ACIM – Reality vs. Illusion

“A Course in Miracles“

is a self-study thought system, about undoing the blocks in awareness to the experience of love. It’s unique in teaching forgiveness to reach inner peace and the remembrance of the unconditional love of God. It is not a religion, nor does it require anything except your willingness, motivated by your own search for meaning in life.

A Course about ACIM itself…

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)

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)

What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? (?)

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. (?)

About Love…

Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love. (p.12)

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)

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)

The search for love is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with love. (p. 267)

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. (?)

ACIM about reality and illusion…

This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary.

Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum.

It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.

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.

This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God. (Intro)

The hidden can terrify not for what it is, but for its hiddenness. (p. 265)

Nothing you see means anything alone. (p. 268)

Clean but the mirror and the message shines forth. (p. 271)

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)

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. (?)

Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed. (?)

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal. (?)

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ACIM – On Experience

“A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary…. Seek only this, and do not let theology delay you.” [M73/77]

“Truth can only be experienced. It cannot be described or explained.” [T139/150]

“We place faith in the experience that comes from practice, not the means we use. We wait for the experience, and recognize that it is only here conviction lies.” [W323/331]

“If you are not a body, what are you? You need to be aware of what the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind. You need to feel something to put your faith in, as you lift it from the body. You need a real experience of something else, something more solid and more sure; more worthy of your faith, and really there.” [W155/157]

“One vision, clearly seen, which does not fit the picture as it was perceived before will change the world for eyes that learn to see, because the concept of the self has changed.” [T615/661]

“Words will mean little now…. For now we seek direct experience of truth alone.” [W388/398]

“I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported faith. For God has promised He will hear my call, and answer me Himself. Let me but learn from my experience that this is true, and faith in Him must surely come to me. This is the faith that will endure, and take me farther and still farther on the road that leads to Him.” [W455/465]

“I am leading you to a new kind of experience that you will become less and less willing to deny.” [T192/207]

“…perhaps you will succeed in going…through the interval of thoughtlessness to the awareness of a blazing light in which you recognize yourself as Love created you.” [W112/113]

“If you are succeeding, you will feel a deep sense of joy and an increased alertness.” [W129/131]

“The body should not feel at all. If you have been successful, there will be no sense of feeling ill or feeling well, of pain or pleasure. No response at all is in the mind to what the body does.” [W252/260]

“There is a kind of experience so different from anything the ego can offer that you will never want to cover or hide it again.” [T55/61]

“If God‘s Will for you is complete peace and joy, unless you experience only this you must be refusing to acknowledge His Will.” [T133/143]

“To fulfill the Will of God perfectly is the only joy and peace that can be fully known, because it is the only function that can be fully experienced. When this is accomplished there is no other experience. Yet the wish for other experience will block its accomplishment….” [T131/141f]

“You cannot understand how much your Father loves you, for there is no parallel in your experience of the world to help you understand it. There is nothing on earth with which it can compare, and nothing you have ever felt apart from Him resembles it ever so faintly.” [T261/281]

“In the holy instant there are no bodies, and you experience only the attraction of God.” [T301/324]

“As God ascends into His rightful place and you to yours, you will experience again the meaning of relationship and know it to be true.” [T336/361]

“Like everything about salvation, the holy instant is a practical device, witnessed to by its results. The holy instant never fails. The experience of it is always felt. Yet without expression it is not remembered.” [T337/362]

“There is no violence at all in this escape. The body is not attacked, but simply properly perceived. It does not limit you, merely because you would not have it so. You are not really “lifted out” of it; it cannot contain you. You go where you would be, gaining, not losing, a sense of Self. In these instants of release from physical restrictions, you experience much of what happens in the holy instant; the lifting of the barriers of time and space, the sudden experience of peace and joy, and, above all, the lack of awareness of the body, and of the questioning whether or not all this is possible.” [T361/387f]

all quotations from A Course in Miracles ©1975, 85, 92 Foundation for Inner Peace

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ACIM – Reality vs. Illusion

“A Course in Miracles“

is a self-study thought system, about undoing the blocks in awareness to the experience of love. It’s unique in teaching forgiveness to reach inner peace and the remembrance of the unconditional love of God. It is not a religion, nor does it require anything except your willingness, motivated by your own search for meaning in life.

A Course about ACIM itself…

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)

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)

What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? (?)

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. (?)

About Love…

Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love. (p.12)

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)

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)

The search for love is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with love. (p. 267)

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. (?)

ACIM about reality and illusion…

This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary.

Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum.

It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.

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.

This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God. (Intro)

The hidden can terrify not for what it is, but for its hiddenness. (p. 265)

Nothing you see means anything alone. (p. 268)

Clean but the mirror and the message shines forth. (p. 271)

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)

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. (?)

Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed. (?)

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal. (?)

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• ACIM Audio Lesson 309 – I will not fear to look within today.

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