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

by Helen Schucman

It asks us to take them personally and treat them as practical, as more than an intellectual game.

The ego is nothing more than a false belief about our identity.

Through projection, we see ourselves as a good person surrounded by a cruel world, a world bristling with potential threats. We therefore live in a state of fear, wondering where the next attack will come from. What we don’t realize is that the real source of our fear is our own guilt. We are afraid that our sins will eventually catch up with us.

4You should begin each day with the prayer “Help me to perform whatever miracles you want of me today.”

3That is why you still have more to learn than to teach.

2The knowledge that illuminates rather than obscures is the knowledge which not only makes you free, but also shows you clearly that you are free.47