A Course in Miracles Students Workbook – Book Review – Part 1

With each book review (BR) – remember what you seek is seeking you.  You will find the information you seek.  Have an open mind.  Open your heart and eyes, and let the magic begin.

To keep the thought provoking happening, I will be creating a Facebook book review event page.  The first book will be “A Course in Miracles” we will review the Workbook for Students.  Review will be in blocks, so you have time to digest and discuss.  Only constructive discussion and positive intent will be permitted.  You don’t need to agree, and if you choose to be apart of the journey, then you choose to find the positive intent of the journey.  Just a choice.

This reflection will be the best from the event page.  The idea of the book reviews here, is not to go through the book word by word, but to take the best to provoke thought, awakening and consciousness to activate positive intent.

For those that may not be aware the student workbook within “A Course of Miracles” is written as 365 lessons.  Although statements have been written as Christian, the idea is for universal spiritual themes.  It is stated “Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling.” You are asked to apply, not judge, you don’t have to believe, just use the ideas, and the true meaning will be shown.

Each lesson from the student workbook of “A Course of Miracles” is designed to train the mind, and each lesson can be focused on daily. However, as this is a review, we will be looking at the lessons in blocks.  You are meant to repeat each statement.

1. Nothing I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) means anything.
2. I have given everything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) all the meaning that it has for me.
3. I do not understand anything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place)

Note: the purpose of these words is to clear your mind of past associations.

4.  These thoughts do not mean anything.  They are like the things I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place)  (Note thoughts.)

5.  I am never upset for the reason I think.  (Note emotions eg. I am not worried about… for the reason I think.

6.  I am upset because I see something that is not there.

7.  I see only the past.  Eg.  Indiscriminately with whatever – I see only the past in this….pencil, shoe, hand etc – don’t linger.

8. My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.  (Start with “I seem to be thinking about….but my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts”)

9.  I see nothing as it is now.  (recognise when not thinking, be honest – eg. I do not see this telephone as it is now.)

10.  My thoughts do not mean anything.  (Eg. My thoughts about …..does not mean anything)

11. My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.  (Related to major phase correction process)

12. I am upset because I see a meaningless world.  (correction major perceptual distortion) (eg. I think, I see …..fearful world, a dangerous world, a hostile world etc, but I am upset because I see a meaningless world.)

13. A meaningless world engenders fear.  (I am looking at a meaningless world.  A meaningless world engenders fear because I think I am in competition with God.)

14. God did not create a meaningless world.  He did not create ….(specify situation), and so it is not real.

Lessons abound as each lesson unfolds.

15.  My thoughts are images that I have made.  This…or that is an image that I have made.

16. I have no neutral thoughts.  This thought about….. Is not a neutral thought, because I have no neutral thoughts.

17. I see no neutral things.

18.  I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.

And then balance returns

19.  I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.  (this thought about…..)

20.  I am determined to see. (You are learning to tell the polarities apart – “What you desire you will see.  Such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world.”)

21.  I am determined to see things differently.  (I am determined to see…..(name person) differently.  I am determined to see …..(specific situation) differently.)

22.  What I see is a form of vengeance.  (I see only perishable.  I see nothing that will last.  What I see is not real.  What I see is a form of vengeance.  Is this the world I really want to see?)

23.  I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.  (about….. then dismiss)

24.  I do not perceive my own best interests.  (‘In the situation involving… I would like…….to happen, and …..to happen.’ Realise your contradictory goals.  ‘I do not perceive my own best interests in this situation.’ Next one)

25.  I do not know what anything is for.  (Eg. I do not know what this ..chair is for.  I do not know what this …pencil is for.  I do not know what this …hand is for.)

Remember you are shifting your perception.

26.  My attacking thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.  (Eg.  I am concerned about……. I am afraid …..will happen.  That thought is an attack upon myself.)

27.  Above all else I can see.  (Vision has no cost to anyone…It can only bless)

28.  Above all else I want to see things differently.  (Exchange things for this……. What do you want to see differently)

29.  God is everything I see. (Eg.  God is in this coat hanger.  God is in this magazine.  God is in this finger. etc)

30.  God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.  (“Real vision is not only unlimited by space and sit ance, but it does not depend on the body’s eyes at all.  The mind is its only source.” Look within rather than without.)

