A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within.

Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light.

remember that you want salvation for yourself.

You want to accept God’s plan because you share in it.

God’s is the only Will. When you have recognized this, you have recognized that your will is His.

There is no will but God’s. I cannot be in conflict.

I am at peace. Nothing can disturb me. My will is God’s. My will and God’s are one. God wills peace for His Son.

There is no will but God’s. These conflict thoughts are meaningless.

There is no will but God’s. I share it with Him. My conflicts about ___ cannot be real.

The light has come. You are healed and you can heal. The light has come. You are saved and you can save. You are at peace, and you bring peace with you wherever you go.

I am under no laws but God’s.

The idea for today tells you once again how simple is salvation. Look for it where it waits for you, and there it will be found. Look nowhere else, for it is nowhere else.

The body is endangered by the mind that hurts itself. The body suffers just in order that the mind will fail to see it is the victim of itself.

There are no laws except the laws of God.

The laws of God can never be replaced.

there is no loss under the laws of God. Payment is neither given nor received. Exchange cannot be made; there are no substitutes; and nothing is replaced by something else. God’s laws forever give and never take.

I am entitled to miracles.

Your claim to miracles does not lie in your illusions about yourself. It does not depend on any magical powers you have ascribed to yourself, nor on any of the rituals you have devised. It is inherent in the truth of what you are. It is implicit in what God your Father is. It was ensured in your creation, and guaranteed by the laws of God.

We ask no more than what belongs to us in truth. Today, however, we will also make sure that we will not content ourselves with less.

Closing your eyes, remind yourself that you are asking only for what is rightfully yours.

I am entitled to miracles. Ask for them whenever a situation arises in which they are called for.

Remember, too, not to be satisfied with less than the perfect answer. Be quick to tell yourself, should you be tempted: I will not trade miracles for grievances. I want only what belongs to me. God has established miracles as my right.

each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle.

LESSON 79. Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.

A problem cannot be solved if you do not know what it is.

Everyone in this world seems to have his own special problems. Yet they are all the same, and must be recognized as one if the one solution that solves them all is to be accepted.

All this complexity is but a desperate attempt not to recognize the problem, and therefore not to let it be resolved. If you could recognize that your only problem is separation, no matter what form it takes, you could accept the answer because you would see its relevance.

In our longer practice periods today we will ask what the problem is, and what is the answer to it. We will not assume that we already know. We will try to free our minds of all the many different kinds of problems we

think we have. We will try to realize that we have only one problem, which we have failed to recognize. We will ask what it is, and wait for the answer. We will be told. Then we will ask for the solution to it. And we will be told. The exercises for today will be successful to the extent to which you do not insist on defining the problem.

Let me recognize this problem so it can be solved.

Let me recognize my problems have been solved.

Freedom from conflict has been given you. Accept that fact, and you are ready to take your rightful place in God’s plan for salvation.

Your only problem has been solved! Repeat this over and over to yourself today, with gratitude and conviction.

Only be certain you do not forget that all problems are the same. Their many forms will not deceive you while you remember this. One problem, one solution.

Let me recognize this problem has been solved.

Let us be determined not to collect grievances today. Let us be determined to be free of problems that do not exist.

I am the light of the world.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.

I have no function but the one God gave me. This recognition releases me from all conflict, because it means I cannot have conflicting goals.

My happiness and my function are one. All things that come from God are one.

Holding grievances is an attempt to prove that God’s plan for salvation will not work.

I am safe today because there is no will but God’s.

In choosing salvation rather than attack, I merely choose to recognize what is already there.

Here is the perfect statement of my freedom. I am under no laws but God’s.

Now I would accept only what the laws of God entitle me to have, that I may use it on behalf of the function He has given me.

Let miracles replace all grievances.

Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved. Let me realize today that the problem is always some form of grievance that I would cherish. Let me also understand that the solution is always a miracle with which I let the grievance be replaced.

Let me recognize my problems have been solved. I seem to have problems only because I am misusing time. I believe that the problem comes first, and time must elapse before it can be worked out.

No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

Goals that are meaningless are not attained.