at everything.
You’ll stop being affected by things you think you see outside of you, and you’ll respond to everything with love.
It’s a great way to live.
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I have no neutral thoughts.
“This idea today is a beginning step…”
IT’S A BEGINNING STEP so make sure you take it. Open A Course in Miracles. Read the Lesson. Do what it says. Do not try to understand it. It’s not understandable. Just do it.
Read it and practice.
Doing the workbook lessons is HOW you will see results. I cannot give you results. You must do the work. I’m only a guide. I’m over here doing my own work.
It’s like going to a gym. Consistent effort will eventually show results. It’s inevitable. You don’t have to understand how running or bicycling or swimming will change your body, you simply have to give it a try and you will almost immediately begin to feel different and better.
Consistent exercise will change you.
Don’t believe me? Give it a try.
Go the gym or exercise for one week, and e-mail me next week and tell me how you feel. You will feel different. I guarantee it.
Give it 100%. Don’t be dumb so you can prove me wrong. Don’t stroll for 10 minutes around the block so that you can write me in a week that it didn’t work. “Haha Lisa, I exercised every day and it didn’t work, so there!”
I’m not stupid. If it “doesn’t work” then you didn’t put your heart, mind and soul into practicing because consistent effort will change you.
Same with the workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles. If you practice them every day consistently, and do not try to understand what they mean, you will feel different in a week. I guarantee it.
The feeling might be pissed off or angry, but that’s just fear coming to the surface. That’s good. You’re moving the energy. That’s good. It’s like when you first begin an exercise program, you feel crappy in the beginning. You are using muscles you are not accustomed to using, and it can be uncomfortable at first.
On the other hand, you may begin to feel unexplainable feelings of joy and happiness, like never before.
Lesson 16 is incredible.
“It is the beginning step in dispelling the belief that your thoughts have no effect.”
“EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS THE RESULT OF YOUR THOUGHTS.”
“Thoughts are not big or little; powerful or weak. They are merely true or false. Those that are true create in their likeness. Those that are false make theirs.”
That’s amazing.
It’s like the old high school cheerleading chant:
What you see is what you get, and you ain’t see nothing yet.
What you THINK is what you get, and you ain’t see nothing yet.
My thoughts are images that I have made.
“It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing. You think you think them, and so you think you see them. This is how your “seeing” was made. This is the function you have given your body’s eyes. It is not seeing. It is image making. It takes the place of seeing, replacing vision with illusions.”
How awesome is Jesus that he sends us a science article from the New York Times today about illusions to go along with today’s lesson?
or I should say: how cool is my dad that he sent the article to me?
I have the coolest dad on the planet.
My dad is an image that I have made, and he is the best.
There is no audio today because the free expiration on the audio program expired yesterday and I simply do not have the money to purchase the program. My apologies. Hopefully I will have it up and running in a day or two.
I hope you continue to do the lessons and NOT skip a day just because there is no audio. I’m still here blogging and reminding you to please do today’s lesson.
These thoughts are images that I have made.
Also on the way is a new microphone and soon the recordings will brand new & crystal clear.
Someone wrote to me yesterday asking what it will take to get a good quality recording and the answer is simple: money.
This site will always be free. The audio will always be free. I don’t charge money – and will never charge money – because I follow Jesus’ instructions to give as God gives and love as God loves. God gives freely. He loves all equally. He doesn’t set up weekly therapy counseling sessions that cost $100/per session. He doesn’t charge for life-coach services. He doesn’t do phone consultations for $130/hour.
It’s fine that other people charge money for the work they do, but that’s not for me.
I want to be available to anyone who needs help, and not charge money for it.
Which puts me in an interesting predicament half the time.
For those of you just showing up to Gorgeous for God and who do not know what this site is or why I don’t “get a job” … it is because I have dedicated my life to expressing the message of Jesus.
Being the light of the world is my job.
People say “get a job” and I say: I have a job.
I’m following Jesus.
It’s a full-time job.
I am doing exactly what he tells me to do.
In worldly terms, there is no paycheck that comes on Friday.
There is no insurance.
There are no paid vacations.
But I wouldn’t give up my “job” for anything in the world. I am here for the salvation of the world.
It has taken me a very long time to have trust enough to “drop my fishing nets.” Some days I think I must be utterly insane. My family doesn’t know what the heck I doing and my friends think I’m crazy.
But I not from this world. I come from God, and I am here to tell you: YOU COME FROM GOD TOO.
I come as a light into a world that does deny itself everything.
I am here to inspire you, to bring you joy, and to help you see your magnificent inheritance from God.
I am here to be happy … that as you see my happiness you will remember the happiness that is contained within you.
