I Am: A Course In Miracles (acim)

lesson 7 â??I see only the past.â?? This idea is particularly difï¬?cult to believe at ï¬?rst.Yet it is the rationale for all of the preceding ones. It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything. It is the reason why you have given everything you see all the meaning that it has for you. It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see. It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything,and why they are like the things you see. It is the reason why you are never upset for the reason you think. It is the reason why you are upset because you see something that is not there. Old ideas about time are very difï¬?cult to change, because everything you believe is rooted in time,and depends on your not learning these new ideas about it.Yet that is precisely why you need new ideas about time.This ï¬?rst time idea is not really so strange as it may sound at ï¬?rst.Look at a cup,for example. Do you see a cup, or are you merely reviewing your past experience