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machinations (1)

C:2.19 Until you are what you have learned, you leave room for the ego’s  machinations. Once you are what you have learned, there is no room in

machinery (1)

T3:8.11 was looked for were means of making life easier, why not the idea of  machinery and tools that would seem to do so? If what was looked for

machines (1)

D:15.13 like trying to catch the wind. But just as the wind can power many  machines endlessly when it is allowed pass-through, so too can spirit

mad (3)

C:9.33 has no use for time. Time too is of your making, an idea of use gone  mad, as once again you have taken something made for your own use and
C:14.12 magnifying glass that will allow you to see your world in all its  mad confusion. For what caused you such great joy seemed to come at
T3:9.1 it is its very sense that makes it seem meaningless in a world gone  mad. It is an idea that says only that which comes from love is real.

made (325)

C:P.8 The ego is what you  made. Christ is what God made. The ego is your extension of who you
C:P.8 The ego is what you made. Christ is what God  made. The ego is your extension of who you think you are. Christ is
C:P.14 have not awakened but still are caught in the nightmare your ego has  made. By choosing to reject yourself you have chosen to try to make
C:P.16 you, and choosing it instead. You do not see that this choice, even  made with every good intention of going back and making a difference,
C:P.18 you to do. Who you think you are reveals the choice that you have  made. It is either a choice to be separate from God or a choice to be
C:P.19 often fail to come to be at all, and why, when every effort has been  made, the outcome seldom seems worth the effort. You cannot earn your
C:P.24 room for strength, a strength that entered as if by a little hole  made in your ego’s armor, a strength that grows, and grows impatient
C:P.28 Just as there is part of you that thinks that you are undeserving and  made for suffering and strife, there is another part of you that
C:P.31 them. God gave you the Word to know him by. God gave you the Word  made flesh as an example to live by—an example of a living God.
C:P.35 rather than a false picture of power. Before the coming of the word  made flesh, the incarnation, the only idea humankind could draw of an
C:P.39 The Christ in you is your shared identity. This shared identity  made Jesus one with Christ. The two names mean the same thing, as
C:1.2 of the body is the altar at which all your offerings to God are  made. All offerings are love or lack of love. Lack of love is
C:1.2 love or lack of love. Lack of love is nothing. Thus, all offerings  made from a place other than love are nothing. All offerings made
C:1.2 made from a place other than love are nothing. All offerings  made from a place of fear or guilt are nothing.
C:1.15 This is what you have  made this world for: to prove your separate existence in a world
C:1.18 A choice for fear creates fear. What choice do you think has been  made to create the world you call your home? This world was created
C:2.5 If love cannot be taught but only recognized, how is this recognition  made possible? Through love’s effects. For cause and effect are one.
C:2.9 insanity of your thought process and the world you perceive must be  made known to you before you are willing to give it up. You do know
C:2.11 Compassion is not what you have  made of it. The Bible instructs you to be compassionate as God is
C:2.16 things separate are but a re-enactment of the original separation  made to convince yourself that the separation actually occurred.
C:2.17 it is the stronghold of the ego. Your thought system is what has  made the world you see, the ego its constant companion in its
C:2.19 Just as the Holy Spirit can use what the ego has  made, the ego can use what the mind has learned but has not
C:2.19 no room in which the ego can exist and, banished from the home you  made for it, it slowly dies. Until this happens, the ego takes pride
C:3.21 Think not that these are senseless questions,  made to bring love and pain together and there to leave you unaided
C:4.8 driving force, the chosen passion—all these things that you have  made to replace what you already have will lead you back as surely as
C:4.8 you back as surely as they can lead you astray. Where what you have  made will lead rests only on your decision. Your decision, couched in
C:4.10 not so. This seeming illusion is believed in because your mind has  made it so. Your thoughts have reviewed and reviewed again all the
C:4.19 what love is protect what you call love from the illusions you have  made.
C:4.20 world, from that which is, in fact, the sum total of what you have  made. The world you struggle so to navigate is what you have made it,
C:4.20 have made. The world you struggle so to navigate is what you have  made it, a place where love fits not and enters not in truth. But
C:4.20 not, and so you too must have no place in this world that you have  made but must have another where you are at home and can abide within
C:4.21 The lucky ones among you have  made a place resembling home within your world. It is where you keep
C:4.21 is where you return after your forays into the world that you have  made and upon entering believe you leave the world’s madness outside
C:4.21 You spend your life intent upon retiring to this safe place you have  made of love in a world of madness, and hope that you will live to
C:4.22 into the madness to take responsibility for the mess that has been  made, to attempt to restore order to chaos, anything so that the
C:4.25 Take all the images of love set apart that you have  made and extend them outside love’s doors. What difference would a
C:5.10 apart from all the rest, for with understanding, these urges can be  made to make sense. With understanding they can begin to bring sanity
C:5.15 This is all the two worlds are  made up of. The one you see as real is the one you keep outside of
C:5.16 most sense. It is where your values are formed, your decisions are  made, your safety found. This comparison is not idly drawn. Your home
C:5.16 Your home is within and it is real, as real as the home you have  made within the world seems to be. You can say the real world is
C:5.19 There is nothing in your world that cannot be  made holy through relationship with you, for you are holiness itself.
C:5.22 want to admit that you cannot get there on your own. You thus have  made of life a test, believing that you can pass or fail through your
C:5.22 part, is seen to be of little value. The individual, you reason, is  made through all this effort and struggle and without it would not
C:5.23 your faith in your own ability to maneuver this world that you have  made; and if you finally do succeed, your faith is seen as justified.
C:5.29 These do not have to be two separate things, but are  made so by your choice, the choice to achieve what you will on your
C:6.4 whole is no longer disputed even by science. What you have  made to hide your reality has been, with the help of the Holy Spirit,
C:6.13 and succeed to struggle yet another day” is the life you have  made, and the life you fear heaven would replace. To give up the idea
C:7.1 of life,” you wail. Your mind dwells in a world of its own  made up largely of if onlys. Your heart, on the other hand, knows of
C:7.9 You keep yourself separate from the world. This is what has  made the world the world it is. What you withhold allows illusion to
C:8.5 you have seen again and yet again, the Holy Spirit can use what you  made for a higher purpose when your purpose is in union with that of
C:8.15 and nor do you. Separate bodies cannot unite in wholeness. They were  made to keep wholeness from you and to convince you of the illusion
C:9.2 now how like to creation in form if not in substance what you have  made is. Creation needs no protection. It is only your belief in the
C:9.7 The body could not help but be thus, as it was  made with dual purposes in mind. It was made to make real and then
C:9.7 help but be thus, as it was made with dual purposes in mind. It was  made to make real and then glorify a separated self, and it was made
C:9.7 was made to make real and then glorify a separated self, and it was  made to punish that separated self for the separation. Its creator
C:9.8 with which you started. In other words, you took what you are and  made this of yourself. You did not create something from nothing and
C:9.8 choice set before you—to go on believing in the illusion you have  made, or to begin to see the truth.
C:9.9 Now you seek to know how to escape what you have  made. To do so you must withdraw all faith from it. This you are not
C:9.10 would use it for. What God created cannot be used, but what you have  made can, for its only purpose is your use. Choose to use it now to
C:9.11 remains split. Until you have withdrawn all faith in what you have  made, you will believe that what you made remains useful to you.
C:9.11 all faith in what you have made, you will believe that what you  made remains useful to you. Since this is the case, and since it
C:9.11 yet complete—we will, instead of trying to ignore what you have  made, use it in a new way. Keep in mind, however, that we are merely
C:9.14 step behind fear, in your battle to control or protect what you have  made.
C:9.18 see that when you chose to make yourself separate and alone you also  made the choice for fear? Fear is nothing but a choice, and it can be
C:9.19 is no cause for fear. Age has not taken fear from any of you nor  made your dream of life any less of a nightmare. Yet you spare few
C:9.26 Like everything else you have remembered of creation and  made in its image, so too is this. While making yourself separate and
C:9.26 too is this. While making yourself separate and alone you have also  made it necessary to be in relationship to survive. Without
C:9.26 only means to grasp eternity even within this false reality you have  made.
C:9.30 happens, an automobile cannot be seen to be at fault for mistakes  made by its user. Yet in a way this exchange of roles is similar to
C:9.30 guilt in an attempt to place your guilt outside yourself. “My body  made me do it” is like the cry of the child with an imaginary friend.
C:9.32 You learn your concept of using others from the reality you have  made in which you use the body that you call your home and identify
C:9.33 an idea of use gone mad, as once again you have taken something  made for your own use and allowed it to become the user. With your
C:9.33 you give away all your happiness and power to that which you have  made! It matters little now that in so doing you once again imitated
C:9.33 it truly is. Your body has no use for your power, and time was not  made for happiness.
C:9.41 in the race was but the required offering to the idol you have  made. And at some point, when you can run the race no more, you bow
C:9.45 The Holy Spirit can guide you to use the things that you have  made in ways that benefit the whole, and this is the distinction
C:9.45 and your abdication of your power to the things that you have  made.
C:10.1 the other, because the choice is the same. The body is a tool  made for your use in maintaining the illusion of your separation.
C:10.1 this were true, much power indeed would it wield. But what you have  made cannot be invested with the power of creation without your
C:10.3 All things exist in wholeness, including the thought system that you  made to protect the illusion you hold so dear. Your thought system is
C:10.5 and other seeming maladies. This is the separated self that you have  made calling you back to the body to prove to you that it is
C:10.16 the body does not exist, only that it is not you. Like all tools you  made, it is illusion because you have no need of tools. But while you
C:10.16 is that your body is seen as what it is—both in terms of what you  made it for and in terms of the way in which you can now be guided to
C:10.20 at least briefly, why the choice for practicality needed to be  made. Yet if the separated self can look back and see that it chose
C:10.32 missed and longed for and safe and loved. A little peace has been  made room for in the house of your insanity.
C:11.2 too seldom remember even that you are not your own creator. You have  made this separation based on the idea that what created you cannot
C:11.6 faith in something new. You have placed your faith in what you have  made, and while it remains there you remain unwilling to relinquish
C:11.6 of creation and is based on union. Your faith in what you have  made has been shaken now, and you realize you would like to place
C:11.8 Your free will you guard most closely, knowing this is what  made the separation possible. You regard it as your one protection
C:11.14 is in your own mind, and it is a figment of the illusions you have  made. Let this prophecy you have made go, and realize that
C:11.14 a figment of the illusions you have made. Let this prophecy you have  made go, and realize that willingness does not negate free will. Yet
C:12.8 merely seeks to remove all the changes you but think that you have  made to God’s creation. This change seeks but to restore you to your
C:12.14 and all that is in need of your acceptance. Join your brother who  made this choice for all, and you are reunited with the Christ in you.
C:12.15 saying is that at some point that does not exist in time, God’s son  made the choice for separation. Whether God’s son had one form or
C:12.16 but symbols representing ideas that represent what is. That you have  made of the Father a singular figure, somehow greater than the Son,
C:12.16 cannot fully explain what cannot be symbolized, a beginning is  made that must be completed through the memories of your heart. So we
C:12.25 and as holy as is he. The idea of separation only seems to have  made God’s son susceptible to division, and these word symbols are
C:13.10 thing you value. And there is not even the slightest chance of being  made to look foolish by what you are asked to do.
C:14.1 are within God’s creation, rather than in the world that you have  made. Think but a minute of this, and you will begin to see the
C:14.2 Is it not true that you have  made an enemy of creation? Do you feel part of it and at one with all
C:14.2 you feel part of it and at one with all within it? If not, you have  made yourself creation’s enemy. You seek to be different from all the
C:14.4 He created, then would you be vindicated and the purpose of your war  made holy. You would be proven right and creation wrong.
C:14.7 You who have  made a god of reason and of intellect, think carefully now of what
C:14.7 think carefully now of what your reason and your intellect have  made for you. How terrible would it really be to realize that
C:14.7 although you have tried mightily, a creation such as this cannot be  made to make any sense at all? Those who have turned their backs on
C:14.12 that reveals much to you about yourself and the world you have  made if you are but willing to look at it with eyes that truly see.
C:14.20 alleviate the fear with official commitments, pledges and promises  made. Others may deny their fear, and say they trust in what they
C:14.23 Heaven can only be  made to seem to fit your goal of separation, and the same is true of
C:15.4 they. If within the small sphere of those they love they cannot be  made to feel special—and you along with them—then what is the
C:15.4 point of being here at all? For this is indeed the point you have  made of your life.
C:15.8 change seems to question your loyalty to others and all choices are  made with this loyalty in mind. Loyalty stems here from your faith in
C:15.9 your group but to humanity itself. Despite the many ills that have  made you and those you love suffer, to call into question humanity’s
C:15.12 nor one that is in truth yours alone to make. This choice cannot be  made without your brother and is indeed your brother’s holy choice,
C:16.5 judgment does to all of you who believe that what is the same can be  made different. This is as true of the love you reserve for special
C:16.11 you that love does not judge, and only your split mind that has  made of this memory what will serve its purpose. What it calls a
C:16.16 Your judgment has not  made the world a better place! If history proves anything, it proves
C:16.17 But the child is wrong. The child has  made a mistake. And with this mistake, the child believes that the
C:16.17 out as being. It no longer seems like a choice that the child has  made, but seems to be an irreparable rift that a new choice cannot
C:16.19 the punishment of those you have defined as evil. You have thus  made justice one with vengeance, and in doing so have robbed justice
C:17.10 Sin is simply the belief that correction cannot be  made. This is the mistake that has happened in creation. This is how
C:17.10 If you were not so determined to believe correction cannot be  made, correction would have occurred. This is the original error that
C:18.4 done. You think that you have changed the nature of the universe and  made it possible for life to exist separately and alone with no
C:18.9 of this condition you wished to experience. This condition was thus  made available.
C:18.23 Determination of pleasure and pain is  made with the judgment of the separated self who not only believes it
C:19.1 created. The problem lies in what you have, in your forgetfulness,  made of the body. Only from thinking of the body as yourself did
C:19.4 are still needed here. Beneath the world of illusion that you have  made to glorify the separated self lies the world that was created
C:19.18 praying is asking. You but asked for your separated state and it was  made so. Now you need to but ask for unity to return for it to be so.
C:19.24 until you see clearly. One purpose of the distinctions you have  made between mind and heart are their ability to keep one part of
C:22.17 You have  made of yourself a laboratory where you bring everything for
C:25.5 is fear, love is hidden. Love is rejected when a choice for fear is  made. You cannot be without love, but you can reject love. When you
C:25.16 This first joining is a choice  made from love without regard for the personal self. You begin to
C:25.22 during this time. You must realize decisions and choices are  made by relying upon the very lessons you are in the process of
C:25.22 same time, however, decisions and choices will seem to need to be  made with increasing frequency. Your feeling of needing to make new
C:26.3 of tragedy in life occurs only when the observation is also  made of the greatness, the glory, in the life. Without the
C:27.15 notions of others, the previous judgments your mind once  made and relies upon out of habit, or your considerations of what the
C:29.10 go together. In many cultures has work thus been glorified and  made to seem as if it is the proper use of a life. And yet, as your
C:29.16 The separation but accentuated this manner of functioning and  made of it something difficult and challenging, something to be
C:29.16 changed. The separation accentuated this manner of functioning and  made of it, as of the rest of creation, something that it is not. The
C:29.16 occurs. The replacement of the idea of service with the idea of use  made for the existence of special relationships. The idea of use
C:30.11 then that.” It rules the nature of your existence because you have  made it ruler by abandoning the laws of God.
C:30.13 you thus your heart? Or can you not see that the created form was  made in God’s own image, as was all creation. You are God’s image
C:31.2 are what A Course in Miracles calls body thoughts. Distinctions are  made in many religions and philosophies that separate thought—as
C:31.2 of the true Self. This is the clarification that needs to be  made for some of you to fully let go of your fear of the shared
C:31.9 and Created. Being part of the whole that is your known universe has  made you and no other being less consequential. All over the world
C:31.35 of mind into a realm in which experience can occur. Your ego has  made of this something different than it is. Rather than extension of
T1:3.24 See you not the choices  made in each of these scenarios and the reasoning or lack of
T1:4.3 the same. This should serve to make it clear that the request I have  made of you is once again far more broad and generalizable than your
T1:4.26 God is nothing but the Source of Love, you have, in your doubt,  made of God the source of fear. Pause a moment here and let the
T1:5.3 is of what it was I spoke. The choice for suffering that has been  made within the human condition is what I speak of specifically here.
T1:5.3 the illusion of suffering has continued and in its continuation  made the choice of Love seem all but impossible. If not for the
T1:5.3 that you see all around you, the choice for Love would have been  made. If the choice for Love had been made, the suffering you see
T1:5.3 for Love would have been made. If the choice for Love had been  made, the suffering you see around you would be no more. This is the
T1:5.6 here nor there feel completely real to you. The lucky among you have  made of this in-between place an adventure, and are happy in your
T1:8.5 will seem confusing given your definition of incarnation as the Word  made flesh. You took this to mean that flesh took on the definition
T1:8.5 Am, the Word is Life Eternal. My resurrection brought about the Word  made flesh in each of you. You who have come after me are not as I
T1:8.10 flesh through union. That you have, in your version of creation,  made it necessary for woman to join with man in order for new life to
T1:8.10 forth, is but another example of how your memory of creation was  made to serve what you would have come to be. The separated self
T1:9.12 intellectual. This instinctual turning toward an opposite has been  made to serve you through the intercession of the Holy Spirit. In
T1:10.8 This is what has been meant by the many references that have been  made to God not seeing suffering. God exists with you in peace. When
T2:4.16 You are in the process of unmaking what you have  made. The old structure is coming down so that the new, what might be
T2:6.9 you believe you replaced what was already accomplished with what you  made. This is what is happening as you unlearn and learn in unison.
T2:6.10 —even within form—as the only Son of God, the Christ, the word  made flesh. Remember that the phrase, the Son of God, and the name
T2:11.7 all that is real is shared does the ego lose its power. The ego was  made from the belief in separation and all that followed from it.
T2:12.1 are thoughts and I am the corrector of false thinking. You have been  made ready for this correction and your belief in correction, or
T2:13.2 Now that you have been  made ready, I am ready to return you to your Self. Now that you have
T2:13.2 ready, I am ready to return you to your Self. Now that you have been  made ready, it is time for us to have a personal relationship. We
T3:1.6 your life representing the ego have but given a face to illusion and  made it seem real. When I say that you have represented the ego, what
T3:1.11 was a self who existed in time, a self who believed that the past  made up the self of the present and that the self of the present made
T3:1.11 made up the self of the present and that the self of the present  made up the self of the future. The personal self you presented to
T3:2.3 it has not been said that this choice was the choice it has been  made to seem. You chose to represent yourself in a new way, to
T3:2.4 spent within this Course, discussing the choice you but think you  made, this discussion was necessary only in the same terms that made
T3:2.4 you made, this discussion was necessary only in the same terms that  made it necessary to thoroughly discuss the ego’s thought system.
T3:2.11 within your heart and has the ability to turn the image you have  made into a reflection of the love that abides with it in holiness
T3:3.2 seen as making you loveable or unlovable. Yet you have also often  made them challenges to love, saying in effect to those who love you,
T3:4.4 The ego  made such ideas necessary for the idea of the ego was “wrong” or
T3:4.5 a foundation that would not support it was the folly that the ego  made of life. The only way for such an error to be seen as an error
T3:5.1 be feared. Yet it is this fear of emptiness that has, in the past,  made those who have experienced it rush to find the easiest and most
T3:6.1 of your mother and father, this notion of yourself as child has not  made you cling to a childish image of yourself as less than what your
T3:6.6 choice. The time of tenderness began your release of bitterness and  made you ready for this choice. Choose now to leave your desire for
T3:7.5 The only thing within the human experience that  made you incapable of representing who you are in truth was the ego.
T3:8.5 that you, and all of those who came before you, have been falsely  made to suffer, a suffering for which you see no rationale. Those who
T3:8.5 beliefs regarding choice and believe that choices for suffering were  made for some greater good or to repay debts of the past. The only
T3:8.5 good or to repay debts of the past. The only choice that has been  made is that of attachment to the human form as the self. The choice
T3:8.5 to the human form as the self. The choice that hasn’t been  made is the choice to leave this idea behind. The choice that has
T3:8.5 is the choice to leave this idea behind. The choice that has been  made is to believe in a savior who could have, but did not, keep you
T3:8.5 did not, keep you from this suffering. The choice that has not been  made is the choice to believe in the Christ-Self who is the only
T3:9.6 Survivors of near death experiences have eased the fears of many but  made many more long for life after death rather than life. You who
T3:11.15 way to your brothers and sisters as well. Never forget that what was  made for your use can be used in a new way and to produce a new
T3:12.8 Let’s return a moment to the choice that was  made for the human experience, the choice to express who you are in
T3:12.8 You were not “better” or more “right” before this choice was  made than you are now. You made a choice consistent with the laws of
T3:12.8 or more “right” before this choice was made than you are now. You  made a choice consistent with the laws of creation and the steps of
T3:12.8 The choice to express who you are in physical terms was not a choice  made of fear but made of love. A physical self is not inconsistent
T3:12.8 who you are in physical terms was not a choice made of fear but  made of love. A physical self is not inconsistent with the laws of
T3:12.9 and believed itself to be separate and alone. In its fear, it  made an ego-self which, because it sprang from fear, was not
T3:12.9 it existed in a state inconsistent with that of the laws of God, it  made of God a being to be feared, thus continuing, and being unable
T3:13.4 Broad brushstrokes have been  made now, giving you the beginnings of a vision of a life in physical
T3:13.4 the very temptations we are beginning to lay out. Because you have  made these things that would but seem to tempt you, you have believed
T3:13.5 cost of pain. You have believed in the laws of man, laws that were  made to perpetuate the idea that you must pay for everything, or earn
T3:14.1 The death of the ego thought system has  made way for the birth of the thought system of the truth. The
T3:14.9 clearly see all of the choices that throughout your life have been  made in love and made of you a person you would not be other than.
T3:14.9 of the choices that throughout your life have been made in love and  made of you a person you would not be other than. You will also
T3:16.1 make to God. You need make no other offerings. No sacrifices need be  made and sacrifices are, in truth, unacceptable to God. You are asked
T3:16.3 effort of the ego has not brought an end to suffering or strife, nor  made of this illusion a happy dream.
T3:16.16 encompassing. Nothing but the truth is all encompassing. Illusion is  made of parts that do not form real connections but that only seem to
T3:16.17 you, even unto encompassing the house of illusion that you  made to obscure it from yourself.
T3:17.5 learn the untrue, a new self, which we have called the ego-self, was  made. Since the ego-self cannot learn the true, your true Self had to
T3:18.3 will take place. This is the perfect example of using what you have  made for a new purpose. It is the perfect ending for the desired
T3:19.4 now dispel this link. The physical form has been blamed for choices  made from lust and greed, hate and fear, vengeance and retribution.
T3:19.8 There is only one distinction that need be  made: what comes of love and what comes of fear. All expressions of
T3:20.1 was wasted on illusion and so but seemed to become a master that  made of you a slave. Now time must be thought of in a new way, a way
T3:20.2 Although there was no sense to be  made of concepts such as more or less within illusion, and although
T3:20.2 or less are concepts also foreign to the truth, there is sense to be  made from these concepts in regards to the learning of the truth. As
T4:1.8 of teaching what is relevant no longer works. It may be a choice  made regarding means or content, a choice made from fear or made from
T4:1.8 works. It may be a choice made regarding means or content, a choice  made from fear or made from love. But there is, in other words, no
T4:1.8 a choice made regarding means or content, a choice made from fear or  made from love. But there is, in other words, no lack of choice. A
T4:1.8 But there is, in other words, no lack of choice. A choice is always  made. A choice to accept or reject, say yes or say no, to learn this
T4:1.9 “uneducated” choice. Many of you may look back on choices that you  made and say, “I would have chosen differently if I had but known”
T4:2.8 and when you continue to believe in a process of evolution that has  made you better than those who came before, you are carrying
T4:3.6 that it was your nature to be separate and alone and thus fearful,  made relationships fearful as well. Trust became something to be
T4:5.3 The many forms are  made one body through Christ-consciousness. The one body is one
T4:5.12 Because you have now  made a new choice, a collective choice as one body, one
T4:8.1 You are now beginning to be able to understand that it was God who  made this choice. This was the Creator making a choice. Creation’s
T4:8.2 be ready to hear that you and God are the same. That when I say “God  made a choice” I am not saying that you did not. I am saying that a
T4:8.2 I am not saying that you did not. I am saying that a choice was  made within the one mind, the one heart, and that this was your
T4:8.2 that this was your choice as well as God’s choice. It was one choice  made in unity. It was the choice of all for life everlasting and life
T4:8.14 It was only the ego that  made this desire seem to be for anything other than the purpose of
T4:9.6 accept this lack of fulfillment of a promise that has surely been  made! Rejoice that the new time is here and be ready to embrace it as
T4:9.7 necessary. Only by centering your study upon yourself have you been  made ready finally to be loosed of the bounds of the personal self.
T4:9.9 of the same may find it difficult to leave it behind. A choice  made by you to stay with learning rather than to move beyond it would
T4:11.1 would not be predictive. Many predictions of the future have been  made, and many of them have been called prophecy. But the future is
T4:12.25 anointing, this passage. And leave it behind. Realize that it has  made you new. Rejoice and be glad and turn your attention to the new.
D:4.2 differences you saw during the time of learning, differences that  made you feel as if each being stood separate and alone, you are now
D:4.8 those who actually are incarcerated in the prison system you have  made are free to follow an internally structured life to a greater
D:4.12 Divine patterns are the patterns that  made your existence in form possible as well as the patterns that
D:4.12 your existence in form possible as well as the patterns that have  made your return to your true identity possible. These patterns are
D:4.16 thought pattern came most of your false ideas, ideas that  made it difficult even for the divinely inspired thought systems to
D:5.13 What was  made of what was created in order to serve the ego will cease to be,
D:5.13 and define the differences between what was created and what was  made would be to create a tome of information, and this is not needed
D:6.6 exists in form is of the same Source. Even those things you have  made you have not made from nothing. There is not one thing that you
D:6.6 is of the same Source. Even those things you have made you have not  made from nothing. There is not one thing that you have made that
D:6.6 you have not made from nothing. There is not one thing that you have  made that does not exist as some variation of what was originally
D:6.6 creation begins with what is. And so even the creations you have  made are only distinct from what was originally created in your
D:6.8 What is not real are the things that you have  made to represent what is real since you didn’t understand what it
D:6.20 and blamed for all that you do not understand, all that cannot be  made to make sense, all that seems unfair and beyond your control.
D:11.6 are, and in that state, fully accept that your contribution is being  made, will desire still be with you?
D:11.16 Do you still believe that the contribution  made by the man Jesus was an individual contribution? I tell you
D:14.5 seems to be called for, and when plans seem to need to be  made.
D:15.9 upon which the light first descended, is an interesting omission,  made by many. What were the earth and water if they were not form?
D:15.23 from which you climbed, you will be different as a result of having  made your ascent. The hard work is done. What you gain here you gain
D:17.14 are, and in that state, fully accept that your contribution is being  made, will desire still be with you?
D:Day1.6 system of the ego and the thought system of unity. This choice was  made, and thus you have arrived here and left behind the state of the
D:Day1.24 be lived to become real. You must accept me because I lived it and  made it real for you. You must accept me because I am the part of you
D:Day1.28 story. One story of one beginning. One story with many promises  made. Promises of inheritance and fulfillment, promises that give
D:Day2.23 remained. Willingness was not yet upon humankind. The choice was  made collectively to remain in illusion. The choice for continued
D:Day2.23 to remain in illusion. The choice for continued suffering was  made. And so I responded to that choice. An example of response was
D:Day2.25 could not make, the choice to end suffering. This is the choice I  made “for all.” This is a choice you make for all as well.
D:Day3.9 in terms of who “has” and who “has not,” and the world seems  made up of haves and have nots and to function in the insane way that
D:Day3.33 You might think here too that money  made from what you love to do has a different quality than money
D:Day3.35 It is only in knowing God that the relationship of abundance will be  made clear to you and break forever the chains of want.
D:Day3.50 of what you have acquired from this learning, of promises seemingly  made and not kept. Where, you may ask, is the lack of struggle that
D:Day4.20 to live by the rules it would have them obey. Much progress was  made within these institutions, but also much misleading was done.
D:Day4.39 What choice have you  made my sister and my brother, if you have not made a choice of love?
D:Day4.39 What choice have you made my sister and my brother, if you have not  made a choice of love? If you have not made the choice to reject
D:Day4.39 my brother, if you have not made a choice of love? If you have not  made the choice to reject fear? If you have not made the choice for
D:Day4.39 If you have not made the choice to reject fear? If you have not  made the choice for the new? If you are still willing to say that you
D:Day4.42 you wish to go back and tell tales of your experiences here and be  made special because of this experience you can recount?
D:Day4.45 not to difference of any kind? These are the only choices you have  made in a lifetime of endless choices. There is only one requirement
D:Day4.49 temptations of the new that I can make you aware of until you have  made your choice and have full realization of your access to unity.
D:Day5.22 what you would receive and what you would give in which the ego once  made its bid to claim ownership. Effort, as translated by the ego,
D:Day6.8 includes a choice. At some point along the way a commitment is  made between the artist and the piece of art. A commitment to see it
D:Day6.18 you feel called to make are not discouraged here. The point being  made is simply that removal from life is not possible or desirable.
D:Day8.3 to accept “normal life?” Called to accept those conditions that have  made you feel unhappy? No! You are being called to an acceptance of
D:Day8.14 You will, in fact, have returned to judgment because you will have  made a predetermination, just as in saying you do not like your job,
D:Day9.21 or gurus have no need nor desire to be seen as such and are often  made into images such as these only within the minds of those who
D:Day10.3 today, I am merely making you aware of this difference, just as I  made you aware of the difference between the states of maintenance
D:Day10.7 Or you may have doubted your intuition and had something occur that  made you think back and wish that you had not doubted it.
D:Day12.9 have no need of being deflected for their boundaries have not been  made solid by perception. A seeming obstacle of non-human form is
D:Day14.7 solidity within you. Like stones thrown into a clear pool, they  made ripples and then settled.
D:Day15.2 To inform is to make known. Thus you can be  made known by everything and everyone in creation just as everything
D:Day15.2 in creation just as everything and everyone in creation can be  made known by you. We have just spoken of the unknown and your
D:Day15.2 together in everything and everyone. Thus your willingness to be  made known and to know exists alongside your willingness to embrace
D:Day15.6 of spirit into form but the making known of spirit in form. What you  made known through judgment-free observation was but the precursor to
D:Day15.6 through judgment-free observation was but the precursor to what is  made known through informing.
D:Day15.16 Never will you feel more like an individual than when you are  made known through the informing of spirit!
D:Day15.26 As you engage in dialogue as the spacious Self and are  made known, your purpose here will become more clear. Thus your
D:Day15.26 process of individuation. The distinctness of your own path will be  made visible and you will see that it may be quite different from the
D:Day16.4 is of physical form. The rejected feelings that became physical were  made separate from the self and yet were maintained within the body,
D:Day16.10 of holding onto what you have already responded to with fear and  made separate. There is no escape for there is only the embrace. The
D:Day16.15 This became your world, which slowly grew from a world primarily  made up of paradise and love, to a world primarily made up of hell
D:Day16.15 a world primarily made up of paradise and love, to a world primarily  made up of hell and fear because as more was expelled from paradise,
D:Day17.12 Now is the time of the final revelation of what can be realized, or  made real, through following the example life of Jesus.
D:Day18.4 In other words, to choose to be an example life is to choose to be  made known by, and to, the many. It is full acceptance of the Self in
D:Day18.7 way in which you do this must be chosen, and for this choice to be  made with full consciousness, you must rely on your feelings.
D:Day18.11 known. Both ways are ways of creation. When feelings are shown, or  made visible, the new is created. This has always been the way of
D:Day19.10 and is a new pattern, a pattern of what can be imagined being  made real, not through doing, but through the creative act of
D:Day19.12 creation of the new so that the unknown is no longer unknown but  made available to be experienced.
D:Day20.9 only way that the beauty, truth, and wisdom of the One Self can be  made known, then you are the source and the power of coming to know
D:Day21.3 receiver. Thus it has always been the action of the receiver that  made learning possible. The receiver was thus also the source because
D:Day21.6 isn’t channeled to all. The old notions of teaching and learning but  made it seem as if some had more and others less. But even the
D:Day22.10 yourself as a channel through which union with God is expressed and  made real here and now. There is no other time. There is no “higher”
D:Day22.10 unknown in the way that you can express it. The unknown can only be  made known through reception and expression. Call it what you will
D:Day24.2 of creation. It does not exist only once potential is realized or  made manifest, but always in all things.
D:Day27.4 Inner-sight  made an appearance on occasion, showing up as flashes of insight.
D:Day28.5 They may include a great deal of inner reflection in order to be  made, but they are still directed at external outcome. By living the
D:Day28.6 along one path. They may have chosen one career, for instance, and  made choices within that career path, but never really consider a
D:Day28.17 ground. These external systems are based, as are all that you have  made, on the externalization of what is within. At the same time
D:Day28.20 Thus is the “wholeness” of time, or eternity, experienced and  made real. Eternity might thus be seen as the unchanging constant
D:Day28.25 but experience is. Your will and God’s are one and thus it is being  made so.
D:Day29.7 yourself in wholeness and find yourself in union, you have  made of yourself the common denominator upon which experience can
D:Day33.12 have not realized their relationship to power. They have not  made it real and so it has not served them.
D:Day34.5 behind. Now you need only realize that your wholehearted desire has  made it so and begin to see and create this change in the world
D:Day35.18 wholeness. What is not created in unity could be said to have been  made rather than created. The world as you know it is what you have
D:Day35.18 made rather than created. The world as you know it is what you have  made. Your life as you know it is what you have made. You will only
D:Day35.18 it is what you have made. Your life as you know it is what you have  made. You will only fully realize the difference between what you
D:Day35.18 You will only fully realize the difference between what you have  made and what you can create when you have accepted your power and
D:Day35.19 you could, however, not create. The word distinction between  made and create thus does not fully do justice to the power you have
D:Day36.2 an experience for yourself that was separate from all others. You  made choices concerning how you would live your life from within the
D:Day36.5 You have felt like the creator of your life in the choices you have  made. The experiences of consequence to you were the experiences of
D:Day36.12 All the choices in the world save this one before you now, have  made no difference to your state of being. You have just kept being,
D:Day36.13 Despite all of this, you have loved and feared, grown and evolved,  made choices of integrity and courage, responded with nobility or
D:Day39.10 an intermediary is no longer needed—because you have realized and  made real your oneness with Christ. When relationship is established
D:Day39.18 of time and space is. A world that is a projection that you have  made, a world that has the shape and form, the character and value,
E.16 what to do with it, you can only be it. This is the choice you have  made. To be. So be it.
A.34 may well be looking for is their reward for the investment they have  made in this coursework. While they are looking for it to show up in
A.49 voice of union and of the One Self. It is how union is expressed and  made recognizable in form. It is what will usher in the new and

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C:4.20 A thing set apart from the  madness of the world is useful now. It may not be what love is, but
C:4.21 that you have made and upon entering believe you leave the world’s  madness outside your door. Here you feel safe and gather those you
C:4.21 upon retiring to this safe place you have made of love in a world of  madness, and hope that you will live to see the day when you can
C:4.21 and hope that you will live to see the day when you can leave the  madness behind, and that you will still find love behind the doors
C:4.22 believe they can do so. Full-scale interaction with the world of  madness is all that some are willing to accept of others or
C:4.22 ones who would demand that others bring what love they have into the  madness to take responsibility for the mess that has been made, to
C:4.24 apart from life any longer. Love cannot be brought to the world of  madness, nor the world of madness brought to love. But love can allow
C:4.24 Love cannot be brought to the world of madness, nor the world of  madness brought to love. But love can allow a new world to be seen, a
C:9.33 free will is so falsely placed in illusion that you cannot see this  madness for what it truly is. Your body has no use for your power,

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C:1.9 a trick of the ego, your pride a gift the ego demands. These are the  magic thoughts that oppose miracle-mindedness. These are the thoughts
C:2.11 no more end misery by making it real than could God. There is no  magic here of turning misery into delight and pain into joy. These
C:2.11 misery into delight and pain into joy. These acts would indeed be  magic, an illusion on top of an illusion. You have but accepted
C:10.11 Simply stated, miracles are a natural consequence of joining.  Magic is your attempt to do miracles on your own. In the early stages
C:17.4 Consciousness of which you are unaware is not  magic, superstition, or insanity. Yet you shield yourself from
T1:3.20 mess with such things. Even the thought of it leads you to ideas of  magic and power that is not of this world and thus that must have a
T3:13.10 words with foolish acts. To do so would be to act as if this were  magic rather than the truth. To act as if this is the truth is what

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D:4.29 return of wholeness. This return is not selfish on your part, but  magnanimous. It returns wholeness to you and wholeness to the divine

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C:20.25 is the nature of your being. It could not be otherwise when awe and  magnificence encompass you in the embrace. Your heart sings in

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T2:1.9 An aspiring pianist imagines a grand piano and performances in a  magnificent concert hall or a little spinet that will grace a living

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C:9.45 and abuse. You would use for the benefit of the separated self. When  magnified, the destructive force of such abuse is easily apparent.

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C:7.3 one thing to another—a comparison that seeks out differences and  magnifies them and names one thing this and one thing that—is the

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C:14.12 are but willing to look at it with eyes that truly see. It is the  magnifying glass that will allow you to see your world in all its mad

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C:8.21 you may well be overwhelmed by what you observe, by the sheer  magnitude of all that with you occupies the world. Some days this
C:28.3 even believe in a theory of mass that purports that when a certain  magnitude of belief occurs, evolutionary steps are brought about.
T2:9.19 soon be seen as a valuable ability and a timesaving measure of great  magnitude. As these old ways of thinking leave you, you will be left

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D:Day6.14 abundance without having to look at the bills that arrive by daily  mail or worry about the many other aspects of your simple survival.

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D:12.11 still think in the same way as before. I am about to make the two  main points of this discussion: The first is that thinking, with or
D:12.13 be of the body, but it may also at times not be of the body. The  main idea to hold in your mind and heart is the idea of entry, and
D:12.13 ears or any of what you consider to be your senses. Along with this  main idea it is essential for you to realize that this is not so
D:Day6.13 Now, in returning to one of the  main themes of this chapter—the simple truth that you are having to
D:Day6.14 with the seeming difficulty. It may take on many forms, but its  main source is almost surely a desire to focus on the relationship
D:Day17.10 by many other individuals as well. The way was a choice. The  main ability of the individual is the ability to represent what God
D:Day28.16 Acceptance has been a  main theme of this dialogue and was revisited and defined as
D:Day37.17 of this impossibility. This is why this Course has had, as its  main objective, returning you to true knowing of your Self. A

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D:Day2.9 These are  mainly, in truth, judgments, judgments that arise from your
D:Day2.21 that begin with the appearance of my form in the world, but that  mainly occur during my time of maturity. These accounts do not stress
E.9 drift as gently and as your own desire arises, into all-being.  Mainly you will enjoy being—being who you are. You will be happy.

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C:9.49 separate, you must use your brothers and sisters in order to even  maintain the illusion of your separation. Would it not simply be
C:10.19 separated self, which recognizes its own seriousness as necessary to  maintain its separation. Joy is truly the greatest threat to the
C:10.20 times of happiness and wonder what went wrong and why you could not  maintain that happy state. There might be many practical reasons to
C:14.16 created a universe for yourself, a universe that you are required to  maintain, and that without your effort would dissolve. This universe
C:15.5 And so within this small sphere you do what is necessary to  maintain your specialness and that of the others within it. Depending
C:16.7 all of its energy is expended, for constant judgment is required to  maintain the world you see. The Holy Spirit can replace your
T2:1.7 struggle. But with such an attitude, you would soon be struggling to  maintain your peace. There is another choice, and it lies within.
T2:8.7 relationships? When all relationships are holy, you have no need to  maintain specialness.
T2:9.12 arises, both learning and unlearning cease to occur. The desire to  maintain a state you believe you have achieved and have labeled a
T3:16.15 Now you must forget the idea of needing to  maintain specialness. A key aid in helping you to put this temptation
D:6.25 that you came to believe needed greater and greater resources to  maintain.
D:15.18 care, vigilance, and anticipation, the value of what you seek to  maintain will be lost. Thus we look at maintenance as the work, or
D:15.19 and you wish it to continue to serve you. You thus must strive to  maintain the conditions that will allow it to do so. This is, as with
D:15.20 unity or Christ-consciousness is being done with the need to  maintain conditions that allow it to be present. Maintenance will
D:15.23 Here is where you work in relationship to  maintain what you have learned, for you know that when you return to
D:15.23 of the state in which you reject the conditions of learning. You  maintain here, in short, all of the conditions necessary to reach
D:Day5.1 however, this point of access will remain crucial as long as you  maintain rather than sustain the state of unity. This point of access
D:Day7.20 or the past but that you cannot make it so. Thus your ability to  maintain and then sustain your access to union and thus your
D:Day15.3 things and that is the great informer. As you are more fully able to  maintain Christ-consciousness you begin the movement away from being
D:Day15.12 It means to join together with others who have the ability to  maintain Christ-consciousness in your company. This creates the
E.8 You no longer have a universe of projection to  maintain but a universe of love to enjoy and a universe of love to

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C:4.14 stage of love is seldom seen as lasting or as something that can be  maintained. It is the purview of the young, and the daydream of the
C:14.19 you want to claim it for your own lest it get away! It too must be  maintained within your universe, or you will know it not and its
D:15.16 be necessary as your access to unity, or Christ-consciousness, is  maintained and sustained. Let us begin with the idea of maintenance
D:Day16.4 that became physical were made separate from the self and yet were  maintained within the body, thus interrupting the body’s natural

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C:7.5 primary thought by which you live your life. Your effort goes into  maintaining this illusion that what you are must be protected, and
C:10.1 the choice is the same. The body is a tool made for your use in  maintaining the illusion of your separation. That it has seeming
D:Day7.20 that will most clearly reveal to you your status in regard to  maintaining or sustaining your access to union will be that of the
D:Day14.9 or rejection. Pass-through is about releasing the particular while  maintaining the relationship. It is what happens in oneness as

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C:14.19 you would bind this separate universe to your own, for as long as it  maintains its autonomy, which it must, even its nearness is not

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C:6.10 Yet fear you do, and the  maintenance of your fear keeps you very busy. You stoke its fire lest
C:6.13 hungry again, so does the rest of your life need this constant  maintenance to retain the reality you have given it. “Struggle to
C:9.6 but also to self-destruct. It was created with a need for constant  maintenance, a maintenance that requires toil and struggle. Every
C:9.6 It was created with a need for constant maintenance, a  maintenance that requires toil and struggle. Every inch of its
C:14.18 and completely self-contained. The laws of your universe are for the  maintenance of your body, because without it you would not exist. And
T2:8.7 to journey any longer. How much time will be saved by an end to the  maintenance required by special relationships? When all relationships
D:15.16 is maintained and sustained. Let us begin with the idea of  maintenance and proceed to the idea of sustenance.
D:15.17  Maintenance is thought of most often as keeping what you have, and as
D:15.17 lasting measure, which is the primary difference between the idea of  maintenance and the idea of sustenance.
D:15.18  Maintenance assumes that you already have something of value, and
D:15.18 to take care of it so that it will continue to be of service to you.  Maintenance implies a certain attitude, an attitude of care,
D:15.18 the value of what you seek to maintain will be lost. Thus we look at  maintenance as the work, or relationship, with the desired service.
D:15.18 work, or relationship, with the desired service. In this example,  maintenance is what you give in order to receive the maximum
D:15.18 time. You realize that some breaks in service will still occur, that  maintenance will not make the connection perfect, but that it will
D:15.19 And so we begin with the idea of  maintenance of your relationship with unity. You have experienced
D:15.19 the conditions that will allow it to do so. This is, as with all  maintenance, a temporary measure, but one you desire to have
D:15.20 To move from  maintenance to sustenance is our goal, however. To sustain is to keep
D:15.20 with the need to maintain conditions that allow it to be present.  Maintenance will lead to sustenance.
D:15.23 gain from what is beyond effort and beyond learning, and from the  maintenance of the state in which you reject the conditions of
D:Day5.17 the accomplishment that is achieved through the reign of love, the  maintenance and finally the sustainability of union.
D:Day7.8 fear. As with Christ-consciousness, you are moving from a place of  maintenance of these conditions to one of sustainability of these
D:Day10.3 you to do this today any more than I am asking you to move from  maintenance to sustainability today, I am merely making you aware of
D:Day10.3 just as I made you aware of the difference between the states of  maintenance and sustainability. As with the states of maintenance and
D:Day10.3 the states of maintenance and sustainability. As with the states of  maintenance and sustainability, I am giving you cause for movement,
D:Day15.11 Self, the self and the creative force, you remain in the state of  maintenance rather than sustenance of Christ-consciousness. This is
D:Day17.7 in form, the first coming and who began the movement from  maintenance to sustenance of Christ-consciousness. Let’s consider why

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C:12.11 what their Creator bade them be, the mountains stand in all their  majesty, rivers flow and desert sands countless in number are blown
D:Day13.6 The spaciousness of love, the lovely complexity of form, the awesome  majesty of nature, all are visible within the One Self because of the
D:Day36.14 from weapons of mass destruction to cathedrals of towering  majesty—has always been yours. The power to know or perceive—even

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C:7.1 A  major thought reversal is required now before we can go on. It has
C:10.19 rather than light-hearted and gay. Being serious about life is a  major strategy of the separated self, which recognizes its own
C:14.11 you would have begun to see its continuation without change as the  major goal of your life. Without it, life would not be worth living,
C:21.8 The  major cause of the conflict that arises between mind and heart is the
D:3.19 I was once newly birthed even though my Self was eternal. One of the  major things we will be seeing as we proceed is the difference
D:5.1 memory and how you acted upon it, distortions that created  major departures from the nature of creation.
D:14.6 One of the  major benefits of questions such as these is that they can circumvent
D:Day2.20 My life consisted of the same  major elements as yours: Birth through childhood, maturity, and with
D:Day4.30 or teach. These are the natural responses of its training. Thus, a  major key to your discovery of all that exists within you in the
D:Day5.11 There would seem to be one  major difference between unity and love and that difference would
D:Day6.2 much anxiety and exclude too many, this is not the only, or even the  major reason for this chosen method.
D:Day7.6 but the effect of living from love rather than from fear will have a  major transformative effect on form in this time of acceptance.
D:Day15.10 and that has never been practiced by many at one time. It is a  major shift because it is not neutral but creative. It is of creation
D:Day28.13 life has to “give.” This is most likely the attitude of those whose  major life dilemmas have been of a monetary or career nature, where
A.1 A  major difference between A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love

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T4:1.27 communication and contrast. But this also means that the great  majority will become aware of the new state of consciousness and that

