A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, Then there is not perfect love. But: Only perfect love exists. If there is fear, It produces a state that does not exist. Believe this and you will be free. Only God can establish this solution, and this faith is His gift.

The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you have learned to consider these questions and to bring them into all your actions, you will have little difficulty in clarifying the means.

The Atonement can only be accepted within you by releasing the inner light.

Our emphasis is now on healing. The miracle is the means, the Atonement is the principle, and healing is the result.

All healing is essentially the release from fear. To undertake this you cannot be fearful yourself.

The value of the Atonement does not lie in the manner in which it is expressed. In fact, if it is used truly, it will inevitably be expressed in whatever way is most helpful to the receiver.

Is Atonement is equivalent to Amends?

This means that a miracle, to attain its full efficacy, must be expressed in a language that the recipient can understand without fear.

This does not necessarily mean that this is the highest level of communication of which he is capable. It does mean, however, that it is the highest level of communication of which he is capable now. The whole aim of the miracle is to raise...

If your miracle working inclinations are not functioning properly, it is always because fear has intruded on your right-mindedness and has turned it upside down.

The sole responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the Atonement for himself.

Corrective learning always begins with the awakening of spirit, and the turning away from the belief in physical sight.

must be understood, however, that whenever you offer a miracle to another, you are shortening the suffering of both of you. This corrects retroactively as well as progressively.

In time we exist for and with each other. In timelessness we coexist with God.

am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.

I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me. I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.

The correction of fear is your responsibility. When you ask for release from fear, you are implying that it is not. You should ask, instead, for help in the conditions that have brought the fear about.

Know first that this is fear. Fear arises from lack of love. The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love. Perfect love is the Atonement.

The resurrection demonstrated that nothing can destroy truth. Good can withstand any form of evil, as light abolishes forms of darkness.

The Atonement is therefore the perfect lesson.

When the Will of the Sonship and the Father are One, their perfect accord is Heaven.

The mind chooses to divide itself when it chooses to make its own levels. But it could not entirely separate itself from spirit, because it is from spirit that it derives its whole power to make or create.

When the Bible says “Judge not that ye be not judged,” it means that if you judge the reality

of others you will be unable to avoid judging your own.

the presence of knowledge all judgment is automatically suspended, and this is the process that enables recognition to replace perception.

You will also regard judgment with fear, believing that it will someday be used against you.

This belief can exist only to the extent that you believe in the efficacy of judgment as a weapon of defense for your own authority.

Nothing made by a child of God is without power. It is essential to realize this, because otherwise you will be unable to escape from the prison you have made.

any interpretation that sees either God or His creations as capable of destroying Their Own purpose is in error.

Your mind is split with the Holy Spirit on this point, and there is no resolution while you believe the one thing that is literally inconceivable. That is why you cannot create and are filled with fear about what you

Look at your life and see what the devil has made. But realize that this making will surely dissolve in the light of truth,

Your Self is still in peace, even though your mind is in conflict.

The branch that bears no fruit will be cut off and will wither away. Be glad! The light will shine from the true Foundation of life, and your own thought system will stand corrected.

Life and death, light and darkness, knowledge and perception, are irreconcilable.

The result of genuine devotion is inspiration, a word which properly understood is the opposite of fatigue. To be fatigued is to be dis-spirited, but to be inspired is to be in the spirit.

you speak from spirit you have chosen to “Be still and know that I am God.”

If you speak from the ego you are disclaiming knowledge instead of affirming it, and are thus dis-spiriting yourself.

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Change is always fearful to the separated,

because they cannot conceive of it as a move towards healing the separation.

spirit cannot perceive and the ego cannot know.

When I remind you of your true creation, your ego cannot but respond with fear.

Teaching and learning are your greatest strengths now, because they enable you to change your mind and help others to change theirs.

If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and open it to me, I will correct it very gently and lead you back to God.

You are part of reality, which stands unchanged beyond the reach of your ego but within easy reach of spirit. When you are afraid, be still and know that God is real, and you are His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. Do not let your ego dispute this, because the ego cannot know what is as far beyond its reach as you are.

God is not the author of fear. You are. You

Humility is a lesson for the ego, not for the spirit. Spirit is beyond humility, because it recognizes its radiance and gladly sheds its light everywhere. The meek shall inherit the earth because their egos are humble, and this gives them truer perception.

In this world you need not have tribulation because I have overcome the world. That is why you should be of good cheer.

“Giving to get” is an inescapable law of the ego, which always evaluates itself in relation to other egos.

The ego regards the body as its home, and tries to satisfy itself through the body. But the idea that this is possible is a decision of the mind, which has become completely confused about what is really possible.