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C:8.6 strive for a balance that allows your heart to beat at one steady  pace, for one emotion to surface at a time, for feelings that you can
T3:20.2 of, it rightly follows that learning can take place at a slow  pace or a fast pace. There is no more or less to learning in terms of
T3:20.2 follows that learning can take place at a slow pace or a fast  pace. There is no more or less to learning in terms of knowing the
D:7.23 learning that allows the learning being to learn at his or her own  pace and to pass this learning on in time.
D:7.24 fate of man. Everyone secretly fears that evolution will not keep  pace with the changing world and that man’s reign over his
A.30 as these experiences will be moving each individual along at her own  pace. Comparisons may arise and some may feel they are not advancing

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C:P.36 A content that is as transferable as an author’s words upon a  page.
C:3.4 that your body’s eyes see. Just as these words you see upon this  page are symbols only of meaning far beyond what the symbols can
C:11.3 can, with highlighter in tow, and when they have turned the last  page be done with learning what this book would have to teach and
C:11.3 within their hearts and vow to go slowly and carefully through each  page and section, giving total dedication to what this text would
T3:14.13 past. Like a story yet to be written, that which follows the first  page will be based upon the first page.
T3:14.13 that which follows the first page will be based upon the first  page.
T3:14.14 We are writing a new first  page, a new Genesis. It begins now. It begins with the rebirth of a
D:3.15 and receiving as one. It is merely represented by the words on this  page and the words on this page are but a representation of what is
D:3.15 merely represented by the words on this page and the words on this  page are but a representation of what is continuously being shared.
D:11.4 In the opening  page of this Dialogue I said that you give and you receive from the
D:Day40.33 When you turn the last  page, will you cry tears of sadness that our dialogue is complete,

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C:23.7 Let me remind you of a key learning aid discussed some  pages back: You would not be other than you are. No matter how much
C:26.22 as saying that there was no idea brought to completion within the  pages or on the film. In God’s idea of you is all that is known about
T1:2.1 The closing  pages of A Course of Love instructed you to think no more. A break in
T1:2.2 We identified much for you to leave behind within the  pages of A Course of Love. These many things which seemed so distinct
T2:11.1 The Christ in you is relationship. As you were told within the  pages of A Course of Love, you are a being who exists in
T4:11.5 knowledge to you in these concluding words. Absorb the following  pages as a memory returned to your reunited heart and mind. No longer
D:Day17.4 Christ-consciousness. This is why it was said in the beginning  pages of the Course that the Christ in you was the learner. The

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C:4.17 that do not interest or fulfill you. You accept what you are  paid within certain boundaries you have set; you expect that a
C:7.15 and the demand is always there. It is the ransom that you insist be  paid, the homage you claim is due, that without which you will
C:14.10 claiming wounds that cannot be healed and reparations that cannot be  paid. You thus hold the one you love the most in the greatest
C:17.11 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 heavy the
C:25.9 by your contention that you have been misled. It is as if you have  paid for your ticket, arrived for the concert, and been told your
D:Day4.25 you could not learn the truth no matter how much attention you  paid, no matter how mightily you tried. For on your own you cannot
D:Day26.6 not necessarily know the answers as each answer is sought, but if  paid attention to, it will show you the way to knowing.

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C:P.28 you are meant to be. The part of you that rages against injustice,  pain, and horror does so from a place that does not accept and will
C:P.29 There are many forms of  pain and horror, from physical illnesses to torture to loss of love,
C:2.7 is solidified and becomes quite real. You can label joy heaven and  pain hell and seek the middle ground for your reality thinking there
C:2.7 are more than these two choices. A life of little joy and little  pain is seen as a successful life, for a life of joy is seen as
C:2.7 for a life of joy is seen as nothing more than a daydream, a life of  pain a nightmare.
C:2.11 could God. There is no magic here of turning misery into delight and  pain into joy. These acts would indeed be magic, an illusion on top
C:3.19 What  pain has your heart endured that it has failed to treasure for its
C:3.19 is love, and what greater proof need you of love’s strength? Such  pain as has your heart endured would surely be a knife to cut through
C:3.19 an attack upon the cells far greater than any cancer. The  pain of love, so treasured that it cannot be let go, can and does
C:3.20 Must  pain accompany love and loss? Is this the price you pay, you ask, for
C:3.20 such suffering, so many tears? What else would you not let go when  pain comes near, as a hand would drop a burning ember? What other
C:3.20 pain comes near, as a hand would drop a burning ember? What other  pain would you hold closely, a grief not to be given up? What other
C:3.20 pain would you hold closely, a grief not to be given up? What other  pain would you be so unwilling to sacrifice?
C:3.21 Think not that these are senseless questions, made to bring love and  pain together and there to leave you unaided and unhelped, for pain
C:3.21 and pain together and there to leave you unaided and unhelped, for  pain and love kept together in this way makes no sense, and yet makes
C:3.22 thoughts in yet another manner, claiming to choose love and not  pain when what they really choose is safety at love’s expense. No one
C:4.10 made it so. Your thoughts have reviewed and reviewed again all the  pain that love has brought. It dwells on those occasions when love
C:5.1 that ushers in love’s presence, as all that caused you fear and  pain falls away and you recognize again what love is. It is this
C:5.30 that in relationship with you would add to your discomfort and your  pain. To think that any relationship can cause terror, discomfort, or
C:5.30 To think that any relationship can cause terror, discomfort, or  pain is where you err in thinking of relationship.
C:6.20 admit an envy, an awareness that they still exist, but without the  pain and burden of the body, without the limits placed upon those who
C:8.7 you evidence for your resentment, ammunition for your vengeance,  pain for your remembering. It is to your emotions, those feelings
C:9.6 to control what goes in and what goes out. It is as susceptible to  pain as to pleasure. It contains the means for joining, but for
C:9.7 in the body: self-aggrandizement and self-effacement, pleasure and  pain, violence and gentleness. A desire to know everything but only
C:10.1 the body with bringing you pleasure, the body will bring you  pain as well. You cannot choose one without the other, because the
C:10.5 begins to leave you is just when you may be beset by headaches, back  pain, and other seeming maladies. This is the separated self that you
C:10.11 pretending you are not a body, you can pretend you do not feel the  pain of a headache or the cold of a winter day, and this pretending
C:10.11 winter day, and this pretending may even make you feel a little less  pain or a little less cold. But this attempt to fool yourself is
C:10.21 more.” For others this threshold is the opposite, an experience of  pain so great that they would rather die than continue on in such a
C:10.21 at this threshold, turn back. They deny themselves the joy or the  pain or the oblivion that would make return impossible and count
C:12.23 not been hurt by it. He knows no rejection and no death. He knows no  pain or sorrow. His son remains with him in his eternal home, joined
C:14.12 For what caused you such great joy seemed to come at the cost of  pain and to leave you more alone and comfortless than before. How
C:18.22 a learning device. Your body seems to experience both pleasure and  pain, yet as a learning device, it is neutral. It does not
C:18.22 unrecognized. You thus have not recognized the truth of what causes  pain nor that you can reject the experience of it. The same is true
C:18.23 Determination of pleasure and  pain is made with the judgment of the separated self who not only
C:18.23 love. This would seem to contradict what was said earlier about the  pain experienced from love and your willingness to cling to it
C:18.23 from love and your willingness to cling to it despite the  pain you are experiencing. Yet the pain comes not from your feelings
C:18.23 to cling to it despite the pain you are experiencing. Yet the  pain comes not from your feelings of love, but feelings of love lost.
C:18.24 Having no one to receive and reject feelings of  pain and replace them with feelings of love causes all your distress.
C:18.24 of love causes all your distress. Think not that you react to  pain of any kind with the love from your real Self that would dispel
C:31.10 time. Man may think he looks to God for answers, for release from  pain, for reward, or for an afterlife. But man has always looked to
T1:7.2 the word accept is important here, as these may not see suffering as  pain but only as a natural part of being human that calls for
T3:5.7 gift of redemption. The gift of redemption was the gift of an end to  pain and suffering and a beginning of resurrection and new life. It
T3:13.2 of the experience, whether it be an extreme experience of  pain or of pleasure. You begin to fear that pleasure will end or that
T3:13.2 or of pleasure. You begin to fear that pleasure will end or that  pain will not end. Once fear has entered, doubt and guilt are never
T3:13.5 Remember now that pleasure and  pain as perceived by the body are from the same source. That source
T3:13.5 yourself. You have believed pleasure to come at a cost, the cost of  pain. You have believed in the laws of man, laws that were made to
D:Day3.21 The shame and  pain of heartaches and mistakes is more often and more easily spoken
D:Day3.30 or months or years, unworried about your health until the slightest  pain makes you think of cancer. In this same way, there are not any
D:Day16.6 does not mean that anyone is bound to the past and to their former  pain but that each is still bound to, and affected by, all that has
D:Day22.7 nothing but love exists, where there is no suffering, no death, no  pain nor sorrow, no separation or alienation. You sense that if you
D:Day37.18 an individuated being, a unique being. You “feel” love and you feel  pain, and both feel quite unmistakably like “your” love and “your”
D:Day37.18 pain, and both feel quite unmistakably like “your” love and “your”  pain and no one else’s. You feel like a “you.” This too is “who” you

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D:Day36.15 creation with destruction, so joyous and loving, and so hate- and  pain-filled, that you have been moved to a new choice.

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C:1.18 label joyous or compassionate are of love. All feelings you label  painful or angry are of fear. This is all there is. This is the world
C:12.23 Separation is  painful only to those who believe it can occur in truth. What would a
C:14.13 not. What makes 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
C:18.23 recognized this and have failed to learn that all you experience as  painful is the result of feelings of lack of love, and that all you
D:5.7 ultimate fulfillment of love and called it “making love.” If it were  painful rather than pleasurable, if you did not lose yourself and
D:7.24 and that man’s reign over his environment will come to an abrupt and  painful end. Some even fear an evolutionary setback, and see any
D:Day3.4 thousands of years of learning through the mind—learning in often  painful ways—said “no” to learning through the heart. Many of you

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C:5.7 We are beginning now to  paint you a new picture, a picture of things unseen before but
T2:1.9 are given a structure and form in your thinking of them. A desire to  paint, in your thoughts becomes a completed painting that you hang
D:Day40.10 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 as she

painter (1)

T2:1.13 not make an instrument unnecessary for a musician or mean that a  painter will not eventually put a brush to a canvas. But it does mean

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T2:1.9 of them. A desire to paint, in your thoughts becomes a completed  painting that you hang upon your wall. The time of painting becomes a
T2:1.9 a completed painting that you hang upon your wall. The time of  painting becomes a place. A room or studio is envisioned in which all
T2:1.13 hear music. Ego desires cause one to think of an elaborately framed  painting. Thoughts joined in unity see beauty. You are used to
D:Day6.6 of music. The creation of a piece of music, like the creation of a  painting or a poem, takes place in stages.

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C:5.8 to your love and no longer see the golden calves hiding within the  palace walls.

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C:5.8 define as valuable. You build your banks as well as your museums as  palaces to your love and no longer see the golden calves hiding

pale (1)

D:Day6.26 All other areas where you might previously have placed your devotion  pale in comparison to our task.

pall (1)

T3:3.3 calling disappointment to yourself and being constantly under the  pall of having disappointed others. Still others have always found

palm-strewn (1)

D:3.1 of the New is simply our agreement to proceed together on the  palm-strewn path of Christ-consciousness. It is a path upon which joy

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D:2.23 in the reign of Christ. To usher in is to show the way, to cast your  palms upon the path of your brothers and sisters. Do you not see that

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T1:3.9 that you had not requested a bigger miracle. You will almost feel  panic at the thought of such a choice being put before you. If you
T2:4.5 be as simple as forgetting where you are, or as complex as a sudden  panic or fear brought on by any number of factors. Either way, the

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C:29.11 in getting it done or ways to avoid doing it at all. Thus have your  paper plates and dishwashers taken the ritual from a meal, your
D:1.19 Dialogue as she who first hears these words and transfers them to  paper.
D:Day6.7 this gestation within the mind and heart, the artist puts pen to  paper, or picks up a guitar, or sings into a tape recorder. Much

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C:20.13 The time of  parables has ended. A new time of no time awaits. Nothing is like
T1:7.4 of the second coming of Christ is here. I have said that the time of  parables has ended and asked you not to look to those historical
D:17.25 This is why you have been told the time of  parables, or stories, has ended. This is why you have been told: “As
D:Day1.3 me. You will return to level ground with eyes unopened and listen to  parables once again and learn once again from the stories of others.

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A.32 been recognized. Individuals can be encouraged here to “watch the  parade go by” as what has gone unhealed is brought forward for

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C:11.9 self as a body, it is easier to accept that your banishment from  paradise was God’s decision, not your own. You think you can be
C:12.12 On a lovely day and in a lovely place you can see that creation’s  paradise still exists, but nowhere can you find the being God created
C:14.4 the victor. For if after death your creator God provided you with a  paradise not of this world, a separate place to honor your
C:18.1 Many of you believe God’s creation included the fall from  paradise as described in the biblical story of Adam and Eve and in
T1:8.9 your resurrected self! There is no longer a god-head to follow into  paradise. Take not the example of any of these and know instead the
T3:2.11 or God. Why should you be more inclined to believe that you left a  paradise in order to live a while in a form that would cause you much
T3:2.11 has seemed to be a belief in a God that would banish you from  paradise for your sins. We have worked, thus far, to change your idea
T3:9.6 The  paradise that is the truth seems to lie far beyond the house of
D:16.19 your image of heaven, or any image you have had of heaven on earth,  paradise found.
D:Day1.18 me move forward and speak a moment of Adam and Eve and the fall from  paradise. Let us extend our idea of the creation story to include the
D:Day1.23 threat of doom. Myth too stops short of fulfillment, of return to  paradise.
D:Day1.24 Yet this return to  paradise, to your true Self and your true home, is written within
D:Day1.24 not yet written, the future not yet created. To the realization of  paradise and of your true Self and true home, in a form that will
D:Day16.15 everything. All feeling and all thoughts of love extended into the  paradise of creation. This was the Garden of Eden, the Self, the All
D:Day16.15 hell or hell on earth. Love and fear existed simultaneously as did  paradise and hell. This became your world, which slowly grew from a
D:Day16.15 your world, which slowly grew from a world primarily made up of  paradise and love, to a world primarily made up of hell and fear
D:Day16.15 primarily made up of hell and fear because as more was expelled from  paradise, more was perceived as hellish or fearful. Less of love was
D:Day16.16 everything—as love, which is everything—embraces it. This is  paradise re-found.
D:Day18.12 the relationship of self to all must become known in order for the  paradise that has been re-found to be recreated for everyone. What
D:Day18.12 for everyone. What else would life be for but to make the invisible  paradise of love visible and livable for all?

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C:18.19 of a state that you cannot recognize in separation. While this is a  paradox, it is not impossible for the simple reason that you never
T1:5.3 When it was said within A Course of Love that the great  paradox of creation is that, while creation is perfect, something has
T1:5.3 made, the suffering you see around you would be no more. This is the  paradox.
D:Day6.29 Now let’s address this seeming  paradox. You have been told to do only what you can feel peaceful
D:Day11.2 separation from the oneness in which we exist. This is the great  paradox that unites the world of form and the world of spirit, the
D:Day39.37 Here is where we must return to  paradox, to knowing who you are and who I Am and to constantly
D:Day40.20 It is the Self you long to be as well as the Self you are. This  paradox has kept you as intrigued with the idea of self as with the

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T3:14.10 unforgivable, now is the time to let them go. If you have read the  paragraph above and feel it is fine for some others not to regret

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T3:19.15 of the truth. But in this time of Christ, a new time, a time without  parallel or comparison, this will not be possible. It has been said

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D:8.3 ability it may represent. We concentrate on this idea as the first  parameter of the territory of your conscious awareness as you let
D:8.7 increase your comfort level, and will help establish it as the first  parameter in the territory of your conscious awareness.

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C:23.21 You then can move forward again, taking form beyond its given  parameters and becoming a miracle worker.
T3:2.11 system has allowed only the acceptance of a reality within certain  parameters, for it has not allowed you to imagine being able to take
T3:21.13 subject to change, hold yourself to behaviors that fall within the  parameters of your belief system. You think of these things as part
D:4.19 order to build the new—but as structure that will provide you with  parameters in which to begin to experience your new freedom. It is
D:4.23 What has this to do with structure and  parameters? Everything. You cannot deny the old and remain in the
D:7.29 Thus we will begin once again with  parameters, with a territory of shared consciousness, rather than
D:8.1 It is an area of unlimited freedom. Yet we will begin with  parameters that make this area as imaginable to you as possible,
D:15.19 measure, but one you desire to have discussed, just as we discussed  parameters to your state of conscious awareness.
D:Day37.15 are being God? That you have been being God even within the limited  parameters of life as you have known it?

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T3:2.3 this assumption was accepted, the duality of your existence became  paramount, became the only means you saw of deciphering the world
D:Day15.24 to carry an undivided but spacious consciousness with you will be  paramount and will have many practical as well as spiritual
D:Day19.9 community. It is a way of existence in which relationship is  paramount. It is not listening to a calling to “do” but a calling to
D:Day28.9 a receiver to knowing that giver and receiver are one, is also of  paramount importance.
E.14 you will do, and your willingness to give up this thinking will be  paramount to your realization that everything has changed or that

parceled (1)

C:7.13 can prevent the loss entirely by being one. What is joined cannot be  parceled out and scattered, but must remain in wholeness. What is

parceling (1)

C:9.38 Like a diversified investment portfolio, you think this  parceling out of different aspects of yourself protects your assets.

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C:16.12 to the truth where there are no sins to be forgiven, no wrongs to be  pardoned. Forgiveness looks on innocence and sees it where judgment

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C:16.12 true love. You think forgiveness looks upon another in judgment and  pardons the wrongs you would enumerate. True forgiveness simply looks

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C:P.26 to be and how bad another is perceived to be, the love of the  parent for the child is the same. A son or daughter does not earn the
C:5.4 this friend or that, with husband or wife, with child or employer or  parent. In thinking in these specific terms you lost the meaning of
C:10.7 Think of another, a teacher or a  parent, whose “voice” you hear as you go through your days. Whether
C:14.11 a memory of any relationship, and each of you has one. It can be of  parent and child, of best friends, of a marriage or a partnership, or
C:16.16 has flipped. The child believes she has “stolen” the role of  parent away from the parent without having become a parent. God has
C:16.16 The child believes she has “stolen” the role of parent away from the  parent without having become a parent. God has become the enemy to
C:16.16 the role of parent away from the parent without having become a  parent. God has become the enemy to those who judge just as the
C:16.16 a parent. God has become the enemy to those who judge just as the  parent of a defiant child becomes the enemy in the child’s perception.
C:16.17 with this mistake, the child believes that the relationship with the  parent has been severed. It is this belief in a severed relationship
C:31.37 Another relationship that expects change and growth is that of  parent to child. These two relationships have comprised your ideas of
T3:1.11 a professional self in one instance and a social self in another, a  parent in one role and a friend in another, than you did in defining
T3:6.1 a notion that would seem to suggest that the child is less than the  parent. Although you see yourself as the child of your mother and
T4:3.6 as well. Trust became something to be earned. Even the most loving  parent, like unto your most loving image of God, having brought a
T4:4.4 of over-population, this idea was much in evidence. The passing of a  parent was seen, particularly historically, as the time of the child
T4:4.4 was seen, particularly historically, as the time of the child of the  parent coming into his or her inheritance or time of fullness. The
T4:4.4 time of fullness. The power and prestige, the earthly wealth of the  parent, passed historically to the son.
T4:8.11 rebellion was not allowed, it was mutually chosen. Just as, as a  parent, you come to see that you cannot fight a child’s nature, no
D:Day21.2 from a teacher—whether that teacher was an actual teacher, or a  parent or a friend—to a student, or in other words, from a giver to
D:Day32.6 would this provide? Wouldn’t this suggest a situation similar to a  parent thinking he or she could know him- or herself through

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C:9.19 you would have compassion for a child tormented by nightmares. Each  parent’s most fervent wish would be to tell a child truthfully there
C:12.23 believe it can occur in truth. What would a child’s rejection or a  parent’s death mean to those who did not believe in separation? Do

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C:6.4 were most like me, those who watched me grow, worked alongside my  parents, and lived in the same town. This was because they knew I was
C:11.8 way a child reaching the age of adulthood has the right to leave her  parents‘ home.
C:15.4 even to anyone. You just want to love your mate and children, your  parents or your friends, and would be quite content to have them
C:16.16 is an act against God, and like a child who has dared to defy his  parents, the act of defiance fills the defiant one with boldness.
T3:6.1 you cling to a childish image of yourself as less than what your  parents are. While you may still desire recognition and affirmation
T3:15.1 have chosen to let the past go and enter into new relationships.  Parents have welcomed home errant children to give them the chance to
T4:8.10 conditions perfect to generate its violence? What do you, who are  parents, do with a child who is too impatient, too bright, too eager,
D:Day28.3 Their lives are directed almost totally by external forces, from  parents, to mandatory schooling, to somewhat voluntary schooling.
D:Day28.4 As young people do not usually move away from the home of their  parents until they are at least college age, the opportunity to move

park (1)

D:7.28 a yard, or farm, perhaps a public spot that has become a favorite  park or lake or beach that you consider partially yours. You have a

parody (1)

C:14.24 You have thus placed love and heaven together in a  parody of creation’s meaning of each. Yes, they go together, and this

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C:P.4 are the only two states that exist. Since it is impossible to be  part spirit and part ego, assuming there would be such a state in
C:P.4 two states that exist. Since it is impossible to be part spirit and  part ego, assuming there would be such a state in which learning
C:P.15 to you an invisible world in which you can believe but not take  part. You thus have placed the ego at odds with spirit, giving the
C:P.28 Just as there is  part of you that thinks that you are undeserving and made for
C:P.28 are undeserving and made for suffering and strife, there is another  part of you that knows this is not true. Think back, and you will
C:P.28 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 horror does so
C:P.30 from their family to begin their “own” life, so have you done as  part of God’s family. In the human family the separateness and
C:1.6 It too does not matter. Remind yourself of this as well. This is  part of letting go of the old world to make way for the new. Realize
C:2.12 tiniest fraction of what is true, if you but believe you are a small  part of God no bigger than a pinprick of light in a daunting sun, you
C:5.18 your reality becomes. All that would join with you and become  part of the real world of your creation remains beyond your reach.
C:5.22 within your world, a solution that requires no exertion on your  part, is seen to be of little value. The individual, you reason, is
C:5.30 and thus fear of God. You can accept terror that reigns in another  part of the world because you feel no relationship to it. It is only
C:5.32 of darkness. A day in which the sun shone on your world and you felt  part of everything. Every tree and every flower welcomed you. Every
C:6.20 it pass from one mind to the next as stories often will. It is but  part of your awareness of who you are, an awareness you would deny in
C:8.4 of remembering who you really are. It comes forth from the deepest  part of you, from the center in which you are joined with Christ. It
C:8.11 all your seeking will not reveal the truth. And while there is a  part of you that knows this, you prefer instead of union a game of
C:9.38 be achieved. You speak of balance, and try to find something for one  part of yourself in one place and something for another somewhere
C:10.3 You cannot abandon one tenet and retain another because by retaining  part you retain all. This will lead to seeming failure to learn what
C:10.26 You may laugh at yourself for taking  part in this silly experiment, but you will realize the desire to
C:10.27 more aware of your surroundings, and more aware that your body is  part of everything that is happening. There is your body and six more
C:10.27 of all the “others” traveling it with you. You will feel more a  part of everything rather than less, and be surprised by this feeling.
C:11.12 It is true that your free will is powerful as it is  part, but only part, of what has allowed you to believe in your
C:11.12 It is true that your free will is powerful as it is part, but only  part, of what has allowed you to believe in your separated state.
C:12.1 The word love is  part of your problem with this Course. If I were to take the word
C:12.4 of yourself. Yet you must understand that nothing that is not  part of God is worthy of joining, nor can join with you. What you
C:12.5 of certainty, not of your mind but of your heart. There is a  part of you that thinks, “If I could just be sure…” and stops there,
C:12.7 come of giving up your need to do so. Your desire for certainty is  part of your resistance to any ideas that seem to be about change.
C:12.8 alone will all the others follow—and through no effort on your  part at all. And even this one change is not a change at all, for it
C:12.19 the places in which it would occur or the people that would be  part of it. In short, the external aspects of the life.
C:13.5 courage, and from another like gentleness, and while this is all  part of what you are encouraged to feel, it is simply asked that you
C:13.8 memories that are of your own Self. For no spirit exists that is not  part of you, or you of it. If you find yourself distracted by these
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 within it? If not, you have made
C:14.2 different from all the rest, and in this seeking proclaim that one  part of creation is better than another part. You thus seek to
C:14.2 seeking proclaim that one part of creation is better than another  part. You thus seek to fragment creation as you have fragmented your
C:14.16 meant to occur. Although you know not your purpose, at least a  part of you believes that this is true, for there must be some reason
C:14.18 to say that you think otherwise. Yet, since only what you know is  part of your universe, do you not see that it depends on you, and if
C:17.2 that you would fill as your own Self is held for you by another  part of your consciousness that has never left it. It is the reunion
C:17.14 is added to the space in the universe that is yours and has become  part of the whole along with you. All that has proceeded from fear is
C:18.2 Imagine that you are  part of a chain of bodies holding hands and encircling the globe. I
C:18.3 of a universal nature. It is simply less obvious that you are  part of what has established and keeps a universal order, part of a
C:18.3 you are part of what has established and keeps a universal order,  part of a whole that would be a completely different whole without
C:18.8 its sights and sounds, joys and sorrows. And yet you are also  part of the projection, and this is where your awareness now abides,
C:19.7 I was  part of this means, but only part. Fulfillment can be provided by
C:19.7 I was part of this means, but only  part. Fulfillment can be provided by each and every one of your
C:19.17 exists it is highly prized. God is thus “God” due, at least in  part, to what you view as His singularity. You view those who worship
C:19.17 Still, oneness and unity go together, the unity of creation being  part of the oneness of God, and the oneness of God part of the unity
C:19.17 of creation being part of the oneness of God, and the oneness of God  part of the unity of creation. A mind trained by separation can have
C:19.24 you have made between mind and heart are their ability to keep one  part of yourself blameless. Whatever happens, your divided notion of
C:19.24 both protect and conceal. Fault always lies elsewhere. The guiltless  part of you is always free to redeem the guilt-filled self. This idea
C:20.17 exist apart from God. The heartbeat of the world is thus alive and  part of you. This heart connection is what we seek to return you to.
C:22.10 Further, it is the  part of you through which everything within your world passes and
C:22.23 This intimacy itself will allow you to see your “self” as an integral  part of all that exists within your world rather than as the small
C:22.23 You will find that you fulfill a grand purpose, and have a wonderful  part to play in a grand design. You will not feel cheated by losing
C:25.14 invulnerability can only be claimed by those who recognize it as  part of their true identity. Invulnerability will then serve you and
C:25.22 for change that does not necessarily require action on your  part, you will feel some relief.
C:26.1 some amazement that I lived a short life, preached for only a small  part of it, traveled not very far, had few possessions or influential
C:27.11 to all the rest. You matter, and you matter as an interactive  part of the relationship that is life. You are already accomplished
C:29.11 While this is neither good nor bad, this attitude of life as toil is  part of your rebellion against ideas of service. You have no time for
C:30.3 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 order to
C:31.8 countries, various cities, but all of you rely on the one Earth as  part of a sameness and interdependence you accept. You are aware that
C:31.8 the cosmos too is something that the Earth and all on the Earth are  part of. You believe fully that you are inseparable from the Earth,
C:31.9 nature of perfection and your own Self as Creator and Created. Being  part of the whole that is your known universe has made you and no
C:31.11 able, in your limited view of yourself, to come up with. There is a  part of you that knows that you have higher thoughts, and knows that
C:31.14 The ego is that  part of yourself that clings to the idea of separation, and thus
C:31.26 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 learning
T1:2.14 The sunset is a gift of God. It is what it is. This is the first  part of this example.
T1:2.15 The second  part is its reception. A gift has been given. What is your response?
T1:2.16 The sunset is  part of your human experience. In the lower order of that experience
T1:2.17 is acknowledged. It is a fact of your existence as a human being, a  part of the natural world, a gift of the Creator. Secondly, it is
T1:2.21 God is to be present as a divine being having a human experience. No  part of being is negated. All senses and feelings of the human being
T1:5.4 The second aspect of this fear is fear of the divine. A  part of this fear of the divine is related to the fear of the human
T1:5.4 actually grow stronger as you get closer to the truth. This is the  part of you that believes this communication itself is insane, that
T1:5.6 A  part of you is aware of this and as fearful of the all of everything
T1:7.2 here, as these may not see suffering as pain but only as a natural  part of being human that calls for acceptance. They thus find peace
T1:9.4 of gestation, which is the prelude to resurrection. What was once  part of the mother and father, what would have died without the
T2:1.1 becomes instead something regarded as an ability and later as simply  part of your identity. This is what we are going to explore in this
T2:4.2 You are not only  part of creation, but as has been said many times, a creator, and as
T2:4.15 until it is no longer needed. Anything continuous and ongoing is  part of creation. Thus the very act of undoing old patterns is an act
T2:6.5 abilities within time. You believe that your treasures only become  part of your identity when you have passed beyond the time it takes
T2:6.6 would place on the concept of something being what it is, must be  part of this discussion.
T2:6.7 be what it is, a known fact, an object with an identity, but also  part of the ongoing nature of creation. Could this be true of a chair
T2:9.7 also inherently knows that needs and the fulfillment of needs are  part of the same fabric—they are like puzzle pieces that fit
T2:12.10 it to flourish and show its abundance. The gardener knows she is  part of the relationship that is the garden. A true gardener believes
T3:1.6 unreal reality. It is as if you have been an actor upon a stage, the  part you play as unreal as the setting on which you play it. Yet
T3:1.6 on which you play it. Yet there is a “you” who has been playing the  part, a part that, while developed under the ego’s direction, still
T3:1.6 you play it. Yet there is a “you” who has been playing the part, a  part that, while developed under the ego’s direction, still allowed
T3:1.7 system of unity and you are left, perhaps, feeling unsure of the  part you are now to play. There is not one of you who has not begun
T3:2.4 discuss the ego’s thought system. What you believe about yourself is  part of the foundation that has been built around this system. Now,
T3:3.9 Whether you think such thoughts consciously or not, there is a  part of you that still believes you are not good enough to be the
T3:5.4 walls to ash or a flood that would wash them away, was as much a  part of the survival mechanism of your real Self as was the rush to
T3:5.4 survival mechanism of your real Self as was the rush to rebuild a  part of the survival mechanism of the ego-self.
T3:6.5 or unrecognizable. But it has become, like the ego, so much a  part of your reality that it must, like the ego, be consciously left
T3:8.13 Has not a  part of you always known that suffering does not have to be even
T3:14.12 nature and look upon nature’s ability to correct itself. You are a  part of nature. Your body can correct or heal itself, and so can your
T3:16.16 that only seem to have the ability to build upon each other. Let one  part go and soon all the remaining parts will crumble into the dust
T3:18.2 Observation, the ability to observe what the Self expresses, was  part of the original choice for physical form. The word observance
T3:18.3 observer and this relationship causes an effect. Because this was  part of the original choice for the physical experience, it is a
T3:21.12 than these things, although this hasn’t as often been considered as  part of what makes you certain of your personal self, are the
T3:21.12 among you rarely count what you have acquired in form as  part of your identity. What you have acquired that is not of form,
T3:21.12 you hold certain. A degree earned or talent developed is seen as  part of your identity, as part of who you are.
T3:21.12 earned or talent developed is seen as part of your identity, as  part of who you are.
T3:21.13 the parameters of your belief system. You think of these things as  part of what make up the totality of who you are, of your personal
T4:2.23 that are likely to have an impact on your life or on your  part of the world. But unless you believe in the ability for what
T4:4.8 Changing form is  part of the pattern of life-everlasting. The change in the form you
T4:4.8 spoken of as that of elevation of the personal self, is a natural  part of the pattern of life-everlasting. It is long over-due. It is
T4:5.7 Just as your finger is but one  part of your body, without being separate from your body, or other
T4:5.7 being separate from your body, or other than your body, you are  part of the body of Christ, the body of energy that makes up the
T4:6.1 Now I ask you to consider the  part you play in the creation of this all-encompassing consciousness.
T4:6.1 you alive or dead, asleep or awake, literally or figuratively, is a  part of the consciousness that is Christ-consciousness. This is why
T4:8.12 rebellion against the constraints of your nature in form thus became  part of the pattern of creation because it was the created’s
T4:12.4 you will realize that it also addresses you individually and as  part of the collectivity of the whole. This dialogue will, however,
T4:12.16 rebellion was the effect of the cause of learned wisdom. It became  part of the nature of the human experience by becoming so consistent
T4:12.27 was known to you in the pattern of that design, a pattern that was  part of the pattern of your thoughts, even after the ego came to rule
T4:12.27 ego could have succeeded in becoming the ruler of the personal self.  Part of this design and pattern was the freedom of free will.
T4:12.33 of the design or pattern that reveals our lack of separation is  part of the creation that is before us. It will be mutually decided
T4:12.34 Creation of the new has begun. We are an interactive  part of this creative act of a loving Creator. Creation is a
D:2.23 This is the agreement God asks of you, your  part of the shared agreement that will fulfill the promises of your
D:4.11 without accepting that a divine design exists and that you are  part of it. Remember that our goal here is to deny the old and accept
D:4.11 that the universe exists in divine order, and that your life is  part of that divine design.
D:4.15 have accepted as the truth. Some of these systems of thought were  part of the divine pattern. Contrast is one such system. As a
D:4.16 Other systems of thought were not  part of the divine pattern. The ego is one such system. It may seem
D:4.16 systems, built as they were upon patterns now being recreated, are  part of the old.
D:4.29 is the return of wholeness. This return is not selfish on your  part, but magnanimous. It returns wholeness to you and wholeness to
D:4.30 fail. This will not bring suffering but will end suffering. Your  part is to invite it and accept it when it comes. State your
D:6.13 a grand facilitator of the human spirit’s quest for the truth and is  part of what brought you, finally, to the quest to know your Self.
D:7.3 rise or set to separate day into night. Resting and waking will be  part of the same continuum of being.
D:7.23 adaptation, and evolution moves with them. But evolution in time is  part of the old that needs to be left behind. It is a provision of
D:8.4 one of the primary factors leading to this realization because a  part of you has always known this ability was a “given.” That you are
D:13.11 We come now to the second  part of what we are exploring together here, the idea that what you
D:Day1.21 you. When it occurred within me, it occurred within all. It became  part of the continuing story of creation, of creation acted out
D:Day1.22 The story came after the fact. Thus the fulfillment was always  part of the story of creation. It was always part of you as it was
D:Day1.22 fulfillment was always part of the story of creation. It was always  part of you as it was always part of me.
D:Day1.22 of the story of creation. It was always part of you as it was always  part of me.
D:Day1.24 it and made it real for you. You must accept me because I am the  part of you that can guide you beyond what I accomplished to the
D:Day2.8  Part of this feeling arises from erroneous ideas that remain
D:Day2.8 arises from erroneous ideas that remain regarding your unworthiness.  Part of this feeling arises from the erroneous idea that you can
D:Day2.9 judgments, judgments that arise from your conscience, from that  part of you that has compared your actions to the laws of man and God
D:Day3.59 this Course, this is a matter of all or nothing. You cannot accept  part of one reality and part of another. You cannot accept, for
D:Day3.59 matter of all or nothing. You cannot accept part of one reality and  part of another. You cannot accept, for instance, the compassionate
D:Day4.1 here all the “arguments” that I needed to present in the early  part of this Course just to convince you that you are not alone and
D:Day4.6 The divine design of learning was a given and a natural  part of you, much like breathing. You have no choice about breathing,
D:Day4.54 have to be accepting. Accepting of all that you are. Fear is not a  part of what you are, which is why it cannot remain with you as the
D:Day5.9 as the center of the Self rather than the pump that functions as  part of your body, it will be helpful to have identified this chosen
D:Day5.15 Realize here that although you are now a  part of a community seeking the same goal, the realization, or
D:Day10.17  Part of the difficulty you find in accepting reliance on your Self is
D:Day13.7 you become completely fearless and totally spacious, for fear is  part of the density of form, being a lack of love.
D:Day16.6 all that has been rejected or ejected. All that has been expelled is  part of the wholeness of the self. As what was ejected or rejected
D:Day16.10 grief, anger, and all else that you feel because these feelings are  part of who you are in the present moment. When you remain in the
D:Day19.5 their brothers and sisters called to “do,” do not have a specific  part to play in establishing the world in which all are able to be
D:Day25.2 within this stillness, however. As it envelopes you, there is a  part of you that will fight back. If there is nothing new to record,
D:Day25.2 new to record, nothing new to learn, no new divine inspiration, a  part of your mind will attempt to create from this nothingness. Allow
D:Day28.17 exist within thought systems that have been externalized and are  part of the world on level ground. These external systems are based,
D:Day28.20 by the variable of time. Said in another way, eternity and time are  part of the same continuum as are properties such as hot and cold.
D:Day28.20 the same continuum as are properties such as hot and cold. They are  part of the same whole that is the constant of all that is whole—
D:Day29.5 so newly discovered and yet always existing within you, has been a  part of the process that has allowed you access to two levels of
D:Day29.6 Your familiarity with your spacious self has also been  part of the process and part of the experience of merging wholeness
D:Day29.6 with your spacious self has also been part of the process and  part of the experience of merging wholeness and separation. While you
D:Day30.2 order for a common denominator to be found, more than one (fraction,  part, or variable) must exist. The purpose of finding a common
D:Day37.27 You have seen this as being separate, or at most as being “a”  part of God—as if you are a drop of water in the ocean—and in
D:Day39.11 behind, are not done away with but only transformed. Relationship is  part of life. Inescapable. Acceptance that our relationship is and
A.24 another’s. It is also not about being selfless. These ideas too are  part of the unlearning of this Course and are to be discouraged.
A.42 will realize that your participation in the world as Who You Are is  part of an on-going dialogue, and that it is an on-going aspect of

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T1:10.7 or to feel compassion at another’s suffering. But you need not  partake and you cannot partake if you are going to carry the Peace of
T1:10.7 at another’s suffering. But you need not partake and you cannot  partake if you are going to carry the Peace of God within you.

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C:P.15 unites. It does not divide. The truth invites peace, not conflict.  Partial truth is not only impossible, it is damaging. For sooner or
D:13.9 of what you have come to know without sharing in relationship?  Partial expression, yes. But that partial expression will bear the
D:13.9 without sharing in relationship? Partial expression, yes. But that  partial expression will bear the mark of your perspective, and that
D:13.9 expression will bear the mark of your perspective, and that is why  partial truth is never the whole truth, and why the whole truth is

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C:3.10 continue to believe you are the effect and not the cause. This is  partially due to your concept of the mind. What you conceive it to
C:21.4 your heart. Your heart has not been open to the appeals of love  partially because of your use of concepts. Concepts have been used to
D:7.28 that has become a favorite park or lake or beach that you consider  partially yours. You have a route to and from your work or other
D:Day6.2 a second-best situation. Although it is being handled in this way  partially because to ask you to walk away from your “normal” life for
D:Day6.9 music exists in relationship to its creator. Be it only an idea, a  partially completed rhythm, lyrics without notes, or a completed work
D:Day10.35 What I have often referred to as the urgency of this time has been  partially because of these issues and partially because of your
D:Day10.35 urgency of this time has been partially because of these issues and  partially because of your readiness. It is no accident that these two

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D:3.16 As the Self, you are giver and receiver. Your Self is a full  participant in this dialogue. You as the Self are the truth. You as
D:Day8.14 may know that you dislike gossip only because you have been both a  participant and a victim of it. It may still call up feelings of
D:Day10.24 a monologue, but we are having a dialogue in which you are a full  participant. As much of what you read in these dialogues comes from
A.42 You are not a “student” of The Dialogues but a full  participant in The Dialogues. You have entered the final stages of

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C:12.21 ability to be more than what it was, except for as the son chose to  participate in it.
T4:12.4 dialogue will, however, be ongoing, and this is your invitation to  participate in this dialogue. No matter where you are, no matter what
D:14.4 your invulnerability in order to be a real explorer, and to fully  participate in the discovery that lies beyond the body and mind, form
D:Day8.9 taking place in a present moment situation, will enable you not to  participate, judge, or appear to accept that which you do not truly
D:Day18.1 to anchoring the new within the web of reality. Still others will  participate in both, following their innate desire to facilitate the
D:Day29.1 be separate. Remember that you have already realized the ability to  participate in two levels of experience simultaneously and that

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C:18.14 now is a choice of participation. In unity, all that you desired was  participated in fully by a mind and heart combined in
D:7.21 Evolution is the time-bound way in which the body has  participated in creation. This is why you have been told that you are

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C:8.18 Now that you are standing back from your body,  participating in this experiment to recognize the surface element of
C:10.31 will find yourself, at times that seem to be “against your will,”  participating in it despite your determination not to do so. Once you
C:12.19 vacation when brought to fruition might reshape the life of the one  participating in it, it would not change who that person was, or who
D:6.1 so that you would not forget the purpose of the learning you were  participating in. Eventually your learning reached an end point as
D:6.27 true Self is fully aware of the elevated Self of form and is fully  participating in its experiences and feelings. The elevated Self of
D:Day27.9 The two levels of experience which you have been  participating in are the joint cornerstones for the biggest
D:Day27.14 This is what we move toward as we practice  participating in two levels of experience simultaneously. We practice

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C:9.41 glory. You run the race as long as you can and, win or lose, your  participation in the race was but the required offering to the idol
C:10.26 as the sense of fun that prompted it, will come without the body’s  participation.
C:12.22 Thus, the son’s  participation in the idea of separation seemed to bring about a
C:12.22 destiny different than that which had already been written. Yet this  participation could not but proceed from the original idea and could
C:18.14 in relationship to its creator. All that remains now is a choice of  participation. In unity, all that you desired was participated in
C:24.4 with life. This engagement is a promise, a commitment. It requires  participation, involvement, attention, being present. These are the
C:25.2 serving and being served by love. Devotion is a particular type of  participation. It cannot be faked. But it can be practiced.
C:25.15 Involvement flows from  participation and engagement. While it may conjure up notions of
A.42 and live as Who You Are in the world. You will realize that your  participation in the world as Who You Are is part of an on-going

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D:Day32.8 a unifying factor. God is closer, within this idea, to being a  participatory being, but still falls short. Man lives and has free

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D:Day24.2 Wholeness exists in every cell, in each of every smallest  particle of existence. Wholeness exists in you. Nothing can take

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C:P.26 the same bloodline. Within that bloodline are genes that carry  particular traits and predispositions. A child of one family may
C:P.39 are able to see yourself—as man or woman, as a being existing in a  particular time in history. This one- or at best three-dimensional
C:P.39 If you cannot see yourself “other than” as man or woman living in a  particular place in a particular time, you cannot see your Self. Thus
C:P.39 “other than” as man or woman living in a particular place in a  particular time, you cannot see your Self. Thus Jesus comes to you
C:1.12 to us in several ways. By this I do not mean that there are not  particular objects of your affection. This is not the love of which
C:3.1 alive nor dead. And thus it always was and always will be. It is not  particular to you as human beings. It is in relationship to
C:8.18 existence, you are perhaps more aware than ever before of being in a  particular place and time. As you stand back and observe your body,
C:14.30 In your world love has no meaning unless it is attached to a  particular thing. And as soon as love is attached to a particular,
C:14.30 attached to a particular thing. And as soon as love is attached to a  particular, love’s opposite is brought into existence. While you
C:21.2 grasp its meaning or the meaning of eternity. This is because, as a  particular being, you are time-bound. You can realize the eternal
C:21.2 form. Your being is far beyond your imagined reliance on the  particular. The particular is about parts and parts are all you see.
C:21.2 being is far beyond your imagined reliance on the particular. The  particular is about parts and parts are all you see. I remind you of
C:21.3 and feel. It is love conceptualized. It is an abstract rather than a  particular concept, even while having a seeming structure that your
C:25.2 a verb, a means of serving and being served by love. Devotion is a  particular type of participation. It cannot be faked. But it can be
C:30.2 Where are they as they search? Where is their being? If reaching a  particular destination is all that is sought, the journey becomes but
T1:7.1 still be with you. Recall the many times you felt certain that a  particular achievement would complete you and take away your feelings
T2:5.4 along a roadway, they alert you to turn your attention in a  particular direction.
D:6.7 you as non-living forms that cause them to have rigidity and a  particular meaning. But they still are real, even if they are not as
D:7.7 You have been told that you are time-bound only as a  particular self, existing as man or woman in a particular time in
D:7.7 time-bound only as a particular self, existing as man or woman in a  particular time in history. Now you are called to discover how to
D:7.8 by the particularity of time and space. It may still exist in a  particular time and place, but this is simply the nature of one
D:7.14 nonjudgmental love of all. This is a transference of love from the  particular to the universal. Loving all that you are, including your
D:7.14 Loving all that you are, including your body, is not love of the  particular but universal love. The old way in which you related to
D:7.14 you related to your body, be it a love or a hate relationship, was a  particular relationship with the vessel that only seemed to contain
D:7.14 your relationship is with wholeness, you can transfer love from the  particular to the universal by loving all. We are one body, one
D:7.18 are not ongoing aspects of creation, because they are related to  particular forms as they exist in time. Time is not an aspect of
D:8.2 than those who are not seen as having a “natural ability” of this  particular kind. But because you are prone to comparison, many of you
D:15.7 is of lack of movement, is the first element mentioned in this  particular creation story. This first mention of movement is
D:Day6.6 these things be linked to the example of creating art? I choose this  particular example to address this particular time of being
D:Day6.6 of creating art? I choose this particular example to address this  particular time of being in-between. Let us consider the creation of
D:Day6.7 begin as simply as with a few notes “running through the mind” or a  particular turn of phrase that inspires the creator to see these
D:Day10.21 can be joined. That you, as man or woman, existing in this  particular time and space, can join with Christ-consciousness. You
D:Day10.28 Let’s continue with this idea a while longer as you consider a  particular person you fondly remember from life and how you have
D:Day14.9 never about escape or rejection. Pass-through is about releasing the  particular while maintaining the relationship. It is what happens in
D:Day18.2 the world without. Christ-consciousness is God within you, your  particular manifestation of God and relationship with the God within.
D:Day37.7 Because you believe you are separate, you created God as a  particular and separate being.
D:Day37.9 have been as intent as you have been on your idea of a separate and  particular God is that you want to believe that there is a
D:Day37.13 This truth, however, has escaped you. So you have been being the  particular self you have “known” or perceived yourself to be—the
D:Day37.22 doing so can also be confusing if it leads to thoughts of God as a  particular being. Yet the idea of God as Father, introduced and
D:Day37.31 or even with yourself. When you cooperatively join, you move the  particular self aside and sometimes glimpse the divine being in

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C:21.2 the eternal even in your temporary form if you can let go of your  particularity. Particularity has to do with mass, substance, form.
C:21.2 even in your temporary form if you can let go of your particularity.  Particularity has to do with mass, substance, form. Your being is far
D:7.7 how to exist in form without being defined by this time-bound  particularity.
D:7.8 That you are living form does not require you to be defined by  particularity. You can accept the body now as what it is in all its
D:7.8 is in all its manifestations while not seeing it as “bound” by the  particularity of time and space. It may still exist in a particular
D:7.26 beyond the body’s boundary and beyond the boundary of time and  particularity.
D:8.1 In this area of the wider circle, there is no time, no space, no  particularity. It is an area of unlimited freedom. Yet we will begin

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C:13.3 will return to you. Do not apply any effort to these exercises,  particularly not that of recalling spirit. Just let impressions come
C:29.2 you realize it or not, you associate service with subjugation,  particularly the idea of service to a higher Will or higher Cause.
T1:10.2 as a lack. You will think something is wrong. You will feel this  particularly when others around you experience extremes. A friend is
T3:20.6 of the situation, to offer encouragement. If the situation is  particularly grim—and realize that this too is a judgment, for some
T4:1.3 you as you still find it hard to believe in your own worthiness, and  particularly in your own chosenness. It is this idea of being chosen
T4:4.4 this idea was much in evidence. The passing of a parent was seen,  particularly historically, as the time of the child of the parent
D:2.13 personal control and so patterns of personal control have become  particularly entrenched. Thus have you learned ideas such as “when
D:Day6.27 task, you are almost surely feeling this devotion extend to others,  particularly those who, along with us, work toward its
D:Day9.24 Your freedom is contingent upon your ability to give up your images,  particularly the image you hold of an ideal self. It is contingent
D:Day28.8 on all the changes that have come before it, including, and most  particularly, on that which was most recently spoken of, that of
A.40 This is what dialogue,  particularly the dialogue that is an exchange between “two or more

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C:5.5 Relationship exists apart from  particulars. This is what you can’t conceive of and what your heart
C:21.2 what was said earlier concerning relationships existing apart from  particulars. I repeat that relationship exists between one thing and
D:13.5 You have previously learned of everything in parts and details and  particulars. While you are perfectly capable of coming to know in
D:Day35.16 has led to this desire. Creation itself, which stands apart from  particulars but united with wholeness, has led to this time of

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C:25.15 engagement. While it may conjure up notions of joining movements or  parties, or of making social contributions, pure joining is its

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C:4.12 high a price, that devotion you might think is fine for one whose  partner is more loving than your own, that unconditional love is
C:4.15 trappings of good upbringing. Those most insecure will believe in a  partner who would shower him or her with praise and gifts, with
C:4.15 attention never wavering. Another who prizes independence seeks a  partner in good health, not too demanding, a companion and a lover
C:20.34 of accord with the one heartbeat. The world, the universe, is your  partner—and only now do you hear the music that brings grace to all
C:23.2 knowing is sought and, with willing partners, attained; one’s  partner in such a relationship still transcends complete knowing. The
C:23.3 Thus, while your  partner in love transcends total knowing, this too is “how it is.”
T4:11.5 longer regard me as an authority to whom you turn, but as an equal  partner in the creation of the future through the sustainability of

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C:23.5 In both  partnered and non-partnered love relationships, the one you come to

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C:23.2 a love relationship the greatest knowing is sought and, with willing  partners, attained; one’s partner in such a relationship still
D:14.3 and discovery needs to be invited and experienced before you become  partners in the creation of the new.

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C:14.11 It can be of parent and child, of best friends, of a marriage or a  partnership, or even that of a mentor or student. Whatever the
C:22.2 intersection and look at it as a passing-through that establishes a  partnership or relationship. While we have previously discussed
C:22.7 it is at this point of intersection that not only relationship, but  partnership is found. The partnership of axis to globe, and of needle
C:22.7 that not only relationship, but partnership is found. The  partnership of axis to globe, and of needle and thread to material,
C:22.7 and thread to material, is easily seen. In these two examples, the  partnership creates something that did not previously exist by
C:22.7 and a purpose for each. In the case of the needle and the onion,  partnership is less apparent because function and purpose are not
C:22.7 is less apparent because function and purpose are not apparent.  Partnership is thus equated with productive intersection rather than
C:22.13 you and in the act of passing through formed a relationship and a  partnership with you.

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D:Day28.4 relationships. For some these choices include commitments to  partnerships of a personal or professional nature. For some these

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C:3.3 It is a shared universe with no divisions. There are no sections, no  parts, no inside and no outside, no dreams and no illusions that can
C:9.38 only you can be accomplished. You believe that by putting various  parts together a whole can be achieved. You speak of balance, and try
C:10.3 teach, you cannot fail to learn, but neither can you learn of it in  parts. The thought system of truth is as wholly consistent as the
C:17.17 You may ask then why this Course has treated them as separate  parts of you. This is simply because this is the way you see them,
C:21.2 your imagined reliance on the particular. The particular is about  parts and parts are all you see. I remind you of what was said
C:21.2 reliance on the particular. The particular is about parts and  parts are all you see. I remind you of what was said earlier
C:21.2 between one thing and another and that it is in the intersection of  parts that the holiness of what is in-between is found. This will be
C:22.1 and these functions are all prescribed to be for certain  parts of your life and for certain times that you deem appropriate.
C:22.4 of thread passed through the eye of the needle, it can bind many  parts in many different configurations.
C:26.25 next? You attempt to rewrite previous chapters and to cast all the  parts and plan all the events of the next. This is, in effect, your
T1:2.13 This response needs to at first be seen in two  parts. An example illustrates. To look at a sunset is to see an
T1:8.16 Christ in you. This union of the male and female is but union of the  parts of yourself expressed in form and story, expressed, in other
T1:8.17 a moment here on how the art of thought brings all you have seen as  parts of the self, such as male and female, conception and action,
T1:9.12 of guidance, males and females both have begun to work with the  parts of themselves over which the ego has the least control. For
T2:7.15 Giving is not only about choosing what good and helpful  parts of yourself you will share with the world. It is also about
T3:1.12 To become a whole Self, with no  parts hidden, a Self with no parts in truth, is the task that I set
T3:1.12 To become a whole Self, with no parts hidden, a Self with no  parts in truth, is the task that I set before you and am here to help
T3:16.16 Nothing but the truth is all encompassing. Illusion is made of  parts that do not form real connections but that only seem to have
T3:16.16 to build upon each other. Let one part go and soon all the remaining  parts will crumble into the dust from which they came. The cement
T4:2.23 you have with others. You have watched the news and developments in  parts of the world far away from you and at times are aware of
T4:5.6 or the Body of Christ, as all that makes up the seemingly individual  parts of the All of everything. Christ-consciousness is your
D:13.5 a state of wholeness. You have previously learned of everything in  parts and details and particulars. While you are perfectly capable of
D:14.10 learning is incremental and discovery is not. Learning took place in  parts in an effort to lead to wholeness. Discovery comes to you in
D:14.10 Discovery comes to you in wholeness. So these steps are not about  parts or levels but about the expansion of your awareness of what is.
D:Day1.25 only in a series, only in a joining together of all of the  parts of the creation story into the wholeness of the story’s end. As
D:Day2.3 to some of you. Your life is being seen more as a whole now. The  parts are fitting together. You can see how you have moved from
D:Day4.44 all, desire it all, accept it all—for you cannot have of this in  parts. Once full access has been revealed, what is yours is
D:Day37.11 To remain is to continue to exist. It is what is left when  parts have been taken away. It is what was not destroyed by the
D:Day37.11 been taken away. It is what was not destroyed by the removal of the  parts. You “remain” one in being. You “remain,” just as the numbers

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C:11.18 an invitation to love and say you are welcome here. What is a dinner  party where love is not? It is merely a social obligation. But a
C:11.18 where love is not? It is merely a social obligation. But a dinner  party where love is welcomed to take its place becomes a celebration.
C:26.18 these words, and feel as if you have been waiting to be invited to a  party and that the invitation hasn’t come. This is because you are

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C:P.29 is the equally distressing life of the purposeless, where hours  pass endlessly in toil that is the cost of your survival here. Even
C:P.36 world at last for your true home. But it is not your body that will  pass through heaven’s gates, nor your body’s eyes that will view the
C:2.1 be taught. It cannot be learned. But it can be recognized. Can you  pass love by and not know that it is there? Oh, yes. You do it
C:4.12 is not throwing logic to the wind and acting in foolish ways that  pass as gaiety but cannot masquerade as joy. You each have an image
C:5.9 my time here. These things I love are what I leave the world, what I  pass down; they declare that I was here.” Again you have the right
C:5.22 your own. You thus have made of life a test, believing that you can  pass or fail through your own effort. Yet the more you struggle to do
C:6.20 all that lies 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
C:7.12 look for one upon whom you can unload your burdens, hoping you can  pass your grievances en masse to someone else. If you succeed through
C:8.20 greeting lies upon your heart. Each day tells you all things come to  pass. At times this is cause for rejoicing. At other times a cause
C:8.21 Into these days that come to  pass move many other bodies such as yours. Each one is distinct—and
C:10.9 for itself and all its effort. This is but a stage you will  pass through, though some may linger long here. You will stay until
C:18.12 a measurement of learning, or the “time” it takes for learning to  pass from one level to another through experience, for here learning
C:22.5 A needle can also  pass through something like an onion, piercing many layers. While
C:22.9 the intersection. Everything within your world and your day must  pass through you in order to gain reality. While you might think of
C:22.10 onion than the globe, with everything within your world needing to  pass through layers with a seeming lack of purpose for the passing
C:22.12 to feel as if external forces are bombarding you. These forces must  pass through one or another of your five senses—which you might
C:27.17 learn to live in relationship in the present, this confusion will  pass. Your relationship will guide you surely to the proper response.
T1:3.11 to perform is greater. You think of this as a test and one you can  pass or fail. And what’s more, not only would your passing of this
T1:9.9 what would come to be through my resurrection. This I tried to  pass on in the simplest of terms. I tried to make it known that while
T2:5.6 that must be gotten through and lessons that need to be allowed to  pass through you.
T3:9.7 Promised Land. That journey remained metaphorical because it did not  pass beyond the arena of beliefs into the arena of ideas. The
T3:14.11 rather than selfish now and allow the self that you would blame to  pass away into the illusion from which it came. Remember that
T4:1.27 God through the indirect means of this state of consciousness and to  pass on what they learned through indirect means. Fewer were able to
T4:1.27 was possible, to come to know themselves and God directly, and to  pass on this learning through direct means. What I am saying is that
T4:1.27 consciousness to come to know themselves and God, and to continue to  pass their learning on indirectly, or through indirect communication
T4:1.27 aware of the new state of consciousness and that learning will  pass through them directly through observation and direct
T4:4.3 In your history, generations  pass, through death, to allow for new generations to be born. As your
T4:4.3 and new seems necessary and even crucial. One generation must  pass to make room for the new.
T4:6.8 Christ-consciousness and thus sustain Christ-consciousness. You can  pass on the inheritance you accept in this fullness of time. In this
T4:12.17 over the meaning of my words. The time for puzzlement is over.  Pass on no more of the prevailing learned wisdom. I told you once we
D:7.23 allows the learning being to learn at his or her own pace and to  pass this learning on in time.
D:9.14 and if you accept that these ideas that already exist were able to  pass through you in order to gain expression in form; then you are
D:15.15 its constant and continual presence only needs to be allowed to  pass through you to be in relationship with you, never realizing that
D:Day4.49 the condition of being fearless, you will know this, and you will  pass through the time of coming to acceptance again and again until
D:Day6.10 headed for this oneness of full and true expression. No stage you  pass through to reach this oneness is without value. Each stage
D:Day6.31 Realize that this is just what we work toward! This difficulty will  pass through you as you allow for and accept where you are right now
D:Day7.16 of acceptance, like the conditions of the time of learning, will  pass. There are no conditions in the state of union as there are no
D:Day14.7 escape, whatever remains that was brought to a stop within you must  pass through for the self to be the fully invisible or spacious Self
D:Day16.6 illness was but is no more. Because it was physical it came only to  pass. Because the feeling that generated the physical manifestation
D:Day22.6 fulfill your function of direct union with God. How do you let it  pass through you to the world?

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C:22.9 the intersection. Everything within your world and your day must  pass through you in order to gain reality. While you might think of
T2:5.6 that must be gotten through and lessons that need to be allowed to  pass through you.
D:9.14 and if you accept that these ideas that already exist were able to  pass through you in order to gain expression in form; then you are
D:15.15 its constant and continual presence only needs to be allowed to  pass through you to be in relationship with you, never realizing that
D:Day6.31 Realize that this is just what we work toward! This difficulty will  pass through you as you allow for and accept where you are right now
D:Day22.6 fulfill your function of direct union with God. How do you let it  pass through you to the world?