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C:P.10 humble as you seem to be in your choice, you are still letting ego  make your choice. This is not humility but fear.
C:P.14 has made. By choosing to reject yourself you have chosen to try to  make sense of the nightmare rather than to awaken from it. This will
C:P.31 is necessary? You seek form when you already have content. Does this  make any sense?
C:P.40 becomes a butterfly is seemingly unbelievable. This does not  make it any less true. The butterfly, although some perceive it as
C:1.6 of this as well. This is part of letting go of the old world to  make way for the new. Realize these things do not matter and will not
C:1.11 the student’s achievement. You must realize it is your desire to  make of yourself your own creator that has caused all your problems.
C:1.18 or angry are of fear. This is all there is. This is the world you  make. Love or fear is your reality by your choice. A choice for love
C:2.8 Still others put on blinders to the world and seek only to  make their corner of it more safe and secure. Some shift from one
C:3.9 An idea of love is planted now, in a garden rich with what will  make it grow.
C:3.14 data for it to compute. The only change in thinking you are asked to  make is to realize that you do not need it.
C:4.16 You believe you can fall in love with the wrong person and  make a better choice based upon criteria more important than love.
C:4.22 turn their backs upon the world even for the scanty hours that they  make believe they can do so. Full-scale interaction with the world of
C:4.25 them outside love’s doors. What difference would a world of love  make to those who lock their doors upon the world? How vast the
C:5.9 Again you have the right idea, yet it is so sadly displaced as to  make a mockery of who you are. Love does mark your place—but in
C:5.10 all the rest, for with understanding, these urges can be made to  make sense. With understanding they can begin to bring sanity to an
C:5.16 the real world being beyond your doors, but saying this cannot  make it so.
C:5.17 join with becomes real. As you take it into your Self you thereby  make it real because you make it one with your real Self. This is
C:5.17 As you take it into your Self you thereby make it real because you  make it one with your real Self. This is reality. All you do not join
C:5.21 You do not yet understand your ability to choose that which you  make real in your creation of the world. The only meaning possible
C:5.22 You think you have chosen to be separate from God so that you can  make it on your own, and while you long to return to God and the
C:5.22 and without it would not be. In this you are correct, for as you  make of yourself an individual, you deny yourself your union with all
C:5.23 the life you see as real. It presents you with a thousand choices to  make, not once but many times, until you believe that your power of
C:5.26 what you have spent your lifetime guarding against. Why should you  make this sacrifice? What then would your life be for? You want so
C:5.29 your real Self retains for you, waiting only for your welcome to  make it known to you once more.
C:6.1 it to be. You have to forgive yourself for not being able to  make it on your own, because you have realized the impossibility of
C:6.2 of everything that exists. This is reality. None of these things  make you less than what you have perceived yourself to be, but they
C:6.2 you less than what you have perceived yourself to be, but they do  make it impossible for you to be separate. You can desire what is
C:6.2 desire what is impossible until the end of your days but you cannot  make it possible. Why not forgive the world for being other than what
C:6.5  Make a new choice! The choice that your heart yearns to make for you
C:6.5 Make a new choice! The choice that your heart yearns to  make for you and that your mind is finding increasingly difficult to
C:6.15 seek success. Put another way, both are saying this: you seek to  make sense of an insane world, to find meaning within
C:6.16 How can I  make peace attractive to you who know it not? The Bible says, “The
C:6.20 awareness you would deny in favor of thoughts of death so grim they  make of life a nightmare.
C:7.14 grievances but of the form of specialness. You withhold in order to  make yourself special, always at another’s expense. All your efforts
C:7.17 possible any erroneous ideas you have, especially those that might  make of this a trivial point or one that is specific and not
C:7.21 on what your senses tell you, the evidence you have relied upon to  make sense of your world. Those who have developed reliance on ways
C:8.6 life of their own, and a body that reacts to all of it in ways that  make you uncomfortable, anxious, ecstatic, or terrified.
C:8.21 of all that with you occupies the world. Some days this will  make you feel like one of many, a tiny peon of little significance.
C:8.23 past and future? Where does day go when it is night? What are you to  make of all these forms that wander through your days with you? What
C:9.3 has caused you to believe love can be used to keep you safe, to  make you happy and bind to you those you choose to love. This is not
C:9.4 you have chosen to use relationship to prove your existence and to  make things happen. This use of relationship will never provide the
C:9.7 be thus, as it was made with dual purposes in mind. It was made to  make real and then glorify a separated self, and it was made to
C:9.8 have always been as you were created, but this is what you chose to  make from that with which you started. In other words, you took what
C:9.17 love. Others misunderstand you and know you not, and neither can you  make any sense of them.
C:9.18 shine upon the darkness. Can you not see that when you chose to  make yourself separate and alone you also made the choice for fear?
C:9.23 and want. You truly believe you do not have what you need, and so  make yourself continuously needy. You thus spend your life trying to
C:9.30 placed on top of it. Someone not knowing what it is for would  make of it what he or she would have it be, but never would the user
C:9.34 The free will that God gave you is what has allowed you to  make of yourself and your world what you will. Now you look upon this
C:9.41 the few, and so you take your place in line at the starting gate and  make your bid for glory. You run the race as long as you can and, win
C:9.41 subjects, watching what they do with envy and with awe. To these you  make your sacrifices and pay your homage. To these you say, “I would
C:10.1 weight of its control, who is the you it would control? How can it  make you do other than you choose to do? Learn this lesson well, for
C:10.2 in physical form. Joining is not the obliteration of one thing to  make another—joining makes each one whole, and in this wholeness
C:10.2 telling you the truth of your existence is not enough of itself to  make you aware of what you have for so long hidden from yourself. I
C:10.3 your heart takes over and makes the one choice you are bound to  make. Your heart—not to be confused with the pump that runs the
C:10.8 cause you to fail is giving up. I give you these examples that will  make you say, “It will not be easy,” but I tell you neither will it
C:10.11 early stages of your learning, you will be tempted to play a game of  make believe. You will not believe that you are not your body, but
C:10.11 You will not believe that you are not your body, but you would  make believe that you are not. You may then be tempted to believe
C:10.11 a headache or the cold of a winter day, and this pretending may even  make you feel a little less pain or a little less cold. But this
C:10.11 is welcomed by your separated self who knows pretending will not  make it so.
C:10.16 real to you. To give up the body entirely is a choice you need not  make. As your learning advances you will see that this is possible,
C:10.18 happiness within it. These instructions to your heart will begin to  make a difference to your state of mind.
C:10.20 maximize your chances for unhappiness through the choices you would  make. You look back longingly at times of happiness and wonder what
C:10.21 They deny themselves the joy or the pain or the oblivion that would  make return impossible and count themselves lucky for not going to
C:11.2 doors or office walls. You did not create your Self, and yet you  make of life a recreation of yourself and in so doing try to prove
C:11.10 what God wants of you, you can use your free will to rebel and to  make your own choices, choices different than those your Creator
C:11.10 your own choices, choices different than those your Creator would  make for you. This right to make your own decisions, and the power to
C:11.10 different than those your Creator would make for you. This right to  make your own decisions, and the power to flaunt them before God, is
C:11.12 used your free will to create like unto your Father, by choosing to  make yourself separate from Him—something that could never truly
C:11.12 you have chosen instead to do nothing at all with your free will but  make this one insane choice. Your willingness to make a new choice is
C:11.12 your free will but make this one insane choice. Your willingness to  make a new choice is what will once again make your free will like
C:11.12 Your willingness to make a new choice is what will once again  make your free will like unto your Father’s will, which is one with
C:11.14 This matters not at this point. You are offered the opportunity to  make a temporary decision that can be rescinded at any time. Your
C:12.6 of this you can be certain. To align your will with God’s is but to  make this certain state your home. This is but a wish come true, and
C:12.7 Admit now your desire to rest, a desire that could  make you weep and make you wish to sleep an endless sleep. If you but
C:12.7 Admit now your desire to rest, a desire that could make you weep and  make you wish to sleep an endless sleep. If you but understood the
C:12.13 Does it  make any sense at all that this would come to be? Or that once upon a
C:12.24 word Father with the word Creation and see if this does not help to  make this concept clear. Could Creation’s continuing extension of
C:12.24 Creation’s continuing extension of itself, its continuing creation,  make less of it than what it started out to be? What we call Father
C:13.3 of recalling spirit. Just let impressions come to you, and when they  make you feel like smiling know that you are feeling memory return.
C:14.3 You cannot have feelings of superiority and not an enemy  make. The same occurs when you would make yourself inferior, and you
C:14.3 of superiority and not an enemy make. The same occurs when you would  make yourself inferior, and you are always making for yourself a
C:14.5 Would this  make sense? What creator would create a world in which the highest
C:14.7 you have tried mightily, a creation such as this cannot be made to  make any sense at all? Those who have turned their backs on God and
C:14.7 God and refused to believe in such nonsense have simply refused to  make reason try to fit the unfitable without seeing that an
C:14.10 of heaven. For what you require of love is that it set you apart and  make you special. Much more is demanded of those you love than of any
C:14.13 you more sure of a relationship’s value to you. Anything that could  make you feel so joyous, so safe and warm and loved, could not help
C:14.14 us now, for the return of love is coming and you do not want to  make the same response again.
C:14.19 escape and be lost to you. You wish that you could join with it and  make it one with you, but since you know not that this can be done or
C:14.22 it is still the same. For in your separated state you ask that love  make you special to someone else, and that one special to you. You
C:14.22 one special to you. You think this is what love is for, and so you  make of it something it is not and only call it love.
C:14.23 You cannot change what love is or what heaven is. All that seems to  make it change is the function or purpose you would give it. It is
C:14.26 While your purpose remains to  make yourself and others special, you will not put an end to the
C:14.26 You can only lose that which is separate. And specialness does  make separate.
C:14.30 all others?” think again. For you are choosing not to love but to  make special. And you are choosing but to make love’s opposite real
C:14.30 not to love but to make special. And you are choosing but to  make love’s opposite real to you and those you claim to love, as well
C:14.31 what loss is there to anyone, including the one you would choose to  make special? All that is lost is specialness. This is the view of
C:15.1 would give way to love without the interference of all that would  make special. You think issues of survival rule the world—and so
C:15.1 at all. Beauty would be what it is and not what products would  make it. Without a desire for specialness, a person would have no
C:15.4 you would not believe that your own desire for specialness or to  make another special could make a difference to many—or possibly
C:15.4 your own desire for specialness or to make another special could  make a difference to many—or possibly even to anyone. You just want
C:15.4 and would be quite content to have them think you special and to  make them special to you. Out in the wider world you think you are
C:15.5 responsibility of making this one special if you did not do so. To  make one small change in this culture is difficult to impossible,
C:15.5 within this group, and your choices might affect your ability to  make others feel special in the way in which they have become
C:15.7 your freedom, and for no end. For what others think of you does not  make you special, nor does what you think or do for others make them
C:15.7 does not make you special, nor does what you think or do for others  make them special. All notions of popularity, success, and
C:15.9 seems to be a responsibility you have undertaken, and a refusal to  make special an act of disloyalty. What’s more, when all is said and
C:15.12 is not a difficult choice, nor one that is in truth yours alone to  make. This choice cannot be made without your brother and is indeed
C:16.1 but one source! That this source lies within each of you does not  make it many sources, for the many of you have but one source as
C:16.1 many of you have but one source as well. This common source does not  make any of you special, but all of you the same.
C:16.5 for others you have singled out. For judgment is what is required to  make one special and another not.
C:16.6 you are looking for is what you will find, but finding it does not  make it the truth, except as it is the truth about what you choose to
C:16.15 people that you love out of the many that you do not are all that  make your life worth living. You think that to be asked to give up
C:16.16 indulge in the desire to judge, the more godlike they think they  make themselves. For all of you here know that judgment is not your
C:16.19 Judgment does not  make you safe, and defining evil does not abolish it, but only makes
C:16.20 for all those over whom they prevail. Those in power are those who  make the laws, and those who have no power must obey them.
C:16.21 feared and shunned, and yet they have no power but that which they  make from their own selves. You want power to come only through
C:16.21 power to possess it through the same weapons or might that you claim  make those in authority powerful. While you want those you have given
C:16.24 wants no sacrifice from you, yet when you give away your power you  make of yourself a sacrificial lamb, an offering onto God that God
C:17.7 you would grow quite used to this phenomenon, you do not. You still  make your plans and rail against everything that interferes with
C:17.11 then yours to keep? What have you purchased with all your effort to  make amends for your wrongdoing? You have but purchased guilt, and
C:18.10 of power you believe your decision making to have. The only way to  make the unbelievable believable is to alter what you experience. The
C:19.20 is nearer than ever before. To talk of going “back” will undoubtedly  make you feel impatient, but this is not a going back that will in
C:20.44 change in thinking, feeling, and acting. It will immediately  make the world a kinder, gentler place. And it is only a beginning.
C:23.8 you, but rarely the other way around. This is what has caused you to  make God over in your own image and to try to do the same to others.
C:25.21 feel it as a time of decision making, but the less you attempt to  make conscious decisions the quicker your unlearning will take place
C:25.22 still and awaiting wisdom. Your feeling of being identity-less will  make decision-making and choices of all kinds appear to be difficult
C:25.22 to be made with increasing frequency. Your feeling of needing to  make new choices, while strong, will not necessarily reflect real
C:26.10 true through your acceptance of these words. But I am prepared to  make it easy for you.
C:26.19 It requires no new plans. It asks not that you  make any decisions. It asks not that you do anything new. This is an
C:26.22 or artistic idea is the completion of the pattern that will  make that idea a masterpiece. An idea is irrevocably linked with its
C:27.16 even with the best of intentions, not known the proper response to  make? You even wonder as you pray whether you should pray for
C:28.13 ease as surely go together. There are no more decisions for you to  make. There is only a call for a dedicated and devoted will, a will
C:29.3 To give God your attention and your care. You who would cry, God  make use of me, only need to give to God your devotion and your
C:29.18 The choice to change your belief is before you. Are you not ready to  make it?
C:29.20 As you  make your choice, remember your choice must be wholehearted, for it
C:29.20 come together to seal the rift between your mind and heart, and  make you whole once again.
C:29.21 Claiming your identity and your power to  make choices is an act that comes from an entirely different place
C:30.3 the little children, and inhale the world around you in order to  make it part of your Self. Be like the little children, and learn in
C:31.31 truth is what is. What is not the truth is illusion. Does this not  make perfect sense?
T1:3.14 of your return to unity. If not now, then soon, you will be asked to  make this final choice, this choice to leave fear behind for good and
T1:4.3 Prayer and the art of thought are the same. This should serve to  make it clear that the request I have made of you is once again far
T1:5.3 to reveal the choice of Love to you, the choice that you each must  make to end such suffering, the illusion of suffering has continued
T1:5.9 you that it is only your body and the thinking of your ego-mind that  make the in-between state of the illusion in which you now exist seem
T1:5.9 state of the illusion in which you now exist seem real. I must  make a distinction here, between the seemingly real, and the aspect
T1:7.5 level, and acquired an ability to perceive differently, in order to  make this new learning possible. If you do not let what you have
T1:8.5 who have come after me are not as I was but as I Am. Does this not  make sense, even in your human terms of evolution? You are the
T1:9.9 This I tried to pass on in the simplest of terms. I tried to  make it known that while I would die and resurrect into a new form,
T1:10.4 wrong choice but it is a choice. It is your free will to continue to  make this choice.
T1:10.9 you have already had them! I ask you not to give them up. Only to  make now a new choice.
T2:1.13 without goals or planning, without effort or struggle. This does not  make an instrument unnecessary for a musician or mean that a painter
T2:5.1 call, this does not mean that this one call has but one request to  make of you, as in a call to be a minister, nor that it will come in
T2:8.1 now, they must also now be separated from all that would continue to  make them special.
T2:9.10 relationships. Thus the very compromises you are often prone to  make in special relationships are but the symptoms of your fear.
T2:10.16 Again your desire for a static state would  make you rather listen to your ego as it prescribes learning for
T2:10.17 What difference does it  make to your concepts of learning when you think of life as your
T3:3.2 that are not loveable and then I will know your love is true.” You  make this same statement to yourself as well, seemingly called to
T3:4.6 error that became the basis of all that came after it. You cannot  make another error such as this for it is the one error. Does it not
T3:4.6 make another error such as this for it is the one error. Does it not  make sense that the only error possible is that of not being who you
T3:5.4 tried to live in a house built on a faulty foundation, attempting to  make do with what you have. All your time was spent in making repairs
T3:6.3 and taking care of, or surviving, the many details that seem to  make it possible for you to live within your world. The idea of
T3:8.7 but it is chosen not because of the suffering that seems to  make no sense of love. Bitterness is the cause of this inability to
T3:8.7 make no sense of love. Bitterness is the cause of this inability to  make a new choice and what keeps the cycle of suffering in motion.
T3:8.8 a reflection of the belief that one person, and surely not you, can  make a difference. If you could relieve the world of suffering you
T3:9.2 While you cannot now see the chain of events that will  make these ideas into a new reality, you can trust that they will be
T3:10.6 are gifts. While some of these lessons may come in forms that  make them seem like lessons of old, they will not be repeats of
T3:11.10 does not exist. Believing in the reality of illusion will never  make it the truth.
T3:11.13 Truth. As soon as you would “see” the house of illusion, you would  make it real, and with its reality judgment would be upon you—not
T3:13.5 must pay for everything, or earn everything that you would care to  make your own, and then that you must protect what you have against
T3:14.2 Let me attempt to  make the difference between having a new thought system and living by
T3:14.8 It is only your old uncertainty that will  make you fear the matters of choice that lie before you. But this
T3:14.13 so new that you cannot even imagine it. Imagine not the past and  make for yourself no cause to prolong it. The past is but a starting
T3:15.4 “in spite of” circumstances of the past that would seem to  make them foolish. There is always some “thing” that is expected to
T3:16.1 to live by the truth is the only offering you are asked to  make to God. You need make no other offerings. No sacrifices need be
T3:16.1 truth is the only offering you are asked to make to God. You need  make no other offerings. No sacrifices need be made and sacrifices
T3:16.6 What is, is, despite the lag in time that would seem to  make all that we speak of here a blueprint for some future reality.
T3:16.6 future reality. All that would keep this lag in time a constant, and  make it seem as if what is now is still awaiting replacement by what
T3:16.14 plans to do good and be good, to help others, and to struggle to  make the world a better place, fall into this category. Your notions
T3:16.15 in truth. You will recognize that no others have a need for you to  make them special for you will see the truth of who they are rather
T3:19.16 some without hope, it will leave no one without choice. It will  make the one clear and only choice evident. It is a choice to live in
T3:19.16 will become so attractive that few will be able to resist. What will  make this choice so attractive will not be martyrs and saintly souls
T3:19.16 to tell those who would listen about the glory of God. What will  make this choice so attractive are ordinary people living
T3:20.18 might have freely chosen. Your task is to create the new world and  make it observable, not for you to recruit others to it.
T3:21.13 of your belief system. You think of these things as part of what  make up the totality of who you are, of your personal self.
T3:21.24 No other who can give the response you are meant to give. Do not  make any false plans that give your power to others more learned of
T4:1.2 conclusive. It will separate truth from illusion in ways that will  make some uncomfortable. It will continue to challenge your former
T4:1.11 The question asked throughout this Course is if you are willing to  make the choice to come to know your Self and God now. This is the
T4:1.11 it must be seen that your choice matters in time, even if all will  make the same choice eventually.
T4:1.13 it not come to be? Why has it not been known? What could possibly  make you believe it could come to be now when it didn’t come to be
T4:2.21 relates to everything that exists with you, including the days that  make up your life in time and space. Observing what is unites you
T4:2.29 is why you can still think of observance of what is as a game of  make believe and feel that you will have to trick yourself into
T4:3.8 will arise. With the onset of the vision of love, many of you will  make one final judgment in which you find everything to be good and
T4:4.3 new seems necessary and even crucial. One generation must pass to  make room for the new.
T4:4.17 preview of what to expect after you die? What difference would this  make to your way of living or the world in which you live?
T4:5.9 and that this is the meaning of free will. Free will does not  make the impossible possible. It makes the possible probable. It is
T4:5.10 To align your will with the Will of God is to  make the choice for Christ-consciousness, to make the choice to be
T4:5.10 the Will of God is to make the choice for Christ-consciousness, to  make the choice to be aware of who you truly are. To know your Self
T4:5.11 I am calling you to  make this choice now. This is not a choice automatic to you in human
T4:5.11 you are assisted in ways not formerly possible to you in form, to  make the choice to be who you are. You are shown in ways that the
T4:6.1 imagine, desire, hold as being possible, is possible, because you  make it so. It is your interaction, both individually and
T4:6.6 a new choice, but not to intolerance of those who are not ready to  make it. I call you to a new choice with the full realization that
T4:7.3 Many will be surprised by experiences of unity and know not what to  make of them. Those who attempt to figure them out will come ever
T4:7.9 But the choice many of you will  make—the choice to move from learning to creating—will create a
T4:9.5 to leave you ready to change and able to change in certain ways that  make life easier or more peaceful, but certainly not able to realize
T4:10.13 move beyond the state of learning will change the world. They will  make the world a better place and see many of their students advance
T4:10.14 change the world, but not how to create a new world. Does this not  make sense? You can learn about who you were and who others were, but
T4:12.10 to find what an enormous difference the release of this idea will  make in your capacity to express who you are. As long as you continue
T4:12.32 I do not have the answers that would continue to  make of me a teacher and you a student. The answers to the elevation
T4:12.34 old but kept creation’s power harnessed to the old. Does this not  make perfect sense when you realize that creation, like God, is not
T4:12.36  Make no mistake that what is asked of us is everything. What is asked
T4:12.36 abandon the old, our total willingness to embrace the new. But also  make no mistake that what is given to us is everything. All the power
D:1.14 who I Am. Now I go forth To live as who I Am within the world To  make cause and effect as one, and Union with the Source of love and
D:2.11 pattern will work in one instance and not in another and that you  make this judgment based upon the outcome. In other words, you make
D:2.11 you make this judgment based upon the outcome. In other words, you  make this judgment “after the fact” when the outcome has occurred.
D:3.11 of one who gives and one who receives. If all are one, such ideas  make no sense. This would seem to make the idea of giving and
D:3.11 If all are one, such ideas make no sense. This would seem to  make the idea of giving and receiving as one senseless as well. In a
D:3.19 be challenging to become aware that different expressions do not  make different. These differences were spoken of within this Course
D:4.12 internal. External divine patterns include the observable forms that  make up your world, everything from the planet on which you exist to
D:6.19 of this type of thinking, but the examples matter not except to  make you see that these attitudes are not ruled by certainty, but by
D:6.20 for all that you do not understand, all that cannot be made to  make sense, all that seems unfair and beyond your control.
D:8.1 an area of unlimited freedom. Yet we will begin with parameters that  make this area as imaginable to you as possible, because here is
D:9.12 prior to the time of learning, ideas are also discoveries that you  make, discoveries that exist apart from learning. Ideas “come to
D:11.1 thought to intellectual puzzles, focus your thoughts in order to  make up your mind. You make lists of your thoughts so you don’t
D:11.1 puzzles, focus your thoughts in order to make up your mind. You  make lists of your thoughts so you don’t forget what they remind you
D:11.5 only here, in this area of your individuality, do you believe you  make your contributions to the world. Your desire to make a
D:11.5 you believe you make your contributions to the world. Your desire to  make a contribution—to help to make new the world that you have
D:11.5 to the world. Your desire to make a contribution—to help to  make new the world that you have known—has been enhanced and
D:11.7 to ideas of what you still need to do to accomplish your calling, to  make your contribution. Such is the way of the mind, the way of the
D:11.9 of the self of form? How might this relate to your desire to  make a contribution and answer your calling? How does this relate to
D:11.10 the heart or center of your Self, as do all answers. Your desire to  make of me a teacher is the same as your desire to make your thoughts
D:11.10 Your desire to make of me a teacher is the same as your desire to  make your thoughts into answers that will provide you with direction.
D:11.12 The giving and receiving of these words will never  make sense within the terms of the world you have always known. No
D:11.15 the elevated Self of form. Why would you retain your desire to  make an individual contribution, when you can now make a contribution
D:11.15 your desire to make an individual contribution, when you can now  make a contribution such as this? Is not your unique expression of
D:11.15 that are possible for the individual, separated self to  make? Is not the history of your world filled with individual
D:11.16 as they miss the point of their own lives. Those who do so seek to  make individual contributions as important men and women and do not
D:12.9 that arise from the thought system of the separated self. We might  make this a simpler subject to discuss by making a distinction
D:12.11 because you still think in the same way as before. I am about to  make the two main points of this discussion: The first is that
D:15.18 some breaks in service will still occur, that maintenance will not  make the connection perfect, but that it will keep it of service to
D:Day1.6 know your Self while the ego was your guide. You were required to  make a choice between the thought system of the ego and the thought
D:Day1.11 it, be the practitioner a faith healer or a medical doctor. You may  make one exclusive choice to attend to your needs of healing, or you
D:Day1.11 one exclusive choice to attend to your needs of healing, or you may  make many choices. You may think these choices matter not, but only
D:Day2.15 is necessary. I will give you one final example in order to  make our discussion as clear as possible.
D:Day2.25 Here, then, is where you need to  make the choice that those in my time could not make, the choice to
D:Day2.25 is where you need to make the choice that those in my time could not  make, the choice to end suffering. This is the choice I made “for
D:Day2.25 suffering. This is the choice I made “for all.” This is a choice you  make for all as well.
D:Day3.7 may believe a spiritual context for your life can change your life,  make you feel more peaceful, give you comfort of a non-physical
D:Day3.8 can cause you to extend forgiveness to those who hurt you, to  make amends to those you hurt, or to simply quit feeling guilty or
D:Day3.10 In such a case, would it  make sense that we not address this issue, this blatant cause of so
D:Day3.29 math, or foreign languages, before you could learn how to  make money, or in other words, to have abundance. You think you could
D:Day3.40 of you it has arisen as thoughts you did not think, if you were to  make an association in regards to entry, you would likely say the
D:Day4.18 in my example life is such a system found despite all attempts to  make it so.
D:Day4.48 the same. If you desire this transformation wholeheartedly, if you  make this choice with wholehearted desire, it will be done, and we
D:Day4.49 These are the only temptations of the new that I can  make you aware of until you have made your choice and have full
D:Day4.51 To be called to  make a new choice before full acceptance of what is would be
D:Day5.18 against is still of your own choosing. The realization of a “way” to  make things as they are is never effortful in and of itself.
D:Day6.7 Negative reactions might cause the artist to doubt her instincts, to  make changes, or to be more determined than ever to see the piece
D:Day6.8 but determining to see the project through, knowing that it will  make the next piece or the next a better piece of music.
D:Day6.15 from it all, you would likely rebel and find many reasons not to  make it so. And so, abundance will have to come first, lack of cause
D:Day6.18 the very fabric of your daily life. Changes you feel called to  make are not discouraged here. The point being made is simply that
D:Day7.20 say you are certain of the future or the past but that you cannot  make it so. Thus your ability to maintain and then sustain your
D:Day8.14 not like it without accepting the feelings associated with it, will  make of it a mental construct, a rule you have set up for your new
D:Day9.4 for it is your allowance, your choice, your permission, that will  make it so. The only one who can stop you now is yourself. The only
D:Day9.17 How will you ever realize, or  make real, the Self you are when you strive to be something else?
D:Day10.9 call intuitive flashes of insight—intuition that causes you to  make connections between point A and point B, be point A and point B
D:Day15.2 To inform is to  make known. Thus you can be made known by everything and everyone in
D:Day15.4 within Christ-consciousness, you begin to be able to know and to  make known without observation or observance of the physical. This
D:Day15.12 boundaries. You become clear pools flowing into each other. You  make your spirits known.
D:Day15.15 You are here to  make one another known and in so doing to know oneness. It will be
D:Day15.15 each other and benefited from its healing properties. To heal is to  make whole. To make whole is to become the spacious Self. To become
D:Day15.15 benefited from its healing properties. To heal is to make whole. To  make whole is to become the spacious Self. To become the spacious
D:Day15.23 To practice, as to inform, is to  make known. To practice, as to inform, does not mean, however, that
D:Day18.11 is meant here by the word demonstrate, is to show your feelings, to  make them visible. They are the creations unique to you through your
D:Day18.12 to be recreated for everyone. What else would life be for but to  make the invisible paradise of love visible and livable for all?
D:Day19.12 fear losing the known to the unknown. The two ways of demonstration  make the unknown known. One makes the unknown known through
D:Day20.9 all the wisdom that is available but unknown to you, takes you to  make it known. And if this is the only way that the beauty, truth,
D:Day21.3 without the reception of what the giver gave. The giver could  make available but could not really teach, guide, or even make
D:Day21.3 could make available but could not really teach, guide, or even  make information coherent without the action of the receiver. Thus it
D:Day21.6 and learner—the transfer of knowledge that would eventually  make teacher and learner equal. Means and end have always been the
D:Day21.8 incredible reversal and thus it is. This is the reversal that will  make of you a creator. But it can only happen if you make the first
D:Day21.8 that will make of you a creator. But it can only happen if you  make the first transition.
D:Day22.2 it is important to discuss this in as many ways as possible to  make this idea clear to you. You are life, and you are also
D:Day22.6 Through what means can you express it? Can you put it into words,  make it into images, tell it in a story? You will feel as if you will
D:Day22.7 separation. You realize that you know the unknown and you desire to  make the unknown knowable. You realize that you have known a place
D:Day22.9 with God and to the new world you can create once you accept and  make real this union.
D:Day22.11 sorrow, and life everlasting. This is the great unknown that you can  make known.
D:Day23.1 Forget not that who you are is what you are here to  make known and thus you must be a being who knows love without fear,
D:Day23.5 acknowledgment that you hold within yourself a will to know and to  make known. This will is divine will, your will,
D:Day28.6 path. Many simply reach a state of reasonable comfort and will  make no choices that will effect that comfort level.
D:Day28.22 To move to internally directed experience is to  make the move into wholeness that will cause the “shift of the ages,”
D:Day32.6 on the goodness of what He created? Thinking that He’d like to  make adjustments here or there, perhaps, but no, He has already
D:Day32.12 Yet to believe that God is everyone can still  make you feel as if you are not God. How can this be? This can be
D:Day32.13 makes God powerful and man not could be endless, just as one could  make an endless list of what they believe differentiates God from
D:Day33.5 is to your being that the people, places, events and situations that  make up your world appeal. It is in your response that who you are
D:Day33.7 you do not respond to love in the same way again. This wording may  make love sound as if it is an event, something that comes to you or
D:Day34.7 If you do not  make real your power, you will experience yourself as powerless. If
D:Day35.21 your own life, primarily as you have reached maturity and begun to  make choices. While it has just been said that you will create in
D:Day38.9 it. That you hold it and carry it within your own Self. That you  make it yours. As you make me yours and as I make you mine. I Am your
D:Day38.9 it and carry it within your own Self. That you make it yours. As you  make me yours and as I make you mine. I Am your own. You are my own.
D:Day38.9 your own Self. That you make it yours. As you make me yours and as I  make you mine. I Am your own. You are my own. We are the beloved when
D:Day39.10 you have discovered that you are who I Am because you realize—or  make real—your oneness with Christ. When you have discovered your
D:Day40.4 I did not  make you in my image. I created you in love because it is the nature
E.2 being who you are in unity and relationship, these questions will  make no sense to you. They already have far less power. Can you not
E.2 them gone from you. This is the only choice you will still have to  make—the choice to leave behind the old in order to be.
E.12 has not changed. Let this realization come too if it must. And  make a new choice. The future is up to you.
E.20 hang on to them, your being will not have the chance to realize and  make real its being. You will be different, only if you allow and
E.20 be different, only if you allow and will yourself to realize and  make real this difference. It is a difference between becoming and
A.28 be revealed and for the welcome realization that differences do not  make separate.

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C:3.7 cause and another denigrates you. In all scenarios you remain the  maker of your world, giving it its causes and effects. If this can be

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C:P.17 able to do? Or to believe that you, in union with God, can? What  makes more sense? To choose to try again what others have tried and
C:1.4 placed them inside your body, conceptualizing them in a form that  makes no sense.
C:1.14 see the effort to do so, no matter how futile, as being that which  makes up your life. To not engage is to not prove your own existence.
C:2.8 themselves to purposeless lives, convinced one person among billions  makes no difference and is of no consequence. Still others put on
C:2.13 Reverse this thought and see if it  makes any more sense than it did before. In this scenario a
C:3.21 unaided and unhelped, for pain and love kept together in this way  makes no sense, and yet makes the greatest sense of all. These
C:3.21 for pain and love kept together in this way makes no sense, and yet  makes the greatest sense of all. These questions merely prove love’s
C:5.16 stand, much like your inner world, is where you live the life that  makes the most sense. It is where your values are formed, your
C:6.10 light of heaven. Only you can stoke those fires, and this is what  makes them desirable to you. A warmth not of this world, given
C:6.14 The contrast that you have come to see in your separated state  makes only either/or situations possible. While a choice for heaven
C:6.17 With peace, accomplishment is achieved in the only place where it  makes any sense to desire it. With your accomplishment comes the
C:7.4 to withhold a piece of yourself and say of this piece, “This is what  makes me uniquely who I am.” Without this piece of yourself that you
C:9.19 about you quickly override compassion with practicality. While it  makes sense to you to attempt to dispel a child’s nightmare, you see
C:9.21 and even your fantasies testify that you believe an absence of cold  makes for warmth. That the absence of hunger is fullness. The absence
C:9.27 well. It is the relationship inherent in meeting another’s need that  makes the meeting of the need a thing of lasting value. It is your
C:9.32 the user and the object of use be one and the same? This insanity  makes the purpose of your life seem to be one of usefulness. The more
C:9.44 Abuse is but improper use—use on a scale that  makes the insanity of use obvious to both the user and the usee, and
C:9.45 It is its purpose that  makes use improper. The Holy Spirit can guide you to use the things
C:10.2 is not the obliteration of one thing to make another—joining  makes each one whole, and in this wholeness one with all. This union
C:10.3 ideas can begin to change, until finally your heart takes over and  makes the one choice you are bound to make. Your heart—not to be
C:10.6 constantly in your ear, the lie that it would have you believe  makes all else you would learn here as impossible as this. You listen
C:10.12 they are. And to believe in something that you do not understand  makes you feel peculiar at the least and delusional at the worst. You
C:10.17 your body, also observe its actions in terms of the choices it  makes. Ask yourself, “What choice may have led to this situation or
C:11.10 own decisions, and the power to flaunt them before God, is all that  makes your little separated self feel powerful at all.
C:13.7 know that you are more than your body, and ask yourself if it  makes sense to not do all you can to become aware of the “more” you
C:14.13 that some of you have denied and that some of you could not. What  makes this relationship stand out in your mind and feel so painful in
C:14.15 Everything that you consider valuable you want to keep. This  makes perfect sense to you because the foundation of your world is
C:14.24 it to be. The purpose you give each thing within your world is what  makes it what it is to you. And as each purpose you have ascribed to
C:15.7 Your desire for specialness  makes of you a slave to others and others to you. It diminishes your
C:15.8 in your world. This banding together for support against fear simply  makes fear real, and the seeming cause for loyalty essential.
C:15.9 Your concept of loyalty is what  makes it difficult for you to entertain withdrawing your effort to
C:16.4 have judged and found the ones you love good and worthy of your love  makes not your judgment justified any more than the judgment that
C:16.6 born. Without differences there is no cause for conflict. Judgment  makes different. It looks past what is the same and sees it not and
C:16.19 not make you safe, and defining evil does not abolish it, but only  makes it real to you. Yet you believe judgment to be based on
C:16.20 does all justice. Any basis other than love for power or for justice  makes a mockery of both. Might makes right is a saying that is known
C:16.20 than love for power or for justice makes a mockery of both. Might  makes right is a saying that is known to many of you, and even those
C:17.16 despite your better judgment. See you not how little sense this  makes, how insincere this even sounds?
C:18.1 but the story of perception’s birth. And your perception of the fall  makes of the fall a curse. This interpretation would be inconsistent,
C:18.10 While this explanation  makes perfect sense, you find it quite unbelievable on the basis of
C:18.14 That you keep yourself from desiring anything fully here is what  makes this existence so chaotic and erratic. A mind and heart in
C:18.17 as not much less normal although it is recognized that a split mind  makes decision making difficult. You were already told that the only
C:19.1 did ideas of glorifying the body arise. To glorify a learning device  makes no sense. And yet in creating the perfect device from which you
C:19.14 are no needs. If everything you need has been provided, having needs  makes no sense.
C:19.18 or accepting the response. It is this non-belief in a response that  makes it capable of asking. Now that you are beginning to shed the
C:20.7 mutuality, shared touch, a melding of one into another. The embrace  makes one of two.
C:24.1 and what you would term emotionalism. You may feel as if everything  makes you want to cry because everything will touch you, each lesson
C:25.9 for the concert, and been told your ticket is not valid. This  makes you angry. This anger is re-enacted in thousands of different
C:28.9 for your point of view, no matter what that point of view may be,  makes what you have come to know pointless to you as well as to those
T1:5.11 experience dictated by the ego-mind, and this experience is all that  makes you believe you are other than who you are. Thus the abolishing
T1:6.3 being answered, and responding. This is the aspect of prayer that  makes of it an act of creation.
T1:6.7 relationship. Memory, or how you relate to past experiences, is what  makes each individual unique. A family can share many similar
T1:8.10 What is a mother but she who incarnates,  makes spirit flesh through her own flesh, makes spirit flesh through
T1:8.10 but she who incarnates, makes spirit flesh through her own flesh,  makes spirit flesh through union. That you have, in your version of
T1:9.6 to be a giver and a receiver. You knew that giving and receiving  makes one in truth. This is your recreation of this universal truth.
T2:2.1 mind is not the source of such imagination. The practical mind  makes of imagination a fantasy. It is the heart that sees with true
T2:7.2 you would call strangers. It is the very independence of others that  makes your own independence seem so important to you. Dependency is
T2:9.10 extent to which you deny your needs or are honest about your needs  makes the difference in your connection or separation within
T3:9.1 This idea is an idea of love. It is an idea that  makes perfect sense and it is its very sense that makes it seem
T3:9.1 It is an idea that makes perfect sense and it is its very sense that  makes it seem meaningless in a world gone mad. It is an idea that
T3:15.10 in unity with all within the House of Truth. This relationship  makes the Self one with all and so brings the holiness of the Self to
T3:18.3 to exist as who you are in human form. See what perfect sense this  makes as your human form is an observable form. It is thus from
T3:21.12 although this hasn’t as often been considered as part of what  makes you certain of your personal self, are the thoughts of your
T3:22.7 as one. Observation, as I am speaking of it and teaching it,  makes you one with what you observe. Being one with what you observe
T4:3.1 Observation is an extension of the embrace that in turn  makes the embrace observable. The embrace is not an action so much as
T4:5.6 the All of everything and life, or the Body of Christ, as all that  makes up the seemingly individual parts of the All of everything.
T4:5.7 body, you are part of the body of Christ, the body of energy that  makes up the universe.
T4:5.9 of free will. Free will does not make the impossible possible. It  makes the possible probable. It is thus probable that you will use
T4:7.5 natural state is one free of fear and judgment. This is all that  makes up the difference between your natural state and your unnatural
D:1.12 This thought  makes you worry about the identity of the one you have called
D:3.19 that exists between the Self and the elevated Self of form that  makes of us creators of the new, because the elevated Self of form is
D:7.5 cannot be uncreated. Thus transformation is needed. The miracle  makes you fully aware of the embrace and the consciousness of unity
D:11.11 that need an explanation for everything, and an explanation that  makes sense in terms of the world you have always known.
D:Day3.30 or years, unworried about your health until the slightest pain  makes you think of cancer. In this same way, there are not any of
D:Day7.5 you may still feel unsupported in form. Realize now, that this  makes no sense when our goal is the elevation of form. If for no
D:Day7.5 for no other reason, begin to accept this support of form because it  makes sense. It is logical. And realize further that love is not
D:Day19.12 unknown. The two ways of demonstration make the unknown known. One  makes the unknown known through individuated example lives. One makes
D:Day19.12 One makes the unknown known through individuated example lives. One  makes the unknown known through creation of the new so that the
D:Day28.16 and defined as acceptance of internal rather external conditions. It  makes no sense, however, to accept what is not the truth. Most of
D:Day32.13 seen as having what man has not. The list of what one can imagine  makes God powerful and man not could be endless, just as one could
D:Day37.13 quite simply, been being. The simple truth that you are a being  makes you one with God, who is being. This truth, however, has
D:Day37.26 between God and man is that man sees difference in a way that  makes no sense. Like the faulty ideas of creation that shaped your
D:Day39.4 to do so, you may not be able to share this answer in a way that  makes sense to anyone else. Let this tell you something.
D:Day39.6 you as an individuated being in union and relationship. This is what  makes it a true revelation. Because true revelation is between you
D:Day40.20 self” as you have searched for a “one, true, God.” This search only  makes sense to the separated self, who believes all things are

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C:P.11 as God created you, you are abdicating love to fear. You are perhaps  making this world a better place but you are not abolishing it. In
C:P.16 this choice, even made with every good intention of going back and  making a difference, is still a choice for hell when you could
C:P.22 joy cannot be done without, they are the point only to the extent of  making one ready for a new choice. Prolonged interest in self can be
C:P.40 being able to show you proof that you could see would be accused of  making up a fairytale for your amusement.
C:2.11 beginning with your own, and yet you could no more end misery by  making it real than could God. There is no magic here of turning
C:4.21 those you love around you. Here you share your day’s adventures,  making sense of what you can and leaving out the rest, and here you
C:5.15 of. The one you see as real is the one you keep outside of yourself,  making it possible to look upon it with your body’s eyes. The one you
C:6.8 to live in opposition to the truth, and the opposition is of your  making.
C:6.17 holy light. No longer do situations pit one against another,  making it impossible for anyone to achieve what they would achieve.
C:9.4 This is how you have distorted all relationship as well,  making of it something that only becomes real in its use by you or to
C:9.26 remembered of creation and made in its image, so too is this. While  making yourself separate and alone you have also made it necessary to
C:9.33 is for eternity and has no use for time. Time too is of your  making, an idea of use gone mad, as once again you have taken
C:10.18 than happy, so it is important that you let your heart lead in  making this new choice. When you find yourself in a situation you do
C:14.3 occurs when you would make yourself inferior, and you are always  making for yourself a place at one of these extremes. And all this
C:15.5 and opportunities, nor would you fulfill your responsibility of  making this one special if you did not do so. To make one small
C:15.9 your effort to manifest the specialness of others and yourself.  Making special seems to be a responsibility you have undertaken, and
C:16.10 that you can judge judgment itself. You deem yourself capable of  making good judgments and poor judgments, and you deem love as being
C:16.17 cannot be replaced. Judgment thus reinforces the idea of separation,  making of it something even darker than it started out as being. It
C:18.8 would choose to learn what the idea of separation would teach you.  Making a new choice, a choice to learn from unity, is what this
C:18.10 of yourself and the limited range of power you believe your decision  making to have. The only way to make the unbelievable believable is
C:18.14 What you desired you experienced fully with your whole being,  making it one with you. That you keep yourself from desiring anything
C:18.17 normal although it is recognized that a split mind makes decision  making difficult. You were already told that the only exercise for
C:20.41 You would not be other than you are except when you give in to  making judgments. Look deeply and you will see that what you would
C:22.20 This will seem, at first, as if it is depersonalizing the world and  making it less intimate. It will seem as if you are shirking some
C:25.15 it may conjure up notions of joining movements or parties, or of  making social contributions, pure joining is its objective. The first
C:25.21 will be a time of discernment. You may feel it as a time of decision  making, but the less you attempt to make conscious decisions the
C:29.19 choose unity. Not knowing that unity was a choice prevented you from  making this choice before now. Now I tell you clearly, the choice is
T1:1.9 Course of Love accomplished. This learning was accomplished in you,  making you The Accomplished. As The Accomplished, you now are able to
T1:3.23 upon you, we will consider only one further fear, the fear of  making the wrong choice in your choice of miracles. This is the same
T1:9.15 or event. Another’s first reaction might be one of self-pity, of  making oneself or another feel guilty, or of experiencing a sense of
T2:5.7 will be calls that assist you in integrating this learning and  making it one with who you are. These lessons will bring who you are
T3:1.12 this, both in life and in all time and time beyond time,  making you, along with me, the accomplished. As has already been
T3:2.2 something in truth by expanding awareness, or in other words, by  making something known. This is what true relationship does and is
T3:3.2 as good or bad or somewhere in between are what you have seen as  making you loveable or unlovable. Yet you have also often made them
T3:5.4 attempting to make do with what you have. All your time was spent in  making repairs and this time spent kept you too busy to see the light
T3:8.11 what was looked for was found. If what was looked for were means of  making life easier, why not the idea of machinery and tools that
T3:13.13 own ideas about those beliefs that you own those beliefs in terms of  making them your beliefs. To believe without forming your own ideas
T3:14.8 before you. But this choice is not the choice of continuous decision  making but simply the choice to live by the truth of the new thought
T3:15.18 accomplish. Obviously, this replacement must be total. The means for  making this total replacement are in your hands but you are hardly
T3:17.2 it observed as being other than itself, through this beginning of  making distinctions between the self and all other things in creation
T3:18.3 happens in relationship, the very relationship that disallowed the  making of a separate self. Observance is linked to cause and effect
T4:8.1 that it was God who made this choice. This was the Creator  making a choice. Creation’s response was the universe, which is an
D:4.6 what you love, you are in prison. This prison is as much of your own  making as are the actual prison systems that developed when shape and
D:6.8 what is real since you didn’t understand what it was you were  making things to represent. These are the systems we have already
D:11.5 attacked it as they attack all problems to be solved. The idea of  making a contribution has begun to receive the attention of your
D:12.9 separated self. We might make this a simpler subject to discuss by  making a distinction between thinking and thought. This distinction,
D:Day3.14 the ideas set forth in this Course, when practiced, are capable of  making a difference, especially in terms of monetary abundance. This
D:Day4.49 access to unity. You will be able, of course, to continue on without  making this wholehearted choice, but you will read only to learn and
D:Day10.3 you to move from maintenance to sustainability today, I am merely  making you aware of this difference, just as I made you aware of the
D:Day12.8 Obstacles need not be avoided for space encompasses all obstacles,  making them invisible. The mind would say that making obstacles
D:Day12.8 all obstacles, making them invisible. The mind would say that  making obstacles invisible is uncaring. The spacious Self knows no
D:Day15.6 that animates form that is real. Informing could be understood as  making the spirit known in the form of physicality. It is not simply
D:Day15.6 It is not simply the bringing of spirit into form but the  making known of spirit in form. What you made known through
D:Day15.7 The difference between simply bringing spirit into form and  making spirit known through form is the difference for which the time
D:Day15.8 the birth of the body and then cease to be. It is not about life and  making form alive but about spirit and informing spirit. It is about
D:Day15.8 making form alive but about spirit and informing spirit. It is about  making spirit known through the form of physicality.
D:Day15.25 One Self and also to be able to focus—to not exclude while also  making choices about where your attention is given. Just as you
D:Day20.9 known, then you are the source and the power of coming to know and  making known.
D:Day21.10 that this is the aim of our final time together. Concentrate on  making the first transition and on the reversal of thought that it
D:Day22.7 that it is known to you because the knowing becomes real in the  making known. It is the only way it remains real. You know union in
D:Day26.1 said that you are the source and the power of coming to know and  making known. It naturally follows, then, that you are capable of
D:Day36.12 no difference to your state of being. You have just kept being, kept  making choices between one illusion and another in your separate
D:Day37.14 you believe yourself to exist. You have exercised that power by  making choices as and for your separate self, at times in
D:Day40.6 are. As has been said before, you saw these attributes of being as  making you separate rather than distinct from who I am being and who
D:Day40.9 been in existence since the beginning of time. It is creation in the  making. What will be created now, and the individuation that will
E.24 of opposites becoming one. Remember that this is creation in the  making. Remember that you are a creator. Never forget that in being

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C:10.5 when you may be beset by headaches, back pain, and other seeming  maladies. This is the separated self that you have made calling you
C:10.5 it is insurmountable. Many people at this point try to think these  maladies away, and when they do not succeed they see this as further
C:15.1 of your creation of an opposite to love through specialness. All the  maladies of the current time as well as those of history would give

male (12)

T1:8.16 The  male provided the manifestation or the effect of the cause created by
T1:8.16 responsible for the incarnation of Christ in you. This union of the  male and female is but union of the parts of yourself expressed in
T1:8.17 of thought brings all you have seen as parts of the self, such as  male and female, conception and action, inspiration and
T1:9.1 in A Course of Love. This will bring about the union of the  male and female, of conception and action, of inspiration and
T1:9.2 Whether you be  male or female matters not, as you are in truth, the union of each.
T1:9.2 the resurrection brought about this union and the separation of  male and female continues to exist only in form.
T1:9.11 What will it mean to bring about the union of the  male and female, of conception and action, of inspiration and
T1:9.12 turned toward wholeness. In the same way that embracing both the  male and female attributes within you causes a merging of both and a
T1:9.16 impact. It would seem to be about balance but is about wholeness.  Male and female are labels laden with attributes. When the different
T1:9.16 laden with attributes. When the different attributes are merged,  male and female will be no more and wholeness will reign.
T3:21.11 you feel about your personal self. You identify yourself as  male or female, married or single, homosexual or heterosexual. You
D:Day1.4 married woman will not relate to many men in many ways, have many  male friends, teachers, guides. It means that one is chosen as a mate

males (3)

T1:9.6 Let us consider why birth has been the purview of women and  males have been incapable of giving birth. This is because, in your
T1:9.12 As the ego has become threatened and allowed the coming of guidance,  males and females both have begun to work with the parts of
T1:9.12 parts of themselves over which the ego has the least control. For  males this has most often meant a turning away from the intellectual

malfunction (1)

D:Day18.8 from? When something appears to go wrong, what is the source of the  malfunction?

maligned (1)

D:7.9 Matter is simply another word for content, and need not be  maligned. The content of all living things is the energy of the

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C:P.11 what you perceive as impossible. You thus cling to the laws of  man and reject the laws of God. You claim your human nature and
C:P.25 what it is to be God’s child and also to walk the earth as child of  man. This is not your helper, as the Holy Spirit is, but your
C:P.26 for the moment, speak of the family of God in terms of the family of  man, in terms, in short, that you will recognize. In the family of
C:P.26 man, in terms, in short, that you will recognize. In the family of  man, there are many families but it is called one family, the family
C:P.26 there are many families but it is called one family, the family of  man. It is called one species, the human species. Within this family
C:P.26 It is called one species, the human species. Within this family of  man are individual families, and among them, that which you call
C:P.27 Obviously the nature of God is different than the nature of  man. God does not have physical form and does not produce physical
C:P.27 the coming of God’s son, Jesus Christ, who was born, grew into a  man, died and rose again to live on in some form other than that of a
C:P.27 died and rose again to live on in some form other than that of a  man. Those who believe the story have accepted that Jesus was God’s
C:P.30 You are the creation like unto your Father and the family of  man is like unto the family of God. Just as children grow in your
C:P.39 can identify Jesus differently is to relate to the Jesus who was a  man, the Jesus who existed in history. This is the same way in which
C:P.39 This is the same way in which you are able to see yourself—as  man or woman, as a being existing in a particular time in history.
C:P.39 nature of the problem. If you cannot see yourself “other than” as  man or woman living in a particular place in a particular time, you
C:1.17 The union of two bodies joined in love create a child, the union of  man and woman joined in marriage create oneness.
C:3.6 who abides in you. In Jesus Christ, the Son of God became the son of  man. He walked the world with a face much like your own, a body with
C:7.14 than that of your friends, success greater than that of the average  man or woman. You pit yourself not only against individuals but
C:12.11 it is and what it has always been, but for, perhaps, the mark of  man upon it. Yet the moon remains the moon despite man’s landing on
C:16.25 go meekly through your life trying to comply with rules of God and  man with thought of some greater good in mind. If everyone did what
C:20.14 in me returned me to the embrace. The singular heartbeat of the  man Jesus no longer sounded. My heartbeat was the heartbeat of the
C:30.14 God’s laws are generalizable and do not change, and thus the laws of  man have not usurped the laws of God. It is only in your perception
C:30.14 the laws of God. It is only in your perception that the laws of  man take precedence over the laws of God. Since perception arises
C:31.10 you, and is the reason for man’s quest for God throughout all time.  Man may think he looks to God for answers, for release from pain, for
C:31.10 answers, for release from pain, for reward, or for an afterlife. But  man has always looked to God for his own Self. Not looking to God to
T1:4.8 is what led to the ego-mind being able to develop the “laws of  man.” These laws of man are the laws of the body’s survival.
T1:4.8 the ego-mind being able to develop the “laws of man.” These laws of  man are the laws of the body’s survival.
T1:5.14 will aid you in reconciling the laws of God with the laws of  man. Through mindfulness you will remember who you are. Through
T1:8.2 As a  man, I suffered, died and was buried. As who I Am, I resurrected. “I
T1:8.6 relate to your thinking? You have been reborn as god-man, as God and  man united. The resurrection is the cause and effect of the union of
T1:8.6 divine. This is accomplished. This is in effect the way in which the  man Jesus became the Christ. This is in effect the way.
T1:8.10 your version of creation, made it necessary for woman to join with  man in order for new life to come forth, is but another example of
T2:11.2 as you perceive of others as living under the old rules, the laws of  man rather than the laws of God or love. It will seem all but
T2:11.2 You will still perceive of the world as operating under the laws of  man and as long as you perceive of the world in such a way you will
T3:2.12 you to grasp that I return you to our comparison of the family of  man to the family of God, as well as to our discussion of the return
T3:5.7 crucifixion would have ended life in form and returned the sons of  man to the formless. Instead, the sons of man were freed to pursue
T3:5.7 and returned the sons of man to the formless. Instead, the sons of  man were freed to pursue their original purpose.
T3:13.5 come at a cost, the cost of pain. You have believed in the laws of  man, laws that were made to perpetuate the idea that you must pay for
T3:15.17 are is not limited to the concept of human being nor to the laws of  man. If you continue to act as if you are still the same being that
T3:17.3 As soon as spirit took on form,  man began to exist in time because there became a need for a
T3:17.7 was associated with my name, the name Jesus, because I lived as a  man with a Holy Spirit in my mind and heart and as such represented
T3:19.2 For ages  man has thought that spiritual joy diminishes physical joy. While
T3:21.22 those who seek the truth to turn to. It will matter not that a black  man will not turn to a white man or a Muslim to a Christian. It will
T3:21.22 to. It will matter not that a black man will not turn to a white  man or a Muslim to a Christian. It will not matter if a young person
T4:1.14 in the laws of evolution, the slow learning and adaptive process of  man. Surely this would seem a likely answer and one to assuage your
T4:2.4 path or process back to God and Self before me. It was the time of  man wandering in the wilderness. I came as a representation or
T4:2.4 human or forgotten self and the divine or remembered Self. Jesus the  man was the intermediary who ushered in the time of the Holy Spirit
T4:2.11 may desire to best a sporting record and another to follow the first  man into space and the one who desires to best a sporting record may
T4:2.11 to best a sporting record may feel no desire to follow the first  man into space and vice versa, and yet, what one achieves but opens
T4:3.13  Man has striven since the beginning of time to be done with the
T4:5.1 As many of you believed that I was the Son of God and more than a  man before my birth, during my lifetime and after my death and
T4:7.3 as was, during the time of the Holy Spirit, the understanding that  man is imbued with spirit. People, both religious and non-religious,
T4:8.9 to be flat—God saw and knew to be consistent with the nature of  man, even while the fear and struggle that this impatience generated
T4:12.16 to your nature. Have you not always been told and seen examples of  man pushing against his limits? Has not this pushing against limits
T4:12.17 to dislodge much of this learned wisdom during my time on Earth and  man is still puzzling over the meaning of my words. The time for
D:4.5 who would have power over you, and you remain subject to the laws of  man.
D:6.12 the happenings that reveal that the laws of spirit and the laws of  man coexist. Yes, there are natural laws, but these “natural” laws
D:7.7 told that you are time-bound only as a particular self, existing as  man or woman in a particular time in history. Now you are called to
D:7.24 Everyone knows that this has not worked to improve the fate of  man. Everyone secretly fears that evolution will not keep pace with
D:11.16 Do you still believe that the contribution made by the  man Jesus was an individual contribution? I tell you truthfully that
D:11.16 self would be akin to placing the importance of Jesus on the  man Jesus who existed in history. Some do see Jesus only as an
D:11.16 Jesus who existed in history. Some do see Jesus only as an important  man among many important men. Those who do so miss the point of the
D:Day1.4 are prerequisites for many states you value. To marry one  man you must choose to leave others behind. This is required. This
D:Day1.12 It is our power that is being spoken of here. The power of the god  man. The power of God brought into form. The power of who we are
D:Day1.13 God cares not what you call Him. God knows who He is. It is  man who has known not who he is, and it is through me that this
D:Day1.18 us extend our idea of the creation story to include the creation of  man and woman. Adam and Eve represent your birth into form. I
D:Day2.9 from that part of you that has compared your actions to the laws of  man and God and found yourself guilty.
D:Day4.7 Despite the creation story that symbolizes man’s journey, early  man was not a being who learned in the same way that you do. Early
D:Day4.7 man was not a being who learned in the same way that you do. Early  man had no language. His mind was not full of thoughts. Early man and
D:Day4.7 Early man had no language. His mind was not full of thoughts. Early  man and early childhood can thus be linked as examples of a kind of
D:Day10.18 have “learned” the distinction between Christ-consciousness and the  man Jesus. You have “learned” the distinction between your Self and
D:Day10.18 Jesus. You have “learned” the distinction between your Self and the  man or woman you are. Now you are called to forget what you have
D:Day10.19 truly share. I came to you in the form of the consciousness of the  man I once was because you were, prior to this point, unready to give
D:Day10.20 I ask you not to give up your relationship with me as the  man Jesus, but to accept that the man Jesus was simply a
D:Day10.20 your relationship with me as the man Jesus, but to accept that the  man Jesus was simply a representation, in form, of
D:Day10.20 of the voice of this dialogue as that belonging to the  man Jesus who lived two thousand years ago. To continue to identify
D:Day10.20 two thousand years ago. To continue to identify this voice with that  man is to be unable to recognize this voice as the voice of your own
D:Day10.20 Yet to realize that this is the same voice that animated the  man Jesus two thousand years ago will aide you in realizing that this
D:Day10.21 I have spoken with you throughout this time as the  man Jesus so that you realize that man and Christ-consciousness can
D:Day10.21 you throughout this time as the man Jesus so that you realize that  man and Christ-consciousness can be joined. That you, as man or
D:Day10.21 that man and Christ-consciousness can be joined. That you, as  man or woman, existing in this particular time and space, can join
D:Day10.21 and helpmate but will only know more fully the content of the  man Jesus. As you join with Christ-consciousness in this dialogue,
D:Day10.25 unity and relationship, let me spend my final time with you as the  man Jesus talking more of feelings.
D:Day10.31 are being called to respond to them with acceptance and love. As a  man, I took a stand for the powerless and called them to power. I am
D:Day10.38 difficult for me, even now, even in this final address to you as the  man Jesus, to speak of feelings without addressing the grand scheme
D:Day11.7 of existence through relationship. It is not God. It is not  man. It is the relationship that allows the awareness that God is
D:Day17.2 You have been told Christ-consciousness is neither God nor  man but the relationship that allows the awareness that God is
D:Day17.2 Sophia, spirit. Christ-consciousness thus obviously predates the  man Jesus, and creation itself. It is both the feminine and
D:Day17.5 with realization of Christ-consciousness as strong as that of the  man, Jesus, did not express that realization but negated the
D:Day29.1 they cease to be real for us. Wholeness and separation, God and  man, life and the individuated self, what you do and who you are, the
D:Day32.8 this idea, to being a participatory being, but still falls short.  Man lives and has free will. Animals abide by the laws of nature. God
D:Day32.13 seen as the All Powerful. While God is seen as the All Powerful,  man is disenfranchised. Even while God is perhaps seen in all things,
D:Day32.13 by which all that lives, lives, God is still seen as having what  man has not. The list of what one can imagine makes God powerful and
D:Day32.13 man has not. The list of what one can imagine makes God powerful and  man not could be endless, just as one could make an endless list of
D:Day32.13 make an endless list of what they believe differentiates God from  man. The example lives in which the power of God was demonstrated in
D:Day32.14 This is the point that this work has striven to get across. That  man and God are one. Not only is man God. But God is man and woman
D:Day32.14 has striven to get across. That man and God are one. Not only is  man God. But God is man and woman and child. God is.
D:Day32.14 across. That man and God are one. Not only is man God. But God is  man and woman and child. God is.
D:Day32.15 as the All of All. How could God be the All of All and not also be  man? How can God be all that is and at the same time not all that is?
D:Day32.15 be the All Powerful and Living God and also be lowly and powerless  man?
D:Day32.20 you have limited power. This is the difference between God and  man. This difference, however, can be diminished as you embrace holy
D:Day35.19 different from creating in unity as has been your concept of God and  man. Few of you have even thought of creating as God creates. You
D:Day37.3 rather than both/and thinking: that is, you are a woman and not a  man, you are a human being and not a divine being, you are a person
D:Day37.10 the compassionate consciousness that you share. You realize that the  man, the God, the historical figure who has been called Jesus Christ
D:Day37.22 Jesus Christ, was also created by Jesus Christ. Thus is the power of  man and God together, the power of creation. What this is saying is
D:Day37.24 Jesus, the example life used throughout this Course, was both  man and God. He was being in unity and relationship. Being God did
D:Day37.26 only real difference that exists or has ever existed between God and  man is that man sees difference in a way that makes no sense. Like
D:Day37.26 that exists or has ever existed between God and man is that  man sees difference in a way that makes no sense. Like the faulty
D:Day37.27 this example reemphasized the mightiness of God and the lowliness of  man. The “part” of God you have been being is being. You have been a
D:Day40.13 of existence through relationship. It is not God. It is not  man. It is the relationship that allows the awareness that God is
A.13 the answer that arises in your own heart or from the voice of the  man or woman sitting next to you. Now you are ready to hear all the

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C:12.11 the mark of man upon it. Yet the moon remains the moon despite  man’s landing on it. The earth remains the earth despite your
C:31.10 can you find your Self. This is known to you, and is the reason for  man’s quest for God throughout all time. Man may think he looks to
T1:8.7 Now, how could one  man’s resurrection be the way or even a way. How can resurrection
T4:12.16 rebellion been seen retrospectively as having advanced the cause of  man’s evolution and society’s knowledge?
D:7.24 that evolution will not keep pace with the changing world and that  man’s reign over his environment will come to an abrupt and painful
D:Day4.7 this was true as well. Despite the creation story that symbolizes  man’s journey, early man was not a being who learned in the same way

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D:2.19 the world within, you would need no systems to understand or  manage the world without. These systems were attempts to learn the

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C:2.13 has extended His being into the creation of the universe has somehow  managed to extend what is not of Him, to create what is unlike to His

managing (1)

C:31.6 cause these functions to take place, you would surely die, for  managing the workings of the body would be more than your conscious

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T4:1.7 might look at this as lack of choice, saying that anything that is  mandatory allows no room for choice. In their rebellion against the
T4:1.7 mandatory allows no room for choice. In their rebellion against the  mandatory nature of their chosenness or opportunity, they might
T4:1.10 This curriculum is  mandatory and so some have rebelled and will rebel against it. Those
D:Day28.3 are directed almost totally by external forces, from parents, to  mandatory schooling, to somewhat voluntary schooling.

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C:5.23 succeed. This is the extent of your faith in your own ability to  maneuver this world that you have made; and if you finally do

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C:15.9 makes it difficult for you to entertain withdrawing your effort to  manifest the specialness of others and yourself. Making special seems
T4:8.7 imagine for a moment yourself as a being whose every thought became  manifest, as perhaps you can envision from remembering your dreams in
D:14.12 is all about a movement into form or manifestation. You already are  manifest in form, and so the idea of becoming that has been with
D:Day16.5 These are the unwanted feelings that are blamed on others. These  manifest in your interactions with the world, taking on form in the
D:Day19.1 have a form within your mind and so you see not how it can become  manifest in the world. In other words, you know not what to do. You
D:Day19.10 do in the sense of fulfilling a specific function that will become  manifest in the world, but are required to do in the sense of
D:Day24.2 creation. It does not exist only once potential is realized or made  manifest, but always in all things.
D:Day31.5 realizing the unity of the relationship in which experience becomes  manifest, you not only realize oneness, but realize that you are a

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T1:8.1 to be the Word incarnate, the union of the human and the divine, the  manifestation of the Will of God. I have told you that you are no
T1:8.2 “I am the resurrection and the life.” What I was in life was the  manifestation, in form, of the Will of God. Thus too have you been.
T1:8.16 The male provided the  manifestation or the effect of the cause created by the female in the
T1:8.17 such as male and female, conception and action, inspiration and  manifestation, together into the wholehearted.
T1:9.1 of the male and female, of conception and action, of inspiration and  manifestation. This is what we have been speaking of when speaking of
T1:9.4 The growth of a new being within the womb of another is a visible  manifestation of gestation, which is the prelude to resurrection.
T1:9.11 of the male and female, of conception and action, of inspiration and  manifestation? It will mean union and a time of miracles. It will
T1:9.12 then come about with conception and action, inspiration and  manifestation.
D:14.10 Coming to know is the precursor of coming to be. The precursor to  manifestation. The precursor to creation of the new. It paves the way
D:14.12 Becoming is all about a movement into form or  manifestation. You already are manifest in form, and so the idea of
D:Day6.19 elevated place within that will bring to your full realization and  manifestation without the accomplishment that already exists.
D:Day7.10 This condition of expansion is operative now and beginning to find  manifestation through the sharing we are doing here.
D:Day7.17 which the elevated Self of form will be created and come into full  manifestation.
D:Day14.14 within the many, the means of sharing your access to unity, the  manifestation, in form, of the healed and whole and thus spacious
D:Day16.4 are those for which you blame yourself. Sickness is the form of  manifestation of rejected feelings. These manifestations come to you
D:Day16.6 or rejected and became “real” is returned to the Self, the physical  manifestation dissolves, because the source, which was separation, is
D:Day16.6 came only to pass. Because the feeling that generated the physical  manifestation was not physical to begin with—was not of the
D:Day16.8 Without acceptance, the separation remains along with the physical  manifestation.
D:Day18.2 without. Christ-consciousness is God within you, your particular  manifestation of God and relationship with the God within.
D:Day18.6 state was a sickness, an unwanted state, and thus a temporary  manifestation. The joining of mind and heart provided reunion of the
D:Day39.48 are creators? That we think, feel, know, and create. Creation is the  manifestation of all we think, feel, know and come to know. Because

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T1:9.4 creation is the act of giving birth. But birth, like all outward  manifestations, but reflects inner change. The growth of a new being
D:7.8 particularity. You can accept the body now as what it is in all its  manifestations while not seeing it as “bound” by the particularity of
D:Day16.4 The rejected feelings exist as separate and forgotten physical  manifestations until they are willfully remembered and accepted back
D:Day16.4 Sickness is the form of manifestation of rejected feelings. These  manifestations come to you to prove to you what you think you know—
D:Day16.5 to thwart plans, or in “situations” or crises of all kinds. These  manifestations also come to you to prove what you think you know—
D:Day16.9 that is real and all that was ever real exists. While the physical  manifestations of all that you feared and expelled were not real
D:Day18.6 time on the idea of sickness and other unwanted states as temporary  manifestations. Your separated state was a sickness, an unwanted
D:Day24.1 with many forms. The form you occupy contains all of your potential  manifestations as the form of the caterpillar contains all of its
D:Day24.1 as the form of the caterpillar contains all of its potential  manifestations.
D:Day24.2 of creation. What is unaltered remains unaltered despite its many  manifestations. Wholeness exists in every cell, in each of every

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C:3.10 birth in an idea, a thought, a conception. Everything that has been  manifested in your world was first conceived within the mind. While

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C:20.6 establishing the order, blessing the silence, gracing the cosmos,  manifesting the light of the heart. Here we live as one body,

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T1:9.15 with pride, bolster one’s position, think one’s way through, argue,  manipulate, or chastise another so that you feel better in

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C:3.22 in love’s way. Some others might use their thoughts in yet another  manner, claiming to choose love and not pain when what they really
C:7.18 and the hidden knowledge of your heart. Your heart already sees in a  manner much more whole than the perception of your split mind. Even
C:20.38 Hope is a  manner of acting as if the best possible outcome you can imagine
C:29.16 The separation but accentuated this  manner of functioning and made of it something difficult and
C:29.16 something to be changed. The separation accentuated this  manner of functioning and made of it, as of the rest of creation,
C:29.16 creation, something that it is not. The separation accentuated this  manner of functioning, but it did not create it. Life exists in
T1:5.12 This is why I have asked you to choose the  manner in which you would be once and finally convinced. You must
T3:18.9 as has been often said, is a neutral form that will serve you in the  manner in which you choose to have it serve you. It has always been
T3:19.13 that couldn’t be seen until it was represented in an observable  manner, something you will now do.
T3:19.14 time can be wasted and why so many are being called in the strongest  manner it is possible to call them. It is only when what is
T3:20.13 is to remain with cause rather than to stray to effect, the  manner of living practiced by those who have birthed the idea that
T4:7.6 this harmony will keep your body in perfect health, even while the  manner of this perfection of your health will remain one of many
D:Day4.17 It asks that you challenge your world-view in a most thorough  manner.
D:Day12.8 within the space. The solidity of the perceiver is, in this  manner, deflected from the One Self, becoming not an obstacle. The
D:Day35.7 your return to level ground is returning in a calm, even, and equal  manner, to the most elemental and fundamental aspects of being human,

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C:11.15 willingness is it that you are asked to give? It can come in many  manners and be given many forms. It can be called a willingness to

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T2:3.4 is now the Self of learning and experience. You must take on the  mantle of your new identity, your new Self.
T2:13.1 need to stand separate and alone in order to be fulfilled under the  mantle of individuality. You have been told to put on a new mantle, a
T2:13.1 the mantle of individuality. You have been told to put on a new  mantle, a new identity. What does this mean?
T2:13.6 which you once looked at life is of the ego. Drape your persona in a  mantle of peace and joy. Let who you are shine through the personal

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C:20.30 innumerable as the stars in the universe, as bountiful as beauty, as  many-faceted as the gems of the earth. I say again that sameness is

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D:Day32.3 Here we must revisit the concepts of oneness and  manyness for if you retain any notions of God that are inaccurate,

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C:1.9 can take pride in your accomplishment, as if by following another’s  map the sense of accomplishment in your arrival would be diminished.
D:Day20.3 you really “get it” that the unknown cannot be taught, laid out on a  map, or shown to you by another.

march (1)

C:4.6 security is possible, and day turns endlessly into night in a long  march toward death. Recognize who you are and God’s light goes before

marched (1)

C:2.20 Into this battlefield you have bravely  marched. The war rages by day and by night and you have grown weary.

marching (1)

C:2.23 of neutrality is where the return begins. Armies may not yet be  marching home, but their preparation is underway.

