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About the book


A Course in Miracles is a 1976 book by Helen Schucman. The underlying premise is that the greatest “miracle” is the act of simply gaining a full “awareness of love’s presence” in one’s own life. Schucman claimed that the book had been dictated to her, word for word, via “inner dictation” from Jesus. Wikipedia

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Year published: 1976

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Quotes from the book

A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman)

  • Do what you love.
  • Love holds no grievances.
  • Anger comes from judgment.
  • God is in everything I see.
  • There are no idle thoughts.
  • Your reality is only spirit.
  • The ego lives by comparisons.
  • Light shall be my guide today.
  • Only the self-accused condemn.
  • There is nothing outside you.
  • Nothing conflicts with oneness.
  • To the ego, the mind is private.
  • Joy and peace are my inheritance.
  • I am affected only by my thoughts.
  • Light, joy, and peace abide in me.
  • To take offense is to give offense.
  • Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
  • In quietness are all things answered.
  • Nothing you see means anything alone.
  • Only the creations of light are real.
  • Trust would settle every problem now.
  • Spirit is in a state of grace forever.
  • God’s will for me is perfect happiness.
  • This instant is the only time there is.
  • What you would hide is hidden from you.
  • Each only love for that is what you are.
  • The ego cannot survive without judgment.
  • The hush of heaven holds my heart today.
  • The miracle but calls your ancient name.
  • Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
  • Reason cannot see sin, but can see errors.
  • Wholeness heals because it is of the mind.
  • Teach only love, for that is what you are.
  • The memory of God comes to the quiet mind.
  • Peace is stronger than war because it heals.
  • Infinite patience produces immediate results.
  • The mind that serves spirit is invulnerable.
  • A therapist doesn’t heal, he lets healing be.
  • Let your self be one with something beyond it.
  • The future is but an extension of the present.
  • Therefore you are in a state of grace forever.
  • Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.
  • All disease comes from a state of unforgiveness.
  • Illusions about yourself and the world are one.
  • Perception selects, and makes the world you see.
  • What you think you are is a belief to be undone.
  • When you do not value yourself, you become sick.
  • All healing is essentially the release from fear.
  • If you did not feel guilty, you could not attack.
  • Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking.
  • Clean but the mirror and the message shines forth.
  • When you want only love, you will see nothing else.
  • A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.
  • Are you afraid to find a loss of self in finding God?
  • Fantasies are the veil behind which truth is hidden.
  • God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.
  • Love created me like itself…Love holds no grievances.
  • The world does nothing to him. He only thought it did.
  • If you attack error in another, you will hurt yourself.
  • Questioning illusions is the first step in undoing them.
  • Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.
  • A decision is a conclusion based on everything you believe.
  • Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation.
  • You who want peace can only find it by complete forgiveness.
  • Love will immediately enter into any mind that truly wants it.
  • Ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.
  • Illness is some form of external searching. Health is inner peace.
  • The hidden can terrify not for what it is, but for its hiddenness.
  • The special have enemies, for they are different and not the same.
  • Where there is fear, it is because you have not made up your mind.
  • Every situation properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal.
  • There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.
  • It is never the idol that you want, but what you think it offers you.
  • Rebirth is merely the dawning on your mind of what is already in it.
  • The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.
  • A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct.
  • It is impossible to seek for pleasure through the body and not find pain.
  • Give faith to one another, for faith and hope and mercy are yours to give.
  • The Holy Spirit sees the world as a teaching device for bringing you home.
  • God calls and you do not hear, for you are preoccupied with your own voice.
  • Innocence is wisdom because it is unaware of evil, and evil does not exist.
  • The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still.
  • What is healing but the removal of all that stands in the way of knowledge.
  • Discomfort is aroused only to bring the need for correction into awareness.
  • Forgiveness is truth’s reflection. Behold his sinlessness and be you healed.
  • Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love.
  • The kind of rest you seek, you will find not from sleeping but from waking.
