"The necessary condition for the holy instant does not require
that you have no thoughts that are not pure. But it does
require that you have none that you would keep."
- A Course in Miracles
Thoughts come and go like clouds across the sky on a windy day. Many of those thoughts may be fear thoughts, or attack thoughts. The goal is not to rid yourself of all these thoughts but rather to release the tendency you have to hide them in shame or to defend and justify them. There is no need to hide nor to "get rid of" them if you will simply recognize that they are part of the insanity of the ego thought system and that there is no value in them. They are not even YOUR thoughts but rather are the thoughts of a fearful thought system within the illusion. You only really get into trouble when you go about believing these thoughts instead of seeing them for the lies they are.
It is not enough to stop making wrong-minded choices by default. You must practice making right-minded choices deliberately. It is not enough to just stop doing what is destructive, you must also do what is constructive. And this is much easier than you often make it out to be. It is only your resistance which makes it SEEM difficult. In fact, it is EASIER to do it this way.
In other words, it is much easier to dissolve a fear thought of scarcity if you are replacing it with a thought of abundance and plenty. It is easier to calm a child when you are taking away something if you immediately replace it with something else.
The first step is to begin to recognize when you are justifying your attack thoughts with some story - this is quite often a story about how"they started it." Perhaps you will begin to see how childish this is and that it is cherished by young and old alike within the ego thought system. If you will now begin to see that it is not making you happy, and if you will see that every ego thought is totally INSANE no matter how justified it is, you may be able to more quickly release any resistance to the process. Ruthlessly ask yourself, "Would I rather be right, or peaceful?"
If you can begin to see that any attack thought is insane, you can then also begin to loosen your grip on them. Give them to Us by admitting what they are, and then begin the HEALING by CHOOSING what you want to think instead. Remember, you must always have a POSITIVE clear-cut goal for mind to focus on for if you do not, the ego begins to focus on the NEGATIVE goals of what it does not want - and what the ego does not want is peace.
You are a brilliant beautiful Light in an eternal sky. Within you is a Power and a Presence that neither time nor eternity can dull nor diminish. Therefore, there is no reason for you to bow down helplessly before the illusory power of the puny ego thought system. Release insanity and choose peace for you have the ability to do so if you are only willing to deliberately choose the more loving path of sanity and peace today.