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C:5.9 This urge to preserve things is but your urge to leave a  mark upon the world, a mark that says, “I have acquired much in my
C:5.9 preserve things is but your urge to leave a mark upon the world, a  mark that says, “I have acquired much in my time here. These things I
C:5.9 is so sadly displaced as to make a mockery of who you are. Love does  mark your place—but in eternity, not here. What you leave behind is
C:11.2 artists of all kinds you honor but this fact. Every poem bears the  mark of its creator, as does each work of art you would gaze upon and
C:12.11 to be what it is and what it has always been, but for, perhaps, the  mark of man upon it. Yet the moon remains the moon despite man’s
D:13.9 Partial expression, yes. But that partial expression will bear the  mark of your perspective, and that is why partial truth is never the
D:Day28.24 a thread and now can see the tapestry. This tapestry will bear the  mark of your experiences and will be like no other. The thread

marriage (8)

C:1.17 joined in love create a child, the union of man and woman joined in  marriage create oneness.
C:14.11 of you has one. It can be of parent and child, of best friends, of a  marriage or a partnership, or even that of a mentor or student.
C:26.1 what you believe a full life to be. For some of you it would include  marriage and children, for others career, religious commitment, or
T3:15.1 taken place or been offered. Often, those within the relationship of  marriage have had occasion to choose to forgive the past and begin
D:1.12 in the sacraments you have known as Baptism, Confirmation, and  Marriage. Each of these invite a new identity. So, too, do we invite
D:Day28.4 of a personal or professional nature. For some these choices include  marriage and starting a family. Some follow a more standard pattern
D:Day28.4 follow a more standard pattern than others, with schooling, career,  marriage, and family seen as an almost inescapable as well as
D:Day33.3 without the other and thus both are one in truth. This is the divine  marriage, the divine relationship of form and being.

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C:4.12 self-sacrificing. Still others of you might imagine a couple long  married in which each person is devoted to the other’s happiness, or
C:17.6 willingly entered many unknown states. Some of you have gotten  married, had children, taken mind-altering drugs, or attempted
C:17.6 know everything there is to know about sleep and dreaming, being  married, using drugs, or having children; but even those of you who
T3:21.11 about your personal self. You identify yourself as male or female,  married or single, homosexual or heterosexual. You might call
D:Day1.4 to leave others behind. This is required. This does not mean the  married woman will not relate to many men in many ways, have many

marry (1)

D:Day1.4 that requirements are prerequisites for many states you value. To  marry one man you must choose to leave others behind. This is

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D:Day40.10 or music or literature, religion or politics or science. Jesus or  Martin Luther or Muhammad may have been said to have created

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T3:19.16 able to resist. What will make this choice so attractive will not be  martyrs and saintly souls stricken with every calamity and yet

marvel (1)

D:17.7 You are not alone in your glory or achievement and you  marvel that this takes nothing from your feeling of accomplishment.

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T1:8.9 example of any of these and know instead the example of woman, of  Mary, Mother of God.
T1:8.12  Mary is called upon now as the myth to end all myths for in this
T1:8.16 of the cause created by the female in the virgin birth. My mother,  Mary, was responsible for the incarnation of Christ in me as I am
D:Day17.9 was represented not only by Jesus, but by his mother,  Mary. Mary, like Jesus, realized full Christ-consciousness and full
D:Day17.9 was represented not only by Jesus, but by his mother, Mary.  Mary, like Jesus, realized full Christ-consciousness and full
D:Day17.9 and learning and leading example lives. Another way, that of  Mary, was the way of creation, and was a representation and
D:Day17.10 duality, the death of form, the resurrection of spirit. The way of  Mary represented incarnation through relationship, demonstrating the
D:Day17.13 the way of Jesus and the beginning of the fulfillment of the way of  Mary. This ending stage of the fulfillment of the way of Jesus is the
D:Day18.1 been preparing for the beginning of the fulfillment of the way of  Mary. Many of you will follow the way of Jesus to completion,
D:Day18.2 Yet the ways are not separate any more than Jesus was separate from  Mary—or any mother separate from her child. The ways are rather
D:Day18.2 in truth symbolizes it in form and process. As within, so without.  Mary represents the relationship that occurs within, Jesus the
D:Day18.7 The truth represented by Jesus and  Mary was represented as a visual pattern that would aide
D:Day19.1 Those of you who are the forerunners of the way of  Mary may have felt confusion over your sense of calling. You know you
D:Day19.2 creating music, the healer in creating health. Those of the way of  Mary are content with a way of living. Yet everyone has a function to
D:Day19.4 are to be through their acts of creation. Those called to the way of  Mary are called to be what they want to see reflected in the world
D:Day19.6 All live and create in relationship. Those called to the way of  Mary, however, are called to the creation and anchoring of the new
D:Day19.8 Just as Jesus would not have been literally birthed without  Mary, the way of Mary cannot be reborn without the way of Jesus. Both
D:Day19.8 Jesus would not have been literally birthed without Mary, the way of  Mary cannot be reborn without the way of Jesus. Both ways arose from
D:Day19.8 as demonstrations of ways. Those who have thought of  Mary as an intermediary are as inaccurate in this belief as are those
D:Day19.8 of expressions of this one ultimate function. Together, the way of  Mary and the way of Jesus demonstrate the truth of as within, so
D:Day19.9 The way of  Mary is not a place or state of non-interaction however. This is not
D:Day19.10 but some must “do” in order to “become.” Those called to the way of  Mary are not required to do in the sense of fulfilling a specific
D:Day19.11 to the way of Jesus will find acclaim and those called to the way of  Mary will find obscurity. Many called to the way of Mary will “do”
D:Day19.11 to the way of Mary will find obscurity. Many called to the way of  Mary will “do” much that is greatly desired in the world but what
D:Day19.11 than a means of facilitating that way of being. Many of the way of  Mary will find acclaim, yet neither acclaim nor obscurity will matter
D:Day19.11 One Self is all that matters. Eventually all will follow the way of  Mary and such ideas as acclaim and obscurity will be no more. But at
D:Day19.14 in form but through relationship. Those following the way of  Mary become mirrors of the truth they discover, reflecting the way to
D:Day19.16 individuated states and it is necessary for those of the way of  Mary to support, encourage, and reflect the new to those being
D:Day19.16 functions fulfill those functions, they move naturally to the way of  Mary.
D:Day19.17 Without those pursuing the way of Jesus, those pursuing the way of  Mary would have a much more difficult task. There would be little

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T1:8.13 to resurrect, as I resurrected. It is through the Blessed Virgin  Mary’s resurrection in form that the new pattern of life is revealed.

masculine (1)

D:Day17.2 the man Jesus, and creation itself. It is both the feminine and  masculine, the “identity” of God, or in other words, the All of All

mask (1)

C:8.27 is a memory you retain to the smallest detail, and yet the details  mask the truth so thoroughly that all truth is given over to illusion.

masks (1)

C:8.7 None of this speaks of what your heart would say to you, but  masks the language of the heart and buries stillness deep beneath an

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C:4.12 the wind and acting in foolish ways that pass as gaiety but cannot  masquerade as joy. You each have an image in your mind of someone you

masquerading (1)

C:P.12 but rejection of your Self? What is this rejection but fear  masquerading as humility? What is this rejection but rejection of

mass (5)

C:20.19 you? And is the you who shed such tears a personal being? A thing? A  mass of flesh and bone? Or are you, like the world you cry for,
C:21.2 you can let go of your particularity. Particularity has to do with  mass, substance, form. Your being is far beyond your imagined
C:28.3 like a congregation around a pulpit, and even believe in a theory of  mass that purports that when a certain magnitude of belief occurs,
D:Day15.6 been perceived as real. That observation produced the solidity and  mass of the forms you observed. Yet it is the spirit that animates
D:Day36.14 always been yours. The power to create—everything from weapons of  mass destruction to cathedrals of towering majesty—has always been

mass-manufacturing (1)

C:29.11 your paper plates and dishwashers taken the ritual from a meal, your  mass-manufacturing the satisfaction of the hand-made. While this is

masse (1)

C:7.12 you can unload your burdens, hoping you can pass your grievances en  masse to someone else. If you succeed through anger, spite, or

master (9)

C:9.42 and masters but use one another and the same laws bind both. Who is  master and who is slave in this body you would call your home? What
C:9.42 can be asked of this world you see as home to the body. Which is  master and which is slave when both are held in bondage? The glory
C:9.43 upon this insane premise that freedom can be purchased and that  master is freer than slave. Although this is illusion, it is the
C:23.29 you have achieved a learning objective? Yet how can you become a  master of what another would teach? Of lessons another would select?
C:23.29 curriculum designed specifically for you, a curriculum only you can  master. Only your own life experiences have led to the learning you
T3:20.1 serve you. Time was wasted on illusion and so but seemed to become a  master that made of you a slave. Now time must be thought of in a new
T4:8.16 being a learning being—choosing something to learn that it could  master. Yet all that this was, was a desire to be done with learning,
D:Day3.36 speak of a way is to invite dialogue and a journey. This is what all  master “teachers” taught, often throwing the questions posed back
D:Day39.30 or any other concept that has become your God can be a tough task  master, or a fair friend, loving or unloving, distance you from

mastered (2)

D:Day15.10 creative. It is of creation and can only flow through those who have  mastered neutral observation because the intent of creation, rather
D:Day15.11 be reached until those who are the forerunners have practiced and  mastered this interaction with the creative force long enough to

masterful (1)

D:Day2.3 You can see the pattern of your life as clearly now as if a  masterful biography had been written of it. It is this clarity that

masterpiece (2)

C:11.2 its creator, as does each work of art you would gaze upon and call a  masterpiece, as well as those creations of little hands you hang on
C:26.22 idea is the completion of the pattern that will make that idea a  masterpiece. An idea is irrevocably linked with its source and one

masters (1)

C:9.42 are but a collective portrayal of individual desire. Slaves and  masters but use one another and the same laws bind both. Who is

mastery (1)

C:23.27 for unlearning and new learning both. Control opposes openness.  Mastery comes through the process of both unlearning and learning

matched (1)

T4:1.23 the hearts of your brothers and sisters, nor have you known that it  matched your own. You may have seen the acts that this yearning has

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C:4.15 Each one of you has held an ideal of what the perfect  mate would mean, an ideal that changed over time. Those most bound by
C:5.16 into in order to earn your living, receive your education, find your  mate. But the home in which you stand, much like your inner world, is
C:15.4 to many—or possibly even to anyone. You just want to love your  mate and children, your parents or your friends, and would be quite
D:Day1.4 male friends, teachers, guides. It means that one is chosen as a  mate to the exclusion of others chosen as a mate.
D:Day1.4 that one is chosen as a mate to the exclusion of others chosen as a  mate.
D:Day2.12 Conversely, were you the innocent “victim” of an adulterous  mate, a mate whose actions led to divorce and the destruction of your
D:Day2.12 Conversely, were you the innocent “victim” of an adulterous mate, a  mate whose actions led to divorce and the destruction of your home,

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A.45 This Course becomes a beloved alma  mater, honored and returned to as a giver of new life. It offers no

material (6)

C:22.4 A second and equally worthy image is that of a needle passing through  material. Of itself, it can hold two pieces of material together.
C:22.4 passing through material. Of itself, it can hold two pieces of  material together. With the addition of thread passed through the eye
C:22.7 found. The partnership of axis to globe, and of needle and thread to  material, is easily seen. In these two examples, the partnership
T2:1.3 defined as being of value. As this Treatise is not concerned with  material treasure, we will not explore the dimensions of physical
D:Day9.13 you would achieve a position of status within your profession or  material wealth, you have believed that if you work hard enough you
D:Day12.6 When an obstacle of form, be it human or  material in nature, seems to present itself, all you must do is

materialistic (1)

T3:21.12 addition to your name and family of origin ever are. Even the most  materialistic among you rarely count what you have acquired in form

materialize (1)

T4:5.4 it exists in all else that lives. It is one Energy endlessly able to  materialize in an inexhaustible variety of forms. It is thus one

materialized (1)

T4:8.5 many universes. These universes grew and changed, ebbed and flowed,  materialized and dematerialized in natural cycles of the creation

materials (1)

D:Day40.31 that you have had as you have read this Course and the related  materials? Has it not been a feeling of being known? Has this Course

math (3)

D:Day1.4 why should it be required? A college education has requirements. If  math is a stumbling block for some, a foreign language for another,
D:Day3.29 is for you the most difficult type of learning, be it philosophy,  math, or foreign languages, before you could learn how to make money,
D:Day30.2 we have spoken of might be seen as the process, much like in  math, through which the common denominator is found. The common

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D:Day37.11 “remain” one in being. You “remain,” just as the numbers of simple  mathematics remain, one with the whole. You have seen yourself as

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C:P.26 only place where unconditional love is seen as acceptable. Thus, no  matter how good one child is perceived to be and how bad another is
C:1.6 and let your worries go. Remember always that they simply do not  matter except in terms of time, and that you will save time by
C:1.6 time this is an effect, but time is an illusion. It too does not  matter. Remind yourself of this as well. This is part of letting go
C:1.6 the old world to make way for the new. Realize these things do not  matter and will not be carried with you to the new world. So you
C:1.14 will not win the game you play here, you see the effort to do so, no  matter how futile, as being that which makes up your life. To not
C:6.1 all others for being as you are. They too cannot be separate, no  matter how hard they try. Forgive them. Forgive yourself. Forgive
C:7.18 Let this image go and concentrate on the wholeness of your heart, no  matter how you view its current condition. Be it wounded, bleeding,
C:8.12 are fraught with righteousness that is still righteousness no  matter what the noble cause you deem yourself willing to address. You
C:8.15 what is not the truth. Your body is not the truth of who you are, no  matter how much it appears to be. For now, let’s consider it the
C:11.9 away from you, you have not yet given up its protection. It does not  matter to you that it is insane to think that He who has given you
C:11.10 But your strongest perception of your free will is of its power. No  matter what God wants of you, you can use your free will to rebel and
C:17.11 believe mistakes must be paid for, not once but many times, and no  matter how heavy the payment is, it only “pays for” what was done and
C:18.20 Unifying thought is more than a  matter of focus or single-mindedness, although these are both steps
C:18.20 are both steps in the right direction. Unifying thought is also a  matter of integrating the thought or language of your heart with that
C:20.47 you are separating yourself from the whole. These concerns are a  matter of perception, and are things your mind has been trained to
C:21.7 truths in the same situation, conflict cannot help but continue. No  matter which path you follow, the path of the mind or the path of the
C:23.7 discussed some pages back: You would not be other than you are. No  matter how much you grow to love another, that love does not cause
C:25.19 that while some things you have done and will continue to do may not  matter, they may still be done with patience, grace, and love. You
C:25.24 to be lighthearted at such times and to remember that if it “doesn’t  matter,” you might as well try the new way. Remind yourself that you
C:26.20 you in the past. Your answer is not the same as any other. No  matter how filled with wisdom one person’s answer may be, it is not
C:27.7 concerns about concentration on the self will end. Life is not a  matter of self versus other. Life is a matter of relationship. Life
C:27.7 self will end. Life is not a matter of self versus other. Life is a  matter of relationship. Life is not a matter of human versus divine,
C:27.7 self versus other. Life is a matter of relationship. Life is not a  matter of human versus divine, but a matter of relationship between
C:27.7 of relationship. Life is not a matter of human versus divine, but a  matter of relationship between the human and the divine. Life is not
C:27.7 of relationship between the human and the divine. Life is not a  matter of one living thing versus another, but of the relationship
C:27.11 rest. But it does imply a Self that is integral to all the rest. You  matter, and you matter as an interactive part of the relationship
C:27.11 imply a Self that is integral to all the rest. You matter, and you  matter as an interactive part of the relationship that is life. You
C:28.9 witness into a convincing argument for your point of view, no  matter what that point of view may be, makes what you have come to
C:29.13 No  matter how busy your schedule, it is only a schedule in terms of your
C:29.26 all gifts come but once and are forever? The past nor the future  matter not. All is available in the here and now where giving and
C:30.6 the known Self, in all its glorious relationship with life. All  matter is born and dies. All life is forever. The known Self realizes
C:30.7 with the infinite instead of the finite, with life as opposed to  matter.
C:30.8 consciousness, being present. There is no being and no present in  matter. In matter, being must be attached to form. In the sense of
C:30.8 being present. There is no being and no present in matter. In  matter, being must be attached to form. In the sense of time
T1:1.11 without guidance, this change would be seen as quite difficult no  matter how grand its outcome and even in spite of your recognition,
T1:7.4 is needed and is here. To continue to rely on the ways of old, no  matter how effective they were and no matter how much they spoke the
T1:7.4 to rely on the ways of old, no matter how effective they were and no  matter how much they spoke the truth will be to not learn the new.
T1:10.2 will think this is what you want. And I say again that it will not  matter whether it be joy or sorrow for you are, or have been,
T1:10.14 in whatever way you find it, in whatever expression it takes, no  matter what words you use to describe it, is your answer to God and
T2:1.5 and the new way of living. But it is not the end that is sought. No  matter how peaceful this place of rest may at first seem, it will
T2:5.7 and receiving are one, you will not realize that dependency is a  matter of the interdependency of all that exists in relationship.
T2:9.12 a state in which your needs are met creates a static level, that no  matter how good or right or meaningful, loses its creative nature by
T2:10.18 ground. You still think of lessons as being about specific subject  matter. When life does not go as you have planned, you feel as if
T3:2.8 found in illusion and so no representations of perceived truth, no  matter how intensely they have been championed, have truly altered
T3:2.9 representations of the truth simply have no meaning and no  matter how much one might try to read meaning into the meaningless,
T3:2.12 child, a self who would willingly choose to explore independence, no  matter what the cost. This discussion merely examined the reality you
T3:2.12 for you to “grow up” into its version of an independent being—no  matter what the cost.
T3:6.1 you seek—some of you from God, some from life, some from fate. No  matter who it is you think is in charge of rewarding you, the
T3:7.7 founded one science or another. In all of the excitement the  matter of the source of the explosion was dismissed.
T3:12.4  Matter or form is bound by time. Spirit is not. The House of Truth
T3:13.12 birth the idea of having no reason to fear these consequences, no  matter what they may be. You must, in truth, birth the idea of
T3:14.10 not so. You must choose to leave this blaming of yourself behind, no  matter what it is you feel you have need to blame yourself for. You
T3:18.8 and that you are called to observe the truth rather than illusion no  matter how real illusion may still seem to be.
T3:21.17 these beliefs unless you are able to see them in a new light. No  matter what you believe, while you have a body that is different from
T3:21.20 for the answer lies in realizing that your former identity does not  matter, even while realizing that it will serve your new purpose.
T3:21.22 In other words, it will  matter not that there will be no priest or guru for those who seek
T3:21.22 no priest or guru for those who seek the truth to turn to. It will  matter not that a black man will not turn to a white man or a Muslim
T3:21.22 will not turn to a white man or a Muslim to a Christian. It will not  matter if a young person looks to one his or her own age or turns to
T3:21.22 to one his or her own age or turns to someone older. And yet it will  matter that someone will look at you and see that you are not so
T3:21.22 at you and see that you are not so different than he or she. It will  matter that someone will look at you and be drawn to the truth of
T3:21.23 those of race and religion. It is simply being said that they do not  matter. It will not matter if a person turns to someone “like” him-
T3:21.23 It is simply being said that they do not matter. It will not  matter if a person turns to someone “like” him- or herself to find
T4:1.10 learn the same content, for all are chosen; and all learning, no  matter what the means, will eventually lead them to the truth of who
T4:3.13 have to die. That the nature of form can change. That the nature of  matter is one of change. That the nature, even of form, once returned
T4:4.15 Continuity is an attribute of relationship, not of  matter. It is only in the relationship of matter to the divine that
T4:4.15 of relationship, not of matter. It is only in the relationship of  matter to the divine that matter can become divine and thus eternal.
T4:4.15 matter. It is only in the relationship of matter to the divine that  matter can become divine and thus eternal. If you can abide in unity
T4:5.3 in form. The same life-force courses through all that exists in  matter in the form of this energy. Awareness of this one Source of
T4:5.5 Christ. It is like unto what the water of the ocean is to the living  matter that exists within it. The living matter that exists within
T4:5.5 the ocean is to the living matter that exists within it. The living  matter that exists within the ocean has no need to search for God. It
T4:8.2 to old ideas of not having had “yourself” any choice in the  matter, or reverting to old ideas of blaming God for all that has
T4:8.11 a parent, you come to see that you cannot fight a child’s nature, no  matter how different it might be from your own—just as in extreme
T4:12.4 and this is your invitation to participate in this dialogue. No  matter where you are, no matter what concerns you still hold within
T4:12.4 to participate in this dialogue. No matter where you are, no  matter what concerns you still hold within your heart, no matter what
T4:12.4 are, no matter what concerns you still hold within your heart, no  matter what questions are emanating from your mind, they will be met
D:1.20 when you may be one of thousands or millions who hear it? Does it  matter who is first to hear the music? This is, in truth, a dialogue
D:2.12 you from trying the same thing again although at times it will. No  matter what you try, however, it is based on this concept of trial
D:6.19 into countless examples of this type of thinking, but the examples  matter not except to make you see that these attitudes are not ruled
D:7.8 one aspect of what you are. The nature of form is that it exists as  matter, it occupies space and is perceptible to the senses. You have
D:7.9  Matter is simply another word for content, and need not be maligned.
D:7.9 By seeing only aspects of wholeness you have not seen content nor  matter truly. You have not been aware of all that you are. You are
D:7.21 the natural response of the living organism to the stimulus of  matter upon matter, and of the creature’s perception of its own
D:7.21 response of the living organism to the stimulus of matter upon  matter, and of the creature’s perception of its own experience in
D:7.29 and revelation will expand this territory, and realizing that no  matter how small this cosmic territory may be, it will still at times
D:17.3 The secret of succession is simple. It is but a  matter of wholehearted desire. Do you wholeheartedly desire to follow
D:Day1.11 healing, or you may make many choices. You may think these choices  matter not, but only the power of the healer. Some of you may see
D:Day1.11 new life to a limb withered or broken. You may wonder why it should  matter whether this power be called Buddha or Allah, Muhammad or God.
D:Day1.15 You are all beloved sons and daughters of love itself, no  matter what you call that love. You all are equally beloved. That you
D:Day2.6 will always keep you anchored to the self you once were, that no  matter how high you ascend, it will continue to drag you back.
D:Day3.5 So our first point of discussion in the realm of anger is that no  matter where anger seems to arise, anger is a product of the
D:Day3.47 begun to see is that the mind is not the source of certainty, no  matter how much knowledge it attains. What you have perhaps begun to
D:Day3.47 similar terms, is that money is also not the source of certainty, no  matter how much it enables you to attain. Certainty, in other words,
D:Day3.59 Like all that was taught within this Course, this is a  matter of all or nothing. You cannot accept part of one reality and
D:Day4.25 of the self as separate and alone, you could not learn the truth no  matter how much attention you paid, no matter how mightily you tried.
D:Day4.25 could not learn the truth no matter how much attention you paid, no  matter how mightily you tried. For on your own you cannot learn the
D:Day4.40 the portal of access to unity? Do you turn and look back at form and  matter? Or do you turn and look up where no form exists? Do you
D:Day8.18 and so will disregard the feelings of others as if they do not  matter. This will only happen if you allow yourself to deny and thus
D:Day9.10 or compassion. The image of the ideal self you hold in your mind, no  matter what form it takes, is still an image, and must now be done
D:Day9.12 Realize now that your ideal image, no  matter how it was formed, is a product of the time of learning. It
D:Day19.11 of Mary will find acclaim, yet neither acclaim nor obscurity will  matter to those following these ways. Being true to the self and the
D:Day22.6 It does not  matter that everyone’s function is the same because no one expression
D:Day29.1 of experience simultaneously and that duality is really just a  matter of different levels of experience. If you can be having the
D:Day30.3 being available, commonality is also always available. Thus no  matter how fractious are the separate selves, commonality and
D:Day33.9 your world. How can this be? And how can you look at each event, no  matter how horrific, as a response of love?
A.16 but “wrong” answers and inaccurate interpretations? This is a  matter of unity versus separation rather than a matter of right and
A.16 This is a matter of unity versus separation rather than a  matter of right and wrong. In unity and relationship, each is not

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C:9.17 How could one separated off from all the rest not be fearful? It  matters not at all that all whom you observe seem to be separate as
C:9.33 away all your happiness and power to that which you have made! It  matters little now that in so doing you once again imitated what your
C:11.11 You do not see that what you choose to do with your free will  matters not to God at all, for what you have chosen to use it for is
C:11.14 must shift to change the effects you would have come about. This  matters not at this point. You are offered the opportunity to make a
C:12.15 for separation. Whether God’s son had one form or many at that time  matters not, for one form or many, there was still one mind, the mind
C:20.48 from love’s angle. It is the view of the dying who realize nothing  matters but love. This realization is not one of sentiment, regrets,
C:20.48 truth is that which exists. The false is illusion. Love is all that  matters because love is all that is.
C:25.18 will at first be true. You will see little in what you do that  matters. You will wonder why you are unconcerned about many of the
C:31.12 understanding of the heart, or love. How the ego becomes dislodged  matters not. What matters is where you place your devotion.
C:31.12 the heart, or love. How the ego becomes dislodged matters not. What  matters is where you place your devotion.
T1:8.11 Self. Whether you believe the virgin birth was reality or myth  matters not as myth and reality have no concrete distinction in the
T1:9.2 Whether you be male or female  matters not, as you are in truth, the union of each. The end of
T2:4.11 that you a have a specific calling, no calling, or many callings,  matters not at this juncture. What matters is that you think it does.
T2:4.11 no calling, or many callings, matters not at this juncture. What  matters is that you think it does. You think it matters because you
T2:4.11 this juncture. What matters is that you think it does. You think it  matters because you compare and judge rather than accept.
T3:4.3 must take all such ideas from your mind. Such ideas are not small  matters. Ideas are the foundation of the self. You cannot have an
T3:4.8 the ego-self is gone from you. Whether you fully realize this or not  matters not. This A Course of Love has accomplished. Now the choice
T3:14.2 felt a lack of respect you may feel that what others think of you  matters not and enjoy a heightened self-concept. While these would
T3:14.8 It is only your old uncertainty that will make you fear the  matters of choice that lie before you. But this choice is not the
T3:15.3 But whether the expectation is of special treatment or poor behavior  matters not. It is the expectation of a “known” set of criteria
T3:22.10 with what has been, tired of the way things were, uninterested in  matters of a personal nature. This very readiness is what I now call
T4:1.11 be otherwise. But at the same time, it must be seen that your choice  matters in time, even if all will make the same choice eventually.
D:1.20 than the mindset of unity. What I say to you here, I say to you. It  matters not that I say these same words to many, for you and the many
D:2.13 What is seen as not “working for you” are often those  matters that are beyond your personal control and so patterns of
D:Day1.11 You may think that, as long as the power is called forth, it  matters not the name by which it is called. You may think that it all
D:Day1.12 It  matters not. The power of God is not what is being spoken of here. It
D:Day1.15 That you give your devotion to one religious tradition or another  matters not. That you accept that I am he who can lead you beyond
D:Day1.15 that I am he who can lead you beyond your life of misery to new life  matters absolutely.
D:Day3.21 same circumstances of those to whom you complain. To speak of money  matters with someone who might have more than you, you would consider
D:Day19.11 Being true to the self and the calling of the One Self is all that  matters. Eventually all will follow the way of Mary and such ideas as
D:Day21.5 to receive and what you do with what you receive is all that  matters.
D:Day22.9 we have been calling Christ-consciousness, but what you call it now  matters not. All the words that have been expressed here, that say so
D:Day22.10 reception and expression. Call it what you will for what you call it  matters not. Throw out all the words that express the unknown in ways
D:Day38.13 Who I Am to you, and who you are to me, is all that  matters. Our relationship can only be thus in union and relationship

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T3:15.1 have had more experience with new beginnings than others. For most  mature adults, some form of new beginning has taken place or been
T4:8.10 who is too impatient, too bright, too eager, to learn slowly and  mature gracefully? Do you withdraw your love? Never. Do you
D:Day2.22 beginnings of I Am. Since most births are seen in this way, and most  mature lives are not, we concentrate here on mature lives.
D:Day2.22 in this way, and most mature lives are not, we concentrate here on  mature lives.
D:Day2.23 My  mature life thus began with the recognition of who I Am, as does

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D:Day24.5 the butterfly as your spirit, revealed only after the potential has  matured and been released. There is, in other words, a necessity for

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D:Day28.4 independent increases the awareness of self as self. As the self  matures beyond school age, the choices become those of degrees of

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C:P.30 independence, only later to return. The return is the symbol of  maturity, acceptance, and often of forgiveness.
T1:4.22 distinction, for you are used to congratulating yourself on the  maturity required to reinterpret previous lessons. To form a new
T4:1.24 and direct communication or experience. Many not yet grown to  maturity have been born into the time of Christ, and do not fit
D:14.12 since your actual birth, progressing from youth to adolescence to  maturity, as well as many days of birthing new aspects of the self,
D:Day2.20 of the same major elements as yours: Birth through childhood,  maturity, and with that maturity action in the world, suffering,
D:Day2.20 elements as yours: Birth through childhood, maturity, and with that  maturity action in the world, suffering, death, and resurrection.
D:Day2.21 of my form in the world, but that mainly occur during my time of  maturity. These accounts do not stress the time of childhood as it is
D:Day2.21 is a time commonly held to be one of innocence. The accounts of my  maturity generally begin with the recognition of who I am. This is
D:Day35.21 role you have had in your own life, primarily as you have reached  maturity and begun to make choices. While it has just been said that

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T3:19.8 comes of love and what comes of fear. All expressions of love are of  maximal benefit to everyone. While you may, for a while yet, not see

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C:10.20 recognized that you seem to minimize your chances for happiness and  maximize your chances for unhappiness through the choices you would

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D:15.18 this example, maintenance is what you give in order to receive the  maximum connection to unity that is possible in this time. You

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C:6.10 have every day the same would be uninteresting now. Perhaps later.  Maybe when you are old and have grown weary of the world. Then
T2:4.12 but acted earlier you would have had the life you’ve dreamed of and  maybe it is not too late. This is not about examining where the
T3:9.5 to those going on inside, thinking that with the force of one more,  maybe the walls will finally come tumbling down and those inside be
D:12.7 a reception different from the reading of the words of most and  maybe all other books you have read, be a sign to you. Keep this in
D:Day9.12 of the time of learning. It became an image in your mind, and  maybe even within your heart, through the process of learning. It
D:Day9.13 wealth, you have believed that if you work hard enough you can  maybe, someday, if you are blessed or lucky, achieve this ideal image.

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D:Day39.31 Have you had no god, no science, no beauty, no wealth, but only a  meager and hopeless life? Then your god has been the god of defeat.

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C:9.21 But a warm fire will only provide warmth as long as it is stoked. A  meal will provide fullness only until the next is needed. Your closed
C:9.22 unto others you do this to me. Do you think that I am in need of a  meal, a cup of water, a warm bed? While you are trapped in the
C:9.25 home as fragile as the body? How could you fail to provide the next  meal for yourself and those within your care? You do not see all that
C:29.11 Thus have your paper plates and dishwashers taken the ritual from a  meal, your mass-manufacturing the satisfaction of the hand-made.
T1:2.16 to get safely home before it is dark, to a desire to eat an evening  meal. It signals change in the natural world around you. Birds and
T2:2.6 that comes from the simple act of caring for a child, preparing a  meal, bringing grace and order to a home?

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D:4.22 freedom. A hungry ex-prisoner may soon come to feel the three  meals a day provided in the prison were gifts indeed. So too are the
D:4.22 seek not your own, then you have imprisoned yourself for the “three  meals a day” of the old way.

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C:I.11 given to each One. They are heard only by each “alone” by which I  mean in the sanctity of the One Heart. We are one heart. We are one
C:P.31 What does it  mean to believe in God? You recognize that you cannot know God in the
C:P.39 This shared identity made Jesus one with Christ. The two names  mean the same thing, as oneness is what was always shared and always
C:1.12 it comes. This is useful to us in several ways. By this I do not  mean that there are not particular objects of your affection. This is
C:3.15 What this will  mean to you goes far beyond the learning of this Course. One such
C:4.1 purely, you know God whether you realize it or not. What does it  mean to love purely? It means to love for love’s sake. To simply
C:4.15 Each one of you has held an ideal of what the perfect mate would  mean, an ideal that changed over time. Those most bound by the ego
C:4.26 more sentiment in a world where lovely words replace what they would  mean. This joining is the goal you seek, the only goal worthy of
C:5.11 be labeled so. Yet you are misguided concerning what your feelings  mean and how they would bring love to you and you to love.
C:5.13 joined with love, becomes something else? An urge to violence may  mean many things, but always lurking behind it is an overwhelming
C:5.13 lurking behind it is an overwhelming desire for peace. Peace may  mean destruction of the old, and love can facilitate the rise and
C:8.11 What do you  mean to do when you attempt to look beneath the surface? Do you mean
C:8.11 you mean to do when you attempt to look beneath the surface? Do you  mean to look beneath the skin, or into the hidden recesses of a heart
C:10.6 That you are not ready yet does not  mean you will not be ready, just as having lost something does not
C:10.6 mean you will not be ready, just as having lost something does not  mean it no longer exists. Yet your separated self would cite all
C:12.23 occur in truth. What would a child’s rejection or a parent’s death  mean to those who did not believe in separation? Do you believe that
C:15.5 others within it. Depending on your culture what is necessary may  mean few things, or many and different things for each one. From this
C:17.5 all that is good for you to know, and that to know more is going to  mean that things you would rather not know, and therefore must be
C:22.13 to alter your destiny, the search for God. By using the word sit, I  mean to imply that these things have not passed through you and in
C:26.10 who struggle to understand what these words say and what they might  mean, who strive to find the clues to what they ask you to do, will
C:27.12 Because you do not understand does not  mean that you are not learning the truth. You do not understand
C:27.15 out of habit, or your considerations of what the situation might  mean to your future. It is not the individual “you” that dictates
C:27.18 Does an understanding of the relationship of all things  mean that you will have power that is not of this world? Will you see
C:27.18 fate? You do have power that is not of this world, but this does not  mean power as you see it here, the power of details and the
C:31.4 worker. What is inseparable cannot be different, but this does not  mean it must be the same. Inseparable does not mean replaceable.
C:31.4 but this does not mean it must be the same. Inseparable does not  mean replaceable. Water does not replace wine nor wine water, yet
T1:1.4 need to know, which is the function of all coursework. This does not  mean that you have acquired the ability to live what you have
T1:4.17 what you see, read, hear, smell, and touch differently must  mean something. What you have decided that this means is that you are
T1:8.5 definition of incarnation as the Word made flesh. You took this to  mean that flesh took on the definition of the Word or the almighty
T1:9.11 What will it  mean to bring about the union of the male and female, of conception
T1:9.11 of conception and action, of inspiration and manifestation? It will  mean union and a time of miracles. It will mean that you are the
T1:9.11 manifestation? It will mean union and a time of miracles. It will  mean that you are the living Body of Christ.
T2:1.13 This does not make an instrument unnecessary for a musician or  mean that a painter will not eventually put a brush to a canvas. But
T2:1.13 a painter will not eventually put a brush to a canvas. But it does  mean that the treasure exists without these “things” and that the
T2:4.2 a creator, and as such a continuing act of creation. This does not  mean that creation is acted out upon you but that you are acted out
T2:4.15 in your world, are still often based on old concepts. This does not  mean you have not changed nor that you are in need of accomplishment
T2:5.1 you hear and are able to respond to the one call, this does not  mean that this one call has but one request to make of you, as in a
T2:6.5 What does this  mean in regards to time? You might think of being accomplished as all
T2:7.19 that requires trust in Self and honesty in relationships. Does this  mean that you are required to express every thought and feeling that
T2:7.19 every thought and feeling that comes your way? No, but this does  mean that you bring the thoughts and feelings that arise to the place
T2:9.14 and its fear-based thinking has momentarily returned. This does not  mean that you will never be at rest or that you will be constantly
T2:13.1 been told to put on a new mantle, a new identity. What does this  mean?
T3:1.6 it seem real. When I say that you have represented the ego, what I  mean is that the personal self, as represented by your body, while
T3:3.6 how much you still consider unlovable about yourself. This does not  mean that you are not loveable, only that you have not yet fully
T3:5.8 Each father’s son will die. This means not what you have taken it to  mean, an endless series of generations passing. What this means is
T3:19.14 have heard of in the past without being moved to believe that they  mean anything at all about the nature of who you are. This is why no
T3:21.9 words, a set of information. These facts are subject to change and  mean one thing to one person and one thing to another. Illusion is
T3:22.2 meant this and do not call for leaders to amass followers, I do not  mean to dissuade any of you who feel a call to represent this Course
T4:2.7 who came before did not become aware of their true nature does not  mean that it did not exist; that there are others living among you in
T4:2.7 in this time who will not become aware of their true nature does not  mean that it does not exist within them. You are no more accomplished
T4:2.11 Being first does not  mean being better. That I was the first to demonstrate what you can
T4:2.11 better. That I was the first to demonstrate what you can be does not  mean I am better than you. Just as in your sporting events, a “first”
T4:2.29 self for so long that you cannot imagine what shared vision will  mean, and do not yet recognize it when you experience it. This is why
T4:2.31 Examine what you may have felt the onset of true vision would  mean. Have you considered this question? Have you expected to see in
T4:7.1 simply means false, or not consistent with the truth. It does not  mean wrong or bad and is itself no cause for judgment. It is simply
T4:7.2 That you are living in the time of Christ does not  mean that you will automatically realize Christ-consciousness, just
T4:7.2 just as living in the time of the Holy Spirit did not  mean that you would automatically realize the consciousness of the
T4:8.2 to reach a stage where you can understand this, but what I really  mean is that you are only now reaching a stage wherein you can know,
T4:12.20 pattern. That self-doubt arises in your thought patterns will not  mean that you have cause for self-doubt. You have no cause for
D:3.6 acceptance of the end of the conditions of learning. This does not  mean, however, that you accept goodness and deny evil or even that
D:3.15 What might this  mean to the elevated Self of form? Using this dialogue as an example
D:6.13 would not prevent them from discovering new “scientific facts.” I  mean no disrespect to scientists and bless them for their desire to
D:7.22 needs are leading you toward new answers of what survival may  mean.
D:9.6 has changed, and with that change, new patterns apply. This does not  mean that the truth has changed, but that you have changed; and with
D:11.9 you give and you receive from the well of spirit. What might this  mean? How might this relate to the giving and receiving of these
D:Day1.4 must choose to leave others behind. This is required. This does not  mean the married woman will not relate to many men in many ways, have
D:Day2.18 as the creation story is symbolic rather than actual. This does not  mean that my life did not happen, that it did not occur in time and
D:Day3.42 reality, through which your desires are responded to. This does not  mean that the place of unity is a place that does not interact with
D:Day4.17 life was purposeful. That challenge was meant then, and continues to  mean now, a call to a new choice. It asks that you challenge your
D:Day4.46 trying to leave these things behind for they will be gone. It will  mean no longer striving. It will mean no specialness. It will mean
D:Day4.46 for they will be gone. It will mean no longer striving. It will  mean no specialness. It will mean the individual is gone, and the
D:Day4.46 will mean no longer striving. It will mean no specialness. It will  mean the individual is gone, and the self of union all that continues
D:Day4.46 is gone, and the self of union all that continues to exist. It will  mean peace, certainty, safety, and joy with no price.
D:Day5.3 a “place” to which you turn for these experiences. This does not  mean that these experiences come from your mind or from a place just
D:Day5.25 this as well as you focus on your access to unity. Focus does not  mean thinking. Focus does not mean learning. Remember the example of
D:Day5.25 your access to unity. Focus does not mean thinking. Focus does not  mean learning. Remember the example of how your breathing becomes
D:Day6.17 This does not, however,  mean that this elevation can be postponed, put off, or can wait for
D:Day6.18 It also does not  mean that many of you will not have changed or will be changing the
D:Day8.19 should not. While true compassion sees only the truth, this does not  mean it holds the feelings of anyone—not those living in truth, or
D:Day8.22 If anger arises in you now, it does not  mean that you will react in whatever way anger once called you to
D:Day8.22 react in whatever way anger once called you to react and it does not  mean that something is wrong with you or that you are not spiritual
D:Day10.22 Christ. What we have just discussed is what both of these statements  mean. This is the culmination point of these two great objectives
D:Day15.12 What does it  mean to practice informing and being informed? It means to join
D:Day15.22 However, knowing that you have entered the dialogue does not  mean that you will not have an awareness of those who would infringe
D:Day15.23 as to inform, is to make known. To practice, as to inform, does not  mean, however, that you know nothing. Practice is the merging of the
D:Day16.6 This is what is meant by no escape. No escape does not  mean that anyone is bound to the past and to their former pain but
D:Day27.7 top perspective. Your descent from the mountain top will not  mean that you no longer have the perspective gained there. You did
D:Day35.17 in everything that has been created, including you. This does not  mean, however, that you have been a creator.
D:Day37.16 having a separate and distinct relationship with God, by which you  mean a relationship like no other. And if you see yourself in such a
D:Day38.9 are words that have become faulty ideas in separation. They  mean an entirely different thing in union and relationship. They mean
D:Day38.9 mean an entirely different thing in union and relationship. They  mean union and relationship. That you own it. That you possess it.
D:Day40.24 But what does this  mean?
A.43 and express Who You Are being in the world. For some of you this may  mean continued involvement with this coursework and a direct sharing

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C:1.14 causes it, is to turn your back on the real world and all that has  meaning in it. In this you think correctly. And yet you do not choose
C:1.17 All the symbols of your physical life reflect a deeper  meaning that, while hidden to you, you still know exists. The union
C:3.4 see. Just as these words you see upon this page are symbols only of  meaning far beyond what the symbols can suggest, so too is everything
C:3.7 but only as what it will do for you. You imprison form within your  meaning, and still your meaning is truer than its form. You give all
C:3.7 do for you. You imprison form within your meaning, and still your  meaning is truer than its form. You give all meaning to everything,
C:3.7 meaning, and still your meaning is truer than its form. You give all  meaning to everything, and thus you populate your world with angels
C:3.7 so, how can the world be anything but symbolic, with each symbol’s  meaning chosen by you and for you. Nothing is what it is, but only
C:3.8 only itself, how can it fail to be everything or to contain all  meaning? No form can encompass it for it encompasses all form. Love
C:5.4 employer or parent. In thinking in these specific terms you lost the  meaning of the holy relationship. Relationship itself is holy.
C:5.21 that which you make real in your creation of the world. The only  meaning possible for free will is this: what you choose to join with
C:6.11 This is the heaven of your mind, the  meaning you give to joining, the face you put on eternal peace. With
C:6.13 fear heaven would replace. To give up the idea that this is where  meaning is found, fulfillment attained, happiness birthed amongst
C:6.15 are saying this: you seek to make sense of an insane world, to find  meaning within meaninglessness, purpose among the purposeless.
C:12.4 We have said before the only  meaning possible for your free will is your choice of what to join
C:14.24 have thus placed love and heaven together in a parody of creation’s  meaning of each. Yes, they go together, and this you know; but the
C:14.30 In your world love has no  meaning unless it is attached to a particular thing. And as soon as
C:16.19 one with vengeance, and in doing so have robbed justice of its  meaning.
C:17.7 you to “receive instead of plan,” and yet few of you understand the  meaning of this simple instruction or what it says to you of the
C:21.2 Love is eternal, and you do not as yet grasp its  meaning or the meaning of eternity. This is because, as a particular
C:21.2 Love is eternal, and you do not as yet grasp its meaning or the  meaning of eternity. This is because, as a particular being, you are
C:21.7 of language as determined by perception. This is a problem of  meaning. Mind and heart interpret meaning in different ways. You do
C:21.7 perception. This is a problem of meaning. Mind and heart interpret  meaning in different ways. You do not even begin to understand the
C:21.7 to you, but I assure you that as long as mind and heart interpret  meaning in different ways you will not find peace. You have, in the
C:21.8 and heart is the perception of internal and external differences in  meaning. In extreme instances this is considered moral conflict, an
C:21.8 Until unity is achieved you do not understand that you give  meaning to all things, and that there is nothing and no one external
C:21.8 that there is nothing and no one external to you who can determine  meaning for you.
C:21.9 The final thing you must understand is that  meaning does not change. While only you can determine meaning, and
C:21.9 is that meaning does not change. While only you can determine  meaning, and while only a wholehearted approach will determine true
C:21.9 meaning, and while only a wholehearted approach will determine true  meaning, the truth is the truth and does not change. Only unity,
C:22.8  Meaning is similarly interpreted. Intersections that create function
C:22.9 everything within your world. In the act of pass-through you assign  meaning to everything within your world. The meaning you assign
C:22.9 pass-through you assign meaning to everything within your world. The  meaning you assign becomes the reality of the object you have
C:22.9 you assign becomes the reality of the object you have assigned  meaning to. You have seen your purpose as one of assigning meaning to
C:22.9 assigned meaning to. You have seen your purpose as one of assigning  meaning to that which intersects with you in a given way that you
C:22.9 that you deem as purposeful. Yet it is in the passing through that  meaning occurs of itself.
C:22.10 your world passes and your awareness of it that determines the  meaning you give it. You are much more like unto the layers of the
C:22.12 “things” are not really things, but are all that you have found no  meaning for. Since your function is seen as assigning meaning rather
C:22.12 have found no meaning for. Since your function is seen as assigning  meaning rather than receiving meaning, that which you consider
C:22.12 your function is seen as assigning meaning rather than receiving  meaning, that which you consider meaningless sits, and that which you
C:22.12 you consider meaningless sits, and that which you consider beyond  meaning sits. You might imagine yourself as the creator of an
C:22.12 determined you will, at some later date, get around to assigning  meaning.
C:22.15 let things be what they are and, allowed to be what they are, their  meaning is naturally revealed. What this takes is a pass-through
C:22.16 who you are when another takes you into his or her mind and assigns  meaning to you?
C:22.17 separates you from everything else within your world. Everything has  meaning only according to what it means to you and not as what it is.
C:22.18 Obviously two kinds of  meaning are being talked about. The first we talked of earlier as the
C:22.18 what we are talking of here, the finding of a definition, a personal  meaning. Can you see the difference?
C:22.20 seem as if you are shirking some primal responsibility to assign  meaning to everything. Rather than resisting this, strive to cease
C:22.20 to everything. Rather than resisting this, strive to cease giving  meaning. Start quite simply. Go from the broad to the specific. For
C:22.22 you to the consciousness of unity, a first step in going beyond  meaning as definition to meaning as truth. As odd and impersonal as
C:22.22 of unity, a first step in going beyond meaning as definition to  meaning as truth. As odd and impersonal as it will seem at first, I
C:26.4 reiterate the message expressed in A Course in Miracles: The true  meaning of the crucifixion is that it was the last and final end to
C:26.7 the fear of meaninglessness. And, as stated before, the quest for  meaning is how you have described your purpose here. To have no
C:26.7 for meaning is how you have described your purpose here. To have no  meaning to attach to your life is the tragedy you see within it and
C:26.7 with your fear of the fall, for if you were to attempt to assign the  meaning to your life that you think it should have, a fall would
C:26.7 thus caught in a double bind, living a life you feel is devoid of  meaning and letting fear keep you from seeking the meaning you would
C:26.7 feel is devoid of meaning and letting fear keep you from seeking the  meaning you would give it. You feel no inherent sense of purpose, no
C:26.7 would give it. You feel no inherent sense of purpose, no grace, no  meaning beyond what you would give to your own endeavors.
C:26.9 is ours. Your mind can just not accept that happiness as well as  meaning is due you through no effort of your own. Scenes of your life
C:26.11 it? Have you not long stated that if you knew what would bring  meaning to your life you would surely do it? Have you not long wished
C:27.3 Thus, your purpose here, rather than being one of finding  meaning, is one of coming to know through relationship. It is in
C:27.10 and free your mind to accept all relationship instead? If all  meaning and all truth lies in relationship, can you be other than
C:29.1 To attend is to be present and to be of service. This is the  meaning of which we speak when we ask for a commitment to life that
C:29.2 have done here into an engagement with life and not realize the true  meaning of service, or in contrast, the true meaning of use.
C:29.2 not realize the true meaning of service, or in contrast, the true  meaning of use.
T1:1.5 to identify illusion and truth. This is a simple act of recognizing  meaning. All that you believe you learned from illusion will have no
T1:1.5 meaning. All that you believe you learned from illusion will have no  meaning to you now and will allow you to give up any remnants of
T1:2.6 could be likened to chitchat, background noise, static. So little  meaning did it have that all meaning became muddled.
T1:2.6 background noise, static. So little meaning did it have that all  meaning became muddled.
T1:4.17 you have prized. Some of you will accept another’s interpretation of  meaning if it is helpful to you, saves you time, or seems in accord
T1:4.19 that your interpretation of events and feelings has given them their  meaning—think again. Their meaning exists already and is not up to
T1:4.19 and feelings has given them their meaning—think again. Their  meaning exists already and is not up to you to determine. This is not
T1:4.21 to you. The thinking of the ego-mind would simply reinterpret the  meaning you previously gave to these lessons.
T1:8.2 Will. But with my resurrection, which was accomplished for all, the  meaning of life, the reality of life, changed, though you have known
T2:4.2 of creation as something static would be completely contrary to the  meaning of creation. Yet you continue to think that you stand apart
T2:7.1 of reliance on others, or dependence, has taken on a negative  meaning specifically in contrast to your desire to be independent.
T3:1.11 the past is quite a different statement and has a totally different  meaning. The personal self you once presented to others as “who you
T3:2.9 of the truth. Inaccurate representations of the truth simply have no  meaning and no matter how much one might try to read meaning into the
T3:2.9 simply have no meaning and no matter how much one might try to read  meaning into the meaningless, it will not be found there. The
T3:2.9 not be found there. The meaningless has no ability to change the  meaning of truth. And so your Self has remained unaltered as has all
T3:2.9 remained unaltered as has all to which you have assigned inaccurate  meaning.
T3:6.2 heights we have just traveled, discussing the reign of God and the  meaning of life and death. But this is one of the key ideas that will
T3:7.4 the truth is beyond compare. This is the only idea that holds true  meaning and so all meaning is found within it. Thus we start with
T3:7.4 compare. This is the only idea that holds true meaning and so all  meaning is found within it. Thus we start with this idea.
T3:7.5 within the human experience that deprived the human experience of  meaning was the ego. Thus, with the ego gone, you are perfectly
T3:8.1 representations too and that we move now beyond representations to  meaning so that what you represent will move beyond representations
T3:10.1 within your mind, you will be working still to replace it with  meaning rather than allowing the meaning that exists in everything to
T3:10.1 be working still to replace it with meaning rather than allowing the  meaning that exists in everything to be remembered or known. Thus are
T3:11.3 peace and love, are interchangeable in the House of Truth as their  meaning there is the same. These words, like the words House of Truth
T3:13.3 temptations will concern you less and less as we uncover their true  meaning by looking beyond the experiences themselves to the cause.
T4:1.22 but seemed to offer. It is what has caused your growing desire for  meaning and purpose. It is what has caused you to finally be ready to
T4:5.9 do so. And yet you think that this is possible and that this is the  meaning of free will. Free will does not make the impossible
T4:5.9 choice and your choice alone that is the only guarantee. This is the  meaning of free will.
T4:10.5 future outcome. What happens in relationship has present moment  meaning. What is studied has potential meaning.
T4:10.5 has present moment meaning. What is studied has potential  meaning.
T4:10.6 or what is studied is the production of things and perceived  meaning.
T4:10.7 now is to advance from learning and producing things and perceived  meaning, to producing unity and relationship through unity and
T4:10.8 the same. Thus this applied learning produced things and perceived  meaning.
T4:10.10 and relationship the production of unity and relationship and true  meaning will be revealed.
T4:12.17 wisdom during my time on Earth and man is still puzzling over the  meaning of my words. The time for puzzlement is over. Pass on no more
D:1.12 a new identity now. While these sacraments have largely lost their  meaning, the sacrament I now call you to restores meaning. Since new
D:1.12 largely lost their meaning, the sacrament I now call you to restores  meaning. Since new names are only symbols of new identities, renaming
D:4.29 to where it fits within the divine design, to where it is a life of  meaning and purpose. This return is the return of wholeness. This
D:5.2 These distortions occurred as you assigned  meaning or “truth” to things, truly believing in your ability to do
D:5.5 way it was intended, still represents what is and thus contains all  meaning or the truth.
D:5.13 now. The desire for such is a desire to think through once again the  meaning of everything and to have a tool to help you do so. This
D:6.7 non-living forms that cause them to have rigidity and a particular  meaning. But they still are real, even if they are not as they appear
D:Day2.5 This is the time of revelation of  meaning. You who have so long striven to give meaning to the
D:Day2.5 time of revelation of meaning. You who have so long striven to give  meaning to the purposeless, here see meaning revealed.
D:Day2.5 have so long striven to give meaning to the purposeless, here see  meaning revealed.
D:Day2.22 It was in awareness of who I Am that my life took on  meaning. It could be argued that this awareness existed at my birth,
D:Day14.7 feared them because you did not understand them and could not assign  meaning to them. Being inexplicable the “holding pattern” that you
D:Day21.6 constantly receiving. You still perhaps think in terms of receiving  meaning that there is something given from a source beyond the self,
D:Day32.11 was called the Son of God and also God. Those who understand the  meaning of any or all of the example lives that have come as
D:Day38.8 This is the  meaning of the embrace—the possession, the ownership of belonging—
D:Day39.18 that has the shape and form, the character and value, the image and  meaning, that you would give it. This is your universe. I have been,
A.7 at listening without seeking for understanding, without grasping for  meaning, without applying the effort you are used to applying to
A.10 even recommended that these readings be interrupted by a search for  meaning. Listen. Respond. Let meaning be revealed.
A.10 be interrupted by a search for meaning. Listen. Respond. Let  meaning be revealed.

