A Course In Miracles from My Perspective

May 28th 2014  Lesson 27

Above all else, I want to see.

Today's idea expresses something stronger than mere determination.  It gives vision priority among your desires.  You may feel hesitant about using the idea, on the grounds that you are not sure you really mean it.  This does not matter.  The purpose of today's exercises is to bring the time when the idea will be wholly true a little nearer.
     
It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything.  The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than "good" or "bad," is the only way to accomplish this.  The idea for today is a step in this direction.

• Intention:  The idea for today needs many repetitions for maximum benefit.  It should be used at least every half hour, and more if possible.  You might try for every fifteen or twenty minutes.    
        
• Practice:  It is recommended that yo set a definite time interval for using the idea when you wake or shortly afterwards, and attempt to adhere to it throughout the day.  It will not be difficult to do this, even if your are engaged in conversation, or otherwise occupied at the time.  You can still repeat one short sentence to yourself without disturbing anything. 
    
  There may be a great temptation to believe that some sort of sacrifice is being asked of you when you say you want to see above all else.  If you become uneasy about the lack of reservation involved, add: 

  
  Vision has no cost to anyone.
  
  

  If fear of loss still persists, add further:
  

    
  It can only bless.  
             
  
• Application:  You will probably miss several applications, and perhaps quite a number.  Do not be disturbed by this, but do try to keep on your schedule from then on.  If only once during the day you feel you were perfectly sincere while you were repeating today's idea, you can be sure that you have saved yourself many years of effort.
     

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Insights/comments:

• Today's idea is the recognition that we have not been seeing things as they truly are.  It is a quiet admission that things are not what they seem to be, or seem to be what they are not, and that we are now ready and willing to see truly, despite appearances.  What we are in fact asking for is vision, the ability to see the oneness of life from its unified source to its individual manifestations.  It is the ability to see the ocean in every drop of water.
      

I and my Creator are One.