A Course in Miracles: Based on the Original Handwritten Notes of Helen Schucman—Complete & Annotated Edition

by Helen Schucman

What Jesus wants her to face is that, however much she believes she has successfully corralled this beast, she has not and cannot. His opening line speaks of “not regarding this as a separate problem.” Rather, in this seemingly limited problem of how she treats Bill in certain instances lies the whole problem of personal rejection, which is at the heart of the separation. As he says in Chapter 6, “The separation is the notion of rejection” (T-6.II.2:1). While she hangs onto this beast, no matter how small it looks, she hangs onto separation itself. Therefore, even though Helen has apparently narrowed this sort of retaliation down to this one area (“This area is the only one in which you want to retain this”), the fact remains that it infects everything (“but you will not be able to limit it”). The implication is that it taints all of her relationships.