I Am: A Course In Miracles (acim)

lesson 8 â??My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.â?? This idea is,of course,the reason why you see only the past.No-one really sees anything.He sees only his thoughts projected outward.The mindâ??s preoccupation with the past is the cause of the total misconception about time from which your seeing suffers.Your mind cannot grasp the present,which is the only time there is.It therefore cannot understand time,and cannot,in fact,understand anything. The only wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here.To think about it at all is therefore to think about delusions.Very few minds have realized what is actually entailed in picturing the past or in anticipating the future.The mind is actually blank when it does this, because it is not really thinking about anything. The purpose of the exercises for today is to begin to train your mind to recognize when it is not really thinking at all. While thoughtless â??ideasâ??preoccupy your mind, the truth is block