Christ’s vision has one law. ²It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created. ³It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. ⁴It sees no separation. ⁵And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.
[Christ’s vision] can be taught; and must be taught by all who would achieve it. ²It requires but the recognition that the world can not give anything that faintly can compare with this in value; nor set up a goal that does not merely disappear when this has been perceived. ³And this you give today: See no one as a body. ⁴Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in holiness.
Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to overlook them all.
²And thus Christ’s vision looks on you as well. ³This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your brother you but see yourself. ⁴If he be lost in sin, so must you be; if you see light in him, your sins have been forgiven by yourself. ⁵Each brother whom you meet today provides another chance to let Christ’s vision shine on you, and offer you the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-158.7:1–9:1;10:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)
Nothing the body’s eyes show is has any reality, because the body itself is not real. The body and the world of separation stands as a barrier that hides the truth of our Reality in the oneness of God’s Love. We have trained ourselves to trust what the body’s eyes see.
We have not lost the means to see the presence of Love. We simply need to retrain our mind to trust our inner vision which looks on all from the perspective of Love. This is Christ’s vision. It sees only the holiness of Love everywhere and in everyone. It overlooks the meaningless images of the ego’s world. As we give Christ’s vision priority, we learn that we are united with All in the peace of God.
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