Lesson 2

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. ~ Lesson 2, ACIM

When I saw this Truth for what it is, life opened up.

I could really see how I had locked myself and others into a vision that was very limited and rested on my flawed thinking and assumptions.

I saw that life and the people in it were colored by every experience I both loved and disdained.

Which meant that my mood and actions rose and fell with the stories I made about what was unfolding.

Oof. 😅

It meant a lot of highs and lows and very little wiggle room for me to just be with what is, in all its beautiful, messy glory.

The day I put down the filter that colored my world, I began to see things as they truly were rather than how I wanted or needed them to be to feel safe.

I could see people as they truly were underneath the actions and masks that they wore.

I began to see the beauty and majesty in all things, even the things I didn’t like.

I could see choices I didn’t know existed before.

That was tough because it meant greater levels of self-responsibility and less opportunity to outsource blame for what wasn’t “going my way.”

Now it feels like liberation because it ultimately means nothing outside of me can move me.

I became the safety I was seeking by trying to control what I was seeing.