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C:2.2 If you were going to die tomorrow what would you today find  meaningful? Only love. This is salvation’s key.
C:22.8 Intersections that create function and purpose are deemed  meaningful. Intersections that seem to have no function or purpose
C:26.9 that you are neither inherently happy, nor your life inherently  meaningful. Your reliance on these scenes and memories must be broken
T2:9.12 are met creates a static level, that no matter how good or right or  meaningful, loses its creative nature by remaining static.
T3:7.5 the truth of who you are and returning to an existence that is  meaningful.
T3:14.1 within your physical experience. You may live a more peaceful and  meaningful life, but you will not become the savior I ask you to be,
T3:20.7 of this is happening in relationship and that the relationship is  meaningful or able to cause effect. You can’t imagine not feeling

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C:P.4 answered in A Course in Miracles. While a course in miracles is  meaningless to the ego and unnecessary to spirit it would seem to
C:P.4 would be such a state in which learning could take place would be  meaningless.
C:22.8 Intersections that seem to have no function or purpose are deemed  meaningless. The act of passing through is, of itself, seen as of
C:22.12 meaning rather than receiving meaning, that which you consider  meaningless sits, and that which you consider beyond meaning sits.
T3:2.9 and no matter how much one might try to read meaning into the  meaningless, it will not be found there. The meaningless has no
T3:2.9 read meaning into the meaningless, it will not be found there. The  meaningless has no ability to change the meaning of truth. And so
T3:9.1 that makes perfect sense and it is its very sense that makes it seem  meaningless in a world gone mad. It is an idea that says only that
T3:19.11 Because they are not expressing who they are, their expressions are  meaningless and have no effect in truth but only in illusion. To live
T3:19.11 only in illusion. To live in truth is to live without fear of the  meaningless acts of those living in illusion because they will be
D:3.3 have always desired. You are not purposeless now. Your life is not  meaningless. You are the ushers, the pioneers of the new. Your work,

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C:6.15 you seek to make sense of an insane world, to find meaning within  meaninglessness, purpose among the purposeless.
C:26.7 No fear is greater than the fear of  meaninglessness. And, as stated before, the quest for meaning is how
T3:2.10 Thus you stand at the beginning, with a Self now devoid of the  meaninglessness you but attempted to assign to it. You stand empty of
T3:10.1 of Truth, or to encounter the truth, you must realize that while  meaninglessness exists within your mind, you will be working still to

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C:21.8 his or her community. In such an instance the external and internal  meanings of the same situation are considered to be different. This

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C:7.12 en masse to someone else. If you succeed through anger, spite, or  meanness, you simply take on guilt and withdraw still further into
C:10.26 desire to laugh at yourself is quite genuine and not conceived from  meanness. There will be a happier self who seems to think this game
T3:4.1 and no blame to any past cause for your depression, anxiety,  meanness, illness or insanity. It merely calls you to sanity by

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C:P.7 in you is that which is capable of learning in human form what it  means to be a child of God. The Christ in you is that which is
C:P.8 end the need for learning, you must know who you are and what this  means. Where the original Course in Miracles was a course in thought
C:P.27 Jesus is simply the example life, the life that demonstrated what it  means to be God’s child.
C:1.16 What could cause you to yearn for love in a loveless world? By what  means do you continue to recognize that love is at the heart of all
C:1.16 things even while it is not valued here? Here is a fine example that  means and end are the same. For love is what you are as well as what
C:1.16 For love is what you are as well as what you strive for. Love is  means and end.
C:1.18 fear is hell. Neither are a place. They are a further reflection of  means and end being the same. They are but a further reflection of
C:2.4 to much you fear. You think that it is possible to choose it as a  means to buy your safety and security. You thus have defined love as
C:3.11 What has this meant for learning that is not of this world? It  means that you filter it through the same lens. You think of it in
C:4.1 whether you realize it or not. What does it mean to love purely? It  means to love for love’s sake. To simply love. To have no false idols.
C:9.6 out. It is as susceptible to pain as to pleasure. It contains the  means for joining, but for joining that is of a temporary nature. It
C:9.26 sister and brother, for they are yourself, and they are your only  means to grasp eternity even within this false reality you have made.
C:9.36 keep this attainment from you by turning every situation into a  means to serve its ends. As long as union is seen as a means only to
C:9.36 into a means to serve its ends. As long as union is seen as a  means only to keep loneliness from you it is not seen for what it
C:12.14 for it to be done for all. This is all correction or atonement  means, and all that is in need of your acceptance. Join your brother
C:13.1 You will never fully understand what unity  means, but you will come to feel what unity means, and this I promise
C:13.1 understand what unity means, but you will come to feel what unity  means, and this I promise you. This is what we work toward in this
C:15.5 your ideas of what is necessary to be good, your notions of what it  means to treat others well. You would not be special to this one if
C:16.22 you are not powerless. Those of you who think you have traditional  means of power on your side turn not to your own power, and then you
C:18.6 go unfulfilled. As soon as the need for learning arose, the perfect  means to fulfill that need was established. You have simply failed to
C:18.21 of the highest level, and of remembrance of who you are being the  means by which communion can return to you. So what we speak of now
C:19.4 and that so exists in truth. It is not the only world by any  means, but it is still heaven because heaven must be where you are. A
C:19.5 that you are here to learn, and that your body can provide the  means.
C:19.6 and knowledge of its Creator. Thus along with this yearning was a  means provided for its fulfillment, and with this fulfillment lies
C:19.7 I was part of this  means, but only part. Fulfillment can be provided by each and every
C:19.7 with wholeheartedness—for it to be fulfilled. It is not the  means that are lacking but the wholehearted desire.
C:19.8 for you. I came in the fulfillment of scripture. All this really  means is that a certain community had been led to expect my arrival.
C:19.22 forth and the description of the final judgment, judgment is not the  means or end of this reckoning.
C:19.23 perception to knowledge, a first step in doing this is changing your  means of perception to that of right-mindedness. Your willingness to
C:20.39 replaces thingness but not oneness. All fear that what one gets  means that less is available for another is replaced with an
C:21.7 even begin to understand the enormity of this conflict or what it  means to you, but I assure you that as long as mind and heart
C:22.17 within your world. Everything has meaning only according to what it  means to you and not as what it is.
C:23.1 Love is the great teacher. And your loving relationships the  means of learning love.
C:23.15 your body will be freed. It will no longer be an object of use but a  means of service.
C:23.28 similar to that of atonement. It is an undoing accompanied by a new  means of doing. In the process of unlearning, both forgiveness and
C:25.2 outcome of love and in this instance is an action word, a verb, a  means of serving and being served by love. Devotion is a particular
C:25.7 to receive that causes this feeling. The practice of devotion is a  means by which you can purify your engagement with life and all you
C:25.7 the time of tenderness, a true practice that, like vigilance, is a  means to a desired end. You must practice recognizing your feelings
C:25.13 of invulnerability is necessary now. It is not arrogance or a  means by which to flirt with risk and danger. It is simply your
C:25.20 want to say: “This is who I am.” This is an exciting sign, for it  means the old identity is losing hold. Be patient during this time,
C:27.1 visible and describable. Thus you have identified death as the only  means by which to reach oneness with your Father, knowing that such
C:29.6 If God were to speak to you Himself and tell you of what  means your service would be to Him, He would but tell you this: My
C:29.9 approach to unity. The atonement that is accomplished here is the  means of opening the gate to your approach. No one has closed this
C:29.16 relationships. The idea of use created all ideas of toil as the only  means of having needs met. The idea of use created all notions of
C:30.2 destination is all that is sought, the journey becomes but the  means for getting there. All learning is seen as preparation for the
C:31.19 would be no more. But in order to remember your Self, you need a  means of learning who you are. Everything that has ever happened in
C:31.23 Sharing is the  means through which the holy relationship you have with everything is
C:31.28 varies. Since there is only one truth, finding a variety of answers  means nothing. If you but change what you look for, what you see and
T1:1.1 approachable. Peace is seen as being outside of one’s being and the  means are sought for the union of being with that which will provide
T1:1.7 asked to leave behind as this act of leaving behind was the only  means by which you could allow your mind to be restful enough for it
T1:2.5 were in need of being set free. Appealing to your heart was the  means or cause of this freedom being accomplished in you. What was
T1:2.5 as well. The difference is that you are now ready to learn a new  means of response to this unlearning and learning. That response is
T1:2.7 that you could learn the truth of who you are through these same  means was the fallacy that the early teaching of A Course of Love
T1:2.12 is but relationship between Creator and Created. The new  means of thinking is referred to here as the “art” of thought in
T1:3.13 This too is a  means of unlearning. How can you leave behind all you fear without
T1:3.15 who you are. This is not all that you are but this is the quickest  means of realizing who you are. As was said in A Course in Miracles,
T1:4.4 identified serve to bring about the miracle that you are? The first  means identified was that of experiencing what is and acknowledging
T1:4.17 differently must mean something. What you have decided that this  means is that you are an independent thinker, something you have
T1:4.25 revelation. By asking you to choose a miracle, you were provided a  means through which your fears became clear to you. There are a few
T1:6.4 if God were separate from you and accessible only through a specific  means of communication. You can see, perhaps, how this attitude
T1:6.5 To use prayer only as a  means of reaching out to a god seen as separate is to attempt to use
T1:6.6 missing or desired. In contrast, true prayer, formed in union, is a  means of creating, recollecting, or recalling a divine memory and
T2:3.3 unity. Your heart exists where you think you are, thus providing the  means for union between where you think you are and where your being
T2:4.15 of accomplishment rather than the already accomplished. What this  means is that you are still in need of unlearning, of undoing old
T2:5.2 nature of being called. A call is, at its most basic level, a  means of communication. If you are not listening, you will not hear
T2:7.9 control in unity. There is no need for it. Relationship is the only  means through which interaction is real, the only source of your
T2:7.18 be denied in favor of who you “will be.” Needs cannot be denied as a  means of having them cease to be. You who are beginning to realize
T2:7.19 way the Self you are now has to grow and change. This is the only  means the Self you are now has of giving and receiving as one. This
T2:7.19 you are now has of giving and receiving as one. This is the only  means available to you to replace the old pattern with the new.
T2:9.2 before you left it. Now, they are just tools, as are many other  means of practice that assist you in bypassing your ego mind. Some
T2:9.2 or exercises of the mind such as affirmations. These tools are all  means of releasing ego mind and inviting the one mind, or unity into
T2:9.13 what you already have or for what you consider progress? You need a  means of disconnecting this drive that has become instinctual to you.
T2:10.11 Why, then, is this called learning? Learning simply  means to come to know. If what you know has been forgotten, you still
T2:11.9 for what it is. It is the holiest of work and the final evidence of  means and end being the same. Your devotion to this learning must now
T3:2.3 the duality of your existence became paramount, became the only  means you saw of deciphering the world around you and your role
T3:2.3 awareness, through relationship, of self and others. You chose a  means of creation—as God chose a means of creation. That means of
T3:2.3 of self and others. You chose a means of creation—as God chose a  means of creation. That means of creation is separation, becoming
T3:2.3 chose a means of creation—as God chose a means of creation. That  means of creation is separation, becoming separate (the observer as
T3:3.6 judgment with forgiveness and not forgiven yourself? What this  means is that you have replaced judgment with forgiveness as a
T3:3.6 in each instance where you have seen it to be needed. What this  means is that you continue to fail to recognize your need to replace
T3:5.8 extending both forward and back. Each father’s son will die. This  means not what you have taken it to mean, an endless series of
T3:5.8 it to mean, an endless series of generations passing. What this  means is that in each the ego will die and the Self be reborn to life
T3:5.8 of relationship, original purpose cannot go unfulfilled. What this  means is that the illusion will be no more and truth will reign. Such
T3:8.11 treasure, what was looked for was found. If what was looked for were  means of making life easier, why not the idea of machinery and tools
T3:8.11 and tools that would seem to do so? If what was looked for was a  means of finding simple pleasures in a harsh world, why not ideas of
T3:11.6 dwell in the house of illusion but in the House of Truth. What this  means is that I was aware of the truth and lived by the truth. I was
T3:12.7 laws of love exist even within the realm of physicality. What this  means is that all that in this human experience has come of love will
T3:14.2 to believe in such things as benevolence and abundance. What this  means is that you will slowly translate all ideas of scarcity into
T3:14.5 was based, you still would not be other than who you are. What this  means to the learning stage you are at now is that you but think you
T3:15.16 your ideas of the limitations inherent in your concept of what it  means to be a human being.
T3:15.18 will accomplish. Obviously, this replacement must be total. The  means for making this total replacement are in your hands but you are
T3:16.10 you may feel have gone unfulfilled. While you may think that this  means you are being asked to do without, this is not the case. You
T3:17.8 and been able to communicate within that illusion. Without this  means of communication with the ego-self the ability to learn the
T3:19.8 of love, is of fear. All that comes of fear is nothing. What this  means is that cause and effect are not influenced by what comes of
T3:20.10 no circumstance as cause to abandon it. Yes, I am providing you with  means to help you know how to live by the truth, but the means are
T3:20.10 you with means to help you know how to live by the truth, but the  means are not the end and are never to be confused as such. Your
T3:20.11 Miracles are not the end, but merely the  means, of living by the truth. Miracles are not meant to be called
T3:21.7 The only  means for the personal self and the true Self to exist together is
T3:22.1 mind and heart. While you may be beginning to form ideas of what it  means to live by the truth, these ideas may not seem to have much
T4:1.8 It may signal that what is taught is no longer relevant, or that the  means of teaching what is relevant no longer works. It may be a
T4:1.8 what is relevant no longer works. It may be a choice made regarding  means or content, a choice made from fear or made from love. But
T4:1.10 what is not of the curriculum because they have chosen another  means of learning. Means is what is being spoken of here. But all
T4:1.10 the curriculum because they have chosen another means of learning.  Means is what is being spoken of here. But all means are for one end.
T4:1.10 means of learning. Means is what is being spoken of here. But all  means are for one end. All will learn the same content, for all are
T4:1.10 content, for all are chosen; and all learning, no matter what the  means, will eventually lead them to the truth of who they are.
T4:1.17 experience. The same truth has always existed, but the choice of a  means of coming to know the truth has shifted. All were chosen and
T4:1.18 as God has chosen them. That you have chosen God and chosen a new  means of coming to know the truth—the means of
T4:1.18 chosen God and chosen a new means of coming to know the truth—the  means of Christ-consciousness, is what has ushered in the new time.
T4:1.19 Many came to know the truth by indirect  means and shared what they came to know through similarly indirect
T4:1.19 means and shared what they came to know through similarly indirect  means. This is the nature of learning and of sharing in relationship.
T4:1.19 This is the nature of learning and of sharing in relationship.  Means and end are one. Cause and effect are the same. It is these
T4:1.19 and end are one. Cause and effect are the same. It is these indirect  means of communicating the truth that have led to your advances in
T4:1.19 the reverse. Your ancestors have done you a great service. With the  means they had available—in the chosen means of a chosen
T4:1.19 a great service. With the means they had available—in the chosen  means of a chosen consciousness united in oneness with the Holy
T4:1.19 passed on, indirectly, all that they came to know. This indirect  means of communication is the reason for the existence of churches,
T4:1.19 communication is the reason for the existence of churches, and these  means too have served you well.
T4:1.20 But these indirect  means of communication left much open to interpretation. Different
T4:1.21 now to share directly. This is the way of learning in relationship.  Means and end are one. Cause and effect are the same.
T4:1.27 were able to come to know themselves and God through the indirect  means of this state of consciousness and to pass on what they learned
T4:1.27 of consciousness and to pass on what they learned through indirect  means. Fewer were able to achieve a state of consciousness in which
T4:1.27 and God directly, and to pass on this learning through direct  means. What I am saying is that it is not impossible for those who
T4:1.27 or through indirect communication and contrast. But this also  means that the great majority will become aware of the new state of
T4:1.27 through observation and direct communication or experience. It  means that the last generation born into the time of the Holy Spirit
T4:2.4 of Love and the Holy Spirit provided for indirect and less fearful  means of communion or communication with God.
T4:2.5 have always been the beloved of God because Love was and is the  means of creation. The people of the Earth, as well as all that was
T4:2.8 carrying judgment. While you continue to believe that being chosen  means that some are not chosen, you are carrying judgment. While you
T4:2.12 than anyone but themselves. Surely many desire to be “the best” as a  means to glorify the ego, but few of these succeed for the ego cannot
T4:2.14 we have worked to dispel your ideas of specialness. One of the best  means for us to clarify the lack of specialness implied in the
T4:2.33 is already upon you. You are in the process of learning what it  means. This Treatise is here to help you do so. Learning to see anew
T4:3.2 pattern, the unity that binds all living things. Observation is the  means of seeing this binding pattern in physical form.
T4:3.11 Vision is the natural  means of knowing of all who were created in love. Observation is the
T4:3.11 knowing of all who were created in love. Observation is the natural  means of sharing what is known in physical form.
T4:3.12 is not the natural or original form of the created. Vision is the  means by which the original nature of the created can once again be
T4:3.12 nature of the created can once again be known. Observation is the  means by which the original nature of the created can newly be seen
T4:3.15 is a promise that has been fulfilled. It is you who have chosen the  means. Now a new choice is before you.
T4:4.1 there is a pattern of life-everlasting, there is everlasting life.  Means and end are one, cause and effect the same.
T4:4.14 Once vision and Christ-consciousness has returned to you, the  means of life-everlasting will be understood as a choice. Because
T4:5.1 before me and all who came after me. All that being a Son of God  means is that you represent the continuity of creation and that your
T4:5.13 the body by death. Being loosed of the body by death was the chosen  means of the time of the intermediary, the chosen means of attaining
T4:5.13 was the chosen means of the time of the intermediary, the chosen  means of attaining Christ-consciousness and direct revelation. The
T4:7.1 be false envisioning, false imagining, false desire. This simply  means false, or not consistent with the truth. It does not mean wrong
T4:7.2 your understanding of your Self and God grew through the indirect  means that were available to you, during the time of Christ, your
T4:7.2 Self and God cannot help but grow through the direct and observable  means now available. Just as in the time of the Holy Spirit the
T4:7.3 who attempt to figure them out will come ever closer to the truth by  means of science, technology, and even art and literature. Those who
T4:10.2 that you merely think of experience as learning through a different  means than studying.
T4:10.3 come to see everything in your life as exactly what it has been—a  means of learning. You have encountered problems and wondered what
T4:10.4 it is here that learning has been least practiced through the  means of studying.
T4:10.8 help but have an outcome that had to do with other than the Self.  Means and end are one, cause and effect the same. Thus this applied
T4:10.9 could not help but have an outcome that had to do with your Self.  Means and end are one, cause and effect the same. Thus this
T4:11.4 conclude this Treatise with a prelude to the sharing that is our new  means of communicating and creating, a sharing that replaces learning
T4:12.2 or dialogue rather than through teaching. As with all new  means of doing anything, this dialogue must have a starting point.
T4:12.3 questions are the same. They are beginning to see that they share in  means not confined to the physical senses.
T4:12.27 that was shared by all learners and inherent to your natures. The  means were different for each, but the pattern was the same. There
T4:12.28 creation in relationship and unity rather than learning. What this  means will be revealed to you and shared by all who abide within
T4:12.31 you will have received even before it is communicated through the  means to which you are accustomed. It will help us together to
D:1.3 What this  means in practical terms is that you let the personal self step back
D:1.17 done through learning, for as you have been told, learning was the  means of the separated self’s return to unity. These lessons have
D:1.18 do? If I do not teach, and you do not learn, what is our continuing  means for completing this transformation? As you have been shown,
D:1.18 this transformation? As you have been shown, this will not occur by  means of preparation but by means of acceptance. This will not occur
D:1.18 have been shown, this will not occur by means of preparation but by  means of acceptance. This will not occur by means of trying but by
D:1.18 of preparation but by means of acceptance. This will not occur by  means of trying but by means of surrender.
D:1.18 means of acceptance. This will not occur by means of trying but by  means of surrender.
D:2.2 be seen that they are, in truth, one and the same action, just as  means and end, cause and effect are one. You are asked to accept or
D:2.19 were attempts to learn the nature of who you are through external  means—the means of learning the nature of the world around you.
D:2.19 to learn the nature of who you are through external means—the  means of learning the nature of the world around you. Thus, in the
D:3.12 toward through this dialogue is your full awareness of what this  means.
D:3.14 as one has become one in form as well as one in idea. What this  means, simply stated once again, is that giving and receiving occur
D:4.4 state and shows you what becomes of all of those who see not what it  means to be neither different nor the same but to be one.
D:5.11 will not arrive at the truth through thinking about what everything  means. This is the old way that led to so much misinterpretation and
D:5.11 before us, will be what is, in its representation. Simply put, this  means that form will never be all that you are, but will return to
D:6.27 must realize the consciousness of the true Self in time. What this  means is that the elevated Self of form may still need “time” to come
D:6.28 the shared consciousness of unity and begin to discover what this  means.
D:7.17 of the uniqueness of each Self, and is a demonstration of  means and end being the same. Desire keeps you focused on your own
D:7.17 full acceptance and awareness of who you are now and what this  means as you become the elevated Self of form.
D:7.18 the Self of elevated form. You just do not yet understand what this  means.
D:8.9 opens and accepts the new, the art of thought will become your new  means of thinking. What has been learned will become an ability to
D:8.9 will become what you are, and wholeheartedness your sole  means of expression.
D:9.1 are a greater boundary than the dot of your body and a greater  means of imprisonment than bars and walls. They are why you do not
D:9.7 then being called to reconsider. The call is still the same, but the  means by which you are considering the call has changed. Thus there
D:9.8 was but a forerunner to what we now will embrace together. It was a  means and an end.
D:9.10 you cannot come to know the new, or to create the new, through the  means of old, including the means of thought.
D:9.10 new, or to create the new, through the means of old, including the  means of thought.
D:9.13 exists, what is already accomplished, comes or passes through by  means of the expression of your form and the interaction of your form
D:10.2 the use of abilities such as these, but you also know that these  means are limited in what they can do and that they can hinder as
D:10.5 the goal and the accomplishment of the elevated Self of form, the  means through which the Self of union is known even in the realm of
D:12.4 these words come to you through the written form of this book, by  means of your eyes and the decoding mechanism of your brain, they do
D:12.8 order for them to provide a source for your response—to become a  means of communication and exchange. The same is true of the
D:13.4 What is known to you in an instant through the new  means available to you within the state of unity will still seem, at
D:13.6 at first, fully realize that this sharing is not needed so much as a  means of imparting important knowledge to others, but so that you can
D:13.11 the sharing of who you are and who you know others to be. All this  means is that while you may feel unable to share or express all that
D:13.12 effortless and joyful and effective. Cause and effect become one.  Means and end the same.
D:14.14 discovered is discovered in the state of unity. It is discovered by  means of your awareness of your access to the state of unity, as well
D:16.5 of that here as you and God become synonymous through Creation.  Means and end are one. Cause and effect the same. Creation is means
D:16.5 Means and end are one. Cause and effect the same. Creation is  means and end as God is means and end. Creation is cause and effect
D:16.5 one. Cause and effect the same. Creation is means and end as God is  means and end. Creation is cause and effect as God is cause and
D:Day1.4 many men in many ways, have many male friends, teachers, guides. It  means that one is chosen as a mate to the exclusion of others chosen
D:Day2.18 space, just as yours is occurring now in time and space. What this  means is that what occurs in time and space is symbolic, that it is
D:Day3.40 the mind. As you advance, and as you become more open to other  means of accessing the wisdom you once sought through learning, or
D:Day3.40 wisdom you once sought through learning, or through the mind, other  means will open to you. You may see, audibly hear, and interact with
D:Day4.7 of the time of language that constitutes your ideas about what it  means to think. In evolutionary terms this was true as well. Despite
D:Day4.8 the way learning was designed to be. Learning was given as a natural  means of access to all that was available to you, but not through
D:Day4.26 to which you desire access. As all that exists in truth, union is  means and end.
D:Day4.27 you seek. As all that exists in truth, the truth of who you are is  means and end as well.
D:Day4.46 have to spell out this choice for you, for you know exactly what it  means. It means you will be as I am. It means you will live from love
D:Day4.46 out this choice for you, for you know exactly what it means. It  means you will be as I am. It means you will live from love rather
D:Day4.46 for you know exactly what it means. It means you will be as I am. It  means you will live from love rather than from fear. It means that
D:Day4.46 as I am. It means you will live from love rather than from fear. It  means that you will demonstrate what living from love is. It means
D:Day4.46 It means that you will demonstrate what living from love is. It  means that you will resurrect to eternal life here and now. It means
D:Day4.46 It means that you will resurrect to eternal life here and now. It  means no turning back, no return to fear or anger, no return to
D:Day4.46 to fear or anger, no return to separation, no return to judgment. It  means no longer trying to leave these things behind for they will be
D:Day4.53 of unity, love is all that is required. Acceptance has been the  means chosen, by us, to move you through the layers of illusion that
D:Day5.22 effort, your attempts to figure out how to do it and what it all  means. There is no cause for such effort. Effort is only a layer of
D:Day5.23 This has not meant that they were not eager to share, only that the  means of sharing was not one of teaching or learning.
D:Day8.22 is wrong with you or that you are not spiritual enough! It simply  means that you are involved in a situation or relationship that has
D:Day10.15 the self. Realize in these reflections that you are still reliant on  means “other than” the self, including your image of the state of
D:Day10.37 of love is all that will replace these causes of fear with the  means and end that will transform them along with you. You are means
D:Day10.37 the means and end that will transform them along with you. You are  means and end. It is within your power to be saviors of the world. It
D:Day11.2 world of truth. Sharing in unity and relationship is the way and the  means to see past the world of illusion to the truth of the union of
D:Day11.5 separates from oneness and so knows oneness. It is only through the  means of separate relationships joining in union that the One Self is
D:Day14.11 the only way to arrive at acceptance of your relationship with your  means of coming to know.
D:Day14.12 of these words is a form of acceptance of the unknown and as such a  means of coming to know. These words are only one means, which is why
D:Day14.12 and as such a means of coming to know. These words are only one  means, which is why this is called a dialogue. Realize now that this
D:Day14.14 Entering the dialogue is the  means of sustaining the one voice within the many, the means of
D:Day14.14 is the means of sustaining the one voice within the many, the  means of sharing your access to unity, the manifestation, in form, of
D:Day15.12 What does it mean to practice informing and being informed? It  means to join together with others who have the ability to maintain
D:Day15.21 of Christ-consciousness with others sharing this specific  means of coming to know with you, you are not asked to disregard any
D:Day15.21 of coming to know with you, you are not asked to disregard any other  means of coming to know or to see any others differently than you see
D:Day16.4 maintained within the body, thus interrupting the body’s natural  means of functioning. Sickness is not sickness but rejected feelings.
D:Day17.3 but awareness. God is the creator of knowing because God created a  means of coming to know. This “part” of God, the animator and
D:Day17.4 you examining, kept you attempting to move beyond learning to a new  means of knowing? Christ-consciousness. This is why it was said in
D:Day17.10 of the individual is the ability to represent what God created, the  means of coming to know—which is Christ-consciousness—through
D:Day17.11 the completion of the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth as a  means of coming to know.
D:Day18.8 your awareness of the present and thus of the truth. They are your  means of coming to know. They arise from Christ-consciousness. They
D:Day19.7 called to the way of Jesus is to call others to the new through  means so widespread, varied, and remarkable that they cannot be
D:Day19.11 what they do will be a byproduct of their way of being rather than a  means of facilitating that way of being. Many of the way of Mary will
D:Day19.11 at this time of transition, both ways are needed to demonstrate the  means of coming to know, which are what all true expression is about.
D:Day19.13 with the unknown, through unity and imagination, create the new by  means other than doing, open a way previously unknown, and as all
D:Day20.8 You are the expression of the unknown and the only  means of the unknown becoming known.
D:Day21.4 The channel is the  means, not the source. The source is oneness or union, a state you
D:Day21.6 of knowledge that would eventually make teacher and learner equal.  Means and end have always been the same.
D:Day22.2 realizing that you are the expression of the unknown and the only  means of the unknown becoming known, it is important to discuss this
D:Day22.3 having something unavailable to everyone rather than being seen as a  means to provide, or channel, availability to everyone. What each
D:Day22.3 their expression. The availability is there for everyone. The  means of expression is there for everyone. What is expressed is
D:Day22.4 Every choice is thus a  means of channeling. It is taking the infinite number of experiences
D:Day22.4 once again, that you are the expression of the unknown and the only  means of the unknown becoming known. You, in other words, are the
D:Day22.6 share it? How do you convey it? How do you channel it? Through what  means can you express it? Can you put it into words, make it into
D:Day23.1 to apply this understanding. This dialogue is meant to give you the  means to carry what you have been given.
D:Day23.3 given. Now the task before us is to come to understanding of the  means by which you will carry what you have been given down from the
D:Day26.3 Now let’s speak a moment of the Self as guide. This simply  means that you turn to the Self as the source of coming to know of
D:Day28.8 Now something new awaits you. It is a choice so different and a  means so revolutionary that it will take some getting used to. This
D:Day29.6 wholeness and separation. While you may have seen it as a new  means of interaction, it has been, in actuality, access to a new
D:Day32.18 as those of access to unity, and becoming a spacious Self, and the  means that have been used—such as the two levels of experience you
D:Day33.13 words, you each have claimed some type of power for yourself, some  means of exerting that power, which is the same as saying some means
D:Day33.13 some means of exerting that power, which is the same as saying some  means of individuating the self.
D:Day35.2 of being there is only love. In this fullness of being is found the  means for the extension of love. In this fullness of being is found
D:Day35.2 of love. In this fullness of being is found the cause for love.  Means and end are one. Cause and effect the same. Fullness of being
D:Day35.3 for each one of you because it is the cause and effect, the  means and end of relationship. You have always existed in
D:Day35.18 is also not the entire story, for as has been said many times,  means and end are one, cause and effect the same. You have been
D:Day36.18 at the same time. Both/and rather than either/or. Cause and Effect.  Means and End. You accept the end of choice and the beginning of
D:Day37.7 You keep looking for distinction from God as if distinction  means separation—as if God is a separate being. If this were all
D:Day37.16 possibility of communication through prayer or other experiential  means. But this is still a relationship in separation—between your
D:Day37.17 “know” anything from which you are separate? You can imagine what it  means to “know” another person, to be a tree blowing in the wind,
D:Day37.27 have been “part” of God but you have not seen this as what it really  means either. You have seen this as being separate, or at most as
D:Day38.10 and union are not other than this. Being in relationship and union  means just that. It means a love deeper than any love you have known,
D:Day38.10 other than this. Being in relationship and union means just that. It  means a love deeper than any love you have known, for in not owning
D:Day39.44 You will realize as you enter union by  means of the bridge of our direct relationship that you will not
D:Day39.44 your humanity behind. You will realize that as you enter union by  means of the bridge of our direct relationship that you will no
D:Day39.46 relationship will bridge the distance and become cause and effect,  means and end.
D:Day40.14 I am also an extension of love, just as you are. This is all I Am  means. There is no I Am except through love’s extension. How does
A.4 instructed not to apply your thought and your effort, your usual  means of learning, to this Course of Love. This Course is not for the
A.5 to you to take this Course with as little attachment to your old  means of learning as is possible for you. If you do not understand,

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C:1.16 things even while it is not valued here? Here is a fine example that  means and end are the same. For love is what you are as well as what
C:1.16 For love is what you are as well as what you strive for. Love is  means and end.
C:1.18 fear is hell. Neither are a place. They are a further reflection of  means and end being the same. They are but a further reflection of
T2:11.9 for what it is. It is the holiest of work and the final evidence of  means and end being the same. Your devotion to this learning must now
T4:1.19 This is the nature of learning and of sharing in relationship.  Means and end are one. Cause and effect are the same. It is these
T4:1.21 now to share directly. This is the way of learning in relationship.  Means and end are one. Cause and effect are the same.
T4:4.1 there is a pattern of life-everlasting, there is everlasting life.  Means and end are one, cause and effect the same.
T4:10.8 help but have an outcome that had to do with other than the Self.  Means and end are one, cause and effect the same. Thus this applied
T4:10.9 could not help but have an outcome that had to do with your Self.  Means and end are one, cause and effect the same. Thus this
D:2.2 be seen that they are, in truth, one and the same action, just as  means and end, cause and effect are one. You are asked to accept or
D:7.17 of the uniqueness of each Self, and is a demonstration of  means and end being the same. Desire keeps you focused on your own
D:13.12 effortless and joyful and effective. Cause and effect become one.  Means and end the same.
D:16.5 of that here as you and God become synonymous through Creation.  Means and end are one. Cause and effect the same. Creation is means
D:16.5 Means and end are one. Cause and effect the same. Creation is  means and end as God is means and end. Creation is cause and effect
D:16.5 one. Cause and effect the same. Creation is means and end as God is  means and end. Creation is cause and effect as God is cause and
D:Day4.26 to which you desire access. As all that exists in truth, union is  means and end.
D:Day4.27 you seek. As all that exists in truth, the truth of who you are is  means and end as well.
D:Day10.37 of love is all that will replace these causes of fear with the  means and end that will transform them along with you. You are means
D:Day10.37 the means and end that will transform them along with you. You are  means and end. It is within your power to be saviors of the world. It
D:Day21.6 of knowledge that would eventually make teacher and learner equal.  Means and end have always been the same.
D:Day35.2 of love. In this fullness of being is found the cause for love.  Means and end are one. Cause and effect the same. Fullness of being
D:Day35.3 for each one of you because it is the cause and effect, the  means and end of relationship. You have always existed in
D:Day35.18 is also not the entire story, for as has been said many times,  means and end are one, cause and effect the same. You have been
D:Day36.18 at the same time. Both/and rather than either/or. Cause and Effect.  Means and End. You accept the end of choice and the beginning of
D:Day39.46 relationship will bridge the distance and become cause and effect,  means and end.

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C:P.7 is that which is capable of bridging the two worlds. This is what is  meant by the second coming of Christ.
C:P.28 from the earliest of ages you have known that life is not as it is  meant to be; that you are not as you are meant to be. The part of you
C:P.28 that life is not as it is meant to be; that you are not as you are  meant to be. The part of you that rages against injustice, pain, and
C:P.28 does not accept and will never accept that these things are what are  meant for you or for those who walk this world with you. And yet your
C:P.29 body. This is the way of those who know this is not the way it is  meant to be and then doubt their knowing. This is the way it has
C:3.11 What has this  meant for learning that is not of this world? It means that you
C:4.17 of days in store for you and you will die. Life is not fair, nor  meant to be, you claim. But love is something else.
C:5.23 life of your body. Your concentration on the life of your body is  meant to keep your body separate. “Overcoming” is your catch phrase
C:5.32 your soul, every breeze to carry you to heaven. Every smile seemed  meant for you, and your feet hardly seemed to touch the soft ground
C:6.7 fact that you are not alone in the world shows you that you are not  meant to be alone. Everything here is to help you learn to perceive
C:6.17 peace enters your relationships, situations, too, are what they are  meant to be and seen in heaven’s holy light. No longer do situations
C:7.17 exists in wholeness. The small examples used earlier were  meant to help you recognize relationship itself, relationship as
C:8.26 they were only trying to help. The memories of situations you deemed  meant to embarrass or destroy you that were in truth meant to teach
C:8.26 you deemed meant to embarrass or destroy you that were in truth  meant to teach you what you needed to learn to lead you to a success
C:12.12 of creation, it is humanity alone that somehow is not what it was  meant to be. On a lovely day and in a lovely place you can see that
C:14.2 the epitome of God’s creation, you see the rest of creation as being  meant to serve your ends. And since your end or goal is that of
C:14.5 it in order to gain life? What creator would create a world not  meant to exist in harmony? Harmony is life. What creator would create
C:14.16 quite differently and bring about different results than are somehow  meant to occur. Although you know not your purpose, at least a part
C:14.16 you cannot quite imagine what that reason might be. You must be  meant to be because you are, and you cannot fathom that you would
C:21.3 be felt with your heart are of no use to you now, for they are  meant for their usefulness rather than for their service. Concepts
C:21.9 brothers and sisters in Christ is an expression that has always been  meant to symbolize the unity of those who know the one truth.
C:22.7 The image of intersection is simply  meant to represent the point where the world intersects with you—
C:22.19 You are likely to report on what a certain set of circumstances  meant “to you.” This kind of thinking is thinking with the small “I.”
C:23.3 in love transcends total knowing, this too is “how it is.” How it is  meant to be. Love inviolate. Each of you is love inviolate. Yet
C:23.9 after the fact. The belief fosters the form and the form is then  meant to foster the belief.
C:23.10 A body of knowledge. Belief fostered the form and the form was  meant to foster the belief. Thus belief and form have a symbiotic
C:27.19 constant knowing of this sort, a simple knowing of a way things are  meant to be. It is a knowing felt within the heart for which there
C:28.2 contest. Bearing witness has become a spectator sport and it is not  meant to be thus. How, then, you might ask, is the truth brought to
C:29.6 children. The return to unity was my accomplishment, and all that is  meant by what I have often repeated here: Only you can be
T1:3.18 for the cure of a disease, how would you know that disease was not  meant to be to further someone’s learning? If you were to ask to win
T1:3.23 another might be possible would be to have ideas of grandeur not  meant for you. Here your thoughts might stray to the performing of
T1:5.10 what you experience since you know it as the cause. This is what is  meant by mind and heart being joined in union, or being wholehearted.
T1:8.3 That they are the same has not  meant the automatic realization of this change of enormous
T1:9.12 which the ego has the least control. For males this has most often  meant a turning away from the intellectual realm, which was ruled by
T1:9.12 the ego, to the realm of feelings. For females this has most often  meant a turning away from the feeling realm where their egos held
T1:10.3 will feel inhuman. You will think that this cannot be where you are  meant to be, what you are meant to feel. You will wonder what is
T1:10.3 think that this cannot be where you are meant to be, what you are  meant to feel. You will wonder what is wrong with you.
T1:10.8 This is what has been  meant by the many references that have been made to God not seeing
T2:5.2 If you are not listening, you will not hear the calls that are  meant for you. If you are looking only for a specific type of call,
T3:2.6 are and who your brothers and sisters are as well. This is what is  meant by oneness. This is what is meant by unity.
T3:2.6 are as well. This is what is meant by oneness. This is what is  meant by unity.
T3:5.7 and a beginning of resurrection and new life. It was a gift  meant to empty the world of the ego-self and to allow the personal
T3:10.3 given up as well. When it is said that you are the cause it is not  meant that you are to blame for anything. Although many a child has
T3:11.4 does represent a structure. The house of illusion is a construction  meant to shield the personal self from all that it would fear. The
T3:13.10 You are not, however,  meant to test these words with foolish acts. To do so would be to act
T3:20.11 end, but merely the means, of living by the truth. Miracles are not  meant to be called upon to create specific outcomes in specific
T3:20.11 upon to create specific outcomes in specific circumstances. They are  meant to be lived by as the truth is meant to be lived by. Not
T3:20.11 circumstances. They are meant to be lived by as the truth is  meant to be lived by. Not because you desire an outcome, but because
T3:20.18 and not from anyone. Thus you are released from a burden never  meant to rest upon you even if it is one you might have freely
T3:21.22 self, knowing that your personal self will serve those you are  meant to serve. What you have seen as your failings or weaknesses are
T3:21.24 There is no “other” who can follow the call  meant for you. No other who can give the response you are meant to
T3:21.24 the call meant for you. No other who can give the response you are  meant to give. Do not make any false plans that give your power to
T3:22.2 said that no one is called to leadership and while I have surely  meant this and do not call for leaders to amass followers, I do not
T3:22.4 Since your personal self was always  meant to represent the truth of who you are, the seeds of who you
T4:2.21 and bid it true. Each day is a creation and holy too. Not one day is  meant to be lived within a struggle with what it brings. The power to
T4:9.1 Learning is not  meant to last. This is why even this coursework comes to an end. It
T4:9.8 revealed. These are my beloved, along with you, and this an entreaty  meant especially for them.
T4:12.6 need to figure things out. Surprises cannot be figured out! They are  meant to be joyous gifts being constantly revealed. Gifts that need
D:2.19 a faulty system based upon faulty judgment. This system was  meant to help you learn to deal fairly with a hostile environment and
D:3.7 no victories hard won through might and struggle. This is what is  meant by surrender. We achieve victory now through surrender, an
D:3.18 This is not  meant to convey any division between the Self and the elevated Self
D:4.16 and judgment, contrast did not always provide the lessons it was  meant to provide. In addition, believing the ego had become an
D:5.2 ability to do so. You thus determined what the world around you was  meant to represent. It was in much the same way that the ego came to
D:8.6 figure them out—for surprises cannot be figured out! Surprises are  meant to be joyous gifts being constantly revealed. Gifts that need
D:9.8 clearly embraced together when you were still a learning being were  meant to allow you to come to know your true identity. “A Treatise on
D:9.10 of the ego-mind, the beliefs of the “Treatise on Unity” were  meant to lead beyond the need for beliefs, and “A Treatise on the
D:9.10 beyond the need for beliefs, and “A Treatise on the Personal Self”  meant to lead beyond the personal self. Thus the Treatises were not
D:14.14 to become. Now you are beginning to see the vastness of what is  meant by creation of the new. What is meant by creation of the new is
D:14.14 to see the vastness of what is meant by creation of the new. What is  meant by creation of the new is creation of a new reality.
D:16.13 told will precede the creation of the new world. This is what is  meant by “as within, so without.” Only a new you can create a new
D:17.9 of a champion who has crossed a finish line and won a race, is not  meant to remain as it is in this moment. It is not a trophy for your
D:17.16 The only reason why this might be so is that it is  meant to be so. Something is still desired.
D:Day2.22 at my birth, and this too would be accurate, since all births are  meant to be eagerly looked forward to as beginnings of I Am. Since
D:Day2.24 suffer, for I knew who I was and chose no suffering. This is what is  meant by the idea that has been repeated as “I died for your sins.”
D:Day2.24 idea that has been repeated as “I died for your sins.” My death was  meant to demonstrate that the end of suffering had come, and with it,
D:Day3.2 freedom of childhood learning might be seen as the way learning was  meant to be, the time of this pure learning has grown shorter and
D:Day3.19 in so that you understand, as do those for whom this dialogue is  meant, the power of this aspect of your brothers and sisters lives,
D:Day4.2 we are on the same side. The arguments we will be having will be  meant to show you this: That on one side are the temptations of the
D:Day4.7 Learning was not  meant to be linked with thinking. Again I’ll draw your attention to
D:Day4.17 that everything about my life was purposeful. That challenge was  meant then, and continues to mean now, a call to a new choice. It
D:Day4.50 accepting me, your Self, and abundance. But none of these things are  meant to be dwelt upon. The acceptance of abundance no more so than
D:Day4.54 that can hold you back. This is what the time of acceptance was  meant to show you! Nothing can hold you back except fear! You do not
D:Day5.23 that what they have gained access to cannot be taught. This has not  meant that they were not eager to share, only that the means of
D:Day9.25 You are a creator who created this diversity. It was and is a choice  meant to release the beauty of expression in all its forms. You have
D:Day13.3 You are thus not  meant to lose the experience of the self of form but to integrate it
D:Day16.6 This is what is  meant by no escape. No escape does not mean that anyone is bound to
D:Day17.11 The time of Christ, and the second coming of Christ, are expressions  meant to symbolize the completion of the cycle of birth, death, and
D:Day18.11 You are called to demonstrate this new visual pattern. What is  meant here by the word demonstrate, is to show your feelings, to make
D:Day19.1 at other times, you feel as if you are being exactly as you are  meant to be.
D:Day19.13 This availability is what is  meant by the anchoring of the new. Those who, in relationship with
D:Day23.1 gave you a way to apply this understanding. This dialogue is  meant to give you the means to carry what you have been given.
D:Day23.2 water, as a pregnant woman carries her child, this is how you are  meant to carry what you have been given. What you have been given is
D:Day23.2 meant to carry what you have been given. What you have been given is  meant to accompany you, propel you, and be supported by you. You are
D:Day24.3 choice. When it was said that A Course of Love was a trigger, it was  meant that the Course is both a trigger of choice and a trigger of
D:Day24.3 Course is both a trigger of choice and a trigger of nature. It was  meant to convey the action of a catalyst. Now it is up to you whether
D:Day36.10 the difference is everything. This same difference is what is  meant when it is said that you are one in being and different in
D:Day36.11 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as a trinity representing one God were  meant to portray. The Son could only be God in relationship to God.
D:Day40.11 human, being takes on attributes. As was said earlier, this was  meant to provide for the individuation process rather than the

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T4:12.7 of the written word, the written word will be less necessary. In the  meantime, let me explain why these written words are not the acts of

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C:7.1 you give you will receive in truth. What you do not receive is a  measure of what you withhold. Your heart is accustomed to giving in a
C:27.17 surely to the proper response. I use the term “proper” here not as a  measure of judgment, but as an indication that there is a way in
T1:3.15 you are is a miracle worker. This is not all that you are but is a  measure of who you are. This is not all that you are but this is the
T2:6.2 and that you thus allow to govern your thinking. If time is but a  measure of learning, and if your learning is now at the stage at
T2:7.11 with the desire to give, either expecting to receive in certain  measure or to receive not at all, is to follow the old pattern, a
T2:9.7 survival needs to needs for love are literally shared in the same  measure by all. The other sense in which needs are shared is in the
T2:9.19 these terms will soon be seen as a valuable ability and a timesaving  measure of great magnitude. As these old ways of thinking leave you,
T2:10.6 Just as needs have been shown to be shared in like  measure by all, so too is true knowing. Just as needs were shown to
T3:16.3 the forms you occupy without changing their nature in the slightest  measure. All the effort of the ego has not brought an end to
D:15.17 you have in good repair. It is not often thought of as a lasting  measure, which is the primary difference between the idea of
D:15.19 allow it to do so. This is, as with all maintenance, a temporary  measure, but one you desire to have discussed, just as we discussed
D:Day4.9 The ability to learn is given to all in like  measure. The conformity of learning, however, is the product of an
D:Day10.32 to be extreme and to call for extreme measures. The only extreme  measure called for now is the same extreme measure that I called for
D:Day10.32 The only extreme measure called for now is the same extreme  measure that I called for during my life. It is the call to embrace

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T2:4.18 are and this is happening at lightning speed, a speed that cannot be  measured because of its simultaneous nature. As was said within A

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C:18.12 all levels, temporarily collapsing time. Time is actually a  measurement of learning, or the “time” it takes for learning to pass
T2:4.18 nature. As was said within A Course of Love, time is but a  measurement of the “time” it takes for learning to occur. As this
T3:17.4 As has been said before, time is a  measurement of the “time” it takes for learning to occur. A new
T3:20.2 truth. As this is all that time is for, and all that time is but a  measurement of, it rightly follows that learning can take place at a
D:6.28 Form and time go together. Yet you have been told time is a  measurement of learning. If you are no longer a learning being, for

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T1:3.15 Miracles, the extreme need of your return to love requires extreme  measures.
T4:8.11 save by taking away their freedom through the most extreme of  measures—this is what happened between you and God.
D:Day10.32 of situations that would seem to be extreme and to call for extreme  measures. The only extreme measure called for now is the same extreme

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T1:1.6 to act in unison. That A Course of Love instructed you little in the  mechanics of the mind was consistent with the theme and learning
T1:1.6 was consistent with the theme and learning goals of this Course. The  mechanics of the mind can in truth be left behind now as we
T1:1.7 The  mechanics of the mind were what engaged you in so many daily battles
T1:1.7 many daily battles that you became almost too weary to continue. The  mechanics of the mind were what were in need of being overcome in
T1:1.7 order for you to listen once again to the wisdom of your heart. The  mechanics of your over-worked and over-stimulated mind were what you

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T3:5.4 flood that would wash them away, was as much a part of the survival  mechanism of your real Self as was the rush to rebuild a part of the
T3:5.4 of your real Self as was the rush to rebuild a part of the survival  mechanism of the ego-self.
T3:17.5 of the truth that has led, through the learning of untruth in the  mechanism of time, to the world in which you now exist. It may seem
D:12.1 the body at the center of your universe and yourself, there is no  mechanism through which thought can enter your mind. You believe
D:12.4 written form of this book, by means of your eyes and the decoding  mechanism of your brain, they do not, nor did the words of this

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C:P.44 seems at first to leave behind abstract learning and the complex  mechanisms of the mind that so betray you. We take a step away from
T3:18.9 In this way, you will join the  mechanisms of your physical form to the new thought system of the

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C:7.3 pieces of land, systems and organizations, the natural world and the  mechanistic world, heaven and earth, divine and human.

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T1:3.23 your thoughts might stray to the performing of many miracles. What a  media circus that would be. You would be in demand to end so much

mediator (1)

D:Day22.2 an intermediary function. The channeler was perhaps seen as a  mediator between the living and the dead or the world of spirit and

medical (1)

D:Day1.11 of healing calls it, be the practitioner a faith healer or a  medical doctor. You may make one exclusive choice to attend to your

medicine (1)

D:Day10.35 apart from your Self—your reliance on science and technology and  medicine and military might—has been shown to be unfounded, a new

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C:20.30 gems of the earth. I say again that sameness is not a sentence to  mediocrity or uniformity. You are a unique expression of the selfsame
C:26.2 fate and accomplishment. Are some chosen for greatness? Others for  mediocrity?

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D:Day4.34 here? It is said that during my forty days and forty nights I  meditated or prayed. It is said that I fasted. You have been told

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T2:9.2 ego mind. Some practices more commonly thought of as tools might be  meditation, exercises of the body such as yoga, or exercises of the
T4:9.3 experiences of a mystical nature. You have tried drugs or hypnosis,  meditation or work with energy. You have read and listened and been
D:Day4.33 have applied a different kind of focus upon breathing as a form of  meditation. In doing so, they let the natural serve the natural. Some
D:Day4.34 type of focus that will serve you now. It is not a tool, as is  meditation, for you are no longer in need of tools. But you have
D:Day4.34 your mind. What is the focus of which I speak, the focus that is not  meditation, the focus that is not a tool? This is a focus on access
D:Day5.4 As we said yesterday, our form of  meditation, a meditation that is not a tool but a function of your
D:Day5.4 As we said yesterday, our form of meditation, a  meditation that is not a tool but a function of your natural Self, is
D:Day5.25 the increase in awareness of breath that comes from the focus of  meditation. A focus point is a point of convergence. A focal point is

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D:12.10 chatter. And let us consider your “thoughts” to be the more  meditative version of your “thinking,” often even resulting in a

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C:16.25 to be reclaimed. As good as you may want to be, you would still go  meekly through your life trying to comply with rules of God and man

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C:P.32 that you know not only their characters, but them as well. Yet you  meet an author face to face and you can seldom see in them what you
C:P.32 you can seldom see in them what you saw in their writing. When you  meet an author face to face, you view their form. When you read their
C:9.23 takes on the form of work and you spend your entire life working to  meet your needs and those of the ones you love. What would you do
C:9.23 you love. What would you do with your life if you had no needs to  meet? What would you do with your life if you had no fear? These
C:25.24 usual patterns of action you have taken in the past, you will often  meet resistance. Try to be lighthearted at such times and to remember
C:29.15 serve. To be provided for and to provide. To have needs met and to  meet needs. This circular nature of the universe leaves no one
T1:4.21 the same lessons in the same way, rather than in a new way, if you  meet these experiences again with the attitude of interpreting them
T2:9.1 remember a time when you felt from another the desire to help or to  meet your needs. Do not think that this desire is not present in all
T2:9.4 that you feel met these needs because of their ability to  meet them. When your needs cease being met, you believe there has
T2:9.17 Holding on to what you think will  meet your needs is like holding your breath. Your breath cannot long
T2:12.8 the treasure that exists around you? When you call to those whom you  meet in relationship, you call but to the already accomplished.
T4:10.2 as you consider your willingness to give up learning you will  meet resistance and realize, for perhaps the first time, that
D:Day4.49 desire this choice, if you do not truly and wholeheartedly  meet the condition of being fearless, you will know this, and you
D:Day5.22 what enters you get stopped by layers of defenses. No longer will it  meet the road-block of your thinking, your effort, your attempts to
E.24 When you  meet what you would have before seen as difficulties, as you
E.24 encounter a world where love still does not seem to reign, when you  meet that which would oppose love, remember that you are now the
A.28 At this point, groups may need to become more flexible,  meet less frequently, or even disband in favor of former “classmates”
A.33 Often here the facilitator will  meet as well individual assessments and self-doubts. Group members

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C:9.25 within your care? You do not see all that these distractions of  meeting needs would keep you from.
C:9.27 a lesson in relationship as well. It is the relationship inherent in  meeting another’s need that makes the meeting of the need a thing of
C:9.27 the relationship inherent in meeting another’s need that makes the  meeting of the need a thing of lasting value. It is your willingness
T2:7.20 There is not a time-lapse between the recognition of needs and the  meeting of needs. It is accepted that giving and receiving occur in
T2:9.1 relationships. It is only the ego that stands between desire and the  meeting of desire, needs and the meeting of needs.
T2:9.1 that stands between desire and the meeting of desire, needs and the  meeting of needs.
T2:9.4 is filled, you have been accustomed to having a reaction to this  meeting of a need as if it takes place apart from you, or from
T2:9.4 takes place apart from you, or from outside of you. You assign the  meeting of a need to a person or system or organization. You as often
T2:9.4 You as often feel indebted as you feel grateful for the  meeting of needs. When your life is running smoothly and needs are
T2:9.16 of needs at all. Once you are no longer concerned with needs and the  meeting of needs you will no longer be concerned with special
D:Day7.12 over your life and its circumstances, and live in a state of grace,  meeting grace with grace by accepting what is given for your
A.28 less frequently, or even disband in favor of former “classmates”  meeting in more casual and spontaneous encounters. It remains

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A.15 The task of facilitators of such  meetings of open hearts is to direct the reader away from ego mind

melding (1)

C:20.7 reaching out to another, concludes with mutuality, shared touch, a  melding of one into another. The embrace makes one of two.

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C:10.32 gentle of ways. Its whisper will be heard within your thoughts. Its  melody will play within your mind. “Come back, come back,” it will
T4:5.2 being a Song of God. You are God’s harmony, God’s expression, God’s  melody. You, and all that exist with you, form the orchestra and

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C:24.1 touch your heart. It may be as simple as a smile from a child that  melts away all the resentment you held from your childhood—because

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C:P.26 and among them, that which you call “your” family. A family has many  members but it is called one family. All of its members are descended
C:P.26 A family has many members but it is called one family. All of its  members are descended from the same ancestors, the same bloodline.
C:7.14 nations, teams and organizations, religions and neighbors and family  members. This is the desire to be right, or in control, or to have
T3:15.1 a fresh start. Deaths of loved ones and the births of new family  members form new configurations in a life. Nature begins anew each
A.28 encounters. It remains important for facilitators and group  members to be available to one another if at all possible during this
A.31 Always it is the facilitator’s role to guide the individual group  members away from inclinations, which may be strong during this time,
A.32 is also a highly valuable service that facilitators and other group  members can provide. The entrenched patterns of the past are
A.33 will meet as well individual assessments and self-doubts. Group  members may wonder if they are missing something. They may feel as if

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C:8.7 that would dance there. What you would remember is replaced by  memories of these emotions—so many that they could not be counted
C:8.26 of truth revealed a lie of outlandish proportions. These are the  memories of loved ones you were sure were trying to hurt you when in
C:8.26 trying to hurt you when in truth they were only trying to help. The  memories of situations you deemed meant to embarrass or destroy you
C:9.12 your heart remain closer to the truth than any that you hold. The  memories of your heart are the strongest and purest that exist, and
C:9.14 their own seem to rebel against this insane situation are guided by  memories trying to reveal the truth to you. They call to you from a
C:12.16 symbolized, a beginning is made that must be completed through the  memories of your heart. So we continue, realizing that these words
C:13.8 feeling yourself in such a way, you will eventually realize that the  memories you recall of the spirit of others include memories that are
C:13.8 realize that the memories you recall of the spirit of others include  memories that are your own, memories that are of your own Self. For
C:13.8 recall of the spirit of others include memories that are your own,  memories that are of your own Self. For no spirit exists that is not
C:13.8 part of you, or you of it. If you find yourself distracted by these  memories, do not push them aside as interruptions in your day, but
C:26.9 your life inherently meaningful. Your reliance on these scenes and  memories must be broken before my words can reach your mind and begin
T1:6.8 So what happens when  memories of past experiences are revisited under the all-encompassing
T1:6.9 What happens when this oneness is accomplished is that divine  memories arise to replace perception. This is miracle-mindedness. The
T3:13.2 be dwelling within the peace of God. Your Self and God will be but  memories to you while your reality remains that of the physical
T3:15.5 able to succeed in the current year, will continue to be plagued by  memories of failure. The alcoholic can approach each day with faith
T3:15.5 The alcoholic can approach each day with faith while keeping fresh  memories of past abuse or humiliation in the hopes that they will
D:16.19 after-images is gone. They are but sensations that remain, like  memories of childhood. This time of becoming is a time of coming to
D:Day2.2 in unguarded moments, in moments in which you would desire peace,  memories of your life continue to play within your mind, often still

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C:8.3 of remembering than learning, and this you will understand as  memory begins to return to you. Your heart will aid you in replacing
C:8.4 no experiences here, wears no faces, and bears no symbols. It is a  memory of wholeness, of all to all.
C:8.5 thoughts would seem to block your way to the stillness in which this  memory can be found. Yet as you have seen again and yet again, the
C:8.24 God you have created in God’s likeness. This image is based on your  memory of the truth of God’s creation and your desire to create like
C:8.26 How like to  memory it is to think a thing remembered in every smallest detail and
C:8.26 remembered in every smallest detail and yet to have no idea what the  memory is about! All memory is twisted and distorted by what you
C:8.26 detail and yet to have no idea what the memory is about! All  memory is twisted and distorted by what you would have it be.
C:8.27 Thus your  memory of God’s creation is a memory you retain to the smallest
C:8.27 Thus your memory of God’s creation is a  memory you retain to the smallest detail, and yet the details mask
C:8.28 created so like to God’s creation can be so opposite to it? How can  memory so deceive the eyes, and yet fail to deceive the heart?
C:9.3 you love to you, that you attempt to use love here. This is a real  memory of creation that you have distorted. Your faulty memory has
C:9.3 is a real memory of creation that you have distorted. Your faulty  memory has caused you to believe love can be used to keep you safe,
C:9.4 that only becomes real in its use by you or to you. In your  memory of creation you have remembered that all things exist in
C:9.33 little now that in so doing you once again imitated what your faulty  memory would tell you that your Creator did. God alone can give free
C:9.36 joining that you do in holy relationship returns a little of the  memory of union to you. This memory of your divinity is what you seek
C:9.36 relationship returns a little of the memory of union to you. This  memory of your divinity is what you seek in truth from each special
C:10.7 wise or foolish, the very repetition of this voice keeps it in your  memory. This may be the voice that says, “Stand up straight,” or
C:10.31 you will remember that this is but a Course in remembering and that  memory is the language of the heart.
C:10.32 your mind still would deny your heart cannot. A tiny glimmering of  memory has returned to you and will not leave you to the chaos you
C:13.3 These are but exercises in  memory recollection, and the more you practice them the more true
C:13.3 in memory recollection, and the more you practice them the more true  memory will return to you. Do not apply any effort to these
C:13.3 and when they make you feel like smiling know that you are feeling  memory return. If, when trying to call up memory of spirit, you find
C:13.3 know that you are feeling memory return. If, when trying to call up  memory of spirit, you find your brow knitting in concentration, you
C:13.8 not realize it at first, because you have no experience but only  memory of feeling yourself in such a way, you will eventually realize
C:13.12 the innocence and sinlessness of others and yourself, for your  memory will contain no hint of past misdeeds, errors or mistakes. No
C:13.12 on you or anyone else. No reason for guilt will exist within this  memory. No shame or fear is here, and no grievances of any kind. For
C:13.12 of any kind. For here forgiveness is already accomplished—and when  memory of forgiveness returns to you, can memory of your Father or
C:13.12 accomplished—and when memory of forgiveness returns to you, can  memory of your Father or your own Self be far behind?
C:14.11 once “everything” to you and have since failed you. This can be a  memory of any relationship, and each of you has one. It can be of
C:14.13 this relationship stand out in your mind and feel so painful in your  memory of it is that it was quite real in a way that is different
C:14.28 so when you have loved freely and without fear. In this state your  memory returns to you of who you are, and you are innocent and joyous
C:14.28 and you are innocent and joyous and one with love itself. That this  memory does not last, and these feelings seem unsustainable, is the
C:14.28 your conscious mind has any awareness of what is happening, your  memory of love, of innocence and of joy, threatens your specialness,
C:14.28 rushes in with love’s replacement. Nothing but fear could take the  memory of love from you, or replace so quickly the glory that is your
C:16.11 Again your  memory of creation serves you, even if it has not served you well. It
C:16.11 creation serves you, even if it has not served you well. It is this  memory that tells you that love does not judge, and only your split
C:16.11 love does not judge, and only your split mind that has made of this  memory what will serve its purpose. What it calls a deficiency is
C:16.16 it belongs to God and God alone. This is firmly attached to your  memory of creation. To wrestle the right to judge away from God is an
C:20.24 Forget yourself and  memory will return to you. Beyond your personal self and the identity
C:26.24 the end is reached and all is known, the story is over except in  memory and reflection and perhaps in speculation. What might a sequel
T1:1.4 are ready to. The very word “remember,” as well as the concept of  memory, implies mindfulness and the ability to reproduce or recall
T1:1.4 a present moment experience. It is in the present-moment experience  memory provides that truth rather than illusion can now be
T1:3.1 first opportunities for the art of thought to be applied relate to  memory in terms of your experience here. In other words they will
T1:4.21 will be provided through what we have called the re-experiencing of  memory. These are opportunities to re-experience the lessons your
T1:5.13 only in the sense of practicing the mindfulness that will allow the  memory of it to return to you.
T1:6.2 the art of thought as the act of prayer. We have spoken already of  memory here, and have presented the acts of reproducing and
T1:6.2 the acts of reproducing and recollecting that are involved with  memory as acts of creation. Prayer is but reproducing and
T1:6.2 of creation. Prayer is but reproducing and recollecting a divine  memory and divine memory cannot help but produce a divine outcome.
T1:6.2 is but reproducing and recollecting a divine memory and divine  memory cannot help but produce a divine outcome. Said in another way,
T1:6.6 union, is a means of creating, recollecting, or recalling a divine  memory and transforming that divine memory into a present moment
T1:6.6 or recalling a divine memory and transforming that divine  memory into a present moment experience.
T1:6.7  Memory is valuable to us now because it relies not on perception. If
T1:6.7 end and have no ability to relate to anything else at all. Without  memory, what you learned one day would be gone the next. A person you
T1:6.7 the next. A person you met one day you would not know the next. Thus  memory allows relationship. Memory, or how you relate to past
T1:6.7 day you would not know the next. Thus memory allows relationship.  Memory, or how you relate to past experiences, is what makes each
T1:6.7 in the same way. It is the way experience is related to, through  memory, which shapes the different personalities, paths, and thus
T1:8.10 order for new life to come forth, is but another example of how your  memory of creation was made to serve what you would have come to be.
T1:10.10 It is your  memory of these events that hold such sway over you that you would
T1:10.13 why you have not chosen yet to accept your inheritance. Yet let the  memory of the truth return to you now and you will see that peace is
T2:10.3 think for a moment of a time when you attempted to recall a specific  memory. This may have been a memory of a name or address, of a dream,
T2:10.3 when you attempted to recall a specific memory. This may have been a  memory of a name or address, of a dream, or an attempt to recall a
T2:10.3 a specific event. At such times, you often feel as if, just as the  memory is about to return to you, it is swatted away as easily and
T2:10.3 gone and what keeps it from you? You might feel frustrated with your  memory at such a time and even say something such as “my brain just
T2:10.10 united mind and heart. This is the knowing that already exists, the  memory that is swatted away by the ego.
T3:2.11 This  memory lies within your heart and has the ability to turn the image
T3:10.14 thought system of your true Self will quite simply return to your  memory. You will soon forget the thought system of the ego-self even
T3:10.15 to learn what you have remembered because they will realize that the  memory of this language exists within them as well. It will come
T3:14.1 still exist within your mind and heart, as nothing can now take this  memory from you, but to experience the new thought system as thought
T4:10.5 residence within the student; there to be mulled over, committed to  memory, integrated into new behaviors. Relationship recognizes that
T4:11.5 to you in these concluding words. Absorb the following pages as a  memory returned to your reunited heart and mind. No longer regard me
D:5.1 about the minor distortions that occurred between this non-cognitive  memory and how you acted upon it, distortions that created major
D:7.12 what you did not know, but about what you knew but had forgotten.  Memory has returned you to your Self. Discovery will allow the new
D:14.14 you have known this reality not, even though it is the more subtle  memory of this state that is behind your striving to become. Now you
D:Day36.3 describing every experience you encountered between your earliest  memory and the present moment and it would say nothing about you if
D:Day37.26 your quest for differentiation has been caused by your faulty  memory of creation. To differentiate in union and relationship is to
D:Day39.33 has a being and an identity for that being. Everyone carries the  memory of I Am.
D:Day39.34 What  memory of I Am will you carry with you now that you know that I Am is
D:Day39.34 you now that you know that I Am is who I am and who you are? What  memory has this Course and this Dialogue returned to you? What memory
D:Day39.34 What memory has this Course and this Dialogue returned to you? What  memory is without attributes because it is who I Am and not a
D:Day39.34 because it is who I Am and not a projection? Only love. What  memory is not a memory, but your identity? Only love.
D:Day39.34 it is who I Am and not a projection? Only love. What memory is not a  memory, but your identity? Only love.

