Category Archives: ACIM Daily Lessons

In general, review periods in A Course in Miracles are opportunities to go more deeply into our practice and more effectively ground our understanding of ACIM principles. These parts of the workbook can feel tedious or extraneous, but we skim them to our detriment. The Introduction to the second review period in the ACIM workbookContinue reading “Review Period II: ACIM Workbook”

The review periods in the workbook of A Course in Miracles (six in number) are essential components of the first part of the workbook. They’re also boring – we want to get on with awakening! – and one can easily be tempted to slight them. For reasons I’ll set forth, this is not a goodContinue reading “Review Periods in the ACIM Workbook”

I am not the victim of the world I see. Lesson 31 of A Course in Miracles is a declaration of freedom and spiritual autonomy. We are not captives of lived experience but rather creators. We are not victims because our invulnerability is the absence of attack both internally and externally. Life is peace andContinue reading “Setting Aside Little Gods: ACIM Lesson 31”

There is a fun exercise in some contemporary nondual circles that basically revolves around the following: instead of seeing space as what separates you from a distant object (a lamp, a bed, a star), try to see it as what connects you. This can be a powerful way of reframing one’s sense of separation, basicallyContinue reading “Rethinking Separation: ACIM Lesson 30”

We might reframe ACIM Daily Lesson 23 this way: if you want to know peace, then give up projection. Indeed, in a sense, this lesson encapsulates the whole function and thus our whole practice of A Course in Miracles. There is no point in lamenting the world. There is no point in trying to changeContinue reading “Lesson 23: ACIM in a Nutshell”

Forgiveness is the key to happiness. I want to talk a little about what can happen when we do the lessons of A Course in Miracles. There is a tendency to write or share about the lessons as if there is only one way to learn – using Lesson 121 as an example – thatContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 121”