Welcome to A Course in Miracles (ACIM)

 Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything.

I have given everything I see  in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] all of the meaning that it has for me. 

 I have given everything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me. 

These thoughts do not mean anything.  They are like the things I see in this room [on this, from this window, in this place].

This thought about _______ does not mean.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

I am upset because I see something that is not there. 

I see only the past

My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.  

I see nothing as it is now.

My thoughts do no mean anything. 

My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. 

I am upset because I see a meaningless world. 

I think I see a:

• Fearful World
• Dangerous World
• Hostile World
• Sad World
• Wicked World
• Crazy World

BUT I am upset because I see a meaningless world. 

A meaningless world engenders fear. 

With your eyes closed repeat today's idea to yourself. Then open your eyes and look about you saying: "I am looking at a meaningless world."  

Repeat this statement to yourself as you look about.  Then close the exercise with: "A meaningless world engenders fear because I think I am in competition with God. 

God did not create a meaningless world. 

The idea today  is the reason why a meaningless world is impassible.  What God did not create does not exist.  And everything that does exist exists as He created it. 

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My thoughts are images that I have made.

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In practicing the idea for today, repeat it first to yourself, and then apply it to whatever you see around you, using its name and letting your eyes rest on it as you say:

This _________ is an image that I have made.
That _________ is an image that I have made.

It is not necessary to include a large number of specific subjects for the application of today’s idea. It is necessary, however, to continue to look at each subject while you repeat the idea to yourself. The idea should be repeated quite slowly each time.

I have no neutral thoughts.

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In applying the idea for today, search your mind for a minute or so with eyes closed, and actively seek not to overlook any “little” thought that may tend to elude the search. This is quite difficult until you get used to it. You will find that it is still hard for you not to make artificial distinctions. Every thought that occurs to you, regardless of the qualities that you assign to it, is a suitable subject for applying today’s idea.

In the practice periods, first repeat the idea to yourself, and then as each one crosses your mind hold it in awareness while you tell yourself:

This thought about _________ is not a neutral thought.
That thought about _________ is not a neutral thought.

As usual, use today’s idea whenever you are aware of a particu­lar thought that arouses uneasiness. The following form is sug­gested for this purpose:

This thought about ____________ is not a neutral thought, because I have no neutral thoughts.

I see no neutral things.

In applying today’s idea, say to yourself, with eyes open:

I see no neutral things because I have no neutral thoughts.

Then look about you, resting your glance on each thing you note long enough to say:

I do not see a neutral _____, because my thoughts about _________ are not neutral.

For example, you might say:

I do not see a neutral wall, because my thoughts about walls are not neutral.
I do not see a neutral body, because my thoughts about bodies are not neutral.

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.

Look about you, selecting subjects for the application of the idea for today as randomly as possible, and keeping your eyes on each one long enough to say:

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of 

how I see _____.

Conclude each practice period by repeating the more general statement:

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.

A minute or so, or even less, will be sufficient for each practice period.

Above all else I want to see things differently. 

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God is in everything I see.

God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.

I have invented the world I see. 

There is a another way of looking at the world. 

I could see peace instead of this. 

My mind is a part of God's.  I am very holy.

My holiness envelopes everything I see. 

My holiness blesses the world.

There is nothing my holiness cannot do. 

My holiness is my salvation.

I am blessed as a child of God. 

God goes with me wherever I go. 

God is my Strength. Vision is His gift. 

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him. 

God is the Light in which I see. 

God is the Mind with which I think.

God is the Love in which I forgive. 

God is the Strength in which I trust.

The is nothing to fear.