Lesson 2.

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Contemplation's on the workbook lessons of A Course In Miracles.

 

Lesson 2.

 

On this page of consciousness

I have given everything I see,

all the meaning that it has for me.

Room, window, street.

Sun and moon, cosmos of perception,

bodies and buttons, divided and named

out of existence,

and into the structures

of a mind laden with learned assumptions.

 

You also arrive and depart,

labeled with an identity ripped from the past.

Your meaning unseen in the naming.

A conceptual glance fragments the all

and is torn from truth.

 

Mind has wandered into a library

to become a recluse among the books of the known.

The pages turn

and each is marked

by the print of judgment.

 

Meaning to know

we lose the vision to see.

When a thing is observed

it is one with the seer, or not at all.

What we envision to be a rose,

is no longer its truth

but the condemnation of its truth.

Even a thought of ‘flower’

is too much a burden of thought

upon reality.

 

The created world cannot hold together this way

without appearing before us as a montage

of mistaken tokens of perception.

What do you see before you?

There can be no answer but God

and there is no meaning in other.

 

love

 

eric

 

 

Copyright 2002. Eric Ashford.