31.  I am not the victim of the world I see.  (“Remind yourself that you are making a Declaration of Independence in the name of your own freedom”)

If you are studying on a daily basis, then this would be the end of January.

Just a reminder that this is a process…  If the words don’t agree with you…that a part of the process….if the words do agree…that is a part of the process.

32.  I have invented the world I see.   (Exchange world with “this situation as I see it.”)

33.  There is another way of looking at the world (at this…)

34.  I could see peace instead of this.  (“I can replace my feelings of depression, anxiety or worry (or my thoughts about this situation, personality or event) with peace”)

35.  My mind is part of God’s.  I am very holy.  (“I see myself a imposed on.  I see myself as depressed.  I see myself as failing. etc. etc.  but my mind is part of God’s.  I am very holy.”)

36.  My holiness envelops everything I see.  (“My holiness envelops that rugs.  My holiness envelops that wall.  My holiness envelops these fingers.  etc. etc. “)

37.  My holiness blesses the world.  (“My holiness blesses this chair.  My holiness blesses that window.  My holiness blesses this body.  My holiness blesses you, (name of any person who occurs to you)”)

38.  There is nothing my holiness cannot do.  (“In the situation involving …….in which I see myself, there is nothing that my holiness cannot do.  In the situation involving………in which ………see himself, there is nothing my holiness cannot do.  There is nothing my holiness cannot do because the power of God lies in it.)

How is the process going?

39.  My holiness is my salvation.  (‘My unloving thoughts about…….. are keeping me in hell.  My holiness is my salvation.  If guilt is hell, what is its opposite?  My holiness is my salvation from this.’)

40.  I am blessed as a Son of God.  (‘I am blessed as a Son of God.  I am happy, peaceful, loving and contended. Or I am calm, quiet, assured and confident.’)

41.  God goes with me wherever I go.

42.  God is my strength.  Vision is His gift.  (‘Vision must be possible.  God gives truly. Or Gods gifts to me must be mine, because He gave them to me.’)

43.  God is my Source.  I cannot see apart from Him.  (eg. God is my Source. I cannot see this/that …. (Desk/picture) apart from Him.  I see through they eyes of forgiveness.  I see the world as blessed.  The world can show me myself,  I see my own thoughts, which are like Gods… God is my Source I cannot see you apart from Him.  God is my Source.  I cannot see this apart from Him)

44.  God is the light in which I see.

45.  God is the Mind with which I think.  (‘My real thoughts are in my mind.  I would like to find them.  God is the Mind with which I think.)

Finding the shift….
46. God is the Love in which I forgive. (….you, myself. Replace forgive with love or am blessed. “I cannot be guilty because I am a son of God, I have already been forgiven. No fear is possible in a mind beloved God. There is no need to attack because love has forgiven me.” Then repeat “God is the Love in which I forgive you.”)
47. God is the strength in which I trust.
48. There is nothing to fear.
49. Gods voice speaks to me all through the day.
50. I am sustained by the Love of God.
Review 1
51. Review lessons 1-5
52. Review lessons 6-10
53. Review lessons 11-15
54. Review lessons 16-20
55. Review lessons 21-25
56. Review lessons 26-30
57. Review lessons 31-35
58. Review lessons 36-40
59. Review lessons 41-45
60. Review lessons 46-50

61. I am the light of the world. (… That is my only function. That is why I am here). **new favourite

62. Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world,  (..I would fulfil my function that I may be happy.  I would remember this because I want to be happy)

63.  The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. (“The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.  I am the means God has appointed for the salvation of the world.”)

64.  Let me not forget my function.  (“Let me not forget my function.  Let me not try to substitute mine for Gods.  Let me forgive and be happy.  This is the world it is my function to save”)

65.  My only function is the one God gave me.  (“This thought reflects a goal that is preventing me from accepting my only function.  On this clean slate let my true function be written for me,  my only function is the one God gave me,  I want no other and I have no other.”)