That’s my job.
From Lesson 100 in A Course in Miracles: “You are indeed essential to God’s plan. Just as your light increases every light that shines in Heaven, so your joy on earth calls to all minds to let their sorrow go, and take their place beside you in God’s plan. God’s messengers are joyous, and their joy heals sorrow and despair. They are the proof that God wills perfect happiness for all who will accept their Father’s gifts as theirs.”
That’s my job.
and more from Lesson 100:
“God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go against His Will? The part that he has saved for you to take in working out His plan is giving you that you might be restored to what He wills. This part is as essential to His plan as to your happiness. Your joy must be complete to let His plan be understood by those to whom He sends you. They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh.”
Amazing, right? My job … and YOUR job also as a Teacher of God … is to be happy. To laugh. So that others can find their function and feel this happiness along with you.
This is what it means to be a teacher of God.
I always have to laugh that most people are skeptical that I give freely. It actually scares people. They think it’s a scam. That somehow, someday, the “other shoe” is going to drop and they’ll be asked to give up all their money, their house and their children. It’s amazing to me to see how much fear is in people surrounding money.
This site is a labor of love for Jesus and for you.
If you feel like donating money every once in a while to help me to continue, I would be very grateful.
And if you don’t have money, that’s fine too. This site is free and I’m happy you are showing up. That is the important thing. YOU ARE SHOWING UP.
I would like to not have to mention the money issue here in this blog ever again, but I have found most people have no idea the work I am doing.
I have put a donation button up. It’s yellow and it’s at the top of the page, to the right. From time to time, if you find yourself with some extra cash, I would be grateful to receive it. Every little bit helps.
But whatever happens, whether you give or don’t give, I will be here because that’s a promise I made to Jesus: to be a consistent & constant light.
I’m here for you.
My dad sent me this article this morning from the New York Times.
I love it.
Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?
From The New York Times:
It could be the weirdest and most embarrassing prediction in the history of cosmology, if not science.
If true, it would mean that you yourself reading this article are more likely to be some momentary fluctuation in a field of matter and energy out in space than a person with a real past born through billions of years of evolution in an orderly star-spangled cosmos. Your memories and the world you think you see around you are illusions.
To read the rest of the article, click here:
God did not create a meaningless world.
This is a mind-boggling lesson to most everyone who hears it for the first time. God did not create the world. He doesn’t know anything about it. He doesn’t know about wars, starvation, sickness, aging, abuse and death … and he also doesn’t know about marriages, holidays and good times.
He doesn’t know about the bad stuff and he doesn’t know about the good stuff.
He doesn’t know about this world at all.
He doesn’t know about me blogging every day. He doesn’t know about computers, cars, planes, sickness, houses, or money. He doesn’t know about any of that because He did not create it.
What God does not create does not exist.
He didn’t create the world in six days and rest on the 7th day.
(why would God need to rest?? That should have sounded a red warning bell & alarm off in your head straight away)
He didn’t create the animals, or the trees or the lakes or the earth.
I MADE THIS WORLD.
I’m responsible for this mess.
God only created one perfect Son – you. He created only Oneness, in the likeness of His Image, of which every living thing is a perfect whole part. God knows only love. He didn’t create anything else. He created only perfection.
The workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles are designed to uncover and remove all false ideas to get you back to a place of perfection, where you remember your Identity in God.
Pretty Simple.
This world, this idea of separation, was a huge mistake.
The mistake has been corrected and that’s the reason why there is no process. There is no journey to awakening. You can remember in this very moment that you never left Heaven. You never departed from God. You are perfect and healed and whole. In the instant the mistake was made (and resulted in a world of separate bodies doing separate things), it was corrected. This world is an idea that I could create separately from God. I made the world. This is the reason I’m responsible for it.
“The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist.”
This idea can flip your mind upside down. You may want to argue. You may want to start quoting the bible to prove me wrong. But ask yourself honestly, why would God create a place of chaos?
Is He … or is He not … all-loving and all-powerful?
Why would an all-loving, all-powerful God create death, sickness, war, divorce, murder, car crashes and a world of total inequality? A world of haves and have-nots. Why would some people be born into royalty and some people be born into poverty?
Why would God do that?
Why would God create a condition in which you grow old, and start to get wrinkles and lose your hair and memory?
Only to eventually die.
Why would God do that????
Why would an all loving Father, who has all power, do that to you?
Why??
Why would you have to fend for yourself in this thing called life, and then sometimes get sick, sometimes be depressed, always be afraid, lose the things you love, and then die at the end?
Does that make any sense to you?