  • The world the holy see is beautiful because they see their innocence in it.
  • All your past except its beauty is gone… and nothing is left but a blessing.
  • Don’t deny yourself the message of relief that every brother offers you now.
  • Let me look on the world I see as the representation of my own state of mind.
  • Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
  • Fear is not of the present, but only the past and future, which do not exist.
  • If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible.
  • All power is given you in earth and Heaven. There is nothing that you cannot do.
  • The death of specialness is not your death, but your awakening into life eternal.
  • In your brother is the light. See him as sinless, and there can be no fear in you.
  • Only those who have a real and lasting sense of abundance can be truly charitable.
  • Heaven is not a place or a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness.
  • Let forgiveness be the substitute for fear. This is the only rule for happy dreams.
  • Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God
  • When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart.
  • Those who are certain of the outcome, can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.
  • Perception follows judgment. Having judged, we therefore see what we would look upon.
  • The world is only in the mind of its maker. Do not believe it is outside of yourself.
  • Whenever you are afraid you are deceived, and your mind cannot serve the Holy Spirit.
  • You are free to believe what you choose, and what you do attests to what you believe.
  • Healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees any value in the pain.
  • Love has no darkened temples where mysteries are kept obscure and hidden from the sun.
  • Our minds are whole because they are one. If you are sick you are withdrawing from me.
  • Pain’s purpose is the same as pleasure, for they both are means to make the body real.
  • Forgiveness can truly be called salvation. It is the means by which illusions disappear.
  • Remember that no one is where he is by accident, and chance plays no part in God’s plan.
  • The world believes in sin, but the belief that made it as you see it is not outside you.
  • There is no time, no place, no state where God is absent. There is nothing to be feared.
  • All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening.
  • Every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is.
  • It’s not up to you what you learn, but only whether you learn through joy or through pain.
  • This is a course in mind training. All learning involves attention and study at some level.
  • Behold, you Son of God, what life can offer you. Would you choose sickness in place of this?
  • Delusional ideas are not real thoughts, although you can believe in them. But you are wrong.
  • The search for love is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with love.
  • Perception is but a mirror, not a fact. What I look on is my state of mind reflected outward.
  • You will remember everything the instant you desire it wholly. To desire wholly is to create.
  • Only those who give over all desire to reject can know that their own rejection is impossible.
  • You are not upset for the reason you think. There is only one problem, choosing fear over love.
  • All real pleasure comes from doing God’s Will. This is because not doing it is a denial of Self.
  • No one created by God can find joy in anything except the eternal…nothing else is worthy of him.
  • The ego does not want to teach everyone all it has learned, because that would defeat its purpose.
  • Remember that those who attack are poor. Their poverty asks for gifts, not further impoverishment.
  • Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself.
  • All forgiveness allows Love to return to my awareness. I will see a world of peace and safety and joy.
  • Do not ask Spirit to heal the body. Ask rather that Spirit teach you the right perception of the body.
  • What you see reflects your thinking, and your thinking but reflects the choice of what you want to see.
  • The body cannot create, and the belief that it can, a fundamental error, produces all physical symptoms.
  • Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward.
  • Corrective learning begins with the awakening of spirit, and the turning away from belief in physical sight.
  • Recognize what doesn’t matter, and if your brothers ask you for something, do it because it doesn’t matter.
  • If the mind can heal the body but the body can’t heal the mind then the mind must be stronger than the body.
  • As long as you believe in what your physical sight tells you, your attempts at correction will be misdirected.
  • To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you.
  • God is not partial. All His children have His total Love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike.
  • All fear is ultimately reducible to the basic misperception that you have the ability to usurp the power of God.
  • Every loving thought is true. Everything else is an appeal for healing and help, regardless of the form it takes.
  • When everyone is welcome to you as you would have yourself be welcome to your Father, you will see no guilt in you.
  • You are afraid of God because you fear your brother. This brother who stands beside you still seems to be a stranger.
