The Responsibility for Sight

I spent an hour yesterday with Anita yesterday and she is … OH MY GOD.I am so in love with her, it’s crazy. She’s the whole package. I mean, wow. She’s interesting and funny and smart and beautiful and charming and witty and sexy and generous, and oh my god.

You should see this girl. She is amazing.

The funny part is that she used to totally get on my nerves. I mean, TOTALLY. And that’s how I know the miracle is happening, and how it’s always happening … are you ready?? …. IN MY OWN MIND.

Anita didn’t change … she is exactly as she always was … I CHANGED.

She used to correct me about everything. It was so annoying. You have no idea. I felt I could do nothing right. This was years ago. But when I stopped to look at the larger picture, I realized that lots of people used to correct me. All the time. It felt like constant judgment and constant correction coming from other people, in practically every situation.

Now I know that’s only the confusion in my own mind.

When you become certain and joyful about what you are doing here on PLANET EARTH everyone else becomes certain and joyful around you.

As I began to take TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY for everything that was occuring in my life, and not blame anyone, then the picture started to changed. My world started to change.

Have a function for God and you will be happy.

The GREAT CLEAN-UP begins in you. When someone is attacking you, just look in your own mind, get out the Windex spray called TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY and clean out the mold contained there in your thoughts.

If someone is annoying you, YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, not them. They don’t need to do anything because they are already not doing anything. They are phantom figures. You’ve have assigned to them a role to play … in which THEY are the attackers and YOU are the innocent angel and the victim.

Finally, that game gets really old, really fast.

The easiest way I know to change the scenery is to love everything the way God loves, and make no distinctions. Open your heart, and let love pour through you.

THROUGH YOU.

Let love extend from you to other people.

Extend it. Be helpful. Give. Love. Forgive.

Have a willingness to see everything and everyone differently.

You can begin today.

Anita and I were talking about The Responsibility for Sight in Chapter 21 in A Course in Miracles. She says she’s gonna read it every day, and I think it’s a splendid idea. I’m gonna read it every day too, as a constant reminder to be responsible for E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.

Maybe you would like to join us, and begin to read it too. If you don’t already own A Course in Miracles, you can click the Amazon button over there to the left and purchase it. You will love it.

Here is a little bit for you, from that section:

“This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:

I am responsible for what I see.
I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked.

“Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.”

******It is impossible that you be merely driven by events outside of you. It is impossible that things that are happening to you were not your own choice. Your power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which you seem to find yourself by chance or accident.

A Course in Miracles is so awesome. You see? It’s not just about God. In fact, the majority of this book is about MIND TRAINING, about watching your thoughts, seeing what you are thinking, being conscious, and training yourself to see and think differently. To begin to know the way your own mind works, and to choose again if situations that upset you.

This is the reason why the miracle doesn’t take any time, because you can change your mind in this very second now, and everything will be looked upon differently. You will see it in a new light. That’s the miracle. A change of mind.
I love it.