66.  My happiness and my function are one.  (“God gives me only happiness.  He has given my function to me.  Therefore my function must be happiness.  My happiness and function are one God has given me both”)

67.  Love created me like itself (“Holiness created me holy,  kindness created me kind.  Helpfulness created me helpful.  Perfection created me perfect.”)

68.  Love holds no grievances.  (“Iwould see you as my friend, that I may remember you are part of me and come to know myself,  Love holds no grievances.  a.hen I let my grievances go I will know I am perfectly safe.  Love holds no grievances,  let me not betray my self.  Love holds no grievances.  I would wake to my self by laying all my grievances aside and weakening in Him.”)

69.  My grievances hide the light of the world in me.  (My grievances hide the light of the world in me,  I cannot see what I have hidden.  Yet  I want to let it be revealed to me,  for my salvation and the salvation of the world. If I hold this grievance the light of the will be hidden from me.)

70.  My salvation comes from me,  (It cannot come from anywhere else.  My salvation cannot come from any of these things.  My salvation comes from me and only from me,  My salvation comes from me.  Nothing outside of me can hold me back.  Within me is the worlds salvation and my own,)

71.  Only Gods plan for salvation will work. (What would you have me do? Where would you have me go? What would you have me say and to whom?  Holding grievances is the opposite of gods plan for salvation.  And only his plan will work)

72.  Holding grievances is an attack on Gods plan for salvation. (What is salvation, father?  I do not know.  Tell me, that I may understand?  What is salvation, Father?  I do not know.  Tell me, that I may understand.  Holding grievances is an attack on Gods plan for salvation.  Let me accept it instead.  What is salvation, Father?)

73.  I will there be light.  (I will there be light.  Let me behild the light that reflects Gods Will and mine,  I will there be light.  Darkness is not my will)

74.  There is no will but Gods.  (There is no will but Gods.  I cannot be in conflict.  I am at peace.  Nothing can disturb me.  My will is Gods.  My will and Gods are one,  Gods wills peace for his son.  There is no will but Gods.  These conflict thoughts are meaningless.  There is no will but Gods.  I share it with him,  my conflicts about …..cannot be real.  There is no will but Gods.  I seek his peace today.)

75.  The light has come.  (The light has come,  I have forgiven the world.  The light has come.  I have forgiven the world.  The light has come.  I have forgiven the world,  the light has come.  I have forgiven you.)

76.  I am under no laws but Gods.

77.  I am entitled to miracles.  (I will not trade miracles for grievances.  I want only what belongs to me.  God has established miracles as my right.)

78.  Let miracles replace all grievances.  (Let me behold my saviour in this one,  You have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands, that I may join with him.  Let miracles replace all grievances)

79.  Let me recognise the problem so it can be solved,

80.  Let me recognise my problems have been solved,

Review 2

81.  Review lessons 61 & 62.

82.  Review lessons 63 & 64.

83.  Review lessons 65 & 66.

84.  Review lessons 67 & 68.

85.  Review lessons 69 & 70.

86.  Review lessons 71 & 72.

87.  Review lessons 73 & 74.

88.  Review lessons 75 & 76.

89.  Review lessons 77 & 78.

90.  Review lessons 79 & 80.

91.  Miracles are seen in the light.  (Miracles are seen in light.  The body’s eyes do not perceive the light.  But I am not a body. What am I?  I am not weak, but strong.  I am not helpless, but all powerful.  I am not limited, but unlimited.  I am not doubtful, but certain,  I am not an illusion, but a reality.  I cannot see in darkness, but in light,  Miracles are seen in light.  Let me not close my eyes because of this.)

92.  Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.

93.  Light and joy and peace abide to me,  My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.  (Light and joy and peace abide in you.  Your sinless ness is guaranteed by God.)

94.  I am as God created me.  (I am his son eternally.  You are as God created you.  You are his son eternally)

95.  I am one Self, united with my Creator.  (I am one self, United with my creator, at one with every aspect of creation, and limitless in pow and in peace.  I am one self.  You are one self with me, United with our creator in this self.  I honour you because of what I am and what he is, who loves as both as one.)