Either God is mad and crazy and has a sick sense of humor … or this world is a place is madness.
Which is it?
Some people ask: “Why do bad things happen to good people?”
And then they try to find meaning in chaos, as if God has a life lesson for them.
They try to find comfort and reason in destruction and insanity. They think “there must be a reason for this. God must be strengthening me” or “there must be something God wants me to learn”.
Etc.
But here’s the thing: God doesn’t know anything about it. He doesn’t know about the World Trade Center collapsing. He doesn’t know about Iraq. He doesn’t know about government corruption. He doesn’t know about misuse of power. He doesn’t know secrecy, lies and killing.
He knows only love.
A Course in Miracles, at its most basic level, will begin to become entirely reasonable to you. It will clear up the discrepancies between what you’ve heard about God and what your body’s eyes show you.
You’ll stop looking for meaning in the meaningless.
There is no meaning in war.
God did not create war, and so it is not real.
There is no meaning in sickness.
God did not create cancer, and so it is not real.
Today you are asked to look at “your personal repertory of horrors of which you are looking.”
Name them. Be specific. Then apply the lesson:
God did not create a meaningless world.
He did not create (specify the situation which is disturbing you), and so it is not real.
Here’s today audio: ACIM Lesson 14 with Lisa Natoli
A meaningless world engenders fear.
Today’s audio talks about how if you are feeling fear, confusion, worry or anxiety … this is good!
If you are afraid, confused and want to quit, then you are right where you are supposed to be and the lessons are working.
The lessons of A Course in Miracles are designed to bring fear to the surface. For too many years, you have been burying fear or rushing off to distract yourself without actually facing the fear directly.
We’ve been taught here in the world to fix fear. To think happy thoughts. To do something nice. To have a drink. To relax. To do something fun. And this pushes the fear right back down from where it came from, without actually dealing with it. The fear is still there, lurking. It’s waiting for another moment to rear its ugly head. You know this scenerio well.
You think you’ve dealt with fear, but it only rises back to the surface in some other form at some other time.
You must have noticed this by now. Tell me you’ve noticed this. You never seem to be able to get rid of fear. People say, “fear is part of life” …
to which I say “that’s another big lie!”
We’ve been lied to since the beginning. Fear is not part of life. Fear is part of the human condition. It is there to keep you limited, quiet and in place. Think of the possibilities of your life without fear. Think about it. You’d be totally free. You’d be creative. You’d do amazing things. Nothing could keep you down.
Without fear, you’d be as God created you.
Of course, these ideas are alien to the human mind. No one knows of a state with no fear. This seems impossible and preposterous. We’ve been dealing with fear since the day we got here.
Don’t you question that? Doesn’t that make you wonder what is going on here? What kind of a place are you born into only to immediately start experiencing fear?
That doesn’t sound like a place God created.
Sounds more like a world that is meaningless.
And a meaningless world engenders fear.
To listen to today’s audio, click here: ACIM Lesson 13 with Lisa Natoli
ps: we are dealing with some glitches with the audio, and we are working on Plan B. For today there is an audio recording, but there is something strange going on over at Talkshoe (I think they have too many people broadcasting) and they have run out of space. Whatever that means. I want to continue doing these audio broadcasts every day – for all 365 days – and here in the beginning as we are getting our feet wet and learning as we go along and finding out that everything costs money, we are experiencing a few obstacles. So thanks for your patience as we set up this program.
I love you.
These early lessons are a doozy.
First and foremost, A Course in Miracle is about responsibility. Total absolute responsibility that I am the cause of everything. In this sense, I become totally aware. I don’t ignore anything. I am responsible for what I see. So if a diaper needs changing, I change it. Happily. A Course in Miracles is about a change of mind. About learning to see everything differently. Before awakening, chop wood, carry water. After awakening, chop wood, carry water.
But in God’s grace, you will feel joyful, happy and at peace. Nothing will disturb you. Your husband could say anything, and you would be entirely unaffected. Your daughter will be kicking you and instead you will see it as love and start to play with her. You will respond differently, with love in your heart. This doesn’t mean you become super sweet, turning into nice nice, dancing around the good ship Lollipop.
Nice is an illusion, just as much as evil is. Nice is a false emotion. It is controlling, a way to get your needs taken care of.
I speak from deep deep experience on this one. I always thought being on God’s path was about being sweet and nice. Now I know that being AWAKE means being myself: my passionate joyful (and sometimes explosive!) self. I am perfect as God created me.
Sometimes I scream. Sometimes I walk out of a situation, and slam the door behind me (not so often anymore, but I think it looks great with high heels and a cute bag, the whole brunette bombshell thing, like i should win an Academy award for my performance .. haha)
life has become a fun game I play. I get to be myself.
