Above all else I want to see things differently. —

You could, in fact, gain vision from just that table, if you would withdraw all your own ideas from it, and look upon it with a completely open mind. It has something to show you; something beautiful and clean and of infinite value, full of happiness and hope. Hidden under all your ideas about it is its real purpose, the purpose it shares with all the universe. A Course in Miracles

God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.

The idea for today is the springboard for vision. From this idea will the world open up before you, and you will look upon it and see in it what you have never seen before. Thus, we are trying to join with what we see, rather than keeping it apart   from us. That is the fundamental difference between vision and the way you see. A Course in Miracles

Let me offer you this practice: See all things with love, as part of you. Do you see how I have slipped in the necessity to love yourself? Some of you didn’t even notice. For example: a flower. Touch it with your love, not just visually, but experientially. Breathe in its aroma; it is part of you. See its beauty; that is who you are. Touch its softness; that is your softness. Feel the strength of its roots. That is your strength, your rootedness in your world. You would not see that flower if it were not already a part of you. —Emmanuel’s Book.

M: Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your self-realisation. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened — at the moment when you were born, when you realised yourself as being-knowing-­feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner.  What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you.  The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche.  This is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right.  You have to think yourself out of it.  There is no other way. I Am That Ch 51

It is the ultimate you see, but imagine you see a cloud or a tree…. Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: …. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realise that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelt, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.  I Am That Ch44