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Salvation is my only function here (Lesson 99). My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation (Lesson 100). In A Course in Miracles, forgiveness is not the recognition of errors followed by a magnanimous willingness to forget them. You stepped on my toe and it really hurts but I’m a good guy and IContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 115”

God, being Love, is also happiness (Lesson 103). I seek but what belongs to me in truth (Lesson 104). The commitment we make in our daily ACIM practice is to accept no substitute for love. Even if we are unsure what love is – even if we are lost with respect to it – evenContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 117”

God’s Will for me is perfect happiness (Lesson 101). I share God’s Will for happiness for me (Lesson 102). All our suffering arises from the confused idea that our will is somehow other than God’s, and can actually be in conflict with God. But reality is total and it admits no differences that can beContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 116”

The third review period in the ACIM workbook makes a couple of helpful observations about our practice of the lessons. First, it emphasizes that we are not to get overly-worked up about those times when we are unable to meet a specific practice session. Rituals are not our learning goal (W-pI.rIII.2:4). Indeed, allowing our practiceContinue reading “Reading A Course in Miracles: Workbook Review III”

To give and receive are one in truth. A Course in Miracles aims to teach its students how to see only what is the same and, critically, to see what is the same as one (W-pI.108.2:3). To see this way is a form of Vision, or knowledge, a state of mind that is so unifiedContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 108”

Truth will correct all errors in my mind. Errors and illusions are synonymous in A Course in Miracles. To perceive illusions is to mistake what one perceives – to be in error with respect to what it is and what it is for. Errors and illusions happen at the level of mind; the world ofContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 107”