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A Glossary to A Course in Miracles

A Glossary to A Course of Love

ACIM Lesson Journal: Volume I, II & III

Christ Illuminates The Bible: Volume I & II

53 Miracle Principles

Metaphors With Vision

Egoic Traps To Be Avoided

The Alchemical Power Of Light

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**T ABLE OF CONTENTS**

INTRODUCTION

**_A_**

A COURSE IN MIRACLES

A COURSE OF LOVE

A TREATISE ON THE ART OF THOUGHT

ABILITY

ABUNDANCE

ABUSE

ACCEPTANCE

ACCEPTANCE/DENIAL

ACCESS

ACCIDENT

ACCOMPLISHED

ACCOMPLISHMENT

ACHIEVEMENT

ACTION

ADAM AND EVE

ADDICTION

AFTER-IMAGE

AFTER-LIFE

ALIVE

ALL

ALL OF EVERYTHING

ALONE

ALTAR

ALTERNATIVE

ANGEL

ANGER

ANSWER

APOSTLE

APPRECIATION

APPREHENSION

ARGUMENT

ART

ART OF THOUGHT

ASK

ATONEMENT

ATTENTION

ATTRIBUTE

AUTHORITY PROBLEM

AWARENESS

AWE

**_B_**

BARREN

BARTER

BATTLE

BEAUTY

BECOME

BEGINNING

BEING

BELIEF

BENEFIT

BIRTH

BITTERNESS

BLAME

BODY

BODY OF CHRIST

BOUNDARY

BRIDGE

BROTHER/SISTER

**_C_**

CALL

CALLING

CAUSE/EFFECT

CERTAINTY

CHALLENGE

CHANCE

CHANGE

CHANNEL

CHARITY

CHILD OF GOD

CHOICE

CHOSEN

CHRIST

CHRIST-CONSCIOUSNESS

CHURCH

CLAIM

COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

COMMON DENOMINATOR

COMMUNION

COMPARISON

COMPASSION

COMPETITION

CONCEPT

CONCERN

CONFESSION

CONFIDENCE

CONFLICT

CONFUSION

CONSCIOUSNESS

CONSTANT

CONTENT

CONTRAST

CONTRIBUTION

CONTROL

CONVICTION

COOPERATION

CORRECTION

COVENANT OF THE NEW

CREATE

CREATION

CREATION OF THE NEW

CREATIONS

CREATIVE TENSION

CREATIVITY

CREATOR

CRUCIFIXION

CURRICUL'UM

**_D_**

DAY

DEATH

DEBATE

DECEPTION

DECISION

DEMONSTRATE

DENIAL

DEPENDENCE

DESIRE

DEVOTION

DIALOGUE

DIFFERENCE

DIFFERENT

DIFFICULT

DISCERNMENT

DISCIPLE

DISCIPLINE

DISCOVERY

DIVERSITY

DIVINE DESIGN

DIVISION

DOUBT

DUALITY

**_E_**

EACH

EAGERNESS

EFFECT

EFFORT

EGO

ELEVATED SELF OF FORM

ELEVATION

ELEVATION OF FORM

EMBRACE

EMOTION

EMPTINESS

ENEMY

ENERGY

ENVISION

EQUALITY

ERROR

ESCAPE

ETERNITY

EVANGELIZE

EVERLASTING LIFE

EVERYBODY

EVERYTHING

EVIL

EVOLUTION

EXAMPLE

EXERCISE

EXIST

EXPAND

EXPANSION

EXPECT

EXPERIENCE

EXPRESSION

EXTENSION

EXTERNAL

**_F_**

FACILITATOR

FAITH

FALSE

FAMILY

FATE

FATHER

FEAR

FEAR/LEARNING

FEELING

FINAL JUDGMENT

FIRST

FOCUS

FORERUNNER OF THE NEW

FORGET

FORGIVENESS

FORM

FORSAKE

FOUNDATION

FREE WILL

FREEDOM

FRIEND

FULFILLMENT

FULLNESS

FUNCTION

FUTURE

**_G_**

GAIN

GARDEN OF EDEN

GARDENER

GIFT

GIVENS

GIVING/RECEIVING

GLORY

GOAL

GOD

GOD'S IDEA

GOD'S WILL

GOING BACK

GOOD INTENTION

GRACE

GRATITUDE

GRIEVANCE

GROUPS

GROWTH

GUIDE

GURU

**_H_**

HAPPINESS

HAPPY THOUGHTS

HARMONY

HAVE

HEAL

HEALER

HEART

HEARTBEAT

HEAVEN

HEAVEN/HELL

HELL

HELP

HERE

HOLINESS

HOLY INSTANT

HOLY RELATIONSHIP

HOLY SPIRIT

HOME

HONESTY

HOPE

HOUSE

HUMAN EXPERIENCE

HUMAN/DIVINE

**_I_**

I

I AM

IDEA

IDENTITY

IDOL

ILLUSION

IMAGE

IMAGINATION

IMPATIENCE

IMPERFECTION

IN-BETWEEN

INCARNATION

INDEPENDENCE

INDIVIDUAL

INFORM

INHERITANCE

INNOCENCE

INSANITY

INSEPARABLE

INSIGHT

INSPIRATION

INTENTION

INTERMEDIARY

INTERPRETATION

INTERSECTION

INTOLERANCE

INTUITION

INVULNERABLE

**_J_**

JESUS

JESUS VS. MARY

JOIN

JOURNEY

JOY

JUDGMENT

JUSTICE

**_K_**

KEEP

KINGDOM

KNOW

KNOWLEDGE

**_L_**

LACK

LANGUAGE

LANGUAGE OF THE HEART

LAW

LAWS OF LOVE

LAWS OF MAN

LEARN

LEARNING DEVICE

LESS

LESSON

LEVEL

LEVEL-GROUND

LIFE

LIGHT

LIMIT

LISTEN

LIVING

LONELINESS

LOSS

LOVE

LOYALTY

**_M_**

MAGIC

MAINTENENCE

MAKE VS. CREATE

MALE/FEMALE

MARY

MATTER

MEANING

MEANS

MEDITATION

MEMORY

MENTAL CONSTRUCT

MIND

MINDFULNESS

MIRACLE

MIRACLE-MINDEDNESS

MISTAKE

MISTERY OF FAITH

MORE

MOTHER

MOUNTAIN TOP

MOVEMENT

MYTH

**_N_**

NATURAL LAWS

NATURE

NEEDS

NEW

NEW TESTAMENT

NOTHINGNESS

**_O_**

OBSERVATION

OBSTACLE

OFFERING

OLD

ONENESS

OPPOSITE

OPPOSITION

ORIGINAL PURPOSE

OTHERS

OVERLAP

OWNERSHIP

**_P_**

PAIN

PARADISE

PARTICULAR

PASS-THROUGH

PAST

PATH

PATIENCE

PATTERN

PAYMENT

PEACE

PERCEPTION

PERFECTION

PERSONAL SELF

PERSONALITY

PHILOSOPHY

PLAN

PLEASURE

PLEASURE/PAIN

POTENTIAL

POWER

PRACTICE

PRAYER

PREPARE

PRESENT

PRINCIPLE

PRISON

PROBLEM

PRODIGAL SON

PROJECTION

PROMISED LAND

PROTECTION

PROVISION

PURPOSE

**_R_**

READER

READING

REAL

REALITY

REALIZATION

REASON

RECEIVE

RECOGNIZE

REDEMPTION

REGENERATION

REGRET

REJECTION

RELATIONSHIP

RELEASE

RELIANCE

REMAIN

REMEMBER

REMEMBRANCE

REPLACEMENT

REPRESENTATION

REPRODUCTION

RESPONSE

RESPONSIBILITY

REST

RESURRECTION

REVELATION

REVERENCE

REWARD

**_S_**

SACRIFICE

SAFETY

SALVATION

SAMENESS

SANCTITY

SANITY

SCIENCE

SECOND COMING

SEE

SEEK

SELF

SEPARATE

SEPARATION

SERVICE

SEX

SHARE

SICKNESS

SITUATION

SOLUTION

SON OF GOD

SOURCE

SPACE

SPECIAL FUNCTION

SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

SPECIALNESS

SPIRIT

SPIRITUAL FREEDOM

STAGE

STATE

STRIVE

STRUCTURE

STRUGGLE

STUDENT

STUDY

SUCCESS

SUCCESSION

SUFFERING

SURPRISE

SURRENDER

SUSTENANCE

SYMBOL

SYSTEM

**_T_**

TASK

TEACH

TEACHER

TEACHER/STUDENT

TEACHING/LEARNING

TEMPTATION

TERRITORY

THE FALL

THINKING

THINKING VS. THOUGHT

THOUGHT

THOUGHT SYSTEM

TIME

TIME OF CHRIST

TIME OF TENDERNESS

TRAIT

TRANSFORMATION

TRANSITION

TRANSLATION

TREASURE

TREATISE

TRINITY

TRUST

TRUTH

**_U_**

UNCERTAINTY

UNDERSTAND

UNION

UNIQUE

UNIVERSAL

UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS

UNIVERSE

UNKNOWN

USE

**_V_**

VARIABLE

VENGEANCE

VIOLENCE

VIRGIN BIRTH

VIRGIN STATE

VISION

VOICE

**_W_**

WANT

WAR

WAY

WAY OF MARY

WE

WHOLE

WHOLEHEARTEDNESS

WHOLENESS

WILL

WILLINGNESS

WISDOM

WITHHOLD

WITHIN

WITHIN VS. WITHOUT

WITNESS

WORD

WORK

WORLD

WORRY

WOUND

**_Y_**

YEARN

YIELD

YOU

AFTERWORD

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY

**I NTRODUCTION**

Containing nearly 500 terms with cited definitions, A Glossary to A Course of Love is the first A Course of Love glossary. In this glossary, the significant terms related to each stage have been segregated into five categories. The first three correspond to the sequential titles of the books contained within A Course of Love, The Treatises, and The Dialogues. The fourth section exclusively defines terms as described in the "Forty Days and Forty Nights" portion of The Dialogues, and the fifth section defines terms from the "Addendum."

The acceptance of these profound words and ideas facilitates an ever-deeper level of being, and offers the reader insight about the meaning of love and what to expect when you fully embrace love. In order to create this new state of being, the reader must relinquish all previously learned teachings and learning patterns. This book offers you a guide to attaining the final surrender that will bring forth the union of mind and heart.

As you journey through this book, apply no thought or effort whatsoever. Open your heart. Allow its ideas to infiltrate every aspect of your being. Instead of understanding these words, you will become them.
**ACOL DEFINITIONS**

Conjunctive terms include both ideas in the same definition. For simplicity purposes, the first letter of all definitions is lowercase (including proper names), as many definitions are not complete sentences taken from A Course of Love.

**B OLDFACE**

Bold type identifies terms defined within the glossary. Only when the word appears exactly as the glossary term itself, the font is changed to bold.

**P RIORITIZATION**

Terms are listed in alphabetical order. Definitions under each term are presented in order of appearance.

**R EFERENCING GUIDE**

_References to specific text within this Combined Volume generally follow the pattern of Book:Chapter.Paragraph with Book One being referenced as the "Course" (C), Book Two as the "Treatises" (T), and Book Three as the "Dialogues" (D). Thus within the Course, C:20.30 refers to chapter 20, paragraph 30. References to paragraphs within The Preludes or the Introduction would be, for example, C:P.8 or C:I.9._

_References to paragraphs within the Treatises must identify the number of the Treatise, for example T2:10.1, or T3:13.6._

_References to paragraphs generally within the Dialogues would be, for example, D:12.4, but references to paragraphs within the "Forty Days and Forty Nights" require special treatment, as for example D:Day1.23._

_References to paragraphs within the Epilogue or the Addendum may be referenced simply as, for example, E.6 or A.4._

**A COURSE IN MIRACLES**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ a Course in Miracles opened a door by threatening the **ego**. _C:P.5.2_

~ the original Course in Miracles was a course in **thought** reversal and **mind** training, a course to point out the **insanity** of the **identity** crisis and dislodge the ego's hold. _C:P.8.6_

**Treatises**

~ a Course in Miracles began with a definition of miracles. _T1:4.3.2_

**A COURSE OF LOVE**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ this course was written for the **mind** —but only to move the **mind** to appeal to the **heart**. _C:I.1.1_

~ this Course **will** seem remedial to some, easy to some, complex to some. _C:I.8.1_

~ this is a course for the **heart**. _C:I.13.1_

~ this is a course to establish your **identity** and to end the reign of the **ego**. _C:P.8.6_

~ the **first** and only **exercise** for your **mind** **within** this Course has already been stated: Dedicate your **thought** to **union**. _C:5.20.1_

~ this **curriculum** aims to **help** **you** **see** that your emotions are not the **real** thoughts of your **heart**. _C:8.2.1_

~ this is but a Course in remembering. _C:10.31.9_

~ that is the learning **goal** of this Course—your **awareness** of what **love** is—and no earthly course can take **you** beyond this **goal**. It is only your **willingness** that is required. _C:11.5.3_

~ this Course aims to establish your **identity** , for from it **all** the **rest** **will** come. As such, this Course seems to **ask** for **change** at every **level** , and yet from one **change** **alone** **will** **all** the **others** follow—and through no **effort** on your part at **all**. _C:12.8.2-3_

~ to give your allegiance to your **Father** and to the learning goals this Course has set is but an act of treason upon the **world** as **you** **know** it. _C:15.9.6_

~ this Course's exercises **have** attempted to **help** **you** **see** : a **world** **you** can observe and **learn** in and from, for as long as **you** would choose to **learn** what the **idea** of **separation** would **teach** **you**. Making a **new** **choice** , a **choice** to **learn** from unity, is what this Course prepares **you** for. _C:18.8.5-6_

~ what this Course has thus far attempted to do is to briefly **change** your orientation from **mind** to **heart**. This is a **first** step in what **will** seem now like an attempt to balance two **separate** things, but is really an attempt to unite what **you** **have** only perceived as **separate**. _C:18.16.2-3_

~ this is what this Course is about. **Living** from **love**. _C:25.16.5_

~ this Course is but a trigger. These words the prelude to the explosion. It is as if **you** **have** been waiting for someone to whisper: Now! The whisper has come. The **time** is now. _C:26.15.1-4_

~ the **purpose** of this Course has been stated in many ways and is stated again **here** : The **purpose** of this Course is to establish your **identity**. _C:27.4.1_

~ this Course bears **witness** to the **truth**. _C:28.1.2_

~ what the Course is speaking of now, in essence, is **gain** without **loss**. _C:30.11.1_

~ **we** end this Course with **love** given and **love** received in **truth**. _C:32.3.1_

~ this Course requires no **thought** and no **effort**. There is no prolonged **study** and the few specific exercises are not required. This Course has succeeded in ways **you** do not yet **understand** and **have** no need to **understand**. _C:32.4.4-6_

**Treatises**

~ **all** that **you** are in need of knowing has been provided **within** A Course of Love. That your learning does not feel complete is not a failing of this Course or of yourself. _T1:1.3.2-3_

~ a Course of Love has provided **you** with what **you** need to **know** , which is the **function** of **all** coursework. This does not mean that **you** **have** acquired the **ability** to live what **you** **have** learned, only that **you** are ready to. _T1:1.4.1-2_

~ the closing pages of A Course of Love instructed **you** to think no **more**. _T1:2.1.1_

~ **we** identified much for **you** to leave behind **within** the pages of A Course of Love. _T1:2.2.1_

~ what was spoken of **within** A Course of Love as unlearning has begun and continues **here**. What was spoken of **within** A Course of Love as **new** learning has begun and continues **here** as well. _T1:2.5.3-4_

~ a Course of Love began with an injunction to pray. _T1:4.3.1_

~ a Course in Miracles and A Course of Love **work** hand-in-hand because the **change** of **thinking** taught **within** A Course in Miracles was a **change** of **thinking** about yourself. It attempted to dislodge the **ego** - **mind** that has provided **you** with an **identity** that **you** but think **you** are. A Course of Love then followed in order to reveal to **you** who **you** truly are. While **you** continue to act **within** the **world** as who **you** think **you** are rather than as who **you** are, **you** **have** not integrated these two pieces of learning. _T2:4.3.1-4_

~ this is a **living** Course. This is why **you** are called to live it rather than to take it. _T2:10.1.5-6_

~ while **you** continue to **see** the **call** of this Course as a **call** to goodness, **you** **will** surely fail. _T3:3.9.9_

~ this is not a **self** - **help** course but just the **opposite**. This Course has stated **time** and **time** again that **you** cannot **learn** on your own and that resigning as your own **teacher** is the only **way** to **learn** a **new** **curriculum**. This Course **will** not **call** **you** to **effort** of any kind. It **will** not tell **you** to leave behind your addictions or to go on a diet or a fast. It **will** not even tell **you** to be kind. It does not tell **you** to be responsible and does not chide your irresponsibility. It does not **claim** that **you** were once bad but that by following these tenets **you** can **become** good. It gives no credence and no **blame** to any **past** cause for your depression, anxiety, meanness, illness or **insanity**. It merely calls **you** to **sanity** by **calling** **you** to let go of **illusion** in favor of the **truth**. _T3:4.1.1-9_

~ the **sameness** that this Course calls **you** to is not a **sameness** of **body** or of habit. It asks not for monks or clones. It asks not that **you** give up anything but **illusion** , which is the **giving** up of nothing. _T3:4.2.1-3_

~ the training of this Course, while gentle in **nature** , has been great, as great as that of any military training, as great as any emotional trauma that has left one in a **state** of **emptiness**. This is, in **effect** , the **state** in which **you** currently find yourself. _T3:4.7.5-6_

~ this Course has come so that these many things that **you** **have** tried need not be repeated. _T3:5.5.2_

~ establishing your **identity** has been the only aim of this entire course of **study**. _T3:8.2.2_

~ a Course of Love talked much of remembering. _T3:10.1.1_

**Dialogues**

~ a Course of Love is a teaching text. _D:6.1.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the Course is both a trigger of **choice** and a trigger of **nature**. It was meant to convey the **action** of a catalyst. _D:Day24.3.8-9_

~ this Course has had, as its main objective, returning **you** to true knowing of your **Self**. _D:Day37.17.6_

**Addendum**

~ **you** are thus instructed not to apply your **thought** and your **effort** , your usual **means** of learning, to this Course of **Love**. This Course is not for the **mind** but for the **heart**. It is not a **way** of **thought** and **effort** but a **way** of **feeling** , of ease, and of direct **relationship**. _A.4.2-4_

~ it is said to **you** to take this Course with as little attachment to your **old** **means** of learning as is possible for **you**. _A.5.3_

~ **forget** about approaching this as one **more** **self** -improvement **exercise** , or one **more** objective to accomplish. _A.12.8_

~ the seeming **lack** of difficulty in this Course is where its difficulty lies. _A.18.2_

~ **being** who **you** truly are, accepting your true **identity** , is the **goal** of this Course and of this **beginning** **level** of what **I** only loosely **call** a **curriculum**. _A.24.2_

~ your **relationship** to this **work** continues as **you** live and express Who **You** Are **being** in the **world**. For some of **you** this may mean continued involvement with this coursework and a direct sharing of it with **others**. For many **more** of **you** it **will** not. _A.43.2-4_

~ this Course becomes a beloved alma mater, honored and returned to as a giver of **new** **life**. It offers no walls to confine **you**. It becomes not dogma to restrict **you**. It is **new** **life** come to extend the **way** of **creation** , the **way** of **love** , the **way** of **living** , the **new** **way**. It **will** be with **you** in every **dialogue** and **will** not leave **you** comfortless. It has no end point in its benefits and associations. _A.45.1-6_

~ what continues of this Course is its **dialogue**. It is ongoing. _A.46.1-2_

**A TREATISE ON THE ART OF THOUGHT**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ this **Treatise** **will** attempt to give specific examples of what to look for as your learning continues, or how to identify wholehearted responses from those of a split **mind**. Its further **purpose** **will** be to identify the **service** that **you** can provide once your **wholeheartedness** is completely realized. _T1:1.2.2-3_

**ABILITY**

| əˈbilədē |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the main ****ability of the **individual** is the ****ability to represent what **God** created, the **means** of coming to **know** —which is **Christ-consciousness** —through **individual** **choice** or **will**. _D:Day17.10.7_

~ now **you** contain **within** **you** the ****ability to combine both levels of **being** through the **experience** of **life**. _D:Day27.6.5_

**ABUNDANCE**

| əˈbəndəns |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** **fear** that what one gets **means** that **less** is available for another is replaced with an understanding of abundance. _C:20.39.4_

**Treatises**

~ **you** must, in **truth** , **birth** the **idea** of benevolence and abundance. _T3:13.12.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the area that **you** **call** money and that **I** **call** abundance. _D:Day3.6.2_

~ **here** is where your greatest **anger** , and your greatest **lack** of **belief** and **acceptance** , lies. _D:Day3.6.4_

~ the area of money, or abundance, is where learning fooled **you** and failed **you** the most. _D:Day3.7.5_

~ the base **idea** behind the issue of money or abundance: the **way** **you** **have** learned. _D:Day3.11.1_

~ since money or abundance is not a "given" for **all** , but only for a few, **you** think of it much like the "given" of natural gifts or talents, the " **givens** " of fresh and inspired ideas. _D:Day3.11.3_

~ let's go back to the **idea** of money when it is seen as a "given." It is seen as a "given" in one case only: In the case of **inheritance** , in the case of those "born" to money. Thus this is a good place to start, since **inheritance** is that of which **we** speak. Let's be clear that **we** are not speaking of money or abundance as **being** "given" when it is hard **work** to attain. Not even when it seems to come from some event of luck or **fate**. **We** are talking specifically **here** of the money "given" through **inheritance** , the money some lucky ones are born with. _D:Day3.17.1-6_

~ the **power** of money to affect **you** is a **power** that is denied, rarely acknowledged, seldom spoken of. Think **you** not that the shame that comes from heartaches or mistaken actions is any greater than the shame those feel who feel no abundance, who suffer a **lack** of money. There is still a commonly held **belief** that abundance is a favor of **God** and, as such, those who do not **experience** abundance **have** done something wrong. _D:Day3.20.1-3_

~ in the realm of money lie your biggest failures, your greatest fears, the risks **you** **have** taken or not taken, your hopes for **success**. What **you** wish for is contingent upon having the " **means** " to pursue it, and few of **you** truly think that money would not solve most of your problems. Even those of **you** on this spiritual **path** think money is among the greatest limits to what **you** can accomplish, to how **you** can live the **life** **you** would choose to live. **You** may **have** left behind aspirations of wealth, and replaced them with ideas of having **more** **time** , **more** fulfilling **work** , simpler pleasures, and yet **you** still **see** your **new** **state** as one that does not touch upon this aspect of " **reality**." _D:Day3.22.1-4_

~ not having "enough" is the " **reality** " of your **life** because it was the **reality** of the learning **life**. _D:Day3.23.2_

~ **you** must fully reject the ideas that taught **you** that **you** do not **have** enough, that **you** **will** only **have** what **you** can earn or **learn** , that only through **effort** **will** **you** **gain** , and that with your **gain** **will** come another's **loss**. _D:Day3.25.5_

~ **you** think abundance is the most **difficult** thing to **demonstrate** , when it is actually the easiest. **You** think **you** could **learn** what is for **you** the most **difficult** type of learning, be it **philosophy** , math, or foreign languages, before **you** could **learn** how to make money, or in other words, to **have** abundance. **You** think **you** could **more** easily find **love** than money, even those of **you** who **have** felt loveless for too long to contemplate. And those of **you** who scoff at these remarks, because **you** feel **you** **have** learned the secret of money, the secret of **success** : **Answer** truly if **you** really believe this, or if **you** are merely covering over your **fear** of not having enough with an incessant drive to prove it is not so. _D:Day3.29.1-4_

~ abundance is the natural **state** of unity and thus your natural **state**. _D:Day3.44.1_

~ even those of **you** who **have** asked **God** for abundance, and opened yourselves to **receive** it, even those of **you** who **have** seen some improvement or evidence **you** could cite as a **response** to your requests, **see** not the **truth** of the **situation**. _D:Day3.46.2_

~ **you** try to guess what **God** might **want** **you** to do, be it **being** still and not worrying about money, or taking actions, right-actions now, as opposed to your **idea** of the wrong-actions of the **past** , in order to bring money or abundance flowing to **you**. **All** that this period of bargaining represents is yet another **stage** in your **movement** toward **acceptance**. It is still based on the **belief** that **you** are responsible for the abundance or **lack** of abundance in your **life**. That it is **you** who, by changing your beliefs or your actions, can **change** your **reality**. _D:Day3.49.3-6_

~ abundance can only be accepted and received, just as great ideas and great talent can only be accepted and received. _D:Day3.53.2_

~ **you** cannot accept, for instance, the compassionate and loving benevolence of the **universe** , of **God** , of the **All** of **All** , and still accept the **reality** of **lack**. **You** cannot accept that in the **reality** of unity **all** things come to **you** without **effort** or striving except money. _D:Day3.59.3-4_

~ the active **acceptance** of abundance is the **way** to abundance. _D:Day3.61.5_

**ABUSE**

| əˈbyo͞oz |

**A Course of Love**

~ abuse is but improper **use** — **use** on a scale that makes the **insanity** of **use** obvious to both the user and the usee. _C:9.44.1_

~ look at patterns of abuse, in **everything** from drugs and alcohol to physical or emotional mistreatment. These, like the larger examples of your daily **life** gone awry, are but demonstrations of internal desires taken to a greater extreme; only these, rather than **being** reflected by the group, are reflected **within** the **individual**. The **individual** with issues of abuse would do a **service** to the **world** if the people in it were to **understand** what that abuse is a reflection of. Like any extreme, it merely points out what in **less** extreme instances is still the same: **Use** is improper. _C:9.44.2-5_

~ when magnified, the destructive force of such abuse is easily apparent. Again **you** would place the **blame** outside yourself and label drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and even food as destructive forces. Like the automobile **you** would **blame** for an **accident** , user and usee **have** **become** confused. **All** such **confusion** stems from the initial **confusion** of the **use** **you** think your **body** would put **you** to. **All** such **confusion** stems from your displacement of yourself and your abdication of your **power** to the things that **you** **have** made. _C:9.45.4-8_

~ those who give in to abuse are merely **calling** louder for the selfsame **love** that **all** are in search of. **Judgment** is not due them, for **all** **here** are abusers—starting with their own selves. _C:9.48.4-5_

~ attempts to modify the behavior of abuse are near to useless in a **world** based on **use**. The **foundation** of the **world** must **change** , and the stimulus for this **change** lies **within** **you**. _C:9.49.1-2_

**ACCEPTANCE**

| əkˈseptəns |

**A Course of Love**

~ acceptance of your true **power** is acceptance of your **God** -given authority via your **free will**. _C:20.32.1_

**Treatises**

~ to accept where **you** are is not the same as accepting who **you** are. Accepting where **you** are, as if it is a static place at which **you** **have** arrived, is not the **goal** that has been set. Accepting who **you** are includes acceptance of **creation**. The acceptance of **creation** is the acceptance of **change** and **growth** but neither of these are concepts that **you** **understand** truly. _T2:4.14.2-5_

**Dialogues**

~ acceptance is a **willingness** to **receive**. Obviously, when **you** consider this definition of acceptance, **you** **will** **see** that this is not the **way** of the **old**. _D:2.1.2-3_

~ **you** are asked to accept or **receive** the **truth** of who **you** are and the revelations that **will** show **you** how to live as who **you** are **within** the **world**. _D:2.2.4_

~ one of your **first** acts of acceptance is the acceptance of the end of the conditions of learning. _D:3.6.6_

~ acceptance is easily achieved through **willingness**. _D:3.13.4_

~ **you** accept that what has been given is available. **You** accept and **you** **receive**. _D:4.29.1-2_

~ no longer wait to be told **more** before **you** accept what **you** **have** already been told. Do not wait for a grander **call** before **you** accept the **call** that has already sounded in your **heart**. _D:5.22.5-6_

~ **we** **have** talked of but one **replacement** for the **pattern** of learning—the **pattern** of acceptance. _D:6.24.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ acceptance is not **belief**. _D:Day1.2.3_

~ acceptance of your **Self** is acceptance of me. Acceptance of your **Self** is acceptance of your **inheritance**. _D:Day2.1.1-2_

~ **we** look for a simple acceptance of the facts of your **life**. _D:Day2.12.3_

~ **you** are called to accept yourself. This unconditional acceptance is necessary. _D:Day2.15.1-2_

~ the final **stage** in this process, this **movement** toward acceptance, is depression, a lowering of spirits and **energy** , a **lack** of **desire** , a **lack** of activity, a sinking **feeling** of going under, of going into the depths of sadness and despair. _D:Day3.51.1_

~ **each** **stage** may contain hints of the other, but in regard to money, or **abundance** , **each** **stage** is experienced and felt. This **experience** has only one combined value, one combined **purpose** , the **purpose** of the final letting-go, the final **surrender** that is necessary for the final acceptance to come into **being**. _D:Day3.52.1-2_

~ acceptance is an active **function**. It is something given **you** to do. **You** think it is **difficult** , but it is only **difficult** until it becomes easy. _D:Day3.57.3-5_

~ while **you** think of acceptance as just another **word** , another **concept** , another trick of the **mind** , **you** **will** not **see** it as the **replacement** of learning, and as such as an active **state** , a **state** in which **you** begin to **work** with what is beyond learning, a **state** in which **you** are in **relationship** with what is beyond learning. It is in **truth** , a **state** in which **you** enter into an alternate **reality** , the **reality** of **union** —because **you** accept that **reality**. _D:Day3.58.1-2_

~ like **all** that was taught **within** this Course, this is a **matter** of **all** or nothing. _D:Day3.59.1_

~ active acceptance is what allows the great **transformation** from **life** as **you** **have** known it, to **death** of that **old** **life** , to rebirth of **new** **life**. _D:Day3.60.1_

~ active acceptance is a **way** of **being** in **relationship** with **all** that flows from unity. This **you** cannot **learn** but **you** can **practice**. _D:Day3.61.6-7_

~ **anger** was discussed rather casually alongside accepting me, your **Self** , and **abundance**. But none of these things are meant to be dwelt upon. The acceptance of **abundance** no **more** so than the acceptance of **anger**. **You** are called to accept and not look back, not to dwell in any of the states through which **you** arrive at acceptance, nor to **focus** on acceptance of one thing over another. **You** are not to label good or bad. Just to accept. Accept **all**. _D:Day4.50.3-9_

~ to be called to make a **new** **choice** before full acceptance of what is would be confusing. _D:Day4.51.1_

~ acceptance has been the **means** **chosen** , by us, to move **you** through the layers of **illusion** that **have** disguised your **fear** , to move **you** beyond **false** learning to the **truth** that only **needs** to be accepted. _D:Day4.53.2_

~ **you** only **have** to be accepting. Accepting of **all** that **you** are. _D:Day4.54.5-6_

~ just accept what is given. _D:Day5.20.8_

~ the conditions, however, of this **time** of acceptance are not the conditions of the **time** of learning. _D:Day6.32.3_

~ acceptance of your **Self** is the precondition for the **time** of acceptance. _D:Day7.3.1_

~ support is thus a condition of the **time** of acceptance. _D:Day7.4.2_

~ **regeneration** is a condition of the **time** of acceptance. _D:Day7.6.4_

~ another condition of the **time** of acceptance that **will** be of great **service** to **you** now is that of the **different** **relationship** that **you** **will** **have** with **time**. _D:Day7.7.1_

~ a further condition of the **time** of acceptance is that of **expansion**. _D:Day7.10.1_

~ the conditions of the **time** of acceptance that **we** **have** spoken of are thus not **new** conditions. They are conditions natural to your **Self** , to a **mind** and **heart** joined in **union**. _D:Day7.19.1-2_

~ **you** are **being** called to an acceptance of **new** conditions! _D:Day8.3.6_

~ **you** are not called to accept what **you** do not like, but to accept that **you** don't like whatever it is **you** don't like. Then, and only then—when **you** **have** accepted how **you** feel-can **you** respond truly. _D:Day8.4.2-3_

~ **we** are not, when talking of acceptance, talking of externals, but of internals. **We** are not talking of the **old** adage or **prayer** that calls **you** to "accept what **you** cannot **change** " but of acceptance—absolute, unconditional, acceptance—of your **Self**. _D:Day8.5.7-8_

~ **all** **power** to **effect** **change** comes from acceptance—not acceptance of the **way** things are, but acceptance of who **you** are in the **present**. Not through acceptance of the **way** **you** **want** to be but of the **way** **you** are now. _D:Day8.8.1-2_

~ acceptance does not require any specific **action** but it **will** lead to **action** that is consistent with who **you** are when **you** are fully comfortable in your acceptance of who **you** are. _D:Day8.10.2_

~ acceptance of yourself, in **love** , leads to acceptance of **others**. _D:Day8.12.5_

~ it is crucial that **you** come to acceptance of yourself—in the **present** , as **you** are—for only by doing so **will** **you** come to full acceptance of who **you** are and be able to allow the **Self** of unity to merge with the **self** of **form** , thus elevating the **self** of **form**. **You** **will** also, only in this **way** , come to true **expression** of the **elevated Self of form**. _D:Day8.17.4-5_

~ while **you** are prone to acceptance of that which **you** "like," to those feelings **you** think of as "good" feelings, **you** are still prone to non-acceptance of that which **you** do not like in yourself and **others** and even to, at times, the **false** sense of **certainty** about your non-acceptance that **we** **have** spoken of. _D:Day8.19.9_

~ non-acceptance in any **form** is separating. _D:Day8.25.1_

~ **i** **have** called this **time** both the **time** of unity and the **time** of acceptance because **you** cannot only **focus** on unity when **you** are still in need of this full acceptance or **you** **will** not reach the place of sustainability. Every **situation** and every **feeling** that **you** do not like **will** pull **you** from **union** toward **separation**. **All** feelings of non-acceptance lead to a **feeling** of needing to **learn** "how to" reach acceptance of that which **you** do not like, or "how to" **create** a **situation** that **you** **will** like. _D:Day8.27.1-3_

~ acceptance is necessary because **escape** is not possible. _D:Day14.1.2_

~ it is your acceptance that **escape** is not possible that **will** lead **you** out of forgetfulness to **remembrance**. It is in the **equality** of **all** that is realized with the acceptance of the spacious **Self** , the One **Self** , and the many, that full acceptance is actually achieved and complete **transformation** begun. _D:Day14.1.5-6_

~ acceptance is the **creator** of invisibility, the **creator** of the spacious **Self**. _D:Day14.11.2_

~ acceptance of your **relationship** with the **unknown** is the only **way** to arrive at acceptance of your **relationship** with your **means** of coming to **know**. _D:Day14.11.6_

~ your acceptance of these words is a **form** of acceptance of the **unknown** and as such a **means** of coming to **know**. _D:Day14.12.1_

~ acceptance is key. **You** can't accept what **you** **fear**. _D:Day16.1.3-4_

~ acceptance has been a main theme of this **dialogue** and was revisited and defined as acceptance of internal rather **external** conditions. It makes no sense, however, to accept what is not the **truth**. _D:Day28.16.1-2_

~ the acceptance of what is is the **Source** of **union** and the **ability** to **experience** in **wholeness**. _D:Day31.8.11_

~ accept the end of **choice** and the **beginning** of **creation**. _D:Day36.18.8_

**ACCEPTANCE/DENIAL**

| əkˈseptəns/dəˈnīəl |

**Dialogues**

~ our **first** **action** in understanding what **we** are called together to do is to begin to declassify **all** the various aspects of **life** that were needed in the **time** of learning. This is why **we** began quite truthfully and simply with an acceptance of the **new** and denial of the **old**. This is as far as acceptance and denial need go. _D:3.7.1-3_

**ACCESS**

| ˈakˌses |

**Dialogues**

~ what comes of unity does not need access through your body's eyes or ears or any of what **you** consider to be your senses. _D:12.13.3_

~ this access and entryway already exists **within** **you**. _D:12.13.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ access, then, is the key to the **treasure**. _D:Day4.14.1_

~ to **know** the basic **truth** of who **you** are—that **you** are a **being** who exists in unity rather than in **separation** —is thus the **first** step to the access that **you** **seek**. _D:Day4.27.1_

~ the access that **you** **seek** is not a tool that can be purchased through your right-actions or even your longing and **desire**. For this access is not a tool but a **function** of who **you** are. This access is, like breathing, something that is natural to **you** until **you** begin to think about it. _D:Day4.29.1-3_

~ access simply exists **within** your natural **state** , much like breathing is simply a fact of the natural **life** of the **body**. _D:Day4.32.1_

~ if **you** stretch your **idea** of **reality** just a little bit farther, stretch your **mind** just a little beyond where it is comfortable going, that there **you** **will** find this access, this portal to **all** that lies beyond **time** and **space** , to **all** that exists in the place of unity. _D:Day4.35.6_

~ once full access has been revealed, what is yours is **everything**. But **you** **will** be **different**. _D:Day4.44.8-9_

~ a point of access **will** no longer be needed once full entry is attained. _D:Day5.1.1_

~ this point of access **will** **remain** crucial as long as **you** maintain rather than sustain the **state** of unity. _D:Day5.1.2_

~ an initial entry point and as a continued entry point so that it is available to **you** until it is no longer needed. _D:Day5.1.3_

~ **we** give access a focal point in the realm of **form**. _D:Day5.4.3_

~ your point of access may be your head, or a place just above or to the right or left of your head. It may be your **heart** , or some mid-point just beyond the **body**. It may, for some, feel like a connection that arises from the earth and as if it is just below the **form** of the physical **body**. Some could feel it in their hands and **others** as if it comes directly from their mouths as speech is enabled that bypasses the realm of **thought** completely. _D:Day5.5.2-5_

~ choose what feels most natural to **you** as a focal point for your **focus** on access. _D:Day5.5.7_

~ it is there for **you**. It is given. It cannot be denied unless **you** deny it. _D:Day5.8.3-5_

~ it **will** be helpful to **have** identified this **chosen** access point for unity even while remembering it is not of the **body** **alone**. _D:Day5.9.1_

~ **we** **have** further spoken of your point of access to unity as one of convergence, **intersection** , and **pass-through**. _D:Day6.4.3_

~ your **relationship** or access to **union** is of supreme importance, since **all** else **will** come of this. _D:Day7.14.1_

~ your access to **union** sustains **real** **life** , the **life** of the **Self** , and **will** come to sustain the **elevated Self of form** in a **way** as natural to **you** as breathing. _D:Day7.14.4_

~ access to unity is a phrase that **will** only be used in this **in-between** **time**. **You** **have** always existed in unity and once this is fully realized **you** **will** no **more** need access to unity than **you** need access to breathing. _D:Day7.15.1-2_

~ a place or **state** of **consciousness** through which your **awareness** of unity passes through your **self** of **form**. _D:Day22.5.2_

~ your access to **union** , so newly discovered and yet always existing **within** **you** , has been a part of the process that has allowed **you** access to two levels of **experience**. It is your access to two levels of **experience** —the **experience** of **wholeness** and the **experience** of **separation**. While **you** may **have** seen it as access to information or sensory experiences of another kind, it is, in actuality, access to a **state** of **being**. _D:Day29.5.1-3_

**ACCIDENT**

| ˈaksədənt |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ ejected feelings are projected outside of the **body**. These are the unwanted feelings that are blamed on **others**. These manifest in your interactions with the **world** , taking on **form** in the actions of **others** , in instances where acts of **nature** or accidents seem to thwart plans, or in "situations" or crises of **all** kinds. These manifestations also come to **you** to prove what **you** think **you** **know** —that **others** , or the **world** in general, are to **blame** for the sorry **state** of your **life**. _D:Day16.5.1-4_

**ACCOMPLISHED**

| əˈkämpliSHt |

**A Course of Love**

~ only **you** can be accomplished. Your **service** is but dedication to this **goal**. _C:29.6.4_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** are already accomplished. _D:1.5.2_

~ to believe that **you** are already accomplished and not live from this **belief** is insane. _D:11.11.1_

~ what prevents this **belief** from becoming an **ability** and prevents it from going from **being** an **ability** to simply **being** who **you** are, is your thoughts—thoughts that need an explanation for **everything** , and an explanation that makes sense in terms of the **world** **you** **have** always known. _D:11.11.2_

**Addendum**

~ beloved brothers and sisters, **You** are The Accomplished. _A.50.1_

**ACCOMPLISHMENT**

| əˈkämpliSHmənt |

**Treatises**

~ only **you** can be **accomplished** and your accomplishment is already complete. _T2:6.4.1_

~ accomplishment is not an end point but a given. It is not an outcome but a **certainty**. It says **I am** rather than **I** **will** be. _T2:6.6.1-3_

~ **you** are already **accomplished**. _T3:16.7.1_

~ by saying that **you** are not only **accomplished** , but The **Accomplished** , it is **being** said that **you** are already what **you** **have** sought to be. Thus, in order to live by the **truth** , **you** must live in the **world** as The **Accomplished** and cease struggling to be other than who **you** are in **truth**. _T3:16.8.1-2_

~ **you** are no **more** **accomplished** than anyone has been or is or **will** be. The **truth** of who **you** are is as **accomplished** as the **truth** of **all** of your brothers and sisters from the **beginning** of **time** until the end of **time**. _T4:2.7.3-4_

~ **you** must realize that if **you** were to **see** into the eyes and hearts of any human from any **time** with true **vision** , **you** would **see** the **accomplished** **Self** there. _T4:2.8.3_

~ this Course has led **you** through resigning as your own **teacher** , to becoming a true **student** , and to now leading **you** beyond the **time** of **being** a **student** to the **realization** of your accomplishment. _T4:10.1.1_

~ believe that **you** **will** **become** comfortable and **more** in your **new** role as the **accomplished**. _T4:10.1.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ accomplishment brings striving to an end. _D:Day9.17.2_

~ as **you** realize by now, **all** this talk of accomplishment is merely about bringing forward what already exists into the **reality** in which **you** **exist**. Another **way** of saying this is bringing who **you** are into **wholeness** , which can be interpreted both as bringing **all** that **you** are into existence and as bringing **all** that **you** are into existence in **union**. _D:Day29.4.3-4_

**ACHIEVEMENT**

| əˈCHēvmənt |

**Treatises**

~ what one achieves but opens the door for **others** and this is known to **you**. _T4:2.11.5_

**Addendum**

~ achievements of the **past** were not lasting and that they are not what they would truly **want** now. _A.34.4_

**ACTION**

| ˈakSH(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ action is the **bridge** between **form** and the formless because action is the **expression** of the **self** in **form**. "Right" action comes from the unity in which doing and **being** are one. _D:Day7.6.1-2_

**ADAM AND EVE**

| ǽdəməndíːv |

**Treatises**

~ the biblical story of Adam and Eve that has them eating from the tree of **knowledge** was an illustration of the effects of this **observation** and the **judgment** that sprang from it. The **self** "fell" from unity through this **judgment** of what it observed as **being** other than itself, through this **beginning** of making distinctions between the **self** and **all** other things in **creation** that existed with the **self**. This is why the story of **creation** includes the naming of creatures. It was the **beginning** of **perception** and of the **idea** that what was observable was "other than" he who did the observing. _T3:17.2.1-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ adam and Eve represent your **birth** into **form**. _D:Day1.18.4_

~ adam and Eve represent what occurred **within** **you** at the **beginning** of the story of your **creation**. _D:Day1.18.6_

~ in **each** of **you** is Adam and Eve represented in **form**. _D:Day1.19.3_

**ADDICTION**

| əˈdikSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ addicts too but choose a **different** threshold wherein after experiencing the oblivion of the separated **self** through drugs, alcohol, or even **constant** **work** or shopping, they refuse to return to the separated self's **reality**. If they cannot leave it, they **will** block it out. _C:10.21.4-5_

**AFTER-IMAGE**

| ˈaftərˌimij |

**Dialogues**

~ when **you** are not wholly **present** as who **you** are, **you** are experiencing, still, the **image** or after-image of who **you** are. This **image** is like a lingering shadow. It encompasses **all** of your former ideas about yourself, **all** of the patterns of the **time** of learning, **all** of the moments in which **you** feel an inability to **join** in **union** , and in which **you** **recognize** still the **image** of your former **self**. _D:16.16.1-3_

~ this is only an **image**. This is not your **personal self** , your **ego** **self** , or your separated **self** , come to reclaim **you**. This is why **we** **have** also described this as an after-image. This is but a photograph that remains, a copy of what **you** once might **have** **thought** of as your "original" **self**. It is but an impression, as in clay, or a reflection, as in a mirror. It is as removed from who **you** are as is the picture of an ancestor or a landscape that hangs on your wall **separate** from what it is an **image** of. _D:16.17.1-6_

~ there may be striking **beauty** in this **image** , as there is in **art** of **all** kinds. This may be an idealized **image** of your former **self** , the **image** of your best **self** , who **you** may imagine now, through the **grace** of **God** , **you** finally are. But this may also at times be an **image** of a type, a construction of the subconscious, which still sees in forms and symbols. This kind of **image** may leave **you** **thinking** that **you** are "acting" as if **you** **have** changed, while even **within** your **new** actions **you** **see** archetypes of the previously known and previously experienced. _D:16.18.1-4_

~ the stimulus for these after-images is gone. They are but sensations that **remain** , like memories of childhood. This **time** of becoming is a **time** of coming to **acceptance** of them as what they are—images. This **time** of becoming is a **time** of coming to **acceptance** that they are not **real**. They are no **more** **real** than the mirage of your **future** , another aspect of the **image** **you** **have** held of yourself. They are no **more** **real** than was your **image** of **heaven** , or any **image** **you** **have** had of **heaven** on earth, **paradise** found. _D:16.19.1-6_

~ the **time** of becoming is a **time** of letting these images be without reacting to them. It is a **time** of coming to no longer "hold" these images in your **mind** and **heart**. It is a **time** of letting them **first** cease to affect **you** , and then of letting them go entirely, for without letting them go **you** are not fully **present**. Without letting them go, your presence is not wholly realized, **you** are not fully **here** , not **whole** , not complete. **You** are at times who **you** are, but **you** also are, at times, but an **image** of who **you** **have** perceived yourself to be. _D:16.20.1-5_

~ this **image** , **being** but an **image** , is incapable of true joining in **relationship**. **You** must be fully **present** in order to **join** in **relationship**. **All** of your images are **false** images, and when **you** retain them **you** do not allow for the **time** of learning to be replaced with the only **replacement** that **will** sustain **Christ-consciousness** , the **replacement** of learning with sharing in unity and **relationship**. _D:16.21.1-3_

**AFTER-LIFE**

| ˈaftərˌlīf |

**Treatises**

~ if **you** **have** believed in any kind of after-life at **all** , **you** **have** perhaps **thought** of the after-life as having two sides. Some **have** **thought** of this as **heaven** and **hell**. **Others** as **all** or nothing. Many of **you** **have** **thought** of it as a **time** of **judgment**. But **I** tell **you** truly; it is no **different** than the **time** that is upon **you** right now. The after-life has simply been a **time** of increased **choice** because it has been a **time** of increased **awareness**. _T4:5.13.1-6_

**ALIVE**

| əˈlīv |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ there is nothing **more** alive than **mind** and **heart** combined in the **spirit** of **wholeheartedness**. _D:Day7.8.6_

**ALL**

| ôl |

**A Course of Love**

~ all live by the **universal** **heartbeat** and **exist** **within** the **embrace**. _C:20.21.8_

**ALL OF EVERYTHING**

_A Course of Love Term_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the **All** of **Everything** cannot be known any **more** than can **nothingness**. The **All** of **Everything** is unknowable. _D:Day11.6.3-4_

~ to be the **All** of **Everything** would be to not **know** existence. _D:Day11.6.9_

**ALONE**

| əˈlōn |

**A Course of Love**

~ your **desire** to be **separate** is the most insane **desire** of which **you** **have** conceived. Over **all** your longing for **union** **you** place this **desire** to be **separate** and alone. Your entire resistance to **God** is based on this. **You** think **you** **have** **chosen** to be **separate** from **God** so that **you** can make it on your own, and while **you** long to return to **God** and the **heaven** that is your **home** , **you** do not **want** to admit that **you** cannot get there on your own. _C:5.22.1-4_

~ **you** cannot be alone nor without your **Father** , yet your invitation is necessary for your **awareness** of this presence. _C:5.29.5_

~ **you** are neither **separate** nor alone and never were and never can be. _C:6.3.2_

~ a thing alone would be a thing created without **love**. _C:6.6.4_

~ the fact that **you** are not alone in the **world** shows **you** that **you** are not meant to be alone. _C:6.7.1_

~ **all** that **you** are asked to give up is your insane notion that **you** are alone. _C:9.25.1_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** are not alone, and this has been among the biggest hurdles for many of **you** to overcome because your **state** of aloneness is **all** **you** **have** known. This perceived **state** is synonymous with the **personal self** , with the **idea** of individuality, with **separate** thoughts, and with the **idea** that no one **will** ever be able to truly **know** **you**. _D:13.8.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ on your own **you** cannot **learn** the **truth**. On your own, only **illusion** can be learned, for your starting place is **illusion**. _D:Day4.25.4-5_

**ALTAR**

| ˈôltər |

**A Course of Love**

~ this altar is not a thing, but a **devotion** to the one **truth** , the **whole** **truth**. _C:31.27.1_

**ALTERNATIVE**

| ôlˈtərnədiv |

**A Course of Love**

~ an alternative exists. Not in dreams of fantasy but in **truth**. Not in changing **form** and circumstance but in eternal consistency. _C:7.22.2-4_

**Treatises**

~ an alternative to this **insanity** exists. The alternative is removing **all** **faith** from your **belief** in the **ego** - **self**. The alternative is replacing **belief** in an **ego** - **self** with **belief** in a **Christ** - **Self**. Total **replacement**. _T2:11.16.1-4_

**ANGEL**

| ˈānjəl |

**A Course of Love**

~ angels too are one with **you**. _C:11.16.2_

**ANGER**

| ˈaNGɡər |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ accept your anger for it is the next step in the continuum upon which **we** travel. _D:Day3.1.1_

~ **we** **will** speak of anger, in both an **old** and a **new** **way**. Let me suggest to **you** what it is truly **all** about. It is about the **way** **you** **have** learned and your **lack** of understanding of what this did to **you**. _D:Day3.1.5-7_

~ anger is a product of the condition of learning. _D:Day3.5.1_

~ **being** open to the divine flow of **union** is the exact **opposite** of the condition of anger. Anger could be likened to an **argument** , a **debate** , in which **you** are on one side and determined to be the one who is right, the one whose side **will** win. _D:Day3.45.1-2_

~ there is a **function** for your anger. The **function** of anger is to lead **you** to the step beyond it, the step of **action** and ideas, the step often called that of bargaining. _D:Day3.48.2-3_

~ your anger **will** be serving **you** **here** as it brings **attention** to these areas most incorrectly influenced by the **time** of learning. _D:Day4.1.2_

~ that **you** **all** attempt to **learn** the same things, and in coming to identify the **world** in the same **way** —the **way** that has been taught—think that **you** **have** succeeded in learning, is the cause of the **insanity** of the **world** and of your anger with the **way** things "are" **within** the **world**. This is an anger that stems from **lack** of **choice**. When **you** are "taught" the " **way** things are," where is the room for **choice**? Where is the room for **discovery**? And to find out that **you** were "taught" incorrectly! Why should **you** not be angry? _D:Day4.9.3-8_

~ this **feeling** of **being** misled is another cause of your anger—one of the primary causes, in **truth**. Not only has **all** that **you** **have** learned led to an inaccurate **world** -view in the **here** and now, but to an inaccurate **world** -view of the **past** , of the hereafter, of me, and of **God**. Not only has your **mind** been misled, but your **heart** and soul as well. _D:Day4.21.1-3_

~ your anger **here** extends to yourself as well, for **all** of **you** **know** how many of my words **have** been forgotten, how many of the truths **I** expressed were still available to **you** , even **within** your religious institutions. **You** feel, perhaps, that **you** did not try hard enough, or pay enough **attention** to separating the true from the **false**. _D:Day4.25.1-2_

~ **you** do not **have** to hesitate **here** because **you** think **you** are still angry, or think **you** are still depressed. When **you** hesitate **you** **have** not accepted but dwell with the cause of your hesitation. When **you** accept **you** move on. _D:Day4.50.10-12_

~ if anger arises in **you** now, it does not mean that **you** **will** react in whatever **way** anger once called **you** to react and it does not mean that something is wrong with **you** or that **you** are not spiritual enough! It simply **means** that **you** are involved in a **situation** or **relationship** that has called forth that **feeling**. _D:Day8.22.1-2_

**ANSWER**

| ˈansər |

**A Course of Love**

~ when an answer comes to **you** , acknowledge that it is an answer from your **new** **identity** and express **appreciation** for it. While **you** **will** at times **doubt** that **you** **have** received an answer or that the answer **you** **have** received is correct, **you** **will** soon **learn** to **trust** this quiet process of **discernment**. **You** **will** **know** **you** **have** succeeded when **you** truly feel as if **you** **have** "turned the question or **concern** over" and allowed it to be responded to in a **new** **way**. _C:25.23.4-6_

~ the answer of your **heart**. _C:26.20.2_

~ the answer that only **you** can hear. There is no mold, no **form** , no stock answer. This is why **all** answers **have** disappointed **you** in the **past**. Your answer is not the same as any other. No **matter** how filled with **wisdom** one person's answer may be, it is not yours. _C:26.20.5-8_

**Treatises**

~ **you** **have** sought your "answer" everywhere, but **here** is where it lies. It is yours to give and can only be given to **love** from **love**. Only in **giving** is it received. _T1:2.3.5-7_

~ **i** do not **have** the answers that would continue to make of me a **teacher** and **you** a **student**. The answers to the **elevation** of the **personal self** and the **living** of **Christ-consciousness** in **form** are yet to be revealed and shared. _T4:12.32.1-2_

**Dialogues**

~ there is one answer, an answer **different** for everyone and yet the same for everyone. That answer is **acceptance** of your **Self**. That answer is **acceptance** of the **new** **you**. _D:4.31.4-6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the answers that **you** **seek** lie **within** , and that their **source** is your own true **identity**. _D:Day10.22.1_

~ **fullness** of **being** is thus the answer that **you** **have** sought and that **you** **have** always possessed. _D:Day35.2.6_

**APOSTLE**

| əˈpäsəl |

**A Course of Love**

~ as can be clearly seen from the records left to **you** , the apostles did not, in fact, achieve this **state** during my lifetime, for they looked at me as **different** and looked to me for **power**. Only after my **resurrection** did the **Holy Spirit** come upon them and reveal their own **power** to them by uniting **mind** and **heart** with **belief**. They were then reunited with me as they were united with the **Christ**. _C:19.12.3-5_

**Treatises**

~ the apostles had no **faith** in their **ability** to perform miracles. The **faith** they showed was in their **willingness** to try. This little **willingness** gave **way** to **conviction** as miracles flowed through them as the blessings that they are. _T1:3.10.2-4_

**APPRECIATION**

| əˌprēSHēˈāSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ appreciation replaces the callousness with which **use** once occurred. _C:20.38.6_

**APPREHENSION**

| ˌaprəˈhenSHən |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ think now not of **being** apprehensive in terms of **being** fearful of the **rest** of your **life** , but apprehensive in terms of taking hold of the **rest** of your **life** , of keeping it **within** your understanding, **within** your **ability** to come to **know** , **within** your own grasp of it. _D:Day27.1.1_

**ARGUMENT**

| ˈärɡyəmənt |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ although my arguments were not fed by **anger** , your **response** **will** almost surely **have** been tinged with it at times. Although my arguments were not fed by **anger** , the arguments that arise now for **you** **will** be and as such are actually appropriate to this **stage** of our **dialogue**. **We** can argue **here** before **we** go on. **We** face together **here** the temptations of these arguments, these temptations of the **human experience**. _D:Day4.1.4-7_

~ yet **we** do not argue simply by engaging in **debate**. _D:Day4.2.1_

**ART**

| ärt |

**Treatises**

~ expressions **you** **call** art are desires to **share** the **Self** in a **new** **way**. These expressions **you** **call** art are expressions of a **Self** who observes and interacts in **relationship**. They are not expressions that **remain** contained to who **you** are or who **you** think yourself to be. They are not expressions of the **self** **alone**. They are not expressions of the **self** **alone** in terms **you** might consider autobiographical, and they are not expressions of the **self** **alone** that **you** would consider the **self** in **separation**. They are rather expressions of the **Self** in **union** —expressions of what the **Self** sees, feels, envisions, imagines in **relationship**. _T3:2.1.3-8_

~ while art is but a **representation** of what the artist chooses to **share** , few of us would **call** these representations useless or without value. Art is a **representation** but it also becomes something in **truth** , something that has been named art. Art becomes something in **truth** by expanding **awareness** , or in other words, by making something known. This is what true **relationship** does and is its **purpose** as well as what it is. _T3:2.2.2-5_

**ART OF THOUGHT**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ a break in **time** was needed for **you** to disengage the **ego** - **mind** that produced the type of **thinking** that **needs** to come to an end. This ending is but a **beginning** in **truth** and has led **you** to readiness to **learn** the art of thought. _T1:2.1.2-3_

~ **you** are now ready to **learn** a **new** **means** of **response** to this unlearning and learning. That **response** is the art of thought. _T1:2.5.5-6_

~ the **new** **means** of **thinking** is referred to **here** as the " **art** " of **thought** in order to **call** your wholehearted **attention** to the continual act of **creation** that is the **relationship** between **Creator** and Created. **Creation** is but a **dialogue** to which **you** **have** not responded. The art of thought **will** free **you** to respond. _T1:2.12.2-4_

~ these are the basic rules of the art of thought: **First** , to **experience** what is and to acknowledge what is, both as a fact of your existence as a human **being** and as a **gift** of the **Creator**. Second, to acknowledge the **relationship** inherent in the **experience** , the **call** for a **response** , and the **nature** of **all** gifts as **being** given to **all**. _T1:2.19.1-2_

~ to realize the **call** for a **response** is to hear the **call** to **create** like unto the **Creator**. This creating like unto the **Creator** may be used as a definition for the art of thought. _T1:2.22.2-3_

~ the **first** opportunities for the art of thought to be applied relate to **memory** in terms of your **experience** **here**. In other words they **will** relate to the re-experiencing of **all** that **you** believe has shaped your **life**. These opportunities are but the forerunners of **new** learning. _T1:3.1.1-3_

~ the art of thought is diametrically opposed to the **thinking** of the **ego** - **mind**. _T1:3.2.2_

~ the art of thought replaces the **ego** - **mind** with the wholehearted. _T1:3.4.2_

~ the art of thought is the **miracle**. _T1:4.1.3_

~ the second rule of the art of thought is to acknowledge **relationship** , the **call** for a **response** , and the **nature** of **all** gifts as **being** given to **all**. _T1:4.6.1_

~ the **first** opportunities for **you** to **learn** the art of thought **will** be provided through what **we** **have** called the re-experiencing of **memory**. These are opportunities to re- **experience** the lessons your **life** has brought **you**. _T1:4.21.1-2_

~ the art of thought invites the **experience** of the **new** **thought system** by **being** willing to replace the **old** with the **new**. While this **will** at **first** be a learned activity, and as such **have** its moments of seeming difficulty, it is learned only in the sense of practicing the **mindfulness** that **will** allow the **memory** of it to return to **you**. _T1:5.13.1-2_

~ the art of thought is not possible without a return to the virgin or unaltered **self**. The **practice** of the art of thought is what **will** complete the return begun through the coursework in **A Course of Love**. This **will** bring about the **union** of the male and female, of conception and **action** , of **inspiration** and manifestation. This is what **we** **have** been speaking of when speaking of **miracle-mindedness** or **miracle** -readiness. This is **wholeheartedness** and is achieved through **mindfulness**. _T1:9.1.1-5_

**ASK**

| ask |

**A Course of Love**

~ the condition or **state** of **being** from which **you** ask is what is in need of adjustment and thus of training before **you** can be aware of the **answer** **you** **will** **receive**. It is clear **you** can ask for what **you** **know** not. This is not the **problem**. The **problem** is in who is doing the asking. The separated **self** , while capable of asking, is hardly capable of believing in or accepting the **response**. It is this non- **belief** in a **response** that makes it capable of asking. Now that **you** are **beginning** to shed the **concept** of the **separate** **self** and to believe in the possibility of **response** , **you** **will** find yourself **more** afraid to ask. **All** your asking or **prayer** awaits is but your **belief** in the **love** without **fear** that has always responded. _C:19.18.4-11_

**ATONEMENT**

| əˈtōnmənt |

**A Course of Love**

~ this undoing, or atonement, has begun—and once begun is unstoppable and thus already inevitably **accomplished**. _C:19.19.4_

**Treatises**

~ **you** are still in need of unlearning, of undoing **old** patterns of **thought**. This is atonement and it is continuous and ongoing until it is no longer needed. _T2:4.15.3_

~ even with the **ego** once and finally vanquished, the patterns of the ego's **thought system** **remain** to be undone. This is atonement. _T3:1.13.3-4_

**ATTENTION**

| əˈten(t)SH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ to attend is to be **present** and to be of **service**. This is the **meaning** of which **we** speak when **we** **ask** for a commitment to **life** that requires your attention. It is both a request for **focus** and readiness and a request for **service** that can only be given in the **present** by a **mind** and **heart** available to the requirements of the **present**. It is the appropriate attitude for the **time of tenderness** , as it is an attitude of ministry. _C:29.1.1-4_

**ATTRIBUTE**

| əˈtriˌbyo͞ot |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ as a **separate** **being** , your attributes were based on **fear**. As a **being** in **union** and **relationship** , your attributes are based on **love**. _D:Day40.13.5-6_

**AUTHORITY PROBLEM**

| əˈTHôrədēˈpräbləm |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** must realize it is your **desire** to make of yourself your own **creator** that has caused **all** your problems. This is the authority problem. It is pervasive in the **life** of your physical **form** and in the **life** of your **mind**. It is only your **heart** that does not consider this an issue of **concern**. This is another **reason** **we** appeal to the **heart**. _C:1.11.3-7_

~ wanting to do things on your own is a trick of the **ego** , your pride a **gift** the **ego** demands. These are the **magic** thoughts that oppose **miracle-mindedness**. These are the thoughts that say on my own **I am** **everything** , rather than on my own **I am** nothing. _C:1.9.4-5_

~ your **ego** would **have** **you** believe that only when **you** need no one to achieve **all** **you** **desire** , only when **you** are satisfied with what **you** are and with what **you** can do on your own, only then **will** your autonomy and your learning be complete, for this is **all** your learning has been for. _C:1.13.3_

~ **you** did not **create** your **Self** , and yet **you** make of **life** a re- **creation** of yourself and in so doing try to prove that " **you** " are your own **source**. _C:11.2.6_

**AWARENESS**

| əˈwernəs |

**Treatises**

~ only an awareness of what is, an awareness that does not conceive of such as what was and **will** be can peacefully coexist with the unity that is **here** and now in **truth**. _T4:2.1.8_

~ **you** literally cannot proceed to full awareness while ideas such as **more** and better **remain** in **you**. As **I** **have** said before, this is not about **evolution** unless **you** wish to speak of **evolution** in terms of awareness. _T4:2.8.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ with your **new** awareness **you** are now linked, through the **consciousness** of unity, with the entire field of **creation** , rather than only with the **time** -bound field of **creation** of **form**. As your awareness grows, **you** **will** begin to **expand** and express in **new** ways. Those ways thus now include the **form** of your **body** without **being** limited to **creation** of, and in, **form**. The **body** has thus joined **creation** in a non **time** -bound **way**. _D:Day7.20.1-4_

~ the **idea** that **you** **have** an already existing awareness of the **Source** of unity beyond the **body** **will** increase your comfort **level** , and **will** **help** establish it as the **first** parameter in the **territory** of your conscious awareness. _D:Day8.7.2_

~ as long as **you** **have** known that **you** are a **self** , as long as **you** **have** been aware of your own existence, **you** **have** been aware of **God**. Your awareness of **Self** is **God**. God's awareness of **you** is **Self**. This awareness exists in reciprocal **relationship**. _D:Day35.5.2-5_

**AWE**

| ô |

**Treatises**

~ in the translations of the Bible and many other religious texts, the **word** or **idea** of awe has been confused with the **word** or **idea** of **fear**. **A Course in Miracles** told **you** that awe is the providence of **God** and not due miracles or any other thing or **being**. _T1:4.27.1-2_

**BARREN**

| ˈberən |

**Dialogues**

~ barren forms might be seen as forms that existed before the onset of the **state** of becoming. _D:16.1.1_

~ to be barren is to be empty. _D:16.3.1_

**BARTER**

| ˈbärdər |

**A Course of Love**

~ **each** joining is seen as a bartering in which **you** trade your usefulness for that of another. _C:9.43.5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the **idea** of bartering, which **we** **have** spoken of before, or bargaining, which **we** **will** speak **more** of **here**. It is the base **idea** that is behind **all** ideas of **lack** , an **idea** **you** so thoroughly learned during the **time** of learning that letting it go, even now, still torments **you** with **worry** and **anger**. _D:Day3.12.2-3_

**BATTLE**

| ˈbadl |

**Treatises**

~ doing battle with the **ego** has **become** the preoccupation of many gifted and learned people. This is the classic battle revealed in **all** myths and tales of **war** and strife. It is the battle that in your imaginings has extended even to the angels. The **ego** is the dragon that must be slain, the **evil** of the despot to be toppled, the one-on-one **conflict** of **all** heroes who would take sides and do battle. _T2:11.3.1-4_

~ **you** are called to **peace** , a **peace** that begins and ends with ceasing to do battle with the **ego**. _T2:11.4.1_

~ **you** and **God** are one and that what **you** invite to do battle with **God** **you** but battle yourself. _T2:11.4.5_

~ a **God** of **love** does not do battle. _T2:11.5.1_

~ it is from these two **separate** ideas of **relationship** that the **concept** of doing battle has emerged. This **concept** of doing battle can only **remain** if **you** **remain** convinced that the **ego** is **real**. As long as **you** believe that the **ego** is **real** , **you** **will** feel as if there are two identities that **exist** **within** **you** and **you** **will** **see** yourself as doing battle in countless ways and forms. There **will** never actually be a battle going on between **Christ** and the **ego** , but **you** **will** perceive that such battles **exist**. **You** **will** be prone to **calling** upon the **Christ** as your higher **self** to defend **you** against the **ego** - **self**. This is highly akin to your former notion of **prayer** and assumes that there is something **real** that **you** need defense against or saving from. This is how the notion of **Christ** as savior arose. This is the **belief** in a good **self** and a bad **self** with **Christ** acting as conscience and defender of good and the **ego** acting as devil and defender of **evil**. This is nonsense, or but a **form** of the **insanity** that is prevalent still, even in your **thinking**. **You** do not realize that this **source** of **conflict** is the **source** of **all** **conflict** that seems **real** to **you** **within** your **world**. This battle of good and **evil** , while **you** believe in it still, **will** be demonstrated before **you** just as it has been from **time** immemorial. _T2:11.15.1-11_

~ **you** may waste much **time** in perceived battles, valiantly fighting for good to win out over **evil**. But this is not the **new** **way** and the **lack** of value from this type of **effort** can surely now be seen. _T2:11.16.6-7_

**Addendum**

~ for those ready for a **new** **way** the **time** of battles has ended. They care to engage in no **more** debates, care not to be proven right or proven wrong, care not to hear the evidence for this approach or that. They **have** grown weary of the ways of the **mind**. They are ready to come **home** to the **way** of the **heart**. _A.21.1-4_

**BEAUTY**

| ˈbyo͞odē |

**A Course of Love**

~ your beauty is the gathering of the atoms, the order in chaos, the silence in solitude, the **grace** of the cosmos. _C:20.4.2_

**BECOME**

| bəˈkəm |

**Dialogues**

~ becoming is **all** about a **movement** into **form** or manifestation. **You** already are manifest in **form** , and so the **idea** of becoming that has been with humankind throughout **time** must signal a recognition that what **you** are is not complete, has not yet become **whole** , has not been fully birthed. _D:14.12.1-2_

~ becomes could be stated further as what becomes known and sharable in **relationship** , what becomes actualized through the **expression** of thoughts, feelings, **art** , **beauty** , kind interactions, or miracles. _D:14.14.3_

~ when this **time** of becoming has ended, the conditions that allow your **acceptance** and **discovery** of **all** that is available **within** unity, or **Christ-consciousness** , **will** no longer be needed. This **will** be as big a step as was the step that left behind the conditions of learning, a step from which **you** at times feel as if **you** are still reeling. _D:15.21.6-7_

~ **you** are now in the final **stage** of the **state** of becoming. **You** now **know** who **you** are, and so now **you** can begin the **work** , or the **relationship** of this final **stage** : The **stage** of becoming who **you** are. This is the **stage** in which **movement** , **being** , and **expression** come together into the re- **creation** of **wholeness** that **will** be expressed in the **elevated Self of form**. _D:16.1.2-4_

~ the **creation** story is occurring, right now, in **each** of **you** who **have** reached this final **stage** of becoming. This is both the **beginning** **stage** and the final **stage** , for once begun, the story of **creation** moves inevitably to **join** with the **accomplishment** and **wholeness** that already **exist** in unity. _D:16.2.1-2_

~ **you** can be an **expression** of **being** and yet not express the **wholeness** of **being**. This is a description of the **state** of becoming. It is a perceived **state**. It is a **state** in which the unified principles of **creation** are seen to be taking place as **separate** steps. This is so because of the condition of **time**. Once these principles are unified, **time** **will** **have** ended just as **time** was once begun. _D:16.4.1-6_

~ while **you** are becoming **you** are still **being** acted upon by **creation**. **You** are still **being** acted upon by **creation** because **you** are not yet **whole**. _D:16.10.1-2_

~ becoming is **movement**. _D:16.11.3_

~ becoming is the **movement** from **image** to presence. It is upon **you** as **we** speak. It is not a learned **state** or process and it should not be seen as a cause for disappointment. _D:16.12.1-3_

~ there is **creation** going on in this becoming, the very **creation** promised **you**. This is the **creation of the new** **you** that **you** were told **will** precede the **creation of the new** **world**. This is what is meant by "as **within** , so without." _D:16.13.1-3_

~ this **time** of becoming is the **time** in between your **awareness** of and **access** to **Christ-consciousness** or unity, and your sustainability of **Christ-consciousness** or unity, in **form**. _D:16.13.6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ in your becoming is your enlightenment realized without **judgment**. _D:Day4.57.4_

~ to realize the **state** of becoming is to realize that an **in-between** exists between the **time** of learning and the **time** of **being** the **elevated Self of form**. This is what our **time** on this holy mountain is largely comprised of. **We** are in an **in-between** **state** of **time**. **We** stand at the **intersection** point of the finite and the infinite in order to complete the creative act of becoming. _D:Day6.1.2-5_

~ **we** **have** spoken of becoming as the **time** of **movement** , **being** , and **expression** coming together. _D:Day6.4.2_

~ **you** **have** been told **you** are in the final **stage** of becoming. **You** **have** committed to completion of the becoming that **will** **create** **oneness** between **Creator** and created. _D:Day6.11.1-2_

~ **all** are called to become, but some must "do" in order to "become." _D:Day19.10.1_

~ **you** "become" **being** in **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day40.24.3_

~ there is no becoming. As **you** are no longer becoming there **will** be no becoming projected from **you** onto the **world**. There **will** be no projections at **all** and this is why **you** **will** **see** so clearly. **You** **will** **see** what is. _E.7.1-4_

**BEGINNING**

| bəˈɡiniNG |

**Treatises**

~ **new** beginnings do not occur outside of **relationship**. _T3:15.3.1_

~ when attempting to give oneself or another a **new** beginning, **you** often act "as if" **you** believe a **new** beginning is possible, even while awaiting the lapse that **will** surely prove to **you** that the **new** beginning is but an act and that nothing has really changed. _T3:15.5.1_

~ the **new** beginning **you** are called to now is a **new** beginning that, like **all** **others** that **you** **have** offered or attempted, **will** take place in **relationship**. The **difference** is that this **new** beginning **will** take place in holy, rather than special, **relationship**. _T3:15.9.1-2_

~ there are no impediments to this **new** beginning save for the finalizing of the **translation** of the **thought system** of the **ego** to the **thought system** of the **truth**. _T3:15.11.1_

~ **you** cannot approach this **new** beginning as **you** **have** those of the **past**. _T3:15.14.1_

**BEING**

| ˈbēiNG |

**A Course of Love**

~ beyond your **personal self** and the **identity** **you** **have** given your **personal self** is your being. This is the face of **Christ** where **all** being resides. This is your true **identity**. _C:20.24.2-4_

~ being is. _C:27.1.2_

~ **you** **have** attached being to being human. _C:27.1.4_

~ your being **here** is not futile or without **purpose**. Your being is itself **all** **purpose** , **all** honor, **all** **glory**. There is no being apart from being. There is no being **alive** and being dead, being human or being divine. There is only being. Being is. _C:27.2.1-6_

~ yet being, like **love** , is in **relationship**. _C:27.3.1_

**Dialogues**

~ by being **you** are an **expression** of being. _D:15.3.4_

~ it is what is and it is the **expression** of what is. _D:15.4.2_

~ there was **movement** into being and an **expression** of being. _D:15.6.3_

~ being is as **love** is. _D:16.6.1_

~ being is a **principle** of **creation**. _D:16.6.2_

~ being could be learned **here** , because it was not yet **whole**. Being is synonymous with **identity**. When your being and your **identity** , your **Self** and your **awareness** of **Self** are **whole** and complete, being, like **love** , is no longer capable of being learned, for it no longer has attributes. _D:16.6.6-8_

~ being is given and becomes being in **form**. _D:16.11.5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ being is **power**. But being, like **oneness** , cannot **know** itself without **relationship**. _D:Day32.19.5-6_

~ **you** might think of being as what **you** are, and responding as who **you** are. _D:Day33.7.1_

~ being is **power**. _D:Day33.12.1_

~ in this **fullness** of being there is only **love**. In this **fullness** of being is found the **means** for the **extension** of **love**. In this **fullness** of being is found the cause for **love**. _D:Day35.2.1-3_

~ your being is **God**. _D:Day35.4.1_

~ to be a being of **feeling** , **thought** , **creativity** and knowing or **perception** is to be one in being with **God**. Accept this, for this is what **God** is and what **you** are. This is being. _D:Day36.15.1-3_

~ being, by itself, does not differentiate or individuate **you**. _D:Day37.2.3_

~ being is only being in **relationship**. _D:Day37.3.2_

~ the simple **truth** that **you** are a being makes **you** one with **God** , who is being. This **truth** , however, has escaped **you**. _D:Day37.13.2-3_

~ because **you** are being, however, (and note **here** that **you** are being, and **God** is being, and that it is not being said that either **you** or **God** are "a" being) **you** **have** **power** —the **power** of being which is the **power** of **thought** , **feeling** , creating, and perceiving or knowing. _D:Day37.13.5_

~ **i am** attributeless being. **I am** **love** , being. But in being **God** , as in being human, being takes on attributes. As was said earlier, this was meant to provide for the individuation process rather than the process of **separation**. In being **God** , **I Am**. In being **love** there is no **I Am** , but only **love** being. _D:Day40.12.6-12_

~ mainly **you** **will** enjoy being—being who **you** are. **You** **will** be happy. **You** **will** be **content**. And **you** **will** **know** , unerringly, how to act naturally from your being. _E.9.5-8_

**BELIEF**

| bəˈlēf |

**A Course of Love**

~ belief is not your **problem**. Understanding is. While **you** believe in **God** , **you** do not **understand** **God**. While **you** believe in me, **you** do not **understand** how these words **have** come from me. While **you** believe in **heaven** and an afterlife, **you** do not **understand** what or where they are. And to believe in something that **you** do not **understand** makes **you** feel peculiar at the least and delusional at the worst. **You** **want** to believe and so **you** believe. But **you** also **want** to be "right" about what **you** believe. The convenient thing about your belief in **God** , in me, in **heaven** and in an afterlife is that **you** do not think **you** **will** be proven wrong **here**. If **you** are wrong, **you** **will** merely rot away after **you** **have** died and no one **will** **know** how wrong **you** were! If **you** are wrong, at least **you** believed in something that brought **you** comfort and in the end did **you** no harm. _C:10.12.4-13_

~ the only **way** to make the unbelievable believable is to alter what **you** **experience**. _C:18.10.2_

~ belief fosters **union**. **Union** does not foster belief, because in unity belief is no longer required. Belief fostered the **union** of atoms and cells into the **form** required by the belief in the separated **self**. Belief of another kind can foster the **creation** of **form** of another kind. _C:23.11.1-4_

~ belief of another kind can foster the **creation** of **form** of another kind. A wholehearted belief in the **truth** about your **Self** is what is required to cause this to be so. It is what is necessary now. It **will** **change** the **world**. _C:23.13.1-3_

~ the **body** encompasses or holds the belief. It is the composite of your beliefs, the totality. It **will** continue to hold former beliefs as well as **new** beliefs until **old** beliefs are purged. The purging of **old** beliefs frees **space** for the **new**. It allows your **form** to reflect what and who **you** are now in terms that coincide with the " **you** " whom **you** **have** always been. _C:23.22.1-5_

**Treatises**

~ let the beliefs **we** **have** set forth **become** one with **you** so that they enable **you** to live and express and act as who **you** are in every moment and in every circumstance. _T2:12.13.1_

~ beliefs, and especially the changed beliefs **we** **have** worked together to integrate into your **thought system** , are only a **first** step, a step toward **holy relationship**. These **new** beliefs of your **new** **thought system** must be wholehearted. They cannot be beliefs that **exist** only in your **mind** , a **new** **philosophy** to be applied to **life**. They must **exist** in your **heart**. _T3:3.7.3-6_

~ a belief **system** is not needed for the **truth**. _T3:7.2.1_

~ the beliefs put forth in "A **Treatise** on Unity" are necessary only to return **you** to the **truth**. Since there are no beliefs that represent the **truth** of who **you** are and who **God** is, **we** speak now of ideas or thoughts. _T3:7.2.2-3_

~ there is no need for a belief **system** and no belief **system** that can represent the **truth**. _T3:7.3.1_

~ **you** believe in many things that did not originate with yourself. But it is not until **you** **have** your own ideas about those beliefs that **you** own those beliefs in terms of making them your beliefs. To believe without forming your own ideas about your beliefs is to be in danger of succumbing to **false** beliefs. _T3:13.13.4-6_

~ what **we** are adding now to these beliefs is the **idea** that these beliefs can be represented in **form**. These beliefs can, with the **help** of the **new** **thought system** , **change** the very **nature** of the **self** described by the words human **being**. _T3:15.16.1-2_

~ no circumstance should **call** **you** to abandon them. _T3:20.9.1_

~ even while your belief **system** has changed and **you** believe that **you** **exist** in unity, **all** the things **we** **have** enumerated above **will** act to **challenge** these beliefs unless **you** are able to **see** them in a **new** **light**. _T3:21.17.3_

**BENEFIT**

| ˈbenəfit |

**A Course of Love**

~ what one benefits from everyone benefits from. _C:20.39.7_

**BIRTH**

| bərTH |

**Treatises**

~ one of the few exceptions to this outward **creation** is the act of **giving** birth. But birth, like **all** outward manifestations, but reflects inner **change**. The **growth** of a **new** **being** **within** the womb of another is a visible manifestation of gestation, which is the prelude to **resurrection**. What was once part of the **mother** and **father** , what would **have** died without the joining that occurred **within** , becomes **new** **life**. _T1:9.4.2-5_

~ let us consider why birth has been the purview of women and males **have** been incapable of **giving** birth. This is because, in your version of **creation** , there needed to be a giver and a receiver. **You** knew that **giving** and receiving makes one in **truth**. This is your recreation of this **universal** **truth**. **You** remembered that something does not come from nothing and that nothing is **all** that exists without **relationship**. _T1:9.6.1-5_

~ both birth and **death** **have** always existed as choices, as beginnings and endings to the finite **experience** of **time**. It is the **nature** of what is finite to begin and end. Birth and **death** are **all** **you** **have** seen as true **new** beginnings. _T3:17.3.3-5_

~ **you** think of **birth** as **creation** and **death** as **rest**. _T4:4.2.7_

**BITTERNESS**

| ˈbidərnəs |

**Treatises**

~ while many of **you** who **have** read this far and learned this much may not be those whose bitterness is mighty and held tightly to themselves, bitterness must still be discussed. While bitterness remains, **vengeance** **will** **remain**. _T3:6.4.1-2_

~ **blame** is as **old** as **time** itself and the cause of bitterness **being** able to **exist** , even **within** your hearts. _T3:6.4.7_

~ what **I am** **calling** **here** bitterness is **all** that **you** **have** forced, through sheer strength of **will** , to pierce the **holiness** of your hearts. Bitterness and the **idea** of **vengeance** go hand-in-hand. This is the **idea** of "an eye for an eye" or the exact **opposite** of the **idea** of "turning the other cheek." While this may seem like the very **idea** of **evil** which **I** **have** denied the existence of, it is not **evil** but bitterness. **You** may believe that bitterness is just another **word** , another label for the **evil** **you** **have** always been convinced existed in the hearts of some, but even **being** that it is just another **word** , it is one **chosen** to introduce an **idea** of such fallacy that it rivals only the **ego** in its destructive **potential**. Bitterness is to your **heart** what the **ego** has been to your **mind**. It is the one **false** **idea** that has entered this holiest of places. _T3:6.5.1-7_

~ it exists not in some but in **all**. _T3:6.5.8_

~ like the **ego** , it has not caused **you** to be unlovable or unrecognizable. But it has **become** , like the **ego** , so much a part of your **reality** that it must, like the **ego** , be consciously left behind. _T3:6.5.9-10_

~ bitterness, as the **word** implies, is something taken into the **self** , much as the bitter herbs of scripture illustrated. Many rights and rituals **exist** for the purification of the unclean but **I** assure **you** that **you** are not unclean and that none can cleanse bitterness from the **heart** without your **choice**. The **time of tenderness** began your **release** of bitterness and made **you** ready for this **choice**. Choose now to leave your **desire** for **reward** , as well as **all** of your reasons for bitterness, and bitterness itself behind. Bring bitterness no longer to the dwelling place of **Christ** and **we** **will** seal the place of its entrance with the sweetness of **love** so that bitterness **will** be no **more**. _T3:6.6.1-5_

~ bitterness has been a **source** of resistance as strong as that of the **ego** and **more** deeply felt. As **I** **have** said, bitterness is to your **heart** what the **ego** has been to your **mind**. Thus bitterness has to do with your feelings **more** so than your thoughts. _T3:8.3.2-4_

~ as long as **you** carry this bitterness **within** **you** , **you** **will** **remain** in the **house** of **illusion**. _T3:8.3.6_

~ bitterness is an **idea** intrinsically tied to the **personal self** and the **experience** of the **personal self**. _T3:8.4.2_

~ bitterness is the cause of this inability to make a **new** **choice** and what keeps the cycle of **suffering** in motion. _T3:8.7.3_

~ remaining attached to bitterness is a reflection of the **belief** that one person, and surely not **you** , can make a **difference**. _T3:8.8.1_

**BLAME**

| blām |

**Treatises**

~ the **idea** of blame is incongruous with the **idea** of a benevolent **Creator** and a benevolent **creation** and as such is the only blasphemy. To blame yourself is as senseless as blaming **others** and your inclination to place blame upon yourself must be given up as well. When it is said that **you** are the cause it is not meant that **you** are to blame for anything. _T3:10.3.3-5_

~ blame of yourself is as uncalled for as is blaming a child for lessons yet to be learned. _T3:10.3.6_

~ taking away the **idea** of placing blame **will** **change** your **thought** processes beyond your wildest imagining. **You** **will** be surprised at how many times **you** **recognize** blame where before **you** saw it not. _T3:10.4.1-2_

~ **you** would find this easier if a **replacement** were offered, for ridding your **mind** of blame **will** leave an empty **space** **you** **will** long to fill. This act of consciously choosing not to place blame **will** short-circuit the many thoughts that **you** would attach to this **idea** , thoughts that **have** formed a chain-reaction of situations and events, feelings and behaviors that **you** had no **realization** were birthed from the **idea** of blame. Although **I** offer it not as a **replacement** , what **you** **will** find **will** come in the place of blame is an **idea** of **acceptance** of what is, an **idea** that is needed now. _T3:10.5.1-3_

~ **you** must choose to leave this blaming of yourself behind, no **matter** what it is **you** feel **you** **have** need to blame yourself for. _T3:14.10.3_

~ if **you** are holding onto regrets **you** are holding on to blame. If **you** are holding onto blame **you** are holding onto **bitterness**. _T3:14.11.5-6_

~ be **self** " **less** " rather than selfish now and allow the **self** that **you** would blame to pass away into the **illusion** from which it came. _T3:14.11.11_

~ these lessons could not be taught while blame remained **within** your **thought system**. No victim is to blame for the **violence** done to them. No sick person is to blame for the illness **within** them. _T3:19.12.1-3_

~ **all** notions of blame must be gone from **you**. Thus, **you** are asked not to look back with blame, for no such cause for blame exists. _T4:1.16.1-2_

**BODY**

| ˈbädē |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** your efforts to be an **individual** are concentrated on the **life** of your body. Your concentration on the **life** of your body is meant to **keep** your body **separate**. _C:5.23.1-2_

~ **separate** bodies cannot unite in **wholeness**. They were made to **keep** **wholeness** from **you** and to convince **you** of the **illusion** of your separateness. _C:8.15.4-5_

~ your body is not the **truth** of who **you** are, no **matter** how much it appears to be. _C:8.15.11_

~ **you** did not **create** your **Self** , but your body **you** did **create**. It was created for its usefulness just like every other object that shares the **space** **you** occupy. _C:9.6.1-2_

~ the body is a finite entity, created to be **self** -contained but also to **self** -destruct. It was created with a need for **constant** maintenance, a maintenance that requires toil and **struggle**. Every inch of its surface is a receiver and transmitter of information yet it carries additional tools such as eyes and ears to enhance its communication and to **control** what goes in and what goes out. It is as susceptible to **pain** as to **pleasure**. It contains the **means** for joining, but for joining that is of a temporary **nature**. It is as capable of **violence** as gentleness. It is born and dies in a **state** of helplessness. _C:9.6.4-10_

~ the body could not **help** but be thus, as it was made with dual purposes in **mind**. It was made to make **real** and then glorify a separated **self** , and it was made to punish that separated **self** for the **separation**. Its **creator** had in **mind** what is reflected in the body: **self** -aggrandizement and **self** -effacement, **pleasure** and **pain** , **violence** and gentleness. A **desire** to **know** **everything** but only through its own **effort** , a **desire** to **see** **everything** but only through its own eyes, a **desire** to be known but only through what it would choose to **share**. _C:9.7.1-4_

~ **you** **have** attempted to **change** places with the body, claiming that it is using **you** rather than that **you** are using it. **You** do so out of guilt in an attempt to place your guilt outside yourself. "My body made me do it" is like the cry of the child with an imaginary **friend**. _C:9.30.9-11_

~ your body has no **use** for your **power**. _C:9.33.8_

~ the **more** your body can be of **use** to **others** and to yourself, the **more** worthwhile **you** **see** it as **being**. _C:9.32.4_

~ **you** feel slave to it and under the weight of its **control**. _C:10.1.2_

~ the body by itself is neutral. _C:10.1.6_

~ as long as **you** **attribute** the body with bringing **you** **pleasure** , the body **will** bring **you** **pain** as well. _C:10.1.7_

~ the body is a tool made for your **use** in maintaining the **illusion** of your **separation**. That it has seeming **power** can only be because **you** think **you** put your **power** there. _C:10.1.9-10_

~ **you** **have** not been told that the body does not **exist** , only that it is not **you**. Like **all** tools **you** made, it is **illusion** because **you** **have** no need of tools. But while **you** believe **you** do, it is quite **real** to **you**. To give up the body entirely is a **choice** **you** need not make. As your learning advances **you** **will** **see** that this is possible, but there may be reasons not to choose this. At this point, however, **all** that is asked is that your body is seen as what it is—both in terms of what **you** made it for and in terms of the **way** in which **you** can now be guided to **use** it for the **benefit** of **all**. _C:10.16.1-6_

~ the body is the surface aspect of your existence. _C:10.23.1_

~ this body that **you** **claim** to be your " **self** ' is but a **form**. _C:10.29.1_

~ while **you** **have** been taught that **you** are not your body, it is impossible for **you** to deny the body **here**. Yet **you** can **change** the **function** **you** **have** ascribed to it, and so its **way** of functioning. If **you** do not **see** it as the result of a fall, as a curse, as a punishment from **God** , or as your **home** , a dwelling place that keeps **you** **separate** , then **you** can begin to **see** it as what it is, a **learning device** given **you** by a loving **creator**. _C:18.6.1-3_

~ your body seems to **experience** both **pleasure** and **pain** , yet as a **learning device** , it is neutral. It does not **experience** , but only conveys that which can be experienced to **you**. **You** then relay a reaction back to it. This circular **relationship** between **you** and the body is the perfect **relationship** for the **purpose** of learning, since both the **experience** and the reaction to the **experience** can then be learned from, and because the learner can choose both. It is not, however, the perfect **relationship** when **you** **have** misperceived the body as your **home** rather than as a **learning device**. Because **you** **have** misperceived the body as your **home** , there is, in a sense, no " **you** " to which the body can send its signals. And so the body seems to be in charge and to be both the experiencer and the interpreter of **experience**. In addition, this misperception has allowed the body's **function** to go unrecognized. **You** thus **have** not recognized the **truth** of what causes **pain** nor that **you** can reject the **experience** of it. The same is true of **pleasure**. _C:18.22.3-12_

~ determination of **pleasure** and **pain** is made with the **judgment** of the separated **self** who not only believes it is the body, but that it is at the body's mercy. Yet the body has no mercy to offer the separated **self**. It is only a **learning device**. _C:18.23.1-3_

~ there was no **evil** intent in the **creation** of the body as a **learning device** , and as a **learning device** it was perfectly created. The **problem** lies in what **you** **have** , in your forgetfulness, made of the body. Only from **thinking** of the body as yourself did ideas of glorifying the body arise. _C:19.1.1-3_

~ clearly, **belief** in the body was easily translated into a **belief** in the validity of **fear**. When **you** are free of this misperception, this inaccurate **belief** , your body **will** be freed. It **will** no longer be an object of **use** but a **means** of **service**. _C:23.15.2-4_

