I am determined to see.
W-20.1. We have been quite casual about our practice periods thus far.
2 There has been virtually no attempt to direct the time for undertaking them, minimal effort has been required, and not even active cooperation and interest have been asked.
3 This approach has been intentional, and very carefully planned.
4 We have not lost sight of the crucial importance of the reversal of your thinking.
5 The salvation of the world depends on it.
6 Yet you will not see if you regard yourself as being coerced, and if you give in to resentment and opposition.
W-20.2. This is our first attempt to introduce structure.
2 Do not misconstrue it as an effort to exert force or pressure.
3 You want salvation.
4 You want to be happy.
5 You want peace.
6 You do not have them now, because your mind is totally undisciplined, and you cannot distinguish between joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, love and fear.
7 You are now learning how to tell them apart.
8 And great indeed will be your reward.
W-20.3. Your decision to see is all that vision requires.
2 What you want is yours.
3 Do not mistake the little effort that is asked of you for an indication that our goal is of little worth.
4 Can the salvation of the world be a trivial purpose?
5 And can the world be saved if you are not?
6 God has one Son, and he is the resurrection and the life.
7 His will is done because all power is given him in Heaven and on earth.
8 In your determination to see is vision given you.
W-20.4. The exercises for today consist in reminding yourself throughout the day that you want to see.
2 Today's idea also tacitly implies the recognition that you do not see now.
3 Therefore, as you repeat the idea, you are stating that you are determined to change your present state for a better one, and one you really want.
W-20.5. Repeat today's idea slowly and positively at least twice an hour today, attempting to do so every half hour.
2 Do not be distressed if you forget to do so, but make a real effort to remember.
3 The extra repetitions should be applied to any situation, person or event that upsets you.
4 You can see them differently, and you will.
5 What you desire you will see.
6 Such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world.
So today we sit quietly,
and open our hearts
determined to see with the Vision of Christ.
With a vision not of the body's eyes, not of images, not of appearances.
But pure Light.
Today we acknowledge that perception is not natural.
It is most natural to know God, to know our Creator.
To abide in Love and Light and Eternity.
It is not natural to abide in time, a cosmos of images.
It is not natural to abide in fiction, or fantasy.
Today we are determined to know our natural inheritance; our Beingness.
Our I Am presence.
We sink deep inward. Beyond all thoughts and concepts of time and space.
Beyond all thoughts of the past and the future.
We are entitled to this Vision that was given us in our creation.
We come back to the awareness that to see and to understand are one in the same,
but they do not involve perception in any way.
At times we allow our eyes, the body's eyes to close, close on the world of perception.
Closing on the images, sinking inward, deeper, deeper still.
We let this determination rise up in us.
We feel the strength of our determination,
and we apply it to vision,
determined to have the experience of true Vision.
So today is devoted in a single way, in a single purpose
to our inner Spiritual Eye.
Today we let thine eye be single as we say:
"I am determined to see."