I Am: A Course In Miracles (acim)

lesson 16 â??I have no neutral thoughts.â?? The idea for today is a beginning step in dispelling the belief that your thoughts have no effect.Everything you see is the result of your thoughts.There is no exception to this fact.Thoughts are not big or little;powerful or weak.They are merely true or false.Those which are true create their own likeness.Those which are false make theirs. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of â??idle thoughts.â??What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle.Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions.You can indeed multiply nothing,but you will not extend it by doing so. In addition to never being idle, salvation requires that you recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war; either love or fear.A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible.There is such a temptation to dismiss fear