~ **you** **call** your body your own and identify it as your **self**. Your body moves and breathes, your **heart** beats and your blood pumps, quite unaided by your conscious **self**. _C:31.6.3-4_

**Treatises**

~ there is a danger even now in focusing upon the **self** of the body, as this **self** has been so long bound to the **ego** - **self**. _T3:1.13.2_

~ the body that **you** now **will** let serve our cause of creating **heaven** on earth. _T3:10.1.4_

~ the body is neutral. _T3:12.6.2_

~ your body, as has been often said, is a neutral **form** that **will** serve **you** in the manner in which **you** choose to **have** it serve **you**. It has always been led by your **thought system**. If it is no longer instructed by the **thought system** of **illusion** , it is natural to realize that it **will** now be instructed by the **thought system** of the **truth**. _T3:18.9.2-4_

~ that these feelings can be "acted out" by the body and in the acting out cause harm to other bodies, is the cause for **blame** and **fear** of the body. So too is it with actions linked with survival **needs**. _T3:19.5.1-2_

~ for ages the survival **needs** of the body **have** gone unquestioned and been held tantamount. The **will** of the body to survive has thus been blamed for **all** actions that **have** arisen from **real** and perceived **lack**. Yet the body has no **will** and the survival of the true **Self** is not based upon it. _T3:19.6.1-3_

~ the body's **response** to the **new** **thought system** **will** be **different** in many ways, none of which **will** lead **you** to feel that **you** **have** lost anything of value to **you**. _T3:19.10.3_

~ it, just like your **heart** , exists in the **state** or **reality** in which **you** think **you** are. _T4:7.5.9_

**Dialogues**

~ your body does not contain **you**. _D:1.24.2_

~ what **you** are going to find happening, as **you** accept your true **identity** , is a transference of **purpose** concerning your body. What once **you** saw as yourself, **you** now must come to **see** only as a **representation** of your **Self**. _D:1.24.3-4_

~ **we** are one body. _D:1.25.1_

~ there is a **difference** in **form** between the **Self** and the **elevated Self of form**. The **Self** was and **will** always **remain** **more** than the body. The body, however, is also newly the **Self**. The body is also, newly, one body, one **Christ**. _D:3.18.1-4_

~ while the **false** **representation** of the body as the **self** was almost as detrimental to your learning as the **false** **representation** of the **ego** as the **self** , the body, given your **choice** to return to who **you** truly are while still in **form** , continues, while the **ego** , of course, does not. _D:6.4.1_

~ what is required now is a **new** **way** of envisioning the body and its **service** to **you**. _D:6.4.5_

~ the body, as **all** else **you** **see** among the **living** , is, in fact, **living**. It exists as **living** **form**. _D:6.6.1-2_

~ like **all** that was created for the **time** of learning, the body was the perfect **learning device**. Seeing it as such assisted us in bringing about the end of the **time** of learning. But now your body—your **form** —must be seen in a **new** **way**. It is thus with **new** ideas about the body that **we** **will** begin the final **thought** reversal that **will** allow **you** to live in **form** as who **you** truly are. _D:6.5.1-4_

~ if **you** continue into the **new** with your **old** ideas about your body, the **old** body **will** be what **you** carry into the **new** with **you**. So let us begin with a suspension of **belief** in what **you** think **you** **know** about the body, in what **science** would tell **you** about the body, in what **you** **have** experienced as a body. _D:6.14.2-3_

~ start with the body as a given. It is what it is in terms of flesh and bone, and it is also the **form** that is now serving to represent the **truth** of who **you** are. _D:6.22.1-2_

~ **you** **have** already called upon the body to accept the indwelling of **Christ**. _D:6.24.3_

~ the body was, in the **time** of learning, representative of a learning **being**. The **ego** , however, narrowed your ideas of what the body was **here** to **learn** to ideas of survival. **You** thus learned to survive rather than to live. **You** increased the **life** span of the human **being** , but **you** increased not its capacity for true **living** or true learning. And with the extended **life** span came extended reasons for **fear** , and a physical **form** that **you** came to believe needed greater and greater resources to maintain. _D:6.25.1-5_

~ the body is now the embodiment of the true **Self** , the embodiment of **love** , the embodiment of divinity. Its existence is given as it was always given. But now the very **nature** of its existence has changed. _D:6.26.1-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ in the area of the body came another **form** of learning about which **you** saw yourself as having little **choice**. _D:Day3.3.1_

~ your bodies **will** thus regenerate rather than degenerate. _D:Day7.6.1-2_

~ the conditions that affect **life** are conditions that affect the body. _D:Day7.9.1_

~ it is the mind's **acceptance** of **love** that **will** lead the body to exhibit the effects of **love** in the **time** of **acceptance**. _D:Day7.9.3_

~ **you** can accept the body now as what it is in **all** its manifestations while not seeing it as "bound" by the particularity of **time** and **space**. It may still **exist** in a **particular** **time** and place, but this is simply the **nature** of one aspect of what **you** are. _D:Day7.8.2-3_

~ **you** are thus now called to discover and to **become** aware of **all** that **you** are. The body, rather than aiding **you** in learning as it once did, **will** aid **you** now in this **discovery**. _D:Day7.9.6-7_

~ **we** start with the body, returning **love** to it now. It is what it is, and nothing that it is, is deserving of anything other than **love**. _D:Day7.11.1-2_

~ the **old** **way** in which **you** related to your body, be it a **love** or a hate **relationship** , was a **particular** **relationship** with the vessel that only seemed to contain **you**. It was a **relationship** with the separated **self**. Now, because your **relationship** is with **wholeness** , **you** can transfer **love** from the **particular** to the **universal** by loving **all**. **We** are one body, one **Christ**. _D:Day7.14.4-7_

~ the **feeling** is provided by the body, a helpmate now in your **service** as a route to true **expression**. _D:Day8.22.4_

~ the body is the "given" **form** and while it was the perfect vehicle for learning in the **time** of learning, it is now **being** transformed into the perfect vehicle for the **realization** of the **elevated Self of form**. _D:Day10.12.2_

~ the body is now ready to **know** that it is embodied, enclosed, surrounded, taken up, by **consciousness**. _D:Day12.2.4_

~ **you** might think of your body as the cocoon, the carrier of your **potential**. _D:Day24.5.2_

**BODY OF CHRIST**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ this **new** **form** would **exist** **within** **you** ; that **you** would **become** the Body of Christ and **giving** and receiving would be complete. _T1:9.9.3_

~ **you** are the Body of Christ. _T1:9.10.1_

**Dialogues**

~ the body of Christ becomes **real** through this indwelling of **Christ** in **form**. _D:1.11.6_

**BOUNDARY**

| ˈbound(ə)rē |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ there is no boundary between **space** and **space**. There are only perceived boundaries. When a perceived boundary is perceived as solid, it is an **obstacle** , for it has no **space** available for joining. What is a boundary to a perceiver is met as an **obstacle** by the spacious **self**. _D:Day12.8.4-7_

~ **you** must but **remember** that those who still **have** boundaries **have** a need for those boundaries. _D:Day15.22.2_

~ **you** must respect the boundaries of those who are still in need of them and not offer **more** than can be received. _D:Day15.22.5_

~ just as **you** respect the boundaries of those who are still in need of boundaries, **you** also must respect your own boundary- **less** **space**. _D:Day15.25.4_

**BRIDGE**

| brij |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** **will** not **become** the bridge. **You** refuse to **recognize** that the **Christ** in **you** provides the bridge that **you** need only walk across to bridge the distance between **heaven** and **hell** , between your separated **self** and **union** with **God** and **all** your brothers and sisters. _C:P.20.3-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** are the bridge. **You** are the bridge to me. **I am** the bridge to **you**. **You** are the bridge to your brothers and sisters. They are your bridge to yourself. **You** **will** also be the bridge between **war** and **peace** , sadness and **joy** , **evil** and good, **sickness** and health. **You** **will** turn **anger** to gladness, tears to laughter, and replace weariness with **rest**. _D:Day39.46.1-7_

~ **you** now are the bridge between **time** and **eternity**. _D:Day39.48.8_

**BROTHER/SISTER**

| ˈbrəT͟Hər/ˈsistər |

**A Course of Love**

~ if **you** were to stop and take your brother's hand, the racecourse would **become** a valley full of lilies, and **you** would find yourself on the other side of the finish line, able at last to **rest**. _C:9.40.4_

~ **each** one of your brothers and sisters is as holy as **I** and as beloved to **God**. _C:19.9.1_

~ to **see** your brothers and sisters as those of long ago saw me is the **way** to achieve **relationship** of the highest order and relearn communion, the **language of the heart**. _C:19.10.3_

~ seeing the **truth** returns **you** to unity and to true communication or communion with your brothers and sisters in **Christ**. Your brothers and sisters in **Christ** is an **expression** that has always been meant to symbolize the unity of those who **know** the one **truth**. _C:21.9.4-5_

~ **each** of your brothers and sisters are **love** inviolate. _C:25.5.11_

**CALL**

| kôl |

**A Course of Love**

~ it is a call that comes not from weakness but from strength, and that goes out to **truth** and not **illusion**. It is a call whose **answer** **will** come to **you** quickly on the wings of angels, a fluttering your **heart** **will** feel. _C:11.16.1-2_

~ this is a call that requires **you** to do nothing but to **remain** faithful to it. **You** do not need to think about it, but only let it be. **You** need put no words on it, for words cannot express it any **more** than words can **teach** **you** what **love** is—or that **love** is. _C:11.17.1-3_

**Treatises**

~ this is a call to be as aware of your **Self** as **you** are capable of **being** aware of the sunset. _T1:4.4.8_

~ this is thus a call to realize that **you** **exist** in **relationship** , that your **relationship** calls for a **response** , and that **you** are given to **all** as **all** are given to **you**. _T1:4.6.2_

~ **you** do not **have** to "wait" to hear your **calling** even though some of **you** may feel as if **you** are in a **time** of waiting for **you** hear no such call. The call is to be who **you** are and this is happening at lightning speed, a speed that cannot be measured because of its simultaneous **nature**. _T2:4.18.1-2_

~ a **calling** **you** feel from **within** , as if **you** are listening to a **new** **voice** that would reveal your talents and desires to **you**. This type of **calling** comes as a **light** shone into the darkness and is revelatory in **nature**. Other calls **will** come as announcements, signs, or even as seeming demands. **All** call **you** to the **present** where **response** is able to be given. **All** call **you** "back" to who **you** are. _T2:5.1.3-7_

~ again let me stress the **present** -moment **nature** of **being** called. A call is, at its most basic **level** , a **means** of communication. If **you** are not listening, **you** **will** not hear the calls that are meant for **you**. If **you** are looking only for a specific type of call, **you** **will** miss many unlearning and learning opportunities. _T2:5.2.1-4_

~ the call that comes in the **form** of an announcement is the call that carries with it no ambiguity. The **certainty** of an announcement can alert **you** that it is **time** to act. This might be considered the highest **form** of call, the call from the already **accomplished** to the already **accomplished**. Such a call signals an end to learning from the lessons of the **past** and a **beginning** of learning from the **new**. This Course itself is such a call, an announcement of your readiness for the **new**. This is the **all** -encompassing call and is not about specifics. Because it is not about specifics **you** may find yourself still wondering what to do. Thus **you** must be aware of the calls that assist **you** in knowing what to do. _T2:5.3.1-8_

~ these calls **you** may think of as signs. Like literal signposts along a roadway, they alert **you** to turn your **attention** in a **particular** direction. _T2:5.4.1-2_

~ calls that seem to come in the **form** of demands are often calls that come to **you** from **within** the teaching and learning ground of relationships. **You** may be literally "called to account" for certain attitudes or behaviors. **You** may also be called upon to call **others** to account for their attitudes or behaviors. _T2:5.5.1-3_

~ these last two calls, the call that appears in the **form** of a sign and the call that comes in the **form** of a demand, are about specifics in a **way** that the call that comes as an announcement is not. They represent the remnants of learning from the **past** , the final breaking of **old** patterns. They may seem to signal **difficult** times, but they are times that must be gotten through and lessons that need to be allowed to pass through **you**. _T2:5.6.1-3_

~ the calls that come to **you** now as signs and demands **will** not only aid **you** in your **realization** of who **you** are and your **ability** to live as who **you** are, but **will** aid **all** **others**. _T2:8.3.3_

~ these are **all** calls to **know** your **Self** and to act on this knowing. These are calls to **truth**. _T2:8.4.1-2_

~ **you** who **have** followed me beyond the walls of the **house** of **illusion** are now called to begin the act of revealing and creating anew the **life** of **heaven** on earth. _T3:9.6.3_

~ **i** call **you** to offer the eternal to the eternal. _T3:20.15.3_

~ **you** cannot call **others** to abandon their **willingness** to live in **illusion** by joining them there! **You** can only call **others** to a **willingness** to set **illusion** aside and to begin the **journey** **home** to unity. **You** can only call to them from unity if **you** are already there! _T3:20.15.5-7_

~ these calls go out from **love** to **love**. It is not the words of your mouth that **will** be heard or the **language** of your **mind** that **will** be responded to. It is the **love** **within** your **heart** that **will** sound the call. And when it is heard, and your brother or sister reaches out to **you** , **all** **you** need **ask** for is a little **willingness**. **All** **you** need do is open the door through which **love** can enter. _T3:20.16.1-5_

~ **you** are **being** called to accept your true **identity** even while **you** retain the **form** of your **personal self**. _T3:21.17.1_

~ this call to return to your **Self** is **being** sounded far and wide and why it goes out to humble and ordinary people like yourself. There is no exclusivity to this call. _T3:21.21.5-6_

~ it but calls **all** to **love** and to live in the **abundance** of the **truth**. _T3:21.21.8_

~ **i am** **calling** **you** to the **new**. **I am** **calling** **you** to transform. **I am** **calling** **you** to **Christ-consciousness**. **I am** **calling** **you** to everlasting **consciousness** even while **you** still abide in **form**. _T4:4.12.1-4_

**Dialogues**

~ this is the call **you** **have** heard for as long as **you** can **remember** , the call **you** **have** heard as often as **you** **have** grown still and listened. It is the one beautiful note, the tolling of the bell of the Lord, your invitation to return **home**. This call has always sounded. It is not a **death** knell but a call to **life**. It is not of the **past** or the **future** but of the eternal now. It is **within** **you** as **we** speak, the tone and timbre of this **dialogue**. _D:3.2.1-6_

~ it calls to **you** and asks **you** to invest your **life** with the very **purpose** **you** **have** always desired. _D:3.3.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the only extreme measure called for now is the same extreme measure that **I** called for during my **life**. It is the call to **embrace** your **power**. _D:Day10.32.6-7_

~ if the call is there, the need is there. **Have** no question in your **mind** about this. _D:Day18.4.11-12_

**CALLING**

| ˈkôliNG |

**Treatises**

~ having a calling is spoken of in lofty terms. Few outside of those who feel they **have** a calling for something beyond their ordinary, limited, view of the themselves **use** this phrase. But many **recognize** that they **have** a calling even unto things the **world** considers mundane. _T2:2.2.1-3_

~ this list of **different** callings could be endless, and **each** could be considered unexplainable. Those who **seek** an explanation before following a calling, who look for reasons of a practical **nature** , who would **seek** guarantees of the rightness and outcome of following such a **call** , **seek** for proof they **have** already been given. The **call** itself is proof. It is proof of the heart's **ability** to be heard. Of the heart's **ability** to **recognize** the unseen and to imagine the existence of that which **will** reveal its true **nature** and its **joy**. _T2:2.7.1-5_

~ some of **you** would say **you** feel no calling, or that **you** feel many. **Others** would cite practical reasons for doing other than what they feel called to do. **All** of these ideas illustrate your **belief** that something other than your own **willingness** is necessary. _T2:2.9.3-5_

~ **being** who **you** are is what **you** are called to do. **You** are **here** asked to live a **life** as seamless as that of the birds of the air. **You** are asked to live a **life** where there is no **division** between who **you** are and what **you** do. This place of no **division** is the place of unity. _T2:4.13.1-4_

~ calling is not only something **you** **receive** but something **you** must **learn** to give. As **you** **have** come to **see** calling as a **gift** and a **treasure** as well as a **learning device** , so **you** must come to **see** your own **ability** to **call** forth intercession as a **gift** and **treasure** **you** are able to give in **service** to your brothers and sisters. _T2:12.7.3-4_

~ **you** do not need to give your **effort** to this calling. _T3:16.2.2_

~ **i am** not calling **you** to just another version of **being** good or mentally healthy, to exercises in visualization or positive **thinking**. **I am** calling **you** to live by the **truth** and to never deny it. To **see** no circumstance as cause to abandon it. _T3:20.10.5-7_

~ there is no "other" who can follow the **call** meant for **you**. No other who can give the **response** **you** are meant to give. _T3:21.24.1-2_

~ even while **I** **have** said that no one is called to leadership and while **I** **have** surely meant this and do not **call** for leaders to amass followers, **I** do not mean to dissuade any of **you** who feel a **call** to represent this Course and the teachings of this Course with your lives and **work**. Those who feel this **call** are surely needed. _T3:22.2.4-5_

**CAUSE/EFFECT**

| kôz/əˈfekt |

**Treatises**

~ cause and effect are the same. T4.1.19.4

**Dialogues**

~ there must be cause to engender effect. _D:1.8.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ a chain of events is merely another **way** of saying cause and effect. The chain of events of **creation** include, thus far, the **movement** of **being** into **form** and the **movement** of **being** beyond **form**. _D:Day1.26.5-6_

**CERTAINTY**

| ˈsərtntē |

**A Course of Love**

~ certainty and ease as surely go together. _C:28.13.8_

**Treatises**

~ when **you** **have** never known what is **you** **have** never been able to be certain. **You** **have** no **experience** with certainty other than—and this is a crucial other than—your certainty of your own **identity** , the very **identity** this Course has disproved. _T3:21.10.2-3_

**Dialogues**

~ your certainty about what is is a **false** certainty, a learned certainty based on the **fear** that caused **you** to order the **world** according to a set of facts and rules. _D:6.15.4_

~ **calling** what **you** think **you** **know** into question is not a **call** to return to **uncertainty** , but a **call** to allow **real** certainty to come. _D:6.16.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ certainty rather than **uncertainty** is your natural **state**. _D:Day3.44.1_

~ what **you** **have** begun to **see** is that the **mind** is not the **source** of certainty, no **matter** how much **knowledge** it attains. What **you** **have** perhaps begun to **see** in similar terms, is that money is also not the **source** of certainty, no **matter** how much it enables **you** to attain. Certainty, in other words, comes from somewhere else. This somewhere else **we** **have** defined as your true **reality** , the **reality** of **union**. **Living** in this **reality** , the **reality** of certainty, is the only key to **abundance**. _D:Day3.47.3-7_

~ certainty is a condition of the **present**. _D:Day7.20.2_

~ certainty cannot be predetermined. _D:Day8.16.2_

~ **being** aware of how **you** feel in the **present** moment is the only **way** to certainty. _D:Day8.16.3_

~ **you** **will** be **less** certain in your judgments and opinions, but this is highly appropriate and much needed **practice** for true certainty. _D:Day8.16.7_

~ **expression** of the certainty of unity is what the **elevated Self of form** is **all** about. Certainty of **mind** and **heart** has been realized by many. The **expression** of that certainty in **form** has not. _D:Day9.5.7-9_

~ certainty is complete **lack** of **doubt** and any perceived need for **doubt**. _D:Day10.4.3_

~ **you** **have** been asked to let go of **uncertainty** , not certainty. **You** **have** been assured of a certainty **you** never before believed **you** were capable of. This certainty is **beginning** to **form** **within** **you** but **will** not come into its **fullness** except through **experience**. _D:Day27.2.1-3_

**CHALLENGE**

| ˈCHalənj |

**Treatises**

~ **you** eagerly awaited **each** learning challenge in the hopes that it would bring **you** to the **state** in which **you** now abide! **You** dreaded **each** learning challenge because **you** feared that it would not bring **you** to this **state** and that **you** would continue to need to **learn** , and to perhaps suffer from, the conditions of learning! _T4:12.14.2-3_

~ **experience** the **joy** of sharing and the **new** challenges of creating the **new**! _T4:12.15.3_

~ your challenges **will** be joyous challenges! _T4:12.15.4_

~ advance the **idea** of joyous challenges that allow for **all** the **creativity** **you** **have** put into challenges of the **past** but without the **struggle**. _T4:12.18.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ that challenge was meant then, and continues to mean now, a **call** to a **new** **choice**. It asks that **you** challenge your **world** -view in a most thorough manner. _D:Day4.17.2-3_

~ the **problem** with this throughout the centuries has been a tendency to challenge one **world** -view only to replace it with another of no greater **truth** or value. My challenge has been reacted to as a challenge to be externalized, a **call** to **create** a **new** **system**. But nowhere in my **example** **life** is such a **system** found despite **all** attempts to make it so. _D:Day4.18.1-3_

~ the **old** challenges, the **old** reasons for existing **will** be gone. _D:Day4.47.1_

**Addendum**

~ the " **answer** " for those in need of challenges, is the challenge presented in the **call** to reside in unity and to express the divinity of their **nature** through sharing in **union** and **relationship**. _A.25.5_

**CHANCE**

| CHans |

**Treatises**

~ this game of chance is a **pattern** of the **old** **thought system** that **needs** to be replaced by **certainty**. If **you** **have** enjoyed the game of chance, play a **real** game and **have** fun doing it. Do not bring this attitude into your **new** **thought system** or your **new** **life**. _T3:22.15.4-6_

**CHANGE**

| CHānj |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** cannot change what **love** is or what **heaven** is. **All** that seems to make it change is the **function** or **purpose** **you** would give it. _C:14.23.2-3_

**Treatises**

~ the very **nature** of change is one of slow **realization**. Change occurs **all** around **you** every **day** without your **realization** of it. Only in retrospect are the greatest of changes seen. _T1:8.3.2-4_

~ change is not negative. _T2:4.14.6_

~ **you** cannot **effect** change without, without having effected change **within**. _T2:7.13.5_

~ **you** need not change the **world** but only your own **self**. How **difficult** to imagine that this one change could bring about **all** the changes **you** would imagine that even an army of angels could not bring about. _T3:8.8.5-6_

~ even those who **desire** great change **will** find these great changes **will** not cause them to be other than who they are. _T3:14.5.8_

~ there is a core, a center to **each** that is unchangeable. _T3:15.7.2_

~ two changes of enormous proportions are upon **you**. The **first** is the end of learning, the ramifications of which **will** only slowly occur to your **mind** and be surprising revelations there. The second is the **beginning** of sharing in unity, a change that your **heart** **will** gladly accept but that your **mind** , once again, **will** be continuously surprised to encounter. _T4:12.5.1-3_

**Dialogues**

~ change occurs in **time**. _D:6.26.4_

~ your **reality** has changed, and with that change, **new** patterns apply. This does not mean that the **truth** has changed, but that **you** **have** changed; and with your change, the **truth** , while it remains the **truth** , can now be presented in a **way** that speaks to who **you** are now rather than who **you** were when **you** began **A Course of Love**. _D:9.6.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ by **living** as who **you** are in the **world** , **you** **create** change in the **world**. **You** **create** change in the **world** through **relationship**. _D:Day19.6.2-3_

~ the changes that are to come are not about **time** -bound **evolution**. _D:Day28.18.3_

**CHANNEL**

| ˈCHanl |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the channel is the **means** , not the **source**. _D:Day21.4.1_

~ there is nothing channeled to one that isn't channeled to **all**. _D:Day21.6.5_

~ if **we** **have** spoken little of channeling **here** , it is only because **you** **have** been coming to **know** yourself as channels without the need for these words. _D:Day22.1.1_

~ **we** spoke of teachers **being** channels during the **time** of learning. It was also noted that **you** realize that **all** of **life** is a channel. There is a big **difference** between seeing a **teacher** as a channel, **all** of **life** as a channel, and the **Self** as a channel or channeler. _D:Day22.1.3-5_

~ an **idea** of expressing, but an **idea** of **expression** that is given and received, received and given. When the **word** channeling has been used in reference to spirituality, it has often been used to indicate an **intermediary** **function**. The channeler was perhaps seen as a mediator between the **living** and the dead or the **world** of **spirit** and the **world** of humanity. This **idea** separated the **living** and the dead, the spiritual and the human into two states—states that could, at their most basic levels—be seen as known and **unknown** states. The **teacher** in the **example** used was also an **intermediary** with the **separation** **being** between the known and the **unknown**. Thus, a channel could be seen as that through which the **unknown** moves into the **state** of knowing. This is the **way** in which **life** itself can be seen as a channel. _D:Day22.2.1-7_

~ **you** are also surrounded by **living** forces channeling to **you** constantly. _D:Day22.2.9_

~ channeling, in the commonly understood spiritual sense, can either promote a sense of **separation** or a sense of unity. The sense of **separation** comes when the channeler is seen as having something unavailable to everyone rather than **being** seen as a **means** to provide, or channel, availability to everyone. What **each** person channels is **unique** and only available through their **expression**. The availability is there for everyone. The **means** of **expression** is there for everyone. What is expressed is **different** because it is a combination of the **universal** (what is available) with the **individual** (what is expressed). _D:Day22.3.1-6_

~ the channel is what, from among **everything** , is allowed reception and **expression**. Some **will** find many avenues of channeling available to them, both through themselves and through spiritual channels, without realizing that both are the same because both require a **choice** , a **choice** to allow entry or **union**. In this **choice** , the **universe** (what is available) is channeled through the **expression** of (the **individual** ) desires. _D:Day22.3.9-11_

~ what **you** choose to **know** and how **you** choose to **know** it is an act of channeling. _D:Day22.4.5_

~ there is also, however, the **idea** of a channel as a passage to take into consideration. _D:Day22.5.1_

~ there is no **intermediary** **function** involved in channeling, but a **function** of **union**. _D:Day22.5.3_

~ **you** might think of yourself as a channel through which **union** with **God** is expressed and made **real** **here** and now. _D:Day22.10.1_

**CHARITY**

| ˈCHerədē |

**A Course of Love**

~ your **idea** of charity is based on some having **more** and some having **less**. _C:20.45.3_

**Treatises**

~ charity is a **responsibility**. _T1:4.13.9_

**CHILD OF GOD**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ child of God, **you** **have** no need to try at **all** , no need to be burdened or to grow tired and weary. **You** who **want** to accomplish much good in the **world** realize that only **you** can be **accomplished**. _C:P.14.1-2_

~ nothing stands between the child of God and the child's own **Source**. _C:4.5.6_

~ child of God, **you** are alien **here** but need not be alien to your **Self**. _C:4.6.1_

**CHOICE**

| CHois |

**A Course of Love**

~ a choice for **love** creates **love**. A choice for **fear** creates **fear**. _C:1.18.9-10_

~ make a **new** choice! The choice that your **heart** yearns to make for **you** and that your **mind** is finding increasingly **difficult** to deny. When **you** choose unity over **separation** , **you** choose **reality** over **illusion**. **You** end **opposition** by choosing **harmony**. **You** end **conflict** by choosing **peace**. _C:6.5.1-5_

~ while a choice for **heaven** is indeed a choice to renounce **hell** , while **truth** is indeed a choice to renounce **illusion** , these are the only **real** choices that **exist** , and they do not extend into your illusions but only into **truth**. _C:6.14.6_

~ this is the choice set before **you** —to go on believing in the **illusion** **you** **have** made, or to begin to **see** the **truth**. _C:9.8.6_

~ it is sufficient to begin with a temporary choice, though a lasting choice **will** be required before **you** **will** feel the shift of cause and quit worrying about **effect**. _C:11.14.4_

~ **real** choice lies before **you**. No, this is not an easy choice, or it would **have** been **chosen** long ago and saved much **suffering** and put an end to **hell**. But it also is not a **difficult** choice, nor one that is in **truth** yours **alone** to make. This choice cannot be made without your brother and is indeed your brother's holy choice, as well as his birthright and your own. _C:15.12.1-4_

~ in this choice lies one united **will** for **glory** that knows neither **specialness** nor **separation**. In this choice lies **life** eternal. _C:15.12.7-8_

~ your choice lies with **God** or with the **self** **you** believe **you** **have** succeeded in separating from Him, and based on this choice **alone** is how **you** **see** determined. _C:16.6.6_

~ as **you** chose to **create** a **state** of **separation** , **you** must choose to **create** a **state** of unity. _C:18.15.3_

~ as **you** once chose **separation** **you** can now choose unity. Not knowing that unity was a choice prevented **you** from making this choice before now. Now **I** tell **you** clearly, the choice is yours. Choose once again. _C:29.19.1-4_

~ as **you** make your choice, **remember** your choice must be wholehearted, for it is in **wholeheartedness** that the **power** of choice exists. A split **mind** and **heart** can prevent **you** from utilizing the **power** of choice, but it cannot prevent **you** from claiming this choice as your own. _C:29.20.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ now the choice is before **you** to do one of two things: to proceed toward **love** or **fear**. _T3:4.8.4_

~ the only choice that has been made is that of attachment to the human **form** as the **self**. The choice that hasn't been made is the choice to leave this **idea** behind. The choice that has been made is to believe in a savior who could **have** , but did not, **keep** **you** from this **suffering**. The choice that has not been made is the choice to believe in the **Christ** - **Self** who is the only savior, rather than the **ego** - **self** , which is **all** **you** **have** needed saving from. _T3:8.5.3-6_

~ this choice is not the choice of continuous **decision** making but simply the choice to live by the **truth** of the **new** **thought system**. _T3:14.8.2_

~ it is a choice to live in **truth** or in **illusion**. _T3:19.16.3_

~ the choices that lie before **you** **will** be choices of where your thoughts and actions **will** **have** the greatest **effect**. _T3:20.1.5_

~ choosing is not taking. Choosing implies **relationship**. _T4:1.4.4-5_

~ **all** of the commandments and **all** of the beliefs of **all** of the world's religions are but related to this **idea** of choosing, a process of the **free will** with which **you** **all** are endowed. _T4:1.4.7_

~ it may be a choice made regarding **means** or **content** , a choice made from **fear** or made from **love**. But there is, in other words, no **lack** of choice. A choice is always made. A choice to accept or reject, say yes or say no, to **learn** this or to **learn** that, to **learn** now or to **learn** later. _T4:1.8.3-6_

~ there but seems to be a **difference** in the "educated" choice and the "uneducated" choice. Many of **you** may look back on choices that **you** made and say, " **I** would **have** **chosen** differently if **I** had but known" this or that. The choice is the **way** of coming to **know**. No choice is not such. No choice ever excludes anyone from coming to **know** his or her **chosen** **lesson**. _T4:1.9.1-5_

~ the choice that lies before **you** now concerns what it is **you** would come to **know**. The question asked throughout this Course is if **you** are willing to make the choice to come to **know** your **Self** and **God** now. _T4:1.11.1-2_

~ these are the only two choices, the choices between **truth** and **illusion** , **fear** and **love** , unity and **separation** , now and later. What **you** must **understand** is that **all** choices **will** lead to **knowledge** of **Self** and **God** , as no choices are offered that are not such. _T4:1.11.7-8_

~ your choice matters in **time** , even if **all** **will** make the same choice eventually. _T4:1.11.10_

~ **you** may still **see** but two choices: **peace** or **struggle**. But with such an attitude, **you** would soon be struggling to maintain your **peace**. There is another choice, and it lies **within**. _T2:1.7.1-3_

~ to align your **will** with the **Will** of **God** is to make the choice for **Christ-consciousness** , to make the choice to be aware of who **you** truly are. To **know** your **Self** as my brother or sister in **Christ** ; to be the **Body of Christ**. _T4:5.10.1-2_

~ **i am** **calling** **you** to make this choice now. This is not a choice automatic to **you** in human **form** or even upon the **death** of your human **form**. _T4:5.11.1-2_

~ **all** choices are forever encompassed by the **embrace**. There is no wrong choice. No one is excluded. **All** are **chosen**. _T4:6.5.7-10_

~ there is room in the **universe** , dear brothers and sisters, for everyone's choice. **I** **call** **you** to a **new** choice, but not to **intolerance** of those who are not ready to make it. **I** **call** **you** to a **new** choice with the full **realization** that your choice **alone** **will** affect millions of your brothers and sisters, as long as—and this is a crucial as long as- **you** do not give in to ideas of **separation** and disunity. _T4:6.6.1-3_

~ **you** do not **have** to choose to **share** , because **you** cannot not **share**. **You** do not **have** to continually choose unity, because **you** **have** already **chosen** unity and abide there. **You** do, however, **have** to refrain from choosing **separation**. **You** do **have** to refrain from choosing learning and the conditions of learning. _T4:12.29.1-4_

**Dialogues**

~ the **difference** between the **way** that is and what is lies in choice. While **you** think that **you** can choose to stand apart from **God** , apart from **Love** , apart from **Creation** , **you** cannot. But **you** can, while existing in **time** and **form** , choose to stand apart from **movement** , **being** , and **expression**. **You** can choose, in other words, to **exist** without allowing **spirit** to move **you** , without allowing yourself to be who **you** are, without allowing for **self** - **expression**. _D:16.9.1-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** were required to make a choice between the **thought system** of the **ego** and the **thought system** of unity. This choice was made, and thus **you** **have** arrived **here** and left behind the **state** of the initiate, the **time** of waiting. **You** **have** **chosen**. **You** are merely asked now to look at what **you** **have** **chosen** and to **understand** what **you** inherit through the secret of **succession**. _D:Day1.6.2-5_

~ **i** do not **have** to spell out this choice for **you** , for **you** **know** exactly what it **means**. It **means** **you** **will** be as **I am**. It **means** **you** **will** live from **love** rather than from **fear**. It **means** that **you** **will** **demonstrate** what **living** from **love** is. It **means** that **you** **will** resurrect to eternal **life** **here** and now. It **means** no turning back, no return to **fear** or **anger** , no return to **separation** , no return to **judgment**. It **means** no longer trying to leave these things behind for they **will** be gone. It **will** mean no longer striving. It **will** mean no **specialness**. It **will** mean the **individual** is gone, and the **self** of **union** **all** that continues to **exist**. It **will** mean **peace** , **certainty** , **safety** , and **joy** with no price. _D:Day4.46.1-11_

~ this choice has come before **you** might **have** expected it to. It does not come at the end but at the **beginning** of our **time** together for a **reason**. This is simply because this choice is the **beginning**. This is the choice that allows us to continue our **dialogue** as one. To talk **heart** to **heart**. To **have** the kind of discourse that can only be had without **fear**. To truly **experience** **relationship**. It is from this **beginning** that **you** **will** come to be as **I am**. _D:Day4.56.1-8_

~ every choice is thus a **means** of channeling. It is taking the infinite number of experiences or information available and channeling only what one desires to **know**. _D:Day22.4.1-2_

~ moving from an externally directed to an internally directed **experience** of **life** creates unlimited choices. _D:Day19.1.1-3_

~ it is a choice so **different** and a **means** so revolutionary that it **will** take some getting used to. _D:Day28.8.2_

~ your **creation** in unity and **relationship** **will** be free of choice. _D:Day35.21.3_

~ this is the only choice **you** **will** still **have** to make—the choice to leave behind the **old** in order to be. _E.2.7_

**CHOSEN**

| ˈCHōzən |

**Treatises**

~ it is this **idea** of **being** chosen that **will** cause your **mind** to conclude that some are not chosen now and that many were not chosen in the **past**. _T4:1.3.3_

~ **i am** using this **word** specifically because of the precedent of its **use** historically. Many **different** **groups** believe they are the chosen people of **God** , or Buddha, or Mohammed. Many of this generation believe they are a chosen generation. Neither **way** of **thinking** is wrong. **All** are chosen. _T4:1.6.2-6_

~ this is the same as **being** asked if **you** are willing to be the chosen of **God**. This is the same question that has been asked throughout the existence of **time**. Some **have** chosen to come to **know** themselves and **God** directly. **Others** **have** chosen to come to **know** themselves and **God** indirectly. _T4:1.11.3-6_

~ **all** are chosen and so it could not be otherwise. _T4:1.11.9_

~ **you** **have** completed God's act of choosing **you** by choosing **God**. This is **all** the chosen people are in **time** —those who **have** chosen **God** as **God** has chosen them. That **you** **have** chosen **God** and chosen a **new** **means** of coming to **know** the **truth** —the **means** of **Christ-consciousness** , is what has ushered in the **new** **time**. _T4:1.18.1-3_

~ any text that tells **you** that **you** or those of your kind or **time** are **more** or better than any other is not speaking the **truth**. This is why **we** began with the chosen and **will** return again and again to the statement that **all** are chosen. _T4:2.7.5-6_

~ those who believe that only some **will** be chosen can **create** a scenario in which it appears that some are chosen and some are not. _T4:6.3.1_

~ **you** must **see** as **I** **see** and **see** that **all** are chosen. _T4:2.17.6_

**CHRIST**

| krīst |

**A Course of Love**

~ what is it in **you** that is capable of learning? What is it in **you** that recognizes that **ego** is not what **you** are? What is it in **you** that recognizes your **spirit**? What is it in **you** that hovers between two worlds, the **world** of the ego's dominion and that of **spirit**? What recognizes the **difference**? The Christ in **you**. _C:P.6.1-6_

~ the Christ in **you** is that which is capable of learning in human **form** what it **means** to be a **child of God**. The Christ in **you** is that which is capable of bridging the two worlds. This is what is meant by the **second coming** of Christ. _C:P.7.2-4_

~ christ is what **God** made. _C:P.8.2_

~ christ is God's **extension** of who He is. _C:P.8.4_

~ the Christ in **you** is also still and ever **present**. _C:P.24.4_

~ the **way** to overcome the dualism that threatens even the most astute of learners is through the Christ in **you** , through the One who knows what it is to be God's child and also to walk the earth as child of man. This is not your helper, as the **Holy Spirit** is, but your **identity**. While the **Holy Spirit** was properly called upon to **change** your **perception** and show **you** the **false** from the true, your recognition of the Christ in **you** is proper in this **time** of identification of your undivided **Self**. _C:P.25.1-3_

~ the Christ in **you** teaches only in the sense of imparting **knowledge** that **you** already **have** and once again **have** **access** to as **you** **join** with your own **real** **Self**. _C:P.38.2_

~ your joining with Christ is the **accomplishment** and completion of **all** lessons. _C:P.38.5_

~ the Christ in **you** is your shared **identity**. This shared **identity** made **Jesus** one with Christ. The two names mean the same thing, as **oneness** is what was always shared and always **will** be. **You** are eternally one with Christ. _C:P.39.1-4_

~ your **real** **Self** is the Christ in **you**. How could it be anything but **love** , or **see** with eyes other than those of **love**? _C:2.10.1-2_

~ the Christ in **you** does not weep, for the Christ in **you** sees with eyes of **love**. _C:2.10.6_

~ the Christ in **you** is wholly human and wholly divine. _C:5.1.1_

~ christ is the "part" of **God** that resides in **you** , not in **separation** but in the eternal **wholeness** in which **God** and **you** together **exist** in **truth**. _C:10.4.4_

~ in **each** is the Christ available to be seen and experienced as it was from me. _C:19.7.2_

~ the reign of Christ is at hand. _C:20.13.6_

~ christ is synonymous with **oneness**. _C:20.17.13_

~ christ is the **holy relationship** that exists between **all** and **God** , providing the **bridge** that spans the very **concept** of between and provides for the connection of unity. Thus your **relationship** with Christ always was and always **will** be. Your **task** **here** is to come to **know** that **relationship** once again. _C:27.8.2-4_

~ the **thought** of **God** by which **you** were created is synonymous with the Christ in **you**. It is your **relationship** with your **Source** and **all** that He created. _C:27.9.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ only through the Christ **within** **you** does this **giving** and receiving **become** one in **truth**. _T1:9.8.7_

~ the Christ is your **identity**. **Remember** that it is the Christ in **you** that learns and raises learning to the holiest of levels. It is the Christ in **you** that learns to walk the earth as **child of God** , as who **you** really are. _T2:3.3.3-5_

~ if **you** still balk at the **idea** that the Christ could be in need of learning, then your **idea** of the Christ is still based on an **old** **way** of **thinking** , as are your ideas of learning. _T2:3.6.1_

~ christ can be seen as the seed of your **identity**. Christ is the continuous and on-going **expansion** of the same **thought** of **love** that brought **life** into existence. Christ is your **identity** in the broadest sense imaginable. Christ is your **identity** **within** the unity that is **creation**. _T2:3.8.1-4_

~ the Christ is your **Self** as **you** were created and **remain**. The Christ is the **accomplished** **Self**. _T2:6.10.4-5_

~ the **access** to what seems to lie beyond your **ability** lies in the Christ in **you**. _T2:10.8.2_

~ the Christ in **you** is the **real** **you**. The Christ in **you** is the **Self** who **you** **become** when **you** **have** united **heart** and **mind** once again in **wholeheartedness**. _T2:10.13.1-2_

~ the Christ in **you** has no need to **plan**. A need to come to **know**.yes. But a need to **plan**.no. The Christ in **you** **needs** not for **you** to choose a **lesson** **plan** , but to let **life** itself be your **chosen** **way** of learning. _T2:10.19.1-4_

~ the Christ in **you** is **relationship**. _T2:11.1.1_

~ if Christ is **relationship** , and if the Christ in **you** is the **real** **you** , then this **all** -encompassing **relationship** , both **within** **you** and without **you** , both **you** and **all** **you** are in **relationship** with, is that third something that is the **holy relationship**. _T2:12.9.3_

~ while the Christ in **you** has been compared to the seed of **all** **you** are, what **you** **have** had revealed to **you** **here** is that the Christ is also the **relationship** of **all** that would bring the seed to fruition. _T2:12.11.3_

~ the Christ- **mind** and the thoughts that come from the **voice** of the Christ- **mind** **will** be gentle. _T3:10.9.3_

~ thoughts of the Christ- **mind** **will** hold a **certainty** that cannot be disguised. _T3:10.9.6_

~ it is not in the **nature** of Christ, it is not in the **nature** of the Christ- **Self** to **know** **fear** or **judgment**. _T4:7.5.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ christ is held **within** **you** as the center or **heart** of yourself—as your **identity** and God's **identity**. Christ is the " **I Am** " of **God** , the **expression** of " **I Am** " in **form** , the animator and the animated, the informer and the informed, the **movement** , **being** , and **expression** of **creation**. Christ is that which anointed **form** with the " **I Am** " of **God**. _D:Day17.2.6-9_

~ the Christ in **you** is what was created to inspire **movement** beyond simple **awareness** to knowing. _D:Day17.4.4_

~ "Between" **you** and me is the presence of Christ. **Remember** **we** **have** talked about the Christ "in" **you**. **Remember** that **you** **have** been told of Christ **being** a **bridge**. When **you** relate to anyone, Christ is there, bridging the distance that would **keep** **you** **separate** and holding **you** in **relationship**. Christ has provided the necessary link between the **separate** and **each** other, between **all** and **God**. _D:Day39.7.1-5_

~ to be individuated **being** in **union** and **relationship** is to be Christ, to realize that what **we** **call** Christ is the integration of **relationship** into the **Self**. _D:Day39.8.4_

~ **you** must now accept yourself as Christ, or as the **bridge** of **relationship** between **all** that is individuated in **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day39.9.3_

~ christ is direct **relationship** with me. _D:Day39.10.6_

~ the Christ in **you** is the **accomplished**. The Christ in **you** is that which, upon this final **acceptance** , returns your **wholeness** to **you**. _D:Day39.41.4-5_

~ as the Christ in **you** ceases to be a **bridge** , the Christ in **you** is not only integrated into **you** but integrated into me. **I** could no **more** reach across **time** and **space** without this **relationship** than could **you**. _D:Day39.49.2-3_

**CHRIST-CONSCIOUSNESS**

| krīst-ˈkän(t)SHəsnəs |

**Treatises**

~ **i am** Christ-consciousness. Christ-consciousness is **awareness** of what is. _T4:2.1.6-7_

~ the many forms are made one **body** through Christ-consciousness. The one **body** is one **energy** given many expressions in **form**. The same **life** -force courses through **all** that exists in **matter** in the **form** of this **energy**. **Awareness** of this one **Source** of **energy** , and thus this one **energy** existing in **everything** , and creating the **life** in **everything** , is Christ-consciousness. It is also what **we** **have** been referring to as **heart** , as the center of your **being**. _T4:5.3.1-5_

~ your **state** of **consciousness** , be **you** **alive** or dead, asleep or awake, literally or figuratively, is a part of the **consciousness** that is Christ-consciousness. _T4:6.1.2_

~ christ-consciousness is not a static **state** of beliefs any **more** than singular **consciousness** is. Christ-consciousness is **consciousness** of what is. While **consciousness** of what is leaves not the room for **error** that **perception** leaves, it leaves open room for **creation**. In **each** moment, what is, while still existing in the one **truth** of God's **law** of **love** , can find many expressions. **You** can **exist** in Christ-consciousness, as **have** many **others** of the **past** , and through your existence in Christ-consciousness, affect much with what **you** **envision** , imagine and **desire** , in **love** , without changing the **world** and the **nature** of the human **being** any **more** than **have** those who **have** come before. The changes those who **have** existed in Christ-consciousness **have** wrought **have** been great, but they did not sustain Christ-consciousness, primarily because they were unable to **share** Christ-consciousness directly due to **individual** and collective **choice**. _T4:6.7.6_

~ those who sustain Christ-consciousness **will** abide **within** it free of **judgment**. They **will** not **seek** to **create** their version of a perfect **world** and to force it upon **others** , but **will** abide **within** the perfect **world** that is in the **vision** of Christ-consciousness. This perfect **world** **will** be observable to them and in them. It **will** be revealed to them and through them. It **will** be revealed to them through what they can **envision** , imagine and **desire** without **judgment**. It **will** not take the **effort** of their bodies, but the **freedom** of a **consciousness** joined in unity, a **consciousness** able to **envision** , imagine and **desire** without **judgment** and without **fear**. _T4:7.4.1-6_

~ **you** cannot sustain Christ-consciousness while **fear** remains in **you** , just as **you** cannot sustain Christ-consciousness while **judgment** remains in **you**. _T4:7.5.2_

~ there has always been a **state** of **consciousness** that **we** are **here** **calling** Christ-consciousness. There has never been a sustained Christ-consciousness in **form**. The Christ-consciousness that has always existed, a **consciousness** of what is, is an **all** -inclusive **consciousness** , the **consciousness** of the **embrace**. It is not a learned **state** , as was the singular **consciousness** of the human **form**. It is your innate **consciousness** , a **consciousness** far too vast to be learned but one easily shared by **all**. _T4:12.22.2-6_

~ **you** , as a **being** joined in Christ-consciousness, must **share** this **consciousness** in order to **know** it. It cannot be grasped by the singular **consciousness**. _T4:12.23.2-3_

~ christ-consciousness is not available to the separated **self**. Christ-consciousness is the **consciousness** of unity for unity is what is. _T4:12.23.6-7_

~ **you** now **exist** **within** a shared **consciousness**. _T4:12.24.1_

~ **free will** continues in the **pattern** of Christ-consciousness. **Love** continues. The **individual** or singular **consciousness** that was appropriate to the **time** of learning does not continue. _T4:12.28.1-3_

**Dialogues**

~ christ-consciousness is **consciousness** of what is. _D:5.19.11_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ your own true **consciousness** , the **consciousness** that **we** truly **share**. _D:Day10.19.1_

~ this shared **consciousness** is the **source** of **wisdom** because it is shared—shared in unity and **relationship**. _D:Day10.24.7_

~ christ-consciousness is the **awareness** of existence through **relationship**. It is not **God**. It is not man. It is the **relationship** that allows the **awareness** that **God** is **everything**. It has been called **wisdom** , Sophia, **spirit**. It is that without which **God** would not **know** **God**. It is that which differentiates **all** from nothing. Because it is that which differentiates, it is that which has taken **form** as well as that from which **form** arose. It is the **expression** of **oneness** in **relationship** with Its **Self**. _D:Day11.7.1-9_

~ christ-consciousness is **awareness** of what is. It is the **awareness** of connection and **relationship** of **All** to **All**. It is the merging of the unknowable and the knowable through **movement** , **expression** , and **being**. _D:Day11.8.3-5_

~ christ-consciousness is the **space** of **all** that is. _D:Day12.4.4_

~ christ-consciousness replaces **perception** with knowing, **form** with **space**. _D:Day12.7.2_

~ from **within** Christ-consciousness, **you** begin to be able to **know** and to make known without **observation** or observance of the physical. This occurs through your **relationship** with the **unknown**. _D:Day15.4.2-3_

~ **we** **have** spoken of Christ-consciousness as the **awareness** of existence through **relationship**. _D:Day17.1.3_

~ christ-consciousness is neither **God** nor man but the **relationship** that allows the **awareness** that **God** is **everything**. **You** **have** been told Christ-consciousness has also been known as **wisdom** , Sophia, **spirit**. Christ-consciousness thus obviously predates the man **Jesus** , and **creation** itself. It is both the feminine and masculine, the " **identity** " of **God**. _D:Day17.2.1-4_

~ this "part" of **God** , the animator and informer, is Christ-consciousness. _D:Day17.3.8_

~ the drive that kept **you** **reading** this Course, caused **you** to enter this **dialogue** , kept **you** examining, kept **you** attempting to move beyond learning to a **new** **means** of knowing. _D:Day17.4.1_

~ while no one has **more** **access** to Christ-consciousness than another, some exhibited **more** **willingness** to let that **consciousness** be their guiding force—that by which their **being** gained **movement** and **expression**. _D:Day17.5.2_

~ christ-consciousness is not the **second coming** of **Christ** but the **first** coming—the **movement** of **being** into **form**. _D:Day17.7.1_

~ **representation** of the **power** of Christ-consciousness in human **form** was necessary to complete the cycle of **birth** , **death** , and rebirth. _D:Day17.8.3_

~ christ-consciousness is your **will** to **know** , to be, and to express. _D:Day17.11.1_

~ christ-consciousness is **God** **within** **you** , your **particular** manifestation of **God** and **relationship** with the **God** **within**. _D:Day18.2.13_

**CHURCH**

| CHərCH |

**Treatises**

~ **you** **have** long waited to **receive** what **you** **have** **thought** could come only from some other. Your churches are but evidence of this as **you** **seek** from religion an intercessor, one to facilitate for **you** this receiving or **communion**. _T1:9.8.5-6_

**CLAIM**

| klām |

**A Course of Love**

~ claiming your **identity** and your **power** to make choices is an act that comes from an entirely **different** place than **decision** -making. Claiming is akin to **prayer** and is but an asking, an asking for your true **inheritance**. _C:29.21.1-2_

~ claiming is also contrary to how **you** **have** perceived of it in terms of claiming something for your own: **You** claim not to own or to **separate** what **you** **have** from what another has and then to **call** it special. **You** claim in order to reclaim your **Self**. _C:29.22.2-3_

**COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS**

| kəˈlektiv ˈkän(t)SHəsnəs |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the collective consciousness is that which links every **being** with every other **being** in unity and **relationship**. _D:Day37.21.7_

~ this "link" is very powerful. Where **willingness** is demonstrated, this link can be moved to be, rather than "just" a link, a cooperative **relationship**. This cooperative **relationship** , accessed through **willingness** , could also be called the " **being** " that **you** appeal to when **you** appeal to **God**. _D:Day37.22.1-2_

**COMMON DENOMINATOR**

| ˈkɑmən dəˈnɑməˌneɪdər |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what is held in common is shared and is a characteristic **representation** of the **whole**. Just as simple fractions can be added together to achieve **wholeness** once a common denominator is found, your own fractiousness can **yield** to **wholeness** through the common denominator of the **self**. A common denominator is simply that which yields to **wholeness**. _D:Day30.1.1-3_

~ the common denominator is not by itself the **whole** , but is, in combination, the **whole**. In order for a common denominator to be found, **more** than one (fraction, part, or **variable** ) must **exist**. The **purpose** of finding a common denominator is to translate what is **more** than one into one. An assumption of **wholeness** is "common" in every denominator. _D:Day30.2.2-5_

~ a denominator is a named entity. To denominate is to name. _D:Day30.3.1-2_

**COMMUNION**

| kəˈmyo͞onyən |

**A Course of Love**

~ communion is **union** that **we** **will** speak of **here** as **being** of the highest **level** , though in **truth** , no levels **separate** **union** at **all**. _C:8.3.1_

~ **i** **have** referred to the true **language of the heart** as communion, or **union** of the highest **level** , and of **remembrance** of who **you** are **being** the **means** by which communion can return to **you**. _C:18.21.3_

**COMPARISON**

| kəmˈperəsən |

**A Course of Love**

~ comparison of one thing to another—a comparison that seeks out differences and magnifies them and names one thing this and one thing that—is the basis of **all** learning in your **world**. It is based on **contrast** and opposites and on separating into **groups** and species. _C:7.3.1-2_

~ there is no need to compare what your **heart** can feel. _C:21.3.8_

**Treatises**

~ cease **all** acts of comparison. _T3:22.4.5_

~ the **ability** to cease **all** acts of comparison **will** arise out of this **observation** of your **new** **Self**. _T3:22.11.1_

**Dialogues**

~ one of the methods employed by your **teacher** **within** the text of your coursework was that of comparison, a method that **will** be used **less** and **less** as the **time** of learning passes. _D:6.2.1_

~ during your **time** of learning, **I** used a method of comparison— **I** compared the **real** to the unreal, the **false** to the true, **fear** to **love** —in order to point out the **insanity** of your **perception** and the perfect **sanity** of the **truth**. _D:6.2.3_

**COMPASSION**

| kəmˈpaSHən |

**A Course of Love**

~ compassion is not what **you** **have** made of it. The Bible instructs **you** to be compassionate as **God** is compassionate. **You** **have** defined it unlike the compassion of **God**. To believe **God** looks upon misery and responds with sympathy and **concern** and does not end the misery is to believe in a **God** who is compassionate as **you** are compassionate. _C:2.11.1-4_

~ to be compassionate as **God** is compassionate is to **see** as **God** sees. Again, **I** stress to **you** , this is not about looking upon misery and saying to yourself **you** **see** it not. **I am** not an advocate of heartlessness but **wholeheartedness**. _C:2.12.1-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **god** is **all** compassionate **being** everywhere—not one **being** of compassion! In **union** and **relationship** **you** realize this. And **you** realize that **all** compassionate **being** everywhere is a **consciousness** or beingness that **you** **share**. And further, **you** realize that what is possible is for **you** to **become** the one **being** of compassion that **you** already are in **God**. _D:Day37.9.2-5_

**COMPETITION**

| ˌkämpəˈtiSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ competition that leads to **individual** **achievement** has **become** the **idol** **you** would glorify. _C:9.41.3_

**CONCEPT**

| ˈkänˌsept |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** concepts are born from the mind's **separate** thoughts. _C:19.17.9_

~ concepts that cannot be felt with your **heart** are of no **use** to **you** now, for they are meant for their usefulness rather than for their **service**. Concepts that touch your **heart** serve **you** through this touch. They also begin to **help** break **you** away from the need for comparisons. _C:21.3.6-8_

~ your **heart** has not been open to the appeals of **love** partially because of your **use** of concepts. Concepts **have** been used to order your **world** and to assist your **mind** in keeping track of **all** that is in it. Your **mind** does not need this assistance. To begin to conceptualize in ways that touch your **heart** **will** free your **mind** of its **reliance** on **thought** concepts, thus allowing **heart** and **mind** to speak the same **language** or to be communicated with in the same **way**. _C:21.4.3-6_

**CONCERN**

| kənˈsərn |

**A Course of Love**

~ your personal concerns are concerns **you** **have** been taught to believe **you** **have**. They are small concerns and they are among the reasons for your **belief** in your inability to **effect** **change** **within** your own **life** and certainly **within** the greater **life** of the **universe**. _C:20.47.1-2_

~ these concerns are a **matter** of **perception** , and are things your **mind** has been trained to **see** as **being** **within** its scope. It is as if **you** **have** cordoned off a little section of **life** and said, "These are the things that relate to my existence and to me and they are **all** **I** need concern myself with." Even when **you** think of expanding your view, **you** deem that **expansion** unrealistic. **You** cannot do **everything**. **You** cannot **effect** **world** **peace**. **You** can barely **keep** your personal concerns in order. Your **effort** to do so is **all** that stands between **you** and chaos. _C:20.47.4-10_

**CONFESSION**

| kənˈfeSHən |

**A Course of Love**

~ the **idea** of confessing is an **idea** of sharing. Rather than **thinking** of who **you** are **being** **all** tied up with sin and a need for **forgiveness** , think of this simply as a need to **share**. This would seem antithetical with what **I** **have** already said—that what **you** **keep** **you** lose, and what **you** **share** **you** **gain**. **You** think of confessing as a **way** of letting go and getting rid of that which **you** do not **want**. Some of **you** believe this can be done and **others** don't. Those who believe in it believe in sin, and that it can be replaced by **forgiveness**. Those who do not believe in it do not believe that sin can be forgiven and do not **seek** **forgiveness** , believing **forgiveness** is something that they do not deserve. Few truly believe in **atonement** or undoing. Few truly believe there is no sin. Few truly believe that they are not the sum of their behaviors. How, then, is confession good for the soul? _C:31.18.4-14_

~ **you** cannot be honest while **you** do not **know** the **truth** about yourself. If **you** remembered your **Self** , notions such as confession **being** good for the soul would be no **more**. But in order to **remember** your **Self** , **you** need a **means** of learning who **you** are. **Everything** that has ever happened in your **life** has happened as a **learning device** to **help** **you** **remember** who **you** are. Those things about which **you** feel guilt and shame are simply the remnants of lessons unlearned. While **you** hang on to them by keeping them hidden, no learning occurs. _C:31.19.1-6_

**CONFIDENCE**

| ˈkänfədəns |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **we** **will** **practice** **here** to build your confidence, a confidence sorely lacking. What confidence is it of which **we** speak? The confidence to be yourself. This confidence is what must precede true **certainty** in this **time** of **elevation** of the **self** of **form**. The **certainty** that arises from unity is **different** from this confidence in the **self** of **form** and they must be realized together for the **elevation** of the **self** of **form** to take place. What good **will** be the **certainty** of unity if the **self** of **form** has no confidence in its **ability** to express it? _D:Day37.9.1-6_

~ confidence in your feelings **will** lead to confidence in your **Self**. _D:Day10.6.1_

**CONFLICT**

| ˈkänˌflikt |

**A Course of Love**

~ only **separation** creates conflict. _C:20.26.4_

**CONFUSION**

| kənˈfyo͞oZHən |

**Treatises**

~ the only thing that **will** dispel this confusion and bring **you** the **certainty** that is needed to **create** the **new** **world** is an understanding of **creation** and your role **within** it, both as Creators and Created. _T4:1.15.2_

**CONSCIOUSNESS**

| ˈkän(t)SHəsnəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** shy away from thoughts of a consciousness beyond that which **you** are aware because of **fear**. _C:17.3.1_

~ consciousness of which **you** are unaware is not **magic** , superstition, or **insanity**. _C:17.4.1_

**Treatises**

~ **you** **exist** **within** the **time** of consciousness of the **personal self**. _T3:12.2.1_

~ because the steps that came before that of the **personal self** did not come in **time** , they are eternal, eternal levels of consciousness that still **exist** and **have** always existed. _T3:12.2.5_

~ it is your interaction, both individually and collectively with the consciousness that is us, that creates probable futures rather than guaranteed futures. _T4:6.1.6_

~ **you** , as a **being** of singular consciousness, could **learn** the **thought** patterns of a singular consciousness because it was a finite consciousness, a consciousness with limits. _T4:12.23.1_

**Dialogues**

~ a shared consciousness is the **truth** of who **you** are. _D:3.12.3_

~ consciousness has to do with that of which **you** are aware. _D:3.16.7_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ consciousness is about what **you** are aware of, not about what **you** think. _D:Day10.30.2_

~ consciousness may seem to be embodied by **form** but the reverse is true and has always been true. _D:Day12.2.3_

~ **everything** that can't be seen but is, is consciousness. Accepting **everything** that can't be seen, including the **unknown** , is full consciousness. _D:Day16.1.1_

~ consciousness, or the spacious **Self** , thus includes feelings of sadness, **loneliness** , and **anger** as well as feelings of **happiness** , **compassion** , and **peace**. Consciousness does not, however, include your responses. Consciousness thus does not include either **love** or **fear**. _D:Day16.4.1-3_

~ consciousness began as **all** **feeling** and **all** **thought** , **all** of which were of **love** because **love** is **everything**. _D:Day16.15.1_

~ consciousness itself is not knowing but **awareness**. _D:Day17.3.6_

**CONSTANT**

| ˈkänstənt |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ a constant is an aspect of **wholeness**. _D:Day27.12.9_

~ the constant does not **become** **variable** because variability exists. _D:Day27.12.11_

~ that **you** are who **you** are and that **you** **have** always been the **accomplished** is a constant and an aspect of **wholeness**. The variability of how **you** **experience** who **you** are is also a constant **within** the aspect of **separation**. Merge the two, however, into one **level** of **experience** and the **whole** formula changes. _D:Day27.13.1-3_

**CONTENT**

| kənˈtent |

**A Course of Love**

~ content is **all** **you** **have** of **God**. There is no **form** to **see** , yet in the content is the **form** revealed. This is true seeing. For content is **all** and **form** is nothing. _C:P.33.1-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the content of **all** **living** things is the **energy** of the **spirit** of **wholeheartedness**. The content of **all** **living** things is, in other words, **whole**. _D:Day7.9.2-3_

**CONTRAST**

| ˈkänˌtrast |

**A Course of Love**

~ every contrast that **you** **see** **here** but points to this **truth**. **Evil** is only seen in relation to good. Chaos is only seen in relation to **peace**. While **you** **see** these as **separate** things **you** do not **see** what the **relationship** would show **you**. Contrast demonstrates, which is why it is a favorite teaching device of the **Holy Spirit**. Contrast demonstrates only to reveal the **relationship** that exists between **truth** and **illusion**. _C:6.8.3-8_

**Treatises**

~ indirect **means** of communication left much open to **interpretation**. **Different** interpretations of indirectly received **truth** resulted in **different** religions and varying sets of beliefs that, in the **way** of the **time** —the **way** of learning through contrast—provided contrast through dissent. The good in which one believed became the **evil** that another fought and in the contrast learning did occur and has continued to occur even unto this **time**. **You** **have** learned much of the **nature** of the **truth** by seeing what **you** **have** perceived as the contrast between good and **evil**. _T4:1.20.1-4_

**Dialogues**

~ **duality** and contrast are synonymous. In the **time** of the **Holy Spirit** , **you** learned through contrast. **You** learned from the contrast of good and **evil** , weak and strong, right and wrong. **You** learned from the contrast of **love** and **fear** , **sickness** and health, **life** and **death**. In this **time of Christ** , such learning is no longer necessary, and so these conditions of learning are no longer necessary. _D:3.6.1-5_

~ if **you** give credence to the ideas of contrast, **you** bring those ideas forward with **you** into the **new**. **We** let the **old** go, and with it **all** ideas of contrast and opposites, of **conflict** and opposing forces. This is **all** that is needed for the **new** to triumph over the **old**. _D:3.7.4-6_

~ as a learning **being** , **you** accepted that **you** learned through contrast, knowing that contrast was provided for your learning. It was upon the **foundation** of this and other **thought** systems that your **perception** developed. Through contrast, **you** identified and classified the **world** around **you** based upon the differences, or contrast that **you** saw. _D:4.15.4-6_

**CONTRIBUTION**

| ˌkäntrəˈbyo͞oSH(ə)n |

**Dialogues**

~ the only contributions that endure, the only contributions that are truly lasting, are contributions that arise from the well of **spirit**. _D:11.16.2_

~ those who do so **seek** to make **individual** contributions as important men and women and do not **seek** to give **expression** to what is in everyone's hearts, to what is shared in unity, to what is the **truth** of who **we** **all** are rather than the **truth** of who the **individual** is. _D:11.16.6_

**CONTROL**

| kənˈtrōl |

**Treatises**

~ there is no **function** for control in unity. There is no need for it. _T2:7.9.1-2_

**CONVICTION**

| kənˈvikSH(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **we** **have** talked before of conviction and your **willingness** to, like the apostles, let your conviction spring from your **willingness** to **experience** its cause and its **effect**. **I am** asking **you** now to be willing to move from conviction to **reliance**. _D:Day10.3.1-2_

~ conviction is tied to **belief** , and to a former **lack** of **belief** that has been overcome. _D:Day10.4.1_

**COOPERATION**

| kōˌäpəˈrāSH(ə)n |

**Dialogues**

~ cooperation comes from the **All** of **All** **being** in **harmony** and **relationship**. _D:14.8.2_

**CORRECTION**

| kəˈrekSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ correction, or **atonement** , returns **you** to your natural **state** where true **vision** lies and **error** and sin disappear. _C:9.35.5_

~ one was needed to, of his own **free will** , **join** his **will** with his Father's for it to be done for **all**. This is **all** correction or **atonement** **means** , and **all** that is in need of your **acceptance**. **Join** your brother who made this **choice** for **all** , and **you** are reunited with the **Christ** in **you**. _C:12.14.3-5_

~ if **you** were not so determined to believe correction cannot be made, correction would **have** occurred. _C:17.10.4_

**Treatises**

~ **you** **have** been made ready for this correction and your **belief** in correction, or **atonement** , is the final **belief** that must be put into **practice**. _T2:12.1.2_

~ while **you** believe there is anything other than your own **thinking** that is in need of correction **you** think falsely. _T2:12.5.3_

~ **atonement** , or correction, is not of **you** but of **God**. **You** might think of this in terms of **nature** and look upon nature's **ability** to correct itself. **You** are a part of **nature**. Your **body** can correct or **heal** itself, and so can your **mind** and **heart**.if they are allowed to do so. A **time** -bound **consciousness** that hangs onto the **past** as if it were the **truth** , allows not correction to take place. _T3:14.12.1-5_

**COVENANT OF THE NEW**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Dialogues**

~ this Covenant is the **fulfillment** of the agreement between **you** and **God**. The agreement is for **you** to be the **new**. _D:4.1.1-2_

~ **you** are to **create** in community, in **dialogue** , in commitment and togetherness. **You** are to be the **living** Covenant of the New. _D:5.16.3-4_

~ this is the agreement **God** asks of **you** , your part of the shared agreement that **will** fulfill the promises of your **inheritance**. This is the Covenant of the New in which **you** honor your agreement to bring **heaven** to earth and to usher in the reign of **Christ**. To usher in is to show the **way** , to cast your palms upon the **path** of your brothers and sisters. Do **you** not **see** that your **acceptance** of this promise is the **acceptance** of your own promise? Do **you** not **see** that **acceptance** of the **new** and **denial** of the **old** is the necessary forerunner of our **work** together in establishing the Covenant of the New? _D:2.23.1-5_

**CREATE**

| krēˈāt |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** did not create something from nothing, and what **you** started with is what **God** created and remains as **God** created it. _C:9.28.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to create from anything but **love** could **have** disastrous effects. This has been seen **time** and **time** again as **you** **have** "created" in **separation**. _D:Day35.14.2-3_

~ **you** **will** only fully realize the **difference** between what **you** **have** made and what **you** can create when **you** **have** accepted your **power** and begin to create in unity and **relationship**. _D:Day35.18.9_

~ the **word** distinction between made and create thus does not fully do **justice** to the **power** **you** **have** always retained. But creating in **separation** is as **different** from creating in unity as has been your **concept** of **God** and man. Few of **you** **have** even **thought** of creating as **God** creates. _D:Day35.19.2-4_

~ **you** are called to nothing short of creating a **new** **heaven** and a **new** earth. This does not, however, entail specificity any **more** than the **miracle** does. It does not entail **choice**. It is a **way** of **being**. When **you** are fully aware of your **oneness** of **being** and begin to create in unity and **relationship** , **you** **will** do so by simply **being** who **you** are **being** , just as **you** **have** "created" during the **time** of your **separation** by **being** who **you** **have** **thought** yourself to be. _D:Day35.20.2-6_

~ **you** created in **response** to " **reality** " rather than creating **reality**. Now **you** are called to create **reality** —a **new** **reality**. _D:Day36.5.10_

~ if **you** can create your **experience** **you** can create a **new** **reality** —a **new** **world**. _D:Day36.5.10_

~ **you** **will** realize that as **we** individuate **we** are in a **constant** **state** of **creation** as well as of **creative tension**. As **we** **become** individuated beings in **union** and **relationship** , **we** continuously create one another. **We** create from the field of the possible which must include **everything**. _D:Day39.47.1-3_

~ when **you** create, **you** create as my relation. **You** extend your **being** into **form**. That **form** then becomes. It becomes who **you** are. _D:Day40.9.1-4_

~ through the application of your **being** to **all** that **you** are in **relationship** with **you** create. _D:Day40.29.3_

~ **you** **will** create what **will** be through the **extension** of **love**. This is **all**. So be it. _E.7.5-7_

**CREATION**

| krēˈāSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ the **challenge** now is in creation rather than **accomplishment**. With **peace** , **accomplishment** is achieved in the only place where it makes any sense to **desire** it. With your **accomplishment** comes the **freedom** and the **challenge** of creation. Creation becomes the **new** frontier, the occupation of those too young to **rest** , too interested in **living** still to welcome the **peace** of dying. Those who could not **change** the **world** one iota through their **constant** **effort** , in **peace** **create** the **world** anew. _C:6.17.4-8_

~ this is your reenactment of creation, begun **each** morning and completed **each** night. **Each** **day** is your creation held together by the **thought system** that gave it **birth**. To observe this is to **see** its **reality**. To **see** this **reality** is to **see** the **image** of **God** **you** **have** created in God's likeness. This **image** is based on your **memory** of the **truth** of God's creation and your **desire** to **create** like your **Father**. It is the best, in your forgetfulness, that **you** could do; but still it tells **you** much. _C:8.24.1-5_

~ creation **needs** no **protection**. _C:9.2.4_

~ **god** 's creation is for **eternity** and has no **use** for **time**. _C:9.33.2_

~ **you** find it hard to believe Creation itself can be benevolent and kind, or just another name for **love** , but such it is. **God** is but creation's starting point, the **creator** of creation and yet Creation itself. _C:12.24.7-8_

~ **you** **seek** to be **different** from **all** the **rest** , and in this seeking proclaim that one part of creation is better than another part. **You** thus **seek** to fragment creation as **you** **have** fragmented your own **self**. And from the vantage point **you** **have** established in which **you** view yourself as the epitome of God's creation, **you** **see** the **rest** of creation as **being** meant to serve your ends. And since your end or **goal** is that of **separation** and **being** **different** from **all** the **rest** , this is the **goal** **you** **ask** creation to bow down to, a **goal** that never can be achieved any **more** than can your **separation** from what **you** think is unlike **you**. _C:14.2.4-7_

~ a full **expression** of your **power** is creation. What has been created cannot be uncreated. What has been created can, however, be transformed. _C:18.18.3-5_

~ taking the creation of **form** backward, it leads to this conclusion: **Spirit** precedes **inspiration** , **inspiration** precedes **imagination** , **imagination** precedes **belief** , and **belief** precedes **form**. _C:23.19.3_

~ creation is not of, or for, the **personal self**. _C:25.20.12_

**Treatises**

~ that **you** **have** , in your version of creation, made it necessary for woman to **join** with man in order for **new** **life** to come forth, is but another **example** of how your **memory** of creation was made to serve what **you** would **have** come to be. The separated **self** could not **exist** in **separation** and so created a **way** in which other separated forms could come into existence and live with **you** in **separation**. That **you** recognized **union** as a prerequisite to creation is proof of your memory's tenacity and the failure of **illusion** to completely rid **you** of what **you** **know**. _T1:8.10.2-4_

~ **expression** and creation are not synonymous. Creation is a continuous and on-going **expansion** of the same **thought** of **love** that brought **life** into existence. The seeds of creation **exist** in **everything** and provide for continuing creation. Thus the seeds of **all** that **you** can express **exist** " **within** " **you** , in the creation that is **you**. The **power** of creation is released through your **choice** , your **willingness** to express that aspect of creation. It is quite literally true that the seeds of much of creation lie dormant **within** **you** , already **accomplished** but awaiting **expression** in this realm of physicality. _T2:3.7.5-10_

~ creation is not an aspect of this **world** **alone**. Creation is an aspect of the **whole** , the **all** of **all** , the alpha and the omega, **eternity** and infinity. It is not only **life** as **you** **know** it now, but **life** in **all** its aspects. It is **life** beyond **death** as well as **life** before **birth** and **life** during your **time** **here**. It is **all** one because it is **all** from the same **Source**. _T2:4.1.1-5_

~ anything continuous and ongoing is part of creation. Thus the very act of undoing **old** patterns is an act of creation. _T2:4.15.5-6_

~ creation is about **change** and **growth**. There is no right or wrong **within** creation but there are stages of **growth** and **change**. _T3:12.11.1-2_

~ the people of the Earth, as well as **all** that was created, **have** always been the beloved of **God** because **Love** was and is the **means** of creation. The people of the Earth, as well as **all** that was created, were created through **union** and **relationship**. Creation through **union** and **relationship** is still The **Way**. _T4:2.5.1-3_

~ inherent **within** the extreme is the balance. Even in the biblical description of creation was a **day** of **rest** spoken of. Creation balanced with **rest** is the **pattern** that has been taken to extremes **within** your **world**. _T4:4.2.4-6_

~ creation **of the new** has begun. **We** are an interactive part of this creative act of a loving **Creator**. Creation is a **dialogue**. Creation—which is **God** and us in unity— **will** respond to our responses. **Will** respond to what **we** **envision** , imagine and **desire**. Creation **of the new** could not begin without **you**. _T4:_ _12.34.1-6_

**Dialogues**

~ this is what creation is! The entire **universe** , the **All** of **All** , **giving** and receiving as one. _D:3.23.4-5_

~ creation begins with what is. And so even the **creations** **you** **have** made are only distinct from what was originally created in your **perception** of what they are or what **you** **have** determined their **use** to be. _D:6.6.7-8_

~ before creation **of the new** can begin, **you** must come to **know** the **way** of creation as it is. It has not always been the same, and it **will** not be the same in the **future** as it is now. But there are certain principles that govern creation. These principles are like unto the patterns that were created for your **time** of learning and that **will** be applied anew to the creation of **new** patterns for the **new** **time** that is upon us. _D:15.1.1-4_

~ the **first** **principle** of creation is that of **movement**. _D:15.2.1_

~ the second **principle** of creation, then, is that **being** is. _D:15.4.1_

~ the third **principle** of creation is thus **expression**. _D:15.5.2_

~ creation occurs in **each** of us, seemingly one at a **time**. Creation is our coming into our true **identity** , and is the **extension** or **expression** of that **identity** into the creation of **wholeness** in **form**. _D:16.2.3-4_

~ **god** and Creation are synonymous, and **you** are reminded of that **here** as **you** and **God** **become** synonymous through Creation. **Means** and end are one. Cause and **effect** the same. Creation is **means** and end as **God** is **means** and end. Creation is cause and **effect** as **God** is cause and **effect**. When **you** move from the **state** of becoming to the **state** of **being** **whole** , **you** **will** **have** moved through the act of creation and **you** **will** **have** **become** a **creator**. **You** **will** be ready for creation **of the new**. _D:16.5.3-9_

~ creation's **purpose** , creation's cause and **effect** is **wholeness** and the continuing **expression** of **wholeness**. _D:16.10.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ this creation story is occurring in **each** and every one of us. _D:Day1.18.1_

~ as a story is seen to move from one element to another in an unbroken chain of events, so too is the story of creation. As history proceeds with gaps only waiting to be fulfilled in current **time** , so too is it with the story of creation. _D:Day1.25.4-5_

~ the Bible and **all** holy texts can be seen clearly now as one creation story. One story of one **beginning**. One story with many promises made. Promises of **inheritance** and **fulfillment** , promises that give hints to, but never quite reveal, the secret of **succession**. _D:Day1.28.2-5_

~ just as the creation story is symbolic rather than actual. _D:Day2.18.4_

~ **you** are in and **within** the **movement** of the creative process where there is no distinction between **Creator** and created. _D:Day6.11.4_

~ **you** are in and **within** the **relationship** of creation in which created and **creator** **become** one. _D:Day6.12.2_

~ creation is ongoing rather than static. That while creation is and is as it was created, it was created to be eternally expanding and expressing in **new** ways. _D:Day7.19.4-5_

~ the **power** of creation, harnessed by **form** in the **service** of **form** is the next step in the **expansion** of the **power** of creation. It is the **power** of the **elevated Self of form**. _D:Day10.1.5-6_

~ this alchemical **transition** , this passing of the **unknown** into the known, this moment when the **unknown** becomes the known **within** the **Self** , is the **birth** of creation. _D:Day26.7.1_

~ creation and destruction are two sides of the same continuum. _D:Day34.1.2_

~ creation simply does include destruction in much the same **way** **all** includes nothing. _D:Day34.2.1_

~ the **purpose** of creation, which is **life** in **relationship** , **life** in **harmony** , the **experience** and the **expression** of the one in, and **within** , the many. _D:Day35.15.1_

~ creation has produced **life** through **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day35.16.1_

~ creation itself, which stands apart from particulars but united with **wholeness** , has led to this **time** of opposites becoming one and **wholeness** becoming actual rather than probable. _D:Day35.16.4_

~ if creation only occurs through unity and **relationship** , then the original creation must **have** occurred in this **way**. _D:Day35.17.1_

~ creation is continuous and ongoing. It is continuous and ongoing in **everything** that has been created, including **you**. This does not mean, however, that **you** **have** been a **creator**. _D:Day35.17.3-5_

~ creation in unity and **relationship** is creation **within** the **embrace** of the **All** of **All**. _D:Day35.21.4_

~ creation begins with **movement**. _D:Day37.3.1_

~ creation is the manifestation of **all** **we** think, feel, **know** and come to **know**. Because **we** are constantly creating, **we** are constantly coming to **know** anew. This is **eternity**. _D:Day39.48.4-6_

~ what **will** be created now, and the individuation that **will** occur now, **will** hold **all** the **power** of your **experience** as well as **all** the **power** of your longing for return. _D:Day40.10.4_

~ creation is about **giving** attributes to the attributeless. **Giving** **form** to the formless. _D:Day40.11.4-5_

**Addendum**

~ creation is a **dialogue**. _A.35.1_

~ creation is an unending act of **giving** and receiving as one. So too is **dialogue**. _A.37.1-2_

~ now is the **time** to truly begin to "hear" my **voice** in every aspect of creation and to respond with your own **voice** in **all** of your own acts of creation. _A.38.4_

**CREATION OF THE NEW**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Dialogues**

~ the **first** order of **creation of the new** is restoration of the original order, or original design. _D:4.29.3_

~ creation of the new **will** be predicated on the **discovery** of what **you** did not previously **know**. This **will** not happen if **you** cling to "known" truths. _D:6.15.1-2_

**CREATIONS**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ that **you** are among the creations of **God** cannot be disputed. _C:P.9.7_

~ **god** gave **all** **power** to his creations, and **you** would choose to do this as well. Your intent is not **evil** , but guided by the guilt and **false** remembering of the separated **self**. As much as **you** **have** desired anonymity and autonomy from **God** , still **you** **blame** **God** for creating a **situation** in which **you** think **you** **have** been allowed to hurt yourself. _C:9.46.2-4_

**CREATIVE TENSION**

| krēˈādiv ˈtenSHən |

**Treatises**

~ the tension that exists between accepting what is and desiring what **will** be. Linking the words creative and tension is caused by the dualistic **world** in which **you** **have** lived, a **world** wherein a lag **time** exists between what is and what **will** be. **You** may **have** , upon **reading** those words, **thought** that this creative tension would not necessarily be a good thing to give up. **You** do not **know** how to reach beyond what was for what **will** be without this tension. **You** do not yet believe in what is. _T3:22.12.1-5_

~ the creative tension can be taken from the creative act of **observation** without a **loss** of any kind. The creative tension existed not only as a product of the **duality** of **time** , but also as a product of distrust. It was a tension that existed between **desire** and **accomplishment** , the tension that told **you** that **you** might be able to achieve what **you** **desire** but that **you** also might not. _T3:22.15.1-3_

**CREATIVITY**

| ˌkrēāˈtivədē |

**A Course of Love**

~ when **you** would **practice** creativity **you** realize it is a celebration of the **creator** —and when **you** honor artists of **all** kinds **you** honor but this fact. _C:11.2.4_

**CREATOR**

| krēˈādər |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** think your **source** and your Creator are two **separate** things, and too seldom **remember** even that **you** are not your own creator. **You** **have** made this **separation** based on the **idea** that what created **you** cannot be one with **you**. _C:11.2.1-2_

~ a loving creator creates not that which can **have** a need go unfulfilled. _C:18.6.5_

**Treatises**

~ **you** are a creator but a creator who creates with **thought** unlike to any thoughts **you** **have** had before. _T2:1.11.1_

~ **you** who are called to leave learning behind are called to return to your **union** and **relationship** with **God** wherein **you** are creators along with **God**. _T4:10.14.8_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ as a creator of **life** , **new** **life** , your **first** **creation** is, in a sense, **creation** , or re- **creation** of yourself. _D:Day35.11.1_

~ only through unity and **relationship** are **you** able to be a creator. A **new** **world** can be created only in this **way**. _D:Day35.12.1-2_

~ **being** a creator must begin with full **realization** of **oneness** of **being** , which is unity, because without this full **realization** the **potential** exists for conditions other than **love** to **exist**. _D:Day35.14.1_

~ **being** a creator, and creating anew, is **different** than **being** affected by the ongoing **nature** of **creation**. _D:Day35.18.1_

~ because **you** are a creator, **you** could, however, not **create**. _D:Day35.19.1_

~ creator and **creation** are one. _D:Day36.7.3_

~ **you** are only now a creator in **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day36.9.5_

~ **all** that stands in the **way** of your creatorship is your final **acceptance** of who **you** are in unity and **relationship**. _D:Day36.19.6_

**Addendum**

~ it is **time** to realize that **you** are a creator. _A.38.5_

**CRUCIFIXION**

| ˌkro͞osəˈfikSHən |

**A Course of Love**

~ the true **meaning** of the crucifixion is that it was the last and final end to **all** such fears and myths. **All** such fears were taken to the cross with me and banished in the **resurrection** of the **glory** that is ours. _C:26.4.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ the crucifixion came to end the need to **learn** through **suffering** and **death**. _T3:5.5.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ this is an **example** from my own **life** , an **example** the **idea** of which still plagues many of **you**. This **example** is that of the crucifixion. _D:Day2.16.1-2_

~ for many of **you** the crucifixion is among the reasons **you** hesitate to fully accept me. It is hard for **you** to believe that my **suffering** was symbolic of the end of yours when so much **suffering** has continued. _D:Day2.17.1-2_

~ my mature **life** thus began with the recognition of who **I Am** , as does yours. This **time** was followed by my " **example** **life** ," a **life** that began with the forty days and forty nights spent upon the mountain, and continued with my joining with my brothers and sisters, with the bringing of **light** to darkness, **power** to the powerless, health to the sick, **life** to the dead. My **life** touched **all** those willing to be touched, changed **all** those willing to be changed. But great unwillingness remained. **Willingness** was not yet upon humankind. The **choice** was made collectively to **remain** in **illusion**. The **choice** for continued **suffering** was made. And so **I** responded to that **choice**. An **example** of **response** was needed. The **example** was that of a symbolic gesture. It, too, was a **choice**. A **choice** to take **all** that **suffering** upon myself and kill it. To say, **here** is what **we** **will** do with **suffering**. **We** **will** take it away once and for **all**. **We** **will** crucify it upon the cross of **time** and **space** , bury it, so that it need be no **more** , and **demonstrate** that **new** **life** follows the **choice** to end **suffering**. _D:Day2.23.1-15_

~ " **I** " did not suffer, for **I** knew who **I** was and chose no **suffering**. This is what is meant by the **idea** that has been repeated as " **I** died for your sins." My **death** was meant to **demonstrate** that the end of **suffering** had come, and with it, eternal **life**. _D:Day2.24.1-3_

~ **here** , then, is where **you** need to make the **choice** that those in my **time** could not make, the **choice** to end **suffering**. This is the **choice** **I** made "for **all**." This is a **choice** **you** make for **all** as well. _D:Day2.25.1-3_

**CURRICUL'UM**

| kəˈrikyələm |

**Treatises**

~ this **curriculum** is mandatory and so some **have** rebelled and **will** rebel against it. Those who do not choose to **learn** from the **curriculum** , **will** , like school children, **learn** through what is not of the **curriculum** because they **have** **chosen** another **means** of learning. _T4:1.10.1-2_

~ the **curriculum** to **guide** **you** to the **fulfillment** of your **purpose**. _T4:2.33.7_

**DAY**

| dā |

**Treatises**

~ **each** day is a **creation** and holy too. Not one day is meant to be lived **within** a **struggle** with what it brings. The **power** to observe what is relates to **everything** that exists with **you** , including the days that make up your **life** in **time** and **space**. _T4:2.21.2-4_

**DEATH**

| deTH |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** **have** identified death as the only **means** by which to reach **oneness** with your **Father** , knowing that such **oneness** is not compatible with the human **nature** **you** ascribe to yourself. In this one **error** do **all** errors lie. For what quest can be fulfilled when the only **answer** to **life** seems to be death? This is why and how my death and **resurrection** provided an **answer** and an end to the need for answers. _C:27.1.6-9_

**Treatises**

~ **each** father's son **will** die. This **means** not what **you** **have** taken it to mean, an endless series of generations passing. What this **means** is that in **each** the **ego** **will** die and the **Self** be reborn to **life** eternal. _T3:5.8.2-4_

~ the **paradise** that is the **truth** seems to lie far beyond the **house** of **illusion** in the valley of death. Survivors of near death experiences **have** eased the fears of many but made many **more** long for **life** after death rather than **life**. _T3:9.6.1-2_

~ death comes as destruction to some, as **new** **life** to **others**. Either **way** is but your **choice**. _T4:3.14.2-3_

~ your attachment to death has kept your **form** subject to the cycle of decay and rebirth. There is another **alternative**. _T4:3.14.5-6_

~ **you** think of **birth** as **creation** and death as **rest**. _T4:4.2.7_

~ can **you** not **see** the necessity of removing the **idea** that your true **Self** **will** be returned to **you** only through death? _T4:4.17.1_

~ what **purpose** **will** death serve when your true **Self** has joined with your physical **form**? **You** **will** **see** it simply as the **transformation** it has always been, the **transformation** from singular **consciousness** to **Christ-consciousness**. _T4:4.18.1-2_

~ when **you** die, **you** do not die to who **you** are or who **you** think **you** are. **You** do not die to **choice**. At the **time** of death **you** are assisted in ways not formerly possible to **you** in **form** , to make the **choice** to be who **you** are. **You** are shown in ways that the body's eyes were unable to **see** , the **glory** of your true **nature**. **You** are given the **chance** , just as **you** are **being** given the **chance** now, to choose your true **nature** with your **free will**. _T4:5.11.3-7_

~ because **you** **have** now made a **new** **choice** , a collective **choice** as one **body** , one **consciousness** , to end the **time** of the **intermediary** and to begin to **learn** directly, **you** are given the same opportunity that was formerly reserved for **you** only after your death. It was formerly only after your death that **you** chose direct **revelation** by **God**. Think about this now and **you** **will** **see** that it is true. **You** hoped to live a good **life** and at the end of that **life** to **know** **God**. Your **vision** of the **after-life** was one in which **God** revealed Himself to **you** and, in that **revelation** , transformed **you**. The direct revelations that **will** come to **you** now **will** transform **you** as surely as did those that came to so many **others** after death. _T4:5.12.1-6_

~ loosed of the **body** and the body's limited **vision** , **real** **choice** has been revealed to those having experienced death. At that **time** it is your **judgment** of yourself and your **ability** to believe in the **glory** that is yours, that determines the **way** in which your **life** **will** continue. The same is true right now! _T4:5.13.7-9_

**Dialogues**

~ to die to the **personal self** is not what is required any longer as **we** **work** instead to elevate the **personal self**. _D:1.10.5_

~ **release** through death is no longer the **answer**. _D:5.18.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ when a person is dying, just as when a person is undergoing this final **surrender** , there are stages through which one moves. The **first** is **denial** , the second is **anger**. _D:Day3.1.2-3_

**DEBATE**

| dəˈbāt |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to engage in debate is but a strategy for proving one side right and one side wrong. _D:Day4.2.2_

**DECEPTION**

| dəˈsepSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ the **world** cannot fail to disappoint **you** , for your conception of it is based upon deception. **You** **have** deceived only yourself, and your deception has not changed what is nor **will** it ever succeed in doing so. Only **God** and His appointed helpers can lead **you** from this **self** -deception to the **truth**. **You** **have** been so successful at deception that **you** no longer can **see** the **light** unaided. But **join** your brother and the **light** begins to shine, for **all** are **here** to aid **you**. This is the **purpose** of the **world** and of **love** most kind: to end your **self** -deception and return **you** to the **light**. _C:6.22.1-6_

~ as **you** **learn** that who **you** are is **love** , no deception is possible, and **you** can only be who **you** are in **truth**. _C:31.23.3_

**DECISION**

| dəˈsiZHən |

**A Course of Love**

~ where what **you** **have** made **will** lead rests only on your decision. Your decision, couched in many forms, is simply this: to proceed toward **love** or to withdraw from it, to believe it is given or withheld. _C:4.8.2-3_

~ **you** are offered the opportunity to make a temporary decision that can be rescinded at any **time**. Your temporary **willingness** **will** be enough to begin to **effect** cause. _C:11.14.7-8_

**DEMONSTRATE**

| ˈdemənˌstrāt |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what is meant **here** by the **word** demonstrate, is to show your feelings, to make them visible. _D:Day18.11.2_

~ one **way** of doing this is through individuation and becoming known. One **way** of doing this is **incarnation** through **relationship** in which the **relationship** , rather than the individuated **self** , becomes the known. Both ways are ways of **creation**. _D:Day18.11.4-6_

**DENIAL**

| dəˈnīəl |

**Dialogues**

~ to deny is to refuse to accept as true or right that which **you** **know** is not true or right. This is the denial of **insanity** in favor of the **acceptance** of **sanity** , the denial of the **false** for the **acceptance** of the true. Although **you** are called to these two actions simultaneously—the **action** of **acceptance** and the **action** of denial—it can thus be seen that they are, in **truth** , one and the same **action** , just as **means** and end, cause and **effect** are one. _D:2.2.1-3_

