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T-21.II

The Responsibility for Sight

Chapter 21 — Reason and Perception

Responsibility for sight gathers decision, cause and effect, and willingness into one practice: choose the Holy Spirit, withdraw judgment, and let vision replace victimhood.

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Your sight follows your chosen goal; hand the power of decision to Spirit.
▲ MilestoneTake responsibility for sight; the world cannot be your cause. ▲ Milestone
Pillar
Accept responsibility for sight, and holiness becomes visible.
Take responsibility for sight; a small willingness lets salvation exchange your world.
A tiny change of mind: little willingness opens the way to sight.
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Desire steers belief; faith makes its goal appear as your world.
Offer the little willingness, and the Holy Spirit gives right sight.
Victimhood begins with the ego’s mad reversal of cause.
To be self-made, the ego would make God powerless and call it sight.
No accidents: release the ego’s separate will and let the Holy Spirit decide.
Minor
You traded salvation for separation; reclaim sight by uncovering the secret source.
Exchange of worlds: recognize what you want and let sight be healed.
Leave the altar unoccupied for a moment, and let truth show itself.
A little willingness dissolves the barriers you made between brothers.
Nothing is accidental in God’s Son; seeing truly means remembering you were created together.
Sin is a goal you choose; admit the mistake and let effects fade.
Only what rises from union with Source deserves the name creation.
A little gift given away releases the whole world you made.
The other will on the altar: idolatry as external causation.
Being right is a learned stance; suspend it to recognize what’s there.
Magic reverses cause and effect, giving the world authority.
Echo
Decide the goal and perception follows; fear justifies the purpose of sin.
A tiny change of mind reinterprets crucifixion as resurrection.
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