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Lesson 270: ”I will not use the body’s eyes today.”

Reframe: I will look beyond appearances to perceive truth.

Suggested Practice: 

From now on: 
Once in the morning and once in the evening for however many minutes feels sufficient. Then every hour remember/recite the idea for the day. 

Prayer For today: 
(feel free to swap out the wording to whatever resonates with you best)

“Father, Christ’s vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to translate all that the body’s eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven world. ²How glorious and gracious is this world! ³Yet how much more will I perceive in it than sight can give.⁴The world forgiven signifies Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time which ends forever, as Your memory returns to him. ⁵And now his will is one with Yours. ⁶His function now is but Your Own, and every thought except Your Own is gone. “(ACIM, W-270.1:1-6)

OR… “I choose to see from a higher perspective.”

For Lessons 261-270: What is the body? is the theme. Read the whole article here.
”The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self from other parts.”… The body is a dream. ²Like other dreams it sometimes seems to picture happiness, but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every dream is born. ³For only love creates in truth, and truth can never fear. ⁴Made to be fearful, must the body serve the purpose given it. ⁵But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for… The body is the means by which God’s Son returns to sanity …³The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. ⁴Now is the body holy. ⁵Now it serves to heal the mind…³Your safety lies in truth, and not in lies. ⁴Love is your safety. ⁵Fear does not exist. ⁶Identify with love, and you are safe.⁷Identify with love, and you are home. ⁸Identify with love, and find your Self.

From the PART II Introduction: Read the whole introduction here.

“Words will mean little now. ²We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. ³For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. ⁴The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. ⁵Now we begin to reach the goal this course has set, and find the end toward which our practicing was always geared.” (ACIM, W-pII.in.1:1-5)

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Message

Today’s lesson asks us to see with what I call Divine Vision instead of the body’s eyes, with the intent to see a forgiven world. This morning that idea sat in the background while I enjoyed a perfect autumn day. I spent two and half hours beautifying an area of our yard I’d been neglecting. The work was strenuous, but it gave me peace, joy, and satisfaction to see the space prettied up. I could almost hear the yard applaud my efforts.

Afterwards I met a friend, and during our conversation I brought up A Course in Miraclesand today’s lesson. My friend is generally open minded, but they had trouble applying the idea to a particular world leader who, in both our opinions, is destroying all that is good in the world.

I said, “When I apply the Course’s teaching, I’m able to achieve neutrality, although I struggle to achieve peace, love, and joy with this leader.”

My friend replied, “How can you get to neutral? I just want to see him experience Dante’s Inferno and suffer for eternity.”

To which I said, “Oh, for sure this leader’s behavior is atrocious and warrants accountability. By neutral I mean I can look at this leader with the mindset to connect with their soul, their inner Light, and recognize that the outward behavior is all ego-mind generated. Understanding that this person is part of the One Self, just like me, helps me see past the outward appearances and at least achieve neutrality. I’m working on getting to peace, love, and joy. If I can do that, I can achieve Divine Vision with anything and anybody.”

My friend admitted, “I don’t know how you can do that. I’m not able to.”

I let them know that’s okay. I wasn’t trying to create a convert, but I feel like I at least planted a seed and offered a different perspective.

I wasn’t sure how the lesson was going to play out today. This conversation helped me see how much I’ve grown. My friend hasn’t studied the Course, so neutrality isn’t available to them yet—and it wasn’t available to me before I started this work either. The practices are creating more peace in my life, and that’s the difference.

“Lesson 270 urges us to use the better telescope.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout

Blessings & Peace,

Maureen,
The Mandala Lady

transforming soul whispers into mandalas & channeled messages
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