  • Do not allow the body to be a mirror of a split mind. Do not let it be can image of your own perception of littleness.
  • You are the holy Son of God Himself. Remember this and all the world is free. Remember this and earth and Heaven are one.
  • From the oneness that we have attained, we call to all our brothers, asking them to share our peace and consummate our joy.
  • The acceptance of sickness as a decision of the mind, for a purpose for which is would use the body, is the basis of healing.
  • The Christ in you is very still. He knows where you are going, and He leads you there in gentleness and blessing all the way.
  • The miracle is therefore a sign of love among equals. Equals should not be in awe of one another because awe implies inequality.
  • You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images.
  • To believe that a Son of God can be sick is to believe that part of God can suffer. Love cannot suffer, because it cannot attack.
  • Before you choose to do anything, ask me if your choice is in accord with mine. If you are sure that it is, there will be no fear.
  • Miracles are thoughts. Thoughts can represent the lower or bodily level of experience, or the higher spiritual level of experience.
  • Seek not outside yourself, for all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found.
  • True perception is the means by which the world is saved from sin, for sin does not exist. And it is this that true perception sees.
  • When you feel defensive about anything, you have identified yourself with an illusion. You therefore feel weak because you’re alone.
  • The holy instant is the recognition that all minds are in communication. Every thought you would keep hidden shuts off communication.
  • But fear of the body, with which the ego identifies so closely, makes no sense at all. The body is the ego’s home by its own election.
  • You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brothers totally without judgement.
  • Miracles rearrange perception and place all levels in true perspective. This is healing because sickness comes from confusing the levels.
  • Fear is really nothing and love is everything. Whenever light enters darkness, the darkness is abolished. What you believe is true for you.
  • Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. They are performed by those who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less.
  • Anger involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one’s own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others.
  • I have made every effort to use words that are almost impossible to distort, but it is always possible to twist symbols around if you wish.)
  • Very simply, then, you may believe you are afraid of nothingness, but you are really afraid of nothing. And in that awareness you are healed.
  • When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you
  • When you think you are attacking yourself, it is a sure sign that you hate what you think you are. No one is separate, and so no one is sick.
  • The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.
  • When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself … for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
  • An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines which the course sets forth.
  • If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes that it does not possess, and crowd it with images that do not exist.
  • There is no order of difficulty in miracles. One is not ‘harder’ or ‘bigger’ than another. They are all the same. All expressions of love are maximal.
  • Sickness is idolatry, because it is the belief that power can be taken from you. Yet this is impossible, because you are part of God, Who is all power.
  • Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both, for they are one. yet to accept this release, the insignificance of the body must be an acceptable idea.
  • I am the light of the world. Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world. The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.
  • You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is.
  • Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal.
  • Only your mind can produce fear. It does so whenever it is conflicted in what it wants, producing inevitable strain because wanting and doing are discordant.
  • Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
  • You need do so little because your little part is so powerful that it will bring the whole to you. Accept, then, your little part, and let the whole be yours.
  • What is the single requisite for this shift in perception? It is simply this; the recognition that sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with the body.
  • Good teachers never terrorize their students. To terrorize is to attack, and this results in rejection of what the teacher offers. The result is learning failure.
  • Judgment and love are opposites. From one comes all the sorrows of the world. From the other comes the peace of God. Judgment will bind my eyes and make me blind.
  • True denial is a powerful protective device. You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you. This kind of denial is not a concealment but a correction.
  • Consciousness is the state that induces action, though it does not inspire it. You are free to believe what you choose, and what you do attests to what you believe.
  • Healing is of God in the end. The means are being carefully explained to you. Revelation may occasionally reveal the end to you, but to reach it the means are needed.
  • Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, There there is not perfect love. But: Only perfect love exists. If there is fear, It produces a state that does not exist.
  • You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, and so you seek without for what you cannot find within.
  • Prayer is the medium of miracles. It is a means of communication of the created with the Creator. Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.
