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Lesson 2 2026

I have given everything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me.
1. The exercises with this idea are the same as those for the first one. ²Begin with the things that are near you, and apply the idea to whatever your glance rests on. ³Then increase the range outward. ⁴Turn your head so that you include whatever is on either side. ⁵If possible, turn around and apply the idea to what was behind you. ⁶Remain as indiscriminate as possible in selecting subjects for its application, do not concentrate on anything in particular, and do not attempt to include everything you see in a given area, or you will introduce strain.
2. Merely glance easily and fairly quickly around you, trying to avoid selection by size, brightness, color, material, or relative importance to you. ²Take the subjects simply as you see them. ³Try to apply the exercise with equal ease to a body or a button, a fly or a floor, an arm or an apple. ⁴The sole criterion for applying the idea to anything is merely that your eyes have lighted on it. ⁵Make no attempt to include anything particular, but be sure that nothing is specifically excluded.

Contemplation
Oh, yes! I see this is true over and over again. Now, I never doubt it. If I am upset or judging in any way, I recognize that I give all things the only meaning they have for me. It is the story I tell myself about it. My car needs some bodywork on the side panel. At first, it was driving me crazy not getting it done. Every time I saw it, I cringed. But it will be a costly job, and so I have put it off.
Remembering that I give this situation all the meaning it has for me, and therefore, I am depriving myself of happiness and peace of mind, not because the panel is damaged, but because I have decided this means I should be upset about it. So, since I am not as insane as I used to be, I changed my mind about this. I decided that it was ok that there was damage and that maybe one day I would have it fixed. And maybe not. Now, I am happy either way.
It is just as easy to give a truer, happier meaning to what I see as it is to give it a negative meaning. The only reason it doesn’t happen is that I have chosen to judge on my own rather than asking the Holy Spirit to judge for me. It is just that simple. And it is equally simple to choose again.

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Lesson 1 2026

Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything.
1. Now look slowly around you, and practice applying this idea very specifically to whatever you see:
²This table does not mean anything.
³This chair does not mean anything.
⁴This hand does not mean anything.
⁵This foot does not mean anything.
⁶This pen does not mean anything.
2. Then look farther away from your immediate area, and apply the idea to a wider range:
²That door does not mean anything.
³That body does not mean anything.
⁴That lamp does not mean anything.
⁵That sign does not mean anything.
⁶That shadow does not mean anything.
3. Notice that these statements are not arranged in any order, and make no allowance for differences in the kinds of things to which they are applied. ²That is the purpose of the exercise. ³The statement should merely be applied to anything you see. ⁴As you practice the idea for the day, use it totally indiscriminately. ⁵Do not attempt to apply it to everything you see, for these exercises should not become ritualistic. ⁶Only be sure that nothing you see is specifically excluded. ⁷One thing is like another as far as the application of the idea is concerned.
4. Each of the first three lessons should not be done more than twice a day each, preferably morning and evening. ²Nor should they be attempted for more than a minute or so, unless that entails a sense of hurry. ³A comfortable sense of leisure is essential.

Contemplation
As I did this morning’s lesson, I noticed at first that “nothing I saw in this room meant anything” didn’t mean much to me. Then, I applied it to computer camera and I had the thought that it meant I would make better videos. Oh, yeah, now I get it. I think I know what it means according to the function and importance I gave it. But I am willing to let that go and accept, instead, that it means nothing. I don’t have to understand these lessons. I only need to do them. I trust my Brother Jesus. So I am willing.

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ACIM Lesson 52 2025

My commentary of Review Lesson 52

1. (6) I am upset because I see what is not there.
What grabbed my attention in this lesson is that I think I am upset by something happening, but that can’t be true because nothing is happening. I am entranced by an illusion, and because I believe in the illusion, from my perspective, it is true. But nothing can change the fact that it is an illusion, regardless. I am literally upset by nothing because I believe it is something.

On my flight from Louisiana to Sedona, I had to change terminals in Dallas. This is a huge airport, and my airline app wasn’t working. So not only did I not know how to get to the right terminal, but I didn’t know which terminal it was. It took a while to find an employee I could ask. Then I had to stand in line. So far, so good. I was not upset even though I was aware that time was passing.