So, really, you get to choose who you want to be, and what you want to be like. Obviously, you have in you a memory of a perfect idea of who you are at your best. This is God’s Will for you.
Did you buy my book? Gorgeous for God. I think it would be really fun for you, and give you some great ideas and reminders when you get stuck.
Just be gentle with yourself. A Course in Miracles can be completely disruptive in the beginning. It’s dismantles the current thought system, which is why it’s great to do this together.
I hope this helps.
Love, lisa
I am upset because I see a meaningless world.
Luckily, we only stay on these lessons one day at a time, because Lesson 11, 12 & 13 put me at the bottom of the pit. Thankfully we move on to greener pastures.
You’ll probably be asking yourself: what the hell is the purpose of any of this if it’s all meaningless??
exactly.
Most everyone knows from a very early age that something is fundamentally wrong with this world, and you’ll notice no one has any answers to the meaning of it all: death, divorce, war, abuse, starvation and sickness.
What’s the meaning?
Little kids question it – from a whole mind perspective – and no one can give an honest answer that makes any sense.
Most adults say: That’s life.
That’s life? People die and that’s life? People kill other people and that’s life? People stop loving each other and that’s life? People abuse children and that’s life? People are starving and that’s life?
Something is fundamentally wrong with this picture.
Then the solution – in human terms – is you have to learn to fend for yourself. They call this life. Each for his own. Be a good person. Study hard. Get a job and make money because you’ll need a place to live, and you’ll need food and if you don’t take care of yourself, who will?
Maybe if you are lucky (or charming or pretty) someone will take care of you, but don’t count on it. Things change.
“Life is unpredictable,” people say.
In between there will be moments of joy. And these are the moments we live for – the acts of kindness, the moments of pure bliss. A love letter. Getting together for coffee with a friend. A good movie. A good meal. A beautiful gift. A sunset. A walk on the beach. A pet. A newborn baby. A wedding.
Just hopefully you don’t get sick, and let’s pray that a tornado or fires don’t destroy your house. Let’s hope no one gets in an accident. Let’s hope the economy stays strong so you can keep your job, and keep the whole house of cards in place.
The solution is appearances, appearances, appearances. Be a good employee. Be a good wife/husband. Say the right things. Look nice. Be nice. Don’t upset the balance. Have car insurance, health insurance, and house insurance.
Insure yourself for when things go wrong, as they always do.
And we call this …. life.
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Somewhere – probably already – you have come to the conclusion that this isn’t life.
These lessons are important because otherwise you might get stuck trying to make the world a nice place. A lot of people want to do good in the world, not realizing it is meaningless. This is a major step.
Once you realize the world is meaningless, you will stop trying to fix it.
It’s not fixable because it’s not real.
But YOU are real, and there is meaning, just not here in the world.
You will stop trying to solve other people’s problems because you will realize you are the only one with the problem.
You will stop correcting people.
You will stop judging.
You will stop defending yourself.
You will stop trying to make yourself comfortable by inappropriate means, such as money and pills and food and television.
You will begin aligning your mind with God.
You will become more present, alert, and aware.
Your eyes begin to open, and you will see something brand new.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
I am upset because I see a meaningless world.
Please take time today to do this lesson today.
Here is a little something from Chapter 15, The Holy Instant:
“Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? Yet this is what time is for; to learn just that and nothing more. God’s Teacher cannot be satisfied with His teaching until it constitutes all your learning. He has not fulfilled His teaching function until you have become such a consistent learner that you learn only of Him. When this has happened, you will no longer need a teacher or time in which to learn.”
“One source of perceived discouragement from which you may suffer is your belief that this takes time, and that the results of the Holy Spirit’s teaching are far in the future.”
I love this. It is a reminder that all we are searching for is here today. The miracle happens today. You can see everything clearly today.
How is this accomplished quickly?
Willingly and gladly give over all your plans, in exchange for God’s Plan.
This is the fast track.
“The reason this course is simple is that truth is simple.”
To hear today’s lesson, click here: ACIM Lesson 12 with Lisa Natoli
My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.
To listen to today’s audio, click here: ACIM Lesson 11 with Lisa Natoli
How’s it going so far?
You should be starting to feel happier, lighter … mixed in with a little bit of fear. Or maybe a lot of fear. I’m not going to lie to you. A Course in Miracles is an UNDOING. It dismantles your current thought system that is based on fear, separation, loneliness, sadness, deprivation and lack. Underneath all of this is perfection, innocence and love.
A Course in Miracles wipes away all the dark stuff and leaves you standing in the light.
