An important thought in this lesson is this line: “Your mind is totally undisciplined, and you cannot distinguish between joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, love and fear.”

That is very hard for us to accept. We believe we can definitely tell the difference between happiness and sadness. Yet the Course is teaching us that these are two sides of the same coin.

What we consider to be “good” is a result of the world and our body being in a certain state where our needs and desires are met. It’s a conditional sort of happiness that can evaporate as soon as conditions change: our body (or the body of a loved one) gets sick; our financial security is threatened, people disappoint us, and so on.

When we’re willing to accept that we really can’t tell the difference between joy and sorrow - then we open ourselves to a new way of seeing. One not driven by the ego mind.

The Course teaches us that “your decision to see is all that vision requires.”

So our practice consists in reminding ourselves that we do want to see. And now we allow a different teacher to guide our journey.

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