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

by Helen Schucman

There is but one interpretation of all motivation that makes any sense, and because it is the Holy Spirit’s judgment, it requires no effort at all on your part. 2Every loving thought is true. 3Everything else is an appeal for healing and help. 4That is what it is, regardless of the form it takes. 5Can anyone be justified in responding with anger to a plea for help? 6No response can be appropriate except the willingness to give it to him, for this and only this is what he is asking for. 7Offer him anything else, and you are assuming the right to attack his reality by interpreting it as you see fit. 4 Perhaps the danger of this to your own mind is not yet fully apparent, but this by no means signifies that it is not perfectly clear. 2If you maintain that an appeal for help is something else, you will react to something else, and your response will be inappropriate to reality as it is, but not to your perception of it. 3This is poor reality testing by definition.3 4There is nothing to prevent you from recognizing all calls for help as exactly what they are except your own perceived need to attack. 5It is only this that makes you willing to engage in endless “battles” with reality, in which you deny the reality of the need for healing by making it unreal.