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Lesson 36 2026

My holiness envelops everything I see.
1. Today’s idea extends the idea for yesterday from the perceiver to the perceived. ²You are holy because your mind is part of God’s. ³And because you are holy, your sight must be holy as well. ⁴“Sinless” means without sin. ⁵You cannot be without sin a little. ⁶You are sinless or not. ⁷If your mind is part of God’s you must be sinless, or a part of His Mind would be sinful. ⁸Your sight is related to His Holiness, not to your ego, and therefore not to your body. (ACIM, W-36)
2026
This lesson gently carries yesterday’s idea forward, from the one who perceives to what is perceived. I am holy because my mind is part of God’s, and holiness does not divide itself. It cannot be partial or conditional. I am either sinless or I am not. If my mind is part of God’s—and the Course is unequivocal that it is—then sinlessness must be wholly true. Anything else would mean that a part of God’s Mind could be sinful, which is impossible. This is not a statement about behavior or effort, but about what is eternally so.
Last night I was tired and ready for bed, but couldn’t go there because my cat was outside and didn’t come when called. I couldn’t leave her out there because it was going to rain shortly, and there was no cover for her. So I was trying to kill a little time with something that didn’t require much of me. I started scrolling through Facebook and then through YouTube. That was more information than I needed to see just before bedtime.
I didn’t sleep well and woke up out of sorts. It didn’t take much to realize the problem. Too much negative information all at once had pulled me into the story they were peddling. It wasn’t conducive to loving thoughts. I wasn’t feeling oneness with my cat or with the world in general. There is no oneness and love in the split mind where I was. There is only blame, shame, and fear, and so that is what I saw.
I didn’t need to analyze this for long. All I have to do to return to love is to return to the Mind of Love. That is the Mind I am part of, and so my true mind. It is very holy, and from a holy mind, I see only holiness. This decision to look from holiness to holiness was reinforced as I facilitated ACIM study sessions during the day. With each one, my heart opened wider, and love, happiness, and peace became my experience. Nothing “out there” changed. It is whatever I see in it, and that depends on my choice of mind.
Because my mind is holy, my seeing must be holy as well. Vision does not come from the body or the ego, but from the mind that chooses its source. When I see with holiness, I am not making the world holy in form, nor am I denying appearances. I am simply no longer using guilt as the lens through which I look. Holiness envelops everything I see because nothing I see is outside my mind, and a guiltless mind cannot project guilt. Where guilt is absent, attack falls away, and what remains is a gentle, inclusive way of seeing that quietly restores peace.
When I looked from the split mind, I was actually seeing nothing real, since the split mind itself is part of the illusion, but it was a nothing that I temporarily believed in, and so it was, for a time, my world. I was looking at it with my eyes and believing everything I saw: a difficult, time-consuming cat, a world with angry, hateful people, and sad and pitiful stories of people mistreated.
I knew I was making poor decisions, and when I asked Jesus what was wrong with me, the answer I saw reminded me that I always make poor decisions with the ego. Holy Spirit, decide for me. The shift didn’t happen all at once, but I did begin to question my thoughts, and pretty soon, I was laughing at the absurdity of the whole thing. Seriously, was I holding a grievance against my cat, for Heaven’s sake? As I chose to see the world through my right mind, I saw her as holy, and everyone I was with was seen through the lens of our shared holiness. It has been a blessed day.
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