Vision - Words used in a Course in Miracles
Correction
is for all who cannot see. To open the eyes of the blind is the Holy
Spirit's mission, ... . He would awaken them from the sleep of forgetting
to the remembering of God. Christ's eyes are open, and He will look
upon whatever you see with love if you accept His vision as yours. T-12.VI.4:1-4.
Be willing, for an instant, to leave your altars free of what you placed upon them, and what is really there you cannot fail to see. The holy instant is not an instant of creation, but of recognition. For recognition comes of vision and suspended judgment. Then only it is possible to look within and see what must be there, plainly in sight, and wholly independent of inference and judgment. Undoing is not your task, but it is up to you to welcome it or not. Faith and desire go hand in hand, for everyone believes in what he wants. T-21.II.8.
Vision
depends on light. You cannot see in darkness. … Dreams disappear
when light has come and you can see. Do not seek vision
through your eyes, for you made your way of seeing that you might see
in darkness, and in this you are deceived. Beyond this darkness, and
yet still within you, is the vision of Christ, Who looks on all in
light. Your "vision" comes from fear, as His from love. And
He sees for you, as your witness to the real world. T-13.V.8:1,2,9/9:1-4.
What
has no meaning cannot be perceived. And meaning always looks within
to find itself, and then looks out. All meaning that you give
the world outside must thus reflect the sight you saw within; or
better, if you saw at all or merely judged against. Vision is the
means by which the Holy Spirit translates your nightmares into happy
dreams; your wild hallucinations that show you all the fearful
outcomes of imagined sin into the calm and reassuring sights with
which He would replace them. These gentle sights and sounds are
looked on happily, and heard with joy. They are His substitutes for
all the terrifying sights and screaming sounds the ego's purpose
brought to your horrified awareness. They step away from sin,
reminding you that it is not
reality which frightens you, and that the errors which you made can
be corrected. T-20.VIII.10.
Spiritual vision literally cannot see error, and merely looks for Atonement. All solutions the physical eye seeks dissolve. Spiritual vision looks within and recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected. Perfectly aware of the right defense it passes over all others, looking past error to truth. T-2.III.IV:1-4.
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