Who is really doing the Work?

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That's fascinating, LTW, I love what you wrote here. What you said

feels very right, and it startled me! It even made my conscioussness

shift, to realize what is really true. I never even questioned

that " I " was doing the work. ha ha! That's really funny. It's just

my story of " I " .

There is an expression " it takes a thorn to remove a thorn, " which

means that we use the ego to free ourselves of ego.

Love

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> > *****With all you know about The Work, why the lack of

attention?

> > I would suggest, to quote you in a later post, the reason for

the

> > lack of attention is because " we have NO control over the

thoughts

> > which arise. " Doing The Work entails using thought (and non-

> > thought also; that's the " meditative " part of it). But if, as

you

> > say, we have " NO control over the thoughts which arise, " then we

> > have NO control over when we do (or don't do) The Work. It

seems

> > entirely out of our hands, eh? I'm not questioning the

> > effectiveness of The Work; just our ability to choose to employ

it.

> >

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>

> LOL ... yes, love moves, then " I " get to tell the story about

> how " I " did it. But the thing I love about the Work and ACIM is

that

> it IS NOT necessary to realize that there is no " I " . We get to

keep

> our imaginary " I " for as long as it makes us happy, and it's okay

to

> continue to believe that " I " am doing the Work. All " I " need to do

> is question the nightmare until it becomes a " happy dream " , and

from

> there God does the rest. Even though the truth is that " I " am not

> doing anything at all!

>

> Have a beautiful day

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>

> " Eventually, every Band-Aid stops working, and our painful

thoughts

> ooze out. Only the truth can set us free, only the truth can stop

> the pain, and only with the truth can we be truly intimate. " Byron

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