96.  Salvation comes from my one self.

97.  I am spirit.  (Spirit am I, a holy son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.

98.  I will accept my part in Gods plan for salvation.

99.  Salvation is my only function here.  (God still is love, and this is not his will.  Salvation and forgiveness are the same.  )

100.  My part is essential to Gods plan for salvation.

Yes, some find these words challenging, remember it is a process, your resistance or persistence is your choice.

101. Gods will for me is perfect happiness. (There is no sin, it has no consequence. This is the truth, because there is no sin)

102. I share gods will for happiness for me (and I accept it as my function now)

103. God, being love, is also happiness. (To fear him is to be afraid of joy. …and it is happiness I seek today. I cannot fail, because I seek the truth)

104. I seek but what belongs to me in truth. (And joy and peace are my inheritance…. Gods gifts of joy and peace are all I want.)

105. Gods peace and joy are mine. (My brother, peace and joy I offer you. That I may have gods peace and joy as mine.)

106. Let me be still and listen to the truth. (I will be still and listen to the truth. What does it mean to give and to receive? Let me be still and listen to the truth. I am the messenger of God today, My voice is His, to give what I receive)

107. Truth will correct all errors in my mind. (And I will rest in Him who is my self.)

108. To give and to receive are in in truth. (I will receive what I am giving now, *To everyone I offer quietness. To everyone I offer peace of mind. To everyone I offer gentleness) *beautiful words

109. I rest in God.

110. I am as God created me. (His son can offer nothing. And I am his son)

Review 3

Do not forget how little you have learned, do not forget how much you can learn now, Do not forget your father’s need of you. As you review these thoughts he gave to you.

Lesson 111 – Review 91 & 92

Lesson 112 – Review 93 & 94

Lesson 113 – Review 95 & 96

Lesson 114 – Review 97 & 98

Lesson 115 – Review 99 & 100

Lesson 116 – Review 101 & 102

Lesson 117 – Review 103 & 104

Lesson 118 – Review 105 & 106

Lesson 119 – Review 107 & 108

Lesson 120 – Review 109 & 110

Lesson 121 – Forgiveness is the key to happiness. (I will awaken from the dream that I am mortal, fallible and full of sin, and know I am the perfect son of God)

Lesson 122 – Forginess offers everything I want.  (Today I have accepted this as true.  Today I have received the gifts of God)

Lesson 123 – I thank my Father for his gifts to me.

Lesson 124 – Let me remember I am one with God. (..at one with all my brothers and my self, in everlasting holiness and peace)

Lesson 125 – In quiet I receive Gods word today.

Lesson 126 – All that I give is given to myself.  (The help I need to learn that this is true is with me now.  And I will trust in him.)

Lesson 127 – There is no love but Gods.  (I bless you, brother, with the Love of God, which I would share with you.  For I would learn the joyous lesson that there is no love but gods and yours and mine and everyone’s)

Lesson 128 – The world I see holds nothing that I want (This will not tempt me to delay myself.  The world I see holds nothing that I want.)

Lesson 129 – Beyond this world, there is a world I want.  (I choose to see that world instead of this, for here is nothing that I really want.  The world I see holds nothing that I want.  Beyond this world ther is a world I want.)

Lesson 130 – It is impossible to see two worlds. (Let me accept the strength God offers me and see no value in this world, that I may find my freedom and deliverance.  It is impossible to see two worlds.  I seek my freedom and deliverance, and this is not a part of what I want.)

Lesson 131 – No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.  (I ask to see a different world, and think a different kind of thought  from those I made.  The world I seek I did not make alone, the thoughts  I what to think are not my own.  Today, I seek and find all that I want.  My single purpose offers it to me.  No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.)

Lesson 132 – I loose the world from all I thought it was. (I who remain as God created me would loose the world from all I thought it was.  For I am real because the world is not, and I would know my own reality.  I loose the world from all I thought it was, and choose my own reality instead.)

Lesson 133 – I will not value what is valueless. (I will not value what is valueless, and only what has value do I seek, for only that do I desire to find.  I will not value what is valueless, for what is valuable belongs to me.)