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C:9.37 world, and it is these limits of usefulness that would block your  memory’s return. A love relationship, while seen as the ultimate
T1:8.10 you recognized union as a prerequisite to creation is proof of your  memory’s tenacity and the failure of illusion to completely rid you

men (8)

C:20.21 Within the embrace, you can quit thinking even of holy things, holy  men and women, and even divine beings, even the one God. Is not the
D:11.16 Some do see Jesus only as an important man among many important  men. Those who do so miss the point of the life of Jesus just as they
D:11.16 Those who do so seek to make individual contributions as important  men and women and do not seek to give expression to what is in
D:Day1.4 This does not mean the married woman will not relate to many  men in many ways, have many male friends, teachers, guides. It means
D:Day1.14 Had any of the holy  men and women who walked the way of the world since my time learned,
D:Day32.13 lives in which the power of God was demonstrated in the lives of  men and women are seen as little more than pass-through situations in
D:Day32.13 pass-through situations in which the power of God passed through  men and women to other men and women.
D:Day32.13 in which the power of God passed through men and women to other  men and women.

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C:16.17 made, but seems to be an irreparable rift that a new choice cannot  mend.
D:3.5 with a split mind could never do. You have it within your ability to  mend the rift of duality, a state that was necessary for the learning
D:Day3.8 some one to love. You may believe that this spirituality can help  mend a feeling of broken-heartedness, can cause you to extend

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D:3.5 learning of the separated self but that is no longer necessary. The  mending of the rift between heart and mind returned you to your Self.
D:3.5 heart and mind returned you to your Self. In the same way, the  mending of the rift of duality will return the world to its Self. The
D:3.5 of the rift of duality will return the world to its Self. The  mending of the rift of duality was accomplished in you when you

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C:I.2 a new set of rules without change. It sees reality through these new  mental constructs and calls this way of seeing new. In order to
T3:19.1 to fear the loss of physical joys than you have to fear the loss of  mental and spiritual joys.
T4:1.14 within it. It must be your science or technology, your advanced  mental abilities, or even your leisure time that has opened up this
D:Day8.14 without accepting the feelings associated with it, will make of it a  mental construct, a rule you have set up for your new self to follow.
D:Day8.15 If you replace the act of gossiping with a  mental construct or rule that says you do not tolerate it, then you
D:Day8.29 “how to” react. Reaction has been replaced by response, calculated  mental constructs have been replaced with true expression. It does
D:Day9.18 An idealized image, like a rule, is a  mental construct. All mental constructs are predeterminations.
D:Day9.18 An idealized image, like a rule, is a mental construct. All  mental constructs are predeterminations.
D:Day9.19 All ideas such as those of advancement or enlightenment are  mental constructs. They are predeterminations.
D:Day10.13 the past. This is also because your image of the personal self is a  mental construct, and not a simple mental construct but a whole set
D:Day10.13 image of the personal self is a mental construct, and not a simple  mental construct but a whole set of thoughts, beliefs, and mental
D:Day10.13 a simple mental construct but a whole set of thoughts, beliefs, and  mental pictures.
D:Day14.8 because there are no blocks or boundaries, no holding patterns, no  mental interferences.

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D:Day8.14 without accepting the feelings associated with it, will make of it a  mental construct, a rule you have set up for your new self to follow.
D:Day8.15 If you replace the act of gossiping with a  mental construct or rule that says you do not tolerate it, then you
D:Day9.18 An idealized image, like a rule, is a  mental construct. All mental constructs are predeterminations.
D:Day10.13 the past. This is also because your image of the personal self is a  mental construct, and not a simple mental construct but a whole set
D:Day10.13 image of the personal self is a mental construct, and not a simple  mental construct but a whole set of thoughts, beliefs, and mental

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C:25.13 vulnerable to being wounded. Fear of being wounded—physically,  mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—has kept you from engaging
T3:20.10 “bad.” I am not calling you to just another version of being good or  mentally healthy, to exercises in visualization or positive thinking.

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T3:19.7 the spiritual life has so often been linked with celibacy I will  mention sexual union specifically here to put behind you any fear
T3:22.2 able to do so. But some of you will find that you do no more than  mention this Course as the one, or only one of the teachings that has
D:15.7 element mentioned in this particular creation story. This first  mention of movement is literally present in all creation stories

mentioned (4)

T2:9.15 previously of needs as tools every bit as valuable as the others  mentioned here, this adjustment in your thinking may seem difficult
D:8.2 of no longer needing to learn has intrigued you since it was first  mentioned, and yet it seems too impossible, too “good” to be true.
D:12.6 I cannot allow. The urgent need for your return to unity has been  mentioned before, and I remind you of this urgency again.
D:15.7 as rigor mortis is of lack of movement, is the first element  mentioned in this particular creation story. This first mention of

mentor (2)

C:14.11 of best friends, of a marriage or a partnership, or even that of a  mentor or student. Whatever the relationship’s configuration, it was
C:31.30 and it is always specific. You are looking for a friend, a spouse, a  mentor. You believe you are seeking something other than you to

menu (1)

T2:3.2 exists fully realized. It is like a trunk full of treasure. Like a  menu of possibilities. All you must do is wholeheartedly recognize

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C:18.23 who not only believes it is the body, but that it is at the body’s  mercy. Yet the body has no mercy to offer the separated self. It is
C:18.23 is the body, but that it is at the body’s mercy. Yet the body has no  mercy to offer the separated self. It is only a learning device. But
T2:4.2 consistent to the thinking that would tell you that you are at the  mercy of fate. Fate and creation are hardly the same thing. You are
T2:4.2 of fate. Fate and creation are hardly the same thing. You are at the  mercy only of your own ego and only until you willingly let it go.
D:4.5 you will spend your day and when you will retire. You remain at the  mercy of those who are incarcerated along with you. You remain at the
D:4.5 of those who are incarcerated along with you. You remain at the  mercy of those who would have power over you, and you remain subject
D:4.11 a universe with no divine order, a life in which you are at the  mercy of fate. The new idea you are asked to accept is that existence
D:Day8.5 you do not like them? And yet, do you not accept that you are at the  mercy of situations of all kinds? A job you do not like? You may not
D:Day10.29 saints and angels include concepts of their feeling compassion and  mercy, and of their acting upon those feelings by championing the

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T1:1.11 grand its outcome and even in spite of your recognition, at first in  mere fleeting moments, that it is a change you would welcome.
T3:20.18 You are as pioneers to this new world. Its  mere existence will attract others and each will find the price of
D:6.19 you see that these attitudes are not ruled by certainty, but by a  mere idea of bettering the odds against what fate may offer.

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C:P.3 courses and received many teachings, the ego has not learned but has  merely become threatened. Spirit does not need a course in miracles.
C:1.14 struggle has nothing to do with what you are responsible for. It is  merely your ego’s attempt to involve you in distractions that keep
C:3.21 no sense, and yet makes the greatest sense of all. These questions  merely prove love’s value. What else do you value more?
C:5.28 is the only loss that union generates, and it is a loss of what was  merely illusion. As union begins to look more attractive to you, you
C:6.16 Why then do you think that peace is endless sunshine? Peace is  merely enjoyment of the rain and sun, night as well as day. Without
C:7.10 Your withholding takes on many forms that nonetheless are  merely effects of the selfsame cause that keeps truth separate from
C:9.11 have made, use it in a new way. Keep in mind, however, that we are  merely saving time, and that your real Self has no need to use
C:9.35 you. These errors are not the sins you hold against yourself, but  merely your errors in perception. Correction, or atonement, returns
C:9.44 understand what that abuse is a reflection of. Like any extreme, it  merely points out what in less extreme instances is still the same:
C:9.47 badly for all the years in which you saw this not. There will  merely be a glad “Aha!” as what was long forgotten is returned to
C:9.48 to the strange behavior you display? Those who give in to abuse are  merely calling louder for the selfsame love that all are in search
C:10.2 you aware of what you have for so long hidden from yourself. I can  merely tell you where to look, and save you countless years of
C:10.5 the body away and to think miracles into existence. This desire  merely shows you know not the source of healing and are not ready to
C:10.9 at the innocence of these desires that but reveal that you stand  merely at the beginning of the curriculum. To want a reward for
C:10.12 not think you will be proven wrong here. If you are wrong, you will  merely rot away after you have died and no one will know how wrong
C:10.24 you ever before considered the nature of your thoughts, or have you  merely taken them for granted?
C:10.28 for discouragement. This is not a test and you cannot fail. You are  merely playing. Play at observing yourself from above. Can you look
C:11.18 are welcome here. What is a dinner party where love is not? It is  merely a social obligation. But a dinner party where love is welcomed
C:12.8 part at all. And even this one change is not a change at all, for it  merely seeks to remove all the changes you but think that you have
C:13.1 of your body. Our next exercise takes this one step further, and is  merely an extension of the first. In this exercise you will begin to
C:27.11 as who you are. All is accomplished in unity. In separation you  merely strive for all that is yours in relationship. Relationship is
T3:2.12 to explore independence, no matter what the cost. This discussion  merely examined the reality you chose to believe in, the reality of
T3:4.1 for your depression, anxiety, meanness, illness or insanity. It  merely calls you to sanity by calling you to let go of illusion in
T3:14.2 Suffering and strife would still seem to be possible. You would  merely look back after the interlude had passed and see the truth,
T3:19.10 has been revealed to lie within the faulty beliefs to which the body  merely responded. The body’s response to the new thought system will
T3:20.11 Miracles are not the end, but  merely the means, of living by the truth. Miracles are not meant to
T4:2.26 mind attempted to know without the relationship of the heart, and so  merely perceived its own creations, rather than the creations birthed
T4:10.2 rather than studying, and yet you will quickly see that you  merely think of experience as learning through a different means than
D:3.15 is continuous and ongoing. It is giving and receiving as one. It is  merely represented by the words on this page and the words on this
D:4.7 by the prison you have created of it, and the actual prison system  merely mirrors this restriction on a grand scale for all to see and
D:4.13 them and of the creative time we are now entering. Thus far, we are  merely working together to create a pattern of acceptance to replace
D:5.17 But while this is what awaits you, I am  merely answering the questions that remain and that occur as this
D:6.26 of shared consciousness. You are whole once again and your form will  merely represent one aspect of your wholeness in the field of time.
D:7.19 While this seems like a time-bound statement, it is not. It is  merely one way of stating that creation is ongoing rather than
D:8.3 some form prior to the time of learning. We concentrate on this idea  merely as an idea and not in terms of the specific ability it may
D:9.12 with. You may think that all of your previous learning and thinking  merely resulted eventually in a new idea being birthed, but this is
D:Day1.6 state of the initiate, the time of waiting. You have chosen. You are  merely asked now to look at what you have chosen and to understand
D:Day1.7 that is occurring here. If you believe this mountain peak is  merely metaphorical, you will not realize that you have ascended or
D:Day1.26 what will tomorrow be the story of creation. A chain of events is  merely another way of saying cause and effect. The chain of events of
D:Day3.29 of success: Answer truly if you really believe this, or if you are  merely covering over your fear of not having enough with an incessant
D:Day9.1 to the present. You have fled the foreign land, where freedom was  merely an illusion, and arrived at the Promised Land, the land of our
D:Day10.3 am asking you to move from maintenance to sustainability today, I am  merely making you aware of this difference, just as I made you aware
D:Day29.4 reality. As you realize by now, all this talk of accomplishment is  merely about bringing forward what already exists into the reality in
A.12 not a passing on of information that you do not possess. I ask you  merely to receive in order to learn receptivity, the way of the
A.35 Entering the dialogue is the way this is expressed; yet this is not  merely about entering spoken dialogue. As was said in “A Treatise on

merest (1)

C:19.21 a nod of love from your heart, a passing glance of compassion, the  merest moment of reflection, before it will dissipate and show a new

merge (2)

D:Day8.17 acceptance of who you are and be able to allow the Self of unity to  merge with the self of form, thus elevating the self of form. You
D:Day27.13 who you are is also a constant within the aspect of separation.  Merge the two, however, into one level of experience and the whole

merged (1)

T1:9.16 are labels laden with attributes. When the different attributes are  merged, male and female will be no more and wholeness will reign.

merges (1)

D:Day15.20 up sediment that has settled on the bottom. As the clear pool  merges with the current of other clear pools it is able to change

merging (9)

T1:9.12 embracing both the male and female attributes within you causes a  merging of both and a wholeness to be achieved, so too does a
D:Day2.1 human self as well as the Self of unity. It is time for the final  merging of the two into one Self, the elevated Self of form.
D:Day11.8 awareness of connection and relationship of All to All. It is the  merging of the unknowable and the knowable through movement,
D:Day12.3 The  merging of form with Christ-consciousness is this merging of the Self
D:Day12.3 The merging of form with Christ-consciousness is this  merging of the Self with the unconditional love of the One Self. The
D:Day15.23 does not mean, however, that you know nothing. Practice is the  merging of the known and the unknown through experience, action,
D:Day17.1 We have spoken of life-consciousness and Christ-consciousness as the  merging of the human and the divine into observable form. Thus there
D:Day24.9 an activated will, a will that is also carried within you. This  merging of will and potential is the birth of your power and the
D:Day29.6 self has also been part of the process and part of the experience of  merging wholeness and separation. While you may have seen it as a new

merit (3)

C:10.6 that it will constantly try to interfere as long as you place any  merit in what it tells you.
T3:6.3 intricately tied to your notions of being good, performing deeds of  merit, and taking care of, or surviving, the many details that seem
T4:2.11 and respect is given to those who first achieve anything of  merit is but a way of calling all others to know what they can

merits (1)

T4:2.19 that you are not called to evangelize or convince anyone of the  merits of this course of study. This is just a course of study. Those

mess (2)

C:4.22 what love they have into the madness to take responsibility for the  mess that has been made, to attempt to restore order to chaos,
T1:3.20 is of God and needs not you for its accomplishment. Better not to  mess with such things. Even the thought of it leads you to ideas of

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C:12.2 tell you love is the answer, as if it has not been said before. This  message was preached long ago and still the world remains the same.
C:26.4 Again I offer my life as the example life and reiterate the  message expressed in A Course in Miracles: The true meaning of the
D:Day10.38 scheme of things. I want to comfort and reassure you in this final  message. I want to tell you to be embraced by love and to let all the

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C:10.7 anything.” Many of you may have used therapy to still the negative  messages that you hear, and after much effort succeeded at replacing
C:10.7 and after much effort succeeded at replacing what was negative with  messages of a more positive nature. And these are but messages of an
C:10.7 negative with messages of a more positive nature. And these are but  messages of an outside source! Your own thoughts are much more
T3:10.8 listen to the voice of the ego. While the ego is gone, many of its  messages remain within your thoughts, like echoes of a former time.
T3:10.8 like echoes of a former time. These thoughts are remembered  messages and so must, like all the rest, be forgotten. The process of
T4:9.5 is not lasting because it is not new. You have begun to see that all  messages of the truth say the same thing but in different ways. There
D:Day9.15 dangled before you in the place it called the future. As with all  messages of the ego, it but says that who you are is not good enough.

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C:9.27 “Sister, you are not alone” that spiritual hunger and thirst is  met with the fullness of unity. It is in realizing that you are not
C:29.15 and to serve. To be provided for and to provide. To have needs  met and to meet needs. This circular nature of the universe leaves no
C:29.16 of use created all ideas of toil as the only means of having needs  met. The idea of use created all notions of distrust, starting with—
T1:4.13 that is not needed. Responsibility implies needs that would not be  met without you. Response is given and thus genuine. It is a natural
T1:6.7 what you learned one day would be gone the next. A person you  met one day you would not know the next. Thus memory allows
T2:7.15 the constant and ongoing exchange that allows needs to be  met. It is trusting that if you have a need for money or time or
T2:7.21 practice, and while your recognition of receiving and of needs being  met may seem to still take time, this belief builds on the belief of
T2:9.4 When your life is running smoothly and needs are being continuously  met, you begin to want to hang on to the relationships that you feel
T2:9.4 met, you begin to want to hang on to the relationships that you feel  met these needs because of their ability to meet them. When your
T2:9.4 because of their ability to meet them. When your needs cease being  met, you believe there has been a loss such as with the loss of a job
T2:9.5 to feel as if you “have” needs even long after they have been  met. Since I have already stated that you do have needs this may seem
T2:9.6 In relationship, every need is  met by a corresponding need. It is a dance of correspondence.
T2:9.11 content or self-satisfied, or, in other words, feel your needs are  met, the desire to hang on to what you have arises. This is true of
T2:9.12 you have achieved and have labeled a state in which your needs are  met creates a static level, that no matter how good or right or
T2:9.16 aid you in being honest about your needs, thus allowing them to be  met. Then the need to define or to identify them ceases. Your needs
T2:9.17 live. Each time you are tempted to think that your needs can only be  met in special ways by special relationships, remember this example
T2:10.2 Thinking that needs can be  met only in certain ways is akin to another belief that has been
T4:12.4 no matter what questions are emanating from your mind, they will be  met with a response.
D:6.1 reached an end point as the learning goal of this Course was  met, and this you were told as well. I say this to remind you that
D:Day3.27 we are headed even beyond desire, and know that desire must first be  met before you can be taken beyond it.
D:Day10.19 point of a “person,” of a being who had lived and breathed and  met challenges similar to your own. You have been unable to see the
D:Day12.8 Not all forms will be  met as obstacles. Forms are only as real as the perceiver perceives
D:Day12.8 no space available for joining. What is a boundary to a perceiver is  met as an obstacle by the spacious self. Obstacles need not be
D:Day36.5 the fateful incidents that you encountered, the people you  met. You started with what you believed you had been given, the self

metaphor (4)

C:4.26 as you join together in truth. Think you not that this joining is a  metaphor, a string of pleasant words that will bring you comfort if
T2:4.5 It might be best explained by continuing with the swimming  metaphor. If acting in the world as who you truly are is like
T2:12.11 This  metaphor is akin to acceptance of the holy relationship. It is
D:13.4 that will often come in a flash, and is, in a sense, a humorous  metaphor for the idea of a divine “ray” of light descending and

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C:20.34 actions, all your expressions of love. While this may seem to be  metaphorical language it is not. Listen and you will hear. Hear, and
T3:9.7 through the desert to the Promised Land. That journey remained  metaphorical because it did not pass beyond the arena of beliefs into
D:Day1.7 that is occurring here. If you believe this mountain peak is merely  metaphorical, you will not realize that you have ascended or that you

metaphorically (1)

D:Day23.3 to all that lives and breathes along with you. We are coming  metaphorically and literally out of the clouds, out of the illusion,

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C:11.1 rather than separated from it. There are but a few reasons for this  method. The first is your attitude toward instruction, and the fact
T3:15.13 was needed in order to return you to your Self. Despite whatever  method you feel you used to learn what you have learned, what this
D:6.2 teacher within the text of your coursework was that of comparison, a  method that will be used less and less as the time of learning
D:6.2 spoke is why I bring this up. During your time of learning, I used a  method of comparison—I compared the real to the unreal, the false
D:Day6.2 many, this is not the only, or even the major reason for this chosen  method.
A.11 What you will find yourself accepting through this  method is precisely what cannot be taught. What you are learning
A.11 precisely what cannot be taught. What you are learning through this  method is precisely what cannot be sought after and attained through
A.11 and attained through your seeking. What you are finding through this  method is receptivity. You are coming home to the way of the heart.

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C:19.15 that what you most need to know cannot be achieved through the same  methods you have used in order to know about other things. And,
T3:15.11 of the old. It is impossible to learn the truth through the same  methods that have been used in the past to learn illusion. This
D:6.1 “teaching” like the time of “learning” had its place as well as its  methods.
D:6.2 One of the  methods employed by your teacher within the text of your coursework
D:Day4.20 to “teach” what my life represented to those who did not know me,  methods of teaching were devised. From these methods of teaching,
D:Day4.20 who did not know me, methods of teaching were devised. From these  methods of teaching, rules developed. The teaching was externalized

mice (1)

C:9.30 abandoned and without a user might become the home to a family of  mice. A computer might be covered with a cloth, a flowerpot placed on

microscope (2)

C:22.15 idea of bringing things to a stop where they can be examined under a  microscope quite apart from their relationship to you or to anything
C:31.6 of your body unaided, or remove your own brain to view it beneath a  microscope. Yet you call your body your own and identify it as your

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D:Day5.5 or to the right or left of your head. It may be your heart, or some  mid-point just beyond the body. It may, for some, feel like a

middle (3)

C:2.6 of feeling. Both “ends” of feelings are considered dangerous and a  middle ground is sought. It is said that one can love too much and
C:2.7 quite real. You can label joy heaven and pain hell and seek the  middle ground for your reality thinking there are more than these two
C:28.6 is the time for the sun to cut through the mists of dawn. It is the  middle of the journey, a time of teaching and of learning both. It is

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C:1.6 not matter and will not be carried with you to the new world. So you  might as well let them go now.
C:1.7 have carried your heavy luggage with you everywhere just in case you  might need something. Now you are beginning to trust that you will
C:1.8 truth ask yourself what else you had been told and disregarded. You  might try one more thing and then another that you previously would
C:1.8 confidence in the wisdom of this teacher would continue to grow. You  might consider that you could still learn from your mistakes and find
C:1.8 and find the learning in the end to be the same, and this you surely  might do from time to time. But eventually you would realize that it
C:3.22 Your thoughts  might lead you to a dozen answers now, more for some and less for
C:3.22 which, led by your ego, would throw logic in love’s way. Some others  might use their thoughts in yet another manner, claiming to choose
C:4.12 mother whose love is blind and self-sacrificing. Still others of you  might imagine a couple long married in which each person is devoted
C:4.12 you admire, you give attributes that you do not have and that you  might one day acquire when the time is right. For that kind and
C:4.12 is something to be gained at too high a price, that devotion you  might think is fine for one whose partner is more loving than your
C:4.14 for once common sense has failed to keep you acting as expected, you  might forget to guard your heart or to keep your real Self in hiding.
C:4.15 mean, an ideal that changed over time. Those most bound by the ego  might think of stature and of wealth, of physical beauty and the
C:6.10 to attain it? And even if it were so, what then? Some, you think,  might choose to live near the equator, to have the sun shine every
C:7.1 your mind is not. Your mind would hold on to every idea for what it  might bring you, and is resentful of those whose ideas do come to
C:7.12 You  might choose to tell those you encounter of your bad day, and if they
C:7.12 carry, and if the exchange is determined to be of equal value you  might let them go. A response of less than sympathetic proportions,
C:7.17 as possible any erroneous ideas you have, especially those that  might make of this a trivial point or one that is specific and not
C:8.2 are not the real thoughts of your heart. What other language  might your heart speak? It is a language spoken so quietly and with
C:8.12 perhaps to help them, but also to have power over them. Whatever you  might come to know you would deem your property and its disposition
C:9.2 forward guard of your defense system, always on the lookout for what  might hurt or slight the little you that they deem under their
C:9.5 you would repair or minds improve. The question is, really, who  might have seen a use for a body such as yours before it was created?
C:9.28 or she possesses by seeing them not or by sadly distorting what they  might be useful for?
C:9.30 Would it be anything? An automobile abandoned and without a user  might become the home to a family of mice. A computer might be
C:9.30 without a user might become the home to a family of mice. A computer  might be covered with a cloth, a flowerpot placed on top of it.
C:9.34 this, too, you would squander and lay to ruin. The only thing that  might succeed in proving your place as that of royal inheritor would
C:10.17 and this need not be. When you begin to ask yourself, What choice  might lead to happiness instead of this, you will begin to see a
C:10.18 Your mind  might still prefer to be right rather than happy, so it is important
C:10.20 went wrong and why you could not maintain that happy state. There  might be many practical reasons to cite for your happiness’ demise,
C:10.24 thoughts—thoughts about your body, the same kind of thoughts you  might have of someone else’s body. The difference will be that these
C:11.9 rewarded for a life of goodness or punished for a life of evil. He  might accept you back, but He might not. A God such as this would
C:11.9 or punished for a life of evil. He might accept you back, but He  might not. A God such as this would seem to have little faith in you
C:12.18 seemed to take on a life of its own and compel you to do things you  might have never dreamed of doing. People often look back upon their
C:12.19 the idea of taking an adventurous vacation when brought to fruition  might reshape the life of the one participating in it, it would not
C:13.5 of spirit is love. You will want to give it many names at first, and  might not even recognize it as love, for it will come without all the
C:13.11  Might some of your preconceived notions of others and yourself be
C:14.15 keep things for yourself stems from something other than fear. You  might call this desire pride or security, or even accept that it is
C:14.16 your existence—although you cannot quite imagine what that reason  might be. You must be meant to be because you are, and you cannot
C:15.5 your own way and choose your own look, lifestyle, or attitude, you  might risk being seen as special within this group, and your choices
C:15.5 might risk being seen as special within this group, and your choices  might affect your ability to make others feel special in the way in
C:16.20 other than love for power or for justice makes a mockery of both.  Might makes right is a saying that is known to many of you, and even
C:16.21 those who have no power to possess it through the same weapons or  might that you claim make those in authority powerful. While you want
C:16.21 you, you also fear them, and they in turn fear the powerless who  might take away their power or rise up against them. What kind of
C:16.21 What is it about the powerless that frightens you, except that they  might not accept their powerless state? And what does this say but
C:16.21 shown you—that who is powerful and who is not is not determined by  might or any authority that can be given and taken away. Power is
C:17.7 you enter into, despite your every attempt to anticipate what it  might hold. And yet, while it would seem you would grow quite used to
C:20.29 Miracles are expressions of love. You  might think of them as acts of cooperation. Holiness cannot be
C:20.48 to one heartbeat, the return to what is known. This knowing you  might call wisdom and think of as an attainable ideal of thought. Yet
C:21.5 action. At such times two strangers who are foreign to one another  might recognize that the other’s “heart is in the right place.” The
C:21.7 will not get where you are wanting to go until they are joined. You  might imagine three paths—one path representing mind, one path
C:22.9 your day must pass through you in order to gain reality. While you  might think of this as everything outside of yourself, please, when
C:22.11 You  might think of the axis for a moment as a funnel through which
C:22.12 must pass through one or another of your five senses—which you  might think of collectively as layers—and are allowed no other
C:22.12 center of yourself. You instead deflect them, using your mind, which  might be considered another layer, to send them to various
C:22.12 sits, and that which you consider beyond meaning sits. You  might imagine yourself as the creator of an unfinished dictionary,
C:22.13 The “meaningless” category  might include such things as the happenings of your daily routine,
C:22.20 For example, when you walk out your door in the morning you  might generally think, “What a lovely day.” What this sentence says
C:23.29 You  might ask, how do you learn what you have failed to learn previously?
C:25.7 not look for what another has to give or what another has that you  might use. True service recognizes God’s law of giving and receiving,
C:25.18 As you begin to live love, a reverse of what you  might expect to happen will happen. While you may expect that
C:25.23 necessary, this is exactly when a time of stillness is needed. You  might think of this time of stillness as a time of consulting with
C:25.24 at such times and to remember that if it “doesn’t matter,” you  might as well try the new way. Remind yourself that you have nothing
C:26.10 You who struggle to understand what these words say and what they  might mean, who strive to find the clues to what they ask you to do,
C:26.24 except in memory and reflection and perhaps in speculation. What  might a sequel reveal?
C:27.15 upon out of habit, or your considerations of what the situation  might mean to your future. It is not the individual “you” that
C:28.2 a spectator sport and it is not meant to be thus. How, then, you  might ask, is the truth brought to those still living in illusion?
C:29.26 given. What gift of opportunity did you not accept in the past,  might you not recognize in the future? What gift of fortune, what
C:29.26 future? What gift of fortune, what chance encounter, what decision  might have changed your life? What should you have done that you
C:29.26 changed your life? What should you have done that you didn’t? What  might you do in the future if not for your fear of where the
C:29.26 in the future if not for your fear of where the direction you choose  might take you? What peace might you know if you realized, truly
C:29.26 fear of where the direction you choose might take you? What peace  might you know if you realized, truly realized, that all gifts come
C:30.5 You are headed toward what  might be called universal consciousness, though you will not know it
C:30.11 —some information, some guarantee, some proof or validation. You  might think if you are “right” you will be successful, if you are
T1:2.11 The implications of this statement are far broader than at first  might seem indicated. All of these implications have been touched
T1:2.13 to feel the warmth or chill of an evening. The whole experience  might include the sound of birds or traffic, the rhythm of the ocean,
T1:2.13 the rhythm of the ocean, or the pounding of your own heart. It  might be a shared experience, one in which you share the feeling of
T1:2.13 the feeling of awe inspired by this sight with one you love. It  might be seen as you walk or drive, rake leaves or gaze from an
T1:2.13 as you walk or drive, rake leaves or gaze from an office window. It  might be a deathbed vision or the first sunset of which a young child
T1:2.13 vision or the first sunset of which a young child is aware. It  might be a scene taken totally for granted as you go about whatever
T1:3.6 you to come to live in truth is through faith; not a faith in what  might be, but a faith in what is. A faith in what is, is a faith in
T1:3.9 a miracle that would leave no room for doubt? Such a simple miracle  might be the turning of water into wine. What harm could come from
T1:3.19 Thirdly, you  might, at the suggestion that you need proof to shore up your faith,
T1:3.20 Fourth, you  might balk at the suggestion that God would grant miracles on such a
T1:3.23 Although many more fears  might prevail upon you, we will consider only one further fear, the
T1:3.23 away. Surely to believe that where one miracle worked another  might be possible would be to have ideas of grandeur not meant for
T1:3.23 be to have ideas of grandeur not meant for you. Here your thoughts  might stray to the performing of many miracles. What a media circus
T1:3.24 You are not worthy. You are not saintly, godlike or even holy. You  might choose incorrectly. You might invoke retribution. You might be
T1:3.24 not saintly, godlike or even holy. You might choose incorrectly. You  might invoke retribution. You might be selfish. You might be proved
T1:3.24 You might choose incorrectly. You might invoke retribution. You  might be selfish. You might be proved to have no faith. You might
T1:3.24 incorrectly. You might invoke retribution. You might be selfish. You  might be proved to have no faith. You might succumb to thoughts of
T1:3.24 You might be selfish. You might be proved to have no faith. You  might succumb to thoughts of grandeur.
T1:4.12 within this Course’s definition of gift, the most obvious of which  might be your children. Another of which might be your talents. It is
T1:4.12 the most obvious of which might be your children. Another of which  might be your talents. It is the idea of your responsibility for
T1:4.16 a request to you to hear Creation’s response to who you are. What  might such a response sound like? Feel like? Look like? It is a
T1:9.15 One first reaction  might be to puff oneself up with pride, bolster one’s position, think
T1:9.15 to the other in the situation or event. Another’s first reaction  might be one of self-pity, of making oneself or another feel guilty,
T1:10.11 Let us separate experiences you  might call peak experiences from experiences of extremes that served
T2:1.4 turn away from internal treasures that you believe, when realized,  might feed the ego. Despite many observations within this Course
T2:4.5 who you think you are as you complete the process of unlearning. It  might be best explained by continuing with the swimming metaphor. If
T2:4.8 and thoughts. One set of thoughts and feelings contain all that one  might attribute to the glad acceptance of a gift of high value, or in
T2:4.8 a treasure. One set of thoughts and feelings contain all that one  might attribute to the somewhat onerous onset of yet another
T2:4.9 through an acceptance of ambiguity. While an acceptance of ambiguity  might seem preferable to conflict, an acceptance of ambiguity is a
T2:4.12 who you are now. This is not a quick fix that calls you to what  might have been and tells you that if you had but acted earlier you
T2:4.16 have made. The old structure is coming down so that the new, what  might be likened to a building with no frame, can rise.
T2:5.3 of an announcement can alert you that it is time to act. This  might be considered the highest form of call, the call from the
T2:6.5 What does this mean in regards to time? You  might think of being accomplished as all of your work being done. If
T2:6.5 it takes for those treasures to become abilities. Thus all that you  might wish to accomplish stands separate from you and beyond you in
T2:9.2 your ego mind. Some practices more commonly thought of as tools  might be meditation, exercises of the body such as yoga, or exercises
T2:9.11 you are, just as much as it is of special relationships and what you  might more readily think of as treasure, such as a successful career
T2:10.3 Where has this information gone and what keeps it from you? You  might feel frustrated with your memory at such a time and even say
T2:10.4 You  might think of unity as you have so often thought of your brain, but
T2:10.8 what seems to lie beyond your ability lies in the Christ in you. You  might think of the ego as the hand that swats away this knowing.
T2:12.11 seed alone is all that is important. As intently as this gardener  might struggle to cause the seed to grow, without the relationship of
T3:1.11 past was a self of roles, each one as learned as that which an actor  might portray. You saw nothing more amiss in being a professional
T3:2.1 it seem to serve to have anything exist only as a representation? We  might think of this in terms of original purpose and the original
T3:2.1 self alone. They are not expressions of the self alone in terms you  might consider autobiographical, and they are not expressions of the
T3:2.9 of the truth simply have no meaning and no matter how much one  might try to read meaning into the meaningless, it will not be found
T3:3.9 of this Course, your self is still seen as a stumbling block. You  might think that were you able to live in some ideal community, away
T3:3.9 away from all that has brought you to where you now are, you  might be able to put the beliefs of this Course into practice. If not
T3:3.9 this Course into practice. If not quite this drastic, your thoughts  might tell you that if you were in another job, devoid of certain
T3:3.9 be much better suited to putting these beliefs into practice. Or you  might look at your behaviors, your habits, your general personality,
T3:9.3 illusion and finding a completely new reality beyond its walls. You  might think, at first, that you are in a place so foreign that you
T3:10.13 as a child and then learned and spoke English for many years, you  might believe your Spanish to be forgotten. However, if you were to
T3:10.13 other. But eventually, if this situation went on for many years, you  might think you had forgotten your ability to understand English.
T3:13.1 you are in human form, we may proceed unencumbered by any doubt you  might have had concerning whether or not you would desire the new
T3:13.7 is consistent with all beliefs of an “if this then that” nature. You  might start practicing this idea by repeating these words to yourself:
T3:13.10 an act that will cause you no fear to begin with. For instance, you  might tell yourself something such as this: “I have an idea that if I
T3:13.10 no dire consequences will befall me from this action.” Another act  might be as simple as allowing yourself to freely spend a small
T3:14.2 of abundance, all ideas of blame into ideas of benevolence. Thus you  might, after this period of translation, rather than cursing your
T3:14.5 change than you would imagine. You fear where all your new ideas  might take you, and for some great changes may surely await, but
T3:14.12 Atonement, or correction, is not of you but of God. You  might think of this in terms of nature and look upon nature’s ability
T3:15.1 to build a new relationship. Others, in a similar relationship,  might have chosen to let the past go and enter into new
T3:16.10 this is not the case. You are simply being asked to give that you  might receive and to receive that you might give.
T3:16.10 being asked to give that you might receive and to receive that you  might give.
T3:16.12 everything you fear to do because of the consequences your actions  might bring. These fears rob you of your certainty and result in a
T3:20.6 Sympathy is the most common observance in such a circumstance. You  might feel called to tears, to words that acknowledge how “bad” the
T3:20.7 and you believe in what the statistics would seem to tell you. You  might “thank God” for technology that would seem to offer hope, or
T3:20.7 seem to offer hope, or for drugs that would ease suffering, and you  might pray that God spare this one from a future seemingly already
T3:20.8 you not begin to see that in so doing you but reinforce it? What you  might even call the “fact” of it? Can you not instead ask yourself
T3:20.18 from a burden never meant to rest upon you even if it is one you  might have freely chosen. Your task is to create the new world and
T3:21.11 capable, simply because you could not exist without an identity. You  might think of this as being certain of facts and information, for
T3:21.11 male or female, married or single, homosexual or heterosexual. You  might call yourselves Chinese or Lebanese or American, black or white
T3:21.19 And yet, what  might seem contradictory is that I have said that we can also use the
T3:21.19 that will allow you to exist as who you are in human form. How, you  might rightly ask, can you cease to identify yourself as you always
T3:22.15 desire and accomplishment, the tension that told you that you  might be able to achieve what you desire but that you also might not.
T3:22.15 that you might be able to achieve what you desire but that you also  might not. Realize that this game of chance is a pattern of the old
T4:1.6 Why, you  might ask, is a word such as chosen used, when many other words would
T4:1.7 An elementary example  might be useful. In many countries, all are given the opportunity to
T4:1.7 many countries, all are given the opportunity to go to school. This  might be as easily stated as all are chosen for schooling. Some might
T4:1.7 This might be as easily stated as all are chosen for schooling. Some  might look at this as lack of choice, saying that anything that is
T4:1.7 the mandatory nature of their chosenness or opportunity, they  might easily choose not to learn. The nature of life, however, is one
T4:1.13 by the feeling that something different is possible; that you  might just be able to achieve what others have not; that this time
T4:1.13 might just be able to achieve what others have not; that this time  might just be different than any other time. Even as you begin to
T4:1.13 past, hinders your excitement. If what you are beginning to believe  might be possible is possible, and has been possible, are you to look
T4:1.14 The only answer  might seem to lie in the laws of evolution, the slow learning and
T4:2.16 knowing that the truth of who they are is present even though it  might seem not to be? This is the power of the devotion of the
T4:2.31 to see in the same way but more lovingly? Have you thought you  might begin to recognize those who, like you, are joined with me in
T4:2.31 joined with me in Christ-consciousness? Have you suspected that you  might see in ways literally different? That you might see auras or
T4:2.31 suspected that you might see in ways literally different? That you  might see auras or halos, signs and clues previously unseen? Have you
T4:4.10 would not appeal to many of you. Those aged and contemplating death  might wish for prolonged life, but many of these same welcome death
T4:5.2 that exist with you, form the orchestra and chorus of creation. You  might think of your time here as that of being apprentice musicians.
T4:5.5 form is but an extension of this energy, a representation of it. You  might think of this as a small spark of the energy that has created a
T4:5.8 that beats. Your finger does not act independently of the whole. You  might say that your finger does not, then, have free will. It cannot
T4:8.8 You  might ask how, if what I’m saying is true, could God disconnect from
T4:8.11 that you cannot fight a child’s nature, no matter how different it  might be from your own—just as in extreme cases you see that you
T4:10.2 beyond that which you now are, without learning. Your thoughts  might stray to ideas about experiencing, rather than studying, and
T4:10.3 aspect of your life for the lessons contained therein. So how, you  might ask, do you quit now, doing what you have so long done?
D:1.19 As you begin this Dialogue, questions naturally arise. You  might think that for the receiver, or transcriber, of this Dialogue,
D:2.17 a desired end, but which, when it does not provide the solutions you  might have desired, becomes a system you would rail against. You
D:2.17 you might have desired, becomes a system you would rail against. You  might consider that no “system” is foolproof, and still be willing to
D:3.7 the old. There are no battles needed, no victories hard won through  might and struggle. This is what is meant by surrender. We achieve
D:3.15 What  might this mean to the elevated Self of form? Using this dialogue as
D:4.14 of the separated self. The idea of giving and receiving as one  might be thought of as a divinely inspired system of thought. In such
D:4.22 drive to succeed, if you fear doing what you want to do because you  might fail, if you follow another’s path and seek not your own, then
D:5.10 this must be reemphasized now as you are called to see what you  might previously have thought of as inconsequential in the light of
D:6.6 form, and what exists as inanimate or non-living form. While you  might think this is an easily drawn distinction—and it is—it is
D:6.6 you have determined their use to be. There is thus truth, or what we  might call the seeds of the truly real, or the energy of creation, in
D:6.12 in harmony and cooperation. This is a harmony and cooperation that  might one day extend to the sun and a demonstration that the sun need
D:6.19 could have prevented it by abstaining from the unhealthy habits. You  might look now at these two attitudes and see that they are somewhat
D:6.22 form that is now serving to represent the truth of who you are. How  might this change the “laws” of the body, the laws you gave the body
D:6.22 learning, knowing not what the design of the body represented? What  might the bodily design now represent?
D:6.24 for the pattern of learning—the pattern of acceptance. What  might the body be called to accept? This is an easy answer, as you
D:7.28 You  might begin by imagining first your actual, physical, home, then your
D:8.2 Imagine this first as a place where no learning is needed. Ah, you  might say now, this you have heard before. This idea of no longer
D:8.2 have “discovered” something that comes easily to you, something you  might have said or been told you have a natural talent or ability to
D:8.4 You  might think of this ability that existed prior to the time of
D:8.4 gifted—given to—and able to receive. And despite what science  might have to say to you about the source of such talents or
D:10.4 Now you  might be thinking, here, that while these givens come from the realm
D:11.2 You  might even consider this Dialogue the written notes of my thoughts.
D:11.3 You  might imagine that the way you think is so different from the way I
D:11.9 been told you give and you receive from the well of spirit. What  might this mean? How might this relate to the giving and receiving of
D:11.9 and you receive from the well of spirit. What might this mean? How  might this relate to the giving and receiving of these words? To the
D:11.9 having about the body and the elevation of the self of form? How  might this relate to your desire to make a contribution and answer
D:12.5 you may be aware that something different is going on here, you  might also say that your body has felt no “step” into the realm of
D:12.9 that arise from the thought system of the separated self. We  might make this a simpler subject to discuss by making a distinction
D:12.10 conclusion to your thinking, a summary of the finer points, as what  might come to you in a reflective moment at the end of the day. Again
D:14.3 of unity. This is why the key to unlocking the secrets of all you  might want to know before beginning the creation of the new are the
D:14.5 during the course of your normal life. Questions such as, “What  might this situation look like if I forgot everything I have
D:15.7 no story to tell without movement. Nothing is happening. So movement  might be likened to something happening—to the beginning, the
D:15.8 being, and expression came together, however, was there light. Light  might be seen, in this example, as the first act of creation.
D:15.14 You  might say that the wind comes and the wind goes. It blows in mighty
D:15.22 step after your ascent of the highest mountain. These dialogues  might be seen as taking place there, with the guide and the team of
D:16.1 Barren forms  might be seen as forms that existed before the onset of the state of
D:16.9 to be who you are, without allowing for self-expression. You  might think that you can be simply because you exist and that as long
D:16.17 This is but a photograph that remains, a copy of what you once  might have thought of as your “original” self. It is but an
D:17.2 The series build to a climax, to what, during the time of evolution,  might have been called evolutionary leaps.
D:17.16 The only reason why this  might be so is that it is meant to be so. Something is still desired.
D:Day2.11 see the benefit of accepting what had occurred and moving on? You  might counter this by saying that if you had been the adulterer, the
D:Day3.2 the way you knew life to be. While the freedom of childhood learning  might be seen as the way learning was meant to be, the time of this
D:Day3.9 you to think, “I doubt it.” Or, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” You  might think spirituality can assist you in living a more simple life
D:Day3.14 so you would rather not even attempt an understanding of how things  might be different. As far as you have come, these ideas are still
D:Day3.21 to whom you complain. To speak of money matters with someone who  might have more than you, you would consider a shaming act. You would
D:Day3.21 than you, you would consider a shaming act. You would fear that they  might think you want something from them and you would suffer
D:Day3.21 suffer embarrassment. To speak of money with anyone who has less  might open the door for a request for what you do not feel you have
D:Day3.22 does not touch upon this aspect of “reality.” The better life you  might attain will be a by-product rather than the effect of Cause.
D:Day3.32 And so you  might think, here, of what has brought you joy. A home, a garden, a
D:Day3.33 You  might think here too that money made from what you love to do has a
D:Day3.33 love to do has a different quality than money earned from toil. You  might think that money earned from what you love to do is the answer,
D:Day3.33 money earned from what you love to do is the answer, just as you  might think that money spent on the more lasting pleasures such as
D:Day3.49 already entered this step, this step of considering how what you  might do might affect the response of God. You take this step without
D:Day3.49 entered this step, this step of considering how what you might do  might affect the response of God. You take this step without
D:Day3.49 of it being an “if this, then that” world. You try to guess what God  might want you to do, be it being still and not worrying about money,
D:Day3.54 You  might argue now that what you do with great ideas and great talent is
D:Day4.3 you must be given the opportunity here to see what other choices  might be before you.
D:Day4.6 you, under normal circumstances, have to think about breathing. You  might begin to think of all the “givens” of unity as those things
D:Day4.13 to this place. It is like being told that all of the treasure you  might desire is locked away behind a gate to which you have no key.
D:Day4.15 “given” world as opposed to the world of your perception, what we  might call a world-view attained through learning.
D:Day4.16 and that it is still challenging the world-view of your time. Why  might this be?
D:Day4.31 In practical terms, you  might think of this as a disengagement from the details. Thinking is
D:Day4.33 In doing so, they let the natural serve the natural. Some  might “go into” the breathing and become one with it. Others might
D:Day4.33 Some might “go into” the breathing and become one with it. Others  might become the observer and in so doing remove themselves from the
D:Day4.35 You  might think of the mountain top as symbolic of a place close to God.
D:Day4.35 in touch with your own access to God, your own access to heaven. You  might think that if you stretch your idea of reality just a little
D:Day4.41 But what, you  might ask, of the elevated Self of form? Why is this suddenly a
D:Day4.56 This choice has come before you  might have expected it to. It does not come at the end but at the
D:Day4.57 not because you have reached some ideal of enlightenment or what you  might think of as perfection. If this were asked of you, how many of
D:Day5.3 are among your first experiences of unity. Thus, just as when you  might look up when trying to remember something, or tap a finger at
D:Day5.13 the truth of giving and receiving as one within your own heart. You  might think of access in the same way—as enabling you to realize
D:Day5.16 A “healer” for instance,  might, thus, feel her access point as being the hands and express
D:Day5.16 what is gained through unity by a laying on of hands. Similarly, you  might say healing is one of the ways the healer expresses love. In
D:Day6.6 How  might these things be linked to the example of creating art? I choose
D:Day6.7 the piece may find its expression easily, in a way that the artist  might describe as flowing. Depending on the disposition of the
D:Day6.7 Depending on the disposition of the artist, the piece of music  might be shared with others at each step of the process, or only late
D:Day6.7 is shared will impact the artist and the piece. Positive reactions  might validate the artist’s instinct and encourage even more
D:Day6.7 instinct and encourage even more boldness. Negative reactions  might cause the artist to doubt her instincts, to make changes, or to
D:Day6.7 Finishing touches will be put on the piece. Some collaboration  might take place to get it just right. By the time the artist has
D:Day6.7 may have little resemblance to the piece originally intended, or it  might be quite true to the original idea.
D:Day6.26 more important for you to be involved in. All other areas where you  might previously have placed your devotion pale in comparison to our
D:Day6.31 is, thus, no call to be discouraged. This is not delay, but what you  might think of as trial by fire. Be encouraged rather than
D:Day8.14 not like your job, you predetermine a continuing dislike. Soon, you  might see a group of people who often gossip and assume that they are
D:Day9.10 Where  might your notion of what an ideal self is have come from? It may
D:Day9.26 What  might happen if you change what you desire? You might just realize
D:Day9.26 What might happen if you change what you desire? You  might just realize your freedom.
D:Day9.32 You  might ask here what is wrong with desiring to have the freedom to
D:Day9.32 to have the freedom to strive to be more and to do more. You  might ask what life would be for without this type of freedom to
D:Day10.7 to do, an accident or some other event you would not have welcomed  might have occurred. You may have never had any proof that following
D:Day10.9 intuition that come, not as these seeming warnings, but as what you  might call intuitive flashes of insight—intuition that causes you
D:Day10.35 —your reliance on science and technology and medicine and military  might—has been shown to be unfounded, a new source of reliable
D:Day10.38 that have been used to “address” your feelings in the way you  might desire have worked. This will work.
D:Day11.5 All the benefits you  might want to bring to the world are brought about in only one way:
D:Day15.26 with all and still focus, or place your attention, on areas that  might not interest others in the slightest.
D:Day19.2 true contentment and denial. Although this is overly simplified, you  might think of this as the artist being content in creating art, the
D:Day22.10 You  might think of yourself as a channel through which union with God is
D:Day24.5 You  might think of the caterpillar as the unaltered self with which you
D:Day24.5 as the unaltered self with which you began your journey. You  might think of your body as the cocoon, the carrier of your
D:Day24.5 think of your body as the cocoon, the carrier of your potential. You  might think of the butterfly as your spirit, revealed only after the
D:Day25.5 Rather than a time of questions and answers, you  might think of this time as a time of sorting and culling. Become
D:Day27.4 occasion, showing up as flashes of insight. These flashes of insight  might be thought of as brief views from the mountain. The obstacles
D:Day27.7 and with life. You quite literally have a new way of seeing. You  might think of this initially as having two perspectives, an internal
D:Day27.9 be experienced as different levels of experience of one whole. You  might consider this by again picturing the mountain-top. Looking in
D:Day27.9 by again picturing the mountain-top. Looking in one direction, you  might see only darkness. Looking in another, you might see the
D:Day27.9 one direction, you might see only darkness. Looking in another, you  might see the dawning of light. Opposites exist only as different
D:Day27.12 If you were to perceive of wholeness as an ideal temperature, you  might think for a moment, just as an illustration, of your experience
D:Day28.20 of time, or eternity, experienced and made real. Eternity  might thus be seen as the unchanging constant that has not been
D:Day30.2 The two levels of experience we have spoken of  might be seen as the process, much like in math, through which the
D:Day32.5 to relate to God than when God is thought of in broader terms. You  might think of God as you think of yourself. When thinking of the
D:Day32.5 think of yourself. When thinking of the ideas put forth here, you  might think of God deciding to know Himself. You might think of God
D:Day32.5 put forth here, you might think of God deciding to know Himself. You  might think of God deciding to create. You might think of God
D:Day32.5 to know Himself. You might think of God deciding to create. You  might think of God creating. You might think of God granting free
D:Day32.5 of God deciding to create. You might think of God creating. You  might think of God granting free will to His creations. Then,
D:Day32.5 think of God granting free will to His creations. Then, perhaps, you  might think of God resting, or standing back and witnessing the
D:Day32.7 Another concept of God is that of Creator. This concept  might have nothing to do with the notion of God wanting to know
D:Day32.9 Yet most religious beliefs encompass the concept of a living God. How  might God live? Could He live in time and space in a dimension we
D:Day33.7 You  might think of being as what you are, and responding as who you are.
D:Day35.5 So you  might ask, was it once possible for you to be so unaware of your
D:Day37.7 How then, you  might ask, are you distinct from God? Is your body distinct from your
D:Day37.15 But more fundamentally than even all of this, you  might ask, if you are one in being with God, is it being said that
D:Day37.16 in such a way, then you do have a relationship in separation. It  might be somewhat like your relationship with a deceased relative in
D:Day40.6 and who others are. These are the attributes of your being, what you  might call your personality or even who you are. As has been said
D:Day40.10 Lest you do not fully understand, this  might be more easily grasped if we talk for just a moment of
D:Day40.10 to the attributeless. Giving form to the formless. An artist  might be moved to her art by a feeling of love so intense she could
A.9 compelled to share your experience of the Course with others. What  might you expect to find?
A.31 in context. After giving the group time to talk, the facilitator  might choose a brief passage that will fit within the content of the
A.31 Often a discussion can be facilitated greatly by the question, “How  might we be able to look at this situation in a new way?” To

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T1:3.14 This does not have to be done right now if your fear is  mightier than your willingness. But hold this thought within your

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C:1.14 would be true if what you were striving for had value. To strive  mightily for nothing is still to have nothing and to end up with
C:14.7 terrible would it really be to realize that although you have tried  mightily, a creation such as this cannot be made to make any sense at
T1:4.13 and still fail to give love? Can a dancer not struggle  mightily to perfect her talent without experiencing its joy?
T2:10.1 You would have to work  mightily to turn the lessons of this Course into a tool, but many of
D:17.5 attainment. Of having asked and having received. Of having striven  mightily and succeeded. It is what comes after the embrace of
D:Day4.25 learn the truth no matter how much attention you paid, no matter how  mightily you tried. For on your own you cannot learn the truth. On

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C:20.46 and smallness with your willingness to believe in your ability and  mightiness. Remember not your ego concerns and remember instead the
D:Day37.27 a drop of water in the ocean—and in this example reemphasized the  mightiness of God and the lowliness of man. The “part” of God you

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C:P.42 or to have advanced only a little bit, when your willingness is  mighty? Only because you have not vanquished the ego. You learn and
C:1.14 once again convince yourself that you alone have succeeded against  mighty adversaries. It is the only way you see to prove your power
C:5.8 have become collectors rather than gatherers. Your fear has grown so  mighty that all that would combat it is collected for safekeeping.
C:16.20 It is all around you. The strong survive and the weak perish. The  mighty prevail, and so define what is right for all those over whom
C:20.21 and sunset? Is not the least of the birds of the air as holy as the  mighty eagle? The blade of grass, the fleck of sand, the wind and
C:25.14 and use it as a test of fate, or an excuse to challenge the  mighty forces of humanity or nature, will eventually lose the game
T3:1.7 a change in behavior there. But I assure you that these changes are  mighty and are but the result of the change in cause that has
T3:5.6 The question of the time, a question still much in evidence, was how  mighty could God’s love be if it were given to a people who suffered.
T3:5.6 to a people who suffered. The answer was that God’s love was so  mighty that he would even allow the death of his only son to redeem
T3:6.4 this far and learned this much may not be those whose bitterness is  mighty and held tightly to themselves, bitterness must still be
T3:14.11 for vengeance and blame. The suffering that has been chosen has been  mighty. The choice now is not a choice to explore the why behind it
T4:12.17 work hard. Learned wisdom will tell you that the strong survive, the  mighty prevail, the weak shall perish. I attempted to dislodge much
D:11.5 called and that a contribution has been asked of you. And so your  mighty thoughts have turned their focus on this problem and attacked
D:15.7 was once my tradition as an example. Before God “said” anything, a  mighty wind swept over the wasteland and the waters. The wind, which
D:15.14 You might say that the wind comes and the wind goes. It blows in  mighty gales and whispers in gentle breezes. Any sailor knows the

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D:7.27 that can be drawn around where you exist so as to define, perhaps, a  mile of space and say that this is all you. No, the circle that

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D:17.24 place with movement. Years are spent traveling many paths and many  miles. All the heartaches are experienced along the way. All the

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C:6.12 eagerness for heaven are seen to be in opposition. Heaven and its  milieu of eternal peace is rightly kept, you think, for the end of
C:8.7 of the heart and buries stillness deep beneath an ever-changing  milieu of life lived on the surface, as if your own skin were the

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C:29.3 in your society is one of enforced duty, as exemplified by your  military service. You have no notion, as did people of the past, of
T3:4.7 has at times been done in the individual with great training, as in  military training, or in cases of great abuse when a second ego
T3:4.7 while gentle in nature, has been great, as great as that of any  military training, as great as any emotional trauma that has left one
D:Day10.35 your Self—your reliance on science and technology and medicine and  military might—has been shown to be unfounded, a new source of

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T2:9.13 As a being existing in form, you have honed certain instincts over  millennia, such as the instinct to survive, in order to carry on in

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C:19.23 in a new way and not simply cover the same ground you have covered a  million times, seeing causes for recriminations, blame, and guilt.

