I Am: A Course In Miracles (acim)

lesson 12 â??I am upset because I see a meaningless world.â?? The importance of this idea lies in the fact that it contains a correction for a major perceptual distortion.You think that what upsets you is a frightening world,or a sad world,or a violent world, or an insane world.All these attributes are given it by you.The world is meaningless in itself. These exercises are done with eyes open.Look around you,this time quite slowly.Try to pace yourself so that the slow shifting of your glance from one thing to another involves a fairly constant time interval. Do not allow the time of the shift to become markedly longer or shorter, but try, instead, to keep a measured, even tempo throughout.What you see does not matter.You teach yourself this as you give whatever your glance rests on equal attention and equal time.This is a beginning step in learning to give them all equal value. As you look about you,say to yourself: â??I think I see a fearful world,a dangerous world,a hostile w