Welcome to Active Meditation A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 33 There is another way of looking at the world.
Take a few moments to prepare for meditation.
I'll be silent while you do this.
I do not know the thing I am,
And therefore do not know what I am doing,
Where I am,
Or how to look upon the world,
Or on myself.
There is another way of looking at the world.
Today's idea is an attempt to recognize that you can shift your perception of the world in both its outer and inner aspects.
A full five minutes should be devoted to the morning and evening applications.
In these practice periods,
The idea should be repeated as often as you can find comfortable,
Though unhurried applications are essential.
Alternate between surveying your outer and inner perceptions,
But without an abrupt sense of shifting.
Merely glance casually around the world you perceive as outside yourself.
Then close your eyes and survey your inner thoughts with equal casualness.
Try to remain equally uninvolved in both,
And to maintain this detachment as you repeat the idea throughout the day.
Let's practice.
Open your eyes.
Glance casually at the world you perceive out there.
Say to yourself,
There is another way of looking at the world.
Do this now.
Now close your eyes.
Observe your inner thoughts with the same detachment.
Repeat in your mind,
There is another way of looking at the world.
Now,
As often as you find comfortable,
Rotate casually between looking around the external world and witnessing your inner thoughts and emotions,
Opening and then closing your eyes.
As you do this,
Slowly say,
There is another way of looking at the world.
I'll be silent.
There is another way of looking at the world.
Close your eyes.
Close your eyes.
There is another way of looking at the world.
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.
There is another way of looking at the world.
This is a course in miracles.
It is a required course.
Only the time you take it is voluntary.
Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum.
It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.
The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love.
For that is beyond what can be taught.
It does aim,
However,
At removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence,
Which is your natural inheritance.
The opposite of love is fear,
But what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
There is another way of looking at the world.
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.