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C:P.17 What is more arrogant? To believe that you alone can do what  millions of others have not been able to do? Or to believe that you,
C:5.8 in whom you found it and seek immediately to preserve it. There are  millions of museums to love, far more than there are altars. Yet your
T4:6.6 choice with the full realization that your choice alone will affect  millions of your brothers and sisters, as long as—and this is a
D:1.20 music not received by you even when you may be one of thousands or  millions who hear it? Does it matter who is first to hear the music?

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D:5.6 When two bodies join and joy results from this joining, this is form  mimicking content—form representing what “is.” The form was created

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C:31.7 that which is both you and beyond your understanding of you. Form  mimics content. Form mimics the truth, but does not replace it.
C:31.7 you and beyond your understanding of you. Form mimics content. Form  mimics the truth, but does not replace it.

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C:I.1 This course was written for the  mind—but only to move the mind to appeal to the heart. To move it
C:I.1 This course was written for the mind—but only to move the  mind to appeal to the heart. To move it to listen. To move it to
C:I.1 its focus to the truth and away from what can be learned only by the  mind.
C:I.2 What is learned by the  mind only rearranges reality. The mind then holds to the new reality
C:I.2 What is learned by the mind only rearranges reality. The  mind then holds to the new reality as a new set of rules without
C:I.2 and it is “here” in these new rules and not in those of old. The  mind will then tell you how to feel according to its rules and will
C:I.3 The  mind will speak of love and yet hold the heart prisoner to its new
C:I.4 to speak the same language and so you regress to the language of the  mind with its precision. The mind so hates to be confused, to be
C:I.4 so you regress to the language of the mind with its precision. The  mind so hates to be confused, to be open, to remain open, and to not
C:I.4 change, resists the current, fortifies itself against the storm. The  mind will return always to where it feels safe and sure of itself and
C:I.5 The  mind cannot hold open the doors of the heart and yet we turn within,
C:I.5 hold open the doors of the heart and yet we turn within, turn to the  mind, and show it where its openness lies, where sweetness abides,
C:I.5 lies, where sweetness abides, where love’s knowing is found. All the  mind can do is rearrange reality and hold it still and captive and
C:I.6 The heart is needed to guide the  mind in a way that it does not desire to be guided, a way that is one
C:I.7 We are one  mind. The route to oneness and union, to life in form that accepts
C:I.7 to a humanity restored to wholeness, is through the heart of the  mind.
C:I.8 will seem remedial to some, easy to some, complex to some. The  mind may say, “Yes, yes, I know. Tell me something I don’t know.” The
C:I.8 may say, “Yes, yes, I know. Tell me something I don’t know.” The  mind may reel at contradictions, cling to known truths, compare this
C:I.8 cling to known truths, compare this wisdom to other wisdom. The  mind will attempt to understand with its own logic and fight the
C:I.8 understand with its own logic and fight the logic of the heart. The  mind will seek new rules and perhaps be willing to rearrange its
C:I.9 The  mind is its own reality. You cannot escape the mind’s reality with
C:I.9 is its own reality. You cannot escape the mind’s reality with the  mind. You cannot learn how to escape the reality of the mind with the
C:I.9 with the mind. You cannot learn how to escape the reality of the  mind with the mind’s pattern of learning or of logic. You cannot live
C:I.10 I give these words. There is no single, no solitary, no separate  mind to whom these words are spoken. These words are spoken heart to
C:I.11 mean in the sanctity of the One Heart. We are one heart. We are one  mind. Joined in wholeheartedness we are the heaven of the world. We
C:P.2 praying for all to learn as you learn, you are asking to link your  mind with all minds. You are asking to end your separated state and
C:P.8 the original Course in Miracles was a course in thought reversal and  mind training, a course to point out the insanity of the identity
C:P.41 How many of you see the story of your own self in this same frame of  mind? It is a nice fairytale, an acceptable myth, but until your
C:P.44 to leave behind abstract learning and the complex mechanisms of the  mind that so betray you. We take a step away from intellect, the
C:1.11 pervasive in the life of your physical form and in the life of your  mind. It is only your heart that does not consider this an issue of
C:1.14 your stamina and your strength, your quick wits and your cunning  mind. It is another chance to prevail against the odds so stacked
C:2.15 Spirit has brought what comfort you would accept to your troubled  mind. Now turn to me to comfort your troubled heart.
C:2.16 be troubled. The reversal has not occurred because you separate  mind and heart and think you can involve one without involving the
C:2.16 one without involving the other. You believe that to know with your  mind is a learning process that stands apart from all else that you
C:2.17 separate and alone. At these words your heart rejoices and your  mind rebels. Your mind rebels because it is the stronghold of the
C:2.17 alone. At these words your heart rejoices and your mind rebels. Your  mind rebels because it is the stronghold of the ego. Your thought
C:2.18 Yet your  mind too rejoiced in the learning of all the teachings that have
C:2.19 Holy Spirit can use what the ego has made, the ego can use what the  mind has learned but has not integrated. Until you are what you have
C:2.19 it slowly dies. Until this happens, the ego takes pride in what the  mind has acquired, even unto the greater peace and contentment
C:3.10 has been manifested in your world was first conceived within the  mind. While you know this is true, you continue to believe you are
C:3.10 and not the cause. This is partially due to your concept of the  mind. What you conceive it to be, it will be to you. While many
C:3.10 to dislodge this concept that you hold so dear, because you use the  mind to deal in concepts, you have been unable to let new learning
C:3.10 let new learning have its effect. This is because you believe your  mind is in control of what it thinks. You believe in a process of
C:3.12 Think not that your  mind as you conceive of it learns without comparison. Everything is
C:3.14 enters and will stay. Your heart is now your eyes and ears. Your  mind can remain within your concept of the brain, for we bypass it
C:3.16 You who have been unable to separate  mind from body, brain from head, and intelligence from knowledge,
C:3.16 in the databanks of an over-worked and over-trusted brain, a  mind we cannot separate from where we believe it to be.
C:3.17 go out to the world, to the suffering, to the weak of body and of  mind. Our hearts are not so easily contained within the casing of our
C:4.10 more of God’s love than you have, or a better place in Heaven. The  mind, under the ego’s direction, has thrived on winners and on
C:4.10 that it is not so. This seeming illusion is believed in because your  mind has made it so. Your thoughts have reviewed and reviewed again
C:4.12 gaiety but cannot masquerade as joy. You each have an image in your  mind of someone you believe knows what love is. This is perhaps an
C:4.17 expect such fairness, such exchange of equal value. You give your  mind to an idea, your body to a job, your days to activities that do
C:5.2 You who have so filled your  mind with senseless wanderings and thoughts that think of nothing
C:5.19 are holiness itself. You do not know this only because you fill your  mind and leave your heart empty. Your heart becomes full only through
C:5.19 through relationship or union. A full heart can overshadow a full  mind, leaving no room for senseless thoughts but only for what is
C:5.20 The first and only exercise for your  mind within this Course has already been stated: Dedicate your
C:5.20 Dedicate your thought to union. When senseless thoughts fill your  mind, when resentments arise, when worry comes, repeat the thought
C:5.20 repeat the thought that comes to open your heart and clear your  mind: “I dedicate all thought to union.” As often as you need to
C:6.2 apart from you, nor you from your brother. This is reality. Your  mind is not contained within your body but is one with God and shared
C:6.5 The choice that your heart yearns to make for you and that your  mind is finding increasingly difficult to deny. When you choose unity
C:6.11 This is the heaven of your  mind, the meaning you give to joining, the face you put on eternal
C:6.11 the face you put on eternal peace. With such a vision in your  mind it is no wonder that you choose it not, or that you put it off
C:6.11 when disease has taken your limbs’ use from your control and your  mind no longer races forward to what is next.
C:6.20 of them as who they were in life? What is the difference, in your  mind, between who they were and who they are after death? In honesty
C:6.20 prompted to be truthful, admit this is an image that lights their  mind with peace and hope. This image is as ancient as the earth and
C:6.20 beyond it. It did not arise from fantasy, nor did it pass from one  mind to the next as stories often will. It is but part of your
C:7.1 you withhold. Your heart is accustomed to giving in a way that your  mind is not. Your mind would hold on to every idea for what it might
C:7.1 heart is accustomed to giving in a way that your mind is not. Your  mind would hold on to every idea for what it might bring you, and is
C:7.1 that person is if not for the unfairness of life,” you wail. Your  mind dwells in a world of its own made up largely of if onlys. Your
C:7.1 hand, knows of giving and of a return not based on the world of your  mind or of physical circumstance. Despite disappointments most
C:7.11 By the time you begin your day you may hold several of these in your  mind, and there you build them into reasons for even further
C:7.18 sees in a manner much more whole than the perception of your split  mind. Even your language and images reflect this truth, this
C:7.18 this difference between the wisdom of your heart and that of your  mind. Your heart may be said to break, but the image that these words
C:7.18 side has one function, one side another. While your brain and your  mind are not the same, your image of your mind and what it does and
C:7.18 While your brain and your mind are not the same, your image of your  mind and what it does and does not do is linked with your image of
C:8.11 to look beneath the skin, or into the hidden recesses of a heart or  mind? Without union all your seeking will not reveal the truth. And
C:8.12 you deem yourself willing to address. You would see into another’s  mind and heart in order perhaps to help them, but also to have power
C:8.19 is needed here, however, a reminder to not observe with your  mind, but with your heart. This observance will contain a holiness, a
C:9.1 when it seems so often to deceive you. It seems as fickle as your  mind, telling you one thing one day and one thing the next. Even more
C:9.1 you one thing one day and one thing the next. Even more so than your  mind it seems to lead you astray, forcing you to walk through paths
C:9.7 could not help but be thus, as it was made with dual purposes in  mind. It was made to make real and then glorify a separated self, and
C:9.7 to punish that separated self for the separation. Its creator had in  mind what is reflected in the body: self-aggrandizement and
C:9.11 of trying to ignore what you have made, use it in a new way. Keep in  mind, however, that we are merely saving time, and that your real
C:9.12 and purest that exist, and their remembrance will help to still your  mind and reveal the rest.
C:10.17 beyond your control. The only force beyond your control is your own  mind, and this need not be. When you begin to ask yourself, What
C:10.18 Your  mind might still prefer to be right rather than happy, so it is
C:10.18 to your heart will begin to make a difference to your state of  mind.
C:10.19 What you would call your state of  mind is more like a general atmosphere, an ambiance, a mood—and
C:10.32 for. A door has been reached, a threshold crossed. What your  mind still would deny your heart cannot. A tiny glimmering of memory
C:10.32 will be heard within your thoughts. Its melody will play within your  mind. “Come back, come back,” it will say to you. “Come home, come
C:11.13 Before this final battle is reached your willingness to change your  mind about its need to be fought is what is desired by your Father
C:11.14 battles to win it for Himself. This final battle is in your own  mind, and it is a figment of the illusions you have made. Let this
C:11.14 to effect cause and in so doing bring some sanity to your restless  mind and heart.
C:11.15 be given many forms. It can be called a willingness to change your  mind, or to allow yourself to be open to new possibilities. It can be
C:12.5 You look for the soft assurance of certainty, not of your  mind but of your heart. There is a part of you that thinks, “If I
C:12.15 at that time matters not, for one form or many, there was still one  mind, the mind of God’s son joined in unity with that of his Father.
C:12.15 matters not, for one form or many, there was still one mind, the  mind of God’s son joined in unity with that of his Father. Many of
C:12.19 separation, this is what occurred: An idea of separation entered the  mind of God’s son. Like any idea of yours, this idea did not leave
C:13.2 As you observe, always with your heart and not your  mind, and begin to include others in your observation, I ask you to
C:14.13 of you could not. What makes this relationship stand out in your  mind and feel so painful in your memory of it is that it was quite
C:14.19 Others experience this plan of entrapment solely in their  mind as they plot and plan for what they never have the opportunity
C:14.19 like sacrifice and gifts given, but all with the same purpose in  mind. What none realize is that fear has replaced love.
C:14.28 Love threatens most your specialness. Before your conscious  mind has any awareness of what is happening, your memory of love, of
C:15.4 specialness does not stop with what would bring misery to your own  mind and heart. Perhaps the leader of some impoverished country
C:15.8 your loyalty to others and all choices are made with this loyalty in  mind. Loyalty stems here from your faith in fear and all from which
C:16.7 Judgment is the function the separated  mind has given itself. This is where all of its energy is expended,
C:16.10 I repeat again that reason does not oppose love, as your split  mind would have you believe it does. For your split mind judges even
C:16.10 as your split mind would have you believe it does. For your split  mind judges even love and opposes it on the basis that it uses no
C:16.10 of neither. Love seems to operate on its own apart from what your  mind would bid it do, and this is why you fear it even while you
C:16.10 why you fear it even while you yearn for it. This is what the split  mind would call reason—a world in which there are two sides to
C:16.11 memory that tells you that love does not judge, and only your split  mind that has made of this memory what will serve its purpose. What
C:16.11 it calls a deficiency is your saving grace. Letting go of what your  mind would tell you in favor of what your heart already knows is but
C:16.25 with rules of God and man with thought of some greater good in  mind. If everyone did what he or she wanted to do, you reason,
C:17.16 must come from your heart. To forgive based on the logic of your  mind rather than the compassion of your heart is to only give thought
C:17.17 The first move toward wholeness is but to understand this: heart and  mind are not separate. A united mind and heart is a whole heart, or
C:17.17 is but to understand this: heart and mind are not separate. A united  mind and heart is a whole heart, or wholeheartedness. You may ask
C:17.18 What is the same cannot have different functions. And now your  mind and heart must work together in the united function we have
C:18.9 Learning from unity requires an integrated  mind and heart, or wholeheartedness. A half-hearted approach to this
C:18.9 to this learning will not work, nor will the attention of a split  mind. It cannot be emphasized strongly enough that you learn what you
C:18.14 In unity, all that you desired was participated in fully by a  mind and heart combined in wholeheartedness. You knew your Self to be
C:18.14 fully here is what makes this existence so chaotic and erratic. A  mind and heart in conflict is what keeps you from desiring anything
C:18.15 Thus the integration of  mind and heart must be our goal in order for you to create the state
C:18.16 It can come as no surprise to you that your  mind has ruled your heart. What this Course has thus far attempted to
C:18.16 thus far attempted to do is to briefly change your orientation from  mind to heart. This is a first step in what will seem now like an
C:18.16 separate. If the heart is the center of your Self, where then is the  mind? The center is but the Source in which all exist as one mind. To
C:18.16 is the mind? The center is but the Source in which all exist as one  mind. To say this to you before we loosened some of your perceptions
C:18.16 we loosened some of your perceptions about the supremacy of the  mind, however, would have been folly. The one mind is not as you have
C:18.16 the supremacy of the mind, however, would have been folly. The one  mind is not as you have perceived your mind. The one mind is but a
C:18.16 have been folly. The one mind is not as you have perceived your  mind. The one mind is but a mind in which love rules, and mind and
C:18.16 folly. The one mind is not as you have perceived your mind. The one  mind is but a mind in which love rules, and mind and heart are one.
C:18.16 mind is not as you have perceived your mind. The one mind is but a  mind in which love rules, and mind and heart are one. We will proceed
C:18.16 your mind. The one mind is but a mind in which love rules, and  mind and heart are one. We will proceed by calling this
C:18.16 one. We will proceed by calling this wholeheartedness rather than  mind or heart.
C:18.17 A wandering  mind is seen as quite the norm, and thoughts that dart about in a
C:18.17 acceptable and seemingly as inevitable to you as breathing. A split  mind is seen as not much less normal although it is recognized that a
C:18.17 seen as not much less normal although it is recognized that a split  mind makes decision making difficult. You were already told that the
C:18.17 difficult. You were already told that the only exercise for your  mind that would be included in this Course of Love is that you
C:18.20 perceive as thought, the words and images that “go through” your  mind.
C:19.4 This requires the first unification, the unification of  mind and heart, after which unification with God is naturally
C:19.4 for this unification returns you to the Christ in you and the one  mind united with God which you have never left. Creation’s power then
C:19.12 and sisters will not be total, however, without the reunion of  mind and heart that produces the state of wholeheartedness. This
C:19.12 Spirit come upon them and reveal their own power to them by uniting  mind and heart with belief. They were then reunited with me as they
C:19.13 Thought occurs in words, and words separate. It is only in combining  mind and heart with a focus on letting the heart lead that love can
C:19.17 of God, and the oneness of God part of the unity of creation. A  mind trained by separation can have no concept of this, as all
C:19.17 concepts are born from the mind’s separate thoughts. Yet this same  mind could still conceive of a creator. A mind that can conceive of a
C:19.17 thoughts. Yet this same mind could still conceive of a creator. A  mind that can conceive of a creator combined with a heart that yearns
C:19.19 Out of the deepest, darkest chaos of your  mind comes the possibility of light. It is a bit like traveling
C:19.23 it is now appropriate for the realization to come to you that your  mind, and your perception, can be changed. This is necessary before
C:19.23 is required here. Only the opposite will advance our aim of uniting  mind and heart.
C:19.24 The Holy Spirit exists in your right  mind, and is the bridge to exchanging perception for knowledge.
C:19.24 in which you can truly see. You will not truly desire to unite your  mind and heart in wholeheartedness until you see clearly. One purpose
C:19.24 see clearly. One purpose of the distinctions you have made between  mind and heart are their ability to keep one part of yourself
C:19.24 or guilt or even for redemption is inconceivable to the separate  mind. But not to the heart.
C:20.6 We are one  mind. One creative force gathering the atoms, establishing the order,
C:20.42 then you must be perfect. This is a conclusion both logical to the  mind and believable to the heart, and its acceptance is a step toward
C:20.45 between serving and service. It will be helpful if you keep in  mind that the idea of to serve is being used to replace the idea of
C:20.47 These concerns are a matter of perception, and are things your  mind has been trained to see as being within its scope. It is as if
C:21.4 Concepts have been used to order your world and to assist your  mind in keeping track of all that is in it. Your mind does not need
C:21.4 and to assist your mind in keeping track of all that is in it. Your  mind does not need this assistance. To begin to conceptualize in ways
C:21.4 begin to conceptualize in ways that touch your heart will free your  mind of its reliance on thought concepts, thus allowing heart and
C:21.4 mind of its reliance on thought concepts, thus allowing heart and  mind to speak the same language or to be communicated with in the
C:21.5 There has been a division between the language of your  mind and heart. Your mind insists on thinking and learning in a
C:21.5 been a division between the language of your mind and heart. Your  mind insists on thinking and learning in a certain way, a way
C:21.5 is in the right place.” The “right place” with two people—as with  mind and heart—is the place of no division. The unification of mind
C:21.5 mind and heart—is the place of no division. The unification of  mind and heart that produces right action currently occurs primarily
C:21.6 to the starting point of a shared language, a language shared by  mind and heart and by all people. It is a language of images and
C:21.6 of images and concepts that touch the one heart and serve the one  mind.
C:21.7 Conflict between  mind and heart occurs for an additional reason as well, although this
C:21.7 language as determined by perception. This is a problem of meaning.  Mind and heart interpret meaning in different ways. You do not even
C:21.7 conflict or what it means to you, but I assure you that as long as  mind and heart interpret meaning in different ways you will not find
C:21.7 if you do not label one way of viewing or perceiving being of the  mind and the other of the heart. And you accept this
C:21.7 you accept this conflict-inducing situation. You accept that your  mind sees one truth and your heart another, and you act anyway! You
C:21.7 help but continue. No matter which path you follow, the path of the  mind or the path of the heart, you will not get where you are wanting
C:21.7 are joined. You might imagine three paths—one path representing  mind, one path representing heart, and one path representing
C:21.7 and one path representing wholeheartedness. The path of neither  mind nor heart alone will take you where the path of unity will take
C:21.8 The major cause of the conflict that arises between  mind and heart is the perception of internal and external differences
C:21.10 as wrong. Those who know the truth find it for themselves by joining  mind and heart. Those who know the truth become beings of love and
C:22.12 heart, the center of yourself. You instead deflect them, using your  mind, which might be considered another layer, to send them to
C:22.16 Are you still who you are when another takes you into his or her  mind and assigns meaning to you?
C:23.12 is consistent with our primary focus on learning from the heart. The  mind goes from the small to the large, the heart from the large to
C:23.18 linked to true vision, for it exercises the combined capabilities of  mind and heart. It is akin to perception, and can lead the way in
C:23.25 longer needed. If you will remember that the one exercise for your  mind is dedicating all thought to union, you will keep your mind
C:23.25 for your mind is dedicating all thought to union, you will keep your  mind engaged and less resistant to unlearning. When you feel
C:23.25 to unlearning. When you feel resistance—and of course your  mind will resist unlearning what it has striven to learn—return
C:25.15 from within and it is putting into practice the lessons of joining  mind and heart in wholeheartedness.
C:26.9 do not yet, but will soon realize the happiness that is ours. Your  mind can just not accept that happiness as well as meaning is due you
C:26.9 through no effort of your own. Scenes of your life play through your  mind that “prove” that you are neither inherently happy, nor your
C:26.9 scenes and memories must be broken before my words can reach your  mind and begin to replace these scenes with new ones. Until that time
C:26.12 you could throw out all the thoughts and worries that fill your  mind and begin anew?
C:26.16 Can you let the worries of today leave your  mind? Can you let the disappointments of yesterday go and be no more?
C:26.25 only way to think it once again is to be wholehearted, for a split  mind and heart do not think clearly.
C:27.10 itself? And what of God? Can you unlearn all concepts and free your  mind to accept all relationship instead? If all meaning and all truth
C:27.15 It is complete reliance on relationship itself rather than on the  mind. Thus your actions reflect the proper response to the
C:27.15 to your preconceived notions of others, the previous judgments your  mind once made and relies upon out of habit, or your considerations
C:28.11 Witnesses are for the  mind and fall short of devotion, which is the natural response of
C:29.1 and a request for service that can only be given in the present by a  mind and heart available to the requirements of the present. It is
C:29.20 it is in wholeheartedness that the power of choice exists. A split  mind and heart can prevent you from utilizing the power of choice,
C:29.20 let the power of heaven come together to seal the rift between your  mind and heart, and make you whole once again.
C:30.14 precedence over the laws of God. Since perception arises from the  mind, we must now discuss the mind.
C:30.14 God. Since perception arises from the mind, we must now discuss the  mind.
C:31.1 There is only one  Mind, just as there is only one Will. This you are afraid of, as you
C:31.2 one love, is not so unacceptable to you as the idea of sharing one  mind. Your thoughts, you feel, are your own, private and sacrosanct.
C:31.6 This is the difficulty with studying the  mind. The mind is your being and so you can study it not, no more
C:31.6 This is the difficulty with studying the mind. The  mind is your being and so you can study it not, no more than you can
C:31.6 managing the workings of the body would be more than your conscious  mind could handle. You could not possibly give all the commands
C:31.7 So too is it with  mind. Mind is your being. It is no accident that it has become
C:31.7 So too is it with mind.  Mind is your being. It is no accident that it has become synonymous
C:31.7 you with brain, an interchangeable word that conveys the same idea.  Mind is the control center, that which remembers and stores away
C:31.8 the universe, just as you believe your brain and, erroneously, your  mind, is inseparable from your body.
C:31.11 The purpose of the  mind is extension. Thus, the upside-down perception that causes you
C:31.12 this dislodging occurs by coming to a better understanding of the  mind, for others by coming to a better understanding of the heart, or
C:31.13 Thus while you believe you are devoted to the thoughts of a split  mind you are devoted to nothing. This is why so many attempts at
C:31.13 at understanding fail. Trying to come to understanding with a split  mind is impossible. Impossible learning goals lead to depression.
C:31.13 goals lead to depression. This is why we must learn anew with a  mind and heart joined in wholeheartedness.
C:31.15 yourself. These are your great secrets, the secrets that fill your  mind day-to-day with thoughts that keep you from your Self.
C:31.24 lost or forgotten again, because it returns remembrance to your  mind. What your mind remembers cannot not be shared.
C:31.24 again, because it returns remembrance to your mind. What your  mind remembers cannot not be shared.
C:31.26 remember who you are. What you have learned in truth resides in your  mind as a part of you. What you have not yet learned from awaits your
C:31.26 transfer of your feelings and experience to truth, and thus to your  mind. Only the truth abides within your mind, for only it can enter
C:31.26 to truth, and thus to your mind. Only the truth abides within your  mind, for only it can enter the holy altar you share with me.
C:31.27 but a devotion to the one truth, the whole truth. Being of one  mind is being of one truth, and how can you be of anything less? Only
C:31.31 how can you be different? Thus it can be said that the truth and the  mind are one in truth. The truth is what is. What is not the truth is
C:31.35 You do not exist outside of relationship, just as your  mind does not exist outside of oneness. Your experience here is but
C:31.35 outside of oneness. Your experience here is but an extension of  mind into a realm in which experience can occur. Your ego has made of
C:31.35 of this something different than it is. Rather than extension of  mind, your experience has become a projection of ego. This can change.
C:31.37 that you are here to learn. Now, with a clear learning goal in  mind, these idealized relationships must be broadened so that they
C:32.2 your heart you call upon me. When you seek the truth that is in your  mind, you call upon the Holy Spirit. Thus is the Sacred Trinity
C:32.2 difference of which we speak when we assure you that you are of one  Mind and one Heart, and that regardless of this truth you will not,
C:32.3 that you are Love. You then become the teacher of what you are. Your  mind and heart join in wholeheartedness in the embrace. You are home,
C:32.4 These words have entered your heart and sealed the rift between your  mind and heart. Be true to love and you cannot fail to be true to
C:32.6 and final miracle has occurred, for what miracles are needed when  mind and heart are one and you have returned to the embrace? This is
C:32.6 of the only Son of God. For what your heart has shared with your  mind is shared with all minds and what your heart has to share is
T1:1.1 A split  mind does not learn for a split mind is incapable of giving and
T1:1.1 A split mind does not learn for a split  mind is incapable of giving and receiving as one. A split mind does
T1:1.1 a split mind is incapable of giving and receiving as one. A split  mind does not rest for it can find no peace. A state of peace is a
T1:1.2 While A Course of Love has led you to a state of wholeness of  mind and heart, or wholeheartedness, your realization of this state
T1:1.2 or how to identify wholehearted responses from those of a split  mind. Its further purpose will be to identify the service that you
T1:1.6 I have just instructed you to trust in your heart, your reunited  mind and heart will now be called to act in unison. That A Course of
T1:1.6 That A Course of Love instructed you little in the mechanics of the  mind was consistent with the theme and learning goals of this Course.
T1:1.6 the theme and learning goals of this Course. The mechanics of the  mind can in truth be left behind now as we concentrate rather on the
T1:1.7 The mechanics of the  mind were what engaged you in so many daily battles that you became
T1:1.7 that you became almost too weary to continue. The mechanics of the  mind were what were in need of being overcome in order for you to
T1:1.7 of your heart. The mechanics of your over-worked and over-stimulated  mind were what you were asked to leave behind as this act of leaving
T1:1.7 of leaving behind was the only means by which you could allow your  mind to be restful enough for it to even contemplate union or the new
T1:1.7 to love and it is accessed at the center or heart of your Self. Your  mind was in need of silencing in order for you to hear the wisdom of
T1:1.7 heart and begin your return. Now, in order to complete your return,  mind and heart must work as one.
T1:1.9 A  mind and heart joined in union abolishes the ego. The ego-mind was
T1:1.9 As The Accomplished, you now are able to access universal  mind.
T1:1.10 The joy that will come to you from the thoughts of a  mind joined in union will be unparalleled in your experience here.
T1:1.10 Where once you recognized only illusion and called it reality, the  mind joined in union will now, more and more, recognize only truth
T1:2.7 yourself on having the discipline required to train your  mind to focus and to learn, or shamed yourself when you were unable
T1:3.4 with the wholehearted. The wholehearted is but the heart and  mind joined in unity.
T1:3.8 just what kind of miracle is needed to get you to change your  mind about who you are and thus about the nature of your thoughts.
T1:3.14 is mightier than your willingness. But hold this thought within your  mind. What is needed to convince you will be provided. Such is the
T1:4.1 I am honoring who you are and inviting you into the state of  mind that is miracle-readiness. The art of thought is the expression
T1:5.4 time discussing within A Course of Love. It is a fear of the human  mind that cannot comprehend the all or the nothingness, the eternal
T1:5.10 experience since you know it as the cause. This is what is meant by  mind and heart being joined in union, or being wholehearted. It is
T1:5.14 and wholeheartedness are but different expressions of the union of  mind and heart. Mindfulness will aid you in remembering.
T1:6.4 seen for what they are. Do not forget what union is. Union is the  mind and heart being joined in wholeheartedness. It is your union
T1:6.5 art of thought. Prayers such as these emanate from either heart or  mind and have not the power of the wholehearted. Prayers such as
T1:8.8 The heart and  mind joined in union accomplished the reunion of the separated self
T1:8.17 We have talked thus far of union of heart and  mind. Lest you think that this union is not all-encompassing, we will
T1:9.5 Now you are asked to carry new life not in the womb but in the united  mind and heart.
T1:9.7 Yet you have not remembered that the first union is of  mind and heart. The first union is union with the Self. This union
T1:10.14 answer to you. Peace is the inheritance I left you. Peace of body,  mind and heart. Peace is the realm of miracles, the condition of the
T1:10.15 to love and serve with all your heart. Thus are we one heart, one  mind, one unity. Thus are we one in a relationship of love and peace
T2:1.10 is not a place or a thing but the realm of the one heart and one  mind; the realm of the formless and timeless. But also the realm of
T2:2.1 recognizes talents that lie fully realized within? The practical  mind is not the source of such imagination. The practical mind makes
T2:2.1 practical mind is not the source of such imagination. The practical  mind makes of imagination a fantasy. It is the heart that sees with
T2:2.8 of doubting it. All that prevents you from believing in truth is a  mind and heart acting in separation rather than in union.
T2:2.9 you from being who you are is far broader than a division between  mind and heart. Some of you would say you feel no calling, or that
T2:3.1 your life here. You created your life here in union with the one  mind and one heart, in union, in other words, with God. Everything
T2:3.2 where being resides. It is the place or realm of one heart and one  mind. It is the place where everything already exists fully realized.
T2:3.3 Your  mind exists in unity. Your heart exists where you think you are, thus
T2:4.6 trust, and a wholehearted approach that allows the body,  mind and heart to act in unison. This wholehearted approach is the
T2:5.7 you are. These lessons will bring who you are into focus within your  mind through the vehicle of your heart.
T2:6.5 stands separate from you and beyond you in time. That your  mind projects what you desire to accomplish onto an unknown future
T2:6.5 purposefully. If you are already accomplished, this trick of your  mind has not worked. And yet, if you believe that this trick of your
T2:6.5 mind has not worked. And yet, if you believe that this trick of your  mind has worked, you act as if you are being kept from accomplishment
T2:6.7 Your  mind would tell you that a chair is a chair and regard it as a fact.
T2:6.10 release your heart, returning it to its natural realm. Thus does  mind and heart join in unity in the present, in the here and now, so
T2:9.2 many other means of practice that assist you in bypassing your ego  mind. Some practices more commonly thought of as tools might be
T2:9.2 meditation, exercises of the body such as yoga, or exercises of the  mind such as affirmations. These tools are all means of releasing ego
T2:9.2 such as affirmations. These tools are all means of releasing ego  mind and inviting the one mind, or unity into the present moment.
T2:9.2 These tools are all means of releasing ego mind and inviting the one  mind, or unity into the present moment. When seen as such, all these
T2:10.3 isn’t working right today.” I want you now to keep this example in  mind as we explore learning in unity.
T2:10.4 technology that has created super-computers will immediately come to  mind from this illustration. While this illustration may be
T2:10.10 of is the learning that will call who you are back to your united  mind and heart. This is the knowing that already exists, the memory
T2:10.13 in you is the Self who you become when you have united heart and  mind once again in wholeheartedness. Thus the union of mind and heart
T2:10.13 heart and mind once again in wholeheartedness. Thus the union of  mind and heart is, as was stated previously, the first union, the
T2:10.13 the state of union in which all that you learn is shared, first by  mind and heart, and then in unity with your brothers and sisters. You
T2:11.9 be complete, your willingness total, your way of learning that of a  mind and heart joined in wholeheartedness.
T2:11.14 and importance of this relationship forever and foremost in your  mind. Here, that relationship has been given a name, as we have given
T2:13.5 and received, the place where the true thinking of those united in  mind and heart arises. Gratitude is the recognition of the state of
T3:1.9 was an illusion that blocked awareness of your true Self from your  mind. Your true Self is now ready to come out of the mist of illusion
T3:3.7 must be wholehearted. They cannot be beliefs that exist only in your  mind, a new philosophy to be applied to life. They must exist in your
T3:4.3 Before we can go on you must take all such ideas from your  mind. Such ideas are not small matters. Ideas are the foundation of
T3:6.5 potential. Bitterness is to your heart what the ego has been to your  mind. It is the one false idea that has entered this holiest of
T3:8.3 have said, bitterness is to your heart what the ego has been to your  mind. Thus bitterness has to do with your feelings more so than your
T3:10.1 you must realize that while meaninglessness exists within your  mind, you will be working still to replace it with meaning rather
T3:10.4 to replace it. I ask you simply to take the thought of it from your  mind as quickly as it enters.
T3:10.5 find this easier if a replacement were offered, for ridding your  mind of blame will leave an empty space you will long to fill. This
T3:10.9 them as separate and distinct from the thoughts of your right  mind or Christ-mind. This will be easy because the thoughts of the
T3:10.13 while you would have two languages constantly running through your  mind and you would be translating one into the other. But eventually,
T3:10.15 naturally to you to welcome these back to the common language of the  mind and heart joined in unity. You will desire more than anything
T3:10.16 be translated in another way. These lessons that will enter your  mind and heart will, of necessity, need to be translated into the
T3:11.10 what they are. This is an important distinction that must be kept in  mind as we proceed so that you are not tempted to judge those living
T3:11.13 be upon you—not any judgment of God, but judgment of your own  mind.
T3:12.6 to be, but the body is neutral. All temptations originate in the  mind and are transferred to the body. Temptations do not originate
T3:12.7 As it dawns upon your once slumbering  mind that change on a grand scale awaits you, you will grow fearful
T3:13.10 day that you ordinarily would not spend, always with the idea in  mind that this will not affect your budget in any negative respect.
T3:14.1 thought system. The new thought system will still exist within your  mind and heart, as nothing can now take this memory from you, but to
T3:14.12 of nature. Your body can correct or heal itself, and so can your  mind and heart—if they are allowed to do so. A time-bound
T3:15.10 The holy relationship has been accomplished by the joining of the  mind and heart in unity. The holy relationship is with the Self, the
T3:16.8 are already accomplished. Keeping this idea in the forefront of your  mind and heart will aid the translation of this aspect of the ego
T3:17.6 to the self of illusion. A Holy Spirit is called to return to your  mind and heart.
T3:17.7 the name Jesus, because I lived as a man with a Holy Spirit in my  mind and heart and as such represented the truth. Many others by many
T3:18.7 A  mind and heart joined in unity observes the truth where once a mind
T3:18.7 A mind and heart joined in unity observes the truth where once a  mind and heart separated by illusion observed illusion.
T3:18.10 We also now link observance and ideas. Ideas form in the  mind. You are used to thinking that what you observe forms outside of
T3:18.10 You are used to thinking that what you observe forms outside of your  mind. This is the thinking of the ego-thought system. The thought
T3:20.16 the words of your mouth that will be heard or the language of your  mind that will be responded to. It is the love within your heart that
T3:21.12 makes you certain of your personal self, are the thoughts of your  mind, thoughts that while certainly changeable, are unmistakably
T3:21.18 an identity that has nothing to do with the thoughts of a separated  mind or the circumstances of the physical body.
T3:22.1 learned, chances are that this is still the primary question in your  mind and heart. While you may be beginning to form ideas of what it
T3:22.5 of the pattern of the planning process that once so ruled your  mind. To be willing to receive instead of plan is to break the
T4:1.3 own chosenness. It is this idea of being chosen that will cause your  mind to conclude that some are not chosen now and that many were not
T4:1.25 are resisting it, again indirectly. Some occupy themselves with  mind and spirit numbing activities in order to block it out, having
T4:2.22 of what is, is a natural effect of the cause of a heart and  mind joined in unity. This first joining in unity, the joining of
T4:2.22 in unity. This first joining in unity, the joining of heart and  mind, joins the physical and the spiritual world in a relationship of
T4:2.26 separated state was nothing more than the disjoining of heart and  mind, a state in which mind attempted to know without the
T4:2.26 nothing more than the disjoining of heart and mind, a state in which  mind attempted to know without the relationship of the heart, and so
T4:2.27 to you the truth of which it speaks. The separated state of the  mind created its own separate world. Cause and effect are one. The
T4:2.27 The real state of union, returned to you through the joining of  mind and heart, will now reveal to you the truth of what was created
T4:4.16 to return your true identity to you now? The joining of heart and  mind in relationship is the joining of the personal self with the
T4:7.5 state. As your natural state returns to you through a heart and  mind joined in unity, your body too will exist or abide within this
T4:7.5 unreal reality for your heart and body has been the inability of the  mind to join the truth with your conscious awareness. While your mind
T4:7.5 the mind to join the truth with your conscious awareness. While your  mind did not accept the truth of your identity or the reality of love
T4:7.5 heart has now heard the appeal of this Course and worked with your  mind to bring about this acceptance of the truth, a truth your heart
T4:7.6 The  mind, once released from the ego’s thought system, has but to relearn
T4:7.6 system, has but to relearn the thought system of the truth. Your  mind, heart, and body have joined in alignment to bring this learning
T4:7.6 to bring this learning about. They now exist in harmony. Your  mind and heart in union have brought harmony to your body. Sustaining
T4:8.2 that you did not. I am saying that a choice was made within the one  mind, the one heart, and that this was your choice as well as God’s
T4:8.3 of the universe, as your own heart is the center of your being. The  mind of God is the source of all ideas, just as “your” mind is the
T4:8.3 being. The mind of God is the source of all ideas, just as “your”  mind is the source of your ideas.
T4:8.8 What could be disconnected was your will—or in other words, your  mind. Just as it is your nature to breathe oxygen, and not breathing
T4:8.9 God always knew what your  mind chose to rebel against: that creation is perfect. Your mind,
T4:8.9 your mind chose to rebel against: that creation is perfect. Your  mind, being of God, was constrained by the learning limits of the
T4:10.10 about your Self was the return of unity and relationship to your  mind and heart. This returned to you your ability to recognize or
T4:11.5 the following pages as a memory returned to your reunited heart and  mind. No longer regard me as an authority to whom you turn, but as an
T4:12.4 within your heart, no matter what questions are emanating from your  mind, they will be met with a response.
T4:12.5 learning, the ramifications of which will only slowly occur to your  mind and be surprising revelations there. The second is the beginning
T4:12.5 in unity, a change that your heart will gladly accept but that your  mind, once again, will be continuously surprised to encounter.
T4:12.21 optimal benefit of learning. These patterns were created by the one  mind and heart that you share in unity with God. The new patterns of
T4:12.21 unity and relationship are only now being created by the one  mind and heart that you share in unity with God. You will be the
T4:12.35 us dear brothers and sisters. It is up to us acting as one body, one  mind, one heart. It is up to us creating as one body, one mind, one
T4:12.35 body, one mind, one heart. It is up to us creating as one body, one  mind, one heart. Because it is the new future of a new form joined in
D:1.5 for you are already accomplished. What will it now take for your  mind to accept this truth? For the mind’s acceptance of this truth is
D:1.6 new reality is real and different from the reality of old. Ideally,  mind and heart in union together accept this new reality and, with
D:1.22 You who have joined  mind and heart in unity have returned to a natural state of knowing
D:2.3 you do” and are no longer a victim to the circumstance of a split  mind that allowed the confusion that led me to once say, “They know
D:2.18 is insane, for their creation is based on the workings of a split  mind and a split mind does not think clearly.
D:2.18 their creation is based on the workings of a split mind and a split  mind does not think clearly.
D:3.5 your ability to do what those who live their lives with a split  mind could never do. You have it within your ability to mend the rift
D:3.5 is no longer necessary. The mending of the rift between heart and  mind returned you to your Self. In the same way, the mending of the
D:3.5 of the rift of duality was accomplished in you when you joined  mind and heart and returned to the oneness and unity of
D:4.7 a very successful deterrent. The thought of time in prison fills the  mind with fear. And yet those who are imprisoned often become so
D:5.18 of the Earth and your immediate environment, the prison of your  mind and the thoughts that so confuse you, the prison of past and
D:5.20 body as a prison, if you continue to think of your environment, your  mind, and time as a prison, how can it exist in perfect harmony with
D:6.14 I am calling all of this to  mind in order to begin our discussion concerning the suspension of
D:6.21 or blaming the past for the present. And yet, what ridding your  mind of ideas of placing blame does, is take it one step away from
D:7.1 into the experience of form is something you can picture in your  mind, and that you have language to represent, because you are aware
D:7.8 have previously seen this one aspect of form as separating it from  mind, heart, and spirit—those aspects that are not perceptible to
D:7.8 lives is from the same Source, and there is nothing more alive than  mind and heart combined in the spirit of wholeheartedness.
D:7.10 is a call to love all of yourself. You who once could love spirit or  mind, mind or body—because of the dualistic nature associated with
D:7.10 to love all of yourself. You who once could love spirit or mind,  mind or body—because of the dualistic nature associated with them—
D:8.8 because you chose to become the wholehearted. You chose to join  mind and heart and it was done. But you do not yet know how to rid
D:8.8 But you do not yet know how to rid yourself of former patterns. Your  mind, while it no longer wants to cling to known patterns, is
D:8.8 Thus your heart still seems to battle with the supremacy of  mind.
D:8.9 So what we are attempting to do is to open the  mind to the wisdom of the heart with these dialogues. As the mind
D:8.9 the mind to the wisdom of the heart with these dialogues. As the  mind opens and accepts the new, the art of thought will become your
D:8.9 been learned will become an ability to think wholeheartedly, or with  mind and heart in union, and then that ability will transcend ability
D:11.1 intellectual puzzles, focus your thoughts in order to make up your  mind. You make lists of your thoughts so you don’t forget what they
D:11.5 a bonfire in your heart and begun a stampede of thoughts within your  mind. Again, is this not what we spoke of in the beginning of this
D:11.7 your calling, to make your contribution. Such is the way of the  mind, the way of the thoughts of the mind.
D:11.7 Such is the way of the mind, the way of the thoughts of the  mind.
D:11.18 Turn now not to your thoughts, but to the  mind and heart joined in unity. In unity! Unity is where the heart
D:11.18 and heart joined in unity. In unity! Unity is where the heart and  mind are joined. Unity is the place from which the expression, the
D:12.1 yourself, there is no mechanism through which thought can enter your  mind. You believe thoughts exist in your mind and are themselves the
D:12.1 thought can enter your mind. You believe thoughts exist in your  mind and are themselves the product of your brain, which lies within
D:12.4 are reminded now that these words enter through your heart. As your  mind and heart joined in unity and became capable of hearing the same
D:12.7 maybe all other books you have read, be a sign to you. Keep this in  mind as you consider how the first receiver of these words can “hear”
D:12.7 receiver of these words can “hear” these words as thoughts. Keep in  mind that she thus has thoughts she is not thinking.
D:12.10 times. This is not the “thinking” of a conflicted and struggling  mind, but the “thoughts” of a mind at rest.
D:12.10 of a conflicted and struggling mind, but the “thoughts” of a  mind at rest.
D:12.11 Thinking is more descriptive of the ego  mind; thoughts are more descriptive of the true mind. I am not saying
D:12.11 of the ego mind; thoughts are more descriptive of the true  mind. I am not saying that your ego is still at work because you
D:12.13 to know of the Self joined in unity, enters you through the place of  mind and heart joined in wholeheartedness at the center of yourself,
D:12.13 may also at times not be of the body. The main idea to hold in your  mind and heart is the idea of entry, and the idea that what comes of
D:12.15 true, and because you realized, as soon as the truth came into your  mind, how seldom in the past you have been sure of anything. You may
D:12.19 one Christ. We are, in wholeheartedness, one heart and one  mind.
D:13.1 what you know, especially as what you know grows beyond the realm of  mind and body, form and time.
D:14.2 Here it will be helpful to keep in  mind the idea of “as within, so without.” We are not leaving the Self
D:14.4 to fully participate in the discovery that lies beyond the body and  mind, form and time. You will need to put into practice the
D:14.15 This reality begins with awareness of what is beyond body and  mind, form and time. It proceeds to this awareness being accepted,
D:14.17 This wholeness of being is what lies beyond body and  mind, form and time. Becoming the elevated Self of form is becoming
D:14.17 and will be the way in which source and cause transform body and  mind, form and time.
D:15.6 what was there to move before there was being? This is the way the  mind looks at principles, one coming after the other and building
D:15.16 You have been prepared for this by the realization that your thinking  mind will no longer be necessary as your access to unity, or
D:16.20 It is a time of coming to no longer “hold” these images in your  mind and heart. It is a time of letting them first cease to affect
D:Day2.2 desire peace, memories of your life continue to play within your  mind, often still bringing you sadness and regrets.
D:Day3.2 What was it that was “taught” to in the time of learning? It was the  mind. Thus, your mind has been trained for learning and you are most
D:Day3.2 was “taught” to in the time of learning? It was the mind. Thus, your  mind has been trained for learning and you are most willing to have
D:Day3.2 new information, and even new discoveries, enter through your  mind—because this is known to you and is what you are familiar
D:Day3.2 known to you and is what you are familiar with. In the area of the  mind were you most willing to accept teachers, leaders, guides,
D:Day3.3 to teach you, what choice did you have but to listen? So the  mind and body were both conditioned to have learning thrust upon
D:Day3.4 have been conditioned by thousands of years of learning through the  mind—learning in often painful ways—said “no” to learning through
D:Day3.7 These ideas, whether you realize it or not, are all associated with  mind. It is through your mind that these new ideas will change your
D:Day3.7 realize it or not, are all associated with mind. It is through your  mind that these new ideas will change your actions and your life,
D:Day3.7 that these new ideas will change your actions and your life, your  mind that, through increased stillness, will give you more peace,
D:Day3.7 that, through increased stillness, will give you more peace, your  mind that will accept comfort of a certain type, even extending to a
D:Day3.11 the issue of money or abundance: the way you have learned. The  mind would tell you that nothing is “given,” and that all must be
D:Day3.27 Let me set your  mind at ease, for you are not called to sacrifice, as you have been
D:Day3.38 discovery is knowing what was not known before, and keep this in  mind as we consider the knowing of abundance.
D:Day3.39 in this chapter that you are most comfortable learning through the  mind because of your familiarity with the pattern of learning through
D:Day3.39 because of your familiarity with the pattern of learning through the  mind, you can perhaps see why these first revelations of union would
D:Day3.39 revelations of union would come to you in a way associated with the  mind.
D:Day3.40 in regards to entry, you would likely say the entry point was the  mind. This is, in a sense, true, as wholeheartedness is comprised of
D:Day3.40 This is, in a sense, true, as wholeheartedness is comprised of the  mind and heart joined in unity. It would be more true to think of
D:Day3.40 from unity thus far being that which can be gained through the  mind. As you advance, and as you become more open to other means of
D:Day3.40 the wisdom you once sought through learning, or through the  mind, other means will open to you. You may see, audibly hear, and
D:Day3.41 relationship with unity that does not exist only within the  mind of the wholehearted.
D:Day3.47 the confines of that form. This would be like still seeing the  mind as the only source of learning, and learning as the only source
D:Day3.47 the only source of knowledge. What you have begun to see is that the  mind is not the source of certainty, no matter how much knowledge it
D:Day3.53 “givens” are not to be dealt with by the conscious, or “thinking”  mind, so too is it with abundance. Abundance can only be accepted and
D:Day3.58 as just another word, another concept, another trick of the  mind, you will not see it as the replacement of learning, and as such
D:Day4.7 learned in the same way that you do. Early man had no language. His  mind was not full of thoughts. Early man and early childhood can thus
D:Day4.7 with thinking, the terms of having thoughts, or words, in your  mind.
D:Day4.15 spoken at some length about access that seems to come through the  mind. We have spoken of thoughts that arise that you didn’t think. We
D:Day4.21 of the past, of the hereafter, of me, and of God. Not only has your  mind been misled, but your heart and soul as well.
D:Day4.34 have not put this purpose into words and put these words into your  mind. What is the focus of which I speak, the focus that is not
D:Day4.35 stretch your idea of reality just a little bit farther, stretch your  mind just a little beyond where it is comfortable going, that there
D:Day5.2 it. For those of you who have felt the point of entry to be the  mind in experiences already registered, there is no need to combat
D:Day5.3 This does not mean that these experiences come from your  mind or from a place just beyond your physical concept of the mind
D:Day5.3 your mind or from a place just beyond your physical concept of the  mind but, since you are not your body, the idea of what originates
D:Day5.21 In this frame of  mind, we can return more specifically to our focus on access.
D:Day6.7 At one time the creation of a piece of music is only an idea in the  mind and heart of the creator. The creation of a song or a symphony
D:Day6.7 these words as lyrics. At some point after this gestation within the  mind and heart, the artist puts pen to paper, or picks up a guitar,
D:Day7.5 that love is not opposed to logic but returns true reason to the  mind and heart.
D:Day7.19 not new conditions. They are conditions natural to your Self, to a  mind and heart joined in union. It was the disjoining of mind and
D:Day7.19 Self, to a mind and heart joined in union. It was the disjoining of  mind and heart, of the real Self from the ego-self, that created the
D:Day9.5 unity is what the elevated Self of form is all about. Certainty of  mind and heart has been realized by many. The expression of that
D:Day9.6 freedom of expression. No one can block the freedom of what your  mind would think or heart would feel. But take away the ability to
D:Day9.6 or heart would feel. But take away the ability to express what the  mind would think or heart would feel, and freedom is no more. Yet it
D:Day9.10 wisdom or compassion. The image of the ideal self you hold in your  mind, no matter what form it takes, is still an image, and must now
D:Day9.11 idol. It is symbolic rather than real. It has form only within your  mind and has no substance. To work toward, or to have as a goal, the
D:Day9.12 is a product of the time of learning. It became an image in your  mind, and maybe even within your heart, through the process of
D:Day10.11 and reject an existing trust as you do with the thoughts of the  mind you call rational. It works against you because all feelings are
D:Day11.2 Because we are one heart, one  mind, one Self, we can only know our selves through sharing in unity
D:Day12.8 for space encompasses all obstacles, making them invisible. The  mind would say that making obstacles invisible is uncaring. The
D:Day15.14 enter the dialogue with the purpose of your final preparations in  mind. Bring your fears into the light of oneness and see how the
D:Day17.4 approach. As this approach became more and more centered in the  mind and more and more about coming to know what others had already
D:Day18.4 If the call is there, the need is there. Have no question in your  mind about this. The universe is comprised of no superfluous
D:Day18.6 unwanted state, and thus a temporary manifestation. The joining of  mind and heart provided reunion of the human and divine and thus
D:Day18.9 as neither brain nor heart alone provide for a functioning body,  mind and heart in separation could not truly exist and allow for a
D:Day19.1 and something important, but it does not have a form within your  mind and so you see not how it can become manifest in the world. In
D:Day25.1 Emptiness of  mind will now be something that may seem to plague many of you. Where
D:Day25.1 now be something that may seem to plague many of you. Where once the  mind was searching, yearning, questioning, now it is likely to become
D:Day25.2 nothing new to learn, no new divine inspiration, a part of your  mind will attempt to create from this nothingness. Allow this to
D:Day25.2 Allow this to happen. Allow the stillness when you can. Allow the  mind to fight back when you cannot. Resist nothing.
D:Day25.7 I remind you not to attempt this as a task to which you apply the  mind or the question of “What am I looking for?” You are looking for
D:Day27.6 Coming to know is not an aspect of the  mind alone. It is not an aspect of the spirit alone. Coming to know
D:Day27.7 to apprehend—to understand, and to hold within your conscious  mind—this situation that you find yourself in, this new
D:Day28.9 This must be kept foremost in your  mind. The reversal spoken of recently, the reversal from believing in
D:Day28.24 about will begin to fit together. A whole will form within your  mind much as if you have been following a thread and now can see the
D:Day29.1 held. When they cease to be held as separate concepts in your  mind, they cease to be separate. Remember that you have already
D:Day29.2 at times complementing and at times opposing one another. Just as  mind and heart became one in wholeheartedness and ended the conflict
D:Day29.3  Mind and heart joined as you let go of judgment and relearned or
D:Day29.4 This is no more complicated than ending the rift between  mind and heart. You have accomplished that and you can accomplish
D:Day37.6 Relationship and union are the way of God. The way of heart and  mind, body and soul, heaven and earth. God is being in unity and
D:Day37.8 for separation! This would be like demanding to be a body and not a  mind! Your reliance on God can only come through the relationship and
D:Day37.8 in your quest for separation! This would be like demanding that the  mind send the body the signals it needs while proclaiming their
D:Day37.29 Like heart,  mind, and body is to your form, being, union, and relationship is to
A.4 Since the  mind is the realm of perception we have taken a step away from the
A.4 of learning, to this Course of Love. This Course is not for the  mind but for the heart. It is not a way of thought and effort but a
A.8 to know yourself without the perceptions and the judgments of the  mind. You are beginning to know yourself as you truly are and you
A.12 the way of the heart. I ask you only to pause, to give the  mind a rest, to enter a realm foreign to the mind and yet beloved to
A.12 to pause, to give the mind a rest, to enter a realm foreign to the  mind and yet beloved to the heart. I ask you but to give yourself a
A.13 Through receptivity, what your  mind finds difficult to accept, your heart accepts with ease. Now you
A.14 to you without the interferences and cautions of your thinking  mind. You begin to trust and as you begin to trust you begin to
A.15 such meetings of open hearts is to direct the reader away from ego  mind and back to wholeheartedness or Christ-mind. “How do you feel?”
A.17 told them they are true and their belief in the supremacy of the  mind has temporarily overridden the openness of their hearts. The
A.18 all you have learned and the nature of the reality in which the  mind has functioned. In turning to the heart we seek to bypass this
A.19 intermediary is over. The greatest intermediary of all has been the  mind. It has stood between you and your own inner knowing, caught in
A.21 for this approach or that. They have grown weary of the ways of the  mind. They are ready to come home to the way of the heart.
A.23 when many in a group may remain attached to the ways of the thinking  mind. The demonstration will work for those who observe from a place
A.31 of the art of thought over the relentless stridency of the thinking  mind is always helpful. Obsessive thinking is always ruthless,

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T4:7.6 to bring this learning about. They now exist in harmony. Your  mind and heart in union have brought harmony to your body. Sustaining
D:1.6 new reality is real and different from the reality of old. Ideally,  mind and heart in union together accept this new reality and, with
D:8.9 been learned will become an ability to think wholeheartedly, or with  mind and heart in union, and then that ability will transcend ability

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C:I.6 guided, a way that is one of joining, a way that does not allow the  mind’s separate stance, its rules, or its right answers. The heart is
C:I.9 The mind is its own reality. You cannot escape the  mind’s reality with the mind. You cannot learn how to escape the
C:I.9 You cannot learn how to escape the reality of the mind with the  mind’s pattern of learning or of logic. You cannot live in a new and
C:I.9 or of logic. You cannot live in a new and fresh world and retain the  mind’s reality.
C:19.17 can have no concept of this, as all concepts are born from the  mind’s separate thoughts. Yet this same mind could still conceive of
C:23.25 striven to learn—return your dedication to union. Acknowledge your  mind’s resistance as a sign that unlearning is going on. Acknowledge
T2:10.8 Just beyond your  mind’s ability to call it forth lies the truth that you and all other
T3:20.6 be or should assume the other to be. You look ahead, and in your  mind’s eye you “observe” the future as a repetition of the present or
T4:4.16 must abide in the reality where you think you are. Only through your  mind’s acceptance of your new reality has the heart been freed to
T4:7.5 always known but has been unable to free you to accept without the  mind’s cooperation.
D:1.5 What will it now take for your mind to accept this truth? For the  mind’s acceptance of this truth is what is needed.
D:Day7.9 life are conditions that affect the body. Yet it was only your  mind’s acceptance of the condition of fear that led the body to
D:Day7.9 the conditions of fear in the time of learning. Thus it is the  mind’s acceptance of love that will lead the body to exhibit the

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C:17.6 unknown states. Some of you have gotten married, had children, taken  mind-altering drugs, or attempted strenuous or even terrifying

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T1:1.3 complete is the result of forgetfulness, which is the opposite of  mindfulness. Your further learning then is learning based on
T1:1.3 of mindfulness. Your further learning then is learning based on  mindfulness or remembering.
T1:1.4 The very word “remember,” as well as the concept of memory, implies  mindfulness and the ability to reproduce or recall both what has been
T1:5.13 difficulty, it is learned only in the sense of practicing the  mindfulness that will allow the memory of it to return to you.
T1:5.14  Mindfulness and wholeheartedness are but different expressions of the
T1:5.14 are but different expressions of the union of mind and heart.  Mindfulness will aid you in remembering. Wholeheartedness will aid
T1:5.14 aid you in reconciling the laws of God with the laws of man. Through  mindfulness you will remember who you are. Through wholeheartedness
T1:9.1 miracle-readiness. This is wholeheartedness and is achieved through  mindfulness.
D:12.9 dictionary definition, being “thoughtful” is seen as a condition of  mindfulness, and mindfulness is much closer to the idea of
D:12.9 being “thoughtful” is seen as a condition of mindfulness, and  mindfulness is much closer to the idea of wholeheartedness, or

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C:P.2 all to learn as you learn, you are asking to link your mind with all  minds. You are asking to end your separated state and learn in a
C:9.5 for whom you cook or clean, those whose bodies you would repair or  minds improve. The question is, really, who might have seen a use for
C:12.15 Joined  minds cannot think separately and have no hidden thoughts. They are,
C:12.15 think separately and have no hidden thoughts. They are, in fact, not  minds in the plural at all, but all-one-mind. What this Course is
C:31.27 a lie, the lie of separation that created the illusion of separate  minds and varying degrees of truth.
C:32.6 For what your heart has shared with your mind is shared with all  minds and what your heart has to share is only Love. Thus has Love
T1:10.6 have been learning devices. They have cracked open hearts and  minds to the divine presence within. You have chosen them for just
T2:2.4 and economic gain to instead be a sharer of knowledge, a shaper of  minds.
T3:17.6 The Holy Spirit was called upon to return this remembrance to  minds and hearts. But again let me remind you that the Holy Spirit is
T3:18.2 observance has rightly been linked with divine worship and devotion.  Minds that have been unwilling to accept or learn an unobservable
T3:18.4 who you are in physical form will return remembrance to the  minds of those who observe your expression. Further, your observance
T3:18.4 of your brothers and sisters will return remembrance to their  minds and hearts. It is, in fact, your observance of the truth of
T4:1.19 advances in science and technology, and to the refinement of your  minds, hearts and senses, not the reverse. Your ancestors have done
D:11.12 who set limits upon the truth. But for those willing to open their  minds and hearts to a new way of seeing, for those willing to suspend
D:Day8.1 the ideas of the conditions of the time of acceptance fresh in your  minds and hearts, let’s return to that earlier discussion.
D:Day9.21 as such and are often made into images such as these only within the  minds of those who would seek to follow their teachings. This desire
D:Day20.4 been put on the feelings and remembrances that you have within your  minds and hearts and have been sharing in this dialogue. The way of
D:Day35.11 ground-level of humanity with the heights of divinity fresh in your  minds and hearts. This is why you return accepting of yourself rather
A.17 Their perceptions will remain true for them because their  minds have told them they are true and their belief in the supremacy
A.26 moved away from their desire to learn something that will feed their  minds or egos will seldom continue to this next level. The next level

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D:1.20 Source is different than what you do here. This is thinking with the  mindset of separation rather than the mindset of unity. What I say to
D:1.20 This is thinking with the mindset of separation rather than the  mindset of unity. What I say to you here, I say to you. It matters

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D:12.6 for without awareness the value of what we do here does remain  minimal, and this I cannot allow. The urgent need for your return to

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T3:21.11 may be deeply affected by these things you call yourself or may be  minimally affected.
D:12.11 think may seem vastly improved since the ego ruled or may seem only  minimally improved, but it is the pattern, not the ego, that is still

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C:10.20 and toward union. Many of you have recognized that you seem to  minimize your chances for happiness and maximize your chances for
C:29.3 and its ability to both aggrandize your notion of yourself, and to  minimize it. To be of service to God is not to be a slave to God but

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C:2.8 and others that you call evolution and you hope you have some  miniscule role to play in advancing the status of humankind. This is

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C:4.12 happiness, or a father whose love is unconditional, or a priest or  minister who guides unfailingly. For each or any one of these that
T2:5.1 one call has but one request to make of you, as in a call to be a  minister, nor that it will come in but one form, as in a call to
T3:20.15 nothing call you to return to the ways of old. They do not work! To  minister to those within the house of illusion is to offer the

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C:P.11 of doing good works and being a good person, you are accepting  ministry to those in hell rather than choosing heaven. You accept
C:29.1 attitude for the time of tenderness, as it is an attitude of  ministry.