~ **you** are asked to refuse to accept who **you** are not and the ways of **life** that allowed **you** to live **within** the **world** as a **false** **self**. _D:2.2.4_

~ **we** speak of denying yourself the **use** of the **old** so that the **new** can serve **you**. **We** speak of denying modes of learning in favor of simple **acceptance** of what is. _D:2.9.2-3_

~ it is proper now to deny the modes of learning, even when they seemed to **work** for **you** in the **past**. That they seemed to **work** is the **illusion** that **will** give **way** as **you** deny yourself **access** to the **old** so that the **new** can come. _D:2.10.1-2_

**Addendum**

~ beyond the coursework of the Treatises lies direct **relationship** —direct **relationship** with me. Entering the **dialogue** is the **way** this is expressed; yet this is not merely about entering spoken **dialogue**. _A.35.1-2_

~ entering the **dialogue** is akin to residing in the **present** moment and to hearing **all** that is **being** spoken in **all** the ways it is **being** spoken. _A.38.3_

~ this is what **dialogue** , particularly the **dialogue** that is an exchange between "two or **more** gathered together" reveals. It reveals Who **You** Are. _A.40.1-2_

~ this **dialogue** is going on **all** around **you**. _A.47.2_

~ bring your **voice** to this continuing **dialogue**. This is **all** that is asked of **you**. _A.49.1-2_

**DEPENDENCE**

| dəˈpendəns |

**Treatises**

~ to be independent, **you** feel as if **you** must rely only on yourself. Thus the connotation of **reliance** on **others** , or dependence, has taken on a negative **meaning** specifically in **contrast** to your **desire** to be independent. One of your greatest fears is thus of a condition that causes **you** to be dependent or to rely on **others**. _T2:7.1.2-4_

~ it is the very **independence** of **others** that makes your own **independence** seem so important to **you**. Dependency is not consistent with your notions of a healthy **self**. What, then is the **alternative**? _T2:7.2.5-7_

~ the **alternative** is believing in **giving** and receiving as one. _T2:7.3.1_

~ **you** cannot be independent and still be of **service**. For as long as **you** believe in your **independence** **you** **will** not accept your dependence. _T2:7.13.6-7_

~ the **word** "need" and the **word** "dependent" are only words and words that would be inconceivable to **you** in the **state** of unity before **you** left it. Now, they are just tools, as are many other **means** of **practice** that assist **you** in bypassing your **ego** **mind**. _T2:9.2.1-2_

**DESIRE**

| dəˈzī(ə)r |

**A Course of Love**

~ alongside the desire to **know** was the desire not to **know**. Alongside the desire to **see** was the desire not to **see**. Alongside the desire to **share** was the desire to be hidden. Alongside the desire to live was the desire to live no **more**. _C:9.7.6-9_

~ **all** that **you** desired **will** be revealed as only two desires, the desire to **love** and the desire to be loved. _C:9.48.2_

~ be encouraged rather than discouraged that **God** does not grant **all** your desires **here**. For these are not yet your true desires, and the rewards **you** would choose **here** are as dust to those **you** **will** **become** aware of as **you** proceed. _C:10.10.4-5_

~ what **you** desire is what cannot be given from anywhere but your own **Source**. _C:11.1.4_

~ that **you** **keep** yourself from desiring anything fully **here** is what makes this existence so chaotic and erratic. A **mind** and **heart** in **conflict** is what keeps **you** from desiring anything fully, and thus from creating. _C:18.14.7-8_

~ it is not the **means** that are lacking but the wholehearted desire. _C:19.7.5_

**Treatises**

~ despite many observations **within** this Course regarding desire, **you** may still **fear** your desire. _T2:1.4.2_

~ even the desires **you** may **have** once identified as hoping to develop into abilities, are given a **structure** and **form** in your **thinking** of them. _T2:1.9.1_

~ do not think that this desire is not **present** in **all** relationships. It is only the **ego** that stands between desire and the meeting of desire, **needs** and the meeting of **needs**. _T2:9.1.2-3_

~ your desire is of **God** and what **you** desire now, contrary to what **you** would **have** desired in the early stages of this Course, is the **Will** of **God**. What **you** desire now is the **Will** of **God** because it is your true desire, your **will** and God's joined as one. _T3:22.14.3-4_

**Dialogues**

~ little can be had without desire. Desire, unlike **want** , asks for a **response** rather than a **provision**. Desire is a longing for, a stretching out for. _D:17.5.1-3_

~ that **response** is wholehearted desire, which is the **power** that **A Course of Love** came to return to **you**. **You** were told **within** this Course that wholehearted desire for **union** would return **union** to **you** and return **you** to your **Self**. This is the moment of **realization** of that **accomplishment**. But your desire has not left **you**. Your desire is stronger than ever before. _D:17.12.1-5_

~ what is **different** now is that your **wholeheartedness** , as well as your desire, has moved beyond the **pattern** of **thought**. _D:17.13.1_

~ your **heart** is a full well. It is because **you** **have** now turned to your **heart** , instead of to your **thinking** , that **you** feel both **fulfillment** and desire. _D:17.15.1-2_

~ the interrelationship of desire and **fulfillment** is what occurs at the threshold. Beyond the threshold is the **state** in which desire has passed and been replaced by **reverence**. _D:17.19.4-5_

~ desire calls **here** , louder and stronger than ever before, because of your proximity to what **you** **have** desired. _D:17.24.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **i** do not **ask** **you** to give up what **you** desire, but to **expect** and accept a **response** to what **you** desire. **Remember** that **we** are headed even beyond desire, and **know** that desire must **first** be met before **you** can be taken beyond it. _D:Day3.27.2-3_

~ **we** talked earlier of this as a **time** of **fulfillment** and desire. **We** acknowledged that your desire is stronger than ever before. Now is the **time** to **focus** on this desire and **fulfillment** , to stretch this desire to its limits, **all** the while realizing that its **fulfillment** lies already **accomplished** **within** , in the **access** that lies **within**. _D:Day4.36.1-3_

~ this is a longing that carries with it the desire to go beyond **thinking** , the desire to go beyond words, the desire to go beyond where your **imagination** is capable of taking **you**. It is a desire for true **discovery** , a desire to **access** the previously **unknown**. _D:Day4.37.1-2_

~ wholehearted desire is what **A Course of Love** taught **you** so that **you** could be taken to this place and tempted to leave behind the temptations of the **human experience**. _D:Day4.45.5_

~ your desire and your **access** are one and the same. _D:Day4.48.1_

~ your desire is where it belongs— **here** —in the passionate **acceptance** of our **work** together. _D:Day6.28.2_

~ desire is an acknowledgement of the uniqueness of **each** **Self** , and is a demonstration of **means** and end **being** the same. Desire keeps **you** focused on your own **path** and leaves **you** nonjudgmental of the paths of **others**. Yet desire, like **observation** and **vision** , is still related to the **self** of **form**. It is a step toward full **acceptance** and **awareness** of who **you** are now and what this **means** as **you** **become** the **elevated Self of form**. _D:Day7.17.1-4_

~ wholehearted desire—the **source** of your **power**. Now this **power** is available to assist **you** in accomplishing the final joining, the joining that **will** end **duality** and return **you** to **wholeness** —to who **you** truly are—in the **reality** in which **you** truly **exist**. _D:Day29.3.1-2_

~ the wholehearted desire that is upon **you** now is the desire to **know** and **experience** this **oneness** of **being** in **relationship** rather than the **difference** of **being** in **relationship** —the **wholeness** of **being** in **relationship** rather than the **separation** of **being** in **relationship**. _D:Day34.4.1_

~ this wholehearted desire can be fulfilled in **you** —it is **being** fulfilled in **you**. As it is fulfilled in **you** , **you** **will** **create** a **new** **world** —a **world** based on **sameness** rather than **difference**. _D:Day34.5.1-2_

~ now humankind's desire for **union** and **relationship** has led to **awareness** of **union** and **relationship** while at the same **time** **union** and **relationship** has led to this desire. _D:Day35.16.3_

**DEVOTION**

| dəˈvōSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ to devote oneself to an objective is a vow to accomplish. To be devoted is to be prayerful. _C:25.1.1-2_

~ devotion is the outcome of **love** and in this instance is an **action** **word** , a verb, a **means** of serving and **being** served by **love**. Devotion is a **particular** type of participation. It cannot be faked. But it can be practiced. _C:25.2.1-4_

~ there is no **real** devotion without **love**. _C:25.3.4_

~ the **practice** of devotion is a **means** by which **you** can purify your engagement with **life** and **all** **you** encounter **within** it. Devotion is synonymous with true **service**. _C:25.7.3-4_

~ the **practice** of devotion is, in **effect** , the **practice** of allowing **giving** and receiving to be one. _C:25.7.6_

~ devotion is inclusive. It implies a subject and an object: One who is devoted and one who is an object of devotion. While **we** are moving away from subject/object relationships to the **relationship** of unity, the **idea** of one who is devoted, and of those for whom devotion is practiced, is useful during the **time of tenderness**. It **will** lead to the understanding of **oneness** as completion, an understanding of **giving** and receiving as one. _C:25.8.1-4_

~ devotion leads to **harmony** through **action**. This is possible for **you** now only if **you** **have** integrated the most basic teaching of this Course and no longer feel duped by **life**. _C:25.9.1-2_

~ the natural **response** of those who **know** and **worry** not of what to do. _C:28.11.1_

~ devotion cannot be split and must be total to be at **all**. Thus while **you** believe **you** are devoted to the thoughts of a split **mind** **you** are devoted to nothing. _C:31.13.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** are almost surely **feeling** this devotion extend to **others** , particularly those who, along with us, **work** toward its **accomplishment**. In doing so **you** are not creating **new** special relationships but the true devotion that **will** replace special relationships forever. _D:Day6.27.1-2_

**DIALOGUE**

| ˈdīəˌläɡ |

**Treatises**

~ as with **all** **new** **means** of doing anything, this dialogue must **have** a starting point. This is it. _T4:12.2.2-3_

~ this dialogue **will** , however, be ongoing, and this is your invitation to participate in this dialogue. No **matter** where **you** are, no **matter** what concerns **you** still hold **within** your **heart** , no **matter** what questions are emanating from your **mind** , they **will** be met with a **response**. _T4:12.4.2-3_

~ once these dialogues are sustainable without need of the written **word** , the written **word** **will** be **less** necessary. _T4:12.7.1_

~ these written words are not the acts of an **intermediary** and why they represent direct learning. _T4:12.7.2_

~ the simple and complete explanation of the non- **intermediary** **nature** of this dialogue is that it exists in unity. It is given and received in unity. _T4:12.8.1-2_

~ while these dialogues continue to address these same questions and concerns, **you** **will** be prone to think of them as teaching dialogues and to consider yourself still a **student**. _T4:12.10.3_

~ what is communicated through our dialogues and those **you** **share** with your brothers and sisters, is simply communication of what already is. This **will** **help** **you** to adapt to the revelations that replace learning. _T4:12.31.4-5_

**Dialogues**

~ these Dialogues are for everyone because **we** **exist** in unity with everyone. No one **will** be forced to **join** our conversation. Only those listening **will** be ready to hear. Only those ready to hear **will** **listen**. **Remember** that **you** cannot be taught what unity would freely give. _D:1.15.1-5_

~ **you** might think that for the receiver, or transcriber, of this Dialogue, this Dialogue may, in **truth** , feel like a dialogue, an exchange, a conversation, and wonder how **you** , as a **reader** of these words, can feel that same **way**. **You** can feel that same **way** by realizing that **you** are, as **you** read these words, as much a "receiver" of this Dialogue as she who **first** hears these words and transfers them to paper. _D:1.19.2-3_

~ this is, in **truth** , a dialogue between me and **you**. _D:1.20.3_

~ what **I** say to **you** **here** , **I** say to **you**. _D:1.20.6_

~ what **we** **seek** to achieve through this dialogue is **acceptance** and **awareness** of what **you** **know**. _D:3.13.3_

~ this dialogue is continuous and ongoing. It is **giving** and receiving as one. It is merely represented by the words on this page and the words on this page are but a **representation** of what is continuously **being** shared. _D:3.15.3-5_

~ what this portion of the dialogue attempts to do is to give **you** a **language** to support what **you** already **know** , and are already aware of, so that **you** are **more** comfortable with letting what **you** **know** serve **you** in your **creation of the new**. _D:3.23.1_

~ **i am** and **I** extend what **I am**. This dialogue is that **extension**. _D:11.3.3-4_

~ this **work** is called a dialogue. A dialogue is most often **thought** of as a discourse between two or **more** people and as such is associated with the spoken **word**. When **you** enter into dialogue with another person, **you** **listen** , **you** hear, and **you** respond. This is exactly what occurs **here**. **You** **have** "entered into" this dialogue. While **you** think these words come to **you** through the written **form** of this book, by **means** of your eyes and the decoding mechanism of your brain, they do not, nor did the words of this Course. _D:12.4.1-6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ our dialogue is not without **purpose**. **You** **know** this or **you** would not be **here**. **You** **know** this or **you** would not feel the **devotion** to me and to what **we** do **here** that **you** do. _D:Day6.26.1-3_

~ be encouraged rather than discouraged that **you** are able to **embrace** this dialogue and **remain** in your **life**. _D:Day6.31.3_

~ what **we** are attempting to do is to open the **mind** to the **wisdom** of the **heart** with these dialogues. _D:Day8.9.1_

~ as **you** **join** with **Christ** **consciousness** in this dialogue, **you** **will** realize **you** **have** not lost your **Self** but **will** only **know** **more** fully the **content** of your **Self**. _D:Day10.21.5_

~ this dialogue, as one-sided as it may seem when presented in this **way** , is an exchange and **will** only **become** **more** so as **we** proceed. **I am** not imparting **wisdom** that **you** are unaware of but reminding **you** of what **you** **have** forgotten. **I am** not having a monologue, but **we** are having a dialogue in which **you** are a full participant. As much of what **you** read in these dialogues comes from your own **heart** and those of your brothers and sisters in **Christ** as it does from me. It comes, in **truth** , from our **union** , from the **consciousness** **we** **share**. _D:Day10.24.2-6_

~ **you** **have** entered into the dialogue with the many as well as the one. This dialogue is going on **all** around **you**. _D:Day14.12.4-5_

~ **you** must now own this dialogue—own it as **you** own the **power** that is yours. _D:Day14.13.1_

~ entering the dialogue is the **means** of sustaining the one **voice** **within** the many, the **means** of sharing your **access** to unity, the manifestation, in **form** , of the healed and **whole** and thus spacious **Self**. _D:Day14.14.1_

~ when **you** fully realize that sharing is necessary **you** **will** **have** entered the dialogue. When **you** **have** fully surrendered to the fact that **you** can't come to **know** on your own **you** **will** **have** entered the dialogue. When **you** fully accept that the **voice** of the one can be heard in the **voice** of the many **you** **will** **have** entered the dialogue. When **you** fully realize that **you** are in-formed by **everything** and everyone in **creation** , **you** **will** **have** entered the dialogue. _D:Day15.1.1-4_

~ entering the dialogue keeps **you** in **constant** contact with the **unknown** and with unceasing coming to **know**. _D:Day15.18.1_

~ **you** dialogue about the **unknown** , not the known. _D:Day15.19.2_

~ **you** are in dialogue because in dialogue, coming to **know** is a fluid exchange. _D:Day15.19.4_

~ to be engaged in dialogue with certain **others** is **different** than entering the dialogue, but entering the dialogue is not **different** than engaging in specific dialogues. This is so because entering the dialogue is an **all** -encompassing **state** in which **everything** and everyone interacts with **you** through the exchange of dialogue. _D:Day15.21.1-2_

~ this **reliance** upon yourself has been expressed as a dialogue taking place **within** **Christ-consciousness** , the **consciousness** **you** **share** in **union** and **relationship** with **all**. **You** **have** now been told to own this dialogue and to realize that its **wisdom** is your own. _D:Day21.9.3-4_

~ this dialogue is meant to give **you** the **means** to carry what **you** **have** been given. _D:Day23.1.5_

~ **you** do not as yet think **you** **know** how to just be, and this is why, in a sense, this dialogue, in this **form** , must come to an end. The dialogue **you** **will** carry forward with **you** , with your **realization** of **being** , **will** be a **different** dialogue. E.17.1-2

~ this dialogue has been your final quest. It is the final quest in the quest for **being** because the quest has been **accomplished** , fulfilled, completed. E.18.1-2

~ leave these words behind now, and bring only the dialogue with **you**. **You** **will** unerringly find those who can engage in the **new** dialogue, those who **have** **chosen** the **new** , those who **seek** to **share** and exchange in **harmony**. E.19.1-2

**DIFFERENCE**

| ˈdif(ə)rəns |

**A Course of Love**

~ without differences there is no cause for **conflict**. _C:16.6.3_

**Treatises**

~ the difference between **truth** and **illusion** can no longer be denied. To realize the difference between **truth** and **illusion** is not to **call** one right and the other wrong but to simply **recognize** what they are. _T3:11.10.1-2_

~ your differences can serve our **purpose** until differences are no longer seen. _T3:21.22.6_

~ differences but lie in **expression** and **representation** of the **truth** , never in the **truth** itself. _T3:22.11.5_

**Dialogues**

~ one of the major things **we** **will** be seeing as **we** proceed is the difference between **form** and **content** and the difference in the **way** **separate** forms express **content**. It **will** be challenging to **become** aware that **different** expressions do not make **different**. These differences were spoken of **within** this Course as **unique** expressions of the selfsame **love** that exists in **all**. _D:3.19.4-6_

~ while not the same, **you** also are not **different**. The differences **you** saw during the **time** of learning, differences that made **you** feel as if **each** **being** stood **separate** and **alone** , **you** are now called to **see** no **more**. _D:4.2.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **different** aspects **exist** only as **different** levels of **experience**. _D:Day27.9.7_

~ to differentiate in **union** and **relationship** is to be **God** in **form** —to give **expression** to " **all** " that exists in **union** and **relationship** through your **being**. _D:Day37.26.3_

~ **you** **will** be **different** , only if **you** allow and **will** yourself to realize and make **real** this difference. It is a difference between becoming and **being**. It is **all** the difference in the **world**. It is the difference between **separation** and differentiation in **union** and **relationship**. E.20.6-9

**DIFFERENT**

| ˈdif(ə)rənt |

**Treatises**

~ something is different now. **You** are **beginning** to **become** excited by the **feeling** that something different is possible; that **you** might just be able to achieve what **others** **have** not; that this **time** might just be different than any other **time**. _T4:1.13.1-2_

~ **you** are different now than **you** were as a child, and different now than **you** were a few years ago, and different now than when **you** began your learning of this Course. _T4:2.15.3_

**DIFFICULT**

| ˈdifəkəlt |

**Treatises**

~ realize that when **you** think that this total reversal of **thought** concerning yourself and your **world** **will** be difficult **you** are listening to your **ego**. The **Christ** in **you** knows not of difficulty. _T2:11.10.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what **you** are going to realize from this **time** of seeming difficulty is an end to difficulty and the **growth** of your **ability** to do whatever **you** do peacefully and to be who **you** are in any **situation** in which **you** find yourself. _D:Day6.30.4_

~ this difficulty **will** pass through **you** as **you** allow for and accept where **you** are right now and who **you** are right now. _D:Day6.31.5_

~ the difficulty of the **time** of learning truly is behind **you**. _D:Day6.32.3_

~ do not **expect** difficulties and they **will** not arise. E.3.4

**Addendum**

~ it is your difficulty in **giving** up your attachment to learning through the application of **thought** and **effort** that creates the **perception** of this Course's difficulty. _A.5.2_

~ to give up difficulty for ease is **more** than some egos are willing to accept. _A.18.3_

~ in turning to the **heart** **we** **seek** to bypass this difficulty as much as possible, but **each** **will** feel it to some degree, the precise degree to which they are capable of **giving** up **reliance** on what they but think has worked for them in the **past**. _A.18.8_

**DISCERNMENT**

| dəˈsərnmənt |

**A Course of Love**

~ this **will** be a **time** of discernment. **You** may feel it as a **time** of **decision** making, but the **less** **you** attempt to make conscious decisions the quicker your unlearning **will** take place and the lessons of discernment occur. Discernment is needed only until **you** are better able to comprehend the **whole**. _C:25.21.1-2_

~ **practice** discernment by **being** still and awaiting **wisdom**. _C:25.22.1_

**DISCIPLE**

| dəˈsīpəl |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the **example** often used for the **creation** of a **system** is that of my attraction of followers, my claiming of disciples. The term disciple can be linked **here** with the **idea** of **succession**. What **I** asked of my disciples is not **more** than **I** **ask** of **you**. **I** asked them to follow in my **way**. **I** asked them to be, not as they once were, but to be as **I am**. **I** asked them to live—not in the **world** of their former **perception** , in a **world** -view that was taught to them—but to live in a **new** **world** and, by so doing, to **demonstrate** a **new** **way**. _D:Day4.19.1-6_

**DISCIPLINE**

| ˈdisəplən |

**Treatises**

~ the discipline required to be who **you** are is a discipline that requires **trust** in **Self** and **honesty** in relationships. _T2:7.19.1_

**DISCOVERY**

| dəˈskəv(ə)rē |

**Dialogues**

~ **i am** speaking of a **spirit** that is open to the discovery of something **new** and "unbelievable" and even "scientifically impossible," as well as to the **creation** of something **new**. For in this **time** of **revelation** , discovery is the **new** divine **pattern** that **will** replace the " **thought** " systems **we** **have** spoken of. To discover is simply to find out what **you** did not previously **know**. _D:6.14.4-6_

~ be jubilant rather than hesitant about the **time** of discovery that is before **you**. _D:6.16.1_

~ discovery is about **acceptance** of your true **way** of knowing, a **way** that existed prior to the **time** of learning and that has always existed. When put into **practice** and allowed to replace the **pattern** of learning, this **way** of discovery **will** be a **constant** coming to **know** of what is as well as a **constant** **expansion** of what is, or a **constant** **expansion** of **creation** — **creation** , in short, of the **new**. _D:10.7.1-2_

~ what **you** **will** be coming to **know** in this **new** **way** of discovery **will** be coming to **you** from the **state** of unity. _D:13.2.1_

~ although what **you** **will** be coming to **know** is already known to **you** , it **will** still come in the **form** of a surprising discovery, a joyous discovery of the previously known but long forgotten **identity** of the **Self** and **all** that lives along with **you**. _D:13.3.2_

~ discovery is **more** , of course, than the **acceptance** of your **accomplishment** and these **beginning** steps into the **real** **state** of unity. Discovery is also consistent with the **way** most of **you** **have** **thought** of it throughout your lifetime. It is, in other words, consistent with the **action** and the adventure of discovery **within** the **world** around **you**. _D:14.1.1-3_

~ exploration and discovery **needs** to be invited and experienced before **you** **become** partners in the **creation of the new**. _D:14.3.3_

~ a **constant** coming to **know** and coming to be. _D:14.9.1_

~ coming to **know** is the precursor of coming to be. The precursor to manifestation. The precursor to **creation of the new**. It paves the **way** much as **each** step of learning that was needed in the **time** of learning paved the **way** for the next and then the next. _D:14.10.1-4_

~ discovery comes to **you** in **wholeness**. _D:14.10.7_

~ what is discovered is discovered in the **state** of unity. It is discovered by **means** of your **awareness** of your **access** to the **state** of unity, as well as by what **you** discover there, and only becomes through the **expression** **you** give it. _D:14.14.1-2_

~ what **you** discover in unity is shared. _D:7.2.3_

~ discovery is an ongoing aspect of **creation** and thus of the **state** of **union** in which **you** truly abide. _D:7.2.4_

~ discovery is not the same as **remembrance**. _D:7.12.1_

~ discovery **will** allow the **new** **you** to come into **being** by revealing what **you** do not yet **know** about how to live as the **elevated Self of form**. _D:7.12.5_

~ while discovery of the **new** **will** naturally include much that goes beyond what **you** now think of as your natural talents or abilities, the place or **Source** of your natural talents or abilities is a place from which to start building your **awareness** of what is available or given—of what is but awaiting your discovery and conscious **awareness**. _D:8.7.1_

~ this discovery can only take place in the **reality** of **love**. _D:7.13.1_

~ discovery is **less** **time** bound. _D:7.15.1_

~ discovery is not bound by **time** as it is an ongoing aspect of **creation**. _D:7.19.1_

**DIVERSITY**

| dəˈvərsədē |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ a **creator** who desired only **sameness** would not **have** created a **world** of such diversity. **You** are a **creator** who created this **diversity**. It was and is a **choice** meant to **release** the **beauty** of **expression** in **all** its forms. _D:Day9.25.4-6_

**DIVINE DESIGN**

| dəˈvīn. dəˈzīn |

**Dialogues**

~ divine design could also be called **creation**. _D:4.11.2_

~ a divine design created the **universe** and **all** that is in it. _D:4.11.3_

~ **you** may still believe in a divine design without accepting that a divine design exists and that **you** are part of it. _D:4.11.4_

~ the **new** **idea** **you** are asked to accept is that existence is purposeful, that the **universe** exists in divine order, and that your **life** is part of that divine design. _D:4.11.7_

~ **all** **we** are left with is divine design. **All** **we** are left with is what was given: A divine **universe** , a divine existence. That divine **universe** , our divine existence, is now recreating the patterns that served the **time** of learning. _D:4.18.1-3_

~ what is one, or in **union** with **all** , draws from the well of divine design. _D:4.28.1_

**DIVISION**

| dəˈviZHən |

**Treatises**

~ there is no division between **you** and **relationship**. _T2:11.11.3_

~ there is no division between the human and the divine. _T2:11.11.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ division, like differentiation or individuation, is only possible in **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day37.11.8_

**DOUBT**

| dout |

**Treatises**

~ doubt about your **Self** is doubt about **God**. _T1:4.26.2_

~ **all** doubt is doubt about yourself and that **you** are no longer called to doubt yourself. _T3:10.9.7_

~ the only thing that is going to hold **you** back from your **ability** to sustain **Christ-consciousness** is doubt about yourself. **You** must constantly **remember** that doubt about yourself is **fear** , and reject the instinct, so engrained into your singular **consciousness** , to let doubt of yourself take hold of **you**. _T4:12.20.1-2_

~ that **self** -doubt arises in your **thought** patterns **will** not mean that **you** **have** cause for **self** -doubt. **You** **have** no cause for **self** -doubt because **you** **have** no cause for **fear**. _T4:12.20.4-5_

~ there is no longer any cause for **self** -doubt there are no reasons for **self** -doubt. Do not examine yourself for reasons for **self** -doubt when it arises. _T4:12.20.7-8_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ doubts are never **more** pronounced than when specifics are **being** dealt with. _D:Day5.19.2_

~ because **you** believe that your feelings **have** misled **you** in the **past** , **you** now still doubt your feelings. Because **you** **have** doubted yourself in the **past** , **you** now still look for reassurances and proof that **you** are "right" before **you** feel **confidence** and the **ability** to act. _D:Day10.14.1-2_

~ to think that doubting your feelings or seeking outside assurances of what **you** **know** **will** lead to either **confidence** or **certainty** is foolish. _D:Day10.14.4_

~ if doubts of your readiness continue to persist, **remember** that doubt is caused by **fear**. _D:Day15.13.9_

**DUALITY**

| d(y)o͞oˈalədē |

**Dialogues**

~ **you** **have** it **within** your **ability** to mend the rift of duality, a **state** that was necessary for the learning of the separated **self** but that is no longer necessary. _D:3.5.2_

~ the mending of the rift of duality **will** return the **world** to its **Self**. The mending of the rift of duality was **accomplished** in **you** when **you** joined **mind** and **heart** and returned to the **oneness** and unity of **Christ-consciousness**. Sustaining **Christ-consciousness** **will** accomplish the same thing in your **world**. _D:3.5.4-6_

**EACH**

| ēCH |

**A Course of Love**

~ eachness replaces thingness but not **oneness**. _C:20.39.3_

**EAGERNESS**

| ˈēɡərnəs |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** are, perhaps, even eager now, to move beyond the known to the **unknown**. **You** are perhaps eager without fully realizing that this eagerness symbolizes a true ending—an ending **within** **you** and **within** your **reality** —an ending **within** your conscious **awareness**. A true end of learning. _D:Day20.2.2-4_

**EFFECT**

| əˈfekt |

**A Course of Love**

~ for now what **you** **desire** are effects, without realizing cause must shift to **change** the effects **you** would **have** come about. This matters not at this point. _C:11.14.5-6_

**EFFORT**

| ˈefərt |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** thus **have** made of **life** a test, believing that **you** can pass or fail through your own effort. Yet the **more** **you** **struggle** to do so on your own, the **more** **you** realize the futility of your efforts, even though **you** do not **want** to admit that your efforts are futile. **You** cling to effort as if it is the **way** to **God** , not wanting to believe **all** effort is in vain or that a simple **solution** exists. A simple **solution** **within** your **world** , a **solution** that requires no exertion on your part, is seen to be of little value. The **individual** , **you** **reason** , is made through **all** this effort and **struggle** and without it would not be. In this **you** are correct, for as **you** make of yourself an **individual** , **you** deny yourself your **union** with **all** **others**. _C:5.22.5-10_

~ effort is not called for. _C:26.10.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ this effort that **you** rail against is still of your own choosing. The **realization** of a " **way** " to make things as they are is never effortful in and of itself. _D:Day5.18.5-6_

~ let languor enfold **you** and apply no effort to what **you** read **here**. _D:Day5.20.7_

~ there is no cause for such effort. Effort is only a layer of defense, a stop gap between what **you** would **receive** and what **you** would give in which the **ego** once made its bid to **claim** **ownership**. Effort, as translated by the **ego** , was about turning **everything** that was given into what " **you** " could only **work** hard to attain, and thereby **claim** as your **individual** **accomplishment**. Obviously, **union** is not about this. While the **ego** is gone, effort remains, and while it remains, **you** **will** not realize full **access** to what **you** are given. _D:Day5.22.3-7_

~ this **service** is effortless for it is the **way** of **creation**. Again, this is why the "effort" of learning must cease. _D:Day5.22.9-10_

**Addendum**

~ give yourself a **chance** to let the relief of not having another **task** to apply your effort to fill **you**. _A.12.7_

~ to give up effort for receptivity is **more** than some can accept. Why? Because it is too **difficult**. It goes against **all** **you** **have** learned and the **nature** of the **reality** in which the **mind** has functioned. _A.18.4-7_

~ no striving for either unity or **perfection** is necessary. _A.25.4_

**EGO**

| ˈēɡō |

**A Course of Love**

~ the separated **self** or the ego does not **learn**. Even when the ego has taken many courses and received many teachings, the ego has not learned but has merely **become** threatened. _C:P.3.1-2_

~ the ego is what **you** made. _C:P.8.1_

~ the ego is your **extension** of who **you** think **you** are. _C:P.8.3_

~ the ego cannot be glorified and that **you** would not **want** it to be. This is why, while the ego remains, **you** cannot **know** who **you** are. _C:P.9.4-5_

~ just as the **Holy Spirit** can **use** what the ego has made, the ego can **use** what the **mind** has learned but has not integrated. Until **you** are what **you** **have** learned, **you** leave room for the ego's machinations. Once **you** are what **you** **have** learned, there is no room in which the ego can **exist** and, banished from the **home** **you** made for it, it slowly dies. Until this happens, the ego takes pride in what the **mind** has acquired, even unto the greater **peace** and contentment offered by your learning. It can and does **see** itself as better and stronger and **more** capable of worldly **success**. It would **use** **all** **you** **have** learned for its own motivations and pat **you** on the back for your **new** abilities. Without your vigilance it may even seem to **have** **become** stronger than before and fiercer in its criticism. It pretends to hold **you** to **new** standards, only to **use** what **you** **have** learned to increase your guilt. Thus it wins in daily battles and works for your final abdication, the **day** that **you** give up and admit defeat. It challenges your right to **happiness** and **love** and miracles, and seeks only to **have** **you** **claim** that **living** with such fantasies does not **work** and **will** not ever be possible **here**. _C:2.19.1-10_

~ your ego is highly invested in things remaining the same. _C:P.24.6_

~ its survival as it is is its only **concern**. This is not just **concern** for **needs** such as food and shelter, but for survival of the **thought system** of the separated **self**. **Happiness** is not a priority **here** , but **being** right is quite important to it. It would prefer to be serious and heavy-hearted rather than **light** -hearted and gay. **Being** serious about **life** is a major strategy of the separated **self** , which recognizes its own seriousness as necessary to maintain its **separation**. **Joy** is truly the greatest threat to the separated **self** , for it comes from **union** and reinforces union's appeal at the expense of the appeal of **separation**. _C:10.19.3-8_

~ your ego **will** strongly resist your attempts to **listen** to your **heart** , and **will** **call** this every kind of foolishness, a waste of **time** that could be spent on better things. _C:13.10.1_

~ rather than discriminating between higher and lower thoughts, **you** **have** aggrandized **all** your thoughts and given them an **identity** **we** **have** called the ego. Without dislodging your **belief** in your ego as yourself **you** **will** never realize your true **identity**. _C:31.11.6-7_

~ how the ego becomes dislodged matters not. What matters is where **you** place your **devotion**. _C:31.12.2-3_

~ the ego is that part of yourself that clings to the **idea** of **separation** , and thus cannot grasp the basic **truth** of your existence: that **giving** and receiving are one in **truth**. _C:31.14.1_

~ it is the ego that deems **honesty** a game; the ego that **you** let decide upon your **truth**. _C:31.16.6_

~ your ego thoughts can never **share** the **truth** with **you** nor with anyone else. The ego invented the **idea** of "telling" the **truth** and using it as an **opposite** to telling an untruth or lie. Thus were born ideas of **being** able to **keep** **truth** a secret, one of the most ridiculous ideas of the ego **thought system**. _C:31.25.1-3_

~ only the ego sprang from a lie, the lie of **separation** that created the **illusion** of **separate** minds and varying degrees of **truth**. _C:31.27.3_

**Treatises**

~ many things which seemed so distinct and **separate** and which ranged from **fear** , to **struggle** , to **effort** , to **control** and **protection** , can **all** now be seen as the product of the thoughts of your ego- **mind**. _T1:2.2.2_

~ the so-called **thinking** of the ego- **mind** was so tyrannical that its **use** throughout your lifetime deadened many of your feelings. It led **you** so far from the **truth** that **you** no longer **trust** in it. It confused the smallest issues to such a degree that it left **you** unable to respond purely to anything. The so-called **thinking** of the ego- **mind** could be likened to chitchat, background noise, static. So little **meaning** did it **have** that **all** **meaning** became muddled. _T1:2.6.1-5_

~ the thoughts of your ego- **mind** were ruled by the **nature** of the **body**. _T1:2.10.1_

~ the ego- **mind** sees nothing for what it is. The ego- **mind** sees not anything but what it wants as gifts and even these it sees not as gifts but as rewards. The ego- **mind** barters rather than **giving** and receiving as one, believing in a return only for **effort**. Because it sees only rewards and not gifts, it cannot **see** that gifts are shared. Because it cannot **see** that gifts are shared, it cannot afford to **see** **relationship**. Because it believes it is on its own it cannot **see** the higher order. Because of **all** of this, it cannot **experience** the **truth** and so exists in **illusion**. _T1:3.3.1-7_

~ the ego- **mind** is concerned only with its own survival but it has **you** convinced it is your survival that depends on it. _T1:3.5.8_

~ the ego- **mind** , in its imitation of **creation** , put the " **you** " of the ego or the **body** at the center of its **thought system** and from this central position developed **all** of its ideas of glorifying the separated **self** as well as of subjugating the separated **self**. _T1:4.8.2_

~ even now, the ego **will** take every opportunity that arises to prove to **you** that **independence** is a far better **state** than that of **dependence**. It **will** **work** diligently to convince **you** that any course that tries to take away your **independence** should be resisted. As long as **you** continue to **listen** to your ego **you** **will** not **understand** **giving** and receiving as one and **will** not believe in it. _T2:7.6.2-4_

~ your ego thoughts cannot long abide in the holy place of your **heart**. _T2:7.19.6_

~ what is food for the ego- **mind** is **fear** and the removal of these final fears **will** quite literally starve the ego- **mind** out of existence. _T2:9.15.5_

~ **you** might think of the ego as the hand that swats away this knowing. _T2:10.8.3_

~ the ego is the **teacher** **you** **have** relied upon when **you** **have** relied upon yourself as your own **teacher**. _T2:10.9.1_

~ as the ego has been the known **identity** of your existence until now, it **will** , in a sense, be forever with **you** , much as the **body** that is your **form** **will** **remain** with **you** until your **death**. But while your **perception** of your **body** as your **identity** and your **home** has given **way** to an **idea** of it as a **form** that can be of **service** to **you** and your **expression** , there is no **service** the ego can do **you**. The ego is the one untruth, given many names and many faces and the only thing given by **you** the **power** to do **battle** with the **truth** , or with **God**. _T2:11.4.2-4_

~ the ego was made from the **belief** in **separation** and **all** that followed from it. _T2:11.7.3_

~ the ego is **all** that opposes your true **identity**. _T2:11.7.5_

~ the ego, having been with **you** from your earliest remembering, **will** continue to be with **you** , in the **way** that **all** learned behaviors and ideas are with **you** , until it is totally replaced by **new** learning. _T2:11.8.1_

~ **i** **have** said that the ego **will** **remain** with **you** as the **identity** **you** **have** learned since **birth** until **you** replace it with **new** learning. While **you** **have** learned much **here** , **you** may be **thinking** that your ego is still very much with **you** , and wondering, if **you** **have** not yet replaced it, how this **miracle** **will** come about. This **replacement** is indeed a **miracle** and the very **miracle** **you** **have** been prepared for **within** this course of learning. _T2:11.17.1-3_

~ the ego could be **here** compared to a **gardener** who believes that the seed **alone** is **all** that is important. As intently as this **gardener** might **struggle** to cause the seed to grow, without the **relationship** of earth and water, **light** and air, the seed would but **remain** a **source** of **struggle**. The ego would hang on to what is already **accomplished** **within** **you** , never to let it express, through **relationship** , **all** that it is. As valuable as the ego would tell **you** that **you** are, it still would thwart **you** **being** who **you** are through its **denial** of the relationships essential to that which **you** truly are. _T2:12.11.4-7_

~ an ego- **self** , a **self** - **concept** seemingly stuck in an adolescent phase of development. The ego- **self** 's only **desire** was for **you** to "grow up" into its version of an independent **being** —no **matter** what the cost. _T3:2.12.3-4_

~ **all** that was ever other than who **you** are was the ego. The ego is gone. The ego was simply your **idea** of who **you** were. This **idea** was a complex set of judgments, of good and bad, right and wrong, worthy and unworthy, a list as endless as it was worthless. _T3:3.10.2-5_

~ **you** can dismantle the ego and build another in its place and this has at times been done in the **individual** with great training, as in military training, or in cases of great **abuse** when a second ego **personality** is developed to save the **first**. The ego has also been dismantled and rebuilt over **time** and been seen as the rise and fall of civilizations. _T3:4.7.1-2_

~ the ego- **self** is gone from **you**. Whether **you** fully realize this or not matters not. _T3:4.8.2_

~ the ego has given **you** many reasons to be distrustful of your **Self** , **beginning** with the **idea** of your abandonment **here**. Since the ego is a **chosen** **self** and a learned **self** , there has always been just enough room **within** the ego's **thought system** to **keep** **within** **you** the **idea** of a **self** the ego is not. Thus has the ego had a **self** to **blame** for **everything** , including your very existence. _T3:6.4.4-6_

~ the ego has existed not in some but in **all**. _T3:6.5.8_

~ the ego's existence derived from your **idea** of a separated **self** , a **thought** , or **idea** , of absolute untruth. _T3:7.1.4_

~ the only thing **within** the **human experience** that made **you** incapable of representing who **you** are in **truth** was the ego. The only thing **within** the **human experience** that deprived the **human experience** of **meaning** was the ego. _T3:7.5.2_

~ the **life** of the physical **self** became a **life** of **suffering** and strife only because the physical or **personal self** forgot that it exists in **relationship** and believed itself to be **separate** and **alone**. In its **fear** , it made an ego- **self** which, because it sprang from **fear** , was not consistent with the **laws of Love** or of **creation**. Knowing it existed in a **state** inconsistent with that of the laws of **God** , it made of **God** a **being** to be feared, thus continuing, and **being** unable to find **release** from, the cycle of **fear**. _T3:12.9.1-3_

~ **effort** and to **struggle** , to planning and to a **state** of knowing that for which it is **you** **plan**. These **have** been the ways of **creation** in the **thought system** of the ego, ways that **have** brought much advancement to the forms **you** occupy without changing their **nature** in the slightest measure. **All** the **effort** of the ego has not brought an end to **suffering** or strife, nor made of this **illusion** a happy dream. _T3:16.3.2-4_

~ many **desire** to be "the best" as a **means** to glorify the ego, but few of these succeed for the ego cannot be glorified. _T4:2.12.4_

**Dialogues**

~ the ego is gone. _D:1.10.2_

~ it may seem peculiar to think of the ego as a **system** , and **we** **have** heretofore referred to both the ego and to the ego's **thought system** , but the ego is quite rightly seen as a **system** in and of itself. It is **thought** externalized and given an **identity** **you** but falsely believed to be yourself. From this one externalized **thought** **pattern** came most of your **false** ideas, ideas that made it **difficult** even for the divinely inspired **thought** systems to provide the learning they were designed to impart. Such is the case with the **system** of learning through **contrast** , since when the ego entered with its **false** ideas and **judgment** , **contrast** did not always provide the lessons it was meant to provide. In addition, believing the ego had **become** an externalized **self** took **you** , the true **Self** and the true learner, out of the learning loop. Obviously these systems, built as they were upon patterns now **being** recreated, are part of the **old**. _D:4.16.3-8_

~ the ego but seemed to be who **you** were for a **time**. Now that **you** **know** who **you** are in **truth** , the ego does not **remain** , a **separate** entity with a **life** of its own. No. The ego is gone. Because it was a lie its exposure to the **truth** dissolved it. _D:5.8.8-12_

~ your **belief** in the non-existence of the ego is now total and has brought a **freedom** and a liberation in which **you** rejoice. _D:6.4.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ without the dismantling of the ego- **self** , without the dismantling of the **self** as **separate** and **alone** , **you** could not **learn** the **truth** no **matter** how much **attention** **you** paid, no **matter** how mightily **you** tried. _D:Day4.25.3_

~ the ego- **self** was the **self** **you** felt safe presenting to the **world** , the **self** **you** believed the **world** would find acceptable. If **you** are still presenting this **self** , **you** are still in a **state** of non- **acceptance** and whatever **peace** **you** are **feeling** **will** not last. Whatever **access** to unity **you** **have** experienced **will** not last because **you** **will** not be choosing the **time** of **acceptance**. _D:Day8.26.3-5_

~ as an ego- **self** , **you** created an **experience** for yourself that was **separate** from **all** **others**. **You** made choices concerning how **you** would live your **life** from **within** the realm of what **you** considered possible. **You** did so continuously. This was the **way** in which **you** created your **experience** of a **separate** existence. _D:Day36.2.1-4_

**ELEVATED SELF OF FORM**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ what is **new** is the **elevation** of the **personal self** that **will** be caused by the return of your natural **state** of **love**. This is where **observation** comes in. _T4:3.9.3-4_

**Dialogues**

~ the elevated **form** , which now represents the shared **consciousness** of the **Self** , is not **separate** from the shared **consciousness**. _D:3.12.5_

~ it is this **difference** that exists between the **Self** and the elevated **Self** of **form** that make of us creators of the **new** , because the elevated **Self** of **form** is **new**. _D:3.19.1_

~ your **Self** of elevated **form** is newly birthed. _D:3.19.3_

~ while the **Self** that **God** created is eternal and the **self** of **form** as ancient as the sea and stars, the elevated **Self** of **form** is **new** and **will** **create** a **new** **world**. _D:5.15.3_

~ the elevated Self of form **will** never be **all** that **you** are. This does not imply however, that there are portions of your **Self** missing from this **new** **experience** in **form** **you** now enter into, but that the elevated **Self** of **form** is now able to **join** with the **Self** in the unity of shared **consciousness**. _D:6.26.7-8_

~ in the **state** of unity, your true **Self** is fully aware of the elevated **Self** of **form** and is fully participating in its experiences and feelings. The elevated **Self** of **form** , however, **being** a **form** that still exists in **time** , must realize the **consciousness** of the true **Self** in **time**. What this **means** is that the elevated **Self** of **form** may still need " **time** " to come to **know** the changes that only occur in " **time** " although they are already **accomplished** in unity. _D:6.27.4-6_

~ the elevated **Self** of **form** does not **remain** contained **within** the dot of the **body** but draws its **sustenance** from the larger circle, the circle of unity. _D:11.14.1_

~ becoming the elevated **Self** of **form** is becoming **whole** , and **will** be the **way** in which **source** and cause transform **body** and **mind** , **form** and **time**. _D:14.17.2_

~ only a **new** **you** can **create** a **new** **world**. The **new** **you** is the elevated **Self** of **form** who **you** are in the process of becoming. _D:16.13.4-5_

~ **being** **all** **you** are is what the elevated **Self** of **form** represents. _D:7.6.5_

~ by becoming one **body** , one **Christ** , **you** **have** accepted existence as a non- **particular** **being** in a **state** outside of **time** — **you** **have** accepted existence as a **new** **Self** , the **Self** of elevated **form**. _D:7.18.6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ now is the **time** to come into full **acceptance** of the human **self** as well as the **Self** of unity. It is **time** for the final merging of the two into one **Self** , the elevated **Self** of **form**. _D:Day2.1.3-4_

~ open the **self** of **form** to the place of unity, thus allowing this divine flow of **union** into the elevated **Self** of **form**. _D:Day3.44.2_

~ this **elevation** must occur in **life** , in your **life** as it is, rather than in some idealized **situation** away from what **you** consider normal **life**. _D:Day6.16.4_

~ the elevated **Self** of **form** **will** **expand** into the **world** and **create** a **new** **universe**. This condition of **expansion** is operative now and **beginning** to find manifestation through the sharing **we** are doing **here**. _D:Day7.10.4-5_

~ there **will** be, however, a **new** **stage** following the **time** of **acceptance** in which the elevated **Self** of **form** **will** be created and come into full manifestation. _D:Day7.17.1_

~ this **sameness** of the person **you** are and **Christ-consciousness** , of **union** and presence, of the **individual** and the **universal** , is what the elevated **Self** of **form** must encompass. _D:Day10.19.5_

~ this is as good an **idea** as **I** can give **you** of how to imagine the elevated **Self** of **form** , as not much **different** than **you** are now, but peaceful and free of the constraints of the **body**. _D:Day10.27.3_

~ the **elevation** of the **self** of **form** is nothing but the recognition of the One **Self** **within** the **Self**. _D:Day11.3.1_

~ the spaciousness of **love** , the lovely complexity of **form** , the awesome majesty of **nature** , **all** are visible **within** the One **Self** because of the invisibility of the one **boundary** - **less** **Self** of **form**. **All** of **creation** is **present** and apparent in this **boundary** - **less** **Self** of **form**. This **Self** is **everything** and everyone. _D:Day13.6.3-5_

~ **we** **have** spoken of **life** - **consciousness** and **Christ-consciousness** as the merging of the human and the divine into observable **form**. _D:Day17.1.4_

~ the joining of **mind** and **heart** provided reunion of the human and divine and thus **accomplished** the **resurrection** of the eternal in **form**. _D:Day18.6.4_

~ to be able to hold onto, apprehend, and carry with **you** the **ability** to **experience** both levels of **experience** , the internal and the **external** , the **form** and the **content** , the human and the divine, is to elevate the **self** of **form** , or, in other words, to be what **you** **have** always been: **Whole**. _D:Day27.10.1_

~ the elevated **Self** of **form** **will** be the **expression** of **new** **life** lived **within** the **constant** of **wholeness** but continuing to **experience** the variability of **separation**. _D:Day27.15.4_

**ELEVATION**

| ˌeləˈvāSH(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the **elevation** **you** are currently experiencing is the only elevation **you** would **want**. _D:Day6.19.3_

~ **you** cannot find a place outside of yourself that **will** allow for the elevation of which **we** speak. _D:Day6.19.6_

**ELEVATION OF FORM**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ **we** are talking now, in a certain sense, of an **elevation** of **form**. While this is actually an **elevation** beyond **form** , it must begin in the **reality** where **you** think **you** are. In other words, it must begin with **form**. **You** cannot await some changed **state** but must **create** the changed **state** **you** await. _T1:9.3.1-4_

**EMBRACE**

| əmˈbrās |

**A Course of Love**

~ **we** **have** returned to the embrace. And now your arms cradle me as well, for an embrace, although it may begin with one reaching out to another, concludes with mutuality, shared touch, a melding of one into another. The embrace makes one of two. _C:20.7.1-3_

~ **all** landscapes and horizons **form** **within** the embrace. **All** **beauty** resides there. **All** **light** is fused and infused **within** the embrace. **Within** the embrace our sight clears and what **we** **see** is known rather than understood. _C:20.8.3-6_

~ **here** , **rest** comes to weariness and gently lays it aside. **Time** has ended and there is nothing **you** must do. **Being** replaces **identity** and **you** say, **I am**. **I am** , and there is nothing outside of me. Nothing outside of the embrace. _C:20.9.1-5_

~ from **here** your **life** becomes imaginal, a dream that requires **you** not to leave your **home** , your place of **safety** and of **rest**. **You** are cradled gently while your **spirit** soars, dreaming happy dreams at last. With **love** surrounding **you** in arms that hold **you** close, **you** feel the **heartbeat** of the **world** just beneath your resting head. _C:20.10.1-3_

~ this is **creation**. This is **God**. This is our **home**. _C:20.11.1-3_

~ **we** **exist** in the embrace of **love** like the layers of **light** that **form** a rainbow, indivisible and curved inward upon **each** other. **Love** grows from **within** as a child grows **within** its mother's womb. Inward, inward, into the embrace, the **source** of **all** beginnings, the kernel and the **wholeness** of **all** **life**. _C:20.12.1-3_

~ one embrace. _C:20.15.7_

~ there is no longer cause for alienation, nor for the **feeling** of abandonment so many of **you** **have** felt. **You** are now **within** the embrace where **all** such hurts are healed. _C:20.16.1-2_

~ **within** the embrace **you** can let **all** **thought** go. **Within** the embrace, **you** can quit **thinking** even of holy things, holy men and women, and even divine beings, even the one **God**. _C:20.21.3-4_

~ **awe** and magnificence encompass **you** in the embrace. _C:20.25.2_

~ to **know** the **safety** and **love** of the embrace is to **know** no cause for **fear** , and thus to come into your true **power**. _C:20.28.6_

~ to feel the **holiness** of the embrace is to **release** its **power**. _C:20.29.4_

~ the embrace has returned **you** to attunement with the **heartbeat** , the music of the dance. _C:20.34.1_

~ the embrace is the **source** of **all** , the one **heartbeat**. _C:21.3.2_

~ it is **eternity** itself. It is the face of **love** , its texture, taste, and feel. It is **love** conceptualized. It is an abstract rather than a **particular** **concept** , even while having a seeming **structure** that your **heart** can feel. _C:21.3.2-5_

~ the embrace can now be likened to the starting point of a shared **language** , a **language** shared by **mind** and **heart** and by **all** people. It is a **language** of images and concepts that touch the one **heart** and serve the one **mind**. _C:21.6.1-2_

~ your **mind** and **heart** **join** in **wholeheartedness** in the embrace. **You** are **home** , and there **you** **will** forever stay. _C:32.3.4-5_

**Treatises**

~ an embrace and a view that is inclusive of **all**. _T4:1.1.6_

~ even the **house** of **illusion** is held **within** the embrace of **love** , of **God** , of the **truth**. _T4:1.12.1_

~ the embrace is inclusive. _T4:1.12.3_

~ the embrace is not an **action** so much as a **state** of **being**. **Awareness** of the embrace comes from the **vision** of which **I** **have** just begun to speak. _T4:3.1.2-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to embrace is the **opposite** of to **escape**. To hold **all** **within** yourself in the embrace of **love** is the **opposite** of holding onto what **you** **have** already responded to with **fear** and made **separate**. _D:Day16.10.11-12_

~ the embrace is **Christ-consciousness**. _D:Day16.10.14_

~ what **you** hold **within** the embrace is held in **love** and so exists along with **you** in the spacious **state** of **constant** coming to **know**. _D:Day16.13.3_

~ this is the **meaning** of the embrace—the possession, the **ownership** of belonging—of carrying, or holding **relationship** and **union** **within** one's own **Self**. This has been called the tension of opposites, of **being** one's own **Self** and **being** one in **union** and **relationship**. These opposites, like **all** **others** , are held **within** the embrace of **love** and belonging. _D:Day38.8.1-3_

**EMOTION**

| əˈmōSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ the thoughts of your **heart** **you** **have** defined as your emotions. _C:8.1.1_

~ emotions, the thoughts of your **heart** , are what **we** **will** now **work** with. _C:8.1.3_

~ **you** think of the **heart** as the place of **feeling** , and thus **you** associate emotions with your **heart**. Emotions, however, are really reactions of your **body** to stimuli that arrive through your senses. _C:8.6.1-2_

~ emotions speak the **language** of your separated **self** rather than the **language** of your **heart**. They are the forward guard of your defense **system** , always on the lookout for what might hurt or slight the little **you** that they deem under their **protection** , or the other little selves **you** deem under yours. _C:9.2.1-2_

~ it is your **language** that gives emotion its place, one step behind **fear** , in your **battle** to **control** or protect what **you** **have** made. _C:9.14.6_

~ there are really only two emotions: one is **fear** , the other **love**. **Fear** is thus the **source** of **all** **illusion** , **love** the **source** of **truth**. _C:9.16.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ emotions are responses. **You** **have** been told there are but two emotions, **love** and **fear**. _D:Day16.10.3-4_

**EMPTINESS**

| ˈem(p)tēnəs |

**Treatises**

~ while **you** **have** just been told that **you** now **exist** in a **state** of emptiness, this is not a **state** to be feared. Yet it is this **fear** of emptiness that has, in the **past** , made those who **have** experienced it rush to find the easiest and most available **replacement**. _T3:5.1.1-2_

~ emptiness caused by the complete absence of the **ego**. _T3:5.1.3_

~ **all** the lessons **you** **have** drawn to yourself in your lifetime **have** worked toward this absence in the hopes of filling the emptiness with the **fullness** of the **truth**. _T3:5.1.4_

~ as with the gentle learning of this Course, not **all** emptiness has come to **you** at the hands of **suffering**. **Each** **time** **you** **have** "fallen" in **love** **you** **have** emptied a **space** for **love** to fill. **Each** **time** **you** **have** felt true **devotion** **you** **have** emptied a **space** for **love** to fill. **You** **have** been emptied of the **ego** - **self** as creative moments of **inspiration** filled **you** and emptied of the **ego** - **self** in moments of connection with **God**. _T3:5.2.1-4_

~ conversely, **you** **have** been emptied by the lessons of grief as the **loss** of **love** has led to a **loss** of **self**. **You** **have** been emptied by a **loss** of **self** due to illness or **addiction** , depression, or even physical exhaustion. _T3:5.3.1-2_

**Dialogues**

~ empty is the **opposite** of full, the **opposite** of **wholeness**. It is the perceived condition of **lack**. It is the **belief** that what animated **form** with **life** did not **remain**. The **belief** that in the passing through, a **relationship** did not **form**. _D:16.3.2-5_

**ENEMY**

| ˈenəmē |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** **have** made an enemy of **creation**. _C:14.2.1_

**ENERGY**

| ˈenərjē |

**Treatises**

~ in order for your **body** to live, this one Energy had to enter your **form** and **exist** where **you** think **you** are. This is the Energy of **Love** , the Energy of **Creation** , the **Source** that is known as **God**. Since **you** are clearly **alive** , this Energy exists **within** **you** as it exists in **all** else that lives. It is one Energy endlessly able to materialize in an inexhaustible variety of forms. It is thus one Energy endlessly able to dematerialize and rematerialize in an inexhaustible variety of **form**. But **form** does not contain It and is not required for Its existence or **expression**. _T4:5.4.1-6_

~ **you** might think of this as a small spark of the energy that has created a **living** **universe** existing **within** **you** and uniting **you** to **all** that has been created. _T4:5.5.3_

~ the same energy exists in the stars of the heavens and the waters of the ocean that exists in **you**. This energy is the **form** and **content** of the **embrace**. It is **within** **you** and It surrounds and It encompasses **you**. It is **you** and **all** who **exist** with **you**. It is the **body of Christ**. It is like unto what the water of the ocean is to the **living** **matter** that exists **within** it. _T4:5.5.5-9_

**ENVISION**

| ənˈviZHən |

**Dialogues**

~ your envisioning too is bound to **time** and that is why so many of **you** think of envisioning as envisioning the **future**. Envisioning is **less** bound to **time** than is **observation** because it is not about what your body's eyes **see** , and **will** increasingly **join** with what **you** observe until your **vision** is released from **old** patterns and guides **you** **more** truly. _D:7.16.3-4_

**EQUALITY**

| əˈkwälədē |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** in **all**. None lesser and none greater for **all** is **all**. One is one. _C:20.15.8-10_

**ERROR**

| ˈerər |

**A Course of Love**

~ these errors are not the sins **you** hold against yourself, but merely your errors in **perception**. _C:9.35.4_

**Treatises**

~ **we** **work** now to correct the errors of the **past** in the **present** , the only place where such **work** can be done. _T3:1.13.5_

~ the only **way** for such an error to be seen as an error was through its dysfunction. _T3:4.5.3_

~ the only **way** to correct such an error is to dismantle the **structure** and begin again with a **foundation** capable of **being** built upon. This is what **we** **have** done. **We** **have** taken away the **foundation** of **illusion** , the one error that became the basis of **all** that came after it. **You** cannot make another error such as this for it is the one error. _T3:4.6.1-4_

**ESCAPE**

| əˈskāp |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ no escape does not mean that anyone is bound to the **past** and to their former **pain** but that **each** is still bound to, and affected by, **all** that has been rejected or ejected. _D:Day16.6.2_

~ there is no escape for there is only the **embrace**. _D:Day16.10.13_

**ETERNITY**

| əˈtərnədē |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** can realize the eternal even in your temporary **form** if **you** can let go of your particularity. _C:21.2.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ eternity might thus be seen as the unchanging **constant** that has not been affected by the **variable** of **time**. Said in another **way** , eternity and **time** are part of the same continuum as are properties such as hot and cold. They are part of the same **whole** that is the **constant** of **all** that is **whole**. **all** that is one. _D:Day28.20.4-6_

~ an endless quest for love's **expression** is eternity itself. E.28.3

**EVANGELIZE**

| əˈvanjəˌlīz |

**Treatises**

~ this is why it has long been stated that **you** are not called to evangelize or convince anyone of the merits of this course of **study**. This is just a course of **study**. Those whom **you** would **seek** to evangelize or convince are as holy as your **Self**. This **holiness** need only be observed. When **you** think in terms of evangelizing or convincing, **you** think in terms of **future** outcome rather than in terms of what already is. This type of **thinking** **will** not serve the **new** or allow **you** full **awareness** of the **new**. _T4:2.19.1-6_

~ your role **will** not be to evangelize or to be convincing. **You** cannot argue the case of **truth** in the courtroom of **illusion**. _T3:19.15.3-4_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** were told specifically not to evangelize or attempt to convince. These are actions of the separated **self** attempting to fulfill **intermediary** functions. _D:13.12.1-2_

**EVERLASTING LIFE**

| ˌevərˈlastiNG līf |

**Treatises**

~ the **idea** of everlasting **life** in **form** has seemed a curse to some, a **miracle** to **others**. _T4:3.14.1_

~ the promise of **life** everlasting was not an empty promise. It is a promise that has been fulfilled. It is **you** who **have** **chosen** the **means**. Now a **new** **choice** is before **you**. _T4:3.15.1-4_

~ everywhere **within** your **world** **you** **see** the **pattern** of **life** -everlasting. Where there is a **pattern** of **life** -everlasting, there is everlasting **life**. **Means** and end are one, cause and **effect** the same. _T4:4.1.1-3_

~ the **pattern** of **life** -everlasting is one of changing **form**. It is one that is revealed on Earth by **birth** and **death** , decay and renewal, seasons of **growth** and seasons of decline. This is the **pattern** of **creation** taken to extremes. _T4:4.2.1-3_

~ there is no discontinuity **within** **creation**. Like begets like. **Life** begets **life**. Thus is revealed the **pattern** of **life** -everlasting. _T4:4.7.3-6_

~ changing **form** is part of the **pattern** of **life** -everlasting. The **change** in the **form** **you** now occupy, the **change** **I** **have** spoken of as that of **elevation** of the **personal self** , is a natural part of the **pattern** of **life** -everlasting. It is long over-due. It is long over-due because **you** **have** rejected rather than accepted your **inheritance**. _T4:4.8.1-4_

~ **you** **have** the **awareness** and thus the **ability** to accept the continuity of **life** -everlasting. _T4:4.9.5_

~ immortality is not the **change** of which **I** speak. **You** are not mortal, and so a **word** that speaks of an **opposite** to what **you** are not and **have** never been is not the accurate **word**. **I** do not speak of bodies **living** forever instead of **living** for what **you** **call** a lifetime. _T4:4.10.1-3_

~ to be cognizant or aware of everlasting **consciousness** while **you** still abide in **form** is to be fully aware that **you** **have** **life** everlasting. _T4:4.12.5_

~ **being** fully aware that **you** **have** **life** everlasting is totally **different** than having **faith** in an **after-life**. _T4:4.13.1_

~ true **vision** sees **life** -everlasting where **perception** but saw finite **life** and mortal bodies. Once **vision** and **Christ-consciousness** has returned to **you** , the **means** of **life** -everlasting **will** be understood as a **choice**. Because there was no **relationship** save that of intermediaries between the human and the divine, there was no **choice** but to end the separated **state** in order to return to unity through **death**. Once the return to unity has occurred in **form** , the **decision** to continue in **form** or to not continue in **form** **will** be yours. _T4:4.14.2-5_

~ to believe that **you** are mortal is to believe that **you** must die to the **personal self** of **form** in order to be reborn as a true **Self**. This is an **old** **way** of **thinking**. _T4:4.16.2-3_

~ **life** -everlasting in **form** is not your only **choice**. _T4:5.1.1_

~ those who believe that **life** -everlasting includes **life** on other worlds can **create** a scenario in which it appears that some live on one **world** and some on another. _T4:6.3.2_

**EVERYBODY**

| ˈevrēˌbädē |

**A Course of Love**

~ "Everyone" is just a **concept**. _C:I.11.1_

**EVERYTHING**

| ˈevrēˌTHiNG |

**A Course of Love**

~ everything has **birth** in an **idea** , a **thought** , a conception. Everything that has been manifested in your **world** was **first** conceived **within** the **mind**. _C:3.10.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ everything **you** **have** ever wanted to be is. Everything **you** **have** ever **thought** or imagined is and is reflected in the **world** **you** **see**. _T2:3.1.8-9_

**EVIL**

| ˈēvəl |

**A Course of Love**

~ defining evil does not abolish it, but only makes it **real** to **you**. _C:16.19.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ where there is no **love** there is no **God** **present**. Where there is no **love** there is a **lack** of godliness or what **you** **have** defined as evil. _D:Day13.5.2-3_

~ holding the loveless **self** **within** the spacious **Self** of **love** is the **answer** to the question of evil and the final lifting of the last veils of **fear**. _D:Day13.6.9_

**EVOLUTION**

| ˌevəˈlo͞oSH(ə)n |

**Dialogues**

~ evolution is the **time** -bound **way** in which the **body** has participated in **creation**. This is why **you** **have** been told that **you** are not called to evolution. **Time** -bound evolution is the **way** of the creature, the natural **response** of the **living** organism to the stimulus of **matter** upon **matter** , and of the creature's **perception** of its own **experience** in **time**. This **time** -bound evolution is really adaptation. It occurs in reaction to what is perceived as necessary for survival. _D:7.21.1-5_

~ **time** -bound evolution is still surely going on, and as the planet becomes crowded, as progress has left so many unfulfilled, as environmental concerns mount, even the perceived survival **needs** are leading **you** toward **new** answers of what survival may mean. _D:7.22.1_

~ evolution in **time** is part of the **old** that **needs** to be left behind. It is a **provision** of the **time** of learning that allows the learning **being** to **learn** at his or her own pace and to pass this learning on in **time**. _D:7.23.3-4_

~ everyone knows that this has not worked to improve the **fate** of man. Everyone secretly fears that evolution **will** not **keep** pace with the changing **world** and that man's reign over his environment **will** come to an abrupt and painful end. Some even **fear** an evolutionary setback, and **see** any threat against civilization as they **know** it as a return to barbaric times. _D:7.24.1-3_

~ these scenarios of **fear** **we** leave behind as **we** abandon ideas of evolution in **time** and proceed to an **awareness** of how the **elevated Self of form** can replace the laws of evolution in **time** with the laws of **transformation** outside of **time**. _D:7.25.1_

**EXAMPLE**

| iɡˈzampəl |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ only those who **have** fully accepted who they are, are capable of **being** example lives. These example lives are evidenced through the individuation of the One **Self** among the many. In other words, to choose to be an example **life** is to choose to be made known by, and to, the many. It is full **acceptance** of the **Self** in a **form** that can be distinguished, or individuated from the **rest**. It is full **acceptance** of **difference** as well as **sameness** and of the necessity of **each**. It is a **choice** many **will** be called to so that **sameness** is seen in **difference** , the one is seen in the many, and the many seen in the one. It is a **way** of **service** through **action**. _D:Day18.4.1-7_

~ to be an example **life** is to be what **you** represent in **truth**. Followers of **all** faiths are called to example lives and to **representation** of the same **truth**. _D:Day18.5.1-2_

~ those who **understand** the **meaning** of any or **all** of the example lives that **have** come as revelations of who **God** is, **understand** that those lives were not **separate** from **God**. _D:Day32.11.3_

**EXERCISE**

| ˈeksərˌsīz |

**A Course of Love**

~ the exercises in this Course of **Love** are few, and they are contained **within** the Course itself rather than separated from it. There are but a few reasons for this method. The **first** is your attitude toward instruction, and the fact that **you** do not really **desire** it. _C:11.1.1-3_

~ **each** exercise is but an **idea** , and ideas leave not their **source**. _C:11.4.2_

~ this is **all** the exercises that **call** **you** to observe your **body** are for. They are the preparation for what is to come: the preparation for **feeling** that which is not of your **body**. _C:13.1.3-4_

~ these are but exercises in **memory** recollection, and the **more** **you** **practice** them the **more** true **memory** **will** return to **you**. _C:13.3.1_

~ **time** is not required, nor is money or the **use** of any other thing **you** value. And there is not even the slightest **chance** of **being** made to look foolish by what **you** are asked to do. _C:13.10.2-3_

~ **you** were already told that the only exercise for your **mind** that would be included in this Course of **Love** is that **you** dedicate **all** **thought** to **union**. This now must be seen in two dimensions rather than one. In addition to dedicating **thought** to unity with the **whole** , **you** must dedicate yourself to unifying **thought** itself. _C:18.17.3-5_

~ in the **past** , exercises **have** most often begun with an alteration of beliefs regarding **form**. **Here** **we** **have** taken an **opposite** approach, **beginning** with exercises to alter your **belief** in your **identity** and concluding with exercises to alter your **belief** in **form**. This is consistent with our primary **focus** on learning from the **heart**. The **mind** goes from the small to the large, the **heart** from the large to the small. Only the wholehearted **see** the connection of **all**. _C:23.12.3-7_

**EXIST**

| iɡˈzist |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** exist, quite simply, because of your **relationship** with **love**. _C:11.18.1_

~ **you** exist in **holiness**. _C:20.22.3_

~ the **universe** exists in reciprocal **relationship** or **holy relationship** , rather than **special relationship**. This is the **nature** of existence, as unity is the **nature** of existence and cannot be changed and has not changed. _C:29.17.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ only what exists in **relationship** knows that it exists. _D:Day11.6.10_

~ existence and **wholeness** are the same. Thus your existence, the existence of the **self** , is, or can be, a **common denominator** of **wholeness**. _D:Day30.3.5-6_

**EXPAND**

| ikˈspand |

**Dialogues**

~ to expand is to open "out," to spread "out," to increase, to **become**. It is, for us, about bringing "out" what is **within**. _D:14.11.1-2_

**EXPANSION**

| ikˈspanSHən |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ realize your own **expansion** , the expansion that has taken place under the tutelage of **Jesus** , **within** the **dialogue** with **Christ-consciousness** , **within** the recesses of your **heart** where your **relationship** with **love** has never been severed. _D:Day39.42.1_

**EXPECT**

| ikˈspekt |

**Dialogues**

~ to expect is to await, and **you** are no longer waiting. _D:17.10.5_

**EXPERIENCE**

| ˌikˈspirēəns |

**A Course of Love**

~ experience was required in order to alter your **belief** **system** and is required now as well. _C:18.10.4_

~ **you** could not fully experience anything without your **free will**. _C:19.1.6_

~ **you** who **have** grown weary of this experience rejoice, for **you** can choose a **new** experience. _C:19.3.1_

~ **you** are willing to exchange experience for second-hand **knowledge** and to believe **you** can come to **know** through the experiences of **others**. Yet, in the case of coming to **know** what lies before **you** now—coming to **know** your own **Self** —it is obvious that another's experience **will** not bring this **knowledge** to **you** , not even my experience. If this were so, **all** of those who read of my **life** and words would **have** learned what **I** learned from my experience. _C:19.15.3-5_

~ experience is necessary to complete the cycle of unlearning and learning. _C:25.24.6_

~ your experience **here** is but an **extension** of **mind** into a realm in which experience can occur. Your **ego** has made of this something **different** than it is. Rather than **extension** of **mind** , your experience has **become** a **projection** of **ego**. This can **change**. _C:31.35.2-5_

~ the **way** in which **you** experience **relationship** with **each** aspect of **creation** is **different** despite the **oneness** of **creation**. _C:32.2.13_

**Treatises**

~ the " **here** " that **you** experience is the experience dictated by the **ego** - **mind** , and this experience is **all** that makes **you** believe **you** are other than who **you** are. _T1:5.11.1_

**Dialogues**

~ experiences of **form** take place in **time** because experience, too, was designed for learning. Now experience is needed in **time** to aid your total **acceptance** of what **you** **have** learned. In order to experience the **new** **you** must **answer** the **call** to let **revelation** and **discovery** , rather than learning, be what **you** **gain** from experience. _D:7.4.1-3_

~ let **awareness** grow in **you** that **you** **have** experienced something that existed prior to the **time** of learning. And that this something was quite wonderful. _D:8.3.3-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ experience is where the **power** of **transformation** lies. _D:Day28.18.1_

~ once experience is moved out of the realm of **separation** and into the realm of **union** or **wholeness** , **new** conditions **will** apply. _D:Day28.18.2_

~ one must experience in order to **know**. It follows then that what is experienced is what is known. _D:Day30.5.3-4_

~ **you** are the experience. _D:Day31.2.6_

~ **all** experience is a product of knower and knowee. It is the One **Self** knowing itself as one individuated **Self**. _D:Day31.6.1-2_

~ to **know** experience as the **Self** is to **know** the **Self** as **creator** , or in other words, to **know** the One **Self** **within** the individuated **Self**. To **know** the One **Self** **within** the individuated **Self** is to **join** the two. The two are thus joined in the **relationship** of experience. Experience is not known separately from the **Self**. _D:Day31.8.3-6_

~ your experiences in their totality **you** **call** your **life**. Yet **you** **have** stood apart from these experiences— **all** of them. _D:Day36.3.1-2_

~ your experiences may, in their totality, be called your **life** , but they cannot be called **you**. **You** stand apart. And yet in your **choice** of, and **response** to your experiences were **you** revealed, because, in this **way** only, were **you** a **creator**. _D:Day36.3.5-7_

**EXPRESSION**

| ikˈspreSHən |

**A Course of Love**

~ only **lack** of expression leads to powerlessness. No true expression is possible until **you** **know** who **you** are. To **know** who **you** are and not to express who **you** are with your full **power** is the result of **fear**. _C:20.28.3-5_

~ while expression and **action** are not the same, understanding their **relationship** to **each** other is essential. _C:20.29.5_

~ expressions of **love** are as innumerable as the stars in the **universe** , as bountiful as **beauty** , as many-faceted as the gems of the earth. _C:20.30.1_

~ **you** are a **unique** expression of the selfsame **love** that exists in **all** **creation**. Thus your expression of **love** is as **unique** as your **Self**. It is in the **cooperation** between **unique** expressions of **love** that **creation** continues and miracles **become** natural occurrences. _C:20.30.3-5_

**Treatises**

~ there would be no need for **form** if there had been no **desire** for expression. **Life** is the **desire** to express outwardly what exists **within**. _T2:3.2.1-2_

~ it is this recognition that **you** are now acting and **living** in the **world** as your **Christ** - **Self** rather than as your **ego** - **self** that **will** aid **you** in expression. Without expression, the return to unity that has been **accomplished** **will** not be realized. _T2:3.5.1-2_

~ your expression of who **you** are may lead **you** to many **new** adventures but never again to the special relationships that would take **you** away from your true **Self**. _T2:8.6.15_

~ expressing who **you** are in physical **form** **will** return **remembrance** to the minds of those who observe your expression. _T3:18.4.1_

~ those continuing to express themselves in harmful ways are deeply entrenched in **false** beliefs about themselves. Because they are not expressing who they are, their expressions are meaningless and **have** no **effect** in **truth** but only in **illusion**. _T3:19.11.3-4_

~ **you** cannot express yourself independently of the **whole**! _T4:5.9.2_

~ expression of the **Self** of **love** in **form** is not something that can be learned. It is something that can only be lived. This is the **time** of the **fulfillment** of the **lesson** of the birds of the air who neither sow nor reap but sing a song of gladness. Expression of the **Self** of **love** is the natural **state** of **being** of those who **have** moved beyond learning to creating through unity and **relationship**. _T4:10.12.1-4_

**Dialogues**

~ when **you** also think that it is your hard **work** and diligence, your **effort** and **struggle** , that bring the expression of these **givens** forward, **you** think in **error** and **limit** your expression in much the same ways that the **effort** of teaching and learning limits them. It is your joyous **acceptance** of the already **accomplished** **state** of these **givens** that allows expression of what is given to truly come through **you** and express the **Self** , because joyous expression expresses the **Self** of unity rather than the **self** of **separation** , the **Self** of elevated **form** rather than the **personal self**. _D:10.3.3-4_

~ it is **awareness** , **acceptance** , and **discovery** of what is beyond **form** that allows the **beginning** of the **transformation** of what is beyond **form** into expression in **form**. **Awareness** , **acceptance** , and **discovery** are, in short, what allow **form** to **become** the **more** it has so long been seeking to **become**. _D:14.13.5-6_

~ expression, **movement** , and **being** are about what is eternal passing through what is temporal. _D:15.12.1_

~ expression is given and becomes expression in **form**. _D:16.11.6_

~ the **self** and the expression of **self** that comes from any place other than **wholeheartedness** is not the true **Self** or the true expression of the **Self** but the **self** -expression that arises from **separation**. **Self** -expression that arises from **separation** is still valuable, as it is a sign of yearning toward the true **Self** and the true expression of the **Self**. Thus where **you** **have** desired to express yourself in the **past** is very likely linked to the natural **ability** or talent **you** did not **have** to **learn** , to that which was given and available just a step beyond where the separated **self** could reach. _D:8.10.1-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ not one of us expresses **love** in exactly the same **way** as another. _D:Day5.6.4_

~ it **will** be in your **unique** expression of **union** that your **Self** **will** come to **wholeness** and **you** **will** be fully who **you** are and able to express **love** fully. _D:Day5.14.2_

~ what **you** **each** **desire** from **union** most **will** be what finds the greatest expression through **you**. _D:Day5.15.2_

~ **you** are **being** who **you** are right now and eliciting the expression that **will** take **you** to the final **stage** of **being** who **you** **will** be in **oneness**. _D:Day6.11.5_

~ calculated mental constructs **have** been replaced with true expression. _D:Day8.29.5_

~ **you** cannot express the **beauty** and **truth** of who another is. **You** cannot express the **beauty** and **truth** of a **future** **self**. **You** can only express the **beauty** and **truth** of who **you** are now, in the **present**. And **you** do. **You** just **have** not realized that **you** do. _D:Day9.25.8-12_

~ only those who express themselves are truly **content**. _D:Day19.2.5_

**Addendum**

~ for **each** , **being** Who **You** Are **will** be an expression of unity and **oneness** that only **you** are able to express. As **each** expresses who they are **being** in unity and **relationship** , **creation of the new** **will** proceed and **wholeness** and healing renew the **world** in which **you** live. _A.44.1-2_

**EXTENSION**

| ˌikˈsten(t)SH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ while the son's extension into an **external** **world** is quite **real** , it is **all** that is truly **real** **within** it. The son could not **create** unlike the **Father** who created **everything** by extension of Himself. Neither the Father's extension, nor the Son's, lessened **Father** or Son in any **way**. _C:12.24.1-3_

~ the **pattern** of God's extension is the **pattern** of **creation** and thus the **pattern** of the **universe**. The Son extended himself into **creation** , and **you** are that extension and as holy as is he. _C:12.25.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ extension replaces **rejection** both in the **self** and in " **others**." Extension of health can, in this **way** , replace **rejection** of illness and woundedness. _D:Day14.5.1-2_

~ **you** are an extension of **I Am** into **form**. Through your extension, **you** can **become** who **you** are to me, instead of who **I** **have** been to **you**. _D:Day39.3.3-4_

~ through your extension of your **being** into **union** , **you** complete a circuit, a circle of **wholeness** , and **I** **become** who **you** are to me. Thus **giving** and receiving are one. Cause and **effect** complete. _D:Day40.2.1-3_

~ your attempt at individuation and extension, an attempt consistent with the **nature** of your **being** , failed only because **you** experienced **separation** rather than differentiation, and **fear** rather than **love**. _D:Day40.7.4_

**EXTERNAL**

| ikˈstərnl |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ experiencing **life** without the **insight** of **spirit** was to **experience** external **life**. **Life** itself showed **you** the **way** , pointed **you** in differing directions, taught **you** what **you** needed to **know**. This was the external **experience** of **life**. _D:Day27.3.1-3_

**FACILITATOR**

| fəˈsiləˌtādər |

**Addendum**

~ the **task** of facilitators of such meetings of open hearts is to direct the **reader** away from **ego** **mind** and back to **wholeheartedness** or **Christ** - **mind**. "How do **you** feel?" is a **more** appropriate question than, "What do **you** think?" _A.15.1-2_

~ facilitators **will** **keep** readers from attempting one correct **interpretation** , as the only correct **interpretation** is that which comes from **each** reader's own internal guidance **system**. _A.15.5_

~ facilitators can rely on this demonstration even when many in a group may **remain** attached to the ways of the **thinking** **mind**. The demonstration **will** **work** for those who observe from a place of unity even if it works not at **all** for the **reader** who cannot find it **within** him- or her- **self** to accept **union**. There is no cause to delay the **movement** of the group or to feel anything but gentleness toward those who cannot at this **time** accept the **new** **way**. No harm **will** come to anyone from the demonstration that **will** be provided of just how little **gain** comes to those who cannot **receive**. _A.23.1-4_

~ despite the rapidity of **movement** or **lack** thereof, to read the Treatises together **will** likely feel as if it is almost a waste of valuable **time**. Thus, gatherings of those working with the Treatises **will** naturally include **more** sharing of experiences. The facilitator's **task** is now one of placing these experiences in context. After **giving** the group **time** to talk, the facilitator might choose a brief passage that **will** fit **within** the **content** of the sharing. Always it is the facilitator's role to **guide** the **individual** group members away from inclinations, which may be strong during this **time** , to "figure things out." **Problem** solving is to be discouraged. **Trust** is to be encouraged. Often a discussion can be facilitated greatly by the question, "How might **we** be able to look at this **situation** in a **new** **way**?" To encourage the gentleness of the **Art of Thought** over the relentless stridency of the **thinking** **mind** is always helpful. _A.31.1-9_

**FAITH**

| fāTH |

**A Course of Love**

~ where **you** set your faith is as much a determiner of your **perception** as is your **concept** of **separation**. _C:15.8.2_

~ **you** are not, however, expected to believe **all** **I** **have** told **you** on faith **alone**. **Experience** is needed to **change** your beliefs and place your faith securely in them. _C:19.5.2-3_

**Treatises**

~ the only **way** for **you** to come to live in **truth** is through faith; not a faith in what might be, but a faith in what is. A faith in what is, is a faith in miracles. Miracles are what **you** are now asked to **call** upon. For **calling** upon miracles is an act of faith. **You** think the quest for miracles is a quest for proof that demonstrates a **lack** of faith but the reverse is true. _T1:3.6.1-5_

~ faith is based upon the **unknown**. If the **unknown** were not **unknown** faith would not be necessary. Faith **will** **become** unnecessary, as **life** everlasting becomes known to **you**. _T4:4.13.2-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **all** faith is faith in the **unknown** through knowing. _D:Day18.5.3_

**FALSE**

| fôls |

**A Course of Love**

~ the false is **illusion**. _C:20.48.10_

**Dialogues**

~ a lie is nothing but a lie. The false is nothing but the false. It does not **become** some "thing," for in the becoming it would need to take on the properties of the **truth**. _D:5.8.4-6_

**FAMILY**

| ˈfam(ə)lē |

**A Course of Love**

~ in the family of man, there are many families but it is called one family, the family of man. It is called one species, the human species. **Within** this family of man are **individual** families, and among them, that which **you** **call** "your" family. A family has many members but it is called one family. **All** of its members are descended from the same ancestors, the same bloodline. **Within** that bloodline are genes that carry **particular** traits and predispositions. A child of one family may resemble the child of another distant relative or a relative who lived and died many years previously. **You** **see** nothing odd or foreign in this. This is the **nature** of family, as **you** **understand** family. And beyond the physical **nature** of families, the bloodlines and the ancestors, what holds the family together as one is **love**. The family is, in fact, the only place where unconditional **love** is seen as acceptable. Thus, no **matter** how good one child is perceived to be and how bad another is perceived to be, the **love** of the parent for the child is the same. A son or daughter does not earn the **love** that is given him or her, and this too is seen as acceptable and even "right". _C:P.26.2-14_

~ the family of man is like unto the family of **God**. Just as children grow in your " **real** **world** " and leave their family, **separate** from their family to begin their "own" **life** , so **have** **you** done as part of God's family. In the human family the separateness and **independence** that come with age are seen as the **way** that things should be, and yet a return to the "family of origin" is also seen as natural. Children go away for a **time** , eager to assert their **independence** , only later to return. The return is the **symbol** of maturity, **acceptance** , and often of **forgiveness**. _C:P.30.1-5_

**FATE**

| fāt |

**Dialogues**

~ what fate may offer is itself an attitude that puts **life** at the risk and whim of an **external** force that has no **reality** except in your **imagination**. What is this thing called fate? Like **all** the systems **you** believe in, it is a **system** too, an internal **idea** given a name, externalized, and blamed for **all** that **you** do not **understand** , **all** that cannot be made to make sense, **all** that seems unfair and beyond your **control**. _D:6.20.1-3_

~ **belief** in fate is just as systematic and in need of **being** left behind. _D:6.21.1_

**FATHER**

| ˈfäT͟Hər |

**A Course of Love**

~ what **we** **call** Father is but creation's heavenly face, a personification of what cannot truly be personified. _C:12.24.6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the **idea** of **God** as Father, introduced and championed by **Jesus** **Christ** , was also created by **Jesus** **Christ**. Thus is the **power** of man and **God** together, the **power** of **creation**. What this is saying is that there is a **God** the Father to relate to and that this **God** the Father does not negate **God** , nor does **God** negate **God** the Father. _D:Day37.22.6-8_

~ **god** the Father is an **idea** that was created and thus exists much as other ideas of **God** were created and thus **exist**. But this **creation** , like the **creation** of **Jesus** **Christ** himself, is not **all** of **God** , while at the same **time** it is **all** of **God** just as **Jesus** was and is **all** of **God**. In **union** and **relationship** , **God** is **all** and **God** is differentiated. _D:Day37.23.1-3_

**FEAR**

| ˈfir |

**A Course of Love**

~ because **you** **have** **chosen** fear so many times and labeled it so many things **you** no longer **recognize** it as fear. _C:2.3.5_

~ **all** fear ends when proof of your existence is established. **All** fear is based on your inability to **recognize** **love** and thus who **you** are and who **God** is. _C:4.5.1-2_

~ **all** fear is fear of relationships and thus fear of **God**. _C:5.30.3_

~ fear always lies one step beneath the surface of a **situation** because it lies one step beneath the surface of your **self**. Peel back the **first** **level** of what your eyes allow **you** to observe and **you** **will** find fear lurking there. _C:9.15.1-2_

~ surely it is easy to **see** that neither the **desire** to **control** nor to protect would **exist** without the layer of fear that comes before it. _C:9.15.6_

~ fear, like **all** the **rest** of your emotions, comes in many guises and is given many names. _C:9.16.1_

~ as with **all** your problems in **perception** , fear is what blocks the **vision** of your **heart** , the **light** the **Christ** in **you** would shine upon the darkness. _C:9.18.3_

~ fear is nothing but a **choice** , and it can be replaced by **choice** of another kind. _C:9.18.5_

~ **each** parent's most fervent wish would be to tell a child truthfully there is no cause for fear. Age has not taken fear from any of **you** nor made your dream of **life** any **less** of a nightmare. _C:9.19.4-5_

~ to live in fear is, indeed, a curse, and one that **you** would try to tell yourself is not **present** in your **life**. _C:9.19.9_

~ this is the only **way** **you** **have** been able to **see** to bring relief to the nightmare of a **life** of fear. **You** project fear outward and away from yourself, seeing not that **you** **keep** that which **you** would project. Seeing not that outward signs of fear are but reflections of what **you** **keep** **within**. _C:9.20.1-3_

~ the separated **self** is so ensconced in fear that the known fears of its existence seem preferable to the **unknown** fears of any other kind of existence. That an option could be **chosen** that leaves no room for fear at **all** does not occur to it, for the absence of fear is something it has never known. _C:10.22.1-2_

~ only fear breeds the feelings of **lack** that stand with it, the cornerstone of the **foundation** of your **separate** **world**. _C:14.16.1_

~ the greatest fear of **all** is that of **loss** of **love**. _C:14.21.2_

~ fear, through your own **choice** , replaces and discards **love**. Fear is always strongest when **you** value something that **you** feel may be threatened. _C:14.28.6-7_

~ nothing but fear could take the **memory** of **love** from **you** , or replace so quickly the **glory** that is your **nature** with the **specialness** that is not. _C:14.28.10_

~ **all** that has proceeded from fear is nothing, and has no existence apart from your own thoughts. _C:17.14.5_

~ where there is fear, **love** is hidden. _C:25.5.7_

~ **all** **uncertainty** is fear. **All** fear is **doubt** about one's **self**. _C:27.17.4-5_

**Treatises**

~ **all** your reasons for fear-based **living** **have** been discounted one by one. And yet **you** dare not try to live without it. Why? Because of the thoughts of the **ego** - **mind**. _T1:3.5.4-7_

~ **all** fear is **doubt** about your **self**. _T1:4.26.1_

~ a part of this fear of the divine is related to the fear of the human condition. _T1:5.4.2_

~ this fear of **all** and **nothingness** is fear of **God** , fear of **Life** , fear of **Creation** , fear of **Self**. _T1:5.5.1_

~ if **you** proceed with fear **you** **will** assemble a **new** **ego** - **self** , an **ego** - **self** that perhaps **will** seem superior to the **old** , but which **will** nonetheless still be an **ego** - **self**. _T3:4.8.5_

~ once fear has entered, **doubt** and guilt are never far behind. _T3:13.2.7_

~ while the **foundation** of fear, like the **ego** , **will** **have** left **you** now, a **pattern** of behaving fearfully may still **remain** and as such be a deterrent to **new** ideas and to **action**. As long as these patterns of fear **remain** as deterrents to **action** , **you** **will** not **experience** the **freedom** of **living** from the **new** **thought system**. _T3:14.1.4-5_

~ the cement that was used to hold together the **house** of **illusion** was only your fear. _T3:16.16.5_

~ **all** that comes of fear is nothing. What this **means** is that cause and **effect** are not influenced by what comes of fear. _T3:19.8.5-6_

~ the fear that was birthed along with the erroneously inherited **idea** that it was your **nature** to be **separate** and **alone** and thus fearful, made relationships fearful as well. **Trust** became something to be earned. Even the most loving parent, like unto your most loving **image** of **God** , having brought a child into a fearful **world** , became subject to the tests of **time**. Thus did the **world** **become** a **world** of **effort** with **all** things in it and beyond it, including **God** , weighed and balanced against the **idea** of fear. _T4:3.6.5-8_

~ now, as **we** reverse this set of circumstances, and replace the **world** of fear with a **world** of **love** , there can be no **more** weighing of **love** against fear. **God** did not **create** fear and **will** not be judged by it. _T4:3.7.1-2_

~ while **you** chose to believe and live in a **world** the **nature** of which was fear, **you** could not **know** **God**. **You** could not **know** **God** because **you** judged **God** from **within** the **nature** of fear, believing it to be your natural **state**. _T4:3.7.4-5_

~ **all** fear, including the fear of **death** , **needs** to be removed from **you**. _T4:7.5.1_

~ to dwell in fear **will** end your **ability** to dwell **within** the **love** that is **Christ-consciousness**. _T4:12.20.6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **all** , **all** **you** cannot bring forward with **you** is fear, for fear is the cause of the **state** of learning. **You** may **have** **thought** **separation** was the cause, but **separation** into **form** , had it occurred **within** the **realization** of continuing **relationship** , would not **have** been cause for fear in and of itself. Had **you** still known **relationship** , fear could not **have** separated **you** from **truth** and **you** would not **have** dwelt in **illusion**. _D:Day4.51.4-6_

