Welcome to day three of A Course in Miracles and I just want to honor your commitment of saying yes to this program for 365 days and I realize that that this is a big commitment and for me what this says is that I am committed to peace on the planet.
I am committed to a reverence for life.
I am committed to slowing down,
Seeing what is really there for me in the face of all kinds of despair,
All kinds of crazy news,
All kinds of things that could be suggesting that peace is not here.
And so thank you for saying yes to this.
You know we talk about a return to love and this is absolutely a return to love,
To knowing that where you are nothing could be harm hindered or broken.
Peace is an attribute in you.
You cannot find it outside of yourself and this is what this conversation is about.
So if you would close your eyes and prepare for exercise three.
So open your eyes if you're in a place where you can do that and just begin to again,
Whatever meets your eyes,
Begin to say or think,
I do not understand anything that I see.
I do not understand anything that I see.
Don't select anything,
Don't feel the need to qualify something as a good object to apply this exercise to.
This is not an exercise for judgment.
It is an exercise to release past associations,
To release past meanings,
To clear our minds,
To be in the moment of now,
To begin to realize the way that the mind and the ego works.
So with an open mind and open heart without trying to understand this exercise,
Just begin to look around and say,
I do not understand anything that I see.
I do not understand anything that I see in front of me.
I do not understand this pillow in front of me.
I do not understand this tree in front of me.
I do not understand this car in front of me.
I do not understand the hand in front of me.
I thank you for being in the practice of this exercise today to saying yes to the peace which is an attribute that is in you,
That is found right where you are.
There is nothing where you are that can be harm hindered or broken.
As you go along your day,
Remember to pull this exercise,
I do not understand anything I see,
Into your day and apply it to all that you can without discriminating against any object.
It is applicable to all,
To everything.
I thank you for saying yes to the peace that is right where you are,
To the perfectness that is right where you are,
To the miracle that is your life.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.