Is this TMI – too much information? When I worked in commercial real estate our company managed a complex of office buildings – and the plumbing was a regular headache. There was always one building with one bathroom and one stall that backed up and flooded. Why? People know you should not throw Kleenex, paper towels, or feminine products into a toilet. But they think toilet paper is OK, and it is, unless…
…unless you are a toilet paper wrapper. These are people who wrap toilet paper around their hand multiple times before using it and then flush it. But, when you wrap toilet paper like that, it does NOT disintegrate.
ACIM teaches that our thoughts about “others” are a projection of what we think about ourselves. Yet, “others“ can be whatever we are trying to protect ourselves from. Toilet paper wrappers are simply trying to protect themselves from germs, without realizing the real germ is their thought that there’s something wrong with themselves.
I’m not picking on toilet paper wrappers. We are all toilet paper wrappers in our own way. My trying to do things perfectly is a way of protecting myself from the germ of self-judgment. And I can think of other self-concept germs, too: a need to be right, or someone who “understands what’s really going on,” or to feel important enough to be a target. And there is designer toilet paper for each one: frustration, anger, indignation, TYPING IN ALL CAPS (lol).
The Course teaches: “All concepts of…yourself…stem from injustice.” (M, S19, P3, L1) Fortunately, these “injustice germs” can be cured with the restoration of oneness to our awareness by letting go of self-concepts. That means the only toilet paper that really works is the constant letting go of all things that stand between us and Oneness.