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C:22.9 words I have provided: everything within your world. In the act of  pass-through you assign meaning to everything within your world. The
C:22.11 eternity is poured and a whole heart as that which can allow free  pass-through of all that is provided.
C:22.14 imply an entry and exit point, the relationship developed during the  pass-through continues. Just as wind or water passing through an
C:22.15 they are, their meaning is naturally revealed. What this takes is a  pass-through approach and a relinquishment of the idea of bringing
D:15.13 as the wind can power many machines endlessly when it is allowed  pass-through, so too can spirit endlessly empower form when it is
D:15.13 so too can spirit endlessly empower form when it is allowed  pass-through.
D:15.15 without which you cease to be. Continual and unblocked and aware  pass-through is what we now consider.
D:Day5.21 that we used the onion to illustrate, but as a point of entry and  pass-through. What comes of unity enters you and passes through you
D:Day5.21 have with unity while in form—a relationship of intersection and  pass-through.
D:Day5.26 The intersection spoken of here is that of  pass-through. Although we have spoken of this focal point as an
D:Day6.4 point of access to unity as one of convergence, intersection, and  pass-through. Can you see the similarities between these actions
D:Day6.5 Movement , Being, Expression; Convergence, Intersection,  Pass-through.
D:Day6.30 coming together. The point of convergence, intersection, and  pass-through. This is it! Right here in your life as it is right now.
D:Day7.7 have with time. This is a time of convergence, intersection, and  pass-through of the finite and the infinite, of time and no time.
D:Day7.11 movement, being, and expression; and convergence, intersection and  pass-through.
D:Day14.8 The invisible or spacious Self is the Self through which  pass-through naturally occurs because there are no blocks or
D:Day14.9  Pass-through was never about escape or rejection. Pass-through is
D:Day14.9 Pass-through was never about escape or rejection.  Pass-through is about releasing the particular while maintaining the
D:Day32.13 in the lives of men and women are seen as little more than  pass-through situations in which the power of God passed through men

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T4:12.25 you have achieved. Celebrate this graduation, this anointing, this  passage. And leave it behind. Realize that it has made you new.
D:Day8.24 Let me repeat a  passage from that Treatise here, a passage about the power to observe
D:Day8.24 Let me repeat a passage from that Treatise here, a  passage about the power to observe what is. “It is not about
D:Day22.5 There is also, however, the idea of a channel as a  passage to take into consideration. This we have spoken of previously
A.31 giving the group time to talk, the facilitator might choose a brief  passage that will fit within the content of the sharing. Always it is

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A.26 grow. They may desire to backtrack, review, or begin to highlight  passages to return to again and again. New questions may arise and a

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C:4.21 behind, and that you will still find love behind the doors you have  passed through so many times in a journey spent earning your right to
C:9.32 and to yourself, the more worthwhile you see it as being. Ages have  passed since creation began, and still you have not learned the
C:9.32 of the air or the flowers of the field. Two thousand years have  passed since you were told to observe this lesson. The lilies of the
C:22.4 hold two pieces of material together. With the addition of thread  passed through the eye of the needle, it can bind many parts in many
C:22.13 By using the word sit, I mean to imply that these things have not  passed through you and in the act of passing through formed a
T2:6.5 that your treasures only become part of your identity when you have  passed beyond the time it takes for those treasures to become
T3:10.7 that was spoken of earlier will be able to be realized. You have  passed through your time of unlearning what the past but seemed to
T3:14.2 to be possible. You would merely look back after the interlude had  passed and see the truth, realizing that a lesson had been learned
T3:21.21 a single baby born of a virgin mother could change the world has  passed. The world is quite simply bigger now and the identities of
T4:1.19 a chosen consciousness united in oneness with the Holy Spirit—they  passed on, indirectly, all that they came to know. This indirect
T4:4.4 fullness. The power and prestige, the earthly wealth of the parent,  passed historically to the son.
T4:4.5 as well as an idea of continuity. What belonged to the Father  passed to the son and thereafter belonged to the son. What was of the
D:17.10 within this Course, is a condition of the initiate. You have now  passed hope by as you have moved beyond the state of initiation. You
D:17.10 to await, and you are no longer waiting. You have arrived. You have  passed through the stage of initiation. You have reached the top of
D:17.19 the threshold. Beyond the threshold is the state in which desire has  passed and been replaced by reverence. To revere is to feel awe,
D:Day4.49 You cannot fail but can only delay. For some the time of delay has  passed. For those who linger in the time of acceptance, there is
D:Day5.1 just as a key is no longer needed once a door has been unlocked and  passed through. Even though it will not be permanently needed,
D:Day12.9 is easily enfolded in the space of the One Self and can be moved or  passed through.
D:Day32.13 little more than pass-through situations in which the power of God  passed through men and women to other men and women.
A.19 is the way of the Time of Christ. The time of the Holy Spirit has  passed. The time of the intermediary is over. The greatest

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C:14.13 that caused you to feel this way. This was not the love that  passes for love in this world, but something else entirely. For at
C:22.3 A prime image of this idea is provided by the axis. A line  passes through a circle and the circle revolves around the line, or
C:22.10 it is the part of you through which everything within your world  passes and your awareness of it that determines the meaning you give
C:22.14 an entry and exit point has an impact and a motion, so does what  passes through you provide the movement of your journey. What passes
C:22.14 what passes through you provide the movement of your journey. What  passes through you is transformed by the relationship with you just
C:26.12 what it is you have been doing? Have you not grown weary of what  passes for life in your world? Have you not wished you could throw
T4:2.12 time, but those who do will be bitterly disappointed as their moment  passes. Despite the necessity for a confidence that has led them to
D:6.2 a method that will be used less and less as the time of learning  passes. The thought reversal of which we recently spoke is why I
D:9.13 which what already exists, what is already accomplished, comes or  passes through by means of the expression of your form and the
D:15.12 Course sought to teach you to develop a relationship with all that  passes through you. Now is the time when the fruit of those efforts
D:15.12 is the time when the fruit of those efforts will be reaped. For what  passes through you now is a relationship without end. What passes
D:15.12 For what passes through you now is a relationship without end. What  passes through you now is the eternal come to replace the temporal.
D:Day5.21 point of entry and pass-through. What comes of unity enters you and  passes through you to the world. This is the relationship you have
D:Day22.5 or state of consciousness through which your awareness of unity  passes through your self of form. It is clear, when looked at in

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C:22.14 an entry and exit point has an impact and a motion, so does what  passes through you provide the movement of your journey. What passes
C:22.14 what passes through you provide the movement of your journey. What  passes through you is transformed by the relationship with you just
D:15.12 Course sought to teach you to develop a relationship with all that  passes through you. Now is the time when the fruit of those efforts
D:15.12 is the time when the fruit of those efforts will be reaped. For what  passes through you now is a relationship without end. What passes
D:15.12 For what passes through you now is a relationship without end. What  passes through you now is the eternal come to replace the temporal.
D:Day5.21 point of entry and pass-through. What comes of unity enters you and  passes through you to the world. This is the relationship you have

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C:2.2 God. Everything real is of God. Nothing unreal exists. Each person  passing from this life to the next learns no great secret. They
C:19.21 comes forth for healing needs but a nod of love from your heart, a  passing glance of compassion, the merest moment of reflection, before
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
C:22.5 value in terms of purpose, it provides an image of a straight line  passing through not one, but many layers of another substance.
C:22.6 among. The illustrations used here, however, concentrate upon a  passing through rather than upon an idea of division, and they help
C:22.8 to have no function or purpose are deemed meaningless. The act of  passing through is, of itself, seen as of little consequence.
C:22.9 Yet it is the  passing through that creates the intersection. Everything within your
C:22.9 you in a given way that you deem as purposeful. Yet it is in the  passing through that meaning occurs of itself.
C:22.10 to pass through layers with a seeming lack of purpose for the  passing through.
C:22.13 that these things have not passed through you and in the act of  passing through formed a relationship and a partnership with you.
C:22.14 While  passing through would seem to imply an entry and exit point, the
C:22.14 developed during the pass-through continues. Just as wind or water  passing through an entry and exit point has an impact and a motion,
C:22.20 Begin to imagine life  passing through you rather than getting stopped for examination at
T1:3.11 and one you can pass or fail. And what’s more, not only would your  passing of this test require you to contemplate your power, but your
T2:13.5 in which you exist here and remain forever beyond all time and the  passing of all form. It is an attitude of praise and thankfulness
T3:5.8 not what you have taken it to mean, an endless series of generations  passing. What this means is that in each the ego will die and the
T3:12.11 creation but there are stages of growth and change. Humankind is now  passing through a tremendous stage of growth and change. Are you
T4:4.4 the state of over-population, this idea was much in evidence. The  passing of a parent was seen, particularly historically, as the time
T4:4.5 times. Inherent within the idea of inheritance was an idea of  passing as well as an idea of continuity. What belonged to the Father
T4:12.16 by becoming so consistent within you that it came, through the  passing down of the human experience, to be integral to your nature.
D:5.11 you to remind you of who you are in the time of learning that is now  passing away. Thus all was given to you to represent what is rather
D:15.12 Expression, movement, and being are about what is eternal  passing through what is temporal. Thus I return you to the lesson on
D:16.3 what animated form with life did not remain. The belief that in the  passing through, a relationship did not form. But as can be easily
D:17.5 comes after the embrace of homecoming, and what comes before the  passing of desire and the reverence that replaces it. It acknowledges
D:Day4.24 What many forgot, after the  passing of the first of my disciples, was that they had access to
D:Day5.21 point of access lies, imagine now the needle that was discussed as  passing through the onion in the Course chapter “The Intersection,”
D:Day19.14 The truth of this way is not discovered through the  passing on of knowledge in form but through relationship. Those
D:Day26.7 This alchemical transition, this  passing of the unknown into the known, this moment when the unknown
E.26 You will remember, just briefly, as you re-read it, in your quickly  passing times of doubt, how different you are. You will recall with
A.12 receive as one who does not have what another has, as this is not a  passing on of information that you do not possess. I ask you merely

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C:22.2 begin by discussing the concept of intersection and look at it as a  passing-through that establishes a partnership or relationship. While

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C:2.6 horrific consequence, acts of bravery and acts of cowardice, acts of  passion you call love and acts of passion you call violence. You feel
C:2.6 and acts of cowardice, acts of passion you call love and acts of  passion you call violence. You feel unable to control the most
C:4.8 the need to keep, the grasping call, the driving force, the chosen  passion—all these things that you have made to replace what you
C:4.14 of the young, and the daydream of the aging. It is synonymous with  passion and an overflow of feelings that defy all common sense. To be

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T4:8.9 to be more and more, faster and faster—each being’s yearning,  passionate, excessive drive to fulfill its purpose, like a drive to
D:Day6.28 one way or another. Your desire is where it belongs—here—in the  passionate acceptance of our work together. And so the lack of desire

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D:Day36.14 longing—has always been yours. The power to think—rationally or  passionately, logically or instinctively—has always been yours. The

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C:2.7 feeling are sought by some to be avoided, it is in the in-between of  passionless living that hell is solidified and becomes quite real.

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C:20.15 planet, the planet in the universe. Each cradles the other. None are  passive. None are dead. All share the heartbeat of the world and are

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C:2.15 Look not to figures from the  past to show you the way beyond illusions to the present. Look within
C:8.22 Although you cannot observe it, you will become aware of how the  past walks through your days with you, and the future too. Both are
C:8.23 Where lives this  past and future? Where does day go when it is night? What are you to
C:11.4 fear of failing, and earnest attempts at trying hard have long been  past. Each exercise is but an idea, and ideas leave not their source.
C:13.4 or defined in the same way you have defined their bodies in the  past.
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
C:16.6 there is no cause for conflict. Judgment makes different. It looks  past what is the same and sees it not and sees instead what it is
C:16.12 the wrongs you would enumerate. True forgiveness simply looks  past illusion to the truth where there are no sins to be forgiven, no
C:19.20 it is the last such review that will be required before letting the  past go completely. All your previous attempts to go back have been
C:19.21 You need not go in search of it, and in truth, cannot, for the  past does not abide in you. What you need rather do is strive for a
C:21.7 meaning in different ways you will not find peace. You have, in the  past, accepted these different interpretations as natural. You see
C:23.4 side of the country, separated by distance, or previous choices, or  past hurts, and yet a relationship continues.
C:23.12 similar to those which you term induction and deduction. In the  past, exercises have most often begun with an alteration of beliefs
C:25.16 from love. Living from love is what will reverse the lessons of the  past. Reversing the lessons of the past is what will allow you to
C:25.16 will reverse the lessons of the past. Reversing the lessons of the  past is what will allow you to live in love in every instance.
C:25.17 and holding resentments. There are no “parts” of Self living in the  past or the future. There is not a “mindful” Self living separately
C:25.24 that are contrary to usual patterns of action you have taken in the  past, you will often meet resistance. Try to be lighthearted at such
C:26.20 stock answer. This is why all answers have disappointed you in the  past. Your answer is not the same as any other. No matter how filled
C:27.14 what “should” be happening rather than what is happening. It looks  past perception of “others” to relationship and wholeness. To live in
C:27.18 power that is not of this world? Will you see the future and the  past, be cognizant of destiny and of fate? You do have power that is
C:27.19 have lacked. The typical fears you have experienced in the  past will not arise within this knowing.
C:29.3 by your military service. You have no notion, as did people of the  past, of being of service to God. This is a symptom of the reign of
C:29.26 of giving and receiving. All your worry over the future and the  past is but a worry about the return of gifts given. What gift of
C:29.26 of gifts given. What gift of opportunity did you not accept in the  past, might you not recognize in the future? What gift of fortune,
C:29.26 truly realized, that all gifts come but once and are forever? The  past nor the future matter not. All is available in the here and now
C:29.27 exists, but in the present. Can you replace your attention to the  past and future with an attention to the present?
C:30.4 as an instruction that relates to time. You think of present time,  past time, future time. We have spoken of these modes of keeping time
C:31.15 from who you truly are. On the one hand, you think that you are your  past, your shame, your guilt; on the other that you are your future,
C:31.26 Your  past has nothing to do with the truth about who you are, except in
T1:2.7 Your only recourse to this situation in the  past was focus. You thus applied your thoughts to learning subjects
T1:6.7 next. Thus memory allows relationship. Memory, or how you relate to  past experiences, is what makes each individual unique. A family can
T1:6.8 So what happens when memories of  past experiences are revisited under the all-encompassing umbrella of
T1:8.4 come to you now to reveal the one truth that has existed for the  past two thousand years without your comprehension of it. The nature
T1:9.15 have placed your highest value and are thus most vulnerable. In the  past your response would have been to protect and use that which you
T1:10.10 sway over you that you would choose not the Peace of God. But look  past what you have remembered to what was truly there. No moment of
T2:4.10 of your thoughts and feelings. A second step is willingness to move  past both ambiguity and conflict to union.
T2:4.12 that peace to what you feel called to do. This is not about the  past and all those things that at one time or another you thought
T2:5.3 Such a call signals an end to learning from the lessons of the  past and a beginning of learning from the new. This Course itself is
T2:5.6 is not. They represent the remnants of learning from the  past, the final breaking of old patterns. They may seem to signal
T3:1.11 self has only existed as the self you presented to others in the  past is quite a different statement and has a totally different
T3:1.11 were” 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
T3:1.11 self of the future. The personal self you presented to others in the  past was a chosen self and never a whole self as evidenced by the
T3:1.11 variety of selves you saw yourself to be. The personal self of the  past was a self of roles, each one as learned as that which an actor
T3:1.11 in one role and a friend in another, than you did in defining a  past self, a present self and a future self. The greatest distinction
T3:1.13 undone. This is atonement. We work now to correct the errors of the  past in the present, the only place where such work can be done. We
T3:3.5 blame could be rightly placed. Your depression was blamed on the  past. Even your successes were often claimed to be at the expense of
T3:4.1 tenets you can become good. It gives no credence and no blame to any  past cause for your depression, anxiety, meanness, illness or
T3:5.1 to 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
T3:5.3 things you have brought to yourself for they have been the only way  past the ego’s guarded gate.
T3:8.4 comprised of the one identity you now hold or the identity of many  past lives, the identity you hold in this time and this place still
T3:8.5 a suffering for which you see no rationale. Those who believe in  past lives have also often adopted beliefs regarding choice and
T3:8.5 suffering were made for some greater good or to repay debts of the  past. The only choice that has been made is that of attachment to the
T3:9.5 of many who came before you but the time of such work, for you, is  past. Many remain to shake the walls of illusion. Few stand beyond it
T3:10.6 that all lessons are gifts. What you have struggled to learn in the  past you have struggled with only because you did not realize the
T3:10.7 Not one situation coming to you now will be a repeat of the  past. How can it be when the past was lived in the house of illusion
T3:10.7 to you now will be a repeat of the past. How can it be when the  past was lived in the house of illusion and the present is lived in
T3:10.7 realized. You have passed through your time of unlearning what the  past but seemed to teach you. Now, while life may seem much unchanged
T3:10.10 This feeling will remain only as long as you remember your  past uncertainty. Uncertainty, like all the rest of the ego’s thought
T3:10.10 Thus you are called, as well, to forget the uncertainty of the  past.
T3:10.11 of certainty. Realize that this is how you have learned in the  past and that all that is from the past is what you are being called
T3:10.11 is how you have learned in the past and that all that is from the  past is what you are being called to forget. Thus when uncertainty
T3:10.11 you need but remind yourself that the time for uncertainty is  past. Uncertainty will not now come to teach you lessons you have
T3:10.11 you have already learned but will only visit you as an echo from the  past. It is a habit, a pattern of the old thought system. All you
T3:14.11 choice to explore the why behind it or to look for remedies for the  past. The choice now is whether you want suffering to continue or
T3:14.12 are allowed to do so. A time-bound consciousness that hangs onto the  past as if it were the truth, allows not correction to take place.
T3:14.12 as if it were the truth, allows not correction to take place. The  past is no more and neither the present nor the future can be built
T3:14.13 must be total to be at all. Can you see why you cannot hang onto the  past? The new cannot have historical precedents. This is why you have
T3:14.13 to is a life 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
T3:14.13 not the past and make for yourself no cause to prolong it. The  past is but a starting point for the future. Just as we talked of the
T3:14.13 of all that proceeds from the idea of blame, so too is it with the  past. Like a story yet to be written, that which follows the first
T3:15.1 relationship of marriage have had occasion to choose to forgive the  past and begin again to build a new relationship. Others, in a
T3:15.1 Others, in a similar relationship, might have chosen to let the  past go and enter into new relationships. Parents have welcomed home
T3:15.3 concerning the relationship, a set of criteria based upon the  past that is most often what prevents new beginnings from truly being
T3:15.4 are offered or considered “in spite of” circumstances of the  past that would seem to make them foolish. There is always some
T3:15.4 contingent upon whom they have represented themselves to be in the  past.
T3:15.5 can approach each day with faith while keeping fresh memories of  past abuse or humiliation in the hopes that they will discourage a
T3:15.6 Everyone believes they carry the baggage of the  past, not only their own but that of all the special relationships in
T3:15.7 up the idea that this core or center has been represented by the  past. You must forget the idea that the future cannot be different
T3:15.7 must forget the idea that the future cannot be different than the  past.
T3:15.11 learn the truth through the same methods that have been used in the  past to learn illusion. This Course teaches that love cannot be
T3:15.14 why you cannot approach this new beginning as you have those of the  past. What will assist you most, as the translation of the old
T3:15.17 still the same being that you have represented yourself to be in the  past, you will not be living by the truth but by illusion.
T3:19.11 form in a new way, you can still see that your actions of the  past represented who you believed yourself to be. Thus those
T3:19.14 Just think of how many saints and miracles you have heard of in the  past without being moved to believe that they mean anything at all
T4:1.3 that some are not chosen now and that many were not chosen in the  past.
T4:1.13 this excitement grow, your loyalty to your race, species, and the  past, hinders your excitement. If what you are beginning to believe
T4:1.13 you as failures? Has the seed of the future lain dormant in the  past? Could it have been activated hundreds or thousands of years
T4:1.16 come to live by the truth. It is in this way that the truth of the  past still lives and that the illusion of the past never was.
T4:1.16 that the truth of the past still lives and that the illusion of the  past never was.
T4:1.23 and more obscure. Some have yearned for a return to days not long  past, days during which distinctions between right and wrong did seem
T4:2.14 It is difficult for you, because of the patterns of the  past, to believe that you are chosen to be the pioneers into a new
T4:2.15 Your awareness of the Self that you are now was not present in the  past, but you can truly now, with the devotion of the observant, see
T4:2.30 to see bodies and events moving through your days as you have in the  past. And yet your vision has already changed, although you are not
T4:6.7 You can exist in Christ-consciousness, as have many others of the  past, and through your existence in Christ-consciousness, affect much
T4:7.7 is no cause for judgment, as it is the perfect health, now, in the  past, and in the future, to bring you the lessons you would learn in
T4:8.4 us dwell again, for just a moment before we let this dwelling in the  past go forever, on what has “gone wrong” with God’s expression of
T4:8.17 is fast approaching. Coming to know through learning will be of the  past as soon as Christ-consciousness is sustainable and you begin to
T4:9.1 comes to an end. It comes to an end here and now as we move  past study and learning to observation, vision, and revelation.
T4:10.3 the illness has come to bring you. You have learned anew from your  past. Learned from your dreams. Learned from art and music. In all of
T4:10.3 the learner. You may not have studied your problems, illness, your  past, your dreams, or art and music as you studied the lessons that
T4:10.14 who you are anew in unity and relationship. You can learn from the  past but not from the future. When you build upon what you can learn
T4:10.14 future. When you build upon what you can learn you build upon the  past and create not the future but an extension of the past. You who
T4:10.14 upon the past and create not the future but an extension of the  past. You who are called to leave learning behind are called to
T4:12.10 All you must remember now is that the time of learning is  past. While you are still encountering concerns and questions, you
T4:12.11 vigilant of, dear brothers and sisters, is the learned wisdom of the  past. Let me give you an example that relates to the state of
T4:12.18 Think and speak no more of the suffering of the  past. Spread the joyous news! Tell only joyous stories. Advance the
T4:12.18 allow for all the creativity you have put into challenges of the  past but without the struggle. Let not the idea of struggle take hold
T4:12.26 a foreign land with none of the ways you learned how to adapt in the  past being of service to you. That is how new this is—and more. But
T4:12.32 the future, the time of the creation of a future not based upon the  past.
D:2.10 the modes of learning, even when they seemed to work for you in the  past. That they seemed to work is the illusion that will give way as
D:3.2 It is not a death knell but a call to life. It is not of the  past or the future but of the eternal now. It is within you as we
D:5.18 of your mind and the thoughts that so confuse you, the prison of  past and future and a now that isn’t changing fast enough to suit the
D:6.21 as that of blaming a friend for your hurt feelings, or blaming the  past for the present. And yet, what ridding your mind of ideas of
D:8.10 of the Self. Thus where you have desired to express yourself in the  past is very likely linked to the natural ability or talent you did
D:12.15 as soon as the truth came into your mind, how seldom in the  past you have been sure of anything. You may have been amazed at this
D:13.7 overly concern you as it will not affect you as it did those of the  past because you are living in the time of Christ, a time when no
D:14.2 the Self is far more than you have experienced as yourself in the  past.
D:Day2.10 wish that you had acted differently? Can you see a way to change the  past or to “make up for” what occurred in the past?
D:Day2.10 a way to change the past or to “make up for” what occurred in the  past?
D:Day3.19 you will not feel this, and if you are among those few, do not skip  past this dialogue, but join in so that you understand, as do those
D:Day3.49 now, as opposed to your idea of the wrong-actions of the  past, in order to bring money or abundance flowing to you. All that
D:Day4.21 in the here and now, but to an inaccurate world-view of the  past, of the hereafter, of me, and of God. Not only has your mind
D:Day7.20 present. Realize you may say you are certain of the future or the  past but that you cannot make it so. Thus your ability to maintain
D:Day8.16 consistent with the term or word certainty as it was used in the  past, but you will not want to confuse the term and the condition.
D:Day8.17 of a personal self who had not yet unlearned the lessons of the  past or taken these steps toward elevation. Now, however, it is
D:Day8.21 They will no longer be the source of the misdirection of the  past if you accept your feelings in present time and begin to be
D:Day8.26 keep your true Self hidden. You are used to hiding the self of the  past about whom you are not well pleased, and you are used to hiding
D:Day9.1 of freedom you have experienced there. I am your refuge from the  past, your gate of entry to the present. You have fled the foreign
D:Day9.32 now only because of the consistency with which you did so in the  past. In the past you moved quickly from one learning challenge to
D:Day9.32 because of the consistency with which you did so in the past. In the  past you moved quickly from one learning challenge to another. You
D:Day10.13 This is because your image of the personal self is based on the  past and the feelings of the past. This is also because your image of
D:Day10.13 of the personal self is based on the past and the feelings of the  past. This is also because your image of the personal self is a
D:Day10.14 Because you believe that your feelings have misled you in the  past, you now still doubt your feelings. Because you have doubted
D:Day10.14 still doubt your feelings. Because you have doubted yourself in the  past, you now still look for reassurances and proof that you are
D:Day11.2 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 form and
D:Day16.6 by no escape. No escape does not mean that anyone is bound to the  past and to their former pain but that each is still bound to, and
D:Day16.9 acceptance can occur. There is no “going back” or reliving of the  past required. There is also no escape, however, because in
D:Day28.15 two attitudes, but will find that one is prevalent. You must now get  past all such notions or attitudes.
D:Day39.16 Let me tell you what has occurred in the  past so that you know not to respond to love in the same way again.
A.18 giving up reliance on what they but think has worked for them in the  past.
A.32 and other group members can provide. The entrenched patterns of the  past are difficult to dislodge even when they have been recognized.
A.34 The achievements of the  past, achievements that awarded credentials, certificates and
A.34 and degrees, admiration, respect, and status, are now a thing of the  past. What individuals may well be looking for is their reward for
A.34 revealed to them. Remind them gently that the achievements of the  past were not lasting and that they are not what they would truly

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C:2.19 It would use all you have learned for its own motivations and  pat you on the back for your new abilities. Without your vigilance it

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C:P.16 to see it, turn around and look once again. You have traveled your  path and the end of the journey is in sight. You stand at the
C:3.18 leads the way that, should you follow, will set you certainly on the  path for home.
C:4.6 who you are and God’s light goes before you, illuminating every  path and shining away the fog of dreams from which you waken
C:6.6 that has been created. This simple realization will start you on the  path to learning what your heart would have you learn.
C:8.30 Rejoice that your heart is not deceived, for herein lies your  path to true remembering.
C:21.7 same situation, conflict cannot help but continue. No matter which  path you follow, the path of the mind or the path of the heart, you
C:21.7 cannot 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
C:21.7 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 to go until
C:21.7 to go until they are joined. You might imagine three paths—one  path representing mind, one path representing heart, and one path
C:21.7 You might imagine three paths—one path representing mind, one  path representing heart, and one path representing wholeheartedness.
C:21.7 —one path representing mind, one path representing heart, and one  path representing wholeheartedness. The path of neither mind nor
C:21.7 representing heart, and one path representing wholeheartedness. The  path of neither mind nor heart alone will take you where the path of
C:21.7 The path of neither mind nor heart alone will take you where the  path of unity will take you, and the journey will not be the same.
C:22.7 represent the point where the world intersects with you—where your  path crosses that of others, where you encounter situations in your
C:24.3 of this good news. Know that the time of tenderness is a sure  path on the way home.
C:28.13 your listening. Where you are is where you are supposed to be. The  path to follow to all changes will be shown to you if you will but be
T1:6.8 different personalities become one, the different paths become one  path, the future experiences become one. And in this oneness is peace
T1:8.7 be the way or even a way. How can resurrection provide a  path or example for you to follow? You must see the link between
T2:8.6 that you reveal now will not become a new truth as you take a new  path. Your path now is sure and its final acceptance necessary. You
T2:8.6 reveal now will not become a new truth as you take a new path. Your  path now is sure and its final acceptance necessary. You are the
T2:10.18 life does not go as you have planned, you feel as if your chosen  path has been denied to you. You often feel a sense of loss and
T4:2.4 There was no Way or  path or process back to God and Self before me. It was the time of
T4:10.3 As you have advanced along your self-centered  path of learning, you have come to see everything in your life as
D:2.23 Christ. To usher in is to show the way, to cast your palms upon the  path of your brothers and sisters. Do you not see that your
D:3.1 New is simply our agreement to proceed together on the palm-strewn  path of Christ-consciousness. It is a path upon which joy triumphs
D:3.1 together on the palm-strewn path of Christ-consciousness. It is a  path upon which joy triumphs over sorrow and victory triumphs over
D:4.22 what you want to do because you might fail, if you follow another’s  path and seek not your own, then you have imprisoned yourself for the
D:7.17 means and end being the same. Desire keeps you focused on your own  path and leaves you nonjudgmental of the paths of others. Yet desire,
D:Day3.22 not solve most of your problems. Even those of you on this spiritual  path think money is among the greatest limits to what you can
D:Day3.36 and wisdom, between finding an answer and finding a way or  path. Many have read the words of the Bible, the words of Lao-tzu,
D:Day8.18 can occur if you deny your feelings in favor of the perceived higher  path to enlightenment. In denying your own feelings you will tend
D:Day15.26 begin a new process of individuation. The distinctness of your own  path will be made visible and you will see that it may be quite
D:Day28.6 just keep following the opportunities that are presented along one  path. They may have chosen one career, for instance, and made choices
D:Day28.6 chosen one career, for instance, and made choices within that career  path, but never really consider a different career path. Many simply
D:Day28.6 that career path, but never really consider a different career  path. Many simply reach a state of reasonable comfort and will make
E.6 This is what it is. There will be no doubt, no indecision. Your  path will be so clear to you it will be as if it is the only path in
E.6 Your path will be so clear to you it will be as if it is the only  path in the world and you will wonder why you didn’t see it all

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C:9.1 your mind it seems to lead you astray, forcing you to walk through  paths full of danger and treachery into the deepest darkness instead
C:21.7 you are wanting to go until they are joined. You might imagine three  paths—one path representing mind, one path representing heart, and
T1:6.7 to, through memory, which shapes the different personalities,  paths, and thus future experiences of each of you.
T1:6.8 of thought? The different personalities become one, the different  paths become one path, the future experiences become one. And in this
T2:8.6 and that you have been found. You need no longer journey onto the  paths of seeking. The truth of yourself that you reveal now will not
D:7.17 you focused on your own path and leaves you nonjudgmental of the  paths of others. Yet desire, like observation and vision, is still
D:11.17 Illusion can be described in many different ways that lead to many  paths of seeking, but illusion can provide no place in which the
D:17.24 form, this takes place with movement. Years are spent traveling many  paths and many miles. All the heartaches are experienced along the

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C:P.24 The Course speaks of  patience that is infinite. God is patient, but the world is not. God
C:25.19 and will continue to do may not matter, they may still be done with  patience, grace, and love. You will learn that other things you have
C:26.12 and with courses of study? Have you not felt at the limit of your  patience with instruction? Have you not felt the call to live growing

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C:P.24 The Course speaks of patience that is infinite. God is  patient, but the world is not. God is patient for God sees you only
C:P.24 that is infinite. God is patient, but the world is not. God is  patient for God sees you only as you are. The Christ in you is also
C:25.20 an exciting sign, for it means the old identity is losing hold. Be  patient during this time, and your new identity will emerge. If the
A.14 You are  patient, loving, and kind. You have entered the time of tenderness.

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C:I.9 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 fresh
C:12.25 Now, carry this  pattern forward, for the pattern of God’s extension is the pattern of
C:12.25 Now, carry this pattern forward, for the  pattern of God’s extension is the pattern of creation and thus the
C:12.25 this pattern forward, for the pattern of God’s extension is the  pattern of creation and thus the pattern of the universe. The Son
C:12.25 pattern of God’s extension is the pattern of creation and thus the  pattern of the universe. The Son extended himself into creation, and
C:26.22 imperfect representation of God’s idea. In God’s idea of you is the  pattern of the universe, much as within a novel, movie, piece of
C:26.22 piece of music, invention or artistic idea is the completion of the  pattern that will make that idea a masterpiece. An idea is
C:26.23 God’s idea of you is acceptance of your Self as co-creator of the  pattern of the universe, acceptance of the idea or the story that is
C:26.23 is you. Can you not see that you were birthed into a place in the  pattern of God’s creation? Or that you not only can know but have
C:26.24 of physical form but a place of holiness, an integral place in the  pattern that is oneness with God. It is a place you have never left
C:26.25 grew simultaneously with God’s thought. You knew your place in the  pattern of creation from the outset. A full life is quite simply a
C:26.25 A full life is quite simply a fulfillment of that thought and that  pattern. The only way to know it is to think it once again. The only
C:26.27 I fulfilled my story, my  pattern, the idea of me that came from the thought of God. In doing
T1:8.13 through the Blessed Virgin Mary’s resurrection in form that the new  pattern of life is revealed.
T1:8.14 The new  pattern of life is the ability to resurrect in form. The ability to
T1:8.16 expressed in form and story, expressed, in other words, in a visual  pattern that aides your understanding of the invisible. It is one
T1:9.14 and that is likely your first reaction, is cognizant with your old  pattern, or the pattern of the ego. What breaks the ego’s hold will
T1:9.14 your first reaction, is cognizant with your old pattern, or the  pattern of the ego. What breaks the ego’s hold will be the second
T2:4.19 to struggle or resist and the new way of thinking replaces that old  pattern with a new pattern of response, you will begin to see that
T2:4.19 and the new way of thinking replaces that old pattern with a new  pattern of response, you will begin to see that each new response is
T2:6.2 advance this process and more quickly bring about the end of the  pattern of learning that you refer to as time. The end of the pattern
T2:6.2 of the pattern of learning that you refer to as time. The end of the  pattern of learning that you refer to as time is the beginning of the
T2:6.9 of unity. It is a recognition that you exist in unity outside of the  pattern of time. Miracles create an out-of-pattern time interval.
T2:6.9 of miracle-readiness is the creation of a new reality outside of the  pattern of ordinary time. Although this state exists as the already
T2:7.7 that giving and receiving as one is not taking place. Your previous  pattern of behavior will be quick to assert itself and you will feel
T2:7.8 Is it not clear how important it is to living in peace that this  pattern be broken? Will you live in peace only until some “other”
T2:7.11 in certain measure or to receive not at all, is to follow the old  pattern, a pattern that has been proven to not have any ability to
T2:7.11 measure or to receive not at all, is to follow the old pattern, a  pattern that has been proven to not have any ability to change the
T2:7.14 who needs relationship. The only thing that keeps you, in this new  pattern, from being needy and dependent in an unhealthy way, is that
T2:7.19 as one. This is the only means available to you to replace the old  pattern with the new.
T3:10.11 but will only visit you as an echo from the past. It is a habit, a  pattern of the old thought system. All you must do is not listen to
T3:14.1 the foundation of fear, like the ego, will have left you now, a  pattern of behaving fearfully may still remain and as such be a
T3:14.2 the House of Truth would not long abide with such illusions, but the  pattern of the old would not be broken. Suffering and strife would
T3:16.8 It will come in many forms, all of which will be related to an old  pattern of dissatisfaction with yourself. These temptations will be
T3:22.5 thing to do of which you need to be aware, are functions of the  pattern of the planning process that once so ruled your mind. To be
T3:22.5 your mind. To be willing to receive instead of plan is to break the  pattern of planning.
T3:22.6 receptive, and while I also do not ask you to “work” to break the  pattern of planning, I do ask you to let it go and to replace it with
T3:22.8 closed is the observation of what is. This will relate to the future  pattern of creating that we will speak of more in the next Treatise.
T3:22.15 but that you also might not. Realize that this game of chance is a  pattern of the old thought system that needs to be replaced by
T4:2.22 you separated yourself from relationship with the wholeness of the  pattern of creation. You have believed in God and perhaps in some
T4:2.22 God, or the possibility that your life is a direct experience of the  pattern of unity or oneness that is creation.
T4:2.23 Think of this denial now, for it is still evident in the  pattern of your thinking. We have spoken of this within the text of A
T4:3.2 to do with what cannot be elevated. Vision has to do with the divine  pattern, the unity that binds all living things. Observation is the
T4:3.2 all living things. Observation is the means of seeing this binding  pattern in physical form.
T4:4.1 Everywhere within your world you see the  pattern of life-everlasting. Where there is a pattern of
T4:4.1 your world you see the pattern of life-everlasting. Where there is a  pattern of life-everlasting, there is everlasting life. Means and end
T4:4.2 The  pattern of life-everlasting is one of changing form. It is one that
T4:4.2 and renewal, seasons of growth and seasons of decline. This is the  pattern of creation taken to extremes. Inherent within the extreme is
T4:4.2 was a day of rest spoken of. Creation balanced with rest is the  pattern that has been taken to extremes within your world. You think
T4:4.7 creation. Like begets like. Life begets life. Thus is revealed the  pattern of life-everlasting.
T4:4.8 Changing form is part of the  pattern of life-everlasting. The change in the form you now occupy,
T4:4.8 as that of elevation of the personal self, is a natural part of the  pattern of life-everlasting. It is long over-due. It is long over-due
T4:8.11 you rebelled against God’s original design, the design that is the  pattern of creation. Yet your rebellion was not with God, although
T4:8.12 the constraints of your nature in form thus became part of the  pattern of creation because it was the created’s response. It was
T4:12.20 though you are abiding now in the state of Christ-consciousness, the  pattern of the old thoughts will continue until they are replaced by
T4:12.20 of the old thoughts will continue until they are replaced by a new  pattern. That self-doubt arises in your thought patterns will not
T4:12.21 you share in unity with God. You will be the co-creator of the new  pattern of consciousness that is sharing in unity and relationship,
T4:12.21 in unity and relationship, as you were once the co-creator of the  pattern of consciousness that was learning.
T4:12.24 You now exist within a shared consciousness. The  pattern of a shared consciousness is one of sharing in unity and
T4:12.24 is one of sharing in unity and relationship. There is no  pattern within it for learning (which is individual), for individual
T4:12.27 and what we are speaking of when we talk of patterns. There was a  pattern to the process of learning that was shared by all learners
T4:12.27 inherent to your natures. The means were different for each, but the  pattern was the same. There was an overall design that ensured
T4:12.27 ensured optimal learning and that design was known to you in the  pattern of that design, a pattern that was part of the pattern of
T4:12.27 and that design was known to you in the pattern of that design, a  pattern that was part of the pattern of your thoughts, even after the
T4:12.27 to you in the pattern of that design, a pattern that was part of the  pattern of your thoughts, even after the ego came to rule your
T4:12.27 even after the ego came to rule your thought system. Without this  pattern, the ego could have succeeded in becoming the ruler of the
T4:12.27 in becoming the ruler of the personal self. Part of this design and  pattern was the freedom of free will.
T4:12.28 Free will continues in the  pattern of Christ-consciousness. Love continues. The individual or
T4:12.28 appropriate to the time of learning does not continue. Thus the new  pattern is one of creation in relationship and unity rather than
T4:12.33 and space no longer separate us, and the creation of the design or  pattern that reveals our lack of separation is part of the creation
D:1.3 the personal self. As long as you “see” such visions, you “see” the  pattern of the personal self going forth much as it did before. You
D:1.15 not accept what you “know” to be the truth is a continuation of the  pattern of insanity that must be replaced with a pattern of sanity.
D:1.15 continuation of the pattern of insanity that must be replaced with a  pattern of sanity.
D:2.1 the work of replacing the old patterns of learning with the new  pattern of acceptance.
D:2.4 Patterns are both learned systems and systems of design. The  pattern of learning was a pattern of divine design, created in unity
D:2.4 learned systems and systems of design. The pattern of learning was a  pattern of divine design, created in unity and cooperation to enable
D:2.4 created in unity and cooperation to enable the return to unity. This  pattern has achieved its desired end and so is no longer needed nor
D:2.4 end and so is no longer needed nor appropriate. While it was once a  pattern whose design was perfect for the desired end, continuation of
D:2.4 whose design was perfect for the desired end, continuation of this  pattern will but interfere with your full acceptance of who you are
D:2.5 An example of a  pattern whose design was perfect for the desired end is that of
D:2.11 If you will examine this  pattern of what you have believed “works for you,” you will find that
D:2.11 “works for you,” you will find that you believe that each and every  pattern will work in one instance and not in another and that you
D:2.11 or outcome in one instance would tend to be seen as a “successful  pattern,” and would be repeated until such a time as the pattern
D:2.11 “successful pattern,” and would be repeated until such a time as the  pattern failed to achieve the successful grade or outcome in another
D:2.12 concept of trial and error. No sure results are counted on. When a  pattern of thought or behavior has been found to work in more cases
D:2.12 in more cases than not, it is clung to as a “sure thing”—a proven  pattern or way.
D:2.14 desired outcomes. Either way, control is seen as a powerful  pattern.
D:2.18 system that is not foolproof is based on a faulty design, a faulty  pattern. Your misperceptions of the world have allowed for the
D:2.19 to deal fairly with a hostile environment and then to develop a  pattern based on what was learned so that learning would not need to
D:2.20 just tell me what that new way is!” You would say, “Teach me the new  pattern and I will put it into effect.”
D:2.21 What this points out is a  pattern in itself. It is a pattern of reaction rather than cause. It
D:2.21 What this points out is a pattern in itself. It is a  pattern of reaction rather than cause. It is a pattern of looking
D:2.21 in itself. It is a pattern of reaction rather than cause. It is a  pattern of looking without and wondering what to do about what you
D:2.21 without and wondering what to do about what you see rather than a  pattern of changing what you see by looking within.
D:4.12 to the stem of a plant to the workings of the human brain, a divine  pattern is evident and should not be beyond your belief. Despite the
D:4.12 in what you see, think, and feel, there is but one external divine  pattern that created the observable world, and only one internal
D:4.12 that created the observable world, and only one internal divine  pattern that created the internal world. The internal divine pattern
D:4.12 divine pattern that created the internal world. The internal divine  pattern was that of learning.
D:4.13 now entering. Thus far, we are merely working together to create a  pattern of acceptance to replace the pattern of learning.
D:4.13 working together to create a pattern of acceptance to replace the  pattern of learning.
D:4.14 In such a way of thinking, one would take the internal thought  pattern, enhance it with the external pattern, and by seeing the
D:4.14 take the internal thought pattern, enhance it with the external  pattern, and by seeing the unity and cooperation of all, understand
D:4.15 the truth. Some of these systems of thought were part of the divine  pattern. Contrast is one such system. As a learning being, you
D:4.16 Other systems of thought were not part of the divine  pattern. The ego is one such system. It may seem peculiar to think of
D:4.16 falsely believed to be yourself. From this one externalized thought  pattern came most of your false ideas, ideas that made it difficult
D:4.18 has been freed. Let us simply create a new structure around the new  pattern of acceptance, a structure that will provide you with the
D:4.24 “act” of acceptance rather than learning. Turn to this as the new  pattern and to the thought system of giving and receiving as one. Let
D:5.5 example that illustrates how one aspect of what was created in the  pattern of learning, while not being seen in the way it was intended,
D:6.14 new. For in this time of revelation, discovery is the new divine  pattern that will replace the “thought” systems we have spoken of. To
D:6.24 We have talked of but one replacement for the  pattern of learning—the pattern of acceptance. What might the body
D:6.24 have talked of but one replacement for the pattern of learning—the  pattern of acceptance. What might the body be called to accept? This
D:7.15 to be ready to accept revelation works hand in hand with the new  pattern of discovery, but discovery is less time bound. Let me
D:9.4 now, when you have learned all that you are in need of learning, the  pattern, even of your wholeheartedness, remains one of thought. This
D:9.4 pattern, even of your wholeheartedness, remains one of thought. This  pattern is what the new patterns of acceptance and discovery that we
D:9.5 Thought is a practice and a  pattern of the separated and thus learning self. When it was said
D:10.1 ways of knowing that come to you, and through you, outside of the  pattern of learning.
D:10.7 always existed. When put into practice and allowed to replace the  pattern of learning, this way of discovery will be a constant coming
D:12.11 The first is that thinking, with or without the ego, is a  pattern of the separated self and does not serve you. The way in
D:12.11 the ego ruled or may seem only minimally improved, but it is the  pattern, not the ego, that is still with you. The second point is
D:17.13 your wholeheartedness, as well as your desire, has moved beyond the  pattern of thought.
D:Day2.3 your mistakes and poor choices have been reconciled. You can see the  pattern of your life as clearly now as if a masterful biography had
D:Day3.14 you no longer think in such a way, they are there in the learned  pattern and you know this too. They are what prevent you from
D:Day3.14 unable to replace, in application, the false with the true, the  pattern of the false remains.
D:Day3.24 This is the way fears operate. They operate in the  pattern of the ego, a pattern that was learned, a pattern that was
D:Day3.24 is the way fears operate. They operate in the pattern of the ego, a  pattern that was learned, a pattern that was emphasized and
D:Day3.24 operate in the pattern of the ego, a pattern that was learned, a  pattern that was emphasized and reemphasized through external events
D:Day3.24 until this attitude of wanting seemed impossible to unlearn. It is a  pattern of survival, but not of your survival. It is the pattern of
D:Day3.24 It is a pattern of survival, but not of your survival. It is the  pattern of the ego’s survival, and even though the ego is no longer
D:Day3.24 ego’s survival, and even though the ego is no longer with you, the  pattern remains because what you learned, and the way in which you
D:Day3.39 learning through the mind because of your familiarity with the  pattern of learning through the mind, you can perhaps see why these
D:Day4.5 learning has not been a choice. Both as divine design and as a  pattern of the thought system of the ego, learning has been with you
D:Day4.5 design of the time of learning is being recreated, the ceaseless  pattern of learning remains.
D:Day5.19 to desire specifics. This is because you are still entrenched in the  pattern of learning, as your earnest effort to leave effort behind
D:Day5.23 to teach or learn “how to” heal must be thwarted, for if not, the  pattern of learning will remain. This is why there have always seemed
D:Day7.5 You must realize here that the  pattern of learning is now all that is left that can be degenerating
D:Day7.5 not one of support but one of effort. You must accept, now, that the  pattern of learning is an extension of fear and be willing and
D:Day7.5 extension of fear and be willing and vigilant in replacing it with a  pattern of acceptance. I say this because so many of you still do not
D:Day8.21 will prevent you from “reacting” to feelings out of your previous  pattern.
D:Day9.32 just completed a monumental learning challenge and so your natural  pattern would be to keep going now, to use the momentum of this
D:Day9.33 This  pattern will be easily replaced, however, as your acceptance of
D:Day18.7 The truth represented by Jesus and Mary was represented as a visual  pattern that would aide understanding of the invisible. This is what
D:Day18.10 The new visual  pattern is that of spirit resurrected in form. It is the ascension of
D:Day18.10 or elevation of the self of form. You are called to demonstrate this  pattern. The choice is to demonstrate this pattern through
D:Day18.10 to demonstrate this pattern. The choice is to demonstrate this  pattern through interaction with the world, or through incarnation
D:Day18.11 You are called to demonstrate this new visual  pattern. What is meant here by the word demonstrate, is to show your
D:Day19.10 are asked to become. This is an act of incarnation, and is a new  pattern, a pattern of what can be imagined being made real, not
D:Day19.10 to become. This is an act of incarnation, and is a new pattern, a  pattern of what can be imagined being made real, not through doing,
D:Day19.13 by holding open this door to creation. They, in truth, create a new  pattern and begin to weave it into the web of reality, anchoring it
D:Day21.2 This was true even within the  pattern of learning you have been so familiar with, for in order to
D:Day21.6 but made it seem as if some had more and others less. But even the  pattern of learning had as its outcome the sameness of teacher and
D:Day25.4 to come into the practice of letting the new come. It is in the new  pattern of stillness combined with non-resistance that the new will
D:Day25.5 thoughts. Let go your resistance to thoughts that seem of the old  pattern. That you know they are of the old pattern is enough. Let
D:Day25.5 that seem of the old pattern. That you know they are of the old  pattern is enough. Let them come. Let them go.
D:Day28.4 include marriage and starting a family. Some follow a more standard  pattern than others, with schooling, career, marriage, and family
D:Day28.16 is all that the notion of a giver and a receiver is: An old thought  pattern.
E.3 only with love, and so nothing will be hard for you. Desire an old  pattern to be gone and it will be gone. This little note added to the
A.32 forgiveness, and letting-go. With the letting-go of each old  pattern or situation that seems fraught with peril, a cloud of

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C:9.44 usee, and so has its proper place in our discussion here. Look at  patterns of abuse, in everything from drugs and alcohol to physical
C:25.18 question what you do for a “living.” You will question many  patterns and habits.
C:25.19 will learn that other things you have done, beliefs you have held,  patterns and habits that have occupied you, will not accompany you
C:25.24 When you are guided to act in ways that are contrary to usual  patterns of action you have taken in the past, you will often meet
T2:4.15 means is that you are still in need of unlearning, of undoing old  patterns of thought. This is atonement and it is continuous and
T2:4.15 and ongoing is part of creation. Thus the very act of undoing old  patterns is an act of creation. As the old is undone, a vacuum is not
T2:5.6 the remnants of learning from the past, the final breaking of old  patterns. They may seem to signal difficult times, but they are times
T2:7.10 of this Course, but what will prevent you from following the  patterns of old as you go out into the world with your desire to
T3:1.13 to the ego-self. Even with the ego once and finally vanquished, the  patterns of the ego’s thought system remain to be undone. This is
T3:10.8 all the rest, be forgotten. The process of forgetting these thought  patterns will be only slightly different from forgetting your former
T3:14.1 as such be a deterrent to new ideas and to action. As long as these  patterns of fear remain as deterrents to action, you will not
T3:14.3 in the house of the truth, you are capable of bringing with you old  patterns of behavior. Once the translation of the new thought system
T3:14.5 This is a key idea that will help you immeasurably in leaving behind  patterns of behavior based on the old thought system of fear. Despite
T3:14.8 the new thought system. If you but let go the old, and with it the  patterns of behavior caused by fear, the new will reveal to you all
T3:15.8 truth, are aides to help you birth the new ideas that will break the  patterns of old.
T3:16.8 related to the intrigue of the challenge and actually be couched in  patterns that have you attempting to “accomplish” set goals in life.
T3:16.10 to gain from some “other.” Again, this will be related to old  patterns of dissatisfaction with the self. It has to do with any
T3:16.16 worked together in the thought system of the ego and created  patterns that caused them to only seem to be intertwined and all
T4:2.13 certain of your Self and in your uncertainty, still subject to the  patterns of thought of the old. Many of these patterns do not concern
T4:2.13 still subject to the patterns of thought of the old. Many of these  patterns do not concern me for they will fall away of themselves as
T4:2.14 It is difficult for you, because of the  patterns of the past, to believe that you are chosen to be the
T4:12.10 way to do so is to, for a short while, be vigilant of your thought  patterns so that you eradicate the idea of learning in separation and
T4:12.20 replaced by a new pattern. That self-doubt arises in your thought  patterns will not mean that you have cause for self-doubt. You have
T4:12.21 imperative creation with which to begin our new work is that of new  patterns. The patterns of old were patterns designed for the optimal
T4:12.21 with which to begin our new work is that of new patterns. The  patterns of old were patterns designed for the optimal benefit of
T4:12.21 begin our new work is that of new patterns. The patterns of old were  patterns designed for the optimal benefit of learning. These patterns
T4:12.21 were patterns designed for the optimal benefit of learning. These  patterns were created by the one mind and heart that you share in
T4:12.21 by the one mind and heart that you share in unity with God. The new  patterns of sharing in unity and relationship and thus creating unity
T4:12.23 you, as a being of singular consciousness, could learn the thought  patterns of a singular consciousness because it was a finite
T4:12.27 that concerns you now and what we are speaking of when we talk of  patterns. There was a pattern to the process of learning that was
T4:12.30 Christ-consciousness, is coming to know the new design, and the new  patterns that reveal the design. This new design, and the new
T4:12.30 new patterns that reveal the design. This new design, and the new  patterns that will be helpful to you in its sustainability, are what
T4:12.31 you are accustomed. It will help us together to establish the new  patterns by which you and those who come after you, will more fully
D:2.1 the work that is being continued here, the work of replacing the old  patterns of learning with the new pattern of acceptance.
D:2.3 The  patterns of the new will begin to arise naturally when you deny the
D:2.3 patterns of the new will begin to arise naturally when you deny the  patterns of the old. As you have been told, you now “know what you
D:2.3 must understand that you do know, and you will know, as soon as the  patterns of old have been denied. Denial is the correct word here,
D:2.3 word here, for I do not want you combating or resisting the old  patterns. Patterns are not in quite the same category as the false
D:2.3 here, for I do not want you combating or resisting the old patterns.  Patterns are not in quite the same category as the false remembering
D:2.4  Patterns are both learned systems and systems of design. The pattern
D:2.9 It is because the  patterns of old have at times provided you with a false certainty
D:2.13 are often those matters that are beyond your personal control and so  patterns of personal control have become particularly entrenched.
D:2.15 Although they may not have seemed so, all  patterns have had to do with learning because you were, as a
D:2.15 into the self of form, or the elevation of the personal self, new  patterns are needed.
D:2.16 Systems are the result of your attempts to externalize  patterns. Patterns are contained within. Looking at the patterns you
D:2.16 Systems are the result of your attempts to externalize patterns.  Patterns are contained within. Looking at the patterns you have
D:2.16 externalize patterns. Patterns are contained within. Looking at the  patterns you have attempted to externalize can help you to understand
D:2.16 attempted to externalize can help you to understand the nature of  patterns.
D:2.19 would not need to be endlessly repeated. Now these systems and  patterns have become so entrenched that no new learning is seen as
D:2.19 is seen as possible or desirable even though the systems and  patterns are known not to work. In truth, no new learning or new
D:2.19 work. In truth, no new learning or new systems based on the learning  patterns of old will work. Thus we begin anew.
D:2.22 is where you find the power of creation, the power to create the  patterns of the new. Looking within is not an attempt to find the
D:3.9 self in union with all, are the ideas that will allow new  patterns to emerge and the design of the future to be created. These
D:3.20 being? Are your systems life-giving and life-supporting? The  patterns of the new will create only such life-giving and
D:3.20 only such life-giving and life-supporting systems—as long as the  patterns of the new are accepted and lived with your full awareness.
D:4.9 you may recall, are the result of your attempts to externalize the  patterns contained within. Patterns are both of learning and of
D:4.9 of your attempts to externalize the patterns contained within.  Patterns are both of learning and of design.
D:4.12 Divine  patterns are the patterns that made your existence in form possible
D:4.12 Divine patterns are the  patterns that made your existence in form possible as well as the
D:4.12 patterns that made your existence in form possible as well as the  patterns that have made your return to your true identity possible.
D:4.12 that have made your return to your true identity possible. These  patterns are both external and internal. External divine patterns
D:4.12 These patterns are both external and internal. External divine  patterns include the observable forms that make up your world,
D:4.13 The two  patterns, the internal and the external, were created together to
D:4.13 together to exist in a complementary fashion. Both of these divine  patterns are being newly recreated and we will talk much more of them
D:4.16 the learning loop. Obviously these systems, built as they were upon  patterns now being recreated, are part of the old.
D:4.17 Externalized  patterns, or systems, were also built from the systems of thought
D:4.18 That divine universe, our divine existence, is now recreating the  patterns that served the time of learning. What was learned in the
D:4.28 all, draws from the well of divine design. You need not turn to old  patterns or systems to accomplish your release. You can only turn to
D:4.28 release. You can only turn to what is, to what is left now that the  patterns and systems of learning are no longer.
D:5.12 Love and the loving  patterns given in the time of learning are all that exist in all you
D:5.12 are all that exist in all you see. But what now will become of these  patterns that are no longer needed as your learning and that of those
D:5.21 with your being. You will wonder how, if you are done learning, the  patterns of learning will change to help you embrace the acceptance
D:7.16 join with what you observe until your vision is released from old  patterns and guides you more truly.
D:8.8 it was done. But you do not yet know how to rid yourself of former  patterns. Your mind, while it no longer wants to cling to known
D:8.8 patterns. Your mind, while it no longer wants to cling to known  patterns, is confronted with them constantly. Thus your heart still
D:9.4 remains one of thought. This pattern is what the new  patterns of acceptance and discovery that we are beginning to lay out
D:9.6 But your reality has changed, and with that change, new  patterns apply. This does not mean that the truth has changed, but
D:12.12 to become aware and comfortable with the idea that, released of old  patterns, the self will join with unity more and more frequently,
D:12.13 One of the primary ideas that will assist you in leaving  patterns of thinking behind is the idea that thought as we are
D:15.1 principles that govern creation. These principles are like unto the  patterns that were created for your time of learning and that will be
D:15.1 of learning and that will be applied anew to the creation of new  patterns for the new time that is upon us.
D:16.16 It encompasses all of your former ideas about yourself, all of the  patterns of the time of learning, all of the moments in which you
D:Day2.2 You have let go the ego, re-viewed your life, unlearned previous  patterns, and now see the difference between the image you hold of
D:Day10.12 it before than to do something completely new. This is because old  patterns or habits must be done away with before achievement of a new
D:Day14.8 occurs because there are no blocks or boundaries, no holding  patterns, no mental interferences.
D:Day17.5 There have always been individuals who challenged the predominant  patterns of learning because of the strength of their connection to
D:Day21.2 If it did not do so, learning did not occur. In traditional learning  patterns, the wisdom, guidance, or information sought moved from a
D:Day28.16 Most of what is not the truth has been identified as old thought  patterns. This is all that the notion of a giver and a receiver is:
D:Day28.17 Thought  patterns exist within thought systems that have been externalized and
E.2 you not feel it? The questions remain only as questions of the old  patterns of thought, patterns that you need only be aware of before
E.2 questions remain only as questions of the old patterns of thought,  patterns that you need only be aware of before choosing to have them
A.27 who begin to experience life in a new way begin to discover are the  patterns of thoughts and behavior that are most deeply entrenched in
A.32 Assisting individuals with the recognition of  patterns is also a highly valuable service that facilitators and
A.32 facilitators and other group members can provide. The entrenched  patterns of the past are difficult to dislodge even when they have

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T1:4.26 of Love, 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,
T1:10.13 that peace is all you have sought learning to attain. If you do not  pause now and accept that it is here, you will not know the Peace of
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!
D:15.22 this highest point of the highest peak of the highest mountain, you  pause and become accustomed to the thinner air, the view from above,
D:Day5.19 As you may seem to  pause here in your movement in order to understand the way in which
D:Day10.15  Pause a moment here and consider our need for a distinction between
A.12 order to learn receptivity, 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

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T1:4.26 confusion sink in, for this is the reversal in thinking that will  pave the way for all the rest. Because of this confusion you have
T2:1.14 change in thinking in regards to treasures you do recognize will  pave the way for recognition of treasures you heretofore have not
T2:2.1 Why would we begin “A Treatise on Unity” by talking of treasure? To  pave the way for talking of calling. What is it in you that

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C:20.17 connection. The world is not a collection of cement buildings and  paved streets nor of cold, heartless people who would as soon do you
D:14.10 as each step of learning that was needed in the time of learning  paved the way for the next and then the next. But while I say “much

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D:14.9 advanced by the idea of acceptance you took to heart earlier, and  paves the way for discovery as a constant coming to know and coming
D:14.10 precursor to manifestation. The precursor to creation of the new. It  paves the way much as each step of learning that was needed in the

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C:1.10 to your ego. This gift your ego demands is not worth the price you  pay. The price of this gift is everything.
C:3.20 Must pain accompany love and loss? Is this the price you  pay, you ask, for opening up your heart? And yet, should you be asked
C:7.15 of the world, for without them you would be the one called upon to  pay.
C:9.41 do with envy and with awe. To these you make your sacrifices and  pay your homage. To these you say, “I would be like you.” To these
C:19.20 All your previous attempts to go back have been like attempts to  pay a debt that will never go away. This going back will leave you
T3:13.5 of man, laws that were made to perpetuate the idea that you must  pay for everything, or earn everything that you would care to make
T3:13.6 laws of love, is to resist the temptation of requiring yourself to  pay for what you gain.
T3:13.7 your choice. But the idea that you do not have to earn your way nor  pay your way must be birthed and lived by. While most of you will
D:Day3.18 resentment and envy fills you with anger. If you feel any anger now,  pay attention to its effect on you. You can feel, perhaps, the strain
D:Day4.25 You feel, perhaps, that you did not try hard enough, or  pay enough attention to separating the true from the false. But

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T3:13.7 refusing the temptation to believe in concepts such as earning and  paying. How you implement this idea will be your choice. But the idea
T3:13.7 this is far from the only area in which the idea of earning or  paying your way can be found. This old idea is consistent with all

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C:17.11 be paid for, not once but many times, and no matter how heavy the  payment is, it only “pays for” what was done and cannot ever be
C:17.11 only “pays for” what was done and cannot ever be undone. What does  payment do but purchase something that is then yours to keep? What