Then the employee got to me, and he was helpful and patient, but said he didn’t think there was any way I would make it. So, I set off on a brisk walk where I had to watch carefully for where to turn and which escalator to take. It really was a long way off, and I realized that he might be right. I probably wasn’t going to make it. For a moment, I felt anxious. But, really, why get upset because the story of Myron went temporarily dramatic?

I decided just to do my best to get there and then see what would happen next. I arrived at the right terminal three minutes before boarding. I’m glad I didn’t give my peace away over this. Most of my life, I have responded to the story as if it were actually real, and that was to my detriment. I lived an anxious life, always hoping things would be alright, but expecting them to go wrong. All I can say about that is I learned what I didn’t want, and then, through contrast, Jesus taught me what I could have. I am grateful.

2. (7) I see only the past.
I have flown a number of times, and most of those flights were very stressful. I started out being afraid the airplane would crash, and eventually got over that. Then there was how to pack for a trip, would the suitcase be too heavy, and would I get to the airport on time and without forgetting something important? After the towers went down and security became increasingly difficult to navigate, more stress was added.

But in 2019, everything changed. I had a flight to Portland, Oregon, and absolutely everything that could go wrong, did so. It was like I was starring in an I Love Lucy show. I won’t detail it here, but I do want to share that everyone around me was stressed and anxious. They were complaining and fretting about connecting flights. I was enjoying the whole thing.

There was a part of my mind that was confused about my happiness in light of what was happening, but even that confusion just made me smile. As it turns out, this was a significant shift that never entirely waned. I discovered that anxiety about my circumstances must have simply been a choice, even though it didn’t feel like it was a choice when it was happening. All that old confusion and anxiety was dropped, and each moment was seen anew. The past was no longer determining the present. I had entered a new phase of my life that some call Fundamental Wellbeing. Again, just grateful.

3. (8) My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

If I look back at the past to determine how to feel about the present, I am not giving the present the opportunity to surprise me. A year after my beloved sister-in-law died, my brother remarried. When I met my new sister in law, my mind was busy comparing his new wife with his former wife. I had no opportunity to know the woman who was before me because my mind was filled with the past, a past that didn’t exist even while it happened, and certainly didn’t in the present.

As I looked at Janet, I saw only my thoughts about her. This is always true when we see anyone or anything. We are only looking at our own thoughts. I’m sitting at a desk typing on my laptop. I’m lucky to have it; otherwise, I would not be able to do this work and post it on the internet. But my primary thought is that this tiny screen is inconvenient. I am imagining how it is with my iMac with its large screen, so much for gratitude for the laptop.

Instead of enjoying what is happening right now, my mind is remembering the past. When that happens, I lose the joy of the present moment. Comparing one to the other prevents me from truly experiencing what is before me. Why do I do that? Jesus says it is more than because I want to whine that the present isn’t what I want it to be. He says it is because when my mind is preoccupied with the past, I am doing it so that the present doesn’t dawn on my mind. I am using time against God. I am holding onto nothing and leaving myself bereft of the Beloved. This is insanity.

4. (9) I see nothing as it is now.

I must choose. I can see or not see. If I choose to see only the past, I cannot see at all because the past does not exist. If I want to see, I must let the past go. I cannot see nothing and see everything at the same time. What is in the past? Only this entire illusion. Jesus tells us that we put an ancient memory before our eyes. And we call that seeing. We pretend the past is the present, but we are only looking at the past.

I want vision. I want to see what is real and what is right now. So, I keep letting go of the beliefs that keep me enthralled to the past. What do I believe that is not true? I will have to give up the need to be right, the justification for grievances, choices, and the belief I am separate and special. I will have to give up believing I am Myron, a participant in a dream. I will, in return, know what I am, know my wholeness, my perfection, my Creator, and my creations. I decide in each moment what I want. I see nothing as it is now, but I want to.

5. (10) My thoughts do not mean anything.

I have no private thoughts. Yet here I am thinking that I am thinking while nothing is actually happening. The chatter in my mind is nothing. If I were thinking that chatter, it would be meaningless, but I am not actually thinking it. Again, nothing is happening. Here is a passage I always return to.