As it undoes fear-based ideas, your life can suddenly be very topsy-turvy.
Do not be afraid.
You will feel like you are no longer standing on “solid ground” because all the things you kept in place to keep you safe, you are now being asked to let go of. You used to use judgment and attack to protect yourself. You used to put up a wall to keep yourself safe. You used to defend yourself so you wouldn’t lose your job. You used to push away love to keep yourself from getting hurt.
Now you are being asked to stand still, observe, listen, watch, forgive and love. You are asked to let go of attack, defense and judgment.
You are asked to respond in every situation as God responds … and God only has one response: LOVE.
As you let go of all your “safety devices” you may feel exposed and vulnerable. You may feel like you will be manipulated or taken advantage of. You may feel like “If I don’t protect myself and my children and my job and my life, who will???”
Chapter 1 says, “All shallow roots must be uprooted, because they are not deep enough to sustain you. As these false underpinnings are given up, the equilibrium is temporarily experienced as unstable. However, nothing is less stable than an upside-down orientation. Nor can anything that holds it upside down be conducive to increased stability.”
So we are pulling up shallow roots now. Your life may “temporarily be experienced as unstable.” Notice it says “temporarily”?? It will pass. Just have a little faith.
We are laying a solid foundation. Jesus says you must build your house on rock, which means to have total dependence on God.
Shallow roots are ideas that you can be sustained by things here in the world: people, places, and things. If you look at it logically you will agree that money, security, jobs, relationships are never stable in this world. Just when you think you can relax, something gets taken away from you. There is absolutely no stability in the world.
Now, we are building a rock solid foundation in God.
The dismantling process of your thought system begins with you recognizing you are getting exactly what you ask for, now.
All the conflict in your life? You asked for it and you are seeing it because you want it.
A Course in Miracles will show you how to change your mind and ask for the things you really want: peace, love, joy, happiness, freedom, security and comfort.
This can be a difficult lesson to swallow.
If someone is deliberately hurting you (having an affair, lying, screaming at you, attacking you, calling you an idiot, saying you are worthless), it can be very easy to believe that something external is happening to you that has nothing to do with you. You will think you are innocent. You will think THEY are the bad guy. You will think they are the ones being mean, while you just have love in your heart, all sweet and pure, unjustly attacked.
Well. If you are here with me, I’m not going to let you get away with that.
If you see attack in your life, you caused it.
If you see sickness, you caused it.
If you see hatred and deceit, you caused it.
This can be a very difficult thing to accept. It seems heartless and cruel on my part. What happened to nice Lisa???
I used to be the girl who comforted everyone, who told people “time will heal all wounds” and who listened endlessly to people’s stories about what other people were doing to them, and we’d all agree THEY were the bad ones and WE were the good ones.
HAHA. NOT.
A Course in Miracles is about 100% responsibility. It is about recognizing causation of everything that is happening in your life, as happening in your own mind.
What is happening in your life is there because you want it and like it.
There are no exceptions to the universal law of Cause & Effect.
What you see “out there” is simply mirroring the thoughts that you hold in your mind about yourself and the world.
I am not going to cover this in sugar for you, because I don’t want to waste time with your getting to the goal of God’s Will for you which is perfect peace, joy and happiness.
The value in hearing what you have to say about other people is that it shows me where you are in your own mind. When you tell me about the horrible things other people are doing to you, it gives me concrete information about how you think about yourself … and then I know where you are in your mind, and that’s the starting place.
It doesn’t do any good to pretend everything is good, when your life is falling apart.
A Course in Miracles is about TRUST and HONESTY.
That’s why in these earlier lessons you are asked to “search your mind” for “specific situations” and apply the lessons to them.
It’s the only way to bring fear to the surface. You have to name it. You have to say I am upset because so-and-so doesn’t love me … so that you can see that you don’t love yourself. You have to name an object specifically so that you can say “I see something that is not there.” From here, correction is the easiest thing the world.
This is the reason why you have no problems. Because everything exists only as a thought in your mind. As you begin watching your thoughts, watching what other people say and do, whatever the words that come out of your mouth, you will see your entire thought system … like on a screen in a movie theatre.
The world you see is your thought system and you are looking directly at it. You are actually looking at your thoughts when you look at the world. You are seeing how you think. It’s like your mind is a movie projector, and it’s projecting images outside for you to look at.
Imagine the freedom when you accept this as true!!!!
At first, it can be terrifying. But I am here for you. There is nothing to fear, but YOU DO HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE FEAR.
it sounds like a paradox, and it is. You will be totally afraid as your world starts to turn upside down and because there will be fear you will think you are doing something wrong, or you’ll be tempted to turn the other way and try to go back from where you came from …. but I am asking you to keep going.