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D:5.1 of creation in a non-cognitive, intuitive way. It was also about the  minor distortions that occurred between this non-cognitive memory and

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C:14.1 creation, rather than in the world that you have made. Think but a  minute of this, and you will begin to see the enormity of the
D:Day3.11 Let us return for a  minute to the base idea behind the issue of money or abundance: the

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T2:4.15 processes, the very thought processes that tell you hour-by-hour and  minute-by-minute how to perceive of and live in your world, are still

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C:13.8 distracts you from the little self you think you are is worth the  minutes you would give to its contemplation.

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C:P.2 in miracles. All are in need of miracles. This is the first step in  miracle readiness: asking for all to be included in what we do here.
C:2.10 love see not the misery or despair. They are not there! This is the  miracle. The miracle is true seeing. Think not that love can look on
C:2.10 the misery or despair. They are not there! This is the miracle. The  miracle is true seeing. Think not that love can look on misery and
C:18.19 transformation from a state of separation to a state of unity is a  miracle indeed, for this transformation requires recognition of a
C:23.14 is what miracles are all about. It is what you are all about as a  miracle worker. For you to change your beliefs is the miracle that we
C:23.14 all about as a miracle worker. For you to change your beliefs is the  miracle that we are after, the result we seek from this Course.
C:23.16 belief in form will allow for all changes in form required by the  miracle. Form is not a constant but a result. While you believe that
C:23.21 again, taking form beyond its given parameters and becoming a  miracle worker.
C:23.25 All unlearning opportunities are opportunities for  miracle readiness. There is no trick to identifying unlearning
C:27.16 for specific outcomes or for God’s Will to be done. You fear being a  miracle worker because you do not think that you will ever know what
C:31.4 that something can be inseparable and still not be the same. The  miracle of turning water into wine illustrates, as all miracles do,
C:31.4 must understand this and all miracles correctly if you are to be a  miracle worker. What is inseparable cannot be different, but this
C:32.6 And what of miracles? The last and final  miracle has occurred, for what miracles are needed when mind and
C:32.6 and heart are one and you have returned to the embrace? This is the  miracle to end all need of miracles, the only accomplishment of the
T1:3.6 demonstrates a lack of faith but the reverse is true. What kind of  miracle would lead to a lack of faith? There is no such kind of
T1:3.6 of miracle would lead to a lack of faith? There is no such kind of  miracle.
T1:3.7 I ask you now to request a  miracle.
T1:3.8 What kind of a  miracle should you ask for? How big of a miracle should you request?
T1:3.8 What kind of a miracle should you ask for? How big of a  miracle should you request? How big is your faith? How much proof
T1:3.8 not in jest but ask you to seriously consider just what kind of  miracle is needed to get you to change your mind about who you are
T1:3.9 it? Why should it be that fear is what you encounter? The bigger the  miracle that occurs to you, the more you are likely to fear the
T1:3.9 world you fear, but consequences for yourself. If you requested a  miracle, and it came true, what then? If you request a small miracle
T1:3.9 a miracle, and it came true, what then? If you request a small  miracle and it comes true, how awful you would feel that you had not
T1:3.9 true, how awful you would feel that you had not requested a bigger  miracle. You will almost feel panic at the thought of such a choice
T1:3.9 of such a choice being put before you. If you will agree to choose a  miracle at all, which many of you will balk at doing, you want to
T1:3.9 which many of you will balk at doing, you want to choose the “right”  miracle. Some of you may think through just what kind of miracle
T1:3.9 the “right” miracle. Some of you may think through just what kind of  miracle would be most convincing to you since you see this exercise
T1:3.9 ask for a cure for a disease, how will you know that this cure is a  miracle and not the result of scientific discovery or the natural
T1:3.9 discovery or the natural course an illness was bound to take? What  miracle could be seen as only miracle and not leave doubt as to its
T1:3.9 an illness was bound to take? What miracle could be seen as only  miracle and not leave doubt as to its circumstances? Would you choose
T1:3.9 and not leave doubt as to its circumstances? Would you choose a  miracle that would leave no room for doubt? Such a simple miracle
T1:3.9 choose a miracle that would leave no room for doubt? Such a simple  miracle might be the turning of water into wine. What harm could come
T1:3.9 it? And yet even this you would fear for if you asked for such a  miracle and it came to be, you would then have to contemplate your
T1:3.11 would require you to contemplate your lack of it. If you asked for a  miracle and it did not come to be, wouldn’t it negate all you have
T1:3.15 Who you are is a  miracle worker. This is not all that you are but is a measure of who
T1:3.15 miracles are timesaving devices. Although asking you to choose a  miracle would seem to violate one of the rules of miracle-readiness
T1:3.18 Secondly you would object to being asked to choose a  miracle. Surely you cannot know the consequences of what any miracle
T1:3.18 a miracle. Surely you cannot know the consequences of what any  miracle would have on the rest of the world. If you were to ask for a
T1:3.22 perform them. You want a definition first. What is an appropriate  miracle? For whom should they be requested? What are the criteria?
T1:3.22 You have far too many questions without answers to choose a  miracle.
T1:3.23 is the same as a fear of scarcity. For surely the working of one  miracle would be a fluke anyway. Proof of nothing and easily
T1:3.23 discounted and explained away. Surely to believe that where one  miracle worked another might be possible would be to have ideas of
T1:4.1 By asking you to request a  miracle, I am honoring who you are and inviting you into the state of
T1:4.1 thought is the expression of that state. The art of thought is the  miracle.
T1:4.2 of specificity. You have not been asked to request a specific  miracle. Although your thoughts have naturally gone to consideration
T1:4.4 can the rules of thought we have identified serve to bring about the  miracle that you are? The first means identified was that of
T1:4.4 a gift of the Creator. Now that we have more properly identified the  miracle, you must see that your Self is what is in need of
T1:4.16 My request to you to choose a  miracle is but a request to you to hear Creation’s response to who
T1:4.25 to miracles in regard to revelation. By asking you to choose a  miracle, you were provided a means through which your fears became
T2:4.17 There is no time-lapse in this learning and so it is a condition of  miracle readiness. The old is replaced by the new simultaneously.
T2:4.19 While this adjustment of your thinking may not seem to be the  miracle that it truly is, as your awareness of it grows, it is going
T2:11.17 with you, and wondering, if you have not yet replaced it, how this  miracle will come about. This replacement is indeed a miracle and the
T2:11.17 it, how this miracle will come about. This replacement is indeed a  miracle and the very miracle you have been prepared for within this
T2:11.17 will come about. This replacement is indeed a miracle and the very  miracle you have been prepared for within this course of learning.
T2:12.3 and the integration of the beliefs we have put forth here. The  miracle I am offering you here is the service I offer you, the
T2:12.5 you will be reluctant to believe in them or to see yourself as a  miracle worker. Your belief in miracles and your belief in atonement
T2:12.6 belief to simply knowing, the learning goal in relation to the  miracle is the same—it is one of going beyond belief in the miracle
T2:12.6 to the miracle is the same—it is one of going beyond belief in the  miracle to simply knowing. Knowing is knowing the truth. Knowing is
T2:12.6 right-thinking. Your return to knowing or right-thinking is both the  miracle and the end for the need of miracles. For as you live in the
T2:12.6 miracles. For as you live in the world as who you are, you become a  miracle and the constant expression of the miracle.
T2:12.6 who you are, you become a miracle and the constant expression of the  miracle.
T2:12.7 call constantly upon the same power of intercession that is the  miracle. This is why we also devoted a fair amount of this Treatise
T2:12.9 whom you have previously only perceived, is the relationship and the  miracle waiting to happen. As we spoke within A Course of Love of
T3:12.4 state of consciousness. This change, as has been said before, is the  miracle. This miracle is the goal toward which we now work.
T3:12.4 This change, as has been said before, is the miracle. This  miracle is the goal toward which we now work.
T3:13.1 that of establishing your identity, and our new purpose, that of the  miracle that will allow you to exist as who you are in human form, we
T3:18.3 experience, it is a natural choice to serve our new purpose of the  miracle that will allow you to exist as who you are in human form.
T3:18.4 observance of the truth of your brothers and sisters that is the  miracle we have stated as our new goal.
T3:18.5 your observance of the truth of your brothers and sisters is the  miracle.
T3:20.4 In “A Treatise on the Art of Thought,” you were asked to request a  miracle as a learning device. This learning device had two aspects.
T3:20.4 aspects. The first was to reveal to you your fears concerning the  miracle so that you would learn from them. The second was to assure
T3:20.4 you would learn from them. The second was to assure you that the  miracle is the most effective way of convincing you of who you are.
T3:20.5 Let us now link observation and the  miracle. An easy illustration is provided, as so often is the case,
T3:21.19 felt about your identity for our new purpose, the purpose of the  miracle that will allow you to exist as who you are in human form.
T3:22.14 “closed eyes” observation, can be likened to prayer and thus to the  miracle. This is the very miracle that closes the door of duality,
T3:22.14 can be likened to prayer and thus to the miracle. This is the very  miracle that closes the door of duality, and seals out the world
T4:3.14 The idea of everlasting life in form has seemed a curse to some, a  miracle to others. Death comes as destruction to some, as new life to
D:6.27 is why we have spoken of miracles and of the collapse of time the  miracle is capable of providing. We have redefined the miracle as the
D:6.27 of time the miracle is capable of providing. We have redefined the  miracle as the art of thought, or the continual act of prayer that
D:7.5 was created cannot be uncreated. Thus transformation is needed. The  miracle makes you fully aware of the embrace and the consciousness of
D:14.13 forth in “A Treatise on the Art of Thought”, the thought that is the  miracle, or miracle-readiness, the thought that comes of unity and
D:Day5.17 fully who you are and expressing fully who you are. This is the  miracle, the goal, the accomplishment that is achieved through the
D:Day35.19 God creates. You have barely been able to accept the thought of the  miracle!
D:Day35.20 earth. This does not, however, entail specificity any more than the  miracle does. It does not entail choice. It is a way of being. When
D:Day39.22 a powerful God who can work miracles? Then you have been a powerful  miracle worker.

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C:P.5 walked this world with the hope of leaving ego behind, with  miracle-minded intent, have awakened human beings to a new identity.
T2:12.8 to alert you to the treasure within, how can it be that you, as a  miracle-minded being, are not called upon to also call forth the

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C:P.5 brought on largely by A Course in Miracles, in which readiness for  miracle-mindedness is upon it. A Course in Miracles opened a door by
C:P.37 earth. This is what the Christ in you can teach you to do. This is  miracle-mindedness. This is love.
C:1.9 a gift the ego demands. These are the magic thoughts that oppose  miracle-mindedness. These are the thoughts that say on my own I am
T1:6.9 is that divine memories arise to replace perception. This is  miracle-mindedness. The accomplishment of this state of being is the
T1:9.1 This is what we have been speaking of when speaking of  miracle-mindedness or miracle-readiness. This is wholeheartedness and

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T1:3.15 you to choose a miracle would seem to violate one of the rules of  miracle-readiness as described in A Course in Miracles, the extreme
T1:4.1 honoring who you are and inviting you into the state of mind that is  miracle-readiness. The art of thought is the expression of that
T1:9.1 what we have been speaking of when speaking of miracle-mindedness or  miracle-readiness. This is wholeheartedness and is achieved through
T2:4.18 learning to occur. As this notion of time dissolves, the state of  miracle-readiness becomes your natural state.
T2:6.9 create an out-of-pattern time interval. Thus living in a state of  miracle-readiness is the creation of a new reality outside of the
D:14.13 Treatise on the Art of Thought”, the thought that is the miracle, or  miracle-readiness, the thought that comes of unity and that extends

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C:P.1 This is a course in  miracles. It is a required course. The time for you to take it is
C:P.1 course. The time for you to take it is now. You are ready and  miracles are needed.
C:P.2 Pray for all those in need of  miracles. To pray is to ask. But for what are you asking? This is the
C:P.2 what are you asking? This is the first instruction in this course in  miracles. All are in need of miracles. This is the first step in
C:P.2 the first instruction in this course in miracles. All are in need of  miracles. This is the first step in miracle readiness: asking for all
C:P.2 be included in what we do here. By praying for all those in need of  miracles you are praying for all to learn as you learn, you are
C:P.3 but has merely become threatened. Spirit does not need a course in  miracles. If the ego cannot learn and the spirit does not need to,
C:P.4 is a basic question that was not adequately answered in A Course in  Miracles. While a course in miracles is meaningless to the ego and
C:P.4 not adequately answered in A Course in Miracles. While a course in  miracles is meaningless to the ego and unnecessary to spirit it would
C:P.5 as a whole, has entered a time, brought on largely by A Course in  Miracles, in which readiness for miracle-mindedness is upon it. A
C:P.5 in which readiness for miracle-mindedness is upon it. A Course in  Miracles opened a door by threatening the ego. All those who, with
C:P.8 know who you are and what this means. Where the original Course in  Miracles was a course in thought reversal and mind training, a course
C:P.12 this rejection but rejection of God? What is this but a rejection of  miracles?
C:P.13 the truth, although you may even have experienced what seemed to be  miracles happening “to” you, as you continued to reject your Self
C:1.2 You learned in A Course in  Miracles that all knowledge is generalizable. So is all feeling. All
C:2.19 and admit defeat. It challenges your right to happiness and love and  miracles, and seeks only to have you claim that living with such
C:8.19 awareness of the body was beautifully described in A Course in  Miracles as the Holy Instant. You may not think observation of your
C:10.5 in the body. Beware all attempts to think the body away and to think  miracles into existence. This desire merely shows you know not the
C:10.11 Let us talk a moment here of  miracles. Simply stated, miracles are a natural consequence of
C:10.11 Let us talk a moment here of miracles. Simply stated,  miracles are a natural consequence of joining. Magic is your attempt
C:10.11 are a natural consequence of joining. Magic is your attempt to do  miracles on your own. In the early stages of your learning, you will
C:11.17 it you need not give it, for it will extend from you naturally in  miracles called love. Love is all that will fill your emptiness, and
C:17.7 greatest efforts at organization are often to no avail. A Course in  Miracles asks you to “receive instead of plan,” and yet few of you
C:18.12 are needed before change of a lasting nature can occur. This is why  miracles save time, for they integrate all levels, temporarily
C:18.18 transformed. Transformation occurs in time. Thus transformation and  miracles need to work hand-in-hand.
C:20.28 and thus to come into your true power. True power is the power of  miracles.
C:20.29  Miracles are expressions of love. You might think of them as acts of
C:20.30 between unique expressions of love that creation continues and  miracles become natural occurrences.
C:23.14 Belief of another kind is what  miracles are all about. It is what you are all about as a miracle
C:23.27 is but another way of stating that which was stated in A Course in  Miracles: Resign as your own teacher. The desire to control is the
C:26.4 the example life and reiterate the message expressed in A Course in  Miracles: The true meaning of the crucifixion is that it was the last
C:31.2 These highly guarded and regarded thoughts are what A Course in  Miracles calls body thoughts. Distinctions are made in many religions
C:31.4 the same. The miracle of turning water into wine illustrates, as all  miracles do, the fallacy of this concept. You must understand this
C:31.4 do, the fallacy of this concept. You must understand this and all  miracles correctly if you are to be a miracle worker. What is
C:32.6 And what of  miracles? The last and final miracle has occurred, for what miracles
C:32.6 what of miracles? The last and final miracle has occurred, for what  miracles are needed when mind and heart are one and you have returned
C:32.6 have returned to the embrace? This is the miracle to end all need of  miracles, the only accomplishment of the only Son of God. For what
T1:3.6 might be, but a faith in what is. A faith in what is, is a faith in  miracles. Miracles are what you are now asked to call upon. For
T1:3.6 but a faith in what is. A faith in what is, is a faith in miracles.  Miracles are what you are now asked to call upon. For calling upon
T1:3.6 Miracles are what you are now asked to call upon. For calling upon  miracles is an act of faith. You think the quest for miracles is a
T1:3.6 calling upon miracles is an act of faith. You think the quest for  miracles is a quest for proof that demonstrates a lack of faith but
T1:3.9 came to be, you would then have to contemplate your power to perform  miracles. Here you find your greatest fear of all; fear of your power.
T1:3.10 to conviction. The apostles had no faith in their ability to perform  miracles. The faith they showed was in their willingness to try. This
T1:3.10 to try. This little willingness gave way to conviction as  miracles flowed through them as the blessings that they are.
T1:3.11 fear that you can already see your own loss. As great as the fear of  miracles is, the fear of not being able to perform is greater. You
T1:3.12 fear behind. Can you not, from this one example of your fear of  miracles, see the glaring reality of all you still would fear?
T1:3.15 quickest means of realizing who you are. As was said in A Course in  Miracles, miracles are timesaving devices. Although asking you to
T1:3.15 means of realizing who you are. As was said in A Course in Miracles,  miracles are timesaving devices. Although asking you to choose a
T1:3.15 one of the rules of miracle-readiness as described in A Course in  Miracles, the extreme need of your return to love requires extreme
T1:3.16 Let us consider your objections to  miracles one-by-one for in so doing we will uncover the source of all
T1:3.16 will uncover the source of all your fears as well as the Source of  miracles.
T1:3.17 First you will say you have no objections to  miracles, only to having them performed through you. Your lack of
T1:3.17 them performed through you. Your lack of willingness to perform  miracles, you will say, stems from your unworthiness to perform
T1:3.17 miracles, you will say, stems from your unworthiness to perform  miracles. Your unworthiness stems from your belief that you are
T1:3.17 are “only” human. You are not God. You are not a holy person. Thus  miracles should not flow through you.
T1:3.20 Fourth, you might balk at the suggestion that God would grant  miracles on such a whim, such a fanciful idea as that of your being
T1:3.21 These thoughts border on the sacrilegious.  Miracles are the realm of Jesus and of the saints and that is surely
T1:3.22 You fear as well that you do not know what  miracles are and thus cannot perform them. You want a definition
T1:3.23 further fear, the fear of making the wrong choice in your choice of  miracles. This is the same as a fear of scarcity. For surely the
T1:3.23 for you. Here your thoughts might stray to the performing of many  miracles. What a media circus that would be. You would be in demand
T1:4.2 must change that habit in order for all your thoughts to become the  miracles that express the truth of who you are. This Treatise will
T1:4.3 A Course of Love began with an injunction to pray. A Course in  Miracles began with a definition of miracles. Both are the same.
T1:4.3 injunction to pray. A Course in Miracles began with a definition of  miracles. Both are the same. Prayer and the art of thought are the
T1:4.3 and generalizable than your old habit of thought has led you to see.  Miracles are, in other words, a way of thinking, the new way that we
T1:4.25 a little here to do the same exposition that we did in regard to  miracles in regard to revelation. By asking you to choose a miracle,
T1:4.25 a few of you who would deny these fears. Fewer still are unafraid of  miracles and eager to embrace them. As you may have surmised, we are
T1:4.27 of awe has been confused with the word or idea of fear. A Course in  Miracles told you that awe is the providence of God and not due
T1:4.27 in Miracles told you that awe is the providence of God and not due  miracles or any other thing or being. I bring up this point to assure
T1:4.27 fear and ushering in, with this ending, the beginning of a time of  miracles.
T1:5.4 communication itself is insane, that believes that to contemplate  miracles is insane, that both welcomes and fears visions and
T1:5.15 It is in this way that you will enter a time of  miracles, put an end to suffering, and thus begin the return to love.
T1:6.4 Prayer and  miracles work hand-in-hand once both are seen for what they are. Do
T1:8.8 required, much as proof has been offered to you now in the form of  miracles. How could one rise from the dead and others not follow?
T1:9.11 of inspiration and manifestation? It will mean union and a time of  miracles. It will mean that you are the living Body of Christ.
T1:10.14 I left you. Peace of body, mind and heart. Peace is the realm of  miracles, the condition of the wholehearted, the prerequisite to the
T2:4.3 A Course in  Miracles and A Course of Love work hand-in-hand because the change of
T2:4.3 because the change of thinking taught within A Course in  Miracles was a change of thinking about yourself. It attempted to
T2:6.7 that it is a structure on which to sit. The exercises of A Course in  Miracles began with asking you to call into question these beliefs in
T2:6.9 recognition that you exist in unity outside of the pattern of time.  Miracles create an out-of-pattern time interval. Thus living in a
T2:10.2 has been replaced. This belief was first expressed in A Course in  Miracles by the saying resign as your own teacher. This belief in the
T2:12.1  Miracles are thoughts and I am the corrector of false thinking. You
T2:12.2  Miracles are a service provided through love. Your readiness for
T2:12.2 Miracles are a service provided through love. Your readiness for  miracles has been achieved through the learning you have
T2:12.2 has been achieved through the learning you have accomplished.  Miracles cannot be used, and so your learning needed to include an
T2:12.2 the false from the true, you were not able to receive the power of  miracles.
T2:12.3 The power of  miracles is but the culmination and the integration of the beliefs we
T2:12.4  Miracles are intercessions. As such they are agreements. They do not
T2:12.5 While you continue to feel as if you do not understand  miracles, you will be reluctant to believe in them or to see yourself
T2:12.5 in them or to see yourself as a miracle worker. Your belief in  miracles and your belief in atonement or correction are the same
T2:12.5 need of correction you think falsely. Right-thinking is the realm of  miracles.
T2:12.6 or right-thinking is both the miracle and the end for the need of  miracles. For as you live in the world as who you are, you become a
T3:8.10 wrought. These treasures that you now enjoy would have seemed like  miracles to them.
T3:19.14 be able to deny what they see. Just think of how many saints and  miracles you have heard of in the past without being moved to believe
T3:20.11  Miracles are not the end, but merely the means, of living by the
T3:20.11 are not the end, but merely the means, of living by the truth.  Miracles are not meant to be called upon to create specific outcomes
T3:22.5 that you resign as your own teacher originated in A Course in  Miracles and was furthered here. Along with this resignation is the
D:6.9 In the Bible there were many stories about  miracles, both before and after the time in which I lived. If you
D:6.9 I lived. If you were to pose to a scientist whether or not these  miracles were possible, they would tell you of all the “laws” of
D:6.18 shown at times to not apply, you consider these instances flukes or  miracles.
D:6.27 are already accomplished in unity. This is why we have spoken of  miracles and of the collapse of time the miracle is capable of
D:14.14 expression of thoughts, feelings, art, beauty, kind interactions, or  miracles. What is real in the state of unity is what is real, yet you
D:Day17.13 way of Jesus is the stage of interaction with the world, the time of  miracles, the death of the old way and the birth of the new.
D:Day18.1 a stage of interaction with the world, an interaction with the  miracles that will aide in the dismantling of the old and with
D:Day19.10 end of the way of Jesus in that the way of incarnation is the way of  miracles. It corresponds with the end of the way of Jesus in that an
D:Day39.22 Have I been a powerful God who can work  miracles? Then you have been a powerful miracle worker.
A.1 A major difference between A Course in  Miracles and A Course of Love has to do with the movement into the
A.2 the illusion for which a cure was needed—and within A Course in  Miracles offered.
A.4 for this continuation of the coursework provided in A Course in  Miracles. While you continue to put effort into learning what cannot

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C:P.17 the history of the world, many have done good, heroic, and at times  miraculous deeds without the world changing from a place of misery
T3:19.16 choice so attractive are ordinary people living extraordinary, and  miraculous, and observable lives.

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C:16.15 as if you believe that what has never worked before will somehow  miraculously work in the future. You have nothing but evidence of a

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C:P.13 would have begun to recede and to seem as distant and unreal as a  mirage. All that you retain is a belief in effort and a struggle to
D:16.19 to acceptance that they are not real. They are no more real than the  mirage of your future, another aspect of the image you have held of

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D:16.17 self. It is but an impression, as in clay, or a reflection, as in a  mirror. It is as removed from who you are as is the picture of an

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D:4.7 prison you have created of it, and the actual prison system merely  mirrors this restriction on a grand scale for all to see and look
D:Day19.14 but through relationship. Those following the way of Mary become  mirrors of the truth they discover, reflecting the way to their

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C:13.12 of others and yourself, for your memory will contain no hint of past  misdeeds, errors or mistakes. No one will have leveled any hurts on

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D:Day8.21 to fear your feelings. They will no longer be the source of the  misdirection of the past if you accept your feelings in present time

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C:P.17 at times miraculous deeds without the world changing from a place of  misery and despair. What is more arrogant? To believe that you alone
C:P.24 rather, a spirit of compassion that reels at the senselessness of  misery and suffering. A spirit that seeks to know what to do, a
C:2.10 you expect any decent human being to look on a loveless world, on  misery and despair, and not be moved? Think not that those who seem
C:2.10 not be moved? Think not that those who seem to add to the world’s  misery are any exception. There is not a soul that walks this earth
C:2.10 with eyes of love. The difference is the eyes of love see not the  misery or despair. They are not there! This is the miracle. The
C:2.10 miracle. The miracle is true seeing. Think not that love can look on  misery and see love there. Love looks not on misery at all.
C:2.10 that love can look on misery and see love there. Love looks not on  misery at all.
C:2.11 defined it unlike the compassion of God. To believe God looks upon  misery and responds with sympathy and concern and does not end the
C:2.11 misery and responds with sympathy and concern and does not end the  misery is to believe in a God who is compassionate as you are
C:2.11 is compassionate as you are compassionate. You think you would end  misery if you could, beginning with your own, and yet you could no
C:2.11 if you could, beginning with your own, and yet you could no more end  misery by making it real than could God. There is no magic here of
C:2.11 by making it real than could God. There is no magic here of turning  misery into delight and pain into joy. These acts would indeed be
C:2.12 as God sees. Again, I stress to you, this is not about looking upon  misery and saying to yourself you see it not. I am not an advocate of
C:2.12 light in a daunting sun, you still cannot believe in the reality of  misery and despair. If you do, you believe this is the state of God
C:2.14 What risk in attempting to see anew? What would a world without  misery be but heaven?
C:7.12 you simply take on guilt and withdraw still further into your own  misery.
C:8.29 day see through the deception. And so one day lived in your world is  misery incarnate and the next a thing of joy.
C:15.4 that this desire for specialness does not stop with what would bring  misery to your own mind and heart. Perhaps the leader of some
C:15.4 and heart. Perhaps the leader of some impoverished country brings  misery to others with his desire for specialness, but not you. Yes,
C:16.22 What  misery the world has suffered in the name of judgment, power, and
C:16.22 world has suffered in the name of judgment, power, and justice. What  misery can be avoided by finding the true power inherent in your
D:Day1.15 That you accept that I am he who can lead you beyond your life of  misery to new life matters absolutely.
D:Day4.44 desired and more. It has been described as the end to the life of  misery you have known and the beginning of new life. And I tell you

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C:2.12 of God as well. And if this were true, what hope would there be for  misery’s end? What light would there be in the universe that could

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T3:3.4 It is yourself, who, more often than not, you blamed for all your  misfortune. You would have liked to be strong and capable and hated
T3:3.5 hatred of the self and that functioned on finding blame for every  misfortune. Your illnesses became the result of behaviors ranging

misgivings (1)

D:Day2.15 But just as you are called here to accept me despite possible  misgivings such as religious beliefs, you are called to accept

misguided (3)

C:5.11 bad, and you have no feelings that can be labeled so. Yet you are  misguided concerning what your feelings mean and how they would bring
C:9.46 Let me say again that this is your  misguided attempt to follow in creation’s way. God gave all power to
A.16 Can students be  misguided? Is there, in other words, perhaps no “right” answer or

misinterpretation (2)

C:18.7 birthed by perception, before which there was no possibility of  misinterpretation, because there was no external world to be
D:5.11 about what everything means. This is the old way that led to so much  misinterpretation and misrepresentation. Acceptance of what is given

misinterpreted (1)

C:19.11 witnessed to mine. Even while some of my words were distorted or  misinterpreted, you can still revisit them and see that this is so. I

misleading (2)

D:Day4.20 Much progress was made within these institutions, but also much  misleading was done.
D:Day8.28 that you no longer have false feelings. That your feelings are not  misleading you but supporting you! That they are but calling you to

misled (5)

C:25.9 contests of will are supported by your contention that you have been  misled. It is as if you have paid for your ticket, arrived for the
D:Day4.21 This feeling of being  misled is another cause of your anger—one of the primary causes, in
D:Day4.21 of the hereafter, of me, and of God. Not only has your mind been  misled, but your heart and soul as well.
D:Day4.22 to an anger so profound? How can you be certain you are not being  misled once again?
D:Day10.14 Because you believe that your feelings have  misled you in the past, you now still doubt your feelings. Because

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C:18.22 both. It is not, however, the perfect relationship when you have  misperceived the body as your home rather than as a learning device.
C:18.22 body as your home rather than as a learning device. Because you have  misperceived the body as your home, there is, in a sense, no “you” to

misperception (3)

C:7.20 off from all the rest. Your forgiveness of all that has led to this  misperception is not yet complete, nor will it be until your
C:18.22 the experiencer and the interpreter of experience. In addition, this  misperception has allowed the body’s function to go unrecognized. You
C:23.15 into a belief in the validity of fear. When you are free of this  misperception, this inaccurate belief, your body will be freed. It

misperceptions (3)

C:9.12 it, when undone, will quickly reveal to you the truth because your  misperceptions concerning your heart remain closer to the truth than
D:2.18 is not foolproof is based on a faulty design, a faulty pattern. Your  misperceptions of the world have allowed for the development of no
D:2.18 of no foolproof systems because these systems are based upon  misperceptions or illusion. Your desire to cling to systems that are

misplaced (1)

C:10.13 is unwarranted? What if you are trusting and find that trust to be  misplaced? What if you are simply naïve and are taken for a fool?

misrepresent (1)

D:5.8 told that the ego has represented a false self—it is possible to  misrepresent. But the new world you have entered need not be filled

misrepresentation (1)

D:5.11 means. This is the old way that led to so much misinterpretation and  misrepresentation. Acceptance of what is given is acceptance of what

misrepresentations (1)

D:5.8 But the new world you have entered need not be filled with  misrepresentations, for you are cause and effect. It is through the

miss (5)

T1:4.10 those concerns associated with the survival of the body, they will  miss a whole aspect of concerns associated with keeping others other.
T2:5.2 you. If you are looking only for a specific type of call, you will  miss many unlearning and learning opportunities. Thus recognition of
D:11.16 only as an important man among many important men. Those who do so  miss the point of the life of Jesus just as they miss the point of
D:11.16 Those who do so miss the point of the life of Jesus just as they  miss the point of their own lives. Those who do so seek to make
A.34 While they are looking for it to show up in an old way they will  miss the new ways that are being revealed to them. Remind them gently

missed (2)

C:10.32 sing. You will know there is a place within yourself where you are  missed and longed for and safe and loved. A little peace has been
C:29.27 No chance to learn or grow is ever  missed. Each still exists, though not in time. Each still exists, but

misses (1)

C:28.12 others of your belief, the need to give form to what is beyond form  misses the point of what you have gained. You may be asking now, “Are

missing (10)

C:7.13 but not knowing how this loss came about or where to retrieve these  missing pieces, not knowing that you can prevent the loss entirely by
C:9.37 is to supply a lack. This is your definition of completion. What is  missing in you is found in another and together a sense of wholeness
C:9.39 that what you have lost still belongs to you. What you have lost is  missing, not gone. What you have lost is hidden to you but has not
C:9.40 Your quest for what is  missing thus becomes the race you run against death. You seek it
C:10.15 Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again. What is  missing from this recitation? Christ was born. Nowhere in the mystery
C:17.1 this would be impossible. And yet there is a way in which you are  missing.
T1:6.6 of fear is to ask from an unreal state of lack for what is seen as  missing or desired. In contrast, true prayer, formed in union, is a
D:6.26 This does not imply however, that there are portions of your Self  missing from this new experience in form you now enter into, but that
D:Day17.1 have been the created without being the creator. Something has been  missing. What is Christ? What is Christ-consciousness? Are they
A.33 assessments and self-doubts. Group members may wonder if they are  missing something. They may feel as if they have not experienced

mission (2)

D:1.3 a self whom you continue to believe can fail to fulfill or live your  mission and your purpose. You “see” this failure occurring through
D:Day36.19 you are and who you can be is essential to the accomplishment of our  mission—to the creation of a new heaven and a new earth. The only

mist (5)

C:29.9 your own hand can open it once again. It is a gate of illusion, of  mist, of clouds before the sun. Your hand is outstretched now and
C:29.9 Your hand is outstretched now and your light is clearing away the  mist. The gateway to unity stands before you, an arch of golden light
T3:1.9 Self from your mind. Your true Self is now ready to come out of the  mist of illusion in which it was hidden and to be represented in
D:Day4.31 of access to unity with a film of illusion. You hide the gate in  mist. Remember your breathing and how your concentration upon it
D:Day23.3 literally out of the clouds, out of the illusion, surrendering the  mist that was all that separated one world from another.

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C:11.10 god of the separated self. You think at times that this was God’s  mistake, the one weakness in His plan, and one that you would use. At
C:16.17 But the child is wrong. The child has made a  mistake. And with this mistake, the child believes that the
C:16.17 But the child is wrong. The child has made a mistake. And with this  mistake, the child believes that the relationship with the parent has
C:17.10 Sin is simply the belief that correction cannot be made. This is the  mistake that has happened in creation. This is how the impossible has
C:20.41 deep inside and feel your heart’s gladness. Your construction was no  mistake. You are not flawed. You are not wanting. You would not be
C:26.24 will this chapter lead? What will the end be like? Was one event a  mistake and another a blessing in disguise? You seek to know your
C:28.10 that you can know without knowing what to do, and that this is not a  mistake. Many reach this stage and, not knowing what to do with what
T3:17.4 of a “mistake” in the learning of a thought system of physicality, a  mistake that became a building block for all that came after it.
T3:17.5 That  mistake was seeing God as “other than” and separate from the self.
T4:12.36 Make no  mistake that what is asked of us is everything. What is asked is our
T4:12.36 the old, our total willingness to embrace the new. But also make no  mistake that what is given to us is everything. All the power of

mistaken (3)

T2:6.10 name Christ, but represent the original creation and are not to be  mistaken for heavenly deities separate from you. The Christ is your
D:Day3.20 of. Think you not that the shame that comes from heartaches or  mistaken actions is any greater than the shame those feel who feel no
D:Day15.17 achieved a goal consistent with their concept of inner knowing and  mistaken this as knowing the self. Movement is necessary to know the

mistakes (8)

C:1.8 to grow. You might consider that you could still learn from your  mistakes and find the learning in the end to be the same, and this
C:1.8 would realize that it would be quicker and easier to learn without  mistakes, and eventually you would realize also that the wisdom of
C:9.30 an accident happens, an automobile cannot be seen to be at fault for  mistakes made by its user. Yet in a way this exchange of roles is
C:13.12 for your memory will contain no hint of past misdeeds, errors or  mistakes. No one will have leveled any hurts on you or anyone else.
C:17.11 as well as of your own self and those you love? You believe  mistakes must be paid for, not once but many times, and no matter how
T3:12.11 While this would seem to say that  mistakes may occur within creation, remember that creation is about
D:Day2.3 this fully. For most of you, much of what you have considered your  mistakes and poor choices have been reconciled. You can see the
D:Day3.21 The shame and pain of heartaches and  mistakes is more often and more easily spoken of than the shame of

mistreatment (1)

C:9.44 abuse, in everything from drugs and alcohol to physical or emotional  mistreatment. These, like the larger examples of your daily life gone

mists (2)

C:28.6 is approaching. It is the time for the sun to cut through the  mists of dawn. It is the middle of the journey, a time of teaching
D:3.13 Full awareness in form of what has previously been hidden by the  mists of illusion is the more challenging task.

misunderstand (1)

C:9.17 to be alone in your frailty, loneliness, and lack of love. Others  misunderstand you and know you not, and neither can you make any

misunderstanding (1)

C:21.5 different languages, there has been little communication and much  misunderstanding. Occasionally the problems associated with a lack of

misused (3)

D:Day15.10 oneness and wholeness must precede this step. This power cannot be  misused because it is unavailable to those who have not realized
D:Day15.11 full-scale interaction with the world. Although this power cannot be  misused, to have access to this power in one instance and not another
D:Day15.13 Do you fear your power even though you have been told it cannot be  misused? Do you feel unworthy and seek to keep your unworthiness

misuses (1)

T4:12.16 limits been called progress? Have not even the most devastating  misuses of power attained through this rebellion been seen

mockery (5)

C:5.9 you have the right idea, yet it is so sadly displaced as to make a  mockery of who you are. Love does mark your place—but in eternity,
C:5.10 Love gathered together is a celebration. Love collected is but a  mockery of love. This difference must be recognized and understood,
C:8.13 it possible to exist in unity and still withhold, unity would be a  mockery. Who would you withhold for? And whom would you withhold
C:16.20 justice. Any basis other than love for power or for justice makes a  mockery of both. Might makes right is a saying that is known to many
T2:8.3 Relationship based on anything other than who you are is but a  mockery of relationship. The calls that come to you now as signs and

mode (5)

C:31.36 from them. Once you have determined a brother’s or sister’s usual  mode of behavior, deviations from that usual mode concern you. You
C:31.36 or sister’s usual mode of behavior, deviations from that usual  mode concern you. You may determine someone is in a “mood,” and see
C:31.36 your highest requirements of those you have relationships with is a  mode of behavior that allows you to know what to expect. Thus, as you
C:32.2 always available in every situation, and for whichever learning  mode you are most comfortable. All learning modes, however, will
T1:4.23 Revelation is a proper description of the  mode by which the art of thought teaches and helps you learn. It is

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C:30.4 of present time, past time, future time. We have spoken of these  modes of keeping time as well, but as the word keeping illustrates,
C:32.2 for whichever learning mode you are most comfortable. All learning  modes, however, will eventually return you to the Source, which is
T2:7.17 where you previously would have stated an opinion. While these  modes of behavior, in themselves, are learning aides that prepare you
T4:12.9 directly. If a time arrives when you no longer feel drawn to these  modes of sharing, share anew in ever-wider configurations.
D:2.9 use of the old so that the new can serve you. We speak of denying  modes of learning in favor of simple acceptance of what is.
D:2.10 It is proper now to deny the  modes of learning, even when they seemed to work for you in the past.
D:6.18 The list could be endless, but these examples will suffice. These  modes of behavior concerning the body were given to teach and to

modify (1)

C:9.49 Attempts to  modify the behavior of abuse are near to useless in a world based on

mold (1)

C:26.20 to love inviolate? The answer that only you can hear. There is no  mold, no form, no stock answer. This is why all answers have

molecules (1)

C:20.33 not in agreement about their opposing force. No atoms do battle. No  molecules compete for dominance. The universe is a dance of

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C:P.26 Let us, for the  moment, speak of the family of God in terms of the family of man, in
C:4.3 are so intimately attached because they joined together at the  moment of separation when a choice to go away from love and a choice
C:8.18 it governs your existence and wondering how you could spend even a  moment without awareness of it.
C:8.19 This  moment without awareness of the body was beautifully described in A
C:9.6 every other object that shares the space you occupy. Think for a  moment of what the creator of such a body would have intended the
C:10.11 Let us talk a  moment here of miracles. Simply stated, miracles are a natural
C:10.31 to do so comes upon you, and other times that after the slightest  moment of expanded vision you will welcome back your tunnel vision
C:10.31 and the expanded vision as well. You will remember that for a  moment your body did not seem to be a boundary that kept you
C:14.13 in this world, but something else entirely. For at least one brief  moment, this was true love, for nothing but love can be the cause of
C:18.14 something at the same time, and your desires did not change from  moment to moment. What you desired you experienced fully with your
C:18.14 at the same time, and your desires did not change from moment to  moment. What you desired you experienced fully with your whole being,
C:19.21 of love from your heart, a passing glance of compassion, the merest  moment of reflection, before it will dissipate and show a new
C:20.35 to have moments of clarity concerning what you are doing in a given  moment, what you have done, what you hope to do in the future. But
C:20.37 Knowing what you do is a present  moment knowing. It is not about plans. It is about moment-by-moment
C:22.11 You might think of the axis for a  moment as a funnel through which eternity is poured and a whole heart
C:22.19 The personal and individual is the “I” we are dispelling. Think a  moment of how you tell a story or report on events that have taken
C:25.4 it. This you cannot do. Yet, love is always present. Let us spend a  moment considering this contradiction.
C:26.22 Think a  moment of a novel or movie with no plot. This would be the same as
C:28.13 for a dedicated and devoted will, a will dedicated to the present  moment, to those who are sent to you and to how you are guided to
C:31.18 about honesty and sharing being about some need to confess, think a  moment about why you are worried. The idea of confessing is an idea
T1:1.4 a reality that once was but transform that reality into a present  moment experience. It is in the present-moment experience memory
T1:4.17 Let us speak a  moment of this interpretation. That each of you interprets what you
T1:4.26 you have, in your doubt, made of God the source of fear. Pause a  moment here and let the enormity of this confusion sink in, for this
T1:6.6 a divine memory and transforming that divine memory into a present  moment experience.
T1:7.1 who you truly are, a being existing in union. Take away all, for the  moment, that you would strive to be, and the feeling of not being
T1:8.17 you think that this union is not all-encompassing, we will reflect a  moment here on how the art of thought brings all you have seen as
T1:10.2 caught your attention is fully engaged and fully experiencing the  moment. You will think this is what you want. And I say again that it
T1:10.10 But look past what you have remembered to what was truly there. No  moment of true learning ever arrived without the Peace of God for
T2:9.2 ego mind and inviting the one mind, or unity into the present  moment. When seen as such, all these tools, including needs, can
T2:10.3 I ask you to think for a  moment of a time when you attempted to recall a specific memory. This
T2:10.15 to believe that the Christ in you is in need of learning. Think a  moment of why this should be so. Is there ever a moment in which
T2:10.15 learning. Think a moment of why this should be so. Is there ever a  moment in which coming to know is not appropriate? Is there any
T2:12.13 they enable you to live and express and act as who you are in every  moment and in every circumstance. Let these abilities serve you and
T3:2.10 to embark on the journey of truth. You stand in the transformational  moment between the unreal and the real. All you await is an idea, a
T3:7.6 the house of illusion was like an explosion happening there. For a  moment, the floorboards shook, the walls quaked, the lights dimmed.
T3:8.4 Although at this  moment it may be hard for you to conceive of the idea of bitterness
T3:10.6 of what is, is acceptance that whatever is happening in the present  moment is a gift and a lesson. What comes as a lesson may not seem
T3:10.13 Think of this, for a  moment as you would a learned language. If you learned Spanish as a
T3:12.8 Let’s return a  moment to the choice that was made for the human experience, the
T4:2.12 greater success. They may consider themselves “better than” for a  moment in time, but those who do will be bitterly disappointed as
T4:2.12 in time, but those who do will be bitterly disappointed as their  moment passes. Despite the necessity for a confidence that has led
T4:2.27 Let this idea gestate a  moment within you and reveal to you the truth of which it speaks. The
T4:6.7 that perception leaves, it leaves open room for creation. In each  moment, what is, while still existing in the one truth of God’s law
T4:8.4 Let us dwell again, for just a  moment before we let this dwelling in the past go forever, on what
T4:8.7 a creative undertaking the human being was! If you can imagine for a  moment yourself as a being whose every thought became manifest, as
T4:10.5 Relationship happens in the present  moment. Studying takes up residence within the student; there to be
T4:10.5 is about future outcome. What happens in relationship has present  moment meaning. What is studied has potential meaning.
T4:12.25 The purpose of individual learning was the return of unity! Pause a  moment here, and celebrate this feat of the personal self! The
D:3.8 Let us talk again for a  moment of the idea of giving and receiving as one that was introduced
D:4.5 For the  moment, disregard any idea you may have of there being those who
D:12.10 of the finer points, as what might come to you in a reflective  moment at the end of the day. Again we will see the idea of thoughts
D:12.16 of this fading of your certainty, you still carry within you the  moment of realization—the moment in which the truth was known to
D:12.16 you still carry within you the moment of realization—the  moment in which the truth was known to you without doubt, known to
D:17.9 this desire is not a desire to hold on to what you have. That this  moment of achievement and glory is a gift of this moment, a gift of
D:17.9 have. That this moment of achievement and glory is a gift of this  moment, a gift of presence. Your gesture, so like unto that of a
D:17.9 finish line and won a race, is not meant to remain as it is in this  moment. It is not a trophy for your wall. It is not an achievement
D:17.9 an achievement you would hope to best. It simply is what it is: A  moment of presence full of both desire and fulfillment.
D:17.12 would return union to you and return you to your Self. This is the  moment of realization of that accomplishment. But your desire has not
D:Day1.9 accepting me would be like training to be an astronaut and, at the  moment of takeoff, refusing the requirement of the spacecraft as the
D:Day1.18 Let us return a  moment to the creation story and my acknowledgment that this creation
D:Day1.18 in each and every one of us. Let me move forward and speak a  moment of Adam and Eve and the fall from paradise. Let us extend our
D:Day2.4 succeeded in inventing just what was always envisioned. This is the  moment of fulfillment and desire coming together, the time in which
D:Day2.12 accept that this is something that happened? We leave aside, for the  moment, any considerations of other outcomes of such actions, whether
D:Day4.16 If you will contemplate for a  moment what you know about the example left by my life, you will
D:Day4.55 Think a  moment of the story of the prodigal son. All that the prodigal son
D:Day6.20 I know it doesn’t always seem so. Give your attention for a  moment to the temptations associated with the mountain top of my own
D:Day6.23 Think a  moment about a new job or some other endeavor in which you
D:Day8.2 life. Loving exactly who you are and where you are in every  moment is what will cause the transformation that will end your
D:Day8.9 acceptance that you do not like the gossip taking place in a present  moment situation, will enable you not to participate, judge, or
D:Day8.13 but to accept who you are within the relationship of that present  moment.
D:Day8.15 than feeling the feelings associated with gossip in the present  moment, you will soon find that a bit of gossip will crop up in your
D:Day8.16 your likes or dislikes. Being aware of how you feel in the present  moment is the only way to certainty. Thus to say that you are certain
D:Day8.20 of the true Self being expressed in the feelings of a present  moment situation, but see a future where the true Self will be more
D:Day10.15 Pause a  moment here and consider our need for a distinction between the
D:Day10.24 Let us talk a  moment of this exchange, for it is a key to your understanding of
D:Day16.10 feel because these feelings are part of who you are in the present  moment. When you remain in the present moment you remain within
D:Day16.10 of who you are in the present moment. When you remain in the present  moment you remain within Christ-consciousness where all that is
D:Day21.7 knowledge, wisdom, guidance, or information that is needed in each  moment is available within each moment and that the interaction,
D:Day21.7 information that is needed in each moment is available within each  moment and that the interaction, rather than being one of taking
D:Day25.3 your own ears. Let them come. Your feelings may be confused in one  moment, crystal clear in the next. Let them all come. Your thoughts
D:Day26.2 Let us talk a  moment of the concept of guidance. When you have sought guidance, you
D:Day26.3 Now let’s speak a  moment of the Self as guide. This simply means that you turn to the
D:Day26.7 transition, this passing of the unknown into the known, this  moment when the unknown becomes the known within the Self, is the
D:Day27.12 perceive of wholeness as an ideal temperature, you might think for a  moment, just as an illustration, of your experience of separation
D:Day32.4 Let us discuss, for a  moment, the concept of God because everyone has at least some sort of
D:Day36.3 you encountered between your earliest memory and the present  moment and it would say nothing about you if it related the
D:Day37.12 Let us look for a  moment at what and who you have been being and what and who God has
D:Day40.10 understand, this might be more easily grasped if we talk for just a  moment of specifics, such as art or music or literature, religion or
A.38 listening? Entering the dialogue is akin to residing in the present  moment and to hearing all that is being spoken in all the ways it is
A.39 a time of realizing that “I” am speaking to “you” directly in every  moment of every day, in all that you encounter, in all that you feel.

moment-by-moment (1)

C:20.37 do is a present moment knowing. It is not about plans. It is about  moment-by-moment knowing exactly who you are and acting out of that

momentarily (2)

C:21.5 countries who do not understand each other, working together  momentarily diminishes the boundaries of language, and a temporary
T2:9.14 serve as a sign, that the ego-mind and its fear-based thinking has  momentarily returned. This does not mean that you will never be at

momentous (1)

D:14.5 asked in situations as commonplace as balancing the checkbook, or as  momentous as a doctor’s diagnosis of a disease. These questions could

moments (19)

C:9.19 made your dream of life any less of a nightmare. Yet you spare few  moments of compassion for yourself, and when such chance occurrences
C:16.15 but evidence of a life of unhappiness and despair, where occasional  moments of joy or the few people that you love out of the many that
C:16.15 give up the caution, protection, and vigilance that protects these  moments of joy and people you love as well as your own self is to be
C:20.35 now been able to even imagine knowing what you do. You hope to have  moments of clarity concerning what you are doing in a given moment,
C:20.35 you have done, what you hope to do in the future. But even these  moments of clarity are fractional. They seldom have any relation to
T1:1.11 and even in spite of your recognition, at first in mere fleeting  moments, that it is a change you would welcome.
T1:5.13 While this will at first be a learned activity, and as such have its  moments of seeming difficulty, it is learned only in the sense of
T3:3.9 of you have now believed you are “good enough” for days or hours or  moments, but something always and eventually calls you back to the
T3:5.2 for love to fill. You have been emptied of the ego-self as creative  moments of inspiration filled you and emptied of the ego-self in
T3:5.2 moments of inspiration filled you and emptied of the ego-self in  moments of connection with God.
D:12.12 but that it quietly infiltrates the dot of the self in its unguarded  moments. I am attempting to help you to become aware and comfortable
D:12.13 already exists within you, and that you have already benefited from  moments of interaction with, if not awareness of, the state of unity.
D:16.16 yourself, all of the patterns of the time of learning, all of the  moments in which you feel an inability to join in union, and in which
D:Day2.2 you hold of yourself and your present Self. But still, in unguarded  moments, in moments in which you would desire peace, memories of your
D:Day2.2 yourself and your present Self. But still, in unguarded moments, in  moments in which you would desire peace, memories of your life
D:Day2.3 All of these  moments you review have brought you here. But I realize that you have
D:Day2.13 looking for degrees of wrong-actions, or wrongdoing. You all have  moments you wish you could re-enact, decisions you wish you could
D:Day10.7 You all understand intuition and each of you have had intuitive  moments. You may have felt, for no good reason, as if you shouldn’t
D:Day33.13 realize their power. A baby realizes the power of its cry within  moments of being born. Many a teenager develops full realization of

momentum (1)

D:Day9.32 and so your natural pattern would be to keep going now, to use the  momentum of this learning success to achieve another.

monastery (1)

T4:12.12 of how he knew, as soon as he was content within the life of the  monastery, that it was time to once again move out into the world.

monetary (4)

D:Day3.14 are capable of making a difference, especially in terms of  monetary abundance. This is one of those situations in which you know
D:Day3.21 mistakes is more often and more easily spoken of than the shame of  monetary failure. Certainly much complaining and general fretting are
D:Day3.31 if thoughts like these accompany your inheritance? Were this a  monetary inheritance, would you not squirrel it away for a rainy day,
D:Day28.13 the attitude of those whose major life dilemmas have been of a  monetary or career nature, where success or failure “in life” is seen

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C:5.8 the collections that fill your shelves, whether they are of ideas or  money or things to look at, are your desperate attempts to keep
C:6.18 the loveliest of answers to their questions. It takes not time nor  money nor the sweat of their brow to change the world: it takes only
C:7.15 be given in return. What you demand can range from admiration to  money, but it is all the same and the demand is always there. It is
C:13.10 could be spent on better things. Yet time is not required, nor is  money or the use of any other thing you value. And there is not even
C:15.5 not be special to that one if you did not earn a certain amount of  money. You would not be special if you did not give this one certain
T2:7.15 allows needs to be met. It is trusting that if you have a need for  money or time or honesty or love, it will be provided.
T3:13.10 be as simple as allowing yourself to freely spend a small amount of  money each day that you ordinarily would not spend, always with the
D:Day2.4 You are like an inventor who wasted many years, much  money, and endured many hardships over many projects that did not
D:Day3.6 learning as well as new—than love. This is the area that you call  money and that I call abundance. Feel your body’s reaction to this
D:Day3.7 outer life; and nowhere are you more skeptical than in regard to  money or abundance. The area of money, or abundance, is where
D:Day3.7 you more skeptical than in regard to money or abundance. The area of  money, or abundance, is where learning fooled you and failed you the
D:Day3.8 of bringing you the lack of want you associate most strongly with  money.
D:Day3.11 Let us return for a minute to the base idea behind the issue of  money or abundance: the way you have learned. The mind would tell you
D:Day3.11 order to advance yourself in the world in one way or another. Since  money or abundance is not a “given” for all, but only for a few, you
D:Day3.17 Let’s go back to the idea of  money when it is seen as a “given.” It is seen as a “given” in one
D:Day3.17 only: In the case of inheritance, in the case of those “born” to  money. Thus this is a good place to start, since inheritance is that
D:Day3.17 that of which we speak. Let’s be clear that we are not speaking of  money or abundance as being “given” when it is hard work to attain.
D:Day3.17 some event of luck or fate. We are talking specifically here of the  money “given” through inheritance, the money some lucky ones are born
D:Day3.17 specifically here of the money “given” through inheritance, the  money some lucky ones are born with.
D:Day3.20 The power of  money to affect you is a power that is denied, rarely acknowledged,
D:Day3.20 the shame those feel who feel no abundance, who suffer a lack of  money. There is still a commonly held belief that abundance is a
D:Day3.21 in the same circumstances of those to whom you complain. To speak of  money matters with someone who might have more than you, you would
D:Day3.21 something from them and you would suffer embarrassment. To speak of  money with anyone who has less might open the door for a request for
D:Day3.21 to give. To reach a position in which you feel you need to ask for  money from others, even from a bank, is seen as a dire situation
D:Day3.22 In the realm of  money lie your biggest failures, your greatest fears, the risks you
D:Day3.22 having the “means” to pursue it, and few of you truly think that  money would not solve most of your problems. Even those of you on
D:Day3.22 of your problems. Even those of you on this spiritual path think  money is among the greatest limits to what you can accomplish, to how
D:Day3.29 math, or foreign languages, before you could learn how to make  money, or in other words, to have abundance. You think you could more
D:Day3.29 to have abundance. You think you could more easily find love than  money, even those of you who have felt loveless for too long to
D:Day3.29 at these remarks, because you feel you have learned the secret of  money, the secret of success: Answer truly if you really believe
D:Day3.30 that may at any point take it from you, those of you who have  money see it in the same way. You may go along just fine for weeks or
D:Day3.30 cancer. In this same way, there are not any of you, those who have  money or those who have none, who feel that your financial “health”
D:Day3.33 You might think here too that  money made from what you love to do has a different quality than
D:Day3.33 money made from what you love to do has a different quality than  money earned from toil. You might think that money earned from what
D:Day3.33 different quality than money earned from toil. You might think that  money earned from what you love to do is the answer, just as you
D:Day3.33 from what you love to do is the answer, just as you might think that  money spent on the more lasting pleasures such as the things
D:Day3.47 What you have perhaps begun to see in similar terms, is that  money is also not the source of certainty, no matter how much it
D:Day3.49 God might want you to do, be it being still and not worrying about  money, or taking actions, right-actions now, as opposed to your idea
D:Day3.49 to your idea of the wrong-actions of the past, in order to bring  money or abundance flowing to you. All that this period of bargaining
D:Day3.52 Each stage may contain hints of the other, but in regard to  money, or abundance, each stage is experienced and felt. This
D:Day3.54 it and share it. And yet you continue to think that if you had  money or abundance, you would accept and receive it, express it and
D:Day3.59 of unity all things come to you without effort or striving except  money. You cannot accept that you no longer have to learn and accept
D:Day4.1 While we will broaden the focus of today’s dialogue beyond that of  money or abundance, we will still be addressing this area of your
D:Day39.30 Has your God not been a god at all, but science,  money, career, beauty, fame, celebrity, intellect? Then these things
D:Day39.30 Then these things have become the content of who you are. Science,  money, fame, celebrity, intellect or any other concept that has

money’s (1)

