Please note: this week’s homework was split between two weeks due to the Fall Retreat. In order that we continue with the curriculum as written, we should have read and contemplated Day 208, Commentary on The Wish to be Independent on Sunday and this lesson, Day 209 on Monday. Both Day 209 and 210 have been published today, Tuesday, October 6. This week’s meeting will cover Days 204-210. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion caused by the mis-scheduled lessons.

Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.

~Commentary on Peace~

The world is a reflection of the mind, but I do not ask you to give thought to this. I ask you to give acceptance. For when you give thought to the simple ideas I teach, you also add confusion to what was not meant to be understood, but meant only to be.

The world is a reflection of the mind.

Now that you accept this fact, most likely without understanding, you can use this fact to see which voice you listen to in the mind.

Are you upset by what you see? If so, you are listening to the voice for independence, and you are wanting everything to be the way the voice for independence states it must be. This is not being. This is demanding and controlling, and in demanding and controlling there can never be peace.

If you are overjoyed by what you see…if you are grateful with no desire to interfere or change a thing…you are listening to the Voice of Peace, and so you are peace and peace is what you know. This is like music that has no sound, and yet the music never stops playing.

Be only honest with what you see. This is all that is asked as you look at a reflection. And then if it is not peace, turn immediately to Me. And if it is peace, enjoy the beauty of your song.

~From our Holy Spirit

Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.

~Commentary on Listening ~

 In order to listen, you must choose not to want things your way…the independent way…which does not consider the way of the whole.

In order to listen, you must also realize that the perspective from which you see is limited, and therefore, the perspective from which you see cannot make a decision based on benefit to the whole.

When you want only that which benefits the whole as an entirety, and you realize that you cannot decide for the whole based on your limited perspective, you are then ready to listen, because you realize that listening is the only satisfactory answer for you.

~From our Holy Spirit

Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.

~Commentary on the Wish to be Independent~

 The wish to be independent is the wish for “me” who is separate from “you” and whose key interests may be different. We may at times find similarities among our varied interests, but this is rare and never long-lasting, for always “my” key interest is to look out for “me.”

And can there be any question that this thought must eventually lead to conflict and to pain?

Yet this is the thought you listen to, and the choice you make, whenever you choose to worship the wish to be independent.

~From our Holy Spirit