Hello and welcome to A Course in Miracles Day 7.
So our preceding days were nothing you see means anything.
You've given everything you see all the meaning it has.
Your thoughts do not mean anything.
You are never upset for the reason you think.
You are upset because you see something that isn't there.
And today's idea says I see only the past.
The Course in Miracles is an invitation to deconstruct old ways of being,
To understand the way that we maneuver ourselves in time.
This idea of I see only the past feels difficult to believe at first.
And yet it is the idea that pulls together all the previous six days.
Releasing hurts,
Releasing guilt,
Being in forgiveness,
Releasing old ways of being.
Knowing the love right where we are requires seeing this.
Take a look at a cup for example.
Do you see a cup or are you merely reviewing your past experiences of picking up a cup?
What it feels like in your hand?
The texture.
Imagine it's a glass cup.
Do you feel yourself being thirsty?
Do you feel what the glass will feel like against your lip?
Do you know what will happen if you drop the cup?
Will it break?
Take a look at a pencil.
What is this pencil for?
What does it feel like?
A shoe,
A hand,
Anything.
The exercise today involves non-discriminately looking around at anything that you see and saying in this object,
In this pen,
In my hand,
I see only the past.
If you are not only seeing the past,
How else would you know that the glass would break?
What it would feel like against your lip?
What it would feel like in your hand?
These exercises can feel super ridiculous.
You might be saying like,
Why am I thinking about a cup right now?
Why am I saying that these objects have no meaning?
Of course they have meaning.
They've had meaning my entire life and so have many,
Many,
Many things in your life.
We live from the past in so many situations.
Know that we are creating a basis with small exercises by now looking at things and applying this.
And we are undoing a system that has been in place for a long time for us.
We are doing these silly exercises that I promise you are not silly.
We are taking them out of a leap of faith knowing that there is the deep transformation being done.
When we are able to be here in the present in this moment to be wholly,
Fully conscious and here,
We are able to be with the miracle of life.
This is when the miracle of life comes through.
This is when,
This is how we know that we are perfect,
Whole beings.
And we are not all of these thoughts that come up,
That go crazy in the chaos and attach to every fleeting thing.
I see only the past in this object.
Don't linger over any particular object.
Just keep doing the exercise today,
A few times today,
Maybe three or four times today.
I see only the past in this television.
I've given this all the meaning it has.
I see only the past in this pen.
Just be with that.
Know that it is perfect.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Namaste.
