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

by Helen Schucman

2For the curriculum you have chosen is against love, and amounts to a course in how to attack yourself. 3A necessary minor, supplementing this major curricular goal, is in learning how not to overcome the split which made this goal believable. 4And you cannot overcome it, for all your learning is on its behalf. 11 Yet your will speaks against your learning, as your learning speaks against your will.37 2And so you fight against learning and succeed, for that is your will. 3But you do not realize, even yet, that there is something you do will to learn, and that you can learn it because it is your will to do so. 4You who have tried to learn what you do not will should take heart, for though the curriculum you set yourself is depressing indeed, it is merely ridiculous, if you will look at it. 5Is it possible that the way to achieve a goal is not to attain it? 12 Resign now as your own teacher. 2This resignation will not lead to depression. 3It is merely the result of an honest appraisal of what you have taught yourself and of the learning outcomes that have resulted. 4Under the proper learning conditions, which you can neither provide nor understand, you will become an excellent learner and teacher.