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C:P.15 situation. The truth unites. It does not divide. The truth invites  peace, not conflict. Partial truth is not only impossible, it is
C:2.8 giving up on one and hoping that the other will bring them some  peace. To think that these are the only options available to
C:2.19 ego takes pride in what the mind has acquired, even unto the greater  peace and contentment offered by your learning. It can and does see
C:2.22 battles cease. Who wins and who loses is not of concern to us here.  Peace has not yet come. But the white flag of surrender has been
C:2.22 hallowed ground where neutrality will for a short time reign before  peace breaks out with glad rejoicing.
C:5.13 things, but always lurking behind it is an overwhelming desire for  peace. Peace may mean destruction of the old, and love can facilitate
C:5.13 but always lurking behind it is an overwhelming desire for peace.  Peace may mean destruction of the old, and love can facilitate the
C:5.21 to the union that would turn hell into heaven, insanity to  peace. You do not yet understand your ability to choose that which
C:6.5 You end opposition by choosing harmony. You end conflict by choosing  peace.
C:6.8 is only seen in relation to good. Chaos is only seen in relation to  peace. While you see these as separate things you do not see what the
C:6.8 choice to deny union reveals its opposite. What is separate from  peace is chaos. What is separate from good is evil. What is separate
C:6.11 mind, the meaning you give to joining, the face you put on eternal  peace. With such a vision in your mind it is no wonder that you
C:6.12 are seen to be in opposition. Heaven and its milieu of eternal  peace is rightly kept, you think, for the end of life, and so you
C:6.15 How can I convince you that  peace is what you want when you do not know what peace is? Those who
C:6.15 I convince you that peace is what you want when you do not know what  peace is? Those who once worshiped golden calves did so because they
C:6.15 A god of love was as foreign a concept to them as is a life of  peace to you. What is foreign to the world has changed, but the world
C:6.15 has changed, but the world has not. Those who live with war seek  peace. Those who live with failure seek success. Put another way,
C:6.16 How can I make  peace attractive to you who know it not? The Bible says, “The sun
C:6.16 rain falls on the good and evil alike.” Why then do you think that  peace is endless sunshine? Peace is merely enjoyment of the rain and
C:6.16 evil alike.” Why then do you think that peace is endless sunshine?  Peace is merely enjoyment of the rain and sun, night as well as day.
C:6.16 rain and sun, night as well as day. Without judgment cast upon it,  peace shines on all that you would look upon, as well as every
C:6.17 Situations too are relationships. When  peace enters your relationships, situations, too, are what they are
C:6.17 The challenge now is in creation rather than accomplishment. With  peace, accomplishment is achieved in the only place where it makes
C:6.17 too young to rest, too interested in living still to welcome the  peace of dying. Those who could not change the world one iota through
C:6.17 not change the world one iota through their constant effort, in  peace create the world anew.
C:6.18 and in its wholeness one with you. It is here, in wholeness, that  peace abides and heaven is. It is from wholeness that heaven waits
C:6.20 still in bodily form, perhaps, yet you imagine them happy and at  peace. Even those who claim not to believe in God or an afterlife of
C:6.20 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 sky and all
C:7.13 scattered, but must remain in wholeness. What is joined resides in  peace and knows no grievance. What is joined resides in love
C:9.21 That the absence of hunger is fullness. The absence of violence  peace. You think that if you but provide these things that are
C:9.39 that it has been found. This is what will bring you happiness and  peace, contentment and a sense of belonging. This is what will cause
C:9.39 have not found what you have sought, you will not leave in deepest  peace but in dark despair and fear. You will have no hope for what
C:9.41 The injunction to rest in  peace is for the living, not the dead. But while you run the race you
C:10.32 where you are missed and longed for and safe and loved. A little  peace has been made room for in the house of your insanity.
C:12.11 your highways, roads and bridges. And somewhere you know not,  peace remains peace despite your wars, and happiness remains
C:12.11 roads and bridges. And somewhere you know not, peace remains  peace despite your wars, and happiness remains happiness despite your
C:14.3 cannot help but be at war with. Where there is war there can be no  peace. War is not simply the existence of external activity. External
C:15.1 there would be no war, for there would be no reason to break the  peace. No land would be considered more sacred to some than others,
C:20.25 for the all that you are. You are the beauty of the world and  peace abides within you.
C:20.26  Peace is the foundation of your being. Not a peace that implies an
C:20.26 Peace is the foundation of your being. Not a  peace that implies an absence but a peace that implies a fullness.
C:20.26 foundation of your being. Not a peace that implies an absence but a  peace that implies a fullness. Wholeness is peaceful. Only separation
C:20.31 limits, danger, and competitiveness. The laws of love are laws of  peace, abundance, safety, and cooperation. Your actions and the
C:20.42 it is true: You would not be other than who you are. Herein lie your  peace and your perfection. If you would not be other than you are,
C:20.46 to resist the notion that you could have anything to do with world  peace, realize that you naturally have reacted with resistance. You
C:20.47 unrealistic. You cannot do everything. You cannot effect world  peace. You can barely keep your personal concerns in order. Your
C:21.7 mind and heart interpret meaning in different ways you will not find  peace. You have, in the past, accepted these different
C:24.4 The time of tenderness precedes the time of  peace and is the forerunner of compassion. The time of tenderness is
C:29.26 for your fear of where the direction you choose might take you? What  peace might you know if you realized, truly realized, that all gifts
T1:1.1 and receiving as one. A split mind does not rest for it can find no  peace. A state of peace is a prerequisite of giving and receiving as
T1:1.1 one. A split mind does not rest for it can find no peace. A state of  peace is a prerequisite of giving and receiving as one. Any state
T1:1.1 of giving and receiving as one. Any state other than that of  peace is conflicted by the desire for peace and the ways in which
T1:1.1 Any state other than that of peace is conflicted by the desire for  peace and the ways in which peace is seen as being approachable.
T1:1.1 of peace is conflicted by the desire for peace and the ways in which  peace is seen as being approachable. Peace is seen as being outside
T1:1.1 for peace and the ways in which peace is seen as being approachable.  Peace is seen as being outside of one’s being and the means are
T1:1.1 are sought for the union of being with that which will provide for  peace. Knowing not what this is, is the source of conflict and of all
T1:6.8 one path, the future experiences become one. And in this oneness is  peace everlasting.
T1:7.1 success has been unable to bring you the satisfaction and the  peace you desire.
T1:7.2 part of being human that calls for acceptance. They thus find  peace within suffering rather than abolishing suffering. This
T1:7.2 learning through contrast, that evil is seen in relation to good,  peace in relation to chaos, love in relation to fear. This belief
T1:7.2 both. Thus the absence of good health is disease; the absence of  peace is conflict, the absence of truth illusion. This belief does
T1:10.1 Now let me address the issue of the  peace you have been experiencing as well as your reactions to this
T1:10.1 peace you have been experiencing as well as your reactions to this  peace. It is so foreign to each of you that you can’t quite imagine
T1:10.1 that it is what you are supposed to be feeling. There is a core of  peace at the center of your Self now and the issues that you choose
T1:10.1 the issues that you choose to deal with will not affect that core of  peace at all. While you may find this almost disturbing, you will not
T1:10.1 this almost disturbing, you will not go to extremes to break this  peace.
T1:10.2 My  peace is yours. You have asked for it and it has been given to you.
T1:10.2 alive. Whether it be joy or sorrow, it will seem real in a way that  peace does not. It will seem so human that a wave of desire to be
T1:10.3 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 profound sorrow
T1:10.4 the human experience. This is what you continue to choose over the  Peace of God. This is not a right or wrong choice but it is a choice.
T1:10.5 the human experience. Now are you willing to use it to choose the  Peace of God instead? Can you wholeheartedly choose peace? Can you
T1:10.5 it to choose the Peace of God instead? Can you wholeheartedly choose  peace? Can you choose peace long enough to become accustomed to joy
T1:10.5 of God instead? Can you wholeheartedly choose peace? Can you choose  peace long enough to become accustomed to joy without sorrow? If you
T1:10.6 a lifetime. You can continue to experience life and still carry the  Peace of God within you. As you live in peace you can be an example
T1:10.6 life and still carry the Peace of God within you. As you live in  peace you can be an example to your brothers and sisters, an example
T1:10.7 up extremes? Yes. You are being asked to give up all that would take  peace from you. But as you have been told before, you will be giving
T1:10.7 not partake and you cannot partake if you are going to carry the  Peace of God within you.
T1:10.8 have been made to God not seeing suffering. God exists with you in  peace. When you feel peace, you feel the Peace of God. There is no
T1:10.8 not seeing suffering. God exists with you in peace. When you feel  peace, you feel the Peace of God. There is no other peace. There is
T1:10.8 God exists with you in peace. When you feel peace, you feel the  Peace of God. There is no other peace. There is no other God. Whether
T1:10.8 When you feel peace, you feel the Peace of God. There is no other  peace. There is no other God. Whether you believe it now or not, I
T1:10.8 God. Whether you believe it now or not, I assure you, within the  Peace of God is all the joy of what you have known as the human
T1:10.10 events that hold such sway over you that you would choose not the  Peace of God. But look past what you have remembered to what was
T1:10.10 was truly there. No moment of true learning ever arrived without the  Peace of God for without the Peace of God no true learning is
T1:10.10 true learning ever arrived without the Peace of God for without the  Peace of God no true learning is possible.
T1:10.11 you can look forward to rather than back upon if you but choose the  Peace of God.
T1:10.12 further lessons are needed? What quiet knowing cannot come to you in  peace? Why would you believe you can learn from the turmoil of
T1:10.12 you can learn from the turmoil of extremes what you cannot learn in  peace eternal?
T1:10.13 let the memory of the truth return to you now and you will see that  peace is all you have sought learning to attain. If you do not pause
T1:10.13 do not pause now and accept that it is here, you will not know the  Peace of God that is your own Self.
T1:10.14  Peace, in whatever way you find it, in whatever expression it takes,
T1:10.14 use to describe it, is your answer to God and God’s answer to you.  Peace is the inheritance I left you. Peace of body, mind and heart.
T1:10.14 to God and God’s answer to you. Peace is the inheritance I left you.  Peace of body, mind and heart. Peace is the realm of miracles, the
T1:10.14 Peace is the inheritance I left you. Peace of body, mind and heart.  Peace is the realm of miracles, the condition of the wholehearted,
T1:10.14 the art of thought, the description of heaven, the abode of Christ.  Peace has come to you and you to Peace.
T1:10.14 of heaven, the abode of Christ. Peace has come to you and you to  Peace.
T1:10.15 Now your final instruction is here. You who have found  peace—live in peace. You have been given the Peace of God—go in
T1:10.15 your final instruction is here. You who have found peace—live in  peace. You have been given the Peace of God—go in Peace. Spread
T1:10.15 You who have found peace—live in peace. You have been given the  Peace of God—go in Peace. Spread peace throughout the land. Go out
T1:10.15 peace—live in peace. You have been given the Peace of God—go in  Peace. Spread peace throughout the land. Go out in peace and love and
T1:10.15 in peace. You have been given the Peace of God—go in Peace. Spread  peace throughout the land. Go out in peace and love and service to
T1:10.15 of God—go in Peace. Spread peace throughout the land. Go out in  peace and love and service to all. For in this going out you come
T1:10.15 and bring with you all the brothers and sisters you have brought to  peace. Go in peace to love and serve with all your heart. Thus are we
T1:10.15 you all the brothers and sisters you have brought to peace. Go in  peace to love and serve with all your heart. Thus are we one heart,
T1:10.15 one mind, one unity. Thus are we one in a relationship of love and  peace that is our eternal home. Welcome home my brothers and sisters
T2:1.5 you would soon return to your old ideas of heaven and see  peace as a state of being for those too weary to fully live. Done
T2:1.6 truly learned, is a state of being in which struggle has ceased and  peace has triumphed over chaos, love has triumphed over fear.
T2:1.7 You may still see but two choices:  peace or struggle. But with such an attitude, you would soon be
T2:1.7 with such an attitude, you would soon be struggling to maintain your  peace. There is another choice, and it lies within.
T2:1.8 may have come to be viewed as a place at which you can arrive. Like  peace, it may feel like a bubble of protection, something that sets
T2:3.4 your learning is capable of bringing to your life. You have felt the  peace and love of the embrace. You know that you are experiencing
T2:4.9 two sets of thoughts and feelings exist, the only way to come to  peace with them is through an acceptance of ambiguity. While an
T2:4.12 You who have so recently felt the  peace of true acceptance are not asked to leave that peace to go in
T2:4.12 felt the peace of true acceptance are not asked to leave that  peace to go in search of calling but are rather asked to listen from
T2:4.12 in search of calling but are rather asked to listen from within that  peace to what you feel called to do. This is not about the past and
T2:7.8 Is it not clear how important it is to living in  peace that this pattern be broken? Will you live in peace only until
T2:7.8 is to living in peace that this pattern be broken? Will you live in  peace only until some “other” breaks your peace? Only until some
T2:7.8 broken? Will you live in peace only until some “other” breaks your  peace? Only until some circumstance beyond your control brings an
T2:11.4 You are called to  peace, a peace that begins and ends with ceasing to do battle with
T2:11.4 You are called to peace, a  peace that begins and ends with ceasing to do battle with the ego. As
T2:13.6 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 self who
T3:11.2 of the unity of all things with which the Self coexists in truth and  peace and love.
T3:11.3 These words, truth and  peace and love, are interchangeable in the House of Truth as their
T3:11.6 I was aware of the truth and lived by the truth. I was aware of the  Peace of God and lived within the Peace of God. I was aware of the
T3:11.6 by the truth. I was aware of the Peace of God and lived within the  Peace of God. I was aware of the Love of God and the Love of God
T3:11.7 do: Be aware that the love of God lives within you. Live within the  Peace of God. Live by the truth.
T3:11.8 This could be restated as you are love, you live in  peace, you live by or in accord with the truth.
T3:11.9 the Kingdom of God the House of Truth rather than the House of  Peace for a reason. What you are learning is no longer that the
T3:12.10 itself from within the House of Truth in ways consistent with  peace and love is the next step in creation, the rebirth of the Son
T3:13.2 human experience, saying that these things that draw you from the  peace of God draw you from the state in which you are aware of who
T3:13.2 to God during such times, you will not be dwelling within the  peace of God. Your Self and God will be but memories to you while
T3:14.2 of some others, accept your current status and begin to feel more  peace and joy within it. If you are not well, you may cope more
T3:14.11 sister would not give up bitterness in order to usher in a world of  peace, would you not think this a selfish act?
T3:15.11 teaches that love cannot be learned. I have said here that love,  peace, and truth are interchangeable ideas within the new thought
T3:15.18 hardly empty-handed. The truth goes with you as does the love and  peace of God.
T3:18.6 observe health rather than disease, abundance rather than poverty,  peace rather than conflict, happiness rather than sadness—disease,
T3:18.10 You can observe by having an idea of another’s health, abundance,  peace, and happiness. You can observe this within yourself because it
T3:20.14 your desire to be of service to the world. But I call to you from  peace and ask for you to remain in peace with me and let not the
T3:20.14 the world. But I call to you from peace and ask for you to remain in  peace with me and let not the suffering of the world call you from
T3:20.14 it. When these things of the world threaten to call you from your  peace, you must remind yourself that it is only from within the Peace
T3:20.14 your peace, you must remind yourself that it is only from within the  Peace of God that your wholeheartedness and our unity is accomplished.
T4:12.13 and should not last? That lasting contentment, like unto a lasting  peace, would somehow stunt your growth? Can you see that your idea of
D:9.3 allow you to be who you truly are, end your confusion, and give you  peace to usher in the new.
D:Day2.2 still, in unguarded moments, in moments in which you would desire  peace, memories of your life continue to play within your mind, often
D:Day3.7 your mind that, through increased stillness, will give you more  peace, your mind that will accept comfort of a certain type, even
D:Day3.31 How can you live like this? How can you have any  peace when you live like this? What succor will your inheritance
D:Day4.46 and the self of union all that continues to exist. It will mean  peace, certainty, safety, and joy with no price.
D:Day5.20 weariness and to your heart’s desire to rest. Listen to the call to  peace and let yourself recline in the embrace of love, feeling the
D:Day8.4 good or bad; only then can you deal with anything from a place of  peace.
D:Day8.19 —in disregard. This disregard is a temptation of those who live in  peace, a temptation unlike the more pleasant temptations that were
D:Day8.26 this self, you are still in a state of non-acceptance and whatever  peace you are feeling will not last. Whatever access to unity you
D:Day10.38 their expression. I desire, more than anything, your happiness, your  peace, and your acceptance of the power that will cause these things
D:Day14.1 well as the void, the healed as well as the sick, the chaos and the  peace. Thus we heal now by calling on wholeness, accepting the healed
D:Day16.14 and anger as well as feelings of happiness, compassion, and  peace. Consciousness does not, however, include your responses.
D:Day39.46 your bridge to yourself. You will also be the bridge between war and  peace, sadness and joy, evil and good, sickness and health. You will
A.33 a while now is letting them down. They may wonder where and when the  peace, ease, and abundance promised by this Course will arrive. These

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C:9.47 Such is the world that God did create: A world so lovely and so  peaceful that when you see it once again you will cry with joy and
C:20.26 implies an absence but a peace that implies a fullness. Wholeness is  peaceful. Only separation creates conflict.
C:20.43 To believe in your perfection and the equality of your gifts is  peaceful because it releases you from trying to acquire that which
T2:1.4 now is a being of perfection, and you may find in this a somewhat  peaceful resting place to dwell in for a time. You may find that
T2:1.5 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 soon become
T3:14.1 have come about within your physical experience. You may live a more  peaceful and meaningful life, but you will not become the savior I
T3:16.4 confident in also saying that you are more content and happy, more  peaceful and free of fear than you have ever been. While your life
T4:9.5 and able to change in certain ways that make life easier or more  peaceful, but certainly not able to realize the transformation that
D:Day3.7 context for your life can change your life, make you feel more  peaceful, give you comfort of a non-physical nature. These ideas,
D:Day6.29 seeming paradox. You have been told to do only what you can feel  peaceful doing, to do only what allows you to be yourself, and yet
D:Day10.27 they were in life, even while you are able to imagine them being  peaceful and free of the constraints of the body. This is as good an
D:Day10.27 elevated Self of form, as not much different than you are now, but  peaceful and free of the constraints of the body.

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T4:2.1 awareness that does not conceive of such as what was and will be can  peacefully coexist with the unity that is here and now in truth.
D:Day6.30 Do you need to feel desire for what you do in order to do it  peacefully? Do you need to be other than yourself in order to
D:Day6.30 to difficulty and the growth of your ability to do whatever you do  peacefully and to be who you are in any situation in which you find

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C:20.45 willing to serve and be served, it will assist not only you and your  peacefulness, but will bring peacefulness to the world as well.
C:20.45 it will assist not only you and your peacefulness, but will bring  peacefulness to the world as well.
D:Day10.27 your ideas about the afterlife, a life in which most of you believe  peacefulness reigns and the spirit is free of the body. Yet if you

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C:14.11 nothing more than this. It was a relationship so intense that at its  peak you would have begun to see its continuation without change as
T1:10.11 Let us separate experiences you might call  peak experiences from experiences of extremes that served as learning
T1:10.11 from experiences of extremes that served as learning devices.  Peak experiences often follow occasions of happiness or trauma, but
T1:10.11 of happiness or trauma, but they do not happen within them.  Peak experiences are what you can look forward to rather than back
D:15.22 you on your ascent. And at this highest point of the highest  peak of the highest mountain, you pause and become accustomed to the
D:Day1.7 accept me, much as you must accept your ascension to this mountain  peak and this dialogue that is occurring here. If you believe this
D:Day1.7 this dialogue that is occurring here. If you believe this mountain  peak is merely metaphorical, you will not realize that you have
D:Day2.6 others may weigh heavily on you now. It is as if, at this mountain  peak, you have discovered a lightness of being, and yet within it is

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D:Day8.5 you don’t like something cause a judgment to occur? Do you judge  peas if you do not like them? And yet, do you not accept that you are
D:Day8.16 that you do not like your job, or even certain that you do not like  peas, is an inaccurate use of the term of certainty. It may have been

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C:10.12 to believe in something that you do not understand makes you feel  peculiar at the least and delusional at the worst. You want to
D:4.16 part of the divine pattern. The ego is one such system. It may seem  peculiar to think of the ego as a system, and we have heretofore

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C:9.15 situation because it lies one step beneath the surface of your self.  Peel back the first level of what your eyes allow you to observe and

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T3:5.4 to see the light that was always visible through the cracked and  peeling walls that you built. That you would eventually call to

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D:Day6.7 after this gestation within the mind and heart, the artist puts  pen to paper, or picks up a guitar, or sings into a tape recorder.

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T1:4.20 you from a response that is uniquely you. But you must give up your  penchant for interpretation before you can learn to respond. I

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C:3.7 friends who become enemies and enemies who become friends. While a  pencil may essentially remain a pencil in your judgment, at least as
C:3.7 enemies who become friends. While a pencil may essentially remain a  pencil in your judgment, at least as long as it has all the qualities
C:3.7 as long as it has all the qualities that you have determined that a  pencil should have, few people can exhibit the qualities you have
C:5.6 You realize that a relationship exists between your hand and a  pencil when you go to write something down, but it is a relationship
C:5.6 All truth lies in relationship, even one so simple as this. The  pencil is not real, nor the hand that grasps it. Yet the relationship
C:7.21 as you understand it. It is easy to see the relationship between a  pencil and your hand, your body and another, the actions that you do

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C:8.21 world. Some days this will make you feel like one of many, a tiny  peon of little significance. On other days you will feel quite

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C:P.35 that he was put to death. But Jesus did not advocate for a powerless  people. Jesus taught true power, the power of love, a power proven by
C:3.7 qualities that you have determined that a pencil should have, few  people can exhibit the qualities you have predetermined that they
C:9.39 Seeking what you have lost in other  people, places, and things is but a sign that you do not understand
C:9.44 with issues of abuse would do a service to the world if the  people in it were to understand what that abuse is a reflection of.
C:10.5 you back to the body to prove to you that it is insurmountable. Many  people at this point try to think these maladies away, and when they
C:12.18 and compel you to do things you might have never dreamed of doing.  People often look back upon their lives and wonder how they got from
C:12.19 happen within it, perhaps the places in which it would occur or the  people that would be part of it. In short, the external aspects of
C:14.16 you would hope to have on what remains here. Without you, the  people and the events that you would influence, would behave quite
C:15.1 more sacred to some than others, no resources withheld, no  people deemed subservient.
C:16.15 unhappiness and despair, where occasional moments of joy or the few  people that you love out of the many that you do not are all that
C:16.15 protection, and vigilance that protects these moments of joy and  people you love as well as your own self is to be asked to live a
C:16.22 but looks at power backward and wonders why God has forsaken a  people who seem to be so godly.
C:16.23 God forsakes no  people, but people forsake God when they give away their power and
C:16.23 God forsakes no people, but  people forsake God when they give away their power and claim not
C:20.17 of cement buildings and paved streets nor of cold, heartless  people who would as soon do you harm as good. It is but the place of
C:21.5 way, a way contrary to the language of your heart, and so, like two  people from different countries speaking different languages, there
C:21.5 this in times of emergency or crisis of every kind. And like the two  people from different countries who do not understand each other,
C:21.5 other’s “heart is in the right place.” The “right place” with two  people—as with mind and heart—is the place of no division. The
C:21.6 of a shared language, a language shared by mind and heart and by all  people. It is a language of images and concepts that touch the one
C:21.7 or resolution. You act without unity. And, just as if you were two  people acting on different truths in the same situation, conflict
C:22.21 much as possible without using the word I or my. Quit referring to  people and things in terms of ownership, saying “my boss,” “my
C:23.9 is relationship, because union is relationship. Imagine a crowd of  people in a small room. This is not relationship. When you are
C:23.9 of this example. Now imagine communities of faith. Around the world,  people are united in belief, and not only in religious beliefs.
C:23.9 not only in religious beliefs. Ideology, politics, profession unite  people. “Parties” and “associations” are formed to foster the idea of
C:29.3 as exemplified by your military service. You have no notion, as did  people of the past, of being of service to God. This is a symptom of
C:31.9 made you and no other being less consequential. All over the world  people of good faith fight to save even one life. Each life is
T1:2.7 training of the ego-mind worldly rewards have long been given. These  people attain degrees and skills and then further apply the
T2:11.3 with the ego has become the preoccupation of many gifted and learned  people. This is the classic battle revealed in all myths and tales of
T3:5.6 evidence, was how mighty could God’s love be if it were given to a  people who suffered. The answer was that God’s love was so mighty
T3:8.11 why not ideas of entertainment that would seem to provide them?  People suffering from disease: Why not cures for those diseases?
T3:8.12  People have looked for what they have imagined it was possible to
T3:10.8 be only slightly different from forgetting your former reactions to  people and situations and much like forgetting to place blame.
T3:10.15 You will find that your new language will gather  people to you in much the way people will gravitate toward beautiful
T3:10.15 that your new language will gather people to you in much the way  people will gravitate toward beautiful music. Many will be eager to
T3:19.16 glory of God. What will make this choice so attractive are ordinary  people living extraordinary, and miraculous, and observable lives.
T3:20.10 an “if this, then that” nature. Look at the examples all around you.  People who live what you call healthy lives succumb to illnesses and
T3:20.10 just as do those who live what you call unhealthy lives. “Good”  people have as much calamity befall them as do “bad.” I am not
T3:21.21 sounded far and wide and why it goes out to humble and ordinary  people like yourself. There is no exclusivity to this call. It
T4:1.6 use historically. Many different groups believe they are the chosen  people of God, or Buddha, or Muhammad. Many of this generation
T4:1.14 to be that this must be simply the chosen time and you the chosen  people. If the chosen time had been two thousand years ago, life
T4:1.14 life would have changed the world. If the Israelites were the chosen  people, so much calamity would not have befallen them. And so the
T4:1.18 God’s act of choosing you by choosing God. This is all the chosen  people are in time—those who have chosen God as God has chosen
T4:1.23 While the state of the world and the  people within it may not outwardly seem much changed from the world
T4:1.24 All across the world,  people of the world have been demanding to learn directly, through
T4:2.5 The  people of the Earth, as well as all that was created, have always
T4:2.5 beloved of God because Love was and is the means of creation. The  people of the Earth, as well as all that was created, were created
T4:2.9 of this time as a time of judgment and of separating the chosen  people from all others abound. All are chosen. All are chosen with
T4:7.3 the Holy Spirit, the understanding that man is imbued with spirit.  People, both religious and non-religious, those who consider
D:2.19 in the example of the justice system, you looked at the world and  people around you and found the nature of both to be hostile. From
D:12.4 dialogue is most often thought of as a discourse between two or more  people and as such is associated with the spoken word. When you enter
D:13.4 stories such as these, and you will read account after account of  people who did not know how to live with what they came to know, with
D:Day1.11 Many  people now are discovering the power of healing. Some think this
D:Day4.20 developed. The teaching was externalized and institutionalized.  People began to see following me as belonging to an externalized
D:Day8.9 like it is to judge it, or that to accept what is, is to accept that  people gossip. These false ideas about acceptance may then have
D:Day8.14 predetermine a continuing dislike. Soon, you might see a group of  people who often gossip and assume that they are gossiping rather
D:Day10.30 I am not calling you to be as these  people are or were or to act as these people have, but I am calling
D:Day10.30 not calling you to be as these people are or were or to act as these  people have, but I am calling you to acknowledge that feelings are
D:Day28.3 awareness is a stage of simple external movement through life. Many  people, especially young adults, have little experience other than
D:Day28.4 awareness increases with the increase in choices available. As young  people do not usually move away from the home of their parents until
D:Day28.6 At this level, some  people reach a crossroad that feels like a choice that will move
D:Day28.15 Most  people feel at least some combination of these two attitudes, but
D:Day33.5 that you are being in relationship. It is to your being that the  people, places, events and situations that make up your world appeal.
D:Day33.9 response of love can look as different as the events, situations,  people, and places that populate your world. How can this be? And how
D:Day36.5 of opportunities, the fateful incidents that you encountered, the  people you met. You started with what you believed you had been

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C:P.11 heaven. You accept what you view as possible and reject what you  perceive as impossible. You thus cling to the laws of man and reject
C:P.15 in definition and believability to win this battle against what you  perceive as your reality.
C:P.40 This does not make it any less true. The butterfly, although some  perceive it as being lovelier to behold, is still the same being as
C:2.9 The insanity of your thought process and the world you  perceive must be made known to you before you are willing to give it
C:2.9 love, and, with that recognition, of ending the insanity you now  perceive.
C:4.27 from all others as love is here, a goal that touches not on what you  perceive to be a loveless world. It has no relation to the world
C:5.29 there is between union and separation. Separation is all you  perceive on your own. Union is all that you invite me into and share
C:6.7 are not meant to be alone. Everything here is to help you learn to  perceive correctly, and from there to go beyond perception to the
C:9.43 Use, in any form, leads to bondage, and so to  perceive a world based on use is to see a world where freedom is
C:12.9 know your Self. This one brother can unite you with all whom you  perceive as others, for all others are one with him as well as you.
C:16.2 seem so, and the only answer is that you do not want it to. You  perceive but what you wish for, and your wish for specialness leads
C:16.26 power, for they go hand-in-hand. There is no “common good” as you  perceive of it, and you are not here to assure the continuance of
C:17.5 lacking much of what you have judged to be good in the world you now  perceive.
C:18.20 thought or language of your heart with that which you more naturally  perceive as thought, the words and images that “go through” your mind.
C:23.18 It is akin to perception, and can lead the way in changing how you  perceive of yourself and the world around you.
C:27.10 Can you begin to visualize or  perceive your true identity as relationship itself? And what of God?
C:30.7 This world as you  perceive of it is built around the foundation of fear, a fear that
C:31.30 seeking it from your brothers and sisters—just not in the way you  perceive of it.
T1:7.5 taken steps, climbed to a new level, and acquired an ability to  perceive differently, in order to make this new learning possible. If
T2:4.15 processes that tell you hour-by-hour and minute-by-minute how to  perceive of and live in your world, are still often based on old
T2:6.9 a return to what has always been. You are changing the world you  perceive by perceiving a new world. You are changing from who you
T2:11.2 find living as who you are in the world difficult as long as you  perceive of others as living under the old rules, the laws of man
T2:11.2 of their separation and still seeking to glorify it. You will still  perceive of the world as operating under the laws of man and as long
T2:11.2 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 be forced to live by its
T2:11.15 be a battle going on between Christ and the ego, but you will  perceive that such battles exist. You will be prone to calling upon
T3:2.8 call self is Self, even while both may represent the truth as you  perceive of it. Representing the truth as you perceive it to be has
T3:2.8 the truth as you perceive of it. Representing the truth as you  perceive it to be has been the righteous work of many who have caused
T3:11.14 is consciously used here and why we now refrain from use of the word  perceive. Perception is gone as soon as you truly see.
T4:2.2 within outward. What you discover within is in a way that what you  perceive without is not.
T4:2.21 present in that it unites you with what is rather than with what you  perceive to be.
D:Day27.12 as the degree of separation between hot and cold. If you were to  perceive of wholeness as an ideal temperature, you might think for a
D:Day36.10 different ways, but you could not truly create difference but only  perceive of difference. You thus always remained one in being with
D:Day36.14 of towering majesty—has always been yours. The power to know or  perceive—even an unreal reality—has always been yours.
D:Day37.17 in describing the conditions of being because you must be able to  perceive in order to be a being. But knowing is also used because you
A.4 on the Nature of Unity and Its Recognition,” you continue to  perceive of yourself as a learning being. This is the only reason for
A.12 discussion? I am only telling you to receive before you seek to  perceive. I ask you not to receive as one who does not have what

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C:P.26 love is seen as acceptable. Thus, no matter how good one child is  perceived to be and how bad another is perceived to be, the love of
C:P.26 matter how good one child is perceived to be and how bad another is  perceived to be, the love of the parent for the child is the same. A
C:6.2 is reality. None of these things make you less than what you have  perceived yourself to be, but they do make it impossible for you to
C:18.7 of misinterpretation, because there was no external world to be  perceived. A learning device, when not perceived as such, holds not
C:18.7 was no external world to be perceived. A learning device, when not  perceived as such, holds not much hope of fulfilling the function it
C:18.16 things, but is really an attempt to unite what you have only  perceived as separate. If the heart is the center of your Self, where
C:18.16 however, would 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,
C:19.23 my sight as your own and thus to be right-minded. The way you have  perceived of yourself and your world until now has not been
C:25.5 absence of love? The problem is in the perceiver rather than the  perceived. Each time you feel a lack of love, it comes from within
C:25.10 present here. If you still believe you are here to acquire some  perceived ideal separated state, then all action will be out of
C:29.22 I have provided. Claiming is also contrary to how you have  perceived of it in terms of claiming something for your own: You
T1:7.1 as a world in which who you are can never be accomplished. You have  perceived this inability to be who you are in terms of not being able
T1:7.1 to see this prerequisite to the condition of suffering is as the  perceived inability to be who you truly are, a being existing in
T1:9.15 and quickly overcome by a turn toward reason or the intellect. The  perceived attack will have entered at the place where you have placed
T2:3.7 Learning and accomplishment are not linear as you have  perceived them to be. If we return to the idea of talents this may be
T2:10.16 lessons. And still we are only talking about learning as you have  perceived of it rather than learning from life.
T2:11.16 who you are. You may think you know, and you may waste much time in  perceived battles, valiantly fighting for good to win out over evil.
T2:12.9 There, between you and the “other” whom you have previously only  perceived, is the relationship and the miracle waiting to happen. As
T2:13.3 shares with friends in a world now different than the one you once  perceived. I know of this world and I am here to guide you through
T3:2.8 is no truth to be found in illusion and so no representations of  perceived truth, no matter how intensely they have been championed,
T3:13.5 Remember now that pleasure and pain as  perceived by the body are from the same source. That source has not
T3:14.7 why you must choose not to keep the life of discomfort caused by  perceived illness, the life of scarcity caused by perceived lack, the
T3:14.7 caused by perceived illness, the life of scarcity caused by  perceived lack, the lack of stature caused by perceived disrespect.
T3:14.7 of scarcity caused by perceived lack, the lack of stature caused by  perceived disrespect. It is only by your choice that you will keep
T3:19.6 has thus been blamed for all actions that have arisen from real and  perceived lack. Yet the body has no will and the survival of the true
T4:1.20 have learned much of the nature of the truth by seeing what you have  perceived as the contrast between good and evil.
T4:1.26 will soon begin looking earnestly for it. Even the ego-self will be  perceived clearly by these, and they will not want it for their
T4:2.2 once you turned outward in your seeking and saw within what you  perceived without, now you turn inward and reflect what you discover
T4:2.26 to know without the relationship of the heart, and so merely  perceived its own creations, rather than the creations birthed in
T4:2.27 mind created its own separate world. Cause and effect are one. The  perceived state of separation created the perceived state of a
T4:2.27 and effect are one. The perceived state of separation created the  perceived state of a separate world. The real state of union,
T4:10.6 of learning or what is studied is the production of things and  perceived meaning.
T4:10.7 work toward now is to advance from learning and producing things and  perceived meaning, to producing unity and relationship through unity
T4:10.8 and effect the same. Thus this applied learning produced things and  perceived meaning.
T4:10.11 Learning has had to do with what is  perceived. No longer learning has to do with what is revealed.
D:5.19 what is, with creation as it was created rather than as you have  perceived it to be. From this starting point only can we move forward
D:7.21 evolution is really adaptation. It occurs in reaction to what is  perceived as necessary for survival.
D:7.22 left so many unfulfilled, as environmental concerns mount, even the  perceived survival needs are leading you toward new answers of what
D:13.8 overcome because your state of aloneness is all you have known. This  perceived state is synonymous with the personal self, with the idea
D:16.3 Empty is the opposite of full, the opposite of wholeness. It is the  perceived condition of lack. It is the belief that what animated form
D:16.4 of being. This is a description of the state of becoming. It is a  perceived state. It is a state in which the unified principles of
D:16.20 you are, but you also are, at times, but an image of who you have  perceived yourself to be.
D:Day2.14 for and granting of atonement, your re-viewing and unlearning of the  perceived lessons of your life.
D:Day8.18 Another error can occur if you deny your feelings in favor of the  perceived higher path to enlightenment. In denying your own feelings
D:Day10.4 the need for belief. Certainty is complete lack of doubt and any  perceived need for doubt.
D:Day12.7 of form are only real in the world of form, a world that is  perceived rather than known. Christ-consciousness replaces perception
D:Day12.8 There is no boundary between space and space. There are only  perceived boundaries. When a perceived boundary is perceived as
D:Day12.8 between space and space. There are only perceived boundaries. When a  perceived boundary is perceived as solid, it is an obstacle, for it
D:Day12.8 There are only perceived boundaries. When a perceived boundary is  perceived as solid, it is an obstacle, for it has no space available
D:Day15.6 In the relationship generated by observation, those forms have been  perceived as real. That observation produced the solidity and mass of
D:Day16.15 hell and fear because as more was expelled from paradise, more was  perceived as hellish or fearful. Less of love was extended. More of
D:Day36.10 God, yet continued to relate only to a world and to experiences you  perceived as being either created by a separate God or created by
D:Day37.13 you. So you have been being the particular self you have “known” or  perceived yourself to be—the self you were defined as at birth—a
D:Day37.16 of the relative. This is not only a relationship in separation but a  perceived relationship only—and only because you do not believe
A.2 self-love. This could also be expressed as returning you from your  perceived state of separation to your true state of union. Learning

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C:25.5 feel each and every absence of love? The problem is in the  perceiver rather than the perceived. Each time you feel a lack of
D:Day12.8 Not all forms will be met as obstacles. Forms are only as real as the  perceiver perceives them to be. Thus your space will effortlessly
D:Day12.8 for it has no space available for joining. What is a boundary to a  perceiver is met as an obstacle by the spacious self. Obstacles need
D:Day12.8 obstacle is thus enfolded in the space, becoming one with it. The  perceiver knows not of the enfolding but feels no hurt nor lessening
D:Day12.8 spirit by becoming invisible within the space. The solidity of the  perceiver is, in this manner, deflected from the One Self, becoming
D:Day12.8 from the One Self, becoming not an obstacle. The open space of the  perceiver who sees not with perception only, and holds not his or her
D:Day12.8 or her boundaries solid, is joined rather than deflected. The open  perceiver may or may not know of this enfolding, but may realize a

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D:Day12.8 will be met as obstacles. Forms are only as real as the perceiver  perceives them to be. Thus your space will effortlessly join with the

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C:21.7 viewing a situation, even if you do not label one way of viewing or  perceiving being of the mind and the other of the heart. And you
T2:6.9 to what has always been. You are changing the world you perceive by  perceiving a new world. You are changing from who you have thought
D:Day37.13 power of being which is the power of thought, feeling, creating, and  perceiving or knowing.
D:Day37.16 you are simply being. You are being a feeling, thinking, creating,  perceiving human being because this is what you believe yourself to
D:Day37.17 you are, as a being, just as capable of knowing as you are of  perceiving. In separation, however, the only known can be the self.
D:Day37.27 been being is being. You have been a feeling, thinking, creating,  perceiving being. The “part” of God you have not been being is union.

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C:22.12 layers of yourself. These layers protect your heart, and a great  percentage of them are involved with denial, with creating places

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D:7.8 nature of form is that it exists as matter, it occupies space and is  perceptible to the senses. You have previously seen this one aspect
D:7.8 it from mind, heart, and spirit—those aspects that are not  perceptible to the senses. But let me repeat that all that lives is

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C:P.25 While the Holy Spirit was properly called upon to change your  perception and show you the false from the true, your recognition of
C:1.12 for what is like yourself is to yearn for your Creator and, when  perception is healed, to create like your Creator. This yearning
C:2.21 success. All you have learned is still with you regardless of your  perception of the outcome of your learning. Your perception of an
C:2.21 regardless of your perception of the outcome of your learning. Your  perception of an outcome within your control is all that needs to
C:4.11 love can fail, be lost, withdrawn, or turned to hate. Your false  perception of your Father is what has caused all other perceptions to
C:4.18 or the way your days will end. Love is all that is set apart in your  perception from what you do here. You think this setting apart gives
C:4.24 Thus has your  perception of love prepared you for what love is. For within you is
C:6.7 to help you learn to perceive correctly, and from there to go beyond  perception to the truth.
C:7.18 heart. Your heart already sees in a manner much more whole than the  perception of your split mind. Even your language and images reflect
C:8.1 what we will now work with, separating as we do the truth from your  perception of it.
C:8.12 fight it to protect your own secrets from revelation. This faulty  perception of union would keep you from the goal you seek, the goal
C:9.12 As stated before, what is most useful to us now is your  perception of your heart. Your illusions concerning it, when undone,
C:9.13 We thus return to your  perception of your emotions and all that causes you to feel. In your
C:9.18 learn to see relationship differently. As with all your problems in  perception, fear is what blocks the vision of your heart, the light
C:9.35 not the sins you hold against yourself, but merely your errors in  perception. Correction, or atonement, returns you to your natural
C:11.4 you have failed to learn what love is. Neither can happen. And your  perception that either can will shut out all ideas of union.
C:11.10 you to the life of desperation that you live. But your strongest  perception of your free will is of its power. No matter what God
C:11.13 of your free will is why we must separate willingness from your  perception of free will. Your free will is the last bastion of your
C:12.9 Self to you. You have one brother who wears but many faces in your  perception of who he is, and while you know him not you cannot know
C:15.8 faith, and where you set your faith is as much a determiner of your  perception as is your concept of separation. All change seems to
C:16.16 as the parent of a defiant child becomes the enemy in the child’s  perception.
C:16.22 power that is their own instead of looking for it elsewhere. Your  perception but looks at power backward and wonders why God has
C:17.4 would change the nature of the universe itself. It will change your  perception of it. This is both what you desire and what you fear just
C:18.1 the problem. It is but the story of perception’s birth. And your  perception of the fall makes of the fall a curse. This interpretation
C:18.7 This is the error birthed by  perception, before which there was no possibility of
C:18.7 hope of fulfilling the function it was created to fulfill. But when  perception changes and a thing is seen as what it is, then it cannot
C:18.10 perfect sense, you find it quite unbelievable on the basis of your  perception of yourself and the limited range of power you believe
C:18.12  Perception of levels is a function of time, and thus it seems that
C:19.23 aim of which you are currently capable is that of changing your  perception. Although our ultimate goal is to move beyond perception
C:19.23 your perception. Although our ultimate goal is to move beyond  perception to knowledge, a first step in doing this is changing your
C:19.23 to knowledge, a first step in doing this is changing your means of  perception to that of right-mindedness. Your willingness to accept me
C:19.23 for the realization to come to you that your mind, and your  perception, can be changed. This is necessary before you can look
C:19.24 Spirit exists in your right mind, and is the bridge to exchanging  perception for knowledge. Knowledge is light, and the only light in
C:20.47 separating yourself from the whole. These concerns are a matter of  perception, and are things your mind has been trained to see as being
C:21.7 conflict has at its root the problem of language as determined by  perception. This is a problem of meaning. Mind and heart interpret
C:21.8 cause of the conflict that arises between mind and heart is the  perception of internal and external differences in meaning. In
C:23.16 Freeing your  perception from your nearly immutable belief in form will allow for
C:23.18 exercises the combined capabilities of mind and heart. It is akin to  perception, and can lead the way in changing how you perceive of
C:27.14 “should” be happening rather than what is happening. It looks past  perception of “others” to relationship and wholeness. To live in
C:29.13 how busy your schedule, it is only a schedule in terms of your  perception of it. Your schedule is just another way of saying your
C:30.11 This belief in gain and loss is a cornerstone of your system of  perception viewed from a stance of “if this, then that.” It rules the
C:30.14 the laws of man have not usurped the laws of God. It is only in your  perception that the laws of man take precedence over the laws of God.
C:30.14 that the laws of man take precedence over the laws of God. Since  perception arises from the mind, we must now discuss the mind.
C:31.11 The purpose of the mind is extension. Thus, the upside-down  perception that causes you to protect your private thoughts and see
C:31.11 This is the only true source of conflict. And, yet again, your  perception of your thoughts as yourself is the closest answer to the
T1:6.7 Memory is valuable to us now because it relies not on  perception. If perception were all that were available to you, each
T1:6.7 Memory is valuable to us now because it relies not on perception. If  perception were all that were available to you, each experience would
T1:6.9 oneness is accomplished is that divine memories arise to replace  perception. This is miracle-mindedness. The accomplishment of this
T2:9.7 think. That some seem to have more needs than others is a fallacy of  perception. Not one has more needs than another.
T2:9.15 bypass the ego-mind? They heretofore have not, only because of your  perception of them as signals of what you are lacking. Once this
T2:9.15 perception of them as signals of what you are lacking. Once this  perception has shifted, your ego-mind will cease to be fed by these
T2:11.4 is your form will remain with you until your death. But while your  perception of your body as your identity and your home has given way
T3:1.8 of illusion as the truth of who you are is what has led to your  perception of the world of suffering and strife that you have seen.
T3:11.14 used here and why we now refrain from use of the word perceive.  Perception is gone as soon as you truly see.
T3:17.2 creation includes the naming of creatures. It was the beginning of  perception and of the idea that what was observable was “other than”
T4:4.14 the return of true vision. True vision sees life-everlasting where  perception but saw finite life and mortal bodies. Once vision and
T4:6.7 While consciousness of what is leaves not the room for error that  perception leaves, it leaves open room for creation. In each moment,
D:4.4 is an excellent example of a system you created with your faulty  perception. As with all systems, it reflects an inward state and
D:4.15 was upon the foundation of this and other thought systems that your  perception developed. Through contrast, you identified and classified
D:6.2 the true, fear to love—in order to point out the insanity of your  perception and the perfect sanity of the truth. For some of you the
D:6.2 ideas—ideas that many of you attached to form rather than to your  perception of form—must be rejected.
D:6.6 have made are only distinct from what was originally created in your  perception of what they are or what you have determined their use to
D:6.7 It is your  perception of the forms around you as non-living forms that cause
D:7.21 to the stimulus of matter upon matter, and of the creature’s  perception of its own experience in time. This time-bound evolution
D:Day4.15 you with the “given” world as opposed to the world of your  perception, what we might call a world-view attained through learning.
D:Day4.19 be as I am. I asked them to live—not in the world of their former  perception, in a world-view that was taught to them—but to live in
D:Day9.12 It arose from comparison. It arose from seeking. It arose from your  perception of lack.
D:Day12.7 that is perceived rather than known. Christ-consciousness replaces  perception with knowing, form with space.
D:Day12.8 not an obstacle. The open space of the perceiver who sees not with  perception only, and holds not his or her boundaries solid, is joined
D:Day12.9 of being deflected for their boundaries have not been made solid by  perception. A seeming obstacle of non-human form is easily enfolded
D:Day16.15 your awareness. This created the separate and the unloved in your  perception, and your perception created an unreal reality of the
D:Day16.15 created the separate and the unloved in your perception, and your  perception created an unreal reality of the separate and unloved,
D:Day36.15 To be a being of feeling, thought, creativity and knowing or  perception is to be one in being with God. Accept this, for this is
D:Day37.4 This could not help but be your  perception since you came into being in a known world, where you were
D:Day37.14 creative, or you may not. You may realize the extent to which your  perception of the world shapes your life, or you may not.
D:Day37.17  Perception and knowing have been used together here in describing the
A.2 to your true state of union. Learning is needed only until  perception is cured. The perception of your separated state was the
A.2 of union. Learning is needed only until perception is cured. The  perception of your separated state was the illusion for which a cure
A.3  Perception is the result of learning. Perception is learning.
A.3 Perception is the result of learning.  Perception is learning.
A.4 Since the mind is the realm of  perception we have taken a step away from the realm of perception by
A.4 the realm of perception we have taken a step away from the realm of  perception by appealing to the heart and the heart’s ability to learn
A.5 through the application of thought and effort that creates the  perception of this Course’s difficulty. Thus it is said to you to
A.19 stood between you and your own inner knowing, caught in a dream of  perception.

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C:18.1 event, a story that describes the problem. It is but the story of  perception’s birth. And your perception of the fall makes of the fall

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C:4.11 Your expectations and false  perceptions of your brothers and sisters are what have caused you to
C:4.11 Your false perception of your Father is what has caused all other  perceptions to be false, including the one you hold of your own Self.
C:8.10 Even those of you whose  perceptions remain quite faulty know that there is a difference
C:18.16 as one mind. To say this to you before we loosened some of your  perceptions about the supremacy of the mind, however, would have been
D:Day4.52 like bargaining with God. These things are only reactions to faulty  perceptions, only the steps toward acceptance until they are accepted.
A.8 in a new way. You are beginning to know yourself without the  perceptions and the judgments of the mind. You are beginning to know
A.17 cannot be helped, fixed, or shown the inaccuracies of their  perceptions. Their perceptions will remain true for them because
A.17 helped, fixed, or shown the inaccuracies of their perceptions. Their  perceptions will remain true for them because their minds have told

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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
C:12.11 All of creation seems to hum along in  perfect harmony. The stars light up the sky, the sun and moon do what
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 fear.
C:18.6 a need go unfulfilled. As soon as the need for learning arose, the  perfect means to fulfill that need was established. You have simply
C:18.10 While this explanation makes  perfect sense, you find it quite unbelievable on the basis of your
C:18.22 to it. This circular relationship between you and the body is the  perfect relationship for the purpose of learning, since both the
C:18.22 and because the learner can choose both. It is not, however, the  perfect relationship when you have misperceived the body as your home
C:19.1 To glorify a learning device makes no sense. And yet in creating the  perfect device from which you could experience separation, all such
C:20.41 given is that which will serve your purpose. You could have no more  perfect gifts, for your gifts are expressions of your Father’s
C:20.41 more perfect gifts, for your gifts are expressions of your Father’s  perfect love for you. Look deep inside and feel your heart’s
C:20.42 perfection. If you would not be other than you are, then you must be  perfect. This is a conclusion both logical to the mind and believable
C:26.22 idea of you is all that is known about you. God’s idea of you is  perfect, and until now your form has been but an imperfect
C:31.31 is what is. What is not the truth is illusion. Does this not make  perfect sense?
C:31.32 It is in this  perfect sense of the perfect sanity of truth that salvation lies.
C:31.32 It is in this perfect sense of the  perfect sanity of truth that salvation lies. Salvation is simply your
T1:4.13 and still fail to give love? Can a dancer not struggle mightily to  perfect her talent without experiencing its joy?
T1:5.3 Love that the great paradox of creation is that, while creation is  perfect, something has gone wrong within it, this fear in relation to
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 meaningless
T3:18.3 that will allow you to exist as who you are in human form. See what  perfect sense this makes as your human form is an observable form. It
T3:18.3 observable form that the final learning will take place. This is the  perfect example of using what you have made for a new purpose. It is
T3:18.3 example of using what you have made for a new purpose. It is the  perfect ending for the desired experience, as it was the goal of the
T3:20.5 and thus seeing the errors of the old way in order to realize the  perfect sense of the new.
T4:7.4 it free of judgment. They will not seek to create their version of a  perfect world and to force it upon others, but will abide within the
T4:7.4 perfect world and to force it upon others, but will abide within the  perfect world that is in the vision of Christ-consciousness. This
T4:7.4 perfect world that is in the vision of Christ-consciousness. This  perfect world will be observable to them and in them. It will be
T4:7.6 harmony to your body. Sustaining this harmony will keep your body in  perfect health, even while the manner of this perfection of your
T4:7.7 good health. Your poor health is no cause for judgment, as it is the  perfect health, now, in the past, and in the future, to bring you the
T4:7.7 of all conditions of all learning everywhere. The conditions are  perfect for optimal learning. This is the nature of the universe.
T4:7.7 learning. This is the nature of the universe. These conditions are  perfect not only for individual learning, but for shared learning,
T4:8.9 always knew what your mind chose to rebel against: that creation is  perfect. Your mind, being of God, was constrained by the learning
T4:8.10 storm arising on the horizon, growing out of atmospheric conditions  perfect to generate its violence? What do you, who are parents, do
T4:12.34 but kept creation’s power harnessed to the old. Does this not make  perfect sense when you realize that creation, like God, is not “other
D:1.16 will help you now to do is to reject this insanity and to accept the  perfect sanity of the truth.
D:2.4 needed nor appropriate. While it was once a pattern whose design was  perfect for the desired end, continuation of this pattern will but
D:2.5 An example of a pattern whose design was  perfect for the desired end is that of formal education. Education
D:5.20 environment, your mind, and time as a prison, how can it exist in  perfect harmony with the universe? As you can see, you are now
D:6.2 love—in order to point out the insanity of your perception and the  perfect sanity of the truth. For some of you the repetition of the
D:6.5 Like all that was created for the time of learning, the body was the  perfect learning device. Seeing it as such assisted us in bringing
D:6.23 The first example of the body we presented newly was that of the  perfect design of the joining provided through sexual intercourse—a
D:6.26 time. Outside of time and form your Self has always existed in the  perfect harmony in which it was created. Now that your Self has
D:15.18 will still occur, that maintenance will not make the connection  perfect, but that it will keep it of service to you.
D:Day4.54 you! Nothing can hold you back except fear! You do not have to be  perfect—perfect is but a label, and all labels of any type cause is
D:Day4.54 can hold you back except fear! You do not have to be perfect—  perfect is but a label, and all labels of any type cause is delay.
D:Day4.55 his own homecoming. Do you think he would have considered himself  perfect as he approached his father’s presence? Surely he would not
D:Day9.25 beauty of expression in all its forms. You have a given form that is  perfect for your expression of the beauty and truth of who you are.
D:Day10.12 from the body. The body is the “given” form and while it was the  perfect vehicle for learning in the time of learning, it is now being
D:Day10.12 in the time of learning, it is now being transformed into the  perfect vehicle for the realization of the elevated Self of form.
D:Day27.12 of degrees away from the ideal. The “temperature” was thus never  perfect, but rather always either too hot or too cold. Yet the
D:Day27.12 never perfect, but rather always either too hot or too cold. Yet the  perfect temperature always existed, you just did not experience it.
A.22 separate self behind. What will be demonstrated and shared is the  perfect logic of the heart, and that abandonment of the old way will

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C:19.12 was not achieved at all times by all those who believed in me—and  perfection is not asked of you. As can be clearly seen from the
C:20.42 would not be other than who you are. Herein lie your peace and your  perfection. If you would not be other than you are, then you must be
C:20.43 To believe in your  perfection and the equality of your gifts is peaceful because it
C:20.43 because you know that your brothers and sisters are also beings of  perfection. When you begin to see them as such, what you will receive
C:31.9 need but look at creation’s projection to understand the nature of  perfection and your own Self as Creator and Created. Being part of
T2:1.4 of relief in having learned that who you are right now is a being of  perfection, and you may find in this a somewhat peaceful resting
T4:6.5 of what is that is Christ-consciousness. It is a vision of the  perfection of creation. It is a vision of unity and relationship in
T4:7.6 will keep your body in perfect health, even while the manner of this  perfection of your health will remain one of many options.
D:Day4.57 reached some ideal of enlightenment or what you might think of as  perfection. If this were asked of you, how many of you would have
D:Day4.57 you would have felt free to join me? Yet in your acceptance is your  perfection realized without judgment. In your becoming is your
D:Day6.10 to reach this oneness is without value. Each stage contains the  perfection of that stage. Each stage contains the whole and each
D:Day39.45 Do not expect  perfection, only union. Do not expect sainthood, only Godhood. Do not
A.25 again the very difficult transition away from striving. In unity,  perfection is the reality. Your reality is union. Thus no striving
A.25 reality. Your reality is union. Thus no striving for either unity or  perfection is necessary. The “answer” for those in need of

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C:19.1 of the body as a learning device, and as a learning device it was  perfectly created. The problem lies in what you have, in your
T1:1.5 learning experience arises, you will, if you trust your heart, be  perfectly able to identify illusion and truth. This is a simple act
T3:2.11 that a reason has been given here and that this reason, while  perfectly believable, is not one that includes a need to abandon your
T3:7.5 experience of meaning was the ego. Thus, with the ego gone, you are  perfectly capable of representing the truth of who you are and
D:12.17 about your way of thinking being insane is true. You think it is  perfectly sane to go through life without knowing anything “beyond a
D:13.5 of everything in parts and details and particulars. While you are  perfectly capable of coming to know in wholeness, a way that is

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C:25.10 To be in concert, just as to  perform a concert, is contingent on harmony. It is being in agreement
T1:3.9 and it came to be, you would then have to contemplate your power to  perform miracles. Here you find your greatest fear of all; fear of
T1:3.10 leads to conviction. The apostles had no faith in their ability to  perform miracles. The faith they showed was in their willingness to
T1:3.11 As great as the fear of miracles is, the fear of not being able to  perform is greater. You think of this as a test and one you can pass
T1:3.17 to having them performed through you. Your lack of willingness to  perform miracles, you will say, stems from your unworthiness to
T1:3.17 to perform miracles, you will say, stems from your unworthiness to  perform miracles. Your unworthiness stems from your belief that you
T1:3.22 fear as well that you do not know what miracles are and thus cannot  perform them. You want a definition first. What is an appropriate
D:Day4.31 thinks of the requirements of the athletic task he is about to  perform, fails to perform with excellence. Why? Because a film of the
D:Day4.31 requirements of the athletic task he is about to perform, fails to  perform with excellence. Why? Because a film of the unnatural is
D:Day6.23 needed for the accomplishment of the tasks he or she is to  perform. But often it is only when the teacher steps aside, and the
D:Day6.23 that the apprentice is in a position to be able to begin to  perform with any certainty. Even learning is accelerated by hands-on

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D:Day6.24 to prolong your time as an apprentice by being removed from the  performance of your tasks? Perhaps you would. But as has been stated

performances (1)

T2:1.9 trade are available. An aspiring pianist imagines a grand piano and  performances in a magnificent concert hall or a little spinet that

performed (1)

T1:3.17 you will say you have no objections to miracles, only to having them  performed through you. Your lack of willingness to perform miracles,

performing (2)

T1:3.23 of grandeur not meant for you. Here your thoughts might stray to the  performing of many miracles. What a media circus that would be. You
T3:6.3 Reward is intricately tied to your notions of being good,  performing deeds of merit, and taking care of, or surviving, the many

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C:I.8 and fight the logic of the heart. The mind will seek new rules and  perhaps be willing to rearrange its reality once again.
C:P.11 Self as God created you, you are abdicating love to fear. You are  perhaps making this world a better place but you are not abolishing
C:4.12 in your mind of someone you believe knows what love is. This is  perhaps an elderly person who is always kind and gentle, with no
C:4.12 word for anyone, and no concern for his or her own self. This is  perhaps a mother whose love is blind and self-sacrificing. Still
C:6.10 too sterile. To have every day the same would be uninteresting now.  Perhaps later. Maybe when you are old and have grown weary of the
C:6.10 Maybe when you are old and have grown weary of the world. Then  perhaps you will sit in the sun.
C:6.20 placed upon those who remain? You imagine them still in bodily form,  perhaps, yet you imagine them happy and at peace. Even those who
C:8.11 stance rather than from the grace-filled place of union.  Perhaps you are thinking now that if you knew how this union worked
C:8.12 to address. You would see into another’s mind and heart in order  perhaps to help them, but also to have power over them. Whatever you
C:8.18 to recognize the surface element of your existence, you are  perhaps more aware than ever before of being in a particular place
C:10.32 not what you signed on for. You just want to read about this Course,  perhaps, and not be required to take it. You will want to keep it
C:11.9 be grateful to Him for some things and blame Him for others. Yes,  perhaps this God you think you know has given you everything, but He
C:12.11 seems 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
C:12.12 of you? You, too, seem to have remained the same for countless ages.  Perhaps you believe that long ago you evolved from a form different
C:12.17 birthed one day, does not seem to have been there the day before.  Perhaps it is the idea of taking a trip or having a baby, of
C:12.19 be the shape of his life, the things that would happen within it,  perhaps the places in which it would occur or the people that would
C:14.15 everything that you consider valuable you could not wait to share.  Perhaps you think the desire to keep things for yourself stems from
C:15.4 not stop with what would bring misery to your own mind and heart.  Perhaps the leader of some impoverished country brings misery to
C:19.9 yourself and a few others rather than belovedness for all. But now,  perhaps, you are ready.
C:26.3 in the life of a person, except in instances of great dichotomy,  perhaps best expressed in the life of the tragic hero. This
C:26.17 This is  perhaps disappointing to you, but it is all that is required. If you
C:26.24 all is known, the story is over except in memory and reflection and  perhaps in speculation. What might a sequel reveal?
T1:2.13 displayed, to see the horizon. It is to see the surrounding area,  perhaps to see the play of clouds among the descending rays, perhaps
T1:2.13 area, perhaps to see the play of clouds among the descending rays,  perhaps to feel the warmth or chill of an evening. The whole
T1:6.4 only through a specific means of communication. You can see,  perhaps, how this attitude toward prayer came about, as it is, like
T1:10.7 will be giving up nothing. It will seem as if it is so for a while  perhaps. You will continue to be attracted to those living at the
T2:9.5 It is  perhaps best seen in the contrast implied by the intent to hang on.
T3:1.7 has been replaced by the thought system of unity and you are left,  perhaps, feeling unsure of the part you are now to play. There is not
T3:1.7 as the transformation to which you have been called. These changes,  perhaps, seem like little things—a change in attitude here, a
T3:4.8 proceed with fear you will assemble a new ego-self, an ego-self that  perhaps will seem superior to the old, but which will nonetheless
T4:2.22 wholeness of the pattern of creation. You have believed in God and  perhaps in some concept of unity or oneness, but you have also denied
T4:5.13 If you have believed in any kind of afterlife at all, you have  perhaps thought of the afterlife as having two sides. Some have
T4:8.7 a moment yourself as a being whose every thought became manifest, as  perhaps you can envision from remembering your dreams in which
T4:10.2 to give up learning you will meet resistance and realize, for  perhaps the first time, that learning is what your entire life has
T4:12.14 to this state and that you would continue to need to learn, and to  perhaps suffer from, the conditions of learning!
D:6.6 think this is an easily drawn distinction—and it is—it is not  perhaps as you have previously seen it, for everything that exists in
D:6.12 to the sun and a demonstration that the sun need not rise—or  perhaps need not set—and the earth would still be safely spinning
D:7.27 a circle 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
D:7.28 of the city, state, and country you occupy. You have an address,  perhaps a yard, or farm, perhaps a public spot that has become a
D:7.28 country you occupy. You have an address, perhaps a yard, or farm,  perhaps a public spot that has become a favorite park or lake or
D:7.28 faces. You visit the homes of friends and relatives, your church,  perhaps a school or library, certain restaurants or places of civic
D:16.12 or process and it should not be seen as a cause for disappointment.  Perhaps you thought you were beyond this point of becoming. And yet,
D:Day2.17 to believe that by following me you will not walk in my footsteps.  Perhaps you will be granted eternal life, but not until you have
D:Day3.18 any anger now, pay attention to its effect on you. You can feel,  perhaps, the strain and tension in your stomach, back and neck.
D:Day3.39 through the responsiveness of the relationship that is unity. You  perhaps desired an answer that “came to you” through no process you
D:Day3.39 familiarity with the pattern of learning through the mind, you can  perhaps see why these first revelations of union would come to you in
D:Day3.47 of certainty, no matter how much knowledge it attains. What you have  perhaps begun to see in similar terms, is that money is also not the
D:Day4.25 available to you, even within your religious institutions. You feel,  perhaps, that you did not try hard enough, or pay enough attention to
D:Day5.2 For each of you this access point will in truth be the same, but  perhaps quite different in the action which you use in order to enter
D:Day6.24 an apprentice by being removed from the performance of your tasks?  Perhaps you would. But as has been stated from the beginning, there
D:Day15.26 different from the others with whom you are coming to know, and  perhaps quite different than you thought it would be. You will be
D:Day19.1 manifest in the world. In other words, you know not what to do. You  perhaps see no “specific” accomplishment in your future, but see
D:Day19.1 in the world and accomplish certain functions within the world. You  perhaps feel function-less and purposeless at times, while at other
D:Day20.2 your relationship with the unknown and ceased to fear it. You are,  perhaps, even eager now, to move beyond the known to the unknown. You
D:Day20.2 even eager now, to move beyond the known to the unknown. You are  perhaps eager without fully realizing that this eagerness symbolizes
D:Day20.4 When you read what has been written here, you  perhaps think this is a contradiction, for surely you have been told
D:Day20.4 and have been sharing in this dialogue. The way of saying this  perhaps is new, but the way of saying this is the expression of the
D:Day20.4 The way in which you are hearing and responding to these truths is  perhaps new, but that way too is of the human being receiving it, in
D:Day21.6 itself is a channel and that you are constantly receiving. You still  perhaps think in terms of receiving meaning that there is something
D:Day22.2 been used to indicate an intermediary function. The channeler was  perhaps seen as a mediator between the living and the dead or the
D:Day32.5 You might think of God granting free will to His creations. Then,  perhaps, you might think of God resting, or standing back and
D:Day32.6 created? Thinking that He’d like to make adjustments here or there,  perhaps, but no, He has already granted free will so He can’t do
D:Day32.9 He live as the spirit within us, and as such have some small role,  perhaps akin to that of what we refer to as our conscience? What kind
D:Day32.13 seen as the All Powerful, man is disenfranchised. Even while God is  perhaps seen in all things, or as the spirit by which all that lives,
D:Day36.19 You can see, now,  perhaps, why we have had to build your awareness slowly in order for
D:Day40.17 You would  perhaps beg to differ now, and ask of me, “Are you not who you are
D:Day40.18 You would  perhaps beg to differ here, and say that regardless of what I say,
D:Day40.26  Perhaps you have noticed that in yesterday’s discussion of who I Am
E.4 You have returned to your true nature.  Perhaps you will remember that within A Course of Love you were once
A.16 Can students be misguided? Is there, in other words,  perhaps no “right” answer or correct interpretation, but “wrong”

peril (1)

A.32 letting-go of each old pattern or situation that seems fraught with  peril, a cloud of despair will lift, a little more of darkness

perilous (1)

T4:8.11 as in extreme cases you see that you cannot stop your child from  perilous behavior save by taking away their freedom through the most

period (11)

C:23.24 These learning opportunities call for a  period of engagement with life. Many of you will have begun to
C:23.24 have led you to turn inward and attempt to disengage from life. A  period of engagement with life cannot be avoided, however, and your
C:27.5 You have been caught in a cycle of seeing the self as important for a  period of time and then seeing the self as unimportant for a period
C:27.5 for a period of time and then seeing the self as unimportant for a  period of time. Seeing the self as important seems at one time like a
T2:7.20 in truth changes the function of time as you know it. There is not a  period of waiting or a period of time between giving and receiving.
T2:7.20 of time as you know it. There is not a period of waiting or a  period of time between giving and receiving. There is not a
T3:14.2 ideas of blame into ideas of benevolence. Thus you might, after this  period of translation, rather than cursing your station in life and
T4:12.12 was that he saw the dawning of his contentment as the sign that one  period of learning was over and that it was time to move on to the
D:Day3.49 in order to bring money or abundance flowing to you. All that this  period of bargaining represents is yet another stage in your movement
D:Day3.50 This is often a hopeful  period and it, too, is not without value. You may have many good and
D:Day18.3 of Jesus that are still applicable and appropriate in this final  period are those of acceptance and of being an example life.

periods (2)

T1:9.13 you have learned this Course? Has it not seemed to lie dormant for  periods of time and then to suddenly be called back to life through
T4:2.23 connections that feel real with like-minded associates for brief  periods of time, but still essentially seeing yourself moving through

perish (4)

C:14.16 and you are everything in it. Do you not believe that were you to  perish something quite unique would be lost to the world? You are
C:16.13 and if you do not watch out for your own safety, surely you will  perish. Yet while you watch vigilantly you know that you cannot
C:16.20 evidence for. It is all around you. The strong survive and the weak  perish. The mighty prevail, and so define what is right for all those
T4:12.17 tell you that the strong survive, the mighty prevail, the weak shall  perish. I attempted to dislodge much of this learned wisdom during my

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D:Day5.1 has been unlocked and passed through. Even though it will not be  permanently needed, however, this point of access will remain crucial

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A.48 Go forth not as completed works of art but as  permeable energy, ever changing, ever creating, ever new. Go forth

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C:7.21 you is not known at all. You thus cling to the one sure thing that  permeates your existence: the knowledge that death will claim you and

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D:4.23 have asked, and because you have asked I am telling you, that the  permission you seek must come from your own heart and from your
D:Day9.4 Allow freedom to reign, for it is your allowance, your choice, your  permission, that will make it so. The only one who can stop you now
D:Day9.4 make it so. The only one who can stop you now is yourself. The only  permission you ever needed was your own.

