Friday, August 19, 2022

If our thoughts are unloving we can change them.


You have been asked to take me as your model for learning, since an extreme example is a particularly helpful learning device. Everyone teaches, and teaches all the time. This is a responsibility you inevitably assume the moment you accept any premise at all, and no one can organize his life without some thought system. Once you have developed a thought system of any kind, you live by it and teach it. Your capacity for allegiance to a thought system may be misplaced, but it is still a form of faith and can be redirected. T-6.in.2:1-5

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 


Jesus provides us with a model for learning both through his activities, behavior, and words. As with any human, we behave as we perceive and believe. Often our perceptions are distorted and our beliefs are dysfunctional. The bumper sticker reads, “Reality doesn’t care anything about your beliefs.” If we come to realize that our thought system is misplaced we can change it.


In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning and to accept one another and encourage each others’ spiritual growth.


Today, it is suggested that we reflect on our thought system and consider whether we should believe everything we think. If our thoughts are unloving and misplaced we can always change them.


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