A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

Salvation is a collaborative venture. It cannot be undertaken successfully by those who disengage themselves from the Sonship, because they are disengaging themselves from me.

God will come to you only as you will give Him to your brothers.

The ego is the part of the mind that believes your existence is defined by separation.

Everything the ego perceives is a separate whole, without the relationships that imply being.

Creation and communication are synonymous.

God created every mind by communicating His Mind to it, thus establishing it forever as a channel for the reception of His Mind and Will.

Existence as well as being rests on communication.

Being

is a state in which the mind is in communication with everything that is real.

This is your reality.

in the Kingdom there is no difference between having and being, as there is in existence.

God is praised whenever any mind learns to be wholly helpful.

This is impossible without being wholly harmless, because the two beliefs must coexist.

The truly helpful are invulnerable, because they are not protecting their egos and ...

if it is impossible to be wholly fearful and remain alive,

If the opposite of love is fear, but love can have no opposite, then an entirely fearful state could not exist.

spirit knows no difference between having and being.

If you share a physical possession, you do divide its ownership. If you share an idea, however, you do not lessen it. All of it is still yours although all of it has been given away.

If you can accept the concept that the world is one of ideas, the whole belief in the false association the ego makes between giving and losing is gone.

the Holy Spirit or the Universal Inspiration,

Knowledge is always ready to flow everywhere, but it cannot oppose. Therefore you can obstruct it, although you can never lose it.

The Holy Spirit is the Christ Mind which is aware of the knowledge that lies beyond perception.

The Voice of the Holy Spirit is the Call to Atonement, or the restoration of the integrity of the mind.

If you make the mistake of looking for the Holy Spirit in yourself alone your thoughts will frighten you because, by adopting the ego’s viewpoint, you are undertaking an ego-alien journey with the ego as guide. This is bound to produce fear.

The only aspect of time that is eternal is now.

Peace is the ego’s greatest enemy because, according to its interpretation of reality, war is the guarantee of its survival.

The ego becomes strong in strife.

If you believe there is strife you will react viciously, because the idea of dang...

The idea itself is an appeal ...

Eternity and peace are as closely related as are time and war.

What fear has hidden still is part of you.

The Holy Spirit will help you reinterpret everything that you perceive as fearful, and teach you that only what is loving is true.

Physical birth is not a beginning; it is a continuing.

You cannot cancel out your past errors alone.

They will not disappear from your mind without the Atonement, a remedy not of your making.

The Atonement must be understood as a pure ...

Every loving thought held in any part of the Sonship belongs to every part.

It is shared because it is loving.

The decision to share them is their purification.

As you teach so shall you learn.

I will never leave you or forsake you, because to forsake you would be to forsake myself and God Who created me.

You forsake yourself and God if you forsake any o...

You must learn to see them as they are, and understand they b...

If you identify with the ego, you must perceive yourself as guilty.

Whenever

you respond to your ego you will experience guilt, and you wi...

The ego is quite literally a fear...

Listening to the ego’s voice means that you believe it is possible to attack God, and that a part of Him has been torn away by you.

The ego cannot oppose the laws of God any more than you can, but it can interpret them according to what it wants, just as you can.

That is why the question, “What do you want?” must be answered.

You are answering it every minute and every second, and each moment of decision is a judgment that...