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C:6.10 clouds that block the sun. Without all of these, what would life be?  Perpetual sunshine would be too easy, too lacking in imagination, too

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T3:13.5 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

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D:Day5.19 cannot be learned, for if it could be, the time of learning would be  perpetuated rather than ended.

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D:Day9.28 —and you—should be! Can you not see the extreme urgency of not  perpetuating such a practice?

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C:25.19 may feel frustrating and be tinged with anxiety, anger, confusion,  perplexity, even rage. You will doubt that these are the proper

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C:3.5 there before you, in glory beyond your deepest imaginings. Yet you  persist in wanting only what your eyes can see and hands can hold.
D:Day15.13 is all that is required. If doubts of your readiness continue to  persist, remember that doubt is caused by fear. Examine what you

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C:10.7 but messages of an outside source! Your own thoughts are much more  persistent and insistent than these. They have been with you longer

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C:P.11 it. In your acceptance of doing good works and being a good  person, you are accepting ministry to those in hell rather than
C:P.19 and will not ever feel as if you have earned, the designation of a  person of such worth that you are deserving of all that God would
C:2.2 God. Everything real is of God. Nothing unreal exists. Each  person passing from this life to the next learns no great secret.
C:2.8 and thereby condemn themselves to purposeless lives, convinced one  person among billions makes no difference and is of no consequence.
C:4.12 someone you believe knows what love is. This is perhaps an elderly  person who is always kind and gentle, with no cross word for anyone,
C:4.12 others of you might imagine a couple long married in which each  person is devoted to the other’s happiness, or a father whose love is
C:4.16 You believe you can fall in love with the wrong  person and make a better choice based upon criteria more important
C:7.1 succeeds where you have failed. “I could have been where that  person is if not for the unfairness of life,” you wail. Your mind
C:8.11 other objectives as well. You would like to be a problem solver, a  person who could, as in a court of law, separate right from wrong,
C:9.40 seek it there, and scurry on to the next thing and the next. Each  person runs this race alone, with hope only of victory for himself.
C:10.9 your true Self, as you gain more awareness of yourself as a “good”  person and one trying to be better still, you will begin to look for
C:12.19 life of the one participating in it, it would not change who that  person was, or who his father was, or the nature of the family he was
C:13.2 one thing: Ask yourself what you already know of the spirit of the  person you observe. You will be amazed at the knowledge you already
C:15.1 rather than a status symbol. Without a desire for specialness, a  person would have no need for status at all. Beauty would be what it
C:15.1 not what products would make it. Without a desire for specialness, a  person would have no need for products at all. Wealth would be the
C:22.16 you as you are within your world. Would you still be the same  person in a laboratory? Are you still who you are when another takes
C:23.7 love another, that love does not cause you to want to be the other  person. That love causes you to want to have a relationship with the
C:23.7 That love causes you to want to have a relationship with the other  person. This should tell you something about the nature of love.
C:23.8 When obsessively in love you may want the other  person to be you, but rarely the other way around. This is what has
C:25.12 lack, to believe in your state of grace. While you believe even one  person is against you, you are not in concert with God. While you
C:25.13 every disappointment or disillusion, every attack and every hurt, a  person you believe acted toward you without love. While you believe
C:25.19 even rage. You will doubt that these are the proper feelings of a  person living love. Yet they are common feelings of unlearning, and
C:26.3 Few recognize the tragedy in the life of a  person, except in instances of great dichotomy, perhaps best
C:30.7 in finite life, in being born into a body and dying to the body. The  person who knows, truly knows, the simplest truth of the identity of
T1:3.17 that you are “only” human. You are not God. You are not a holy  person. Thus miracles should not flow through you.
T1:6.7 Without memory, what you learned one day would be gone the next. A  person you met one day you would not know the next. Thus memory
T2:7.13 illusion that surrounds you. You cannot, in other words, be a good  person in a bad world. You cannot effect change without, without
T2:9.4 you, or from outside of you. You assign the meeting of a need to a  person or system or organization. You as often feel indebted as you
T2:10.7 being told that you have exactly the same knowledge as does every  person of every variety and level of experience. Yet no one can know
T3:3.9 you do not want to put the effort into being good enough. Like a  person who believes she has a weight problem and knows a diet would
T3:8.8 attached to bitterness is a reflection of the belief that one  person, and surely not you, can make a difference. If you could
T3:14.2 fragile states would be sure to feel threatened by some situation or  person and judgment would return to label what is happening as “bad.”
T3:14.9 that throughout your life have been made in love and made of you a  person you would not be other than. You will also clearly see all of
T3:19.12 system. No victim is to blame for the violence done to them. No sick  person is to blame for the illness within them. But you must be able
T3:21.6 illusion. It is called a personal self because it is attached to a  person. A person is a being born into time, a being whose existence
T3:21.6 It is called a personal self because it is attached to a person. A  person is a being born into time, a being whose existence began in
T3:21.9 These facts are subject to change and mean one thing to one  person and one thing to another. Illusion is symbolic. And what’s
T3:21.15 thoughts and ideas about the world you live in and the “type” of  person you feel you have chosen to be within that world. Whether you
T3:21.22 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 someone older. And
T3:21.23 simply being said that they do not matter. It will not matter if a  person turns to someone “like” him- or herself to find the truth, or
T3:21.23 turns to someone “like” him- or herself to find the truth, or if a  person turns to someone totally “unlike” him- or herself to find the
T4:2.30 you have come to recognize unity. You do not any longer see each  person and event as separate, with no relation to the whole. You are
D:1.10 and the personal self has floundered from this lack of identity. A  person could literally die during this time from lack of identity,
D:1.24 Your Self is not the  person you have been since birth. Your body does not contain you.
D:6.19 When a  person who has exhibited healthy habits get sick, you think it is
D:6.19 exhibited healthy habits get sick, you think it is unfair. When a  person who has exhibited unhealthy habits gets sick, you think, even
D:6.19 but still you would cling to them because you would believe the  person of healthy habits has a greater chance of not getting sick
D:6.19 of healthy habits has a greater chance of not getting sick than the  person of unhealthy habits. Again we could go into countless examples
D:12.2 You may have pictured the  person who first received these words as receiving them either
D:12.4 with the spoken word. When you enter into dialogue with another  person, you listen, you hear, and you respond. This is exactly what
D:12.8 “entering into” dialogue. When you enter into dialogue with another  person you “hear” what it is they have to say. You “hear” their
D:Day3.1 it is the next step in the continuum upon which we travel. When a  person is dying, just as when a person is undergoing this final
D:Day3.1 upon which we travel. When a person is dying, just as when a  person is undergoing this final surrender, there are stages through
D:Day5.17 is not about becoming clones or one specific type of idealized holy  person. Union is being fully who you are and expressing fully who you
D:Day6.23 some other endeavor in which you apprenticed. In such a situation a  person is taught and shown the skills and activities needed for the
D:Day10.19 have not realized this sameness in yourself. This sameness of the  person you are and Christ-consciousness, of union and presence, of
D:Day10.27 the spirit is free of the body. Yet if you were to think now of a  person whom you know who has died, you would not be likely to think
D:Day10.28 continue with this idea a while longer as you consider a particular  person you fondly remember from life and how you have thought of him
D:Day10.28 of him or her since death. Do you not occasionally think that this  person would be happy or sad to see you in the state you are in when
D:Day22.3 a means to provide, or channel, availability to everyone. What each  person channels is unique and only available through their
D:Day37.3 not a man, you are a human being and not a divine being, you are a  person and not a tree. As a separate being, you only relate to other
D:Day37.4 came into being in a known world, where you were told that you are a  person with a certain name, that you belong to a family, all of whom
D:Day37.17 you are separate? You can imagine what it means to “know” another  person, to be a tree blowing in the wind, what it would be like to

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C:26.20 is not the same as any other. No matter how filled with wisdom one  person’s answer may be, it is not yours.
T1:3.18 to ask for a life to be spared, how would you know it was not that  person’s “time to die”? If you were to ask for the cure of a disease,

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T2:13.3 relationship with me, specifically. While you are here, you have a  persona. While this persona is no longer an ego-self but a
T2:13.3 me, specifically. While you are here, you have a persona. While this  persona is no longer an ego-self but a Christ-Self, it is still a
T2:13.3 persona is no longer an ego-self but a Christ-Self, it is still a  persona. This is the “you” who laughs and loves and cries and shares
T2:13.6 with 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
T3:3.2 All of your personal characteristics are nothing more than a  persona that has served the ego faithfully. All of your traits have

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C:4.18 love little relevance to other areas of your life. Love is seen as  personal, something another gives in a special way to you alone, and
C:20.19 and exists along with you? And is the you who shed such tears a  personal being? A thing? A mass of flesh and bone? Or are you, like
C:20.19 Or are you, like the world you cry for, devoid of thingness and a  personal self? And when you have leapt for joy at the world’s beauty,
C:20.24 Forget yourself and memory will return to you. Beyond your  personal self and the identity you have given your personal self is
C:20.24 you. Beyond your personal self and the identity you have given your  personal self is your being. This is the face of Christ where all
C:20.46 and remember instead the warmth of the embrace. Remember not your  personal identity but remember instead your shared identity.
C:20.47 Your  personal concerns are concerns you have been taught to believe you
C:20.47 of the universe. You must understand that when you think of your  personal life, personal concerns, personal relationships, you are
C:20.47 You must understand that when you think of your personal life,  personal concerns, personal relationships, you are separating
C:20.47 that when you think of your personal life, personal concerns,  personal relationships, you are separating yourself from the whole.
C:20.47 everything. You cannot effect world peace. You can barely keep your  personal concerns in order. Your effort to do so is all that stands
C:22.18 is what we are talking of here, the finding of a definition, a  personal meaning. Can you see the difference?
C:22.19 The  personal and individual is the “I” we are dispelling. Think a moment
C:22.19 small “I.” “I saw.” “I felt.” “I thought.” “I did.” The individual,  personal, separated self is at the center of all such stories. One
C:22.20 you. Begin to imagine seeing the world without the emphasis on your  personal self. Begin to form sentences and eventually to tell stories
C:22.22 This removal of the  personal “I” is but a first step to returning you to the
C:22.23 exists within your world rather than as the small and insignificant  personal self you generally accept as your “self.” By eliminating the
C:22.23 self you generally accept as your “self.” By eliminating the  personal, the universal becomes available. As the universal becomes
C:22.23 As the universal becomes available, you will have no desire for the  personal. Even so, you will find that what you consider your
C:23.10 of the body, which is an extension, in form, of your belief in the  personal “I.”
C:25.16 This first joining is a choice made from love without regard for the  personal self. You begin to live from love when the personal self
C:25.16 regard for the personal self. You begin to live from love when the  personal self gets out of the way. And when the personal self gets
C:25.16 from love when the personal self gets out of the way. And when the  personal self gets out of the way in any instance, it is the turning
C:25.20 this stage the desire to create may be linked with ego as well. Your  personal self will be looking for a place in which to reside. It will
C:25.20 time. You will soon realize that creation is not of, or for, the  personal self.
C:27.5 another as a function of the divine. You become confused between the  personal self and a true Self only because you have not as yet
C:28.3 Because inner knowing is both individual and collective, both  personal and universal, this is the source of all proof. And so you
C:28.4 brought about by innocence more so than by wisdom. This sharing of  personal testimony has reached its zenith and will no longer be as
C:31.2 of a higher order, or spiritual thought. Thoughts related to your  personal self and the “laws” of the body, such as those of survival,
T2:13.1 of this Treatise is, in contrast to those put forth previously, a  personal call from me to you. By now you have seen that your fears of
T2:13.2 Self. Now that you have been made ready, it is time for us to have a  personal relationship. We have, within these lessons, taken you far
T2:13.2 relationship. We have, within these lessons, taken you far from your  personal self, and I, as your teacher, have all but discounted the
T2:13.2 personal self, and I, as your teacher, have all but discounted the  personal self I experience in relationship with you. Now, in unity,
T2:13.2 in relationship with you. Now, in unity, we are ready to be  personal again.
T2:13.3 While the  personal self is the subject of the next Treatise, this is my
T2:13.3 this is my invitation to you, specifically, to enter into a holy and  personal relationship with me, specifically. While you are here, you
T2:13.6 in a mantle of peace and joy. Let who you are shine through the  personal self who continues to walk this world a while longer. Listen
T3:1.1 The  personal self exists as the self you present to others. This is the
T3:1.1 as the self you present to others. This is the only way in which the  personal self will continue to exist following the completion and the
T3:1.1 the completion and the integration of this Course. Previously, the  personal self that you presented to others represented an ego-self
T3:1.1 you believed yourself to be. Now the ego has been separated from the  personal self so that you may claim your personal self again and
T3:1.1 has been separated from the personal self so that you may claim your  personal self again and present to others a true representation of
T3:1.4 the truth reveals only illusion and becomes illusion. Thus, as your  personal self becomes a representation of the truth it will become
T3:1.6 I say that you have represented the ego, what I mean is that the  personal self, as represented by your body, while adhering to the
T3:1.8 I began this Treatise by saying that the  personal self exists as the self you present to others and that this
T3:1.8 you present to others and that this is the only way in which the  personal self will now continue to exist. This statement implies and
T3:1.8 This statement implies and acknowledges your previous belief in a  personal self who existed as more than a representation. While when
T3:1.9 coming about has to do with awareness. When you become aware of the  personal self as a representation, you become aware of the Self whom
T3:1.9 self as a representation, you become aware of the Self whom the  personal self is representing. To have believed that the personal
T3:1.9 whom the personal self is representing. To have believed that the  personal self, as a representation of the ego, was who you were, was
T3:1.10 To say that the  personal self will now exist only as the self you present to others
T3:1.10 now exist only as the self you present to others is to say that the  personal self will now cease to be seen as your reality.
T3:1.11 To say that the  personal self has only existed as the self you presented to others in
T3:1.11 quite a different statement and has a totally different meaning. The  personal self you once presented to others as “who you were” was a
T3:1.11 and that the self of the present made up the self of the future. The  personal self you presented to others in the past was a chosen self
T3:1.11 as evidenced by the variety of selves you saw yourself to be. The  personal self of the past was a self of roles, each one as learned as
T3:1.12 has abolished the ego-self and allows us to begin the lessons of the  personal self.
T3:1.13 been unable, without the lessons of this Course, to distinguish the  personal self from the ego-self. There is a danger even now in
T3:2.6 blameless. It is from this blameless or unaltered state that your  personal self can begin to represent the truth for it leaves untruth,
T3:2.10 you await is an idea, a remembrance of the original idea about your  personal self.
T3:3.1 Your  personal self is dear to you and dear to me as well. I have always
T3:3.1 you have always been. Here is where you need realize that the  personal self that is dear to you is not your ego-self and never has
T3:3.2 All of your  personal characteristics are nothing more than a persona that has
T3:5.7 was a gift meant to empty the world of the ego-self and to allow the  personal self to live on as the one true Self, the one true son of
T3:8.4 into this category. Bitterness is an idea intrinsically tied to the  personal self and the experience of the personal self. Whether you
T3:8.4 intrinsically tied to the personal self and the experience of the  personal self. Whether you believe the personal self is comprised of
T3:8.4 and the experience of the personal self. Whether you believe the  personal self is comprised of the one identity you now hold or the
T3:11.1 stated as those who exist in the house of illusion are aware of the  personal self alone and believe the personal self to be who they are.
T3:11.1 of illusion are aware of the personal self alone and believe the  personal self to be who they are. Further, they believe the personal
T3:11.1 the personal self to be who they are. Further, they believe the  personal self to be the truth of the statement, “I am.”
T3:11.2 they no longer feel the statement of “I am” as a statement of the  personal self or the self alone. For those existing in the House of
T3:11.4 The house of illusion is a construction meant to shield the  personal self from all that it would fear. The House of Truth is the
T3:11.16 remembered the truth of who you are, you are called to forget the  personal self who would find this cause for righteousness. You are
T3:12.1 the creation of the Self. The Self preceded the establishment of the  personal self.
T3:12.2 You exist within the time of consciousness of the  personal self. Thus we begin our work with the personal self while
T3:12.2 consciousness of the personal self. Thus we begin our work with the  personal self while also realizing that the personal self is a step
T3:12.2 begin our work with the personal self while also realizing that the  personal self is a step in the chain of consciousness. The steps that
T3:12.2 the chain of consciousness. The steps that came before that of the  personal self did not come within time. The creation of time was
T3:12.2 time. The creation of time was simultaneous with the creation of the  personal self. Because the steps that came before that of the
T3:12.2 of the personal self. Because the steps that came before that of the  personal self did not come in time, they are eternal, eternal levels
T3:12.3 remove the time-bound temptations of the human experience of the  personal self.
T3:12.4 cannot be bound by time and be a House of Truth. How then can the  personal self begin to realize the human experience outside of time?
T3:12.4 of time? The answer is thus: by changing the consciousness of the  personal self from a time-bound state of consciousness to an eternal
T3:12.9 became a life of suffering and strife only because the physical or  personal self forgot that it exists in relationship and believed
T3:13.2 so cause you to be aware only of a self of human experience, or a  personal self. While you may still feel a connection to God during
T3:13.2 while your reality remains that of the physical experience and the  personal self. In such times you can conceive only of a God outside
T3:13.14 or images originating from the Self and being represented by the  personal self. It is only in this way that the personal self will be
T3:13.14 represented by the personal self. It is only in this way that the  personal self will be able to represent the Self in truth.
T3:21.6 Your  personal self exists in illusion. It is called a personal self
T3:21.6 Your personal self exists in illusion. It is called a  personal self because it is attached to a person. A person is a being
T3:21.7 The only means for the  personal self and the true Self to exist together is for the truth to
T3:21.10 this Course has disproved. This identity has been seen as your  personal self. Thus your personal self is the only place in which you
T3:21.10 This identity has been seen as your personal self. Thus your  personal self is the only place in which you have experience that can
T3:21.11 things upon which you draw to feel the certainty you feel about your  personal self. You identify yourself as male or female, married or
T3:21.11 Chinese or Lebanese or American, black or white or Indian. Your  personal self may be deeply affected by these things you call
T3:21.12 as often been considered as part of what makes you certain of your  personal self, are the thoughts of your mind, thoughts that while
T3:21.13 things as part of what make up the totality of who you are, of your  personal self.
T3:21.14 So it can be seen that there are several aspects to your  personal self: a historical aspect, an aspect we will call
T3:21.15 yourself or not, they exist. Your world-view, and your view of your  personal self, are inextricably bound together. In other words, the
T3:21.16 understanding or knowing your brothers and sisters, those whose  personal selves and world view cannot help but be different than your
T3:21.17 to accept your true identity even while you retain the form of your  personal self. As your true identity is that of a Self who exists in
T3:21.17 is that of a Self who exists in unity and the identity of your  personal self is that of a self who exists in separation, this would
T3:21.18 Thus, certain things about your  personal self must be accepted as aspects of your form and cease to
T3:21.18 time while you carry observance forward into observance of your  personal self. As was said at the beginning of this Treatise, by the
T3:21.18 Treatise, by the time the learning of this Treatise is complete, the  personal self will continue to exist only as the self you present to
T3:21.20 answer. One is that your certainty regarding the identity of your  personal self will be useful as that certainty is translated to the
T3:21.21 The world is quite simply bigger now and the identities of your  personal selves split by far more than history and far more than the
T3:21.22 seen. What I am saying is that you can remain confident in your  personal self, knowing that your personal self will serve those you
T3:21.22 you can remain confident in your personal self, knowing that your  personal self will serve those you are meant to serve. What you have
T3:21.24 addressed and seen as it relates to the relationship between the  personal self and the Self; the truth and its representation and
T3:22.4 Since your  personal self was always meant to represent the truth of who you are,
T3:22.9 within you. You are ready to be done with the concerns of the  personal self, and your attention has begun to wander from this topic
T3:22.10 the realization will come to you that you are ready to leave the  personal self and the concerns of the personal self behind. You have
T3:22.10 you are ready to leave the personal self and the concerns of the  personal self behind. You have needed to become bored with what has
T3:22.10 has been, tired of the way things were, uninterested in matters of a  personal nature. This very readiness is what I now call your
T3:22.16 with the old and the observation, the final observation, of the  personal self. You have created your personal self, and only you can
T3:22.16 the final observation, of the personal self. You have created your  personal self, and only you can look upon this personal self with the
T3:22.16 You have created your personal self, and only you can look upon this  personal self with the vision of creation, creating the personal self
T3:22.16 upon this personal self with the vision of creation, creating the  personal self anew, seeing within it all that will serve the new, and
T3:22.17 Observe the  personal self with one last act of love and devotion, and in so doing
T3:22.17 one last act of love and devotion, and in so doing transform the  personal self into a representation of the truth. Realize that what
T3:22.17 eyes” observation is really the observation of a Self beyond the  personal self. To call forth observance is to call forth the sight of
T4:1.12 As was said within “A Treatise on the  Personal Self,” even the house of illusion is held within the embrace
T4:1.16 As was said within “A Treatise on the  Personal Self,” all notions of blame must be gone from you. Thus, you
T4:1.22 for the new. It is what has caused your growing impatience with the  personal self, with acquiring all that your new learning in science
T4:2.10 the definition of observation provided in “A Treatise on the  Personal Self.”
T4:3.2 but not the same. Observation has to do with the elevation of the  personal self. Vision has to do with what cannot be elevated. Vision
T4:3.3 The  personal self is still in need of being elevated—elevated to its
T4:3.4 form. This original intent or cause formed the true nature of the  personal self capable of being observed in relationship. The
T4:3.4 it did not change the original cause, formed a false nature for the  personal self. This displacement of the original intent can be simply
T4:3.9 vision, the vision of love. What is new is the elevation of the  personal self that will be caused by the return of your natural state
T4:3.10 exists within it truly. Observation will allow you to elevate the  personal self to its rightful place within the nature of a world of
T4:4.8 now occupy, the change I have spoken of as that of elevation of the  personal self, is a natural part of the pattern of life-everlasting.
T4:4.16 believe that you are mortal is to believe that you must die to the  personal self of form in order to be reborn as a true Self. This is
T4:4.16 The joining of heart and mind in relationship is the joining of the  personal self with the true Self in the reality in which you exist
T4:5.13 Christ-consciousness and direct revelation. The elevation of the  personal self in this time of Christ can be the new choice.
T4:9.3 sciences. You read books that are channeled, books that tell of  personal experiences, books that promise ten steps to success. You go
T4:9.7 have you been made ready finally to be loosed of the bounds of the  personal self. This time of concentration on the self is unheralded
T4:9.8 last of the intermediaries, these called to a wisdom beyond their  personal capacity. Now these forerunners of the new, along with you,
T4:12.25 return of unity! Pause a moment here, and celebrate this feat of the  personal self! The personal self, through the self-centeredness of
T4:12.25 a moment here, and celebrate this feat of the personal self! The  personal self, through the self-centeredness of the final stages of
T4:12.27 pattern, the ego could have succeeded in becoming the ruler of the  personal self. Part of this design and pattern was the freedom of
T4:12.32 me a teacher and you a student. The answers to the elevation of the  personal self and the living of Christ-consciousness in form are yet
D:1.2 to represent with your physical form. I come to you today not as a  personal self who is “other” than you, but as a divine Self who is
D:1.3 What this means in practical terms is that you let the  personal self step back and the true Self step forward. Realize that
D:1.3 step forward. Realize that all of your “concerns” are still for the  personal self, a self whom you continue to believe can fail to
D:1.3 of intelligence—through lack, in other words, of abilities of the  personal self. As long as you “see” such visions, you “see” the
D:1.3 As long as you “see” such visions, you “see” the pattern of the  personal self going forth much as it did before. You do not “see” the
D:1.3 of the elevated Self. As long as you see in this way, you keep the  personal self in the forefront rather than allowing and aiding the
D:1.3 personal self in the forefront rather than allowing and aiding the  personal self in the stepping back that is required in order for the
D:1.7 This acceptance is crucial to the elevation of the  personal self. Without this acceptance the personal self must still
D:1.7 to the elevation of the personal self. Without this acceptance the  personal self must still struggle and try, prepare and plan. It does
D:1.8 This is the final surrender. The surrender of the control of the  personal self. Even with the ego gone, the personal self can continue
D:1.8 of the control of the personal self. Even with the ego gone, the  personal self can continue to move about within the world, a faceless
D:1.10 but the true Self has not been allowed as yet to dwell within the  personal self, thus elevating the personal self. You have thus been
D:1.10 allowed as yet to dwell within the personal self, thus elevating the  personal self. You have thus been self-less for a time and the
D:1.10 the personal self. You have thus been self-less for a time and the  personal self has floundered from this lack of identity. A person
D:1.10 during this time from lack of identity, lack of cause. To die to the  personal self is not what is required any longer as we work instead
D:1.10 is not what is required any longer as we work instead to elevate the  personal self. This elevation occurs through the acceptance of your
D:1.14 I am no longer the  personal self who was separate and alone. I am my Christ Self. I
D:1.17 further learning is not what will complete the transformation of the  personal self to the elevated Self. Learning will not sustain
D:2.13 not “working for you” are often those matters that are beyond your  personal control and so patterns of personal control have become
D:2.13 matters that are beyond your personal control and so patterns of  personal control have become particularly entrenched. Thus have you
D:2.15 of your true identity into the self of form, or the elevation of the  personal self, new patterns are needed.
D:2.22 the new. Looking within is not an attempt to find the answers of the  personal self of old, the separated self who depended on learned
D:3.12 consciousness is the truth of who you are. The elevation of the  personal self, however, requires that this giving and receiving as
D:4.5 those who are incarcerated there. Each of you has had an imprisoned  personal self. Each of you who have entered Christ-consciousness has
D:5.3 world to its true representation. As was said in “A Treatise on the  Personal Self”, there is a huge difference between a true
D:6.24 the body to accept the indwelling of Christ. You have replaced the  personal self, the self of learning, with the true Self. You have
D:9.10 meant to lead beyond the need for beliefs, and “A Treatise on the  Personal Self” meant to lead beyond the personal self. Thus the
D:9.10 and “A Treatise on the Personal Self” meant to lead beyond the  personal self. Thus the Treatises were not inconsistent with our aims
D:10.1 What is found outside of the boundary of the  personal self in the wider circle of unity is timeless. What comes to
D:10.3 the self of separation, the Self of elevated form rather than the  personal self.
D:10.4 to think of this in any other way will leave you with no individual,  personal accomplishment, nothing to be proud of, nothing to call your
D:10.6 to “Go forth and multiply.” It is about increase. To be content with  personal or individual understanding or experience of what is given
D:11.16 that arise from the well of spirit. To seek importance for the  personal self would be akin to placing the importance of Jesus on the
D:12.18 Some of you will have credited your  personal or individual self with the “figuring out” of this truth.
D:12.18 this coming to know of the truth wasn’t quite “of” the “you” of the  personal self.
D:13.8 is all you have known. This perceived state is synonymous with the  personal self, with the idea of individuality, with separate
D:16.17 This is only an image. This is not your  personal self, your ego self, or your separated self, come to reclaim
D:Day8.17 of your heart. It would have been to accept the feelings of a  personal self who had not yet unlearned the lessons of the past or
D:Day10.13 to our discussion of image versus presence and to the image of your  personal self that was discussed at the beginning of our dialogue.
D:Day10.13 the beginning of our dialogue. While you still hold an image of your  personal self, you still hold inaccurate ideas about the feelings of
D:Day10.13 self, you still hold inaccurate ideas about the feelings of the  personal self. This is because your image of the personal self is
D:Day10.13 the feelings of the personal self. This is because your image of the  personal self is based on the past and the feelings of the past. This
D:Day10.13 and the feelings of the past. This is also because your image of the  personal self is a mental construct, and not a simple mental
D:Day10.17 within this Course. As you “learned” to remove the ego and deny the  personal self, you transferred your reliance to me and to the state
D:Day10.38 you have long waited for your feelings to be addressed in a more  personal way. But please remember that none of the approaches that
D:Day28.4 For some these choices include commitments to partnerships of a  personal or professional nature. For some these choices include
A.15 The student begins to move beyond the need for shared belief to  personal conviction and authority.

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C:20.19 Or are you, like the world you cry for, devoid of thingness and a  personal self? And when you have leapt for joy at the world’s beauty,
C:20.24 Forget yourself and memory will return to you. Beyond your  personal self and the identity you have given your personal self is
C:20.24 you. Beyond your personal self and the identity you have given your  personal self is your being. This is the face of Christ where all
C:22.20 you. Begin to imagine seeing the world without the emphasis on your  personal self. Begin to form sentences and eventually to tell stories
C:22.23 exists within your world rather than as the small and insignificant  personal self you generally accept as your “self.” By eliminating the
C:25.16 This first joining is a choice made from love without regard for the  personal self. You begin to live from love when the personal self
C:25.16 regard for the personal self. You begin to live from love when the  personal self gets out of the way. And when the personal self gets
C:25.16 from love when the personal self gets out of the way. And when the  personal self gets out of the way in any instance, it is the turning
C:25.20 this stage the desire to create may be linked with ego as well. Your  personal self will be looking for a place in which to reside. It will
C:25.20 time. You will soon realize that creation is not of, or for, the  personal self.
C:27.5 another as a function of the divine. You become confused between the  personal self and a true Self only because you have not as yet
C:31.2 of a higher order, or spiritual thought. Thoughts related to your  personal self and the “laws” of the body, such as those of survival,
T2:13.2 relationship. We have, within these lessons, taken you far from your  personal self, and I, as your teacher, have all but discounted the
T2:13.2 personal self, and I, as your teacher, have all but discounted the  personal self I experience in relationship with you. Now, in unity,
T2:13.3 While the  personal self is the subject of the next Treatise, this is my
T2:13.6 in a mantle of peace and joy. Let who you are shine through the  personal self who continues to walk this world a while longer. Listen
T3:1.1 The  personal self exists as the self you present to others. This is the
T3:1.1 as the self you present to others. This is the only way in which the  personal self will continue to exist following the completion and the
T3:1.1 the completion and the integration of this Course. Previously, the  personal self that you presented to others represented an ego-self
T3:1.1 you believed yourself to be. Now the ego has been separated from the  personal self so that you may claim your personal self again and
T3:1.1 has been separated from the personal self so that you may claim your  personal self again and present to others a true representation of
T3:1.4 the truth reveals only illusion and becomes illusion. Thus, as your  personal self becomes a representation of the truth it will become
T3:1.6 I say that you have represented the ego, what I mean is that the  personal self, as represented by your body, while adhering to the
T3:1.8 I began this Treatise by saying that the  personal self exists as the self you present to others and that this
T3:1.8 you present to others and that this is the only way in which the  personal self will now continue to exist. This statement implies and
T3:1.8 This statement implies and acknowledges your previous belief in a  personal self who existed as more than a representation. While when
T3:1.9 coming about has to do with awareness. When you become aware of the  personal self as a representation, you become aware of the Self whom
T3:1.9 self as a representation, you become aware of the Self whom the  personal self is representing. To have believed that the personal
T3:1.9 whom the personal self is representing. To have believed that the  personal self, as a representation of the ego, was who you were, was
T3:1.10 To say that the  personal self will now exist only as the self you present to others
T3:1.10 now exist only as the self you present to others is to say that the  personal self will now cease to be seen as your reality.
T3:1.11 To say that the  personal self has only existed as the self you presented to others in
T3:1.11 quite a different statement and has a totally different meaning. The  personal self you once presented to others as “who you were” was a
T3:1.11 and that the self of the present made up the self of the future. The  personal self you presented to others in the past was a chosen self
T3:1.11 as evidenced by the variety of selves you saw yourself to be. The  personal self of the past was a self of roles, each one as learned as
T3:1.12 has abolished the ego-self and allows us to begin the lessons of the  personal self.
T3:1.13 been unable, without the lessons of this Course, to distinguish the  personal self from the ego-self. There is a danger even now in
T3:2.6 blameless. It is from this blameless or unaltered state that your  personal self can begin to represent the truth for it leaves untruth,
T3:2.10 you await is an idea, a remembrance of the original idea about your  personal self.
T3:3.1 Your  personal self is dear to you and dear to me as well. I have always
T3:3.1 you have always been. Here is where you need realize that the  personal self that is dear to you is not your ego-self and never has
T3:5.7 was a gift meant to empty the world of the ego-self and to allow the  personal self to live on as the one true Self, the one true son of
T3:8.4 into this category. Bitterness is an idea intrinsically tied to the  personal self and the experience of the personal self. Whether you
T3:8.4 intrinsically tied to the personal self and the experience of the  personal self. Whether you believe the personal self is comprised of
T3:8.4 and the experience of the personal self. Whether you believe the  personal self is comprised of the one identity you now hold or the
T3:11.1 stated as those who exist in the house of illusion are aware of the  personal self alone and believe the personal self to be who they are.
T3:11.1 of illusion are aware of the personal self alone and believe the  personal self to be who they are. Further, they believe the personal
T3:11.1 the personal self to be who they are. Further, they believe the  personal self to be the truth of the statement, “I am.”
T3:11.2 they no longer feel the statement of “I am” as a statement of the  personal self or the self alone. For those existing in the House of
T3:11.4 The house of illusion is a construction meant to shield the  personal self from all that it would fear. The House of Truth is the
T3:11.16 remembered the truth of who you are, you are called to forget the  personal self who would find this cause for righteousness. You are
T3:12.1 the creation of the Self. The Self preceded the establishment of the  personal self.
T3:12.2 You exist within the time of consciousness of the  personal self. Thus we begin our work with the personal self while
T3:12.2 consciousness of the personal self. Thus we begin our work with the  personal self while also realizing that the personal self is a step
T3:12.2 begin our work with the personal self while also realizing that the  personal self is a step in the chain of consciousness. The steps that
T3:12.2 the chain of consciousness. The steps that came before that of the  personal self did not come within time. The creation of time was
T3:12.2 time. The creation of time was simultaneous with the creation of the  personal self. Because the steps that came before that of the
T3:12.2 of the personal self. Because the steps that came before that of the  personal self did not come in time, they are eternal, eternal levels
T3:12.3 remove the time-bound temptations of the human experience of the  personal self.
T3:12.4 cannot be bound by time and be a House of Truth. How then can the  personal self begin to realize the human experience outside of time?
T3:12.4 of time? The answer is thus: by changing the consciousness of the  personal self from a time-bound state of consciousness to an eternal
T3:12.9 became a life of suffering and strife only because the physical or  personal self forgot that it exists in relationship and believed
T3:13.2 so cause you to be aware only of a self of human experience, or a  personal self. While you may still feel a connection to God during
T3:13.2 while your reality remains that of the physical experience and the  personal self. In such times you can conceive only of a God outside
T3:13.14 or images originating from the Self and being represented by the  personal self. It is only in this way that the personal self will be
T3:13.14 represented by the personal self. It is only in this way that the  personal self will be able to represent the Self in truth.
T3:21.6 Your  personal self exists in illusion. It is called a personal self
T3:21.6 Your personal self exists in illusion. It is called a  personal self because it is attached to a person. A person is a being
T3:21.7 The only means for the  personal self and the true Self to exist together is for the truth to
T3:21.10 this Course has disproved. This identity has been seen as your  personal self. Thus your personal self is the only place in which you
T3:21.10 This identity has been seen as your personal self. Thus your  personal self is the only place in which you have experience that can
T3:21.11 things upon which you draw to feel the certainty you feel about your  personal self. You identify yourself as male or female, married or
T3:21.11 Chinese or Lebanese or American, black or white or Indian. Your  personal self may be deeply affected by these things you call
T3:21.12 as often been considered as part of what makes you certain of your  personal self, are the thoughts of your mind, thoughts that while
T3:21.13 things as part of what make up the totality of who you are, of your  personal self.
T3:21.14 So it can be seen that there are several aspects to your  personal self: a historical aspect, an aspect we will call
T3:21.15 yourself or not, they exist. Your world-view, and your view of your  personal self, are inextricably bound together. In other words, the
T3:21.17 to accept your true identity even while you retain the form of your  personal self. As your true identity is that of a Self who exists in
T3:21.17 is that of a Self who exists in unity and the identity of your  personal self is that of a self who exists in separation, this would
T3:21.18 Thus, certain things about your  personal self must be accepted as aspects of your form and cease to
T3:21.18 time while you carry observance forward into observance of your  personal self. As was said at the beginning of this Treatise, by the
T3:21.18 Treatise, by the time the learning of this Treatise is complete, the  personal self will continue to exist only as the self you present to
T3:21.20 answer. One is that your certainty regarding the identity of your  personal self will be useful as that certainty is translated to the
T3:21.22 seen. What I am saying is that you can remain confident in your  personal self, knowing that your personal self will serve those you
T3:21.22 you can remain confident in your personal self, knowing that your  personal self will serve those you are meant to serve. What you have
T3:21.24 addressed and seen as it relates to the relationship between the  personal self and the Self; the truth and its representation and
T3:22.4 Since your  personal self was always meant to represent the truth of who you are,
T3:22.9 within you. You are ready to be done with the concerns of the  personal self, and your attention has begun to wander from this topic
T3:22.10 the realization will come to you that you are ready to leave the  personal self and the concerns of the personal self behind. You have
T3:22.10 you are ready to leave the personal self and the concerns of the  personal self behind. You have needed to become bored with what has
T3:22.16 with the old and the observation, the final observation, of the  personal self. You have created your personal self, and only you can
T3:22.16 the final observation, of the personal self. You have created your  personal self, and only you can look upon this personal self with the
T3:22.16 You have created your personal self, and only you can look upon this  personal self with the vision of creation, creating the personal self
T3:22.16 upon this personal self with the vision of creation, creating the  personal self anew, seeing within it all that will serve the new, and
T3:22.17 Observe the  personal self with one last act of love and devotion, and in so doing
T3:22.17 one last act of love and devotion, and in so doing transform the  personal self into a representation of the truth. Realize that what
T3:22.17 eyes” observation is really the observation of a Self beyond the  personal self. To call forth observance is to call forth the sight of
T4:1.12 As was said within “A Treatise on the  Personal Self,” even the house of illusion is held within the embrace
T4:1.16 As was said within “A Treatise on the  Personal Self,” all notions of blame must be gone from you. Thus, you
T4:1.22 for the new. It is what has caused your growing impatience with the  personal self, with acquiring all that your new learning in science
T4:2.10 the definition of observation provided in “A Treatise on the  Personal Self.”
T4:3.2 but not the same. Observation has to do with the elevation of the  personal self. Vision has to do with what cannot be elevated. Vision
T4:3.3 The  personal self is still in need of being elevated—elevated to its
T4:3.4 form. This original intent or cause formed the true nature of the  personal self capable of being observed in relationship. The
T4:3.4 it did not change the original cause, formed a false nature for the  personal self. This displacement of the original intent can be simply
T4:3.9 vision, the vision of love. What is new is the elevation of the  personal self that will be caused by the return of your natural state
T4:3.10 exists within it truly. Observation will allow you to elevate the  personal self to its rightful place within the nature of a world of
T4:4.8 now occupy, the change I have spoken of as that of elevation of the  personal self, is a natural part of the pattern of life-everlasting.
T4:4.16 believe that you are mortal is to believe that you must die to the  personal self of form in order to be reborn as a true Self. This is
T4:4.16 The joining of heart and mind in relationship is the joining of the  personal self with the true Self in the reality in which you exist
T4:5.13 Christ-consciousness and direct revelation. The elevation of the  personal self in this time of Christ can be the new choice.
T4:9.7 have you been made ready finally to be loosed of the bounds of the  personal self. This time of concentration on the self is unheralded
T4:12.25 return of unity! Pause a moment here, and celebrate this feat of the  personal self! The personal self, through the self-centeredness of
T4:12.25 a moment here, and celebrate this feat of the personal self! The  personal self, through the self-centeredness of the final stages of
T4:12.27 pattern, the ego could have succeeded in becoming the ruler of the  personal self. Part of this design and pattern was the freedom of
T4:12.32 me a teacher and you a student. The answers to the elevation of the  personal self and the living of Christ-consciousness in form are yet
D:1.2 to represent with your physical form. I come to you today not as a  personal self who is “other” than you, but as a divine Self who is
D:1.3 What this means in practical terms is that you let the  personal self step back and the true Self step forward. Realize that
D:1.3 step forward. Realize that all of your “concerns” are still for the  personal self, a self whom you continue to believe can fail to
D:1.3 of intelligence—through lack, in other words, of abilities of the  personal self. As long as you “see” such visions, you “see” the
D:1.3 As long as you “see” such visions, you “see” the pattern of the  personal self going forth much as it did before. You do not “see” the
D:1.3 of the elevated Self. As long as you see in this way, you keep the  personal self in the forefront rather than allowing and aiding the
D:1.3 personal self in the forefront rather than allowing and aiding the  personal self in the stepping back that is required in order for the
D:1.7 This acceptance is crucial to the elevation of the  personal self. Without this acceptance the personal self must still
D:1.7 to the elevation of the personal self. Without this acceptance the  personal self must still struggle and try, prepare and plan. It does
D:1.8 This is the final surrender. The surrender of the control of the  personal self. Even with the ego gone, the personal self can continue
D:1.8 of the control of the personal self. Even with the ego gone, the  personal self can continue to move about within the world, a faceless
D:1.10 but the true Self has not been allowed as yet to dwell within the  personal self, thus elevating the personal self. You have thus been
D:1.10 allowed as yet to dwell within the personal self, thus elevating the  personal self. You have thus been self-less for a time and the
D:1.10 the personal self. You have thus been self-less for a time and the  personal self has floundered from this lack of identity. A person
D:1.10 during this time from lack of identity, lack of cause. To die to the  personal self is not what is required any longer as we work instead
D:1.10 is not what is required any longer as we work instead to elevate the  personal self. This elevation occurs through the acceptance of your
D:1.14 I am no longer the  personal self who was separate and alone. I am my Christ Self. I
D:1.17 further learning is not what will complete the transformation of the  personal self to the elevated Self. Learning will not sustain
D:2.15 of your true identity into the self of form, or the elevation of the  personal self, new patterns are needed.
D:2.22 the new. Looking within is not an attempt to find the answers of the  personal self of old, the separated self who depended on learned
D:3.12 consciousness is the truth of who you are. The elevation of the  personal self, however, requires that this giving and receiving as
D:4.5 those who are incarcerated there. Each of you has had an imprisoned  personal self. Each of you who have entered Christ-consciousness has
D:6.24 the body to accept the indwelling of Christ. You have replaced the  personal self, the self of learning, with the true Self. You have
D:9.10 and “A Treatise on the Personal Self” meant to lead beyond the  personal self. Thus the Treatises were not inconsistent with our aims
D:10.1 What is found outside of the boundary of the  personal self in the wider circle of unity is timeless. What comes to
D:10.3 the self of separation, the Self of elevated form rather than the  personal self.
D:11.16 that arise from the well of spirit. To seek importance for the  personal self would be akin to placing the importance of Jesus on the
D:12.18 this coming to know of the truth wasn’t quite “of” the “you” of the  personal self.
D:13.8 is all you have known. This perceived state is synonymous with the  personal self, with the idea of individuality, with separate
D:16.17 This is only an image. This is not your  personal self, your ego self, or your separated self, come to reclaim
D:Day8.17 of your heart. It would have been to accept the feelings of a  personal self who had not yet unlearned the lessons of the past or
D:Day10.13 to our discussion of image versus presence and to the image of your  personal self that was discussed at the beginning of our dialogue.
D:Day10.13 the beginning of our dialogue. While you still hold an image of your  personal self, you still hold inaccurate ideas about the feelings of
D:Day10.13 self, you still hold inaccurate ideas about the feelings of the  personal self. This is because your image of the personal self is
D:Day10.13 the feelings of the personal self. This is because your image of the  personal self is based on the past and the feelings of the past. This
D:Day10.13 and the feelings of the past. This is also because your image of the  personal self is a mental construct, and not a simple mental
D:Day10.17 within this Course. As you “learned” to remove the ego and deny the  personal self, you transferred your reliance to me and to the state

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T1:6.7 experience is related to, through memory, which shapes the different  personalities, paths, and thus future experiences of each of you.
T1:6.8 the all-encompassing umbrella of a new way of thought? The different  personalities become one, the different paths become one path, the

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T3:3.9 Or you might look at your behaviors, your habits, your general  personality, and simply declare yourself unsuitable for further
T3:4.7 in military training, or in cases of great abuse when a second ego  personality is developed to save the first. The ego has also been
D:Day40.6 These are the attributes of your being, what you might call your  personality or even who you are. As has been said before, you saw

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C:22.19 or report on events that have taken place within your life. You  personalize. You are likely to report on what a certain set of

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C:20.19 world then not lost its thingness? And has it not as well lost its  personalness? Are your tears not shed for what lives and breathes and

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C:12.24 out to be? What we call Father is but creation’s heavenly face, a  personification of what cannot truly be personified. You find it hard

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C:12.24 creation’s heavenly face, a personification of what cannot truly be  personified. You find it hard to believe Creation itself can be

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C:7.17 itself, relationship as something different from the objects,  persons, or situations related to. Now we must expand on this idea.

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C:22.1 regarding imagining and imagination will change with your change in  perspective on use. You will no longer be using your imagination but
D:13.9 yes. But that partial expression will bear the mark of your  perspective, and that is why partial truth is never the whole truth,
D:Day7.8 in your external circumstances but from changes in your internal  perspective.
D:Day27.7 initially as having two perspectives, an internal and an external  perspective, a human perspective and a spiritual perspective, a
D:Day27.7 two perspectives, an internal and an external perspective, a human  perspective and a spiritual perspective, a perspective from level
D:Day27.7 and an external perspective, a human perspective and a spiritual  perspective, a perspective from level ground and a mountain top
D:Day27.7 perspective, a human perspective and a spiritual perspective, a  perspective from level ground and a mountain top perspective. Your
D:Day27.7 perspective, a perspective from level ground and a mountain top  perspective. Your descent from the mountain top will not mean that
D:Day27.7 from the mountain top will not mean that you no longer have the  perspective gained there. You did not “go” to the mountain. The

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D:Day27.7 a new way of seeing. You might think of this initially as having two  perspectives, an internal and an external perspective, a human

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D:17.14 the questions that were asked of you earlier, for they are even more  pertinent now. Do you think desire will still be with you when you

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C:1.11 has caused all your problems. This is the authority problem. It is  pervasive in the life of your physical form and in the life of your

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T4:1.13 this must seem in your imaginings. What a fickle universe. What a  perverse God. If an end to suffering and fear has been possible, and

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D:Day3.32 developed, a well-loved book, dinner with a friend, a new car, a new  pet, the ability to provide a child with a good education.

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C:15.3 on grievances and refuses to give them up, the self that is prone to  pettiness and bitterness, resentment and deception. Be truthful as

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T2:9.18 This  phase of coming to accept need and dependency is necessary only as a
T3:2.12 of an ego-self, a self-concept seemingly stuck in an adolescent  phase of development. The ego-self’s only desire was for you to “grow
T3:11.16 as right and wrong will be no more. It is only for this transitional  phase, that this and all such reminders regarding the temptations of
T4:9.9 forerunners still, to join your brothers and sisters in this next  phase of the journey, the journey out of the time of learning that

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C:17.7 hold. And yet, while it would seem you would grow quite used to this  phenomenon, you do not. You still make your plans and rail against

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T3:21.13 as well as a professional identity. Many of you have political or  philosophical identities. You may call yourself Christian or doctor

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C:31.2 calls body thoughts. Distinctions are made in many religions and  philosophies that separate thought—as dictated by the body—from
T4:9.3 study of Buddhism and go on to study any number of other religions,  philosophies, sciences. You read books that are channeled, books that

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C:12.5 the safety and security of a loving home, even if it is one only of  philosophy. You look for the soft assurance of certainty, not of your
C:19.15  Philosophy applies thought to mystery and that is why philosophy
C:19.15 Philosophy applies thought to mystery and that is why  philosophy becomes such a muddle of words. It is difficult for you to
T3:3.7 They cannot be beliefs that exist only in your mind, a new  philosophy to be applied to life. They must exist in your heart. And
D:Day3.29 learn what is for you the most difficult type of learning, be it  philosophy, math, or foreign languages, before you could learn how to

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C:7.11 sometimes dozens or even hundreds of times a day. An unreturned  phone call, a bit of traffic, a harsh word spoken, an unremembered
C:7.13 situation is a relationship—even those as simple as unreturned  phone calls and snarled traffic. You relate to someone or something

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D:16.17 is why we have also described this as an after-image. This is but a  photograph that remains, a copy of what you once might have thought

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C:5.23 body is meant to keep your body separate. “Overcoming” is your catch  phrase here as you struggle to overcome all the adversity and
T2:2.2 beyond their ordinary, limited, view of themselves use this  phrase. But many recognize that they have a calling even unto things
T2:6.10 only Son of God, the Christ, the word made flesh. Remember that the  phrase, the Son of God, and the name Christ, but represent the
D:12.16 never be so sure again that you cannot know the truth. Adding the  phrase “beyond a shadow of a doubt” will be something you no longer
D:Day6.7 with a few notes “running through the mind” or a particular turn of  phrase that inspires the creator to see these words as lyrics. At
D:Day6.19 elevation you would want. As within, so without is the operative  phrase here. It is not the other way around. You cannot find a place
D:Day7.15 Access to unity is a  phrase that will only be used in this in-between time. You have

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C:P.26 is the nature of family, as you understand family. And beyond the  physical nature of families, the bloodlines and the ancestors, what
C:P.27 nature of God is different than the nature of man. God does not have  physical form and does not produce physical offspring. God does,
C:P.27 nature of man. God does not have physical form and does not produce  physical offspring. God does, however, have a son, a child, an
C:P.29 There are many forms of pain and horror, from  physical illnesses to torture to loss of love, and in between these
C:P.36 will view the new world you will behold and take with you. To view a  physical world of dimension, shape, and scope like unto the old and
C:1.11 This is the authority problem. It is pervasive in the life of your  physical form and in the life of your mind. It is only your heart
C:1.17 All the symbols of your  physical life reflect a deeper meaning that, while hidden to you, you
C:2.2 While you look for a God with a  physical form you will not recognize God. Everything real is of God.
C:2.3 Because love has no  physical form you cannot believe that love could be what you are,
C:4.15 Those most bound by the ego might think of stature and of wealth, of  physical beauty and the trappings of good upbringing. Those most
C:7.1 of giving and of a return not based on the world of your mind or of  physical circumstance. Despite disappointments most severe, your
C:9.44 Look at patterns of abuse, in everything from drugs and alcohol to  physical or emotional mistreatment. These, like the larger examples
C:10.2 own is indeed ridiculous. Joining happens in relationship, not in  physical form. Joining is not the obliteration of one thing to make
C:17.6 taken mind-altering drugs, or attempted strenuous or even terrifying  physical feats. But all of you without exception have willingly
C:18.5 place I hold for you, as you held mine when I entered the world in  physical form. Even if it is just an illustration, it illustrates
C:20.19 world and bring it comfort if you could? This you can do. Not with  physical arms, but with the arms of love. Have you never cried for
C:23.9 When you are tempted to think of relationship having to do with  physical proximity, think of this example. Now imagine communities of
C:26.24 This is not a place of  physical form but a place of holiness, an integral place in the
T2:1.3 with material treasure, we will not explore the dimensions of  physical treasure except to say that the feelings that cause one to
T2:1.3 except to say that the feelings that cause one to think that any  physical thing is capable of being a treasure or being treasured are
T2:6.8 is the Christ in you even while you continue to grow and change.  Physical form and action of all kinds are but expressions of what
T2:9.13 millennia, such as the instinct to survive, in order to carry on in  physical form.
T3:5.3 by a loss of self due to illness or addiction, depression, or even  physical exhaustion. All these things you have brought to yourself
T3:12.8 fear, some the result of love. The choice to express who you are in  physical terms was not a choice made of fear but made of love. A
T3:12.8 in physical terms was not a choice made of fear but made of love. A  physical self is not inconsistent with the laws of God or of
T3:12.9 The life of the  physical self became a life of suffering and strife only because the
T3:12.9 physical self became a life of suffering and strife only because the  physical or personal self forgot that it exists in relationship and
T3:12.10 What would be a greater step in all of creation than a  physical self able to choose to express the Self within the laws of
T3:12.10 self able to choose to express the Self within the laws of love? A  physical self, able to express itself from within the House of Truth
T3:13.2 will be but memories to you while your reality remains that of the  physical experience and the personal self. In such times you can
T3:13.4 been made now, giving you the beginnings of a vision of a life in  physical form that will not include the very temptations we are
T3:13.13 is a requirement of action. That action, while not necessarily  physical, is the action of giving birth. Realize that you believe in
T3:13.14 Taking action on your ideas forms a relationship between your  physical form and your Self as your physical self represents, in
T3:13.14 a relationship between your physical form and your Self as your  physical self represents, in form, the thought or image produced
T3:14.1 about the changes you would so desire to have come about within your  physical experience. You may live a more peaceful and meaningful
T3:17.1 As we have already shown, to have chosen to express the Self in  physical form was a choice consistent with the laws of love. There
T3:17.4 the learning of a new thought system, the thought system of the  physical, a thought system that was not needed before there was
T3:17.4 the physical, a thought system that was not needed before there was  physical form. The creation story of Adam and Eve, as well as many
T3:17.5 experience to learn the lessons of what was observable within the  physical realm, to have begun to forget the unobservable began a
T3:17.5 exactly what has been learned during the time of your experience in  physical form. Since your true Self could not learn the untrue, a new
T3:18.2 observe what the Self expresses, was part of the original choice for  physical form. The word observance has rightly been linked with
T3:18.3 an effect. Because this was part of the original choice for the  physical experience, it is a natural choice to serve our new purpose
T3:18.4 Expressing who you are in  physical form will return remembrance to the minds of those who
T3:18.9 In this way, you will join the mechanisms of your  physical form to the new thought system of the truth. Your body, as
T3:19.1 You must not fear the changes that will occur within your  physical form as it begins to be guided by the thought system of the
T3:19.1 others will be no more. You have no more need to fear the loss of  physical joys than you have to fear the loss of mental and spiritual
T3:19.2 For ages man has thought that spiritual joy diminishes  physical joy. While there is no physical joy that is limited to the
T3:19.2 that spiritual joy diminishes physical joy. While there is no  physical joy that is limited to the physical—no joy felt by the
T3:19.2 physical joy. While there is no physical joy that is limited to the  physical—no joy felt by the physical form alone—the joy that
T3:19.2 no physical joy that is limited to the physical—no joy felt by the  physical form alone—the joy that comes of things physical can
T3:19.2 joy felt by the physical form alone—the joy that comes of things  physical can certainly still be experienced and expressed. This is no
T3:19.2 be experienced and expressed. This is no call for judgment upon the  physical. How could this be true when the physical is now called upon
T3:19.2 call for judgment upon the physical. How could this be true when the  physical is now called upon to serve the greatest learning humankind
T3:19.4 For ages  physical reality has been linked to temptations of the human
T3:19.4 of the human experience. Let us now dispel this link. The  physical form has been blamed for choices made from lust and greed,
T3:19.4 heart. As cause and effect are one, there is no effect to be seen in  physical form without a corresponding cause birthed in the ego
T3:19.7 union may be called for. While some of you may have less desire for  physical joining as you become more aware of unity, some may have
T3:19.7 as you become more aware of unity, some may have more desire for  physical joining as an expression of that union. Neither option is
T3:19.9 goal. That goal is the original thought that began the experience in  physical form, the thought of expressing the Self in observable form.
T3:19.11 bodily temptations. Although you will now represent who you are in  physical form in a new way, you can still see that your actions of
T3:21.18 do with the thoughts of a separated mind or the circumstances of the  physical body.
T4:2.22 first joining in unity, the joining of heart and mind, joins the  physical and the spiritual world in a relationship of which you can
T4:2.25 I have revealed to you. A new relationship now exists between the  physical and spiritual. It is not an indirect relationship but a
T4:3.2 things. Observation is the means of seeing this binding pattern in  physical form.
T4:3.11 love. Observation is the natural means of sharing what is known in  physical form.
T4:3.12 The  physical form is not the natural or original form of the created.
T4:3.12 by which the original nature of the created can newly be seen in  physical form. Once the original nature of the created becomes
T4:3.12 form. Once the original nature of the created becomes observable in  physical form, physical form will surpass what it once was and become
T4:3.12 original nature of the created becomes observable in physical form,  physical form will surpass what it once was and become the new nature
T4:4.18 purpose will death serve when your true Self has joined with your  physical form? You will see it simply as the transformation it has
T4:4.18 temporary experience has been elongated because of the appeal of the  physical experience. What this Treatise is saying to you is that if
T4:4.18 experience. What this Treatise is saying to you is that if the  physical experience appeals to you, and if you create the union of
T4:8.1 without form who at some point in time chose to express love in  physical form, and so began this experience of human life. You are
T4:12.3 are beginning to see that they share in means not confined to the  physical senses.
D:1.2 of the Self you are and the Self you hope to represent with your  physical form. I come to you today not as a personal self who is
D:1.3 of speech, through inappropriateness of attire, through lack of  physical stamina, through lack of intelligence—through lack, in
D:6.25 with the extended life span came extended reasons for fear, and a  physical form that you came to believe needed greater and greater
D:7.28 You might begin by imagining first your actual,  physical, home, then your neighborhood, community, city, state,
D:14.3 The Self is not separate from anything, not from anything in the  physical world or anything in the state of unity. This is why the key
D:14.12 whole, has not been fully birthed. Your forms are complete in the  physical sense of sustaining life. Your form was birthed and you have
D:Day3.47 You still believe the truth of the situation to be the reality of  physical form and of what you have or have not within the confines of
D:Day5.3 experiences come from your mind or from a place just beyond your  physical concept of the mind but, since you are not your body, the
D:Day5.5 arises from the earth and as if it is just below the form of the  physical body. Some could feel it in their hands and others as if it
D:Day15.4 to know and to make known without observation or observance of the  physical. This occurs through your relationship with the unknown. You
D:Day15.5 see, was not real to you. Through the practice of observance of the  physical and the obvious, you began to be able to see beyond the
D:Day15.5 the physical and the obvious, you began to be able to see beyond the  physical and the obvious to what could not be observed physically.
D:Day15.10 This is the new realm of power that few in  physical form have practiced and that has never been practiced by
D:Day15.17 to know the self. The on-going informing or animation of the  physical with the spiritual is just that—on-going. The easiest way
D:Day16.2 Because all that is not  physical exists only in consciousness, it simply exists. It is simply
D:Day16.4 was not chosen. With this rejection, these feelings became  physical. What is not of consciousness is of physical form. The
D:Day16.4 these feelings became physical. What is not of consciousness is of  physical form. The rejected feelings that became physical were made
D:Day16.4 consciousness is of physical form. The rejected feelings that became  physical were made separate from the self and yet were maintained
D:Day16.4 feelings. The rejected feelings exist as separate and forgotten  physical manifestations until they are willfully remembered and
D:Day16.6 ejected or rejected and became “real” is returned to the Self, the  physical manifestation dissolves, because the source, which was
D:Day16.6 the spacious Self. The illness was but is no more. Because it was  physical it came only to pass. Because the feeling that generated the
D:Day16.6 it came only to pass. Because the feeling that generated the  physical manifestation was not physical to begin with—was not of
D:Day16.6 the feeling that generated the physical manifestation was not  physical to begin with—was not of the physical world—it returns
D:Day16.6 manifestation was not physical to begin with—was not of the  physical world—it returns to its non-physical nature within the
D:Day16.8 Without acceptance, the separation remains along with the  physical manifestation.
D:Day16.9 where all that is real and all that was ever real exists. While the  physical manifestations of all that you feared and expelled were not
D:Day16.11 is or will be. You predetermine, or decide, for instance, that a  physical symptom is bad, and then choose to find out what is “wrong,”
D:Day36.3 it would say nothing about you if it related the experiences only as  physical events. Your experiences may, in their totality, be called

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T2:3.2 accomplished. Your link between the realm of unity and the realm of  physicality is your heart. Your heart tells you of the already
T2:3.2 you of the already accomplished and bids you to express it with your  physicality, thus uniting the two realms through expression.
T2:3.7 you, already accomplished but awaiting expression in this realm of  physicality.
T3:12.7 in which only God’s laws of love exist even within the realm of  physicality. What this means is that all that in this human
T3:12.8 human experience, the choice to express who you are in the realm of  physicality. You were not “better” or more “right” before this choice
T3:17.1 of love could be created and observed within the realm of  physicality.
T3:17.4 was chosen—the experience of existing within the realm of  physicality. As such, it was as much a new beginning as the new
T3:17.4 but tell of a “mistake” in the learning of a thought system of  physicality, a mistake that became a building block for all that came
D:Day15.6 could be understood as making the spirit known in the form of  physicality. It is not simply the bringing of spirit into form but
D:Day15.8 spirit. It is about making spirit known through the form of  physicality.

