ACIM Notebook

Pollyanna and True Perception
by: Liz Cronkhite

There is some confusion about the difference between true perception, denial and being a “Pollyanna”.

Denial and Pollyannishness both start from the premise that how you perceive what the body’s eyes show you is fact, and that your experience (your feelings about it) comes from the person, thing, situation or event you are looking upon. In denial, you pretend you are not seeing and experiencing what you really do believe is fact. If you are a Pollyanna, you believe the situation is “bad” but that you are going to make the best of it. You are going to make lemonade from lemons. (more…)