⁶Your starting point is truth, and you must return to your Beginning. ⁷Much has been seen since then, but nothing has really happened. (ACIM, T-3.VII.5:6-7)

In the beginning, there was only God, and we are part of Him. That has not changed just because we dream of something else. In the beginning, there were only the thoughts of God, and we shared them. This is still true. We will remember who we are and where we are. That is inevitable. Let us remember sooner rather than later. Jesus has given us the map and the directions to take us Home. Let us make use of them today, now.

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Review 1 Introduction and Lesson 51

My commentary of the Introduction to Review 1 and Lesson 51

The introduction to the review gives explicit instructions for using these lessons. Jesus planned these lessons in such a way that doing them as instructed would rewire our minds. You may remember that in the first introduction, he said this.

The purpose of the workbook is to train your mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world. ²The exercises are planned to help you generalize the lessons, so that you will understand that each of them is equally applicable to everyone and everything you see. (ACIM, W-in.4:1-2)
And
9. Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. ²Some of them you may actively resist. ³None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. ⁴But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. ⁵Nothing more than that is required. (ACIM, W-in.9:1-5)

There are introductions to each new set, and for these reasons, it is important that we read them and understand how we are to proceed.

Now, for Lesson 51, we are to review the first five lessons. I am going to say something about each one, but I would encourage you to also read or watch the video of my original contemplation. I used these lessons to transcend a very difficult situation in my life, so it is a good example of how these lessons help us in very practical ways.

1. (1) Nothing I see means anything.
Jesus reminds us that there is nothing to see here. The body’s eyes don’t show us what is here. It only shows us what the mind wants to see. Right now, I want to see a computer and a desk. I want to see a bowl of grapes and a glass of water. I want to see Sedona out the window with its beautiful red rocks. But everything I see is nothing. It doesn’t actually exist. It appears to exist because I believe in it. ⁴Belief produces the acceptance of existence. ⁵That is why you can believe what no one else thinks is true. ⁶It is true for you because it was made by you.
(ACIM, T-1.VI.4:4-6) I want to be careful what I believe in because that is how it winds up as part of this strange construct we call life.

2. (2) I have given what I see all the meaning it has for me. (ACIM, W-51.2:1)
What does this computer mean to me? What is it for? Why did I want it in this life? I decide all those things. When I was working, I had a computer and I was very conflicted about it. I was not comfortable with new things, and technology was definitely new for me. The computer helped me in my job, but I had judged it as a problem, so there was a conflict. What if I had already learned to disregard my judgments because I don’t know what anything is for? I could simply have asked the Holy Spirit to judge for me. Then I would have had a useful tool instead of a problem. And maybe I would have had fun learning new things since I have the best teacher ever right here in my mind. 

We have already established that what we see with our eyes is not really there. But we can use what we have manifested as the world to learn to see. This true seeing, which the Course refers to as Christ Vision, is ours since we are part of the Christ. But we will not experience it if we choose to believe in what the eyes are showing us. That is why I remind myself often that the world as I see it is not real. There is a real world, and I want to see it.

3. (3) I do not understand anything I see. (ACIM, W-51.3:1)
The world is not understandable. It makes no sense. If I let go of one understanding to make room for another, I have just traded nothing for nothing. If, on the other hand, I let go of my judgment and accept the Holy Spirit’s instead, I will have a truer perception. When I let go of my belief that the world is real, I will have made room for what actually is real. I only need to be willing to do this.

I have inflammation in my feet, and I experience pain from this. Lesson 190 tells us that pain is not real. Of course, it isn’t because to be real it would have to have been caused by God. So, I am reminding myself that it is only my belief in pain and the belief that I deserve pain that I am feeling. I ask the Holy Spirit to correct my perception of these beliefs. I want only what reflects reality to have a place in my mind. 

4. (4) These thoughts do not mean anything. (ACIM, W-51.4:1)
The thoughts I think I think are meaningless. They represent the ego’s interpretation. The ego is not real, so its thoughts are not real. But I have real thoughts, the thoughts I think with God. I will be aware of them when I let go of the thoughts I think with the ego.

