The world you see must be denied for sight of it is costing you a different kind of vision. You cannot see both worlds, for each of them involves a different kind of seeing, and depends on what you cherish. (A Course in Miracles, T-13-VII.2:1-2)
Because we cannot see both worlds at the same time, we must be willing to relinquish one to see the other.
The ego offers us its own instrument of “seeing” — the body’s eyes. Since the body itself is an illusion, the body’s eyes can show us only illusions. But we have another instrument of seeing which the Course calls Christ’s vision. This way of seeing is in our minds because it is not of form. Christ’s vision looks past all form to the unity of Love that is God and His Son (His extension of Love). The Course is teaching us to shift our attention from using the ego’s way of seeing to using the vision of our true Self.
While we are experiencing the dream, the body’s eyes will continue to give us images within the illusion. We are not being asked to deny that we are seeing a world of form. But we are being asked to shift our attention from this false seeing to the true seeing of our Inward Vision. As we learn to trust and accept this Inward Vision, the images the ego shows us have diminished importance and affect us less and less. As we focus more on our Inward Vision, we experience greater peace, for the images of the world are less and less real to us.
The process of forgiveness, of bringing all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him help us see past them, is how we shift away from trusting the ego’s images and toward trusting the truth that Christ’s Vision shows us. Today is another opportunity to practice letting ourselves be taught to see the truth beyond all appearances.
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