Keep going despite the fear. This is the journey to love. You gotta go through the fear. You will come up against terrifying obstacles. It might look like things are being taken away. It might look like you will lose everything.
I am here to tell you this is the WARRIOR’S JOURNEY. This is the SAVIOR’S JOURNEY. You go from fear to love.
But see, you are not alone. I’m right here. You can call on me and I’ll answer.
I’m not ever going to give you therapy or advice about how to make things nice for you. I’m not going to tell you how to get a good relationship, or more money, or more success. I will, however, stand with you and continue to direct your mind to a solution that works.
And it works today. Everything you want is in this day.
Lesson 11 says My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.
Just practice, and know that you are never alone.
I love you.
I’ve been waking up at 7am lately, which is really late for me. I’d love to start getting up earlier … like 5:30. I don’t like rushing around in the morning. But it’s difficult getting up when it’s dark and cold. I’d love to have more energy. I’ve been going to the gym every afternoon, and that feels great, but I’m exhausted in the morning.
My thoughts do not mean anything.
These are stories. Can you tell? They have nothing to do with reality. I can tell them, and you might enjoy them, and we can share experiences, and that’s all fine and good, but my thoughts do not mean anything.
There is nothing wrong with telling stories, just don’t get trapped in them, thinking they are real. Everything is changing all the time, and stories have the effect of congealing you in time and space. They confine you to a location. They catapult you into days and weeks and months where the past and future seem very real.
But you are a mind, wholly free.
When spirit moves you, you will move. The story will change. Let yourself feel this freedom by letting your story go. YOU ARE NOT YOUR STORY. Your thoughts do not mean anything.
Stop telling stories that you have cancer, or that you are sick, or that you are depressed. These are stories, and they make your experience in the world seem scarily real.
What if in this moment you made a decision that you didn’t have a past? What if you didn’t have difficulty losing weight? What if you forgot you had limitations? What if you woke up and completely absolutely let this day be all there is, with no reference to your old story and old habits? Can you imagine it?
What would YOU be like?
What if you let yourself be dislodged from all that limits you? Why be scared or concerned, since you complain about your old life anyway?
What if you made a decision to let everything be brand new, starting right now.
Think what an adventure life would be.
It’s time to start living.
This is what it means to be “born again.” This is what it means to be resurrected. You come alive.
What if you could let all your problems go? What if you really did have a direct line to God, and you could ask for things and the Holy Spirit would respond to you and give you what you wanted.
WHAT IF?
Wouldn’t you be curious to know what true communication is like?
Can you imagine what life would be like? If you had an invisible friend with you always who could tell you where to go, and where not to go? He would tell you which doors are open and which doors are closed and would remove all stones and obstacles out of your path, so the journey is easy and effortless.
Wouldn’t you be curious to begin experiencing this?
Don’t you want your life to be one big miracle? Constant joy and happiness, and peace that lasts forever.
It starts with letting your old story go.
Stop dragging in your old sad story to show to other people. It’s a broken record. Throw it away.
You are pure light. You are the Love of God. This is the new story. You are here only to be truly helpful. You come as a light, into a world that does deny itself everything. ‘
Think about that. You were created to be happy.
The new change in your starts here & now. Let your story go. Your thoughts do not mean anything. My thoughts do not mean anything.
The past is the past. It’s not even here. I’m not going to drag it into this clean day.
Today is the day I accept my inheritance. Today is the day I remember my perfection in God. Today is the day that it lit by miracles.
Today is the day you begin to have a new experience.
I love you.
Here is today’s audio lesson: ACIM Lesson 10 with Lisa Natoli
You can also click the blue Talkshoe box to the right in the sidebar and scroll down to see past lessons, then click the PLAY button to listen.
Lesson 9 is so great. It’s pure logic.
I see nothing as it is now.
It says:
“Understanding is not necessary at this point. In fact, the recognition that you do not understand is a prerequisite for undoing your false ideas. These exercises are concerned with practice, not with understanding.”
PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE.
It cannot be repeated enough: Just show up, and do the lessons as they instruct.
“You do not need to practice what you already understand. It would indeed be circular to aim at understanding, and assume you have it already.”
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love it.
I don’t know anything. Every day is a brand new beginning.
I talk about miracles and addictions on today’s audio: ACIM Lesson 9 with Lisa Natoli.
Most everyone who picks up A Course in Miracles does so because they need a miracle in their life. A WORLDLY MIRACLE. They want a sickness healed, or to have more love in their life, or to get rid of addictions, or to solve a problem.
