Q: There are times during the day when my ego screams so loud that I do not remember to turn to the Holy Spirit. If I began my day with a blanket statement: "Holy Spirit, please be with me all day," would that happen? A: I doubt it. If you do that and then do not think of Him at any other point, that is magic. What A Course in Miracles would say is that you should start your day that way and think of Him all the rest of the day, too. Otherwise, you are going to hope that going on automatic pilot will take care of everything. In one sense that is true, if you really go on automatic pilot. But I think that that requires a tremendous amount of discipline, and if we had that kind of discipline, then we would not need a workbook. In the beginning of Chapter 30 is a section called "Rules for Decision" (text, p. 581; T-30.1) which actually is a very simple way of telling us how we should begin. It says exactly what you are saying, but then it elaborates on what you should do when you forget. I think that we should start our day like that, but then we should continually reinforce it. Otherwise, it is very, very easy to fall back onto the ego. KW, The 50 Miracle Principles of ACIM, Commentary on Principle #15
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