ACIM
A Course in Miracles
I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Him who sent me.
I do not worry about what to say or what to do because He who sent me will direct me.
I am content to go wherever He wishes knowing He goes there with me.
I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.
It is very easy for me to imagine that "A Course in Miracles" will prove to be an extremely important and useful text ... as significant to the New Testament Bible as the New Testament Bible has proven to be to the Old Testament Bible.
From " A Course in Miracles", the following is a quote from chapter 7 entitled " The Gifts of the Kingdom". The last paragraph of section iv, entitled "Healing as the Recognition of Truth" reads as follows:
" Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, because that is where the laws of God operate truly, and they can operate only truly because they are the laws of truth. But seek this only, because you can find nothing else. There is nothing else. God is All in all in a very literal sense. All being is in Him Who is all being. You are therefore in Him since your being is His. Healing is a way of forgetting the sense of danger the ego has induced in you, by not recognizing its existence in your brother. This strengthens the Holy Spirit in both of you, because it is a refusal to acknowledge fear. Love needs only this invitation. It comes freely to all the Sonship, being what the Sonship is. By your awakening to it, you are merely forgetting what you are not. This enables you to remember what you are."
There are 6 sections to the complete works:
- Section I ...Preface
- Section II ... The Text
- Section III ... Workbook for Students
- Section IV ... Manual for Teachers
- Section V ... Psychotherapy
- Section VI ... Song of Prayer
All 6 sections can be purchased bundled in a great CD with spectacular search and analytical features. In case it is not yet clear, we enthusiastically recommend you commit to studying and living with this profound text. ACIM.org has recently added the complete text on their website. Unfettered access is completely free.
For those who are looking for options wrt meditation, Section III is a collection of 365 meditations (they ask that you do NOT more than one per day) which may resonate with you. I have worked through this section 5 times. Each time was different/better.
Out of curiosity (and with Loving enthusiasm), we went through the Text (first) section and noted all (36) of the passages in italics. We have presented them here with the hope of piquing your interest. The labels in the first column are our own. Page numbers are provided to enable you to explore the context of each. Would you consider meditating on one (or more)?
1.
Making the Right Choice
ACIM, Section I, page 10
Spirit is in a state of Grace forever.
Your reality is only Spirit.
Therefore you are in a state of grace forever.
2.
Casting out Fear
ACIM, Section I, page 14
Perfect Love casts out fear.
If fear exists
Then there is not perfect Love
But, Only perfect Love exists,
If there is fear,
It produces a state that does not exist.
3.
Healing
ACIM, Section I, page 28
I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Him Who sent me.
I do not have to worry
About what to say or what to do,
Because He who sent me will direct me.
I am content to be wherever He wishes
Knowing He goes there with me.
I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.
4.
No need to fear
ACIM, Section I, page 56
In this world you need not have tribulation
Because I have overcome the world.
That is why you should be of good cheer.
5.
Safety from temptation
ACIM, Section I, page 60
The Kingdom is perfectly united and perfectly protected,
And the ego will not prevail against it.
Amen
6.
Healer's Prayer
ACIM, Section I, page 72
Let me know this brother as I know myself.
7.
Reawakening
ACIM, Section I, page 73
Thoughts increase by being given away,
The more who believe in them,
The stronger they become.
Everything is an idea.
How then, can giving and losing be associated?
8.
Recommitment
ACIM, Section I, page 90
I do not feel guilty because the Holy Spirit can
and will undo all negative consequences
of my wrong decisions - if I but choose to let Him.
And I choose to let Him by allowing Him to choose for GOD for me.
9.
Love
ACIM, Section I, page 94
Teach only Love for that is what you are.
10.
Holy Lessons
ACIM, Section I, page 104
A. To have, give ALL to ALL
B. To have Peace, Teach Peace to learn it.
C. Be vigilant only for GOD and His Kingdom.
11.
Indwelling Truth
ACIM, Section I, page 163
Christ is in me,
And where He is, GOD must be,
For Christ is part of Him.
12.
Recognizing God in All
ACIM, Section I, page 166
Because I will to know myself,
I see you as God's Son and my brother.
13.
Choosing the Correct Guide
ACIM, Section I, page 173
By the fruits ye shall know them,
and they shall know themselves.
14.
Self Worth
ACIM, Section I, page 177
God himself is incomplete without me.
15.
Indwelling Truth
ACIM, Section I, page 203
All power is of God.
What is not of Him, has no power to do anything.