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C:25.13 are no longer vulnerable to being wounded. Fear of being wounded—  physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—has kept you
D:Day15.5 beyond the physical and the obvious to what could not be observed  physically. This practice had two purposes. The first purpose was the

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C:16.24 yet you repeat the same history but in different form. If a talented  physician were to give up his power to heal you would surely call it

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T2:6.7 these exercises as silly or you may have thought of the lessons of  physics and felt as if you understood these exercises on an

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T2:1.9 which all the tools of the artist’s trade are available. An aspiring  pianist imagines a grand piano and performances in a magnificent
T2:1.11 create a grand piano. What kind of thoughts, then, would create a  pianist?
D:Day4.31 it. Even learned skills react to this type of concentration. A  pianist who suddenly thinks of the notes she is playing, falters. An

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T2:1.9 artist’s trade are available. An aspiring pianist imagines a grand  piano and performances in a magnificent concert hall or a little
T2:1.11 unlike to any thoughts you have had before. Your thoughts of a grand  piano will never create a grand piano. What kind of thoughts, then,
T2:1.11 had before. Your thoughts of a grand piano will never create a grand  piano. What kind of thoughts, then, would create a pianist?
T2:1.13 Ego desires cause one to think of a grand  piano. Thoughts joined in unity hear music. Ego desires cause one to
T2:1.13 a tangible goal, such as that of music lessons or the purchase of a  piano, you will never reach the goals associated with those tangible

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D:Day6.7 within the mind and heart, the artist puts pen to paper, or  picks up a guitar, or sings into a tape recorder. Much starting and

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C:P.35 God in human form, but by giving a true rather than a false  picture of power. Before the coming of the word made flesh, the
C:3.6 and ten toes. And yet you know this was not Jesus, nor is this a  picture of the Christ. Jesus gave a face to love, as you do here as
C:5.7 We are beginning now to paint you a new  picture, a picture of things unseen before but visible to your heart
C:5.7 We are beginning now to paint you a new picture, a  picture of things unseen before but visible to your heart if not your
C:5.16 be. You can say the real world is somewhere outside yourself, as you  picture the real world being beyond your doors, but saying this
C:19.17 who believe in a god synonymous with creation are closer to a true  picture of God than those who view God as a solitary figure. Still,
C:22.3 the globe is representative of the Earth. What you less frequently  picture is the relationship between the globe and the axis, even
C:26.24 or at least a brief outline. Where does your life fit in the larger  picture? And yet, you realize that—like reading a story—when the
D:7.1 into it. To “enter” into the experience of form is something you can  picture in your mind, and that you have language to represent,
D:16.17 as in a mirror. It is as removed from who you are as is the  picture of an ancestor or a landscape that hangs on your wall

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D:12.2 You may have  pictured the person who first received these words as receiving them

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D:Day10.13 mental construct but a whole set of thoughts, beliefs, and mental  pictures.

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

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C:6.19 Think about this now—for how could heaven be a separate place? A  piece of geography distinct from all the rest? How could it not
C:7.2 And yet you would withhold a  piece of yourself even from love, and this is what we must correct.
C:7.2 For what you withhold you cannot receive, and you cannot receive a  piece of heaven nor know a piece of God or your own Self. Your giving
C:7.2 cannot receive, and you cannot receive a piece of heaven nor know a  piece of God or your own Self. Your giving must be total for you to
C:7.4 order to identify yourself in this world, you have had to withhold a  piece of yourself and say of this piece, “This is what makes me
C:7.4 world, you have had to withhold a piece of yourself and say of this  piece, “This is what makes me uniquely who I am.” Without this piece
C:7.4 this piece, “This is what makes me uniquely who I am.” Without this  piece of yourself that you have determined to be unique, your
C:7.5 must be protected, and that your protection rests on holding this  piece of yourself separate. Like the love you set aside from this
C:7.5 of the world may claim your body and your time, but this one  piece of yourself that you have set aside you allow it not to claim.
C:7.5 of yourself that you have set aside you allow it not to claim. This  piece is held within your heart, and it is this piece with which we
C:7.5 not to claim. This piece is held within your heart, and it is this  piece with which we now will work.
C:7.6 This is the  piece that screams never to that which would beat you down. Life is
C:7.8 what already occupies your heart—the love you set aside and the  piece of yourself that you won’t let go. As you learn that what you
C:7.11 the world. A grievance is something you have chosen for yourself, a  piece of a relationship separated off and held in contempt and
C:7.13 what you hold against them you withhold from them. You have taken a  piece of them and hold it unkindly to yourself, not in joining but in
C:8.13 why unity and wholeness go hand in hand? Why you cannot withhold a  piece of yourself and realize the unity that is your home? Were it
C:26.22 you is the pattern of the universe, much as within a novel, movie,  piece of music, invention or artistic idea is the completion of the
T3:14.5 I am, however, the bringer of Good News. Now I will repeat to you a  piece of good news you may have forgotten: You would not be other
D:1.20 Is a  piece of music not received by you even when you may be one of
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
D:Day6.6 Let us consider the creation of a piece of music. The creation of a  piece of music, like the creation of a painting or a poem, takes
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.
D:Day6.7 into a tape recorder. Much starting and stopping may be done, or the  piece may find its expression easily, in a way that the artist might
D:Day6.7 describe as flowing. Depending on the disposition of the artist, the  piece of music might be shared with others at each step of the
D:Day6.7 those with whom the music is shared will impact the artist and the  piece. Positive reactions might validate the artist’s instinct and
D:Day6.7 to make changes, or to be more determined than ever to see the  piece through to the point where it will be appreciated. Finishing
D:Day6.7 where it will be appreciated. Finishing touches will be put on the  piece. Some collaboration might take place to get it just right. By
D:Day6.7 place to 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:Day6.7 the piece of music she began, it may have little resemblance to the  piece originally intended, or it might be quite true to the original
D:Day6.8 Every creative  piece of art that comes to completion includes a choice. At some
D:Day6.8 point along the way a commitment is made between the artist and the  piece of art. A commitment to see it through. This commitment may
D:Day6.8 with the artist feeling no certainty about the value of the  piece, but determining to see the project through, knowing that it
D:Day6.8 to see the project through, knowing that it will make the next  piece or the next a better piece of music.
D:Day6.8 knowing 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
D:Day6.9 a completed work that will qualify more as practice than as art, the  piece exists. In each stage of creation it is what it is. Only when
D:Day33.7 what is being said is that being and relationship are of one  piece, one whole, and that whole is love. In other words, every

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C:7.3 distinct and separate, but so too are groups of individuals,  pieces of land, systems and organizations, the natural world and the
C:7.13 to these whims of your brothers and sisters, and find at times  pieces of yourself scattered hither and yon, knowing they are lost to
C:7.13 knowing how this loss came about or where to retrieve these missing  pieces, not knowing that you can prevent the loss entirely by being
C:7.14 There is another way in which you withhold  pieces of relationships for yourself. This withholding is not of the
C:7.18 call forth is of a heart cracked open, not of a heart in separate  pieces. Your brain, on the other hand, is separated into right and
C:22.4 of a needle passing through material. Of itself, it can hold two  pieces of material together. With the addition of thread passed
C:29.14 for you while you compartmentalize your life into designated  pieces giving yourself time for work and time for leisure and seeing
T2:4.3 are rather than as who you are, you have not integrated these two  pieces of learning.
T2:9.7 of needs are part of the same fabric—they are like puzzle  pieces that fit together. Other beings that share life with you on
T3:1.6 developed under the ego’s direction, still allowed for bits and  pieces of who you are to be seen, felt and acknowledged.
D:Day14.7 of willful forgetting and escape. They were “shelved” like museum  pieces and collected solidity within you. Like stones thrown into a
D:Day28.24 As you move toward wholeness, all the  pieces of all that we have talked about will begin to fit together. A

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T3:6.5 is all that you have forced, through sheer strength of will, to  pierce the holiness of your hearts. Bitterness and the idea of

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C:22.5 A needle can also pass through something like an onion,  piercing many layers. While such a piercing has no intrinsic value in
C:22.5 through something like an onion, piercing many layers. While such a  piercing has no intrinsic value in terms of purpose, it provides an
C:22.12 directed. Often great effort is expended keeping these forces from  piercing your heart, the center of yourself. You instead deflect

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T3:9.7 This is the  pilgrimage I set you upon, as real as those who in the time of Moses

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C:14.23 your own rules, a reward to be gained by some and not by others, a  pinnacle of achievement that will prove your rightness and your

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C:2.12 if you but believe you are a small part of God no bigger than a  pinprick of light in a daunting sun, you still cannot believe in the
D:1.13 union with all will emerge from this opening. What was once a tiny  pinprick of light becomes a beacon as you open your heart and allow

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T3:20.18 You are as  pioneers to this new world. Its mere existence will attract others
T4:2.14 the patterns of the past, to believe that you are chosen to be the  pioneers into a new time without believing that you are special. This
T4:12.3 At this time, there is a gathering of  pioneers of the new already in existence. They are beginning to see
D:3.3 now. Your life is not meaningless. You are the ushers, the  pioneers of the new. Your work, as will be often repeated, is to

pit (2)

C:6.17 meant to be and seen in heaven’s holy light. No longer do situations  pit one against another, making it impossible for anyone to achieve
C:7.14 friends, success greater than that of the average man or woman. You  pit yourself not only against individuals but groups and nations,

pitch (2)

C:20.1 Your longing now has reached a fever  pitch, a burning in your heart quite different from that which you
C:28.3 and so a process intent upon bringing the collective to a fever  pitch of belief through common testimony is not our aim.

pity (1)

C:1.13 and alone in the world are those you find to be the objects of your  pity. Yet you do not realize that this is the state your ego has you

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C:P.4 assuming there would be such a state in which learning could take  place would be meaningless.
C:P.11 abdicating love to fear. You are perhaps making this world a better  place but you are not abolishing it. In your acceptance of doing good
C:P.17 and at times miraculous deeds without the world changing from a  place of misery and despair. What is more arrogant? To believe that
C:P.23 hit a wall rather than come across a bridge. It is precisely the  place at which you stopped that you must return to. Those who
C:P.26 the family together as one is love. The family is, in fact, the only  place where unconditional love is seen as acceptable. Thus, no matter
C:P.28 of you that rages against injustice, pain, and horror does so from a  place that does not accept and will never accept that these things
C:P.36 shape, and scope like unto the old and hope to transport it from one  place to another would be delusional. The new world does not have to
C:P.39 see yourself “other than” as man or woman living in a particular  place in a particular time, you cannot see your Self. Thus Jesus
C:P.40 aware of the fact that if you could not see the transformation take  place “with your own two eyes,” you would not believe that the two
C:1.1 being has a heart. Let us define heart as the center of being, that  place from which all feeling arises. All true feeling is love. All
C:1.2 of love. Lack of love is nothing. Thus, all offerings made from a  place other than love are nothing. All offerings made from a place of
C:1.2 from a place other than love are nothing. All offerings made from a  place of fear or guilt are nothing.
C:1.3 human form your heart must beat for the life of your self to take  place. This is the nature of your reality. Love is as essential to
C:1.7 are needed. How silly you feel to have carted them from one  place to the next. What a waste of time and energy to have been
C:1.18 love is a choice for heaven. A choice of fear is hell. Neither are a  place. They are a further reflection of means and end being the same.
C:2.6 in anger in another, and that both actions originate from the same  place, is an error of enormous proportions. You again label love a
C:3.7 functions and you think not that they are all the same. You  place values on each one based on usefulness or pleasant appearance,
C:3.7 or pleasant appearance, on popularity or on reputation. Each one you  place in relationship to yourself, and so you do not even see the
C:3.12 it is only in the study of the two that you believe learning takes  place.
C:4.6 In your knowledge of your Self, all threat of time and space and  place dissolves. You may still walk an alien land, but not in a fog
C:4.10 nor can you earn more of God’s love than you have, or a better  place in Heaven. The mind, under the ego’s direction, has thrived on
C:4.10 on winners and on losers, on striving for and earning a better  place. The heart knows not these distinctions, and those who think
C:4.20 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 love has
C:4.20 love has entered you and leaves you not, and so you too must have no  place in this world that you have made but must have another where
C:4.21 The lucky ones among you have made a  place resembling home within your world. It is where you keep love
C:4.21 another day. 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
C:4.27 nothingness from which it came as a new world rises up to take its  place.
C:5.8 from all the rest. In setting love apart, you recognized it had no  place here; but you went on to set yourself apart and all else that
C:5.9 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 never
C:5.22 of which you have conceived. Over all your longing for union you  place this desire to be separate and alone. Your entire resistance to
C:5.32 awaits you as you join with what you see. This awaits you as you  place no judgment on the world, and in so doing join with everything
C:6.2 of it no more, and you will gently let it go and find heaven in its  place.
C:6.17 accomplishment. With peace, accomplishment is achieved in the only  place where it makes any sense to desire it. With your accomplishment
C:6.19 Think about this now—for how could heaven be a separate  place? A piece of geography distinct from all the rest? How could it
C:6.19 and still be what it is: home to God’s beloved son and dwelling  place of God Himself? It is because God is not separate from anything
C:7.21 most predominate in your society. Thus the truth is different in one  place than it is in another and it even appears to be in conflict.
C:7.21 even though you are aware of their instability in time as well as  place, and so you live with constant denial that even what is known
C:8.6 You think of the heart as the  place of feeling, and thus you associate emotions with your heart.
C:8.8 heart, where is love? If these illusions were real there would be no  place for love at all, but love abides where illusion cannot enter.
C:8.10 hidden from you, your recognition that a truth is available in a  place other than on the surface is useful to us now, as is your
C:8.11 You look from separation’s stance rather than from the grace-filled  place of union. Perhaps you are thinking now that if you knew how
C:8.18 you are perhaps more aware than ever before of being in a particular  place and time. As you stand back and observe your body, this is what
C:8.18 your body, this is what you will see: a form moving through time and  place. You may be more aware than ever of its actions and complaints,
C:9.13 labeled this or that often are not content to stay where you would  place them. They seem to betray you, when it is you who betray them
C:9.14 memories trying to reveal the truth to you. They call to you from a  place that you know not. The difficulty is that the only self that is
C:9.14 of denial or contempt. It is your language that gives emotion its  place, one step behind fear, in your battle to control or protect
C:9.21 that you could bring this one in from that dark and dangerous  place. She is cold, and you prepare a fire and give her a warm
C:9.28 than what it is? Have you not seen this kind of distortion take  place within the reality you do see? Is this not the story of the
C:9.30 than that you are using it. You do so out of guilt in an attempt to  place your guilt outside yourself. “My body made me do it” is like
C:9.34 and lay to ruin. The only thing that might succeed in proving your  place as that of royal inheritor would be if you could fix yourself
C:9.38 balance, and try to find something for one part of yourself in one  place and something for another somewhere else. This one fulfills
C:9.41 idolatry tells you that glory is for the few, and so you take your  place in line at the starting gate and make your bid for glory. You
C:9.44 of use obvious to both the user and the usee, and so has its proper  place in our discussion here. Look at patterns of abuse, in
C:9.45 destructive force of such abuse is easily apparent. Again you would  place the blame outside yourself and label drugs, alcohol, tobacco,
C:10.6 Be warned that it will constantly try to interfere as long as you  place any merit in what it tells you.
C:10.21 return impossible and count themselves lucky for not going to the  place from which change would become inevitable.
C:10.23 fear lies beneath the surface, see the advantage of this exercise:  Place your body out in front of yourself where you can be its silent
C:10.32 you. “Come home, come home,” it will sing. You will know there is a  place within yourself where you are missed and longed for and safe
C:11.6 you have made has been shaken now, and you realize you would like to  place your faith elsewhere. You would like to, but you have your
C:11.13 the final line of defense, the site where the final battle will take  place. Before this final battle is reached your willingness to change
C:11.18 obligation. But a dinner party where love is welcomed to take its  place becomes a celebration. Your table becomes an altar to the Lord
C:12.7 the energy required to keep the world of your illusion in its  place, you would understand the rest that will simply come of giving
C:12.12 is not what it was meant to be. On a lovely day and in a lovely  place you can see that creation’s paradise still exists, but nowhere
C:12.21 The Father did not prevent the idea of separation from taking  place, and could not any more than you could prevent an idea from
C:14.3 make yourself inferior, and you are always making for yourself a  place at one of these extremes. And all this effort and conflict
C:14.4 God provided you with a paradise not of this world, a separate  place to honor your specialness and separation from all else that He
C:14.19 is dependent upon you. And no wonder that when you find a respite, a  place of rest and beauty and of love, you want to claim it for your
C:14.19 plot and plan for what they never have the opportunity to put into  place. Still others are more coy in their design, and dress it up to
C:15.12 as well as his birthright and your own. You only need be open to the  place that no specialness can enter, and bid your brother choose for
C:16.10 basis that it uses no judgment! Here you can see the value that you  place on judgment, even to the ridiculous notion that you can judge
C:16.16 Your judgment has not made the world a better  place! If history proves anything, it proves the opposite of what you
C:16.16 make themselves. For all of you here know that judgment is not your  place, and that it belongs to God and God alone. This is firmly
C:17.13 of your body has prepared you for this. Step back now to the  place that has been held for you. You have not lost “your place in
C:17.13 now to the place that has been held for you. You have not lost “your  place in line” because you wandered. It has been held for you by the
C:18.5 This chain I have described helps you to imagine the  place I hold for you, as you held mine when I entered the world in
C:18.6 as a curse, as a punishment from God, or as your home, a dwelling  place that keeps you separate, then you can begin to see it as what
C:18.8 who comprise it, and imagine the life that you experience now taking  place much like that you would see projected on a movie screen. You
C:18.8 you would see projected on a movie screen. You have not left your  place as you view this movie and experience its sights and sounds,
C:19.5 on faith alone. Experience is needed to change your beliefs and to  place your faith securely in them. The first step in leading you to
C:19.12 must learn to see yourself as you see your brothers and sisters, and  place your belief not in differences but in sameness.
C:19.21 past does not abide in you. What you need rather do is strive for a  place of stillness from which what needs review can arise as if it
C:20.10 imaginal, a dream that requires you not to leave your home, your  place of safety and of rest. You are cradled gently while your spirit
C:20.17 people who would as soon do you harm as good. It is but the  place of your interaction with all that lives within you, sharing the
C:20.44 and acting. It will immediately make the world a kinder, gentler  place. And it is only a beginning.
C:21.5 one another might recognize that the other’s “heart is in the right  place.” The “right place” with two people—as with mind and heart—
C:21.5 The “right place” with two people—as with mind and heart—is the  place of no division. The unification of mind and heart that produces
C:22.19 a moment of how you tell a story or report on events that have taken  place within your life. You personalize. You are likely to report on
C:24.3 can be seen as a sign. Let them alert you that unlearning is taking  place. Welcome them as harbingers of this good news. Know that the
C:25.19 This is unlearning taking  place. It may feel frustrating and be tinged with anxiety, anger,
C:25.20 be linked with ego as well. Your personal self will be looking for a  place in which to reside. It will be looking for identity. It will
C:25.21 to make conscious decisions the quicker your unlearning will take  place and the lessons of discernment occur. Discernment is needed
C:26.19 only that you be open and allow giving and receiving as one to take  place. It asks only that you be unoccupied with the old so that the
C:26.23 the story that is you. Can you not see that you were birthed into a  place in the pattern of God’s creation? Or that you not only can know
C:26.23 Or that you not only can know but have always known of this  place?
C:26.24 This is not a  place of physical form but a place of holiness, an integral place in
C:26.24 This is not a place of physical form but a  place of holiness, an integral place in the pattern that is oneness
C:26.24 is not a place of physical form but a place of holiness, an integral  place in the pattern that is oneness with God. It is a place you have
C:26.24 an integral place in the pattern that is oneness with God. It is a  place you have never left but that you long for, believing that you
C:26.25 of God, you grew simultaneously with God’s thought. You knew your  place in the pattern of creation from the outset. A full life is
C:28.4 Few are chosen to be prophets, and the plethora of testimony taking  place is brought about by innocence more so than by wisdom. This
C:29.12 It is extremely important for you to realize that God’s work takes  place outside of time, as do all acts of true service or creation.
C:29.21 to make choices is an act that comes from an entirely different  place than decision-making. Claiming is akin to prayer and is but an
C:31.6 know that if you had to consciously cause these functions to take  place, you would surely die, for managing the workings of the body
C:31.12 How the ego becomes dislodged matters not. What matters is where you  place your devotion.
C:31.33 receiving being one in truth. Giving and receiving are both taking  place, both at the same time, as are seeking and finding, once you
T1:1.9 ego-mind had to be circumvented in order for true learning to take  place. This is what A Course of Love accomplished. This learning was
T1:4.21 but response. Response was what was required in the first  place and your inability to respond need not be repeated. You are
T1:5.6 real to you. The lucky among you have made of this in-between  place an adventure, and are happy in your seeking. You do not care to
T1:5.7 in-between you have created between all and nothing. This in-between  place is your comfort zone and, although you feel compelled to push
T1:6.2 How is this revelation to take  place? It will begin by learning the art of thought as the act of
T1:8.3 truth. There was only one truth at the time the event or change took  place, and there is only one truth in time or eternity regardless of
T1:9.15 or the intellect. The perceived attack will have entered at the  place where you have placed your highest value and are thus most
T2:1.4 of perfection, and you may find in this a somewhat peaceful resting  place to dwell in for a time. You may find that despite having
T2:1.5 This resting  place is indeed hallowed ground and an earned respite, a demarcation
T2:1.5 But it is not the end that is sought. No matter how peaceful this  place of rest may at first seem, it will soon become stagnant and
T2:1.5 seem, it will soon become stagnant and unsatisfying. Left in such a  place without further instruction, you would soon return to your old
T2:1.6 This  place is not life but neither is it death, for even death is not an
T2:1.6 but neither is it death, for even death is not an eternal resting  place in the sense that you have imagined it. Even rest, once truly
T2:1.6 Even rest, once truly learned, is simply rest. It is not a resting  place, a place to stop along the journey of life any more than it is
T2:1.6 once truly learned, is simply rest. It is not a resting place, a  place to stop along the journey of life any more than it is a place
T2:1.6 a place to stop along the journey of life any more than it is a  place at which life stops and death reigns. It is not a point at
T2:1.8 of this Course, unity, like rest, may have come to be viewed as a  place at which you can arrive. Like peace, it may feel like a bubble
T2:1.8 seems to reign there. You must realize that you think in terms of  place because you think in terms of form. Thus even I have often used
T2:1.8 you think in terms of form. Thus even I have often used the idea of  place as a teaching aid. But you are ready now to begin to think
T2:1.9 that you hang upon your wall. The time of painting becomes a  place. A room or studio is envisioned in which all the tools of the
T2:1.10 Thought “forms” are the product of the separation. Unity is not a  place or a thing but the realm of the one heart and one mind; the
T2:3.2 What I refer to so often here as being within, as if “within” is a  place in which something resides, is unity and it is the place where
T2:3.2 is a place in which something resides, is unity and it is the  place where being resides. It is the place or realm of one heart and
T2:3.2 resides, is unity and it is the place where being resides. It is the  place or realm of one heart and one mind. It is the place where
T2:3.2 It is the place or realm of one heart and one mind. It is the  place where everything already exists fully realized. It is like a
T2:4.9 the conflict of two opposing sets of thoughts and feelings to the  place of unity.
T2:4.13 where there is no division between who you are and what you do. This  place of no division is the place of unity.
T2:4.13 who you are and what you do. This place of no division is the  place of unity.
T2:4.14 accepting who you are. Accepting where you are, as if it is a static  place at which you have arrived, is not the goal that has been set.
T2:6.1 alerts you to the treasures that lie within. There is no time in the  place we are calling within and your heart knows not of time even
T2:6.1 not of time even while it adheres to the rules of time you would  place upon yourself. Cease adhering to the rules of time and see how
T2:6.2 If you can begin now to think without the barriers of time you but  place upon your thinking, you will advance this process and more
T2:6.6 will be in unity. There is only what is. Thus the limits you would  place on the concept of something being what it is, must be part of
T2:7.7 be tempted to believe that giving and receiving as one is not taking  place. Your previous pattern of behavior will be quick to assert
T2:7.19 does mean that you bring the thoughts and feelings that arise to the  place within your heart that has been prepared for them. You do not
T2:7.19 bring them first to your Self, to the Self joined in unity at the  place of your heart. From this place you learn to discriminate, to
T2:7.19 to the Self joined in unity at the place of your heart. From this  place you learn to discriminate, to separate the false from the true,
T2:7.19 from the true, for your ego thoughts cannot long abide in the holy  place of your heart. Then, with truth and illusion separated, you
T2:8.6 from home for home is who you are, a “place” you carry within you, a  place that is you. This is the home of unity.
T2:9.4 to having a reaction to this meeting of a need as if it takes  place apart from you, or from outside of you. You assign the meeting
T2:13.4 the time of separation and the beginning of the time of unity taking  place around you, practice the beliefs that have been put forth in
T2:13.5 another in gratitude. This is the attitude of the wholehearted, the  place from which all calls are sounded and received, the place where
T2:13.5 the place from which all calls are sounded and received, the  place where the true thinking of those united in mind and heart
T3:1.13 work now to correct the errors of the past in the present, the only  place where such work can be done. We work with what we have, a form
T3:4.7 You can dismantle the ego and build another in its  place and this has at times been done in the individual with great
T3:6.6 bitterness itself behind. Bring bitterness no longer to the dwelling  place of Christ and we will seal the place of its entrance with the
T3:6.6 no longer to the dwelling place of Christ and we will seal the  place of its entrance with the sweetness of love so that bitterness
T3:8.4 of many past lives, the identity you hold in this time and this  place still believes in its own history and that of those who came
T3:9.3 beyond its walls. You might think, at first, that you are in a  place so foreign that you must immediately begin to learn again,
T3:10.3 The first thing I ask you to forget is your need to find a  place where blame can be placed. You who have been waiting to get to
T3:10.3 yourself is as senseless as blaming others and your inclination to  place blame upon yourself must be given up as well. When it is said
T3:10.5 space you will long to fill. This act of consciously choosing not to  place blame will short-circuit the many thoughts that you would
T3:10.5 I offer it not as a replacement, what you will find will come in the  place of blame is an idea of acceptance of what is, an idea that is
T3:10.7 to you to become aware of the total change that has, in truth, taken  place.
T3:10.8 reactions to people and situations and much like forgetting to  place blame.
T3:11.3 of Truth represent an awareness of a new reality, a new dwelling  place.
T3:11.4 in the House of Truth does not represent a structure but a dwelling  place. The word house as used in the house of illusion does represent
T3:11.4 self from all that it would fear. The House of Truth is the dwelling  place of those who no longer live in fear and thus have no need for a
T3:13.6 This is a simple  place to start because each of you are tempted to hang on to this
T3:13.7 I say this is a simple  place to start because you can put this new idea into practice today
T3:14.12 onto the past as if it were the truth, allows not correction to take  place. The past is no more and neither the present nor the future can
T3:15.1 others. For most mature adults, some form of new beginning has taken  place or been offered. Often, those within the relationship of
T3:15.2 types of new beginnings and all that would hamper them from taking  place.
T3:15.9 that, like all others that you have offered or attempted, will take  place in relationship. The difference is that this new beginning will
T3:15.9 in relationship. The difference is that this new beginning will take  place in holy, rather than special, relationship.
T3:16.14 be good, to help others, and to struggle to make the world a better  place, fall into this category. Your notions of wanting to protect or
T3:16.17 Accept one “part” or tenet of the truth and see the reverse take  place. See how quickly the thought system of the truth builds upon
T3:17.5 true, your true Self had to be appealed to for this learning to take  place.
T3:18.3 It is thus from observable form that the final learning will take  place. This is the perfect example of using what you have made for a
T3:20.2 is but a measurement of, it rightly follows that learning can take  place at a slow pace or a fast pace. There is no more or less to
T3:21.10 been seen as your personal self. Thus your personal self is the only  place in which you have experience that can now be used for a new
T3:22.13 both of yourself and of what you desire, is an act that takes  place in the here and now that is and brings what is into existence.
T3:22.13 does not appear to exist with you in the here and now is not, and  place it in a separate category, a category that only exists in the
T4:1.23 of your ancestors despite the advances of learning that have taken  place, it is a different world. You have not known the secret
T4:3.10 will allow you to elevate the personal self to its rightful  place within the nature of a world of love.
T4:10.5 the greatest teacher. Studying places the power of the teacher in a  place other than that of love. Relationship happens as it happens.
T4:10.13 of learning will change the world. They will make the world a better  place and see many of their students advance beyond what they can
D:1.11 Help is here. Be what you have been called to be. Open your dwelling  place to your true Self, your true identity. Imagine this opening and
D:4.19 Thus without limiting this freedom at all, let us simply speak of a  place and a way to begin to experience it, and of a place and a way
D:4.19 speak of a place and a way to begin to experience it, and of a  place and a way to begin to create the new.
D:4.20 This  place and this way begins at the prison doors, begins, as we said
D:4.23 I remind you that there is no authority to whom you can turn. But in  place of that “outside” authority, I give you your own authority, an
D:4.26 release is at hand and it will come from your own authority and no  place else. It is up to you to accept that your release is possible,
D:6.1 you that the time of “teaching” like the time of “learning” had its  place as well as its methods.
D:6.9 impossible to repopulate the earth afterwards even if it had taken  place as described.
D:7.4 Experiences of form take  place in time because experience, too, was designed for learning. Now
D:7.8 of time and space. It may still exist in a particular time and  place, but this is simply the nature of one aspect of what you are.
D:7.13 This discovery can only take  place in the reality of love.
D:7.16 Observation takes  place in time. Even while you have been called to observe what is,
D:8.2 Imagine this first as a  place where no learning is needed. Ah, you might say now, this you
D:8.7 what you now think of as your natural talents or abilities, the  place or Source of your natural talents or abilities is a place from
D:8.7 the place or Source of your natural talents or abilities is a  place from which to start building your awareness of what is
D:8.10 The self and the expression of self that comes from any  place other than wholeheartedness is not the true Self or the true
D:8.12 yearning for union with that from which it is divided. Enter the  place of no division, the place of shared consciousness, the place of
D:8.12 that from which it is divided. Enter the place of no division, the  place of shared consciousness, the place of wholeness. The natural
D:8.12 the place of no division, the place of shared consciousness, the  place of wholeness. The natural ability that you recognize as a given
D:9.4 you are in one way or another all of your life without reaching the  place of fulfillment you have sought. Even now, when you have learned
D:11.17 ways that lead to many paths of seeking, but illusion can provide no  place in which the seeking ends and the truth is found.
D:11.18 In unity! Unity is where the heart and mind are joined. Unity is the  place from which the expression, the right-minded action of the
D:12.4 capable of hearing the same language, you truly began to enter the  place of unity, to take the step outside of the dot of the body.
D:12.13 coming to know of the Self joined in unity, enters you through the  place of mind and heart joined in wholeheartedness at the center of
D:12.13 and heart joined in wholeheartedness at the center of yourself, a  place that has nothing to do with the body. That you listen, hear,
D:14.10 for learning is incremental and discovery is not. Learning took  place in parts in an effort to lead to wholeness. Discovery comes to
D:15.22 of the highest mountain. These dialogues might be seen as taking  place there, with the guide and the team of climbers who accompanied
D:16.4 in which the unified principles of creation are seen to be taking  place as separate steps. This is so because of the condition of time.
D:17.24 him home. To where he started from. In story form, this takes  place with movement. Years are spent traveling many paths and many
D:Day1.3 my words, and these words are what have brought you here, not to a  place but to an ascended state. Without your acceptance of who I am,
D:Day1.14 I now would like to lead you beyond, the world would be a different  place. Have I not called you to a new time in which the conditions of
D:Day1.14 are banished, rejected, and a new world of love accepted in their  place?
D:Day2.11 or a flood. Yes, this was different, but this difference does not  place these actions beyond the idea of acceptance.
D:Day3.17 in the case of those “born” to money. Thus this is a good  place to start, since inheritance is that of which we speak. Let’s be
D:Day3.26 Love. But beyond learning is where we now stand. We now stand at the  place of the rejection of learning—the rejection of all you learned.
D:Day3.39 When you have felt the reality of union, you have felt the  place in which no want exists. You felt this through the
D:Day3.42 which your desires are responded to. This does not mean that the  place of unity is a place that does not interact with the place of
D:Day3.42 are responded to. This does not mean that the place of unity is a  place that does not interact with the place of form. It is
D:Day3.42 that the place of unity is a place that does not interact with the  place of form. It is interacting with the world of form through you.
D:Day3.44 you are being asked to do here, is to open the self of form to the  place of unity, thus allowing this divine flow of union into the
D:Day4.13 free from learning, a state free from death. To be told that such a  place exists is no more comforting than consoling words if you do not
D:Day4.13 than consoling words if you do not feel you have access to this  place. It is like being told that all of the treasure you might
D:Day4.25 truth. On your own, only illusion can be learned, for your starting  place is illusion.
D:Day4.26 treasure and the key to the treasure. Union is both access and the  place to which you desire access. As all that exists in truth, union
D:Day4.35 You might think of the mountain top as symbolic of a  place close to God. If God was once seen as a figure in heaven, and
D:Day4.35 to God. If God was once seen as a figure in heaven, and heaven as a  place beyond the clouds, then the mountain top was symbolic of
D:Day4.35 the mountain top was symbolic of proximity. It was symbolic of a  place from which God was almost touchable. As if one could raise ones
D:Day4.35 to all that lies beyond time and space, to all that exists in the  place of unity.
D:Day4.42 Smile with me now, as you think of yourself in this elevated  place. You are still the self of form despite the truth that you are
D:Day4.42 self of form despite the truth that you are literally with me in a  place of high elevation. Is this what you choose to remain? A self of
D:Day4.43 transformed into the elevated Self of form? Do you want to know this  place of access and carry it within you, or do you only wish the
D:Day4.45 what A Course of Love taught you so that you could be taken to this  place and tempted to leave behind the temptations of the human
D:Day5.3 does not mean that these experiences come from your mind or from a  place just beyond your physical concept of the mind but, since you
D:Day5.5 be of your own choosing. Your point of access may be your head, or a  place just above or to the right or left of your head. It may be your
D:Day6.6 a piece of music, like the creation of a painting or a poem, takes  place in stages.
D:Day6.7 late in its development. But at some point, the sharing will take  place, and the reactions of those with whom the music is shared will
D:Day6.7 touches will be put on the piece. Some collaboration might take  place to get it just right. By the time the artist has completed the
D:Day6.19 Learning takes the student away from “normal” life and creates a  place for teaching and only calls this place elevated. Awareness,
D:Day6.19 “normal” life and creates a place for teaching and only calls this  place elevated. Awareness, acceptance, and discovery cannot occur in
D:Day6.19 elevated. Awareness, acceptance, and discovery cannot occur in a  place set apart from “normal” life. Believe me when I tell you that
D:Day6.19 phrase here. It is not the other way around. You cannot find a  place outside of yourself that will allow for the elevation of which
D:Day6.19 this. It is only the relationship we are developing in this elevated  place within that will bring to your full realization and
D:Day6.20 to change my focus, to engage me in debate, to lure me from the  place of elevation I knew I had attained. The temptations of the
D:Day6.20 externally removed from them cannot remove them. Only a created  place within can do so.
D:Day6.21 This  place within is what we are creating here. It is a truly elevated
D:Day6.21 place within is what we are creating here. It is a truly elevated  place. It is as real as a mountain top, in fact much more real. Were
D:Day7.8 exist in fear. As with Christ-consciousness, you are moving from a  place of maintenance of these conditions to one of sustainability of
D:Day8.4 labeling good or bad; only then can you deal with anything from a  place of peace.
D:Day8.9 However, a simple acceptance that you do not like the gossip taking  place in a present moment situation, will enable you not to
D:Day8.27 are still in need of this full acceptance or you will not reach the  place of sustainability. Every situation and every feeling that you
D:Day9.1 removed ourselves from life in any way, and yet we have reached a  place of retreat, a place of safety and of rest, a place away from
D:Day9.1 from life in any way, and yet we have reached a place of retreat, a  place of safety and of rest, a place away from “normal” life and the
D:Day9.1 we have reached a place of retreat, a place of safety and of rest, a  place away from “normal” life and the lack of freedom you have
D:Day9.5 be realized together for the elevation of the self of form to take  place. What good will be the certainty of unity if the self of form
D:Day9.15 goal, a carrot of fulfillment the ego but dangled before you in the  place it called the future. As with all messages of the ego, it but
D:Day9.31 a god seen as “other than” puts all that you would long for in a  place outside of, or beyond, the self you are now.
D:Day10.6 that comes from union will seem to come, at least initially, from a  place other than the self. Because certainty seems to come from a
D:Day10.6 a place other than the self. Because certainty seems to come from a  place “other than” or beyond the self of form, you will instinctively
D:Day10.6 have greater trust in it. You will believe it comes from a  place “other than” or beyond the self of form because it comes in the
D:Day10.15 of form. Reflect further on your idea of certainty coming from a  place “other than” the self. Realize in these reflections that you
D:Day10.23 a true sharing in relationship in which an exchange is taking  place, you will further your progress greatly.
D:Day10.26 have spoken, in short, of the feelings you would think would have no  place within the ideal self or the elevated Self of form.
D:Day15.8 aspect of creation. It is thus not time bound. It did not take  place at the birth of creation and then cease to be. It did not take
D:Day15.8 place at the birth of creation and then cease to be. It did not take  place at the birth of the body and then cease to be. It is not about
D:Day15.17 slip from knowing to not knowing is through stagnating in a “known”  place. To cease to accept the unknown is to cease to come to know.
D:Day15.26 shown that you can enter the dialogue with all and still focus, or  place your attention, on areas that might not interest others in the
D:Day19.9 The way of Mary is not a  place or state of non-interaction however. This is not the state or
D:Day19.9 place or state of non-interaction however. This is not the state or  place of the monks, nuns, or the contemplatives of old. It is not
D:Day19.14 the way to their brothers and sisters. This is why this is not a  place or state of non-interaction but of great interaction. It is a
D:Day21.9 who had offered himself as a teacher in order to bring you to the  place of being willing to accept that a teacher was not needed. He
D:Day21.9 This reliance upon yourself has been expressed as a dialogue taking  place within Christ-consciousness, the consciousness you share in
D:Day22.5 This we have spoken of previously as your access to union—as a  place or state of consciousness through which your awareness of unity
D:Day22.7 to make the unknown knowable. You realize that you have known a  place where nothing but love exists, where there is no suffering, no
D:Day22.7 or alienation. You sense that if you could fully express this  place of union, if you could abide there, if you could share this
D:Day22.7 place of union, if you could abide there, if you could share this  place in an aware and conscious state, that you would bring this
D:Day22.11 Remember only the feeling that a  place of union exists in which you know God, in which you know love,
D:Day23.3 the mountain and onto level ground, the ground of the earth, the  place where you are connected and interconnected to all that lives
D:Day24.9 water, a pregnant woman her child. You carry your potential to the  place of its birth through an activated will, a will that is also
D:Day27.12 as an illustration, of your experience of separation always taking  place at a certain number of degrees away from the ideal. The
D:Day28.18 This change, this transformation, can only take  place within time because only within time is the experience of
D:Day28.18 Only this first change, this first transformation, must take  place in time.
D:Day28.26 together into the tapestry of your new life. This weaving will take  place as you continue to intertwine the two experiences that you are
D:Day29.7 are your reality. This is why experience has needed to find a  place in which it could become the common denominator between
D:Day36.19 your awareness slowly in order for you to be able to reach this  place where you may be able to accept this new idea which is simply
D:Day39.42 Realize your own expansion, the expansion that has taken  place under the tutelage of Jesus, within the dialogue with
D:Day40.34 with each other? Will you carry it with you to level ground—to the  place of completion and demonstration of who you are being?
A.14 extend who you are. True giving and receiving as one begins to take  place. You have entered Holy Relationship.
A.23 mind. The demonstration will work for those who observe from a  place of unity even if it works not at all for the reader who cannot

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C:P.15 world in which you can believe but not take part. You thus have  placed the ego at odds with spirit, giving the ego an internal and
C:1.4 you do not understand the nature of your own thoughts. You have  placed them inside your body, conceptualizing them in a form that
C:4.3 Love was thus not ever lost but shadowed over by longing that,  placed between you and your Source, both obscured Its light and
C:6.20 but without the pain and burden of the body, without the limits  placed upon those who remain? You imagine them still in bodily form,
C:9.23 one example is needed to clarify the predicament in which you have  placed yourself. You feel lacking and so you want. You want and want
C:9.30 of mice. A computer might be covered with a cloth, a flowerpot  placed on top of it. Someone not knowing what it is for would make of
C:9.33 like time your imitation of the gift of free will is so falsely  placed in illusion that you cannot see this madness for what it truly
C:9.37 You have  placed limits on all things in your world, and it is these limits of
C:11.6 asks for your willingness to have faith in something new. You have  placed your faith in what you have made, and while it remains there
C:14.24 You have thus  placed love and heaven together in a parody of creation’s meaning of
C:15.10 And so it is. And so must your faith and loyalty be  placed in something new, something worthy of your diligence and
C:15.11 over truth and betray all that you are and the hope your brother has  placed in you as savior of the world.
T1:4.9 on what exists outside of you as your responsibility is  placed where it belongs, in the call to respond. This response is
T1:9.15 The perceived attack will have entered at the place where you have  placed your highest value and are thus most vulnerable. In the past
T3:3.5 Your accidents caused lawsuits where blame could be rightly  placed. Your depression was blamed on the past. Even your successes
T3:10.3 I ask you to forget is your need to find a place where blame can be  placed. You who have been waiting to get to the “hard part” of this
T3:14.2 of the self would soon be called upon to intercede. Blame would be  placed. A return to equanimity would soon prevail, for those dwelling
D:7.27 This circle in which you have  placed your body is not a circle of time and space. It is not a
D:Day4.31 to perform with excellence. Why? Because a film of the unnatural is  placed over the natural.
D:Day6.26 to be involved in. All other areas where you might previously have  placed your devotion pale in comparison to our task.

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C:3.7 have predetermined that they should possess at all times and in all  places. And so one disappoints and another enthralls, one champions
C:4.23 not like anything or everything else that goes on here. And so your  places to worship love have been built, your sacraments protect
C:8.10 truth. While the way in which you go about seeking for the truth in  places it is not causes it to remain hidden from you, your
C:9.30 for a car accident on the automobile. You have attempted to change  places with the body, claiming that it is using you rather than that
C:9.39 Seeking what you have lost in other people,  places, and things is but a sign that you do not understand that what
C:9.42 your home? What freedom would you have without the demands your body  places upon you? The same question can be asked of this world you see
C:12.4 be joined with you and all that would fill your dark and lonely  places with the happiness you seek.
C:12.19 of his life, the things that would happen within it, perhaps the  places in which it would occur or the people that would be part of
C:22.12 a great percentage of them are involved with denial, with creating  places where things enter and simply sit. These “things” are not
T1:3.23 would be. You would be in demand to end so much suffering in so many  places. Surely you wouldn’t want that even if it could come to be.
T2:1.9 tennis player becomes a champion. These are all scenes of things and  places, or in other words, of the external, of form.
T3:6.5 your mind. It is the one false idea that has entered this holiest of  places, this abode of Christ, this bridge between the human and the
T3:11.15 be striving to remain aware even that you have changed dwelling  places. There is a reason for this time of varying degrees of
T4:10.5 Relationship recognizes that love is the greatest teacher. Studying  places the power of the teacher in a place other than that of love.
D:7.5 you fully aware of the embrace and the consciousness of unity and  places you outside of time. In this state, no duality exists. Doing
D:7.28 partially yours. You have a route to and from your work or other  places that you go, where you see familiar landmarks, structures,
D:7.28 your church, perhaps a school or library, certain restaurants or  places of civic duty or social engagement. You may expand this small
D:Day15.24 Without necessarily realizing it, your consciousness has been in two  places at once without being divided. As you re-enter life on
D:Day33.5 you are being in relationship. It is to your being that the people,  places, events and situations that make up your world appeal. It is
D:Day33.9 of love can look as different as the events, situations, people, and  places that populate your world. How can this be? And how can you

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C:9.30 of roles is similar to what you have attempted to do and it is like  placing the blame for a car accident on the automobile. You have
C:13.1 It will not be only others you observe but yourself and others,  placing you and “them” together where you belong. This seeming
T3:10.4 Taking away the idea of  placing blame will change your thought processes beyond your wildest
T3:10.4 do so with blame. All you need do is catch yourself in the act of  placing blame and say to yourself, “I was placing blame again and I
T3:10.4 yourself in the act of placing blame and say to yourself, “I was  placing blame again and I choose to do so no longer.” You need not
D:6.21 past for the present. And yet, what ridding your mind of ideas of  placing blame does, is take it one step away from the thinking of the
D:11.16 of spirit. To seek importance for the personal self would be akin to  placing the importance of Jesus on the man Jesus who existed in
A.31 more sharing of experiences. The facilitator’s task is now one of  placing these experiences in context. After giving the group time to

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T3:6.1 reward is to give up a childish desire that has become like unto a  plague among you. While many of you see it not, everything you do is
D:Day25.1 Emptiness of mind will now be something that may seem to  plague many of you. Where once the mind was searching, yearning,

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T3:15.5 in being able to succeed in the current year, will continue to be  plagued by memories of failure. The alcoholic can approach each day

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D:Day2.16 is an example from my own life, an example the idea of which still  plagues many of you. This example is that of the crucifixion.

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D:2.13 Thus have you learned ideas such as “when all else fails,  plain old hard work will see you through,” or that “safety is the

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A.22 with it a new kind of evidence, an evidence demonstrated clearly and  plainly with every willingness to end reliance on the ego-mind and to

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C:11.10 think at times that this was God’s mistake, the one weakness in His  plan, and one that you would use. At other times you think that this
C:14.19 to dismantle because of its interconnections. Others experience this  plan of entrapment solely in their mind as they plot and plan for
C:14.19 this plan of entrapment solely in their mind as they plot and  plan for what they never have the opportunity to put into place.
C:15.8 For now we come upon a linchpin in your  plan for specialness—one of great necessity to overcome if you are
C:17.7 to no avail. A Course in Miracles asks you to “receive instead of  plan,” and yet few of you understand the meaning of this simple
C:26.25 attempt to rewrite previous chapters and to cast all the parts and  plan all the events of the next. This is, in effect, your attempt to
T2:10.18 or opportunities that would not have arisen had your chosen  plan come to fruition.
T2:10.19 The Christ in you has no need to  plan. A need to come to know, yes. But a need to plan, no. The Christ
T2:10.19 you has no need to plan. A need to come to know, yes. But a need to  plan, no. The Christ in you needs not for you to choose a lesson
T2:10.19 to plan, no. The Christ in you needs not for you to choose a lesson  plan, but to let life itself be your chosen way of learning.
T3:16.2 the new world you are called to create. You do not need to have a  plan and you do not need to know precisely what this new world will
T3:16.3 to planning and to a state of knowing that for which it is you  plan. These have been the ways of creation in the thought system of
T3:22.5 that once so ruled your mind. To be willing to receive instead of  plan is to break the pattern of planning.
D:1.2 and you “give” from the well of the spirit. You need not prepare or  plan, you need only to claim your inheritance, your gifts, your Self.
D:1.7 the personal self must still struggle and try, prepare and  plan. It does not know how to do otherwise. You do not think you know

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T4:2.11 record-setting first; just as someone had to be “first” to fly a  plane or land on the moon, being first implies only that there will
T4:2.11 and this is known to you. Even those who did not desire to fly in a  plane when this feat was first accomplished have since flown in

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T4:2.11 in a plane when this feat was first accomplished have since flown in  planes.

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C:8.17 think of it, the terms that set your reality in a location, on a  planet, in a body. God is here and you belong to God. This is the
C:20.15 Imagine a body in a cave, a cave in the earth, the earth in the  planet, the planet in the universe. Each cradles the other. None are
C:20.15 a body in a cave, a cave in the earth, the earth in the planet, the  planet in the universe. Each cradles the other. None are passive.
C:31.8 of your world imitates truth as well. You live on one world, one  planet, one Earth. You may live on different continents, different
T2:9.7 that fit together. Other beings that share life with you on this  planet are not concerned with needs or need fulfillment. Doing what
T4:4.3 through death, to allow for new generations to be born. As your  planet has reached a state of growth known as over-population, this
T4:4.4 Even before the  planet reached the state of over-population, this idea was much in
D:4.12 the observable forms that make up your world, everything from the  planet on which you exist to the stars in the sky, from the body you
D:7.22 Time-bound evolution is still surely going on, and as the  planet becomes crowded, as progress has left so many unfulfilled, as
D:7.28 it is a shared territory and a territory within the territory of  planet Earth.
D:7.29 the territory of your body exists within the larger territory of the  planet Earth. We will begin here, with the territory of your

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T2:10.18 about specific subject matter. When life does not go as you have  planned, you feel as if your chosen path has been denied to you. You
T2:10.18 may have looked back often on situations that did not go as you had  planned and nevertheless gifted you with experiences or opportunities
D:Day10.7 trusted the intuition and then learned that had you done what you  planned to do, an accident or some other event you would not have

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C:26.16 the disappointments of yesterday go and be no more? Can you let the  planning for the future cease? Can you be still and know your Self?
C:26.18 the invitation to greet this day with no worry, disappointment, or  planning. This is the invitation to greet your Self and to find your
T2:1.13 tangible steps. Thoughts joined in unity create without goals or  planning, without effort or struggle. This does not make an
T3:16.3 possible, you would indeed be called to effort and to struggle, to  planning and to a state of knowing that for which it is you plan.
T3:22.5 Along with this resignation is the concept of receiving rather than  planning. Your feeling that a specific role is required of you, or
T3:22.5 of which you need to be aware, are functions of the pattern of the  planning process that once so ruled your mind. To be willing to
T3:22.5 To be willing to receive instead of plan is to break the pattern of  planning.
T3:22.6 and while I also do not ask you to “work” to break the pattern of  planning, I do ask you to let it go and to replace it with
D:14.8 isn’t realized or accepted is when you believe you have need of  planning rather than receiving, when you believe you have cause for
D:Day3.50 You may feel as if you are on the right track, that through the  planning out of strategy and action, through putting all that you

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C:6.13 close, for never do you feel more in need of help than when all your  plans have failed and giving up becomes an alternative more
C:17.7 grow quite used to this phenomenon, you do not. You still make your  plans and rail against everything that interferes with them, even
C:20.37 Knowing what you do is a present moment knowing. It is not about  plans. It is about moment-by-moment knowing exactly who you are and
C:26.19 It requires no new  plans. It asks not that you make any decisions. It asks not that you
C:29.14 be possible for you while you look at life in terms of schedules,  plans, time-tables, or things to get done. No wholeness will be
T2:10.18 What are your  plans and dreams but chosen lessons? While you do not think of them
T3:3.4 when illness or depression stood in the way of your desires or the  plans of others and let such circumstances fill you with
T3:16.14 that arise from your old idea of special relationships. All of your  plans to do good and be good, to help others, and to struggle to make
T3:21.24 can give the response you are meant to give. Do not make any false  plans that give your power to others more learned of this Course than
T3:22.8  Plans will only interfere with your response to what you are given to
D:14.5 could be asked when decision-making seems to be called for, and when  plans seem to need to be made.
D:Day16.5 in instances where acts of nature or accidents seem to thwart  plans, or in “situations” or crises of all kinds. These

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T2:12.10 gardener cultivates her garden. The gardener knows that although the  plant exists fully realized within its seed, it also needs the
D:4.12 in the sky, from the body you seem to inhabit to the animal and  plant life that exists around you. From the daintiest and most
D:4.12 the daintiest and most intricately laced snowflake to the stem of a  plant to the workings of the human brain, a divine pattern is evident

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C:3.9 they are, not the symbols that they represent. An idea of love is  planted now, in a garden rich with what will make it grow.
C:10.31 better things to do. Yet as much as you resist, the idea has been  planted and you will find yourself, at times that seem to be “against
T3:22.4 to represent the truth of who you are, the seeds of who you are, are  planted there, right within the self you have always been. There has
D:Day3.54 is not expressed, that is not shared, is no greater than a seed not  planted. But the gift of the great idea, the great talent, must first

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C:28.6 journey, a time of teaching and of learning both. It is the time of  planting and of harvest that comes before the time of rest. It is the

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D:Day28.6 both exciting and at times excruciatingly difficult. Others reach a  plateau of sorts and just keep following the opportunities that are

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C:29.11 it done or ways to avoid doing it at all. Thus have your paper  plates and dishwashers taken the ritual from a meal, your

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C:1.14 to engage. Although you are well aware you will not win the game you  play here, you see the effort to do so, no matter how futile, as
C:2.8 that you call evolution and you hope you have some miniscule role to  play in advancing the status of humankind. This is the most you have
C:4.16 to some and not to others. You hope to be a winner in this game you  play, a chosen one who will have each ounce of love that is given
C:4.16 of love that is given returned in kind. This is a balancing act you  play with God’s most holy gift, resenting giving love that gains you
C:10.11 own. In the early stages of your learning, you will be tempted to  play a game of make believe. You will not believe that you are not
C:10.28 This is not a test and you cannot fail. You are merely playing.  Play at observing yourself from above. Can you look “down” upon
C:10.31 resistance to this experiment. You will find you are too serious to  play this game and that you have better things to do. Yet as much as
C:10.32 Its whisper will be heard within your thoughts. Its melody will  play within your mind. “Come back, come back,” it will say to you.
C:22.23 find that you fulfill a grand purpose, and have a wonderful part to  play in a grand design. You will not feel cheated by losing your
C:25.14 forces of humanity or nature, will eventually lose the game they  play. True invulnerability can only be claimed by those who recognize
C:26.9 is due you through no effort of your own. Scenes of your life  play through your mind that “prove” that you are neither inherently
T1:2.13 the horizon. It is to see the surrounding area, perhaps to see the  play of clouds among the descending rays, perhaps to feel the warmth
T1:4.11 There is much  play on the words response, responsible, and responsibility here.
T3:1.6 It is as if you have been an actor upon a stage, the part you  play as unreal as the setting on which you play it. Yet there is a
T3:1.6 a stage, the part you play as unreal as the setting on which you  play it. Yet there is a “you” who has been playing the part, a part
T3:1.7 and you are left, perhaps, feeling unsure of the part you are now to  play. There is not one of you who has not begun to experience the
T3:22.15 to be replaced by certainty. If you have enjoyed the game of chance,  play a real game and have fun doing it. Do not bring this attitude
T4:6.1 Now I ask you to consider the part you  play in the creation of this all-encompassing consciousness. Your
D:Day2.2 in which you would desire peace, memories of your life continue to  play within your mind, often still bringing you sadness and regrets.
D:Day19.5 brothers and sisters called to “do,” do not have a specific part to  play in establishing the world in which all are able to be content

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C:9.47 is returned to you. You will but smile at the childish games you  played, and have no more regrets than you would have for your
C:19.8 Let me speak briefly of the role I  played so that you can better understand the role that waits for you.
T3:8.3 has to do with your feelings more so than your thoughts. The ego but  played upon these feelings, using them as building blocks for its

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T2:1.9 round. A writer sees a book in print, a runner wins a race, a tennis  player becomes a champion. These are all scenes of things and places,

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C:8.7 milieu of life lived on the surface, as if your own skin were the  playground for all the angels and demons that would dance there. What

playing (3)

C:10.28 This is not a test and you cannot fail. You are merely  playing. Play at observing yourself from above. Can you look “down”
T3:1.6 the setting on which you play it. Yet there is a “you” who has been  playing the part, a part that, while developed under the ego’s
D:Day4.31 of concentration. A pianist who suddenly thinks of the notes she is  playing, falters. An athlete who suddenly thinks of the requirements

pleasant (3)

C:3.7 all the same. You place values on each one based on usefulness or  pleasant appearance, on popularity or on reputation. Each one you
C:4.26 in truth. Think you not that this joining is a metaphor, a string of  pleasant words that will bring you comfort if you heed them, one more
D:Day8.19 temptation of those who live in peace, a temptation unlike the more  pleasant temptations that were spoken of earlier. This temptation

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C:P.20 to self because this is your chosen way to abolish ego and to  please God. This is not unlike the attitude of a good mother who
C:P.21 Your good intentions neither  please nor displease God. God simply waits for your return to heaven,
C:22.1 parts of your life and for certain times that you deem appropriate.  Please assure yourself, as I assure you, that now is an appropriate
C:22.9 While you might think of this as everything outside of yourself,  please, when thinking of this, use the words I have provided:
T1:4.25 buried. So whether you count yourself among the fearful or not,  please continue to give me your attention just a while longer as we
D:Day5.20 fully, it would speed the transformation along quite nicely. So  please, listen to your weariness and to your heart’s desire to rest.
D:Day10.38 waited for your feelings to be addressed in a more personal way. But  please remember that none of the approaches that have been used to

pleased (1)

D:Day8.26 are used to hiding the self of the past about whom you are not well  pleased, and you are used to hiding the self of potential, the future

pleasing (3)

C:22.20 day “to you.” The day has all or most of the requirements you find  pleasing in a day. Replace such a thought with: “The grass is green.
D:9.12 “come to you.” They are given and received. They are surprising and  pleasing in nature. You may think that they are the result of
D:13.3 will be among the first revelations and will seem quite simple and  pleasing as they enter your awareness, but they may come to be seen

pleasurable (2)

C:18.23 of feelings of lack of love, and that all you have experienced as  pleasurable are feelings of love. This would seem to contradict what
D:5.7 of love and called it “making love.” If it were painful rather than  pleasurable, if you did not lose yourself and experience completion,

pleasure (13)

C:9.6 what goes in and what goes out. It is as susceptible to pain as to  pleasure. It contains the means for joining, but for joining that is
C:9.7 is reflected in the body: self-aggrandizement and self-effacement,  pleasure and pain, violence and gentleness. A desire to know
C:10.1 is neutral. But as long as you attribute the body with bringing you  pleasure, the body will bring you pain as well. You cannot choose one
C:13.3 routine to you, for you will want to continuously experience the  pleasure that it brings.
C:18.22 of the body as a learning device. Your body seems to experience both  pleasure and pain, yet as a learning device, it is neutral. It does
C:18.22 nor that you can reject the experience of it. The same is true of  pleasure.
C:18.23 Determination of  pleasure and pain is made with the judgment of the separated self who
T3:13.2 of the experience, whether it be an extreme experience of pain or of  pleasure. You begin to fear that pleasure will end or that pain will
T3:13.2 an extreme experience of pain or of pleasure. You begin to fear that  pleasure will end or that pain will not end. Once fear has entered,
T3:13.5 Remember now that  pleasure and pain as perceived by the body are from the same source.
T3:13.5 but your beliefs about your body and yourself. You have believed  pleasure to come at a cost, the cost of pain. You have believed in
D:5.7 completion, you would not desire it. Sex, experienced for this  pleasure and completion, regardless of emotional attachment or
D:Day18.5 individuation of the One Self amongst the many. They find renewed  pleasure in being who they are because they have been renewed through

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T3:8.11 seem to do so? If what was looked for was a means of finding simple  pleasures in a harsh world, why not ideas of entertainment that would
D:Day3.22 them with ideas of having more time, more fulfilling work, simpler  pleasures, and yet you still see your new state as one that does not
D:Day3.33 answer, just as you might think that money spent on the more lasting  pleasures such as the things described above is the secret.

pledges (1)

C:14.20 speak of it and try to alleviate the fear with official commitments,  pledges and promises made. Others may deny their fear, and say they

plethora (1)

C:28.4 is a symptom of distrust. Few are chosen to be prophets, and the  plethora of testimony taking place is brought about by innocence more

plot (2)

C:14.19 experience this plan of entrapment solely in their mind as they  plot and plan for what they never have the opportunity to put into
C:26.22 Think a moment of a novel or movie with no  plot. This would be the same as saying that there was no idea brought

plunders (1)

C:2.23 There are no  plunders to be treasured. No victors of this war. All that has been

plural (1)

C:12.15 and have no hidden thoughts. They are, in fact, not minds in the  plural at all, but all-one-mind. What this Course is saying is that

poem (2)

C:11.2 when you honor artists of all kinds you honor but this fact. Every  poem bears the mark of its creator, as does each work of art you
D:Day6.6 creation of a piece of music, like the creation of a painting or a  poem, takes place in stages.

poetry (1)

T3:7.7 to be found there. One found art and another religion, one found  poetry and another music, one seized upon a single thought and

poignancy (2)

T1:10.3 again in this most human of ways. You will cry and laugh for the  poignancy of the human experience. This is the known that you will be
E.26 passing times of doubt, how different you are. You will recall with  poignancy who you once were, but you will not turn back. You will

point (127)

