A Course in Miracles Quotes

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. (Intro) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. They are performed by those who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less. (p. 1) Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love. (p.12) Corrective learning begins with the awakening of spirit, and the turning away from belief in physical sight. (p. 22) There are no idle thoughts. (p. 27) Only those who give over all desire to reject can know that their own rejection is impossible. (p. 43) The ego lives by comparisons. (p. 52) The ego cannot survive without judgment. (p. 54) Love will immediately enter into any mind that truly wants it. (p. 55) Anger involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one's own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others. (p. 84) The ego does not want to teach everyone all it has learned, because that would defeat its purpose. (p. 109) The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal. (p. 110) When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself ... for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself. (p. 132) Do not ask Spirit to heal the body. Ask rather that Spirit teach you the right perception of the body. (p. 146) A therapist doesn't heal, he lets healing be. (p. 161)

You will remember everything the instant you desire it wholly. To desire wholly is to create. (p. 164) What is healing but the removal of all that stands in the way of knowledge. (p. 188) Remember that those who attack are poor. Their poverty asks for gifts, not further impoverishment. (p. 206) Recognize what doesn't matter, and if your brothers ask you for something, do it because it doesn't matter. (p. 206) The world is only in the mind of its maker. Do not believe it is outside of yourself. (p. 207) If you did not feel guilty, you could not attack. (p. 220) Don't deny yourself the message of relief that every brother offers you now. (p. 229) God calls and you do not hear, for you are preoccupied with your own voice. (p. 232) When everyone is welcome to you as you would have yourself be welcome to your Father, you will see no guilt in you. (p. 246) The hidden can terrify not for what it is, but for its hiddenness. (p. 265) The search for love is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with love. (p. 267) Nothing you see means anything alone. (p. 268) Clean but the mirror and the message shines forth. (p. 271) The holy instant is the recognition that all minds are in communication. Every thought you would keep hidden shuts off communication. (p. 289) What you would hide is hidden from you. (p. 290) You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, and so you seek without for what you cannot find within. (p.293) To the ego, the mind is private. (p. 296) Fantasies are the veil behind which truth is hidden. (p. 316) Whenever your thoughts wander, enter with Him into a holy instant, and there let Him release you. He needs only your willingness to share His perspective to give it to you completely. (p. 323) There is nothing outside you. (p. 358)

Heaven is not a place or a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness. (p. 359) Let your self be one with something beyond it. (p. 361) It is impossible to seek for pleasure through the body and not find pain. (p. 386) Like any communication medium, the body receives and sends the messages that it is given. It has no feeling for them. All of the feeling with which they are invested is given by the sender and the receiver. (p. 387) You are afraid of God because you fear your brother. This brother who stands beside you still seems to be a stranger. (p. 393) Give faith to one another, for faith and hope and mercy are yours to give. (p. 394) The world the holy see is beautiful because they see their innocence in it. (p. 401) The world believes in sin, but the belief that made it as you see it is not outside you. (p. 401) In your brother is the light. See him as sinless, and there can be no fear in you. (p. 402) Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. (p. 415) Perception selects, and makes the world you see. (p. 425) Reason cannot see sin, but can see errors. (p. 428) When you feel defensive about anything, you have identified yourself with an illusion. You therefore feel weak because you're alone. (p. 446) The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. (p. 457) A decision is a conclusion based on everything you believe. (p. 464) The special have enemies, for they are different and not the same. (p. 465) The death of specialness is not your death, but your awakening into life eternal. (p. 469) The miracle but calls your ancient name. (p. 518) Pain's purpose is the same as pleasure, for they both are means to make the body real. (p. 537) The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still. (p. 547) No one who hates but is afraid of love, and therefore must be afraid of God. He knows not what love means, he fears to love and loves to hate, and so he thinks that love is fearful, hate is love. (p. 563)

Are you afraid to find a loss of self in finding God? (p. 565) Seek not outside yourself, for all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. (p. 573) It is never the idol that you want, but what you think it offers you. (p. 587) Let forgiveness be the substitute for fear. This is the only rule for happy dreams. (p. 590) Only the self-accused condemn. (p. 606) The holy ones whom God gave you to save are everyone you meet or look upon, not knowing who they are, all those you saw an instant and forgot, and those you knew a long while since, and those you will meet yet, the unremembered and the not yet born. (p. 618) Every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is. (p. 621)