  • All material means that you accept as remedies for bodily ills are restatements of magic principles. This is the first step in believing that the body makes its own illness.
  • God knows His children with perfect certainty. He created them by knowing them. He recognizes them perfectly. When they do not recognize each other, they do not recognize Him.
  • Prayer is a way of asking for something. It is the medium of miracles. But the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness, because those who have been forgiven have everything.
  • Health is seen as the natural state of everything when interpretation is left to the Holy Spirit. Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly.
  • Nothing and everything cannot coexist. To believe in one is to deny the other. Fear is really nothing and love is everything. Whenever light enters darkness, the darkness is abolished.
  • Whenever your thoughts wander, enter with Him into a holy instant, and there let Him release you. He needs only your willingness to share His perspective to give it to you completely.
  • Attempting the mastery of fear is useless. In fact, it asserts the power of fear by the very assumption that it need be mastered. The true resolution rests entirely on mastery through love.
  • Miracles are associated with fear only because of the belief that darkness can hide. You believe that what your physical eyes cannot see does not exist. This leads to a denial of spiritual sight.
  • No one who hates but is afraid of love, and therefore must be afraid of God. He knows not what love means, he fears to love and loves to hate, and so he thinks that love is fearful, hate is love.
  • You are not alone. No one who calls on Him can call in vain. Whatever troubles you, be certain that He has the answer, and will gladly give it to you, if you simply turn to Him and ask it of Him.
  • Be not afraid. We only start again an ancient journey long ago begun that but seems new. We have begun again upon a road we travelled on before and lost our way a little while. And now we try again.
  • The guiltless mind cannot suffer. Being sane, the mind heals the body because it has been healed. The sane mind cannot conceive of illness because it cannot conceive of attacking anyone or anything.
  • Whenever you see another as limited to or by the body, you are imposing this limit on yourself. Are you willing to accept this, when your whole purpose for learning should be to escape from limitations?
  • If you identify with the ego, you must perceive yourself as guilty. Whenever you respond to your ego you will experience guilt, and you will fear punishment. The ego is quite literally a fearful thought.
  • The first corrective step in undoing the error is to know first that the conflict is an expression of fear. Say to yourself that you must somehow have chosen not to love, or the fear could not have arisen.
  • Like any communication medium, the body receives and sends the messages that it is given. It has no feeling for them. All of the feeling with which they are invested is given by the sender and the receiver.
  • When you limit yourself we are not of one mind, and that is sickness. Yet sickness is not of the body, but of the mind. All forms of sickness are signs that the mind is split, and does not accept unified purpose.
  • This course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance.
  • When you are afraid of anything, you are acknowledging its power to hurt you. Remember that where your heart is, there is your treasure also. You believe in what you value. If you are afraid, you are valuing wrongly.
  • Look up and see His Word among the stars, where He has set your Name along with His. Look up and find your certain destiny the world would hide but God would have you see. C-ep.. Let us wait here in silence, and kneel
  • He will not withhold all answers that you need for anything that seems to trouble you. He knows the way to solve all problems, and resolve all doubts. His certainty is yours. You need but ask it of Him, and it will be given you.
  • Innocence is not a partial attribute. It is not real until it is total. The partly innocent are apt to be quite foolish at times. It is not until their innocence become a viewpoint with universal application that it becomes wisdom.
  • All aspects of fear are untrue because they do not exist at the creative level, and therefore do not exist at all. To whatever extent you are willing to submit your beliefs to this test, to that extent are your perceptions corrected.
  • It is essential to remember that only the mind can create, and that correction beings at the thought level… spirit is already perfect and therefore does not require correction. The body does not exist except as a learning device for the mind.
  • Whatever is true is eternal, and cannot change or be changed. Spirit is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect, but the mind can elect what it chooses to serve. The only limit put on its choice is that it cannot serve two masters.
  • You have been fearful of everyone and everything. You are afraid of God, of me and of yourself. You have misperceived or mistreated Us, and believe in what you have made. You would not have done this if you were not afraid of your own thoughts.