C:P.8 was a course in thought reversal and mind training, a course to  point out the insanity of the identity crisis and dislodge the ego’s
C:P.22 the spectrum, with a concentration on self that seems to have no end  point and no limit to the interest it generates. While forgiveness
C:P.22 of gifts and what leads to joy cannot be done without, they are the  point only to the extent of making one ready for a new choice.
C:7.17 ideas you have, especially those that might make of this a trivial  point or one that is specific and not generalizable. All relationship
C:9.41 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 down to those who
C:10.3 take what you will and leave the rest. Thus we will continue to  point out the differences in the two thought systems so that your
C:10.5 body to prove to you that it is insurmountable. Many people at this  point try to think these maladies away, and when they do not succeed
C:10.6 evidence of its failure to be other than separate and be quick to  point out to you the impossibility of being other than what you are—
C:10.16 is possible, but there may be reasons not to choose this. At this  point, however, all that is asked is that your body is seen as what
C:11.14 the effects you would have come about. This matters not at this  point. You are offered the opportunity to make a temporary decision
C:12.10 it is but a separation from your Self. This is the most difficult  point to get across, because in it lies a contradiction, the one
C:12.15 at all, but all-one-mind. What this Course is saying is that at some  point that does not exist in time, God’s son made the choice for
C:12.24 name for love, but such it is. God is but creation’s starting  point, the creator of creation and yet Creation itself. The Son and
C:12.24 Son and Holy Spirit, like unto Creation, proceeded from the starting  point of God. God is the Son and Holy Spirit’s starting point as
C:12.24 the starting point of God. God is the Son and Holy Spirit’s starting  point as well, the Creator of the Son and Holy Spirit, yet He also is
C:14.2 creation as you have fragmented your own self. And from the vantage  point you have established in which you view yourself as the epitome
C:14.13 We must begin with what is obvious, a simple  point that some of you have denied and that some of you could not.
C:15.4 be made to feel special—and you along with them—then what is the  point of being here at all? For this is indeed the point you have
C:15.4 then what is the point of being here at all? For this is indeed the  point you have made of your life.
C:15.11 be loyal to both, and herein lies your problem. For at the turning  point you look back and see one other you cannot betray, and one
C:19.15 have learned much of others, this type of learning is but a starting  point, a gateway to experience.
C:21.6 The embrace can now be likened to the starting  point of a shared language, a language shared by mind and heart and
C:22.7 The image of intersection is simply meant to represent the  point where the world intersects with you—where your path crosses
C:22.7 cause you to feel or believe in a certain way—and it is at this  point of intersection that not only relationship, but partnership is
C:22.14 While passing through would seem to imply an entry and exit  point, the relationship developed during the pass-through continues.
C:22.14 continues. Just as wind or water passing through an entry and exit  point has an impact and a motion, so does what passes through you
C:23.25 There is no trick to identifying unlearning opportunities. From this  point forward, I assure you, all experiences will be thus until
C:25.16 personal self gets out of the way in any instance, it is the turning  point. It is the signal that you are ready to live from love. This is
C:28.9 attempt to turn bearing witness into a convincing argument for your  point of view, no matter what that point of view may be, makes what
C:28.9 a convincing argument for your point of view, no matter what that  point of view may be, makes what you have come to know pointless to
C:28.12 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 you saying
C:31.9 even one life. Each life is irreplaceable and no one argues this  point, yet you allow yourself to resist the whole idea of God because
T1:4.27 and not due miracles or any other thing or being. I bring up this  point to assure you that this confusion is nothing new, but a
T1:5.6 much to be learned from the in-between. It is, however, a starting  point only.
T1:9.14 then have been either an emotional one or an intellectual one. The  point here is that the one that is most comfortable and that is
T2:1.6 than it is a place at which life stops and death reigns. It is not a  point at which you arrive, never to depart. Rest, when truly learned,
T2:6.6 Accomplishment is not an end  point but a given. It is not an outcome but a certainty. It says I am
T3:2.12 This is such an important  point for you to grasp that I return you to our comparison of the
T3:5.7 of enormous proportions; the greatest sacrifice of all. The  point of the story, however, was not one of sacrifice but one of gift
T3:12.5 Realize that prior to this  point, our goal was returning to your awareness the truth of your
T3:14.10 If there are things that you, at this  point, still hold to yourself and call unforgivable, now is the time
T3:14.13 make for yourself no cause to prolong it. The past is but a starting  point for the future. Just as we talked of the consequences of blame
T3:17.8 time of illusion is now called to an end. What is finite has an end  point and this is that end point for the time of illusion. The return
T3:17.8 to an end. What is finite has an end point and this is that end  point for the time of illusion. The return of Christ, or your ability
T3:21.23 the truth. As has been said many times, willingness is the starting  point and as can be surely understood, where one is willing another
T4:2.8 I belabor this  point because you literally cannot proceed to full awareness while
T4:2.9 I also belabor this  point because those of you familiar with the Bible, upon hearing
T4:2.25 Yet we have strayed here from the overriding  point of what I have revealed to you. A new relationship now exists
T4:8.1 was not some separate “you” or some species without form who at some  point in time chose to express love in physical form, and so began
T4:8.5 Creation in form had a starting  point. This is the nature of everything that lives in form. It has a
T4:8.5 is the nature of everything that lives in form. It has a starting  point from which it grows into its time of fullness. Creation on the
T4:9.5 time coming. You have realized that your learning has reached an end  point. The excitement of new learning is not lasting because it is
T4:9.5 seems to be nothing new to be said, nothing to move you beyond this  point that you have reached in your understanding of the truth. All
T4:10.14 for you have become who you are and move on from this starting  point to creating who you are anew in unity and relationship. You can
T4:12.2 all new means of doing anything, this dialogue must have a starting  point. This is it.
T4:12.17 This is just a beginning  point of your ability to see what learned wisdom has wrought. This is
T4:12.17 to see what learned wisdom has wrought. This is a necessary end  point of your review of your experience here so that you do not
D:5.6 is to desire joining. This desire was created to remind you—to  point the way—to your true desire for your true identity as a being
D:5.9 the return to what is and we but proceed from this starting  point.
D:5.19 rather than as you have perceived it to be. From this starting  point only can we move forward to the future we create together.
D:6.1 you were participating in. Eventually your learning reached an end  point as the learning goal of this Course was met, and this you were
D:6.2 to the unreal, the false to the true, fear to love—in order to  point out the insanity of your perception and the perfect sanity of
D:11.16 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 their own
D:11.16 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 individual
D:12.11 it is the pattern, not the ego, that is still with you. The second  point is that although thinking does not serve you, you do have,
D:15.22 of climbers who accompanied you on your ascent. And at this highest  point of the highest peak of the highest mountain, you pause and
D:16.12 a cause for disappointment. Perhaps you thought you were beyond this  point of becoming. And yet, as you have begun your practice of
D:Day1.14 accepted, and lived the teachings that have brought you to this  point which I now would like to lead you beyond, the world would be a
D:Day2.13 I could give thousands of examples here, but the  point is that we are not looking for degrees of wrong-actions, or
D:Day3.5 So our first  point of discussion in the realm of anger is that no matter where
D:Day3.30 health while at the same time dreading the disease that may at any  point take it from you, those of you who have money see it in the
D:Day3.40 an association in regards to entry, you would likely say the entry  point was the mind. This is, in a sense, true, as wholeheartedness is
D:Day3.40 do not advance our discussion now and can be returned to later. The  point here is your “concept” or idea about what you have gained from
D:Day3.43 Do you not see? You are the entry  point, the only channel through which all that is available in unity
D:Day4.58 Here is the beginning  point from which we continue to burn away the remnants of attachment
D:Day5.1 A  point of access will no longer be needed once full entry is attained,
D:Day5.1 Even though it will not be permanently needed, however, this  point of access will remain crucial as long as you maintain rather
D:Day5.1 as long as you maintain rather than sustain the state of unity. This  point of access will thus now be discussed, both as an initial entry
D:Day5.1 point of access will thus now be discussed, both as an initial entry  point and as a continued entry point so that it is available to you
D:Day5.1 discussed, both as an initial entry point and as a continued entry  point so that it is available to you until it is no longer needed.
D:Day5.2 For each of you this access  point will in truth be the same, but perhaps quite different in the
D:Day5.2 you use in order to enter it. For those of you who have felt the  point of entry to be the mind in experiences already registered,
D:Day5.3 not your body, the idea of what originates “within” coming from a  point beyond the body is not now too unbelievable to contemplate.
D:Day5.4 Thus we begin with what feels natural to you. We give access a focal  point in the realm of form.
D:Day5.5 This focal  point must be of your own choosing. Your point of access may be your
D:Day5.5 This focal point must be of your own choosing. Your  point of access may be your head, or a place just above or to the
D:Day5.5 them givens and choose what feels most natural to you as a focal  point for your focus on access.
D:Day5.9 your body, it will be helpful to have identified this chosen access  point for unity even while remembering it is not of the body alone.
D:Day5.13 While you do not consider yourself as having or needing an “access”  point to love, and while you may treat love still as an individual
D:Day5.16 A “healer” for instance, might, thus, feel her access  point as being the hands and express what is gained through unity by
D:Day5.21 more specifically to our focus on access. Wherever your chosen  point of access lies, imagine now the needle that was discussed as
D:Day5.21 the onion in the Course chapter “The Intersection,” and imagine the  point of intersection connecting with your chosen access point.
D:Day5.21 imagine the point of intersection connecting with your chosen access  point. Imagine this now, not as a needle but as the wisdom you seek.
D:Day5.21 thinking and feeling that we used the onion to illustrate, but as a  point of entry and pass-through. What comes of unity enters you and
D:Day5.25 awareness of breath that comes from the focus of meditation. A focus  point is a point of convergence. A focal point is a point of
D:Day5.25 breath that comes from the focus of meditation. A focus point is a  point of convergence. A focal point is a point of intersection that
D:Day5.25 of meditation. A focus point is a point of convergence. A focal  point is a point of intersection that gives rise to a clear image.
D:Day5.25 A focus point is a point of convergence. A focal point is a  point of intersection that gives rise to a clear image.
D:Day5.26 here is that of pass-through. Although we have spoken of this focal  point as an entryway, this does not imply that something that is not
D:Day6.1 We are in an in-between state of time. We stand at the intersection  point of the finite and the infinite in order to complete the
D:Day6.4 and expression coming together. We have further spoken of your  point of access to unity as one of convergence, intersection, and
D:Day6.7 that inspires the creator to see these words as lyrics. At some  point after this gestation within the mind and heart, the artist puts
D:Day6.7 step of the process, or only late in its development. But at some  point, the sharing will take place, and the reactions of those with
D:Day6.7 or to be more determined than ever to see the piece through to the  point where it will be appreciated. Finishing touches will be put on
D:Day6.8 piece of art that comes to completion includes a choice. At some  point along the way a commitment is made between the artist and the
D:Day6.14 experience nothing but our relationship, focus on nothing but your  point of access, have a chance to really begin to invite abundance
D:Day6.18 life. Changes you feel called to make are not discouraged here. The  point being made is simply that removal from life is not possible or
D:Day6.22 The  point here, however, is this: Quit trying to remove yourself from
D:Day6.30 or think you learn, the qualities that will allow this. This is the  point of movement, being, and expression coming together. The point
D:Day6.30 is the point of movement, being, and expression coming together. The  point of convergence, intersection, and pass-through. This is it!
D:Day8.3 But here is the  point that needs clearing up. This is not about acceptance of what
D:Day10.9 of insight—intuition that causes you to make connections between  point A and point B, be point A and point B distinct points in a
D:Day10.9 —intuition that causes you to make connections between point A and  point B, be point A and point B distinct points in a scientific
D:Day10.9 that causes you to make connections between point A and point B, be  point A and point B distinct points in a scientific puzzle or murky
D:Day10.9 you to make connections between point A and point B, be point A and  point B distinct points in a scientific puzzle or murky points about
D:Day10.19 Thus I will speak to you from this  point onward as the voice of Christ-consciousness, the voice of your
D:Day10.19 consciousness of the man I once was because you were, prior to this  point, unready to give up image for presence, the individual for the
D:Day10.19 yourself, Jesus for Christ-consciousness. You needed the reference  point of a “person,” of a being who had lived and breathed and met
D:Day10.22 is what both of these statements mean. This is the culmination  point of these two great objectives coming together in you and your
D:Day10.23 I will still be with you to  point the way, but if you can cease to think of this as the wisdom of
D:Day14.13 the power that is yours. This one voice of the many will continue to  point the way for only a short time longer. Thus the voice of the
D:Day15.11 necessary to this next step. One reason is that it allows a starting  point for your practice. While it is possible to practice observance
D:Day31.3 and the experiencer, the knower and the known. This joining is the  point of the experience and the key to experiencing wholeness.
D:Day32.14 teacher and was used as the example life for this work. This is the  point that this work has striven to get across. That man and God are
A.28 At this  point, groups may need to become more flexible, meet less frequently,
A.39 is between you and I more so than has been the coursework up to this  point. It is a time of realizing that “I” am speaking to “you”
A.45 in every dialogue and will not leave you comfortless. It has no end  point in its benefits and associations.

pointed (2)

T2:11.1 even, in your own terms, a fact of your existence. Earlier this was  pointed out to you so that you would come to accept who you are and
D:Day27.3 was to experience external life. Life itself showed you the way,  pointed you in differing directions, taught you what you needed to

pointing (1)

D:Day6.13 the difficulty some of you will seem to be experiencing even while  pointing out to you that life is life.

pointless (1)

C:28.9 what that point of view may be, makes what you have come to know  pointless to you as well as to those you would convince? You think

points (9)

C:6.8 holy because of what you are. Every contrast that you see here but  points to this truth. Evil is only seen in relation to good. Chaos is
C:9.44 what that abuse is a reflection of. Like any extreme, it merely  points out what in less extreme instances is still the same: Use is
C:11.2 idea that what created you cannot be one with you. Again this only  points to your lack of recognition of what creation really is. And
D:2.21 What this  points out is a pattern in itself. It is a pattern of reaction rather
D:12.10 resulting in a conclusion to your thinking, a summary of the finer  points, as what might come to you in a reflective moment at the end
D:12.11 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:Day3.40 as creating a portal of access, a new source of entry. But these  points do not advance our discussion now and can be returned to
D:Day10.9 between point A and point B, be point A and point B distinct  points in a scientific puzzle or murky points about relationships
D:Day10.9 point A and point B distinct points in a scientific puzzle or murky  points about relationships between lovers.

poke (1)

D:Day24.6 the impossible. It is the nature of spirit to become. Its wings  poke and prod from within as its potential is triggered. Only with

polar (1)

T4:2.1 or internal discoveries are turning outward. This is a reverse, a  polar reversal that is happening world-wide, externally as well as

polarity (1)

C:23.24 beliefs within you, you will be conflicted and affected by  polarity. Unlearning allows you to purge old beliefs so that only one

politic (1)

C:23.10 way in which the word body is used and this will be clear. The body  politic. A body of knowledge. Belief fostered the form and the form

political (2)

T3:21.13 identity as well as a professional identity. Many of you have  political or philosophical identities. You may call yourself
D:Day10.37 remain issues. They remain social causes, environmental causes,  political causes. The cause of all these issues is fear. The cause

politics (2)

C:23.9 are united in belief, and not only in religious beliefs. Ideology,  politics, profession unite people. “Parties” and “associations” are
D:Day40.10 moment of specifics, such as art or music or literature, religion or  politics or science. Jesus or Martin Luther or Muhammad may have been

pond (1)

D:Day15.20 will always be needed for the clear pool to not become a stagnant  pond.

pool (7)

C:19.21 review can arise as if it were a reflection arising from a deep  pool. Here what is in need of healing will but briefly come to the
D:Day14.7 and collected solidity within you. Like stones thrown into a clear  pool, they made ripples and then settled.
D:Day15.13 step is to access your own readiness. Are you able to be a clear  pool? If not, what prevents you? Do not be too hard on yourself now,
D:Day15.13 by fear. Examine what you fear. Is it really the stones within your  pool, or is it the challenge of moving with the current that you know
D:Day15.20 some stones clean and washes others away. It changes the clear  pool by dredging up sediment that has settled on the bottom. As the
D:Day15.20 by dredging up sediment that has settled on the bottom. As the clear  pool merges with the current of other clear pools it is able to
D:Day15.20 it is obvious that movement will always be needed for the clear  pool to not become a stagnant pond.

pools (5)

D:Day14.10 do you look within and see the stones that settled in your clear  pools. They are as specks of sand to the ocean. And yet we do not
D:Day15.12 Selves. It is a joining without boundaries. You become clear  pools flowing into each other. You make your spirits known.
D:Day15.13 hard on yourself now, for as has been said, the stones within your  pools are like flecks of sands within the ocean. Observe these stones
D:Day15.20 Imagine the current of the energy, or clear  pools of the spacious selves, coming together. This current washes
D:Day15.20 the bottom. As the clear pool merges with the current of other clear  pools it is able to change directions, see new sights, gain new

poor (6)

C:16.10 itself. You deem yourself capable of making good judgments and  poor judgments, and you deem love as being capable of neither. Love
T3:15.3 the relationship. Even, and sometimes especially, what is considered  poor behavior can come to be an expectation difficult to deviate from
T3:15.3 relationship. But whether the expectation is of special treatment or  poor behavior matters not. It is the expectation of a “known” set of
T4:7.7 the conditions of learning. In other words, being in harmony with  poor health and learning the lesson that it has come to impart to
T4:7.7 it has come to impart to you, will return you to good health. Your  poor health is no cause for judgment, as it is the perfect health,
D:Day2.3 For most of you, much of what you have considered your mistakes and  poor choices have been reconciled. You can see the pattern of your

popular (1)

D:Day10.29 Are they not called upon at times to take unpopular stands against  popular leaders? Do not even your ideas of saints and angels include

popularity (2)

C:3.7 values on each one based on usefulness or pleasant appearance, on  popularity or on reputation. Each one you place in relationship to
C:15.7 what you think or do for others make them special. All notions of  popularity, success, and competition begin here. All notions of

populate (2)

C:3.7 than its form. You give all meaning to everything, and thus you  populate your world with angels and with demons, their status
D:Day33.9 look as different as the events, situations, people, and places that  populate your world. How can this be? And how can you look at each

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D:Day36.15 of experience that has led to the creation of an unreal reality so  populated by the god-like and the god-less, so near to replacing

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D:Day3.40 unity. It would be more true to think of this joining as creating a  portal of access, a new source of entry. But these points do not
D:Day4.31 and then hold your hands over your eyes. You “cover over” the  portal of access to unity with a film of illusion. You hide the gate
D:Day4.35 it is comfortable going, that there you will find this access, this  portal to all that lies beyond time and space, to all that exists in
D:Day4.38 fear must be totally replaced by love. If you fear to go where the  portal of access will take you, you will not go. Thus your desire
D:Day4.40 toward the towns and cities below? Or to turn and look up to the  portal of access to unity? Do you turn and look back at form and
D:Day6.21 exist both within the body and beyond the body. It is, in truth, the  portal of access we have spoken of, a connection with the state of

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D:Day3.40 unity. It would be more true to think of this joining as creating a  portal of access, a new source of entry. But these points do not
D:Day4.31 and then hold your hands over your eyes. You “cover over” the  portal of access to unity with a film of illusion. You hide the gate
D:Day4.38 fear must be totally replaced by love. If you fear to go where the  portal of access will take you, you will not go. Thus your desire
D:Day4.40 toward the towns and cities below? Or to turn and look up to the  portal of access to unity? Do you turn and look back at form and
D:Day6.21 exist both within the body and beyond the body. It is, in truth, the  portal of access we have spoken of, a connection with the state of

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C:9.38 and in another your prayerfulness. Like a diversified investment  portfolio, you think this parceling out of different aspects of

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C:31.16 And so there is just a small  portion of yourself you share, the portion that your ego has deemed
C:31.16 And so there is just a small portion of yourself you share, the  portion that your ego has deemed safe, acceptable, presentable. The
C:31.16 portion that your ego has deemed safe, acceptable, presentable. The  portion that your ego has deemed will cause you no risk. It is the
D:3.23 What this  portion of the dialogue attempts to do is to give you a language to

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D:6.26 be all that you are. This does not imply however, that there are  portions of your Self missing from this new experience in form you

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T3:1.11 a self of roles, each one as learned as that which an actor might  portray. You saw nothing more amiss in being a professional self in
D:Day36.11 Son, and Holy Spirit as a trinity representing one God were meant to  portray. The Son could only be God in relationship to God. The Holy

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C:9.42 All society, groups, teams, and organizations are but a collective  portrayal of individual desire. Slaves and masters but use one

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D:6.9 both before and after the time in which I lived. If you were to  pose to a scientist whether or not these miracles were possible, they

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D:14.5 I would suggest beginning this exploration with simple questions  posed during the course of your normal life. Questions such as, “What
D:Day3.36 is what all master “teachers” taught, often throwing the questions  posed back upon the poser, in order to say: Use me not as an

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D:Day3.36 “teachers” taught, often throwing the questions posed back upon the  poser, in order to say: Use me not as an intermediary. It is only in

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C:25.23 of consulting with your new identity. Simply sitting quietly, and  posing the question or concern that is in need of appropriate action
D:Day3.9 Just  posing the idea that having a spiritual context for your life will

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C:7.15 withholding it from someone else. You have now set yourself up in a  position to withhold your intelligence from others lest they profit
C:22.15 When you remove yourself from the self-held  position of “meaning-giver,” you let things be what they are and,
C:30.7 truth of the identity of the Self no longer lives in a dualistic  position with God, but in a monistic state with Him. The difference
T1:4.8 the body at the center of its thought system and from this central  position developed all of its ideas of glorifying the separated self
T1:9.15 first reaction might be to puff oneself up with pride, bolster one’s  position, think one’s way through, argue, manipulate, or chastise
T1:9.15 self-esteem or worthiness. The first will feel like an intellectual  position. The second like a feeling position. Turning away from the
T1:9.15 will feel like an intellectual position. The second like a feeling  position. Turning away from the intellectual position to one of
T1:9.15 second like a feeling position. Turning away from the intellectual  position to one of feeling will most readily and quickly solve the
D:Day3.21 for a request for what you do not feel you have to give. To reach a  position in which you feel you need to ask for money from others,
D:Day3.23 for what the future holds. And if you ever need evidence for this  position, it is quick to come. As soon as you get just a little bit
D:Day6.23 apprentice is able to gain experience, that the apprentice is in a  position to be able to begin to perform with any certainty. Even
D:Day9.13 may have believed that if you worked hard enough you would achieve a  position of status within your profession or material wealth, you

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C:9.49 to support your separate stance. See you the difference in these two  positions? In what way is your way better than the way God created

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C:10.7 succeeded at replacing what was negative with messages of a more  positive nature. And these are but messages of an outside source!
C:31.15 You neither want to share your most negative nor your most  positive thoughts about yourself. These are your great secrets, the
T3:20.7 imagine not offering sympathy. You think it naïve to believe in  positive outcomes. You listen to statistics of what has occurred
T3:20.10 of being good or mentally healthy, to exercises in visualization or  positive thinking. I am calling you to live by the truth and to never
D:Day2.12 of other outcomes of such actions, whether they are negative or  positive in your judgment. We look for a simple acceptance of the
D:Day6.7 with whom the music is shared will impact the artist and the piece.  Positive reactions might validate the artist’s instinct and encourage

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C:3.7 can exhibit the qualities you have predetermined that they should  possess at all times and in all places. And so one disappoints and
C:16.21 legitimate channels and do not want those who have no power to  possess it through the same weapons or might that you claim make
C:23.2 has found as you have loved another, the more you love and long to  possess a loved one, the more you realize that your loved one cannot
T1:1.1 they already know how to find or for what they already believe they  possess.
T1:3.20 own power. How could this possibly be important? Even were you to  possess such power, surely it is a power that is of God and needs not
T4:2.4 ushered in the time of the Holy Spirit by calling the Holy Spirit to  possess the human or forgotten self with the spirit of the divine or
D:Day38.9 They mean union and relationship. That you own it. That you  possess it. That you hold it and carry it within your own Self. That
E.21 thought about how you could be better, more, greater. If you still  possess some things that you would consider character flaws or
A.12 has, as this is not a passing on of information that you do not  possess. I ask you merely to receive in order to learn receptivity,

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C:1.7 distant shore and now is near, you realize none of what you formerly  possessed and called your treasures are needed. How silly you feel to
C:16.21 by might or any authority that can be given and taken away. Power is  possessed by those who claim it. By those who cry I am. For the
C:23.2 a loved one, the more you realize that your loved one cannot be  possessed. While in a love relationship the greatest knowing is
D:Day35.2 is thus the answer that you have sought and that you have always  possessed.
D:Day38.10 have known, for in not owning and possessing, in not being owned and  possessed by, and in, union and relationship, you have not fully
A.22 bring instead the wisdom that each one knows she or he has always  possessed.

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C:5.1 forgotten. Thus we begin to relearn the known as the One who already  possesses all. It is this joining of the human and divine that ushers
C:9.28 of the gifted son or daughter who squanders all the gifts he or she  possesses by seeing them not or by sadly distorting what they might

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D:Day38.10 a love deeper than any love you have known, for in not owning and  possessing, in not being owned and possessed by, and in, union and

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D:Day38.8 This is the meaning of the embrace—the  possession, the ownership of belonging—of carrying, or holding
D:Day38.9 You are ready now to return to this ownership, this  possession of relationship and union. Possession and ownership are
D:Day38.9 return to this ownership, this possession of relationship and union.  Possession and ownership are words that have become faulty ideas in
D:Day38.10 fully known love. To claim something as your own is simply to claim  possession for your own Self. Now it is time to see me as your own
D:Day38.12 or union with, can never replace or replicate ownership and  possession in union and relationship. It cannot replace who I Am, or

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C:1.7 you. You are an immigrant coming to a New World with all your  possessions in hand. But as you glimpse what was once a distant shore
C:26.1 preached for only a small part of it, traveled not very far, had few  possessions or influential friends. We have talked before of the
T2:9.5 such a way, in the same way that you identify “having” in regards to  possessions, you but continue to feel as if you “have” needs even

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C:11.15 to change your mind, or to allow yourself to be open to new  possibilities. It can be called a change of heart, or a willingness
T2:3.2 fully realized. It is like a trunk full of treasure. Like a menu of  possibilities. All you must do is wholeheartedly recognize the
E.15 These are both  possibilities, as all possibilities are yours. Which do you choose?
E.15 These are both possibilities, as all  possibilities are yours. Which do you choose?

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C:6.14 be a failure if it were possible for it to be so. Yet even this  possibility you would cling to, for with no chance of failure is no
C:7.23 to read these words. Start with this idea: You will allow for the  possibility of a new truth to be revealed to your waiting heart. Hold
C:7.23 not need to believe that this will happen, but only to allow for the  possibility of it happening. Do not turn your back on the hope
C:18.7 This is the error birthed by perception, before which there was no  possibility of misinterpretation, because there was no external world
C:19.18 to shed the concept of the separate self and to believe in the  possibility of response, you will find yourself more afraid to ask.
C:19.19 Out of the deepest, darkest chaos of your mind comes the  possibility of light. It is a bit like traveling backward, or the
C:26.3 punished for such folly. Such fear of greatness and glory, of the  possibility of a fall from greatness and glory, results in many
T4:2.22 some concept of unity or oneness, but you have also denied even the  possibility of experiencing your own direct relationship with God, or
T4:2.22 of experiencing your own direct relationship with God, or the  possibility that your life is a direct experience of the pattern of
D:14.11 a new continent to “discover” first became aware “within” of the  possibility of the discovery of something more. The awareness
D:Day28.23 provided you with: The experience required in order to realize a new  possibility.
D:Day35.15 To create without the  possibility of many expressions of creation would negate the purpose
D:Day37.16 that you feel a bond, a link between heaven and earth, and even some  possibility of communication through prayer or other experiential

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C:P.10 glory, without having any grand ideas about yourselves. It is  possible to do much good without recognizing who you are, but it is
C:P.11 in hell rather than choosing heaven. You accept what you view as  possible and reject what you perceive as impossible. You thus cling
C:P.14 before but still governed by insanity, a world in which it seems  possible to help a few others but certainly not all others, but to
C:2.4 Love is the name you give to much you fear. You think that it is  possible to choose it as a means to buy your safety and security. You
C:2.5 cannot be taught but only recognized, how is this recognition made  possible? Through love’s effects. For cause and effect are one.
C:2.19 that living with such fantasies does not work and will not ever be  possible here.
C:4.6 of terror and confusion so rampant that no toehold of security is  possible, and day turns endlessly into night in a long march toward
C:5.15 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 do not
C:5.21 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 you, and
C:6.2 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 you
C:6.3 world have come to teach you, stated as simply and directly as is  possible. You are neither separate nor alone and never were and never
C:6.14 most. To not succeed at life would indeed be a failure if it were  possible for it to be so. Yet even this possibility you would cling
C:6.14 come to see in your separated state makes only either/or situations  possible. While a choice for heaven is indeed a choice to renounce
C:7.17 We must return now to relationship and correct as quickly as  possible any erroneous ideas you have, especially those that might
C:8.13 a piece of yourself and realize the unity that is your home? Were it  possible to exist in unity and still withhold, unity would be a
C:10.8 but to encourage you not to give up. Your purpose now is the holiest  possible and all of heaven is with you. All that is needed is your
C:10.16 need not make. As your learning advances you will see that this is  possible, but there may be reasons not to choose this. At this point,
C:11.8 you guard most closely, knowing this is what made the separation  possible. You regard it as your one protection from God, the one
C:12.4 We have said before the only meaning  possible for your free will is your choice of what to join with and
C:17.10 that has happened in creation. This is how the impossible has become  possible. If you were not so determined to believe correction cannot
C:18.4 think that you have changed the nature of the universe and made it  possible for life to exist separately and alone with no relationship,
C:20.20 Is it  possible to have a concept of wholeness, of all, and for it not to
C:20.28 lack of expression leads to powerlessness. No true expression is  possible until you know who you are. To know who you are and not to
C:20.38 Hope is a manner of acting as if the best  possible outcome you can imagine could truly occur. Hope is a
C:22.21 are asked questions such as, “How was your day?” respond as much as  possible without using the word I or my. Quit referring to people and
C:23.17 History has shown you that what you believe is  possible becomes possible. Science has proven the link between
C:23.17 History has shown you that what you believe is possible becomes  possible. Science has proven the link between researcher and research
C:23.17 findings. Still you find it difficult to believe that what is  possible depends upon what you can imagine being possible. You must
C:23.17 that what is possible depends upon what you can imagine being  possible. You must cease to see the difficulty and begin to see the
C:25.9 Devotion leads to harmony through action. This is  possible for you now only if you have integrated the most basic
C:29.14 No wholeness will be  possible for you while you look at life in terms of schedules, plans,
C:29.14 plans, time-tables, or things to get done. No wholeness will be  possible for you while you compartmentalize your life into designated
C:31.3 the truth? Fear of the truth is like a fear of the impossible being  possible. Like the fear of death, it is the product of upside-down
C:31.20 you give through sharing you gain in truth. No other type of gain is  possible.
C:31.23 within you. As you learn that who you are is love, no deception is  possible, and you can only be who you are in truth.
T1:3.23 Surely to believe that where one miracle worked another might be  possible would be to have ideas of grandeur not meant for you. Here
T1:4.5 When the sun has remained but an object to you, no effect is  possible from the sunset. The sun, even during the most blazing
T1:5.1 remain forever countless, has fear of God remained? The only answer  possible is because fear of the Self has remained.
T1:7.2 you accept suffering. Even those who understand as completely as  possible the truth of who they are accept suffering. My use of the
T1:7.5 ability to perceive differently, in order to make this new learning  possible. If you do not let what you have attained serve you, you
T1:9.1 The art of thought is not  possible without a return to the virgin or unaltered self. The
T1:10.10 the Peace of God for without the Peace of God no true learning is  possible.
T3:3.3 of you carefully constructed your lives to leave as little room as  possible for disappointment to affect it or others you hold dear.
T3:4.6 for it is the one error. Does it not make sense that the only error  possible is that of not being who you are?
T3:6.3 taking care of, or surviving, the many details that seem to make it  possible for you to live within your world. The idea of reward
T3:8.12 People have looked for what they have imagined it was  possible to find. Why would you look for an end to suffering if you
T3:10.2 first lesson is offered as an exercise in forgetting. As often as is  possible within your daily life, I ask you to forget as much of what
T3:14.2 old would not be broken. Suffering and strife would still seem to be  possible. You would merely look back after the interlude had passed
T3:15.5 new beginning, you often act “as if” you believe a new beginning is  possible, even while awaiting the lapse that will surely prove to you
T3:16.3 the idea that you can create the new from the old. If this were  possible, you would indeed be called to effort and to struggle, to
T3:19.14 and why so many are being called in the strongest manner it is  possible to call them. It is only when what is observable is so
T3:19.15 a new time, a time without parallel or comparison, this will not be  possible. It has been said from the beginning that your role will not
T3:22.11 about all. We will be one body, one Self. No comparison will be  possible. You will realize that differences but lie in expression and
T4:1.13 to become excited by the feeling that something different is  possible; that you might just be able to achieve what others have
T4:1.13 your excitement. If what you are beginning to believe might be  possible is possible, and has been possible, are you to look on all
T4:1.13 If what you are beginning to believe might be possible is  possible, and has been possible, are you to look on all of those who
T4:1.13 are beginning to believe might be possible is possible, and has been  possible, are you to look on all of those who have come before you as
T4:1.13 What a perverse God. If an end to suffering and fear has been  possible, and is possible, why has it not come to be? Why has it not
T4:1.13 God. If an end to suffering and fear has been possible, and is  possible, why has it not come to be? Why has it not been known? What
T4:1.27 achieve a state of consciousness in which direct communication was  possible, to come to know themselves and God directly, and to pass on
T4:2.32 All of these things are  possible. But true vision is seeing relationship and union. It is the
T4:5.9 it would be for the finger to do so. And yet you think that this is  possible and that this is the meaning of free will. Free will does
T4:5.9 is the meaning of free will. Free will does not make the impossible  possible. It makes the possible probable. It is thus probable that
T4:5.9 will. Free will does not make the impossible possible. It makes the  possible probable. It is thus probable that you will use your free
T4:5.11 choice. At the time of death you are assisted in ways not formerly  possible to you in form, to make the choice to be who you are. You
T4:6.1 and currently. What you envision, imagine, desire, hold as being  possible, is possible, because you make it so. It is your
T4:6.1 What you envision, imagine, desire, hold as being possible, is  possible, because you make it so. It is your interaction, both
T4:12.23 drive and reject the information or be overcome by it if such were  possible. Such is not possible, because Christ-consciousness is not
T4:12.23 information or be overcome by it if such were possible. Such is not  possible, because Christ-consciousness is not available to the
T4:12.25 mourn this as a loss, that you have already achieved all that was  possible to achieve as an individual. The purpose of individual
T4:12.25 the final stages of learning, has achieved the ultimate achievement  possible! Let yourself be grateful for the learning you have
D:2.19 patterns have become so entrenched that no new learning is seen as  possible or desirable even though the systems and patterns are known
D:4.12 Divine patterns are the patterns that made your existence in form  possible as well as the patterns that have made your return to your
D:4.12 as the patterns that have made your return to your true identity  possible. These patterns are both external and internal. External
D:4.26 and no place else. It is up to you to accept that your release is  possible, to desire it without fear, to call it into being.
D:5.8 you have been told that the ego has represented a false self—it is  possible to misrepresent. But the new world you have entered need not
D:5.17 While the question of what is not has been answered as fully as is  possible, your questions and my answers in regard to what is are
D:5.21 will soon wonder, if you haven’t already, just how it is going to be  possible to live as your new Self while still in form, while still in
D:6.9 you were to pose to a scientist whether or not these miracles were  possible, they would tell you of all the “laws” of science that would
D:8.1 begin with parameters that make this area as imaginable to you as  possible, because here is where all that you can imagine can become
D:8.2 “working hard” to be the best. Others who have achieved the highest  possible acclaim for their talents find this acclaim unfulfilling
D:11.6 be with you when you have achieved what you have desired? Is it not  possible to conceive of a time in which desire will no longer serve
D:11.15 you? Is it not infinitely greater than the contributions that are  possible for the individual, separated self to make? Is not the
D:15.18 you give in order to receive the maximum connection to unity that is  possible in this time. You realize that some breaks in service will
D:17.14 be with you when you have achieved what you have desired? Is it not  possible to conceive of a time in which desire will no longer serve
D:Day2.15 But just as you are called here to accept me despite  possible misgivings such as religious beliefs, you are called to
D:Day2.15 you one final example in order to make our discussion as clear as  possible.
D:Day6.18 here. The point being made is simply that removal from life is not  possible or desirable.
D:Day9.11 As was said earlier, all of your images are false images. Isn’t it  possible that none are more false than this image of an ideal self?
D:Day10.12 or habits must be done away with before achievement of a new way is  possible.
D:Day13.8 Once fear is gone, true relationship is not only  possible but inevitable. True relationship exists naturally in the
D:Day14.1 in the spacious Self. Acceptance is necessary because escape is not  possible. Everything that is, is with us, which is why we are the
D:Day14.1 the sick or wounded self. It is your acceptance that escape is not  possible that will lead you out of forgetfulness to remembrance. It
D:Day15.11 is that it allows a starting point for your practice. While it is  possible to practice observance in every situation, it is necessary
D:Day21.3 it has always been the action of the receiver that made learning  possible. The receiver was thus also the source because the receiver
D:Day22.2 becoming known, 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
D:Day28.18 within time because only within time is the experience of separation  possible, and experience is where the power of transformation lies.
D:Day28.23 The key to this movement is the simple realization that it is  possible. This is what our time on the mountain has provided you
D:Day35.5 So you might ask, was it once  possible for you to be so unaware of your being that you were not
D:Day36.2 would live your life from within the realm of what you considered  possible. You did so continuously. This was the way in which you
D:Day37.9 or beingness that you share. And further, you realize that what is  possible is for you to become the one being of compassion that you
D:Day37.11 Source, but division, like differentiation or individuation, is only  possible in union and relationship. Two separate numbers, with no
D:Day39.47 we continuously create one another. We create from the field of the  possible which must include everything.
E.23 It will be  possible for you, for a while, to drift between being and becoming if
A.5 Course with as little attachment to your old means of learning as is  possible for you. If you do not understand, accept that you do not
A.18 In turning to the heart we seek to bypass this difficulty as much as  possible, but each will feel it to some degree, the precise degree to
A.28 and group members to be available to one another if at all  possible during this time, for what is being gained through

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C:15.4 or to make another special could make a difference to many—or  possibly even to anyone. You just want to love your mate and
C:31.6 would be more than your conscious mind could handle. You could not  possibly give all the commands necessary if such commands were
T1:3.20 as that of your being convinced of your own power. How could this  possibly be important? Even were you to possess such power, surely it
T1:10.9 without experiences such as this one. You will think that I cannot  possibly be asking you to give up these types of experiences. But you
T3:22.1 You think that to be asked to simply “live” by the truth could not  possibly be enough. You would like to know in what direction living
T4:1.13 why has 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
T4:2.16 How, then, could you  possibly observe any others without knowing that the truth of who
T4:8.14 in all of creation who remains static and unchanging! How could this  possibly be said of one whose name and identity is synonymous with
D:16.12 you may be done with learning, you don’t feel quite complete, or  possibly even feel as if learning has not quite been accomplished in
D:Day3.8 context for your life will assist you in feeling more loved and  possibly even assist you in finding some one to love. You may believe
D:Day37.4 as a separate being, and incapable of creating anything except, just  possibly, the relationship you would choose to have with others and
D:Day37.17 separation, however, the only known can be the self. How could you  possibly “know” anything from which you are separate? You can imagine

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C:26.3 In contrast, in the life of the tragic hero, excluding those who are  posthumously given such a title, the tragedy is most often considered

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D:Day6.17 This does not, however, mean that this elevation can be  postponed, put off, or can wait for some convenient time. Quite the

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C:3.9 that help arrives. You do not need to believe in the words nor the  potential of the exercises to change your life, for these words enter
C:31.15 your guilt; on the other that you are your future, your glory, your  potential. You neither want to share your most negative nor your most
T3:6.5 idea of such fallacy that it rivals only the ego in its destructive  potential. Bitterness is to your heart what the ego has been to your
T4:2.17 this is the power to observe what is. It is not about observing a  potential for what could be if your brother or sister would just
T4:10.5 in relationship has present moment meaning. What is studied has  potential meaning.
D:Day8.24 about the power to observe what is. “It is not about observing a  potential for what could be if your brother or sister would just
D:Day8.26 The very idea of  potential, you may recall, is a product of the ego thought system
D:Day8.26 you are not well pleased, and you are used to hiding the self of  potential, the future self you think you can only dream of being. The
D:Day24.1 are a Self with many forms. The form you occupy contains all of your  potential manifestations as the form of the caterpillar contains all
D:Day24.1 manifestations as the form of the caterpillar contains all of its  potential manifestations.
D:Day24.2 to you as it is to all of creation. It does not exist only once  potential is realized or made manifest, but always in all things.
D:Day24.3  Potential is that which exists. It exists as the power and energy,
D:Day24.4 is what you have spent a lifetime doing. Stop. If you allow your  potential to be released, your true nature in all its wholeness will
D:Day24.5 You might think of your body as the cocoon, the carrier of your  potential. You might think of the butterfly as your spirit, revealed
D:Day24.5 might think of the butterfly as your spirit, revealed only after the  potential has matured and been released. There is, in other words, a
D:Day24.5 of wholeness, even while wholeness has always existed as  potential. Do not forget, however, that wholeness has always existed,
D:Day24.5 Do not forget, however, that wholeness has always existed, that  potential is that which exists, or that potential does not await.
D:Day24.5 has always existed, that potential is that which exists, or that  potential does not await.
D:Day24.6 of spirit to become. Its wings poke and prod from within as its  potential is triggered. Only with release from its container can it
D:Day24.8 Will activates  potential. It is the greatest of all triggers. An activated will
D:Day24.8 An activated will realizes that you are the carrier of all the  potential that exists. An activated will releases the power that is
D:Day24.8 potential that exists. An activated will releases the power that is  potential. Remember potential is that which exists, that which is. It
D:Day24.8 An activated will releases the power that is potential. Remember  potential is that which exists, that which is. It is not that which
D:Day24.9  Potential is what you carry, as air carries sound, a stream water, a
D:Day24.9 sound, a stream water, a pregnant woman her child. You carry your  potential to the place of its birth through an activated will, a will
D:Day24.9 a will that is also carried within you. This merging of will and  potential is the birth of your power and the birth of the new.
D:Day35.14 of being, which is unity, because without this full realization the  potential exists for conditions other than love to exist. It should

potentials (1)

C:31.21 The same is true of your  potentials, which brought to love are accomplished and simply become

pounding (2)

C:I.4 desires anchors to hold it in one spot, and held there suffers the  pounding of the sea of change, resists the current, fortifies itself
T1:2.13 the sound of birds or traffic, the rhythm of the ocean, or the  pounding of your own heart. It might be a shared experience, one in

poured (1)

C:22.11 think of the axis for a moment as a funnel through which eternity is  poured and a whole heart as that which can allow free pass-through of

poverty (5)

C:22.13 category exists the relationship that broke your heart, grief,  poverty, war, the events that seemed to alter your destiny, the
T3:18.6 If you observe health rather than disease, abundance rather than  poverty, peace rather than conflict, happiness rather than sadness—
T3:18.6 peace rather than conflict, happiness rather than sadness—disease,  poverty, conflict and sadness will be no more real to your brothers
D:Day3.15 do you accept me when you see me as symbolizing a life of “godly”  poverty, and of calling my followers to abandon their worldly goods?
D:Day10.29 the world? Do they not feel for the suffering? Do they not dislike  poverty? Are they not called upon at times to take unpopular stands

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C:P.35 in human form, but by giving a true rather than a false picture of  power. Before the coming of the word made flesh, the incarnation, the
C:P.35 idea humankind could draw of an all-powerful being was a being whose  power resembled the powerful among them. Jesus took such a stand
C:P.35 among them. Jesus took such a stand against those with this kind of  power that he was put to death. But Jesus did not advocate for a
C:P.35 But Jesus did not advocate for a powerless people. Jesus taught true  power, the power of love, a power proven by the resurrection.
C:P.35 not advocate for a powerless people. Jesus taught true power, the  power of love, a power proven by the resurrection.
C:P.35 a powerless people. Jesus taught true power, the power of love, a  power proven by the resurrection.
C:P.37 a bus and be transported there? Yet each of you holds within you the  power to reach heaven. Knowing your Self as who you really are is the
C:P.37 are is the only thing that will allow you to quit fearing your  power. Jesus accepted his power and so brought the power of heaven to
C:P.37 that will allow you to quit fearing your power. Jesus accepted his  power and so brought the power of heaven to earth. This is what the
C:P.37 quit fearing your power. Jesus accepted his power and so brought the  power of heaven to earth. This is what the Christ in you can teach
C:1.14 against mighty adversaries. It is the only way you see to prove your  power and control over a world of chaos. To not engage in the chaos
C:1.18 and end being the same. They are but a further reflection of your  power.
C:4.7 Love alone has the  power to turn this dream of death into a waking awareness of life
C:5.23 to make, not once but many times, until you believe that your  power of choice is a fantasy and that you are powerless indeed. You
C:8.12 mind and heart in order perhaps to help them, but also to have  power over them. Whatever you might come to know you would deem your
C:9.8 You did not create something from nothing and you did not usurp the  power of God. You took what God created and turned it into an
C:9.33 user. With your own two hands you give away all your happiness and  power to that which you have made! It matters little now that in so
C:9.33 that your Creator did. God alone can give free will. In giving your  power to things like your body and to ideas like time your imitation
C:9.33 see this madness for what it truly is. Your body has no use for your  power, and time was not made for happiness.
C:9.45 stems from your displacement of yourself and your abdication of your  power to the things that you have made.
C:9.46 is your misguided attempt to follow in creation’s way. God gave all  power to his creations, and you would choose to do this as well. Your
C:10.1 in maintaining the illusion of your separation. That it has seeming  power can only be because you think you put your power there. If this
C:10.1 That it has seeming power can only be because you think you put your  power there. If this were true, much power indeed would it wield. But
C:10.1 because you think you put your power there. If this were true, much  power indeed would it wield. But what you have made cannot be
C:10.1 would it wield. But what you have made cannot be invested with the  power of creation without your joining with it. How, you think, could
C:11.3 in order to keep from failing one more time. Even those who feel the  power of these words within their hearts and vow to go slowly and
C:11.10 you live. 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
C:11.10 would make for you. This right to make your own decisions, and the  power to flaunt them before God, is all that makes your little
C:16.20 Those who sit in judgment call upon their  power to do what it cannot do. All power comes from love, as does all
C:16.20 sit in judgment call upon their power to do what it cannot do. All  power comes from love, as does all justice. Any basis other than love
C:16.20 comes from love, as does all justice. Any basis other than love for  power or for justice makes a mockery of both. Might makes right is a
C:16.20 define what is right for all those over whom they prevail. Those in  power are those who make the laws, and those who have no power must
C:16.20 Those in power are those who make the laws, and those who have no  power must obey them.
C:16.21 And yet you are as frightened of those who have no  power as those who do. Criminals are feared and shunned, and yet they
C:16.21 those who do. Criminals are feared and shunned, and yet they have no  power but that which they make from their own selves. You want power
C:16.21 no power but that which they make from their own selves. You want  power to come only through legitimate channels and do not want those
C:16.21 only through legitimate channels and do not want those who have no  power to possess it through the same weapons or might that you claim
C:16.21 those in authority powerful. While you want those you have given  power to protect you, you also fear them, and they in turn fear the
C:16.21 them, and they in turn fear the powerless who might take away their  power or rise up against them. What kind of power is it that needs to
C:16.21 might take away their power or rise up against them. What kind of  power is it that needs to be constantly defended? What is it about
C:16.21 by might or any authority that can be given and taken away.  Power is possessed by those who claim it. By those who cry I am. For
C:16.21 by those who claim it. By those who cry I am. For the beginning of  power comes from the rejection of powerlessness. The rejection of
C:16.22 What misery the world has suffered in the name of judgment,  power, and justice. What misery can be avoided by finding the true
C:16.22 power, and justice. What misery can be avoided by finding the true  power inherent in your identity. For you are not powerless. Those of
C:16.22 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 wonder
C:16.22 have traditional means of power on your side turn not to your own  power, and then you wonder why those most spiritual, both currently
C:16.22 often only those who suffer hardship who will rise up and claim the  power that is their own instead of looking for it elsewhere. Your
C:16.22 instead of looking for it elsewhere. Your perception but looks at  power backward and wonders why God has forsaken a people who seem to
C:16.23 forsakes no people, but people forsake God when they give away their  power and claim not their birthright. Your birthright is simply the
C:16.23 to be who you are, and there is nothing in the world that has the  power to take this right from you. The only way you lose it is by
C:16.24 God wants no sacrifice from you, yet when you give away your  power you make of yourself a sacrificial lamb, an offering onto God
C:16.24 but in different form. If a talented physician were to give up his  power to heal you would surely call it a waste, and yet you give up
C:16.24 to heal you would surely call it a waste, and yet you give up your  power to be who you are and think it is just the way life is. You
C:16.24 who you are and think it is just the way life is. You give away your  power and then bow down to those whom you have given it to, for you
C:16.24 have given it to, for you are afraid of nothing more than your own  power.
C:16.25 This fear but stems from what you have used your  power for. You know your power created the world of illusion in which
C:16.25 fear but stems from what you have used your power for. You know your  power created the world of illusion in which you live, and so you
C:16.25 be able to do it better. You no longer trust yourself with your own  power, and so you have forgotten it and realize not how important it
C:16.26 amount of love for your own Self, then neither can you claim your  power, for they go hand-in-hand. There is no “common good” as you
C:18.10 on the basis of your perception of yourself and the limited range of  power you believe your decision making to have. The only way to make
C:18.18 separation did. Wholeheartedness is but a full expression of your  power. A full expression of your power is creation. What has been
C:18.18 is but a full expression of your power. A full expression of your  power is creation. What has been created cannot be uncreated. What
C:19.3 experience. Your free will has not been taken from you, nor has the  power of creation abandoned you. Within creation’s own laws does the
C:19.4 the one mind united with God which you have never left. Creation’s  power then returns to you to help all the separated ones remember
C:19.12 my lifetime, for they looked at me as different and looked to me for  power. Only after my resurrection did the Holy Spirit come upon them
C:19.12 resurrection did the Holy Spirit come upon them and reveal their own  power to them by uniting mind and heart with belief. They were then
C:20.28  Power is the expression of who you are. Because you are changeless
C:20.28 To know who you are and not to express who you are with your full  power is the result of fear. To know the safety and love of the
C:20.28 is to know no cause for fear, and thus to come into your true  power. True power is the power of miracles.
C:20.28 know no cause for fear, and thus to come into your true power. True  power is the power of miracles.
C:20.28 for fear, and thus to come into your true power. True power is the  power of miracles.
C:20.29 cooperation. Holiness cannot be contained, and it is not within your  power to limit it. To feel the holiness of the embrace is to release
C:20.29 to limit it. To feel the holiness of the embrace is to release its  power. While expression and action are not the same, understanding
C:20.32 Acceptance of your true  power is acceptance of your God-given authority via your free will.
C:20.32 nature of my brothers and sisters as caused by fear. To accept your  power and your God-given authority is to know what you do. Let the
C:27.18 of the relationship of all things mean that you will have  power that is not of this world? Will you see the future and the
C:27.18 and the past, be cognizant of destiny and of fate? You do have  power that is not of this world, but this does not mean power as you
C:27.18 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 information of
C:27.18 of this world, but this does not mean power as you see it here, the  power of details and the information of which you think when desiring
C:27.18 of which you think when desiring or fearing a fate of prophecy. The  power we speak of is the power of knowing.
C:27.18 desiring or fearing a fate of prophecy. The power we speak of is the  power of knowing.
C:29.5 is unity regained. Your return to unity is your return to your full  power and your ability to be of quite literal service to God and your
C:29.20 choice must be wholehearted, for it is in wholeheartedness that the  power of choice exists. A split mind and heart can prevent you from
C:29.20 exists. A split mind and heart can prevent you from utilizing the  power of choice, but it cannot prevent you from claiming this choice
C:29.20 you from claiming this choice as your own. Choose anew and let the  power of heaven come together to seal the rift between your mind and
C:29.21 Claiming your identity and your  power to make choices is an act that comes from an entirely different
T1:3.9 a miracle and it came to be, you would then have to contemplate your  power to perform miracles. Here you find your greatest fear of all;
T1:3.9 miracles. Here you find your greatest fear of all; fear of your  power.
T1:3.11 only would your passing of this test require you to contemplate your  power, but your failure would require you to contemplate your lack of
T1:3.20 such a fanciful idea as that of your being convinced of your own  power. How could this possibly be important? Even were you to possess
T1:3.20 How could this possibly be important? Even were you to possess such  power, surely it is a power that is of God and needs not you for its
T1:3.20 be important? Even were you to possess such power, surely it is a  power that is of God and needs not you for its accomplishment. Better
T1:3.20 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 dark side
T1:4.11 idea of responsibility sprang from the ego-mind that would usurp the  power of God. What kind of gift arrives with a demand for the
T1:5.2 two-fold fear that must be looked at carefully now and with all the  power of the art of thought. One aspect of this fear has to do with
T1:6.5 such as these emanate from either heart or mind and have not the  power of the wholehearted. Prayers such as these emanate from the
T2:2.9 does anything exist because only in your willingness is the  power of creation expressed.
T2:3.7 you can express exist “within” you, in the creation that is you. The  power of creation is released through your choice, your willingness
T2:4.9 to conflict, an acceptance of ambiguity is a rejection of your  power. What is required to claim your power is the willingness to
T2:4.9 is a rejection of your power. What is required to claim your  power is the willingness to move through the conflict of two opposing
T2:11.4 given many names and many faces and the only thing given by you the  power to do battle with the truth, or with God. Remember now and
T2:11.7 understanding that all that is real is shared does the ego lose its  power. The ego was made from the belief in separation and all that
T2:11.15 have continue? Does this not but reveal to you a fraction of the  power of your thinking and its ability to shape the world you see?
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
T2:12.7 The  power of thought and the power of prayer, once aligned, call
T2:12.7 The power of thought and the  power of prayer, once aligned, call constantly upon the same power of
T2:12.7 and the power of prayer, once aligned, call constantly upon the same  power of intercession that is the miracle. This is why we also
T3:7.2 created you with a thought or idea, then you can begin to see the  power of thought. If you can believe that you created the ego with a
T3:7.2 you created the ego with a thought or an idea, you can see where the  power of thought is your power as well as God’s.
T3:7.2 a thought or an idea, you can see where the power of thought is your  power as well as God’s.
T3:8.1 foundation. To work toward being a representation of such great  power is still a worthy goal and many of you have reached this power.
T3:8.1 great power is still a worthy goal and many of you have reached this  power. You can see why this power has been necessary and continues to
T3:8.1 goal and many of you have reached this power. You can see why this  power has been necessary and continues to be necessary. But to stop
T3:8.1 and continues to be necessary. But to stop at this dismantling  power is not enough. To stop at this dismantling power would be to
T3:8.1 at this dismantling power is not enough. To stop at this dismantling  power would be to leave the world in its present condition and your
T3:11.12 it can at times be a chosen heaven. Choice and the awareness of the  power of choice that exists within is all that differentiates one
T3:21.24 you are meant to give. Do not make any false plans that give your  power to others more learned of this Course than you to be the savior
T4:2.16 they are is present even though it might seem not to be? This is the  power of the devotion of the observant that you are called to, the
T4:2.16 power of the devotion of the observant that you are called to, the  power of cause and its effect. This is the power you now have within
T4:2.16 you are called to, the power of cause and its effect. This is the  power you now have within you, the power to observe the truth rather
T4:2.16 cause and its effect. This is the power you now have within you, the  power to observe the truth rather than illusion. This is the power to
T4:2.16 the power to observe the truth rather than illusion. This is the  power to observe what is. This is Christ-consciousness.
T4:2.17 I repeat, this is the  power to observe what is. It is not about observing a potential for
T4:2.17 way that has been shown to you. It is about observing what is. The  power to observe what is is what will keep you unified with your
T4:2.17 and sisters rather than separating you from them. There is no  power without this unity. You cannot see “others” as other than who
T4:2.17 You cannot see “others” as other than who they are and know your  power. You must see as I see and see that all are chosen.
T4:2.21 day is meant to be lived within a struggle with what it brings. The  power to observe what is relates to everything that exists with you,
T4:4.4 parent coming into his or her inheritance or time of fullness. The  power and prestige, the earthly wealth of the parent, passed
T4:4.5 of inheritance was an even stronger idea, an idea with much more  power than in current times. Inherent within the idea of inheritance
T4:4.6 not based upon death. My life, death and resurrection revealed the  power of inheritance, the power of the Father, as one of life-giving
T4:4.6 life, death and resurrection revealed the power of inheritance, the  power of the Father, as one of life-giving union. I called you then
T4:6.4 you imagine, envision, desire, will be what you create. This is the  power of the devotion of the observant. A shared vision of unity and
T4:10.5 recognizes that love is the greatest teacher. Studying places the  power of the teacher in a place other than that of love. Relationship
T4:12.16 been called progress? Have not even the most devastating misuses of  power attained through this rebellion been seen retrospectively as
T4:12.31 to awareness of all they have inherited and all it is within their  power to create.
T4:12.34 new. Your former willingness to accept the old but kept creation’s  power harnessed to the old. Does this not make perfect sense when you
T4:12.36 also make no mistake that what is given to us is everything. All the  power of creation is released onto us. Let us begin.
D:2.13 that “safety is the absence of risk taking,” or that “information is  power.”
D:2.22 the consciousness of unity. Within is where you find the  power of creation, the power to create the patterns of the new.
D:2.22 of unity. Within is where you find the power of creation, the  power to create the patterns of the new. Looking within is not an
D:3.23 you need in order to create the new is available within you. The  power of the universe is given and received constantly in support of
D:3.23 universe, the All of All, giving and receiving as one. This is our  power. And our power is needed for the creation of the Covenant of
D:3.23 All of All, giving and receiving as one. This is our power. And our  power is needed for the creation of the Covenant of the New in this
D:4.5 along with you. You remain at the mercy of those who would have  power over you, and you remain subject to the laws of man.
D:15.13 would be like trying to catch the wind. But just as the wind can  power many machines endlessly when it is allowed pass-through, so too
D:17.7 caused your arms to raise as if of their own accord. You feel the  power of giving and receiving as one, for this is what this gesture
D:17.12 That response is wholehearted desire, which is the  power that A Course of Love came to return to you. You were told
D:Day1.11 Many people now are discovering the  power of healing. Some think this power comes from one source and
D:Day1.11 Many people now are discovering the power of healing. Some think this  power comes from one source and some from another. You may think
D:Day1.11 one source and some from another. You may think that, as long as the  power is called forth, it matters not the name by which it is called.
D:Day1.11 many choices. You may think these choices matter not, but only the  power of the healer. Some of you may see this example as an example
D:Day1.11 not need to accept me. You may claim that you understand that this  power is of God, whether it be the power of granting life to grow
D:Day1.11 that you understand that this power is of God, whether it be the  power of granting life to grow within the womb, or the power of
D:Day1.11 it be the power of granting life to grow within the womb, or the  power of giving new life to a limb withered or broken. You may wonder
D:Day1.11 withered or broken. You may wonder why it should matter whether this  power be called Buddha or Allah, Muhammad or God.
D:Day1.12 It matters not. The  power of God is not what is being spoken of here. It is our power
D:Day1.12 not. The power of God is not what is being spoken of here. It is our  power that is being spoken of here. The power of the god man. The
D:Day1.12 spoken of here. 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
D:Day1.12 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 rather than
D:Day1.12 The power of the god man. The power of God brought into form. The  power of who we are rather than the power of who God is.
D:Day1.12 of God brought into form. The power of who we are rather than the  power of who God is.
D:Day2.23 my brothers and sisters, with the bringing of light to darkness,  power to the powerless, health to the sick, life to the dead. My life
D:Day3.19 you understand, as do those for whom this dialogue is meant, the  power of this aspect of your brothers and sisters lives, and the
D:Day3.19 the power of this aspect of your brothers and sisters lives, and the  power and function of anger.
D:Day3.20 The  power of money to affect you is a power that is denied, rarely
D:Day3.20 The power of money to affect you is a  power that is denied, rarely acknowledged, seldom spoken of. Think
D:Day8.8 All  power to effect change comes from acceptance—not acceptance of the
D:Day8.24 Let me repeat a passage from that Treatise here, a passage about the  power to observe what is. “It is not about observing a potential for
D:Day8.24 way that has been shown to you. It is about observing what is. The  power to observe what is, is what will keep you unified with your
D:Day8.24 and sisters rather than separating you from them. There is no  power without this unity. You cannot see ‘others’ as other than who
D:Day8.24 You cannot see ‘others’ as other than who they are and know your  power.”
D:Day9.20 If you do not realize your freedom, you will not realize your  power.
D:Day9.33 be your confidence. Only these combined abilities will release your  power.
D:Day10.1  Power is the ability to be cause and effect. It is the ability to
D:Day10.1 cause and effect. It is the ability to harness the cause and effect  power of love. It is a quality of form as well as a quality of union.
D:Day10.1 well as a quality of union. Form is the ultimate expression of the  power of creation. The power of creation, harnessed by form in the
D:Day10.1 union. Form is the ultimate expression of the power of creation. The  power of creation, harnessed by form in the service of form is the
D:Day10.1 form in the service of form is the next step in the expansion of the  power of creation. It is the power of the elevated Self of form.
D:Day10.1 the next step in the expansion of the power of creation. It is the  power of the elevated Self of form.
D:Day10.2 the confidence of the self of form? Certainty is knowing that this  power exists. Confidence is the expression of your reliance upon it.
D:Day10.2 is the expression of your reliance upon it. To rely on your own  power is to rely on the connection that exists between the self of
D:Day10.24 for it is a key to your understanding of your Self and your  power. This dialogue, as one-sided as it may seem when presented in
D:Day10.31 love. As a man, I took a stand for the powerless and called them to  power. I am still doing so. Not because any of you are powerless but
D:Day10.31 because any of you are powerless but because you do not know your  power. If there is one thing associated with my life more so than any
D:Day10.31 than any other, it was this. I was an advocate for all to know their  power. Do you think that my advocacy was a social statement for the
D:Day10.32 that I called for during my life. It is the call to embrace your  power.
D:Day10.33 they lead you, remember one thing only. Remember to embrace your  power. The power of love is the cause and effect that will change the
D:Day10.33 you, remember one thing only. Remember to embrace your power. The  power of love is the cause and effect that will change the world by
D:Day10.34 The  power you must come to rely upon is the power of your own Self to
D:Day10.34 The power you must come to rely upon is the  power of your own Self to create and express the cause and effect
D:Day10.34 your own Self to create and express the cause and effect that is the  power of love.
D:Day10.35 might—has been shown to be unfounded, a new source of reliable  power is finally sought with the tenacity with which these other
D:Day10.35 sought with the tenacity with which these other sources of seeming  power have been sought. This is what has occurred. This is the time
D:Day10.37 them along with you. You are means and end. It is within your  power to be saviors of the world. It is from within that your power
D:Day10.37 your power to be saviors of the world. It is from within that your  power will save the world.
D:Day10.38 anything, your happiness, your peace, and your acceptance of the  power that will cause these things to come to be. Yet I know you and
D:Day14.6 have called your “own,” you are now given the task of claiming your  power as your own. All that is within your power is within your
D:Day14.6 the task of claiming your power as your own. All that is within your  power is within your power. Your power is the power of the many and
D:Day14.6 your power as your own. All that is within your power is within your  power. Your power is the power of the many and the one that exist in
D:Day14.6 your own. All that is within your power is within your power. Your  power is the power of the many and the one that exist in wholeness
D:Day14.6 that is within your power is within your power. Your power is the  power of the many and the one that exist in wholeness within the
D:Day14.13 You must now own this dialogue—own it as you own the  power that is yours. This one voice of the many will continue to
D:Day15.10 This is the new realm of  power that few in physical form have practiced and that has never
D:Day15.10 spacious Self in oneness and wholeness must precede this step. This  power cannot be misused because it is unavailable to those who have
D:Day15.11 state for full-scale interaction with the world. Although this  power cannot be misused, to have access to this power in one instance
D:Day15.11 world. Although this power cannot be misused, to have access to this  power in one instance and not another as you move in and out of the
D:Day15.13 be generated by the joining of spacious Selves? Do you fear your  power even though you have been told it cannot be misused? Do you
D:Day17.8 given components are necessary for wholeness. Representation of the  power of Christ-consciousness in human form was necessary to complete
D:Day18.5 light. Those who accept completion of the way of Jesus accept their  power to be generators of light in darkness without judging or
D:Day18.5 in darkness without judging or expelling darkness. They accept their  power to represent both the known and the unknown and to reveal the
D:Day19.5 to live as who they are within the world. Until they realize the  power of reflection, they wonder why they, unlike their brothers and
D:Day20.9 of the One Self can be made known, then you are the source and the  power of coming to know and making known.
D:Day24.3 Potential is that which exists. It exists as the  power and energy, the spirit within you. It does not await. It simply
D:Day24.3 you. It does not await. It simply is. It can remain as the untapped  power of transformation, or it can be released. The choice is and is
D:Day24.3 or it can be released. The choice is and is not yours. This  power is a force of nature that exists, not separately from you, but
D:Day24.8 of all the potential that exists. An activated will releases the  power that is potential. Remember potential is that which exists,
D:Day24.9 within you. This merging of will and potential is the birth of your  power and the birth of the new.
D:Day26.1 It has been said that you are the source and the  power of coming to know and making known. It naturally follows, then,
D:Day28.18 the experience of separation possible, and experience is where the  power of transformation lies. This transformation will, however, take
D:Day29.1 joy and sadness, sickness and health, all cease to have the limited  power that all such concepts have formerly held. When they cease to
D:Day29.3 and relearned or remembered wholehearted desire—the source of your  power. Now this power is available to assist you in accomplishing the
D:Day29.3 remembered wholehearted desire—the source of your power. Now this  power is available to assist you in accomplishing the final joining,
D:Day32.13 believe differentiates God from man. The example lives in which the  power of God was demonstrated in the lives of men and women are seen
D:Day32.13 are seen as little more than pass-through situations in which the  power of God passed through men and women to other men and women.
D:Day32.19 the same? Would this answer your questions concerning God’s great  power when compared to your own? Could you see that God’s power stems
D:Day32.19 great power when compared to your own? Could you see that God’s  power stems from His relationship to everything rather than from His
D:Day32.19 This is the easiest way to say this, if not quite accurate. Being is  power. But being, like oneness, cannot know itself without
D:Day32.20 God is the being and the relationship. You are capable of all the  power of God’s being but you are powerful only as God is powerful—
D:Day32.20 Because you are in a state of limited relationship, you have limited  power. This is the difference between God and man. This difference,
D:Day33.1 As we begin to speak of  power, we must return to the initial idea put forth in “A Treatise on
D:Day33.1 on the New”: That all are chosen. To embrace an idea of some having  power while others remain powerless is to embrace an idea laden with
D:Day33.1 remain powerless is to embrace an idea laden with conflict. The  power of God exists within everyone because all are one in being with
D:Day33.1 within everyone because all are one in being with God. And yet this  power cannot be used. It can only serve. What does it serve? The
D:Day33.12 Being is  power. Relationship is powerful. In other words, relationship is the
D:Day33.12 is powerful. In other words, relationship is the expression of  power—all the different expressions of power. In the time of Jesus,
D:Day33.12 is the expression of power—all the different expressions of  power. In the time of Jesus, the powerful were seen as being blessed
D:Day33.12 since all are powerful only in relationship, your relationship to  power must be realized. Those who are powerful have realized their
D:Day33.12 realized. Those who are powerful have realized their relationship to  power. Those who see themselves as powerless have not realized their
D:Day33.12 see themselves as powerless have not realized their relationship to  power. They have not made it real and so it has not served them.
D:Day33.13 no one can exist outside of relationship and relationship is where  power is expressed, everyone does have a relationship with power.
D:Day33.13 is where power is expressed, everyone does have a relationship with  power. Power is one in being with each and every one of us. Every
D:Day33.13 power is expressed, everyone does have a relationship with power.  Power is one in being with each and every one of us. Every single
D:Day33.13 and every one of us. Every single individual has within them the  power to affect, change, or recreate the world. Every single
D:Day33.13 single individual does so to the extent to which they realize their  power. A baby realizes the power of its cry within moments of being
D:Day33.13 to the extent to which they realize their power. A baby realizes the  power of its cry within moments of being born. Many a teenager
D:Day33.13 of being born. Many a teenager develops full realization of the  power of their independence. In other words, you each have claimed
D:Day33.13 independence. In other words, you each have claimed some type of  power for yourself, some means of exerting that power, which is the
D:Day33.13 claimed some type of power for yourself, some means of exerting that  power, which is the same as saying some means of individuating the
D:Day33.14 This is the  power of being. The power to individuate the Self. The power to be
D:Day33.14 This is the power of being. The  power to individuate the Self. The power to be who you are. This is
D:Day33.14 This is the power of being. The power to individuate the Self. The  power to be who you are. This is power and the source of power. This
D:Day33.14 power to individuate the Self. The power to be who you are. This is  power and the source of power. This is the force of creation, the
D:Day33.14 Self. The power to be who you are. This is power and the source of  power. This is the force of creation, the only true power.
D:Day33.14 the source of power. This is the force of creation, the only true  power.
D:Day33.15 But again, despite that we each hold the  power of creation within us, it is only in relationship that it is
D:Day33.15 and everyone all of the time, is to realize the full extent of your  power. You cannot realize that you are in relationship with
D:Day33.15 and everyone all of the time and retain the desire to use your  power. This is impossible. The realization that you are in
D:Day34.1  Power is of creation, not of destruction. Yet creation and
D:Day34.7 If you do not make real your  power, you will experience yourself as powerless. If you experience
D:Day34.7 If you experience your being as powerless, you are negating the  power of God who is one in being with you.
D:Day34.8 close of our time together by asking each other to experience our  power—the power of sameness of being. Are you willing to experience
D:Day34.8 our time together by asking each other to experience our power—the  power of sameness of being. Are you willing to experience the power
D:Day34.8 —the power of sameness of being. Are you willing to experience the  power of God? To let it flow through you? Realize how many have said
D:Day34.8 many have said no to this request. Realize the importance and the  power of your willingness to say yes.
D:Day35.6 said before, the mountain came to you. You will thus always have the  power to call upon the mountain top experience and the view of
D:Day35.6 here. You will carry it within you, and when you feel not its  power, you will be able to call it forth simply by asking for it to
D:Day35.11 knowing you are one in being with your Creator and accepting your  power to create. You return to create unity and relationship, through
D:Day35.12 only be created. To proceed relying upon anything other than your  power to create would be to only attempt to repair or replace.
D:Day35.18 you have made and what you can create when you have accepted your  power and begin to create in unity and relationship.
D:Day35.19 between made and create thus does not fully do justice to the  power you have always retained. But creating in separation is as
D:Day36.1 The exercise of your  power is in the creation of your experience.
D:Day36.4 Powerlessness is moving through life as a being without the  power to create.
D:Day36.7 Creator and creation are one. You are one in being with the  power of creation and different in your relationship to and
D:Day36.7 and different in your relationship to and expression of that  power.
D:Day36.9 that giving and receiving are one and that both are within your  power. This is starting over with the realization that you can give
D:Day36.10 a separate God or created by your separate self. You experienced the  power of being because you were a being who existed, but you did not
D:Day36.12 relationship to God, and thus existence without relationship to the  power of creation. The illusion is an illusion of simply being. Is
D:Day36.14 Because you have always been one in being with God, this  power—this power of being—has always been yours. The power to
D:Day36.14 Because you have always been one in being with God, this power—this  power of being—has always been yours. The power to feel—love,
D:Day36.14 God, this power—this power of being—has always been yours. The  power to feel—love, hate, anger, compassion, greed, humility, and
D:Day36.14 greed, humility, and longing—has always been yours. The  power to think—rationally or passionately, logically or
D:Day36.14 logically or instinctively—has always been yours. The  power to create—everything from weapons of mass destruction to
D:Day36.14 to cathedrals of towering majesty—has always been yours. The  power to know or perceive—even an unreal reality—has always been
D:Day36.16 one in being with God and different in relationship you accept the  power of being, or individuating God. You accept the power of God.
D:Day36.16 you accept the power of being, or individuating God. You accept the  power of God. You become powerful.
D:Day37.13 it is not being said that either you or God are “a” being) you have  power—the power of being which is the power of thought, feeling,
D:Day37.13 said that either you or God are “a” being) you have power—the  power of being which is the power of thought, feeling, creating, and
D:Day37.13 God are “a” being) you have power—the power of being which is the  power of thought, feeling, creating, and perceiving or knowing.
D:Day37.14 You have known that  power only in relationship to the separate reality in which you
D:Day37.14 in which you believe yourself to exist. You have exercised that  power by making choices as and for your separate self, at times in
D:Day37.14 on a limited scale. You have often not exercised even this limited  power, believing that life just “happens” to you, and then responding
D:Day37.22 by Jesus Christ, was also created by Jesus Christ. Thus is the  power of man and God together, the power of creation. What this is
D:Day37.22 by Jesus Christ. Thus is the power of man and God together, the  power of creation. What this is saying is that there is a God the
D:Day40.9 now, and the individuation that will occur now, will hold all the  power of your experience as well as all the power of your longing for
D:Day40.9 now, will hold all the power of your experience as well as all the  power of your longing for return. This will be a great power that you
D:Day40.9 as all the power of your longing for return. This will be a great  power that you carry within you as you return to love and to level
D:Day40.29 union and relationship with me, is me, as well as you. This is the  power of differentiation in union and relationship, the demonstration
E.2 questions will make no sense to you. They already have far less  power. Can you not feel it? The questions remain only as questions of

