A Course In Miracles Lesson 28: Exercise (Above All Else I Want To See Things Differently)

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. The 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.

The overall aim of the exercises is to increase your ability to extend the ideas you will be practicing to include everything. This will require no effort on your part.

Transcript

Welcome to active meditation.

A Course in Miracles Lesson 28 Above all else,

I want to see things differently.

Open your eyes.

Look around.

As your eyes light on an object,

Say to yourself,

Say,

In your mind,

Above all else,

I want to see this object differently.

And name the object.

Now be quiet while you do this.

Close your eyes.

You see a lot of separate things about you.

Which really means,

You are not seeing at all.

You either see or not.

When you have seen one thing differently,

You will see all things differently.

The light you will see in any one of them,

Is the same light you will see in them all.

Open your eyes.

Survey the area.

As you notice the subject,

Repeat to yourself.

Repeat in your mind.

Above all else,

I want to see this,

Name the subject,

Differently.

I'll be silent.

Close your eyes.

When you say,

Above all else,

I want to see this table differently,

You are not defining it in past terms.

You are asking what it is,

Rather than telling it what it is.

We will have six two-minute practice periods today,

In which the idea for today is stated first,

And then applied to whatever you see about you.

Above all else,

I want to see things differently.

Take a few deep breaths.

And as we return to time and space,

We acknowledge,

I am aware.

I am.

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.