  • You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
  • There is no one who does not feel that he is imprisoned in some way. If this is the result of his own free will he must regard his will as not free, or the circular reasoning in this position would be quite apparent. Free will must lead to freedom.
  • The holy ones whom God gave you to save are everyone you meet or look upon, not knowing who they are, all those you saw an instant and forgot, and those you knew a long while since, and those you will meet yet, the unremembered and the not yet born.
  • The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. It will not endure. But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one.
  • Learning itself, like the classrooms in which it occurs, is temporary. The ability to learn has no value when change is no longer necessary. The eternally creative have nothing to learn… Only while there is a belief in differences is learning meaningful.
  • Forget not the Kingdom of God for anything the world has to offer. The world can add nothing to the power and the glory of God and His holy Sons, but it can blind the Sons to the Father if they behold it. You  cannot behold the world and know God.  Only one is true.
  • Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, Then there is not perfect love. But: Only perfect love exists. If there is fear, It produces a state that does not exist. Believe this and you will be free. Only God can establish this solution, and this faith is His gift.
  • Miracles honor you because you are lovable. They dispel illusions about yourself and perceive the light in you. They thus atone for your errors by freeing you from your nightmares. By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity.
  • In the creation, God extended to Himself to His creations and imbued them with the same loving Will to create. You have not only been fully created, but have also been created perfect. There is no emptiness in you. Because of your likeness to your Creator you are creative.
  • Darkness is lack of light as sin is lack of love. It has no unique properties of its own. It is an example of the scarcity belief, from which only error can proceed. Truth is always abundant. Those who perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no needs of any kind.
  • Confidence cannot develop fully until mastery has been accomplished Readiness is only the beginning of confidence. You may think this implies that an enormous amount of time is necessary between readiness and mastery, but let me remind you that time and space are under my control.
  • Darkness is a lack of light as sin is lack of love. It has no unique properties of its own. It is an example of the scarcity belief, from which only error can proceed. Truth is always abundant. Those who perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no needs of any kind.
  • One Child of God is the only teacher sufficiently worthy to teach another. One Teacher is in all your minds, and He teaches the same lesson to all. He always teaches you the inestimable worth of every Son of God, teaching it with infinite patience born of the infinite love for which he speaks.
  • What is seen in dreams seems to be very real. Yet the Bible says that a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and nowhere is there reference to his waking up. The world has not yet experienced any comprehensive reawakening or rebirth. Such a rebirth is impossible as long as you continue to project or miscreate.
  • Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death yourself, and can therefore abolish both. You are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of your Creator. Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist. Only the creations of light are real.
  • If you attack error in another, you will hurt yourself. You cannot know your brother when you attack him. Attack is always made upon a stranger. You are making him a stranger by misperceiving him, and so you cannot know him. It is because you have made him a stranger that you are afraid of him. There are no strangers in God’s creation.
  • No one can die unless he chooses death. What seems to be the fear of death is really its attraction. Guilt, too, is feared and fearful, yet it could have no hold at all except on those who are attracted to it and seek it out. And so it is with death, made by the ego, its dark shadow falls across all living things, because the ego is the ‘enemy’ of life.
  • You do not need God’s blessing since that you have forever, but you do need yours. The picture you see of yourselves is deprived, unloving, and very vulnerable. You cannot love this. Yet you can very easily escape from it or better, leave it behind. You are not there, and that is not you. Do not see this picture in anyone, or you have accepted it as you.
  • Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven because that is where the laws of God operate truly, and they can operate only truly since they are the laws of Truth. But seek this only because you can find nothing else. There is nothing else. God is all in all in a very literal sense. All being is in Him who is all Being. You are therefore in Him since your being is His.
  • These patients do not realize they have chosen sickness. On the contrary, they believe that sickness has chosen them. Nor are they open-minded on this point. The body tells them what to do and they obey. They have no idea how insane this concept is. If they even suspected it, they would be healed. Yet they suspect nothing. To them the separation is quite real.