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D:Day33.14 This is the  power of being. The power to individuate the Self. The power to be
D:Day36.10 a separate God or created by your separate self. You experienced the  power of being because you were a being who existed, but you did not
D:Day36.14 Because you have always been one in being with God, this power—this  power of being—has always been yours. The power to feel—love,
D:Day36.16 one in being with God and different in relationship you accept the  power of being, or individuating God. You accept the power of God.
D:Day37.13 said that either you or God are “a” being) you have power—the  power of being which is the power of thought, feeling, creating, and

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C:9.8 You did not create something from nothing and you did not usurp the  power of God. You took what God created and turned it into an
T1:4.11 idea of responsibility sprang from the ego-mind that would usurp the  power of God. What kind of gift arrives with a demand for the
D:Day1.12 It matters not. The  power of God is not what is being spoken of here. It is our power
D:Day1.12 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 rather than
D:Day32.13 believe differentiates God from man. The example lives in which the  power of God was demonstrated in the lives of men and women are seen
D:Day32.13 are seen as little more than pass-through situations in which the  power of God passed through men and women to other men and women.
D:Day33.1 remain powerless is to embrace an idea laden with conflict. The  power of God exists within everyone because all are one in being with
D:Day34.7 If you experience your being as powerless, you are negating the  power of God who is one in being with you.
D:Day34.8 —the power of sameness of being. Are you willing to experience the  power of God? To let it flow through you? Realize how many have said
D:Day36.16 you accept the power of being, or individuating God. You accept the  power of God. You become powerful.

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T4:12.31 to awareness of all they have inherited and all it is within their  power to create.
D:2.22 of unity. Within is where you find the power of creation, the  power to create the patterns of the new. Looking within is not an
D:Day35.11 knowing you are one in being with your Creator and accepting your  power to create. You return to create unity and relationship, through
D:Day35.12 only be created. To proceed relying upon anything other than your  power to create would be to only attempt to repair or replace.
D:Day36.4 Powerlessness is moving through life as a being without the  power to create.
D:Day36.14 logically or instinctively—has always been yours. The  power to create—everything from weapons of mass destruction to

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C:P.35 draw of an all-powerful being was a being whose power resembled the  powerful among them. Jesus took such a stand against those with this
C:4.5 and who God is. How could you not have been fearful with doubt as  powerful as this? How can you not rejoice when doubt is gone and love
C:7.9 kept from yourself will return. A great exchange will happen as a  powerful wind sweeps through your heart, and all the love you have
C:9.8 of God. You took what God created and turned it into an illusion so  powerful that you believe it is what you are, rather than believing
C:11.10 them before God, is all that makes your little separated self feel  powerful at all.
C:11.12 It is true that your free will is  powerful as it is part, but only part, of what has allowed you to
C:16.21 the same weapons or might that you claim make those in authority  powerful. While you want those you have given power to protect you,
C:16.21 And what does this say but what history has shown you—that who is  powerful and who is not is not determined by might or any authority
D:2.14 are to experience desired outcomes. Either way, control is seen as a  powerful pattern.
D:Day10.29 the cause of good over that of evil or of the powerless over the  powerful? Isn’t history replete with idols who have done just this?
D:Day32.13 is seen as Creator or Supreme Being, God is still seen as the All  Powerful. While God is seen as the All Powerful, man is
D:Day32.13 God is still seen as the All Powerful. While God is seen as the All  Powerful, man is disenfranchised. Even while God is perhaps seen in
D:Day32.13 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 make an
D:Day32.15 that is and at the same time not all that is? How can God be the All  Powerful and Living God and also be lowly and powerless man?
D:Day32.20 You are capable of all the power of God’s being but you are  powerful only as God is powerful—in relationship. Because God is in
D:Day32.20 of all the power of God’s being but you are powerful only as God is  powerful—in relationship. Because God is in relationship with
D:Day32.20 Because God is in relationship with everything, God is All  Powerful. Because you are in a state of limited relationship, you
D:Day32.20 holy relationship. As you embrace holy relationship you can become  powerful as God is powerful.
D:Day32.20 As you embrace holy relationship you can become powerful as God is  powerful.
D:Day33.12 Being is power. Relationship is  powerful. In other words, relationship is the expression of power—
D:Day33.12 —all the different expressions of power. In the time of Jesus, the  powerful were seen as being blessed by God and the powerless as not
D:Day33.12 so blessed. This way of seeing has gone much unchanged. All are  powerful. But, since all are powerful only in relationship, your
D:Day33.12 seeing has gone much unchanged. All are powerful. But, since all are  powerful only in relationship, your relationship to power must be
D:Day33.12 your relationship to power must be realized. Those who are  powerful have realized their relationship to power. Those who see
D:Day33.15 it is only in relationship that it is expressed and that we become  powerful. To realize that you are in relationship with everything and
D:Day33.16 Thus when you realize your relationship to all, you are all  powerful.
D:Day34.6 of life. Now you must believe that you are its creator and  powerful in your relationship to it.
D:Day36.10 you were a being who existed, but you did not experience being  powerful.
D:Day36.15 being. To be one in being with God and yet to exist outside of the  powerful state of relationship and union has been a challenging
D:Day36.16 being, or individuating God. You accept the power of God. You become  powerful.
D:Day37.22 This “link” is very  powerful. Where willingness is demonstrated, this link can be moved
D:Day39.22 Have I been a  powerful God who can work miracles? Then you have been a powerful
D:Day39.22 I been a powerful God who can work miracles? Then you have been a  powerful miracle worker.
E.25 in hand should doubt arise. This one note is so full of love, so  powerful, that it will be dear to you forever more.

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C:P.35 of power that he was put to death. But Jesus did not advocate for a  powerless people. Jesus taught true power, the power of love, a power
C:5.23 you believe that your power of choice is a fantasy and that you are  powerless indeed. You thus narrow what you want and go after it with
C:16.21 power to protect you, you also fear them, and they in turn fear the  powerless who might take away their power or rise up against them.
C:16.21 is it that needs to be constantly defended? What is it about the  powerless that frightens you, except that they might not accept their
C:16.21 that frightens you, except that they might not accept their  powerless state? And what does this say but what history has shown
C:16.22 by finding the true power inherent in your identity. For you are not  powerless. Those of you who think you have traditional means of power
T3:8.8 die? Why should you not be bitter when you believe you are  powerless? How difficult it is to believe that you need not change
D:Day2.23 and sisters, with the bringing of light to darkness, power to the  powerless, health to the sick, life to the dead. My life touched all
D:Day10.29 by championing the cause of good over that of evil or of the  powerless over the powerful? Isn’t history replete with idols who
D:Day10.31 to them with acceptance and love. As a man, I took a stand for the  powerless and called them to power. I am still doing so. Not because
D:Day10.31 them to power. I am still doing so. Not because any of you are  powerless but because you do not know your power. If there is one
D:Day32.15 How can God be the All Powerful and Living God and also be lowly and  powerless man?
D:Day33.1 chosen. To embrace an idea of some having power while others remain  powerless is to embrace an idea laden with conflict. The power of God
D:Day33.12 of Jesus, the powerful were seen as being blessed by God and the  powerless as not being so blessed. This way of seeing has gone much
D:Day33.12 realized their relationship to power. Those who see themselves as  powerless have not realized their relationship to power. They have
D:Day34.7 If you do not make real your power, you will experience yourself as  powerless. If you experience your being as powerless, you are
D:Day34.7 experience yourself as powerless. If you experience your being as  powerless, you are negating the power of God who is one in being with

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C:16.21 who cry I am. For the beginning of power comes from the rejection of  powerlessness. The rejection of powerlessness is but a step toward
C:16.21 of power comes from the rejection of powerlessness. The rejection of  powerlessness is but a step toward your identity achieved through the
C:20.28 boundless, you are all-powerful. Only lack of expression leads to  powerlessness. No true expression is possible until you know who you
D:Day36.4  Powerlessness is moving through life as a being without the power to

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C:10.20 and why you could not maintain that happy state. There might be many  practical reasons to cite for your happiness’ demise, but in the
T2:2.1 in you that recognizes talents that lie fully realized within? The  practical mind is not the source of such imagination. The practical
T2:2.1 The practical mind is not the source of such imagination. The  practical mind makes of imagination a fantasy. It is the heart that
T2:2.7 an explanation before following a calling, who look for reasons of a  practical nature, who would seek guarantees of the rightness and
T2:2.9 say you feel no calling, or that you feel many. Others would cite  practical reasons for doing other than what they feel called to do.
T3:10.1 that exists in everything to be remembered or known. Thus are more  practical lessons needed in regard to the life of the body that you
T3:10.12 Remember that, while gentle, these are and will, be  practical lessons that simply come to show you a new way of living,
T3:10.16 This is why we have called these lessons in forgetting  practical lessons for the life of the body. They are lessons that
D:1.3 What this means in  practical terms is that you let the personal self step back and the
D:Day3.34 or incite your hostility. One that will not only be truthful, but as  practical as you need it to be.
D:Day4.31 In  practical terms, you might think of this as a disengagement from the
D:Day15.24 spacious consciousness with you will be paramount and will have many  practical as well as spiritual applications.
D:Day15.25 One of the  practical aspects has just been discussed—that of engaging in
D:Day35.6 How is knowing this going to be of  practical benefit to you as you leave the mountain top experience

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C:5.13 Do you see the  practicality of this lesson? What terror can be caused by an urge to
C:9.19 chance occurrences come about you quickly override compassion with  practicality. While it makes sense to you to attempt to dispel a
C:10.20 with its loss you will wonder, at least briefly, why the choice for  practicality needed to be made. Yet if the separated self can look
C:14.6 in a god who is insane. You—who pride yourself on reason and  practicality—think if a creation such as this could contain any

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C:4.9 another. While love cannot be learned nor practiced, there is a  practice we must do in order to recognize love’s presence. We
C:4.9 is a practice we must do in order to recognize love’s presence. We  practice living by the law of love, a law of gain not loss, a law
C:11.2 of recognition of what creation really is. And yet when you would  practice creativity you realize it is a celebration of the creator—
C:13.3 These are but exercises in memory recollection, and the more you  practice them the more true memory will return to you. Do not apply
C:13.3 time. If you give this exercise just the tiniest bit of consistent  practice, however, it will soon become routine to you, for you will
C:25.7 it is your lack of ability to receive that causes this feeling. The  practice of devotion is a means by which you can purify your
C:25.7 True service recognizes God’s law of giving and receiving, and the  practice of devotion is, in effect, the practice of allowing giving
C:25.7 and receiving, and the practice of devotion is, in effect, the  practice of allowing giving and receiving to be one. It is, during
C:25.7 receiving to be one. It is, during the time of tenderness, a true  practice that, like vigilance, is a means to a desired end. You must
C:25.7 practice that, like vigilance, is a means to a desired end. You must  practice recognizing your feelings of lack of love, and realize these
C:25.7 realize these feelings come from your inability to receive. Do this  practice until it is no longer needed.
C:25.12 state. During the time of tenderness, you will learn, through the  practice of devotion, to identify and reject all such attitudes and
C:25.15 The first joining comes from within and it is putting into  practice the lessons of joining mind and heart in wholeheartedness.
C:25.22  Practice discernment by being still and awaiting wisdom. Your feeling
T1:4.20 this concern to have the chance to leave you is for you to begin to  practice the art of thought and thus begin to learn the difference.
T1:9.1 not possible without a return to the virgin or unaltered self. The  practice of the art of thought is what will complete the return begun
T2:7.21 previously, this belief will at times seem difficult to put into  practice, and while your recognition of receiving and of needs being
T2:8.1 In order for this learning to come to completion, you must put into  practice the belief that no relationships are special. Your loyalty
T2:8.2 threatened by what you will imagine to be loss. Remember too the  practice of devotion for in this practice is the truth separated from
T2:8.2 to be loss. Remember too the practice of devotion for in this  practice is the truth separated from illusion.
T2:9.2 you left it. Now, they are just tools, as are many other means of  practice that assist you in bypassing your ego mind. Some practices
T2:12.1 correction, or atonement, is the final belief that must be put into  practice.
T2:13.4 and the beginning of the time of unity taking place around you,  practice the beliefs that have been put forth in this Treatise. Know
T3:3.6 judgment with forgiveness as a belief. You have put this belief into  practice in each instance where you have seen it to be needed. What
T3:3.9 now are, you might be able to put the beliefs of this Course into  practice. If not quite this drastic, your thoughts might tell you
T3:3.9 you would be much better suited to putting these beliefs into  practice. Or you might look at your behaviors, your habits, your
T3:10.8 Along with forgetting there is another  practice that will help you to become aware of this change. While
T3:10.8 the same as forgetting it will seem to have a different process in  practice. This is the practice of ceasing to listen to the voice of
T3:10.8 it will seem to have a different process in practice. This is the  practice of ceasing to listen to the voice of the ego. While the ego
T3:10.9 ego-mind will come as disguises to certainty. Given just a little  practice, these disguises will be easily seen through and the
T3:13.7 is a simple place to start because you can put this new idea into  practice today and every day by simply refusing the temptation to
D:9.5 Thought is a  practice and a pattern of the separated and thus learning self. When
D:10.7 to the time of learning and that has always existed. When put into  practice and allowed to replace the pattern of learning, this way of
D:13.3 but they may come to be seen as quite complicated as you begin the  practice of living with what you come to know.
D:14.4 beyond the body and mind, form and time. You will need to put into  practice the suspension of belief that was spoken of earlier. You
D:16.12 were beyond this point of becoming. And yet, as you have begun your  practice of awareness, acceptance, and discovery, you have felt as if
D:Day3.50 strategy and action, through putting all that you have learned into  practice, you are sure to begin to see the benefits that have been
D:Day3.61 with all that flows from unity. This you cannot learn but you can  practice. Thus your practice begins.
D:Day3.61 from unity. This you cannot learn but you can practice. Thus your  practice begins.
D:Day5.18 also impatient with specifics. You want immediate results, not more  practice. You want relief and an end to effort, not another lesson to
D:Day6.8 not, completion is necessary. It may even be a commitment simply to  practice, with the artist feeling no certainty about the value of the
D:Day6.9 lyrics without notes, or a completed work that will qualify more as  practice than as art, the piece exists. In each stage of creation it
D:Day8.8 this radical acceptance. You will find, once you have begun to  practice acceptance of the present, that there will be far fewer
D:Day8.16 and opinions, but this is highly appropriate and much needed  practice for true certainty.
D:Day9.5 We will  practice here to build your confidence, a confidence sorely lacking.
D:Day9.28 be! Can you not see the extreme urgency of not perpetuating such a  practice?
D:Day15.5 what you did not observe, or see, was not real to you. Through the  practice of observance of the physical and the obvious, you began to
D:Day15.5 and the obvious to what could not be observed physically. This  practice had two purposes. The first purpose was the establishment of
D:Day15.9 than having your judgment alter natural cause and effect. This  practice will continue to serve you and will not be replaced, but
D:Day15.9 to serve you and will not be replaced, but supplemented by the new  practice of informing, until the practice of observation is no longer
D:Day15.9 but supplemented by the new practice of informing, until the  practice of observation is no longer needed.
D:Day15.11 next step. One reason is that it allows a starting point for your  practice. While it is possible to practice observance in every
D:Day15.11 allows a starting point for your practice. While it is possible to  practice observance in every situation, it is necessary to practice
D:Day15.11 to practice observance in every situation, it is necessary to  practice the ability to inform and be informed with others who have
D:Day15.11 This is an acceptable state for this time of limited  practice with those with whom you are engaged in this specific
D:Day15.12 What does it mean to  practice informing and being informed? It means to join together with
D:Day15.20 see new sights, gain new insights. While this is only an initial, or  practice stage of movement, it is obvious that movement will always
D:Day15.21 are engaged in this specific dialogue for this specific purpose or  practice.
D:Day15.22 in need of them and not offer more than can be received. This is why  practice among those who are ready to be boundary-less and spacious
D:Day15.23 To  practice, as to inform, is to make known. To practice, as to inform,
D:Day15.23 To practice, as to inform, is to make known. To  practice, as to inform, does not mean, however, that you know
D:Day15.23 as to inform, does not mean, however, that you know nothing.  Practice is the merging of the known and the unknown through
D:Day15.24 here for a purpose. As such, this time is also a beginning to the  practice of realizing and being able to accept a certain duality.
D:Day25.4 or answers. You need rather, in this time, to come into the  practice of letting the new come. It is in the new pattern of
D:Day27.8 As you continue to  practice your apprehension of this new situation, it will become more
D:Day27.8 and Its Recognition”, it will become a trusted ability and, through  practice, lose its dualistic seeming nature and become as intrinsic
D:Day27.14 This is what we move toward as we  practice participating in two levels of experience simultaneously. We
D:Day27.14 participating in two levels of experience simultaneously. We  practice experiencing the constant and the variable as one. We
D:Day27.14 We practice experiencing the constant and the variable as one. We  practice experiencing the constant and the variable together. We
D:Day27.14 We practice experiencing the constant and the variable together. We  practice in order to move toward an experience of variability within
D:Day27.15 to experience the variability of separation. This is what you  practice as you gather on the mountain top while remaining on level
D:Day27.16 self of form. This is what you are beginning to do through your  practice. Your proficiency will change your experience, and your
D:Day32.18 one in being with God we can also become more god-like through the  practice of holy relationship? Could not the instructions that you

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C:4.9 what one has is denied another. While love cannot be learned nor  practiced, there is a practice we must do in order to recognize
C:25.2 particular type of participation. It cannot be faked. But it can be  practiced.
C:25.8 the idea of one who is devoted, and of those for whom devotion is  practiced, is useful during the time of tenderness. It will lead to
T3:20.13 with cause rather than to stray to effect, the manner of living  practiced by those who have birthed the idea that cause and effect
T4:10.4 let go of learning because it is here that learning has been least  practiced through the means of studying.
D:8.2 a natural talent or ability to do. These things some of you have  practiced or studied to take advantage of your natural ability and in
D:Day3.14 you from believing that the ideas set forth in this Course, when  practiced, are capable of making a difference, especially in terms of
D:Day8.12 this intolerance to others. Once acceptance of the Self begins to be  practiced, you will realize that the self of intolerance was the self
D:Day15.7 the difference for which the time has come. The observation you have  practiced has prepared you to move from observation to informing and
D:Day15.10 This is the new realm of power that few in physical form have  practiced and that has never been practiced by many at one time. It
D:Day15.10 that few in physical form have practiced and that has never been  practiced by many at one time. It is a major shift because it is not
D:Day15.11 will not be reached until those who are the forerunners have  practiced and mastered this interaction with the creative force long
D:Day15.13 This cannot be explained in great detail, which is why it must be  practiced. It is to your own authority only that you must appeal for
D:Day27.5 you now will carry with you to level ground because you have  practiced during our mountain top time together the ability to

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T2:9.2 means of practice that assist you in bypassing your ego mind. Some  practices more commonly thought of as tools might be meditation,
D:Day9.27 and truth of who you are has been taught out of you by learning  practices that sought for sameness, and saw not your differences as
D:Day9.28 All of these learning  practices were the product of false images of the way things—and

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T1:5.13 moments of seeming difficulty, it is learned only in the sense of  practicing the mindfulness that will allow the memory of it to return
T3:13.7 with all beliefs of an “if this then that” nature. You might start  practicing this idea by repeating these words to yourself:
D:7.15 The observation, envisioning, and desire you have been  practicing in order to be ready to accept revelation works hand in
D:Day15.9 In  practicing observation without judgment, you learned to be neutral

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D:Day1.11 think that it all comes from the same source, regardless of what the  practitioner of healing calls it, be the practitioner a faith healer
D:Day1.11 regardless of what the practitioner of healing calls it, be the  practitioner a faith healer or a medical doctor. You may make one

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T4:7.3 who consider themselves spiritual and those who consider themselves  pragmatists, will hold this understanding within their grasp. Many

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C:4.15 insecure will believe in a partner who would shower him or her with  praise and gifts, with attention never wavering. Another who prizes
C:25.20 to create is strong, certainly let it serve you. But do not seek for  praise or acknowledgment of your creations at this time. You will
T1:4.14 you to blame God for what you have labeled “bad” as well as to  praise God for what you have labeled “good”? Would not this kind of a
T2:13.5 beyond all time and the passing of all form. It is an attitude of  praise and thankfulness that flows between us now. The light of
D:Day37.22 feeling bereft of a God you can feel close to, appeal to, thank and  praise. But doing so can also be confusing if it leads to thoughts of

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C:1.1 from which all feeling arises. All true feeling is love. All love  praises God. All love is recognition of the glory of God and all God

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C:P.2  Pray for all those in need of miracles. To pray is to ask. But for
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 first
C:20.38 it will come. Hope is the reason and the outcome for which we  pray. Hope acknowledges the kindliness of the universe and has no use
C:25.1 To be devoted is to be prayerful. As we said in the beginning, to  pray is to ask for all to be included in what you do. Devotion is
C:27.16 not known the proper response to make? You even wonder as you  pray whether you should pray for specific outcomes or for God’s Will
C:27.16 response to make? You even wonder as you pray whether you should  pray for specific outcomes or for God’s Will to be done. You fear
T1:4.3 A Course of Love began with an injunction to  pray. A Course in Miracles began with a definition of miracles. Both
T1:6.6 To  pray out of fear is not to pray at all, because such prayer chooses
T1:6.6 To pray out of fear is not to  pray at all, because such prayer chooses not the union that is the
T1:6.6 such prayer chooses not the union that is the prerequisite. To  pray out of fear is to ask from an unreal state of lack for what is
T3:20.7 to offer hope, or for drugs that would ease suffering, and you might  pray that God spare this one from a future seemingly already written,
D:Day4.43 to revisit it when the need arises? Are you here to fast and  pray only to have to return when you have once again become a glutton
D:Day4.43 a glutton of want, when you once again feel the lack that you would  pray for? Surely this you can do, for I deny no one the journey to

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C:26.11 be given a goal that would fulfill the longing in you? Have you not  prayed for signs? Read books that have promised you a series of steps
D:Day4.34 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 that you are

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C:19.17 be trained to do this. Thus your training begins. And begins with  prayer.
C:19.18 you will find yourself more afraid to ask. All your asking or  prayer awaits is but your belief in the love without fear that has
C:29.21 entirely different place than decision-making. Claiming is akin to  prayer and is but an asking, an asking for your true inheritance. You
T1:4.3 in Miracles began with a definition of miracles. Both are the same.  Prayer and the art of thought are the same. This should serve to make
T1:6.2 place? It will begin by learning the art of thought as the act of  prayer. We have spoken already of memory here, and have presented the
T1:6.2 and recollecting that are involved with memory as acts of creation.  Prayer is but reproducing and recollecting a divine memory and divine
T1:6.2 cannot help but produce a divine outcome. Said in another way,  prayer reproduces the truth and allows the truth to exist as it is.
T1:6.2 prayer reproduces the truth and allows the truth to exist as it is.  Prayer does this because it is the act of consciously choosing union.
T1:6.3 Thus  prayer must be redefined as the act of consciously choosing union.
T1:6.3 union. With this definition, you can see how your life can become a  prayer. This does not negate the fact that a prayer is also a
T1:6.3 your life can become a prayer. This does not negate the fact that a  prayer is also a constant dialogue of asking, being answered, and
T1:6.3 of asking, being answered, and responding. This is the aspect of  prayer that makes of it an act of creation.
T1:6.4  Prayer and miracles work hand-in-hand once both are seen for what
T1:6.4 God. Thus your concentration must not stray back to old concepts of  prayer or of reaching God through the intercession of prayer as if
T1:6.4 concepts of prayer or of reaching God through the intercession of  prayer as if God were separate from you and accessible only through a
T1:6.4 of communication. You can see, perhaps, how this attitude toward  prayer came about, as it is, like much you have learned, close to the
T1:6.5 To use  prayer only as a means of reaching out to a god seen as separate is
T1:6.5 as separate is to attempt to use what cannot be used. Such ideas of  prayer have had credence because this reaching out does at least
T1:6.5 recognize that there is something to reach out to. Such ideas of  prayer have long been opening doors for those who are ready to walk
T1:6.5 real relationship with God and Self. But this is not the concept of  prayer of which we speak nor one that can reasonably be called a way
T1:6.6 To pray out of fear is not to pray at all, because such  prayer chooses not the union that is the prerequisite. To pray out of
T1:6.6 of lack for what is seen as missing or desired. In contrast, true  prayer, formed in union, is a means of creating, recollecting, or
T2:11.15 against the ego-self. This is highly akin to your former notion of  prayer and assumes that there is something real that you need defense
T2:12.7 The power of thought and the power of  prayer, once aligned, call constantly upon the same power of
T3:22.14 we have referred to as “closed eyes” observation, can be likened to  prayer and thus to the miracle. This is the very miracle that closes
D:1.21 These Dialogues begin with  prayer to remind you of what you have learned in unity, a learning
D:6.11 that what is proven can be disproved—and often is. Thus the  prayer of the Native Americans who thank the sun for rising each day
D:6.11 of the Native Americans who thank the sun for rising each day is a  prayer that acknowledges that the sun may not rise. This is not a
D:6.27 redefined the miracle as the art of thought, or the continual act of  prayer that sustains the unity of Christ-consciousness.
D:Day1.2 spoken of here. Acceptance is. Acceptance is not belief, it is not  prayer. I care not in what form of the truth you believe, nor to what
D:Day8.5 externals, but of internals. We are not talking of the old adage or  prayer that calls you to “accept what you cannot change” but of
D:Day37.16 heaven and earth, and even some possibility of communication through  prayer or other experiential means. But this is still a relationship

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C:25.1 to an objective is a vow to accomplish. To be devoted is to be  prayerful. As we said in the beginning, to pray is to ask for all to

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C:9.38 In one activity you express your creativity and in another your  prayerfulness. Like a diversified investment portfolio, you think

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T1:6.5 reasonably be called a way of life or likened to the art of thought.  Prayers such as these emanate from either heart or mind and have not
T1:6.5 either heart or mind and have not the power of the wholehearted.  Prayers such as these emanate from the state of fear that is the
D:Day1.2 of the truth you believe, nor to what god you believe you send your  prayers; although if you do not believe in your Self above a form of
D:Day1.2 in your Self above a form of truth, and if you continue to send your  prayers to a god who is other than you, you will not cross the

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C:P.2 readiness: asking for all to be included in what we do here. By  praying for all those in need of miracles you are praying for all to
C:P.2 we do here. By praying for all those in need of miracles you are  praying for all to learn as you learn, you are asking to link your
C:19.18 As was said in the beginning,  praying is asking. You but asked for your separated state and it was

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D:Day8.6 Yet to state that you do not like your job is to  pre-judge your job, to assume that the conditions you did not like

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C:12.2 is the answer, as if it has not been said before. This message was  preached long ago and still the world remains the same. How could
C:26.1 It is often spoken of with some amazement that I lived a short life,  preached for only a small part of it, traveled not very far, had few
T1:2.3 have asked concerning how love could be the answer when it has been  preached by so many for so long is answered here. The answer lies in

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D:14.15 the time of becoming, the time of becoming the new you which must  precede creation of the new world. For as it has been said: As
D:16.13 you. This is the creation of the new you that you were told will  precede the creation of the new world. This is what is meant by “as
D:Day9.5 speak? The confidence to be yourself. This confidence is what must  precede true certainty in this time of elevation of the self of form.
D:Day10.32 But this response will not be generated without the feelings that  precede them! When speaking of gossip we used a simple example of a
D:Day15.10 of the self with the spacious Self in oneness and wholeness must  precede this step. This power cannot be misused because it is

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C:5.12 into, that love exists. Every joining, every entering into, is  preceded by a suspension of judgment. Thus what is judged cannot be
C:12.22 not proceed in reality but only in the external aspect of life that  preceded it. The idea of separation changed nothing in reality, but
T3:12.1 “I am” is a statement of awareness of consciousness. Awareness  preceded the statement of “I am.” “I am” preceded the creation of the
T3:12.1 of consciousness. Awareness preceded the statement of “I am.” “I am”  preceded the creation of the Self. The Self preceded the
T3:12.1 of “I am.” “I am” preceded the creation of the Self. The Self  preceded the establishment of the personal self.
D:Day1.27 succeeded my baptism and my acknowledgment as the Son of God, and  preceded my time of living as my Self in the world. So too does it
D:Day2.14 You have all been through the time of tenderness, the time that  preceded your giving and receiving of forgiveness, your request for

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C:30.14 laws of God. It is only in your perception that the laws of man take  precedence over the laws of God. Since perception arises from the
D:Day32.12 be reconciled or joined in harmony. Either the self or God takes  precedence in all lives. All lives. There is no other choice as long

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T4:1.6 about exclusivity? I am using this word specifically because of the  precedent of its use historically. Many different groups believe they

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T3:14.13 why you cannot hang onto the past? The new cannot have historical  precedents. This is why you have been assured that what you are

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C:23.19 the creation of form backward, it leads to this conclusion: Spirit  precedes inspiration, inspiration precedes imagination, imagination
C:23.19 leads to this conclusion: Spirit precedes inspiration, inspiration  precedes imagination, imagination precedes belief, and belief
C:23.19 precedes inspiration, inspiration precedes imagination, imagination  precedes belief, and belief precedes form.
C:23.19 precedes imagination, imagination precedes belief, and belief  precedes form.
C:24.4 The time of tenderness  precedes the time of peace and is the forerunner of compassion. The
D:13.11 the truth to be shared. The relationship or union, in other words,  precedes the sharing of what can only be given and received in

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T3:11.10 of judgment has been stressed many times, and we have adhered to the  precept of not judging by denying any right or wrong, the difference

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T3:22.1 the truth will take you, for surely your life must change. The very  precepts put forth within this Course, precepts that say that the
T3:22.1 life must change. The very precepts put forth within this Course,  precepts that say that the internal affects the external, seem as
T3:22.4 to be. This tension will continue if you are unable to integrate two  precepts of this course of learning into your new reality. One is the

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C:P.16 your path and the end of the journey is in sight. You stand at the  precipice with a view of the new world glittering with all the beauty
C:P.23 Seekers are but another category of those who at the  precipice act as if they have hit a wall rather than come across a

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A.18 as much as possible, but each will feel it to some degree, the  precise degree to which they are capable of giving up reliance on

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C:P.23 as if they have hit a wall rather than come across a bridge. It is  precisely the place at which you stopped that you must return to.
C:2.9 forget, and cannot for even the tiniest fraction of a second. It is  precisely the inability of your true Self to forget that gives you
C:7.7 Yet this Self that you hold so dear that you will never let it go is  precisely what you must be willing to freely give away. This is the
C:9.22 be thinking now that what I have just told you is not an answer is  precisely what the Bible has instructed you to do. I am recorded as
T3:14.7 This is  precisely why you must choose not to keep the life of discomfort
T3:16.2 create. You do not need to have a plan and you do not need to know  precisely what this new world will look like. You simply need to be
D:16.12 feel as if learning has not quite been accomplished in you. This is  precisely why we now discuss this state of becoming, this movement
D:Day9.22 What an image does is separate. The holder of an image,  precisely because he or she holds an image as a goal, holds him or
A.11 What you will find yourself accepting through this method is  precisely what cannot be taught. What you are learning through this
A.11 what cannot be taught. What you are learning through this method is  precisely what cannot be sought after and attained through your
A.26 a desire for feedback or discussion grow stronger. This may also be  precisely the time when the reader is so caught up in experience and

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C:I.4 language and so you regress to the language of the mind with its  precision. The mind so hates to be confused, to be open, to remain

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T2:11.12 For even while you have chosen separation, this choice did not  preclude the existence of relationship and it is in relationship that

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T1:7.3 We are moving you now away from all such beliefs to a knowing that  precludes the need for belief at all.

preconceived (2)

C:13.11 Might some of your  preconceived notions of others and yourself be shattered? Oh yes, and
C:27.15 relationship that is occurring in the present rather than to your  preconceived notions of others, the previous judgments your mind once

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T2:7.20 The recognition that giving and receiving occur as one is a  precondition for your recognition of the state of unity. As with the
D:Day7.2 Denial of yourself was the  precondition that set the stage for the time of learning. The time of
D:Day7.3 Acceptance of your Self is the  precondition for the time of acceptance. You are no longer denying

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C:9.35 back into your Father’s home. Being willing to be forgiven is the  precursor of atonement, the state in which you allow your errors to
T2:12.3 The miracle I am offering you here is the service I offer you, the  precursor of the service you will offer to others.
T4:2.33 This Treatise is here to help you do so. Learning to see anew is the  precursor of learning to create anew. Creating anew is the precursor
T4:2.33 is the precursor of learning to create anew. Creating anew is the  precursor of the coming of the new world. Remember, only from a
D:14.10 Coming to know is the  precursor of coming to be. The precursor to manifestation. The
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
D:14.10 the precursor of coming to be. The precursor to manifestation. The  precursor to creation of the new. It paves the way much as each step
D:Day15.6 What you made known through judgment-free observation was but the  precursor to what is made known through informing.

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T4:9.3 that have been worthy of your study. These learned works are the  precursors that have shown the way to creating unity and relationship

predate (1)

D:15.10 of the not yet elevated? What if the existence of form was seen to  predate the animation of that form with life and spirit? Would this

predates (1)

D:Day17.2 known as wisdom, Sophia, spirit. Christ-consciousness thus obviously  predates the man Jesus, and creation itself. It is both the feminine

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D:Day8.14 in fact, have returned to judgment because you will have made a  predetermination, just as in saying you do not like your job, you
D:Day9.20 in your understanding that our use of these terms is not a cause for  predetermination that we can proceed. For if you believe that we are

predeterminations (2)

D:Day9.18 image, like a rule, is a mental construct. All mental constructs are  predeterminations.
D:Day9.19 of advancement or enlightenment are mental constructs. They are  predeterminations.

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D:Day8.14 a predetermination, just as in saying you do not like your job, you  predetermine a continuing dislike. Soon, you might see a group of
D:Day8.16 certainty. Certainty cannot be predetermined, just as you cannot  predetermine either your likes or dislikes. Being aware of how you
D:Day16.11 what you do not want to know. You do not want to know every time you  predetermine, in advance of knowing, what something is or will be.
D:Day16.11 in advance of knowing, what something is or will be. You  predetermine, or decide, for instance, that a physical symptom is
D:Day16.13 All that you  predetermine you have come to know will be cause only for suffering,

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C:3.7 a pencil should have, few people can exhibit the qualities you have  predetermined that they should possess at all times and in all
D:Day8.15 you will become intolerant. And because you will then act from a  predetermined standard rather than feeling the feelings associated
D:Day8.16 in the present and of understanding certainty. Certainty cannot be  predetermined, just as you cannot predetermine either your likes or
D:Day9.20 we can proceed. For if you believe that we are proceeding to some  predetermined ideal state, we will not succeed in the work we are

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C:9.23 for what you have not. Only one example is needed to clarify the  predicament in which you have placed yourself. You feel lacking and

predicated (4)

C:9.11 All use is  predicated on the simple idea that you do not have what you need. You
D:6.15 Creation of the new will be  predicated on the discovery of what you did not previously know. This
D:Day28.8 revolutionary that it will take some getting used to. This change is  predicated on all the changes that have come before it, including,
D:Day37.3 relate to other separate things. In short, who you are being is all  predicated, first and foremost, by the relationship that you see

predicted (1)

C:I.12 is not that which has always existed. It is not that which can be  predicted. It is not that which can be formed and held inviolate. The

predictions (2)

T4:2.9 words such as the end of time or the fullness of time, think of the  predictions of the biblical end of time. I speak of this because it
T4:11.1 of this Treatise that this Treatise would not be predictive. Many  predictions of the future have been made, and many of them have been

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T4:1.1 Let me tell you what this Treatise will not be about. It will not be  predictive. It will leave no one out. It will not appeal to fear nor
T4:2.1 externally as well as internally. It is happening. It is not  predictive. I have never been and will never be predictive, for I am
T4:2.1 happening. It is not predictive. I have never been and will never be  predictive, for I am Christ-consciousness. Christ-consciousness is
T4:11.1 stated at the onset of this Treatise that this Treatise would not be  predictive. Many predictions of the future have been made, and many

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C:P.26 Within that bloodline are genes that carry particular traits and  predispositions. A child of one family may resemble the child of

predominant (2)

D:Day17.4 approach to knowing, which was called learning, was previously the  predominant approach. As this approach became more and more centered
D:Day17.5 There have always been individuals who challenged the  predominant patterns of learning because of the strength of their

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C:7.21 sake you choose to believe in the version of the truth most  predominate in your society. Thus the truth is different in one place

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C:P.20 self and union with God and all your brothers and sisters. You  prefer to think a good deed here, a bit of charity there, is more
C:P.20 a good deed here, a bit of charity there, is more important. You  prefer to give up on yourself and to help others, without realizing
C:P.20 that you can help no others until you have helped yourself. You  prefer selflessness to self because this is your chosen way to
C:6.4 really is. Yet you still refuse to listen and to learn. You still  prefer things to be other than what they are and, through your
C:6.10 need to stoke the fire put behind them. But not you. You, you think,  prefer the seasons, the cold as well as the warmth, the snow as well
C:8.11 the truth. And while there is a part of you that knows this, you  prefer instead of union a game of speculation, conjecture, and
C:10.18 Your mind might still  prefer to be right rather than happy, so it is important that you let
C:10.19 a priority here, but being right is quite important to it. It would  prefer to be serious and heavy-hearted rather than light-hearted and
C:10.32 has returned to you and will not leave you to the chaos you seem to  prefer. It will keep calling you to acknowledge it and let it grow.

preferable (2)

C:10.22 is so ensconced in fear that the known fears of its existence seem  preferable to the unknown fears of any other kind of existence. That
T2:4.9 acceptance of ambiguity. While an acceptance of ambiguity might seem  preferable to conflict, an acceptance of ambiguity is a rejection of

preference (2)

C:6.4 still prefer things to be other than what they are and, through your  preference, choose to keep it so.
T3:21.21 It excludes no race nor religion nor ones of either sex or sexual  preference. It but calls all to love and to live in the abundance of

preferences (1)

T3:21.15 your race, ethnicity, culture, body size and shape, sex and sexual  preferences, and so on. The aspect that has to do with beliefs is

pregnant (4)

D:Day23.2 As air carries sound, as a stream carries water, as a  pregnant woman carries her child, this is how you are meant to carry
D:Day24.2 You are the virgin, the  pregnant, the birth, and the new life. This is the way of the world
D:Day24.9 Potential is what you carry, as air carries sound, a stream water, a  pregnant woman her child. You carry your potential to the place of
D:Day35.9 in the way we have previously spoken of carrying. Carry them as a  pregnant woman carries her child. Let them grow. Let them live. And

prelude (5)

C:26.15 This Course is but a trigger. These words the  prelude to the explosion. It is as if you have been waiting for
T1:9.4 of another is a visible manifestation of gestation, which is the  prelude to resurrection. What was once part of the mother and father,
T4:11.4 Thus I will conclude this Treatise with a  prelude to the sharing that is our new means of communicating and
T4:12.4 This  prelude will address them individually and collectively, and as you
T4:12.31 This is a  prelude to but one form of these dialogues. Sharing in unity is

prematurely (2)

C:14.20 be foreseen but is always there: death may take their loved one  prematurely, and if not prematurely certainly eventually.
C:14.20 always there: death may take their loved one prematurely, and if not  prematurely certainly eventually.

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C:9.43 you think you need your sister for is thus based upon this insane  premise that freedom can be purchased and that master is freer than
T2:13.6 me now. Our journey together is just beginning as we return to the  premise put forth in “A Treatise on the Art of Thought:” that of the

preoccupation (1)

T2:11.3 Doing battle with the ego has become the  preoccupation of many gifted and learned people. This is the classic

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C:2.23 the return begins. Armies may not yet be marching home, but their  preparation is underway.
C:13.1 exercises that call you to observe your body are for. They are the  preparation for what is to come: the preparation for feeling that
C:13.1 your body are for. They are the preparation for what is to come: the  preparation for feeling that which is not of your body. Our next
C:30.2 becomes but the means for getting there. All learning is seen as  preparation for the future, or for some eventual outcome, rather than
D:1.6 world, the Kingdom that has already been prepared and so needs no  preparation.
D:1.18 As you have been shown, this will not occur by means of  preparation but by means of acceptance. This will not occur by means
D:17.18 Provision is about  preparation for future needs. This is an appropriate response to
D:Day15.5 between observer and observed. The second purpose was your  preparation to move beyond observation.
D:Day17.9 that of Mary, was the way of creation, and was a representation and  preparation for those who would approach Christ-consciousness through
D:Day20.1 Now we begin  preparation for your transition to level ground. We depart even
D:Day25.7 This is a time of  preparation, not a time of waiting. What you need to know now cannot

preparations (1)

D:Day15.14 If so, enter the dialogue with the purpose of your final  preparations in mind. Bring your fears into the light of oneness and

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C:4.26 unseen and unprepared for by all your strategy and defenses. You  prepare for everything that goes on outside yourself and nothing that
C:9.9 you are not ready yet to do, but this is what your heart will now  prepare you for. As you are prepared, you walk alongside he who has
C:9.21 this one in from that dark and dangerous place. She is cold, and you  prepare a fire and give her a warm blanket for her knees. He is
C:9.21 fire and give her a warm blanket for her knees. He is hungry and you  prepare a feast for him fit to serve a king. This one exists in the
T2:7.17 these modes of behavior, in themselves, are learning aides that  prepare you for acting with the certainty you seek, they again are
D:1.2 “receive” and you “give” from the well of the spirit. You need not  prepare or plan, you need only to claim your inheritance, your gifts,
D:1.4 and struggle is occurring because you do not know what to do to  prepare. You have not been convinced that you are done preparing as
D:1.7 this acceptance the personal self must still struggle and try,  prepare and plan. It does not know how to do otherwise. You do not
D:4.30 State your willingness, accept the coming of your release, and  prepare to leave your prison behind. Invite this simply by inviting
D:11.5 the beginning of this Dialogue? What was spoken of as your desire to  prepare?
D:Day21.9 was not needed. He joined you on the mountain top in order to  prepare you for his departure, a departure from reliance upon him
D:Day26.5 Will you? By tending your garden you will develop this trust and  prepare for your descent to level ground.

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C:4.17 back. You hope your hard work will produce results, the dinner you  prepared be eaten with delight, your ideas greeted as inspired. But
C:4.24 Thus has your perception of love  prepared you for what love is. For within you is the altar for your
C:9.9 do, but this is what your heart will now prepare you for. As you are  prepared, you walk alongside he who has waited for you with a single
C:17.13 yet all you need do is turn back. Being an observer of your body has  prepared you for this. Step back now to the place that has been held
C:26.10 simply come true through your acceptance of these words. But I am  prepared to make it easy for you.
C:32.5 If you do not think you are yet  prepared, if you think you are not yet ready, cease to think. Read
T1:1.5 will require no effort for what you have learned in this Course has  prepared you for this. As each situation that re-enacts a previous
T2:6.7 exercises on an intellectual level. But what these exercises have  prepared you for is an acceptance of the ongoing change that is
T2:7.19 and feelings that arise to the place within your heart that has been  prepared for them. You do not deny them. You bring them first to your
T2:11.17 replacement is indeed a miracle and the very miracle you have been  prepared for within this course of learning.
D:1.5 And yet you know that you have been  prepared by me, and that in union with me you cannot fail. You cannot
D:1.5 me, and that in union with me you cannot fail. You cannot fail to be  prepared, for you are already accomplished. What will it now take for
D:1.6 house of the Lord, the new world, the Kingdom that has already been  prepared and so needs no preparation.
D:15.16 You have been  prepared for this by the realization that your thinking mind will no
D:Day3.31 and an eye upon the bank account? Even those of you who would feel  prepared to let it bring you joy would err in thinking that it could.
D:Day15.7 for which the time has come. The observation you have practiced has  prepared you to move from observation to informing and being informed.

prepares (1)

C:18.8 a new choice, a choice to learn from unity, is what this Course  prepares you for.

preparing (7)

T2:2.6 no other and that comes from the simple act of caring for a child,  preparing a meal, bringing grace and order to a home?
D:1.4 what to do to prepare. You have not been convinced that you are done  preparing as you are done with learning. You still want to figure out
D:Day17.9 that of Jesus, was the way of acceptance, teaching by example, and  preparing a way for those who would approach Christ-consciousness
D:Day18.1 You have been  preparing for this final stage of the fulfillment of the way of
D:Day18.1 stage of the fulfillment of the way of Jesus. You have also been  preparing for the beginning of the fulfillment of the way of Mary.
D:Day18.1 the miracles that will aide in the dismantling of the old and with  preparing the way for the birth of the new. Others of you will follow
D:Day19.7 function that creates change is really to be called to a function of  preparing one or many for the change that must occur within. The

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T1:1.1 mind does not rest for it can find no peace. A state of peace is a  prerequisite of giving and receiving as one. Any state other than
T1:6.6 pray at all, because such prayer chooses not the union that is the  prerequisite. To pray out of fear is to ask from an unreal state of
T1:7.1 what you would choose to achieve. The true way in which to see this  prerequisite to the condition of suffering is as the perceived
T1:8.10 and live with you in separation. That you recognized union as a  prerequisite to creation is proof of your memory’s tenacity and the
T1:10.14 is the realm of miracles, the condition of the wholehearted, the  prerequisite to the art of thought, the description of heaven, the

prerequisites (1)

D:Day1.4 these requirements waived? Let us just accept that requirements are  prerequisites for many states you value. To marry one man you must

prescribed (1)

C:22.1 daydreaming, fiction, or make-believe, and these functions are all  prescribed to be for certain parts of your life and for certain times

prescribes (1)

T2:10.16 for a static state would make you rather listen to your ego as it  prescribes learning for certain circumstances that would be quickly

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C:4.3 your Source, both obscured Its light and alerted you of Its eternal  presence. Longing is your proof of love’s existence, for even here
C:4.9 there is a practice we must do in order to recognize love’s  presence. We practice living by the law of love, a law of gain not
C:4.20 must have another where you are at home and can abide within love’s  presence.
C:4.24 world to be seen, a world that will allow you to abide within love’s  presence.
C:4.27 of you, but every relation to the world within, where in love’s  presence both outer and inner worlds become as one and leave beyond
C:5.1 It is this joining of the human and divine that ushers in love’s  presence, as all that caused you fear and pain falls away and you
C:5.29 Father, yet your invitation is necessary for your awareness of this  presence. As I once was, you are both human and divine. What your
C:10.1 you are with your own body? If you are not even joined with this  presence that you call your home, how can you be expected to join
C:18.3 of a whole that would be a completely different whole without your  presence, just as the universe would be a completely different
C:18.3 as the universe would be a completely different universe without the  presence of the Earth.
T1:5.10 whom you think you are, would not experience anything without the  presence of the heart. The heart is the only cause of your experience
T1:10.6 devices. They have cracked open hearts and minds to the divine  presence within. You have chosen them for just this reason. But you
T1:10.6 You no longer need these experiences to alert you to the divine  presence. Once you have learned to read you do not return to learning
T2:11.2 and, as you now know that struggle of any kind alerts you to the  presence of ego, you will continue to do battle with the ego rather
T3:9.4 who remain within the house of illusion could not escape love’s  presence.
D:15.15 or motors to replace it, never realizing its constant and continual  presence only needs to be allowed to pass through you to be in
D:16.12 Becoming is the movement from image to  presence. It is upon you as we speak. It is not a learned state or
D:16.12 we now discuss this state of becoming, this movement from image to  presence.
D:16.20 them go you are not fully present. Without letting them go, your  presence is not wholly realized, you are not fully here, not whole,
D:17.9 moment of achievement and glory is a gift of this moment, a gift of  presence. Your gesture, so like unto that of a champion who has
D:17.9 you would hope to best. It simply is what it is: A moment of  presence full of both desire and fulfillment.
D:Day4.55 would have considered himself perfect as he approached his father’s  presence? Surely he would not have. You are asked but to accept your
D:Day7.7 will actually be contracting into nothingness. Time is replaced by  presence, by your ability to exist in the here and now in acceptance
D:Day9.20 do not accept your Self as you are, you will not move from image to  presence. If you do not move from image to presence you will never
D:Day9.20 not move from image to presence. If you do not move from image to  presence you will never realize your freedom. If you do not realize
D:Day10.13 This also relates to our discussion of image versus  presence and to the image of your personal self that was discussed at
D:Day10.19 because you were, prior to this point, unready to give up image for  presence, the individual for the universal, reliance on an outside
D:Day10.19 of the person you are and Christ-consciousness, of union and  presence, of the individual and the universal, is what the elevated
D:Day39.7 “Between” you and me is the  presence of Christ. Remember we have talked about the Christ “in”