~ if **you** can move forward without fear, **you** can move forward. If **you** can move forward without fear, **you** **will** move forward only with **love**. If **you** move forward only with **love** , **you** **will** **have** realized there is nothing unacceptable about who **you** are except fear. _D:Day4.53.3-5_

~ nothing can hold **you** back except fear! _D:Day4.54.3_

~ fear is not a part of what **you** are, which is why it cannot **remain** with **you** as the **way** opens for **you** to fully **know** the **Self** of unity. _D:Day4.54.7_

~ when **you** saw yourself as **separate** and **alone** , **you** could not **help** but suffer fear, **loneliness** , and **all** the ills that came from the base **emotion** of fear. Fear is degenerating. Nothing about fear is **life** **giving**. **You** thus were given **life** only to **have** it **become** degenerated by fear. _D:Day7.2.3-6_

~ **you** **have** replaced fear with **love**. _D:Day7.3.4_

~ fear is part of the density of **form** , **being** a **lack** of **love**. _D:Day13.7.6_

~ **all** that causes fear is **rejection** of feelings. _D:Day14.2.3_

~ bring your fears into the **light** of **oneness** and **see** how the **light** dispels the darkness. _D:Day15.14.2_

~ fear is not a **feeling** but a **response** to a **feeling**. _D:Day16.10.2_

~ fear is nothing. _D:Day16.14.4_

~ the fear of losing the **self** is still the primary fear, even among those who **have** never found the **self**. They fear losing the known to the **unknown**. _D:Day19.12.1-2_

**FEAR/LEARNING**

| ˈfir/ˈlərniNG |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the **time** of **fear** , and along with it the **time** of learning, can cease to be. _D:Day4.51.7_

~ **i** **have** not so directly linked **fear** and the **time** of learning before, but now **you** need to **see** their connection, for if **you** do not, **you** **will** not realize that **fear** is **all** that **needs** to be left behind. **You** **will** still think **you** **have** **more** to **learn** because **you** are angry, depressed, in a **state** of **denial** contrary to the **denial** asked of **you** , or because **you** still feel like bargaining with **God**. These things are only reactions to faulty perceptions, only the steps toward **acceptance** until they are accepted. _D:Day4.52.1-3_

**FEELING**

| ˈfēliNG |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** true feeling is **love**. _C:1.1.3_

~ **all** feeling results from **love** or **lack** of **love**. There are no other reasons for the feelings that **you** **experience**. **All** feelings are generated by the **heart** and **have** nothing to do with the **body**. _C:1.2.3-5_

~ how **you** feel but reflects your **decision** to accept **love** or to reject it and choose **fear**. Both cannot be **chosen**. _C:1.18.2-3_

~ **all** feelings **you** label painful or angry are of **fear**. _C:1.18.5_

~ there are but two from which **you** choose: **love** and **fear**. _C:2.3.4_

~ your feelings in **truth** come from **love** , your **response** to them is what is guided by **fear**. Even feelings of destruction and **violence** come from **love**. **You** are not bad, and **you** **have** no feelings that can be labeled so. Yet **you** are misguided concerning what your feelings mean and how they would bring **love** to **you** and **you** to **love**. _C:5.11.2-5_

~ in your feelings, especially those **you** cannot name, lies your connection to **all** that is. _C:9.13.2_

~ even those feelings **you** attempt to name and **keep** cleverly in a box that **you** **have** labeled this or that often are not **content** to stay where **you** would place them. They seem to betray **you** , when it is **you** who betray them by not allowing them to be what they are. _C:9.13.4-5_

~ feelings that on their own seem to rebel against this insane **situation** are guided by memories trying to reveal the **truth** to **you**. They **call** to **you** from a place that **you** **know** not. The difficulty is that the only **self** that is listening to this **call** is your separated **self**. It is in the attempts of the separated **self** to interpret what feelings would say that they **become** as distorted as **all** the **rest**. It is the separated **self** that feels impelled to label feelings good and bad, some worthy of acknowledgment and the **rest** worthy only of **denial** or contempt. _C:9.14.1-5_

**Treatises**

~ the **ego** but played upon these feelings, using them as building blocks for its **thought system**. _T3:8.3.5_

~ your feelings are as **real** to **you** as **have** been the thoughts of your **ego** - **mind**. _T3:8.3.6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to accept the feelings of the **self** of **illusion** would **have** been to accept the feelings generated by the **fear** of the **ego** **thought system** or the **bitterness** of your **heart**. It would **have** been to accept the feelings of a **personal self** who had not yet unlearned the lessons of the **past** or taken these steps toward **elevation**. _D:Day8.17.2-3_

~ while true **compassion** sees only the **truth** , this does not mean it holds the feelings of anyone—not those **living** in **truth** , or those **living** in **illusion** —in disregard. _D:Day8.19.4_

~ distancing, or non- **acceptance** of your own feelings, is not **living** in the **present** and **will** **create** an attitude that **will** not be compassionate. _D:Day8.19.7_

~ **you** no longer **have** cause to **fear** your feelings. They **will** no longer be the **source** of the misdirection of the **past** if **you** accept your feelings in **present** **time** and begin to be aware of your natural **ability** to respond truly because **you** **have** accepted your feelings in **present** **time**. _D:Day8.21.1-2_

~ it is in the **expression** of that feeling that who **you** are is revealed, not in the feeling itself. _D:Day8.22.3_

~ **you** no longer **have** **false** feelings. That your feelings are not misleading **you** but supporting **you**! That they are but **calling** **you** to **expression** of your true **Self**! To true **representation** of who **you** are—who **you** are now! _D:Day8.28.4-7_

~ remove **all** **thinking** that says that **you** can err in following your feelings. This is the **thinking** of the **old** **thought system** , not the **new**. _D:Day8.29.1-2_

~ feelings come from the innate knowing of the **self** of **form** —in short, from the **body**. _D:Day10.12.1_

~ feelings are involved at every **level** of every **being** **you** can imagine. _D:Day10.30.1_

~ **you** are very much aware of your feelings. _D:Day10.30.3_

~ **you** are **being** called to respond to them with **acceptance** and **love**. _D:Day10.31.2_

~ turn not to your thoughts but to your feelings and go where they lead. _D:Day10.33.2_

~ it is your feelings that now **will** be the sense organs of this spaciousness. Not feelings of sight or sound, smell or touch, but feelings of **love** of **Self**. _D:Day12.2.5-6_

~ it is in accepting **all** feelings as the feelings of the many that the feelings of " **others** " are accepted as one's own and held **within** the spaciousness of the One **Self** , the **whole** **Self**. _D:Day14.4.3_

~ **you** **have** no feelings that are bad. _D:Day16.10.1_

~ **you** **embrace** sadness, grief, **anger** , and **all** else that **you** feel because these feelings are part of who **you** are in the **present** moment. _D:Day16.10.9_

~ only when **you** accept that no feelings are bad **will** **you** allow yourself to come to **know** what they truly are. _D:Day16.11.7_

~ if **all** feelings were treated **more** like **intuition** is treated—with a "knowing" that the feeling has come to tell **you** something that is as yet **unknown** to **you** , but nevertheless for your **benefit** , **you** would go a long **way** toward **acceptance**. _D:Day16.12.2_

~ feelings are your **awareness** of the **present** and thus of the **truth**. They are your **means** of coming to **know**. They arise from **Christ-consciousness**. They come not in **response** but as **creations**. _D:Day18.8.1-4_

~ they are the **creations** **unique** to **you** through your interaction with the **Christ-consciousness** that abides **within** **you**. _D:Day18.11.3_

~ when feelings are shown, or made visible, the **new** is created. This has always been the **way** of **creation**. **Each** blade of grass, **each** flower, **each** stone, is a **creation** of feelings. **All** **you** need do is look about **you** to **know** that feelings of **love** still abound. **Beauty** still reigns. _D:Day18.11.7-11_

~ your feelings may be confused in one moment, crystal clear in the next. Let them **all** come. _D:Day25.3.5-6_

~ **you** no longer **have** cause to **fear** your feelings. They **will** no longer be the **source** of the misdirection of the **past** if **you** accept your feelings in **present** **time** and begin to be aware of your natural **ability** to respond truly because **you** **have** accepted your feelings in **present** **time**. _D:Day8.21.1-2_

**Addendum**

~ **you** begin to hear what your feelings are saying to **you** without the interferences and cautions of your **thinking** **mind**. _A.14.3_

**FINAL JUDGMENT**

| ˈfīnl ˈjəjmənt |

**Treatises**

~ as the natural **state** of **love** is returned to **you** , **judgment** falls away because **vision** **will** arise. With the onset of the **vision** of **love** , many of **you** **will** make one final judgment in which **you** find **everything** to be good and full of **love**. Once **all** has been judged with the **vision** of **love** , **judgment** is over naturally for it has served its **purpose**. This is the final judgment. _T4:3.8.1-4_

**FIRST**

| fərst |

**Treatises**

~ **being** first does not mean **being** better. That **I** was the first to **demonstrate** what **you** can be does not mean **I am** better than **you**. Just as in your sporting events, a "first" is applauded, and soon a **new** record replaces that record-setting first; just as someone had to be "first" to fly a plane or land on the moon, **being** first implies only that there **will** be a second and a third. That **attention** and respect is given to those who first achieve anything of merit is but a **way** of **calling** **all** **others** to **know** what they can achieve. _T4:2.11.1-4_

~ those who **have** achieved "first place" do so realizing that the elevated "place" they briefly hold is of a finite **nature** , that **others** **will** soon do the same, and that those who follow in **time** **will** do so **more** easily, with **less** **effort** , and with even greater **success**. They may consider themselves "better than" for a moment in **time** , but those who do **will** be bitterly disappointed as their moment passes. _T4:2.12.1-2_

**FOCUS**

| ˈfōkəs |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ focus does not mean **thinking**. Focus does not mean learning. _D:Day5.25.2-3_

~ a focus point is a point of convergence. A focal point is a point of **intersection** that gives rise to a clear **image**. _D:Day5.25.5-6_

**FORERUNNER OF THE NEW**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ forerunners of the **new** , along with **you** , are called to step beyond what they **have** learned to what can only be revealed. These are my beloved. _T4:9.8.2-3_

~ **you** who **have** provided a **service** cherished by **God** , and who **have** risen in the esteem of your brothers and sisters, be beacons now to the **new**. _T4:9.9.1_

~ **you** are needed now. Needed to **help** establish the **covenant of the new**. Be not afraid, for the **glory** that has been yours **will** be as nothing to the **glory** that awaits **you** in the **creation of the new**. **You** **will** always be honored for what **you** **have** done. _T4:9.9.3-6_

~ be willing to be the forerunners still. _T4:9.9.8_

~ at this **time** , there is a gathering of pioneers of the **new** already in existence. They are **beginning** to **see** that they **learn** as one. They are **beginning** to **see** that their questions are the same. They are **beginning** to **see** that they **share** in **means** not confined to the physical senses. _T4:12.3.1-4_

~ make no **mistake** that what is asked of us is **everything**. What is asked is our total **willingness** to abandon the **old** , our total **willingness** to **embrace** the **new**. But also make no **mistake** that what is given to us is **everything**. **All** the **power** of **creation** is released onto us. _T4:12.36.1-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ our forward **movement** must be achieved, however. But one is needed to begin this **movement**. Followers **will** naturally succeed the **first** although this **will** occur with no fanfare and no "one" to follow. The **first** **will** **create** a series. _D:Day4.60.1-4_

~ this availability is what is meant by the anchoring of the **new**. Those who, in **relationship** with the **unknown** , through unity and **imagination** , **create** the **new** by **means** other than doing, open a **way** previously **unknown** , and as **all** forerunners do, anchor that **way** **within** **consciousness** by holding open this door to **creation**. They, in **truth** , **create** a **new** **pattern** and begin to weave it into the web of **reality** , anchoring it for **discovery** by their brothers and sisters. _D:Day19.13.1-3_

**Addendum**

~ go forth not as completed works of **art** but as permeable **energy** , ever changing, ever creating, ever **new**. Go forth with openness for **revelation** to happen through **you** and through **all** **you** encounter. Go forth joyously on this adventure of **discovery**. Be ever **new** , ever one, ever the beloved. _A.48.1-4_

**FORGET**

| fərˈɡet |

**Treatises**

~ while the **ego** is gone, many of its messages **remain** **within** your thoughts, like echoes of a former **time**. These thoughts are remembered messages and so must, like **all** the **rest** , be forgotten. The process of forgetting these **thought** patterns **will** be only slightly **different** from forgetting your former reactions to people and situations and much like forgetting to place **blame**. _T3:10.8.4-6_

~ the **first** step in **being** able to forget such thoughts is in recognizing them as **separate** and distinct from the thoughts of your right **mind** or **Christ** - **mind**. _T3:10.9.1_

~ **all** that is from the **past** is what **you** are **being** called to forget. _T3:10.11.3_

**FORGIVENESS**

| ˌfərˈɡivnəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ as long as **you** do not **want** to be forgiven **you** **will** not feel the gentle touch of forgiveness upon **you** and your **world**. While there is no need in **truth** for this forgiveness, as there is no **truth** to this big **change** that **you** believe **you** **have** undergone, your **desire** to be forgiven is a **first** step away from your **belief** that **you** can fix things by yourself and in so doing earn your **way** back into your Father's **home**. **Being** willing to be forgiven is the precursor of **atonement** , the **state** in which **you** allow your errors to be corrected for **you**. _C:9.35.1-3_

~ only your **heart** can lead **you** to the forgiveness that must overcome **judgment**. _C:16.8.1_

~ only forgiveness replaces **judgment** , but true forgiveness is as foreign to **you** as is true **love**. **You** think forgiveness looks upon another in **judgment** and pardons the wrongs **you** would enumerate. True forgiveness simply looks **past** **illusion** to the **truth** where there are no sins to be forgiven, no wrongs to be pardoned. Forgiveness looks on **innocence** and sees it where **judgment** would **see** it not. _C:16.12.1-4_

~ forgiveness, which replaces **judgment** , must come from your **heart**. To forgive based on the logic of your **mind** rather than the **compassion** of your **heart** is to only give **thought** to forgiveness. This many of **you** **will** give, even to deciding to forgive despite your better **judgment**. **See** **you** not how little sense this makes, how insincere this even sounds? _C:17.16.1-4_

**Treatises**

~ **you** **have** , in **truth** , replaced **judgment** with forgiveness, but **you** **have** not yet fully forgiven yourself. _T3:3.6.2_

~ **you** **have** replaced **judgment** with forgiveness as a **belief**. **You** **have** put this **belief** into **practice** in **each** instance where **you** **have** seen it to be needed. What this **means** is that **you** continue to fail to **recognize** your need to replace **judgment** with forgiveness when it comes to yourself. _T3:3.6.4-6_

**FORM**

| fôrm |

**Treatises**

~ **you** must realize that **you** think in terms of place because **you** think in terms of form. Thus even **I** **have** often used the **idea** of place as a teaching aid. But **you** are ready now to begin to think without the need for form. _T2:1.8.4-6_

~ form is a product of the **separation**. **Thought** "forms" are the product of the **separation**. _T2:1.10.2-3_

~ a form fully able to represent the **truth**. _T3:1.13.6_

~ while your human form remains, **you** **will** be dwelling among those in human form. _T3:10.16.4_

~ there was a need for the **Self** to **have** an observable form and to **exist** in **relationship** with **others** with observable forms. This was simply so that expressions of **love** could be created and observed **within** the realm of physicality. _T3:17.1.3-4_

~ as soon as **spirit** took on form, man began to **exist** in **time** because there became a need for a **beginning** and an ending to the **chosen** **experience**. Thus **each** **self** of form is born into **time** and **each** **self** of form dies out of **time**. _T3:17.3.1-2_

~ a **new** **experience** was **chosen** —the **experience** of existing **within** the realm of physicality. As such, it was as much a **new** **beginning** as the **new** **beginning** **you** are now called to. It required the learning of a **new** **thought system** , the **thought system** of the physical, a **thought system** that was not needed before there was physical form. _T3:17.4.2-4_

~ your human form is an observable form. It is thus from observable form that the final learning **will** take place. This is the perfect **example** of using what **you** **have** made for a **new** **purpose**. It is the perfect ending for the desired **experience** , as it was the **goal** of the desired **experience**. _T3:18.3.5-8_

~ this is no **call** for **judgment** upon the physical. _T3:19.2.3_

~ the physical is now called upon to serve the greatest learning humankind has ever known. _T3:19.2.4_

~ cause and **effect** are one, there is no **effect** to be seen in physical form without a corresponding cause birthed in the **ego** **thought system** or the **bitterness** of the **heart**. _T3:19.4.5_

~ the physical form is not the natural or original form of the created. _T4:3.12.1_

~ once the original **nature** of the created becomes observable in physical form, physical form **will** surpass what it once was and **become** the **new** **nature** of the created. There is no **reason** why the original **nature** of your **being** cannot **become** a **being** the **nature** of which is form if **you** so choose it to be. There is a **reason** why the original **nature** of your **being** cannot **exist** in a form unnatural to **love**. A form whose **nature** is **fear** cannot **house** the **creation** of **love**. _T4:3.12.4-7_

~ man has striven since the **beginning** of **time** to be done with the separated **state** of a **being** of form, and at the same **time** to hang on to **life** ; not realizing that what exists in form does not **have** to be **separate** and **alone** ; not realizing that what lives does not **have** to die. That the **nature** of form can **change**. That the **nature** of **matter** is one of **change**. That the **nature** , even of form, once returned to its natural **state** of **love** , is one of unity and **everlasting life**. _T4:3.13.1-4_

~ continuity is an **attribute** of **relationship** , not of **matter**. It is only in the **relationship** of **matter** to the divine that **matter** can **become** divine and thus eternal. If **you** can abide in unity while in human form, **you** **will** **have** no cause, save your own **choice** , to leave human form. _T4:4.15.1-3_

~ form has been but a **representation** of singular **consciousness**. As form becomes a **representation** of **Christ-consciousness** , it **will** take on the **nature** of **Christ-consciousness** , of which my **life** was the **example** **life**. _T4:4.18.3-4_

~ your form does not contain your **heart** , or the **energy** of **creation** , or **God**. Your form is but an **extension** of this **energy** , a **representation** of it. _T4:5.5.1-2_

**Dialogues**

~ when two bodies **join** and **joy** results from this joining, this is form mimicking **content** —form representing what "is." The form was created in order to show—to **teach** —that joining is the **way**. _D:5.6.1-2_

~ form **will** never be **all** that **you** are, but **will** return to **being** as it was intended and **will** represent the **truth** of who **you** are. _D:5.11.8_

~ **we** begin with the true **content** of the form **you** occupy. **We** return the form **you** occupy to its natural **state**. Only then can **we** proceed to **creation of the new**. _D:5.19.8-10_

~ **everything** that exists in form is of the same **Source**. Even those things **you** **have** made **you** **have** not made from nothing. There is not one thing that **you** **have** made that does not **exist** as some variation of what was originally created. _D:6.6.4-6_

~ there is thus **truth** , or what **we** might **call** the seeds of the truly **real** , or the **energy** of **creation** , in **everything** that exists in form. _D:6.6.9_

~ it is your **perception** of the forms around **you** as non- **living** forms that cause them to **have** rigidity and a **particular** **meaning**. But they still are **real** , even if they are not as they appear to be to the body's eyes. _D:6.7.1-2_

~ this is how **you** must now come to **see** your form; it is that through which what already exists, what is already **accomplished** , comes or passes through by **means** of the **expression** of your form and the interaction of your form with **all** **you** are in **relationship** with. _D:9.13.1_

~ form was simply **barren** form before **movement** swept across it and animated it with the **attention** and **awareness** of **spirit** —with sound, **light** , and **expression**. _D:15.10.3_

~ the earth is no longer a formless wasteland. Form was animated with **spirit** and entered a **state** of becoming. _D:16.3.6-7_

~ since **you** were conceived in form, **you** were in **movement**. Since **you** were conceived in form, **you** were **being**. Since **you** were conceived in form, **you** were expressing. _D:16.11.7-9_

~ when **you** were a **being** existing in the shared **consciousness** of unity **you** couldn't **know** what the **experience** of form would be like without entering into it. _D:7.1.1_

~ to "enter" into the **experience** of form is something **you** can picture in your **mind** , and that **you** **have** **language** to represent, because **you** are aware of the **self** of form. _D:7.1.2_

~ that **you** are **living** form does not require **you** to be defined by particularity. _D:7.8.1_

~ the **nature** of form is that it exists as **matter** , it occupies **space** and is perceptible to the senses. **You** **have** previously seen this one aspect of form as separating it from **mind** , **heart** , and **spirit** —those aspects that are not perceptible to the senses. _D:7.8.4-5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** still believe the **truth** of the **situation** to be the **reality** of physical form and of what **you** **have** or **have** not **within** the confines of that form. _D:Day3.47.1_

~ **we** are speaking **here** of letting your form serve **union** and **union** serve your form. _D:Day5.22.8_

~ begin to accept this support of form because it makes sense. It is logical. _D:Day7.5.7_

~ the **effect** of **living** from **love** rather than from **fear** **will** **have** a major transformative **effect** on form in this **time** of **acceptance**. _D:Day7.6.3_

~ **we** **work** now to unite the **Self** of **union** with the **self** of form. The **self** of form cannot be denied now. _D:Day8.23.1-2_

~ **you** **have** a given form that is perfect for your **expression** of the **beauty** and **truth** of who **you** are. _D:Day9.25.7_

~ form is the ultimate **expression** of the **power** of **creation**. _D:Day10.1.4_

~ not **all** forms **will** be met as obstacles. Forms are only as **real** as the perceiver perceives them to be. _D:Day12.8.2_

~ the "one" **self** of form is the **self** **you** were born into. The one **self** of form comes to **know** the One **Self** through **relationship** with other selves experiencing **oneness** through **being** selves of form. _D:Day13.2.1-2_

~ **you** are thus not meant to lose the **experience** of the **self** of form but to integrate it so that **you** are both the many and the one. _D:Day13.3.1_

~ the animation of form with **spirit** is an ongoing aspect of **creation**. It is thus not **time** bound. It did not take place at the **birth** of **creation** and then cease to be. It did not take place at the **birth** of the **body** and then cease to be. It is not about **life** and making form **alive** but about **spirit** and informing **spirit**. It is about making **spirit** known through the form of physicality. _D:Day15.8.1-6_

~ what is of form comes and goes and is impermanent. _D:Day16.3.1_

~ the form **you** occupy contains **all** of your **potential** manifestations. _D:Day24.1.4_

~ like **heart** , **mind** , and **body** is to your form, **being** , **union** , and **relationship** is to God's "form." _D:Day37.29.1_

**FORSAKE**

| fərˈsāk |

**A Course of Love**

~ **god** forsakes no people, but people forsake **God** when they give away their **power** and **claim** not their birthright. _C:16.23.1_

**FOUNDATION**

| founˈdāSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ the foundation of your insane **world** is **fear**. The foundation of **Heaven** , your true **home** , is **love**. The same **world** based upon these **different** foundations could not **help** but look quite **different**. _C:14.9.2-4_

**Treatises**

~ to **function** from an inaccurate foundation was to build upon that foundation. Building a **structure** with a foundation that would not support it was the folly that the **ego** made of **life**. _T3:4.5.1-2_

~ **you** **have** tried to live in a **house** built on a faulty foundation, attempting to make do with what **you** **have**. **All** your **time** was spent in making repairs and this **time** spent kept **you** too busy to **see** the **light** that was always visible through the cracked and peeling walls that **you** built. _T3:5.4.1-2_

**FREE WILL**

| ˌfrē ˈwil |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** do not yet **understand** your **ability** to choose that which **you** make **real** in your **creation** of the **world**. The only **meaning** possible for free will is this: what **you** choose to **join** with **you** , and what **you** choose to leave outside of yourself. _C:5.21.2-3_

~ **god** **alone** can give free will. In **giving** your **power** to things like your **body** and to ideas like **time** your imitation of the **gift** of free will is so falsely placed in **illusion** that **you** cannot **see** this madness for what it truly is. _C:9.33.6-7_

~ the free will that **God** gave **you** is what has allowed **you** to make of yourself and your **world** what **you** **will**. _C:9.34.1_

~ your free will **you** guard most closely, knowing this is what made the **separation** possible. **You** regard it as your one **protection** from **God** , the one thing that allows **you** to be other than what **God** would **have** **you** be. It is your " **God** given" right of **independence** , that which allowed **you** to leave God's side. _C:11.8.1-3_

~ **you** view free will as **all** **you** **have** that **God** cannot take away from **you**. _C:11.9.2_

~ and so **you** give to **God** a little **faith** and cherish your free will, the true **god** of the separated **self**. **You** think at times that this was God's **mistake** , the one weakness in His **plan** , and one that **you** would **use**. At other times **you** think that this was but God's curse on **you** , a thing to tempt **you** to the **life** of desperation that **you** live. But your strongest **perception** of your free will is of its **power**. No **matter** what **God** wants of **you** , **you** can **use** your free will to rebel and to make your own choices, choices **different** than those your **Creator** would make for **you**. This right to make your own decisions, and the **power** to flaunt them before **God** , is **all** that makes your little separated **self** feel powerful at **all**. _C:11.10.1-6_

~ **you** do not **see** that what **you** choose to do with your free will matters not to **God** at **all** , for what **you** **have** **chosen** to **use** it for is the one thing that it cannot provide —your **separation** from your **Creator**. _C:11.11.1_

~ it is true that your free will is powerful as it is part, but only part, of what has allowed **you** to believe in your separated **state**. While **you** could **have** used your free will to **create** like unto your **Father** , by choosing to make yourself **separate** from Him—something that could never truly occur— **you** **have** **chosen** instead to do nothing at **all** with your free will but make this one insane **choice**. Your **willingness** to make a **new** **choice** is what **will** once again make your free will like unto your Father's **will** , which is one with it in **truth**. _C:11.12.1-3_

~ your protectiveness of your free will is why **we** must **separate** **willingness** from your **perception** of free will. Your free will is the last bastion of your **separate** army, the final line of defense, the site where the final **battle** **will** take place. Before this final **battle** is reached your **willingness** to **change** your **mind** about its need to be fought is what is desired by your **Father** and this Course. _C:11.13.1-3_

~ **god** **will** never wrestle your free will from **you** , or fight battles to win it for Himself. This final **battle** is in your own **mind** , and it is a figment of the illusions **you** **have** made. Let this prophecy **you** **have** made go, and realize that **willingness** does not negate free will. _C:11.14.1-3_

~ the only **meaning** possible for your free will is your **choice** of what to **join** with and your **choice** of what to leave outside of yourself. _C:12.4.1_

~ your free will has not been taken from **you**. _C:19.3.2_

**Treatises**

~ free will does not make the impossible possible. It makes the possible probable. It is thus probable that **you** **will** **use** your free will in order to be who **you** are. But it is not guaranteed! It is your **choice** and your **choice** **alone** that is the only guarantee. This is the **meaning** of free will. _T4:5.9.5-10_

**FREEDOM**

| ˈfrēdəm |

**Treatises**

~ there is nothing else that **will** free who **you** are but freedom from the ego's **thought system**. That the ego's **thought system** has kept **you** from this freedom is the seeming difficulty **you** **experience** in learning this course of **study** and the **reason** , when **you** **have** freed your **self** , that **you** **will** look back and **see** how easy this one **choice** really is. _T1:5.9.7-8_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the freedom of the **new** , the freedom of **being** your true **Self**. _D:Day8.29.6_

~ **i** **call** **you** now to **embrace** this freedom. _D:Day8.30.1_

~ freedom from **want** , freedom from **lack** , freedom from repression. _D:Day9.1.1_

~ **you** **have** fled the foreign land, where freedom was merely an **illusion**. _D:Day9.1.4_

~ allow freedom to reign, for it is your allowance, your **choice** , your permission, that **will** make it so. _D:Day9.4.2_

~ freedom is nothing other than freedom of **expression**. No one can block the freedom of what your **mind** would think or **heart** would feel. But take away the **ability** to express what the **mind** would think or **heart** would feel, and freedom is no **more**. Yet it is not an outward **source** that **you** must **fear** or protect your freedom against. It is none other than yourself who has not allowed **you** the freedom of **expression**. _D:Day9.6.5_

~ if **you** do not realize your freedom, **you** **will** not realize your **power**. _D:Day9.20.6_

~ your freedom is contingent upon your **ability** to give up your images, particularly the **image** **you** hold of an ideal **self**. _D:Day9.24.1_

**FRIEND**

| frend |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** need no imaginary friend when **you** **have** beside **you** he who is your friend always and would show **you** that **you** **have** no **needs** at **all**. _C:9.31.1_

**FULFILLMENT**

| fo͝olˈfilmənt |

**Treatises**

~ do not accept this **lack** of **fulfillment** of a promise that has surely been made! _T4:9.6.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ in fulfillment are endings found and beginnings created. _D:Day1.20.3_

~ this fulfillment of scripture has now occurred **within** **you**. When it occurred **within** me, it occurred **within** **all**. It became part of the continuing story of **creation** , of **creation** acted out **within** the created. _D:Day1.21.1-3_

~ the story came after the fact. Thus the fulfillment was always part of the story of **creation**. It was always part of **you** as it was always part of me. _D:Day1.22.1-3_

**FULLNESS**

| ˈfo͝olnəs |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ fullness comes only from **love** , which is the **source** and substance of who **we** are **being**. **I Am** **being** **you**. **You** are **being** me. In this equation is fullness of **being** , which is **love**. _D:Day38.14.1-4_

**FUNCTION**

| ˈfəNG(k)SH(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ everyone has a function to fulfill in **creation of the new** **world**. _D:Day19.2.4_

~ to be called to a specific function that creates **change** is really to be called to a function of preparing one or many for the **change** that must occur **within**. The function of those called to the **way** of **Jesus** is to **call** **others** to the **new** through **means** so widespread, varied, and remarkable that they cannot be ignored. _D:Day19.7.1-2_

~ this is the very function that **you** **have** waited to **have** revealed to **you** , the function **you** **have** known **you** are **here** to fulfill, the function of direct **union** with **God**. _D:Day22.5.4_

~ it does not **matter** that everyone's function is the same because no one **expression** of this same function produces the same results. _D:Day22.6.1_

**FUTURE**

| ˈfyo͞oCHər

**Treatises**

~ many predictions of the future **have** been made, and many of them **have** been called prophecy. But the future is yet to be created. _T4:11.1.3-4_

~ the future depends on **you** who are willing to leave learning behind and who are willing to accept your **new** roles as creators of the **new** —creators of the future. _T4:11.2.1_

~ because it is the **new** future of a **new** **form** joined in unity and **relationship** , the only guarantees that are known to us is that it **will** be a future of **love** , a future without **fear** , a future with unlimited **freedom**. _T4:12.35.5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the future is up to **you**. _E.12.4_

**GAIN**

| ɡān |

**A Course of Love**

~ what **you** give through sharing **you** gain in **truth**. No other type of gain is possible. _C:31.20.2-3_

~ what **you** gain in **truth** is never lost or forgotten again, because it returns **remembrance** to your **mind**. _C:31.24.1_

**GARDEN OF EDEN**

_A Course of Love Term_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **all** **feeling** and **all** thoughts of **love** extended into the **paradise** of **creation**. This was the Garden of Eden, the **Self** , the **All** of **All**. _D:Day16.15.2-3_

**GARDENER**

| ˈɡärdnər |

**Treatises**

~ the gardener knows that although the plant exists fully realized **within** its seed, it also **needs** the **relationship** of earth and water, **light** and air. The gardener knows that tending the garden **will** **help** it to flourish and show its **abundance**. The gardener knows she is part of the **relationship** that is the garden. A true gardener believes not in bad seeds. A true gardener believes not that she is in **control**. A true gardener accepts the grandeur that is the garden and finds it beautiful to behold. _T2:12.10.2-7_

~ this metaphor is akin to **acceptance** of the **holy relationship**. It is **acceptance** of what occurs with the joining of many factors, one no **more** important than another. _T2:12.11.1-2_

**GIFT**

| ɡift |

**A Course of Love**

~ **love** 's gifts are gifts of **creation** or **extension** , gifts **you** **have** both given and received. **Each** act of **love** is added to the **space** in the **universe** that is yours and has **become** part of the **whole** along with **you**. _C:17.14.3-4_

~ **all** gifts of **God** are given equally and distributed equally. It is your **belief** that this is not so that causes **judgment**. _C:20.40.3-4_

~ no gifts are received when **all** gifts are judged. While the gift is still given, the **judgment** changes the **nature** of the gift by limiting its **ability** to be of **service**. A gift one feels one cannot " **use** " is discarded. Thus **have** many of your treasures lain fallow. _C:20.40.8-11_

~ what **you** **each** **have** been given is that which **will** serve your **purpose**. **You** could **have** no **more** perfect gifts, for your gifts are expressions of your Father's perfect **love** for **you**. _C:20.41.1-2_

~ **you** **will** find **you** are welcome to **all** the gifts **you** **recognize** in your brothers and sisters just as **you** freely **will** offer yours to serve them. _C:20.44.3_

**GIVENS**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Dialogues**

~ **movement** , **being** , and **expression** are also what is because they are the **givens**. _D:16.8.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ these are not just the givens of talents or inspired ideas, but **all** the givens that combined **create** the **wholeness** and the **holiness** of who **you** are. _D:Day9.25.3_

**GIVING/RECEIVING**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ your giving must be total for **you** to **receive** in **truth**. _C:7.2.3_

~ what **each** gives is incomplete until it is received. _C:25.5.12_

~ in order to be your **Self** , **you** **have** to **share** your **Self**. What **you** **keep** **you** lose. This is the **principle** of giving and receiving that, **being** finally and totally understood, **will** free **you** to be wholehearted. _C:31.14.2-4_

**Treatises**

~ giving and receiving cannot occur without **relationship**. _T1:2.11.4_

~ **you** **will** not accept giving and receiving as one if **you** feel able only to give or as if " **others** " **have** nothing **you** would **receive**. _T2:7.13.8_

~ giving is not only about choosing what good and helpful parts of yourself **you** **will** **share** with the **world**. It is also about giving the **world** the opportunity to give back. It is about recognizing the **constant** and ongoing exchange that allows **needs** to be met. It is trusting that if **you** **have** a need for money or **time** or **honesty** or **love** , it **will** be provided. _T2:7.15.1-4_

~ **you** who are **beginning** to realize that **you** **have** much to give, realize that **you** **have** as much to **receive** and that receiving does not imply that **you** are lacking! _T2:7.18.3_

~ the recognition that giving and receiving occur as one is a precondition for your recognition of the **state** of unity. As with the recognition of your **accomplishment** , the **acceptance** of the **belief** that giving and receiving are one in **truth** changes the **function** of **time** as **you** **know** it. There is not a period of waiting or a period of **time** between giving and receiving. There is not a **time** -lapse between the recognition of **needs** and the meeting of **needs**. It is accepted that giving and receiving occur in unison, thus further collapsing the need for **time**. _T2:7.20.1-5_

~ as **you** **experience** giving and receiving **being** one in **truth** , your **belief** **will** **become** true **conviction**. Your **ability** to **recognize** giving and receiving as one becomes simply an aspect of your **identity** and accepted as the **nature** of who **you** are in **truth**. _T2:7.21.2-3_

~ what **you** **gain** **will** take nothing from anyone. What another is able to give **you** **will** take nothing from them, and what **you** are able to give another **will** take nothing from **you**. _T2:8.3.5-6_

~ giving and receiving are one in **truth**. _T3:15.5.2_ _;_ _T3:16.9.1_

~ by saying that giving and receiving are one in **truth** it is **being** said that **you** are lacking only in what **you** do not give. _T3:16.10.1_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** " **receive** " and **you** "give" from the well of the **spirit**. _D:1.2.5_

~ that giving and receiving are one in **truth** is best understood by taking away the **idea** of one who gives and one who receives. If **all** are one, such ideas make no sense. This would seem to make the **idea** of giving and receiving as one senseless as well. In a **way** , this is true. Giving and receiving as one is senseless in terms related to a shared **consciousness**. Giving and receiving as one is not senseless, however, when that shared **consciousness** is occupying **form**. _D:3.11.1-6_

~ **all** ideas leave not their **source** , thus giving and receiving is an **idea** , as are **all** ideas, that exists apart from **form**. Giving and receiving are thus one **within** the shared **consciousness** of unity, which is the same as saying giving and receiving are one in **truth**. _D:3.12.1-2_

~ the **elevation** of the **personal self** , however, requires that this giving and receiving as one be shared in **form**. _D:3.12.4_

~ giving and receiving as one is now the **nature** of the **elevated Self of form** , and what **we** **work** toward through this **dialogue** is your full **awareness** of what this **means**. _D:3.12.6_

~ giving and receiving as one has **become** one in **form** as well as one in **idea**. What this **means** , simply stated once again, is that giving and receiving occur in unison, or in **union**. There is no " **time** " in which giving and receiving seem to be **separate** actions. There is no " **time** " in which giving and receiving is not occurring. Giving and receiving as one thus simply describes the **nature** of the **new** , the **nature** of shared **consciousness**. _D:3.14.1-5_

~ what **you** need **remember** now is that your separated **self** already learned this **concept** of giving and receiving, and that for the **elevated Self of form** it is simply a shared quality of **oneness**. It is not in need of learning or even understanding. It is. _D:3.21.2-4_

~ **you** are already aware of the **truth** of giving and receiving **being** one. _D:3.21.6_

~ the **idea** of giving and receiving as one might be **thought** of as a divinely inspired **system** of **thought**. _D:4.14.2_

~ what is given must be received. What is received must be given. This is the **way** of increase and multiplication. This is the **way** of **creation**. _D:10.6.5-8_

~ true giving and receiving is of unity. True giving and receiving is not of the separated **thought** of the separated **thought system** of the separated **self**. _D:11.4.2-3_

~ giving and receiving are one in **truth**. **All** of the principles of **creation** are in accord with this **truth** , and thus these truths occur in unison or in **union**. _D:16.11.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ if giving and receiving are one, then giver and receiver are also one. _D:Day21.6.3_

~ the reversal from believing in a giver and a receiver to knowing that giver and receiver are one, is also of paramount importance. _D:Day28.9.2_

~ this is **all** that the notion of a giver and a receiver is: An **old** **thought** **pattern**. _D:Day28.16.4_

**Addendum**

~ true giving and receiving as one begins to take place. _A.14.5_

**GLORY**

| ˈɡlôrē |

**A Course of Love**

~ the only glory is of **God** and His **creations**. _C:P.9.6_

~ **all** glory is due **you**. **All** glory is yours, and your efforts to protect it from the ego's reach are valiant but unnecessary. The **ego** cannot **claim** the glory that is yours. _C:P.9.8-10_

**GOAL**

| ɡōl |

**A Course of Love**

~ the goal of this **world** is for **you** to stand on your own, complete **within** yourself. This goal **will** never be reached, and only when **you** give up trying to reach it can **you** begin to **learn** anything of value. _C:1.13.4-5_

~ the loftiest aim of which **you** are currently capable is that of changing your **perception**. Although our ultimate goal is to move beyond **perception** to **knowledge** , a **first** step in doing this is changing your **means** of **perception** to that of right-mindedness. _C:19.23.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ as with the learning goal **being** set **here** of going beyond **belief** to simply knowing, the learning goal in relation to the **miracle** is the same—it is one of going beyond **belief** in the **miracle** to simply knowing. _T2:12.6.1_

~ changing the **consciousness** of the **personal self** from a **time** -bound **state** of **consciousness** to an eternal **state** of **consciousness**. This **change** , as has been said before, is the **miracle**. This **miracle** is the goal toward which **we** now **work**. _T3:12.4.5-7_

~ realize that prior to this point, our goal was returning to your **awareness** the **truth** of your **identity**. By changing our goal now, **I am** assuring **you** that **you** **have** **become** aware of the **truth** of your **identity**. The goal of this Course has been **accomplished**. However, while your **consciousness** remains **time** -bound, your **awareness** is still limited. As has already been stated, in order to remove the limits that continue to **exist** , **we** must remove **all** **time** -bound temptations. _T3:12.5.1-5_

~ that goal is the original **thought** that began the **experience** in physical **form** , the **thought** of expressing the **Self** in observable **form**. _T3:19.9.6_

**Dialogues**

~ the goal is no longer learning. The goal is accepting the **identity** that has always been yours and that has newly been revealed and returned to your **remembrance**. _D:1.15.6-7_

**Addendum**

~ the goal is reached in **being** who they are at last. It is **present** —not in the **future**. It is with them—not beyond them. _A.34.5-7_

**GOD**

| ɡäd |

**A Course of Love**

~ god simply waits for your return to **heaven** , for your **acceptance** of your birthright, for **you** to be who **you** are. _C:P.21.2_

~ obviously the **nature** of God is **different** than the **nature** of man. God does not **have** physical **form** and does not produce physical offspring. God does, however, **have** a son, a child, an offspring, who must **exist** in some **form** like unto the **Father**. _C:P.27.1-3_

~ god gave **you** the **Word** to **know** him by. God gave **you** the **Word** made flesh as an **example** to live by—an **example** of a **living** God. _C:P.31.4-5_

~ the **content** of God is **love**. _C:P.34.1_

~ **everything** **real** is of God. _C:2.2.2_

~ god is known to **you** **within** relationships, as this is **all** that is **real** **here**. God cannot be seen in **illusion** nor known to those who **fear** him. _C:5.30.1-2_

~ it is because God is not **separate** from anything that **you** cannot be. It is because God is not **separate** from anything that **heaven** is where **you** are. It is because God is **love** that **all** your relationships are holy, and from them **you** can find the **way** to Him and to your holy **Self**. _C:6.19.4-6_

~ **you** cannot **help** but think of God as a vengeful God whose final **vengeance** is your own **death**. _C:11.9.4_

~ it is easier to accept that your banishment from **paradise** was God's **decision** , not your own. **You** think **you** can be grateful to Him for some things and **blame** Him for **others**. Yes, perhaps this God **you** think **you** **know** has given **you** **everything** , but He can also take it **all** away, and in the end He surely **will**. He then **will** judge **you** and determine if **you** should be rewarded for a **life** of goodness or punished for a **life** of **evil**. He might accept **you** back, but He might not. A God such as this would seem to **have** little **faith** in **you** and to deserve little of your **faith** in return. _C:11.9.5-10_

~ he knows no **rejection** and no **death**. He knows no **pain** or sorrow. His son remains with him in his eternal **home** , joined with him as always in eternal completion. _C:12.23.6-8_

~ god is knowable from **within** the mystery of non- **duality** itself. _C:19.14.2_

~ god is thus "God" due, at least in part, to what **you** view as His singularity. **You** view those who worship many gods as primitive, although those who believe in a god synonymous with **creation** are closer to a true picture of God than those who view God as a solitary figure. _C:19.17.6-7_

~ the **desire** to **know** God can be **all** consuming. Yet, while God transcends knowing, your **relationship** with God is how **you** **know** both God and your **Self**. _C:23.6.2-3_

~ **you** can only come to **know** God through **relationship**. _C:27.8.1_

~ god is **service** to **life**. _C:29.15.2_

~ the indivisibleness of God is simply this: an unbroken chain of **giving** and receiving. Thus is this a definition of unity as well. _C:29.25.6-7_

**Treatises**

~ while God is nothing but the **Source** of **Love** , **you** **have** , in your **doubt** , made of God the **source** of **fear**. _T1:4.26.3_

~ from **time** immemorial, **fear** has been associated with God. This was the **thinking** **I** came to reverse. While **I** succeeded in revealing a God of **love** , this **revelation** has not been reconciled with your **experience** **here**. This is what **we** **will** now **seek** to do by putting an end to **fear** and ushering in, with this ending, the **beginning** of a **time** of miracles. _T1:4.27.4-7_

~ god always existed. _T4:2.22.6_

~ **you** **have** believed in God and perhaps in some **concept** of unity or **oneness** , but **you** **have** also denied even the possibility of experiencing your own direct **relationship** with God, or the possibility that your **life** is a direct **experience** of the **pattern** of unity or **oneness** that is **creation**. _T4:2.22.8_

~ the **living** **matter** that exists **within** the ocean has no need to search for God. It lives in God. So do **you**. _T4:5.5.11-13_

~ god can thus be seen as the **All of everything** and **life** , or the **Body of Christ** , as **all** that makes up the seemingly **individual** parts of the **All of everything**. **Christ-consciousness** is your **awareness** of this. _T4:5.6.1-2_

**Dialogues**

~ god is not "other than". _D:14.7.1_

~ the God who seemed so distant from **you** when **you** abided in **separation** can now be heard and seen and felt in your experiences of unity. _D:14.7.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ if **you** continue to send your prayers to a god who is other than **you** , **you** **will** not cross the threshold. _D:Day1.2.4_

~ god cares not what **you** **call** Him. God knows who He is. _D:Day1.13.1-2_

~ **you** **have** been invited to **know** God directly, and to develop a **relationship** with God. It is only in knowing God that the **relationship** of **abundance** **will** be made clear to **you** and break forever the chains of **want**. _D:Day3.35.2-3_

~ god is the **oneness** and the **separation**. _D:Day11.5.5_

~ god is what is. _D:Day11.5.7_

~ god is **love**. _D:Day13.4.6_

~ god has been described as the " **all** knowing" for God is the **relationship**. _D:Day14.11.3_

~ the **All** of **All** given an **identity**. _D:Day17.2.4_

~ god is only the **all** -knowing because God is in **everything** and everyone. _D:Day17.3.5_

~ god is **everything** in **heaven** and on earth and is in **everything** on **heaven** and on earth. Thus, God represents the **world** without. _D:Day18.2.11-12_

~ **you** and God are one. God is not the giver and **you** the receiver. _D:Day28.11.1-2_

~ a **concept** of God is not necessary. **False** concepts of God, however, are compromising to God and to **Self**. _D:Day32.10.1-2_

~ man and God are one. Not only is man God. But God is man and woman and child. God is. _D:Day32.14.4-6_

~ god is the **being** and the **relationship**. _D:Day32.20.1_

~ because God is in **relationship** with **everything** , God is **All** Powerful. _D:Day32.20.3_

~ in your **relationship** to God, who is your **being** , **you** can **know** **relationship** to **everything** , because in this one **relationship** , **you** are in **relationship** with **all**. _D:Day35.1.1_

~ god is the **relationship** of **everything** to **everything**. _D:Day35.3.4_

~ god remains God who is one in **being** with **all** , and God also is given **form** , or is, in other words, differentiated. God is **All** in **All**. And God is also **All** in One and **All** in Many. God is still the **Creator** of **All** , but God is also now the **Creator** of One, the **Creator** of the **experience** of one **life** , or many lives, the **experience** and the experiencer of **life**. Through differentiation, God is **you** as **you** are God. God retains **oneness** of **being** and also becomes a **being** in **union** and **relationship** —in short—a **being** in **union** and **relationship** with **you**. _D:Day36.17.1-6_

~ the most basic **truth** about God is that God is **being**. _D:Day37.2.2_

~ god is **being** in unity and **relationship**. So are **you**. _D:Day37.6.3_

~ god is **being** in unity and **relationship** with **everything**. Thus God knows **you**. God is one in **being** with **you** because **you** are one aspect of **everything**. As one **being** in unity and **relationship** with **everything** God is one with every **thought** and every **feeling**. God is one with every **creation**. God is **all** knowing. God is, in short, the **collective consciousness**. _D:Day37.21.1-7_

~ the "part" of God **you** **have** been **being** is **being**. **You** **have** been a **feeling** , **thinking** , creating, perceiving **being**. The "part" of God **you** **have** not been **being** is **union**. **Remember** , God is **being** in **union** and **relationship**. This is what God is. God is **being**. God is **relationship**. God is **union**. _D:Day37.27.3-10_

~ **call** me God the **Father** , **call** me God the **Mother** , **call** me **Creator** , or Great **Spirit** , Yahweh or Allah, but **call** me yours. For this is who **I Am**. _D:Day38.5.1-2_

~ now it is **time** to **see** me as your own God as well as God of **all**. Now it is **time** to **call** me who **I Am**. _D:Day38.10.5-6_

~ do not **expect** sainthood, only Godhood. _D:Day39.45.2_

~ god is a **relationship** with **love**. This **relationship** with **love** is **all** that provides for the **I Am** of God. _D:Day40.22.1-2_

**GOD'S IDEA**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Dialogues**

~ god's idea of **you** extended and became **you** and me and **all** the sons and daughters of **creation**. _D:11.3.5_

**GOD'S WILL**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ god's will for **you** is **happiness** , and never has it been otherwise. _C:9.33.1_

~ god's will for **you** is **happiness** , and of this **you** can be certain. _C:12.6.1_

**GOING BACK**

| ˈɡōiNG bak |

**A Course of Love**

~ my brothers and sisters in **Christ** , do not **become** impatient now. **We** are on the **home** stretch and **all** **you** long for is nearer than ever before. To talk of going "back" **will** undoubtedly make **you** feel impatient, but this is not a going back that **will** in any **way** resemble the "going back" that **you** **have** tried to do before. While it is, in a sense, a request to review your **life** , it is the last such review that **will** be required before letting the **past** go completely. **All** your previous attempts to go back **have** been like attempts to pay a debt that **will** never go away. This going back **will** leave **you** debt free and thus free in **truth**. _C:19.20.1-6_

~ this going back is the **journey** without distance. **You** need not go in search of it, and in **truth** , cannot, for the **past** does not abide in **you**. What **you** need rather do is **strive** for a place of stillness from which what **needs** review can arise as if it were a reflection arising from a deep pool. **Here** what is in need of healing **will** but briefly come to the surface and leave the hidden depths where **light** could not reach it and healing could not come. What comes forth for healing **needs** but a nod of **love** from your **heart** , a passing glance of **compassion** , the merest moment of reflection, before it **will** dissipate and show a **new** reflection. _C:19.21.1-5_

~ this going back is, in **reality** , **more** in the **way** of reflection than review, although if **you** were to think of this as a re-viewing of your **self** , **you** would be quite accurate. It is like unto the **final judgment** as it has been described, a sorting of the **real** from the unreal, of **truth** from **illusion**. Despite the similarity between what this **will** **call** forth and the description of the **final judgment** , **judgment** is not the **means** or end of this reckoning. _C:19.22.1-3_

**GOOD INTENTION**

| ɡo͝od inˈten(t)SH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ what are good intentions but a **choice** to do what **you** can, **alone** , by yourself, against great odds? This is why good intentions so often fail to come to be at **all** , and why, when every **effort** has been made, the outcome seldom seems worth the **effort**. **You** cannot earn your **way** to **heaven** or to **God** with your **effort** or your good intentions. _C:P.19.1-3_

~ your good intentions **will** not overcome the **world** and bring an end to **hell**. _C:P.17.3_

~ your good intentions neither please nor displease **God**. _C:P.21.1_

~ as good as **you** may **want** to be, **you** would still go meekly through your **life** trying to comply with rules of **God** and man with **thought** of some greater good in **mind**. _C:16.25.4_

~ **you** think **you** are only fair in deciding that if everyone cannot do what they would **want** , then **you** , too, must abdicate your wishes for the common good. **You** thus behave in "noble" ways that serve no **purpose**. _C:16.25.6-7_

~ there is no "common good" as **you** perceive of it, and **you** are not **here** to assure the continuance of society. _C:16.26.2_

**GRACE**

| ɡrās |

**Dialogues**

~ it is to this **state** of grace that **I** **call** **you** now, today: The **state** of grace of the newly identified **child of God**. _D:1.12.9_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ another **replacement** is that of **control** with grace. This occurs as **you** give up the **control** **you** **have** but **thought** **you** exerted over your **life** and its circumstances, and live in a **state** of grace, meeting grace with grace by accepting what is given for your **regeneration**. _D:Day7.12.2-3_

**GRATITUDE**

| ˈɡradəˌt(y)o͞od |

**Treatises**

~ gratitude is the recognition of the **state** of **grace** in which **you** **exist** **here** and **remain** forever beyond **all** **time** and the passing of **all** **form**. It is an attitude of praise and thankfulness that flows between us now. _T2:13.5.4-5_

**GRIEVANCE**

| ˈɡrēvəns |

**A Course of Love**

~ a grievance is something **you** **have** **chosen** for yourself, a piece of a **relationship** separated off and held in contempt and righteousness. _C:7.11.2_

**GROUPS**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Addendum**

~ groups may need to **become** **more** flexible, meet **less** frequently, or even disband in favor of former "classmates" meeting in **more** casual and spontaneous encounters. It remains important for facilitators and group members to be available to one another if at **all** possible during this **time** , for what is **being** gained through **experience** is still in need of **being** shared. _A.28.1-2_

~ the forward motion, regardless of a group's configuration, is still the same. It is one **movement** away from learning and toward **acceptance** of what is. While differences may be highlighted in this **time** , what **will** be revealed through sharing is that while experiences may differ greatly and seem to be **offering** diverse "learning" situations, the individuals **will** actually be coming to many very similar **new** insights and truths. _A.29.1-3_

~ experiences **will** be moving **each** **individual** along at her own pace. Comparisons may arise and some may feel they are not advancing as quickly as **others** , while those moving quickly may feel in need of **time** to catch their breath! _A.30.1-2_

**GROWTH**

| ɡrōTH |

**Treatises**

~ growth does not imply **lack**. _T2:4.14.6_

**GUIDE**

| ɡīd |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ let's speak a moment of the **Self** as guide. This simply **means** that **you** turn to the **Self** as the **source** of coming to **know** of the **unknown**. _D:Day26.3.1-2_

~ a guide shows the **way** , creates **movement** , gives direction. These things too the **Self** can do if allowed to do so. _D:Day26.4.1-2_

~ there is no other guide. **We** are One **Self**. _D:Day26.4.5-6_

~ your **self** -guidance can be **thought** of as an internal compass. It **will** not necessarily **know** the answers as **each** **answer** is sought, but if paid **attention** to, it **will** show **you** the **way** to knowing. _D:Day26.6.1-2_

~ **self** -guidance is the propulsion, the fuel, for the One **Self** to **know** itself. _D:Day26.8.1_

~ while **you** looked outwardly for signposts to guide **you** , the **self** -guidance of inner-sight was not developed. _D:Day27.3.6_

**GURU**

| ˈɡo͝oro͞o |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ true spiritual leaders or gurus **have** no need nor **desire** to be seen as such and are often made into images such as these only **within** the minds of those who would **seek** to follow their teachings. _D:Day9.21.3_

**HAPPINESS**

| ˈhapēnəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ happiness remains happiness despite your despair. _C:12.11.6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **being** **content** is **being** fulfilled by the **way** in which **you** express who **you** are—by the **way** **you** express your **content** —your **wholeness**. _D:Day19.4.1_

**HAPPY THOUGHTS**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ it is your **denial** of **all** your happy thoughts that has led **you** to a **life** of such unhappiness. Thoughts of terror and of sin **you** **will** **embrace** , but thoughts of **resurrection** and **new** **life** **you** still before they **have** a **chance** at **birth** and **call** them wishful **thinking**. What harm do **you** **expect** happy thoughts to do to **you**? At best **you** **see** them as delusional. But what **you** **fear** is disappointment. _C:6.21.1-5_

**HARMONY**

| ˈhärmənē |

**Treatises**

~ your **mind** and **heart** in **union** **have** brought harmony to your **body**. Sustaining this harmony **will** **keep** your **body** in perfect health, even while the manner of this **perfection** of your health **will** **remain** one of many options. _T4:7.6.4-5_

**HAVE**

| həv |

**Treatises**

~ **all** that **you** are capable of having **you** already have as the already **accomplished**. **All** that **you** would give **will** take nothing away from **you**. _T2:9.8.3-4_

**HEAL**

| hēl |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **we** heal now by **calling** on **wholeness** , accepting the healed self's **ability** to be **chosen** while not encountering resistance or any attempts at **rejection** of the sick or wounded **self**. _D:Day14.1.4_

~ to heal is to make **whole**. _D:Day15.15.3_

**HEALER**

| ˈhēlər |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ a "healer" for instance, might, thus, feel her **access** point as **being** the hands and express what is gained through unity by a laying on of hands. Similarly, **you** might say healing is one of the ways the healer expresses **love**. In **truth** healing and **love** are the same. _D:Day15.16.1-3_

~ while many **will** **heal** , **all** attempts to **teach** or **learn** "how to" **heal** must be thwarted, for if not, the **pattern** of learning **will** **remain**. This is why there **have** always seemed to be "secrets" held among the great healers and spiritual guides. They **have** understood that what they **have** gained **access** to cannot be taught. This has not meant that they were not eager to **share** , only that the **means** of sharing was not one of teaching or learning. _D:Day5.23.2-5_

**HEART**

| härt |

**A Course of Love**

~ it is who and where **you** are and responds in **love** to what is one with it. _C:1.6.2_

~ **creation** 's birthplace, birthplace of the **new**. _C:I.11.8_

~ let us define heart as the center of **being** , that place from which **all** **feeling** arises. _C:1.1.2_

~ the heart of the **body** is the **altar** at which **all** your offerings to **God** are made. _C:1.2.6_

~ the heart cares not where **love** comes from, only that it comes. _C:1.12.1_

~ the heart yearns for what is like itself. _C:1.12.5_

~ as **you** read, be aware your heart, for this is where this learning enters and **will** stay. Your heart is now your eyes and ears. _C:3.14.2-3_

~ our hearts, in **contrast** , go out to the **world** , to the **suffering** , to the weak of **body** and of **mind**. Our hearts are not so easily contained **within** the casing of our flesh and bone. Our hearts take wing with **joy** and break with sadness. Not so the brain that keeps on registering it **all** , a silent observer, soon to tell **you** that the feelings of your heart were foolishness indeed. It is to our hearts that **we** appeal for guidance, for there resides the one who truly guides. _C:3.17.1-5_

~ **you** who think this **idea** is rife with sentiment, sure to lead **you** to abandoning logic, and thereafter certainly to cause your ruin, **I** say to **you** again: take heart. Such foolishness as your heart's desires **will** save **you** now. **Remember** it is your heart that yearns for **home**. Your heart that yearns for **love** remembered. Your heart that leads the **way** that, should **you** follow, **will** set **you** certainly on the **path** for **home**. _C:3.18.1-5_

~ your heart knows **love** without a **vision** of it. _C:5.7.2_

~ your heart becomes full only through **relationship** or **union**. A full heart can overshadow a full **mind** , leaving no room for senseless thoughts but only for what is truly **real**. _C:5.19.3-4_

~ your heart is accustomed to **giving** in a **way** that your **mind** is not. _C:7.1.4_

~ your heart, on the other hand, knows of **giving** and of a return not based on the **world** of your **mind** or of physical circumstance. Despite disappointments most severe, your heart knows that what **you** give **you** **receive** in **truth**. _C:7.1.9-10_

~ your heart already sees in a manner much **more** **whole** than the **perception** of your split **mind**. Even your **language** and images reflect this **truth** , this **difference** between the **wisdom** of your heart and that of your **mind**. Your heart may be said to break, but the **image** that these words **call** forth is of a heart cracked open, not of a heart in **separate** pieces. _C:7.18.4-6_

~ concentrate on the **wholeness** of your heart, no **matter** how **you** view its current condition. Be it wounded, bleeding, broken or full, it rests in **wholeness** **within** **you** at the center of who **you** are. _C:7.18.10-11_

~ it is from this center that **truth** **will** **light** your **way**. _C:7.19.1_

~ it is from this center that **you** **will** come to **understand** that **relationship** exists in **wholeness**. _C:7.20.1_

~ it is not your thoughts to which **you** turn to bring **you** evidence for your resentment, ammunition for your **vengeance** , **pain** for your remembering. It is to your emotions, those feelings that **you** would say come from your own heart. _C:8.7.3-4_

~ what foolishness to think **love** could abide with companions such as these. If these be in your heart, where is **love**? If these illusions were **real** there would be no place for **love** at **all** , but **love** abides where **illusion** cannot enter. These illusions are like barnacles upon your heart, adhering to its surface, but keeping it not from fulfilling its **function** or carrying **within** itself that which keeps **you** safe upon this raging sea. _C:8.8.1-4_

~ safe **within** your heart lies love's **reality** , a **reality** so foreign to **you** that **you** think **you** **remember** it not. Yet it is to this **reality** **we** head as **we** travel deep **within** **you** to the center of your **Self**. _C:8.9.1-2_

~ your heart—not to be confused with the pump that runs the **body** , but identified as the center of yourself—has no **thought system** **separate** from your own and must **exist** in the **reality** where **you** think **you** are. _C:10.3.10_

~ your heart does not **want** to **see** with **judgment** or with **fear**. It calls to **you** to accept **forgiveness** that **you** may give it and henceforth look upon the forgiven **world** with **love**. _C:16.9.2-3_

~ it can come as no **surprise** to **you** that your **mind** has ruled your heart. _C:18.16.1_

~ our heart is the **light** of the **world**. _C:20.4.3_

~ this heart connection is what **we** **seek** to return **you** to. _C:20.17.6_

~ your heart has a **different** scope, a **different** view. It is the view from **within** the **embrace** , the view from love's angle. _C:20.48.1-2_

~ **love** appeals to **you** through the heart. **God** appeals to **you** through your heart. _C:21.4.1-2_

~ again **you** are bidden to turn to your heart for the **truth** that is hidden there yet waiting to be revealed. Your heart knows of unity and knows not any **desire** to be **alone** and **separate**. Your heart understands **relationship** as its **source** of **being**. _C:27.12.4-6_

~ what your heart has shared with your **mind** is shared with **all** minds and what your heart has to **share** is only **Love**. Thus has **Love** returned to **Love**. _C:32.6.4-5_

**Treatises**

~ your heart as **we** **have** defined it many times **within** this Course, must **exist** in the **thought system** that is **real** to **you**. _T1:5.9.3_

~ the **body** , and thus the " **you** " whom **you** think **you** are, would not **experience** anything without the presence of the heart. The heart is the only cause of your **experience** **here**. When released from the **ego** **thought system** , the heart becomes the determiner of what **you** **experience** since **you** **know** it as the cause. This is what is meant by **mind** and heart **being** joined in **union** , or **being** wholehearted. It is the **real** **you** or center of your **Self** , **being** joined with the only **thought system** that is **real** , the **thought system** of the **truth**. _T1:5.10.1-5_

~ it is the heart that sees with true **imagination** and the heart that speaks to **you** in terms that are consistent with the **idea** **you** currently hold of hearing a **call** or having a **calling**. _T2:2.1.6_

~ your link between the realm of unity and the realm of physicality is your heart. Your heart tells **you** of the already **accomplished** and bids **you** to express it with your physicality, thus uniting the two realms through **expression**. _T2:3.2.11-12_

~ your heart exists where **you** think **you** are, thus providing the **means** for **union** between where **you** think **you** are and where your **being** actually resides. **Remember** always that your heart is where the **Christ** in **you** abides. _T2:3.3.2-3_

~ your heart has now **become** your eyes and ears. Your heart hears only one **call** , one **voice** , the **language** of one **Source** —that of unity. _T2:4.19.3-4_

~ the **source** of what **we** **have** been speaking of as " **calling** " is your heart. It is what alerts **you** to the treasures that lie **within**. _T2:6.1.1-2_

~ this abode of **Christ** , this **bridge** between the human and the divine. _T3:6.5.7_

~ your heart has now heard the appeal of this Course and worked with your **mind** to bring about this **acceptance** of the **truth** , a **truth** your heart has always known but has been unable to free **you** to accept without the mind's **cooperation**. _T4:7.5.12_

**Dialogues**

~ open your heart, for the one who dwells there in **union** with **all** **will** emerge from this opening. What was once a tiny pinprick of **light** becomes a beacon as **you** open your heart and allow your true **identity** to be what is, even **within** your **form**. _D:1.13.1-2_

~ your heart is a full well, a wellspring from which **you** can continually draw with no danger of ever drawing an empty bucket. _D:11.10.5_

~ your heart is a full well. It is because **you** **have** now turned to your heart, instead of to your **thinking** , that **you** feel both **fulfillment** and **desire**. _D:17.15.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **we** **have** identified heart as the center of the **Self** rather than the pump that functions as part of your **body**. _D:Day5.9.1_

**Addendum**

~ **we** **have** taken a step away from the realm of **perception** by appealing to the heart and the heart's **ability** to **learn** in a **new** **way**. _A.4.1_

~ **you** are coming **home** to the **way** of the heart. _A.11.4_

**HEARTBEAT**

| ˈhärtˌbēt |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** **share** the heartbeat of the **world** and are at **rest** **within** **each** other, **within** **each** other's **embrace** and the **embrace** of God's **love** , God's **creation** , God's heartbeat. God's heartbeat is the **Source** of the **world** , the Soul of the **world** , the Sound of the **world** in **harmony** , existence with no **beginning** and no end. _C:20.15.5-6_

~ the heartbeat of the **world** does not **exist** apart from **God**. The heartbeat of the **world** is thus **alive** and part of **you**. _C:20.17.4-5_

**HEAVEN**

| ˈhevən |

**A Course of Love**

~ **home** to God's beloved son and dwelling place of **God** Himself. _C:6.19.3_

~ your notion of heaven **being** an attainment **you** can reach only after **death** fits your **goal** of **separation**. _C:14.4.1_

~ it is but **you** who gave heaven the **purpose** of **giving** **you** something to look forward to, a **reward** for a **life** lived according to your own rules, a **reward** to be gained by some and not by **others** , a pinnacle of **achievement** that **will** prove your rightness and your **success** after **you** are gone. _C:14.23.4_

~ even Heaven, which **you** would label good, is not wholly good in your estimation of it. Why is it not wholly good? Because **you** **have** defined it as lacking much of what **you** **have** judged to be good in the **world** **you** now perceive. _C:17.5.5-7_

~ those who judge cannot enter heaven. _C:17.12.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ do not **expect** the **world** , **expect** heaven. _D:Day39.45.3_

~ **expect** heaven on earth **you** were told. This is what it is. There **will** be no **doubt** , no indecision. _E.6.2-4_

**HEAVEN/HELL**

| ˈhevən/hel |

**A Course of Love**

~ a **choice** for **love** is a **choice** for heaven. A **choice** of **fear** is hell. Neither are a place. They are a further reflection of **means** and end **being** the same. They are but a further reflection of your **power**. _C:1.18.16-20_

~ **you** can label **joy** heaven and **pain** hell and **seek** the middle ground for your **reality** **thinking** there are **more** than these two choices. _C:2.7.3_

~ in heaven is **all** **thought** of hell forever vanquished. _C:6.14.7_

**HELL**

| hel |

**A Course of Love**

~ striving to be that which **you** can never be is the hell **you** **have** created. _C:1.13.7_

~ to continue to identify **love** incorrectly is to continue to live in hell. As much as highs and lows of intense **feeling** are sought by some to be avoided, it is in the **in-between** of passionless **living** that hell is solidified and becomes quite **real**. _C:2.7.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ unwanted feelings that **you** attempted to expel from the **Garden of Eden** were not expelled from **consciousness** , but from your **awareness**. This created the **separate** and the unloved in your **perception** , and your **perception** created an unreal **reality** of the **separate** and unloved, often referred to as hell or hell on earth. **Love** and **fear** existed simultaneously as did **paradise** and hell. This became your **world** , which slowly grew from a **world** primarily made up of **paradise** and **love** , to a **world** primarily made up of hell and **fear** because as **more** was expelled from **paradise** , **more** was perceived as hellish or fearful. **Less** of **love** was extended. **More** of **fear** was projected. _D:Day16.15.4-9_

**HELP**

| help |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** could be receiving **constant** help if **you** would but let it come. _C:17.8.3_

**HERE**

| hir |

**A Course of Love**

~ there is no here in the terms that **you** would think of it, the terms that set your **reality** in a location, on a planet, in a **body**. **God** is here and **you** belong to **God**. This is the only sense in which **you** can or should accept the notion that **you** belong here. When **you** realize **God** is here, then and only then can **you** truthfully say here is where **I** belong. _C:8.17.5-8_

~ the **past** nor the **future** **matter** not. **All** is available in the here and now where **giving** and receiving occur. _C:29.26.8-9_

**HOLINESS**

| ˈhōlēnəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ the **first** step in remembering this holiness is forgetting. Let yourself **forget** that **you** do not feel holy and that the **world** does not appear to be sacred. Let your **heart** **remember** that **you** are holy and that the **world** is sacred. _C:20.23.1-3_

~ holiness cannot be contained, and it is not **within** your **power** to **limit** it. _C:20.29.3_

**Treatises**

~ your brothers and sisters are as holy as your **Self**. Holiness is the natural **harmony** of **all** that was created as it was created. _T4:2.20.2-3_

~ your brothers and sisters who do not choose their natural **state** still are who they are and holy as yourself. Your brothers and sisters who choose **alternative** visions are still who they are and holy as yourself. _T4:6.5.5-6_

**HOLY INSTANT**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ this moment without **awareness** of the **body** was beautifully described in **A Course in Miracles** as the Holy Instant. _C:8.19.1_

**HOLY RELATIONSHIP**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ **each** joining returns **you** to your holy relationship with your brother, which is the only one **you** **have** in **truth**. Only this **relationship** is **real** , and in it are included **all** **others**. One does not discard or replace the other. _C:14.27.3-5_

~ it is in your holy relationships that **union** can be found and experienced. _C:19.7.3_

~ the holy relationship in its broadened **form** is **eternity** , the **eternity** of the **embrace**. _C:21.3.1_

**Treatises**

~ this holy relationship is what **you** are called to cultivate as a **gardener** cultivates her garden. _T2:12.10.1_

~ this cultivation then, of the **all** -encompassing holy relationship that exists **within** **you** and without **you** , both in **all** **you** are and **all** **you** are in **relationship** with, is how **you** are called to live your **life** and the **call** **you** are asked to sound to **all** your brothers and sisters. _T2:12.12.1_

~ the holy relationship has been **accomplished** by the joining of the **mind** and **heart** in unity. The holy relationship is with the **Self** , the **Self** that abides in unity with **all** **within** the **house** of **truth**. This **relationship** makes the **Self** one with **all** and so brings the **holiness** of the **Self** to **all**. _T3:15.10.1-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ as **you** **embrace** holy relationship **you** can **become** powerful as **God** is powerful. _D:Day32.20.7_

~ holy relationship is **relationship** with the **Christ** in **you** —the **bridge** to unity. _D:Day37.28.1_

**Addendum**

~ **you** **have** entered Holy Relationship. _A.14.6_

**HOLY SPIRIT**

| ˈˌhōlē ˈspirit |

**A Course of Love**

~ the Holy Spirit has brought what comfort **you** would accept to your troubled **mind**. _C:2.15.5_

~ the Holy Spirit exists in your right **mind** , and is the **bridge** to exchanging **perception** for **knowledge**. _C:19.24.1_

~ when **you** **seek** the **truth** that is in your **mind** , **you** **call** upon the Holy Spirit. _C:32.2.6_

**Treatises**

~ **i** **have** said that **contrast** is a favored teaching device of the Holy Spirit. But **I** **have** not yet said that the **time** of the Holy Spirit is ending even though **I** **have** stated that the **time** of the **second coming** of **Christ** is **here**. _T1:7.4.1-2_

~ the Holy Spirit was called upon to return this **remembrance** to minds and hearts. But again let me remind **you** that the Holy Spirit is not other than who **you** are but an aspect of who **you** are and Who **God** Is. Let me remind **you** also that names, such as Holy Spirit, are but **word** symbols that represent what is. So think now of whatever stories **you** **know** of the Holy Spirit, stories that symbolize what is. In these stories, the Holy Spirit is always called upon to return the true **Self** to the **self** of **illusion**. A Holy Spirit is called to return to your **mind** and **heart**. _T3:17.6.1-5_

~ **you** were told in " **A Treatise on the Art of Thought** " that the **time** of the Holy Spirit has ended and the **time** of the **second coming** of **Christ** is **here**. _T3:17.7.1_

~ many **others** by many other names **have** represented the **truth** and in so doing dispelled **illusion** **within** themselves and those who followed their teachings and **example**. This has occurred **within** the **time** of the Holy Spirit. _T3:17.7.3-4_

~ the Holy Spirit, unlike **God** the **Creator** , has known the existence of the **illusion** and the **thought system** of the **ego** - **self** and been able to communicate **within** that **illusion**. Without this **means** of communication with the **ego** - **self** the **ability** to **learn** the **truth** could not **have** returned to **you**. The " **time** " of the Holy Spirit has now ended because the **time** of **illusion** is now called to an end. _T3:17.8.1-3_

~ the **time** of the Holy Spirit, or the **time** in which communication was needed between the **illusion** and the **truth** , must end in order for the **truth** to **become** the one **reality**. _T3:17.8.8_

~ during the **time** of the Holy Spirit, some were able to come to **know** themselves and **God** through the indirect **means** of this **state** of **consciousness** and to pass on what they learned through indirect **means**. Fewer were able to achieve a **state** of **consciousness** in which direct communication was possible, to come to **know** themselves and **God** directly, and to pass on this learning through direct **means**. What **I am** saying is that it is not impossible for those who **remain** unaware of the **new** **consciousness** to come to **know** themselves and **God** , and to continue to pass their learning on indirectly, or through indirect communication and **contrast**. But this also **means** that the great majority **will** **become** aware of the **new** **state** of **consciousness** and that learning **will** pass through them directly through **observation** and direct communication or **experience**. It **means** that the last generation born into the **time** of the Holy Spirit **will** live out their lives and that soon **all** who **remain** on earth **will** be those born into the **time of Christ**. _T4:1.27.1-5_

~ **living** in the **time** of the Holy Spirit did not mean that **you** would automatically realize the **consciousness** of the **spirit** that was your **intermediary**. _T4:7.2.1_

~ during the **time** of the Holy Spirit, your understanding of your **Self** and **God** grew through the indirect **means** that were available to **you**. _T4:7.2.2_

~ in the **time** of the Holy Spirit the **spirit** was available to **all** as **intermediary**. _T4:7.2.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the **time** of the Holy Spirit, the **time** of a need for an **intermediary** between yourself and **God** , is gone. _D:Day3.35.1_

**Addendum**

~ the **time** of the Holy Spirit has passed. The **time** of the **intermediary** is over. _A.19.2-3_

**HOME**

| hōm |

**A Course of Love**

~ the home in which **you** stand, much like your inner **world** , is where **you** live the **life** that makes the most sense. It is where your values are formed, your decisions are made, your **safety** found. This **comparison** is not idly drawn. Your home is **within** and it is **real** , as **real** as the home **you** **have** made **within** the **world** seems to be. _C:5.16.3-6_

~ your "other" home is the home **you** feel as if **you** **have** left and the home **you** feel the **desire** to return to. Yet it is where **you** are, and **you** could not be anywhere else. Your home is **here**. **You** think this is incongruous with the **truth** as **I** 'm revealing it, the **truth** that **heaven** is your home, but it is not. _C:8.17.1-4_

**Treatises**

~ never again **will** **you** be away from home for home is who **you** are, a "place" **you** carry **within** **you** , a place that is **you**. This is the home of unity. _T2:8.6.16-17_

**HONESTY**

| ˈänəstē |

**A Course of Love**

~ honesty is **being** free of **deception**. _C:31.18.2_

**HOPE**

| hōp |

**A Course of Love**

~ **bitterness** and **uncertainty** are replaced by hope. Hope is the condition of the initiate, **new** to the **realization** of having a **home** **within** the **embrace**. _C:20.36.1-2_

~ hope is a manner of acting as if the best possible outcome **you** can imagine could truly occur. Hope is a **willingness** to accept **love** and the **grace** and **cooperation** that flow from **love**. Hope is a **willingness** to **ask** for **help** , believing it **will** come. Hope is the **reason** and the outcome for which **we** pray. Hope acknowledges the kindliness of the **universe** and has no **use** for things. _C:20.38.1-5_

**Dialogues**

~ hope is **desire** accompanied by expectation. _D:17.10.4_

**HOUSE**

| hous |

**Treatises**

~ the **word** house as used in the House of **Truth** does not represent a **structure** but a dwelling place. The **word** house as used in the house of **illusion** does represent a **structure**. _T3:11.4.1-2_

**HUMAN EXPERIENCE**

| ˈ(h)yo͞omən ˌikˈspirēəns |

**Treatises**

~ **you** **will** wonder at the **lack** of extremes in your feelings and **want** to bring them back. **You** **will** **experience** this **loss** of extremes as a **lack**. **You** **will** think something is wrong. **You** **will** feel this particularly when **others** around **you** **experience** extremes. A **friend** is experiencing feelings on an extreme **level** and this **will** seem to tell **you** that this **friend** is really **alive**. Whether it be **joy** or sorrow, it **will** seem **real** in a **way** that **peace** does not. It **will** seem so human that a wave of **desire** to be fully human **will** wash over **you**. **You** **will** think that this human who has caught your **attention** is fully engaged and fully experiencing the moment. **You** **will** think this is what **you** **want**. And **I** say again that it **will** not **matter** whether it be **joy** or sorrow for **you** are, or **have** been, attracted by both for the same **reason** , the **reason** of wanting to be fully engaged in the human experience. _T1:10.2.5-14_

~ **here** is this **experience** **you** **have** created and how often **have** **you** been fully engaged in it? How often **have** **you** given yourself over to those highs and lows? **You** **will** be tempted to give yourself over once again in this most human of ways. **You** **will** cry and laugh for the poignancy of the human experience. This is the known that **you** **will** be tempted not to give up. If **you** can't be moved from your **peace** by the greatest of these experiences, the most profound sorrow or the most **all** -encompassing **joy** , **you** **will** feel inhuman. **You** **will** think that this cannot be where **you** are meant to be, what **you** are meant to feel. **You** **will** wonder what is wrong with **you**. _T1:10.3.1-8_

~ this is **temptation**. The **temptation** of the human experience. This is what **you** continue to choose over the **Peace** of **God**. This is not a right or wrong **choice** but it is a **choice**. It is your **free will** to continue to make this **choice**. _T1:10.4.1-5_

~ **you** used your **free will** to choose the human experience. _T1:10.5.1_

~ these extremes of the human experience **have** been learning devices. They **have** cracked open hearts and minds to the divine presence **within**. **You** **have** **chosen** them for just this **reason**. But **you** can now be an observer and look upon them as your brothers and sisters learning **choice** without choosing to return to learning in the same **way** again. **You** no longer need these experiences to alert **you** to the divine presence. _T1:10.6.1-5_

~ are **you** **being** asked to give up extremes? Yes. **You** are **being** asked to give up **all** that would take **peace** from **you**. But as **you** **have** been told before, **you** **will** be **giving** up nothing. It **will** seem as if it is so for a while perhaps. **You** **will** continue to be attracted to those **living** at the extremes and there is no **reason** not to take **joy** in observing another's **happiness** or to feel **compassion** at another's **suffering**. But **you** need not partake and **you** cannot partake if **you** are going to carry the **Peace** of **God** **within** **you**. _T1:10.7.1-7_

~ the **choice** that was made for the human experience, the **choice** to express whom **you** are in the realm of physicality. **You** were not "better" or **more** "right" before this **choice** was made than **you** are now. **You** made a **choice** consistent with the laws of **creation** and the steps of **creation** outlined above. From this **choice** , many experiences ensued. Some of these experiences were the result of **fear** , some the result of **love**. The **choice** to express who **you** are in physical terms was not a **choice** made of **fear** but made of **love**. _T3:12.8.1-6_

~ humankind is now passing through a tremendous **stage** of **growth** and **change**. _T3:12.11.3_

**HUMAN/DIVINE**

| ˈ(h)yo͞omən/dəˈvīn |

**A Course of Love**

~ as **I** once was, **you** are both human and divine. What your human **self** has forgotten, your **real** **Self** retains for **you** , waiting only for your welcome to make it known to **you** once **more**. _C:5.29.6-7_

~ it is this joining of the human and divine that ushers in love's presence, as **all** that caused **you** **fear** and **pain** falls away and **you** **recognize** again what **love** is. It is this joining of the human and divine that is your **purpose** **here** , the only **purpose** worthy of your **thought**. _C:5.1.5-6_

**I**

| aɪ |

**A Course of Love**

~ the personal and **individual** is the "I" **we** are dispelling. Think a moment of how **you** tell a story or report on events that **have** taken place **within** your **life**. **You** personalize. **You** are likely to report on what a certain set of circumstances meant "to **you**." This kind of **thinking** is **thinking** with the small "I." "I saw." "I felt." "I **thought**." "I did." The **individual** , personal, separated **self** is at the center of **all** such stories. One quite literally cannot conceive of the story without the "I." Yet this **you** must **learn** to do, and this **task** is given **you** as an **exercise**. _C:22.19.1-8_

~ this removal of the personal "I" is but a **first** step to returning **you** to the **consciousness** of unity, a **first** step in going beyond **meaning** as definition to **meaning** as **truth**. _C:22.22.1_

~ by eliminating the personal, the **universal** becomes available. As the **universal** becomes available, **you** **will** **have** no **desire** for the personal. Even so, **you** **will** find that what **you** consider your individuality or uniqueness is very much intact, but that it is **different** than **you** **have** always imagined it to be. **You** **will** find that **you** fulfill a grand **purpose** , and **have** a wonderful part to play in a grand design. **You** **will** not feel cheated by losing your separated **self**. **You** **will** feel free. _C:22.23.2-7_

**I AM**

| ī ˌeɪ ˈɛm |

**Treatises**

~ the statement "I am" is a statement of **awareness**. It has been seen as a statement of **awareness** of the **self**. _T3:11.1.2-3_

~ for those existing in the **house** of **truth** , "I am" has **become** something larger, an **all** -encompassing recognition of the unity of **all** things with which the **Self** co-exists in **truth** and **peace** and **love**. T3.11.2.3

~ the statement "I am" is a statement of **awareness** of **consciousness**. **Awareness** preceded the statement of "I am." "I am" preceded the **creation** of the **Self**. _T3:12.1.2-3_

**Dialogues**

~ i am no longer the **personal self** who was **separate** and **alone**. I am my **Christ** **Self**. _D:1.14.1-2_

~ now **I** go forth To live as who I Am **within** the **world**. _D:1.14.10_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ i am also an **extension** of **love** , just as **you** are. This is **all** I Am **means**. There is no I Am except through love's **extension**. How does **love** extend? Through **relationship**. _D:Day40.15.4-8_

**IDEA**

| īˈdēə |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** ideas **here** are but ideas of **union** come to replace ideas of **separation**. This **will** happen of its own without your understanding as long as **you** **remain** willing for the ideas to dwell **within** **you** , and **you** do not try to shut them out. Realize that the ideas of both **success** and failure are detrimental **here**. _C:11.4.3-5_

~ in order for your **experience** base to **change** from that of learning in **separation** to that of learning in unity, learning from what unity can **teach** **you** must be birthed as an idea. To hear or **learn** of another's idea is not to give **birth** to it. **You** thus must **each** **experience** the **birth** of the idea of learning from unity in order for it to come from **within** and leave not its **source**. An idea of mine can only **become** an idea of yours through your **relationship** with it. **You** need only to **experience** this idea in your own **way** , from the **desire** to **know** from which **all** ideas are born, in order to give it **life**. _C:18.13.1-5_

~ once an idea is born, it exists in **relationship** to its **creator**. **All** that remains now is a **choice** of participation. _C:18.14.1-2_

~ an idea is irrevocably linked with its **source** and one with its **source**. _C:26.22.6_

**Treatises**

~ before **we** can go on **you** must take **all** such ideas from your **mind**. Such ideas are not small matters. Ideas are the **foundation** of the **self**. **You** cannot **have** an idea of goodness without having an idea of **evil**. **You** cannot **have** an idea of an ideal **state** without having an idea of a **state** that is not ideal. **You** cannot **have** an idea **you** **call** "right" without believing in an idea that can be "wrong." _T3:4.3.1-6_

~ the **ego** made such ideas necessary for the idea of the **ego** was "wrong" or inaccurate. The only **way** to bring that inaccuracy to **light** was through **contrast**. _T3:4.4.1-2_

~ the idea of an unlovable **self** was transferred into **all** areas of **life** without your **realization**. _T3:6.2.3_

~ **god** 's **thought** of **you** is an idea of absolute **truth**. Your existence derives from this idea and this **truth**. _T3:7.1.2-3_

~ ideas leave not their **source**. _T3:7.3.3_

~ **you** are who **you** are and **remain** endlessly who **you** are, even **here** **within** the **human experience**. This is the idea that is beyond compare as **you** are beyond compare and the **truth** is beyond compare. This is the only idea that holds true **meaning** and so **all** **meaning** is found **within** it. Thus **we** start with this idea. _T3:7.4.1-4_

~ this idea is an idea of **love**. _T3:9.1.1_

~ it is an idea that says **all** that **love** would not **create** does not **exist**. It is an idea that says that if **you** live from **love** and **within** love's laws **you** **will** **create** only **love**. It is an idea that accepts that this can be done and can be done by **you** in the **here** and now. To accept these ideas without accepting their **ability** to be applied is to **change** your beliefs without changing your ideas. This many **have** done. This **you** surely do not **want** to do. _T3:9.1.5-10_

~ while **you** cannot now **see** the chain of events that **will** make these ideas into a **new** **reality** , **you** can **trust** that they **will** be there, spreading out like a web, much as the ego's ideas of **separation** once did. Yet, as these ideas are not learned ideas, they **will** not take **time** , as did the ego's ideas, to spread through learning. _T3:9.2.1-2_

~ ideas of **love** , or the **truth** , are joined in unity and **exist** in **relationship**. **All** of the ideas **within** the **house** of **illusion** were contained **within** it and held together by the learned ideas of the **ego** **thought system**. _T3:9.3.1-2_

~ the idea that **you** do not **have** to earn your **way** nor pay your **way** must be birthed and lived by. While most of **you** **will** immediately think of your survival **needs** , this is far from the only area in which the idea of earning or paying your **way** can be found. This **old** idea is consistent with **all** beliefs of an "if this then that" **nature**. _T3:13.7.3-5_

~ ideas can certainly be birthed without the need for **action** , but one of the factors that distinguishes an idea from a **belief** is a requirement of **action**. That **action** , while not necessarily physical, is the **action** of **giving** **birth**. _T3:13.3.2-3_

~ to **form** your own ideas is to be creative. Forming your own ideas happens in **relationship**. Taking **action** on your ideas forms a **relationship** between your physical **form** and your **Self**. _T3:13.14.1-3_

~ ideas, in the context in which **we** are speaking of them **here** , are thoughts or images originating from the **Self** and **being** represented by the **personal self**. It is only in this **way** that the **personal self** **will** be able to represent the **Self** in **truth**. _T3:13.14.4-5_

~ **you** **will** slowly translate **all** ideas of scarcity into ideas of **abundance** , **all** ideas of **blame** into ideas of benevolence. _T3:14.2.3_

~ **you** must now **birth** the idea that human beings do indeed **change**. _T3:15.7.1_

~ **you** must **forget** the idea that the **future** cannot be **different** than the **past**. _T3:15.7.3_

~ **you** must consciously let go of **all** your ideas of the limitations inherent in your **concept** of what it **means** to be a human **being**. _T3:15.16.3_

~ ideas **form** in the **mind**. _T3:18.10.2_

**Dialogues**

~ ideas of who **you** truly are, birthed by the wholehearted **self** in **union** with **all** , are the ideas that **will** allow **new** patterns to emerge and the design of the **future** to be created. These are the ideas that replace the learned concepts **we** leave behind. _D:3.9.1-2_

~ **you** **will** notice that **all** of these ideas **have** in common a quality of **oneness**. _D:3.10.1_

~ these are your ideas as well as mine. They are the ideas of your brothers and sisters as much as they are of **God**. _D:3.22.1-2_

~ when it was said **within** this Course that **you** are an idea of **God** , and when ideas were spoken of as if they were synonymous with **thought** , this was an accurate and truthful **way** of expressing what was true for **you** as a learning **being**. _D:9.5.2_

~ ideas are also discoveries that **you** make, discoveries that **exist** apart from learning. Ideas "come to **you**." They are given and received. They are surprising and pleasing in **nature**. _D:9.12.1-4_

~ an idea already exists **within** **you** , but is awaiting its **birth** through **you**. _D:9.12.9_

~ these ideas that already **exist** were able to pass through **you** in order to **gain** **expression** in **form**. _D:9.14.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ a great idea or great talent that is not brought into **form** , that is not expressed, that is not shared, is no greater than a seed not planted. But the **gift** of the great idea, the great talent, must **first** be seen and recognized, acknowledged and accepted, before it can be brought into **form** , expressed, and shared. _D:Day3.54.2-3_

~ your ideas in this **time** may sound crazy, even to your own ears. Let them come. _D:Day25.3.3-4_

~ the idea that **you** return to your humanity with is an idea of **oneness** come to replace an idea of **separation** , an idea of **sameness** come to replace an idea of **specialness** , an idea of **accomplishment** and **union** **here** and now come to replace **all** ideas of **life** after **death**. _D:Day35.7.2_

~ these are ideas that take the **way** in which **you** once related to **life** and shift it entirely. Because the **way** in which **you** relate to **life** is what has caused **life** to be as it has been, this shift **will** cause **life** to be **different** , or in other words, **new**. _D:Day35.8.1-2_

~ ideas are neither learned nor **accomplished**. They simply are. They thus take no **time** to **learn** and require no steps to **accomplishment**. They can be lived immediately. No **intermediary** is needed. No tools are needed. **All** that is needed is that **you** carry them **within** **you** in the **way** **we** **have** previously spoken of carrying. Carry them as a pregnant woman carries her child. Let them grow. Let them live. And give them **life**. _D:Day35.9.1-11_

~ **giving** ideas **life** is the role of creatorship. _D:Day35.10.1_

**IDENTITY**

| ˌīˈden(t)ədē |

**A Course of Love**

~ your identity is shared and one in **Christ**. A shared identity is a quality of **oneness**. A shared identity is one identity. When **you** identify with **Christ** **you** identify with the one identity. When **you** realize the **oneness** of your identity **you** **will** be one with **Christ**. _C:20.17.8-12_

~ in your quest to identify yourself, **you** simply narrowed yourself to the visible and describable. _C:27.1.5_

**Treatises**

~ your true identity must be re-created from the **belief** in unity that is inherent in the **acceptance** that **you** are a **being** who exists in **relationship**. _T2:11.7.4_

~ as long as **you** hang on to both identities the **world** **will** not **change** and **you** **will** not **know** who **you** are. _T2:11.16.5_

~ **you** **have** been told to put on a **new** mantle, a **new** identity. _T2:13.1.4_

