A Course in Miracles Made Easy: Mastering the Journey from Fear to Love

by Alan Cohen

Because our vision of life is usually nearsighted, we don’t always see the effects of our actions that spring from love. Yet the good you do reaches far more of the universe than you realize. Never be discouraged if you have offered a kindness that does not seem to be received. On some level it is received, and it will be passed along to others.

Any act of kindness you do for yourself or others on Earth bears heavenly fruit. You taste such fruit twice: once in the moment you act from love, and again when you see its effects. Sometimes you see the effect immediately, sometimes later, and sometimes not at all.

“Miracles . . . may not always have observable effects” (T-1.I.35).

It is as important to receive miracles as it is to give them. When you allow someone to help you, you afford that person the joy of being a miracle worker.

The love that animates the entire universe brings all good to the world. You are the vital avenue through which this holy transmission occurs.

You do not diminish yourself by offering credit to God. You glorify the divinity within you. “Be humble before Him, and yet great in Him” (T-15.IV.3:1).

You don’t have to know how to perform miracles. You just have to be fully present, keep your mind and heart open, seek to help where you can,

The experience of anxiety means you believe you are the doer. “The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength” (W-48.3:1).

Set a goal if you like, but leave the details to the Holy Spirit, who has access to far broader resources than you do. Be open to receive the goal you have requested, and at the same time leave space for something even better to happen.

You will be guided as to the miracles you are to perform. Don’t stress about where or how you can most help.

At every moment you are teaching love or you are teaching fear.

You, too, are a teacher of God in the way you carry yourself and the quality of your being.

teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else’s.

“When you have accepted your mission to extend peace you will find peace . . .” (T-12.VII.11:1).

Instead you are here get peace, be yourself, and find people to love.

You cannot teach without learning and you cannot learn without teaching.

Teach only love, for that is what you are. — T-6.I.13:2

satsang, the company of truth.

So the end of the world as you know it is exactly that: the end of the world you know. Yet because the world you know is so very different from the world God knows, the end of the world is nothing more than the end of the tiny stream of thought that has defined the constricted world you see.

The end of the world comes when you change your mind about it.

People are in pain because we have invested our attention in a meaningless world.

Vision is a choice. We see what we want to see. Change what you want to see, and what you see will change.

The ego is preoccupied with the future as an escape from the present, while the answer to all questions rests in the holy instant.

A Course in Miracles has found you. Now all that is left is for you to find yourself. May that noble awakening come soon and last forever. May we all know ourselves as God created us. May we all know life as we were meant to live it. May we all love purely, deeply, and totally. May humanity discover its divinity, and may we all dwell in the peace of God.

God is love and only love, and so are you.

Every thought you think, word you speak, and action you take represents your choice between love and fear. Choose love.

The Holy Spirit is the part of your mind connected with truth.

Appreciate and celebrate everyone, for they are lovable, as you are.

Your only purpose on Earth is to make it more like heaven. Worry less and laugh more.

Bodies come and go, but Spirit is forever.

I must also give credit to my loyal and eternally lovable dogs, who keep me sane when I most need to remember what’s important.