Workbook Lesson 2.
I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me.
I have given everything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me.
The exercises with this idea are the same as those for the first one. Begin with the things that are near you, and apply the idea to whatever your glance rests on. Then increase the range outward. Turn your head so that you include whatever is on either side. If possible, turn around and apply the idea to what was behind you. Remain as indiscriminate as possible in selecting subjects for its application, do not concentrate on anything in particular, and do not attempt to include everything you see in a given area, or you will introduce strain.
Merely glance easily and fairly quickly around you, trying to avoid selection by size, brightness, color, material, or relative importance to you. Take the subjects simply as you see them. Try to apply the exercise with equal ease to a body or a button, a fly or a floor, an arm or an apple. The sole criterion for applying the idea to anything is merely that your eyes have lighted on it. Make no attempt to include anything particular, but be sure that nothing is specifically excluded.
< Lesson 1.
rate
email
print
link to this page
Comments: 5
It is the egos way and it keeps us busy so that we have no time to question the reality of the dream.
I too have been disabled for many years but I now look away from the body and through the direction of A Course in Miracles I am able to see a greater vista.
There is no death Fern, there is no such thing as a terminal you, you are not that body so when you finally lay it aside, you are in for one great surprise, I promise you!
Rather get much more specific, the Workbook Lessons work, they are for application to specific problems you meet during the day.
I will often be walking in the street and see someone that reminds me of a past hurt I left unresolved, the Lesson "I see nothing as it is now" reminds me that "I see only the past" and I condemn everything I see there.
These Lessons remind me that I am in error, so in wanting to see, I seek correction, I do the Lesson "God is in everything I see" because God is in my mind.
This all sounds long and drawn out but as you fill your mind with the new thought system of ACIM they flood in to replace your old thinking. Soon it becomes as natural as breathing.