~ **you** could not **exist** without an identity. **You** might think of this as **being** certain of facts and information, for these are the things about yourself that few of **you** **have** doubted. _T3:21.11.1-2_

~ your true identity is that of a **Self** who exists in unity. _T3:21.17.2_

~ an identity that has nothing to do with the thoughts of a separated **mind** or the circumstances of the physical **body**. _T3:21.18.6_

~ **we** can also **use** the **certainty** **you** **have** felt about your identity for our **new** **purpose** , the **purpose** of the **miracle** that **will** allow **you** to **exist** as who **you** are in human **form**. _T3:21.19.1_

~ your former identity does not **matter** , even while realizing that it **will** serve your **new** **purpose**. _T3:21.20.1_

**Dialogues**

~ this **elevation** occurs through the **acceptance** of your true identity, not through **being** identity- **less**. The reign of the **ego** began during just such a **time** of identity- **less** -ness. **You** cannot go on in such a **way**. _D:1.10.6-8_

~ **we** invite a **new** identity now. _D:1.12.5_

~ my identity is certain. _D:1.14.4_

~ if **you** fully accepted your true identity, **you** would no longer look outside of yourself for guidance. _D:1.23.2_

~ **you** **have** accepted your true identity. _D:6.24.5_

**IDOL**

| ˈīdl |

**A Course of Love**

~ **false** idols must be brought to **light** and there seen as the nothing that they are before **you** can **love** for love's sake. What is a **false** idol? What **you** think **love** **will** get **you**. _C:4.2.1-3_

~ the **glory** **you** give idols is but bondage as well. Without your idolatry their **glory** would be no **more** , and so they live in **fear** no **less** than that of those who idolize them. _C:9.42.10-11_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ not having **false** idols is an ancient commandment. An ideal **image** is an idol. It is symbolic rather than **real**. It has **form** only **within** your **mind** and has no substance. To **work** toward, or to **have** as a **goal** , the **achievement** of an ideal **image** is to **have** created a **false** **god**. _D:Day9.11.3-6_

~ to **become** an **image** , even an idealized **image** , is to still **become** a **false** idol or even what is referred to in **more** common usage as a spiritual leader or **guru**. _D:Day9.21.2_

**ILLUSION**

| iˈlo͞oZHən |

**Treatises**

~ **all** that illusion provided **you** with was nothing. _T1:1.5.2_

~ illusion is the **death** **you** need but arise from. _T1:8.9.1_

~ there is no **truth** to be found in illusion and so no representations of perceived **truth** , no **matter** how intensely they **have** been championed, **have** truly altered **effect** for they **have** not altered cause. _T3:2.8.5_

~ **you** **have** formerly been capable of representing who **you** are only **within** illusion for this was the abode in which **you** resided. Illusion has been to **you** like a **house** with many doors. **You** **have** **chosen** many doors to the same **house** and but **thought** them to offer **different** things, only to find that the **house** **you** entered was still the same **house** , the **house** of illusion. **You** took yourself into these many rooms and in some **you** were even capable of representing your true **Self**. This **representation** of the true **Self** **within** the **house** of illusion was like an explosion happening there. _T3:7.6.1-5_

~ while anything other than the **truth** remains **real** to **you** , your **house** of illusion **will** **remain** a **real** **structure** , a **structure** that keeps **you** from the **truth** as surely as would iron bars **keep** **you** **within** its rooms. _T3:8.3.7_

~ the **house** of illusion was just a **structure** built **within** the **universe** of **truth**. _T3:9.4.1_

~ those who **remain** **within** the **house** of illusion could not **escape** love's presence. _T3:9.4.2_

~ many **remain** to shake the walls of illusion. Few stand beyond it to beckon to those **within**. _T3:9.5.4-5_

~ while the **house** of illusion still exists, **you** **will** continue to encounter those who **exist** **within** it. While **you** continue to encounter those who **exist** in the **house** of illusion **you** **will** continue to encounter temptations of the **human experience**. _T3:10.16.5-6_

~ the **house** of illusion is a construction meant to shield the **personal self** from **all** that it would **fear**. _T3:11.4.3_

~ the **house** of illusion is the **stage** on which the drama of the **human experience** has been acted out. _T3:11.5.1_

~ believing in the **reality** of illusion **will** never make it the **truth**. _T3:11.10.5_

~ the **house** of illusion exists **within** the **House** of **Truth** because it is where your brothers and sisters think they are. The **house** of illusion is not a **hell** to which anyone has been banished. It can at times be a **chosen** **hell** , just as it can at times be a **chosen** **heaven**. _T3:11.12.3-5_

~ as soon as **you** would " **see** " the **house** of illusion, **you** would make it **real** , and with its **reality** **judgment** would be upon **you**...not any **judgment** of **God** , but **judgment** of your own **mind**. _T3:11.13.2_

~ do not be afraid of the **house** of illusion at **all**. What illusion can frighten those who **know** the **truth**? _T3:11.15.7-8_

~ if **you** continue to act as if **you** are still the same **being** that **you** **have** represented yourself to be in the **past** , **you** **will** not be **living** by the **truth** but by illusion. _T3:15.17.2_

~ illusion is the " **truth** " by which **you** **have** lived. _T3:15.18.1_

~ illusion is made of parts that do not **form** **real** connections but that only seem to **have** the **ability** to build upon **each** other. Let one part go and soon **all** the remaining parts **will** crumble into the dust from which they came. _T3:16.16.3-4_

~ what is finite has an end point and this is that end point for the **time** of illusion. The return of **Christ** , or your **ability** and **willingness** to live as your true **Self** , to live in the **house** of **truth** rather than the **house** of illusion, is what **will** end the **time** of illusion. _T3:17.8.4-5_

~ there is no longer any **time** to waste on such illusions. _T3:19.9.1_

~ **you** **will** be tempted to return to the **house** of illusion to gather those **within** and bid them **join** **you** in the **reality** of the **truth**. But in this **time of Christ** , a **new** **time** , a **time** without parallel or **comparison** , this **will** not be possible. _T3:19.15.1-2_

~ illusion has at its base a **false** cause and so no effects that **exist** in **truth**. _T3:20.1.4_

~ to minister to those **within** the **house** of illusion is to offer the temporary to the temporary. _T3:20.15.3_

~ **you** must no longer **see** illusion for it is no longer there! This is how **you** must live with it. **You** must live with it as **you** once lived with the **truth**. **You** must find it unobservable! It must **become** a **concept** only. Illusion is a set of facts, or in other words, a set of information. These facts are subject to **change** and mean one thing to one person and one thing to another. Illusion is symbolic. And what's **more** it symbolizes nothing for it does not symbolize what is! _T3:21.9.3-11_

~ **you** believe that what does not appear to **exist** with **you** in the **here** and now is not, and place it in a **separate** category, a category that only exists in the dualistic **world** of illusion where **here** and now is **separate** from what **will** be. _T3:22.13.2_

**Dialogues**

~ there is no **truth** inherent in the **individual** , separated **self** , but only illusion. Illusion can be described in many **different** ways that lead to many paths of seeking, but illusion can provide no place in which the seeking ends and the **truth** is found. _D:11.17.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what **we** **have** called illusion is this simple **nothingness** of existence without **relationship** to **God** , and thus existence without **relationship** to the **power** of **creation**. The illusion is an illusion of simply **being**. _D:Day36.12.1-2_

**IMAGE**

| ˈimij |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **all** of your images are **false** images. _D:Day9.11.1_

~ your ideal image, no **matter** how it was formed, is a product of the **time** of learning. It became an image in your **mind** , and maybe even **within** your **heart** , through the process of learning. It arose from the learning of right from wrong, good from bad. It arose from the learning of moral and religious beliefs. It arose from **comparison**. It arose from seeking. It arose from your **perception** of **lack**. _D:Day9.12.1-7_

~ this ideal image is intimately related with the **time** of learning in another **way** as well. It is the epitome of learning, what **you** **have** seen learning as **being** for. While other learning goals may **have** receded, this one seems a learning **goal** worthy of your **effort**. It seems to be a true **goal** amidst many illusory goals. Just as **you** may **have** believed that if **you** worked hard enough **you** would achieve a position of status **within** your profession or material wealth, **you** **have** believed that if **you** **work** hard enough **you** can maybe, someday, if **you** are blessed or lucky, achieve this ideal image. _D:Day9.13.1-5_

~ but this ideal image is as much a product of **illusion** as **have** been **all** of your worldly goals. _D:Day9.14.1_

~ as with most goals of the **time** of learning, it was an **ego** -centered **goal** , a carrot of **fulfillment** the **ego** but dangled before **you** in the place it called the **future**. As with **all** messages of the **ego** , it but says that who **you** are is not good enough. _D:Day9.15.1-2_

~ an idealized image, like a rule, is a **mental construct**. _D:Day9.18.1_

~ if **you** do not move from image to presence **you** **will** never realize your **freedom**. _D:Day9.20.5_

~ to represent an image is to **become** an image. _D:Day9.21.1_

~ what an image does is **separate**. _D:Day9.22.1_

**IMAGINATION**

| iˌmajəˈnāSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ to imagine is too often associated with daydreaming, fiction, or make-believe, and these functions are **all** prescribed to be for certain parts of your **life** and for certain times that **you** deem appropriate. Please assure yourself, as **I** assure **you** , that now is an appropriate **time** , an essential **time** , for such activity. Your thoughts regarding imagining and imagination **will** **change** with your **change** in perspective on **use**. **You** **will** no longer be using your imagination but letting your imagination be of **service** to **you**. _C:22.1.2-5_

~ **you** find it **difficult** to believe that what is possible depends upon what **you** can imagine **being** possible. **You** must cease to **see** the difficulty and begin to **see** the ease with which what **you** can imagine becomes **reality**. _C:23.17.3-4_

~ **you** **have** no capabilities that do not serve **you** , because they were created to serve **you**. The **ability** to imagine is such a capability, freely and equally given to **all**. Imagination is linked to true **vision** , for it exercises the combined capabilities of **mind** and **heart**. It is akin to **perception** , and can lead the **way** in changing how **you** perceive of yourself and the **world** around **you**. _C:23.18.1-4_

**IMPATIENCE**

| ˌimˈpāSHəns |

**Addendum**

~ your readiness is felt as impatience. Many can ride the wave of this impatience to a **new** **way**. **Others** need to **battle** against it a while longer. _A.20.2-4_

**IMPERFECTION**

| ˌimpərˈfekSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ look deeply and **you** **will** **see** that what **you** would **call** your imperfections are as **chosen** and as dear to **you** as **all** the **rest**. _C:20.41.8_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what are these imperfections but your "differences?" _D:Day9.25.1_

**IN-BETWEEN**

| ˌinbəˈˌtwēn |

**Dialogues**

~ at times when **you** are not directly experiencing the **movement** , **being** , and **expression** of unity, **you** realize the **state** of becoming. To realize the **state** of becoming is to realize that an in-between exists between the **time** of learning and the **time** of **being** the **elevated Self of form** ; that times still **exist** in which **you** are not wholly **present** as who **you** are. _D:16.15.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ there is no longer an in-between unless **you** **create** it. E.16.1

**INCARNATION**

| ˌinkärˈnāSH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ this **will** seem confusing given your definition of incarnation as the **Word** made flesh. **You** took this to mean that flesh took on the definition of the **Word** or the almighty when **I** became flesh and bone through **birth**. _T1:8.5.4-5_

**INDEPENDENCE**

| ˌindəˈpendəns |

**A Course of Love**

~ the urge to test another's **wisdom** is the urge to find your own **way** and **have** it be a better **way**. It is the urge not to **trust** the **teacher** in **all** things but only in certain things. It is the **desire** to find your **way** on your own so that **you** can take pride in your **accomplishment** , as if by following another's map the sense of **accomplishment** in your arrival would be diminished. This wanting to do things on your own is a trick of the **ego** , your pride a **gift** the **ego** demands. These are the **magic** thoughts that oppose **miracle-mindedness**. These are the thoughts that say on my own **I am** **everything** , rather than on my own **I am** nothing. _C:1.9.1-6_

~ your **ego** would **have** **you** believe that only when **you** need no one to achieve **all** **you** **desire** , only when **you** are satisfied with what **you** are and with what **you** can do on your own, only then **will** your autonomy and your learning be complete, for this is **all** your learning has been for. The **goal** of this **world** is for **you** to stand on your own, complete **within** yourself. This **goal** **will** never be reached, and only when **you** give up trying to reach it can **you** begin to **learn** anything of value. _C:1.13.3-5_

~ something **you** consider a **state** of **being** to be highly prized. _C:31.1.2_

**INDIVIDUAL**

| ˌindəˈvij(o͞o)əl |

**Treatises**

~ **you** **have** already achieved **all** that was possible to achieve as an individual. The **purpose** of individual learning was the return of unity! _T4:12.25.1-2_

**INFORM**

| inˈfôrm |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to inform is to make known. _D:Day15.2.1_

~ as **you** are **more** fully able to maintain **Christ-consciousness** **you** begin the **movement** away from **being** observed to **being** in-formed by the **spirit** which animates **all** things. **You** begin the **movement** away from observing to informing. _D:Day15.3.2-3_

~ **you** begin to be informed by what is without any regard for your **level** of understanding or knowing. **You** do this by taking what is into your spacious **form** rather than observing it as **separate** from **you**. _D:Day15.4.4-5_

~ informing could be understood as making the **spirit** known in the **form** of physicality. It is not simply the bringing of **spirit** into **form** but the making known of **spirit** in **form**. _D:Day15.6.5-6_

~ this is the **new** realm of **power** that few in physical **form** **have** practiced and that has never been practiced by many at one **time**. It is a major shift because it is not neutral but creative. It is of **creation** and can only flow through those who **have** mastered neutral **observation** because the intent of **creation** , rather than the intent of the observer, is the creative force, the animator and informer. Yet informing is a quality of **oneness** and thus the joining of the **self** with the spacious **Self** in **oneness** and **wholeness** must precede this step. This **power** cannot be misused because it is unavailable to those who **have** not realized their **oneness** with the creative force. Thus while it is not the **self** who informs and is informed by the creative force, it is the **Self** joined in **union** with the creative force that informs and is informed. _D:Day15.10.1-6_

~ it is necessary to **practice** the **ability** to inform and be informed with **others** who **have** reached this **level** of neutrality along with **you**. _D:Day15.11.3_

~ although this **power** cannot be misused, to **have** **access** to this **power** in one instance and not another as **you** move in and out of the **state** of **Christ-consciousness** **will** not serve the **purpose** of **creation**. _D:Day15.11.10_

~ what does it mean to **practice** informing and **being** informed? It **means** to **join** together with **others** who **have** the **ability** to maintain **Christ-consciousness** in your company. This creates the joining together of spacious Selves. It is a joining without boundaries. **You** **become** clear pools flowing into **each** other. **You** make your spirits known. _D:Day15.12.1-6_

~ this cannot be explained in great detail, which is why it must be practiced. It is to your own authority only that **you** must appeal for guidance. _D:Day15.13.1-2_

**INHERITANCE**

| inˈherədəns |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** **fear** that this, too, **you** would squander and lay to ruin. The only thing that might succeed in proving your place as that of royal inheritor would be if **you** could fix yourself and the **world** , restoring it to a previous condition that **you** imagine **you** **know**. In this scenario **God** is like unto your banker rather than your **Father**. **You** would prove to **God** that **you** can "make a go of it" before **you** would **ask** Him for His **help**. _C:9.34.4-7_

~ **you** **have** felt that **you** need to **know** for what it is **you** **ask**. And yet **you** cannot **know** until **you** inherit. _C:29.21.3-4_

~ your true inheritance is what **you** truly **desire** , even knowing not exactly what that inheritance is. _C:29.21.5_

**Treatises**

~ this **idea** of inheritance is a natural **idea** arising from the **nature** of **creation** itself. It is an **idea** of continuity that is an **idea** consistent with that of **creation**. _T4:4.7.1-2_

~ there has not been a **time** on Earth in which the inheritance of **God** the **Father** was accepted, save by me. This is why this **time** is spoken of as the **time** of **fullness**. It is the **time** during which **you** **have** **within** your **awareness** the **ability** to come into your **time** of **fullness** by accepting the inheritance of your **Father**. _T4:4.9.2-4_

**Dialogues**

~ your right to your inheritance, your right to be who **you** are, and your commitment to the **Covenant of the New** , are one and the same. _D:4.31.2_

~ what is heredity but that which already exists **within** **you**? _D:9.12.7_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ an **unknown** that, while it remains **unknown** , is still what **you** **know** **you** **have** longed for **all** your **life**. This **unknown** has been described to **you** in terms both specific and obscure. It has been described as **all** **you** **have** desired and **more**. It has been described as the end to the **life** of misery **you** **have** known and the **beginning** of **new** **life**. _D:Day4.44.2-5_

**INNOCENCE**

| ˈinəsəns |

**A Course of Love**

~ innocence is not replaced by sin. _C:16.3.5_

**INSANITY**

| inˈsanədē |

**Dialogues**

~ insanity is acting as if the **truth** is not the **truth**. _D:1.16.1_

~ once the **truth** has been learned, the **nature** of untruth remains only as an **acceptance** of insanity. What **I** **will** **help** **you** now to do is to reject this insanity and to accept the perfect **sanity** of the **truth**. _D:1.16.3-4_

**INSEPARABLE**

| inˈsep(ə)rəb(ə)l |

**A Course of Love**

~ something can be inseparable and still not be the same. _C:31.4.1_

~ what is inseparable cannot be **different** , but this does not mean it must be the same. Inseparable does not mean replaceable. _C:31.4.4-5_

**INSIGHT**

| ˈinˌsīt |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ inner-sight made an appearance on occasion, showing up as flashes of insight. These flashes of insight might be **thought** of as brief views from the mountain. The obstacles confronted on **level** ground suddenly gave **way** and **you** saw clearly, if only for an instant. **You** saw as if from a great distance, and because of that great distance, your view was expanded. _D:Day27.4.1-4_

~ this is the quality of the inner-sight **you** now **will** carry with **you** to **level** ground because **you** **have** practiced during our **mountain top** **time** together the **ability** to **experience** on two levels. _D:Day27.5.1_

**INSPIRATION**

| ˌinspəˈrāSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ beyond **imagination** is the spark that allows **you** to conceive of what never was conceived of before. This spark is inspiration, the infusion of **spirit**. _C:23.19.1-2_

**INTENTION**

| inˈten(t)SH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ **you** must examine your intention even now and remove from it **all** ideas that were of the **old** **way**. _T4:2.13.1_

**INTERMEDIARY**

| ˌin(t)ərˈmēdēˌerē |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ contemplate the "buffer" **nature** of **all** that is intermediary. An intermediary stands between as well as links. It is a totally unnecessary requirement in unity because the boundaries of **separation** **have** fallen. _D:Day39.8.1-3_

**INTERPRETATION**

| inˌtərprəˈtāSH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ let us speak a moment of this interpretation. That **each** of **you** interprets what **you** **see** , read, hear, smell and touch differently must mean something. What **you** **have** decided that this **means** is that **you** are an independent thinker, something **you** **have** prized. Some of **you** **will** accept another's interpretation of **meaning** if it is helpful to **you** , saves **you** **time** , or seems in accord with your own views. **Others** of **you** feel it necessary to interpret **everything** on your own. Without further discussion, **you** would **see** interpretation and **response** quite similarly and this would but lead to a continuation of the **belief** in **different** forms of the **truth**. _T1:4.17.1-6_

~ interpretation but gives **you** opinions about those things that **you** **experience**. _T1:4.19.6_

**INTERSECTION**

| ˌin(t)ərˈsekSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ it is in the intersection of parts that the **holiness** of what is **in-between** is found. _C:21.2.8_

~ a passing-through that establishes a partnership or **relationship**. _C:22.2.3_

~ intersection is often seen as a **division** between rather than as a **relationship** among. _C:22.6.1_

~ even what is divided by intersection remains **whole**. _C:22.6.2_

~ the **image** of intersection is simply meant to represent the point where the **world** intersects with **you** —where your **path** crosses that of **others** , where **you** encounter situations in your daily **life** , where **you** **experience** those things that cause **you** to feel or believe in a certain **way** —and it is at this point of intersection that not only **relationship** , but partnership is found. _C:22.7.1_

~ intersections that seem to **have** no **function** or **purpose** are deemed meaningless. The act of passing through is, of itself, seen as of little consequence. _C:22.8.3-4_

~ yet it is the passing through that creates the intersection. **Everything** **within** your **world** and your **day** must pass through **you** in order to **gain** **reality**. _C:22.9.1-2_

**INTOLERANCE**

| ˌinˈtäl(ə)rəns |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the **self** of **intolerance** was the **self** of **fear**. _D:Day8.12.4_

~ your **real** **Self** **will** be intolerant only of **illusion** and that this **intolerance** **will** take the **form** of seeing only the **truth** rather than attempting to combat **illusion**. _D:Day8.13.1_

**INTUITION**

| ˌint(y)o͞oˈiSH(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** **all** **understand** intuition and **each** of **you** **have** had intuitive moments. **You** may **have** felt, for no good **reason** , as if **you** shouldn't do something **you** were about to do. **You** may **have** trusted the intuition and then learned that had **you** done what **you** planned to do, an **accident** or some other event **you** would not **have** welcomed might **have** occurred. **You** may **have** never had any proof that following your intuition was the correct thing to do but still felt as if it was. Or **you** may **have** doubted your intuition and had something occur that made **you** think back and wish that **you** had not doubted it. _D:Day10.7.2-6_

~ this intuition came as a **feeling** , but not necessarily as a **feeling** of **certainty**. **You** may **have** reacted to the intuition with **confidence** or with **lack** of **confidence**. _D:Day10.8.1-2_

~ there are other instances of intuition that come, not as these seeming warnings, but as what **you** might **call** intuitive flashes of **insight** —intuition that causes **you** to make connections between point A and point B. _D:Day10.9.1_

~ this type of intuition seems to come **more** as **thought** than as **feeling** , but even so, it is your feelings about such thoughts that **will** often determine how **you** act upon them. _D:Day10.10.1_

~ intuition is **different** than rational **thought**. _D:Day10.11.1_

~ **all** feelings are capable of providing what **you** **have** called intuitive **knowledge** or insights. _D:Day10.11.5_

**INVULNERABLE**

| inˈvəln(ə)rəb(ə)l |

**A Course of Love**

~ an attitude of invulnerability is necessary now. It is not arrogance or a **means** by which to flirt with risk and danger. It is simply your **reality**. _C:25.13.1-3_

~ while **you** think **you** can **remain** disappointed or disillusioned, **you** **will** not be invulnerable. _C:25.13.11_

~ while **you** believe feelings of **lack** of **love** come from anywhere but **within** , **you** **will** not be invulnerable. _C:25.13.13_

~ a **realization** of your invulnerability is not necessary in terms of **use** but in terms of **service**. Those who **claim** invulnerability and **use** it as a test of **fate** , or an excuse to **challenge** the mighty forces of humanity or **nature** , **will** eventually lose the game they play. True invulnerability can only be claimed by those who **recognize** it as part of their true **identity**. Invulnerability **will** then serve **you** and your brothers and sisters. Its **service** is one of conquering **fear** and allowing **love** to reign. _C:25.14.1-5_

**Dialogues**

~ let me remind **you** again of your invulnerability and the cautions given **within** this Course concerning testing this invulnerability. In a certain sense, these cautions are now lessened. While **you** still are not to view your invulnerability as a testing ground against **fate** , **you** **will** , to a certain extent, need to **remember** your invulnerability in order to be a **real** explorer, and to fully participate in the **discovery** that lies beyond the **body** and **mind** , **form** and **time**. _D:14.4.1-3_

**JESUS**

| ˈjēzəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ **within** the story of the human race there is a story about the coming of God's son, Jesus **Christ** , who was born, grew into a man, died and rose again to live on in some **form** other than that of a man. Those who believe the story **have** accepted that Jesus was God's son before he was born, while he walked the earth, and after he died and resurrected. Whether this is your **belief** or not, it comes close to the **truth** in a **form** that **you** can **understand**. Jesus is simply the **example** **life** , the **life** that demonstrated what it **means** to be God's child. _C:P.27.4-7_

~ jesus embodied **God** by embodying **love**. He came to reverse the **way** **God** was **thought** of, to put an end to seeing **God** in human terms of **vengeance** , punishment, and **judgment**. _C:P.34.2-3_

~ jesus did this not only by embodying **God** in human **form** , but by **giving** a true rather than a **false** picture of **power**. Before the coming of the **word** made flesh, the **incarnation** , the only **idea** humankind could draw of an **all** -powerful **being** was a **being** whose **power** resembled the powerful among them. Jesus took such a stand against those with this kind of **power** that he was put to **death**. But Jesus did not abdicate for a powerless people. Jesus taught true **power** , the **power** of **love** , a **power** proven by the **resurrection**. _C:P.35.1-5_

~ jesus, united with the **Christ** in **you** , is he who can **teach** **you** who **you** are and how to live as who **you** are in a **new** **world**. He can open **heaven** to **you** and walk **you** through its gates, there to exchange this **world** at last for your true **home**. _C:P.36.1-2_

~ who is he who provides the lessons? This is Jesus. _C:P.38.5-6_

~ jesus comes to **you** again, in a **way** that **you** can accept, to lead **you** beyond what **you** can accept to what is true. _C:P.39.9_

~ **i** vowed to never leave **you** and to never leave **you** comfortless. _C:2.15.4_

~ now turn to me to comfort your troubled **heart**. _C:2.15.6_

~ in Jesus **Christ** , the **Son of God** became the son of man. He walked the **world** with a face much like your own, a **body** with two legs and two arms, ten fingers and ten toes. And yet **you** **know** this was not Jesus, nor is this a picture of the **Christ**. Jesus gave a face to **love** , as **you** do **here** as well. But **love** did not attach itself to **form** and say, "This is what **I am**." _C:3.6.2-6_

~ **i** was least accepted as prophet and savior by those who were most like me, those who watched me grow, worked alongside my parents, and lived in the same town. This was because they knew **I** was not **different** from them, and they could not accept that they were the same as me. They were then, and **you** are now, no **different** than **I**. _C:6.4.1-3_

~ let me speak briefly of the role **I** played so that **you** can better **understand** the role that waits for **you**. **I** came in the **fulfillment** of scripture. **All** this really **means** is that a certain community had been led to **expect** my arrival. They awaited me with expectation and so found in me what they hoped to find. What my brothers and sisters saw in me allowed me to be who **I** was, even while in human **form**. **I** tell **you** truly if **you** were to **see** any of your brothers and sisters today as those who awaited my **birth** saw me, they too would **remember** who they are. This is the role **I** **ask** **you** to accept so that **you** can provide for **others** what was provided for me. _C:19.8.1-7_

~ **i** was not seen as a **body** by those who believed in me, although **I** had a **body** to **help** me **learn** just as **you** do. _C:19.10.5_

~ **i am** **alive** and **you** do believe this or **you** would not be **here**. Yet **you** think not of me **living** and imagine it not. **Christ** reigns in the **kingdom** in which **I** live just as **Christ** reigned **within** me on earth. In the cave on this earth where my dead **body** was laid, the **Christ** in me returned me to the **embrace**. The singular **heartbeat** of the man Jesus no longer sounded. My **heartbeat** was the **heartbeat** of the **world**. _C:20.14.1-6_

~ when **you** **seek** the **wisdom** of your **heart** **you** **call** upon me. _C:32.2.5_

**Treatises**

~ **i** was proclaimed to be the **Word** incarnate, the **union** of the human and the divine, the manifestation of the **Will** of **God**. **I** **have** told **you** that **you** are no **different** than **I** was. _T1:8.1.1-2_

~ as a man, **I** suffered, died and was buried. As who **I Am** , **I** resurrected. " **I am** the **resurrection** and the **life**." What **I** was in **life** was the manifestation, in **form** , of the **Will** of **God**. _T1:8.2.1-4_

~ **i am** **here** to show **you** the **way** to the **Christ** in **you**. **I** began my teaching by appealing to your **heart** so as to ready **you** for the return of **wholeheartedness**. _T2:10.13.6-7_

~ **i am** the corrector of **false** **thinking**. _T2:12.1.1_

~ now that **you** **have** been made ready, **I am** ready to return **you** to your **Self**. Now that **you** **have** been made ready, it is **time** for us to **have** a personal **relationship**. **We** **have** , **within** these lessons, taken **you** far from your **personal self** , and **I** , as your **teacher** , **have** **all** but discounted the **personal self** **I** **experience** in **relationship** with **you**. Now, in unity, **we** are ready to be personal again. _T2:13.2.1-4_

~ **i** **know** of this **world** and **I am** **here** to **guide** **you** through it. **I** , too, am **friend** to **you**. _T2:13.3.5_

~ **i am** the corrector of **false** **thinking** because **I** lived among **you** as a **thinking** **being**. Think not that **I** was **different** than **you** and **you** **will** realize that **we** are truly one in **being** with our **Father**. _T2:13.4.1-2_

~ the story that **I** lived was appropriate for the **time** in which **I** lived it, and has an appropriateness that continues even now. **I** walked the earth in order to reveal a **God** of **love**. The question of the **time** , a question still much in evidence, was how mighty could God's **love** be if it were given to a people who suffered. The **answer** was that God's **love** was so mighty that he would even allow the **death** of his only son to redeem the **world**. _T3:5.6.1-4_

~ the **death** of an only son, then as now, would be seen as a **sacrifice** of enormous proportions; the greatest **sacrifice** of **all**. The point of the story, however, was not one of **sacrifice** but one of **gift** **giving**. _T3:5.7.1-2_

~ during the **time** **I** spent on earth **I** did not dwell in the **house** of **illusion** but in the **house** of **truth**. What this **means** is that **I** was aware of the **truth** and lived by the **truth**. **I** was aware of the **Peace** of **God** and lived **within** the **Peace** of **God**. **I** was aware of the **Love** of **God** and the **Love** of **God** lived **within** me. _T3:11.6.1-4_

~ **i am** , however, the bringer of Good News. _T3:14.5.1_

~ the name of **Christ** was associated with my name, the name Jesus, because **I** lived as a man with a **Holy Spirit** in my **mind** and **heart** and as such represented the **truth**. _T3:17.7.2_

~ while this has been called the **time of Christ** , it is obviously no longer the **time** of Jesus **Christ**. My **time** came and my **time** ended. The **time** when a single baby born of a virgin **mother** could **change** the **world** has passed. _T3:21.21.1-3_

~ **i** **have** always been a proponent of The **Way** of **Christ-consciousness** as The **Way** to **Self** and **God**. _T4:2.3.1_

~ there was no **Way** or **path** or process back to **God** and **Self** before me. It was the **time** of man wandering in the wilderness. **I** came as a **representation** or demonstration of The **Way**. This is why **I** **have** been called "The **Way** , The **Truth** and The **Light**." **I** came to show The **Way** to **Christ-consciousness** , which is The **Way** to **God** and **Self**. But **I** also came to provide an **intermediary** , for this is what was desired, a **bridge** between the human or forgotten **self** and the divine or remembered **Self**. Jesus the man was the **intermediary** who ushered in the **time** of the **Holy Spirit** by **calling** the **Holy Spirit** to possess the human or forgotten **self** with the **spirit** of the divine or remembered **Self**. Although **God** never abandoned the humans who seeded the Earth, the humans, in the **state** of the forgotten **self** , could not **know** **God** because of their **fear**. **I** revealed a **God** of **Love** and the **Holy Spirit** provided for indirect and **less** fearful **means** of **communion** or communication with **God**. _T4:2.4.1-9_

~ this **state** of **union** is what differentiated me from my brothers and sisters at the **time** of my **life** on earth. Because my **state** of **consciousness** , a **state** of **consciousness** **we** are **calling** **Christ-consciousness** , allowed me to **exist** in **union** and **relationship** with **all** , **I** could **see** my brothers and sisters "in **Christ** " or in their true **nature**. **I** saw them in **union** and **relationship** , where they saw themselves in **separation**. _T4:2.28.1-3_

~ this is one of the reasons that **I** came in the **form** of the " **son of God**." In the **time** in which **I** lived, the **idea** of **inheritance** was an even stronger **idea** , an **idea** with much **more** **power** than in current times. Inherent **within** the **idea** of **inheritance** was an **idea** of passing as well as an **idea** of continuity. What belonged to the **Father** passed to the son and thereafter belonged to the son. What was of the **Father** continued with the son. _T4:4.5.1-5_

~ what my **life** demonstrated was a capacity for **inheritance** not based upon **death**. My **life** , **death** and **resurrection** revealed the **power** of **inheritance** , the **power** of the **Father** , as one of **life** - **giving** **union**. **I** called **you** then and **I** **call** **you** now to this **inheritance**. _T4:4.6.1-3_

~ my one **example** **life** could not sustain **Christ-consciousness** for those who came after me but could only be an **example**. _T4:4.18.6_

~ as many of **you** believed that **I** was the **Son of God** and **more** than a man before my **birth** , during my lifetime and after my **death** and **resurrection** , so are **you**. So are **all** who came before me and **all** who came after me. _T4:5.1.2-3_

~ my dear brothers and sisters in **Christ** , as **you** once willingly resigned as your own **teacher** , **I** now willingly resign as your **teacher**. _T4:11.3.2_

~ no longer regard me as an authority to whom **you** turn, but as an equal partner in the **creation** of the **future** through the sustainability of **Christ-consciousness**. _T4:11.5.6_

~ from this **time** on, **I** **will** respond to **you** through direct communication or **dialogue** rather than through teaching. _T4:12.2.1_

~ **i** attempted to dislodge much of this learned **wisdom** during my **time** on Earth and man is still puzzling over the **meaning** of my words. The **time** for puzzlement is over. Pass on no **more** of the prevailing learned **wisdom**. **I** told **you** once **we** would **create** a **new** **language** and thus **we** shall! **We** are creators of the **new** and **we** must start somewhere. Why not **here**? _T4:12.17.5-10_

~ **i am** with **you**. _T4:12.26.1_

**Dialogues**

~ **i** come to **you** today as co- **Creator** of the **Self** **you** are and the **Self** **you** **hope** to represent with your physical **form**. **I** come to **you** today not as a **personal self** who is "other" than **you** , but as a divine **Self** who is the same as **you**. _D:1.2.1-2_

~ in **union** with me **you** cannot fail. _D:1.5.1_

~ **i** **will** often repeat that **I am** no longer your **teacher**. **You** must realize your **oneness** with me and **all** that was created and **you** cannot do so while **you** think of me as **teacher** and yourself as **student**. _D:3.17.1-2_

~ **i** was once newly birthed even though my **Self** was eternal. _D:3.19.3_

~ **i am** teaching **you** nothing, nothing **old** and nothing **new**. **I am** reminding **you** of what **you** **know** as **I** **have** reminded **you** of your **identity**. _D:3.22.3-4_

~ it is that **you** think that differentiates **you** from me, not our **content** , which is one and the same. _D:11.2.9_

~ these words give evidence of who **I am** because they give evidence that **I** **know** who **you** are. _D:11.13.1_

~ **i am** not other than **you**. _D:12.19.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **acceptance** of me is **acceptance** of your **Self**. **Acceptance** of me is **acceptance** of your **inheritance**. _D:Day1.1.1-2_

~ **i am** no longer your **teacher** , but there is a **reason** that **you** are **here** with me. **You** **have** been listening to my words, and these words are what **have** brought **you** **here** , not to a place but to an ascended **state**. Without your **acceptance** of who **I am** , **you** **will** not fully accept who **you** are. Without your **willingness** to achieve this **acceptance** , **you** **will** not **receive** the secret of **succession** presented **here**. **You** can read of it still, but it **will** not convey to **you** what it **will** convey to those who **have** accepted me. **You** **will** return to **level** ground with eyes unopened and **listen** to parables once again and **learn** once again from the stories of **others**. _D:Day1.3.2-7_

~ the requirement asked of **you** **here** is not to exclude **others** in whom **you** believe and **have** found a connection to eternal **life** , only to accept me as who **I am**. _D:Day1.5.2_

~ if **you** are to succeed me, **you** must accept me. _D:Day1.7.1_

~ **i am**. This is akin to saying **Love** is. **I am** what is. **I am** the **way** , the **truth** , and the **life**. _D:Day1.8.2-5_

~ it is man who has known not who he is, and it is through me that this knowing can be returned. _D:Day1.13.3_

~ that **you** give your **devotion** to one religious tradition or another matters not. That **you** accept that **I am** he who can lead **you** beyond your **life** of misery to **new** **life** matters absolutely. _D:Day1.15.3-4_

~ **i am** not your **teacher** and **you** are not called to follow me blindly. But **you** are called to follow, or succeed me. Only in this **way** can **new** **life** be brought to **old**. _D:Day1.16.1-3_

~ your **desire** to **know** me has grown as **you** **have** read these words and grown closer to your **Self**. This is because **we** are One. To **know** me is to **know** your **Self**. _D:Day1.17.1-3_

~ **i** represent your **birth** into what is beyond **form**. _D:Day1.18.5_

~ **i** represent what occurred **within** **you** recently, the story of your rebirth through this Course. _D:Day1.18.7_

~ in **each** of **you** am **I** represented in **form**. _D:Day1.19.4_

~ my **life** represented **fulfillment** of scripture, of **all** holy writing, of **all** learned **wisdom**. _D:Day1.20.2_

~ **you** must accept me because **I am** the part of **you** that can **guide** **you** beyond what **I** **accomplished** to the **accomplishment** of **creation** , and beyond **creation** to the story not yet written, the **future** not yet created. _D:Day1.24.4_

~ **you** long for and **desire** me because our story is the same. **You** are **living** my story as **I** lived yours. They are one story. _D:Day1.27.4-6_

~ **i am** the secret of **succession** , the **way** and the **life** , the **beginning** of the end of the story that is to be fulfilled, brought to completion and **wholeness** in **you** and in me, so that together **we** bring about the **second coming** of **Christ** and the **elevation** of the **Self** of **form**. _D:Day1.29.1_

~ **you** are called **here** to accept me despite possible misgivings such as religious beliefs. _D:Day2.15.1_

~ my **life** is the **example** **life**. The **way** in which **I** **have** talked of it recently may **have** led some of **you** to consider it as a symbolic **life** rather than an actual **life**. _D:Day2.18.1-2_

~ my **life** consisted of the same major elements as yours: **Birth** through childhood, maturity, and with that maturity **action** in the **world** , **suffering** , **death** , and **resurrection**. _D:Day2.20.1_

~ **you** **have** accounts of my actions that begin with the appearance of my **form** in the **world** , but that mainly occur during my **time** of maturity. These accounts do not stress the **time** of childhood as it is a **time** commonly held to be one of **innocence**. The accounts of my maturity generally begin with the recognition of who **I am**. _D:Day.2.21.1-3_

~ it was in **awareness** of who **I Am** that my **life** took on **meaning**. It could be argued that this **awareness** existed at my **birth** , and this too would be accurate. _D:Day2.22.1-2_

~ my **life** challenged the **world** -view of the **time** and that it is still challenging the **world** -view of your **time**. _D:Day4.16.1_

~ **everything** about my **life** was purposeful. _D:Day4.17.1_

~ **i am** your refuge from the **past** , your gate of entry to the **present**. _D:Day9.1.3_

~ although **I** **have** removed myself from the role of **teacher** and entered this **dialogue** with **you** as an equal, **you** still hold an **image** of me as "other than" yourself. **You** **will** never fully rely upon your **Self** while **you** hold these images. _D:Day10.15.5-6_

~ **i** **will** speak to **you** from this point onward as the **voice** of **Christ-consciousness**. _D:Day10.19.1_

~ **i** came to **you** in the **form** of the **consciousness** of the man **I** once was because **you** were, prior to this point, unready to give up **image** for presence, the **individual** for the **universal** , **reliance** on an outside **source** for **reliance** on yourself, Jesus for **Christ-consciousness**. **You** needed the reference point of a "person," of a **being** who had lived and breathed and met challenges similar to your own. **You** **have** been unable to **see** the two as the same for **you** **have** not realized this **sameness** in yourself. _D:Day10.19.2-4_

~ **i** **ask** **you** not to give up your **relationship** with me as the man Jesus, but to accept that the man Jesus was simply a **representation** , in **form** , of **Christ-consciousness**. _D:Day10.20.1_

~ **i** **have** spoken with **you** throughout this **time** as the man Jesus so that **you** realize that man and **Christ-consciousness** can be joined. _D:Day10.21.1_

~ as **I** speak to **you** now as the **voice** of **Christ-consciousness** —as your own true **Self** — **you** **will** not **have** lost Jesus as your companion and helpmate but **will** only **know** **more** fully the **content** of the man Jesus. _D:Day10.21.4_

~ **i** **will** still be with **you** to point the **way** , but if **you** can cease to think of this as the **wisdom** of an outside **source** , if **you** can hear it and feel it and think of it as a true **dialogue** , a true sharing in **relationship** in which an exchange is taking place, **you** **will** further your progress greatly. _D:Day10.23.1_

~ as a man, **I** took a stand for the powerless and called them to **power**. **I am** still doing so. Not because any of **you** are powerless but because **you** do not **know** your **power**. If there is one thing associated with my **life** **more** so than any other, it was this. **I** was an advocate for **all** to **know** their **power**. _D:Day10.31.3-7_

~ jesus **Christ** , who represented, in **form** , the **first** coming and who began the **movement** from maintenance to **sustenance** of **Christ-consciousness**. _D:Day17.7.2_

~ the **time** of teaching and learning is over. If the **way** of Jesus was a **way** of **acceptance** , teaching, learning, and leading an **example** **life** , then the remaining ways of Jesus that are still applicable and appropriate in this final period are those of **acceptance** and of **being** an **example** **life**. _D:Day18.3.1-2_

~ jesus spoke to **you** of his **life** as an **example** **life**. Jesus was called the **Son of God** and also **God**. _D:Day32.11.1-2_

~ only Jesus was known as the **Son of God** and as **God**. This is why Jesus came as your **teacher** and was used as the **example** **life** for this **work**. _D:Day32.14.1-2_

~ jesus was **being** **God** and was called Jesus **Christ** because he lived **within** **Christ-consciousness** , or the compassionate **consciousness** that **you** **share**. _D:Day37.10.1_

~ the man, the **God** , the historical figure who has been called Jesus **Christ** was not only Jesus but **Christ**. Not only **Christ** but Jesus. Not separated but individuated. _D:Day37.10.2-4_

~ jesus, the **example** **life** used throughout this Course, was both man and **God**. He was **being** in unity and **relationship**. **Being** **God** did not negate his **being** Jesus. And **being** Jesus did not negate **God** **being** **God**. Jesus could **create** **God** the **Father** , could **create** a **being** consistent with his **being** , because he was a **creator**. He was, in short, **being** in **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day37.24.1-6_

~ jesus was **all** of **God** and **God** was **all** of Jesus while at the same **time** **each** was **different** or individuated by **being** in **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day37.25.1_

**Addendum**

~ **i am** with **you** and **will** never leave **you** comfortless. **Call** on me, for **I am** **here**. Talk to me, and **I** **will** hear **you**. **Listen** , and **I** **will** respond. **I am** in **each** **voice** that responds to **you** and your **voice** is mine as **you** respond to **others**. _A.47.3-7_

**JESUS VS. MARY**

A Course of Love Term

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **christ-consciousness** was represented not only by Jesus, but by his **mother** , Mary. Mary, like Jesus, realized full **Christ-consciousness** and full **expression** of **Christ-consciousness** in **form**. **Each** did so in **individual** ways, ways that revealed the choices available to those who would follow after them. One **way** , that of Jesus, was the **way** of **acceptance** , teaching by **example** , and preparing a **way** for those who would approach **Christ-consciousness** through teaching and learning and leading **example** lives. Another **way** , that of Mary, was the **way** of **creation** , and was a **representation** and preparation for those who would approach **Christ-consciousness** through **relationship**. _D:Day17.9.1-5_

~ the **way** of Jesus represented full-scale interaction with the **world** , demonstrating the **myth** of **duality** , the **death** of **form** , the **resurrection** of **spirit**. The **way of** Mary represented **incarnation** through **relationship** , demonstrating the **truth** of **union** , the **birth** of **form** , and the ascension of the **body**. Both ways were necessary. Both ways were necessarily represented or demonstrated. Both ways were represented and demonstrated by many other individuals as well. The **way** was a **choice**. _D:Day17.10.1-6_

~ just as Jesus would not **have** been literally birthed without Mary, the **way of** Mary cannot be reborn without the **way** of Jesus. Both ways arose from **Christ-consciousness** as demonstrations of ways. Those who **have** **thought** of Mary as an **intermediary** are as inaccurate in this **belief** as are those who **thought** of Jesus in such a **way**. Neither demonstrated **intermediary** functions but demonstrated direct **union** with **God**. **Each** demonstrated the creative aspect of that **function** in **different** ways. But the **function** remained one of direct **union** with **God**. This is quite literally the **function** of **all** in this **new** **time**. When **we** speak of functions **unique** to **each** , **we** speak of expressions of this one ultimate **function**. Together, the **way of** Mary and the **way** of Jesus **demonstrate** the **truth** of as **within** , so without and the **relationship** between the inner and outer **world**. _D:Day19.8.1-9_

~ those called to the **way of** Mary are not required to do in the sense of fulfilling a specific **function** that **will** **become** manifest in the **world** , but are required to do in the sense of receiving, sharing, and **being** what they are asked to **become**. This is an act of **incarnation** , and is a **new** **pattern** , a **pattern** of what can be imagined **being** made **real** , not through doing, but through the creative act of incarnating in **union** with **spirit**. It corresponds with the end of the **way** of Jesus in that the **way** of **incarnation** is the **way** of miracles. It corresponds with the end of the **way** of Jesus in that an **example** is provided. It differs only in that the **example** is not an **example** of an individuated **life** but an **example** of the **union** and **relationship** that is **all** **life**. _D:Day19.10.2-6_

~ this is not to say that those called to the **way** of Jesus **will** find acclaim and those called to the **way of** Mary **will** find obscurity. Many called to the **way of** Mary **will** "do" much that is greatly desired in the **world** but what they do **will** be a byproduct of their **way** of **being** rather than a **means** of facilitating that **way** of **being**. Many of the **way of** Mary **will** find acclaim, yet neither acclaim nor obscurity **will** **matter** to those following these ways. **Being** true to the **self** and the **calling** of the One **Self** is **all** that matters. Eventually **all** **will** follow the **way of** Mary and such ideas as acclaim and obscurity **will** be no **more**. But at this **time** of **transition** , both ways are needed to **demonstrate** the **means** of coming to **know** , which are what **all** true **expression** is about. _D:Day19.11.1-6_

~ the two ways of demonstration make the **unknown** known. One makes the **unknown** known through individuated **example** lives. One makes the **unknown** known through **creation of the new** so that the **unknown** is no longer **unknown** but made available to be experienced. _D:Day19.12.3-5_

~ one **way** is active. One **way** is receptive. Yet the ways are not **separate** any **more** than Jesus was **separate** from Mary—or any **mother** **separate** from her child. The ways are rather complimentary and symbiotic. Together they return **wholeness** and **will** bring about the completion of the **time of Christ**. This symbiotic working together **will** be essential for the **birth** of the **new** and in **truth** symbolizes it in **form** and process. As **within** , so without. Mary represents the **relationship** that occurs **within** , Jesus the **relationship** that occurs with the **world**. So do **each** of **you**. These two ways also represent **God** and **Christ-consciousness** , the **extension** of **God**. _D:Day18.2.1-10_

~ the **truth** represented by Jesus and Mary was represented as a visual **pattern** that would aide understanding of the invisible. This is what **you** are now called to do. Whether **you** **demonstrate** the **myth** of **duality** or the **truth** of **union** , **you** are demonstrating the same thing. The **way** in which **you** do this must be **chosen** , and for this **choice** to be made with full **consciousness** , **you** must rely on your feelings. _D:Day18.7.1-4_

**JOIN**

| join |

**A Course of Love**

~ "When two or **more** are joined together" is not an injunction for bodies to unite. It is a statement that describes the truly **real** , the only **reality** that exists. It is the joining that is **real** and that causes **all** **creation** to sing a song of gladness. No one thing exists without another. Cause and **effect** are one. Thus, one thing cannot cause another without their **being** one or joined in **truth**. _C:5.6.8-13_

~ it is in every joining, every entering into, that **love** exists. Every joining, every entering into, is preceded by a suspension of **judgment**. Thus what is judged cannot be joined nor entered into where it can be understood. What is judged remains outside of **you** , and it is what remains outside that calls **you** to do what **love** would **call** **you** not to do. What remains outside is **all** that has not joined with **you**. What has joined with **you** becomes **real** in the joining, and what is **real** is only **love**. _C:5.12.3-8_

~ what **you** join with becomes **real**. As **you** take it into your **Self** **you** thereby make it **real** because **you** make it one with your **real** **Self**. This is **reality**. **All** **you** do not join with remains outside and is **illusion** , for what is not one with **you** does not **exist**. _C:5.17.3-6_

~ for every joining, every **union** that **you** enter into, your **real** **world** is increased and what is left to terrify **you** decreased. _C:5.28.1_

~ joining rests on **forgiveness**. _C:6.1.1_

~ what is joined cannot be parceled out and scattered, but must **remain** in **wholeness**. What is joined resides in **peace** and knows no **grievance**. What is joined resides in **love** inviolate. _C:7.13.5-7_

~ joining happens in **relationship** , not in physical **form**. Joining is not the obliteration of one thing to make another joining makes **each** one **whole** , and in this **wholeness** one with **all**. This **union** has never really ceased to be, but as long as **you** do not realize that it exists its benefits are unavailable to **you**. _C:10.2.2-4_

~ nothing that is not part of **God** is worthy of joining, nor can join with **you**. What **you** **have** sought to join with is the **reason** for your unhappiness. For **you** **seek** to join with what cannot be joined, and **you** **seek** **separation** from **all** that could be joined with **you** and **all** that would fill your dark and lonely places with the **happiness** **you** **seek**. _C:12.4.2-4_

~ **each** joining brings **you** in touch with your brother. _C:14.27.2_

~ the **first** joining comes from **within** and it is putting into **practice** the lessons of joining **mind** and **heart** in **wholeheartedness**. _C:25.15.3_

~ this **first** joining is a **choice** made from **love** without regard for the **personal self**. _C:25.16.1_

**Treatises**

~ this **first** joining in unity, the joining of **heart** and **mind** , joins the physical and the spiritual **world** in a **relationship** of which **you** can be **more** and **more** steadily aware. It is a **new** **relationship**. _T4:2.22.2-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ your **space** **will** effortlessly join with the **space** that is free and open to joining. _D:Day12.8.3_

~ **being** joined in **union** and **relationship** allows for the channeling of **creation** through the one **Self** because the one **Self** is joined in **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day19.15.4_

~ the joining of two or **more** are needed in order for **wholeness** to be known and thus to **exist** as a **state** of conscious **awareness**. _D:Day30.4.5_

~ to not **experience** joining is to not **experience** **wholeness**. Stated another **way** , the **self** cannot **know** the **Self** without joining with the **Self**. The **Self** must be the knower and the known, the **experience** and the experiencer. The quest to join with **God** is this quest. The quest to be the knower and the known, the **experience** and the experiencer. The culmination of this quest then, is joining. _D:Day30.5.5-10_

~ joining is both about **union** and about **relationship**. _D:Day31.1.1_

~ joining is the point of the **experience** and the key to experiencing **wholeness**. _D:Day31.3.5_

~ joining is differentiated from **union** only by **experience**. _D:Day31.7.1_

~ joining is where the realm of the One unites with the realm of the many. _D:Day31.7.3_

~ the divineness of your **being** is most revealed when **you** cooperatively join with another or even with yourself. When **you** cooperatively join, **you** move the **particular** **self** aside and sometimes glimpse the divine **being** in **relationship**. _D:Day37.31.2-3_

**JOURNEY**

| ˈjərnē |

**Treatises**

~ this next phase of the journey, the journey out of the **time** of learning that **will** usher in the **fullness** of **time**. _T4:9.9.8_

~ **you** **have** arrived! The long journey that brought **you** **here** is over. Grow not impatient or desirous of a return to journeying. _T4:12.15.1-3_

~ this **will** be joyous journeying. _T4:12.15.4_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** may wonder still, however, how **you** can be told that **you** **have** arrived and are at your journey's end and yet still **have** farther to go. _D:17.20.4_

~ **you** **have** nowhere to go. The journey is over. _D:17.21.1-2_

~ every hero's journey returns him **home**. To where he started from. In story **form** , this takes place with **movement**. Years are spent traveling many paths and many miles. **All** the heartaches are experienced along the **way**. **All** the experiences and learning occur on the journey. _D:17.24.2-7_

~ **you** **have** taken the inward course, the inward journey, the only journey that is **real** in the only **way** that is **real**. _D:17.25.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **remember** that this journey has not been about becoming **self** - **less** but about realizing your true **identity**. _D:Day15.28.1_

**JOY**

| joi |

**Treatises**

~ **you** **have** no need to **fear** that the joys **you** **have** shared with **others** **will** be no **more**. **You** **have** no **more** need to **fear** the **loss** of physical joys than **you** **have** to **fear** the **loss** of mental and spiritual joys. _T3:19.1.4-5_

~ for ages man has **thought** that spiritual joy diminishes physical joy. While there is no physical joy that is limited to the physical—no joy felt by the physical **form** **alone** —the joy that comes of things physical can certainly still be experienced and expressed. _T3:19.2.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ joy rather than sorrow is your natural **state**. _D:Day3.44.1_

**JUDGMENT**

| ˈjəjmənt |

**A Course of Love**

~ that **you** **have** judged and found the ones **you** **love** good and worthy of your **love** makes not your judgment justified any **more** than the judgment that condemns a **body** to **death** or to " **life** " in **prison**. _C:16.4.3_

~ **life** in **prison** and a **body** condemned to **death** is what judgment does to **all** of **you** who believe that what is the same can be made **different**. _C:16.5.1_

~ judgment is what is required to make one special and another not. _C:16.5.3_

~ without judgment there would be no **separation** , for **you** would **see** no **difference** between yourself and your brothers and sisters. Your judgment began with your own **self** , and from it was **all** **conflict** born. _C:16.6.1-2_

~ judgment makes **different**. It looks **past** what is the same and sees it not and sees instead what it is looking for. _C:16.6.3-4_

~ judgment is the **function** the separated **mind** has given itself. This is where **all** of its **energy** is expended, for **constant** judgment is required to maintain the **world** **you** **see**. _C:16.7.1-2_

~ your split **mind** judges even **love** and opposes it on the basis that it uses no judgment! **Here** **you** can **see** the value that **you** place on judgment, even to the ridiculous notion that **you** can judge judgment itself. **You** deem yourself capable of making good judgments and poor judgments, and **you** deem **love** as **being** capable of neither. _C:16.10.2-4_

~ your judgment has not made the **world** a better place! If history proves anything, it proves the **opposite** of what **you** would care to believe. The **more** the **individual** , society, and culture indulge in the **desire** to judge, the **more** godlike they think they make themselves. For **all** of **you** **here** **know** that judgment is not your place, and that it belongs to **God** and **God** **alone**. _C:16.16.1-4_

~ to wrestle the right to judge away from **God** is an act against **God**. _C:16.16.6_

~ **god** has **become** the **enemy** to those who judge just as the parent of a defiant child becomes the **enemy** in the child's **perception**. _C:16.16.10_

~ judgment thus reinforces the **idea** of **separation** , making of it something even darker than it started out as **being**. It no longer seems like a **choice** that the child has made, but seems to be an irreparable rift that a **new** **choice** cannot mend. _C:16.17.5-6_

~ the right to judge is but the right of the **Creator** who judges **all** of **creation** as it was created and remains. **You** only think that **you** **have** changed the unchangeable. _C:16.18.1-2_

~ judgment does not make **you** safe. _C:16.19.1_

~ judgment proceeds from the **belief** in sin and the irreversibility of **all** errors. If **you** do not believe **you** can reverse or "turn back" to the **state** in which **you** existed before the original **error** , then **you** never shall. _C:17.12.2-3_

~ judgment is but the **belief** that what **God** created can be changed, and has been. _C:17.15.4_

~ **you** would not be other than **you** are except when **you** give in to making judgments. _C:20.41.7_

~ when your **heart** can feel, **you** need no judgment to tell **you** the **difference** between one thing and another. _C:21.3.9_

**Treatises**

~ there can be no judgment carried forward with **you** and when **you** continue to believe in a process of **evolution** that has made **you** better than those who came before, **you** are carrying judgment. While **you** continue to believe that **being** **chosen** **means** that some are not **chosen** , **you** are carrying judgment. While **you** continue to believe that a **final** judgment **will** **separate** the good from the **evil** , **you** are carrying judgment. _T4:2.8.4-6_

~ those of **you** familiar with the Bible, upon hearing words such as the end of **time** or the **fullness** of **time** , think of the predictions of the biblical end of **time**. **I** speak of this because it is in your **awareness** and because many **false** interpretations of this **time** as a **time** of judgment and of separating the **chosen** people from **all** **others** abound. **All** are **chosen**. **All** are **chosen** with **love** and without judgment. _T4:2.9.1-4_

~ **all** judgment is the cause of **fear** and this **effort** to weigh love's strength against fear's veracity. _T4:3.7.3_

~ **christ-consciousness** **will** be temporary or sustainable depending on your **ability** to refrain from judgment. What is flows from **Love** and knows not judgment. **All** that **you** **envision** , imagine, **desire** with **love** must be without judgment or it **will** be **false** envisioning, **false** imagining, **false** **desire**. This simply **means** **false** , or not consistent with the **truth**. It does not mean wrong or bad and is itself no cause for judgment. It is simply an **alternative** that **will** draw **you** out of **Christ-consciousness** and not allow it to be sustainable. _T4:7.1.1-6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ judgment has been left behind and with it the need for opinions and for " **thinking** " about "how to" react. _D:Day8.29.4_

**JUSTICE**

| ˈjəstəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** believe **judgment** to be based on justice, and justice to include the punishment of those **you** **have** defined as **evil**. **You** **have** thus made justice one with **vengeance** , and in doing so **have** robbed justice of its **meaning**. _C:16.19.2-3_

**KEEP**

| kēp |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** think the **desire** to keep things for yourself stems from something other than **fear**. **You** might **call** this **desire** pride or security, or even accept that it is vanity, before **you** would **call** it **fear**. But **fear** is what it is. _C:14.15.4-5_

**KINGDOM**

| ˈkiNGdəm |

**Treatises**

~ the Kingdom of **God** is the **House** of **Truth**. Or better said, the **House** of **Truth** has been called the Kingdom of **God**. _T3:8.1.1-2_

**Dialogues**

~ the Kingdom that has already been prepared and so **needs** no preparation. _D:1.6.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what many forgot, after the passing of the **first** of my disciples, was that they had **access** to this **treasure**. They still knew that it existed, but since they knew not how to **access** it, they called it the Kingdom of **Heaven** and longed for **access** to it after **death**. _D:Day4.24.1-2_

**KNOW**

| nō |

**A Course of Love**

~ there is an underlying assumption that **you** **know** **all** that is good for **you** to **know** , and that to **know** **more** is going to mean that things **you** would rather not **know** , and therefore must be bad, are what **will** be revealed. _C:17.5.1_

~ when **I** beseeched my **Father** , saying, "They know not what they do," **I** was expressing the **nature** of my brothers and sisters as caused by **fear**. To accept your **power** and your **God** -given authority is to know what **you** do. Let the **fear** be taken from this area of your **thought** so that **you** can **see** the application of cooperative **action**. As long as **you** **fear** your own **ability** to know what **you** do, **you** cannot be fully cooperative. _C:20.32.2-5_

~ **you** **have** not known what **you** do or what to do only because of **fear** , only because **you** **have** been out of accord with the one **heartbeat**. _C:20.34.2_

~ knowing what **you** do comes from existing **within** the **embrace**. **You** know **you** do the **will** of **God** because **you** are at one with that **will**. _C:20.35.5-6_

~ knowing what **you** do is a **present** moment knowing. It is not about plans. It is about moment-by-moment knowing exactly who **you** are and acting out of that loving **identity** , and it is about knowing that as **you** do so **you** are in accord and enjoying the full **cooperation** of the entire **universe**. _C:20.37.1-3_

~ this knowing **you** might **call** **wisdom** and think of as an attainable ideal of **thought**. Yet it is not about **thought** at **all** , but is beyond **thought**. It is not **wisdom** but the **truth**. _C:20.48.6-8_

~ it is in coming to know through **relationship** that **you** come to know your **Self**. _C:27.3.3_

~ **relationship** is the only "known" in an unknowable **world**. **We** **have** already stated that the only **being** who is not beyond the limits of total knowing is the **Self**. Thus it is in knowing the **Self** that **all** is known. _C:27.6.1-3_

~ a simple knowing of a **way** things are meant to be. It is a knowing felt **within** the **heart** for which there still **will** be no proof, but for which there **will** be the **certainty** **you** heretofore **have** lacked. The typical fears **you** **have** experienced in the **past** **will** not arise **within** this knowing. _C:27.19.3-5_

~ because inner knowing is both **individual** and collective, both personal and **universal** , this is the **source** of **all** proof. _C:28.3.1_

~ there is a **trust** that goes beyond proof, and beyond the need for any witnessing at **all**. This is the **trust** of knowing. Knowing is of the **heart** , and holds a consistency and **certainty** that the dawn of **innocence** does not contain. _C:28.5.1-3_

~ **you** can know without knowing what to do, and that this is not a **mistake**. Many reach this **stage** and, not knowing what to do with what they know, begin to **doubt** their knowing. This is a human **response** to a knowing that is not human in origin. Knowing is alien to **you** , and that is why **you** **seek** validation. _C:28.10.4-7_

~ knowing **Self** is knowing **all** , but this **you** do not as yet **understand**. _C:30.5.3_

**Treatises**

~ just as **needs** **have** been shown to be shared in like measure by **all** , so too is true knowing. Just as **needs** were shown to be distinguishable from wants by a discussion of their shared **nature** , so too now must knowing be distinguished from what **you** consider intelligence. _T2:10.6.1-2_

~ **you** can no longer believe that what **you** know is related to **experience** , **you** are not **being** told that **you** **have** exactly the same **knowledge** as does every person of every variety and **level** of **experience**. Yet no one can know **more** of the **truth** than another, and no one can know **less**. _T2:10.7.1-2_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** do know, and **you** **will** know, as soon as the patterns of **old** **have** been denied. _D:2.3.3_

~ what comes to **you** in the **form** of natural abilities or talents, as ideas, as **imagination** , as **inspiration** , instinct, **intuition** , as **vision** , or as **calling** , are ways of knowing that come to **you** , and through **you** , outside of the **pattern** of learning. _D:10.1.2_

~ to know is to know. To know is to be certain. _D:12.17.1-2_

~ **desire** to proclaim what **you** know **will** grow in **you** , and while **you** **will** not be "wrong" in what **you** know, **you** may **have** difficulty in understanding exactly what it is **you** **have** discovered; and **you** may **have** difficulty in the **expression** of what **you** know, especially as what **you** know grows beyond the realm of **mind** and **body** , **form** and **time**. _D:13.1.3_

~ what is known to **you** in an instant through the **new** **means** available to **you** **within** the **state** of unity **will** still seem, at times, to need to be learned anew in daily **living**. This is knowing that **will** often come in a flash, and is, in a sense, a humorous metaphor for the **idea** of a divine "ray" of **light** descending and granting enlightenment. _D:13.4.1-2_

~ the knowing that **will** be coming to **you** **will** be given in a **state** of **wholeness**. _D:13.5.2_

~ **you** are perfectly capable of coming to know in **wholeness** , a **way** that is actually natural to **you**. _D:13.5.4_

~ the coming to know of the **state** of unity is a shared coming to know, a coming to know in **relationship**. _D:13.8.5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ knowing through **discovery** is knowing what was not known before, and **keep** this in **mind** as **we** consider the knowing of **abundance**. _D:Day3.38.2_

~ the knowing of unity is available to **you**. _D:Day3.40.1_

~ to "know" before **you** act is wise. _D:Day10.14.3_

~ what **you** expel is what **you** do not **want** to know. What **you** try to **control** is what **you** do not **want** to know. **You** do not **want** to know every **time** **you** predetermine, in advance of knowing, what something is or **will** be. _D:Day16.11.2-4_

~ coming to know is not an aspect of the **mind** **alone**. It is not an aspect of the **spirit** **alone**. Coming to know is a quality of inner-sight, of wholehearted **human experience** combined with spiritual **experience**. _D:Day27.6.1-3_

~ two or **more** are needed in order for knowing to occur. _D:Day30.4.3_

~ do not **expect** answers, only knowing. _D:Day39.45.4_

**KNOWLEDGE**

| ˈnäləj |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** knowledge is generalizable. _C:1.2.1_

~ in your knowledge of your **Self** , **all** threat of **time** and **space** and place dissolves. _C:4.6.2_

~ **you** both **desire** and **fear** knowing yourself. _C:17.4.4_

~ the **unknown** is benevolent. _C:17.8.1_

~ knowledge is **light** , and the only **light** in which **you** can truly **see**. _C:19.24.2_

**LACK**

| lak |

**A Course of Love**

~ when **you** **become** aware that **you** **want** something, **you** are also becoming aware that **you** feel **you** lack something. **All** feelings of lack are synonymous with feelings of **fear**. _C:25.5.5-6_

~ when **you** feel a lack of **love** in **others** , **you** **have** projected your **fear** onto them. _C:25.6.1_

**LANGUAGE**

| ˈlaNGɡwij |

**Dialogues**

~ now **we** **will** adjust our language somewhat to represent the **new**. _D:7.2.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ while language cannot be completely stripped of usages such as these, and while some **use** of similar terms, like our **use** of the term elevated, are still necessary, it is only in your understanding that our **use** of these terms is not a cause for predetermination that **we** can proceed. _D:Day9.20.1_

**LANGUAGE OF THE HEART**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ it is a **language** spoken so quietly and with such gentleness that those who cannot come to stillness **know** it not. The **language** of your **heart** is the **language** of **communion**. _C:8.2.3-4_

~ your **heart** **will** aid **you** in replacing **thinking** with remembering. In this **way** , remembering can be experienced as the language of the heart. _C:8.3.4-5_

~ there has been a **division** between the **language** of your **mind** and **heart**. Your **mind** insists on **thinking** and learning in a certain **way** , a **way** contrary to the **language** of your **heart** , and so, like two people from **different** countries speaking **different** languages, there has been little communication and much misunderstanding. _C:21.5.1-2_

**LAW**

| lô |

**A Course of Love**

~ there are no losers and no winners under God's **law**. Not one is given **more** than another. **God** cannot **love** **you** **more** than your neighbor, nor can **you** earn **more** of God's **love** than **you** **have** , or a better place in **Heaven**. _C:4.10.1-3_

~ **you** are asked rather to give up the laws of chaos for the laws of **reason**. The laws of **illusion** for the laws of **truth**. _C:14.8.3-4_

~ the laws of **fear** were laws of **struggle** , limits, danger, and competitiveness. _C:20.31.5_

~ **you** set the laws of the **universe** when **you** chose **fear**. The laws of the **universe** of **love** are **God** -given. _C:20.31.8-9_

~ the laws of unity are God's laws and are simple indeed: **giving** and receiving are one. And thus **giving** and receiving as one is the only **way** in which God's laws are fulfilled. Since God's laws are the laws that rule the **universe** , they cannot go unfulfilled. **Giving** and receiving are thus one in **truth**. God's laws are generalizable and do not **change** , and thus the **laws of man** **have** not usurped the laws of **God**. It is only in your **perception** that the **laws of man** take precedence over the laws of **God**. _C:30.14.1-6_

**LAWS OF LOVE**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ the laws of love are not rules, facts, or right answers. The laws of love bring **spiritual freedom**. _C:I.5.4-5_

~ while **love** cannot be learned nor practiced, there is a **practice** **we** must do in order to **recognize** love's presence. **We** **practice** **living** by the **law** of **love** , a **law** of **gain** not **loss** , a **law** that says the **more** **you** give the **more** **you** **gain**. _C:4.9.3-4_

~ The **laws of love** are laws of **peace** , **abundance** , **safety** , and **cooperation**. _C:20.31.5-6_

~ the laws of **God** are **laws of Love**. **Within** the **laws of love** there is no loss, but only **gain**. _C:30.12.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ it is only **you** who can **recognize** and invite the higher order or subject yourself to its conditions. It is only your **attention** to the existence of this higher order that **will** reveal its laws to **you**. These are the laws of **God** or the laws of love. _T1:2.10.4-6_

~ the laws of **God** or the laws of love can be summarized by the simple statement of **giving** and receiving **being** one in **truth**. _T1:2.11.1_

~ there is no **loss** but only **gain** **within** the laws of love. _T3:15.5.3_ _;_ _T3:16.11.1_

~ by saying that there is no **loss** but only **gain** **within** the laws of love, **you** are **being** told to **have** no **fear**. _T3:16.12.1_

**LAWS OF MAN**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ subjugation to the **ego** - **mind** is what led to the **ego** - **mind** **being** able to develop the "laws of man." These laws of man are the laws of the body's survival. _T1:4.8.3-4_

~ **you** **have** believed in the laws of man, laws that were made to perpetuate the **idea** that **you** must pay for **everything** , or earn **everything** that **you** would care to make your own, and then that **you** must protect what **you** **have** against those who would take it away. _T3:13.5.4_

**LEARN**

| lərn |

**A Course of Love**

~ the **ego** cannot learn and the **spirit** does not need to. _C:P.3.4_

~ the only **way** that **you** can fail to learn the **truth** is to demand to learn it on **you** own. For on your own it is impossible to learn. _C:1.9.14-15_

~ it is impossible to learn anything on your own. Your determination to do so only blocks your learning. _C:1.10.10-11_

~ do not believe that **all** that **you** **have** learned **will** not do what it was given **you** to do. Do not believe in your failure or the ego's **success**. **All** **you** **have** learned is still with **you** regardless of your **perception** of the outcome of your learning. Your **perception** of an outcome **within** your **control** is **all** that **needs** to **change**. **Remember** that cause and **effect** are one. What **you** **want** to learn **you** cannot fail to learn. _C:2.21.1-6_

~ just as true **knowledge** cannot be learned, **love** cannot be learned and **you** cannot be learned. **All** that **you** **desire** and cannot learn is already **accomplished**. It is **accomplished** in **you**. It is **you**. _C:3.2.1-4_

~ what has this meant for learning that is not of this **world**? It **means** that **you** filter it through the same lens. **You** think of it in the same **way**. **You** **seek** to gather it together so that it **will** provide an improvement to what has been before. **You** look for evidence that shows that if **you** behave in a certain **way** certain things **will** happen as a result. Like a child learning not to touch a stove because it is hot and a burn **will** result, or learning that a warm blanket is comforting, **you** subject it to a thousand tests dependent on your senses and your **judgment**. While **you** believe **you** **know** what **will** hurt **you** and what **you** **will** find comforting, **you** subject what cannot be compared to the comparable. _C:3.11.1-7_

~ think not that your **mind** as **you** conceive of it learns without **comparison**. **Everything** is true or **false** , right or wrong, black or white, hot or cold, based solely on **contrast**. One chemical reacts one **way** and one reacts another, and it is only in the **study** of the two that **you** believe learning takes place. _C:3.12.1-3_

~ **you** **have** not given up the **idea** that **you** are in **control** of what **you** learn, nor **have** **you** accepted that **you** can learn in a **way** that **you** **have** not learned before. Thus **we** move from head to **heart** to take advantage of your concepts of the **heart** , concepts much **more** in line with learning that is not of this **world**. _C:3.13.1-2_

~ as **you** learn that what **you** give **you** **will** **receive** in **truth** , **you** **will** **see** that what abides **within** your **heart** is **all** that is worthy of your **giving** and **all** **you** would **receive**. _C:7.8.4_

~ as a learning **being** , the **idea** of levels is helpful to **you** and **will** aid **you** in seeing that **you** progress from one step, or one **level** of learning, to another. This is **more** a process of remembering than learning, and this **you** **will** **understand** as **memory** begins to return to **you**. _C:8.3.2-3_

~ what **God** would **have** me **teach** , **you** cannot fail to learn, but neither can **you** learn of it in parts. _C:10.3.7_

~ if your " **source** " were truly your **body** and the brain that causes it to **function** , then **you** would indeed be required to learn things on your own, for **all** true learning must come from your **Source**. _C:11.1.8_

~ to feel **you** **have** achieved **success** in learning what **love** is **all** about is as ridiculous as **feeling** as if **you** **have** failed to learn what **love** is. Neither can happen. And your **perception** that either can **will** shut out **all** ideas of **union**. _C:11.4.6-8_

~ before the **idea** of **separation** , there was no need for learning. _C:18.6.4_

~ as soon as the need for learning arose, the perfect **means** to fulfill that need was established. **You** **have** simply failed to **see** it as such. _C:18.6.6-7_

~ learning from unity requires an integrated **mind** and **heart** , or **wholeheartedness**. A half-hearted approach to this learning **will** not **work** , nor **will** the **attention** of a split **mind**. It cannot be emphasized strongly enough that **you** learn what **you** choose to learn. _C:18.9.1-3_

~ in order for your **experience** base to **change** from that of learning in **separation** to that of learning in unity, learning from what unity can **teach** **you** must be birthed as an **idea**. _C:18.13.1_

~ as **you** learned your beliefs, **you** must unlearn your beliefs. As **you** begin the process of unlearning **you** may feel tested. **You** are not **being** tested but given opportunities for unlearning. To learn that a previously held **belief** is no longer valid is the only **way** to truly purge that **belief**. _C:23.23.2-5_

~ these learning opportunities **call** for a period of engagement with **life**. Many of **you** **will** **have** begun to **experience** unlearning opportunities even while your **study** of this Course may **have** led **you** to turn inward and attempt to disengage from **life**. A period of engagement with **life** cannot be avoided, however, and your attempts to avoid it **will** only cause an increase in feelings generated by experiences of **duality**. While **you** hold conflicting beliefs **within** **you** , **you** **will** be conflicted and affected by polarity. Unlearning allows **you** to purge **old** beliefs so that only one set of beliefs is operative **within** **you**. This is the only route to the **certainty** **you** **seek** , and leads to true **conviction**. True **conviction** cannot be attained without this **experience** of unlearning and purging. _C:23.24.1-7_

~ **all** unlearning opportunities are opportunities for **miracle** readiness. There is no trick to identifying unlearning opportunities. From this point forward, **I** assure **you** , **all** experiences **will** be thus until unlearning is no longer needed. If **you** **will** **remember** that the one **exercise** for your **mind** is dedicating **all** **thought** to **union** , **you** **will** **keep** your **mind** engaged and **less** resistant to unlearning. When **you** feel resistance—and of course your **mind** **will** resist unlearning what it has striven to learn—return your dedication to **union**. Acknowledge your mind's resistance as a sign that unlearning is going on. Acknowledge it but do not engage it. _C:23.25.1-7_

~ if **you** do not **remember** that **you** are involved in a process of unlearning that **will** lead to the **conviction** **you** **have** so long sought, **you** **will** indeed feel tested and **will** try to take **control** of the learning **situation**. Not taking **control** , however, is the key to unlearning. What **you** term as **being** in **control** is simply another **way** of saying acting on **old** beliefs. As long as **you** attempt to **remain** in **control** , **old** beliefs **will** not be purged. _C:23.26.2-5_

~ attempting to exert **control** over learning situations is a reflection of **belief** that **you** **have** nothing to learn. An attitude of openness is required for unlearning and **new** learning both. **Control** opposes openness. Mastery comes through the process of both unlearning and learning anew. This is but another **way** of stating that which was stated in **A Course in Miracles** : Resign as your own **teacher**. The **desire** to **control** is the **desire** to **remain** your own **teacher** and/or to choose your teachers and learning situations. Neither can occur if **you** would truly choose to **change** your beliefs and move on to the **new** or the **truth**. _C:23.27.1-7_

~ in the process of unlearning, both **forgiveness** and **atonement** occur. **You** **recognize** that your **false** beliefs were the result of faulty learning. As unlearning is replaced by **new** learning, **judgment** falls away as your **innocence** is established. _C:23.28.4-6_

~ unlearning has no harshness about it. If **you** simply allow it to come, it **will** **reward** **you** constantly with what can best be described as tenderness. _C:24.1.8-9_

~ **all** learning is seen as preparation for the **future** , or for some eventual outcome, rather than for your **being**. **You** attempt to learn for something other than your **Self** , for some **purpose** other than your **Self**. _C:30.2.7-8_

~ when **you** learn in order to contribute something to your **work** and your **world** , **you** bypass your **Self**. _C:30.2.10_

~ your learning must take on a **new** **focus**. Be like the little children, and inhale the **world** around **you** in order to make it part of your **Self**. Be like the little children, and learn in order to **claim** your learning for your **Self**. Learn who **you** are through **each** **experience** rather than learning in order to find out who **you** are or what your **contribution** **will** eventually be. _C:30.3.1-4_

~ what **you** **have** learned in **truth** resides in your **mind** as a part of **you**. What **you** **have** not yet learned from awaits your learning — or in other words, awaits the transfer of your feelings and **experience** to **truth** , and thus to your **mind**. _C:31.26.2-3_

**Treatises**

~ that your learning does not feel complete is the result of forgetfulness, which is the **opposite** of **mindfulness**. Your further learning then is learning based on **mindfulness** or remembering. _T1:1.3.4-5_

~ **i** **have** said a **new** **way** of learning is needed and is **here**. To continue to rely on the ways of **old** , no **matter** how effective they were and no **matter** how much they spoke the **truth** **will** be to not learn the **new**. _T1:7.4.4-5_

~ **you** **have** advanced, taken steps, climbed to a **new** **level** , and acquired an **ability** to perceive differently, in order to make this **new** learning possible. If **you** do not let what **you** **have** attained serve **you** , **you** **will** not realize what this **new** learning has been for. **You** may reach an ideal of human satisfaction and **happiness** , but **you** **will** not go beyond what is human. _T1:7.5.1-3_

~ no moment of true learning ever arrived without the **Peace** of **God** for without the **Peace** of **God** no true learning is possible. _T1:10.10.3_

~ learning and **accomplishment** are not linear as **you** **have** perceived them to be. _T2:3.7.1_

~ the **Christ** in **you** is the learner **here**. _T2:10.10.1_

~ learner in **you** is the **all** -powerful. _T2:10.10.2_

~ the learner in **you** is the unifying force of the **universe**. The learning **you** are in need of is the learning that **will** **call** who **you** are back to your united **mind** and **heart**. _T2:10.10.3-4_

~ learning simply **means** to come to **know**. If what **you** **know** has been forgotten, **you** still are in need of the learning that assists **you** in coming to **know** once again. _T2:10.11.2-3_

~ but as long as **you** continue to attempt to learn with your **ego** , or in other words, as long as **you** would continue to attempt to learn in the same **way** that **you** **have** previously learned, **you** **will** not learn because the " **you** " that **will** be involved in the learning process **will** not be the **real** **you**. _T2:10.12.1_

~ while many **love** to learn for the sake of learning **alone** , still they would be loath to give up or let go the **ability** to choose their lessons. And still **we** are only talking about learning as **you** **have** perceived of it rather than learning from **life**. _T2:10.16.2-3_

~ learning thus must complement your **new** beliefs, the ultimate **goal** of this learning **being** the end of the need for beliefs at **all**. _T2:11.8.2_

~ this learning, then, must be seen for what it is. It is the holiest of **work** and the final evidence of **means** and end **being** the same. Your **devotion** to this learning must now be complete, your **willingness** total, your **way** of learning that of a **mind** and **heart** joined in **wholeheartedness**. _T2:11.9.1-3_

~ **you** **will** not need to learn a foreign **language** to dwell in this **new** **house** , but **you** **will** need to learn what **will** at **first** seem to **you** a foreign **thought system**. _T3:10.12.2_

~ **you** **have** unlearned many of these lessons and need not repeat unlearning that has been **accomplished**. The **new** learning that lies ahead of **you** now is simply learning in accordance with the **new** **thought system** of the **truth** ; accepting the **truth** and leaving **illusion** behind. _T3:13.4.3-4_

~ learning was needed in order to return **you** to your **Self**. Despite whatever method **you** feel **you** used to learn what **you** **have** learned, what this Course did was bypass the **way** of learning of the **ego** and **call** upon the **Christ** in **you** to learn anew. That learning put an end to the **old**. _T3:15.13.3-5_

~ learning can take place at a slow pace or a fast pace. There is no **more** or **less** to learning in terms of knowing the **truth** that **you** **have** always known, but there are degrees of remembering and since this is what **we** **work** to **have** occur, **time** can **become** our ally by using it for effectiveness. _T3:20.2.2-3_

~ what **you** **strive** for in effectiveness is your own learning. Now, rather than learning the **truth** , **you** are learning how to live by the **truth**. This **will** **benefit** **you** and in so doing **benefit** **all** **others**. _T3:20.3.2-4_

~ this is how thorough your learning must be. It is a learning that must not **change** to fit the circumstances of **illusion** but be unchanging to fit the circumstances of the **truth**. _T3:20.11.5-6_

~ **all** **means** are for one end. **All** **will** learn the same **content** , for **all** are **chosen** ; and **all** learning, no **matter** what the **means** , **will** eventually lead them to the **truth** of who they are. _T4:1.10.4-5_

~ it is the **truth** that **you** **have** now learned **all** that can be learned from this **state** of **consciousness** and that **you** **have** given your **willingness** to learn in a **new** **way**. The **new** **way** is **here**. If **you** are now to learn directly, **you** are also now to **share** directly. This is the **way** of learning in **relationship**. _T4:1.21.1-4_

~ **all** across the **world** , people of the **world** **have** been demanding to learn directly, through **experience** , and saying "no **more** " to the lessons of the intermediaries. What has grown in **you** has grown in your children and they are not only ready, but also demanding to learn through **observation** and direct communication or **experience**. _T4:1.24.1-2_

~ learning to **see** anew is the precursor of learning to **create** anew. _T4:2.33.4_

~ the **mind** , once released from the ego's **thought system** , has but to relearn the **thought system** of the **truth**. Your **mind** , **heart** , and **body** **have** joined in alignment to bring this learning about. _T4:7.6.1-2_

~ an end to your learning is in sight. **Christ-consciousness** and the **ability** to **know** what is, once it has reached a **state** of sustainability in **you** , ends your need for learning and thus ends the conditions of learning. _T4:7.7.2-3_

~ the conditions are perfect for optimal learning. This is the **nature** of the **universe**. These conditions are perfect not only for **individual** learning, but for shared learning, learning in community and learning as a species. _T4:7.7.7-9_

~ but let me again emphasize that the conditions of learning **will** be no longer needed once learning has occurred. The **student** no longer **needs** to attend school once the desired **curriculum** is learned, except through their own **choice**. Again let me remind **you** that no **choice** is wrong. Some **will** choose to continue to learn through the full variety of the **human experience** even after it is unnecessary. Why? Because it is a **choice** , pure and simple. But because it is an educated **choice** , an enlightened **choice** , a free **choice** due to the learning that has already occurred, the **choice** **will** be one guided by **love** and thus be a joyous **choice** and ensure a joyous **life**. These choices **will** **change** the **world**. _T4:7.8.1-8_

~ but the **choice** many of **you** **will** make—the **choice** to move from learning to creating— **will** **create** a **new** **world**. _T4:7.9.1_

~ learning is not meant to last. This is why even this coursework comes to an end. It comes to an end **here** and now as **we** move **past** **study** and learning to **observation** , **vision** , and **revelation**. _T4:9.1.1-3_

~ **all** **groups** who **study** this coursework must also eventually come to an end. For this end to learning is the **goal** toward which **we** now **work**. _T4:9.2.1-2_

~ **all** of your learning and studying has taken **you** as far as **you** can go. _T4:9.3.1_

~ now the **time** is upon **you** to leave learned works behind in favor of **observation** , **vision** and **revelation**. Now is the **time** to leave behind **study** for imagining, envisioning, and **desire**. _T4:9.4.1-2_

~ **you** **have** realized that your learning has reached an end point. The excitement of **new** learning is not lasting because it is not **new**. _T4:9.5.2-3_

~ **all** the learning that **you** **have** done seems to leave **you** ready to **change** and able to **change** in certain ways that make **life** easier or **more** peaceful, but certainly not able to realize the **transformation** that your learning has seemed to promise. _T4:9.5.6_

~ the **self** -centeredness of the final **stage** of your learning has been necessary. _T4:9.7.1_

~ be appreciative of every tool that has advanced your progress. But now be willing to leave them behind. _T4:9.7.7-8_

~ **you** who **have** gained so much through your learning and your **study** and your sharing of the same may find it **difficult** to leave it behind. A **choice** made by **you** to stay with learning rather than to move beyond it would be an understandable **choice** , but **you** are needed now. _T4:9.9.2-3_

~ **you** were once comfortable **being** your own **teacher**. **You** willingly gave up this role and became comfortable in the true role of learner. **You** are now asked to be willing to give up the role of learner. _T4:10.1.2-4_

~ in keeping with your **new** **self** -centered **focus** on what **life** has had to **teach** **you** , **you** **have** also seen your relationships as teachers. It is **here** that **you** can begin to learn to let go of learning because it is **here** that learning has been least practiced through the **means** of studying. _T4:10.4.1-2_

~ the learning that was applied to anything other than the **Self** could not **help** but **have** an outcome that had to do with other than the **Self**. _T4:10.8.1_

~ applied learning produced things and perceived **meaning**. _T4:10.8.3_

~ the learning **you** **have** **accomplished** in regards to your **Self** could not **help** but **have** an outcome that had to do with your **Self**. _T4:10.9.1_

~ this **accomplished** learning produced unity and **relationship** through unity and **relationship** with the **Self**. _T4:10.9.3_

~ the **first** **accomplishment** of your learning about your **Self** was the return of unity and **relationship** to your **mind** and **heart**. This returned to **you** your **ability** to **recognize** or identify your **Self** as other than a **separate** **being** , and led the **way** to your recognition of the **state** of **union**. _T4:10.10.1-2_

~ learning has had to do with what is perceived. No longer learning has to do with what is revealed. Learning has had to do with what is **unknown**. No longer learning has to do with what is and can only be known through **revelation**. Learning has had to do with supplying a **lack**. No longer learning has to do with the **realization** that there is no **lack**. Learning was what was necessary in order to allow **you** to fulfill the desired **experience** of expressing the **Self** of **love** in **form**. No longer learning is the **revelation** that the **time** of **accomplishment** is upon **you** and the **expression** of the **Self** of **love** in **form** is what **you** are now ready to do. Learning was what was necessary in order to **know** who **you** are and how to express who **you** are. No longer learning, or **being** **accomplished** , is synonymous with knowing who **you** are and the **ability** to express who **you** are in **truth**. _T4:10.11.1-10_

~ some **will** not be willing to move out of the **time** of learning. Those who **have** learned what this Course would **teach** but do not move beyond the **state** of learning **will** **change** the **world**. They **will** make the **world** a better place and **see** many of their students advance beyond what they can **teach** and to the **state** of leaving learning behind. _T4:10.13.1-3_

~ **you** can learn about who **you** were and who **others** were, but **you** cannot learn anymore who **you** are or who those are who **have** joined **you** in **Christ-consciousness**. _T4:10.14.5_

~ **all** **you** must **remember** now is that the **time** of learning is **past**. While **you** are still encountering concerns and questions, **you** **will** be prone to continue to think of yourself as a learning **being**. _T4:12.10.1-2_

~ considering yourself thus is simply a condition of the **old** for which **you** **will** need to be vigilant. **You** **will** be again surprised, however, to find what an enormous **difference** the **release** of this **idea** **will** make in your capacity to express who **you** are. As long as **you** continue to invite learning, **you** **will** continue to invite the conditions of learning. These are the conditions **you** **have** experienced throughout your lifetime and **have** expressed a **willingness** to leave behind. Only **you** can leave these conditions behind. The only **way** to do so is to, for a short while, be vigilant of your **thought** patterns so that **you** eradicate the **idea** of learning in **separation** and replace it with the **idea** of sharing in unity. Learning is a condition of the separated **self** , which is why it is no longer needed. **You** **will** not fully realize unity while **you** continue to hang on to this condition of the **separation**. _T4:12.10.4-11_

~ another thing that **you** **will** **want** to be vigilant of, dear brothers and sisters, is the learned **wisdom** of the **past**. _T4:12.11.1_

~ the **self** -centeredness of the final **stage** of learning is over. _T4:12.20.9_

~ what **you** cannot learn **you** can **remember**. What **you** cannot learn **will** simply be known through sharing. _T4:12.26.5-6_

**Dialogues**

~ learning was the **means** of the separated self's return to unity. _D:1.17.1_

~ further learning is not what **will** complete the **transformation** of the **personal self** to the elevated **Self**. Learning **will** not sustain **Christ-consciousness**. _D:1.17.6-7_

~ **you** who **have** joined **mind** and **heart** in unity **have** returned to a natural **state** of knowing in which learning is no longer needed. **You** **have** now come upon a **curriculum** that is impossible to learn. No **teacher** is available for none is needed. And yet many of **you** still feel what **you** would describe as a need for continued learning and a continuing **relationship** with a **teacher** who **will** **guide** **you** through the application of what **you** **have** learned. _D:1.22.1-4_

~ learning accepts that there are those **separate** from **you** who **know** things that **you** **know** not. This is not the case. When **you** fully accept this, **you** **will** **see** that it is true. Like the **acceptance** of unity that could not be taught, but was the condition for learning, **acceptance** of your true **identity** cannot be taught but is the condition necessary for **being** who **you** are and the **realization** that learning is no longer necessary. _D:1.26.1-4_

~ the **pattern** of learning was a **pattern** of **divine design** , created in unity and **cooperation** to enable the return to unity. This **pattern** has achieved its desired end and so is no longer needed nor appropriate. While it was once a **pattern** whose design was perfect for the desired end, continuation of this **pattern** **will** but interfere with your full **acceptance** of who **you** are in **truth**. _D:2.4.2-4_

~ to continue to feel a need to learn rather than realizing that the **time** of learning has come to an end, would be to not realize completion. _D:2.5.4_

~ in regard to the learning that **you** **have** now completed, learning that has revealed the true **nature** of who **you** are, your inability to realize your completion and **claim** your **new** **identity** cannot be seen as acceptable or appropriate. _D:2.6.2_

