To be able to trace everything we say, do, think, feel, and touch back to mind takes a considerable amount of mind training. It is quite common for years and years of humbling to accompany the mind training, before one can truly see that all perception is an impersonal non-located state of mind. ACIM daily lessons serve as tools to help the mind reorient itself.
“When you start to get the awareness that everything is a thought, it is blatantly simple. This is what Workbook Lesson 23 of A Course in Miracles refers to, ‘I can give up this world by giving up attack thoughts’. When he says, ‘It is with your thoughts alone that we must work’, he means it. Don’t actually think that some behaviors are autonomous. ‘Well, they said this. How do you expect me to react? They looked at me this way. Did you see the look they gave me? I tried to forgive them, but they gave me that look.’ It is still as if there are autonomous behaviors. As if the body is autonomous—it acts on its own, it says things, it does things.”