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

by Alan Cohen

Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore said, “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

Miracles are seeking you. Now you must let them find you.

Leave room for Him, and you will find yourself so filled with power that nothing will prevail against your peace.

If you were to leave this world now, would you be satisfied with how you have spent your time? If not, what would make your remaining time here more meaningful? Likewise, at the end of each day conduct an honest introspection about what you did with your time today. What would you do differently tomorrow to make your precious time count?

Eternity is not a realm you enter after you die. It is an expanded reality that exists now.

Now is the closest approximation in time to the experience of eternity.

Should you feel fear, ask yourself, “Am I okay here and now?” Nearly every time, your answer will be “yes.” If you are not okay here and now, ask yourself, “What do I need to do in this moment to handle the situation without letting fear run the show?” Fear and drama are not required or helpful. Trust and connection to Source are your best allies to navigate any situation.

Establish yourself in the now, and fear will lose its power over your life.

The key is to choose your reality consciously rather than waiting or hoping for your good to come to you. Go to the place in consciousness where the success you seek is already accomplished, and you will hasten its demonstration in time. All the good you seek is already here. It’s not about time. It’s about timelessness.

Jesus’s consciousness was so rooted in the invulnerability of Spirit that those around him were lifted to the expansive realm in which he dwelled. When they attained resonance with that frequency, they were healed.

Real generosity is generosity of the spirit. It is the feeling that you are blessed with enough of all good things, and you are happy to bless others with your overflow.

When you give love, kindness, patience, or forgiveness, you gain the experience of the gift you are giving, in the moment you give it, so you are as blessed as the receiver.

All can be received but for the asking. Here the door is never locked, and no one is denied his least request or his most urgent need. There is no sickness not already healed, no lack unsatisfied, no need unmet within this golden treasury of Christ.

Because your true nature is spiritual, you cannot be touched, affected, changed, damaged, or killed by any earthly condition or situation.

When joy is your motivation, joy is your result.

Love yourself no matter what you do, and what is not of love will be replaced by what is truly valuable.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

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.

“When I am healed, I am not healed alone”

In the world of appearances, it may take time for a miracle to manifest. But time is an illusion, as is the apparent gap between giving and receiving. Because everything is happening at once, giving and receiving occur simultaneously. It’s only in the realm of separation that they seem to be divided.

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.

“Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle”

As miracle worker Yoda said, “Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.”

Real teaching, A Course in Miracles tells us, occurs by the energy you broadcast through the quality of your being. At every moment you are teaching love or you are teaching fear. There are no other lessons.

As you find your wholeness and live from it, the world will be transformed by your model and you will leave a trail of healing in your wake.

You are a loving being living in a universe founded in love. Remember but this, and you will master the only lesson you are here to learn.

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

Mighty companions walk at your side, in this world and beyond it. We do not walk alone