For this review, we take but one idea each day, and practice it as often as is
possible. Besides the time you give morning and evening, which should not be
less than fifteen minutes, and the hourly remembrances you make throughout the
day, use the idea as often as you can between them. Each of these ideas alone
would be sufficient for salvation, if it were learned truly. Each would be
enough to give release to you and to the world from every form of bondage, and
invite the memory of God to come again.
With this in mind, we start our practicing in which we carefully review the
thoughts the Holy Spirit has bestowed on us in our last twenty lessons. Each
contains the whole curriculum if understood, practiced, accepted, and applied to
all the seeming happenings throughout the day. One is enough. But for that one,
there must be no exceptions made. And so we need to use them all, and let them
blend as one as each contributes to the whole we learn.
These practice sessions, like our last review, are centered round a central
theme with which we start and end each lesson. It is this:
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
The day begins and ends with this. And we
repeat it every time the hour strikes, or we remember, in-between, we have a
function that transcends the world we see. Beyond this, and a repetition of the
special thought we practice for the day, no form of exercise is urged, except a
deep relinquishment of everything that clutters up the mind, and makes it deaf
to reason, sanity and simple truth.
We will attempt to get beyond all words and special forms of practicing for this
review. For we attempt this time to reach a quickened pace along a shorter path
to the serenity and peace of God. We merely close our eyes, and then forget all
that we thought we knew and understood. For thus is freedom given us from all we
did not know and failed to understand.
There is but one exception to this lack of structuring. Permit no idle thought
to go unchallenged. If you notice it, deny its hold and hasten to assure your
mind that this is not what it would have. Then gently let the thought which you
denied be given up in sure and quick exchange for the idea you practice for the
day.
When you are tempted, hasten to proclaim your freedom from temptation, as you say:
"This thought I do not want. I choose instead"
And then repeat the idea for the day, and
let it take the place of what you thought. Beyond such special applications
of each day's idea, we will add but a few formal expressions or specific thoughts
to aid your practicing. Instead we give these times of quiet to the Teacher
Who instructs in quiet, speaks of peace, and gives our thoughts whatever meaning
they may have.
To Him I offer this review for you. I place you in His charge, and let Him teach
you what to do and say and think each time you turn to Him. He will not fail
to be available to you each time you call to Him to help you. Let us offer Him
the whole review we now begin, and let us also not forget to Whom it has been
given, as we practice day by day, advancing toward the goal He set for us; allowing
Him to teach us how to go, and trusting Him completely for the way each practice
period can best become a loving gift of freedom to the world.
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