D:Day3.20 We will return to this, but first let’s continue with the denial of  money’s effect.

monistic (1)

C:30.7 the Self no longer lives in a dualistic position with God, but in a  monistic state with Him. The difference is in realizing relationship

monks (2)

T3:4.2 calls you to is not a sameness of body or of habit. It asks not for  monks or clones. It asks not that you give up anything but illusion,
D:Day19.9 of non-interaction however. This is not the state or place of the  monks, nuns, or the contemplatives of old. It is not solitary nor

monologue (1)

D:Day10.24 of but reminding you of what you have forgotten. I am not having a  monologue, but we are having a dialogue in which you are a full

months (2)

T3:15.6 own timing for the accomplishment of the same. Some would see six  months of change as the basis for trust in the new. For others six
D:Day3.30 see it in the same way. You may go along just fine for weeks or  months or years, unworried about your health until the slightest pain

monumental (2)

D:13.5 something you did not know before in form, that it is important,  monumental even; but you will be unable to “see” this knowing, to
D:Day9.32 from one learning challenge to another. You have just completed a  monumental learning challenge and so your natural pattern would be to

mood (4)

C:10.19 your state of mind is more like a general atmosphere, an ambiance, a  mood—and this setting is determined with your heart. The thoughts
C:23.3 each other’s thoughts,” be cognizant of the slightest switch in  mood, finish each other’s sentences. You know the other would lay
C:31.36 determine someone is in a “mood,” and see that the effects of that  mood are either good or bad, for either you or them or both. Since

moods (1)

T3:3.4 own weakness. You would have liked to be even-tempered and hated the  moods that seemed to come over you without cause. You did not

moon (7)

C:3.2 in you. It is you. Imagine the ocean or the cheetah, the sun or the  moon or God Himself, attempting to learn what they are. They are the
C:12.11 along in perfect harmony. The stars light up the sky, the sun and  moon do what they were appointed to do, the animals of the sea,
C:12.11 has always been, but for, perhaps, the mark of man upon it. Yet the  moon remains the moon despite man’s landing on it. The earth remains
C:12.11 but for, perhaps, the mark of man upon it. Yet the moon remains the  moon despite man’s landing on it. The earth remains the earth despite
T4:2.11 just as someone had to be “first” to fly a plane or land on the  moon, being first implies only that there will be a second and a
D:Day39.35 your sister or your brother? A tree become a frog? The sun the  moon? Yet love could become all of these, because love, by its
E.4 were once asked to “Imagine the ocean or the cheetah, the sun or the  moon or God Himself, attempting to learn what they are. They are the

moral (2)

C:21.8 differences in meaning. In extreme instances this is considered  moral conflict, an example being the individual knowing the “right”
D:Day9.12 of right from wrong, good from bad. It arose from the learning of  moral and religious beliefs. It arose from comparison. It arose from

morals (1)

C:7.6 Some will not give up hope to cynicism. Others label it ethics,  morals, values, and say this is the line I will never cross. It is

morbid (1)

C:7.22 are asked to give this up, you are asked to give up an existence so  morbid that anyone with any sanity would gladly toss it to the wind

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morning (3)

C:8.24 This is your re-enactment of creation, begun each  morning and completed each night. Each day is your creation held
C:22.20 to the specific. For example, when you walk out your door in the  morning you might generally think, “What a lovely day.” What this
T3:13.10 an idea that if I sleep as long as I feel I need to sleep in the  morning, I will awake refreshed and ready for my day and no dire

mortal (3)

T4:4.10 you that immortality is not the change of which I speak. You are not  mortal, and so a word that speaks of an opposite to what you are not
T4:4.14 sees life-everlasting where perception but saw finite life and  mortal bodies. Once vision and Christ-consciousness has returned to
T4:4.16 to your awareness of Christ-consciousness. To believe that you are  mortal is to believe that you must die to the personal self of form

mortis (2)

D:15.2 The first principle of creation is that of movement. Rigor  mortis, or the stiffness of death, is nothing but a lack of movement,
D:15.7 waters. The wind, which is as great a signifier of movement as rigor  mortis is of lack of movement, is the first element mentioned in this

Moses (1)

T3:9.7 the pilgrimage I set you upon, as real as those who in the time of  Moses journeyed through the desert to the Promised Land. That journey

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mother (17)

C:P.20 ego and to please God. This is not unlike the attitude of a good  mother who decides to sacrifice herself for her children, without
C:4.12 anyone, and no concern for his or her own self. This is perhaps a  mother whose love is blind and self-sacrificing. Still others of you
C:20.3 revealed. The beloved child suckled at the breast of the queen  mother earth, one child of one mother, nameless and beyond naming. No
C:20.3 suckled at the breast of the queen mother earth, one child of one  mother, nameless and beyond naming. No “I” resides here. You have
T1:8.9 of any of these and know instead the example of woman, of Mary,  Mother of God.
T1:8.10 What is a  mother but she who incarnates, makes spirit flesh through her own
T1:8.16 effect of the cause created by the female in the virgin birth. My  mother, Mary, was responsible for the incarnation of Christ in me as
T1:9.4 which is the prelude to resurrection. What was once part of the  mother and father, what would have died without the joining that
T3:6.1 less than the parent. Although you see yourself as the child of your  mother and father, this notion of yourself as child has not made you
T3:21.21 came and my time ended. The time when a single baby born of a virgin  mother could change the world has passed. The world is quite simply
D:Day17.9 Christ-consciousness was represented not only by Jesus, but by his  mother, Mary. Mary, like Jesus, realized full Christ-consciousness
D:Day18.2 are not separate any more than Jesus was separate from Mary—or any  mother separate from her child. The ways are rather complementary and
D:Day38.5 Call me God the Father, call me God the  Mother, call me Creator, or Great Spirit, Yahweh or Allah, but call
D:Day40.16 “one, true, relationship” in your own life? As if you could only be  mother or father, daughter or son, husband or wife, sister or
D:Day40.18 are not just the relationships that you hold. You are more than a  mother, daughter, sister, friend. You are an “I” that stands separate
D:Day40.27 not the same as saying you are who you are in relationship to your  mother, and your mother who she is in relationship to you. This is
D:Day40.27 saying you are who you are in relationship to your mother, and your  mother who she is in relationship to you. This is saying that you are

mother’s (2)

C:3.6 How can anything have a form except in symbols? A family crest, a  mother’s ring, a wedding band are all the same: They but represent
C:20.12 upon each other. Love grows from within as a child grows within its  mother’s womb. Inward, inward, into the embrace, the source of all

motion (3)

C:22.14 or water passing through an entry and exit point has an impact and a  motion, so does what passes through you provide the movement of your
T3:8.7 to make a new choice and what keeps the cycle of suffering in  motion.
A.29 The forward  motion, regardless of a group’s configuration, is still the same. It

motivations (2)

C:2.19 of worldly success. It would use all you have learned for its own  motivations and pat you on the back for your new abilities. Without
C:8.10 followed by attempts to see beneath the surface to find causes,  motivations, or reasons for a situation, problem, or relationship.

motors (1)

D:15.15 You have attempted to build better sails to catch the wind, or  motors to replace it, never realizing its constant and continual

mount (2)

C:8.6 you label anger or a sting you would call shame. Problems that  mount up and seem too much to bear can cause what you call emotional
D:7.22 as progress has left so many unfulfilled, as environmental concerns  mount, even the perceived survival needs are leading you toward new

mountain (65)

C:6.11 battle? Those who have not yet faced every challenge? If there is a  mountain left to climb, why choose heaven? Surely it can be chosen
D:15.22 This step was like the final step after your ascent of the highest  mountain. These dialogues might be seen as taking place there, with
D:15.22 ascent. And at this highest point of the highest peak of the highest  mountain, you pause and become accustomed to the thinner air, the
D:17.5 for, a stretching out for. Imagine yourself at the summit of this  mountain we have climbed, standing with arms raised, hands wide open,
D:17.7 You want to share it with the whole world. From the top of the  mountain, arms outstretched, this desire too has caused your arms to
D:17.10 through the stage of initiation. You have reached the top of the  mountain.
D:17.25 so without.” This is why you have been taken to the top of the  mountain without leaving home. You have taken the inward course, the
D:17.26 spend forty days and forty nights here together, at the top of the  mountain, fasting from want, becoming aware of desire, responding to
D:Day1.3 We are here on the top of the  mountain together, beginning our work together. I am no longer your
D:Day1.7 you must accept me, much as you must accept your ascension to this  mountain peak and this dialogue that is occurring here. If you
D:Day1.7 peak and this dialogue that is occurring here. If you believe this  mountain peak is merely metaphorical, you will not realize that you
D:Day1.27 what it is you desire. My forty days and forty nights on the  mountain succeeded my baptism and my acknowledgment as the Son of
D:Day2.6 have done others may weigh heavily on you now. It is as if, at this  mountain peak, you have discovered a lightness of being, and yet
D:Day2.8 are the temptations that confront those who have dared to ascend the  mountain. It is not the height you have attained that causes your
D:Day2.23 life that began with the forty days and forty nights spent upon the  mountain, and continued with my joining with my brothers and sisters,
D:Day4.34 taken yourself away from the ordinary world. You are on top of the  mountain. What is this all about? Why have we gathered together here?
D:Day4.35 You might think of the  mountain top as symbolic of a place close to God. If God was once
D:Day4.35 figure in heaven, and heaven as a place beyond the clouds, then the  mountain top was symbolic of proximity. It was symbolic of a place
D:Day4.35 little more and reach heaven. You thus may think of this time on the  mountain as a time of getting in touch with your own access to God,
D:Day4.39 who you really are, then our purpose of being together here on this  mountain top will go unfulfilled.
D:Day4.42 A self of form elevated by circumstance? A self of form on a high  mountain? Or do you wish to carry this elevation back with you when
D:Day4.43 for? Surely this you can do, for I deny no one the journey to the  mountain top, not once or many times. But this is not what I call you
D:Day6.1 being the elevated Self of form. This is what our time on this holy  mountain is largely comprised of. We are in an in-between state of
D:Day6.2 world of your “normal” existence and feel fully present on the holy  mountain. This is not a second-best situation. Although it is being
D:Day6.16 of life as it is. This is why this dialogue is occurring on the holy  mountain without taking you away from life as you know it. We are,
D:Day6.17 time. Quite the contrary. We are having our dialogue on the holy  mountain while you remain within your life for the very purpose of
D:Day6.19 no hallowed halls of learning that will accomplish this. There is no  mountain top in any location on Earth that can accomplish this. It is
D:Day6.20 your attention for a moment to the temptations associated with the  mountain top of my own experience. They were temptations of the
D:Day6.20 are the same now as they were then. They are the same on the  mountain top as they are on level ground. A “place” that seems
D:Day6.21 are creating here. It is a truly elevated place. It is as real as a  mountain top, in fact much more real. Were your scientists to know
D:Day7.18 is the present. It is here, in this present and given time on the  mountain that you must realize that the conditions of the time of
D:Day9.1 freedom from repression, are what we will now enjoy together on our  mountain top retreat. We have not removed ourselves from life in any
D:Day14.13 the many must be heard as the voice of the one. You are not on this  mountain top alone! Can you not hear your own voice? Can you not hear
D:Day15.11 Engaging in dialogue with those who join you on the  mountain top is necessary to this next step. One reason is that it
D:Day15.11 practice with those with whom you are engaged in this specific  mountain top dialogue. It is not an acceptable state for full-scale
D:Day15.24 not been asked to remove yourself from life during this time on the  mountain, you have been asked to be here and to join with others here
D:Day15.27 You will realize that you have felt cocooned by the time on the  mountain and by those who have joined you, and that you may have
D:Day21.9 You began your  mountain top experience with a companion who had offered himself as a
D:Day21.9 to accept that a teacher was not needed. He joined you on the  mountain top in order to prepare you for his departure, a departure
D:Day22.8 in everything. It is there in every tree and every flower, in every  mountain stream and every blowing wind. It is there in each and every
D:Day22.8 the awareness that exists in every tree and every flower, in each  mountain stream and in the blowing wind. It is time to be a channel
D:Day23.3 means by which you will carry what you have been given down from the  mountain and onto level ground, the ground of the earth, the place
D:Day23.4 even those that have gently surrounded our time together on the  mountain top must now be surrendered, much as a woman surrenders her
D:Day26.4 you if you will allow it to. Your Self will lead you down from the  mountain top and through the valleys of level ground. There is no
D:Day27.2 able to begin to form within you because you have agreed to this  mountain top experience while remaining engaged in life. You have
D:Day27.4 These flashes of insight might be thought of as brief views from the  mountain. The obstacles confronted on level ground suddenly gave way
D:Day27.5 carry with you to level ground because you have practiced during our  mountain top time together the ability to experience on two levels.
D:Day27.7 and a spiritual perspective, a perspective from level ground and a  mountain top perspective. Your descent from the mountain top will not
D:Day27.7 level ground and a mountain top perspective. Your descent from the  mountain top will not mean that you no longer have the perspective
D:Day27.7 no longer have the perspective gained there. You did not “go” to the  mountain. The mountain came to you.
D:Day27.7 the perspective gained there. You did not “go” to the mountain. The  mountain came to you.
D:Day27.15 of separation. This is what you practice as you gather on the  mountain top while remaining on level ground.
D:Day28.1 are what you must begin to face as we begin our descent from the  mountain top. To wait until level ground is reached to begin to view
D:Day28.19 time to one of experiencing two levels of “time.” Our “time” on the  mountain would be more rightly described as “time outside of time.”
D:Day28.23 simple realization that it is possible. This is what our time on the  mountain has provided you with: The experience required in order to
D:Day28.26 is as if you follow two threads, the thread that has led you to the  mountain and the thread of the life from which you have not removed
D:Day29.1 levels of experience. If you can be having the experience of the  mountain top and the experience of level ground simultaneously, then
D:Day31.1 this by considering the two levels of experience—that of the  mountain top experience—and that of the experience on level ground.
D:Day31.3 What the  mountain top experience is helping you to see is that you are the
D:Day31.3 experience is helping you to see is that you are the experience. The  mountain top experience did not happen to you or happen separately
D:Day35.6 this going to be of practical benefit to you as you leave the  mountain top experience behind? This question has been asked in this
D:Day35.6 that while you will return to level ground, you will also retain the  mountain top experience. As was said before, the mountain came to
D:Day35.6 also retain the mountain top experience. As was said before, the  mountain came to you. You will thus always have the power to call
D:Day35.6 came to you. You will thus always have the power to call upon the  mountain top experience and the view of wholeness we have achieved
E.3 gone and it will be gone. This little note added to the end of our  mountain top time together is only here to help you realize and

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D:Day4.35 You might think of the  mountain top as symbolic of a place close to God. If God was once
D:Day4.35 figure in heaven, and heaven as a place beyond the clouds, then the  mountain top was symbolic of proximity. It was symbolic of a place
D:Day4.39 who you really are, then our purpose of being together here on this  mountain top will go unfulfilled.
D:Day4.43 for? Surely this you can do, for I deny no one the journey to the  mountain top, not once or many times. But this is not what I call you
D:Day6.19 no hallowed halls of learning that will accomplish this. There is no  mountain top in any location on Earth that can accomplish this. It is
D:Day6.20 your attention for a moment to the temptations associated with the  mountain top of my own experience. They were temptations of the
D:Day6.20 are the same now as they were then. They are the same on the  mountain top as they are on level ground. A “place” that seems
D:Day6.21 are creating here. It is a truly elevated place. It is as real as a  mountain top, in fact much more real. Were your scientists to know
D:Day9.1 freedom from repression, are what we will now enjoy together on our  mountain top retreat. We have not removed ourselves from life in any
D:Day14.13 the many must be heard as the voice of the one. You are not on this  mountain top alone! Can you not hear your own voice? Can you not hear
D:Day15.11 Engaging in dialogue with those who join you on the  mountain top is necessary to this next step. One reason is that it
D:Day15.11 practice with those with whom you are engaged in this specific  mountain top dialogue. It is not an acceptable state for full-scale
D:Day21.9 You began your  mountain top experience with a companion who had offered himself as a
D:Day21.9 to accept that a teacher was not needed. He joined you on the  mountain top in order to prepare you for his departure, a departure
D:Day23.4 even those that have gently surrounded our time together on the  mountain top must now be surrendered, much as a woman surrenders her
D:Day26.4 you if you will allow it to. Your Self will lead you down from the  mountain top and through the valleys of level ground. There is no
D:Day27.2 able to begin to form within you because you have agreed to this  mountain top experience while remaining engaged in life. You have
D:Day27.5 carry with you to level ground because you have practiced during our  mountain top time together the ability to experience on two levels.
D:Day27.7 and a spiritual perspective, a perspective from level ground and a  mountain top perspective. Your descent from the mountain top will not
D:Day27.7 level ground and a mountain top perspective. Your descent from the  mountain top will not mean that you no longer have the perspective
D:Day27.15 of separation. This is what you practice as you gather on the  mountain top while remaining on level ground.
D:Day28.1 are what you must begin to face as we begin our descent from the  mountain top. To wait until level ground is reached to begin to view
D:Day29.1 levels of experience. If you can be having the experience of the  mountain top and the experience of level ground simultaneously, then
D:Day31.1 this by considering the two levels of experience—that of the  mountain top experience—and that of the experience on level ground.
D:Day31.3 What the  mountain top experience is helping you to see is that you are the
D:Day31.3 experience is helping you to see is that you are the experience. The  mountain top experience did not happen to you or happen separately
D:Day35.6 this going to be of practical benefit to you as you leave the  mountain top experience behind? This question has been asked in this
D:Day35.6 that while you will return to level ground, you will also retain the  mountain top experience. As was said before, the mountain came to
D:Day35.6 came to you. You will thus always have the power to call upon the  mountain top experience and the view of wholeness we have achieved
E.3 gone and it will be gone. This little note added to the end of our  mountain top time together is only here to help you realize and

mountain top experience (8)

D:Day21.9 You began your  mountain top experience with a companion who had offered himself as a
D:Day27.2 able to begin to form within you because you have agreed to this  mountain top experience while remaining engaged in life. You have
D:Day31.1 this by considering the two levels of experience—that of the  mountain top experience—and that of the experience on level ground.
D:Day31.3 What the  mountain top experience is helping you to see is that you are the
D:Day31.3 experience is helping you to see is that you are the experience. The  mountain top experience did not happen to you or happen separately
D:Day35.6 this going to be of practical benefit to you as you leave the  mountain top experience behind? This question has been asked in this
D:Day35.6 that while you will return to level ground, you will also retain the  mountain top experience. As was said before, the mountain came to
D:Day35.6 came to you. You will thus always have the power to call upon the  mountain top experience and the view of wholeness we have achieved

mountain-top (1)

D:Day27.9 of one whole. You might consider this by again picturing the  mountain-top. Looking in one direction, you might see only darkness.

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C:12.11 sea, ground, and air are but what their Creator bade them be, the  mountains stand in all their majesty, rivers flow and desert sands

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T4:12.25 But realize, those of you who would  mourn this as a loss, that you have already achieved all that was

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T3:20.16 These calls go out from love to love. It is not the words of your  mouth that will be heard or the language of your mind that will be

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D:Day5.5 feel it in their hands and others as if it comes directly from their  mouths as speech is enabled that bypasses the realm of thought

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C:I.1 This course was written for the mind—but only to  move the mind to appeal to the heart. To move it to listen. To move
C:I.1 for the mind—but only to move the mind to appeal to the heart. To  move it to listen. To move it to accept confusion. To move it to
C:I.1 to move the mind to appeal to the heart. To move it to listen. To  move it to accept confusion. To move it to cease its resistance to
C:I.1 the heart. To move it to listen. To move it to accept confusion. To  move it to cease its resistance to mystery, its quest for answers,
C:3.13 you can learn in a way that you have not learned before. Thus we  move from head to heart to take advantage of your concepts of the
C:5.31 indeed, as all you see became blessed by your holiness. That you  move through your world without relating to it in any way is what
C:8.21 Into these days that come to pass  move many other bodies such as yours. Each one is distinct—and
C:8.28 How can it be that you  move through the same world day by day in the same body, observing
C:10.10 that it does not seem so. Your willingness is all that is needed to  move you through this stage and to the next. Be encouraged rather
C:17.17 beyond concepts. But now we begin to integrate your learning as we  move to wholeness. The first move toward wholeness is but to
C:17.17 begin to integrate your learning as we move to wholeness. The first  move toward wholeness is but to understand this: heart and mind are
C:19.23 that of changing your perception. Although our ultimate goal is to  move beyond perception to knowledge, a first step in doing this is
C:20.2 This is a call to  move now into my embrace and let yourself be comforted. Let the tears
C:23.21 You then can  move forward again, taking form beyond its given parameters and
C:23.27 can occur if you would truly choose to change your beliefs and  move on to the new or the truth.
C:27.13 Living in relationship is living in the present. How do you learn to  move from living in separation to living in relationship?
C:31.36 of behavior that allows you to know what to expect. Thus, as you  move from acquaintances to relationships of a deeper nature, you
T1:5.8 In order to experience the truth, you must  move into a state that is real. Nothing is as real as everything, and
T2:3.4 that is of relevance even within the daily life you currently  move through. Now you must fully recognize the distinction between
T2:4.5 bumping in to who you think you are could be likened to trying to  move within water as you would on land. Why, when moving freely
T2:4.5 Why, when moving freely through the water would you suddenly try to  move as if on land? The explanation could be as simple as forgetting
T2:4.9 power. What is required to claim your power is the willingness to  move through the conflict of two opposing sets of thoughts and
T2:4.10 of your thoughts and feelings. A second step is willingness to  move past both ambiguity and conflict to union.
T2:7.10 than they are. You will want to be a change-agent. You will want to  move into the world and be an active force within it. These are aims
T2:9.17 hold your breath. Release your breath and release this fear and  move from special to holy relationship.
T2:10.14 the voice of life. It is the voice of certainty that allows you to  move through each day and all the experiences within it as who you
T2:13.4 will realize that we are truly one in being with our Father. As you  move into the world with the end of the time of separation and the
T3:8.1 what you have called things are but representations too and that we  move now beyond representations to meaning so that what you represent
T3:8.1 beyond representations to meaning so that what you represent will  move beyond representations to the truth. Realize here the subtle
T3:12.3 the human experience exist only in time. What we are about to do is  move the human experience out of the realm of time. For this to
T4:7.9 But the choice many of you will make—the choice to  move from learning to creating—will create a new world.
T4:9.1 coursework comes to an end. It comes to an end here and now as we  move past study and learning to observation, vision, and revelation.
T4:9.4 study for imagining, envisioning, and desire. Now is the time to  move out of the time of becoming who you are to the time of being who
T4:9.5 different ways. There seems to be nothing new to be said, nothing to  move you beyond this point that you have reached in your
T4:9.9 it behind. A choice made by you to stay with learning rather than to  move beyond it would be an understandable choice, but you are needed
T4:10.13 As I said earlier, some will not be willing to  move out of the time of learning. Those who have learned what this
T4:10.13 Those who have learned what this Course would teach but do not  move beyond the state of learning will change the world. They will
T4:10.14 you in Christ-consciousness, for you have become who you are and  move on from this starting point to creating who you are anew in
T4:12.12 within the life of the monastery, that it was time to once again  move out into the world. What he was really saying was that he saw
T4:12.12 sign that one period of learning was over and that it was time to  move on to the next. During the time of learning, this statement was
T4:12.12 new time of sharing, there is no “next phase” of learning for you to  move on to. There is no reason for you not to exist in continual
D:1.8 self. Even with the ego gone, the personal self can continue to  move about within the world, a faceless and nameless entity, a being
D:5.19 as you have perceived it to be. From this starting point only can we  move forward to the future we create together.
D:13.6 relationship of unity. But until this state is achieved, you will  move in and out of states of awareness of the relationship of unity.
D:15.6 into being and an expression of being. But what was there to  move before there was being? This is the way the mind looks at
D:15.20 To  move from maintenance to sustenance is our goal, however. To sustain
D:16.5 Creation is cause and effect as God is cause and effect. When you  move from the state of becoming to the state of being whole, you will
D:16.9 You can choose, in other words, to exist without allowing spirit to  move you, without allowing yourself to be who you are, without
D:16.10 it was said in “A Treatise on the New”, that “Now is the time to  move out of the time of becoming who you are to the time of being who
D:17.19 which, it has been stated, is due nothing and no one but God. To  move beyond desire to reverence is to move into the state of
D:17.19 nothing and no one but God. To move beyond desire to reverence is to  move into the state of communion with God, full oneness with God,
D:Day1.10 not accept the spacecraft as necessary.” Lest this example fail to  move you I will continue.
D:Day1.18 this creation story is occurring in each and every one of us. Let me  move forward and speak a moment of Adam and Eve and the fall from
D:Day1.25 story into the wholeness of the story’s end. As a story is seen to  move from one element to another in an unbroken chain of events, so
D:Day4.1 as well as all other concerns that may be surfacing as you begin to  move through the steps toward acceptance. Your anger will be serving
D:Day4.50 but dwell with the cause of your hesitation. When you accept you  move on.
D:Day4.53 As we  move into full access and awareness of unity, love is all that is
D:Day4.53 that is required. Acceptance has been the means chosen, by us, to  move you through the layers of illusion that have disguised your
D:Day4.53 you through the layers of illusion that have disguised your fear, to  move you beyond false learning to the truth that only needs to be
D:Day4.53 learning to the truth that only needs to be accepted. If you can  move forward without fear, you can move forward. If you can move
D:Day4.53 needs to be accepted. If you can move forward without fear, you can  move forward. If you can move forward without fear, you will move
D:Day4.53 you can move forward without fear, you can move forward. If you can  move forward without fear, you will move forward only with love. If
D:Day4.53 you can move forward. If you can move forward without fear, you will  move forward only with love. If you move forward only with love, you
D:Day4.53 forward without fear, you will move forward only with love. If you  move forward only with love, you will have realized there is nothing
D:Day4.54 You but think that you can wholeheartedly desire to  move forward with love and without fear and that there is still
D:Day8.2 life. All those frustrations you currently feel have a purpose: To  move you through them and beyond them—to acceptance.
D:Day9.20 as you are. If you do not accept your Self as you are, you will not  move from image to presence. If you do not move from image to
D:Day9.20 as you are, you will not move from image to presence. If you do not  move from image to presence you will never realize your freedom. If
D:Day10.3 its cause and its effect. I am asking you now to be willing to  move from conviction to reliance. I am not asking you to do this
D:Day10.3 am not asking you to do this today any more than I am asking you to  move from maintenance to sustainability today, I am merely making you
D:Day10.25 Before we  move on to the all-important discussion of unity and relationship,
D:Day15.5 observer and observed. The second purpose was your preparation to  move beyond observation.
D:Day15.7 has come. The observation you have practiced has prepared you to  move from observation to informing and being informed.
D:Day15.11 to have access to this power in one instance and not another as you  move in and out of the state of Christ-consciousness will not serve
D:Day17.4 to enter this dialogue, kept you examining, kept you attempting to  move beyond learning to a new means of knowing? Christ-consciousness.
D:Day17.12 be taught and learned has been taught and learned. Now it is time to  move beyond what could be taught and learned to what can only be
D:Day19.16 As those given specific functions fulfill those functions, they  move naturally to the way of Mary.
D:Day20.2 unknown and ceased to fear it. You are, perhaps, even eager now, to  move beyond the known to the unknown. You are perhaps eager without
D:Day23.4 but not an active surrender. It is a surrender to the forces that  move inside of you. It is a knowing surrender to the unknown. It is a
D:Day23.5 Surrendering to the forces that  move inside of you is surrendering to your own will. It requires full
D:Day27.14 This is what we  move toward as we practice participating in two levels of experience
D:Day27.14 the constant and the variable together. We practice in order to  move toward an experience of variability within wholeness rather than
D:Day28.4 the increase in choices available. As young people do not usually  move away from the home of their parents until they are at least
D:Day28.4 parents until they are at least college age, the opportunity to  move away, move out, become more independent increases the awareness
D:Day28.4 until they are at least college age, the opportunity to move away,  move out, become more independent increases the awareness of self as
D:Day28.6 some people reach a crossroad that feels like a choice that will  move their lives in such a different direction that it is both
D:Day28.22 To  move to internally directed experience is to make the move into
D:Day28.22 To move to internally directed experience is to make the  move into wholeness that will cause the “shift of the ages,” the
D:Day28.24 As you  move toward wholeness, all the pieces of all that we have talked
D:Day36.5 choice. Experiences that were “of” your choice are those that would  move the story of your life along as a “personal” experience rather
D:Day37.31 with another or even with yourself. When you cooperatively join, you  move the particular self aside and sometimes glimpse the divine being
E.5 You are returned to your natural Self, and as you begin to  move more fully back into your life, you will realize where the
A.15 or specific set of beliefs to be adopted. The student begins to  move beyond the need for shared belief to personal conviction and

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C:2.10 being to look on a loveless world, on misery and despair, and not be  moved? Think not that those who seem to add to the world’s misery are
T1:10.3 the known that you will be tempted not to give up. If you can’t be  moved from your peace by the greatest of these experiences, the most
T2:1.3 being treasured are of the ego. We will instead assume that you have  moved beyond these ego concerns and explore the realm of internal
T2:1.4 Those of you who have  moved beyond the realm of the ego, in your fear of returning to it,
T3:7.1 As you have seen by now, we have  moved from talking of beliefs in “A Treatise on Unity,” to speaking
T3:19.14 many saints and miracles you have heard of in the past without being  moved to believe that they mean anything at all about the nature of
T4:2.23 relationship that exists with the unseen and even the seen. You have  moved through life believing you have relationships with family and
T4:10.12 of the Self of love is the natural state of being of those who have  moved beyond learning to creating through unity and relationship.
D:16.5 the state of becoming to the state of being whole, you will have  moved through the act of creation and you will have become a creator.
D:17.10 a condition of the initiate. You have now passed hope by as you have  moved beyond the state of initiation. You are no longer hopeful for
D:17.13 now is that your wholeheartedness, as well as your desire, has  moved beyond the pattern of thought.
D:Day1.6 Now that you have  moved beyond the thought system of the ego self, you look back on it
D:Day2.3 whole now. The parts are fitting together. You can see how you have  moved from seeming purposelessness to purpose.
D:Day4.51 what is would be confusing. You who are thinking that you have not  moved through the stages to full acceptance answer now as to what is
D:Day9.32 the consistency with which you did so in the past. In the past you  moved quickly from one learning challenge to another. You have just
D:Day12.9 form is easily enfolded in the space of the One Self and can be  moved or passed through.
D:Day21.2 it was—a channel through which the wisdom, guidance or information  moved. If it did not do so, learning did not occur. In traditional
D:Day21.2 learning patterns, the wisdom, guidance, or information sought  moved from a teacher—whether that teacher was an actual teacher, or
D:Day28.18 will, however, take you beyond time, because once experience is  moved out of the realm of separation and into the realm of union or
D:Day36.15 joyous and loving, and so hate- and pain-filled, that you have been  moved to a new choice.
D:Day37.22 very powerful. Where willingness is demonstrated, this link can be  moved to be, rather than “just” a link, a cooperative relationship.
D:Day40.10 the attributeless. Giving form to the formless. An artist might be  moved to her art by a feeling of love so intense she could never put
A.26 Readers who have not  moved away from their desire to learn something that will feed their

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C:10.20 not realize how quickly the separated self rushes in to sabotage all  movement away from separation and toward union. Many of you have
C:22.14 an impact and a motion, so does what passes through you provide the  movement of your journey. What passes through you is transformed by
T2:4.4 have identified. Just like learning how to swim, it is a new way of  movement. Just as moving through water is a way of movement quite
T2:4.4 is a new way of movement. Just as moving through water is a way of  movement quite inconsistent with that of moving on land, so too is
T2:4.5 the result would always be the same; a sudden change from ease of  movement to struggle, from going with the flow to resistance.
T2:4.6 As a swimmer quickly learns, the only way to return to ease of  movement is to cease to struggle or resist. The ability to let go of
D:14.12 Becoming is all about a  movement into form or manifestation. You already are manifest in
D:15.2 The first principle of creation is that of  movement. Rigor mortis, or the stiffness of death, is nothing but a
D:15.2 Rigor mortis, or the stiffness of death, is nothing but a lack of  movement, a lack of movement of the blood through the veins and the
D:15.2 the stiffness of death, is nothing but a lack of movement, a lack of  movement of the blood through the veins and the consequent stiffening
D:15.2 of the muscles. The Dead Sea is a “dead” sea because of lack of  movement. Thus these are excellent examples to illustrate the
D:15.2 Thus these are excellent examples to illustrate the principle of  movement as life itself, the idea of lack of movement as lack of life.
D:15.2 the principle of movement as life itself, the idea of lack of  movement as lack of life.
D:15.3 Life and the  movement of being into form is what occurred when God “spoke” and the
D:15.3 form is what occurred when God “spoke” and the Word came into being.  Movement is energy, the life force of creation and of being, both in
D:15.3 and of being, both in unity and in time. By being you are in  movement. By being you are an expression of being.
D:15.5 Life is  movement through the force of expression. The third principle of
D:15.6 separate principles, but a single unifying principle of wholeness:  Movement, being, expression. One did not occur before the other, as
D:15.6 did not occur before the other, as they are not separate. There was  movement into being and an expression of being. But what was there to
D:15.7 wasteland and the waters. The wind, which is as great a signifier of  movement as rigor mortis is of lack of movement, is the first element
D:15.7 is as great a signifier of movement as rigor mortis is of lack of  movement, is the first element mentioned in this particular creation
D:15.7 mentioned in this particular creation story. This first mention of  movement is literally present in all creation stories because there
D:15.7 present in all creation stories because there is no story without  movement. There is no story to tell without movement. Nothing is
D:15.7 is no story without movement. There is no story to tell without  movement. Nothing is happening. So movement might be likened to
D:15.7 There is no story to tell without movement. Nothing is happening. So  movement might be likened to something happening—to the beginning,
D:15.8 we have both the introduction of a being and the continuation of  movement. Speaking denotes not only a speaker, the being, but the
D:15.8 of movement. Speaking denotes not only a speaker, the being, but the  movement of sound. Then we are told the content of the words: It was
D:15.8 the content of the words: It was said, “Let there be light.” More  movement. Only when movement, being, and expression came together,
D:15.8 words: It was said, “Let there be light.” More movement. Only when  movement, being, and expression came together, however, was there
D:15.10 unable to create or bear fruit. Form was simply barren form before  movement swept across it and animated it with the attention and
D:15.12 Expression,  movement, and being are about what is eternal passing through what is
D:16.1 stage: The stage of becoming who you are. This is the stage in which  movement, being, and expression come together into the recreation of
D:16.8 Yet  movement, being, and expression are also what is because they are the
D:16.8 was the way of the unified principles of creation, the way of  movement, being, and expression.
D:16.9 you can, while existing in time and form, choose to stand apart from  movement, being, and expression. You can choose, in other words, to
D:16.11 and thus these truths occur in unison or in union. Becoming is  movement. Movement is given and becomes movement in form. Being is
D:16.11 thus these truths occur in unison or in union. Becoming is movement.  Movement is given and becomes movement in form. Being is given and
D:16.11 or in union. Becoming is movement. Movement is given and becomes  movement in form. Being is given and becomes being in form.
D:16.11 expression in form. Since you were conceived in form, you were in  movement. Since you were conceived in form, you were being. Since you
D:16.12 Becoming is the  movement from image to presence. It is upon you as we speak. It is
D:16.12 This is precisely why we now discuss this state of becoming, this  movement from image to presence.
D:16.13 or unity, in form. In your time of directly experiencing the  movement, being, and expression of unity, you are being who you are.
D:16.14 In your time of directly experiencing the  movement, being, and expression of unity, you are whole and complete,
D:16.15 At times when you are not directly experiencing the  movement, being, and expression of unity, you realize the state of
D:17.24 home. To where he started from. In story form, this takes place with  movement. Years are spent traveling many paths and many miles. All
D:Day1.26 and effect. The chain of events of creation include, thus far, the  movement of being into form and the movement of being beyond form.
D:Day1.26 creation include, thus far, the movement of being into form and the  movement of being beyond form. What will be realized through the
D:Day3.49 this period of bargaining represents is yet another stage in your  movement toward acceptance. It is still based on the belief that you
D:Day3.51 The final stage in this process, this  movement toward acceptance, is depression, a lowering of spirits and
D:Day4.59 me in this choice, and we will leave behind the old and continue our  movement toward creation of the new. There are many discussions still
D:Day4.60 Our forward  movement must be achieved, however. But one is needed to begin this
D:Day4.60 movement must be achieved, however. But one is needed to begin this  movement. Followers will naturally succeed the first although this
D:Day5.19 As you may seem to pause here in your  movement in order to understand the way in which that movement is
D:Day5.19 here in your movement in order to understand the way in which that  movement is achieved, you will almost surely once again have doubts.
D:Day6.4 return to this example. We have spoken of becoming as the time of  movement, being, and expression coming together. We have further
D:Day6.5  Movement , Being, Expression; Convergence, Intersection, Pass-through.
D:Day6.11 the creative relationship that is union. You are in and within the  movement of the creative process where there is no distinction
D:Day6.30 you learn, the qualities that will allow this. This is the point of  movement, being, and expression coming together. The point of
D:Day7.11 of creation and include those we have already spoken of as  movement, being, and expression; and convergence, intersection and
D:Day10.3 states of maintenance and sustainability, I am giving you cause for  movement, the effect of which will be the movement from conviction to
D:Day10.3 I am giving you cause for movement, the effect of which will be the  movement from conviction to reliance.
D:Day11.8 to All. It is the merging of the unknowable and the knowable through  movement, expression, and being.
D:Day15.3 are more fully able to maintain Christ-consciousness you begin the  movement away from being observed to being in-formed by the spirit
D:Day15.3 in-formed by the spirit which animates all things. You begin the  movement away from observing to informing.
D:Day15.17 concept of inner knowing and mistaken this as knowing the self.  Movement is necessary to know the self. The on-going informing or
D:Day15.20 new insights. While this is only an initial, or practice stage of  movement, it is obvious that movement will always be needed for the
D:Day15.20 only an initial, or practice stage of movement, it is obvious that  movement will always be needed for the clear pool to not become a
D:Day17.1 We have spoken of the spirit that animated all things as the  movement or cause of movement that began the creation story. We have
D:Day17.1 of the spirit that animated all things as the movement or cause of  movement that began the creation story. We have spoken of
D:Day17.2 the animator and the animated, the informer and the informed, the  movement, being, and expression of creation. Christ is that which
D:Day17.4 was the learner. The Christ in you is what was created to inspire  movement beyond simple awareness to knowing. You have always been
D:Day17.5 be their guiding force—that by which their being gained  movement and expression. Those like Jesus, who fully expressed
D:Day17.7 is not the second coming of Christ but the first coming—the  movement of being into form. This being was fully expressed by Jesus
D:Day17.7 Christ, who represented, in form, the first coming and who began the  movement from maintenance to sustenance of Christ-consciousness.
D:Day26.4 A guide shows the way, creates  movement, gives direction. These things too the Self can do if
D:Day28.3 The first stage of awareness is a stage of simple external  movement through life. Many people, especially young adults, have
D:Day28.4 As the time of schooling is left behind, the next stage of  movement begins, that of external movement toward independence. With
D:Day28.4 is left behind, the next stage of movement begins, that of external  movement toward independence. With this movement, the number of
D:Day28.4 begins, that of external movement toward independence. With this  movement, the number of choices increase and the level of awareness
D:Day28.5 open up, leading to the next level of experience: That of external  movement toward a chosen type of life.
D:Day28.23 The key to this  movement is the simple realization that it is possible. This is what
D:Day37.3 Recall that creation begins with  movement. Being is only being in relationship. Movement nor
D:Day37.3 creation begins with movement. Being is only being in relationship.  Movement nor experience exist without relationship. Thus the world
A.1 between A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love has to do with the  movement into the Time of Christ, a time of direct learning in union
A.7 used to applying to study, you begin the transformation that is the  movement from head to heart and from their separation to their union.
A.23 him- or her-self to accept union. There is no cause to delay the  movement of the group or to feel anything but gentleness toward those
A.29 regardless of a group’s configuration, is still the same. It is one  movement away from learning and toward acceptance of what is. While
A.31 Now, despite the rapidity of  movement or lack thereof, to read the Treatises together will likely

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D:15.6 separate principles, but a single unifying principle of wholeness:  Movement, being, expression. One did not occur before the other, as
D:15.8 words: It was said, “Let there be light.” More movement. Only when  movement, being, and expression came together, however, was there
D:16.1 stage: The stage of becoming who you are. This is the stage in which  movement, being, and expression come together into the recreation of
D:16.8 Yet  movement, being, and expression are also what is because they are the
D:16.8 was the way of the unified principles of creation, the way of  movement, being, and expression.
D:16.9 you can, while existing in time and form, choose to stand apart from  movement, being, and expression. You can choose, in other words, to
D:16.13 or unity, in form. In your time of directly experiencing the  movement, being, and expression of unity, you are being who you are.
D:16.14 In your time of directly experiencing the  movement, being, and expression of unity, you are whole and complete,
D:16.15 At times when you are not directly experiencing the  movement, being, and expression of unity, you realize the state of
D:Day6.4 return to this example. We have spoken of becoming as the time of  movement, being, and expression coming together. We have further
D:Day6.30 you learn, the qualities that will allow this. This is the point of  movement, being, and expression coming together. The point of
D:Day7.11 of creation and include those we have already spoken of as  movement, being, and expression; and convergence, intersection and
D:Day17.2 the animator and the animated, the informer and the informed, the  movement, being, and expression of creation. Christ is that which

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D:15.8 words: It was said, “Let there be light.” More movement. Only when  movement, being, and expression came together, however, was there
D:16.1 stage: The stage of becoming who you are. This is the stage in which  movement, being, and expression come together into the recreation of
D:16.8 Yet  movement, being, and expression are also what is because they are the
D:16.8 was the way of the unified principles of creation, the way of  movement, being, and expression.
D:16.9 you can, while existing in time and form, choose to stand apart from  movement, being, and expression. You can choose, in other words, to
D:16.13 or unity, in form. In your time of directly experiencing the  movement, being, and expression of unity, you are being who you are.
D:16.14 In your time of directly experiencing the  movement, being, and expression of unity, you are whole and complete,
D:16.15 At times when you are not directly experiencing the  movement, being, and expression of unity, you realize the state of
D:Day6.4 return to this example. We have spoken of becoming as the time of  movement, being, and expression coming together. We have further
D:Day6.30 you learn, the qualities that will allow this. This is the point of  movement, being, and expression coming together. The point of
D:Day7.11 of creation and include those we have already spoken of as  movement, being, and expression; and convergence, intersection and
D:Day17.2 the animator and the animated, the informer and the informed, the  movement, being, and expression of creation. Christ is that which

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C:20.34 —and only now do you hear the music that brings grace to all your  movements, all your actions, all your expressions of love. While this
C:25.15 and engagement. While it may conjure up notions of joining  movements or parties, or of making social contributions, pure joining

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C:20.10 world just beneath your resting head. It thunders in your ears and  moves through you until there is no distinction. We are the heartbeat
C:31.6 you call your body your own and identify it as your self. Your body  moves and breathes, your heart beats and your blood pumps, quite
T1:6.2 because it is the act of consciously choosing union. Choosing union  moves you into the real state of “all” from the unreal state of the
D:7.23 moving toward anticipation rather than adaptation, and evolution  moves with them. But evolution in time is part of the old that needs
D:16.2 stage and the final stage, for once begun, the story of creation  moves inevitably to join with the accomplishment and wholeness that
D:Day3.1 undergoing this final surrender, there are stages through which one  moves. The first is denial, the second is anger. We have already
D:Day22.2 Thus, a channel could be seen as that through which the unknown  moves into the state of knowing. This is the way in which life itself

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C:18.8 now taking place much like that you would see projected on a  movie screen. You have not left your place as you view this movie and
C:18.8 on a movie screen. You have not left your place as you view this  movie and experience its sights and sounds, joys and sorrows. And yet
C:26.22 Think a moment of a novel or  movie with no plot. This would be the same as saying that there was
C:26.22 idea of you is the pattern of the universe, much as within a novel,  movie, piece of music, invention or artistic idea is the completion

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C:5.18 You thus become a body  moving through a world of illusion where nothing is real and nothing
C:8.18 stand back and observe your body, this is what you will see: a form  moving through time and place. You may be more aware than ever of its
C:23.20 necessary in the return to the Source. The necessary step is that of  moving beyond form—recognizing and acknowledging form for what it
C:24.4 anything. The purpose of the final lessons are both unlearning and  moving through unlearning to new learning. These lessons must be
C:25.8 who is devoted and one who is an object of devotion. While we are  moving away from subject/object relationships to the relationship of
T1:7.3 We are  moving you now away from all such beliefs to a knowing that precludes
T2:4.4 Just like learning how to swim, it is a new way of movement. Just as  moving through water is a way of movement quite inconsistent with
T2:4.4 through water is a way of movement quite inconsistent with that of  moving on land, so too is the new way of acting out or expressing who
T2:4.5 to trying to move within water as you would on land. Why, when  moving freely through the water would you suddenly try to move as if
T4:2.23 for brief periods of time, but still essentially seeing yourself  moving through life alone, with few sustaining connections save for
T4:2.30 shared vision of which I speak. You expect to see bodies and events  moving through your days as you have in the past. And yet your vision
D:7.23 end of the old way is near and that the new is coming. They are thus  moving toward anticipation rather than adaptation, and evolution
D:Day2.11 would you not see the benefit of accepting what had occurred and  moving on? You might counter this by saying that if you had been the
D:Day7.8 They do not exist in fear. As with Christ-consciousness, you are  moving from a place of maintenance of these conditions to one of
D:Day15.13 Is it really the stones within your pool, or is it the challenge of  moving with the current that you know will be generated by the
D:Day18.1 the creation of change through a specific function even while  moving into the new as they do so. Each way is as needed now as it
D:Day28.1 seemed to be an either/or proposition and thus one of limitation.  Moving from an externally directed to an internally directed
D:Day28.4 school age, the choices become those of degrees of independence,  moving away, moving into one’s own sphere of friends, colleagues,
D:Day28.4 the choices become those of degrees of independence, moving away,  moving into one’s own sphere of friends, colleagues, relationships.
D:Day36.4 Powerlessness is  moving through life as a being without the power to create.
A.30 level may seem to have increased as these experiences will be  moving each individual along at her own pace. Comparisons may arise
A.30 may feel they are not advancing as quickly as others, while those  moving quickly may feel in need of time to catch their breath!

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muddle (1)

C:19.15 applies thought to mystery and that is why philosophy becomes such a  muddle of words. It is difficult for you to accept that what you most

muddled (2)

T1:1.8 this “Treatise on the Art of Thought,” too many of you would become  muddled in your feelings and know not where to turn to explain the
T1:2.6 noise, static. So little meaning did it have that all meaning became  muddled.

Muhammad (3)

T4:1.6 groups believe they are the chosen people of God, or Buddha, or  Muhammad. Many of this generation believe they are a chosen
D:Day1.11 why it should matter whether this power be called Buddha or Allah,  Muhammad or God.
D:Day40.10 religion or politics or science. Jesus or Martin Luther or  Muhammad may have been said to have created religions, but these

mulled (1)

T4:10.5 moment. Studying takes up residence within the student; there to be  mulled over, committed to memory, integrated into new behaviors.

multiplication (1)

D:10.6 What is received must be given. This is the way of increase and  multiplication. This is the way of creation.

multiplied (1)

C:15.6 of influence? Twenty, fifty, one hundred? And how many times is this  multiplied by each of them? And yet this is but a fraction of who

multiply (1)

D:10.6 This is an expression of the Biblical injunction to “Go forth and  multiply.” It is about increase. To be content with personal or

multitude (1)

T4:4.18 only be an example. What you are called to do is to, through your  multitude, sustain Christ-consciousness, and thus create the union of

mundane (2)

T2:2.2 that they have a calling even unto things the world considers  mundane.
D:Day25.3 Let them all come. Your thoughts will slip from the sublime to the  mundane. Let them come.

murky (1)

D:Day10.9 B, be point A and point B distinct points in a scientific puzzle or  murky points about relationships between lovers.

muscles (2)

T4:5.8 body, intricately connected to signals of the brain, to the linking  muscles and bones, to the blood that flows and the heart that beats.
D:15.2 of the blood through the veins and the consequent stiffening of the  muscles. The Dead Sea is a “dead” sea because of lack of movement.

museum (1)

D:Day14.7 was one of willful forgetting and escape. They were “shelved” like  museum pieces and collected solidity within you. Like stones thrown

museums (3)

C:5.8 found it and seek immediately to preserve it. There are millions of  museums to love, far more than there are altars. Yet your museums
C:5.8 of museums to love, far more than there are altars. Yet your  museums cannot preserve love. You have become collectors rather than
C:5.8 find to define as valuable. You build your banks as well as your  museums as palaces to your love and no longer see the golden calves

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C:20.34 The embrace has returned you to attunement with the heartbeat, the  music of the dance. You have not known what you do or what to do only
C:20.34 world, the universe, is your partner—and only now do you hear the  music that brings grace to all your movements, all your actions, all
C:26.22 the pattern of the universe, much as within a novel, movie, piece of  music, invention or artistic idea is the completion of the pattern
T2:1.13 cause one to think of a grand piano. Thoughts joined in unity hear  music. Ego desires cause one to think of an elaborately framed
T2:1.13 to thinking that if you do not have a tangible goal, such as that of  music lessons or the purchase of a piano, you will never reach the
T2:3.7 this may be easier to explain. If the ability to create beautiful  music already exists within you, you do not have to learn what
T2:3.7 already exists within you, you do not have to learn what beautiful  music is, only how to express it. If you see beauty within, you do
T3:7.7 One found art and another religion, one found poetry and another  music, one seized upon a single thought and through its extrapolation
T3:10.15 people to you in much the way people will gravitate toward beautiful  music. Many will be eager to learn what you have remembered because
T4:10.3 anew from your past. Learned from your dreams. Learned from art and  music. In all of these things you have viewed yourself as the
T4:10.3 studied your problems, illness, your past, your dreams, or art and  music as you studied the lessons that kept you focused on your Self,
D:1.20 Is a piece of  music not received by you even when you may be one of thousands or
D:1.20 or millions who hear it? Does it matter who is first to hear the  music? This is, in truth, a dialogue between me and you. Wish not
D:Day6.6 time of being in-between. Let us consider the creation of a piece of  music. The creation of a piece of music, like the creation of a
D:Day6.6 the creation of a piece of music. The creation of a piece of  music, like the creation of a painting or a poem, takes place in
D:Day6.7 At one time the creation of a piece of  music is only an idea in the mind and heart of the creator. The
D:Day6.7 as flowing. Depending on the disposition of the artist, the piece of  music might be shared with others at each step of the process, or
D:Day6.7 sharing will take place, and the reactions of those with whom the  music is shared will impact the artist and the piece. Positive
D:Day6.7 get it just right. By the time the artist has completed the piece of  music she began, it may have little resemblance to the piece
D:Day6.8 that it will make the next piece or the next a better piece of  music.
D:Day6.9 In all stages of its creation, the piece of  music exists in relationship to its creator. Be it only an idea, a
D:Day19.2 the artist being content in creating art, the musician in creating  music, the healer in creating health. Those of the way of Mary are
D:Day40.10 grasped if we talk for just a moment of specifics, such as art or  music or literature, religion or politics or science. Jesus or Martin
D:Day40.10 her art by a feeling of love so intense she could never put words,  music, or paint together in such a way as to express it—she knows

musical (1)

D:Day3.32 might think, here, of what has brought you joy. A home, a garden, a  musical instrument, the equipment that enabled a hobby or talent to

musician (3)

T2:1.13 or struggle. This does not make an instrument unnecessary for a  musician or mean that a painter will not eventually put a brush to a
D:Day19.2 might think of this as the artist being content in creating art, the  musician in creating music, the healer in creating health. Those of
D:Day19.3 You can see right away, however, that if the artist,  musician, or healer were content only in their expression of their

musicians (1)

T4:5.2 You might think of your time here as that of being apprentice  musicians. You must learn or relearn what you have forgotten so that

muslim (1)

T3:21.22 will matter not that a black man will not turn to a white man or a  Muslim to a Christian. It will not matter if a young person looks to

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mutual (1)

C:20.39 all notions of taking or getting. All that is received is for the  mutual benefit of all and takes nothing away from anyone. There is no

mutuality (5)

C:20.7 it may begin with one reaching out to another, concludes with  mutuality, shared touch, a melding of one into another. The embrace
C:20.39 All service is cooperative and depends on a belief in  mutuality. All fear that what is good for one may not be good for the
C:20.40 Receiving is an act of  mutuality. It stems from a basic law of the universe expressed in the
T2:9.16 An understanding of the  mutuality of needs will aid you in being honest about your needs,
D:Day38.4 is the beginning of extension, the end of withdrawal. It is the  mutuality of our love that causes this fullness. Remember briefly

mutually (2)

T4:8.11 you came to see it as such. Your rebellion was not allowed, it was  mutually chosen. Just as, as a parent, you come to see that you
T4:12.33 of separation is part of the creation that is before us. It will be  mutually decided through the coming revelations and our responses to

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mystery (12)

C:I.1 move it to accept confusion. To move it to cease its resistance to  mystery, its quest for answers, and to shift its focus to the truth
C:10.15 in human form, and after I rose again? This is rightly called the  mystery of faith: Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come
C:10.15 is missing from this recitation? Christ was born. Nowhere in the  mystery of faith is it stated that Christ became a body.
C:12.15 in unity with that of his Father. Many of you have been taught this  mystery of faith. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are One. If you had
C:19.14 the greatest thinkers have not been able to decipher the riddle, the  mystery, of the divine, and why they conclude that God is unknowable.
C:19.14 conclude that God is unknowable. God is knowable from within the  mystery of non-duality itself. It would be impossible for you to be a
C:19.15 Philosophy applies thought to  mystery and that is why philosophy becomes such a muddle of words. It
C:29.3 the idea of some kind of service being required of you. There is no  mystery to this, as the idea of service in your society is one of
D:Day39.5 who I Am to you. Of your embrace of knowing, and your embrace of  mystery. Of knowing me as your God and as God of all. Of knowing you
D:Day39.6 For only through revelation can you know all and still hold the  mystery. This revelation is not something being withheld from you.
D:Day39.38 are and who I Am while at the same time, holding, or carrying, the  mystery within you. That mystery is the tension of opposites. It is
D:Day39.38 at the same time, holding, or carrying, the mystery within you. That  mystery is the tension of opposites. It is time and eternity. Love

mystical (1)

T4:9.3 ten steps to success. You go out in search of experiences of a  mystical nature. You have tried drugs or hypnosis, meditation or work

myth (14)

C:P.41 in this same frame of mind? It is a nice fairytale, an acceptable  myth, but until your body’s eyes can behold the proof, this is what
T1:8.11 the divine Self. Whether you believe the virgin birth was reality or  myth matters not as myth and reality have no concrete distinction in
T1:8.11 you believe the virgin birth was reality or myth matters not as  myth and reality have no concrete distinction in the illusion within
T1:8.11 illusion within which you live. In other words you live as much by  myth as by truth and myth often more accurately reflects the truth
T1:8.11 you live. In other words you live as much by myth as by truth and  myth often more accurately reflects the truth than what you would
T1:8.11 what you would call real. This is not a call, however, to embrace  myth, but to embrace the truth.
T1:8.12 Mary is called upon now as the  myth to end all myths for in this example life alone is the key to
D:17.23 Only in  myth is this response to a specific question, but even the specific
D:17.23 response to a specific question, but even the specific questions of  myth, when seen truly, were questions of the heart, calling only for
D:Day1.23 unfulfilled, the promise of inheritance or the threat of doom.  Myth too stops short of fulfillment, of return to paradise.
D:Day9.31 you can see that a key step in doing this is the debunking of the  myth of an ideal self. An ideal self, like a god seen as “other than”
D:Day9.32 to accomplish, to work toward and realize goals. This is the second  myth that must be shattered if you are to know true freedom. It
D:Day17.10 represented full-scale interaction with the world, demonstrating the  myth of duality, the death of form, the resurrection of spirit. The
D:Day18.7 This is what you are now called to do. Whether you demonstrate the  myth of duality or the truth of union, you are demonstrating the same

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C:26.3 often considered a fall from greatness. It is seen in the allure of  myths where those who associate themselves too closely with the gods
C:26.4 is that it was the last and final end to all such fears and  myths. All such fears were taken to the cross with me and banished in
T1:8.12 Mary is called upon now as the myth to end all  myths for in this example life alone is the key to the riddle
T2:11.3 and learned people. This is the classic battle revealed in all  myths and tales of war and strife. It is the battle that in your
D:17.22 here, it is as if a new question is asked of you. Just as in the  myths that are as ageless as they are timeless, you are asked for
D:Day15.28 but about realizing your true identity. We have now debunked your  myths about your true identity being an idealized form of the self.