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Yet it is a fact that there are no private thoughts. Despite your initial resistance to this idea, you will yet understand that it must be true if salvation is possible at all. And salvation must be possible because it is the Will of God. ACiM - Workbook Lesson 19

My thoughts do not mean anything. I have no private thoughts. Yet it is only private thoughts of which I am aware. What can these thoughts mean? They do not exist, and so they mean nothing. Yet my mind is part of creation and part of its Creator. ACiM - Workbook Lesson 52

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing. If I have no private thoughts, I cannot see a private world. Even the mad idea of separation had to be shared before it could form the basis of the world I see. ACiM - Workbook Lesson 54

Let not your fear of sin protect it from correction, for the attraction of guilt is only fear. Here is the one emotion that you made, whatever it may seem to be. This is the emotion of secrecy, of private thoughts and of the body. This is the one emotion that opposes love, and always leads to sight of differences and loss of sameness.

Here is the one emotion that keeps you blind, dependent on the self you think you made to lead you through the world it made for you. ACiM - Text Chapter Twenty-two - Salvation and the Holy Relationship - Section 2 - The Message of the Holy Relationship

If you are joined, how could it be that you have private thoughts? And how could thoughts that enter into what but seems like yours alone have no effect at all on what is yours? If minds are joined, this is impossible. ACiM - Text Chapter Twenty-one - Reason and Perception - Section 7 - Reason versus Madness

For in private thoughts, known only to yourself, you think you find a way to keep what you would have alone, and share what you would share. And then you wonder why it is that you are not in full communication with those around you, and with God Who surrounds all of you together. ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 4 - Practicing the Holy Instant

The holy instant is a time in which you receive and give perfect communication. This means, however, that it is a time in which your mind is open, both to receive and give. It is the recognition that all minds are in communication. It therefore seeks to change nothing, but merely to accept everything. How can you do this when you would prefer to have private thoughts and keep them? The only way you could do that would be to deny the perfect communication that makes the holy instant what it is. ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 4 - Practicing the Holy Instant

It is through the holy instant that what seems impossible is accomplished, making it evident that it is not impossible. In the holy instant guilt holds no attraction, since communication has been restored. And guilt, whose only purpose is to disrupt communication, has no function here. Here there is no concealment, and no private thoughts. ACiM Text - Chapter Fifteen - The Holy Instant - Section 7 - The Needless Sacrifice