16.
Recognizing God in All
ACIM, Section I, page 212
Do I want the problem?
or
Do I want the solution?
17.
Freedom from Guilt
ACIM, Section I, page 257
18.
Staying on track
ACIM, Section I, page 273
19.
Staying on track
ACIM, Section I, page 265
The Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ,
and where else would I go?
What need have I but to awake in Him?
The Truth is true.
Nothing else matters, nothing else is real,
and everything beside it is not there.
Let Me make the one distinction for you
that you cannot make, but need to learn.
Your faith in nothing is deceiving you.
Offer your faith to Me, and I will Place it
gently in the Holy Place where it belongs.
You will find no deception there but only simple truth.
And you will Love it because you will understand it.
Behold the Son of God and look upon his purity and be still.
In quiet, look upon his holiness,
And offer thanks unto his Father that no guilt has ever touched him.
20.
Freedom from Fear
ACIM, Section I, page 273
What I will experience, I will make manifest.
If I am guiltless, I have nothing to fear.
I choose to testify to my acceptance of the Atonement, not to it's rejection.
I would accept my guiltlessness by making it manifest and sharing it.
Let me bring peace to God's Son from His Father.
21.
Opening to Truth
ACIM, Section I, page 298
I do not know what anything, including this, means.
So I do not know how to respond to it.
And I will not use my own past learnings as the light to guide me now
22.
Forgiveness and Release
A New Beginning
ACIM, Section I, page 329
I give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself.
I know that you will be released,
Unless I want to use you to imprison myself.
In the name of my freedom, I choose your release,
Because I recognize that we will be released together.
23.
Refusing to Judge
ACIM, Section I, page 331
I give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself.
I know that you will be released,
Unless I want to use you to imprison myself.
In the name of my freedom, I choose your release,
Because I recognize that we will be released together.
25.
Preparing for the Holy Instant
ACIM, Section I, page 384
24.
Preparing for the Holy Instant
ACIM, Section I, page 381
I desire this Holy Instant for myself,
That I may share it with my brother whom I love.
It is not possible that I can have it without him or he without me.
Yet it is wholly possible for us to share it now.
And so I choose this instant as the one to offer to the Holy Spirit,
That He may bless us, and keep us both in peace.
I who am host to God am worthy of Him.
He Who established His dwelling place in me
created it as He would have it be.
It is not needful that I make it ready for Him,
but only that I do not interfere with His plan to
restore to me my own awareness of readiness,
which is eternal.
I need add nothing to His plan.
But to receive it, I must be willing not to
substitute my own in place of it
26.
Restoring Vision
and removing pain and sin
ACIM, Section I, page 448
I am responsible for what I see.
I choose the feelings I experience
And I decide upon the goal I would achieve,
And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for,
And I receive as I have asked.
27.
Removing fear and hate
ACIM, Section I, page 463
Do I desire a world I rule instead of one that rules me?
Do I desire a world where I am powerful instead of helpless?
Do I desire a world in which I have no enemies and cannot sin?
And do I want to see what I denied because it is the truth?
28.
Sharing
ACIM, Section I, page 541
What is God's belongs to everyone and is his due.
29.
Denying Injustice
ACIM, Section I, page 564
By this do I deny the Presence of the Father and the Son,
And I would rather know of Them than see injustice,
which their Presence shines away.
30.
Releasing Guilt, Suffering and Pain
ACIM, Section I, page 588
I have done this thing and it is this I will undo,
When I forgive the world my guilt, I will be free of it.
31.
Denying Idols and Temptation
ACIM, Section I, page 637
There never was a time an idol brought you anything, except the "gift" of guilt.
Not one was bought except at cost of pain.
Nor was it ever paid by you alone.
32.
Freedom from Guilt
ACIM, Section I, page 640
I thank You, Father, for Your perfect Son,
And in His glory will I see my own.
33.
Devine Response
ACIM, Section I, page 649
The answer that I give my brother is what I am asking for,
And what I learn of him is what I learn about myself.
34.
Opening to Truth
ACIM, Section I, page 660
I do not know the thing I am, and therefore
do not know what I am doing, where I am,
or how to look upon the world or on myself.
35.
Overcoming Temptation
ACIM, Section I, page 666
Choose once again if you would take your place among
the saviors of the world, or would remain in hell and
hold your brothers there.
36.
Freedom from Guilt
ACIM, Section I, page 667
I am as God created me.
His Son can suffer nothing
And I AM His Son.