I came to A Course in Miracles for entirely selfish reasons. I did not give a rat’s-ass about God. I did not care about Jesus. I was doing it for me. You might as well hear it. I’m being honest. I shelled out $35 for the book because I wanted more money, more harmony, more love. I wanted miracles in my life.
I basically thought it was a book of magic and spells.
Of course what I did NOT anticipate was the way the LIGHT would have its way with me. Without any preparation, one day I found that I was head over heels in love with Jesus and crazy in love with God.
How did this happen??
I don’t have a religious background. We went to a Methodist church, but I didn’t understand a word of what was being said. Church, to me, was always about the huge family breakfast that came afterwards. Eggs, bacon, toast and orange juice. Church, in my mind, was about food and the family being together. And wearing a pretty dress.
So to find myself in adulthood with a full-blown love for God and Jesus, and to dedicate my whole life to them … well … I’m grateful. I’m laughing.
I was living in New York with zero intention of living a life dedicated to God. I was working a job in publishing, going to bars, eating in trendy restaurants, reading, dating, spending time in the park, going to movies, and living what I thought was a normal life. I was mostly miserable, but I thought that was normal.
So to be dedicated to God now, well, I’m laughing. HE GOT ME.
He totally got me.
It’s like when you open A Course in Miracles – just open it – the light of Heaven comes into your mind. You can’t see the light, but it’s like in the movies when the audience can see what is happening. It’s like uncapping a bottle of blue potion, and having a pure white bright blast of light come out of the bottle, and work its way into your body, mind and cells.
If you have opened the Course or read this blog, it’s already happened.
The light is in you.
I don’t teach A Course in Miracles. What I do, as a teacher of God, is bring in light from Heaven and let it extend through my body.
I allow my body to become a CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION for the Love of God and the Light of Heaven.
I let it pour through me. I give it, because the light is not containable.
This is A Course in Miracles.
It’s a daily dose of light. Every word on the page is loaded with light. When you read it, you take it into your own mind. It shines away the darkness.
Again, don’t believe me. Try it for yourself and let me know what happens in your life. You’ll be completely amazed.
You should write down a journal entry about where you are today, and then write down another journal entry a year from now.
Write down your feelings. Your life. How things are for you today. Then date it and put it somewhere safe. For me, when I first began, it would have looked something like this:
June 1997
I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in A Course in Miracles. I’ve the got the crappiest apartment ever. There are mice. I wish I could stop overeating. I’m bored. I’m lonely. I wish I could stop drinking. I’ve started smoking again. I feel a lot of fear. I would like a relationship, but I don’t see how that is ever going to happen. It’s impossible to meet new people. Where can I meet new people? I wake up, take the subway to work, spend 9-5 in an office with the same people, and then take the subway home again. I don’t see how anything is ever going to change. Truthfully, I don’t want to get hurt again. Maybe I don’t really want a relationship. At least this way, no one can hurt me. I like going to the park. I like being in the sunlight. I should start running. I like going to movies and I love reading. I love buying a brand new book every week. I’m grateful for my job, but I wish my life was more exciting. I need a miracle.
That was my life. I created an appearance that things were Okay. That I was Okay. I put on a happy face. But really, I wanted something to change.
In the beginning, I didn’t even know what I wanted. The ONE THING I DID KNOW was that I wanted to stop drinking. That was a big one. I hated that I had an addiction and that I was powerless. I had an image of me being an old lady in the liquor store, standing in line, waiting patiently to pay for my vodka. And then sitting at home alone, drinking.
So how did the picture change? I cannot say for certain. My theory is that I got the LIGHT OF HEAVEN into my mind by reading A Course in Miracles and miracles began to occur. I stopped drinking. I stopped smoking. I found love. I found true peace and joy. Sounds whacky, but I don’t know how else to explain the drastic changes in my life.
How does one go from not having any interest in Jesus or God to suddenly being head over heels in love? To wanting to devote their entire life to service? To being a disciple of Jesus. I would like to know.
Believe me when I tell you … no one is more surprised OR DELIGHTED than me.
So, if you want to see a change in your life and you feel incapable or paralyzed of creating a change, just keep practicing the lessons. THEY WORK.
It’s pure light.
You’ll start to feel lighter and happier, addictions fall away, and don’t be surprised if you wake up one morning and decide you want to devote your life to God.
It may have happened already….
I love you.
I would love to hear from anyone who is doing these lessons. How is it going? Do you have questions?
