By Gonny When a little child walks into a room, something magical happens.
The world hasn’t yet been divided into ..this is beautiful, that is ugly, this is mine, that is yours.
Everything is simply there…alive, open, mysterious.
The child doesn’t look at a cup and think, Oh, that’s the cup I bought in that shop last summer.
He/she just looks.
There’s no story wrapped around the seeing.
No label……No past.
And that’s exactly where A Course in Miracles begins.
Lesson 1: “Nothing I see in this room means anything.”
At first glance, it sounds absurd or even a little frightening.
But the lesson isn’t taking something away; it’s giving something back.
It’s returning us to that childlike state where perception is clean again, unclouded by concepts.
Conceptualization is the ego’s way of making the world seem solid.
It pastes a meaning on everything so we can feel safe:
“This is good, that is bad, I know what that is.”
But in truth, we don’t.
We only know what we’ve been taught to think about it.
The Course gently invites us to see again without the filter of thought.
To look as if for the first time, like a child who hasn’t yet learned what
a “cup” is, and therefore can see the light dancing on it.
This kind of seeing doesn’t make us ignorant; it makes us innocent.
It’s not about forgetting the names of things, but about remembering
that names are not reality.
A word is just a sound we made up to describe what cannot truly be described.
Children live in the Now because they haven’t yet learned how to leave it.
They don’t plan the next moment or replay the last.
They see ….and in that seeing, they are.
No gap, no judgment, no separation.
As we grow up, we trade that wonder for certainty,
and the world loses its sparkle.
Lesson 1 cracks open that certainty again.
It whispers: “What if you’ve never really seen anything at all?”
And in that moment, if we’re quiet enough, something within us sighs
In recognition. The mind stops naming, the heart starts listening.
A chair becomes not “a chair,” but a shimmering pattern of Being
and the miracle has already begun.
Seeing without concepts is the beginning of true vision.
It’s not childish …it’s divine!
For to see without judgment is to see with Love.
And Love, unlike the ego, never needs to define what It beholds.
So the invitation today is simple:
Look around you.
Let your eyes rest on everything as if you’ve just arrived on Earth.
Don’t tell it what it is, let it tell you.
And perhaps, for a quiet instant, you’ll rememberhow the world
looked before you named it.
That’s how the journey home begins,
not with a thunderclap, but with a child’s gaze.
With love and light,
G.