Lesson 134 – Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.  (No one is crucified alone, and yet no one can enter Heaven by himself.)

Lesson 135 – If I defend myself I am attacked.  (But in defencelessness I will be strong, and I will learn what my dresses hide.  This is my Eastertime.  And I would keep it holy.  I will not defend myself, because the Son of God needs no defence against the truth of his reality)

Now be healed…

Lesson 136 – Sickness is defense against the truth.  (I will accept the truth of what I am, and let my mind be wholly healed today.  I have forgotten what I really am, for I mistook my body for myself.  Sickness is a defence against the truth.  But I am not a body.  And my mind cannot attack.  So I can not be sick.)

Lesson 137 – When I am healed I am not healed alone.  (And I would share my healing with the world, that sickness be banished from the mind of Gods one Son, who is my only self.  When I am healed I am not healed alone.  And I would bless my brothers, for I would be healed with them, as they are healed with me.)

Lesson 138 – Heaven is the decision I must make. (I make it now, and will not change my mind, because it only thing I want.)

Lesson 139 – I will accept Atonement for myself.  (For I remain as God created me.)

Lesson 140 – Only salvation can be said to cure.  (Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed)

Review 4

Remember, reviewing is about the readiness, and focussed on a central theme.

Lesson 141 – review Lessons 121 & 122

Lesson 142 – review Lessons 123 & 124

Lesson 143 – review Lessons 125 & 126

Lesson 144 – review Lessons 127 & 128

Lesson 145 – review Lessons 129 & 130

Lesson 146 – review Lessons 131 & 132

Lesson 147 – review Lessons 133 & 134

Lesson 148 – review Lessons 135 & 136

Lesson 149 – review Lessons 137 & 138

Lesson 150 – review Lessons 139 & 140

Lesson 151 – All things are echoes of the Voice of God.

Lesson 152 – The power of decision is my own. (This day I will accept myself as what my Fathers Will created me to be.)

Lesson 153 – In my defencelessness my safety lies.

Lesson 154 – I am among the ministers of God.  (And I am grateful that I have the means by which to recognise that I am free)

Lesson 155 – I will step back and let him lead the way. (For I would walk along the road to him)

Lesson 156 – I walk with God in perfect holiness. (I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me.)

Lesson 157 – Into his presence would I enter now.

Lesson 158 – Today I learn to give as I receive.

Lesson 159 – I give the miracles I have received.

Lesson 160 – I am at home.  Fear is the stranger here.

Lesson 161 – Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.  (I would behold you with the eyes of Christ, and see my perfect sinlessness in you.)

Lesson 162 – I am as God created me,

Lesson 163 – There is no death.  The Son of God is free.  (Our Father, bless our eyes today.  We are your messengers, and we would look upon the glorious reflection of Your Love which shines in everything.  We live and move in You alone.  We are not separate from Your eternal life.  There is no death is not Your will.  And we abide where You have placed us, in the life we share with You and with all living things, to be like You and part of You forever.  We accept Your Thoughts as ours, and our will is one with Yours eternally. Amen)

Not far to half way now

Lesson 164 – Now are we one with him who is our source.

Lesson 165 – Let not my mind deny the thought of God.

Lesson 166 – I am entrusted with the gifts of God.

Lesson 167 – There is one life, and I share with God.

Lesson 168 – Your grace is given me,  I claim it now.  (Father, I come to you.  And you will come to me who ask.  I am the son you love.)

Lesson 169 – By grace I live.  By grace I am released.  (By grace I give.  By grace I will release)

Lesson 170 – There is no cruelty in God and none in me,  (You make what you defend against, and by your own defence against it is it real and inescapable.  Lay down your arms, and only then do you perceive it false…….Father we are like you.  No cruelty abides in us, for there is none in you.  Your peace is ours.  And we bless the world with what we have received from you alone.  We choose again, and make our choice for all our brothers, knowing they are one with us.  We bring them your salvation as we have received it now.  And we give thanks for them who render us complete.  In them we see your glory, and in them we find our peace.  Holy are  because your holiness has set us free.  And we give thanks.  Amen.)

