Prayer is the greatest gift with which God blessed His Son at his creation. It was then what it is to become; the single voice Creator and creation share; the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son. Endless the harmony, and endless, too, the joyous concord of the love they give forever to each other.
Continue reading →View the contents list for the Manual for Teachers from A Course in Miracles. You will find a comprehensive list with links to all the chapters for you to explore and read. Discover the key ingredients that are displayed by Teachers, and Students, of the Course
Continue reading →When you are afraid of ANYTHING, you are acknowledging its power to hurt you. Remember that where your heart is, there is your treasure also. This means that you believe in what you VALUE. If you are AFRAID, you are VALUING WRONG. Human understanding will inevitably value wrong, and by endowing all human thoughts with equal power, will inevitably DESTROY peace.
Continue reading →This section is inserted here because it deals with a more fundamental misuse of knowledge, referred to in the Bible as the cause of the Fall (or Separation). There are several introductory remarks which are intended to make these explanations less fear-provoking.
Continue reading →You are involved in unconscious distortions which are producing a dense cover over miracle impulses and which make it hard for them to reach consciousness. The nature of any interpersonal relationship is limited or defined by what you want it to do. Relating is a way of achieving an outcome.
Continue reading →QUESTION: (Helen): Would you regard this communication as a kind of miracle? ANSWER: There is nothing special or surprising about this at all. The ONE thing that happened was the Universal Miracle which was the experience of intense love that you have felt.
Continue reading →The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite.
Continue reading →This preface was written in 1977, in response to many requests for a brief introduction to A Course in Miracles. The first two parts How It Came; What It Is Helen Schucman wrote herself; the final part What It Says was written by the process of inner dictation described in the Preface.
Continue reading →Words will mean little now. We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. The lessons which remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain and go to enter peace. Now we begin to reach the goal this course has set and find the end toward which our practicing was geared.
Continue reading →A theoretical foundation such as the text is necessary as a background to make these exercises meaningful. Yet it is the exercises which will make the goal possible. An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines which the course sets forth.
Continue reading →The Urtext differs from the standard Course in several important ways. This version is such a version and has been referenced to the First Edition to facilitate easy referencing when discussing parts with you in Study Groups and online. I hope you enjoy this online version and that it helps you to bring more peace, Love and gratitude into your life!
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