>
> The first paragraph of this lesson:
>
> "Perception is consistent. What you see
> reflects your thinking. And your thinking but
> reflects your choice of what you want to see.
> Your values are determiners of this,
> for what you value you must want to see,
> believing what you see is really there.
> No one can see a world his mind has not
> accorded value. And no one can fail
> to look upon what he believes he wants."
>
> says the same as what is said in
> the introduction of chapter 21:
>
> "Projection makes perception; the world you see
> is what you GAVE it, nothing more than that.
> But, though it is no more than that, it is
> not less. Therefore, to you, it is important.
> It is the witness to your state of mind,
> the outside picture of an inward condition.
> As a man thinketh, so does he perceive.
> Therefore, seek not to change the world, but
> will to change your mind ABOUT the world.
> Perception is a RESULT, and not a cause.
> And that is why order of miracles is meaningless.
> Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy.
> Nothing perceived without it means anything.
> And where there is no meaning, there is chaos."
In chapter 12 the issue of projection
and perception was spoken of already:
"1772. . . . You see what you expect, and you expect what you
invite. Your perception is the result of your invitation, coming to
you as you sent for it. Whose manifestations would you see? Of
whose presence would you be convinced? For you will believe
in what you MANIFEST, and as you look out so will you see in.
Two ways of looking at the world are in your mind, and your
perception will reflect the guidance you chose.
1774. We said before that WHAT you project is up to you,
but it is NOT up to you WHETHER to project, for projection is
a law of mind. Perception IS projection, and you look in BEFORE
you look out. As you look in, you choose the guide for seeing, and
THEN look out, and behold his witnesses. This is why you find
what you seek. What you want in YOURSELF you will make
manifest by projection, and you will accept it FROM the world,
because you put it there BY wanting it.
1775. When you think you are projecting what you do NOT want,
it is still because you DO want it. This leads directly to dissociation,
for it represents the acceptance of two goals, each perceived
in a DIFFERENT place, separated from each other BECAUSE
you made them different. The mind then sees a divided world
OUTSIDE itself, but not within. This gives it an illusion of integrity,
and enables it to believe that it is pursuing one goal. As long as you
perceive the world as split, YOU are not healed. For to be healed
is to pursue one goal, because you have ACCEPTED only one,
and WANT but one.
1776. When you want ONLY love you will see nothing else. The
contradictory nature of the witnesses you perceive is merely the
reflection of your conflicting invitations."
(T-12.VII.5,7-8:2)