~ if **you** do not realize that **you** **have** learned **all** that **you** need to learn, **you** **will** retain the **consciousness** of the separated **self** rather than sustaining **Christ-consciousness**. _D:2.8.1_

~ **all** patterns **have** had to do with learning because **you** were, as a separated **self** , a **being** whose only **function** was learning. The **function** of **all** learning was to return **you** to your true **identity**. _D:2.15.1-2_

~ while **you** think of yourself as a learning **being** **you** **will** still be looking to something or someone "other" than your **Self** rather than seeking the **awareness** that exists **within**. _D:3.17.3_

~ what was learned in the instant in which **you** came to **know** your **Self** is **all** that learning was for. Let us not dwell any longer on why this has taken so long or on the **suffering** that occurred during the **time** of learning. _D:4.18.4-5_

~ in the **time** of learning, **you** were so entrenched in your **false** beliefs that their **insanity** needed to be stated and stated again. But as **we** enter this **new** **time** of elevated **form** , these same ideas—ideas that many of **you** attached to **form** rather than to your **perception** of **form** —must be rejected. _D:6.2.5-6_

~ learning always has as its **goal** leading the learner beyond learning. _D:9.10.3_

~ learning is about the transfer of **knowledge** that was gained in the **time** of learning, through the process of learning. Notice the inability of teaching or learning to **call** forth talents, ideas, **imagination** , **inspiration** , instinct, **intuition** , **vision** , or **calling**. **You** may believe that teaching and learning appropriately **work** with and enable the **use** of abilities such as these, but **you** also **know** that these **means** are limited in what they can do and that they can hinder as well as enhance the creative **expression** of these **givens**. _D:10.2.1-3_

~ learning is incremental and **discovery** is not. Learning took place in parts in an **effort** to lead to **wholeness**. _D:14.10.5-6_

~ **you** **have** left behind the conditions of learning. Why? Because they are no longer needed. The **time** of learning has ended. _D:15.21.2-5_

~ learning does not occur in unity. _D:7.2.4_

~ between the Course and the Treatises, **all** of what **you** needed to learn was put forth. _D:8.8.3_

~ what was learned was only able to be learned because **you** chose to **become** the wholehearted. _D:8.8.5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ learning was not a **choice** but only the **way** **you** knew **life** to be. While the **freedom** of childhood learning might be seen as the **way** learning was meant to be, the **time** of this pure learning has grown shorter and shorter while the **time** of enforced learning has grown **more** entrenched. _D:Day3.2.5-6_

~ the **mind** and **body** were both conditioned to **have** learning thrust upon them. **You** long ago quit resisting most of this learning and "accepted" it as the **way** things are. This kind of **acceptance** is what **we** are reversing with a **new** **acceptance**. _D:Day3.3.3-5_

~ **you** , who as both individuals and as a species, **have** been conditioned by thousands of years of learning through the **mind** —learning in often painful ways—said "no" to learning through the **heart**. _D:Day3.4.2_

~ the **mind** would tell **you** that nothing is "given," and that **all** must be either learned or earned, most times both, for **you** **have** learned in order to earn, learned in order to advance yourself in the **world** in one **way** or another. _D:Day3.11.2_

~ this is the basic fallacy that the **time** of learning supported. The **idea** of "if this, then that." The **idea** of **abundance** earned. The **idea** of nothing **being** truly free. Not **you** , and not your gifts. **Everything** coming with a price. **Abundance** comes, even to those gifted, only through the exploitation of gifts. **Abundance** remains, even to those born with it, only through the exploitation of **others**. Only through some having **less** do some **have** **more**. _D:Day3.13.1-9_

~ **you** **have** learned that nothing is "given," for what **use** would **you** **have** of learning if such were not the case? _D:Day3.25.1_

~ **we** **have** begun to **use** examples of what **you** did not learn in order to **demonstrate** that what **you** learned is not true. What **you** learned is insane. _D:Day3.25.2-3_

~ beyond learning is where **we** now stand. **We** now stand at the place of the **rejection** of learning—the **rejection** of **all** **you** learned. _D:Day3.26.3-4_

~ learning is no longer the **way** for good **reason**. It exemplifies the **difference** between information and **wisdom** , between finding an **answer** and finding a **way** or **path**. _D:Day3.36.1-2_

~ learning has not been a **choice**. Both as **divine design** and as a **pattern** of the **thought system** of the **ego** , learning has been with **you** and **within** **you**. Although the **divine design** of the **time** of learning is **being** recreated, the ceaseless **pattern** of learning remains. _D:Day4.5.1-3_

~ the **divine design** of learning was a given and a natural part of **you** , much like breathing. _D:Day4.6.1_

~ learning was not meant to be linked with **thinking**. _D:Day4.7.1_

~ learning begins long before the onset of the **time** of **language** that constitutes your ideas about what it **means** to think. _D:Day4.7.3_

~ despite the **creation** story that symbolizes man's **journey** , early man was not a **being** who learned in the same **way** that **you** do. Early man had no **language**. His **mind** was not full of thoughts. Early man and early childhood can thus be linked as examples of a kind of learning that, despite **evolution** , has not left any of **you**. _D:Day4.7.5-8_

~ even after the onset of **language** , children continue to learn without **thinking**. Does this not sound odd, foreign to **you**? And yet this is the **way** learning was designed to be. Learning was given as a natural **means** of **access** to **all** that was available to **you** , but not through **effort** any **more** than breathing was designed to be effortful. Learning was designed, like the intake of breath, to be taken in and given out. Inhaled and exhaled. Inhaled and expressed. _D:Day4.8.1-7_

~ the **ability** to learn is given to **all** in like measure. The conformity of learning, however, is the product of an externalized **system**. _D:Day4.9.1-2_

~ learning is not the **way** to the **access** that **you** **seek**. _D:Day4.27.4_

~ **remember** that **you** are tired of learning. _D:Day5.20.1_

~ learning takes the **student** away from "normal" **life** and creates a place for teaching and only calls this place elevated. _D:Day6.19.1_

~ learning was unending until it was replaced by **acceptance**. _D:Day6.32.2_

~ **denial** of yourself was the precondition that set the **stage** for the **time** of learning. The **time** of learning would not **have** been needed had **you** not denied your **Self**. _D:Day7.2.1-2_

~ the **pattern** of learning is now **all** that is left that can be degenerating to **you**. _D:Day7.5.1_

~ the **idea** of learning that **you** accepted during the **time** of learning was not one of support but one of **effort**. **You** must accept, now, that the **pattern** of learning is an **extension** of **fear** and be willing and vigilant in replacing it with a **pattern** of **acceptance**. _D:Day7.5.2-3_

~ the conditions of the **time** of learning were but imposed conditions that also arose from **within**. _D:Day7.18.4_

~ it was the disjoining of **mind** and **heart** , of the **real** **Self** from the **ego** - **self** , that created the need for learning and the imposition, from **within** , of the conditions of the **time** of learning. _D:Day7.19.3_

~ it is the by-passing of this "how to" **function** —a **function** of the **time** of learning—that **we** are heading toward. _D:Day8.27.4_

~ in the **time** of learning, **you** felt a need for your **doubt** just as **you** felt a need for your beliefs and for the reassurances that were important to your **self** - **confidence**. _D:Day10.5.1_

~ **you** **have** "learned" the distinction between **Christ-consciousness** and the man **Jesus**. **You** **have** "learned" the distinction between your **Self** and the man or woman **you** are. Now **you** are called to **forget** what **you** **have** "learned" and to let **all** distinctions slip away. **You** are called to **forget** what **you** **have** learned and to realize what **you** **know**. _D:Day10.18.1-4_

~ **all** that **you** **have** learned that has touched your **heart** is there because **you** felt it. _D:Day16.2.4_

~ an approach to knowing, which was called learning, was previously the predominant approach. As this approach became **more** and **more** centered in the **mind** and **more** and **more** about coming to **know** what **others** had already learned and were capable of teaching, learning began to fail the cause of knowing. _D:Day17.4.7-8_

~ in traditional learning patterns, the **wisdom** , guidance, or information sought moved from a **teacher** —whether that **teacher** was an actual **teacher** , or a parent or a **friend** —to a **student** , or in other words, from a giver to a receiver. _D:Day21.2.3_

~ it has always been the **action** of the receiver that made learning possible. The receiver was thus also the **source** because the receiver had to accept or "give" what was offered, to herself. _D:Day21.3.3-4_

~ the **old** notions of teaching and learning but made it seem as if some had **more** and **others** **less**. But even the **pattern** of learning had as its outcome the **sameness** of **teacher** and learner—the transfer of **knowledge** that would eventually make **teacher** and learner equal. _D:Day21.6.6-7_

~ now, however, there is no longer an "eventually." **Teacher** and learner are equal and thus neither are needed any longer. The "transfer" of **knowledge** is now an act of **giving** and receiving as one. _D:Day21.7.1-3_

~ **you** do not **have** to learn **all** that the **Christ** in **you** learned. This is why **we** **have** had to enter the **time** of non-learning—so that **you** accept that **you** do not **have** to try to learn the unlearnable. This is why **we** **have** left the **time** of becoming behind, why **you** stand ready to enter the **time** of **being** in **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day39.41.1-3_

**Addendum**

~ the **word** learning is loosely used **here** for no learning is needed in **union** and **relationship**. _A.1.2_

~ as your **work** with **A Course of Love** begins, learning and unlearning continue. It continues for the sole **purpose** for which learning has always existed—that of returning **you** from **self** - **doubt** to **self** - **love**. This could also be expressed as returning **you** from your perceived **state** of **separation** to your true **state** of **union**. Learning is needed only until **perception** is cured. _A.2.1-4_

~ until **you** **have** truly recognized unity, which may come before or after completing the " **Treatise** on the **Nature** of Unity and Its Recognition," **you** continue to perceive of yourself as a learning **being**. This is the only **reason** for this continuation of the coursework provided in **A Course in Miracles**. While **you** continue to put **effort** into learning what cannot be learned, as **you** continue to **see** yourself as a **student** seeking to acquire what **you** do not yet **have** , **you** cannot **recognize** the unity in which **you** **exist** and be freed from learning forever. _A.4.6-8_

~ the need for some to **remain** **within** the teaching and learning **situation** of "right" and "wrong" answers **will** be strong. Many **will** not be dissuaded from the logic that tells them they must **work** hard to attain anything of value. _A.17.3-4_

~ collectively and individually, **you** **have** come to a **level** of frustration with what can be taught that has exceeded its limits. _A.20.1_

**LEARNING DEVICE**

| ˈlərniNG dəˈvīs |

**A Course of Love**

~ a learning device, when not perceived as such, holds not much **hope** of fulfilling the **function** it was created to fulfill. But when **perception** changes and a thing is seen as what it is, then it cannot fail to accomplish what it was created to accomplish. _C:18.7.2-3_

~ to glorify a learning device makes no sense. _C:19.1.4_

**LESS**

| les |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** who believe they **have** "less" fall victim to envy. _C:20.40.6_

**LESSON**

| ˈles(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ this lesson is only as complicated as the most complex among **you** **needs** it to be. But for some it can be simple, as simple as realizing the **oneness** of the **embrace**. _C:20.21.1-2_

~ no lessons learned without **love** touch your **heart**. No lessons that do not touch your **heart** **will** accomplish anything. The **purpose** of the final lessons are both unlearning and moving through unlearning to **new** learning. These lessons must be **accomplished** in **life** and require an engagement with **life**. This engagement is a promise, a commitment. It requires participation, involvement, **attention** , **being** **present**. These are the lessons with which **we** **will** conclude. _C:24.4.4-10_

~ **living** from **love** is what **will** reverse the lessons of the **past**. Reversing the lessons of the **past** is what **will** allow **you** to live in **love** in every instance. _C:25.16.7-8_

**Treatises**

~ **you** **will** **experience** the same lessons in the same **way** , rather than in a **new** **way** , if **you** meet these experiences again with the attitude of interpreting them rather than responding to them. They do not require **interpretation** but **response**. **Response** was what was required in the **first** place and your inability to respond need not be repeated. **You** are **being** revisited with these lessons expressly for the **purpose** of not repeating your former reaction or **interpretation** of them. **You** are **being** revisited with these lessons so that **you** may apply to them the **art of thought** rather than the **thinking** of the **ego** - **mind**. The **art of thought** **will** reveal the **truth** to **you**. The **thinking** of the **ego** - **mind** would simply reinterpret the **meaning** **you** previously gave to these lessons. _T1:4.21.3-9_

~ what are your plans and dreams but **chosen** lessons? While **you** do not think of them as such **you** do not think of **life** as your learning ground. **You** still think of lessons as **being** about specific subject **matter**. When **life** does not go as **you** **have** planned, **you** feel as if your **chosen** **path** has been denied to **you**. **You** often feel a sense of **loss** and rarely one of **gain**. Unless **life** goes the **way** **you** **have** intended for it to go, **you** do not feel gifted or blessed even when **you** may **have** looked back often on situations that did not go as **you** had planned and nevertheless gifted **you** with experiences or opportunities that would not **have** arisen had your **chosen** **plan** come to fruition. _T2:10.18.1-6_

~ what comes as a lesson may not seem like a **gift** , but **all** lessons are gifts. While some of these lessons may come in forms that make them seem like lessons of **old** , they **will** not be repeats of lessons that **have** come before. They **will** not be lessons that **you** find **difficult** or distressing if **you** accept them as lessons and realize that **all** lessons are gifts. _T3:10.6.2-4_

~ while gentle, these are and **will** , be practical lessons that simply come to show **you** a **new** **way** of **living** , the **way** of **living** in the **house** of **truth**. _T3:10.12.1_

~ **we** **have** called these lessons in forgetting practical lessons for the **life** of the **body**. They are lessons that **will** soon be translated in another **way**. These lessons that **will** enter your **mind** and **heart** **will** , of necessity, need to be translated into the **language** of the **body** as well. _T3:10.16.1-3_

~ as the **old** continues to **help** **you** to **learn** lessons of the **new** **you** **will** be seeing how the lessons of the **illusion** can be useful in a **new** **way** to your brothers and sisters as well. _T3:11.15.4_

**Dialogues**

~ these lessons **have** been given. They can be reviewed and reviewed again. They can be used as continuing lessons until **you** feel that learning is fully **accomplished**. They can serve as reminders as **you** continue to **become** the **Self** **you** **have** learned that **you** are. _D:1.17.2-5_

**LEVEL**

| ˈlevəl |

**Dialogues**

~ levels are a **function** of **time**. _D:7.3.1_

~ integration of levels is the integration of **form** and unity. _D:7.3.3_

**LEVEL-GROUND**

| ˈlevəl-ɡround |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ as **you** re-enter **life** on level-ground, this **ability** to carry an undivided but spacious **consciousness** with **you** **will** be paramount and **will** **have** many practical as well as spiritual applications. _D:Day15.24.4_

~ what **we** speak of when speaking of your return to **level** ground is returning in a calm, even, and equal manner, to the most elemental and fundamental aspects of **being** human, while carrying **within** **you** a very elemental and fundamental **idea** —the **idea** that **you** are one in **being** and **different** in **relationship**. _D:Day35.7.1_

~ **you** return to the ground- **level** of humanity with the heights of divinity fresh in your minds and hearts. This is why **you** return accepting of yourself rather than in a quest for **self** or with a **desire** to **know** a higher **self**. **You** return knowing **you** are one in **being** with your **Creator** and accepting your **power** to **create**. **You** return to **create** unity and **relationship** , through unity and **relationship**. _D:Day35.11.2-5_

**LIFE**

| līf |

**A Course of Love**

~ a life of little **joy** and little **pain** is seen as a successful life, for a life of **joy** is seen as nothing **more** than a daydream, a life of **pain** a nightmare. _C:2.7.4_

~ "Overcoming" is your catch phrase **here** as **you** **struggle** to overcome **all** the adversity and obstacles that would **keep** **you** from having what **you** think **you** **want** to **have**. This is your definition of life, and while it remains it defines the life **you** **see** as **real**. It presents **you** with a thousand choices to make, not once but many times, until **you** believe that your **power** of **choice** is a fantasy and that **you** are powerless indeed. **You** thus narrow what **you** **want** and go after it with single-minded determination, believing the only **choice** **within** your **control** is what to **work** hard to obtain. If **you** let **all** the **world** recede and concentrate on this one **choice** , **you** **reason** that **you** are bound to eventually succeed. This is the extent of your **faith** in your own **ability** to maneuver this **world** that **you** **have** made; and if **you** finally do succeed, your **faith** is seen as justified. The cost is not examined nor acknowledged, yet when this **faith** is realized the cost becomes quite **real**. Rather than **feeling** as if **you** **have** gained, feelings of **loss** **will** now be what **you** fight to overcome. What **have** **you** done wrong, **you** wonder? Why are **you** not satisfied with **all** **you** **have** achieved? _C:5.23.3-12_

~ this getting what **you** **want** that drives your life is proven **time** and **time** again to not be what **you** **want** once **you** **have** achieved it. Yet **you** think when this occurs that **you** **have** simply **chosen** the wrong thing and so choose another and another, not stopping to realize that **you** choose among illusions. **You** are so surprised that **you** **have** not found **happiness** in what **you** **seek**! **You** continue **living** life as a test, driving yourself to follow one **accomplishment** with another, sure that the next one or the next **will** be the one to do the trick. _C:5.24.1-4_

~ a trick this is indeed, for what has once failed to **work** **will** surely fail again. _C:5.25.1_

~ just as **you** eat to still your hunger only to **become** hungry again, so does the **rest** of your life need this **constant** maintenance to retain the **reality** **you** **have** given it. " **Struggle** to succeed and succeed to **struggle** yet another **day** " is the life **you** **have** made, and the life **you** **fear** **heaven** would replace. _C:6.13.3-4_

~ **you** **see** what **you** do not **want** and try to replace it with its **opposite**. Your life is thus spent in struggling against what **you** **have** for what **you** **have** not. Only one **example** is needed to clarify the predicament in which **you** **have** placed yourself. **You** feel lacking and so **you** **want**. **You** **want** and **want** and **want**. **You** truly believe **you** do not **have** what **you** need, and so make yourself continuously needy. **You** thus spend your life trying to fulfill your **needs**. _C:9.23.2-8_

~ your life must **become** your **teacher** , and **you** its devoted pupil. **Here** is a **curriculum** designed specifically for **you** , a **curriculum** only **you** can master. Only your own life experiences **have** led to the learning **you** **have** accumulated and translated into beliefs. Only your own life experiences **will** reverse the process. _C:23.29.7-10_

~ life is not a **matter** of **self** versus other. Life is a **matter** of **relationship**. Life is not a **matter** of human versus divine, but a **matter** of **relationship** between the human and the divine. Life is not a **matter** of one **living** thing versus another, but of the **relationship** between **all** **living** things. _C:27.7.2-5_

~ life is life. Life is. _C:29.14.3-4_

~ life is **service** to **God**. _C:29.15.1_

~ life exists in **service** to itself. _C:29.16.4_

~ life exists in **relationship**. _C:29.16.5_

~ **all** life is forever. _C:30.6.4_

~ there is not one aspect of it that is not designed to **help** **you** to **remember** who **you** are. _C:32.1.5_

**Treatises**

~ **god** is the giver of life, thus life is God's **Will**. _T1:8.2.6_

~ your life is already an act of **creation**. It was created. **All** of it. It exists, fully realized **within** **you**. Your **work** **here** is to express it. **You** are far **more** than your life **here**. **You** created your life **here** in **union** with the one **mind** and one **heart** , in **union** , in other words, with **God**. _T2:3.1.1-7_

~ the only **difference** between the life **you** are **living** and the life **you** **want** lies in your **willingness** to express who **you** are. _T2:3.1.10_

~ what **you** are called to is a life so **new** that **you** cannot even imagine it. _T3:14.13.4_

~ your attachment to life has kept **you** **alive** in **form**. _T4:3.14.4_

~ life has continuously been prolonged without a substantial **change** in the **nature** of life. _T4:4.10.4_

~ to continue on endlessly with life as it has been would only relegate **more** and **more** to lives not worth **living**. _T4:4.10.7_

**Dialogues**

~ your life is not meaningless. _D:3.3.3_

~ a life of artificial **structure** is **all** any of **you** **have** known. An internally structured life **will** quickly replace the life of the inmate if **you** **will** but let it do so. _D:4.8.1-2_

~ your life must be returned to where it fits **within** the **divine design** , to where it is a life of **meaning** and **purpose**. This return is the return of **wholeness**. This return is not selfish on your part, but magnanimous. It returns **wholeness** to **you** and **wholeness** to the **divine design**. It returns **creation** to what it is. _D:4.29.4-8_

~ **release** through life is the **answer**. _D:5.18.3_

~ life and the **movement** of **being** into **form** is what occurred when **God** "spoke" and the **Word** came into **being**. _D:15.3.1_

~ life is **movement** through the force of **expression**. _D:15.5.1_

~ what is true is eternal life, not temporal life. There are no degrees of life. One **form** is not **more** **alive** than another. **All** that lives contains the breath or wind of **spirit** , which is eternal and complete. _D:15.11.6-9_

~ life was given through the **extension** and the **expression** of **God** , of **Love** , of **Creation** —through the **extension** of **wholeness** —into the seemingly **separate** identities of **form**. The **way** of that **extension** was the **way** of the unified principles of **creation** , the **way** of **movement** , **being** , and **expression**. _D:16.8.3-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **all** of our lives **here** are symbolic rather than actual. _D:Day2.18.3_

~ this does not mean that my life did not happen, that it did not occur in **time** and **space** , just as yours is occurring now in **time** and **space**. _D:Day2.18.5_

~ until **you** are aware of who **you** are, your life has not literally or symbolically begun. _D:Day2.21.4_

~ **awareness** , **acceptance** , and **discovery** cannot occur in a place set apart from "normal" life. _D:Day6.19.2_

~ this is the point of **movement** , **being** , and **expression** coming together. The point of convergence, **intersection** , and **pass-through**. This is it! Right **here** in your life as it is right now. _D:Day6.30.6-9_

~ life is now supported. _D:Day7.4.1_

~ life has always existed **within** the conditions of the **time** of **acceptance**. _D:Day7.18.3_

~ life is the **relationship** of what is with Its **Self**. _D:Day11.5.8_

~ life is the connecting tissue of the web of **form** with the divine **All**. Life is **consciousness**. _D:Day11.8.1-2_

~ life itself is a **channel**. _D:Day21.6.1_

~ life is **oneness** extended into **separation** and variability through **experience**. _D:Day27.15.3_

~ **you** and your life are one. Your life is not the giver and **you** the receiver. _D:Day28.10.1-2_

~ life is the **oneness** that is **God**. _D:Day32.2.1_

~ this is your life and your **experience** of life. Now **you** must believe that **you** are its **creator** and powerful in your **relationship** to it. _D:Day34.6.2-3_

~ your life as **you** **know** it is what **you** **have** made. _D:Day35.18.8_

~ your life is not **you** but that your life is an **exercise** in creatorship. _D:Day36.7.2_

**Addendum**

~ what those who begin to **experience** life in a **new** **way** begin to discover are the patterns of thoughts and behavior that are most deeply entrenched in them. _A.27.3_

**LIGHT**

| līt |

**A Course of Love**

~ **recognize** who **you** are and God's light goes before **you** , illuminating every **path** and shining away the fog of dreams from which **you** waken undisturbed. _C:4.6.4_

~ **all** things brought to **love** are seen in a **new** light, a light that keeps what **you** would **learn** to **help** **you** **remember** who **you** are, and in that **remembrance** transforms the **rest** , leaving with **you** nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to **keep** hidden, leaving **you** with nothing but the **truth** of who **you** are. _C:31.20.1_

**LIMIT**

| ˈlimit v |

**A Course of Love**

~ there is no limit to **love** and so there are no limits to anything that flows from **love**. _C:20.39.7_

**LISTEN**

| ˈlis(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ now **we** listen to feelings. Now **we** listen to feelings and **understand** what they **have** to say to us. Now **we** listen with a **new** ear, the ear of the **heart**. _D:Day12.1.1-3_

~ **all** **you** must do is listen to your **Self**. _D:Day12.5.2_

**Addendum**

~ listen to the words as if they are spoken to **you** , for such they are. Listen as **you** would listen to a **friend** in conversation. Listen simply to hear what is **being** said. Listen simply to let the words enter **you**. _A.5.5-8_

~ this is recommended for your **first** **reading** of the Course. _A.6.1_

~ when **you** succeed at listening without seeking for understanding, without grasping for **meaning** , without applying the **effort** **you** are used to applying to **study** , **you** begin the **transformation** that is the **movement** from head to **heart** and from their **separation** to their **union**. _A.7.1_

**LIVING**

| ˈliviNG |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** are living history. **You** are living what **will** tomorrow be history. **You** are living **creation**. **You** are living what **will** tomorrow be the story of **creation**. _D:Day1.26.1-4_

**LONELINESS**

| ˈlōnlēnəs |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **all** that causes loneliness is **rejection** of feelings. _D:Day14.2.4_

**LOSS**

| lôs |

**A Course of Love**

~ what is loss of **love** but confirmation of your **separate** **state**? What is loss of **love** but **being** left **alone**? _C:14.21.4-5_

~ loss of **love** comes from only one **source**. **Call** it **fear** or **call** it **separation** but it is still the same. _C:14.22.1-2_

~ **you** can only lose that which is **separate**. _C:14.26.10_

~ **all** **thinking** that is of a "if this, then that" **nature** is **thinking** in terms of **gain** and loss. _C:30.11.6_

~ this **belief** in **gain** and loss is a cornerstone of your **system** of **perception** viewed from a stance of "if this, then that." It rules the **nature** of your existence because **you** **have** made it ruler by abandoning the laws of **God**. _C:30.11.8-9_

**LOVE**

| ləv |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** love praises **God**. **All** love is recognition of the **glory** of **God** and **all** **God** created. Love is the only pure **response** of the created for the **Creator** , the only **response** of the **Creator** to the created. Your recognition of what love is **will** return **you** to **God** and your **Self**. _C:1.1.4-7_

~ love is the condition of your **reality**. _C:1.3.1_

~ love is as essential to your **being** as the **heart** to the **body**. **You** would not **exist** without love. It is there even if **you** are as unaware of it as **you** are of the beating of your **heart**. _C:1.3.4-6_

~ love yearns for love. _C:1.12.6_

~ love is your greatest **teacher**. _C:1.12.8_

~ love is what **you** are as well as what **you** **strive** for. Love is **means** and end. _C:1.16.4-5_

~ love is at the **heart** of **all** things. _C:1.18.1_

~ love is **all** that is **real**. _C:1.18.15_

~ what love is cannot be taught. It cannot be learned. But it can be recognized. _C:2.1.1-3_

~ **you** cannot be taught love but **you** can be taught to **see** love where it already exists. The body's eyes are not the eyes with which love can be recognized. Christ's **vision** is. _C:2.1.7-9_

~ love is **all** there is. _C:2.2.5_

~ **all** feelings **you** label joyous or compassionate are of love. _C:1.18.4_

~ if love cannot be taught but only recognized, how is this recognition made possible? Through love's effects. For cause and **effect** are one. _C:2.5.1-3_

~ **creation** is love's **effect** , as are **you**. _C:2.5.4_

~ if love cannot be taught but only recognized, how is this recognition made possible? Through love's effects. For cause and **effect** are one. _C:2.5.1-3_

~ **you** again label love a "sometimes" component and think that to act in love **more** frequently is an **achievement**. _C:2.6.2_

~ it is said that one can love too much and too little but never enough. Love is not something **you** do. It is what **you** are. To continue to identify love incorrectly is to continue to be unable to identify your **Self**. _C:2.6.7-10_

~ think not that love can look on misery and **see** love there. Love looks not on misery at **all**. _C:2.10.11-12_

~ love is. It teaches by **being** what it is. It does not do anything. It does not **strive**. It neither succeeds nor fails. It is neither **alive** nor dead. And thus it always was and always **will** be. It is not **particular** to **you** as human beings. It is in **relationship** to **everything**. **All** to **all**. _C:3.1.1-10_

~ love is. Never changing, symbolizing only itself, how can it fail to be **everything** or to contain **all** **meaning**? No **form** can encompass it for it encompasses **all** **form**. Love is the **light** in which **form** disappears and **all** that is, is seen as it is. _C:3.8.1-4_

~ think **you** not that love can be kept apart from **life** in any **way**. But **we** begin now to take life's **judgment** from it, the judgments gained by your **experience** , **judgment** based on how much love **you** **have** received and how much love has been withheld from **you**. **We** begin by simply accepting the proof **we** **have** been given of love's strength. For this **we** **will** return to again and again as **we** **learn** to **recognize** what love is. _C:3.23.1-4_

~ when **you** love purely, **you** **know** **God** whether **you** realize it or not. What does it mean to love purely? It **means** to love for love's sake. To simply love. To **have** no **false** idols. _C:4.1.2-6_

~ **you** are entitled to **all** that love would give but not to what **you** think love **will** provide for **you** through its acquisition. This is a classic **example** of not recognizing that love is. _C:4.2.4-5_

~ love and longing are so intimately attached because they joined together at the moment of **separation** when a **choice** to go away from love and a **choice** to return were birthed in unison. Love was thus not ever lost but shadowed over by longing that, placed between **you** and your **Source** , both obscured Its **light** and alerted **you** of Its eternal presence. Longing is your proof of love's existence, for even **here** **you** would not long for what is not remembered. _C:4.3.1-3_

~ in your longing for love, **you** **recognize** as well your longing for your **Self**. _C:4.4.3_

~ love **alone** has the **power** to turn this dream of **death** into a waking **awareness** of **life** eternal. _C:4.7.1_

~ love is **all** that follows the **law** of **God** in your **world**. _C:4.9.1_

~ love cannot fail. _C:4.10.8_

~ love is not **being** nice when **you** are **feeling** surly. Love is not doing good deeds of **charity** and **service**. _C:4.12.2-3_

~ **god** 's most holy **gift**. _C:4.16.4_

~ everywhere **you** look is proof of love's **difference** found. This **difference** is your **salvation**. Love is not like anything or **everything** else that goes on **here**. And so your places to worship love **have** been built, your sacraments protect love's **holiness** , your homes host those **you** love most dearly. _C:4.23.1-4_

~ thus has your **perception** of love prepared **you** for what love is. _C:4.24.1_

~ love cannot be brought to the **world** of madness, nor the **world** of madness brought to love. But love can allow a **new** **world** to be seen, a **world** that **will** allow **you** to abide **within** love's presence. _C:4.24.4-5_

~ love is impossible without **union**. _C:5.4.4_

~ **you** **know** that love exists apart from the object of your affection. Love is set apart in a frame not of this **world**. _C:5.7.3-4_

~ love gathered together is a celebration. Love collected is but a mockery of love. _C:5.10.1-2_

~ **each** **feeling** requires that **you** enter into a **relationship** with it, for it is there **you** **will** find love. _C:5.12.2_

~ love creates like itself and is forever one with **everything** that has been created. _C:6.6.4_

~ **all** of your love—the love that **you** imagine **you** **keep** **within** yourself, and the love that **you** imagine **you** **receive** and give—is tainted by your **fear** and cannot be **real** love. _C:9.3.3_

~ what love is cannot be taught. **Remember** that your **task** **here** is to remove the barriers that **keep** **you** from realizing what love is. _C:11.5.1-2_

~ **you** need not concentrate on where to find love, for love **will** find **you**. **You** need not concentrate on **giving** love, for **you** cannot give what **you** do not yet **know** , and when **you** **know** it **you** need not give it, for it **will** extend from **you** naturally in miracles called love. Love is **all** that **will** fill your **emptiness** , and **all** that **will** never leave **you** empty again as it extends from **you** to your brothers and sisters. Love is **all** that **will** not leave **you** wanting. Love is **all** that **will** replace **use** with unity. _C:11.17.4-8_

~ love is the unity **you** **seek**. _C:11.18.2_

~ your ideas of love, however, fit your **goal** of **separation** as neatly and conveniently as does your **idea** of **heaven**. For what **you** require of love is that it set **you** apart and make **you** special. Much **more** is demanded of those **you** love than of any of your other brothers and sisters. _C:14.10.1-3_

~ nothing but love can be the cause of **joy** , nor offer a haven of **safety** in an insane **world**. _C:14.13.9_

~ in your separated **state** **you** **ask** that love make **you** special to someone else, and that one special to **you**. **You** think this is what love is for, and so **you** make of it something it is not and only **call** it love. _C:14.22.3_

~ love **you** give the same **purpose** , but bid it do the job of rewarding **you** **here** and now. It, like **heaven** , is your proof that **you** are good and worthy, special and to be rewarded for your **specialness**. _C:14.23.5-6_

~ **you** think love is what **you** value most, and so resist any notion that what **you** view as love is not what **you** think it is. _C:14.29.1_

~ in your **world** love has no **meaning** unless it is attached to a **particular** thing. And as soon as love is attached to a **particular** , love's **opposite** is brought into existence. _C:14.30.1-2_

~ the **glory** that **you** felt from love only seemed to be available from one and not from another. Love is not available from anyone in the **way** **you** think it is. Love has but one **source**! _C:16.1.1-3_

~ love seems to operate on its own apart from what your **mind** would bid it do, and this is why **you** **fear** it even while **you** **yearn** for it. _C:16.10.5_

~ love is the **source** of your **being**. _C:20.27.1_

~ what flows from love is changeless and boundless. _C:20.27.5_

~ love is **all** that matters because love is **all** that is. _C:20.48.11_

~ love is eternal. _C:21.2.1_

~ love is the only true **wisdom** , the only true understanding, the only true knowing. Love is the great **teacher**. And your loving relationships the **means** of learning love. _C:23.1.2-4_

~ love cannot be faked because **you** **know** love. Because **you** **know** it, imitations of love are immediately felt. **You** may choose to deny the **feeling** , but **you** cannot prevent it from occurring. **You** can attempt to earn the love of those from whom **you** **desire** it, **you** can attempt to buy it, **change** for it, or capture it. This **you** cannot do. Yet, love is always **present**. _C:25.4.1-6_

~ no love is finite in **nature**. Love has no **beginning** and no end. Love is a demonstration and a description of **universal consciousness** , of **being** in **relationship**. _C:30.9.2-4_

~ the **source** of love and its location is your own **heart**. _C:30.13.1_

~ love is **relationship**. _C:32.2.17_

~ be true to love and **you** cannot fail to be true to your **Self**. _C:32.4.8_

**Treatises**

~ **all** that **you** **have** experienced in **truth** is love. _T1:1.5.1_

~ love is a **response**. _T1:4.13.10_

~ what cannot be recognized or known cannot be loved. _T3:3.1.3_

~ until **you** fully love, **you** do not love in **truth**. _T3:3.6.10_

~ if **you** proceed with love, **you** **will** come to **know** your **Christ** - **Self**. _T3:4.8.6_

~ no one stands beyond the **embrace** of love. _T3:9.4.2_

~ the love of **God** lives **within** **you**. _T3:11.7.1_

~ this Course teaches that love cannot be learned. _T3:15.11.4_

**Dialogues**

~ love and the loving patterns given in the **time** of learning are **all** that **exist** in **all** **you** **see**. _D:5.12.1_

~ **you** are not told that love is a **principle** of **creation**. Love is not a **principle** any **more** than it is an **attribute**. This is because love remains in eternal **wholeness**. Love cannot be learned, and so has stood apart from the **time** of learning. _D:16.6.2-5_

~ love is the **spirit** of the wind that animates **all** **form**. Love is **spirit** , is **God** , is **creation**. Love is a description of the **All** of **All** because it is **whole** and rests in eternal completion and **wholeness**. Love is the **state** of unity, the only **relationship** through which the **Self** and **God** **become** known to **you**. Love, **God** , **Creation** , are **all** that remained in **union** , in eternal completion, when **form** came into **being**. _D:16.7.1-5_

~ Love, like **God** , like **Creation** , is the giver of the **givens**. _D:16.8.2_

~ this is a **call** to love **all** of yourself. **You** who once could love **spirit** or **mind** , **mind** or **body** —because of the dualistic **nature** associated with them—now can love **all** of your **Self** , **all** of **God** , **all** of **creation**. **You** can respond to love with love. _D:7.10.1-3_

~ this **call** to love **all** of your **Self** is a **call** to unconditional, nonjudgmental love. It is not just a **call** to nonjudgmentalness, but to nonjudgmental love. This nonjudgmental love is the condition upon which your **discovery** of **all** **you** do not yet **know** awaits. _D:7.11.3-5_

~ **being** in love is a definition of what **you** now are as **you** accept the unconditional, nonjudgmental love of **all**. This is a transference of love from the **particular** to the **universal**. Loving **all** that **you** are, including your **body** , is not love of the **particular** but **universal** love. _D:7.14.1-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **here** is where **fear** must be totally replaced by love. If **you** **fear** to go where the portal of **access** **will** take **you** , **you** **will** not go. Thus your **desire** **needs** to be greater than your **fear**. Love **needs** to reign. Love of **self** and love of your brothers and sisters, love of the natural **world** , of the **world** of **form** that is, love of the **idea** of the **new** **world** that can be, **all** of these must come together and be victors over the reign of **fear**. _D:Day4.38.1-5_

~ as **we** move into full **access** and **awareness** of unity, love is **all** that is required. _D:Day4.53.1_

~ love never changes. It thus is the same for **each** of us. _D:Day5.6.2-3_

~ love is not an **attribute**. _D:Day5.13.1_

~ **all** love comes from the same **Source**. _D:Day5.13.1_

~ **you** **have** been able to "give" love only when **you** **have** felt **you** " **have** " love to give. _D:Day5.13.2_

~ love is **life** **giving** and **life** supporting. _D:Day7.3.5_

~ love is not opposed to logic but returns true **reason** to the **mind** and **heart**. _D:Day7.5.9_

~ love replaces **fear** and is **life** -generating rather than **life** -degenerating. _D:Day7.6.1_

~ love is, of course, not a condition, as it is not an **attribute**. _D:Day7.6.3_

~ love yourself. Love yourself enough to accept yourself. Love **will** transform normal, ordinary, **life** into extraordinary **life**. Loving exactly who **you** are and where **you** are in every moment is what **will** cause the **transformation** that **will** end your **desire** to remove yourself from **life**. _D:Day8.2.3-6_

~ the **power** of love is the cause and **effect** that **will** **change** the **world**. _D:Day10.33.5_

~ the cause and **effect** of love is **all** that **will** replace these causes of **fear** with the **means** and end that **will** transform them along with **you**. _D:Day10.37.4_

~ be embraced by love and to let **all** the feelings of love flowing through **you** now find their **expression**. _D:Day10.38.3_

~ the love that is found in the relationships of the one **Self** with the many is the love of **God**. There is no other love. God's love is constantly **being** given, received, and felt in **relationship**. God's love is your love. Your love is the love of **God**. _D:Day13.4.1-5_

~ love is **everything**. _D:Day16.14.4_

~ if **relationship** and **being** are one, and **you** are one in **being** and **different** in **relationship** , what is **being** said is that **being** and **relationship** are of one piece, one **whole** , and that **whole** is love. In other words, every **relationship** , **everything** that comes to **you** , every event, every **situation** , is of **being** , which is **God** , which is love. _D:Day33.7.4-5_

~ love is the only **response**. _D:Day33.8.3_

~ love is the only "condition" of **union**. _D:Day33.15.6_

~ **being** full of love for one another is the **beginning** of **extension** , the end of withdrawal. It is the mutuality of our love that causes this **fullness**. _D:Day38.4.1-2_

~ love, by its **nature** , has no attributes. Love is creation's genesis, the unattributable given the attributes of **form**. _D:Day39.35.5-6_

~ when **I am** love **being** , **I am** **being** without attributes—love **being** in **union** and **relationship**. **I am** the anchor that holds **all** that has taken on attributes **within** the **embrace** of the attributelessness of love. This is why my **being** has been capable of accepting your projections—because **I am** attributeless **being**. **I am** love, **being**. _D:Day40.4.1-4_

~ **i** did not make **you** in my **image**. **I** created **you** in love because it is the **nature** of a **being** of love to extend. Realize that it is only when **being** is added to love—only when love is in **relationship** with **being** —that love is given its **nature**. Realize that it is only when love is in **relationship** with **being** that it attains this quality that **we** are **calling** **extension**. _D:Day40.4.1-4_

~ love of itself has no **nature**. It does not do anything. It just is, and its isness is what **I** hold, or anchor **within** myself, and that which **Christ** bridges through **relationship**. _D:Day40.6.1-3_

~ the **nature** of a **being** of love is to extend. The **nature** of a **being** of love is to bring **form** to the formless—to bring love into **form**. _D:Day40.11.8-9_

~ love has no attributes, no **form** , no conditions, no **nature**. It simply is. _D:Day40.12.1-2_

**LOYALTY**

| ˈloiəltē |

**A Course of Love**

~ loyalty stems from **faith**. _C:15.8.2_

~ **all** **change** seems to question your loyalty to **others** and **all** choices are made with this loyalty in **mind**. Loyalty stems **here** from your **faith** in **fear** and **all** from which **you** need **protection**. To belong to a loyal group, a **family** or community of supporters, is seen as necessary for your **safety**. While many of **you** do not **have** this, **you** **strive** for it, and its attainment has been the cause of much **suffering** in your **world**. This banding together for support against **fear** simply makes **fear** **real** , and the seeming cause for loyalty essential. _C:15.8.3-7_

~ **you** are loyal not only to your group but to humanity itself. _C:15.9.3_

**MAGIC**

| ˈmajik |

**A Course of Love**

~ there is no magic **here** of turning misery into delight and **pain** into **joy**. These acts would indeed be magic, an **illusion** on top of an **illusion**. **You** **have** but accepted **illusion** as the **truth** , and so **seek** other illusions to **change** what never was into something that never **will** be. _C:2.11.6-8_

~ magic is your attempt to do miracles on your own. _C:10.11.3_

**MAINTENENCE**

| ˈmānt(ə)nəns |

**Dialogues**

~ maintenance is **thought** of most often as keeping what **you** **have** , and as keeping what **you** **have** in good repair. It is not often **thought** of as a lasting measure, which is the primary **difference** between the **idea** of maintenance and the **idea** of **sustenance**. _D:15.17.1-2_

~ maintenance assumes that **you** already **have** something of value, and that **you** wish to take care of it so that it **will** continue to be of **service** to **you**. Maintenance implies a certain attitude, an attitude of care, vigilance, anticipation, and a knowing that without this care, vigilance, and anticipation, the value of what **you** **seek** to maintain **will** be lost. Thus **we** look at maintenance as the **work** , or **relationship** , with the desired **service**. In this **example** , maintenance is what **you** give in order to **receive** the maximum connection to unity that is possible in this **time**. **You** realize that some breaks in **service** **will** still occur, that maintenance **will** not make the connection perfect, but that it **will** **keep** it of **service** to **you**. _D:15.18.1-5_

~ maintenance **will** lead to **sustenance**. _D:15.20.5_

**MAKE VS. CREATE**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Dialogues**

~ what was made of what was created in order to serve the **ego** **will** cease to be, just as the **ego** has ceased to be. To outline and define the differences between what was created and what was made would be to **create** a tome of information, and this is not needed now. The **desire** for such is a **desire** to think through once again the **meaning** of **everything** and to **have** a tool to **help** **you** do so. This would assume that **you** are still a learning **being** and **have** need of such **help**. **You** are no longer a learning **being** and need not this assistance. _D:5.13.1-5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what is not created in unity could be said to **have** been made rather than created. _D:Day35.18.6_

**MALE/FEMALE**

| māl/ˈfēˌmāl |

**Treatises**

~ whether **you** be male or female matters not, as **you** are in **truth** , the **union** of **each**. The end of **separation** that brought about the **resurrection** brought about this **union** and the **separation** of male and female continues to **exist** only in **form**. _T1:9.2.1-2_

~ male and female are labels laden with attributes. When the **different** attributes are merged, male and female **will** be no **more** and **wholeness** **will** reign. _T1:9.16.5-6_

**MARY**

| ˈmerē |

**Treatises**

~ there is no longer a **god** -head to follow into **paradise**. Take not the **example** of any of these and **know** instead the **example** of woman, of Mary, **Mother** of **God**. _T1:8.9.3-4_

~ mary is called upon now as the **myth** to end **all** myths for in this **example** **life** **alone** is the key to the riddle provided. _T1:8.12.1_

~ it is through the Blessed Virgin Mary's **resurrection** in **form** that the **new** **pattern** of **life** is revealed. _T1:8.13.3_

~ my **mother** , Mary, was responsible for the **incarnation** of **Christ** in me as **I am** responsible for the **incarnation** of **Christ** in **you**. _T1:8.16.2_

**MATTER**

| ˈmadər |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** matter is born and dies. _C:30.6.3_

~ there is no **being** and no **present** in matter. In matter, **being** must be attached to **form**. _C:30.8.2-3_

**Dialogues**

~ matter is simply another **word** for **content** , and need not be maligned. _D:7.9.1_

**MEANING**

| ˈmēniNG |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** imprison **form** **within** your meaning, and still your meaning is truer than its **form**. _C:3.7.6_

~ **mind** and **heart** interpret meaning in **different** ways. _C:21.7.3_

~ meaning does not **change**. While only **you** can determine meaning, and while only a wholehearted approach **will** determine true meaning, the **truth** is the **truth** and does not **change**. _C:21.9.1-2_

~ in the act of **pass-through** **you** assign meaning to **everything** **within** your **world**. The meaning **you** assign becomes the **reality** of the object **you** **have** assigned meaning to. **You** **have** seen your **purpose** as one of assigning meaning to that which intersects with **you** in a given **way** that **you** deem as purposeful. Yet it is in the passing through that meaning occurs of itself. _C:22.9.4-7_

~ when **you** remove yourself from the **self** -held position of "meaning-giver," **you** let things be what they are and, allowed to be what they are, their meaning is naturally revealed. _C:22.15.1_

~ **everything** has meaning only according to what it **means** to **you** and not as what it is. _C:22.17.3_

~ no **fear** is greater than the **fear** of meaninglessness. And, as stated before, the quest for meaning is how **you** **have** described your **purpose** **here**. To **have** no meaning to attach to your **life** is the tragedy **you** **see** **within** it and attempt to **keep** hidden from yourself. This **fear** goes hand in hand with your **fear** of **the fall** , for if **you** were to attempt to assign the meaning to your **life** that **you** think it should **have** , a fall would surely await **you** , at least in your imaginings. **You** are thus caught in a double bind, **living** a **life** **you** feel is devoid of meaning and letting **fear** **keep** **you** from seeking the meaning **you** would give it. **You** feel no inherent sense of **purpose** , no **grace** , no meaning beyond what **you** would give to your own endeavors. _C:26.7.1-6_

**Treatises**

~ meaning exists already and is not up to **you** to determine. This is not your **responsibility**. _T1:4.19.2-3_

~ the meaningless has no **ability** to **change** the meaning of **truth**. And so your **Self** has remained unaltered as has **all** to which **you** **have** assigned inaccurate meaning. _T3:2.9.3-4_

~ from this recognition of unity and **relationship** the production of unity and **relationship** and true meaning **will** be revealed. _T4:10.10.3_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** **will** not arrive at the **truth** through **thinking** about what **everything** **means**. This is the **old** **way** that led to so much misinterpretation and misrepresentation. _D:5.11.2-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ this is the **time** of **revelation** of meaning. **You** who **have** so long striven to give meaning to the purposeless, **here** **see** meaning revealed. _D:Day2.5.1-2_

**Addendum**

~ let meaning be revealed. _A.10.6_

**MEANS**

| mēnz |

**Treatises**

~ **i am** providing **you** with means to **help** **you** **know** how to live by the **truth** , but the means are not the end and are never to be confused as such. _T3:20.10.8_

~ means and end are one. _T4:1.19.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ means and end **have** always been the same. _D:Day21.6.8_

**MEDITATION**

| ˌmedəˈtāSH(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ our **form** of meditation, a meditation that is not a tool but a **function** of your natural **Self** , is a **focus** on **access**. _D:Day5.4.1_

**MEMORY**

| ˈmem(ə)rē |

**A Course of Love**

~ this remembering is not of former days spent upon this earth, but of remembering who **you** really are. It comes forth from the deepest part of **you** , from the center in which **you** are joined with **Christ**. It speaks of no experiences **here** , wears no faces, and bears no symbols. It is a memory of **wholeness** , of **all** to **all**. _C:8.4.1-4_

~ **all** memory is twisted and distorted by what **you** would **have** it be. _C:8.26.2_

~ rejoice that your **heart** is not deceived, for herein lies your **path** to true remembering. _C:8.30.1_

~ it is because **you** **remember** **love** as that which kept **you** safe, that which kept **you** happy, that which bound **all** those **you** **love** to **you** , that **you** attempt to **use** **love** **here**. This is a **real** memory of **creation** that **you** **have** distorted. Your faulty memory has caused **you** to believe **love** can be used to **keep** **you** safe, to make **you** happy and bind to **you** those **you** choose to **love**. This is not the case, for **love** cannot be used. _C:9.3.4-7_

~ the memories of your **heart** are the strongest and purest that **exist** , and their **remembrance** **will** **help** to still your **mind** and reveal the **rest**. _C:9.12.3_

~ memory is the **language of the heart**. _C:10.31.9_

~ your memory **will** contain no hint of **past** misdeeds, errors or mistakes. No one **will** **have** leveled any hurts on **you** or anyone else. No **reason** for guilt **will** **exist** **within** this memory. No shame or **fear** is **here** , and no grievances of any kind. For **here** **forgiveness** is already **accomplished** —and when memory of **forgiveness** returns to **you** , can memory of your **Father** or your own **Self** be far behind? _C:13.12.1-5_

~ again your memory of **creation** serves **you** , even if it has not served **you** well. It is this memory that tells **you** that **love** does not judge, and only your split **mind** that has made of this memory what **will** serve its **purpose**. What it calls a deficiency is your saving **grace**. _C:16.11.1-3_

~ **forget** yourself and memory **will** return to **you**. _C:20.24.1_

**Treatises**

~ divine memory cannot **help** but produce a divine outcome. _T1:6.2.4_

~ memory is valuable to us now because it relies not on **perception**. _T1:6.7.1_

~ without memory, what **you** learned one **day** would be gone the next. A person **you** met one **day** **you** would not **know** the next. Thus memory allows **relationship**. Memory, or how **you** relate to **past** experiences, is what makes **each** **individual** **unique**. _T1:6.7.3-6_

~ this memory lies **within** your **heart** and has the **ability** to turn the **image** **you** **have** made into a reflection of the **love** that abides with it in **holiness** that is beyond your current **ability** to imagine. _T3:2.11.1_

~ a memory returned to your reunited **heart** and **mind**. _T4:11.5.5_

**Dialogues**

~ memory has returned **you** to your **Self**. _D:7.12.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what memory is without attributes because it is who **I Am** and not a **projection**? Only **love**. What memory is not a memory, but your **identity**? Only **love**. _D:Day39.34.3-6_

**MENTAL CONSTRUCT**

| ˈmen(t)l ˈkänˌstrəkt |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **all** mental constructs are pre-determinations. _D:Day9.18.2_

~ **all** ideas such as those of advancement or enlightenment are mental constructs. They are pre-determinations. _D:Day9.19.1-2_

**MIND**

| mīnd |

**A Course of Love**

~ the mind is its own **reality**. **You** cannot **escape** the mind's **reality** with the mind. _C:I.9.1-2_

~ your mind rebels because it is the stronghold of the **ego**. _C:2.17.3_

~ what **you** conceive it to be, it **will** be to **you**. While many teachings **have** attempted to dislodge this **concept** that **you** hold so dear, because **you** **use** the mind to deal in concepts, **you** **have** been unable to let **new** learning **have** its **effect**. This is because **you** believe your mind is in **control** of what it thinks. **You** believe in a process of input and output, **all** completely human and scientifically provable. The **birth** of an **idea** is thus the result of what has come before, of seeing something **old** as **new** , of improving on a former **idea** , of taking various information and collecting it into a **new** configuration. _C:3.10.5-9_

~ your mind can **remain** **within** your **concept** of the brain, for **we** bypass it now and send it no information to process, no data for it to compute. The only **change** in **thinking** **you** are asked to make is to realize that **you** do not need it. _C:3.14.4-5_

~ the mind, under the ego's direction, has thrived on winners and on losers, on striving for and earning a better place. _C:4.10.4_

~ your mind would hold on to every **idea** for what it might bring **you** , and is resentful of those whose ideas do come to fruition and succeed in getting desirable things **within** this **world**. _C:7.1.5_

~ your mind dwells in a **world** of its own made up largely of if onlys. _C:7.1.8_

~ your brain, on the other hand, is separated into right and left hemispheres. One side has one **function** , one side another. While your brain and your mind are not the same, your **image** of your mind and what it does and does not do is linked with your **image** of your brain. _C:7.18.7-9_

~ what **you** would **call** your **state** of mind is **more** like a general atmosphere, an ambiance, a mood—and this setting is determined with your **heart**. _C:10.19.1_

~ joined minds cannot think separately and **have** no hidden thoughts. They are, in fact, not minds in the plural at **all** , but **all** -one-mind. _C:12.15.1-2_

~ a wandering mind is seen as quite the norm, and thoughts that dart about in a chaotic fashion are as acceptable and seemingly as inevitable to **you** as breathing. A split mind is seen as not much **less** normal although it is recognized that a split mind makes **decision** making **difficult**. _C:18.17.1-2_

~ there is only one Mind. _C:31.1.1_

~ the mind is your **being** and so **you** can **study** it not, no **more** than **you** can ever **see** the entirety of your **body** unaided, or remove your own brain to view it beneath a microscope. _C:31.6.2_

~ mind is your **being**. It is no **accident** that it has **become** synonymous to many of **you** with brain, an interchangeable **word** that conveys the same **idea**. Mind is the **control** center, that which remembers and stores away **knowledge** , that which is both **you** and beyond your understanding of **you**. _C:31.7.2-4_

~ **you** believe your brain and, erroneously, your mind, is **inseparable** from your **body**. _C:31.8.5_

~ the **purpose** of the mind is **extension**. _C:31.11.1_

~ what your mind remembers cannot not be shared. _C:31.24.2_

~ only the **truth** abides **within** your mind, for only it can enter the holy **altar** **you** **share** with me. _C:31.26.4_

~ **being** of one mind is **being** of one **truth**. _C:31.27.2_

~ a mind that can conceive of a **creator** combined with a **heart** that yearns for **knowledge** of, and **union** with, that **creator** , can bypass the need for the **separate** thoughts of the separated one's **thought system**. But **you** must be trained to do this. _C:19.17.11-12_

**Treatises**

~ a split mind does not **learn** for a split mind is incapable of **giving** and receiving as one. A split mind does not **rest** for it can find no **peace**. _T1:1.11.1-2_

~ the practical mind makes of **imagination** a fantasy. _T2:2.1.5_

~ your mind exists in unity. _T2:3.3.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ your mind has been trained for learning and **you** are most willing to **have** **new** **insight** , **new** information, and even **new** discoveries, enter through your mind—because this is known to **you** and is what **you** are familiar with. In the area of the mind were **you** most willing to accept teachers, leaders, guides, authorities, for only through them did **you** **learn**. _D:Day3.2.3-4_

~ it is through your mind that these **new** ideas **will** **change** your actions and your **life** , your mind that, through increased stillness, **will** give **you** **more** **peace** , your mind that **will** accept comfort of a certain type, even extending to a **new** comfortableness of **being**. _D:Day3.7.3_

~ **you** are most comfortable learning through the mind because of your familiarity with the **pattern** of learning through the mind, **you** can perhaps **see** why these **first** revelations of **union** would come to **you** in a **way** associated with the mind. _D:Day3.39.6_

~ as the mind opens and accepts the **new** , the **art of thought** **will** **become** your **new** **means** of **thinking**. _D:8.9.2_

~ where once the mind was searching, yearning, questioning, now it is likely to **become** still. From the stillness comes its emergence as what it is. _D:Day25.1.2-3_

**Addendum**

~ the mind is the realm of **perception**. _A.4.1_

~ **i** **ask** **you** only to pause, to give the mind a **rest** , to enter a realm foreign to the mind and yet beloved to the **heart**. _A.12.6_

~ the greatest **intermediary** of **all** has been the mind. It has stood between **you** and your own inner knowing, caught in a dream of **perception**. _A.19.4-5_

**MINDFULNESS**

| ˈmīn(d)f(ə)lnəs |

**Treatises**

~ mindfulness and **wholeheartedness** are but **different** expressions of the **union** of **mind** and **heart**. Mindfulness **will** aid **you** in remembering. _T1:5.14.1-2_

~ through mindfulness **you** **will** **remember** who **you** are. _T1:5.14.4_

**MIRACLE**

| ˈmirək(ə)l |

**A Course of Love**

~ simply stated, miracles are a natural consequence of joining. _C:10.11.2_

~ miracles are expressions of **love**. **You** might think of them as acts of **cooperation**. _C:20.29.1-2_

~ **belief** of another kind is what miracles are **all** about. It is what **you** are **all** about as a miracle worker. For **you** to **change** your beliefs is the miracle that **we** are after, the result **we** **seek** from this Course. _C:23.14.1-3_

~ and what of miracles? The last and final miracle has occurred, for what miracles are needed when **mind** and **heart** are one and **you** **have** returned to the **embrace**? This is the miracle to end **all** need of miracles, the only **accomplishment** of the only **Son of God**. _C:23.6.1-3_

**Treatises**

~ as great as the **fear** of miracles is, the **fear** of not **being** able to perform is greater. _T1:3.11.2_

~ as was said in **A Course in Miracles** , miracles are timesaving devices. Although asking **you** to choose a miracle would seem to violate one of the rules of miracle-readiness as described in **A Course in Miracles** , the extreme need of your return to **love** requires extreme measures. _T1:3.15.4-5_

~ miracles are, in other words, a **way** of **thinking** , the **new** **way** that **we** are going to **learn** together. They are the **state** of **giving** and receiving as one. They are the **state** in which blessings flow. They are your natural **state**. _T1:4.3.5-8_

~ miracles **create** an out-of- **pattern** **time** interval. Thus **living** in a **state** of miracle-readiness is the **creation** of a **new** **reality** outside of the **pattern** of ordinary **time**. _T2:6.9.3-4_

~ miracles are thoughts. _T2:12.1.1_

~ miracles are a **service** provided through **love**. Your readiness for miracles has been achieved through the learning **you** **have** **accomplished**. Miracles cannot be used, and so your learning needed to include an **ability** to distinguish between **service** and **use**. _T2:12.2.1-3_

~ until **you** were able to distinguish the **false** from the true, **you** were not able to **receive** the **power** of miracles. _T2:12.2.5_

~ the **power** of miracles is but the culmination and the integration of the beliefs **we** **have** put forth **here**. The miracle **I am** **offering** **you** **here** is the **service** **I** offer **you** , the precursor of the **service** **you** **will** offer to **others**. _T2:12.3.1-2_

~ miracles are intercessions. As such they are agreements. They do not take away **free will** but free the **will** to respond to **truth**. They are the ultimate **acceptance** of **giving** and receiving **being** one in **truth**. _T2:12.4.1-4_

~ while **you** continue to feel as if **you** do not **understand** miracles, **you** **will** be reluctant to believe in them or to **see** yourself as a miracle worker. Your **belief** in miracles and your **belief** in **atonement** or **correction** are the same thing. _T2:12.5.1-2_

~ right- **thinking** is the realm of miracles. _T2:12.5.4_

~ knowing is right- **thinking**. Your return to knowing or right- **thinking** is both the miracle and the end for the need of miracles. For as **you** live in the **world** as who **you** are, **you** **become** a miracle and the **constant** **expression** of the miracle. _T2:12.6.3-5_

~ the miracle is the most effective **way** of convincing **you** of who **you** are. _T3:20.4.4_

~ miracles are not the end, but merely the **means** , of **living** by the **truth**. Miracles are not meant to be called upon to **create** specific outcomes in specific circumstances. They are meant to be lived by as the **truth** is meant to be lived by. Not because **you** **desire** an outcome, but because it is who **you** are. _T3:20.11.1-4_

**Dialogues**

~ **we** **have** spoken of miracles and of the collapse of **time** the miracle is capable of providing. **We** **have** redefined the miracle as the **art of thought** , or the continual act of **prayer** that sustains the unity of **Christ-consciousness**. _D:6.27.7-8_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the miracle makes **you** fully aware of the **embrace** and the **consciousness** of unity and places **you** outside of **time**. In this **state** , no **duality** exists. Doing and **being** are one. _D:7.5.3-4_

**MIRACLE-MINDEDNESS**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ what happens when this **oneness** is **accomplished** is that divine memories arise to replace **perception**. This is miracle-mindedness. The **accomplishment** of this **state** of **being** is the **reason** for which **you** are **here**. It is your return to your **Self**. It heralds the return of **heaven** through the **second coming** of **Christ** , the **energy** that **will** **bridge** the two worlds. _T1:6.9.1-5_

**MISTAKE**

| məˈstāk |

**Treatises**

~ that mistake was seeing **God** as "other than" and **separate** from the **self**. _T3:17.5.1_

**MISTERY OF FAITH**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ this is rightly called the mystery of **faith** : **Christ** has died, **Christ** has risen, **Christ** **will** come again. What is missing from this recitation? **Christ** was born. Nowhere in the mystery of **faith** is it stated that **Christ** became a **body**. _C:10.15.3-6_

**MORE**

| môr |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** who believe they **have** "more" fall prey to righteousness. _C:20.40.5_

**MOTHER**

| ˈməT͟Hər |

**Treatises**

~ what is a mother but she who incarnates, makes **spirit** flesh through her own flesh, makes **spirit** flesh through **union**. _T1:8.10.1_

**MOUNTAIN TOP**

| ˈmount(ə)n täp |

**Dialogues**

~ **here** is where **you** **work** in **relationship** to maintain what **you** **have** learned, for **you** **know** that when **you** return to the **level** ground from which **you** climbed, **you** **will** be **different** as a result of having made your ascent. The hard **work** is done. What **you** **gain** **here** **you** **gain** from what is beyond **effort** and beyond learning, and from the maintenance of the **state** in which **you** reject the conditions of learning. **You** maintain **here** , in short, **all** of the conditions necessary to reach your **goal**. _D:15.23.1-4_

~ what **you** **will** **have** gained on your return **will** be the **goal** itself—the **sustenance** —for what **you** **will** **have** gained **will** never leave **you** but **will** sustain **you** forevermore. _D:15.24.1_

~ **you** **have** arrived. **You** **have** passed through the **stage** of initiation. **You** **have** reached the top of the mountain. _D:17.10.6-8_

~ **you** stand now at the threshold. The stimulus has been provided, the **journey** taken. **You** are **present**. Now is the **time** for your **response**. _D:17.11.1-4_

~ **you** **have** been taken to the top of the mountain without leaving **home**. _D:17.25.3_

~ **we** **will** spend forty days and forty nights **here** together, at the top of the mountain, fasting from **want** , becoming aware of **desire** , responding to **desire**. This is the final **stage** of becoming. Herein lies the secret of **succession**. _D:17.26.1-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **we** are **here** on the top of the mountain together, **beginning** our **work** together. _D:Day1.3.1_

~ **you** must accept your ascension to this mountain peak and this **dialogue** that is occurring **here**. If **you** believe this mountain peak is merely metaphorical, **you** **will** not realize that **you** **have** ascended or that **you** **have** left behind the conditions of the initiate. _D:Day1.7.1-2_

~ my forty days and forty nights on the mountain succeeded my baptism and my acknowledgment as the **Son of God** , and preceded my **time** of **living** as my **Self** in the **world**. _D:Day1.27.2_

~ it is said that during my forty days and forty nights **I** meditated or prayed. It is said that **I** fasted. **You** **have** been told that **you** are **here** to fast from **want**. **You** **know** that **you** are **here** to **experience** both the **old** temptations and the **new**. _D:Day4.34.7-10_

~ **you** might think of the mountain top as symbolic of a place close to **God**. If **God** was once seen as a figure in **heaven** , and **heaven** as a place beyond the clouds, then the mountain top was symbolic of proximity. It was symbolic of a place from which **God** was almost touchable. _D:Day4.35.1-3_

~ **you** thus may think of this **time** on the mountain as a **time** of getting in touch with your own **access** to **God** , your own **access** to **heaven**. _D:Day4.35.5_

~ if **you** are still willing to say that **you** can go only so far in your **acceptance** of the **truth** of who **you** really are, then our **purpose** of **being** together **here** on this mountain top **will** go unfulfilled. _D:Day4.39.4_

~ smile with me now, as **you** think of yourself in this elevated place. **You** are still the **self** of **form** despite the **truth** that **you** are literally with me in a place of high **elevation**. _D:Day4.42.1-2_

~ **i** deny no one the **journey** to the mountain top, not once or many times. But this is not what **I** **call** **you** to. _D:Day4.43.4-5_

~ **you** **have** been brought **here** for **revelation**. **You** **have** been brought **here** to be tempted by the **unknown** of your **inheritance**. _D:Day4.44.1-2_

~ **here** is where this **new** **life** either begins or is once again delayed. **Here** is where **you** say, **I** **want** it **all** , **desire** it **all** , accept it **all** —for **you** cannot **have** of this in parts. _D:Day4.44.6-7_

~ **we** are **here** for the final **stage** of your becoming, not because **you** **have** reached some ideal of enlightenment or what **you** might think of as **perfection**. _D:Day4.57.1_

~ while **you** **know** this is the **focus** of our **time** together, few, if any of **you** , feel as if **you** **have** truly taken leave of the every- **day** **world** of your "normal" existence and feel fully **present** on the holy mountain. This is not a second-best **situation**. Although it is **being** handled in this **way** partially because to **ask** **you** to walk away from your "normal" **life** for forty days and forty nights would cause too much anxiety and exclude too many, this is not the only, or even the major **reason** for this **chosen** method. _D:Day6.2.1-3_

~ this **dialogue** is occurring on the holy mountain without taking **you** away from **life** as **you** **know** it. _D:Day6.16.2_

~ this does not, however, mean that this **elevation** can be postponed, put off, or can wait for some convenient **time**. Quite the contrary. **We** are having our **dialogue** on the holy mountain while **you** **remain** **within** your **life** for the very **purpose** of not allowing this to happen. _D:Day6.17.1-3_

~ **we** **have** not removed ourselves from **life** in any **way** , and yet **we** **have** reached a place of retreat, a place of **safety** and of **rest** , a place away from "normal" **life** and the **lack** of **freedom** **you** **have** experienced there. _D:Day9.1.2_

~ **you** are not on this mountain top **alone**! _D:Day14.13.4_

~ while **you** **have** not been asked to remove yourself from **life** during this **time** on the mountain, **you** **have** been asked to be **here** and to **join** with **others** **here** for a **purpose**. As such, this **time** is also a **beginning** to the **practice** of realizing and **being** able to accept a certain **duality**. Without necessarily realizing it, your **consciousness** has been in two places at once without **being** divided. _D:Day15.24.1-3_

~ **you** began your mountain top **experience** with a companion who had offered himself as a **teacher** in order to bring **you** to the place of **being** willing to accept that a **teacher** was not needed. He joined **you** on the mountain top in order to **prepare** **you** for his departure, a departure from **reliance** upon him that would allow **you** to arrive at **reliance** upon yourself. _D:Day21.9.1-2_

~ this **certainty** has only been able to begin to **form** **within** **you** because **you** **have** agreed to this mountain top **experience** while remaining engaged in **life**. **You** **have** thus begun to **experience** on two levels. This has been a **goal** of the **time** **we** **have** spent together in this **way**. _D:Day27.2.4-6_

~ your descent from the mountain top **will** not mean that **you** no longer **have** the perspective gained there. **You** did not "go" to the mountain. The mountain came to **you**. _D:Day27.7.4-6_

~ the unlimited choices of internally directed **experience** are what **you** must begin to face as **we** begin our descent from the mountain top. _D:Day28.1.4_

~ our " **time** " on the mountain would be **more** rightly described as " **time** outside of **time**." _D:Day28.19.2_

~ this is what our **time** on the mountain has provided **you** with: The **experience** required in order to realize a **new** possibility. _D:Day28.23.2_

~ **you** can be having the **experience** of the mountain top and the **experience** of **level** ground simultaneously. _D:Day29.1.5_

~ what the mountain top **experience** is helping **you** to **see** is that **you** are the **experience**. The mountain top **experience** did not happen to **you** or happen separately from **you**. It has happened and is happening **within** **you**. _D:Day31.3.3_

~ while **you** **will** return to **level** ground, **you** **will** also retain the mountain top **experience**. _D:Day35.6.2_

~ **you** **will** thus always **have** the **power** to **call** upon the mountain top **experience** and the view of **wholeness** **we** **have** achieved **here**. **You** **will** carry it **within** **you** , and when **you** feel not its **power** , **you** **will** be able to **call** it forth simply by asking for it to be so. _D:Day35.6.4-5_

**MOVEMENT**

| ˈmo͞ovmənt |

**Dialogues**

~ rigor mortis, or the stiffness of **death** , is nothing but a **lack** of movement, a **lack** of movement of the blood through the veins and the consequent stiffening of the muscles. The Dead Sea is a "dead" sea because of **lack** of movement. Thus these are excellent examples to illustrate the **principle** of movement as **life** itself, the **idea** of **lack** of movement as **lack** of **life**. _D:15.2.2-4_

~ movement is **energy** , the **life** force of **creation** and of **being** , both in unity and in **time**. By **being** **you** are in movement. _D:15.3.2-3_

~ movement might be likened to something happening—to the **beginning** , the **beginning** of the story and the **beginning** of **creation**. _D:15.7.7_

~ movement is given and becomes movement in **form**. _D:16.11.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ movement is necessary to **know** the **self**. _D:Day15.17.5_

~ movement nor **experience** **exist** without **relationship**. _D:Day37.3.3_

**MYTH**

| miTH |

**Treatises**

~ whether **you** believe the **virgin birth** was **reality** or myth matters not as myth and **reality** **have** no concrete distinction in the **illusion** **within** which **you** live. In other words **you** live as much by myth as by **truth** and myth often **more** accurately reflects the **truth** than what **you** would **call** **real**. This is not a **call** , however, to **embrace** myth, but to **embrace** the **truth**. _T1:8.11.2-4_

**Dialogues**

~ only in myth is this **response** to a specific question, but even the specific questions of myth, when seen truly, were questions of the **heart** , **calling** only for **response** from the **heart**. _D:17.23.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ myth too stops short of **fulfillment** , of return to **paradise**. _D:Day1.23.3_

**NATURAL LAWS**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Dialogues**

~ yes, there are natural laws, but these "natural" laws are not the sets of facts **you** **have** defined them to be, but rather a staggering series of relationships, relationships without end, relationships that **exist** in **harmony** and **cooperation**. This is a **harmony** and **cooperation** that might one **day** extend to the sun and a demonstration that the sun need not rise—or perhaps need not set—and the earth would still be safely spinning in its orbit. _D:6.12.2-3_

~ **you** **have** been taught that if **you** take care of the **body** in certain ways, then good health **will** result. **You** **have** been taught that if your **body** expends **energy** , then it **will** need the refueling provided by food or **rest**. The list could be endless, but these examples **will** suffice. These modes of behavior concerning the **body** were given to **teach** and to represent. What **you** **have** done is turn them into implacable rules **you** **call** natural laws. When these natural laws **have** been shown at times to not apply, **you** consider these instances flukes or miracles. _D:6.18.1-6_

**NATURE**

| ˈnāCHər |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ now it is up to **you** whether **you** allow your true nature to be revealed. _D:Day24.3.11_

~ to **struggle** against your nature is what **you** **have** spent a lifetime doing. _D:Day24.4.1_

**NEEDS**

| nēdz |

**A Course of Love**

~ in **creation** , **all** needs are fulfilled the instant they **become** needs, which is why there are no needs. If **everything** **you** need has been provided, having needs makes no sense. _C:19.14.4-5_

**Treatises**

~ your needs **will** be provided for, thus ceasing to be needs. To deny that **you** are a **being** with needs is not the aim of this Course. To come to believe that your needs are provided for by a **Creator** and a **creation** that includes **all** " **others** " is to believe in **giving** and receiving **being** one in **truth**. _T2:7.14.4-6_

~ needs cannot be denied as a **means** of having them cease to be. _T2:7.18.2_

~ some practices **more** commonly **thought** of as tools might be **meditation** , exercises of the **body** such as yoga, or exercises of the **mind** such as affirmations. These tools are **all** **means** of releasing **ego** **mind** and inviting the one **mind** , or unity into the **present** moment. When seen as such, **all** these tools, including needs, can ignite the combination of learning and unlearning, the letting-go of one so that the other can arrive. _T2:9.2.3-5_

~ in **relationship** , every need is met by a corresponding need. It is a dance of correspondence. _T2:9.6.1-2_

~ **all** needs are shared. This is what differentiates needs from wants. This is true in two senses. It is true in that **all** needs, from survival needs to needs for **love** are literally shared in the same measure by **all**. The other sense in which needs are shared is in the aspect of correspondence. They are shared because they are known. Every **being** inherently knows that it shares the same needs as every other **being** of its kind. Every **being** also inherently knows that needs and the **fulfillment** of needs are part of the same fabric—they are like puzzle pieces that fit together. Other beings that **share** **life** with **you** on this planet are not concerned with needs or need **fulfillment**. Doing what needs to be done in order to survive is hardly the same as **feeling** that one has a need. Needs are the domain of the **thinking** **being** only. **Thinking** beings **share** needs because of the **way** in which they think. That some seem to **have** **more** needs than **others** is a fallacy of **perception**. Not one has **more** needs than another. _T2:9.7.1-14_

~ the extent to which **you** deny your needs or are honest about your needs makes the **difference** in your connection or **separation** **within** **relationship**. The extent to which **you** are willing to abdicate your needs in order to attain something is the extent to which your **belief** in **want** or **lack** is revealed. _T2:9.10.1-2_

~ an understanding of the mutuality of needs **will** aid **you** in **being** honest about your needs, thus allowing them to be met. Then the need to define or to identify them ceases. Your needs only continue to be brought to your **awareness** as needs until your **trust** in their immediate and ongoing **fulfillment** is complete. Once this **trust** is realized **you** **will** no longer think in terms of needs at **all**. Once **you** are no longer concerned with needs and the meeting of needs **you** **will** no longer be concerned with special relationships. _T2:9.16.1-5_

~ this phase of coming to accept need and dependency is necessary only as a learning ground of **experience** on which **trust** can grow. Once this **trust** is realized **you** **will** no longer think of **trust** just as **you** **will** no longer think of needs. _T2:9.18.1-2_

**NEW**

| n(y)o͞o |

**A Course of Love**

~ be unoccupied with the **old** so that the new may arrive. _C:26.19.6_

**Treatises**

~ as the **old** is undone, a vacuum is not created. The new is created. _T2:4.15.7_

~ what is happening now is happening in unison. As the **old** goes, the new arrives. There is no **time** -lapse in this learning and so it is a condition of **miracle** readiness. The **old** is replaced by the new simultaneously. _T2:4.17.3-6_

~ **you** cannot think your **way** to the new **life** that calls to **you**. **You** can only get there by **being** who **you** are in **truth**. _T3:5.8.1-2_

~ this new **reality** is known to **you** and requires no new learning at **all**. _T3:9.3.5_

~ **you** **will** **create** the new according to what **you** believe to be the **truth** and translate into ideas. _T3:13.4.8_

~ if **you** but let go the **old** , and with it the patterns of behavior caused by **fear** , the new **will** reveal to **you** **all** that **you** would **keep** and **all** that **you** would leave behind. What **you** would **keep** is of **love**. What **you** would leave behind is of **illusion**. _T3:14.8.3-5_

~ the new cannot **have** historical precedents. _T3:14.13.3_

~ it is impossible to **learn** the new with the **thought system** of the **old**. _T3:15.11.2_

~ **living** what **you** **have** learned **will** usher in the new. _T3:15.13.6_

~ **you** do not need to **struggle** to **create** the new **world** **you** are called to **create**. **You** do not need to **have** a **plan** and **you** do not need to **know** precisely what this new **world** **will** look like. **You** simply need to be willing to live by the **truth**. _T3:16.2.3-5_

~ **you** must **forget** the **idea** that **you** can **create** the new from the **old**. _T3:16.3.1_

~ many who observe the new from the **house** of **illusion** **will** still be able to deny what they **see**. _T3:19.14.3_

~ the new **way** **will** **work** wherever it finds **willingness**. _T3:20.15.4_

~ in the new **world** , the **world** where **truth** reigns, there is no cause for tension for there is no **world** of **illusion** where what is, is **separate** from what **will** be. _T3:22.13.3_

~ **calling** the true **Self** forth into observable **form** is the end of the **old** and the **beginning** of the new. _T3:22.17.5_

~ **embrace** the new as the new embraces **you**. The new is but the **truth** that has always existed. _T3:22.18.1-2_

~ creating anew is the precursor of the coming of the new **world**. _T4:2.33.5_

~ to sustain **Christ-consciousness** in **form** is **creation of the** new. _T4:4.18.5_

~ what **you** are called to do is to, through your multitude, sustain **Christ-consciousness** , and thus **create** the **union** of the human and the divine as a new **state** of **being**. This **union** **will** take **you** beyond the **goal** of expressing your **Self** in **form** because this **goal** but reflected the **desire** for a temporary **experience**. The temporary **experience** has been elongated because of the appeal of the physical **experience**. What this **Treatise** is saying to **you** is that if the physical **experience** appeals to **you** , and if **you** **create** the **union** of the human and the divine as a new **state** of **being** , this **choice** **will** be eternally yours. It **will** be a **choice** of your **creation** , a **creation** devoid of **fear**. It **will** be a new **choice**. _T4:4.18.7-12_

~ those of **you** willing to leave learning behind **will** **create** the new. This **will** not happen through learning but through sharing. **You** can **learn** to **change** the **world** , but not how to **create** a new **world**. _T4:10.14.1-3_

~ **you** **have** **become** who **you** are and move on from this starting point to creating who **you** are anew in unity and **relationship**. _T4:10.14.5_

~ today **we** **join** together to **birth** the new. _T4:12.1.2_

~ let not the **idea** of **struggle** take hold in the new. Let not the **idea** of **fear** take hold in the new. Let not the **idea** of **judgment** take hold in the new. _T4:12.18.5-7_

~ rejoice and be glad and turn your **attention** to the new. _T4:12.25.9_

**Dialogues**

~ you are now asked to do two things simultaneously: To accept the new and to deny the **old**. _D:2.1.1_

~ as **you** are new, so too is **God**. _D:4.1.3_

~ as **you** are new, so too is the **world**. _D:4.1.4_

~ as **you** are new, so are your brothers and sisters. _D:4.1.5_

~ a **world** in which **giving** and receiving are one. _D:6.17.1_

~ the new cannot be learned. _D:9.10.5_

~ **you** cannot come to **know** the new, or to **create** the new, through the **means** of **old** , including the **means** of **thought**. _D:9.10.6_

~ it is in that **relationship** , the **relationship** between what is and the **expression** of what is by the **elevated Self of form** , that the new is created. _D:10.5.3_

~ **you** **create** the new from, and in, unity. _D:11.4.5_

~ what is meant by **creation of the** new is **creation** of a new **reality**. _D:14.14.6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the **realization** of **paradise** and of your true **Self** and true **home** , in a **form** that **will** take **you** beyond **time** to **eternity**. _D:Day1.24.5_

~ **all** that **will** be left to do **will** be the **creation** of a new **world** in the only **way** that it can come about—through unity. _D:Day4.47.2_

~ in this **action** of joining in **union** and **relationship** is contained the key to **creation of the** new. It was spoken of earlier as the act of informing and **being** informed, as the step beyond that of observing and **being** observed. It is where **creation of the** new can begin because it is the intent of **creation** , rather than the intent of the observer, that is the creative force, the animator and informer. _D:Day19.15.1-3_

~ come into the **practice** of letting the new come. It is in the new **pattern** of stillness combined with non-resistance that the new **will** come. _D:Day25.4.2-3_

~ the new **way** of seeing the **Self** just spoken of—seeing the **Self** as **being** in **relationship** —is key to creating a new **world**. _D:Day34.1.4_

~ the only **way** to **create** it is to **experience** it. The only **way** to **experience** it is to **create** it. _D:Day36.19.4-5_

**NEW TESTAMENT**

| ˌn(y)o͞o ˈtestəmənt |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the New Testament was the **beginning** of the **new**. _D:Day1.20.1_

**NOTHINGNESS**

| ˈnəTHiNGnəs |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to not **know** **wholeness** would be to be in a **state** of nothingness. _D:Day30.4.4_

**OBSERVATION**

| ˌäbzərˈvāSH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ let us return to the **concept** of observation and link it with ideas as **we** **have** spoken of them **here**. Observation, the **ability** to observe what the **Self** expresses, was part of the original **choice** for physical **form**. The **word** observance has rightly been linked with divine worship and **devotion**. Minds that **have** been unwilling to accept or **learn** an unobservable **truth** , **will** now accept and **learn** from observable **truth**. This is why **you** must **become** that observable **truth**. _T3:18.2.1-5_

~ observance happens in **relationship** , the very **relationship** that disallowed the making of a **separate** **self**. Observance is linked to cause and **effect** **being** one. What is observed is in **relationship** with the observer and this **relationship** causes an **effect**. Because this was part of the original **choice** for the physical **experience** , it is a natural **choice** to serve our **new** **purpose** of the **miracle** that **will** allow **you** to **exist** as who **you** are in human **form**. _T3:18.3.1-4_

~ your observance of your brothers and sisters **will** return **remembrance** to their minds and hearts. It is, in fact, your observance of the **truth** of your brothers and sisters that is the **miracle** **we** **have** stated as our **new** **goal**. _T3:18.4.2-3_

~ a **mind** and **heart** joined in unity observes the **truth** where once a **mind** and **heart** separated by **illusion** observed **illusion**. _T3:18.7.1_

~ it **will** seem at **first** as if **you** are asked to deny the facts that **you** **see** before **you** in order to observe something other than what is there. **You** must constantly **remember** that your observance is now an act of worship and of **devotion** and that **you** are called to observe the **truth** rather than **illusion** no **matter** how **real** **illusion** may still seem to be. _T3:18.8.1-2_

~ your eyes **will** **learn** to observe only the **truth** , even unto seeing what before but seemed unobservable. _T3:18.9.5_

~ **you** are used to **thinking** that what **you** observe forms outside of your **mind**. This is the **thinking** of the **ego** - **thought system**. _T3:18.10.3-4_

~ **you** can observe with your eyes closed as easily as **you** can observe with your eyes open. **You** can observe by having an **idea** of another's health, **abundance** , **peace** , and **happiness**. **You** can observe this **within** yourself because it exists **within** your **Self**. _T3:18.10.6-8_

~ it is only when what is observable is so widely evident that it can no longer be denied that changes of a large scale **will** begin to be seen. _T3:19.14.6_

~ this is about your observance. Your observance of the **laws of love**. Your observance is to **remain** with cause rather than to stray to **effect** , the manner of **living** practiced by those who **have** birthed the **idea** that cause and **effect** are one in **truth**. _T3:20.13.10-12_

~ observation is the active **state** of reception, a **state** not confined to receiving, but a **state** of **giving** and receiving as one. Observation, as **I am** speaking of it and teaching it, makes **you** one with what **you** observe. **Being** one with what **you** observe causes **you** to **know** the proper **response**. It is in responding properly that **you** **will** **know** what to do. _T3:22.7.1-4_

~ the act of observation that **you** are able to do with your eyes closed is the observation of what is. _T3:22.8.2_

~ **you** cannot observe your **new** **Self** without observing the **truth** that has always existed. _T3:22.11.1_

~ observation, both of yourself and of what **you** **desire** , is an act that takes place in the **here** and now that is and brings what is into existence. _T3:22.13.1_

~ observation of what **you** **desire** , what **we** **have** referred to as "closed eyes" observation, can be likened to **prayer** and thus to the **miracle**. This is the very **miracle** that closes the door of **duality** , and seals out the **world** where what is, is separated from what **will** be by your **effort** and the **time** that it **will** take **you** to, through your **effort** , **create** the desired outcome. Observation of what **you** **desire** is observation of what is. _T3:22.14.1-3_

~ what **we** **have** called "closed eyes" observation is really the observation of a **Self** beyond the **personal self**. To **call** forth observance is to **call** forth the sight of your true **Self**. To **call** forth the sight of your true **Self** is to **call** your true **Self** into observable **form**. _T3:22.17.2-4_

~ the **ability** to observe what the **Self** expresses was among the original reasons for this **chosen** **experience**. Observe now the expressions of the **self** **you** are and **have** been. _T4:2.15.1-2_

~ only from this shared **vision** , this observation of what is, can **you** begin to produce unity and **relationship** through unity and **relationship**. _T4:2.18.1_

~ observing what is unites **you** with the **present** in that it unites **you** with what is rather than with what **you** perceive to be. _T4:2.21.5_

~ observation of what is, is a natural **effect** of the cause of a **heart** and **mind** joined in unity. _T4:2.22.1_

~ with your **new** understanding of observance must come a **new** understanding of **relationship** and the **ability** of the **devotion** of the observant to affect those relationships. _T4:2.24.1_

~ **you** can still think of observance of what is as a game of make believe and feel that **you** **will** **have** to trick yourself into believing that **you** **see** **love** where there is cause for **fear**. **You** must **remember** that **you** are now called to **see** without **judgment**. To **see** without **judgment** is to **see** truly. **You** need not look for good or bad, but only need be steadily aware that **you** can only **see** in one of two ways—with **love** or **fear**. _T4:2.29.2_

~ observation is an **extension** of the **embrace** that in turn makes the **embrace** observable. _T4:3.1.1_

~ observation and **vision** are closely linked but not the same. Observation has to do with the **elevation** of the **personal self**. _T4:3.2.1-2_

~ observation is the **means** of seeing this binding **pattern** in physical **form**. _T4:3.2.5_

~ observation **will** allow **you** to elevate the **personal self** to its rightful place **within** the **nature** of a **world** of **love**. _T4:3.10.2_

~ observation is the natural **means** of sharing what is known in physical **form**. _T4:3.11.2_

~ observation is the **means** by which the original **nature** of the created can newly be seen in physical **form**. _T4:3.12.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ observation takes place in **time**. Even while **you** **have** been called to observe what is, what **you** are observing in **form** are the representations of what is in **time**. _D:7.16.1-2_

~ it has been in the **relationship** of observation that **you** **have** interacted with **all** other **life** forms as well as with inanimate forms. In the **relationship** generated by observation, those forms **have** been perceived as **real**. That observation produced the solidity and mass of the forms **you** observed. _D:Day15.6.1-3_

~ what **you** made known through **judgment** -free observation was but the precursor to what is made known through informing. _D:Day15.6.7_

~ the **difference** between simply bringing **spirit** into **form** and making **spirit** known through **form** is the **difference** for which the **time** has come. The observation **you** **have** practiced has prepared **you** to move from observation to informing and **being** informed. _D:Day15.7.1-2_

~ in practicing observation without **judgment** , **you** learned to be neutral observers. **Being** neutral observers allowed cause and **effect** to occur naturally rather than having your **judgment** alter natural cause and **effect**. This **practice** **will** continue to serve **you** and **will** not be replaced, but supplemented by the **new** **practice** of informing, until the **practice** of observation is no longer needed. _D:Day15.9.1-3_

~ it is possible to **practice** observance in every **situation**. _D:Day15.11.3_

~ observation is not **being** replaced. Observation is needed until this **level** of neutrality is reached by a much greater number. _D:Day15.11.4-5_

**OBSTACLE**

| ˈäbstək(ə)l |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **all** obstacles of **form** are only **real** in the **world** of **form** , a **world** that is perceived rather than known. _D:Day12.7.1_

~ obstacles need not be avoided for **space** encompasses **all** obstacles, making them invisible. The **mind** would say that making obstacles invisible is uncaring. The spacious **Self** knows no obstacles for it knows no uncaring. It knows only **love** for the One **Self**. It feels the obstacle but does not **know** it. The **feeling** that is the sense organ of the spacious **Self** then remembers its spaciousness and calls upon it. The obstacle is thus enfolded in the **space** , becoming one with it. The perceiver knows not of the enfolding but feels no hurt nor lessening of **spirit** by becoming invisible **within** the **space**. The solidity of the perceiver is, in this manner, deflected from the One **Self** , becoming not an obstacle. The open **space** of the perceiver who sees not with **perception** only, and holds not his or her boundaries solid, is joined rather than deflected. The open perceiver may or may not **know** of this enfolding, but may realize a sense of comfort or of **safety** , a **feeling** of **love** or of attraction. _D:Day12.8.8-18_

~ non-human obstacles **have** no need of **being** deflected for their boundaries **have** not been made solid by **perception**. A seeming obstacle of non-human **form** is easily enfolded in the **space** of the One **Self** and can be moved or passed through. _D:Day12.9.1-2_

~ a complete **lack** of **love** creates formidable obstacles, or in other words, obstacles of solid **form** that contain no spaciousness. Solid **form** is actually a void, a substance devoid of spaciousness, a **form** that is **form** only. These forms are still encompassed by the loving **space** of **Christ-consciousness** and thus are easily rendered ineffective. _D:Day13.5.4-6_

**OFFERING**

| ˈôf(ə)riNG |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** offerings are **love** or **lack** of **love**. **Lack** of **love** is nothing. Thus, **all** offerings made from a place other than **love** are nothing. **All** offerings made from a place of **fear** or guilt are nothing. _C:1.2.7-10_

**OLD**

| ōld |

**Treatises**

~ if **you** are tired of the old, be willing to be done with the old. _T3:22.15.7_

**Dialogues**

~ as the old must be denied for the **new** to come into **being** , the old must be vanquished in order for the **truth** to triumph over **illusion**. _D:3.4.3_

~ the old **you** would deny is the **idea** of a purposeless existence, a **universe** with no divine order, a **life** in which **you** are at the mercy of **fate**. _D:4.11.6_

~ **you** cannot deny the old and **remain** in the **prison** of the old. _D:4.23.3_

~ **we** cannot build the **new** upon **prison** walls of old. _D:4.25.1_

~ **you** **have** died to the old. _D:5.18.5_

~ think of the "old" as a **world** in which an attitude of "if this, then that" ruled. _D:6.17.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ by clinging to some of the old, **you** prevent its **death** and **you** prevent the rebirth of the **new**. **You** prevent the very **life** - **giving** **resurrection** **you** await. **You** prevent the **elevation** of the **self** of **form**. _D:Day3.60.2-4_