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C:P.24 sees you only as you are. The Christ in you is also still and ever  present. But the weakening done your ego by whatever learning you
C:2.15 to figures from the past to show you the way beyond illusions to the  present. Look within to the one in you who knows the way. Christ is
C:9.19 indeed, a curse, and one that you would try to tell yourself is not  present in your life. You look to others to feel compassion for, to
C:20.37 Knowing what you do is a  present moment knowing. It is not about plans. It is about
C:24.4 commitment. It requires participation, involvement, attention, being  present. These are the lessons with which we will conclude.
C:25.4 for it, or capture it. This you cannot do. Yet, love is always  present. Let us spend a moment considering this contradiction.
C:25.5 How can love always be  present when you can undeniably feel each and every absence of love?
C:25.10 the purpose for which you are here and your entitlement to be fully  present here. If you still believe you are here to acquire some
C:26.26 Being whole is being  present. Being whole is being all you are. Being whole is being
C:26.26 present. Being whole is being all you are. Being whole is being  present as all you are. When this occurs you are All in All, One in
C:27.13 is living as who you are. Living in relationship is living in the  present. How do you learn to move from living in separation to living
C:27.14 To live in relationship is to accept all that is happening in the  present as your present reality, and as a call to be in relationship
C:27.14 is to accept all that is happening in the present as your  present reality, and as a call to be in relationship with it. It is
C:27.14 conflict. It is an understanding that if conflict arises in your  present there is something to be learned from your relationship with
C:27.15 the proper response to the relationship that is occurring in the  present rather than to your preconceived notions of others, the
C:27.17 As you learn to live in relationship in the  present, this confusion will pass. Your relationship will guide you
C:28.13 a call 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
C:29.1 To attend is to be  present and to be of service. This is the meaning of which we speak
C:29.1 readiness and a request for service that can only be given in the  present by a mind and heart available to the requirements of the
C:29.1 the present by a mind and heart available to the requirements of the  present. It is the appropriate attitude for the time of tenderness,
C:29.27 Each still exists, though not in time. Each still exists, but in the  present. Can you replace your attention to the past and future with
C:29.27 your attention to the past and future with an attention to the  present?
C:30.1 How is being  present different than being? Are they not the same thing? Should
C:30.1 the same thing? Should they not be? And yet how seldom are you fully  present for your own life, your own Self, your own being. If you were
C:30.4 Being in relationship is being  present. Being present has nothing to do with time as you think of
C:30.4 Being in relationship is being present. Being  present has nothing to do with time as you think of it. You think of
C:30.4 do with time as you think of it. You think of this instruction to be  present as an instruction that relates to time. You think of present
C:30.4 to be present as an instruction that relates to time. You think of  present time, past time, future time. We have spoken of these modes
C:30.8 as the key that unlocks the door to universal consciousness, being  present. There is no being and no present in matter. In matter, being
C:30.8 to universal consciousness, being present. There is no being and no  present in matter. In matter, being must be attached to form. In the
C:30.8 must be attached to form. In the sense of time described by the word  present, there is no infinitude, but only a vague concept of now.
T1:1.4 bring back a reality that once was but transform that reality into a  present moment experience. It is in the present-moment experience
T1:2.17 to you and you to it. It binds you to the natural world and to the  present but also to the higher world and the eternal. It binds you to
T1:2.21 To experience what is and to acknowledge what is, one must be  present, present as human being. To experience what is and to
T1:2.21 experience what is and to acknowledge what is, one must be present,  present as human being. To experience what is and to acknowledge what
T1:2.21 what is and to acknowledge what is as being a gift of God is to be  present as a divine being having a human experience. No part of being
T1:5.9 where your heart has been held captive. Thus, your real Self is not  present in the realm of the truly real, but is actually present
T1:5.9 Self is not present in the realm of the truly real, but is actually  present within the illusion. This is why all seeking must turn
T1:6.1 why it can be unlearned. The thought system of the truth is always  present as the truth is always present and can be neither learned nor
T1:6.1 thought system of the truth is always present as the truth is always  present and can be neither learned nor unlearned. It will thus be
T1:6.6 recalling a divine memory and transforming that divine memory into a  present moment experience.
T2:5.1 signs, or even as seeming demands. All call you to the  present where response is able to be given. All call you “back” to
T2:6.6 a future in which you will be someone other than who you are in the  present. Unity exists only in the here and now of the present. There
T2:6.6 you are in the present. Unity exists only in the here and now of the  present. There is no will be in unity. There is only what is. Thus
T2:6.10 to its natural realm. Thus does mind and heart join in unity in the  present, in the here and now, so that you exist—even within form—
T2:9.1 to help or to meet your needs. Do not think that this desire is not  present in all relationships. It is only the ego that stands between
T2:9.2 of releasing ego mind and inviting the one mind, or unity into the  present moment. When seen as such, all these tools, including needs,
T3:1.1 The personal self exists as the self you  present to others. This is the only way in which the personal self
T3:1.1 the personal self so that you may claim your personal self again and  present to others a true representation of who you are.
T3:1.8 Treatise by saying that the personal self exists as the self you  present to others and that this is the only way in which the personal
T3:1.10 To say that the personal self will now exist only as the self you  present to others is to say that the personal self will now cease to
T3:1.11 in time, a self who believed that the past made up the self of the  present and that the self of the present made up the self of the
T3:1.11 the past 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
T3:1.11 and a friend in another, than you did in defining a past self, a  present self and a future self. The greatest distinction of all was
T3:1.13 is atonement. We work now to correct the errors of the past in the  present, the only place where such work can be done. We work with
T3:8.1 To stop at this dismantling power would be to leave the world in its  present condition and your brothers and sisters scrambling in the
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
T3:10.7 can it be when the past was lived in the house of illusion and the  present is lived in the House of Truth? Being cognizant of this is
T3:14.12 not correction to take place. The past is no more and neither the  present nor the future can be built upon it. This is why we have
T3:20.6 in your mind’s eye you “observe” the future as a repetition of the  present or as a long war with little chance of being won. You chide
T3:21.18 the personal self will continue to exist only as the self you  present to others. It will be a representation only. It will
T4:1.16 No cause to look back exists at all, for the truth exists in the  present. This is the same as saying the truth exists within you. It
T4:2.15 of this Course. Your awareness of the Self that you are now was not  present in the past, but you can truly now, with the devotion of the
T4:2.15 devotion of the observant, see that the Self you are now was indeed  present, and the truth of who you were always.
T4:2.16 observe any others without knowing that the truth of who they are is  present even though it might seem not to be? This is the power of the
T4:2.21 your life in time and space. Observing what is unites you with the  present in that it unites you with what is rather than with what you
T4:10.5 Relationship happens in the  present moment. Studying takes up residence within the student; there
T4:10.5 Studying is about future outcome. What happens in relationship has  present moment meaning. What is studied has potential meaning.
D:6.21 blaming a friend for your hurt feelings, or blaming the past for the  present. And yet, what ridding your mind of ideas of placing blame
D:14.16 Being whole is being  present. Being whole is being all you are. Being whole is being
D:14.16 present. Being whole is being all you are. Being whole is being  present as all you are. When this occurs you are All in All, One in
D:15.7 creation story. This first mention of movement is literally  present in all creation stories because there is no story without
D:15.20 being done with the need to maintain conditions that allow it to be  present. Maintenance will lead to sustenance.
D:16.15 Self of form; that times still exist in which you are not wholly  present as who you are.
D:16.16 When you are not wholly  present as who you are, you are experiencing, still, the image or
D:16.20 them go entirely, for without letting them go you are not fully  present. Without letting them go, your presence is not wholly
D:16.21 is incapable of true joining in relationship. You must be fully  present in order to join in relationship. All of your images are
D:17.11 The stimulus has been provided, the journey taken. You are  present. Now is the time for your response.
D:Day2.2 see the difference between the image you hold of yourself and your  present Self. But still, in unguarded moments, in moments in which
D:Day4.1 time of learning. Remember here all the “arguments” that I needed to  present in the early part of this Course just to convince you that
D:Day6.2 of the everyday world of your “normal” existence and feel fully  present on the holy mountain. This is not a second-best situation.
D:Day7.18 And yet what we are concerned about now is the  present. It is here, in this present and given time on the mountain
D:Day7.18 what we are concerned about now is the present. It is here, in this  present and given time on the mountain that you must realize that the
D:Day7.20 replacement of doubt with certainty. Certainty is a condition of the  present. Realize you may say you are certain of the future or the
D:Day7.20 your certainty, goes hand-in-hand with your ability to live in the  present. This ability is also contingent upon your recognition of
D:Day7.21 There is an acceptance of the  present that some of you are finding difficult and a false sense of
D:Day8.8 of the way things are, but acceptance of who you are in the  present. Not through acceptance of the way you want to be but of the
D:Day8.8 You will find, once you have begun to practice acceptance of the  present, that there will be far fewer things you do not like, and
D:Day8.8 and that you will be shown, in the relationship you have in the  present, the response to those you still do.
D:Day8.9 simple acceptance that you do not like the gossip taking place in a  present moment situation, will enable you not to participate, judge,
D:Day8.13 of others, but to accept who you are within the relationship of that  present moment.
D:Day8.14 than observing the situation for what it is and responding in the  present.
D:Day8.15 rather than feeling the feelings associated with gossip in the  present moment, you will soon find that a bit of gossip will crop up
D:Day8.16 This is the importance now of accepting yourself in the  present and of understanding certainty. Certainty cannot be
D:Day8.16 either 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
D:Day8.17 it is crucial that you come to acceptance of yourself—in the  present, as you are—for only by doing so will you come to full
D:Day8.17 Self of form. Access and expression are both conditions of the  present.
D:Day8.19 This temptation stems from one thing only—from not living in the  present. Distancing, or non-acceptance of your own feelings, is not
D:Day8.19 or non-acceptance of your own feelings, is not living in the  present and will create an attitude that will not be compassionate.
D:Day8.20 the holiness of the true Self being expressed in the feelings of a  present moment situation, but see a future where the true Self will
D:Day8.21 of the misdirection of the past if you accept your feelings in  present time and begin to be aware of your natural ability to respond
D:Day8.21 ability to respond truly because you have accepted your feelings in  present time. This is a recognition that by being in the present you
D:Day8.21 feelings in present time. This is a recognition that by being in the  present you know your feelings are of the truth. This is certainty.
D:Day9.1 there. I am your refuge from the past, your gate of entry to the  present. You have fled the foreign land, where freedom was merely an
D:Day9.25 You can only express the beauty and truth of who you are now, in the  present. And you do. You just have not realized that you do. You have
D:Day12.6 When an obstacle of form, be it human or material in nature, seems to  present itself, all you must do is remind yourself that space has
D:Day13.5 the forms emptied of love. Where there is no love there is no God  present. Where there is no love there is a lack of godliness or what
D:Day13.6 of the one boundary-less Self of form. All of creation is  present and apparent in this boundary-less Self of form. This Self is
D:Day16.9 It is only in the  present that acceptance can occur. There is no “going back” or
D:Day16.9 because in Christ-consciousness, you must become fully aware of the  present. The present is the time of no time, wholeness, where all
D:Day16.9 you must become fully aware of the present. The  present is the time of no time, wholeness, where all that is real and
D:Day16.10 that you feel because these feelings are part of who you are in the  present moment. When you remain in the present moment you remain
D:Day16.10 part of who you are in the present moment. When you remain in the  present moment you remain within Christ-consciousness where all that
D:Day18.8 Feelings are your awareness of the  present and thus of the truth. They are your means of coming to know.
D:Day24.7 in the becoming of the spirit. Without release, it must die to its  present form in order to begin again. Thus spirit is always becoming,
D:Day36.3 experience you encountered between your earliest memory and the  present moment and it would say nothing about you if it related the
A.33 this Course will arrive. These need help in staying grounded in the  present and reminders that they are no longer seeking. They need your
A.34 them that the goal is reached in being who they are at last. It is  present—not in the future. It is with them—not beyond them. The
A.38 are you listening? Entering the dialogue is akin to residing in the  present moment and to hearing all that is being spoken in all the

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T1:1.4 that reality into a present moment experience. It is in the  present-moment experience memory provides that truth rather than
T1:1.4 than illusion can now be experienced and learned from. It is in the  present-moment experience that you will receive the blessing of being
T2:5.2 Again let me stress the  present-moment nature of being called. A call is, at its most basic

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C:31.16 you share, the portion that your ego has deemed safe, acceptable,  presentable. The portion that your ego has deemed will cause you no

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T1:6.2 the act of prayer. We have spoken already of memory here, and have  presented the acts of reproducing and recollecting that are involved
T3:1.1 integration of this Course. Previously, the personal self that you  presented to others represented an ego-self who you believed yourself
T3:1.11 To say that the personal self has only existed as the self you  presented to others in the past is quite a different statement and
T3:1.11 and has a totally different meaning. The personal self you once  presented to others as “who you were” was a self who existed in time,
T3:1.11 of the present made up the self of the future. The personal self you  presented to others in the past was a chosen self and never a whole
T3:1.11 self and the public self, as if who you were to yourself and who you  presented yourself to be could be two completely different selves.
D:3.21 are being asked to learn again and not only that, but as if I have  presented you with a concept difficult to learn. What you need
D:6.23 The first example of the body we  presented newly was that of the perfect design of the joining
D:9.6 with your change, the truth, while it remains the truth, can now be  presented in a way that speaks to who you are now rather than who you
D:Day1.3 this acceptance, you will not receive the secret of succession  presented here. You can read of it still, but it will not convey to
D:Day10.24 Self and your power. This dialogue, as one-sided as it may seem when  presented in this way, is an exchange and will only become more so as
D:Day28.6 plateau of sorts and just keep following the opportunities that are  presented along one path. They may have chosen one career, for
A.25 The “answer” for those in need of challenges, is the challenge  presented in the call to reside in unity and to express the divinity

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D:Day8.26 you can only dream of being. The ego-self was the self you felt safe  presenting to the world, the self you believed the world would find
D:Day8.26 self you believed the world would find acceptable. If you are still  presenting this self, you are still in a state of non-acceptance and

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D:Day28.26  Presently it is as if you follow two threads, the thread that has led

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C:5.23 life, and while it remains it defines the life you see as real. It  presents you with a thousand choices to make, not once but many
D:Day32.7 Whether it be called God or the Big Bang or evolution, this notion  presents the concept of something being begun and then turned loose,

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C:5.8 have found to the one in whom you found it and seek immediately to  preserve it. There are millions of museums to love, far more than
C:5.8 to love, far more than there are altars. Yet your museums cannot  preserve love. You have become collectors rather than gatherers. Your
C:5.9 This urge to  preserve things is but your urge to leave a mark upon the world, a

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E.1 be like to have nothing left to learn, nothing left to become. The  pressure is off. The alchemy has occurred. The coal has become a

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C:4.17 certain boundaries you have set; you expect that a certain amount of  prestige will follow certain accomplishments; you accept that some
T2:2.4 a calling to teach. To set aside other careers that offer far more  prestige and economic gain to instead be a sharer of knowledge, a
T4:4.4 into his or her inheritance or time of fullness. The power and  prestige, the earthly wealth of the parent, passed historically to

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T2:6.6 It says I am rather than I will be. I will be is a statement that  presumes a future in which you will be someone other than who you are

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C:6.8 opposition to it. This is what you chose to create when you chose to  pretend you can be what you cannot be. You chose to live in
C:10.11 believe that because you are pretending you are not a body, you can  pretend you do not feel the pain of a headache or the cold of a

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C:10.11 you are not. You may then be tempted to believe that because you are  pretending you are not a body, you can pretend you do not feel the
C:10.11 feel the pain of 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
C:10.11 to fool yourself is welcomed by your separated self who knows  pretending will not make it so.

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C:2.19 to have become stronger than before and fiercer in its criticism. It  pretends to hold you to new standards, only to use what you have

pretensions (1)

D:Day9.27 been your inability to accept this that has caused your grief and  pretensions. In a certain sense, your ability to express the beauty

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C:1.14 your quick wits and your cunning mind. It is another chance to  prevail against the odds so stacked against you that you can once
C:16.20 all around you. The strong survive and the weak perish. The mighty  prevail, and so define what is right for all those over whom they
C:16.20 prevail, and so define what is right for all those over whom they  prevail. Those in power are those who make the laws, and those who
T1:3.23 Although many more fears might  prevail upon you, we will consider only one further fear, the fear of
T3:14.2 intercede. Blame would be placed. A return to equanimity would soon  prevail, for those dwelling in the House of Truth would not long
T4:12.17 Learned wisdom will tell you that the strong survive, the mighty  prevail, the weak shall perish. I attempted to dislodge much of this

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T4:12.17 of my words. The time for puzzlement is over. Pass on no more of the  prevailing learned wisdom. I told you once we would create a new

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C:20.13 Likeness, like thingness, has been overcome with oneness. Oneness  prevails. The reign of Christ is at hand.
D:Day7.16 to love. The natural created Self is all that is. Reverence  prevails.

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T2:11.15 of evil. This is nonsense, or but a form of the insanity that is  prevalent still, even in your thinking. You do not realize that this
D:Day9.21 teachings. This desire of “followers” to accept an image is less  prevalent now but still a common danger.
D:Day28.15 some combination of these two attitudes, but will find that one is  prevalent. You must now get past all such notions or attitudes.

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C:7.13 or where to retrieve these missing pieces, not knowing that you can  prevent the loss entirely by being one. What is joined cannot be
C:12.21 The Father did not  prevent the idea of separation from taking place, and could not any
C:12.21 separation from taking place, and could not any more than you could  prevent an idea from occurring to you. Just as an idea of yours, once
C:25.4 immediately felt. You may choose to deny the feeling, but you cannot  prevent it from occurring. You can attempt to earn the love of those
C:27.21 You are ready now, and all that will you  prevent you from living a life of love is unwillingness to do so.
C:29.20 that the power of choice exists. A split mind and heart can  prevent you from utilizing the power of choice, but it cannot prevent
C:29.20 can prevent you from utilizing the power of choice, but it cannot  prevent you from claiming this choice as your own. Choose anew and
T1:4.18 The art of thought is being taught here in order to  prevent just such a conclusion. The truth is the truth and not
T2:7.10 are aims consistent with the teachings of this Course, but what will  prevent you from following the patterns of old as you go out into the
T2:7.11 The only thing that will  prevent this is your ability to go out into the world and remain who
T2:10.14 state of trying to hang on to who you were yesterday, or trying to  prevent change tomorrow.
T3:4.7 of illusion with the truth. The very purpose of this Treatise is to  prevent the replacement of illusion with illusion, or one ego-self
T4:2.13 your awareness of the new grows. But these few that I linger on will  prevent your awareness of the new from growing, and so must be
T4:12.12 contentment. Continual contentment will not stunt your growth or  prevent you from sharing or from expressing yourself anew.
D:2.12 This will not often  prevent you from trying the same thing again although at times it
D:4.31 in Christ, I hear your protests and the reasons that you feel must  prevent you from the acceptance I call you to. Yet as you fully
D:6.13 of many previously known “scientific facts,” but this would not  prevent them from discovering new “scientific facts.” I mean no
D:Day2.7 This is the feeling that will  prevent you from receiving the secret of succession. It is like the
D:Day3.14 there in the learned pattern and you know this too. They are what  prevent you from believing that the ideas set forth in this Course,
D:Day3.60 life, to rebirth of new life. By clinging to some of the old, you  prevent its death and you prevent the rebirth of the new. You prevent
D:Day3.60 life. By clinging to some of the old, you prevent its death and you  prevent the rebirth of the new. You prevent the very life-giving
D:Day3.60 you prevent its death and you prevent the rebirth of the new. You  prevent the very life-giving resurrection you await. You prevent the
D:Day3.60 new. You prevent the very life-giving resurrection you await. You  prevent the elevation of the self of form.
D:Day8.11 This acceptance is the only thing that will truly  prevent judgment, for it does not require you to be your brother’s
D:Day8.21 feelings are of the truth. This is certainty. This is all that will  prevent you from “reacting” to feelings out of your previous pattern.

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C:29.19 you can now choose unity. Not knowing that unity was a choice  prevented you from making this choice before now. Now I tell you
T4:1.22 caused you to finally be ready to still your fear, a fear that once  prevented the direct and observable learning that now is available to
D:6.19 not say, that they “did it to themselves” or that they could have  prevented it by abstaining from the unhealthy habits. You might look
D:Day3.37 inspired wisdom of teachers such as these in order to “learn” has  prevented the very relationship that these teachers sought to impart.

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T2:2.8 as capable of believing in that truth as of doubting it. All that  prevents you from believing in truth is a mind and heart acting in
T2:2.9 You think that what  prevents you from being who you are is far broader than this simple
T2:2.9 of hearing and following a calling would indicate. You think what  prevents you from being who you are is far broader than a division
T2:8.2 Self. This is the learning ground on which you now stand. All that  prevents you from being who you are within these relationships must
T3:15.3 a set of criteria based upon the past that is most often what  prevents new beginnings from truly being new.
D:11.11 is insane for reasons already enumerated time and time again. What  prevents this belief from becoming an ability and prevents it from
D:11.11 time again. What prevents this belief from becoming an ability and  prevents it from going from being an ability to simply being who you
D:Day15.13 your own readiness. Are you able to be a clear pool? If not, what  prevents you? Do not be too hard on yourself now, for as has been

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T4:4.17 death? What purpose would this Course serve if it were just another  preview of what to expect after you die? What difference would this

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C:9.34 would be if you could fix yourself and the world, restoring it to a  previous condition that you imagine you know. In this scenario God is
C:19.20 will be required before letting the past go completely. All your  previous attempts to go back have been like attempts to pay a debt
C:23.4 may be on the other side of the country, separated by distance, or  previous choices, or past hurts, and yet a relationship continues.
C:26.25 What has happened and what will happen next? You attempt to rewrite  previous chapters and to cast all the parts and plan all the events
C:27.15 the present rather than to your preconceived notions of others, the  previous judgments your mind once made and relies upon out of habit,
T1:1.5 Course has prepared you for this. As each situation that re-enacts a  previous learning experience arises, you will, if you trust your
T1:4.22 to congratulating yourself on the maturity required to reinterpret  previous lessons. To form a new opinion about something gives you a
T2:7.7 believe that giving and receiving as one is not taking place. Your  previous pattern of behavior will be quick to assert itself and you
T3:1.5 As with much of our  previous work, the first step in advancing toward this goal is in
T3:1.8 now continue to exist. This statement implies and acknowledges your  previous belief in a personal self who existed as more than a
T4:1.2 will continue to challenge your former ideas and beliefs as have the  previous Treatises. But it will do this only to reach a conclusion of
D:9.12 have contemplated and struggled with. You may think that all of your  previous learning and thinking merely resulted eventually in a new
D:Day2.2 You have let go the ego, re-viewed your life, unlearned  previous patterns, and now see the difference between the image you
D:Day8.21 is all that will prevent you from “reacting” to feelings out of your  previous pattern.
D:Day18.5 They follow the calling of their hearts without attachment to  previous concerns, for in their renewal they fully realize the
D:Day35.17 creation must have occurred in this way. We will not return to  previous discussions of original creation, but it must be thought of
D:Day37.11 results in a new number, a remainder, that when added to the  previous number returns it to its original value. Think further of a

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C:P.26 another distant relative or a relative who lived and died many years  previously. You see nothing odd or foreign in this. This is the
C:1.8 disregarded. You might try one more thing and then another that you  previously would not have tried when you were so convinced that you
C:17.3 the unknown is simply that it is unknown. Coming to know what was  previously unknown to you can remove the fear, if you will let it.
C:20.43 because it releases you from trying to acquire that which you  previously believed you were lacking. It releases you from judgment
C:22.2 that establishes a partnership or relationship. While we have  previously discussed relationship as not being one thing or the other
C:22.7 these two examples, the partnership creates something that did not  previously exist by providing a function and a purpose for each. In
C:23.15 what you are is the basis for your entire foundation, a foundation  previously built on fear. Clearly, belief in the body was easily
C:23.23 being tested but given opportunities for unlearning. To learn that a  previously held belief is no longer valid is the only way to truly
C:23.29 You might ask, how do you learn what you have failed to learn  previously? What are the lessons? What is the curriculum? How will
C:25.18 unconcerned about many of the things you have been concerned about  previously. Your life may actually seem to have less purpose. You may
C:32.1 the difference between the two that you need guidance. You have  previously looked to those who do not know the difference for your
T1:1.4 to reproduce or recall both what has been learned and what has been  previously experienced. This reproducing and recollecting are acts of
T1:4.21 thinking of the ego-mind would simply reinterpret the meaning you  previously gave to these lessons.
T1:8.3 realized. Even though many versions of the truth have been accepted  previously, there is only one truth. There was only one truth at the
T1:9.16 not embraced. You are pulling forth sides of your selves that were  previously undervalued rather than looking for an other to provide
T2:3.4 you must fully recognize the distinction between the ego-self that  previously was the self of learning and experience, and the
T2:4.12 This is not about examining where the various calls you responded to  previously have led you. All these notions are concerned with who you
T2:7.17 judge others, kept yourself from speaking up in instances where you  previously would have stated an opinion. While these modes of
T2:7.21 While as stated  previously, this belief will at times seem difficult to put into
T2:8.5 A new type of acceptance is required here, one not  previously asked or expected of you. This is an acceptance that you
T2:9.15 Because you have not thought  previously of needs as tools every bit as valuable as the others
T2:10.12 you would continue to attempt to learn in the same way that you have  previously learned, you will not learn because the “you” that will be
T2:10.13 wholeheartedness. Thus the union of mind and heart is, as was stated  previously, the first union, the union that must proceed all the
T2:11.7 we spent a fair amount of time addressing needs in a way we had not  previously addressed them. For only with your understanding that all
T2:12.9 There, between you and the “other” whom you have  previously only perceived, is the relationship and the miracle
T2:13.1 The final call of this Treatise is, in contrast to those put forth  previously, a personal call from me to you. By now you have seen that
T3:1.1 exist following the completion and the integration of this Course.  Previously, the personal self that you presented to others
T3:1.9 and to be represented in truth by the form you occupy and have  previously seen as the reality of yourself.
T3:14.10 for the hurts you have caused others. Whatever actions you have not  previously brought to love to be seen in a new light, are now
T4:2.31 different? That you might see auras or halos, signs and clues  previously unseen? Have you included other senses in your idea of
D:3.8 with you into the new. This is the first of many ideas that were  previously taught that I would like to talk of in a new way. These
D:3.13 achieved through willingness. Full awareness in form of what has  previously been hidden by the mists of illusion is the more
D:4.11 could also be called creation, and where we have spoken of creation  previously, divine design was also spoken of. Here I am quite
D:5.10 must be reemphasized now as you are called to see what you might  previously have thought of as inconsequential in the light of truth.
D:6.6 easily drawn distinction—and it is—it is not perhaps as you have  previously seen it, for everything that exists in form is of the same
D:6.13 this event to happen. It would require the re-working of many  previously known “scientific facts,” but this would not prevent them
D:6.14 have spoken of. To discover is simply to find out what you did not  previously know.
D:6.15 of the new will be predicated on the discovery of what you did not  previously know. This will not happen if you cling to “known” truths.
D:7.8 matter, it occupies space and is perceptible to the senses. You have  previously seen this one aspect of form as separating it from mind,
D:8.6 and in that discovery, you realized that although you had not  previously known that this talent or ability existed, it was there
D:13.3 in the form of a surprising discovery, a joyous discovery of the  previously known but long forgotten identity of the Self and all that
D:13.5 be coming to you will be given in a state of wholeness. You have  previously learned of everything in parts and details and
D:14.5 “What might this situation look like if I forgot everything I have  previously known about similar situations, and looked at this in a
D:16.18 while even within your new actions you see archetypes of the  previously known and previously experienced.
D:16.18 your new actions you see archetypes of the previously known and  previously experienced.
D:Day3.39 not think coming with authority and certainty, a certainty you had  previously lacked. When I said earlier in this chapter that you are
D:Day4.37 you. It is a desire for true discovery, a desire to access the  previously unknown.
D:Day6.23 is accelerated by hands-on activities, by doing what one has  previously only learned.
D:Day6.26 important for you to be involved in. All other areas where you might  previously have placed your devotion pale in comparison to our task.
D:Day7.1 the idea of only now coming to acceptance imply but that you were  previously unaccepting? And what does being unaccepting imply but the
D:Day15.5  Previously, what you did not observe, or see, was not real to you.
D:Day17.4 is all about. An approach to knowing, which was called learning, was  previously the predominant approach. As this approach became more and
D:Day19.13 imagination, create the new by means other than doing, open a way  previously unknown, and as all forerunners do, anchor that way within
D:Day20.4 for surely you have been told much here that you did not  previously know. This isn’t quite accurate however. What has happened
D:Day22.5 as a passage to take into consideration. This we have spoken of  previously as your access to union—as a place or state of
D:Day28.17 the same time however, what is within has been based upon what was  previously externalized. This is what now must change, and as can be
D:Day35.9 that is needed is that you carry them within you in the way we have  previously spoken of carrying. Carry them as a pregnant woman carries

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C:20.40 not so that causes judgment. All who believe they have “more” fall  prey to righteousness. All who believe they have “less” fall victim

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C:1.10 to offer to your ego. This gift your ego demands is not worth the  price you pay. The price of this gift is everything.
C:1.10 ego. This gift your ego demands is not worth the price you pay. The  price of this gift is everything.
C:3.20 Must pain accompany love and loss? Is this the  price you pay, you ask, for opening up your heart? And yet, should
C:4.12 blindness and self-sacrifice is something to be gained at too high a  price, that devotion you might think is fine for one whose partner is
C:9.43 this is illusion, it is the illusion that is sought. The purchase  price is usefulness. And so each joining is seen as a bartering in
T3:20.18 world. Its mere existence will attract others and each will find the  price of admission is their willingness to leave the old behind. This
T3:20.18 of admission is their willingness to leave the old behind. This is a  price they must freely give and it cannot be extorted from them, not
D:Day3.13 truly free. Not you, and not your gifts. Everything coming with a  price. Abundance comes, even to those gifted, only through the
D:Day4.46 to exist. It will mean peace, certainty, safety, and joy with no  price.

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C:P.44 the mind that so betray you. We take a step away from intellect, the  pride of the ego, and approach this final learning through the realm
C:1.9 It is the desire to find your way on your own so that you can take  pride in your accomplishment, as if by following another’s map the
C:1.9 This wanting to do things on your own is a trick of the ego, your  pride a gift the ego demands. These are the magic thoughts that
C:1.10 frustration. All your seeming success from this effort brings you is  pride to offer to your ego. This gift your ego demands is not worth
C:2.19 you made for it, it slowly dies. Until this happens, the ego takes  pride in what the mind has acquired, even unto the greater peace and
C:14.6 in it, then you must believe in a god who is insane. You—who  pride yourself on reason and practicality—think if a creation such
C:14.15 stems from something other than fear. You might call this desire  pride or security, or even accept that it is vanity, before you would
T1:9.13 level or at the intellectual level? Were your feelings hurt or your  pride? Your feelings called into question or your ideas? And what
T1:9.15 One first reaction might be to puff oneself up with  pride, bolster one’s position, think one’s way through, argue,
T4:8.16 so that you can come to this completion and enjoy this certainty and  pride that at least you know all there is to know about this one

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C:4.12 the other’s happiness, or a father whose love is unconditional, or a  priest or minister who guides unfailingly. For each or any one of
T3:21.22 In other words, it will matter not that there will be no  priest or guru for those who seek the truth to turn to. It will
T4:12.12 who was questioning the state of contentment. She quoted a learned  priest and scholar who spoke of how he knew, as soon as he was
D:2.5 endpoint. When the education of a doctor, teacher, scientist,  priest, or engineer is completed, it is time for the student to claim
D:2.5 to claim a new identity—that of doctor, teacher, scientist,  priest or engineer—and to begin to live that new identity. To

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C:22.20 making it less intimate. It will seem as if you are shirking some  primal responsibility to assign meaning to everything. Rather than
C:26.3 nothing gained,” is an axiom for such lives. Fear of the “fall” is a  primal fear, the first fear, the fear behind all such axioms.

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C:21.5 of mind and heart that produces right action currently occurs  primarily in crisis situations because of a lack of shared language.
T4:6.7 have been great, but they did not sustain Christ-consciousness,  primarily because they were unable to share Christ-consciousness
D:Day16.15 and hell. This became your world, which slowly grew from a world  primarily made up of paradise and love, to a world primarily made up
D:Day16.15 grew from 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
D:Day35.21 but you are also aware of the role you have had in your own life,  primarily as you have reached maturity and begun to make choices.

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C:7.5 thought constitutes a thought system in and of itself, for it is the  primary thought by which you live your life. Your effort goes into
C:23.12 exercises to alter your belief in form. This is consistent with our  primary focus on learning from the heart. The mind goes from the
T3:22.1 to do with what you have learned, chances are that this is still the  primary question in your mind and heart. While you may be beginning
D:8.4 than your body, your natural talent or ability has been one of the  primary factors leading to this realization. It has been one of the
D:8.4 primary factors leading to this realization. It has been one of the  primary factors leading to this realization because a part of you has
D:12.13 One of the  primary ideas that will assist you in leaving patterns of thinking
D:15.17 It is not often thought of as a lasting measure, which is the  primary difference between the idea of maintenance and the idea of
D:Day4.21 feeling of being misled is another cause of your anger—one of the  primary causes, in truth. Not only has all that you have learned led
D:Day19.12 The fear of losing the self is still the  primary fear, even among those who have never found the self. They

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C:22.3 A  prime image of this idea is provided by the axis. A line passes

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C:19.17 you view as His singularity. You view those who worship many gods as  primitive, although those who believe in a god synonymous with

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C:31.14 you have to share your Self. What you keep you lose. This is the  principle of giving and receiving that, being finally and totally
D:15.2 The first  principle of creation is that of movement. Rigor mortis, or the
D:15.2 of movement. Thus these are excellent examples to illustrate the  principle of movement as life itself, the idea of lack of movement as
D:15.4 The second  principle of creation, then, is that being is. It is what is and it
D:15.5 Life is movement through the force of expression. The third  principle of creation is thus expression.
D:15.6 These are not, however, separate principles, but a single unifying  principle of wholeness: Movement, being, expression. One did not
D:15.6 principles of unity must be seen as the undivided wholeness of the  principle of unity before creation of the new can begin.
D:16.6 Course that being is as love is. Here you are told that being is a  principle of creation and you are not told that love is a principle
D:16.6 being is a principle of creation and you are not told that love is a  principle of creation. Love is not a principle any more than it is an
D:16.6 you are not told that love is a principle of creation. Love is not a  principle any more than it is an attribute. This is because love

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D:15.1 not be the same in the future as it is now. But there are certain  principles that govern creation. These principles are like unto the
D:15.1 is now. But there are certain principles that govern creation. These  principles are like unto the patterns that were created for your time
D:15.6 These are not, however, separate  principles, but a single unifying principle of wholeness: Movement,
D:15.6 to move before there was being? This is the way the mind looks at  principles, one coming after the other and building upon each other.
D:15.6 upon each other. This is not the way of creation, which is why these  principles of unity must be seen as the undivided wholeness of the
D:15.9 I repeat this story not as fact, or to still any doubts about these  principles of creation, but to give you an example that is easily
D:15.9 that is easily understood, an example of the way in which these  principles work together. What I have left out of this story, the
D:16.4 It is a perceived state. It is a state in which the unified  principles of creation are seen to be taking place as separate steps.
D:16.4 steps. This is so because of the condition of time. Once these  principles are unified, time will have ended just as time was once
D:16.5 The unified  principles of creation, once unified within each of us, bring light
D:16.8 of form. The way of that extension was the way of the unified  principles of creation, the way of movement, being, and expression.
D:16.10 because you are not yet whole. When you are whole, creation’s  principles will be what you do and what you are rather than what is
D:16.11 And yet giving and receiving are one in truth. All of the  principles of creation are in accord with this truth, and thus these
D:16.11 in form, you were expressing. It would be impossible for these  principles of creation not to be constantly occurring in everything

print (1)

T2:1.9 invite friends and family to gather round. A writer sees a book in  print, a runner wins a race, a tennis player becomes a champion.

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T3:12.5 Realize that  prior to this point, our goal was returning to your awareness the
T3:15.5 that nothing has really changed. A student who failed to learn the  prior year, while eager and confident in being able to succeed in the
D:8.3 you containing a natural ability or talent that existed in some form  prior to the time of learning. We concentrate on this idea merely as
D:8.3 grow in you that you have experienced something that existed  prior to the time of learning. And that this something was quite
D:8.4 You might think of this ability that existed  prior to the time of learning as coming from the content of the wider
D:9.12 Like the natural abilities you discovered existed within you  prior to the time of learning, ideas are also discoveries that you
D:10.7 is about acceptance of your true way of knowing, a way that existed  prior to the time of learning and that has always existed. When put
D:Day10.19 form of the consciousness of the man I once was because you were,  prior to this point, unready to give up image for presence, the

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C:10.19 of the thought system of the separated self. Happiness is not a  priority here, but being right is quite important to it. It would

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C:16.4 more than the judgment that condemns a body to death or to “life” in  prison.
C:16.5 Life in  prison and a body condemned to death is what judgment does to all of
D:4.3 this idea to be accepted, for if it is not, you will remain in the  prison you have created.
D:4.4  Prison is an excellent example of a system you created with your
D:4.5 disregard any idea you may have of there being those who deserve the  prison system you have developed and any arguments you would cite
D:4.5 you would cite about the heinous crimes of some. Think instead of  prison simply becoming a way of life for those who are incarcerated
D:4.5 who have entered Christ-consciousness has had the cell door and the  prison gate thrown open and a new world offered. If you do not
D:4.6 are living as who you are and are doing what you love, you are in  prison. This prison is as much of your own making as are the actual
D:4.6 as who you are and are doing what you love, you are in prison. This  prison is as much of your own making as are the actual prison systems
D:4.6 prison. This prison is as much of your own making as are the actual  prison systems that developed when shape and form was given to what
D:4.7 Just as an actual prisoner, when released from  prison, must adjust to a life in which his or her actions are no
D:4.7 your new freedom. Your life has been artificially restricted by the  prison you have created of it, and the actual prison system merely
D:4.7 restricted by the prison you have created of it, and the actual  prison system merely mirrors this restriction on a grand scale for
D:4.7 a grand scale for all to see and look upon with dread. For most, the  prison system is a very successful deterrent. The thought of time in
D:4.7 prison system is a very successful deterrent. The thought of time in  prison fills the mind with fear. And yet those who are imprisoned
D:4.7 fear. And yet those who are imprisoned often become so acclimated to  prison life, that life on the “outside” is no longer seen as
D:4.8 but let it do so. Even those who actually are incarcerated in the  prison system you have made are free to follow an internally
D:4.9 Your  prison was created by the separated thoughts of the separated thought
D:4.20 This place and this way begins at the  prison doors, begins, as we said earlier, with acceptance of the new
D:4.20 acceptance of the new and denial of the old. Turn your back on the  prison of your former existence and do not look at it again. Do not
D:4.22 may soon come to feel the three meals a day provided in the  prison were gifts indeed. So too are the gifts many of you have
D:4.23 parameters? Everything. You cannot deny the old and remain in the  prison of the old. You have asked, and because you have asked I am
D:4.25 We cannot build the new upon  prison walls of old. Whatever imprisons you must now be left behind.
D:4.26 you have so longed to hear, protest no more. You cannot keep your  prison and have the new life that you long to have. You may have to
D:4.26 you are so sturdy and so long barred that they may as well be  prison walls. You may even be a prisoner in truth, and wonder how,
D:4.30 accept the coming of your release, and prepare to leave your  prison behind. Invite this simply by inviting what brings you joy.
D:5.17 bear to wait another day, another hour. You want release from your  prison now, and so you should.
D:5.18 in some ways to have literally died and been released from the  prison of the body, the prison of the Earth and your immediate
D:5.18 literally died and been released from the prison of the body, the  prison of the Earth and your immediate environment, the prison of
D:5.18 body, the prison of the Earth and your immediate environment, the  prison of your mind and the thoughts that so confuse you, the prison
D:5.18 the prison of your mind and the thoughts that so confuse you, the  prison of past and future and a now that isn’t changing fast enough
D:5.20 What I’m revealing to you here is that what was once a  prison may no longer be a prison! If you continue to think of your
D:5.20 to you here is that what was once a prison may no longer be a  prison! If you continue to think of your body as a prison, if you
D:5.20 no longer be a prison! If you continue to think of your body as a  prison, if you continue to think of your environment, your mind, and
D:5.20 you continue to think of your environment, your mind, and time as a  prison, how can it exist in perfect harmony with the universe? As you

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D:4.21 just as you would have had you literally spent your life within a  prison’s walls. Breathe the sweet air of freedom. Be aware constantly

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C:I.3 The mind will speak of love and yet hold the heart  prisoner to its new rules, new laws, and still say “this is right”
D:4.7 Just as an actual  prisoner, when released from prison, must adjust to a life in which
D:4.20 you anew what to do with who you are now that you are no longer a  prisoner. Do not give keys to a new jailer and ask to be taken care
D:4.26 long barred that they may as well be prison walls. You may even be a  prisoner in truth, and wonder how, save a grand escape, you can

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C:31.2 the idea of sharing one mind. Your thoughts, you feel, are your own,  private and sacrosanct. These highly guarded and regarded thoughts
C:31.11 Thus, the upside-down perception that causes you to protect your  private thoughts and see them as the seat of yourself calls for the
C:31.15 All that you would keep  private and unshared is, in essence, who you think you are. I say who
T3:1.11 a future self. The greatest distinction of all was that between the  private self and the public self, as if who you were to yourself and
T3:22.1 evidence that you will no longer be allowed the “separate” life, or  private life that you have lived.

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C:28.10 you seek validation. Each validation is seen and felt as a reward, a  prize, a confirmation that you believe allows your conviction to
C:32.2 one aspect of creation with all the rest that the difference you so  prize as your uniqueness exists. And only there. Only in relationship

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C:19.17 on the other hand, when only one of anything exists it is highly  prized. God is thus “God” due, at least in part, to what you view as
C:26.6 Do you feel beautiful and  prized and worthy? Then so shall you be.
C:31.1 independence, something you consider a state of being to be highly  prized. This statement, however, more rightly confirms your
T1:4.17 means is that you are an independent thinker, something you have  prized. Some of you will accept another’s interpretation of meaning

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C:4.15 with praise and gifts, with attention never wavering. Another who  prizes independence seeks a partner in good health, not too

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C:8.11 you prefer instead of union a game of speculation, conjecture, and  probable cause. You look for explanations and information rather than
T4:5.9 will does not make the impossible possible. It makes the possible  probable. It is thus probable that you will use your free will in
T4:5.9 the impossible possible. It makes the possible probable. It is thus  probable that you will use your free will in order to be who you are.
T4:6.1 and collectively with the consciousness that is us, that creates  probable futures rather than guaranteed futures.
T4:6.4 of Christ, this time of direct revelation and direct sharing, the  probable future you imagine, envision, desire, will be what you
D:Day35.16 of opposites becoming one and wholeness becoming actual rather than  probable. Wholeness is actual. All that is left to be created is

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D:Day21.1 The first transition, as you have  probably already realized, is about a letting-go of any of the ideas
D:Day28.14 is that of God determining the circumstances of your life, you have  probably been more affected by the relationships of life, by loss or

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C:P.39 at best three-dimensional nature of your seeing is the nature of the  problem. If you cannot see yourself “other than” as man or woman
C:1.11 own creator that has caused all your problems. This is the authority  problem. It is pervasive in the life of your physical form and in the
C:8.10 the surface of a situation is all that is seen, the surface of a  problem all that is recognized, the surface of a relationship all
C:8.10 the surface to find causes, motivations, or reasons for a situation,  problem, or relationship. Often this search is called seeking for the
C:8.11 the truth, and for other objectives as well. You would like to be a  problem solver, a person who could, as in a court of law, separate
C:9.13 they are. This could be used as a capsule definition of your entire  problem: You do not allow anything that exists in your world,
C:10.12 that there is more to you than flesh and bones. Belief is not your  problem. Understanding is. While you believe in God, you do not
C:12.1 The word love is part of your  problem with this Course. If I were to take the word love and change
C:14.27 This is the  problem compounded in your “special” love relationships of having
C:15.11 truth or illusion? You cannot be loyal to both, and herein lies your  problem. For at the turning point you look back and see one other you
C:18.1 rather than a story of an actual event, a story that describes the  problem. It is but the story of perception’s birth. And your
C:19.1 device, and as a learning device it was perfectly created. The  problem lies in what you have, in your forgetfulness, made of the
C:19.18 It is clear you can ask for what you know not. This is not the  problem. The problem is in who is doing the asking. The separated
C:19.18 you can ask for what you know not. This is not the problem. The  problem is in who is doing the asking. The separated self, while
C:21.7 reason as well, although this conflict has at its root the  problem of language as determined by perception. This is a problem of
C:21.7 root the problem of language as determined by perception. This is a  problem of meaning. Mind and heart interpret meaning in different
C:25.5 when you can undeniably feel each and every absence of love? The  problem is in the perceiver rather than the perceived. Each time you
T3:3.9 into being good enough. Like a person who believes she has a weight  problem and knows a diet would be “good” for her, the diet is often
D:11.5 of you. And so your mighty thoughts have turned their focus on this  problem and attacked it as they attack all problems to be solved. The
D:13.6 being able to sustain Christ consciousness, this will no longer be a  problem because you will constantly abide in awareness of the
D:Day4.18 The  problem with this throughout the centuries has been a tendency to
D:Day37.11 previous number returns it to its original value. Think further of a  problem in division that results in something left undivided,
A.31 which may be strong during this time, to “figure things out.”  Problem solving is to be discouraged. Trust is to be encouraged.

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C:1.11 desire to make of yourself your own creator that has caused all your  problems. This is the authority problem. It is pervasive in the life
C:8.6 with a heaviness you label anger or a sting you would call shame.  Problems that mount up and seem too much to bear can cause what you
C:9.18 if you but learn to see relationship differently. As with all your  problems in perception, fear is what blocks the vision of your heart,
C:9.23 Is this not your way of solving all the  problems that you face? You see what you do not want and try to
C:19.1 perfect device from which you could experience separation, all such  problems were anticipated and corrective devices created alongside
C:21.5 little communication and much misunderstanding. Occasionally the  problems associated with a lack of a common language have been set
T4:10.3 exactly what it has been—a means of learning. You have encountered  problems and wondered what lessons they have come to teach you. You
T4:10.3 have viewed yourself as the learner. You may not have studied your  problems, illness, your past, your dreams, or art and music as you
D:11.1 art of thought, but of the use of thought. You use thought to solve  problems, apply thought to intellectual puzzles, focus your thoughts
D:11.5 their focus on this problem and attacked it as they attack all  problems to be solved. The idea of making a contribution has begun to
D:14.6 situations. They can circumvent the labeling of many situations as  problems or crises. They can leave the way open for revelation.
D:Day3.22 and few of you truly think that money would not solve most of your  problems. Even those of you on this spiritual path think money is

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C:P.29 one real world while heaven waits just beyond their willingness to  proceed.
C:4.8 decision. Your decision, couched in many forms, is simply this: to  proceed toward love or to withdraw from it, to believe it is given or
C:5.27 You do want little, and only when you realize this can you  proceed to claiming everything that is yours.
C:10.10 choose here are as dust to those you will become aware of as you  proceed.
C:10.30 What you will be feeling as you  proceed is the feeling of the tunnel vision of the separated self
C:12.22 which had already been written. Yet this participation could not but  proceed from the original idea and could not proceed in reality but
C:12.22 could not but proceed from the original idea and could not  proceed in reality but only in the external aspect of life that
C:18.16 but a mind in which love rules, and mind and heart are one. We will  proceed by calling this wholeheartedness rather than mind or heart.
T2:7.12 To  proceed into each relationship as who you truly are is to bring
T2:10.13 is, as was stated previously, the first union, the union that must  proceed all the rest. You are in a state of unity when you have
T3:4.8 Now the choice is before you to do one of two things: to  proceed toward love or fear. If you proceed with fear you will
T3:4.8 you to do one of two things: to proceed toward love or fear. If you  proceed with fear you will assemble a new ego-self, an ego-self that
T3:4.8 to the old, but which will nonetheless still be an ego-self. If you  proceed with love, you will come to know your Christ-Self.
T3:11.10 This is an important distinction that must be kept in mind as we  proceed so that you are not tempted to judge those living in illusion
T3:13.1 that will allow you to exist as who you are in human form, we may  proceed unencumbered by any doubt you might have had concerning
T3:13.2 We  proceed by further defining the temptations of the human experience.
T4:2.7 But before we can  proceed forward, I must return to and dispel any illusion you may
T4:2.8 I belabor this point because you literally cannot  proceed to full awareness while ideas such as more and better remain
T4:2.10 is an idea that is not consistent with the idea of unity. If you  proceed into this new time thinking that this new time will separate
T4:12.19 sisters. I know that you will experience times of not knowing how to  proceed. I know that you will occasionally have setbacks and choose
T4:12.34 like God, is not “other than” who you are? How could creation  proceed on to the new without you?
D:3.1 The Covenant of the New is simply our agreement to  proceed together on the palm-strewn path of Christ-consciousness. It
D:3.19 my Self was eternal. One of the major things we will be seeing as we  proceed is the difference between form and content and the difference
D:4.26 be a prisoner in truth, and wonder how, save a grand escape, you can  proceed. But I tell you truthfully, your release is at hand and it
D:5.9 design. True seeing facilitates the return to what is and we but  proceed from this starting point.
D:5.19 We return the form you occupy to its natural state. Only then can we  proceed to creation of the new. Because Christ-consciousness is
D:7.25 of fear we leave behind as we abandon ideas of evolution in time and  proceed to an awareness of how the elevated Self of form can replace
D:15.16 and sustained. Let us begin with the idea of maintenance and  proceed to the idea of sustenance.
D:Day3.6 issue being finally discussed; but be aware of your feelings as we  proceed, for I tell you truly, here is where your greatest anger, and
D:Day9.20 use of these terms is not a cause for predetermination that we can  proceed. For if you believe that we are proceeding to some
D:Day10.24 in this way, is an exchange and will only become more so as we  proceed. I am not imparting wisdom that you are unaware of but
D:Day35.12 can be created only in this way. A new world can only be created. To  proceed relying upon anything other than your power to create would
A.44 they are being in unity and relationship, creation of the new will  proceed and wholeness and healing renew the world in which you live.

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C:12.24 yet Creation itself. The Son and Holy Spirit, like unto Creation,  proceeded from the starting point of God. God is the Son and Holy
C:17.14 no judgment and no fear, and so it is the repository of all that has  proceeded from love. There it keeps all love’s gifts safe for you.
C:17.14 yours and has become part of the whole along with you. All that has  proceeded from fear is nothing, and has no existence apart from your
T4:3.5 intent was so complete that each life has begun with fear and  proceeded from this beginning continually reacting to fear. While the
D:Day36.5 to be—the self you considered immutable and unchangeable—and  proceeded from there. Yet you created in response to “reality” rather

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C:12.20 idea. Just as we discussed your desire to protect or to control  proceeding from the concept of fear, and realized that without fear
D:Day9.20 predetermination that we can proceed. For if you believe that we are  proceeding to some predetermined ideal state, we will not succeed in
D:Day32.7 presents the concept of something being begun and then turned loose,  proceeding from its beginnings under scientific or natural laws.

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C:9.15 what is first encountered is fear, it is from fear that all the rest  proceeds. Surely it is easy to see that neither the desire to control
C:14.24 what it is to you. And as each purpose you have ascribed to anything  proceeds from the foundation of fear that built your world, each
C:17.12 See you now why those who judge cannot enter heaven? Judgment  proceeds from the belief in sin and the irreversibility of all
T3:14.13 of the consequences of blame and how you are unaware of all that  proceeds from the idea of blame, so too is it with the past. Like a
D:5.17 answering the questions that remain and that occur as this dialogue  proceeds. What I am attempting to answer now is your confusion
D:14.15 with awareness of what is beyond body and mind, form and time. It  proceeds to this awareness being accepted, adopted as an ability, and
D:14.15 adopted as an ability, and then to becoming your new identity. It  proceeds to the transformation we have spoken of, to the act of
D:Day1.25 chain of events, so too is the story of creation. As history  proceeds with gaps only waiting to be fulfilled in current time, so

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C:2.9 The insanity of your thought  process and the world you perceive must be made known to you before
C:2.16 the other. You believe that to know with your mind is a learning  process that stands apart from all else that you are. Thus you can
C:3.10 believe your mind is in control of what it thinks. You believe in a  process of input and output, all completely human and scientifically
C:3.14 of the brain, for we bypass it now and send it no information to  process, no data for it to compute. The only change in thinking you
C:8.3 from one step, or one level of learning, to another. This is more a  process of remembering than learning, and this you will understand as
C:23.23 your beliefs, you must unlearn your beliefs. As you begin the  process of unlearning you may feel tested. You are not being tested
C:23.26 to your beliefs? If you do not remember that you are involved in a  process of unlearning that will lead to the conviction you have so
C:23.27 learning both. Control opposes openness. Mastery comes through the  process of both unlearning and learning anew. This is but another way
C:23.28 Looked at in another way, this  process has much in common with forgiveness. The action associated
C:23.28 It is an undoing accompanied by a new means of doing. In the  process of unlearning, both forgiveness and atonement occur. You
C:23.29 into beliefs. Only your own life experiences will reverse the  process.
C:25.22 and choices are made by relying upon the very lessons you are in the  process of unlearning. At the same time, however, decisions and
C:25.23 have received is correct, you will soon learn to trust this quiet  process of discernment. You will know you have succeeded when you
C:28.3 about. This, however, is not about evolutionary steps, and so a  process intent upon bringing the collective to a fever pitch of
T2:4.5 continue to “bump in” to who you think you are as you complete the  process of unlearning. It might be best explained by continuing with
T2:4.16 You are in the  process of unmaking what you have made. The old structure is coming
T2:4.17 This  process too is union for it is giving and receiving as one although
T2:4.17 receiving as one although you recognize it not as such. It is not a  process of waiting until one thing is accomplished for another to
T2:6.2 of time you but place upon your thinking, you will advance this  process and more quickly bring about the end of the pattern of
T2:10.12 not learn because the “you” that will be involved in the learning  process will not be the real you.
T3:1.9 This change that is in the  process of coming about has to do with awareness. When you become
T3:6.4 that God is not a God of vengeance but that you are still in the  process of learning that your Self is not vengeful. The ego has given
T3:10.8 While much the same as forgetting it will seem to have a different  process in practice. This is the practice of ceasing to listen to the
T3:10.8 messages and so must, like all the rest, be forgotten. The  process of forgetting these thought patterns will be only slightly
T3:17.5 the physical realm, to have begun to forget the unobservable began a  process of unlearning or forgetting of the truth that has led,
T3:22.5 you need to be aware, are functions of the pattern of the planning  process that once so ruled your mind. To be willing to receive
T4:1.4 of the world’s religions are but related to this idea of choosing, a  process of the free will with which you all are endowed.
T4:1.14 seem to lie in the laws of evolution, the slow learning and adaptive  process of man. Surely this would seem a likely answer and one to
T4:2.4 There was no Way or path or  process back to God and Self before me. It was the time of man
T4:2.8 carried forward with you and when you continue to believe in a  process of evolution that has made you better than those who came
T4:2.33 vision of Christ-consciousness is already upon you. You are in the  process of learning what it means. This Treatise is here to help you
T4:8.5 materialized and dematerialized in natural cycles of the creation  process that once begun was unending and thus was ever creating anew.
T4:8.7 you could “do” with the human body, you can imagine the learning  process that ensued. If your reality had been like unto the reality
T4:8.7 were loving acts within a loving universe, a love-filled learning  process. A learning process that was as known to you and chosen by
T4:8.7 within a loving universe, a love-filled learning process. A learning  process that was as known to you and chosen by you as it was by God,
T4:12.27 are speaking of when we talk of patterns. There was a pattern to the  process of learning that was shared by all learners and inherent to
D:10.2 of knowledge that was gained in the time of learning, through the  process of learning. Notice the inability of teaching or learning to
D:16.12 presence. It is upon you as we speak. It is not a learned state or  process and it should not be seen as a cause for disappointment.
D:16.13 world. The new you is the elevated Self of form who you are in the  process of becoming. This time of becoming is the time in between
D:Day3.39 unity. You perhaps desired an answer that “came to you” through no  process you had known before. We spoke of this as thoughts you did
D:Day3.51 The final stage in this  process, this movement toward acceptance, is depression, a lowering
D:Day6.7 the piece of music might be shared with others at each step of the  process, or only late in its development. But at some point, the
D:Day6.11 that is union. You are in and within the movement of the creative  process where there is no distinction between Creator and created.
D:Day6.13 —the simple truth that you are having to go about this creative  process while remaining embroiled in daily life—I want to
D:Day7.14 not an “if this, then that” situation even if it may seem so. Is the  process of breathing an “if this, then that” situation, just because
D:Day9.12 an image in your mind, and maybe even within your heart, through the  process of learning. It arose from the learning of right from wrong,
D:Day15.16 This is a very “individual” stage in the creative  process. “Group think” does not replace the consciousness of the One
D:Day15.26 while focusing on your own purpose in being here, will begin a new  process of individuation. The distinctness of your own path will be
D:Day16.7 are and thus in accord with the universe. The reintegration is the  process through which you discover this proof, proof of the
D:Day18.2 for the birth of the new and in truth symbolizes it in form and  process. As within, so without. Mary represents the relationship that
D:Day22.5 through your self of form. It is clear, when looked at in terms of  process, that there is no intermediary function involved in
D:Day29.5 and yet always existing within you, has been a part of the  process that has allowed you access to two levels of experience. It
D:Day29.6 Your familiarity with your spacious self has also been part of the  process and part of the experience of merging wholeness and
D:Day30.1 is simply that which yields to wholeness. This yielding is a natural  process. To yield is to give up, surrender, but also to produce and
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 common denominator is
D:Day39.46 you enter union that the tension of opposites is the individuation  process and that you are the bridge. You are the bridge to me. I am
D:Day40.8 tension of individuation or the individuation and differentiation  process.
D:Day40.9 This tension, or  process, is not bad. There is nothing wrong with this individuation
D:Day40.9 process, is not bad. There is nothing wrong with this individuation  process or the creative tension that has been in existence since the
D:Day40.11 As was said earlier, this was meant to provide for the individuation  process rather than the process of separation. In being God, I Am. In
D:Day40.11 was meant to provide for the individuation process rather than the  process of separation. In being God, I Am. In being love there is no
A.15 more appropriate than the sharing of interpretation. The sharing of  process is more appropriate than the sharing of outcome. Facilitators

processes (7)

T2:4.15 You must be beginning to see that your thought  processes, the very thought processes that tell you hour-by-hour and
T2:4.15 be beginning to see that your thought processes, the very thought  processes that tell you hour-by-hour and minute-by-minute how to
T3:10.4 Taking away the idea of placing blame will change your thought  processes beyond your wildest imagining. You will be surprised at how
T3:17.2 Science still has a long way to go in determining, through its  processes, what this says about the nature of humankind but it is
T4:12.23 of this as something which, were it integrated into the thought  processes of the singular brain, would cause brain damage, because it
E.23 between being and becoming if you are not vigilant of your thought  processes. This will not take long, however, to overcome, for once
E.23 you will not desire to turn back, not even for the familiar thought  processes that, although they have bedeviled you, you have held dear.

proclaim (4)

C:14.2 You seek to be different from all the rest, and in this seeking  proclaim that one part of creation is better than another part. You
C:19.11 you can still revisit them and see that this is so. I did not  proclaim myself to be above or different from the rest, but called
D:13.1 adamant in the proclamation of what you know. But this desire to  proclaim what you know will grow in you, and while you will not be
D:Day39.42 with love has never been severed. Realize your readiness.  Proclaim your willingness.

proclaimed (1)

T1:8.1 I was  proclaimed to be the Word incarnate, the union of the human and the

proclaiming (1)

D:Day37.8 demanding that the mind send the body the signals it needs while  proclaiming their separation.

proclamation (1)

D:13.1 in discounting what you know rather than in being adamant in the  proclamation of what you know. But this desire to proclaim what you

prod (1)

D:Day24.6 impossible. It is the nature of spirit to become. Its wings poke and  prod from within as its potential is triggered. Only with release

prodigal (5)

C:9.29 You are the  prodigal sons and daughters welcomed constantly to return home to
T2:8.6 path now is sure and its final acceptance necessary. You are the  prodigal sons and daughters who have returned home. Your stay is not
T3:2.12 the family of God, as well as to our discussion of the return of the  prodigal sons and daughters of God. This discussion may have seemed
D:Day4.55 Think a moment of the story of the  prodigal son. All that the prodigal son was asked to do was to accept
D:Day4.55 Think a moment of the story of the prodigal son. All that the  prodigal son was asked to do was to accept his own homecoming. Do you

produce (8)

C:P.27 than the nature of man. God does not have physical form and does not  produce physical offspring. God does, however, have a son, a child,
C:4.17 you give and what you are given back. You hope your hard work will  produce results, the dinner you prepared be eaten with delight, your
T1:6.2 and recollecting a divine memory and divine memory cannot help but  produce a divine outcome. Said in another way, prayer reproduces the
T3:11.15 that what was made for your use can be used in a new way and to  produce a new outcome. Do not be afraid to use anything available
T4:2.18 this shared vision, this observation of what is, can you begin to  produce unity and relationship through unity and relationship.
T4:2.33 Remember, only from a shared vision of what is can you begin to  produce unity and relationship through unity and relationship. This
D:5.7 regardless of emotional attachment or non-attachment, still would  produce the desired effect of creating desire for oneness if you
D:Day30.1 is a natural process. To yield is to give up, surrender, but also to  produce and bear fruit.

produced (10)

T1:2.1 A break in time was needed for you to disengage the ego-mind that  produced the type of thinking that needs to come to an end. This
T3:13.14 Self as your physical self represents, in form, the thought or image  produced within the Self. Ideas, in the context in which we are
T4:8.5 its time of fullness. Creation on the scale at which God creates  produced the universe, or in actuality, many universes. These
T4:10.8 end are one, cause and effect the same. Thus this applied learning  produced things and perceived meaning.
T4:10.9 are one, cause and effect the same. Thus this accomplished learning  produced unity and relationship through unity and relationship with
D:Day15.6 those forms have been perceived as real. That observation  produced the solidity and mass of the forms you observed. Yet it is
D:Day32.6 could know him- or herself through observation of the children they  produced?
D:Day35.16 Creation has  produced life through union and relationship. Humankind’s unawareness
D:Day35.16 unawareness of the union and relationship in which it exists has  produced the idea of separation, while at the same time, humankind’s
D:Day35.16 while at the same time, humankind’s desire for separation  produced unawareness of union and relationship. Now humankind’s

produces (3)

C:19.12 not be total, however, without the reunion of mind and heart that  produces the state of wholeheartedness. This state was not achieved
C:21.5 is the place of no division. The unification of mind and heart that  produces right action currently occurs primarily in crisis situations
D:Day22.6 function is the same because no one expression of this same function  produces the same results. No one who is in union with God is in

producing (2)

T4:10.7 What we work toward now is to advance from learning and  producing things and perceived meaning, to producing unity and
T4:10.7 advance from learning and producing things and perceived meaning, to  producing unity and relationship through unity and relationship.

product (15)

C:31.3 of the impossible being possible. Like the fear of death, it is the  product of upside-down thinking.
T1:2.2 to effort, to control and protection, can all now be seen as the  product of the thoughts of your ego-mind.
T2:1.10 Thinking without form is a harbinger of unity. Form is a  product of the separation. Thought “forms” are the product of the
T2:1.10 unity. Form is a product of the separation. Thought “forms” are the  product of the separation. Unity is not a place or a thing but the
T3:22.15 a loss of any kind. The creative tension existed not only as a  product of the duality of time, but also as a product of distrust. It
T3:22.15 existed not only as a product of the duality of time, but also as a  product of distrust. It was a tension that existed between desire and
D:12.1 mind. You believe thoughts exist in your mind and are themselves the  product of your brain, which lies within your body. Since it is
D:Day3.5 of anger is that no matter where anger seems to arise, anger is a  product of the condition of learning. It always was, but now this is
D:Day4.9 to all in like measure. The conformity of learning, however, is the  product of an externalized system. That you all attempt to learn the
D:Day4.30 try to impose on all that is natural. Your thinking, since it is a  product of learning, does nothing but attempt to learn or teach.
D:Day8.26 The very idea of potential, you may recall, is a  product of the ego thought system that would keep your true Self
D:Day9.12 Realize now that your ideal image, no matter how it was formed, is a  product of the time of learning. It became an image in your mind, and
D:Day9.14 But this ideal image is as much a  product of illusion as have been all of your worldly goals.
D:Day9.28 All of these learning practices were the  product of false images of the way things—and you—should be! Can
D:Day31.6 All experience is a  product of knower and knowee. It is the One Self knowing itself as

production (4)

T4:2.6 The  production that has so long occupied you will now serve you as you
T4:2.6 you as you turn your productive and reproductive instincts to the  production and reproduction of relationship and union.
T4:10.6 The outcome of learning or what is studied is the  production of things and perceived meaning.
T4:10.10 state of union. From this recognition of unity and relationship the  production of unity and relationship and true meaning will be

productive (2)

C:22.7 and purpose are not apparent. Partnership is thus equated with  productive intersection rather than intersection itself.
T4:2.6 that has so long occupied you will now serve you as you turn your  productive and reproductive instincts to the production and

products (3)

C:15.1 no need for status at all. Beauty would be what it is and not what  products would make it. Without a desire for specialness, a person
C:15.1 Without a desire for specialness, a person would have no need for  products at all. Wealth would be the happy state of everyone, for
D:4.14 Systems of thought are both divinely inspired and  products of the separated self. The idea of giving and receiving as

profession (2)

C:23.9 in belief, and not only in religious beliefs. Ideology, politics,  profession unite people. “Parties” and “associations” are formed to
D:Day9.13 hard enough you would achieve a position of status within your  profession or material wealth, you have believed that if you work

professional (3)

T3:1.11 which an actor might portray. You saw nothing more amiss in being a  professional self in one instance and a social self in another, a
T3:21.13 it with beliefs. Many of you have a religious identity as well as a  professional identity. Many of you have political or philosophical
D:Day28.4 these choices include commitments to partnerships of a personal or  professional nature. For some these choices include marriage and

proficiency (1)

D:Day27.16 This is what you are beginning to do through your practice. Your  proficiency will change your experience, and your experience will

profit (1)

C:7.15 up in a position to withhold your intelligence from others lest they  profit from it. You want your intelligence known and recognized, but

profound (5)

T1:10.3 moved from your peace by the greatest of these experiences, the most  profound sorrow or the most all-encompassing joy, you will feel
T1:10.9 of you will have an experience you look back on, an experience of  profound joy or grief that also became an experience of profound
T1:10.9 of profound joy or grief that also became a