My Mind holds only what I think with God.
What does it mean?

What does it mean to hold only thoughts you think with God? In this world, we usually separate our day to day thoughts from our spiritual thoughts. Sometimes we try to bring them together, but more often think of them as two sides of our mind.

In A Course In Miracles we are often reminded that there is one decision to make between two choices at any given time. There is the Light side, the side we think of as holding our spiritual thoughts, and the earthly side, the side we live with day to day. The earthly side is our ego side, the dark side if you will. The dark side is the illusion we live with in the physical world. But, when a light is turned on, darkness is gone. Remember the passage, "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house." It is from Matthew in the New Testament.

"My mind holds only what I think with God," is the start of all the lessons in Review 4 in the Workbook of A Course In Miracles. This review approaches the end of Part One of the Workbook. It summarizes the first part of the teaching of A Course In Miracles. Forgiveness begins and persists throughout the review. Also emphasized is the one decision we have to make. For example:

Beyond this world, there is a world I want.

Beyond this world is a world I want. This other world we take as our concept of Heaven. A world created in the Light that is within us. A world we choose. We think it is a choice between two realities, but one is illusory as we see in the next part:

It is impossible to see two worlds.

What does this mean? That we have to give up one world to receive the other? I think it means that we bring our Light to this world we live in day to day. This is our choice, the decision we are being taught to make. We bring the Light - and you can use any term you like for Light, be it Christ, Truth, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Buddha, peace, forgiveness - to the illusory world and it disappears in its Light. The next line in Matthew is, " Let your light so shine before men.1

This is just a little section of the Workbook. It is best to start at the beginning when approaching the Workbook. So, if you are new to the Course and this seems far fetched to you, understand that it is out of context. The Course is presented in three volumes of which the Workbook is the middle volume. However, there are many passages in the Workbook that stand on their own and inspire many, whether we have "done" the Course or not. For those who are familiar with the Course, this may serve are a reminder in a community of light.

We are of one mind, the Mind of God. Any other mind we think we think with is ephemeral, a thing that disappears in light, in truth. While we are here, we have a function, a purpose, and that is to accept our Lightness, our guiltlessness, our forgiveness, and reflect that back to each other.

1. 1. it continues, "that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven." Heaven, in Course terminology, is within you, is part of you and your brother.