My thoughts are images that I have made.

1-15-2024

Thoughts = images … therefore … images = thoughts

“It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing. You think you think them, and so you think you see them. This is how your “seeing” was made. This is the function you have given your body’s eyes. It is not seeing. It is image making. It takes the place of seeing, replacing vision with illusions.”

I don’t truly see because I don’t know — I just don’t realize that I don’t know.

My thoughts move quickly to describe and classify what is in my view before what is there can show itself to me.

Curiosity as my intention might be the little break that I need to pause my thoughts for a moment.

I want to truly see … to get to know who and what is here with me. In this way I give up on being alone.

Hi friend! Who are you?

1-15-2023

I was excited to read this lesson, I hoped to gain more understanding of seeing. I recall lessons from last year where I wondered what the Course considered ‘seeing’. It was easy for me to understand that truly seeing other people was to see their light, but I didn’t recall this lesson speaking of thought as images. Or that, with our vision, we will start to see the light around things.

“You will begin to understand it when you have seen little edges of light around the same familiar objects. That is the beginning of real vision.”

This sounds familiar. In James Redfield’s ‘Celestine Prophecy’ book, he had this as a step toward enlightenment/ascension. In the story the characters sought to first see the light around objects by looking at plants.

I’m going to keep my eyes open for true vision … exciting!

And … keep my ‘undoing’ proceeding as, ‘my thoughts are images I have made’.

This plant is an image I have made.