I used to not trust doctors and resented them. I seemed to get the worst doctors, and when I had one I liked, I would lose him. Finally, I got around to asking the Holy Spirit what was going on. He told me that I was separating myself from the doctor by making them my idol. I expected them to save me and was disappointed when I left their office the same vulnerable person who entered it.

Instead of seeing them as separate and you at their mercy, see them as your partner and wanting the best for you. When I changed my thoughts about doctors, I suddenly got the best doctors! Another thought given to me in regard to doctors was to see the partnership as one in which they looked after this body, and I took care of my spiritual healing. As Jesus will tell us in the Course, all illness is mental illness. So that is where my responsibility lies. As I become more sane, my body tends to heal more quickly and requires less attention.

Sometimes I don’t get clear directions. When I am in fear, for example, and I understand the problem, but am unable to let the fear go, I might receive peace. And that is lovely. From the peaceful place, I may be able to gain other valuable help. Or if I am grieving and turn to the Holy Spirit, I receive comfort. No words needed. Once when I was lost, I asked for help and just started driving. I wound up exactly where I needed to be. What I need for any form of help is to abandon my own thoughts so that I can become aware of the thoughts I think with God. Or at least, thoughts that are closer to what I think with God until I open my heart completely.

5. (5) I am never upset for the reason I think. (ACIM, W-51.5:1)
I have often thought I was upset because something wasn’t going my way. Or because someone was a problem for me. When I was married, it sure seemed like he was my problem. I could have sworn he was the reason I was upset. But when we divorced, he was still my problem even though we were not together. That is when I began to really understand how it is that I am never upset for the reason I think.

It was like he was in my mind, still making me upset, but of course, he wasn’t. My thoughts were in my mind. It was my thoughts about him that were the problem all along. I could see how I used this relationship to convince myself that I was an innocent victim and he was the victimizer. I used him to prove I was right and he was wrong. I did these things because this was the world I had made with my beliefs, and I was defending it. It was painful, but it was real to me because I made it. I grew so much from that miserable situation that I can only be grateful for it.

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ACIM Lesson 50 2025

My contemplation of Lesson 50
I am sustained by the Love of God.

I can place my faith in only two places: the imagined ego world of separation or the Love of God. If I choose the ego world, I will suffer fear, sickness, pain, and death. I know this because it has been my experience. While I am aware of my experience as a moment-to-moment study in suffering, I am also aware of my life as a different experience. It is different because I have begun to place my faith in God. This is not moment-to-moment yet, but getting there. 

When my friend offered me a room in her home here in Sedona for two weeks, the cautious self responded with fear. I couldn’t just get up and go to Sedona. I needed time to plan. I needed to look at my bank account and then decide. The ego mind always answers from a place of fear because it was made from fear. But now I know that I have another Voice and I can choose to listen to it. So, I asked for advice and I felt very comfortable saying yes. So, here I am having a lovely time with many new Course friends in beautiful Sedona.

It’s kind of funny, really. I told myself last year that I was done with flying and traveling. I like being at home, having a full schedule of classes, and knowing what comes next in each moment. That’s really hilarious when I think of it this way. I wanted to be happy and peaceful and put my faith in my little house and my dependable routine. As if there could never be a tornado that could upend the whole thing. Never mind that we have been under a tornado watch frequently. There could never be a hurricane that chased me from my home and maybe destroyed my home. We know better than that.

It is just the insanity of believing I have control over anything. The belief that something outside myself could give me peace and happiness. I know better than that. From my own experience, I know that nothing outside me can harm me or keep me safe. I was confused for a while there as I placed my faith in the world rather than in God’s Love. I have a prayer I find very helpful in cases like this. I have shared it before, and I will do so again now. If I needed reminding, maybe you do, too.

All thought from the ego mind is only perception, not truth. So if my thought seems rooted in ego thinking, I look at that perception with the Holy Spirit so that He can shine the light of truth on it and dissipate the darkness. Then I ask Him to put my faith where it belongs. There and done! Feeling blessed and grateful.

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