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

by Alan Cohen

We ennoble the world by allowing our godly selves to shine.

All acts of compassion bring the world closer to heaven.

To master your ego, give it projects that uplift you and others.

Stop doing what hurts you and start doing what heals you. It is only because you accept—even revere—suffering that it persists. Pain is a result of denial or resistance to your natural

The Course boldly declares that the thorny path has not been set by God, and misery is optional.

Miracles] bring more love both to the giver and the receiver”

your most powerful contribution to humanity is your happiness.

That premise is faulty because Christ is deathless and you have no sins.

“Sickness is a defense against the truth”

not. Humbling yourself means allowing God to bring greater life to the world through you rather than letting yourself be a pawn in the ego’s quest

“All things are lessons God would have me learn”

Mind creates experience. All of life is mind over matter.

You are not in the world. The world is in you.

The real magic is inside you.

don’t need anything outside yourself to be healed or happy!

“If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?” All the authority you will ever need is seeded within your soul. Look there and nowhere else.

A Course in Miracles tells us that we have the capacity, the power, and the right to be healed if we so choose.

A key factor in healing is to work with the belief system you trust.

All healing is faith healing. We all have faith in something.

All disease is a denial of love, and all denial of love is fear.

Love heals because it reminds us of who we were before we were taught we needed something from outside to make us enough.

The Holy Spirit is the part of your mind that remains connected to the Mind of God even while another part of the mind is immersed in the illusion of separation.

The Thought of God protects you,

The Holy Spirit works through people. At any time you may serve as a voice of guidance for another person, and anyone might serve as a channel through which the Holy Spirit guides you.

“Please show me”

“I do not perceive my own best interests”

“The power of decision is my own”

We construct our future by the consciousness we hold.

You can discern between the advice of the Holy Spirit and that of the ego by noticing the feeling or energy the voice or advice generates.

Your body and feelings speak louder than your thinking mind,

Joy is the result of choosing joy.

It is not God’s plan that makes life hard, but human resistance.

Grace is the state of being in which we are loved unconditionally and all that we need is provided for us by the benevolent hand of God.

Love is where you are because love is what you are.

By grace I live. By grace I am released.

You were born to dive into the adventure and allow Higher Power to operate through you, as well as for you.

Things belong to you not by your manipulation, but by right of your consciousness.

The desire to have no desires is a desire. Buddha was telling us to not be attached to our desires.

You can shortcut years or lifetimes of hardship by accepting grace and letting ease be your guide.

“How do you medicate your pain?”

The first step to overcoming resistance is to recognize your resistant behavior.

texting.” Identify with the witness rather than the doer.

Being gentle with yourself feels a lot better than beating yourself

up. Just keep doing what makes you feel best, and what is less than best will gradually disappear from your experience.

“I am never upset for the reason I think”

When the value you perceive in wellness exceeds the value you perceive in upset, inner peace shall be yours.

Define all change as good, even if you don’t see the blessing at the moment.

Stop fighting life and let it love you. Miracles are seeking you. Now you must let them find you.

We are here to employ time in our favor rather than let it crush us.

If you have ever had a miraculous day in which everything unfolded effortlessly, you have experienced the true purpose of a day, to which you have a right every day.