A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

The Holy Spirit knows that you both have everything and are everything.

Any distinction in this respect is meaningful only when the idea of “getting,” which implies a lac...

If you cannot hear the Voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen.

That you do listen to the voice of your ego is demonstrated by your attitudes, your feelings and your behavior.

I have said that you cannot change your mind by changing your behavior, but I have also said, and many times, that you can change your mind.

When your mood tells you that you have chosen wrongly, and this is so whenever you are not joyous, then know this need not be.

In every case you have thought wrongly about some brother God created, and are perceiving images your ...

Think honestly what you have thought that God would not have thought, and what you have not thought t...

Search sincerely for what you have done and left undone accordingly, and then change your...

When you are sad, know this need not be.

Depression comes from a sense of being deprived of something you want and do not have.

Remember that you are deprived of nothing except by your own decisions, and...

You can be as vigilant against the ego’s dictates as for them.

When you feel guilty, remember that the ego has indeed violated the laws of God, but you have not.

Leave the “sins” of the ego to me.

That is what Atonemen...

While you feel guilty your ego is in command, because only the ego can experience guilt.

Watch your mind for the temptations of the ego, and do not be deceived by it.

It offers you nothing.

Yet you are not sufficiently vigilant against the demands of the ego to disengage yourself.

The habit of engaging with God and His creations is easily made if you actively refuse to let your mind slip away.

The problem is not one of concentration; it is the belief that no one, including yourself, is worth consistent effort.

Side with me consistently against this deception, and do not permit this shabby ...

Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do.

Watch your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder its accomplishment, and step away from them.

Without your own allegiance, protection and love, the ego cannot exist.

To the ego’s dark glass you need but say, “I will not look there because I know these images are not true.”

Then let the Holy One shine on you in peace, knowing that this and only this must be.

Your ego cannot prevent Him from shining on you, but it can prevent you from letting Him shine through you.

I do not attack your ego. I do work with your higher mind, the home of the Holy Spirit, whether you are asleep or awake, just as your ego does with your lower mind, which is its home.

All things work together for good.

There are no exceptions except in the ego’s judgment.

Sane judgment would inevitably judge against the ego, and must be obliterated by the ego in the interest of its self-preservation.

The body is the ego’s home by its own election. It is the only identification with which the ego feels safe, since the body’s vulnerability is its own best argument that you cannot be of God.

Learning and wanting to learn are inseparable.

By becoming involved with tangential issues, it hopes to hide the real question and keep it out of mind.

The ego’s characteristic busyness with nonessentials is for precisely that purpose.

Preoccupations with problems set up to be incapable of solution are favorite ego devices for ...

In all these diversionary tactics, however, the one question that is never asked by those who...

This is the question that you must learn to ask in connecti...

What is the p...

Only your allegiance to it gives the ego any power over you.

The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about yourself.

Your other life has continued without interruption, and has been and always will be totally unaffected by your attempts to dissociate it.

In learning to escape from illusions, your debt to your brother is something you must never forget.

You have very little trust in me as yet, but it will increase as you turn more and more often to me instead of to your ego for guidance.

you cannot escape from the ego by humbling it or controlling it or punishing it.

The separated mind cannot maintain the separation except by dissociating.

The ego is a device for maintaining this belief, but it is still only your decision to use the device that enables it to endure.

If you are grateful to your brother, you are grateful to God for what He created.