A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

There is little doubt that one body can assault another, and can even destroy it.

Yet if destruction itself is impossible, anything that is destruc...

Its destruction, therefore, does not ...

If you respond with anger, you must be equating yourself with the destructible, and are therefore regarding yourself insanely.

If you react as if you are persecuted, you are teaching persecution.

Rather, teach your own perfect immunity, which is the truth in you, and realize that it cannot be assailed.

Do not try to protect it yourself, or you are believing tha...

You are not asked to be crucified, which was part of my own te...

You are merely asked to follow my example in the face of much less extreme temptations to misperceive, and not to accept them...

rebirth itself is merely the dawning on your mind of what is already in it.

Teach only love, for that is what you are.

14. If you interpret the crucifixion in any other way, you are using it as a weapon for assault rather than as the call for peace for which it was intended.

I do not call for martyrs but for teachers. No one is punished for sins, and the Sons of God are not sinners.

I do not need gratitude, but you need to develop your weakened ability to be grateful, or you cannot appreciate God.

He does not need your appreciation, but you do.

You cannot love what you do not appreciate, for fear makes appr...

Remember that the Holy Spirit is the Communication Link between God the Father and His separated Sons.

If you will listen to His Voice you will know that you cannot either hurt or be hurt, and that many need your blessing to help them hear this for themselves.

When you perceive only this need in them, and do not respond to any other, you will have learned of me and will be as eag...

Yet projection will always hurt you.

It reinforces your belief in your own split mind, and its only purpose is to keep the separation going.

projection is always a means of justifying attack.

Anger without projection is impossible.

The Holy Spirit extends and the ego projects.

How else can you find joy in a joyless place except by realizing that you are not there?

You cannot be anywhere God did not put you, and God created you as part of Him.

God created His Sons by extending His Thought, and retaining the extensions of His Thought in His Mind.

The ego projects to exclude, and therefore to deceive.

The Holy Spirit extends by recognizing Himself in every mind, and thus perceives them as one.

“Teach only love, for that is what you are.”

The only safety lies in extending the Holy Spirit, because as you see His gentleness in others your own mind perceives itself as totally harmless.

Once it can accept this fully, it sees no need to protect itself.

Safety is the complete relinquishment of attack.

No compromise is possible in this.

The only way to have peace is to teach peace.

Remember that the Holy Spirit is the Answer, not the question.

The ego always speaks first.

Begin the practice periods as usual, by repeating today’s idea to yourself. Then, with closed eyes, search out your unloving thoughts in whatever form they appear; uneasiness, depression, anger, fear, worry, attack, insecurity and so on. Whatever form they take, they are unloving and therefore fearful. And so it is from them that you need to be saved. Specific situations, events or personalities you associate with unloving thoughts of any kind are suitable subjects for today’s exercises. It is imperative for your salvation that you see them differently. And it is your blessing on them that will save you and give you vision. Slowly, without conscious selection and without undue emphasis on any one in particular, search your mind for every thought that stands between you and your salvation. Apply the idea for today to each of them in this way: My unloving thoughts about ___ are keeping me in hell My holiness is my salvation.