Entry 284 - A Course In Miracles Quotes

7/22/20

ACIM

T-1.I.24. Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death yourself, and can therefore abolish both. 2 You are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of your Creator. 3 Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist. 4 Only the creations of light are real.

T-1.I.26. Miracles represent freedom from fear. 2 "Atoning" means "undoing." 3 The undoing of fear is an essential part of the Atonement value of miracles.

T-1.I.29. Miracles praise God through you. 2 They praise Him by honoring His creations, affirming their perfection. 3 They heal because they deny body-identification and affirm spirit-identification.

T-1.I.30. By recognizing spirit, miracles adjust the levels of perception and show them in proper alignment. 2 This places spirit at the center, where it can communicate directly.

T-1.I.31. Miracles should inspire gratitude, not awe. 2 You should thank God for what you really are. 3 The children of God are holy and the miracle honors their holiness, which can be hidden but never lost.

T-1.I.41. Wholeness is the perceptual content of miracles. 2 They thus correct, or atone for, the faulty perception of lack.

T-1.I.46. The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium. 2 Miracles do not involve this type of communication, because they are temporary communication devices. 3 When you return to your original form of communication with God by direct revelation, the need for miracles is over.

T-1.I.49. The miracle makes no distinction among degrees of misperception. 2 It is a device for perception correction, effective quite apart from either the degree or the direction of the error. 3 This is its true indiscriminateness.

5 Revelation unites you directly with God. 6 Miracles unite you directly with your brother. 7 Neither emanates from consciousness, but both are experienced there. 8 Consciousness is the state that induces action, though it does not inspire it. 9 You are free to believe what you choose, and what you do attests to what you believe.

T-1.I.3. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. 2 The real miracle is the love that inspires them. 3 In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

The impersonal nature of the miracle is an essential ingredient, because it enables me to direct its application, and under my guidance miracles lead to the highly personal experience of revelation. 6 A guide does not control but he does direct, leaving it up to you to follow. 7 "Lead us not into temptation" means "Recognize your errors and choose to abandon them by following my guidance."

T-1.III.5. Error cannot really threaten truth, which can always withstand it. 2 Only the error is actually vulnerable. 3 You are free to establish your kingdom where you see fit, but the right choice is inevitable if you remember this:

4 Spirit is in a state of grace forever.
5 Your reality is only spirit.
6 Therefore you are in a state of grace forever. 

T-1.III.6. You respond to what you perceive, and as you perceive so shall you behave. 2 The Golden Rule asks you to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. 3 This means that the perception of both must be accurate. 4 The Golden Rule is the rule for appropriate behavior. 5 You cannot behave appropriately unless you perceive correctly. 6 Since you and your neighbor are equal members of one family, as you perceive both so you will do to both. 7 You should look out from the perception of your own holiness to the holiness of others.

T-1.IV.1. The escape from darkness involves two stages: First, the recognition that darkness cannot hide. 2 This step usually entails fear. 3 Second, the recognition that there is nothing you want to hide even if you could. 4 This step brings escape from fear. 5 When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be willing to enter into communion but will also understand peace and joy.

Your mind can be possessed by illusions, but spirit is eternally free. 9 If a mind perceives without love, it perceives an empty shell and is unaware of the spirit within. 10 But the Atonement restores spirit to its proper place. 11 The mind that serves spirit is invulnerable.

4 Truth is always abundant. 5 Those who perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no needs of any kind. 6 The purpose of the Atonement is to restore everything to you; or rather, to restore it to your awareness. 7 You were given everything when you were created, just as everyone was.

T-1.IV.4. The emptiness engendered by fear must be replaced by forgiveness. 2 That is what the Bible means by "There is no death," and why I could demonstrate that death does not exist. 3 I came to fulfill the law by reinterpreting it. 4 The law itself, if properly understood, offers only protection. 5 It is those who have not yet changed their minds who brought the "hell-fire" concept into it.

3 "God is not mocked" is not a warning but a reassurance. 4 God would be mocked if any of His creations lacked holiness. 5 The creation is whole, and the mark of wholeness is holiness. 6 Miracles are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance.

You who want peace can find it only by complete forgiveness. 2 No learning is acquired by anyone unless he wants to learn it and believes in some way that he needs it. 3 While lack does not exist in the creation of God, it is very apparent in what you have made. 4 It is, in fact, the essential difference between them. 5 Lack implies that you would be better off in a state somehow different from the one you are in. 

You act according to the particular order of needs you establish. 10 This, in turn, depends on your perception of what you are.

