A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

This is not referring to Jesus the man on earth. It is more like the Sonship turning toward Love.

“Lead us not into temptation” means “Recognize your errors and choose to abandon them by following my guidance.”

Whenever you experience God’s reassurances as threat, it is always because you are defending misplaced or misdirected loyalty.

When you project this to others you imprison them, but only to the extent to which you reinforce errors they have already made.

This makes them vulnerable to the distortions of others, since their own perception o...

The miracle worker can only bless them, and this undoes their distortions and...

You should look out from the perception of your own holiness to the holiness of others.

The escape from darkness involves two stages:

First, the recognition that darkness cannot hide.

This step usually ent...

Second, the recognition that there is nothing you want to hide even if you could. This st...

When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be willing to enter into communion but will...

The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened, and thus made to hold, is one of the distortions on which the reverse of the Golden Rule rests.

Lack implies that you would be better off in a state somehow different from the one you are in.

Needs arise only when you deprive yourself.

A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct.

As you integrate you become one, and your needs become one accordingly.

Unified needs lead to unified action, because this produces a lack of conflict.

The idea of orders of need, which follows from the original error that one can be separated from God, requires correction at its own level before the error of perceiving levels at all can be corrected.

Belief produces the acceptance of existence. That is why you can believe what no one else thinks is true. It is true for you because it was made by you.

All real pleasure comes from doing God’s Will. This is because not doing it is a denial of Self.

Fantasies are a means of making false associations and attempting to obtain pleasure from them.

This is a course in mind training.

All learning involves attention and study at some level.

Acts were not necessary before the separation, because belief in space and time did not exist. It was only after the separation that the Atonement and the conditions necessary for its fulfillment were planned.

You can temporize and you are capable of enormous procrastination, but you cannot depart entirely from your Creator,

Tolerance for pain may be high, but it is not without limit.

Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way.

All healing is essentially the release from fear.

We have referred to miracles as the means of correcting level confusion, for all mistakes must be corrected at the level on which they occur. Only the mind is capable of error. The body can act wrongly only when it is responding to misthought. The body cannot create, and the belief that it can, a fundamental error, produces all physical symptoms. Physical illness represents a belief in magic. The whole distortion that made magic rests on the belief that there is a creative ability in matter which the mind cannot control. This error can take two forms; it can be believed that the mind can miscreate in the body, or that the body can miscreate in the mind. When it is understood that the mind, the only level of creation, cannot create beyond itself, neither type of confusion need occur.

the body is a learning device for the mind.

The worst a faulty use of a learning device can do is to fail to facilitate learning.

The body is merely part of your experience in the physical world.

Its abilities can be and frequently are overevaluated.

However, it is almost impossible to deny its existen...

Those who do so are engaging in a particularly unwort...

All material means that you accept as remedies for bodily ills are restatements of magic principles.

This is the first step in believing that the body makes its own illness.

It is a second misstep to attempt to heal it through no...

It does not follow, however, that the use of such agents for correct...

the last thing that can help the non-right-minded, or the sick, is an increase in fear.

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 w...

The healer who relies on his own readiness is endangering his understanding.

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.

This often entails fear, because you are afraid of what your spiritual sight will show you.

Discomfort is aroused only to bring the need for correction into awareness.

The fear of healing arises in the end from an unwillingness to accept unequivocally that healing is necessary.