A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

Perceiving something alien to itself in your mind, the ego turns to the body as its ally, because the body is not part of you.

There it is .... Eluding and talking to something other, the body or normal self

A harsh and strident form of communication arose as the ego’s voice. It could not shatter the peace of God, but it could shatter yours.

How can you wake children in a more kindly way than by a gentle Voice that will not frighten them, but will merely remind them that the night is over and the light has come? You do not inform them that the nightmares that frightened them so badly are not real, because children believe in magic. You merely reassure them that they are safe now. Then you train them to recognize the difference between sleeping and waking, so they will understand they need not be afraid of dreams. And so when bad dreams come, they will themselves call on the light to dispel them.

It is surely better to use only three words: “Do only that!” This simple statement is perfectly clear, easily understood and very easily remembered.

When anything threatens your peace of mind, ask yourself, “Has God changed His Mind about me?” Then accept His decision, for it is indeed changeless, and refuse to change your mind about yourself. God will never decide against you, or He would be deciding against Himself.

You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality. Is it your decision to do so? You recognize from your own experience that what you see in dreams you think is real while you are asleep. Yet the instant you waken you realize that everything that seemed to happen in the dream did not happen at all. You do not think this strange, even though all the laws of what you awaken to were violated while you slept. Is it not possible that you merely shifted from one dream to another, without really waking?

My thought since childhood. Also, in lucid dreaming reality checking in the sleeping dream I get caught up on which dream type. Knowing and recognizing that the waking reality is really more correctly seen as "the persistent - somewhat consistent dream".

You do not remember being awake. When

You will remember everything the instant you desire it wholly, for if to desire wholly is to create, you will have willed away the separation, returning your mind simultaneously to your Creator and your creations.

II. The Decision to Forget

Unless you first know something you cannot dissociate it.

When what you have dissociated is accepted, it ceases to be fearful.

Offer the Holy Spirit only your willingness to remember, for He retains the knowledge of God and of yourself for you, waiting for your acceptance.

Let nothing in this world delay your remembering of Him, for in this remembering is the knowledge of yourself.

Your recognition of him as part of God reminds him of the truth about himself, which he is denying.

For if

you see the god of sickness anywhere, you have accepted him. And if you accept him you will bow down and worship him, because he was made as God’s replacement. He is the belief that you can choose which god is real. Although it is clear this has nothing to do with reality, it is equally clear that it has everything to do with reality as you perceive it.

Reality can dawn only on an unclouded mind.

respects. Oneness cannot be divided.

But the spark is still as pure as the Great Light, because it is the remaining call of creation. Put all your faith in it, and God Himself will answer you.

the concept of choice, which is not of God,

GOD OR THE EGO

Neither God nor the ego proposes a partial thought system. Each is internally consistent, but they are diametrically opposed in all respects so that partial allegiance is impossible.

The cornerstone of God’s creation is you, for His thought system is light. Remember the Rays that are there unseen. The more you approach the center of His thought system, the clearer the light becomes.

You must ask what God’s Will is in everything, because it is yours. You do not know what it is, but the Holy Spirit remembers it for you. Ask Him, therefore, what God’s Will is for you, and He will tell you yours.

Whenever what the Holy Spirit tells you appears to be coercive, it is only because you have not recognized your will.

Tricky since it can be taken Two ways

You can heal only yourself, for only God’s Son needs healing.

The Guest Whom God sent you will teach you how to do this, if you but recognize the little spark and are willing to let it grow.

Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God?

You will never lose your way, for God leads you. When you wander, you but undertake a journey that is not real.

Let us begin this lesson in “ego dynamics” by understanding that the term itself does not mean anything. It contains the very contradiction in terms that makes it meaningless. “Dynamics” implies the power to do something, and the whole separation fallacy lies in the belief that the ego has the power to do anything. The ego is fearful to you because you believe this. Yet the truth is very simple: All power is of God. What is not of Him has no power to do anything.

The ego always attacks on behalf of separation. Believing it has the power to do this it does nothing else, because its goal of autonomy is nothing else.

Your recognition that whatever seems to separate you from God is only fear, regardless of the form it takes and

And no one wants to find what he believes would destroy him.

VI. Waking to Redemption

It is impossible not to believe what you see, but it is equally impossible to see what you do not believe.

Would you join in the resurrection or the crucifixion? Would you condemn your brothers or free them? Would you transcend your prison and ascend to the Father?

There has been much confusion about what perception means, because the word is

used both for awareness and for the interpretation of awareness. Yet you cannot be aware without interpretation, for what y...

You will awaken to your own call, for the Call to awake is within you. If I live in you, you are awake.

VII. The Condition of Reality

The ego may see some good, but never only good.

The Bible tells you to become as little children. Little children recognize that they do not understand what they perceive, and so they ask what it means. Do not make the mistake of believing that you understand what you perceive, for its meaning is lost to you. Yet the Holy Spirit has saved its meaning for you, and if you will let Him interpret it, He will restore to you what you have thrown away. Yet while you think you know its meaning, you will see no need to ask it of Him.

Not one thought you hold is wholly true.

Do I want the problem or do I want the answer?

You may complain that this course is not sufficiently specific for you to understand and use. Yet perhaps you have not done what it specifically advocates.

This is not a course in the play of ideas, but in their practical application.

In the real world there is no sickness, for there is no separation and no division.

Do not accept your brother’s variable perception of himself for his split mind is yours, and you will not accept your healing without his.

If what you perceive offends you, you are offended in yourself and are condemning God’s Son whom God condemneth not.

Understand that you do not respond to anything directly, but to your interpretation of it. Your interpretation thus becomes the justification for the response. That is why analyzing the motives of others is hazardous to you.