Review 5

God is but love, and therefore so am I.

Lesson 171 –  review Lesson 151 & 152

Lesson 172 – review Lesson 153 & 154

Lesson 173 – review Lesson 155 & 156

Lesson 174 – review Lesson 157 & 158

Lesson 175 – review Lesson 159 & 160

Lesson 176 – review Lesson 161 & 162

Lesson 177 – review Lesson 163 & 164

Lesson 178 – review Lesson 165 & 166

Lesson 179 – review Lesson 167 & 168

Lesson 180 – review Lesson 169 & 170

Widening horizons – going beyond defensiveness – Personally I found the wording of this whole section the most challenging in the moment.  So get ready to move quickly, as I find this is the easiest way to move in ACIM when you find resistance within yourself.

Lesson 181 – I trust my brothers, who are one with me. (If anger blocks use “It is not that that I would look upon, I trust ….’)

Lesson 182 – I will be still an instant and go home. (Through this connect to your child, your defenselessness, your strength)

Lesson 183 – I call upon Gods Name and on my own.

Lesson 184 – The Name of God is my inheritance. (Prayer – Father, our name is yours.  In it we are united with all living things, and you who are their one creator.  What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to caat across your own reality.  And we are glad and thankful we were wrong.  All our mistakes we give to you, that we may be absolved fro  all effects our errors of them.

Lesson 185 – I want the peace of God.

Lesson 186 – Salvation of the world depends on me.

Lesson 187 – I bless the world because I bless myself.

Lesson 188 – The peace of God is shining in me now. (Let all things shine upon me in that peace, and let me bless them with the light in me) *this one is easier

Lesson 189 – I feel the Love of God within me now, (Father, we do not know the way to you. But we have called, nd you have answered us.  We will not interfere.  Salvations ways are not our own, for they belong to you.  And it is unto you we look for them.  Our hands are open to receive your gifts.  We have no thoughts we think apart from you, and cherish no beliefs of what we are, or who created us.  Yours is the way that we would find and follow.  And we ask but that your will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world, that it become a part of Heaven now.  Amen.)

Lesson 190 – I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

Lesson 191 – I am the holy Son of God himself.  (I cannot suffer, I cannot be in pain, I cannot suffer loss, nor fail to do all that salvation asks)

Lesson 192 – I have a function God would have be fill.

Lesson 193 – All things are lessons God would have me learn.  (Forgive, and you will see this differently.  I will forgive, and this will disappear.)

Lesson 194 – I place the future in the hands of God.

Lesson 195 – Love is the way I walk in gratitude.

Lesson 196 – It can be but myself I crucify.

Lesson 197 – It can be but my gratitude I earn,

Lesson 198 – Only my condemnation injures me. (Only my own forgiveness sets me free)  *Im finding my resistance releasing.

Lesson 199 – I am not a body.  I am free. (I hear the voice of God has given me, and it is only this my mind obeys) * resistance again

Lesson 200 – There is no peace except the peace of God.  (I am glad and thankful it is so)

Review 5 – I am not a body.  I am free.  For I am still as God created me.   *This thought I do not want.  I choose instead …”

Lesson 201 – review Lesson 181

Lesson 202 – review Lesson 182

Lesson 203 – review Lesson 183

Lesson 204 – review Lesson 184

Lesson 205 – review Lesson 185

Lesson 206 – review Lesson 186

Lesson 207 – review Lesson 187

Lesson 208 – review Lesson 188

Lesson 209 – review Lesson 189

Lesson 210 – review Lesson 190

Lesson 211 – review Lesson 191

Lesson 212 – review Lesson 192

Lesson 213 – review Lesson 193

Lesson 214 – review Lesson 194

Lesson 215 –  review Lesson 195

Lesson 216 – review Lesson 196

Lesson 217 – review Lesson 197

Lesson 218 – review Lesson 198

Lesson 219 – review Lesson 199

Lesson 220 – review Lesson 200

Moving on to Part 2 – this is in a separate reflection.  That wasn’t too painful, what it?