~ **here** is the **beginning** point from which **we** continue to burn away the remnants of attachment to the old, the attachments that cause some of **you** to continue to feel sadness, **anger** , depression, or nostalgia for the **way** things were. These things **will** not leave **you** before **you** leave them. But **you** **will** leave them. _D:Day4.58.1-3_

~ **join** me in this **choice** , and **we** **will** leave behind the old and continue our **movement** toward **creation of the new**. _D:Day4.59.1_

~ let go your resistance to thoughts that seem of the old **pattern**. That **you** **know** they are of the old **pattern** is enough. Let them come. Let them go. _D:Day25.5.5-8_

~ most of what is not the **truth** has been identified as old **thought** patterns. _D:Day28.16.3_

~ old patterns of **thought** , patterns that **you** need only be aware of before choosing to **have** them gone from **you**. _E.2.6_

**Addendum**

~ abandonment of the old **way** **will** not bring forth ruin but **will** bring instead the **wisdom** that **each** one knows she or he has always possessed. _A.22.2_

**ONENESS**

| ˈwən(n)əs |

**A Course of Love**

~ your only **concept** of oneness is of a single **form** , a single entity. There is either one chair or two. One table or four. Your emphasis has been on quantity, and one is seen as **less** than any other number. Yet, on the other hand, when only one of anything exists it is highly prized. _C:19.17.1-5_

~ oneness and unity go together, the unity of **creation** **being** part of the oneness of **God** , and the oneness of **God** part of the unity of **creation**. _C:19.17.8_

~ likeness, like thingness, has been overcome with oneness. Oneness prevails. _C:20.13.4-5_

~ your **mind** does not **exist** outside of oneness. _C:31.35.1_

**Treatises**

~ the **light** of **heaven** shines not down upon **you** but is given and received in equal exchange by **all** who in **creation** **exist** together in oneness eternal. _T2:13.5.6_

~ the **truth** that has always existed is our oneness, and what **you** **will** observe about your **new** **Self** **you** **will** observe about **all**. **We** **will** be one **body** , one **Self**. No **comparison** **will** be possible. _T3:22.11.2-4_

~ oneness always existed. _T4:2.22.5_

**Dialogues**

~ oneness replaces **duality** or **contrast**. _D:3.10.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ it is only in **relationship** that the oneness of the **self** separates from oneness and so knows oneness. _D:Day11.5.2_

~ the oneness that your **individual** **self** represents in this **life** is the oneness of the Holy One who is both one—somewhat in the **way** **you** think of the **individual** **self** —and **All**. _D:Day13.3.2_

~ who **you** are **being** in **union** and **relationship** with me, is me, as well as **you**. This is the **power** of differentiation in **union** and **relationship** , the demonstration of oneness that was heralded in the **time** of **Jesus** **Christ**. _D:Day40.29.1-2_

**OPPOSITE**

| ˈäpəzət |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ opposites **exist** only as **different** aspects of one **whole**. _D:Day27.9.6_

**OPPOSITION**

| ˌäpəˈziSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ the **truth** opposes nothing, nor does **love**. _C:16.10.8_

**ORIGINAL PURPOSE**

| əˈrijənl ˈpərpəs |

**Treatises**

~ the **purpose** **you** started out to achieve—that of a **new** **way** of **expression** in a **form** that would **expand** **awareness** , through **relationship** , of **self** and **others**. _T3:2.3.6_

~ **we** advance toward **truth** through returning to original purpose. Your return to your original purpose eliminates the **concept** of original sin and leaves **you** blameless. It is from this blameless or unaltered **state** that your **personal self** can begin to represent the **truth** for it leaves untruth, or the **ego** , behind. _T3:2.6.1-3_

~ without there having been an original purpose worthy of God's son, the **crucifixion** would **have** ended **life** in **form** and returned the sons of man to the formless. Instead, the sons of man were freed to pursue their original purpose. _T3:5.7.8-9_

~ without rebirth of the **Self** , the original purpose goes unfulfilled. Since **God** is original purpose, original cause, the origin of **self** and of **relationship** , original purpose cannot go unfulfilled. What this **means** is that the **illusion** **will** be no **more** and **truth** **will** reign. Such is the reign of **God**. _T3:5.8.5-8_

~ the **devotion** of the observant **will** return **you** to your original purpose. The **vision** of **Christ-consciousness** **will** take **you** beyond it. _T4:3.3.2-3_

~ original intent has **everything** to do with the **nature** of things for original intent is synonymous with cause. The original intent of this **chosen** **experience** was the **expression** of the **Self** of **love** in observable **form**. This original intent or cause formed the true **nature** of the **personal self** capable of **being** observed in **relationship**. The displacement of the original intent, while it did not **change** the original cause, formed a **false** **nature** for the **personal self**. This displacement of the original intent can be simply stated as the displacement of **love** with **fear**. It is as simple as that. Yet the **way** in which **each** of **you** **have** interpreted this displacement has come to seem quite complex. _T4:3.4.1-7_

~ the displacement of the original intent was so complete that **each** **life** has begun with **fear** and proceeded from this **beginning** continually reacting to **fear**. While the original intent remained **within** **you** and caused **you** to attempt to express a **Self** of **love** despite your **fear** , **fear** has thwarted your every **effort** and caused the very **effort** that has continued the cycle of **fear**. _T4:3.5.2-3_

**OTHERS**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ others are the great **unknown** of **living** in the **world**. Others are those who are beyond your **control** , those who can influence the course of your **day** or your **life** in ways **you** would not choose. Others represent the accidents waiting to happen, **love** that is not returned, the withholding of things **you** deem important. This **fear** that **you** feel in relation to others is as true of those **you** hold most dear to **you** as it is of those **you** would **call** strangers. _T2:7.2.1-4_

~ **first** let us replace your **idea** of "others" with the **idea** of " **relationship** " that has been so often defined and repeated **within** this Course. In order to believe in **giving** and receiving as one, **you** must believe in **relationship** rather than in others. _T2:7.4.1-2_

~ those **you** would view as others are **separate** from **you**. _T2:7.5.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ others are one with **you**. _D:Day35.4.1_

**OVERLAP**

| ˌōvərˈlap |

**Treatises**

~ for a short **time** , an overlap is occurring during which those unable to allow themselves to **become** aware of the **new** **state** of **consciousness** are resisting it, again indirectly. Some occupy themselves with **mind** and **spirit** numbing activities in order to block it out, having **chosen** to die **within** the **state** of **consciousness** in which they **have** lived. **Others** do not wish to **experience** the **truth** directly, but only to **experience** **experience**. They are in the desperate throes of wanting to **experience** **everything** before they allow themselves to directly **experience** the **truth** , **thinking** still that the **experience** of the **truth** **will** exclude much that they would **want** to try before they give into its pull and settle there. But **all** **have** **become** aware that a **new** **experience** awaits and that they stand at the threshold of **choice**. _T4:1.25.1-5_

**OWNERSHIP**

| ˈōnərˌSHip |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** are ready now to return to this ownership, this possession of **relationship** and **union**. Possession and ownership are words that **have** **become** faulty ideas in **separation**. They mean an entirely **different** thing in **union** and **relationship**. They mean **union** and **relationship**. That **you** own it. That **you** possess it. That **you** hold it and carry it **within** your own **Self**. That **you** make it yours. As **you** make me yours and as **I** make **you** mine. **I Am** your own. **You** are my own. **We** are the beloved when **we** are the beloved to one another, when **we** are who **I Am** to one another. _D:Day38.9.1-12_

~ **relationship** and **union** are not other than this. **Being** in **relationship** and **union** **means** just that. It **means** a **love** deeper than any **love** **you** **have** known, for in not owning and possessing, in not **being** owned and possessed by, and in, **union** and **relationship** , **you** **have** not fully known **love**. To **claim** something as your own is simply to **claim** possession for your own **Self**. _D:Day38.10.1-4_

~ in "own"-ership **we** are full of one another's own **being**. **We** are **each** other's own. _D:Day38.13.7-8_

**PAIN**

| pān |

**A Course of Love**

~ such pain as has your **heart** endured would surely be a knife to cut through tissue, a blow that to the brain would stop **all** functioning, an attack upon the cells far greater than any cancer. The pain of **love** , so treasured that it cannot be let go, can and does indeed attack the tissue, brain, and cells. And then **you** **call** it illness and allow the **body** to let **you** down, still and always holding **love** unto yourself. _C:3.19.3-_ _5_

~ **all** **you** **experience** as painful is the result of feelings of **lack** of **love**. _C:18.23.4_

~ pain comes not from your feelings of **love** , but feelings of **love** lost. _C:18.23.6_

~ having no one to **receive** and reject feelings of pain and replace them with feelings of **love** causes **all** your distress. Think not that **you** react to pain of any kind with the **love** from your **real** **Self** that would dispel it. _C:18.24.1-2_

**PARADISE**

| ˈperəˌdīs |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ this return to paradise, to your true **Self** and your true **home** , is written **within** **you**. It only **needs** to be lived to **become** **real**. **You** must accept me because **I** lived it and made it **real** for **you**. _D:Day1.24.1-3_

~ the expelled feelings that seemed to cause this **duality** still **exist** in **consciousness**. Once these expelled feelings are returned to the spacious **Self** and the spacious **Self** embraces them with **love** , the spacious **Self** **will** be **whole** , for it **will** **embrace** **everything** —as **love** , which is **everything** —embraces it. This is paradise re-found. _D:Day16.16.1-3_

~ both the **self** and the **relationship** of **self** to **all** must **become** known in order for the paradise that has been re-found to be re-created for everyone. What else would **life** be for but to make the invisible paradise of **love** visible and livable for **all**? _D:Day18.12.1-2_

**PARTICULAR**

| pə(r)ˈtikyələr |

**A Course of Love**

~ particularity has to do with mass, substance, **form**. Your **being** is far beyond your imagined **reliance** on the particular. The particular is about parts and parts are **all** **you** **see**. _C:21.2.4-6_

**PASS-THROUGH**

_A Course of Love Term_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ pass through was never about **escape** or **rejection**. Pass through is about releasing the **particular** while maintaining the **relationship**. It is what happens in **oneness** as opposed to the stopping and holding "apart" that occurred in **separation**. _D:Day14.9.1-3_

**PAST**

|. past |

**A Course of Love**

~ your past has nothing to do with the **truth** about who **you** are, except in the degree to which it has or has not helped **you** to **remember** who **you** are. _C:31.26.1_

**Treatises**

~ the past was lived in the **house** of **illusion**. _T3:10.7.3_

~ the past is no **more** and neither the **present** nor the **future** can be built upon it. _T3:14.12.6_

~ the past is but a starting point for the **future**. _T3:14.13.6_

~ your actions of the past represented who **you** believed yourself to be. _T3:19.11.2_

~ no cause to look back exists at **all**. _T4:1.16.3_

~ the **truth** of the past still lives and that the **illusion** of the past never was. _T4:1.16.6_

~ **you** can **learn** from the past but not from the **future**. When **you** build upon what **you** can **learn** **you** build upon the past and **create** not the **future** but an **extension** of the past. _T4:10.14.6-7_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** are used to hiding the **self** of the past about whom **you** are not well pleased. _D:Day8.26.2_

**PATH**

| paTH |

**A Course of Love**

~ no **matter** which path **you** follow, the path of the **mind** or the path of the **heart** , **you** **will** not get where **you** are wanting to go until they are joined. **You** might imagine three paths—one path representing **mind** , one path representing **heart** , and one path representing **wholeheartedness**. The path of neither **mind** nor **heart** **alone** **will** take **you** where the path of unity **will** take **you** , and the **journey** **will** not be the same. _C:21.7.12_

**Treatises**

~ **you** need no longer **journey** onto the paths of seeking. The **truth** of yourself that **you** reveal now **will** not **become** a **new** **truth** as **you** take a **new** path. Your path now is sure and its final **acceptance** necessary. _T2:8.6.7-9_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the distinctness of your own path **will** be made visible and **you** **will** **see** that it may be quite **different** from the **others** with whom **you** are coming to **know** , and perhaps quite **different** than **you** **thought** it would be. _D:Day15.26.3_

~ your path **will** be so clear to **you** it **will** be as if it is the only path in the **world** and **you** **will** wonder why **you** didn't **see** it **all** along. **Expect** this. And it **will** be. So be it. _E.6.5-8_

**PATIENCE**

| ˈpāSHəns |

**A Course of Love**

~ the Course speaks of patience that is infinite. **God** is patient, but the **world** is not. **God** is patient for **God** sees **you** only as **you** are. _C:P.24.1_

**PATTERN**

| ˈpadərn |

**Treatises**

~ many of these patterns do not **concern** me for they **will** fall away of themselves as your **awareness** of the **new** grows. But these few that **I** linger on **will** prevent your **awareness** of the **new** from growing, and so must be consciously left behind. _T4:2.13.3-4_

~ even though **you** are abiding now in the **state** of **Christ-consciousness** , the pattern of the **old** thoughts **will** continue until they are replaced by a **new** pattern. _T4:12.20.3_

~ along with the **creation** of a **new** **language** , another imperative **creation** with which to begin our **new** **work** is that of **new** patterns. The patterns of **old** were patterns designed for the optimal **benefit** of learning. These patterns were created by the one **mind** and **heart** that **you** **share** in unity with **God**. The **new** patterns of sharing in unity and **relationship** and thus creating unity and **relationship** are only now **being** created by the one **mind** and **heart** that **you** **share** in unity with **God**. **You** **will** be the co- **creator** of the **new** pattern of **consciousness** that is sharing in unity and **relationship** , as **you** were once the co- **creator** of the pattern of **consciousness** that was learning. _T4:12.21.2-6_

~ the pattern of a shared **consciousness** is one of sharing in unity and **relationship**. There is no pattern **within** it for learning (which is **individual** ), for **individual** **gain** , or for **individual** **accomplishment**. _T4:12.24.2-3_

~ it is the **way** in which **you** **will** come to **remember** and **share** in unity that concerns **you** now and what **we** are speaking of when **we** talk of patterns. There was a pattern to the process of learning that was shared by **all** learners and inherent to your natures. The **means** were **different** for **each** , but the pattern was the same. There was an overall design that ensured optimal learning and that design was known to **you** in the pattern of that design, a pattern that was part of the pattern of your thoughts, even after the **ego** came to rule your **thought system**. Without this pattern, the **ego** could **have** succeeded in becoming the ruler of the **personal self**. Part of this design and pattern was the **freedom** of **free will**. _T4:12.27.1-6_

~ the **new** pattern is one of **creation** in **relationship** and unity rather than learning. What this **means** **will** be revealed to **you** and shared by **all** who abide **within** **Christ-consciousness** because **you** abide in a **consciousness** of unity through your **choice**. _T4:12.28.4-5_

~ what **will** **help** **you** to **remain** **doubt** -free and thus **fear** -free and continually able to sustain **Christ-consciousness** , is coming to **know** the **new** design, and the **new** patterns that reveal the design. This **new** design, and the **new** patterns that **will** be helpful to **you** in its sustainability, are what must be created through our sharing in unity and be communicated through our continuing dialogues with one another. _T4:12.30.1-2_

~ the **new** patterns by which **you** and those who come after **you** , **will** **more** fully come to **awareness** of **all** they **have** inherited and **all** it is **within** their **power** to **create**. _T4:12.31.7_

~ the **creation** of the design or pattern that reveals our **lack** of **separation** is part of the **creation** that is before us. It **will** be mutually decided through the coming revelations and our responses to the revelations of the **new**. _T4:12.33.3-4_

**Dialogues**

~ to " **know** " and not accept what **you** " **know** " to be the **truth** is a continuation of the pattern of **insanity** that must be replaced with a pattern of **sanity**. _D:1.15.8_

~ the patterns of the **new** **will** begin to arise naturally when **you** deny the patterns of the **old**. _D:2.3.1_

~ **denial** is the correct **word** **here** , for **I** do not **want** **you** combating or resisting the **old** patterns. _D:2.3.4_

~ patterns are not in quite the same category as the **false** remembering **you** were able to purge through unlearning. _D:2.3.5_

~ patterns are both learned systems and systems of design. _D:2.4.1_

~ because **we** are working now for the integration of your true **identity** into the **self** of **form** , or the **elevation** of the **personal self** , **new** patterns are needed. _D:2.15.3_

~ systems are the result of your attempts to externalize patterns. Patterns are contained **within**. Looking at the patterns **you** **have** attempted to externalize can **help** **you** to **understand** the **nature** of patterns. _D:2.16.1-3_

~ the patterns of the **new** **will** **create** only such **life** - **giving** and **life** -supporting systems—as long as the patterns of the **new** are accepted and lived with your full **awareness**. _D:3.20.4_

~ patterns are both of learning and of design. _D:4.9.3_

~ divine patterns are the patterns that made your existence in **form** possible as well as the patterns that **have** made your return to your true **identity** possible. These patterns are both **external** and internal. **External** divine patterns include the observable forms that make up your **world** , **everything** from the planet on which **you** **exist** to the stars in the sky, from the **body** **you** seem to inhabit to the animal and plant **life** that exists around **you**. From the daintiest and most intricately laced snowflake to the stem of a plant to the workings of the human brain, a divine pattern is evident and should not be beyond your **belief**. Despite the differences in what **you** **see** , think, and feel, there is but one **external** divine pattern that created the observable **world** , and only one internal divine pattern that created the internal **world**. The internal divine pattern was that of learning. _D:4.12.1-6_

~ the two patterns, the internal and the **external** , were created together to **exist** in a complementary fashion. Both of these divine patterns are **being** newly re-created and **we** **will** talk much **more** of them and of the creative **time** **we** are now entering. Thus far, **we** are merely working together to **create** a pattern of **acceptance** to replace the pattern of learning. _D:4.13.1-3_

~ externalized patterns, or systems, were also built from the systems of **thought** that **have** been your **foundation** , the basic building blocks of what **you** **have** seen as **reality**. As such, these systems too are obviously of the **old**. _D:4.17.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **being** unable to replace, in application, the **false** with the true, the pattern of the **false** remains. _D:Day3.14.7_

~ this is the **way** fears operate. They operate in the pattern of the **ego** , a pattern that was learned, a pattern that was emphasized and reemphasized through **external** events so that it would not be forgotten, so that it would reinforce wants until this attitude of wanting seemed impossible to unlearn. It is a pattern of survival, but not of your survival. It is the pattern of the ego's survival, and even though the **ego** is no longer with **you** , the pattern remains because what **you** learned, and the **way** in which **you** learned it, remains. _D:Day3.24.1-4_

~ **you** do not yet **know** how to rid yourself of former patterns. Your **mind** , while it no longer wants to cling to known patterns, is confronted with them constantly. Thus your **heart** still seems to **battle** with the supremacy of **mind**. _D:8.8.7-9_

~ **old** patterns or habits must be done away with before **achievement** of a **new** **way** is possible. _D:Day10.12.6_

~ the **new** visual pattern is that of **spirit** resurrected in **form**. It is the ascension of the **body** , or **elevation** of the **self** of **form**. **You** are called to **demonstrate** this pattern. The **choice** is to **demonstrate** this pattern through interaction with the **world** , or through **incarnation** through **relationship**. Neither is exclusive. Both are contained **within** the other. But the **way** of **discovery** and demonstration is **different**. _D:Day18.10.1-7_

~ **you** are called to **demonstrate** this **new** visual pattern. _D:Day18.11.1_

~ **thought** patterns **exist** **within** **thought** systems that **have** been externalized and are part of the **world** on **level** ground. These **external** systems are based, as are **all** that **you** **have** made, on the externalization of what is **within**. At the same **time** however, what is **within** has been based upon what was previously externalized. This is what now must **change** , and as can be seen, this **change** is essential to changing the **world**. _D:Day28.17.1-4_

~ **desire** an **old** pattern to be gone and it **will** be gone. E.3.2

**Addendum**

~ assisting individuals with the recognition of patterns is also a highly valuable **service** that facilitators and other group members can provide. The entrenched patterns of the **past** are **difficult** to dislodge even when they **have** been recognized. Individuals can be encouraged **here** to "watch the parade go by" as what has gone unhealed is brought forward for **acceptance** , **forgiveness** , and letting-go. With the letting-go of **each** **old** pattern or **situation** that seems fraught with peril, a cloud of despair **will** lift, a little **more** of darkness recedes, and a little **more** **light** is available to show the **way**. _A.32.1-4_

**PAYMENT**

| ˈpāmənt |

**A Course of Love**

~ You believe mistakes must be paid for, not once but many times, and no matter how heavy the payment is, it only "pays for" what was done and cannot ever be undone. What does payment do but purchase something that is then yours to keep? What have you purchased with all your effort to make amends for your wrongdoing? You have but purchased guilt, and hold it to yourself—a constant companion and a judgment on your own self. _C:17.11.2-5_

**PEACE**

| pēs |

**A Course of Love**

~ peace may mean destruction of the **old**. _C:5.13.4_

~ peace is merely enjoyment of the rain and sun, night as well as **day**. Without **judgment** cast upon it, peace shines on **all** that **you** would look upon, as well as every **situation** **you** would face. _C:6.16.4-5_

~ the injunction to **rest** in peace is for the **living** , not the dead. But while **you** run the race **you** **will** **know** it not. _C:9.41.1-2_

~ peace remains peace despite your wars. _C:12.11.6_

~ peace is the **foundation** of your **being**. Not a peace that implies an absence but a peace that implies a **fullness**. _C:20.26.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ a **state** of peace is a prerequisite of **giving** and receiving as one. Any **state** other than that of peace is conflicted by the **desire** for peace and the ways in which peace is seen as **being** approachable. Peace is seen as **being** outside of one's **being** and the **means** are sought for the **union** of **being** with that which **will** provide for peace. _T1:1.1.3-5_

~ there is a core of peace at the center of your **Self** now and the issues that **you** choose to deal with **will** not affect that core of peace at **all**. While **you** may find this almost disturbing, **you** **will** not go to extremes to break this peace. _T1:10.1.3-4_

~ my peace is yours. **You** **have** asked for it and it has been given to **you**. To not **have** it, **you** **will** **have** to choose not to **have** it. _T1:10.2.1-3_

~ **you** can continue to **experience** **life** and still carry the Peace of **God** **within** **you**. As **you** live in peace **you** can be an **example** to your brothers and sisters, an **example** that says there is another **way**. _T1:10.6.7-8_

~ **god** exists with **you** in peace. When **you** feel peace, **you** feel the Peace of **God**. There is no other peace. There is no other **God**. Whether **you** believe it now or not, **I** assure **you** , **within** the Peace of **God** is **all** the **joy** of what **you** **have** known as the **human experience** and none of the sorrow. _T1:10.8.2-6_

~ peace is **all** **you** **have** sought learning to attain. If **you** do not pause now and accept that it is **here** , **you** **will** not **know** the Peace of **God** that is your own **Self**. _T1:10.13.2-3_

~ peace, in whatever **way** **you** find it, in whatever **expression** it takes, no **matter** what words **you** **use** to describe it, is your **answer** to **God** and God's **answer** to **you**. Peace is the **inheritance** **I** left **you**. Peace of **body** , **mind** and **heart**. Peace is the realm of miracles, the condition of the wholehearted, the prerequisite to the **art of thought** , the description of **heaven** , the abode of **Christ**. Peace has come to **you** and **you** to Peace. _T1:10.14.1-5_

~ **you** who **have** found peace—live in peace. **You** **have** been given the Peace of **God** —go in Peace. Spread peace throughout the land. Go out in peace and **love** and **service** to **all**. _T1:10.15.1-4_

~ **i** **call** to **you** from peace and **ask** for **you** to **remain** in peace with me and let not the **suffering** of the **world** **call** **you** from it. When these things of the **world** threaten to **call** **you** from your peace, **you** must remind yourself that it is only from **within** the Peace of **God** that your **wholeheartedness** and our unity is **accomplished**. _T3:20.14.3-4_

**PERCEPTION**

| pərˈsepSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ your **false** perception of your **Father** is what has caused **all** other perceptions to be **false** , including the one **you** hold of your own **Self**. _C:4.11.2_

~ what is most useful to us now is your perception of your **heart**. Your illusions concerning it, when undone, **will** quickly reveal to **you** the **truth** because your misperceptions concerning your **heart** **remain** closer to the **truth** than any that **you** hold. _C:9.12.1-2_

~ **you** perceive but what **you** wish for. _C:16.2.2_

~ before which there was no possibility of misinterpretation, because there was no **external** **world** to be perceived. _C:18.7.1_

~ perception arises from the **mind**. _C:30.14.7_

**Treatises**

~ **we** now refrain from **use** of the **word** perceive. Perception is gone as soon as **you** truly **see**. _T3:11.14.2-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ perception and knowing **have** been used together **here** in describing the conditions of **being** because **you** must be able to perceive in order to be a **being**. But knowing is also used because **you** are, as a **being** , just as capable of knowing as **you** are of perceiving. _D:Day37.17.1-2_

**Addendum**

~ perception is the result of learning. Perception is learning. _A.3.1-2_

**PERFECTION**

| pərˈfekSH(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** do not **have** to be perfect—perfect is but a label, and **all** labels of any type cause is delay. _D:Day4.54.4_

~ in your **acceptance** is your perfection realized without **judgment**. _D:Day4.57.3_

~ do not **expect** perfection, only **union**. _D:Day39.45.1_

**PERSONAL SELF**

| ˈpərs(ə)n(ə)l self |

**Treatises**

~ the personal self exists as the **self** **you** **present** to **others**. This is the only **way** in which the personal self **will** continue to **exist** following the completion and the integration of this Course. Previously, the personal self that **you** presented to **others** represented an **ego** - **self** who **you** believed yourself to be. Now the **ego** has been separated from the personal self so that **you** may **claim** your personal self again and **present** to **others** a true **representation** of who **you** are. _T3:1.1.1-4_

~ to say that the personal self **will** now **exist** only as the **self** **you** **present** to **others** is to say that the personal self **will** now cease to be seen as your **reality**. _T3:1.10.1_

~ to say that the personal self has only existed as the **self** **you** presented to **others** in the **past** is quite a **different** statement and has a totally **different** **meaning**. The personal self **you** once presented to **others** as "who **you** were" was a **self** who existed in **time** , a **self** who believed that the **past** made up the **self** of the **present** and that the **self** of the **present** made up the **self** of the **future**. The personal self **you** presented to **others** in the **past** was a **chosen** **self** and never a **whole** **self** as evidenced by the variety of selves **you** saw yourself to be. The personal self of the **past** was a **self** of roles, **each** one as learned as that which an actor might portray. _T3:1.11.1-4_

~ your personal self is dear to **you** and dear to me as well. _T3:3.1.1_

~ the personal self that is dear to **you** is not your **ego** - **self** and never has been. _T3:3.1.5_

~ those who **exist** in the **house** of **illusion** are aware of the personal self **alone** and believe the personal self to be who they are. Further, they believe the personal self to be the **truth** of the statement, " **I am**." _T3:11.1.5-6_

~ the **Self** preceded the establishment of the personal self. _T3:12.1.5_

~ the personal self is a step in the chain of **consciousness**. The steps that came before that of the personal self did not come **within** **time**. The **creation** of **time** was simultaneous with the **creation** of the personal self. _T3:12.2.2-4_

~ your personal self exists in **illusion**. It is called a personal self because it is attached to a person. A person is a **being** born into **time** , a **being** whose existence began in **time** and **will** end in **time**. _T3:21.6.1-3_

~ the only **means** for the personal self and the true **Self** to **exist** together is for the **truth** to be lived in **time**. _T3:21.7.1_

~ thus your personal self is the only place in which **you** **have** **experience** that can now be used for a **new** **purpose**. _T3:21.10.5_

~ even while this **experience** is **experience** of an **ego** - **self** , it is still an **experience** as near to **certainty** as **you** **have** been capable. _T3:21.11.1_

~ there are several aspects to your personal self: a historical aspect, an aspect **we** **will** **call** **self** - **image** , and an aspect that has to do with beliefs. _T3:21.14.1_

~ certain things about your personal self must be accepted as aspects of your **form** and cease to be accepted as aspects of your **identity**. _T3:21.18.1_

~ the personal self **will** continue to **exist** only as the **self** **you** **present** to **others**. It **will** be a **representation** only. It **will** represent only the **truth**. It **will** no longer be seen as your **identity** , but as representing your **identity**. _T3:21.18.3-6_

~ your **certainty** regarding the **identity** of your personal self **will** be useful as that **certainty** is translated to the **thought system** of the **truth** and aids **you** in becoming certain of your true **identity**. The second is that the very differences that **you** seem to **have** **will** be seen as **sameness** by some and **will** attract them to **you** and to the **truth** **you** now **will** represent. _T3:21.20.3-4_

~ **you** can **remain** confident in your personal self, knowing that your personal self **will** serve those **you** are meant to serve. _T3:21.22.7_

~ since your personal self was always meant to represent the **truth** of who **you** are, the seeds of who **you** are, are planted there, right **within** the **self** **you** **have** always been. _T3:22.4.1_

~ **you** are ready to leave the personal self and the concerns of the personal self behind. _T3:22.10.1_

~ **you** **have** created your personal self, and only **you** can look upon this personal self with the **vision** of **creation** , creating the personal self anew, seeing **within** it **all** that **will** serve the **new** , and only what **will** serve the **new**. _T3:22.16.2_

~ observe the personal self with one last act of **love** and **devotion** , and in so doing transform the personal self into a **representation** of the **truth**. _T3:22.17.1_

~ the personal self is still in need of **being** elevated—elevated to its original **nature** —by its original **nature** or intent. _T4:3.3.1_

~ only by centering your **study** upon yourself **have** **you** been made ready finally to be loosed of the bounds of the personal self. This **time** of concentration on the **self** is unheralded in history. It is what has been needed. _T4:9.7.2-4_

~ the personal self, through the **self** -centeredness of the final stages of learning, has achieved the ultimate **achievement** possible! _T4:12.25.4_

**Dialogues**

~ even with the **ego** gone, the personal self can continue to move about **within** the **world** , a faceless and nameless entity, a **being** without an **identity** , humble and selfless and ineffective. _D:1.8.3_

~ the **ego** is gone but the true **Self** has not been allowed as yet to dwell **within** the personal self, thus elevating the personal self. **You** **have** thus been **self** - **less** for a **time** and the personal self has floundered from this **lack** of **identity**. _D:1.10.2-3_

~ **each** of **you** has had an imprisoned personal self. **Each** of **you** who **have** entered **Christ-consciousness** has had the cell door and the **prison** gate thrown open and a **new** **world** offered. _D:4.5.3-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ while **you** still hold an **image** of your personal self, **you** still hold inaccurate ideas about the feelings of the personal self. This is because your **image** of the personal self is based on the **past** and the feelings of the **past**. This is also because your **image** of the personal self is a **mental construct** , and not a simple **mental construct** but a **whole** set of thoughts, beliefs, and mental pictures. _D:Day10.13.2-4_

**PERSONALITY**

| ˌpərsəˈnalədē |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ through the application of your **being** to **relationship** **you** **have** taken on distinguishers through which **you** became a **different** or distinct **being** , a **being** **different** or distinct from who **I am** , and who **others** are. These are the attributes of your **being** , what **you** might **call** your personality or even who **you** are. As has been said before, **you** saw these attributes of **being** as making **you** **separate** rather than distinct from who **I am** **being** and who **others** are **being**. _D:Day40.6.1-3_

**PHILOSOPHY**

| fəˈläsəfē |

**A Course of Love**

~ philosophy applies **thought** to mystery and that is why philosophy becomes such a muddle of words. _C:19.15.1_

**PLAN**

| plan |

**A Course of Love**

~ **each** **day** is an **unknown** **you** enter into, despite your every attempt to anticipate what it might hold. And yet, while it would seem **you** would grow quite used to this phenomenon, **you** do not. **You** still make your plans and rail against **everything** that interferes with them, even knowing in advance that your greatest efforts at organization are often to no avail. **A Course in Miracles** asks **you** to " **receive** instead of plan," and yet few of **you** **understand** the **meaning** of this simple instruction or what it says to **you** of the **unknown**. _C:17.7.1-4_

**Treatises**

~ to be willing to **receive** instead of plan is to break the **pattern** of planning. _T3:22.5.4_

~ **i** also do not **ask** **you** to " **work** " to break the **pattern** of planning, **I** do **ask** **you** to let it go and to replace it with **observation**. _T3:22.6.2_

~ plans **will** only interfere with your **response** to what **you** are given to observe. _T3:22.8.1_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** need not **prepare** or plan. _D:1.2.6_

**PLEASURE**

| ˈpleZHər |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** **you** **have** experienced as pleasurable are feelings of **love**. _C:18.23.4_

**PLEASURE/PAIN**

| ˈpleZHər/pān |

**Treatises**

~ pleasure and pain as perceived by the **body** are from the same **source**. That **source** has not been the **body** but your beliefs about your **body** and yourself. **You** **have** believed pleasure to come at a cost, the cost of pain. _T3:13.5.1-3_

**POTENTIAL**

| pəˈten(t)SHəl |

**A Course of Love**

~ your potentials, which brought to **love** are **accomplished** and simply **become** the **truth** that has always existed about who **you** are. _C:31.21.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the very **idea** of potential, **you** may recall, is a product of the **ego** **thought system** that would **keep** your true **Self** hidden. _D:Day8.26.1_

~ **you** are used to hiding the **self** of potential, the **future** **self** **you** think **you** can only dream of **being**. _D:Day8.26.2_

~ the **idea** of your "potential" was a useful learning tool and one that served the purposes of the **Holy Spirit** as well as those of the **ego**. The **idea** of your "potential" and your **ability** to be " **more** " than what your limited view of yourself would **have** **you** be, was a necessary tool to **call** **you** to the learning that would return **you** to your true **identity**. But the **time** for such tools is over. _D:Day9.16.1-3_

~ potential is that which exists. It exists as the **power** and **energy** , the **spirit** **within** **you**. It does not await. It simply is. It can **remain** as the untapped **power** of **transformation** , or it can be released. The **choice** is and is not yours. This **power** is a force of **nature** that exists, not separately from **you** , but not separately from **nature** either. It is triggered in any number of ways, only one of which is by your **choice**. _D:Day24.3.1-8_

~ if **you** allow your potential to be released, your true **nature** in **all** its **wholeness** **will** be revealed. _D:Day24.4.3_

~ potential is that which exists. _D:Day24.3.1_

~ potential does not await. _D:Day24.5.5_

~ potential is that which exists, that which is. It is not that which is not, not that which is in the **future** , not that which could come to be, but that which is. _D:Day24.8.5-6_

~ potential is what **you** carry. _D:Day24.9.1_

~ **you** carry your potential to the place of its **birth** through an activated **will**. _D:Day24.9.2_

**POWER**

| ˈpou(ə)r |

**A Course of Love**

~ **each** of **you** holds **within** **you** the power to reach **heaven**. Knowing your **Self** as who **you** really are is the only thing that **will** allow **you** to quit fearing your power. **Jesus** accepted his power and so brought the power of **heaven** to earth. This is what the **Christ** in **you** can **teach** **you** to do. This is **miracle-mindedness**. This is **love**. This is **oneness**. _C:P.37.2-8_

~ those who sit in **judgment** **call** upon their power to do what it cannot do. **All** power comes from **love** , as does **all** **justice**. Any basis other than **love** for power or for **justice** makes a mockery of both. _C:16.20.1-3_

~ those in power are those who make the laws, and those who **have** no power must obey them. _C:16.20.9_

~ and yet **you** are as frightened of those who **have** no power as those who do. Criminals are feared and shunned, and yet they **have** no power but that which they make from their own selves. **You** **want** power to come only through legitimate channels and do not **want** those who **have** no power to possess it through the same weapons or might that **you** **claim** make those in authority powerful. While **you** **want** those **you** **have** given power to protect **you** , **you** also **fear** them, and they in turn **fear** the powerless who might take away their power or rise up against them. What kind of power is it that **needs** to be constantly defended? _C:16.21.1-5_

~ who is powerful and who is not is not determined by might or any authority that can be given and taken away. Power is possessed by those who **claim** it. By those who cry **I am**. For the **beginning** of power comes from the **rejection** of powerlessness. The **rejection** of powerlessness is but a step toward your **identity** achieved through the awakening of **love** of **Self**. _C:16.21.7-11_

~ what misery can be avoided by finding the true power inherent in your **identity**. For **you** are not powerless. Those of **you** who think **you** **have** traditional **means** of power on your side turn not to your own power, and then **you** wonder why those most spiritual, both currently and historically, seem to suffer hardship. Yet it is often only those who suffer hardship who **will** rise up and **claim** the power that is their own instead of looking for it elsewhere. Your **perception** but looks at power backward and wonders why **God** has forsaken a people who seem to be so godly. _C:16.22.2-6_

~ **you** give up your power to be who **you** are and think it is just the **way** **life** is. **You** give away your power and then bow down to those whom **you** **have** given it to, for **you** are afraid of nothing **more** than your own power. _C:16.24.3-4_

~ this **fear** but stems from what **you** **have** used your power for. **You** **know** your power created the **world** of **illusion** in which **you** live, and so **you** think another must be able to do it better. **You** no longer **trust** yourself with your own power, and so **you** **have** forgotten it and realize not how important it is for it to be reclaimed. _C:16.25.1-3_

~ if **you** cannot **claim** at least a small amount of **love** for your own **Self** , then neither can **you** **claim** your power, for they go hand-in-hand. _C:16.26.1_

~ power is the **expression** of who **you** are. _C:20.28.1_

~ true power is the power of miracles. _C:20.28.7_

~ **you** do **have** power that is not of this **world** , but this does not mean power as **you** **see** it **here** , the power of details and the information of which **you** think when desiring or fearing a **fate** of prophecy. The power **we** speak of is the power of knowing. _C:27.18.3-4_

**Treatises**

~ while two sets of thoughts and feelings **exist** , the only **way** to come to **peace** with them is through an **acceptance** of ambiguity. While an **acceptance** of ambiguity might seem preferable to **conflict** , an **acceptance** of ambiguity is a **rejection** of your power. What is required to **claim** your power is the **willingness** to move through the **conflict** of two opposing sets of thoughts and feelings to the place of unity. _T2:4.9.1-3_

~ the power of **thought** and the power of **prayer** , once aligned, **call** constantly upon the same power of intercession that is the **miracle**. _T2:12.7.1_

~ if **you** believe that **God** created **you** with a **thought** or **idea** , then **you** can begin to **see** the power of **thought**. If **you** can believe that **you** created the **ego** with a **thought** or an **idea** , **you** can **see** where the power of **thought** is your power as well as God's. _T3:7.2.4-5_

~ this is the power **you** now **have** **within** **you** , the power to observe the **truth** rather than **illusion**. This is the power to observe what is. This is **Christ-consciousness**. _T4:2.16.3-5_

~ **i** repeat, this is the power to observe what is. It is not about observing a **potential** for what could be if your brother or sister would just follow in the **way** that has been shown to **you**. It is about observing what is. The power to observe what is is what **will** **keep** **you** unified with your brothers and sisters rather than separating **you** from them. There is no power without this unity. **You** cannot **see** " **others** " as other than who they are and **know** your power. _T4:2.17.1-6_

**Dialogues**

~ the power of the **universe** is given and received constantly in support of the **creation of the new**. _D:3.23.3_

~ this is our power. And our power is needed for the **creation** of the **Covenant of the New** in this **time of Christ**. _D:3.23.6-7_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ many people now are discovering the power of healing. Some think this power comes from one **source** and some from another. **You** may think that, as long as the power is called forth, it matters not the name by which it is called. **You** may think that it **all** comes from the same **source** , regardless of what the practitioner of healing calls it, be the practitioner a **faith** **healer** or a medical doctor. **You** may make one exclusive **choice** to attend to your **needs** of healing, or **you** may make many choices. **You** may think these choices **matter** not, but only the power of the **healer**. Some of **you** may **see** this **example** as an **example** of why **you** should not need to accept me. **You** may **claim** that **you** **understand** that this power is of **God** , whether it be the power of granting **life** to grow **within** the womb, or the power of **giving** **new** **life** to a limb withered or broken. **You** may wonder why it should **matter** whether this power be called Buddha or Allah, Muhammad or **God**. _D:Day1.11.1-9_

~ it matters not. The power of **God** is not what is **being** spoken of **here**. It is our power that is **being** spoken of **here**. The power of the **god** man. The power of **God** brought into **form**. The power of who **we** are rather than the power of who **God** is. _D:Day1.12.1-6_

~ power is the **ability** to be cause and **effect**. It is the **ability** to harness the cause and **effect** power of **love**. It is a quality of **form** as well as a quality of **union**. _D:Day10.1.1-3_

~ **certainty** is knowing that this power exists. **Confidence** is the **expression** of your **reliance** upon it. To rely on your own power is to rely on the connection that exists between the **self** of **form** and the **Self** of **union** and to, through this **reliance** , tie the two together so that there is no seam, no **boundary** , no remaining **separation**. _D:Day10.2.2-4_

~ **remember** to **embrace** your power. _D:Day10.33.4_

~ the power **you** must come to rely upon is the power of your own **Self** to **create** and express the cause and **effect** that is the power of **love**. _D:Day10.34.1_

~ after learning to disclaim **all** that **you** **have** called your "own," **you** are now given the **task** of claiming your power as your own. **All** that is **within** your power is **within** your power. Your power is the power of the many and the one that **exist** in **wholeness** **within** the spacious **Self**. _D:Day14.6.1-3_

~ this merging of **will** and **potential** is the **birth** of your power and the **birth** of the **new**. _D:Day24.9.3_

~ **you** are capable of **all** the power of God's **being** but **you** are powerful only as **God** is powerful—in **relationship**. _D:Day32.20.2_

~ to **embrace** an **idea** of some having power while **others** **remain** powerless is to **embrace** an **idea** laden with **conflict**. The power of **God** exists **within** everyone because **all** are one in **being** with **God**. And yet this power cannot be used. It can only serve. What does it serve? The cause of **holy relationship**. _D:Day33.1.2-7_

~ **all** are powerful. But, since **all** are powerful only in **relationship** , your **relationship** to power must be realized. Those who are powerful **have** realized their **relationship** to power. Those who **see** themselves as powerless **have** not realized their **relationship** to power. They **have** not made it **real** and so it has not served them. _D:Day33.12.6-10_

~ and yet, since no one can **exist** outside of **relationship** and **relationship** is where power is expressed, everyone does **have** a **relationship** with power. Power is one in **being** with **each** and every one of us. Every single **individual** has **within** them the power to affect, **change** , or recreate the **world**. Every single **individual** does so to the extent to which they realize their power. _D:Day33.13.1-4_

~ this is the power of **being**. The power to individuate the **Self**. The power to be who **you** are. This is power and the **source** of power. This is the force of **creation** , the only true power. _D:Day33.14.1-5_

~ despite that **we** **each** hold the power of **creation** **within** us, it is only in **relationship** that it is expressed and that **we** **become** powerful. _D:Day33.15.1_

~ power is of **creation** , not of destruction. _D:Day34.1.1_

~ if **you** do not make **real** your power, **you** **will** **experience** yourself as powerless. If **you** **experience** your **being** as powerless, **you** are negating the power of **God** who is one in **being** with **you**. _D:Day34.7.1-2_

~ to proceed relying upon anything other than your power to **create** would be to only attempt to repair or replace. _D:Day35.12.4_

~ the **exercise** of your power is in the **creation** of your **experience**. _D:Day36.1.41_

~ powerlessness is moving through **life** as a **being** without the power to **create**. _D:Day36.4.1_

~ because **you** **have** always been one in **being** with **God** , this power—this power of **being** —has always been yours. The power to feel— **love** , hate, **anger** , **compassion** , greed, humility, and longing— **have** always been yours. The power to think—rationally or passionately, logically or instinctively—has always been yours. The power to **create** — **everything** from weapons of mass destruction to cathedrals of towering majesty—has always been yours. The power to **know** or perceive—even an unreal **reality** —has always been yours. _D:Day36.14.1-5_

~ this **will** be a great power that **you** carry **within** **you** as **you** return to **love** and to **level** ground as who **I Am** **being**. _D:Day40.9.5_

**PRACTICE**

| ˈpraktəs |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to practice, as to **inform** , is to make known. To practice, as to **inform** , does not mean, however, that **you** **know** nothing. Practice is the merging of the known and the **unknown** through **experience** , **action** , **expression** , and exchange. It alters the known through interaction with the **unknown**. It allows the continuing **realization** that what **you** knew yesterday was as nothing to what **you** **know** today, while at the same **time** , aiding in the **realization** that what **you** come to **know** has always existed **within** **you** in the realm of the **unknown** that also exists **within** **you**. _D:Day15.23.1-5_

**PRAYER**

| prer |

**A Course of Love**

~ to pray is to **ask**. _C:P.2.2_

**Treatises**

~ prayer and the **art of thought** are the same. _T1:4.3.4_

~ prayer is but reproducing and recollecting a divine **memory**. _T1:6.2.4_

~ prayer reproduces the **truth** and allows the **truth** to **exist** as it is. Prayer does this because it is the act of consciously choosing **union**. _T1:6.2.5-6_

~ prayer must be redefined as the act of consciously choosing **union**. With this definition, **you** can **see** how your **life** can **become** a prayer. This does not negate the fact that a prayer is also a **constant** **dialogue** of asking, **being** answered, and responding. This is the aspect of prayer that makes of it an act of **creation**. _T1:6.3.1-4_

~ prayer and miracles **work** hand-in-hand once both are seen for what they are. _T1:6.4.1_

~ to **use** prayer only as a **means** of reaching out to a **god** seen as **separate** is to attempt to **use** what cannot be used. Such ideas of prayer **have** had credence because this reaching out does at least **recognize** that there is something to reach out to. Such ideas of prayer **have** long been opening doors for those who are ready to walk through them to a **real** **relationship** with **God** and **Self**. But this is not the **concept** of prayer of which **we** speak nor one that can reasonably be called a **way** of **life** or likened to the **art of thought**. Prayers such as these emanate from either **heart** or **mind** and **have** not the **power** of the wholehearted. Prayers such as these emanate from the **state** of **fear** that is the **reality** of the separated **self**. _T1:6.5.1-6_

~ to pray out of **fear** is not to pray at **all** , because such prayer chooses not the **union** that is the prerequisite. To pray out of **fear** is to **ask** from an unreal **state** of **lack** for what is seen as missing or desired. In **contrast** , true prayer, formed in **union** , is a **means** of creating, recollecting, or recalling a divine **memory** and transforming that divine **memory** into a **present** moment **experience**. _T1:6.6.1-3_

**PREPARE**

| prəˈper |

**Dialogues**

~ **confusion** and **struggle** is occurring because **you** do not **know** what to do to prepare. **You** **have** not been convinced that **you** are done preparing as **you** are done with learning. **You** still **want** to figure out what to do, what comes next, what **you** need to **learn** , how to better "prepare" for what is ahead. _D:1.4.1-3_

~ **you** **know** that **you** **have** been prepared by me. _D:1.5.1_

~ **you** cannot fail to be prepared. _D:1.5.2_

**PRESENT**

| ˈprez(ə)nt |

**A Course of Love**

~ in the sense of **time** described by the **word** present, there is no infinitude, but only a vague **concept** of now. This is the key **concept** that **I** not only knew but demonstrated. This is the legacy, the **inheritance** , **I** left to **you**. _C:30.8.4-6_

**Treatises**

~ it is in the present-moment **experience** **memory** provides that **truth** rather than **illusion** can now be experienced and learned from. It is in the present-moment **experience** that **you** **will** **receive** the blessing of **being** able to respond differently to **love**. _T1:1.4.6-7_

~ whatever is happening in the present moment is a **gift** and a **lesson**. _T3:10.6.1_

~ the present is lived in the **house** of **truth**. _T3:10.7.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ your **ability** to maintain and then sustain your **access** to **union** and thus your **certainty** , goes hand-in-hand with your **ability** to live in the present. _D:Day7.20.4_

~ **access** and **expression** are both conditions of the present. _D:Day8.17.6_

~ it is only in the present that **acceptance** can occur. There is no " **going back** " or reliving of the **past** required. There is also no **escape** , however, because in **Christ-consciousness** , **you** must **become** fully aware of the present. The present is the **time** of no **time** , **wholeness** , where **all** that is **real** and **all** that was ever **real** exists. _D:Day16.9.1-4_

~ when **you** **remain** in the present moment **you** **remain** **within** **Christ-consciousness** where **all** that is exists in **harmony**. _D:Day16.10.10_

**PRINCIPLE**

| ˈprinsəpəl |

**Dialogues**

~ this is the **way** the **mind** looks at principles, one coming after the other and building upon **each** other. This is not the **way** of **creation** , which is why these principles of unity must be seen as the undivided **wholeness** of the principle of unity before **creation of the new** can begin. _D:15.6.5-6_

~ the unified principles of **creation** , once unified **within** **each** of us, bring **light** to **each** of us; they bring the **ability** to **see** , the **ability** to **know** , the **ability** to be, the **ability** to **create**. _D:16.5.1_

~ it would be impossible for these principles of **creation** not to be constantly occurring in **everything** that lives because **all** that lives, lives because of creation's continuing **creation**. _D:16.11.10_

**PRISON**

| ˈprizən |

**Dialogues**

~ prison is an excellent **example** of a **system** **you** created with your faulty **perception**. As with **all** systems, it reflects an inward **state** and shows **you** what becomes of **all** of those who **see** not what it **means** to be neither **different** nor the same but to be one. _D:4.4.1-2_

~ until **you** are **living** as who **you** are and are doing what **you** **love** , **you** are in prison. This prison is as much of your own making as are the actual prison systems that developed when shape and **form** was given to what **you** **fear** and what **you** believe **will** protect **you**. _D:4.6.1-2_

~ just as an actual prisoner, when released from prison, must adjust to a **life** in which his or her actions are no longer restricted artificially, **you** must adjust to your **new** **freedom**. Your **life** has been artificially restricted by the prison **you** **have** created of it. _D:4.7.1-2_

~ the **thought** of **time** in prison fills the **mind** with **fear**. And yet those who are imprisoned often **become** so acclimated to prison **life** , that **life** on the "outside" is no longer seen as desirable. _D:4.7.4-5_

~ even those who actually are incarcerated in the prison **system** **you** **have** made are free to follow an internally structured **life** to a greater extent than many of those who **call** themselves free. _D:4.8.3_

~ your prison was created by the separated thoughts of the separated **thought** " **system**." _D:4.9.1_

~ turn your back on the prison of your former existence and do not look at it again. _D:4.20.2_

~ what was once a prison may no longer be a prison! If **you** continue to think of your **body** as a prison, if **you** continue to think of your environment, your **mind** , and **time** as a prison, how can it **exist** in perfect **harmony** with the **universe**? As **you** can **see** , **you** are now approaching another **thought** reversal. **Fear** not that your **confusion** **will** last, for with this **thought** reversal **will** come your final **release**. _D:5.20.1-4_

~ what **you** think is what imprisons **you**. _D:9.2.3_

**PROBLEM**

| ˈpräbləm |

**A Course of Love**

~ this could be used as a capsule definition of your entire problem: **You** do not allow anything that exists in your **world** , including yourself, to be what it is. _C:9.13.6_

**PRODIGAL SON**

| ˈprädəɡəl sən |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ think a moment of the story of the prodigal son. **All** that the prodigal son was asked to do was to accept his own homecoming. Do **you** think he would **have** considered himself perfect as he approached his father's presence? Surely he would not **have**. **You** are asked but to accept your own homecoming. To leave behind the **time** of wandering, seeking, learning. To leave behind **fear** for the **embrace** of the **love** and **safety** of your true **home**. _D:Day4.55.1-7_

**PROJECTION**

| prəˈjekSH(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** **have** heard of **life** spoken of as a projection. Because **we** are **all** one **being** , **we** must either extend or project in order to individuate and be in **relationship**. _D:Day39.3.1-3_

~ this is what projection does. It projects outward. It is **different** from **extension** in that **extension** is like a projection that remains at one with its **source**. Projection separates. _D:Day39.17.3-6_

~ **you** **have** separated me from **you** through your projection. And yet what **you** projected and called **God** , just as what **you** projected and named thousands of other "things," **you** separated from yourself only in **time** and **space**. In **time** and **space** your projections became **separate** and other than **you**. _D:Day39.18.1-3_

**PROMISED LAND**

| ˈprɑməst lɑnd |

**Treatises**

~ this is the pilgrimage **I** set **you** upon as **real** as those who in the **time** of Moses journeyed through the desert to the Promised Land. That **journey** remained metaphorical because it did not pass beyond the arena of beliefs into the arena of ideas. The Israelites believed in a Promised Land but they did not dwell in it. **You** are called to dwell in the Promised Land, the **House** of **Truth**. _T3:9.7.1-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the Promised Land, the land of our **inheritance**. _D:Day9.1.4_

**PROTECTION**

| prəˈtekSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ it is only your **belief** in the need for protection that has caused what **you** feel to **become** so clouded by **illusion**. If **you** felt no need to protect your **heart** , or any of those bodies that **you** **love** , your feelings would retain their **innocence** and could not hurt **you** in any **way**. _C:9.2.5-6_

~ the **desire** to protect is a **desire** that arises from distrust and is based totally on **fear**. If there were no **fear** , what would there be to protect? _C:9.3.1-2_

**PROVISION**

| prəˈviZHən |

**Dialogues**

~ provision is about preparation for **future** **needs**. This is an appropriate **response** to **want** , but it is an inappropriate **response** to **desire**. It is an assumption of **needs** unfulfilled. _D:17.18.1-3_

**PURPOSE**

| ˈpərpəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ your thoughts must be newly dedicated, dedicated to the only purpose worthy of your **thought** : the purpose of joining with your **real** **Self** , the **Christ** in **you**. _C:5.2.3_

~ your united purpose must **change** to that of remembering who **you** are **within** God's **creation** , rather than in the **world** that **you** **have** made. _C:14.1.2_

~ the purpose **you** give **each** thing **within** your **world** is what makes it what it is to **you**. And as **each** purpose **you** **have** ascribed to anything proceeds from the **foundation** of **fear** that built your **world** , **each** purpose is as senseless and as reversed from the **truth** as is the next. _C:14.24.3-4_

~ this is why this Course cannot just talk of **love** and bring **you** any closer to it than **you** are. While **you** realize not the purpose of anything in **truth** , **you** cannot **know** **love** or your own **Self**. _C:4.25.1-2_

~ your purpose **here** , rather than **being** one of finding **meaning** , is one of coming to **know** through **relationship**. _C:27.3.2_

**Treatises**

~ our former purpose, that of establishing your **identity** , and our **new** purpose, that of the **miracle** that **will** allow **you** to **exist** as who **you** are in human **form**. _T3:13.1.1_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** are not purposeless now. _D:3.3.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ if **you** **will** but let it come, **you** **will** **see** that **you** are **being** who **you** are **being** for a **reason** , for a purpose, a purpose that **will** be so clear to **you** that **you** **will** joyously accept yourself for who **you** are **being**. _E.22.1-2_

**READER**

| ˈrēdər |

**Addendum**

~ Readers who **have** not moved away from their **desire** to **learn** something that **will** feed their minds or egos **will** seldom continue to this next **level**. The next **level** brings with it the same **situation** the reader encountered in receiving the Course, but the reader **will** now encounter these situations in **life**. The reader is no longer only a reader. Their **experience** of this Course has extended beyond **reading** and beyond the classroom **situation**. Now a **time** may come when studying truly seems to be in order. The guidance provided by their **reading** may seem to come and go and their **desire** to rely on what they **have** "learned" **will** grow. They may **desire** to backtrack, review, or begin to highlight passages to return to again and again. **New** questions may arise and a **desire** for feedback or discussion grow stronger. This may also be precisely the **time** when the reader is so caught up in **experience** and learning "in **life** " that return to a group or classroom **situation** feels next to impossible. _A.26.1-9_

~ rather than **being** in a standard learning **situation** , what the reader who is now experiencing **life** in a **new** **way** is doing is attempting to reinforce what he or she already knows and has already accepted. _A.27.1_

**READING**

| ˈrediNG |

**Addendum**

~ it is not required nor even recommended that these readings be interrupted by a search for **meaning**. _A.10.3_

**REAL**

| ˈrē(ə)l |

**A Course of Love**

~ what is real is **all** -inclusive. What is unreal is nothing. _C:14.27.6-7_

**Dialogues**

~ what is real is but another **way** of saying what is true. _D:15.11.5_

**REALITY**

| rēˈalədē |

**A Course of Love**

~ **love** or **fear** is your reality by your **choice**. _C:1.18.8_

~ reality, the truly **real** , is **relationship**. _C:6.1.4_

~ your brother does not **exist** apart from **you** , nor **you** from your brother. This is reality. Your **mind** is not contained **within** your **body** but is one with **God** and shared equally with **all** alike. This is reality. The **heart** that is the center of your **being** is the center of **everything** that exists. _C:6.2.1-5_

~ **you** cannot give up the only reality **you** **know** without believing in and having at least some elementary understanding of what the **truth** of your reality actually is. _C:7.20.4_

**Treatises**

~ **you** must be able to look at and **see** reality for what it is. Just as **we** are telling **you** that **new** beliefs and ideas **will** lead to a **new** reality, **old** beliefs and ideas led to the **old** reality, a reality that **will** still **exist** for some even after it changes completely for **you**. _T3:19.2.4-5_

~ the joining of **heart** and **mind** in **relationship** is the joining of the **personal self** with the true **Self** in the reality in which **you** **exist** now. **Remember** , the **heart** must abide in the reality where **you** think **you** are. Only through your mind's **acceptance** of your **new** reality has the **heart** been freed to **exist** in the **new** reality that is the **state** of unity and **relationship**. _T4:4.16.5-7_

~ the only thing that has created an unreal reality for your **heart** and **body** has been the inability of the **mind** to **join** the **truth** with your conscious **awareness**. While your **mind** did not accept the **truth** of your **identity** or the reality of **love** without **fear** , it existed in a reality of **fear** and **judgment** , and bound **heart** and **body** to this reality. _T4:7.5.10-11_

**Dialogues**

~ your **heart** knows the reality of this **truth** , knows that this **new** reality is **real** and **different** from the reality of **old**. Ideally, **mind** and **heart** in **union** together accept this **new** reality and, with this **acceptance** , the **heart** is freed to dwell in the **house** of the Lord, the **new** **world**. _D:1.6.1-2_

~ this is the **new** reality **you** **have** desired. To live as who **you** are in **form**. To not wait for death's **release** but to find **release** while still **living** in **form**. _D:5.19.5-7_

~ what is **real** in the **state** of unity is what is **real** , yet **you** **have** known this reality not, even though it is the **more** subtle **memory** of this **state** that is behind your striving to **become**. _D:14.14.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** cannot accept part of one reality and part of another. _D:Day3.59.2_

~ who **you** are and where **you** find yourself, and **experience** yourself, are your reality. _D:Day29.7.2_

~ the **old** reality was that of **separation**. The **new** reality is that of **union**. It is **new** only in that it has gone uncreated. _D:Day36.8.3-5_

**Addendum**

~ your reality is **union**. _A.25.3_

**REALIZATION**

| ˌrē(ə)ləˈzāSH(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ realization that **you** are in **relationship** with **everything** and everyone **all** of the **time** is the realization of **oneness** and unity, the realization that **you** are one in **being** , **creator** and created. This is a realization that only comes of **love**. _D:Day33.15.5-6_

**REASON**

| ˈrēzən |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** who **have** made a **god** of reason and of intellect, think carefully now of what your reason and your intellect **have** made for **you**. _C:14.7.1_

~ think **you** not that reason opposes **love** , for **love** gives reason its **foundation**. _C:14.9.1_

~ this is what the split **mind** would **call** reason—a **world** in which there are two sides to **everything** and two sides that oppose **each** other. _C:16.10.6_

**RECEIVE**

| rəˈsēv |

**A Course of Love**

~ what **you** give **you** **will** receive in **truth**. What **you** do not receive is a measure of what **you** **withhold**. _C:7.1.2-3_

~ receiving implies that something is **being** given. Receiving implies a **willingness** to accept what is given. This **willingness** is what **you** do not offer. _C:17.9.1-3_

~ receiving replaces **all** notions of taking or getting. **All** that is received is for the mutual **benefit** of **all** and takes nothing away from anyone. _C:20.39.5-6_

~ receiving is an act of mutuality. It stems from a basic **law** of the **universe** expressed in the saying that the sun shines and the rain falls on the good and **evil** alike. _C:20.40.1-2_

~ your **thinking** **will** begin to **change** to reflect your recognition of reception. Reception and welcome are highly linked. _C:20.44.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ receiving is not an inactive **state** , nor one familiar to most of **you**. _T3:22.6.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what **you** allow yourself to receive and what **you** do with what **you** receive is **all** that matters. _D:Day21.5.1_

~ **you** are constantly receiving. _D:Day21.6.1_

**Addendum**

~ receive before **you** **seek** to perceive. **I** **ask** **you** not to receive as one who does not **have** what another has, as this is not a passing on of information that **you** do not possess. **I** **ask** **you** merely to receive in order to **learn** receptivity, the **way** of the **heart**. _A.12.3-5_

~ through receptivity, what your **mind** finds **difficult** to accept, your **heart** accepts with ease. _A.13.1_

~ through receptivity is the **wisdom** inherent in **being** who **you** truly are revealed. _A.24.1_

**RECOGNIZE**

| ˈrekəɡˌnīz |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** never left the **state** of unity that **you** do not recognize. Your **lack** of recognition can thus be overcome by remembering the **truth** of what **you** are. _C:18.19.2-3_

**REDEMPTION**

| rəˈdem(p)SH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ the guiltless part of **you** is always free to redeem the guilt-filled **self**. This **idea** of **self** -redemption has long been a culprit that has kept **union** , even with your own **Self** , undesirable to **you**. The **concept** that in **oneness** there is no need for **blame** or guilt or even for redemption is inconceivable to the **separate** **mind**. But not to the **heart**. _C:19.24.7-10_

**Treatises**

~ the greatest **gift** of **all** was given, the **gift** of redemption. The **gift** of redemption was the **gift** of an end to **pain** and **suffering** and a **beginning** of **resurrection** and **new** **life**. It was a **gift** meant to empty the **world** of the **ego** - **self** and to allow the **personal self** to live on as the one true **Self** , the one true **son of God**. The **gift** of redemption was given once and for **all**. It is the **gift** of restoration to **original purpose**. _T3:5.7.3-7_

**REGENERATION**

| rəˌjenəˈrāSH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ your **nature** , and the **nature** of your **life** , like that of **all** around **you** , is governed by seasons natural to the **state** of **love** , seasons of regeneration. _T4:4.2.8_

**REGRET**

| rəˈɡret |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ this is the **feeling** that **will** prevent **you** from receiving the secret of **succession**. It is like the force of gravity, a **feeling** that **you** **will** not be able to **remain** at this height long enough to **benefit** from what **will** be shared **here**. _D:Day2.7.1-2_

~ part of this **feeling** arises from erroneous ideas that **remain** regarding your unworthiness. Part of this **feeling** arises from the erroneous **idea** that **you** can fail, even **here**. These are the temptations that confront those who **have** dared to ascend the mountain. It is not the height **you** **have** attained that causes your **fear** of falling. It is the depths to which **you** feel **you** once descended that calls forth your **fear** **here**. _D:Day2.8.1-5_

~ these are mainly, in **truth** , judgments, judgments that arise from your conscience, from that part of **you** that has compared your actions to the **laws of man** and **God** and found yourself guilty. _D:Day2.9.1_

~ now is the **time** for **acceptance** , even of these actions that **you** would rather not accept. They happened. They were what they were. **I** **ask** **you** not to **forget**. _D:Day2.11.1-4_

~ **you** **all** **have** moments **you** wish **you** could re-enact, decisions **you** wish **you** could **change**. These actions are unchangeable. This is why simple **acceptance** is needed. _D:Day2.13.2-4_

**REJECTION**

| rəˈjekSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ **love** is rejected when a **choice** for **fear** is made. **You** cannot be without **love** , but **you** can reject **love**. When **you** reject **love** , it is hidden from **you** , because receiving completes **giving**. _C:25.5.8-10_

**RELATIONSHIP**

| rəˈlāSH(ə)nˌSHip |

**A Course of Love**

~ **god** creates **all** relationship. _C:5.4.6_

~ relationship itself is holy. _C:5.4.10_

~ relationship exists apart from particulars. _C:5.5.1_

~ relationship is what exists between one thing and another. It is not one thing or another thing. It is not a third thing in terms of **being** a third object, but it is something **separate** , a third something. _C:5.6.1-3_

~ your definition of relationship is not one of joining. _C:5.17.2_

~ it is only in relationship that anything becomes **real**. This **you** realize and so **you** **strive** to **keep** far from **you** **all** that in relationship with **you** would add to your discomfort and your **pain**. To think that any relationship can cause terror, discomfort, or **pain** is where **you** err in **thinking** of relationship. _C:5.30.5-7_

~ what is the **opposite** of **separation** but **being** joined in relationship? **Everything** joined with **you** in relationship is holy because of what **you** are. _C:6.8.1-2_

~ **all** relationship exists in **wholeness**. _C:7.17.2_

~ **you** **have** **chosen** to **use** relationship to prove your existence and to make things happen. This **use** of relationship **will** never provide the proof or the **action** **you** **seek** , because relationship cannot be used. _C:9.4.3-4_

~ the relationships **you** **seek** to end your **loneliness** can do so if **you** but **learn** to **see** relationship differently. _C:9.18.2_

~ the very **reality** that **you** **have** set up—the **reality** of not **being** able to succeed in what **you** must constantly **strive** to do—is a **situation** set up to provide relationship. Like **everything** else **you** **have** remembered of **creation** and made in its **image** , so too is this. While making yourself **separate** and **alone** **you** **have** also made it necessary to be in relationship to survive. Without relationship your species itself would cease to be, in fact, **all** **life** would end. Of course **you** must **help** your sister and brother, for they are yourself, and they are your only **means** to grasp **eternity** even **within** this **false** **reality** **you** **have** made. _C:9.26.1-5_

~ a **love** relationship, while seen as the ultimate **achievement** in terms of the closeness **you** can acquire with a brother or sister, is still limited by what **you** would **have** it do. Its **purpose** , simply stated, is to supply a **lack**. This is your definition of completion. What is missing in **you** is found in another and together a sense of **wholeness** is achieved. _C:9.37.2-5_

~ it is no secret that **you** live in a **world** of supply and demand. From the simple **concept** of individuals needing to be in relationship to survive has grown this complex web of **use** and **abuse**. _C:9.43.11-12_

~ relationship exists between one thing and another. _C:21.2.8_

~ while in a **love** relationship the greatest knowing is sought and, with willing partners, attained; one's partner in such a relationship still transcends complete knowing. The relationship becomes the known. While it is your **nature** to **seek** for **more** , it is also the **nature** of **life** to **exist** in relationship and to **become** known through relationship. This is how knowing comes to be. Knowing through relationship is not a "second best" **situation**. It is how **life** is. It is how **love** is. _C:23.2.3-9_

~ in both partnered and non-partnered **love** relationships, the one **you** come to **know** , the only one who does not transcend total knowing, is your **Self**. _C:23.5.1_

~ while one **special** relationship continues, **all** special relationships continue because they are given validity. The **holy** relationship of unity depends on the **release** of the beliefs that foster special relationships. _C:25.11.1-2_

~ relationship is unity, and relationship is your natural **state**. It is who **you** are. _C:27.11.10-11_

~ **living** in relationship is **living** in **love** and is **living** as who **you** are. **Living** in relationship is **living** in the **present**. _C:27.13.1-2_

~ to live in relationship is to accept **all** that is happening in the **present** as your **present** **reality** , and as a **call** to be in relationship with it. _C:27.14.1_

~ to live in relationship is to live in **harmony** even with **conflict**. It is an understanding that if **conflict** arises in your **present** there is something to be learned from your relationship with **conflict**. _C:27.14.4-5_

~ **living** in relationship is **living** from your center, the **heart** of your **Self**. It is complete **reliance** on relationship itself rather than on the **mind**. _C:27.15.1-2_

~ **being** in relationship is **being** **present**. _C:30.4.1_

~ **all** relationship is relationship with **God** Who Is **Love**. _C:30.10.1_

~ this aspect of **giving** and receiving as one is called relationship. It allows **you** to **experience** who **you** are and thus to **know** , or **remember** , who **you** are. It is in your recognition of the **truth** about your brother and sister that **you** **recognize** the **truth** about your **Self**. It is only in relationship that this occurs, because only in relationship are **you** experiencing anything. _C:31.34.1-4_

~ **you** do not **exist** outside of relationship. _C:31.35.1_

~ only relationship exists. _C:32.2.16_

**Treatises**

~ **all** relationship is but relationship between **Creator** and Created. _T1:2.12.1_

~ that **you** **exist** in relationship with **all** is a **belief** that **you** must now incorporate into **living**. Further, **you** must **remember** that relationship is based on **trust**. _T2:7.5.4-5_

~ relationship is the only **means** through which interaction is **real** , the only **source** of your **ability** to **change** that which **you** would **change**. _T2:7.9.3_

~ to proceed into **each** relationship as who **you** truly are is to bring everlasting **change** to **each** and every relationship, and thus to **all**. _T2:7.12.1_

~ that **you** are a **being** who exists in relationship is the same as saying **you** are a **being** who **needs** relationship. _T2:7.14.2_

~ no relationships are special. Your **loyalty** must be totally to the **truth** of who **you** are and not continue to be split by special relationships. While your **love** relationships **will** provide a rich learning ground for **you** now, they must also now be separated from **all** that would continue to make them special. _T2:8.1.1-3_

~ the one **you** come to **know** through relationship is your **Self**. _T2:8.2.1_

~ relationship based on anything other than who **you** are is but a mockery of relationship. _T2:8.3.2_

~ **you** are your own wings, your relationships but the breeze that keeps **you** afloat. _T2:8.8.2_

~ **you** are a **being** who exists in relationship. This is how **you** were created and how **you** **remain**. This is the **truth** of who **you** are and even, in your own terms, a fact of your existence. _T2:11.1.2-4_

~ there is a condition under which **you** are **here** and able to **experience** **life** as a **separate** **being**. That condition is relationship and relationship is what keeps **you** forever one with your **Creator**. _T2:11.13.6-7_

~ **here** that relationship is **being** called **Christ** in order to **keep** the **holiness** and importance of this relationship forever and foremost in your **mind**. **Here** , that relationship has been given a name, as **we** **have** given your relationship with your **separate** **identity** the name of **ego**. **Here** , **we** are asking **you** to choose the one **real** relationship and to vanquish the one unreal relationship. _T2:11.14.1-3_

~ both **God** and **Love** are found in relationship where the **truth** becomes known to **you**. _T3:3.7.1_

~ the relationship that exists with the unseen and even the seen. _T4:2.23.2_

~ a **new** relationship now exists between the physical and spiritual. It is not an indirect relationship but a direct relationship. It exists and **you** are becoming aware of its existence. **You** **will** increasingly be unable to deny it and **you** **will** not **want** to. _T4:2.25.2-5_

~ this **new** relationship is the only **state** in which **observation** of what is can occur. _T4:2.26.1_

~ while relationship is what has kept **you** forever unable to be **separate** and **alone** , relationship is also what has kept **you** seemingly forever unable to return to your natural **state** of **being**. _T4:3.6.4_

~ relationship happens in the **present** moment. _T4:10.5.1_

~ relationship recognizes that **love** is the greatest **teacher**. _T4:10.5.3_

~ relationship happens as it happens. _T4:10.5.5_

~ what happens in relationship has **present** moment **meaning**. _T4:10.5.7_

**Dialogues**

~ sharing in relationship is what the **state** of unity is **all** about. It is what it is. _D:13.10.1-2_

~ **you** **will** , by **living** according to what **you** **know** to be the **truth** , **form** the very relationships and **union** that **will** allow the **truth** to be shared. The relationship or **union** , in other words, precedes the sharing of what can only be given and received in relationship. _D:13.11.2-3_

~ relationship, or **union** , is what negates the need for such **intermediary** functions. By **being** who **you** are, and seeing **others** as who they truly are, **you** **create** the relationship in which sharing can occur. Without relationship there is no **willingness** and no **union**. Without relationship, **you** behave as a separated **self** attempting to communicate **union** from the **state** of **separation**. This does not **work**. **Join** with your brother and sister in **Christ** , however, and sharing becomes effortless and joyful and effective. _D:13.12.3-8_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ a responsive relationship with unity that does not **exist** only **within** the **mind** of the wholehearted. _D:Day3.41.1_

~ relationship is **everything**. Relationship is the **truth**. Relationship is **consciousness**. _D:Day11.6.11-13_

~ once **fear** is gone, true relationship is not only possible but inevitable. True relationship exists naturally in the **state** of **harmony** that is the spacious **Self**. This is the **state** of **union**. _D:Day13.8.1-3_

~ relationship is the invisible **reality** only expressed through **form**. _D:Day14.9.5_

~ relationship is the known. _D:Day14.11.4_

~ **all** live and **create** in relationship. _D:Day19.6.4_

~ **god** has **chosen** to **experience** that **oneness** through relationship, then **you** are also that **experience** and are in relationship with **God** through that **experience**. _D:Day32.2.1_

~ the extent of your **ability** to be in relationship is the extent of your **ability** to be **god** -like. _D:Day32.19.9_

~ relationship is the interconnective tissue that is **all** **life**. The **answer** of how to respond to **each** and every relationship—and **remember** , **here** , that situations and events are relationships too—lies **within** your own **being**. **Being** in relationship. This is what **you** are and what your **world** is. **Being** in relationship. _D:Day33.2.1-5_

~ **all** relationship is holy because it is **within** relationship that **being** is found and known and interacted with. Relationship is thus the route or **access** to **being** and **being** the route or **access** to relationship. One cannot **exist** without the other and thus both are one in **truth**. This is the divine marriage, the divine relationship of **form** and **being**. _D:Day33.3.1-4_

~ **all** relationship is with **love** because **all** relationship is with **God** , who is one in **being** with **you**. _D:Day33.11.1_

~ relationship is powerful. _D:Day33.12.2_

~ relationship is the **expression** of **power** — **all** the **different** expressions of **power**. _D:Day33.12.3_

~ to realize that **you** are in relationship with **everything** and everyone **all** of the **time** , is to realize the full extent of your **power**. _D:Day33.15.2_

~ without relationship, **all** and nothing are the same. In relationship, the **difference** between **all** and nothing is **everything**. _D:Day34.2.2-3_

~ without relationship, **creation** and destruction are the same. In relationship, the **difference** between **creation** and destruction is **everything**. _D:Day34.2.5-6_

~ relationship is needed to **create** **difference**. However, relationship with **everything** creates **sameness** —or the very **oneness** in **being** that **we** **have** been talking about. _D:Day34.3.2_

~ relationship is also **God**. _D:Day35.3.2_

~ relationship is **different** expressions of **oneness** of **being**. _D:Day35.13.2_

~ without relationship, **God** is simply **all** — **being**. Without relationship, what is not **God** is simply **being** —simply existing at the **opposite** end of the continuum of **everything** that is **creation**. _D:Day36.11.7_

~ nothing exists without relationship. But relationship, like **being** and **experience** , does not differentiate or individuate **you** in **separation** as it does in **union**. _D:Day37.3.4-5_

~ relationship and **union** are the **way** of **God**. The **way** of **heart** and **mind** , **body** and soul, **heaven** and earth. _D:Day37.6.1-2_

~ the divineness of your **being** is most revealed in relationship. _D:Day37.31.1_

~ individuation requires relationship. _D:Day39.9.2_

~ discovering your own relationship with me is discovering the **Christ** in **you**. When **you** **have** discovered your own relationship with me is when **you** **have** discovered that **you** are who **I Am** because **you** realize—or make **real** —your **oneness** with **Christ**. When **you** **have** discovered your own relationship with me is when an **intermediary** is no longer needed—because **you** **have** realized and made **real** your **oneness** with **Christ**. When relationship is established **you** realize that relationship is the **intermediary** link between individuated beings and that **you** hold this link, through relationship with me, **within** yourself. _D:Day39.10.2-5_

~ relationship is part of **life**. Inescapable. **Acceptance** that our relationship is and that it is a determinant of who **we** both are, is **all** that is required. The relationship that **you** accept with me is the relationship of **union**. _D:Day39.11.6-9_

~ relationship itself is **intermediary** , it is what **you** carry, the connection between one thing and another. In this instance it is the connection between two individuated beings in **union** and relationship. **You** and me. In order for this link of relationship to **exist** there must be two beings for it to link (where two or **more** are joined together). In other words, there must be a **you** and a me. _D:Day39.12.1-5_

~ relationship is an **identity**. _D:Day40.20.5_

~ be the relationship that returns **love** to **all** who **share** this **world** with **you**. _D:Day40.35.1_

~ **you** **have** taken the step of accepting the relationship of the between, the relationship of **Christ** , into your own **being**. The cooperative relationship of **all** with **everything** abides **within** **you** now. **You** do not, and cannot decide what to do with it, **you** can only be it. This is the **choice** **you** **have** made. _E.16.2-5_

**Addendum**

~ this relationship between **Self** and Other, **Self** and **Life** , **Self** and **God** , Humanity and Divinity, is the **dialogue** of which **we** speak. It may seem to suggest **duality** but it suggests relationship. The **idea** of unity and relationship must fully enter **you** now. _A.41.1-3_

**RELEASE**

| rəˈlēs |

**Dialogues**

~ your release is at hand and it **will** come from your own authority and no place else. It is up to **you** to accept that your release is possible, to **desire** it without **fear** , to **call** it into **being**. _D:4.26.6-7_

~ **you** need not turn to **old** patterns or systems to accomplish your release. **You** can only turn to what is, to what is left now that the patterns and systems of learning are no longer. _D:4.28.2-3_

~ this cannot be fearful. This cannot fail. This **will** not bring **suffering** but **will** end **suffering**. Your part is to invite it and accept it when it comes. **State** your **willingness** , accept the coming of your release, and **prepare** to leave your **prison** behind. Invite this simply by inviting what brings **you** **joy**. _D:4.30.1-6_

**RELIANCE**

| rəˈlīəns |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ reliance is not tied to **belief** nor to the overcoming of disbelief and thus releases **you** from the need for **belief**. _D:Day10.4.2_

~ when **I** **call** **you** to replace **conviction** with reliance, **I** **call** **you** to replace **belief** in an outside **source** with reliance upon your **Self**. _D:Day10.16.1_

~ part of the difficulty **you** find in accepting reliance on your **Self** is what **you** **have** "learned" **within** this Course. As **you** "learned" to remove the **ego** and deny the **personal self** , **you** transferred your reliance to me and to the **state** of unity. This was purposeful. Now, however, **you** are asked to return to **wholeness**. _D:Day10.17.1-4_

**REMAIN**

| rəˈmān |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to remain is to continue to **exist**. It is what is left when parts **have** been taken away. It is what was not destroyed by the removal of the parts. **You** "remain" one in **being**. **You** "remain," just as the numbers of simple mathematics remain, one with the **whole**. _D:Day37.11.3-7_

**REMEMBER**

| rəˈmembər |

**A Course of Love**

~ a thousand things can pull **you** from your **remembrance**. Forgetting "things" can free **you** to remember. _C:20.23.4-5_

~ remember not your **ego** concerns and remember instead the warmth of the **embrace**. Remember not your personal **identity** but remember instead your shared **identity**. _C:20.46.3-4_

**Treatises**

~ the very **word** "remember," as well as the **concept** of **memory** , implies **mindfulness** and the **ability** to reproduce or recall both what has been learned and what has been previously experienced. This reproducing and recollecting are acts of **creation**. They do not bring back a **reality** that once was but transform that **reality** into a **present** moment **experience**. _T1:1.4.3-5_

~ let this **remembrance** grow and flourish as the garden that is **you**. _T2:12.13.4_

**REMEMBRANCE**

_A Course of Love Term_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ remembrance was necessary for your return to your true **identity** , the **Self** as it was created. Remembrance was not about what **you** did not **know** , but about what **you** knew but had forgotten. _D:7.12.2-3_

**REPLACEMENT**

| rəˈplāsmənt |

**A Course of Love**

~ the only replacement that can occur that **will** accomplish what **you** **seek** is the replacement of **illusion** with the **truth** , the replacement of **fear** with **love** , the replacement of your separated **self** with your **real** **Self** , the **Self** that rests in unity. It is your **knowledge** that this must occur that leads **you** to attempt every other kind of replacement. **You** can continue on in this fashion, always hoping that the next replacement **will** be the one that succeeds in bringing **you** what **you** **desire** , or **you** can choose instead the only replacement that **will** **work**. _C:9.24.1-3_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** **will** be seeking now for replacements for that which formerly ordered your **life**. Thus **we** **will** speak of these replacements. _D:3.10.3-4_

**REPRESENTATION**

| ˌreprəˌzenˈtāSH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ while still a representation, there is a huge **difference** between a true representation and a **false** representation. _T3:1.2.1_

~ the **false** representation of the **ego** as the **self** is what has led to the **world** **you** **see**. A true representation of the **Self** that **you** are is what **we** **work** toward in this **Treatise** and **will** lead to true **vision** and to a **new** **world**. _T3:1.3.1-2_

~ a representation of the **truth** not only reveals the **truth** but becomes the **truth**. A representation of what is not the **truth** reveals only **illusion** and becomes **illusion**. Thus, as your **personal self** becomes a representation of the **truth** it **will** **become** who **you** are in **truth**. _T3:1.4.1-3_

~ **you** who **have** spent most of your **life** representing the **ego** **have** but given a face to **illusion** and made it seem **real**. When **I** say that **you** **have** represented the **ego** , what **I** mean is that the **personal self** , as represented by your **body** , while adhering to the ego's **thought system** , became an **ego** - **self** or an unreal **self**. _T3:1.6.1-2_

~ while when joined with the **truth** , this representation **will** be acknowledged as what it is and as the **truth** of who **you** are, to erroneously **have** seen your former representation of **illusion** as the **truth** of who **you** are is what has led to your **perception** of the **world** of **suffering** and strife that **you** **have** seen. _T3:1.8.3_

~ the **truth** has as many ways of **being** represented as does **illusion**. _T3:2.7.1_

~ there is no right or wrong, no good or bad in regards to the **self** but only accurate or inaccurate representations of the **truth**. Inaccurate representations of the **truth** simply **have** no **meaning** and no **matter** how much one might try to read **meaning** into the meaningless, it **will** not be found there. _T3:2.9.1-2_

~ what **you** **have** called things are but representations too and that **we** move now beyond representations to **meaning** so that what **you** represent **will** move beyond representations to the **truth**. _T3:8.1.3_

~ the most enlightened among **you** **have** beautifully symbolized or represented the **truth**. These symbols or representations **have** been of great **service** and **have** caused the very explosions that **have** rocked your faulty **foundation**. To **work** toward **being** a representation of such great **power** is still a worthy **goal** and many of **you** **have** reached this **power**. **You** can **see** why this **power** has been necessary and continues to be necessary. But to stop at this dismantling **power** is not enough. To stop at this dismantling **power** would be to leave the **world** in its **present** condition and your brothers and sisters scrambling in the dust. _T3:8.1.6-11_

~ as the representations of the true **Self** **within** the **house** of **illusion** caused explosions and a fallout of **treasure** , the representation of the true **Self** **within** the **house** of **truth** **will** cause the **creation of the new**. _T3:8.9.1_

~ representing who **you** are in **truth** **will** **create** a **new** **heaven** on earth. _T3:16.15.3_

~ **you** **will** now represent who **you** are in physical **form** in a **new** **way**. _T3:19.11.2_

**Dialogues**

~ there is a huge **difference** between a true representation and a **false** representation. _D:5.3.2_

~ the **false** representation of the **ego** **self** led to the **world** **you** **see** , it did not **change** the **truth** but only created **illusion**. _D:5.3.3_

~ obviously—as **you** **have** been told that the **ego** has represented a **false** **self** —it is possible to misrepresent. _D:5.8.1_

~ it is through the representation of the true that the **false** is exposed as nothing. _D:5.8.3_

~ everywhere **you** look the lie of **false** representation **will** be exposed and the **truth** **will** be represented once again. _D:5.9.2_

~ as **you** **join** with the **truth** , your representation, in the **new** **time** that is before us, **will** be what is, in its representation. _D:5.11.7_

~ true representation, **being** of the **truth** , returns **you** to the **reality** of the **truth** where **you** **exist** in **oneness**. _D:5.11.9_

~ for some of **you** the repetition of the properties of the **false** that aided your learning may now **work** as a detriment to your **acceptance** as **you** cling to ideas concerning **false** representation rather than let them go in order to **embrace** true representation. _D:6.2.4_

**REPRODUCTION**

| ˌrēprəˈdəkSH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ the production that has so long occupied **you** **will** now serve **you** as **you** turn your productive and reproductive instincts to the production and reproduction of **relationship** and **union**. _T4:2.6.1_

**RESPONSE**

| rəˈspäns |

**A Course of Love**

~ it is your response to **love** that concerns us now, for the return of **love** is coming and **you** do not **want** to make the same response again. _C:14.14.1_

~ your actions reflect the proper response to the **relationship** that is occurring in the **present** rather than to your preconceived notions of **others** , the previous judgments your **mind** once made and relies upon out of habit, or your considerations of what the **situation** might mean to your **future**. It is not the **individual** " **you** " that dictates your responses to situations based on surface interpretations of what those situations entail. It is rather the **you** in and **within** the **relationship** that responds out of the **knowledge** gained through **relationship**. _C:27.15.3-5_

**Treatises**

~ to respond is to **answer**. _T1:2.3.4_

~ **you** **keep** **others** other by attempting to respond for them rather than responding to them. _T1:4.10.3_

~ response is given and thus genuine. It is a natural act of **giving** and receiving as one. _T1:4.13.3-4_

~ response happens from **within**. _T1:4.13.6_

~ a response is not an **interpretation**. A response is an **expression** of who **you** are rather than of what **you** believe something else to be. _T1:4.18.3-4_

~ response reveals the **truth** to **you** because it reveals the **truth** of **you**. _T1:4.19.7_

~ as your **old** **way** of responding to **life** causes **you** to **struggle** or resist and the **new** **way** of **thinking** replaces that **old** **pattern** with a **new** **pattern** of response, **you** **will** begin to **see** that **each** **new** response is the **answer** to a **call** that your **heart** **alone** can hear. _T2:4.19.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ reaction has been replaced by response. _D:Day8.29.5_

~ there are but two ways to respond to what **you** feel —with **love** or with **fear**. If **you** respond with **fear** **you** expel, project, and **separate**. If **you** respond with **love** **you** **remain** **whole**. _D:Day16.10.5-7_

~ if **you** respond as who **you** truly are, **you** respond with **love**. _D:Day33.8.2_

~ **you** now **know** how to respond to **love** , for **you** are **love** , **being**. So be it. _E.30.1-2_

**RESPONSIBILITY**

| rəˌspänsəˈbilədē |

**Treatises**

~ your responsibilities shift completely under the laws of **God**. Your thoughts are released from their concentration on what exists outside of **you** as your responsibility is placed where it belongs, in the **call** to respond. This **response** is only yours to give and is **all** **you** are asked to give. This **response** comes from **within** the **Self** —the rightly identified and acknowledged **Self**. _T1:4.9.1-4_

~ **you** thus **have** **thought** it is your responsibility to care for the **world** outside of yourself rather than for your **Self**. _T1:4.10.4_

~ there is much play on the words **response** , responsible, and responsibility **here**. This is no **accident**. Your **call** is to respond and **you** **have** seen this **call** incorrectly as a **call** to be responsible. The **idea** of responsibility sprang from the **ego** - **mind** that would usurp the **power** of **God**. _T1:4.11.1-4_

~ responsibility but implies a guardianship that is not needed. Responsibility implies **needs** that would not be met without **you**. _T1:4.13.1-2_

~ responsibility is a demanded **response** , a necessary **response** , an obligation. _T1:4.13.5_

~ responsibility is **all** about dealing with an outside **world**. _T1:4.13.7_

**REST**

| rest |

**Treatises**

~ this resting place is indeed hallowed ground and an earned respite, a demarcation even between the **old** **way** and the **new** **way** of **living**. But it is not the end that is sought. No **matter** how peaceful this place of rest may at **first** seem, it **will** soon **become** stagnant and unsatisfying. Left in such a place without further instruction, **you** would soon return to your **old** ideas of **heaven** and **see** **peace** as a **state** of **being** for those too weary to fully live. _T2:1.5.1-4_

~ this place is not **life** but neither is it **death** , for even **death** is not an eternal resting place in the sense that **you** **have** imagined it. Even rest, once truly learned, is simply rest. It is not a resting place, a place to stop along the **journey** of **life** any **more** than it is a place at which **life** stops and **death** reigns. It is not a point at which **you** arrive, never to depart. Rest, when truly learned, is a **state** of **being** in which **struggle** has ceased and **peace** has triumphed over chaos, **love** has triumphed over **fear**. _T2:1.6.1-5_

~ rest exists only in the **state** of unity. _T2:9.14.4_

**RESURRECTION**

| ˌrezəˈrekSH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ with my resurrection, which was **accomplished** for **all** , the **meaning** of **life** , the **reality** of **life** , changed, though **you** **have** known this not. The great experiment in **separation** ended with the resurrection, though **you** **have** known this not. For the resurrection and **life** are now one and the same. _T1:8.2.7-9_

~ the **nature** of **life** changed with the resurrection. **I am** the resurrection and the **life**. So are **you**. _T1:8.4.2-4_

~ even though the resurrection returned not **life** to the **form** **I** once occupied, it returned me to **you** in the **form** of the resurrected **Christ** who exists in **all** of **you** , bringing resurrection even unto your forms. **I** became the **Word** incarnate upon my resurrection rather than upon my **birth**. _T1:8.5.2-3_

~ my resurrection brought about the **Word** made flesh in **each** of **you**. _T1:8.5.7_

~ the resurrection is the cause and **effect** of the **union** of the human and divine. This is **accomplished**. This is in **effect** the **way** in which the man **Jesus** became the **Christ**. This is in **effect** the **way**. _T1:8.6.3-6_

~ **you** must **see** the link between resurrection and **incarnation** , the link between resurrection and the **birth** of the **god** -man. _T1:8.7.3_