  • Glory be to God in the highest and to you because He has so willed it. Ask and it shall be give you because it has already been given. Ask for light and learn that you are light. If you want understanding and enlightenment, you will learn it because your will to learn it is your decisions to listen to the Teacher who knows of light and can therefore teach it to you.
  • Some miracles may seem to be of greater magnitude than others. But remember the first principle of the course; there is no order of difficulty in miracles. In reality you are perfectly unaffected by all expressions of lack of love. These can be from yourself and others, from yourself to others, or from others to you. Peace is an attribute in you. You cannot find it outside.
  • Because God’s equal Songs have everything, they cannot compete. Yet if they perceive any of their brothers as anything other than their perfect equals, the idea of competition has entered minds. Do not underestimate your need to be vigilant against this idea, because all your conflicts come from it. It is the belief that conflicting interests are possible, and therefore you have accepted the impossible as true.
  • The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever. It is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed. Truth can only be experienced. It cannot be described and it cannot be explained. I can make you aware of the conditions of truth, but the experience is of God. Together we can meet its conditions, but truth will dawn upon you of itself.
  • Healing only strengthens. Magic always tries to weaken. Healing perceives nothing in the healer that everyone else does not share with him. Magic always sees something special in the healer which he believes he can offer as a gift to someone who does not have it. He may believe that the gift comes from God to Him, but it is quite evident that he does not understand God if he things he has something that others lack.
  • Sometimes the illness has a sufficiently strong hold over the mind to render a person temporarily inaccessible to the Atonement. In this case it may be wise to utilize a compromise approach to the mind and body, in which something from the outside is temporarily given healing belief. This is because the last thing that can help the non-rightminded, or the sick, is an increase in fear. They are already in a fear-weakened state.
  • When I [Jesus] said, I am with you always, I meant it literally. I am not absent to anyone in any situation. Because I am always with you, you are the way and the truth and the light. You did not make this power, any more than I did. It was created to be shared and therefore cannot be meaningfully perceived as belonging to anyone at the expense of another. Such a perception makes it meaningless by eliminating or overlooking its real and only meaning.
  • Who is the physician? Only the mind of the patient himself. The outcome is what he decides that it is. Special agents seem to be ministering to him, yet they but give form to his own choice. He chooses them in order to bring tangible form to his desires. And it is this they do, and nothing else. They are not actually needed at all. The patient could merely rise up without their aid and say, ‘I have no use for this.’ There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once.
  • Tolerance for pain may be high, but it is not without limit. Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way. As this recognition becomes more firmly established, it becomes a turning point. This ultimately reawakens spiritual vision, simultaneously weakening the investment in physical sight.The alternating investment in the two levels of perception is usually experienced as conflict, which can become very acute. But the outcome is as certain as God.
  • When a brother is sick it is because he is not asking for peace, and therefore does not know he has it. The acceptance of peace is the denial of illusion, and sickness is an illusion. Yet every Son of God has the power to deny illusions anywhere in the Kingdom, merely by denying them completely in himself. I can heal you because I know you. I know your value for you, and it is this value that makes you whole. A whole mind is not idolatrous, and does not know of conflicting law. I will heal you merely because I have only one message, and it is true. Your faith in it will make you whole when you have faith in me.
  • Whatever you accept into your mind has reality for you. It is your acceptance of it that makes it real. If you enthrone the ego in your mind, your allowing it to enter makes it your reality.This is because the mind is capable of creating reality or making illusions. I said before that you must learn to think with God. To think with Him is to think like HIm. This engenders joy, not guilt, because it is natural. Guilt is a sure sign that your thinking is unnatural. Unnatural thinking will always be attending with guilt, because it is the belief in sin. The ego does not perceive sin as a lack of love, but as a positive act of assault.
  • Few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. However, if you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize, and realize fully. The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you not believe it. You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them… There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.