{"id":491,"date":"2025-08-08T05:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.co.za\/?p=491"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:10:22","slug":"les-24-ek-sien-nie-wat-in-my-eie-beste-belang-is-nie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/les-24-ek-sien-nie-wat-in-my-eie-beste-belang-is-nie\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 24 - I do not perceive my own best interests."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">1. In no situation that arises do you realize the outcome that would make you happy. \u00b2Therefore, you have no guide to appropriate action, and no way of judging the result. \u00b3What you do is determined by your perception of the situation, and that perception is wrong. \u2074It is inevitable, then, that you will not serve your own best interests. \u2075Yet they are your only goal in any situation which is correctly perceived. \u2076Otherwise, you will not recognize what they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">2. If you realized that you do not perceive your own best interests, you could be taught what they are. \u00b2But in the presence of your conviction that you do know what they are, you cannot learn. \u00b3The idea for today is a step toward opening your mind so that learning can begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">3. The exercises for today require much more honesty than you are accustomed to using. \u00b2A few subjects, honestly and carefully considered in each of the five practice periods which should be undertaken today, will be more helpful than a more cursory examination of a large number. \u00b3Two minutes are suggested for each of the mind-searching periods which the exercises involve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">4. The practice periods should begin with repeating today\u2019s idea, followed by searching the mind, with closed eyes, for unresolved situations about which you are currently concerned. \u00b2The emphasis should be on uncovering the outcome you want. \u00b3You will quickly realize that you have a number of goals in mind as part of the desired outcome, and also that these goals are on different levels and often conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">5. In applying the idea for today, name each situation that occurs to you, and then enumerate carefully as many goals as possible that you would like to be met in its resolution. \u00b2The form of each application should be roughly as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<sup>3<\/sup>In the situation involving _________, I would like _________ to happen, and _________ to happen,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">and so on. \u2074Try to cover as many different kinds of outcomes as may honestly occur to you, even if some of them do not appear to be directly related to the situation, or even to be inherent in it at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">6. If these exercises are done properly, you will quickly recognize that you are making a large number of demands of the situation which have nothing to do with it. \u00b2You will also recognize that many of your goals are contradictory, that you have no unified outcome in mind, and that you must experience disappointment in connection with some of your goals, however the situation turns out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7. After covering the list of as many hoped-for goals as possible, for each unresolved situation that crosses your mind say to yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<sup>2<\/sup>I do not perceive my own best interests in this situation,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and go on to the next one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 100%; margin: auto; text-align: center;\">\n\n  <!-- YouTube video embed -->\n  <div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\">\n    <iframe \n      src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TWJepLczKdQ?rel=0\"\n      title=\"YouTube video player\"\n      frameborder=\"0\"\n      allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\"\n      allowfullscreen\n style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\">\n    <\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- Like & comment button -->\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TWJepLczKdQ\" \n     target=\"_blank\" \n     style=\"       display: inline-block;        margin-top: 15px;        background-color: #1eabe4;        color: #fff;        padding: 12px 20px;        text-decoration: none;        font-weight: bold;        border-radius: 6px;        transition: background-color 0.3s ease;       width: 100%;       box-sizing: border-box;     \"\n     onmouseover=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#1594c6'\"\n     onmouseout=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#1eabe4'\">\n    \ud83d\udc4d Like &#038; Comment on YouTube\n  <\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2728 Inspired by the core message of the Course:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This lesson comes from (A Course in Miracles). Hemelbewus presents it in Afrikaans as part of a path of inner healing and forgiveness. The translation was done with great care and dedication over several years by Henri Theron, and brings the deep spiritual teachings of the Course to Afrikaans-speaking readers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcda <strong>Read more about the Course:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acim.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.acim.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lesson 24: I do not perceive my own best interests. 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Les 24 herinner ons daaraan dat innerlike leiding slegs moontlik is wanneer ons erken dat ons nie weet nie. \u2019n Kragtige les in ware vertroue.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[41,150,97,18,33,175,174,114],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daaglike-lesse","tag-a-course-in-miracles","tag-afrikaans","tag-geestesdenke","tag-hemelbewus","tag-innerlike-vrede","tag-kursus-in-wonders","tag-les-24","tag-spirituele-groei","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}