Today’s idea holds the key to what your real thoughts are. They are
nothing that you think you think, just as nothing that you think you see
is related to vision in any way. There is no relationship between what
is real and what you think is real. Nothing that you think are your real
thoughts resemble your real thoughts in any respect. Nothing that you
think you see bears any resemblance to what vision will show you.
You think with the Mind of God. Therefore you share your thoughts with
Him, as He shares His with you. They are the same thoughts because they
are thought by the same Mind. To share is to make alike, or to make one.
Nor do the thoughts you think with the Mind of God leave your mind,
because thoughts do not leave their source. Therefore your thoughts are
in the Mind of God, as you are. They are in your mind as well, where He
is. As you are part of His Mind, so are your thoughts part of His
Thoughts.
Where, then, are your real thoughts? Today we will attempt to reach
them. We will have to look for them in your mind, because that is where
they are. They must still be there because they cannot have left. What
is thought by the Mind of God is eternal, being part of creation.
Our three five-minute practice periods for today will take the same
general form that we used in applying yesterday’s idea. We will attempt
to leave the unreal and seek for the real. We will deny the world in
favor of truth. We will not let the thoughts of the world hold us back,
and we will not let the beliefs of the world tell us that what God would
have us do is impossible.
Instead, we will try to recognize that only what God would have us do is
possible. We will also try to understand that only what God would have
us do is what we want to do. And we will also try to remember that we
cannot fail in doing what He would have us do. There is every reason to
feel confident that you will succeed today. It is the Will of God.
Begin the exercises for today by repeating the idea to yourself,
closing your eyes as you do so. Spend a fairly short period in thinking
a few relevant thoughts of your own, keeping the idea in mind as you do
so. After you have added some four or five thoughts of your own repeat
the idea again, and tell yourself gently:
“My real thoughts are in my mind. I would like to find them.”
Then try to go past all the unreal thoughts that cover the truth in your
mind, and reach to the eternal.
Under all the senseless thoughts and mad ideas with which you have
cluttered up your mind are the thoughts which you thought with God in
the beginning. They are there in your mind now, completely unchanged.
They will always be in your mind, exactly as they always were.
Everything that you have thought since then will change, but the
foundation on which they rest is wholly changeless. It is this
foundation toward which the exercises for today are directed. Here is
your mind joined with the Mind of God. Here are your thoughts one with
His.
For this kind of practice only one thing is necessary; approach it as
you would an altar dedicated in Heaven itself to God the Father and God
the Son. For such is the place you are trying to reach. You will probably
be unable as yet to realize how high you are trying to go. Yet even with
the little understanding you have already gained, you should be able to
remind yourself that this is no idle game, but an exercise in holiness
and an attempt to reach the Kingdom of Heaven.
In using the shorter form for applying today’s idea, try to remember how
important it is to you to understand the holiness of the mind that
thinks with God. Take a minute or two, as you repeat the idea throughout
the day, to appreciate your mind’s holiness. Stand aside, however
briefly, from all thoughts that are unworthy of Him Whose host you are.
And thank Him for the thoughts He is thinking with you.