Perception Follows Judgment

 

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There are so many thoughts swirling in my head this evening; it’s difficult to corral them into any cohesive writing. Tomorrow’s ACIM Workbook Lesson #312 tells us that we see things as we want them to be. So the question is: do I want to see my fellow humans as guilty or innocent? When I wake up in the morning, do I choose to see the world through the eyes of mortal mind, ego? Or do I want to bypass that fearful decision and look at everything through the lens of Spirit? As stated in the quoted words below, “I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all the judgments I have made.” I’m going to have these words by my bedside, in order to ponder them before rising. 

“I see all things as I would have them be. Perception follows judgment. ²Having judged, we therefore see what we would look upon. ³For sight can merely serve to offer us what we would have. It is impossible to overlook what we would see, and fail to see what we have chosen to behold. How surely, therefore, must the real world come to greet the holy sight of anyone who takes the Holy Spirit’s purpose as his goal for seeing. And he cannot fail to look upon what Christ would have him see, and share Christ’s Love for what he looks upon.

“I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all the judgments I have made. Father, this is Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well.”

A Course in Miracles W-312.1:1–2:2

"The supposed existence of more than one mind was the basic error of idolatry. This error assumed the loss of spiritual power, the loss of the spiritual presence of Life as infinite Truth without an unlikeness, and the loss of Love as ever present and universal." 

Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 479:5-10