T-1.VI.2. A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. 2 This sense of separation would never have arisen if you had not distorted your perception of truth, and had thus perceived yourself as lacking. 3 The idea of order of needs arose because, having made this fundamental error, you had already fragmented yourself into levels with different needs. 5 Unified needs lead to unified action, because this produces a lack of conflict.

T-1.VI.3. The idea of orders of need, which follows from the original error that one can be separated from God, requires correction at its own level before the error of perceiving levels at all can be corrected. 2 You cannot behave effectively while you function on different levels. 3 However, while you do, correction must be introduced vertically from the bottom up. 4 This is because you think you live in space, where concepts such as "up" and "down" are meaningful. 5 Ultimately, space is as meaningless as time. 6 Both are merely beliefs.

T-1.VI.4. The real purpose of this world is to use it to correct your unbelief. 2 You can never control the effects of fear yourself, because you made fear, and you believe in what you made. 4 Belief produces the acceptance of existence. 5 That is why you can believe what no one else thinks is true. 6 It is true for you because it was made by you.

T-1.VI.5. All aspects of fear are untrue because they do not exist at the creative level, and therefore do not exist at all. 2 To whatever extent you are willing to submit your beliefs to this test, to that extent are your perceptions corrected. 3 In sorting out the false from the true, the miracle proceeds along these lines: 

4 Perfect love casts out fear.
5 If fear exists, then there is not perfect love.

6 But:

7 Only perfect love exists.
8 If there is fear,
It produces a state that does not exist. 

9 Believe this and you will be free. 10 Only God can establish this solution, and this faith is His gift.

T-2.I.1. To extend is a fundamental aspect of God which He gave to His Son. 2 In the creation, God extended Himself to His creations and imbued them with the same loving Will to create. 3 You have not only been fully created, but have also been created perfect. 4 There is no emptiness in you. 5 Because of your likeness to your Creator you are creative. 6 No child of God can lose this ability because it is inherent in what he is, but he can use it inappropriately by projecting. 7 The inappropriate use of extension, or projection, occurs when you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you, and that you can fill it with your own ideas instead of truth. 

The escape is brought about by your acceptance of the Atonement, which enables you to realize that your errors never really occurred. 5 Only after the deep sleep fell upon Adam could he experience nightmares. 6 If a light is suddenly turned on while someone is dreaming a fearful dream, he may initially interpret the light itself as part of his dream and be afraid of it. 7 However, when he awakens, the light is correctly perceived as the release from the dream, which is then no longer accorded reality. 8 This release does not depend on illusions. 9 The knowledge that illuminates not only sets you free, but also shows you clearly that you are free.

6 In reality you are perfectly unaffected by all expressions of lack of love. 7 These can be from yourself and others, from yourself to others, or from others to you. 8 Peace is an attribute in you. 9 You cannot find it outside. 10 Illness is some form of external searching. 11 Health is inner peace. 12 It enables you to remain unshaken by lack of love from without and capable, through your acceptance of miracles, of correcting the conditions proceeding from lack of love in others.

That is why the Bible speaks of "the peace of God which passeth understanding." 10 This peace is totally incapable of being shaken by errors of any kind. 11 It denies the ability of anything not of God to affect you. 12 This is the proper use of denial. 13 It is not used to hide anything, but to correct error. 14 It brings all error into the light, and since error and darkness are the same, it corrects error automatically.

6 You can learn to improve your perceptions, and can become a better and better learner. 7 This will bring you into closer and closer accord with the Sonship; but the Sonship itself is a perfect creation and perfection is not a matter of degree. 8 Only while there is a belief in differences is learning meaningful.

T-2.II.6. Evolution is a process in which you seem to proceed from one degree to the next. 2 You correct your previous missteps by stepping forward. 3 This process is actually incomprehensible in temporal terms, because you return as you go forward. 4 The Atonement is the device by which you can free yourself from the past as you go ahead. 5 It undoes your past errors, thus making it unnecessary for you to keep retracing your steps without advancing to your return.

T-2.III.2. For perfect effectiveness the Atonement belongs at the center of the inner altar, where it undoes the separation and restores the wholeness of the mind. 2 Before the separation the mind was invulnerable to fear, because fear did not exist. 3u Both the separation and the fear are miscreations that must be undone for the restoration of the temple, and for the opening of the altar to receive the Atonement. 4 This heals the separation by placing within you the one effective defense against all separation thoughts and making you perfectly invulnerable.