Actually, that reminds me …
Marianne Williamson is looking for questions about A Course in Miracles to use on her XM Radio Show on Oprah, which play daily Monday-Friday 3pmEST to 4pm. This is your chance to talk with Marianne and be on Oprah Radio! Send me your questions, along with your phone number and name so that Harpo Production, Oprah’s company, can call you to schedule a time for the call-in so you can ask the question directly yourself, LIVE on the air.
My e-mail is lisanatoli2@gmail.com
Today is Day 8/Lesson 8.
My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
I totally love this lesson. It says when the mind is thinking about anything past or future, the mind is actually blank!
BLANK!
It is not thinking at all. It is literally blank.
So when you are thinking about future goals, picturing the past, anticipating things you want to have, you are actually not thinking all. Your mind is blank.
I found a great video yesterday that absolutely goes along with Today’s Lesson, and is a great introductory video as we begin these early lessons, which can be very mind boggling and sometimes scary.
CLICK THIS IMAGE TO WATCH 4-MINUTE VIDEO:
“Truth, by nature, will decontruct, disassemble, dissolve and dismantle your mind’s thought processes, and this, of course, will rock your world.”
HA! I love it.
And here is: ACIM Lesson 8 with Lisa Natoli. Click to listen.
I have the most incredible cats on the planet. Sam and Enzo. I am so in love with them, it’s ridiculous. Sam likes to get as close as he possibly can to me, and Enzo just goes bananas when I pet him, rolling around like a crazy thing, happy as can be. They look at me with stars in their eyes as if i am the sun, and the moon and heaven to them.
I have the most incredible extraordinary friends, creative individuals who inspire me and make me laugh. My family is amazing. Miracles occur everywhere I look and everywhere I go.
And yet … I see only the past.
I live in memories. Everything I see has already occurred and time is already over, and I’m back home in Heaven.
Lesson 7 is one of the TRIPPIER lessons in A Course in Miracles. It may flip you out the first time you do it. The lessons makes no logical sense to a human mind, so please don’t try to understand them. This will only lead to frustration.
But practicing and doing the lessons will lead you to a new experience.
You live in memories. Look around you. You think you are in “the present moment.” Yet … in fact … you are remembering something that has already occurred. The future has already occurred. The past has already occurred. This moment has already occurred. You are looking at the past.
This moment is a memory of something that has already happened and is over.
This is the reason you can be happy. This is the reason there is no need for you to react, attack, or judge, because this moment has already happened.
You can simply be an observer now, joyfully participating, knowing that whatever you do has no effect on reality.
Of course, there are consequences in what appears to be a dream while you are sleeping, but that can only happen if you are unconscious and fail to recognize you are dreaming. As you sleep, chaos seems to happen randomly and constantly.
Time and space is what chaos is.
What’s the solution? Get out of time and space.
Get with God.
Rise above the battleground.
Stop being human.
You are as God created you. You are healed and whole and perfect. There is nothing to fear.
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lisa
God’s Will for you is perfect peace, joy and happiness and only that. There is nothing else. There is ONLY the Will of God.
So when you experience anything else – anger, depression, anxiety, loss, jealousy, sadness, confusion. limitation – you are actually seeing something that is not there.
There is only the Will of God.
Nothing else exists.
There is only love.
That’s why when you see something other than love, you get upset.
Your mind knows that your natural state is joy. It know you are One with God. So when something experience a world of separation, you are literally not in your right mind, and this is the reason you get upset. You’ve been displaced. You got a little lost. You wandered off from the path.
It’s upsetting to get lost. It’s upsetting to not know where you are.
You get upset.
Your mind knows the truth. It knows wholeness. It may only be a small dim light, buried under a lot of worldly learning, but the light is there. It speaks to you of Heaven, of a condition of perfection, union and peace.
When you see anything else, you naturally get upset.
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ACIM Lesson 6 with Lisa Natoli
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The big question of the day is: How come if Kevin Federline’s bodyguard was at Britney’s house to pick up the kids, then WHY didn’t he take them with him when Britney had a nervous breakdown? Why did Jayden go to the hospital in a separate ambulance with the court-appointed monitor at 11:55 at night??? Why did he stay at the hospital all night long, to be taken home at 5am? Why weren’t the kids tucked into bed with some responsible adult all this time? And why do I care?
This world is insane.
I read stories like this and all I can think about are the children.
So Britney lost custody and all visitation rights to her kids last night while in 72-hour lockdown at the hospital and Federline’s attorney summed it best: “there are no winners here.”
I am upset about this story, but never for the reason I think.
I am not upset about irresponsible parents for the reason I think.
I am not upset with Britney for the reason I think.
I am not angry at the media for the reason I think.
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A Course in Miracles Lesson 5 with Lisa Natoli
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