Only minds communicate. Since the ego cannot obliterate the impulse to communicate because it is also the impulse to create, it can only teach you that the body can both communicate and create, and therefore does not need the mind. The ego thus tries to teach you that the body can act like the mind, and is therefore self-sufficient. Yet we have learned that behavior is not the level for either teaching or learning, since you can act in accordance with what you do not believe. To do this, however, will weaken you as a teacher and a learner because, as has been repeatedly emphasized, you teach what you do believe. An inconsistent lesson will be poorly taught and poorly learned. If you teach both sickness and healing, you are both a poor teacher and a poor learner. T-7.V.2:1-7
A Course in Miracles (pp. 253-254). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
Do we walk the talk? Do we say what we mean and mean what we say? Do we communicate in ways that are authentic and genuine and sincere? Oftentimes we don’t. We present ourselves one way when we know our beliefs and perceptions are another. When we do this we call our behavior disingenuous, insincere, in plain terms, we don’t have our shit together.
In Unitarian Universalism some covenant together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in our human relations. What does justice demand? Justice demands that we be honest, truthful, sincere, and genuine.
Today it is suggested that we watch our thoughts and actions and consider whether they match up.
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