It is
the reason why
- · nothing that you see means anything.
- · you have given everything you see all the meaning that it has for you.
- · you do not understand anything you see.
- · your thoughts do not mean anything, and why they are like the things you see.
- · you are never upset for the reason you think.
- · you are upset because you see something that is not there.
Old ideas about
time are very difficult to change, because everything you believe is rooted in
time, and depends on your not learning these new ideas about it. Yet that is
precisely why you need new ideas about time. This first time idea is not really
so strange as it may sound at first.
Look at
a cup, for example. Do you see a cup, or are you merely reviewing your past
experiences of picking up a cup, being thirsty, drinking from a cup, feeling
the rim of a cup against your lips, having breakfast and so on? Are not your
aesthetic reactions to the cup, too, based on past experiences? How else would
you know whether or not this kind of cup will break if you drop it? What do you
know about this cup except what you learned in the past? You would have no idea
what this cup is, except for your past learning. Do you, then, really see it?
Look about you.
This is equally true of whatever you look at. Acknowledge this by applying the
idea for today indiscriminately to whatever catches your eye. For example:
- · I see only the past in this pencil.
- · I see only the past in this shoe.
- · I see only the past in this hand.
- · I see only the past in that body.
- · I see only the past in that face.
Do
not linger over any one thing in particular, but remember to omit nothing
specifically. Glance briefly at each subject, and then move on to the next.
Three or four practice periods, each to last a minute or so, will be enough. ACiM - Workbook Lesson 7
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