~ the **heart** and **mind** joined in **union** **accomplished** the reunion of the separated **self** with **God**. The resurrection was evidence of this **accomplishment**. It laid aside death's **claim** and with it the **claim** of **all** that is temporary. The resurrection was witnessed as the proof required, much as proof has been offered to **you** now in the **form** of miracles. _T1:8.8.1-4_

~ the **new** **pattern** of **life** is the **ability** to resurrect in **form**. The **ability** to resurrect in **life**. The **ability** to resurrect now. _T1:8.14.1-3_

~ as **I** awaited my **death** **I** was given the **gift** of knowing what would come to be through my resurrection. This **I** tried to pass on in the simplest of terms. **I** tried to make it known that while **I** would die and resurrect into a **new** **form** , **you** would also. _T1:9.9.1-3_

~ what would be a greater step in **all** of **creation** than a physical **self** able to choose to express the **Self** **within** the **laws of love**? A physical **self** , able to express itself from **within** the **House** of **Truth** in ways consistent with **peace** and **love** is the next step in **creation** , the rebirth of the **Son of God** known as the resurrection. _T3:12.10.1-2_

~ resurrection or rebirth must be total to be at **all**. _T3:14.3.1_

**Dialogues**

~ **release** through resurrection is the **answer**. _D:5.18.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ it is hard for **you** to believe that my resurrection heralded eternal **life** when **death** has been a **constant** companion of **all** those who **have** lived since my **time**. _D:Day2.17.4_

~ resurrection lays aside death's **claim** and with it the **claim** of **all** that is temporary. _D:Day18.6.1_

**REVELATION**

| ˌrevəˈlāSH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ revelation is a proper description of the mode by which the **art of thought** teaches and helps **you** **learn**. It is not through **study** , **effort** , or re- **interpretation** but through revelation. _T1:4.23.1-2_

~ revelation is direct communication with **God** in the sense that it is direct communication from a **Self** **you** **have** known not, the **Self** that is one with the **Creator**. _T1:4.24.1_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** are not called to reinterpret but to accept revelation. _D:5.11.1_

~ revelation cannot come to those who are so "certain" of what is that they cannot allow for the **new** to be revealed. _D:6.15.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ revelation is of **God**. **Observation** , **vision** , and **desire** are steps leading **you** beyond what the **individual** , separated **self** sees, to the revelation of what is. These steps that lead to revelation are not ongoing aspects of **creation** , because they are related to **particular** forms as they **exist** in **time**. _D:7.18.1-3_

~ only through revelation can **you** **know** **all** and still hold the mystery. This revelation is not something **being** withheld from **you**. But it is a revelation that can only come to **you** as an individuated **being** in **union** and **relationship**. This is what makes it a true revelation. Because true revelation is between **you** and me. _D:Day39.6.4-8_

~ do not **expect** learning, only revelation. _D:Day39.45.5_

**REVERENCE**

| ˈrev(ə)rəns |

**Dialogues**

~ to revere is to feel **awe** , which, it has been stated, is due nothing and no one but **God**. To move beyond **desire** to reverence is to move into the **state** of **communion** with **God** , full **oneness** with **God** , **wholeness**. _D:17.19.6-7_

**REWARD**

| rəˈwôrd |

**Treatises**

~ to give up your **desire** for reward is to give up a childish **desire** that has **become** like unto a plague among **you**. While many of **you** **see** it not, **everything** **you** do is based upon **desire** for reward. This is your **desire** to be given to in return for what **you** give. This stems from your **idea** of yourself as a "child" of **God** , and a notion that would seem to suggest that the child is **less** than the parent. _T3:6.1.2-5_

~ the "rewards" **you** **seek** —some of **you** from **God** , some from **life** , some from **fate**. No **matter** who it is **you** think is in charge of rewarding **you** , the attitude that causes **you** to **desire** reward is what must be done without. _T3:6.1.7-8_

~ this is one of the key ideas that **will** **keep** **you** from yourself and has much to do with your former notions of **God** and your own **self**. It is an **idea** that has been transferred to **all** of **life**. _T3:6.2.2-3_

~ reward is intricately tied to your notions of **being** good, performing deeds of merit, and taking care of, or surviving, the many details that seem to make it possible for **you** to live **within** your **world**. The **idea** of reward transfers to ideas related to **comparison** as well, as **lack** of reward in one instance and reward given in another, is the cause of much of the **bitterness** that exists **within** your hearts. _T3:6.3.1-2_

**SACRIFICE**

| ˈsakrəˌfīs |

**A Course of Love**

~ **god** wants no sacrifice from **you** , yet when **you** give away your **power** **you** make of yourself a sacrificial lamb, an **offering** onto **God** that **God** does not **want**. **You** look back on stories of sacrifice from the Bible and think what a barbaric **time** that was, and yet **you** repeat the same history but in **different** **form**. _C:16.24.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ no sacrifices need be made and sacrifices are, in **truth** , unacceptable to **God**. _T3:16.1.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** are not called to sacrifice. _D:Day3.27.1_

**SAFETY**

| ˈsāftē |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** look upon an unforgiven **world** where **evil** walks, danger lurks, and nowhere is safety to be found. **Each** separated one is out for his or her own **self** , and if **you** do not watch out for your own safety, surely **you** **will** perish. Yet while **you** watch vigilantly **you** **know** that **you** cannot protect yourself and that **you** are not safe. There is only one of **you** and so many of "them." Never can **you** **keep** your guard up quite enough or secure a final guarantee against disaster. And yet **you** cling to **all** attempts to do so even while knowing they are ineffective. _C:16.13.1-6_

~ **you** think **you** cannot give up your vigilance because **you** **know** no other **way** to ensure your safety, and even if **you** cannot guarantee your safety against **everything** **all** of the **time** , **you** believe **you** can guarantee your safety against some things some of the **time**. And for this occasional **protection** that has no validity and no proof **you** give up **love**! _C:16.14.1-2_

**SALVATION**

| salˈvāSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** are not your own **creator**. This is your salvation. _C:9.28.1-2_

~ it is in this perfect sense of the perfect **sanity** of **truth** that salvation lies. Salvation is simply your return to your **Self**. _C:31.32.1-2_

**SAMENESS**

| ˈsāmnəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ your wish for **specialness** leads **you** not to **see** sameness anywhere at **all** , for what is the same cannot be special. _C:16.2.2_

~ what is the same does not **change** and **become** **different**. _C:16.3.4_

~ sameness is not a sentence to mediocrity or uniformity. _C:20.30.2_

~ your **fear** of sameness is your **fear** of **oneness** , and it is an unfounded **fear** , though understandable given your **concept** of what is the same and what is **different**. Yet, as your forms so readily illustrate, while **all** bodies are the same, they are also **different**. _C:31.5.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the sameness of **union** is not about becoming clones or one specific type of idealized holy person. _D:Day5.17.2_

**SANCTITY**

| ˈsaNG(k)tədē |

**A Course of Love**

~ sanctity is **all** that exists **within** the **embrace**. _C:20.22.1_

**SANITY**

| ˈsanədē |

**Dialogues**

~ Sanity is accepting the **truth** as your **reality** and acting from that **truth**. _D:1.16.2_

~ It is sane to **know** the **truth**. _D:12.17.5_

**SCIENCE**

| ˈsīəns |

**Treatises**

~ now your science is proving to **you** the **relationship** between the observer and the observed, the **effect** that one cannot **help** but **have** upon the other. Science still has a long **way** to go in determining, through its processes, what this says about the **nature** of humankind but it is closer every **day** to understanding the unity and interconnectedness of **all** things. _T3:17.2.5-6_

**Dialogues**

~ in the Bible there were many stories about miracles, both before and after the **time** in which **I** lived. If **you** were to pose to a scientist whether or not these miracles were possible, they would tell **you** of **all** the "laws" of science that would be opposed to them occurring. _D:6.9.1-2_

~ what these laws of science do not take into account are the laws of **God**. Although science is **beginning** to **see** much as it truly is, scientists still look for **natural laws** that govern what is in an "if this, then that" **world**. _D:6.10.1-2_

~ if science teaches anything, it teaches that what is proven can be disproved—and often is. Thus the **prayer** of the Native Americans who thank the sun for rising **each** **day** is a **prayer** that acknowledges that the sun may not rise. This is not a doomsday attitude, but an attitude that accepts that scientific or natural **law** and the **law** of **spirit** are not the same. _D:6.11.5-7_

**SECOND COMING**

| səˈkɑnd |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ this has been spoken of as the second coming of **Christ** because my story goes unfulfilled without your **fulfillment**. It is only in your **fulfillment** of the continuing story of **creation** that my story reaches completion. It is a story whose completion cannot occur in singular **form** , but as with any true **inheritance** only in a series, only in a joining together of **all** of the parts of the **creation** story into the **wholeness** of the story's end. _D:Day1.25.1-3_

~ the **call** for the second coming of **Christ** has sounded and that it is a **call** to the **difference** **you** **have** always desired while not requiring **you** to **remain** **separate**! _D:Day37.10.5_

**SEE**

| sē |

**A Course of Love**

~ the eyes of **love** see not the misery or despair. They are not there! This is the **miracle**. The **miracle** is true seeing. _C:2.10.7-10_

~ to truly see is to begin to see the formless. To begin to see the formless is to begin to **understand** what **you** are. _C:3.4.6-7_

~ what **you** are looking for is what **you** **will** find, but finding it does not make it the **truth** , except as it is the **truth** about what **you** choose to see. _C:16.6.6_

**Dialogues**

~ what **you** can see with your body's eyes **will** not be **all** that is but **will** represent **all** that is truly. _D:5.12.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** quite literally **have** a **new** **way** of seeing. **You** might think of this initially as having two perspectives, an internal and an **external** perspective, a human perspective and a spiritual perspective, a perspective from **level** ground and a **mountain top** perspective. _D:Day27.7.2-3_

**SEEK**

| sēk |

**A Course of Love**

~ seekers are but another category of those who at the precipice act as if they **have** hit a wall rather than come across a **bridge**. It is precisely the place at which **you** stopped that **you** must return to. Those who continue to seek may **have** left teachings of the Course or of one or another spiritual or religious tradition only to find another and still another. For those intent on seeking there is always **more** to seek, but those who find must stop to realize what they **have** found and to realize that they seek no **more**. _C:P.23.1-4_

~ **you** look for explanations and information rather than the **truth** **you** **claim** to seek. _C:8.11.5_

~ just as **you** look to **God** for your **Self** , knowing not what it is **you** seek, so too do **you** look to your brothers and sisters and **all** else that lives along with **you**. But when **you** look, knowing not what **you** seek, what **you** find varies. Since there is only one **truth** , finding a variety of answers **means** nothing. If **you** but **change** what **you** look for, what **you** **see** and what **you** **learn** **will** also **change**. _C:31.28.1-4_

~ **you** believe **you** are seeking something other than **you** to complete yourself, because **you** are seeking to complete yourself. **You** are seeking **wholeness**. And **you** are even correct in seeking it from your brothers and sisters just not in the **way** **you** perceive of it. _C:31.30.4-6_

**Treatises**

~ no one seeks for what they already **know** how to find or for what they already believe they possess. _T1:1.1.7_

~ **all** seeking must turn **within** , toward the **heart** where the **real** **Self** abides. _T1:5.9.6_

**SELF**

| self |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** thus **have** confused yourself further by accepting that **you** are two selves—an **ego** self represented by the **body** —and a **spirit** self that represents to **you** an invisible **world** in which **you** can believe but not take part. _C:P.15.3_

~ rejoice that there is something in this **world** that **you** **will** not bargain with, something **you** hold sacrosanct. This is your Self. Yet this Self that **you** hold so dear that **you** **will** never let it go is precisely what **you** must be willing to freely give away. This is the only Self that holds the **light** of who **you** are in **truth** , the Self that is joined with the **Christ** in **you**. _C:7.7.1-4_

~ your Self rests totally unchanged **within** the **Christ** in **you**. Re-establishing your **relationship** with your brother is what **will** show your Self to **you**. _C:12.9.1-2_

~ the **desire** for **specialness** is what calls your little self into **being**. This is the self that is easily wounded, the self that takes on grievances and refuses to give them up, the self that is prone to pettiness and **bitterness** , resentment and **deception**. _C:15.3.3-4_

~ the Self **you** **have** taken out of the learning loop is the Self of **love**. _C:18.24.3_

~ **you** begin to live from **love** when the **personal** self gets out of the **way**. And when the **personal** self gets out of the **way** in any instance, it is the turning point. It is the signal that **you** are ready to live from **love**. _C:25.16.2-4_

~ **living** in **love** in every instance is what occurs when the **whole** Self is involved in the **love** of **life**. There are no "parts" of the Self fractioned off and holding resentments. There are no "parts" of Self **living** in the **past** or the **future**. There is not a "mindful" Self **living** separately from a "soulful" Self. There is not a "worker" Self **living** separately from a "prayerful" Self. **All** Selves are joined in **wholeheartedness**. The one Self is solely involved in **living** **love**. _C:25.17.1-7_

~ **you** **have** been caught in a cycle of seeing the self as important for a period of **time** and then seeing the self as unimportant for a period of **time**. Seeing the self as important seems at one **time** like a **function** of the **ego** , and at another as a **function** of the divine. **You** **become** confused between the **personal** self and a true Self only because **you** **have** not as yet identified your true Self. Once **you** **have** identified your true Self **all** such **confusion** **will** end. _C:27.5.1-4_

~ the Self **you** are is a **unique** Self. A Self of **relationship** does not imply a Self that is the same as **all** the **rest**. But it does imply a Self that is integral to **all** the **rest**. _C:27.11.3-5_

~ only in **God** can **you** find your Self. _C:31.10.2_

**Treatises**

~ your Self is what is in need of identification and acknowledgment. _T1:4.4.3_

~ your **real** Self is not **present** in the realm of the truly **real** , but is actually **present** **within** the **illusion**. _T1:5.9.5_

~ **all** are capable of birthing the Self. _T1:9.7.5_

~ in order for the Self to be birthed, **giving** and receiving must be one in **truth**. _T1:9.8.3_

~ now **you** must fully **recognize** the distinction between the **ego** -self that previously was the self of learning and **experience** , and the **Christ** -Self that is now the Self of learning and **experience**. **You** must take on the mantle of your **new** **identity** , your **new** Self. _T2:3.4.7-8_

~ yourself does not need to stand **separate** and **alone** in order to be fulfilled under the mantle of individuality. _T2:13.1.3_

~ an unreal self cannot **help** but **exist** in an unreal **reality**. _T3:1.6.3_

~ **you** saw nothing **more** amiss in **being** a professional self in one instance and a social self in another, a parent in one role and a **friend** in another, than **you** did in defining a **past** self, a **present** self and a **future** self. The greatest distinction of **all** was that between the private self and the public self, as if who **you** were to yourself and who **you** presented yourself to be could be two completely **different** selves. Even **within** the **illusion** in which **you** existed there was a self kept hidden. _T3:1.11.5-7_

~ **revelation** is direct communication with **God** in the sense that it is direct communication from a Self **you** **have** known not, the Self that is one with the **Creator**. _T1:4.24.1_

~ the **accomplished** Self is the **Christ**. Your **remembrance** of the **Christ** -Self has abolished the **ego** -self and allows us to begin the lessons of the **personal** self. _T3:1.12.3-4_

~ it is only this one, unaltered Self that is the **truth** of who **you** are and who your brothers and sisters are as well. This is what is meant by **oneness**. This is what is meant by unity. _T3:2.6.4-6_

~ **you** **have** not yet realized how much **you** still consider unlovable about yourself. This does not mean that **you** are not loveable, only that **you** **have** not yet fully recognized your true Self. Until **you** fully **recognize** your Self, **you** cannot fully **love** yourself. _T3:3.6.7-9_

~ while your recognition of your Self has come a long **way** through your learning of this Course, your self is still seen as a stumbling block. _T3:3.9.2_

~ the Self that **I** **recognize** as **You** , is not other than who **you** are, but who **you** are. _T3:3.10.1_

~ your Self is now your **Christ** -Self. _T3:10.9.8_

~ the self of **illusion** , the self that exists in **illusion** , is an illusionary self. _T3:11.1.4_

~ a physical self is not inconsistent with the laws of **God** or of **creation**. It is simply a **choice**. _T3:12.8.7-8_

~ your physical self represents, in **form** , the **thought** or **image** produced **within** the Self. _T3:13.14.3_

~ since your true Self could not **learn** the untrue, a **new** self, which **we** **have** called the **ego** -self, was made. Since the **ego** -self cannot **learn** the true, your true self had to be appealed to for this learning to take place. _T3:17.5.4-5_

~ your **real** Self exists in **truth**. It does not **exist** in **illusion**. _T3:21.5.1-2_

~ your **awareness** of the Self that **you** are now was not **present** in the **past** , but **you** can truly now, with the **devotion** of the observant, **see** that the Self **you** are now was indeed **present** , and the **truth** of who **you** were always. _T4:2.15.5_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** need only to **claim** your **inheritance** , your gifts, your Self. _D:1.2.6_

~ what this **means** in practical terms is that **you** let the **personal** self step back and the true Self step forward. Realize that **all** of your "concerns" are still for the **personal** self, a self whom **you** continue to believe can fail to fulfill or live your mission and your **purpose**. _D:1.3.1-2_

~ **you** " **see** " the **pattern** of the **personal** self going forth much as it did before. **You** do not " **see** " the **new** , the **new** Self of elevated **form** or the true Self of divine **union**. **You** " **see** " the separated self still "trying," still "struggling," still fumbling along. **You** do not **see** the natural **grace** and order of the **universe** extending into the realm of the elevated Self, the **space** of the elevated Self. As long as **you** **see** in this **way** , **you** **keep** the **personal** self in the forefront rather than allowing and aiding the **personal** self in the stepping back that is required in order for the true Self to step forward. _D:1.3.4-8_

~ **you** are not called to selflessness but to Self. _D:1.9.2_

~ imagine the **separate** self **being** enfolded, embraced, and finally consumed—taken into the Self of **union**. _D:1.11.5_

~ your Self is **all** there is. _D:1.23.2_

~ your Self is not the person **you** **have** been since **birth**. _D:1.24.1_

~ the mending of the rift between **heart** and **mind** returned **you** to your Self. _D:3.5.3_

~ as the Self, **you** are giver and receiver. Your Self is a full participant in this **dialogue**. **You** as the Self are the **truth**. **You** as the Self are the **creator** and the created. **You** as the Self are **union** itself. _D:3.16.1-5_

~ the Self is eternal. _D:3.19.2_

~ **you** are going beyond simple recognition and **acceptance** of the Self as **God** created the Self—to the **living** of this Self in **form**. _D:5.15.2_

~ your true Self is **beginning** to reveal itself to **you** in ways of which **you** **will** **become** increasingly aware. As **you** identify **more** intimately with the Self **you** truly are, the self of **form** is likely to grow **more** and **more** foreign to **you** and **less** and **less** comfortable. _D:6.4.3-4_

~ **you** **have** replaced the **personal** self, the self of learning, with the true Self. _D:6.24.4_

~ outside of **time** and **form** your Self has always existed in the perfect **harmony** in which it was created. Now that your Self has joined the **elevated** Self **of form** , **you** **exist** together both in **time** and outside of **time**. _D:6.26.5-6_

~ the self of **form** , as **form** , could never truly **experience** the **All of Everything** that is the natural **state** of the formless. But the true Self cannot cease to **experience** its natural **state** , the **state** of **Christ-consciousness** , sharing in unity, the **All of Everything**. _D:6.27.1-2_

~ released of **old** patterns, the self **will** **join** with unity **more** and **more** frequently, until finally **you** **will** sustain **Christ** **consciousness** and live in the **world** as the **elevated** Self **of form**. _D:12.12.2_

~ **we** are not leaving the Self to explore, because the Self is the **source** and cause of exploration as well as the **source** and cause of **discovery**. And yet the Self is far **more** than **you** **have** experienced as yourself in the **past**. _D:14.2.2-3_

~ the Self is not **separate** from anything, not from anything in the physical **world** or anything in the **state** of unity. _D:14.3.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** **have** **access** to a "given" Self, to something neither earned nor worked hard to attain. To imagine this as an **idea** is to imagine this "given" Self as the Self that exists beyond the **boundary** **we** **have** described as the dot of the **body**. _D:8.5.1-2_

~ the divided self is the small self of **separation** that is constantly yearning for **union** with that from which it is divided. _D:8.12.1_

~ the **image** of the ideal self **you** hold in your **mind** , no **matter** what **form** it takes, is still an **image** , and must now be done without if **you** are going to realize **freedom**. _D:Day9.10.7_

~ if **you** do not accept your Self as **you** are, **you** **will** not move from **image** to presence. _D:Day9.20.4_

~ **you** are your ideal self. Yes, even right now, with **all** your seeming imperfections. _D:Day9.24.2-3_

~ the One Self exists **within** the many in order to **know** Its Self through sharing in **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day11.4.1_

~ the merging of **form** with **Christ-consciousness** is this merging of the Self with the unconditional **love** of the One Self. The One Self loves Its Self. There is nothing else to **love**. The One Self is the **All**. _D:Day12.3.1-4_

~ your Self is now a **feeling** , conscious **space** , unhindered by any obstacles of **form**. _D:Day12.5.3_

~ once the One Self became **form** and knew Its Self, it knew **separate** **thought**. The **separate** thoughts of the one self, rather than the **form** of the one self, allowed for the knowing of the self that created the many selves. The many selves who **have** come and gone since the **beginning** of **time** now **know** themselves as the many and the one, the **individual** and the collective. _D:Day13.1.3_

~ the invisible or spacious Self is the Self through which **pass-through** naturally occurs because there are no blocks or boundaries, no holding patterns, no mental interferences. _D:Day14.8.1_

~ to **become** the spacious Self is to **become** ready to be informed and to **inform** with the **spirit** of **creation**. _D:Day15.15.5_

~ **being** your true self is **being** in **union** , undivided and **inseparable** from **God** , the **All** of **All**. _D:Day17.3.4_

~ there is no "higher" self waiting to do what only **you** can do. _D:Day22.10.3_

~ **you** are a Self with many forms. _D:Day24.3_

~ **you** might think of the caterpillar as the unaltered self with which **you** began your **journey**. _D:Day24.5.1_

~ the Self **will** **guide** **you** if **you** **will** allow it to. Your Self **will** lead **you** down from the **mountain top** and through the valleys of **level** ground. _D:Day26.4.3-4_

~ **you** can **trust** in your Self. _D:Day26.5.1_

~ your "self" **will** no longer be divided into a **spirit** Self and a human self, **living** under **different** conditions, at times complimenting and at times opposing one another. _D:Day29.2.1_

~ **we** name or denominate the Self as what is common to **wholeness**. _D:Day30.3.7_

~ no **matter** how fractious are the **separate** selves, commonality and **wholeness** always **exist** and **have** always existed. _D:Day30.3.9_

~ the **experience** of the Self is **God**. It is not from **God**. It is not of **God**. It is **God**. _D:Day32.1.1-4_

**Addendum**

~ **being** true to your Self is not about reaching an ideal **state** or a **state** of **identity** exactly the same as another's. It is also not about **being** selfless. _A.24.3-4_

**SEPARATE**

| ˈsep(ə)rət |

**A Course of Love**

~ how could one separated off from **all** the **rest** not be fearful? It matters not at **all** that **all** whom **you** observe seem to be separate as well. No one really believes another to be as separate as he is. It always seems as if **others** **have** what **you** **lack** and what **you** are looking for. **You** seem to be **alone** in your frailty, **loneliness** , and **lack** of **love**. **Others** misunderstand **you** and **know** **you** not, and neither can **you** make any sense of them. _C:9.17.1-6_

~ this need not be, for **you** are not separate! _C:9.18.1_

~ instead of recognizing your **union** , a **state** in which **you** are **whole** and complete because **you** are joined with **all** , **you** **have** determined to stand separate and **use** the **rest** to support your separate stance. _C:9.49.4_

~ a separate **self** with a **free will** operating in an **external** **world** , as well as a **spirit** **self** desiring the **experience** of **separation** , would naturally lead to a **situation** where the **whole** range of experiences available to a separate **being** would **exist**. _C:19.1.7_

**SEPARATION**

| ˌsepəˈrāSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ separation is **all** **you** perceive on your own. _C:5.29.3_

~ separation cannot bring about the **truth** nor arise from unity. _C:9.11.10_

~ in having **chosen** separation over unity, **you** but chose **fear** over **love**. _C:11.18.3_

~ what this Course is saying is that at some point that does not **exist** in **time** , God's son made the **choice** for separation. Whether God's son had one **form** or many at that **time** matters not, for one **form** or many, there was still one **mind** , the **mind** of God's son joined in unity with that of his **Father**. Many of **you** **have** been taught this mystery of **faith**. **Father** , Son, and **Holy Spirit** are One. If **you** had indeed learned what **you** were taught, the separation would be no **more**. _C:12.15.3-7_

~ as near as words can describe the separation, this is what occurred: An **idea** of separation entered the **mind** of God's son. Like any **idea** of yours, this **idea** did not leave its **Source** nor **change** the essence of its **Source** in any **way**. _C:12.19.1-2_

~ the **idea** of separation only seems to **have** made God's son susceptible to **division** , and these **word** symbols are **all** that seem to **separate** **Father** , Son, and **Holy Spirit** from **Creation** or from **each** other. _C:12.25.3_

~ **heaven** can only be made to seem to fit your **goal** of separation, and the same is true of **love**. _C:14.23.1_

~ your **choice** to **separate** from **God** is but a separation from your own **Self** , and this is truly the separation that **needs** to be healed to return **you** to **God**. _C:17.2.5_

~ in order to **learn** what the **idea** of separation would **teach** **you** , **you** needed to believe that **you** existed in a separated **state**. Thus, "forgetting" that **you** actually reside in unity was a requirement of this condition **you** wished to **experience**. This condition was thus made available. _C:18.9.7-9_

~ **you** could not fully **experience** separation without a sense of **self** as **separate**. _C:19.1.6_

~ in separation **you** merely **strive** for **all** that is yours in **relationship**. _C:27.11.9_

**Treatises**

~ as **I** no longer suffer the separation, **you** need no longer suffer the separation. _T1:8.5.1_

~ **you** are no longer confined to the conditions of separation, my dear brothers and sisters, and this is what it is **time** for **you** to **learn**. _T2:4.6.7_

~ separation is **all** that opposes **relationship**. _T2:11.7.5_

~ **separate** things must still **exist** in **relationship**. This is the key to understanding the **truth** of these statements. For even while **you** **have** **chosen** separation, this **choice** did not preclude the existence of **relationship** and it is in **relationship** that **union** still exists. If **you** had been able to choose separation without **relationship** , then the **image** of yourself the **ego** has put forth would **have** been a true **image**. But as **life** cannot **exist** apart from **relationship** , this **choice** was not available and did not overturn the laws of **God**. The **ego** is but your **belief** that this has occurred; that what could never be true has **become** the **truth**. _T2:11.12.1-6_

~ while **we** **have** said **you** chose the separation, it has not been said that this **choice** was the **choice** it has been made to seem. **You** chose to represent yourself in a **new** **way** , to express yourself in a **new** **way** , to **share** yourself in a **new** **way**. The **choice** to represent your **Self** in **form** was a **choice** for separation but not because separation itself was desired as **you** **have** assumed. This is the assumption **you** **have** accepted in much the same **way** **you** **have** accepted your **free will** as that which allows **you** to be **separate** from and independent of **God**. Once this assumption was accepted, the **duality** of your existence became paramount, became the only **means** **you** saw of deciphering the **world** around **you** and your role **within** it. Separation, aloneness, **independence** , individuality—these became the **purpose** **you** assumed. _T3:2.3.1-6_

~ **you** chose a **means** of **creation** —as **God** chose a **means** of **creation**. That **means** of **creation** is separation, becoming **separate** (the observer as well as the observed) so as to extend **creation** through **relationship** (of the observer and the observed). _T3:2.3.7-8_

~ **you** are asked to accept a **new** **belief** regarding the **choice** **we** **have** called the separation, a **choice** **you** **have** deemed as sin. _T3:2.4.3_

~ **you** believed that every step in the advancement of your separated **state** was a step away from **God** and your **real** **Self**. This **belief** was based in logic, but the logic of the **illusion** —in which **you** believed **you** chose to **separate** from **God** out of defiance and a **desire** to be one with **God** no longer. This could not be further from the **truth** and is the cause of **all** your **suffering** , for contained **within** this **belief** was the **belief** that with **each** successful step toward **independence** came a corresponding step away from **God**. As **independence** seemed to be your **purpose** **here** , **you** could not **keep** yourself from attempts to advance in this direction. And yet, neither could **you** **keep** from punishing yourself for this advancement. _T3:2.5.5-9_

~ the **idea** of separation is an **idea** that is not consistent with the **idea** of unity. If **you** proceed into this **new** **time** **thinking** that this **new** **time** **will** **separate** **you** from **others** , or cause **you** , as the **chosen** , to be **separate** , **you** **will** not **become** fully aware of the **new** **time**. _T4:2.10.1-2_

~ **you** separated yourself from direct **awareness** of your **relationship** with unity, with **oneness** , and with **God** , just as **you** separated yourself from **relationship** with the **wholeness** of the **pattern** of **creation**. _T4:2.22.7_

~ the separated **state** was nothing **more** than the disjoining of **heart** and **mind** , a **state** in which **mind** attempted to **know** without the **relationship** of the **heart** , and so merely perceived its own **creations** , rather than the **creations** birthed in unity. _T4:2.26.2_

~ the separated **state** of the **mind** created its own **separate** **world**. Cause and **effect** are one. The perceived **state** of separation created the perceived **state** of a **separate** **world**. _T4:2.27.2-4_

~ to abide in a **state** of separation is to abide in an unnatural **state** from which **you** eventually **will** **seek** **release**. _T4:4.15.5_

**Dialogues**

~ to **know** what **you** now **know** , and **remain** aware only of the **reality** of the separated **self** , would not sustain **Christ-consciousness** in **form**. _D:3.16.8_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **we** could only **share** in unity and **relationship** through a seeming separation from the **oneness** in which **we** **exist**. _D:Day11.2.2_

~ separation, of itself, is nothing. What is **separate** and joined in **relationship** is **All** because it is **all** that is knowable. _D:Day11.6.1-2_

~ separation is as unknowable as the **All of Everything**. To be **separate** in **truth** would be to not **exist**. _D:Day11.6.7-8_

~ what is ejected from the **self** becomes **separate** and in the separation willfully forgotten. _D:Day14.3.1_

~ your separated **state** was a **sickness** , an unwanted **state** , and thus a temporary manifestation. _D:Day18.6.1_

~ **you** **have** been told that although **you** believed yourself to be **separate** this separation never actually occurred and that **you** **have** always been the **accomplished**. _D:Day18.9.1_

~ **mind** and **heart** in separation could not truly **exist** and allow for a functioning **state** of **life** or **consciousness**. Thus there was only a degree of separation that was able to occur to allow for a certain type of **experience**. _D:Day18.9.3-4_

~ separation, as well as the variability of the **experience** of the **separate** **self** , **have** always been variables that **exist** **within** the **constant** of **wholeness**. What **you** **have** experienced, however, has not been **wholeness** or the **experience** of **wholeness** , but the **experience** of separation. What **we** are speaking of now is **being** able to **experience** **wholeness** and the variability of **experience** that has come through the separated **self** of **form**. _D:Day27.16.1-3_

~ only **within** **time** is the **experience** of separation possible. _D:Day28.18.1_

~ to **have** experienced only separation is to **have** known only half of any **experience** , to **have** seen every **experience** in only one dimension—in short, to **have** seen **experience** as happening to **you** rather than as **you**. _D:Day31.5.1_

~ to negate is to deny what is. The **denial** of what is is the **source** of separation. _D:Day31.8.9-10_

~ humankind's unawareness of the **union** and **relationship** in which it exists has produced the **idea** of separation, while at the same **time** , humankind's **desire** for separation produced unawareness of **union** **relationship**. _D:Day35.16.2_

~ **you** **have** been "creating" but relating to **creation** in separation. **You** **have** seen yourself as **separate** from **creation** and **separate** from **all** **others**. Thus what **you** **have** "created" has stood apart from **wholeness**. _D:Day35.18.3-5_

~ to be one in **being** with **God** and yet to **exist** outside of the powerful **state** of **relationship** and **union** has been a challenging **choice**. A **god** -like **choice**. A **choice** for a **new** kind of **experience** that has led to the **creation** of an unreal **reality** so populated by the **god** -like and the **god** - **less** , so near to replacing **creation** with destruction, so joyous and loving, and so hate- and **pain** -filled. _D:Day36.15.4-6_

~ separation and the **contrast** of the **separate** define every **relationship** with either/or rather than both/and **thinking** : that is, **you** are a woman and not a man, **you** are a human **being** and not a divine **being** , **you** are a person and not a tree. As a **separate** **being** , **you** only relate to other **separate** things. In short, who **you** are **being** is **all** predicated, **first** and foremost, by the **relationship** that **you** **see** yourself as having to the **world** around **you**. Since **you** **see** yourself as **separate** from it, **all** that **you** **experience** with your **being** is separation. **All** that **you** represent with your **being** is a **separate** **being** or a **separate** **self**. _D:Day37.3.6-10_

~ with the **birth** of **I Am** came the **birth** of **all** **I am** not and the need to differentiate. In separation **you** **have** striven against the "opposing" force of **union** in order to **become** **separate**. In seeing the **self** as **separate** **you** **have** known **fear** and **have** been forced to reconcile **fear** with **love**. Now, in coming back to **relationship** and **union** with me **you** **have** realized that **you** are not **separate** and now **have** striven against the "opposing" force of separation. With the **acceptance** of the **Christ** in **you** , **you** are returned to **relationship** and need no longer **strive** against the "opposing" force of separation, for **you** no longer **know** it. _D:Day40.8.7-11_

~ as a **separate** **being** , **you** **have** been in a **relationship** with **fear**. This **relationship** with **fear** is **all** that has provided the " **I** " of the separated **self**. _D:Day40.22.1-2_

**SERVICE**

| ˈsərvəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ the inanimate as well as the animate is called upon, depended upon for service. **All** **use** is replaced with service. _C:20.38.6-7_

~ **all** service is cooperative and depends on a **belief** in mutuality. _C:20.39.1_

~ your **thinking** **will** begin to **change** to reflect your recognition of reception. Reception and welcome are highly linked. **You** **will** find **you** are welcome to **all** the gifts **you** **recognize** in your brothers and sisters just as **you** freely **will** offer yours to serve them. To serve rather than to **use** is an enormous **change** in **thinking** , **feeling** , and acting. It **will** immediately make the **world** a kinder, gentler place. And it is only a **beginning**. _C:20.44.1-6_

~ to serve is **different** from your ideas of service, however. Your ideas of service are bound to your ideas of **charity**. _C:20.45.1-2_

~ **you** must **remain** cognizant of this distinction between serving and service. It **will** be helpful if **you** **keep** in **mind** that the **idea** of to serve is **being** used to replace the **idea** of to **use** and is its **opposite**. It replaces the **thought** of taking with the **thought** of receiving. It implies that **you** are welcome to **all** the gifts of the **universe** and that they can be given, through **you** , to **others** as well. It implies **willingness** rather than resistance. _C:20.45.4-8_

~ true service does not look for what another has to give or what another has that **you** might **use**. True service recognizes God's **law** of **giving** and receiving. _C:25.7.5-6_

~ your **function** cannot be known to **you** while **you** shy away from the **idea** of service. Whether **you** realize it or not, **you** associate service with subjugation, particularly the **idea** of service to a higher **Will** or higher Cause. Some of **you** associate it with a **lack** of **free will** , a **lack** of **choice** , a course that **will** lead **you** to a subservient stature. **Others** think of it in terms of **charity** , and continue to **see** a **difference** between those who would serve and those who would be served. Few of **you** **have** as yet integrated this Course's definition of service into your lives. But now **you** shall. For **you** cannot bring the learning **you** **have** done **here** into an engagement with **life** and not realize the true **meaning** of service, or in **contrast** , the true **meaning** of **use**. _C:29.2.1-7_

~ the **idea** of service in your society is one of enforced duty, as exemplified by your military service. **You** **have** no notion, as did people of the **past** , of **being** of service to **God**. This is a symptom of the reign of the **ego** and its **ability** to both aggrandize your notion of yourself, and to minimize it. To be of service to **God** is not to be a slave to **God** but to attend to **God**. To give **God** your **attention** and your care. _C:29.3.2-6_

~ your **creation** is your service to the **world** as your Father's **work** is his service to **you**. _C:29.10.7_

~ **relationship** is the interaction **within** which service occurs. _C:29.16.6_

~ your gifts, your talents, your uniqueness, are your service. _C:29.25.1_

~ service is but another **way** of stating this **law** of **creation** , this unbroken chain of **giving** and receiving. _C:29.26.1_

**Treatises**

~ service, or **devotion** , leads to **harmony** through right **action**. _T2:12.2.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ only through **joy** and **harmony** can true service **become** true **action**. _D:Day18.4.8_

**SEX**

| seks |

**Treatises**

~ because the spiritual **life** has so often been linked with celibacy **I** **will** mention sexual **union** specifically **here** to put behind **you** any **fear** that **you** may **have** that an end to sexual **union** may be called for. While some of **you** may **have** **less** **desire** for physical joining as **you** **become** **more** aware of unity, some may **have** **more** **desire** for physical joining as an **expression** of that **union**. Neither option is **reason** for **judgment**. _T3:19.7.1-3_

~ there is only one distinction that need be made: what comes of **love** and what comes of **fear**. **All** expressions of **love** are of maximal **benefit** to everyone. While **you** may, for a while yet, not **see** that **all** that are not expressions of **love** are expressions of **fear** , **I** assure **you** this is the case. Thus any behavior, including sexual behavior that is not of **love** , is of **fear**. _T3:19.8.1-4_

**Dialogues**

~ think of the **word** **desire** and its association with sex. To **desire** someone is to **desire** joining. This **desire** was created to remind **you** —to point the **way** —to your true **desire** for your true **identity** as a **being** joined in **oneness**. This seeking of completion through **oneness** , this joining, is a true **representation** that shows **you** that completion does not come of standing **alone** but of joining, as **love** does not come **alone** but in **relationship**. _D:5.6.3-6_

~ **you** **have** determined sex to be the ultimate **fulfillment** of **love** and called it "making **love**." _D:5.7.1_

~ sex, experienced for this **pleasure** and completion, regardless of emotional attachment or non-attachment, still would produce the desired **effect** of creating **desire** for **oneness** if **you** truly saw and understood the **body** and its acts as representative of **truth**. _D:5.7.3_

~ the **first** **example** of the **body** **we** presented newly was that of the perfect design of the joining provided through sexual intercourse—a design given to lead the **way** to **desire** for **oneness** and completion. _D:6.23.1_

**SHARE**

| SHer |

**A Course of Love**

~ there is no human condition that does not **exist** in **all** humans. It is completely impossible for one to **have** what another does not **have**. **All** is shared. This has always been true and is endlessly true. _C:3.3.3-6_

~ sharing is thus not about who **you** think **you** are, but about who **you** truly are, and yet it is the **way** to **learn** the **difference** while learning is still necessary. _C:31.22.1_

~ sharing is the **means** through which the **holy relationship** **you** **have** with **everything** is revealed in **truth**. _C:31.23.1_

**Treatises**

~ the sharing that is our **new** **means** of communicating and creating, a sharing that replaces learning with what is beyond learning. _T4:11.4.1_

~ **you** are no longer a learner **here** and what **I** reveal to **you** must be regarded as the equal sharing between brothers and sisters in **Christ** , the sharing of fellow creators in unity and **relationship**. This is the **beginning** of our co- **creation**. _T4:11.5.2-3_

~ **intermediary** steps were needed only for the **separate** **state**. **All** conditions that were **intermediary** in **nature** during the **time** of learning, are, during the **time** of sharing, naturally converted to direct experiences of sharing. _T4:12.8.3-4_

~ thus, if **you** **have** been religious, abandon not your churches, for **you** **will** find **within** them now, direct experiences of sharing. If **you** **have** found guidance and comfort in the written **word** , abandon not the written **word** , for the written **word** **will** now elicit direct experiences of sharing. If **you** **have** enjoyed learning through gatherings of students, gather still, and **experience** sharing directly. If a **time** arrives when **you** no longer feel drawn to these modes of sharing, share anew in ever-wider configurations. _T4:12.9.1-4_

~ during the **new** **time** of sharing, there is no "next phase" of learning for **you** to move on to. There is no **reason** for **you** not to **exist** in continual contentment. Continual contentment **will** not stunt your **growth** or prevent **you** from sharing or from expressing yourself anew. _T4:12.12.5-7_

~ your "centeredness" must now be focused on sharing in unity and **relationship** , and thus creating anew in unity and **relationship**. _T4:12.21.1_

~ sharing in unity is automatic. It is the **nature** of **Christ-consciousness**. _T4:12.31.2-3_

~ a sharing **you** **will** **have** received even before it is communicated through the **means** to which **you** are accustomed. _T4:12.31.6_

**Dialogues**

~ sharing in **relationship** becomes the **goal** and the **accomplishment** of the **elevated Self of form** , the **means** through which the **Self** of **union** is known even in the realm of **separation** , and thus what draws **others** from **separation** to **union**. _D:10.5.5_

~ knowing must be shared. And yet, **you** **will** not, at **first** , fully realize that this sharing is not needed so much as a **means** of imparting important **knowledge** to **others** , but so that **you** can come to **understand** it. _D:13.6.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ sharing in unity and **relationship** is the **way** and the **means** to **see** **past** the **world** of **illusion** to the **truth** of the **union** of **form** and **spirit** , **separate** selves and the One **Self**. _D:Day11.2.4_

~ **everything** that is shared with **God** is shared with **all** because **God** is in **relationship** with **everything**. _D:Day35.4.2_

**Addendum**

~ **you** **gain** by sharing with **others** is a **situation** in which **you** " **learn** " in unity through the receptivity of the **heart**. _A.11.5_

~ the sharing of **experience** is **more** appropriate than the sharing of **interpretation**. The sharing of process is **more** appropriate than the sharing of outcome. _A.15.3_

~ sharing can offer a rich and rewarding opportunity for differences to be revealed and for the welcome **realization** that differences do not make **separate**. _A.28.3_

**SICKNESS**

| ˈsiknəs |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ sickness is a **rejection** of feelings. _D:Day14.2.2_

~ sickness has been defined as rejected feelings, feelings about which **consciousness** was not **chosen**. With this **rejection** , these feelings became physical. What is not of **consciousness** is of physical **form**. The rejected feelings that became physical were made **separate** from the **self** and yet were maintained **within** the **body** , thus interrupting the body's natural **means** of functioning. Sickness is not sickness but rejected feelings. The rejected feelings **exist** as **separate** and forgotten physical manifestations until they are willfully remembered and accepted back into the spacious **Self**. Rejected feelings are those for which **you** **blame** yourself. Sickness is the **form** of manifestation of rejected feelings. These manifestations come to **you** to prove to **you** what **you** think **you** **know** —that **you** are responsible for the sorry circumstances of your **life**. _D:Day16.4.1-9_

~ illness is no longer observable once what was rejected rejoins the spacious **Self**. The illness was but is no **more**. Because it was physical it came only to pass. Because the **feeling** that generated the physical manifestation was not physical to begin with—was not of the physical **world** —it returns to its non-physical **nature** **within** the spacious **Self**. Thus it was not escaped but reintegrated into the **oneness** of the **Self**. _D:Day16.6.5-8_

**SITUATION**

| ˌsiCHəˈwāSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ situations too are relationships. When **peace** enters your relationships, situations, too, are what they are meant to be and seen in heaven's holy **light**. No longer do situations pit one against another, making it impossible for anyone to achieve what they would achieve. _C:6.17.1-3_

**Treatises**

~ not one situation coming to **you** now **will** be a repeat of the **past**. _T3:10.7.2_

~ **all** situations **within** the **house** of **illusion** **call** for the same **response** , the **response** of **love** to **love**. _T3:20.8.1_

**SOLUTION**

| səˈlo͞oSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ Within creation's own laws does the solution rest. _C:19.3.3_

~ The solution lies in transformation, and that is why you are still needed here. _C:19.4.1_

**SON OF GOD**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ **mind** and **heart** **join** in unity in the **present** , in the **here** and now, so that **you** **exist** —even **within** **form** —as the only Son of God, the **Christ** , the **word** made flesh. **Remember** that the phrase, the Son of God, and the name **Christ** , but represent the original **creation** and are not to be mistaken for heavenly deities **separate** from **you**. _T2:6.10.2-3_

~ **all** that **being** a Son of God **means** is that **you** represent the continuity of **creation** and that your **fulfillment** lies in the **acceptance** of your true **inheritance**. _T4:5.1.4_

**SOURCE**

| sôrs |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** **see** your **body** as your **self** , and your **self** as "source" of **all** that **you** **have** done and felt in **all** your days upon this earth. Yet your **real** Source is at the center of your **Self** , the **altar** to your **Creator** , the **Self** **you** **share** in unity with **Christ**. _C:10.4.2-3_

~ **you** are not **separate** from your Source. _C:27.12.7_

~ when **you** **call** upon **Love** **you** **call** upon your Source. _C:32.2.4_

**Treatises**

~ the Source cannot be found **within** the **house** of **illusion**. The Source can only be found from **within** the **house** of **truth**. _T3:7.9.3-4_

**Dialogues**

~ **you** are in **grace** and **union** with the Source and Cause of unity. Be no longer causeless. **You** and your Source are one. _D:1.13.3-5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ there is no such thing as an outside source. There are no outside sources of **wisdom** , guidance, or even information. _D:Day21.1.2-3_

~ the source of **wisdom** , even though **you** may **have** seen it as existing outside of yourself, had to **function** as what it was—a **channel** through which the **wisdom** , guidance or information moved. _D:Day21.2.1_

~ the source is **oneness** or **union** , a **state** **you** now realize that **you** **share** and **have** **access** to. _D:Day21.4.2_

**SPACE**

| spās |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ our space is the space of unity. It is the space of ease because thoughts are no longer allowed their rule. _D:Day12.1.8-9_

~ feelings of **love** of **Self** are now what hold open the space of the **Self** , allowing the space to be. _D:Day12.2.6_

~ the space of the One **Self** is **everything**. Space is neither divided nor separated nor occupied by **form**. Space is **all** that is. _D:Day12.4.1-3_

~ navigating this endless space as an **expression** of **love** is the simplest thing imaginable. _D:Day12.5.1_

~ space has replaced what was once your **self** of **form**. _D:Day12.6.1_

**SPECIAL FUNCTION**

| ˈspeSHəl ˈfəNG(k)SH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ the **Holy Spirit** can replace your **specialness** with a special function; but this **function** cannot be yours while **you** choose **judgment** itself as your proper role. _C:16.7.3-_

**SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP**

| ˈspeSHəl rəˈlāSH(ə)nˌSHip |

**Treatises**

~ the **idea** of special relationship is one that hampers **new** beginnings. Special relations of **all** types are based upon expectation—expectations of certain behavior—and expectations of continued special treatment **within** the **relationship**. Even, and sometimes especially, what is considered poor behavior can come to be an expectation **difficult** to deviate from **within** the special relationship. But whether the expectation is of special treatment or poor behavior matters not. It is the expectation of a "known" set of criteria concerning the **relationship** , a set of criteria based upon the **past** that is most often what prevents **new** beginnings from truly **being** **new**. _T3:15.3.2-6_

~ with the **death** of the **ego** , special relationships too **have** breathed their last. _T3:15.8.1_

~ **you** **will** realize that there is no **loss** but only **gain** involved in letting them go. _T2:9.16.6_

~ special relationships **have** been replaced by **holy relationship**. _T3:15.15.4_ _;_ _T3:16.13.1_

~ by saying that special relationships **have** been replaced by **holy relationship** it is **being** said that your only **relationship** is with the **truth** and that **you** no longer **have** a **relationship** with **illusion**. _T3:16.14.1_

**SPECIALNESS**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ while your **purpose** remains to make yourself and **others** special, **you** **will** not put an end to the **separation**. And **you** cannot just let go of your own specialness. For as long as **you** hold on to the specialness of **others** **you** hold on to your own. There is no **reason** to hold on to another's specialness unless **you** hold onto your own. And what **you** give to **others** **you** **keep** for yourself. Give another specialness, and **you** **keep** it for yourself as well as **see** it in them instead of seeing their **glory**. Specialness keeps them **separate** , and therefore susceptible to **loss**. _C:14.26.1-7_

~ specialness does make **separate**. _C:14.26.11_

~ **love** threatens most your specialness. Before your conscious **mind** has any **awareness** of what is happening, your **memory** of **love** , of **innocence** and of **joy** , threatens your specialness, your **ego** , your separated **self** who quickly rushes in with love's **replacement**. _C:14.28.8-9_

~ as long as **you** equate **love** with the special ones on whom **you** choose to bestow it, **you** **will** **know** **love** not. What **you** **will** **know** is specialness. _C:14.29.2-3_

~ if **you** **love** **all** the same, what **loss** is there to anyone, including the one **you** would choose to make special? **All** that is lost is specialness. _C:14.31.2-3_

~ for your refusal to give up specialness is your refusal of the **Christ** in **you** and a refusal of **love** itself. _C:14.31.6_

~ the **desire** to give and **receive** specialness is the driving **desire** of your **life** , and the **world** **you** **see** but reflects this **desire**. _C:15.1.3_

~ **all** hate, guilt, shame, and envy are but the result of your **creation** of an **opposite** to **love** through specialness. **All** the maladies of the current **time** as well as those of history would give **way** to **love** without the interference of **all** that would make special. **You** think issues of survival rule the **world** —and so they do, but they would not if it were not for your need to be special. _C:15.1.5-7_

~ without a **desire** for specialness, a person would **have** no need for status at **all**. _C:15.1.9_

~ without specialness to feed, there would be neither **want** nor hunger. Without a **desire** for specialness there would be no **war** , for there would be no **reason** to break the **peace**. No land would be considered **more** sacred to some than **others** , no resources withheld, no people deemed subservient. _C:15.1.12-14_

~ while **you** **desire** specialness for yourself, your true **Self** **will** **remain** hidden and **unknown** , and since this is a Course that seeks to reveal your true **identity** , specialness must be seen for what it is so that **you** **will** **desire** it no longer. **You** can **have** specialness or your true **Self** , but never both. The **desire** for specialness is what calls your little **self** into **being**. _C:15.3.1-3_

~ In **truth** , your specialness affects everyone. _C:15.6.5_

~ your **desire** for specialness makes of **you** a slave to **others** and **others** to **you**. It diminishes your **freedom** , and for no end. For what **others** think of **you** does not make **you** special, nor does what **you** think or do for **others** make them special. **All** notions of popularity, **success** , and **competition** begin **here**. **All** notions of **loyalty** as well. _C:15.7.1-5_

~ making special seems to be a **responsibility** **you** **have** undertaken, and a refusal to make special an act of disloyalty. _C:15.9.2_

~ **all** **suffering** and sin comes from specialness, and so it is but specialness **you** must leave behind. And there is a **way** to do so, a **way** that **will** not harm any of those **you** **love** even while betraying **all** they would hold dear. _C:15.11.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ it is **difficult** for **you** , because of the patterns of the **past** , to believe that **you** are **chosen** to be the pioneers into a **new** **time** without believing that **you** are special. This is one of the many reasons **we** **have** worked to dispel your ideas of specialness. One of the best **means** for us to clarify the **lack** of specialness implied in the statement that **all** are **chosen** , is through your **observation** of yourself. _T4:2.14.1-3_

**SPIRIT**

| ˈspirit |

**Dialogues**

~ just as the wind can **power** many machines endlessly when it is allowed pass through, so too can spirit endlessly empower **form** when it is allowed pass through. _D:15.13.2_

~ its **constant** and continual presence only **needs** to be allowed to pass through **you** to be in **relationship** with **you**. _D:15.15.2_

~ this is, in **truth** , what animates **you**. _D:15.15.2_

~ this is that without which **you** cease to be. _D:15.15.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the spirit that animated **all** things is the spirit that is in **all** things and that is the great informer. _D:Day15.3.1_

~ it is the spirit that animates **form** that is **real**. _D:Day15.6.4_

~ what is of spirit, or **consciousness** , is eternal. _D:Day16.3.2_

~ **we** **have** spoken of the spirit that animated **all** things as the **movement** or cause of **movement** that began the **creation** story. _D:Day17.1.2_

~ **you** might think of the butterfly as your spirit, revealed only after the **potential** has matured and been released. _D:Day24.5.3_

~ it is the **nature** of spirit to **become**. _D:Day24.6.2_

~ spirit, your **oneness** , is the **constant**. _D:Day27.15.2_

**SPIRITUAL FREEDOM**

| ˈspiriCH(o͞o)əl ˈfrēdəm |

**A Course of Love**

~ the **freedom** that lies beyond **belief** , beyond **thought** , beyond adherence to any authority other than one's own **heart**. _C:I.5.5_

**STAGE**

| stāj |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ no stage **you** pass through to reach this **oneness** is without value. **Each** stage contains the **perfection** of that stage. **Each** stage contains the **whole** and **each** **whole** contains **each** stage. _D:Day6.10.2-4_

**STATE**

| stāt |

**A Course of Love**

~ the state in which **you** now **exist** was not only unbelievable but also inconceivable to **you** in your natural state. _C:18.10.3_

~ a state of **love** in which the wordless and formless is very near. _C:19.16.3_

**Treatises**

~ choosing **union** moves **you** into the **real** state of " **all** " from the unreal state of the **in-between**. Only from **within** a state that is **real** can anything happen in **truth**. _T1:6.2.7-8_

~ this state **you** **have** not even dared to dream of is a state in which only God's **laws of love** **exist** even **within** the realm of physicality. _T3:12.7.2_

~ for every **being** there is a natural state of **being** that is joyful, effortless, and full of **love**. For every **being** existing in **time** there is also an unnatural state of **being**. Both states of **being** —the natural and the unnatural— **exist** in **relationship**. _T4:3.6.1-3_

~ your natural state is one free of **fear** and **judgment**. This is **all** that makes up the **difference** between your natural state and your unnatural state. As your natural state returns to **you** through a **heart** and **mind** joined in unity, your **body** too **will** **exist** or abide **within** this natural state. _T4:7.5.6-8_

~ it is a truly **new** state, a state that cannot be learned, a state the **awareness** of which can only be revealed to **you** through unity and **relationship**. _T4:12.25.11_

**Dialogues**

~ in order for the **truth** to be truly learned, **you** **first** had to enter a state in which this learning could occur, a state that could not be taught but only accessed through your longing and **desire**. _D:1.21.4_

~ these two states, the state of **form** and the state of unity, are both in existence right now. _D:6.27.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ a **new** state of **being** is a **new** **reality**. _D:Day29.7.1_

**STRIVE**

| strīv |

**A Course of Love**

~ **lack** of striving is seen as a settling for **less**. This would be true if what **you** were striving for had value. To strive mightily for nothing is still to **have** nothing and to end up with nothing. Striving, however, must be distinguished from **struggle**. To strive for that which has value is what this Course is about. It has nothing to do with **struggle**. _C:1.14.1-6_

**STRUCTURE**

| ˈstrək(t)SHər |

**Dialogues**

~ let us simply **create** a **new** structure around the **new** **pattern** of **acceptance** , a structure that **will** provide **you** with the **home** on Earth **you** **have** so long sought. _D:4.18.7_

~ **i** speak of structure **here** not as a thing—not as a building in which to dwell or as a set of rules or instructions to follow in order to build the **new** —but as structure that **will** provide **you** with parameters in which to begin to **experience** your **new** **freedom**. It is your questions and concerns that **have** led me to speak of such, for it is **you** who **have** felt such as this is needed. _D:4.19.1-2_

**STRUGGLE**

| ˈstrəɡəl |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** think also that to leave struggle behind, to disengage from the **conflict** of this **world** that causes it, is to turn your back on the **real** **world** and **all** that has **meaning** in it. _C:1.14.7_

~ **you** think also that to leave struggle behind, to disengage from the **conflict** of this **world** that causes it, is to turn your back on the **real** **world** and **all** that has **meaning** in it. In this **you** think correctly. And yet **you** do not choose this option, **thinking** that to do so **you** turn your back on **responsibility** and on duty, thus counting this **action** as a noble one. This **desire** to engage in struggle has nothing to do with what **you** are responsible for. It is merely your ego's attempt to involve **you** in distractions that **keep** **you** from your **real** **responsibility**. Think again about your attraction to struggle. It is your attraction to the game, a game **you** **hope** to win, another **chance** to show your stamina and your strength, your quick wits and your cunning **mind**. It is another **chance** to prevail against the odds so stacked against **you** that **you** can once again convince yourself that **you** **alone** **have** succeeded against mighty adversaries. It is the only **way** **you** **see** to prove your **power** and **control** over a **world** of chaos. To not engage in the chaos at **all** is seen not as desirable, but as a sort of abdication, a **loss** through failure to engage. Although **you** are well aware **you** **will** not win the game **you** play **here** , **you** **see** the **effort** to do so, no **matter** how futile, as **being** that which makes up your **life**. To not engage is to not prove your own existence. _C:1.14.7-18_

**Treatises**

~ struggle of any kind alerts **you** to the presence of **ego**. _T2:11.2.4_

**STUDENT**

| ˈst(y)o͞odnt |

**Addendum**

~ group attendees **will** find themselves **feeling** **less** competitive or interested in asserting their beliefs as it becomes clear to them that unlike in other learning situations, there is no correct **answer** or specific set of beliefs to be adopted. The student begins to move beyond the need for shared **belief** to personal **conviction** and authority. _A.15.6-7_

**STUDY**

| ˈstədē |

**Treatises**

~ studying takes up residence **within** the **student** ; there to be mulled over, committed to **memory** , integrated into **new** behaviors. _T4:10.5.2_

~ studying places the **power** of the **teacher** in a place other than that of **love**. _T4:10.5.4_

~ studying is about **future** outcome. _T4:10.5.6_

~ what is studied has **potential** **meaning**. _T4:10.5.8_

~ the outcome of learning or what is studied is the production of things and perceived **meaning**. _T4:10.6.1_

**SUCCESS**

| səkˈses |

**A Course of Love**

~ to succeed is but a little **death** from which **you** must hurry on to where the **challenge** of a **new** success and **new** **reason** to **exist** awaits. The carrot of **fulfillment** **you** hold before yourself when grasped is quickly eaten and **life** feeds on itself once again. _C:6.13.1-2_

**Treatises**

~ even the most successful among **you** **have** found that your worldly success has been unable to bring **you** the satisfaction and the **peace** **you** **desire**. _T1:7.1.6_

**SUCCESSION**

| səkˈseSHən |

**Dialogues**

~ to succeed is to follow after, and to follow into **inheritance**. It is a following after that occurs in **time** and **space** rather than in **truth**. It is never about one. It is not about **replacement**. It comes in a never ending series rather than in singular **form**. It is not true succession if there is a break in the chain or in the line of succession for true succession does not stop and start, but is continual. _D:17.1.1-6_

~ the secret of succession is simple. It is but a **matter** of wholehearted **desire**. _D:17.3.1-2_

~ **you** now stand in **fulfillment**. This is the secret of succession. _D:17.18.4-5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what **will** be realized through the secret of succession is the **elevation of form**. _D:Day1.26.7_

~ thus **will** the secret of succession be returned to **you** and put behind us forever the temptations of the **human experience**. _D:Day4.60.5_

**SUFFERING**

| ˈsəf(ə)riNG |

**Treatises**

~ while **I** can tell **you** suffering is **illusion** , **you** cannot still your **fear** of it nor tear your eyes away from it or remove from it the feelings of your **heart**. While **I** came to reveal the **choice** of **Love** to **you** , the **choice** that **you** **each** must make to end such suffering, the **illusion** of suffering has continued and in its continuation made the **choice** of **Love** seem **all** but impossible. If not for the suffering that **you** **see** **all** around **you** , the **choice** for **Love** would **have** been made. If the **choice** for **Love** had been made, the suffering **you** **see** around **you** would be no **more**. This is the paradox. _T1:5.3.3-7_

~ suffering is seen as a condition of this **world** because the **world** is seen as a **world** in which who **you** are can never be **accomplished**. _T1:7.1.1_

~ even the most spiritual and godly among **you** accept suffering. Even those who **understand** as completely as possible the **truth** of who they are accept suffering. My **use** of the **word** accept is important **here** , as these may not **see** suffering as **pain** but only as a natural part of **being** human that calls for **acceptance**. They thus find **peace** **within** suffering rather than abolishing suffering. This **acceptance** is due to the **belief** that **spirit** has **chosen** a **form** , and **more** accurately put a "lesser" **form** in which to **exist** , and that that **choice** includes the **choice** to suffer. This **belief** may accept suffering as a **learning device** rather than a punishment, but it still, in its **acceptance** of a **false** notion, invites suffering. _T1:7.2.1-6_

~ the **choice** to suffer, as well as the **choice** to leave suffering behind, has always been found **within**. _T3:8.6.1_

~ the **idea** of suffering is what has gone so wrong **within** God's **creation**. _T3:8.7.1_

~ the **idea** of **love** can replace the **idea** of suffering but it is **chosen** not because of the suffering that seems to make no sense of **love**. _T3:8.7.2_

~ the suffering that has been **chosen** has been mighty. The **choice** now is not a **choice** to explore the why behind it or to look for remedies for the **past**. The **choice** now is whether **you** **want** suffering to continue or **want** to abolish it for **all** **time**. _T3:14.11.2-4_

~ **you** may still think that suffering and "bad" behavior **have** had great effects but they **have** not. At times, the **love** that is received following suffering, or that may arrive due to the **reason** of some affliction, may be seen as lessons learned from suffering or affliction; but this is no **more** the case than it was the case in regards to our discussion of extremes. _T3:19.8.7-8_

~ the **thought system** of the **truth** sees no value in suffering and so sees it not in **truth**. _T3:19.9.2_

~ think and speak no **more** of the suffering of the **past**. _T4:12.18.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what my **life** demonstrated but **needs** to be demonstrated anew. But this **will** not happen if **you** cling to suffering. If **you** do not accept your **Self** , **all** of yourself, **you** cling to suffering. _D:Day2.26.2-4_

~ this is why **you** **first** needed to accept me. To accept me is to accept the end of suffering. To accept the end of suffering is to accept your true **Self**. _D:Day2.27.3_

~ a suffering **self** , held **within** the spacious **Self** , exists in **harmony** with the spacious **Self**. Attempts to eject the **self** of suffering from the spacious **Self** **create** disharmony. _D:Day13.7.2-3_

**SURPRISE**

| sə(r)ˈprīz |

**Treatises**

~ take delight in these surprises. Laugh and be joyous. **You** no longer **have** a need to figure things out. Surprises cannot be figured out! They are meant to be joyous gifts **being** constantly revealed. Gifts that need only be received and responded to. _T4:12.6.1-6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ surprises cannot be figured out! Surprises are meant to be joyous gifts **being** constantly revealed. Gifts that need only be received and responded to. Not learned. _D:8.6.4-7_

**SURRENDER**

| səˈrendər |

**Dialogues**

~ this is the final surrender. The surrender of the **control** of the **personal self**. _D:1.8.1-2_

~ there are no battles needed, no victories hard won through might and **struggle**. This is what is meant by surrender. **We** achieve victory now through surrender, an active and total **acceptance** of what is given. _D:3.7.7-9_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ surrendering to the forces that move inside of **you** is surrendering to your own **will**. _D:Day23.5.1_

**SUSTENANCE**

| ˈsəstənəns |

**Dialogues**

~ to move from maintenance to sustenance is our **goal**. _D:15.20.1_

~ to sustain is to **keep** in existence. To **recognize** unity as sustenance is to **recognize** it as that which sustains **life**. Sustaining unity or **Christ-consciousness** is **being** done with the need to maintain conditions that allow it to be **present**. _D:15.20.2-4_

**SYMBOL**

| ˈsimbəl |

**A Course of Love**

~ **all** the symbols of your physical **life** reflect a deeper **meaning** that, while hidden to **you** , **you** still **know** exists. The **union** of two bodies joined in **love** **create** a child, the **union** of man and woman joined in marriage **create** **oneness**. _C:1.17.1-2_

~ **all** that **you** now **see** are but symbols of what is really there before **you** , in **glory** beyond your deepest imaginings. _C:3.5.1_

~ how can anything **have** a **form** except in symbols? A **family** crest, a mother's ring, a wedding band are **all** the same: They but represent what they symbolize in **form**. _C:3.6.7-8_

**Treatises**

~ symbols are needed only in the **house** of **illusion** , just as are beliefs. _T3:8.1.5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what occurs in **time** and **space** is symbolic, that it is representative of something **more**. _D:Day2.18.6_

**SYSTEM**

| ˈsistəm |

**Dialogues**

~ any system that is not foolproof is based on a faulty design, a faulty **pattern**. _D:2.18.1_

~ systems, as **you** may recall, are the result of your attempts to externalize the patterns contained **within**. _D:4.9.2_

~ what is not **real** are the things that **you** **have** made to represent what is **real** since **you** didn't **understand** what it was **you** were making things to represent. These are the systems **we** **have** already spoken of: Systems of **justice** , systems of government, systems of corporations, the systems of economics and **science** —the systems—in short, of what **you** think governs **you**. _D:6.8.1-2_

~ your misperceptions of the **world** **have** allowed for the development of no foolproof systems because these systems are based upon misperceptions or **illusion**. Your **desire** to cling to systems that are not foolproof is insane, for their **creation** is based on the workings of a split **mind** and a split **mind** does not think clearly. _D:2.18.2-3_

~ **all** systems **have** been based upon your **desire** to **understand** the **world** around **you** rather than the **world** **within** **you**. If **you** were to **understand** the **world** **within** , **you** would need no systems to **understand** or manage the **world** without. These systems were attempts to **learn** the **nature** of who **you** are through **external** **means** —the **means** of learning the **nature** of the **world** around **you**. _D:2.19.1-3_

**TASK**

| task |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ our task is holy and incomparable. **You** **know** there is nothing **more** important for **you** to be involved in. **All** other areas where **you** might previously **have** placed your **devotion** pale in **comparison** to our task. _D:Day6.26.6-8_

**TEACH**

| tēCH |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ many **have** read the words of the Bible, the words of Lao-tzu, the words of Buddha. To teach is to convey the known. To speak of a **way** is to invite **dialogue** and a **journey**. This is what **all** master "teachers" taught, often throwing the questions posed back upon the poser, in order to say: **Use** me not as an **intermediary**. It is only in **relationship** with the **God** **within** that the **way** **will** **become** clear. _D:Day3.36.3-7_

~ to read the inspired **wisdom** of teachers such as these in order to " **learn** " has prevented the very **relationship** that these teachers sought to impart. _D:Day3.37.1_

~ in the **time** of learning, however, it was natural that my **example** **life** was seen as something from which to **learn**. In order to "teach" what my **life** represented to those who did not **know** me, methods of teaching were devised. From these methods of teaching, rules developed. The teaching was externalized and institutionalized. People began to **see** following me as belonging to an externalized institution, trying to **learn** what it would teach, and trying to live by the rules it would **have** them obey. Much progress was made **within** these institutions, but also much misleading was done. _D:Day4.20.1-6_

**TEACHER**

| ˈtēCHər |

**A Course of Love**

~ a teacher is **first** and foremost anything that aids your remembering. Thus look not at the **form** in which a teacher arrives. It can truly be said that **all** of **life** is your teacher. _C:32.1.2-4_

**Treatises**

~ resign as your own teacher. _T2:10.2.2_ _;_ _T3:22.4.4_ _;_ _T3:22.5.1_

**TEACHER/STUDENT**

| ˈtēCHər/ˈst(y)o͞odnt |

**A Course of Love**

~ a teacher always has a role in the learning of the student. This does not diminish the student's **achievement**. _C:1.11.1-2_

**TEACHING/LEARNING**

| ˈtēCHiNG/ˈlərniNG |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** **learn** and then **you** let the **ego** come and take **all** **you** **have** learned from **you** again and still again. It is ingenious in its ways of getting **you** to turn back again and still again, until **you** feel as if **you** are going in and out through a revolving door. _C:P.42.5-6_

~ **you** were your **Self** before **you** began your learning, and the **ego** cannot take your **Self** from **you** but only can obscure it. Thus the teachings **you** need now are to **help** **you** **separate** the **ego** from your **Self** , to **help** **you** **learn** to hear only one **voice**. _C:P.43.1-2_

~ this **time** **we** take a direct approach, an approach that seems at **first** to leave behind abstract learning and the complex mechanisms of the **mind** that so betray **you**. **We** take a step away from intellect, the pride of the **ego** , and approach this final learning through the realm of the **heart**. This is why, to end **confusion** , **we** **call** this course **A Course of Love**. _C:P.44.1-3_

~ **you** are the learner **here** until **you** realize that **you** are **Love**. **You** then **become** the **teacher** of what **you** are. _C:32.3.2-3_

**TEMPTATION**

| tem(p)ˈtāSH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ the temptations of the **human experience**. Two are spoken of in tandem **here** : The temptation to judge and the temptation to accept the existence of a **reality** other than the **truth**. _T3:11.11.1-2_

~ this **first** **lesson** on the temptation of the **human experience** comes in **truth** as a warning against righteousness. It comes to remind **you** , as **you** replace the **thought system** of **illusion** with the **thought system** of the **truth** , that having remembered the **truth** of who **you** are, **you** are called to **forget** the **personal self** who would find this cause for righteousness. **You** are not right and **others** wrong. This temptation **will** not long be with **you** for once the **old** **thought system** is thoroughly translated to the **new** , such ideas as right and wrong **will** be no **more**. It is only for this transitional phase, that this and **all** such reminders regarding the temptations of the **human experience** are necessary. _T3:11.16.1-5_

~ temptations of the **human experience** **exist** only in **time**. _T3:12.3.1_

~ these temptations are not temptations of the **body**. _T3:12.6.1_

~ **all** temptations originate in the **mind** and are transferred to the **body**. Temptations do not originate from **love**. While some temptations **will** seem to be of **love** they are not. _T3:12.6.3-5_

~ **we** spoke of these temptations in regards to extremes of the **human experience** , saying that these things that draw **you** from the **peace** of **God** draw **you** from the **state** in which **you** are aware of who **you** are, and so cause **you** to be aware only of a **self** of **human experience** , or a **personal self**. While **you** may still feel a connection to **God** during such times, **you** **will** not be dwelling **within** the **peace** of **God**. Your **Self** and **God** **will** be but memories to **you** while your **reality** remains that of the physical **experience** and the **personal self**. In such times **you** can conceive only of a **God** outside of yourself and **trust** not in the benevolence of the **experience** , whether it be an extreme **experience** of **pain** or of **pleasure**. **You** begin to **fear** that **pleasure** **will** end or that **pain** **will** not end. _T3:13.2.2-6_

~ because **you** **have** made these things that would but seem to tempt **you** , **you** **have** believed in them and their **ability** to affect **you**. _T3:13.4.2_

~ the temptation is to **see** **love** where it is not and to not **see** **fear** where it is. _T3:13.4.7_

~ flirting with **illusion** is like unto the temptations of the **human experience** and would not occur were the temptations gone from **you**. _T3:14.2.15_

~ this struggling to be other than who **you** are in **truth** is a temptation of the **human experience**. It **will** come in many forms, **all** of which **will** be related to an **old** **pattern** of dissatisfaction with yourself. These temptations **will** be related to the intrigue of the **challenge** and actually be couched in patterns that **have** **you** attempting to "accomplish" set goals in **life**. The key to resisting these temptations is not resistance at **all** but the **idea** that **you** are already **accomplished**. _T3:16.8.3-6_

~ the **belief** in **lack** is a temptation of the **human experience**. This **will** relate to **all** situations in which **you** feel **you** **have** something to **gain** from some "other." Again, this **will** be related to **old** patterns of dissatisfaction with the **self**. It has to do with any ideas **you** may still hold concerning **others** having **more** than **you** **have** , or to desires that **you** may feel **have** gone unfulfilled. While **you** may think that this **means** **you** are **being** asked to do without, this is not the case. **You** are simply **being** asked to give that **you** might **receive** and to **receive** that **you** might give. _T3:16.10.2-7_

~ **fear** of **loss** is a great temptation of the **human experience**. If it were not for this **fear** of **loss** , **you** would not find it **difficult** to live by the **thought system** of the **truth**. This **fear** relates very strongly to your ideas of **change** and as such is the greatest detriment to your **new** **beginning**. These temptations relate to **everything** **you** **fear** to do because of the consequences your actions might bring. These fears rob **you** of your **certainty** and result in a **lack** of **trust**. The key to resisting these temptations is not resistance at **all** but the **idea** that there is no **loss** but only **gain** **within** the **laws of love**. _T3:16.12.2-7_

~ **all** of your fears in regards to special relationships are temptations of the **human experience**. These temptations **will** relate to any issues that **you** consider to be issues of **relationship**. **All** of your desires, fears, hopes and expectations of **others** are temptations that arise from your **old** **idea** of special relationships. **All** of your plans to do good and be good, to **help** **others** , and to **struggle** to make the **world** a better place, fall into this category. Your notions of wanting to protect or **control** are also notions based upon the necessity **you** **have** felt for the continuation of special relationships. _T3:16.14.2-6_

~ now **you** must **forget** the **idea** of needing to maintain **specialness**. A key aid in helping **you** to put this temptation behind **you** is the **idea** of the **holy relationship** in which **all** **exist** in unity and **within** the **protection** of love's **embrace**. _T3:16.15.1-2_

~ for ages physical **reality** has been linked to temptations of the **human experience**. Let us now dispel this link. The physical **form** has been blamed for choices made from lust and greed, hate and **fear** , **vengeance** and retribution. These things **have** always had as their cause the **thought system** of the **ego** or the **bitterness** of the **heart**. _T3:19.4.1-4_

~ leave **all** blaming of the **body** behind and **see** it not as the **source** of temptations of the **human experience**. The true **source** of these temptations has been revealed to lie **within** the faulty beliefs to which the **body** merely responded. _T3:19.10.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ on one side are the temptations of the **human experience** , which is just another **way** of saying **all** that **you** **have** learned; on the other side **will** be the **truth** , the **new** temptations that **will** incite **you** to leave behind the temptations of the **human experience**. _D:Day4.2.5_

~ **real** **choice** is the **first** **new** temptation. _D:Day4.4.1_

~ **you** are **here** now not to re- **learn** or be taught what **life** is **all** about, not to re- **learn** or be taught the " **way** things are" but to discover what **life** is **all** about and to discover the **way** to remake things as they are. _D:Day4.10.1_

~ this is the **new** **choice** , the **first** **new** temptation. _D:Day4.11.1_

~ the second **new** temptation is **access**. _D:Day4.12.1_

~ give your **attention** for a moment to the temptations associated with the **mountain top** of my own **experience**. They were temptations of the **world** , of the normal, daily **life** of my **time**. They were attempts to distract me from my **purpose** , to **change** my **focus** , to engage me in **debate** , to lure me from the place of **elevation** **I** knew **I** had attained. The temptations of the **human experience** are the same now as they were then. They are the same on the **mountain top** as they are on **level** ground. A "place" that seems externally removed from them cannot remove them. Only a created place **within** can do so. _D:Day6.20.2-8_

~ disregard is a temptation of those who live in **peace** , a temptation unlike the **more** pleasant temptations that were spoken of earlier. This temptation stems from one thing only—from not **living** in the **present**. _D:Day8.19.5-6_

**TERRITORY**

| ˈterəˌtôrē |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **we** **will** begin once again with parameters, with a territory of shared **consciousness** , rather than with **consciousness** of the **All of Everything**. This territory **we** **will** **call** the territory of your conscious **awareness**. This territory of conscious **awareness** is shared with the larger **consciousness** of unity, just as the territory of your **body** is shared with those who live and **work** nearby. This territory of conscious **awareness** exists **within** the larger **consciousness** of unity, just as the territory of your **body** exists **within** the larger territory of the planet Earth. **We** **will** begin **here** , with the territory of your conscious **awareness** , knowing that **discovery** and **revelation** **will** **expand** this territory, and realizing that no **matter** how small this cosmic territory may be, it **will** still at times give **way** to **awareness** of the **All of Everything**. _D:7.29.1-5_

**THE FALL**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ many of **you** believe God's **creation** included the fall from **paradise** as described in the biblical story of **Adam and Eve** and in the **creation** stories of many cultures and religions. When **you** accept this, even in non-literal terms, as the story of the **separation** , **you** accept **separation** itself. This story is, rather than a story of an actual event, a story that describes the **problem**. It is but the story of perception's **birth**. And your **perception** of the fall makes of the fall a curse. This **interpretation** would be inconsistent, however, with a benevolent **God** and a benevolent **universe**. This **interpretation** accepts that **separation** can occur. It cannot. **Belief** in the fall is **belief** in the impossible. _C:18.1.1-9_

~ this is, in **effect** , what **you** think **you** **have** done. **You** think that **you** **have** changed the **nature** of the **universe** and made it possible for **life** to **exist** separately and **alone** with no **relationship** , no connection, no unity with the **whole**. This **you** **have** not done. **You** **have** not fallen from unity. **You** **have** not fallen from **God**. _C:18.4.1-5_

~ in the **life** of the tragic hero, excluding those who are posthumously given such a title, the tragedy is most often considered a fall from greatness. It is seen in the allure of myths where those who associate themselves too closely with the gods are punished for such folly. Such **fear** of greatness and **glory** , of the possibility of a fall from greatness and **glory** , results in many tragedy- **less** lives. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," is an axiom for such lives. **Fear** of the "fall" is a primal **fear** , the **first** **fear** , the **fear** behind **all** such axioms. _C:26.3.4-8_

**THINKING**

| ˈTHiNGkiNG |

**A Course of Love**

~ beware **all** attempts to think the **body** away and to think miracles into existence. This **desire** merely shows **you** **know** not the **source** of healing and are not ready to be healed. _C:10.5.6-7_

~ if **you** do not think **you** are yet prepared, if **you** think **you** are not yet ready, cease to think. _C:32.5.1_

**Dialogues**

~ thinking, with or without the **ego** , is a **pattern** of the separated **self** and does not serve **you**. The **way** in which **you** think may seem vastly improved since the **ego** ruled or may seem only minimally improved, but it is the **pattern** , not the **ego** , that is still with **you**. _D:12.11.3-4_

~ thinking does not serve **you**. _D:12.11.5_

~ one of the primary ideas that **will** assist **you** in leaving patterns of thinking behind is the **idea** that **thought** as **we** are describing it. _D:12.13.1_

~ your thinking **mind** **will** no longer be necessary as your **access** to unity, or **Christ-consciousness** , is maintained and sustained. _D:15.16.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ just as **you** were told **you** cannot "think" great ideas into **being** , or great talent into fruition, just as **you** were told, in other words, that the " **givens** " are not to be dealt with by the conscious, or "thinking" **mind** , so too is it with **abundance**. _D:Day3.53.1_

~ **you** might begin to think of **all** the " **givens** " of unity as those things that require no thinking. _D:Day4.6.3_

~ **you** **all** begin **life** without the **ability** to think in the terms **you** now associate almost exclusively with thinking, the terms of having thoughts, or words, in your **mind**. _D:Day4.7.8_

~ thinking, in this **time** beyond learning, could be rightly seen as a constraint **you** but try to impose on **all** that is natural. Your thinking, since it is a product of learning, does nothing but attempt to **learn** or **teach**. These are the natural responses of its training. Thus, a major key to your **discovery** of **all** that exists **within** **you** in the **state** of unity, is an end to thinking as **you** **know** it. _D:Day4.30.1-4_

~ in practical terms, **you** might think of this as a disengagement from the details. Thinking is about details. _D:Day4.31.1-2_

~ **you** **will** no longer need to "think" about who **you** are and what **you** **will** do, and your **willingness** to give up this thinking **will** be paramount to your **realization** that **everything** has changed or that nothing has changed. _E.14.1_

~ leave **all** thinking behind. _E.20.3_

**Addendum**

~ obsessive thinking is always ruthless, judgmental, and wearing on the thinker. He or she **needs** **help** in breaking its grip and should never be allowed to suffer. _A.31.10-11_

**THINKING VS. THOUGHT**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Dialogues**

~ **we** **have** already established that the thoughts that arise from unity are not the same as the thoughts that arise from the **thought system** of the separated **self**. **We** might make this a simpler subject to discuss by making a distinction between **thinking** and **thought**. This distinction, while it **will** not be consistent with your dictionary's definition of these words, is still a useful distinction, as " **thinking** " is seen as what **you** "do." Even in your dictionary definition, **being** "thoughtful" is seen as a condition of **mindfulness** , and **mindfulness** is much closer to the **idea** of **wholeheartedness** , or sharing in unity—the **state** of which **we** speak. Realize also that **you** do not consider it to be the " **thinking** " of another that is shared with **you** in **dialogue** , but the thoughts. Thus this distinction **will** suffice for our further discussion in this chapter. _D:12.9.1-6_

~ let us now consider " **thinking** " to be the active and often unwelcome **voice** "in your head," the **voice** of background chatter. And let us consider your "thoughts" to be the **more** meditative version of your " **thinking** ," often even resulting in a conclusion to your **thinking** , a summary of the finer points, as what might come to **you** in a reflective moment at the end of the **day**. Again **we** **will** **see** the **idea** of thoughts "coming to **you** " at such times. This is not the " **thinking** " of a conflicted and struggling **mind** , but the "thoughts" of a **mind** at **rest**. _D:12.10.1-4_

~ **thinking** is **more** descriptive of the **ego** **mind** ; thoughts are **more** descriptive of the true **mind**. _D:12.11.1_

**THOUGHT**

| THôt |

**A Course of Love**

~ **god** 's only thought is **love**. It is a thought without **limit** , endlessly creating. Because of the **extension** of God's thought of **love** , **you** **exist**. **I** **exist** with **you** in this selfsame thought. _C:1.4.1-4_

~ when **you** apply your thought to learning **you** **learn**. Let this encourage **you**. This is an **ability** **we** can **use** together to **learn** anew. _C:1.5.1-3_

~ thoughts are not seen nor heard and yet they are with **you** constantly. _C:10.25.1_

~ your thoughts **more** accurately define who **you** are than your **body** does. Whether they wander aimlessly or are quite focused, your thoughts are **more** the **source** of **all** **you** are and **all** **you** do than is the **body** **you** observe. _C:10.25.3-4_

~ your thoughts, however, **have** **become** quite harsh, and quite entrenched in the **belief** in their right to judge. Many of **you** **have** let go your **belief** in sin and still held onto your **belief** in **judgment** , **thinking** one is **different** from the other. They are not **different** , and while **you** do not **see** this your thoughts **remain** based on **fear** and **fear** thus remains your **foundation**. _C:17.15.1-3_

~ unifying thought is **more** than a **matter** of **focus** or single-mindedness, although these are both steps in the right direction. Unifying thought is also a **matter** of integrating the thought or **language** of your **heart** with that which **you** **more** naturally perceive as thought, the words and images that "go through" your **mind**. _C:18.20.1-2_

~ thought, as **you** **know** it, is an aspect of **duality**. It cannot be otherwise in your separated **state**. **You** must think in terms of " **I** " and "them," " **death** and **life** ," "good and **evil**." This is thought. Thought occurs in words, and words **separate**. It is only in combining **mind** and **heart** with a **focus** on letting the **heart** lead that **love** can be combined with thought in such a **way** as to actually transcend thought as **you** **know** it. _C:19.13.2-7_

~ your thoughts, **you** feel, are your own, private and sacrosanct. These highly guarded and regarded thoughts are what **A Course in Miracles** calls **body** thoughts. Distinctions are made in many religions and philosophies that **separate** thought—as dictated by the **body** —from thought of a higher order, or spiritual thought. Thoughts related to your **personal self** and the "laws" of the **body** , such as those of survival, are not the thoughts of the true **Self**. This is the clarification that **needs** to be made for some of **you** to fully let go of your **fear** of the shared thought **system** of unity. _C:31.2.2-6_

~ there is a part of **you** that knows that **you** **have** higher thoughts, and knows that these higher thoughts are your **Self**. _C:31.11.5_

~ give to me the thoughts that **remain** to trouble **you** and **I** **will** return them to **you** transformed by **Love**. Do not grieve your thoughts. _C:32.5.3-4_

~ **you** do not **understand** the **nature** of your own thoughts. **You** **have** placed them inside your **body** , conceptualizing them in a **form** that makes no sense. _C:1.4.5-6_

**Treatises**

~ your thoughts, once removed from those of the **ego** - **mind** are the **expression** and **extension** of your true **Self**. They are the **answer** of the Created to the **Creator** , the **answer** of the **Self** to **God**. _T1:2.4.2-3_

~ thoughts that were guarded by the **ego** - **mind** were in need of **being** set free. _T1:2.5.1_

~ **all** thought as **you** once knew it does need to cease. _T1:2.8.3_

~ thoughts joined in unity. Thoughts joined in unity can be likened to **thinking** without thought. They can be likened to **imagination**. They can be likened to **love**. _T2:1.12.1-4_

~ thoughts joined in unity **create** without goals or planning, without **effort** or **struggle**. _T2:1.13.6_

~ your thought processes, the very thought processes that tell **you** hour-by-hour and minute-by-minute how to perceive of and live in your **world** , are still often based on **old** concepts. _T2:4.15.1_

~ the thoughts of the **ego** - **mind** were always harsh with **you** or with **others**. _T3:10.9.2_

~ the thoughts of the **ego** - **mind** **will** come as disguises to **certainty**. _T3:10.9.4_

**Dialogues**

~ thoughts are a greater **boundary** than the dot of your **body** and a greater **means** of imprisonment than bars and walls. They are why **you** do not **see** what is and are the **reason** that **you** continue to **desire** to be provided with set answers. _D:9.1.2-3_

~ thought is a **practice** and a **pattern** of the separated and thus learning **self**. _D:9.5.1_

~ your thoughts are the last bastion of your separated **self** , the fertile ground, still, of your individuality, your testimony that **you** believe **you** are still on your own, and that **you** still **desire** to be. _D:11.5.1_

~ the **ability** of "thoughts" not your own to enter **you** is already commonplace. _D:12.8.7_

~ **you** do **have** , right now, and **have** always had, true thoughts that come to **you** from your **Self** , the **Self** joined in unity. These are thoughts **you** did not "think." _D:12.11.5-6_

~ thought that is not really thought but the **way** of coming to **know** of the **Self** joined in unity, enters **you** through the place of **mind** and **heart** joined in **wholeheartedness** at the center of yourself, a place that has nothing to do with the **body**. _D:12.13.1_

~ **you** **have** had such thoughts already, thoughts that came to **you** with an authority that **you** are not used to—thoughts that **you** **know** , beyond a shadow of a **doubt** , are true or right or accurate. _D:12.14.1_

~ the thoughts that come to **you** from unity can thus be seen as both your own thoughts and thoughts that arise from **union**. _D:12.19.1_

~ the thought that is the **miracle** , or **miracle** -readiness, the thought that comes of unity and that extends and expresses itself through your **form** , thus elevating the **self** of **form**. _D:14.13.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ it is our thoughts and not our feelings that are selfish, uncaring, or judgmental. _D:Day12.1.6_

~ **all** that **you** **have** thought is still there because **you** thought it. _D:Day16.2.5_

~ your thoughts **will** slip from the sublime to the mundane. Let them come. _D:Day25.3.7-8_

**THOUGHT SYSTEM**

| THôt ˈsistəm |

**A Course of Love**

~ **everything** is held together by the thought system that gave **birth** to it. There are but two **thought** systems: the thought system of **God** , and the thought system of the **ego** or the separated **self**. The thought system of the separated **self** sees **everything** in **separation**. The thought system of **God** sees **everything** in unity. God's thought system is one of continuous **creation** , rebirth and renewal. The ego's thought system is one of continuous destruction and disassembly, of decay and **death**. _C:8.25.1-6_

~ your thought system is completely alien to the **truth** , but completely consistent as a **system**. _C:10.3.4_

~ the thought system of **truth** is as wholly consistent as the thought system of **illusion** , and **you** cannot take what **you** **will** and leave the **rest**. _C:10.3.8_

**Treatises**

~ while your thought system **here** has been described often as **insanity** , this is the **insanity** **you** would **fear** that may actually grow stronger as **you** get closer to the **truth**. This is the part of **you** that believes this communication itself is insane, that believes that to contemplate miracles is insane, that both welcomes and fears visions and abilities **you** **see** as **being** currently beyond your capabilities. _T1:5.4.6-7_

~ the thought system of the **ego** - **mind** is what has been **real** to **you** and thus where your **heart** has been held captive. _T1:5.9.4_

~ **you** must **experience** the **reality** of the **new** thought system or it **will** **remain** forever theoretical. **You** must let go of the **foundation** of **fear** on which the **old** thought system was built in order to **experience** the **new**. _T1:5.12.2-3_

~ the thought system of the **ego** - **mind** is a learned **system** and this is why it can be unlearned. The thought system of the **truth** is always **present** as the **truth** is always **present** and can be neither learned nor unlearned. It **will** thus be revealed to **you** as soon as the learned thought system ceases to block its **realization**. _T1:6.1.1-3_

~ the ego's thought system has been replaced by the thought system of unity. _T3:1.7.1_

~ it is impossible for **you** to imagine this **holiness** with the concepts of the thought system **you** heretofore **have** relied upon. This thought system has allowed only the **acceptance** of a **reality** **within** certain parameters, for it has not allowed **you** to imagine **being** able to take steps "back" to the **God** **you** believe **you** left in defiance, or the **Self** **you** believe **you** abandoned there. _T3:2.11.2-3_

~ the ego's thought system then formed beliefs that supported the initial **idea** of the **separation**. _T3:7.1.5_

~ this thought system recognizes no **fear** or **judgment** , no **uncertainty** or **doubt** , no **contrast** and no **division**. It is the thought system of unity. It is your true thought system and **will** be easily remembered once **you** begin to let it automatically replace the **old**. _T3:10.12.3-5_

~ as **you** dwell in the **house** of **truth** , if **you** do not resist unlearning the **ego** thought system, the thought system of your true **Self** **will** quite simply return to your **memory**. **You** **will** soon **forget** the thought system of the **ego** - **self** even though, when encountering those who still **use** that thought system, **you** **will** be able to communicate with them. Yet the ease with which **you** communicate with them **will** diminish over **time**. **You** **will** find yourself continuously teaching the **language** , if **you** **will** , of the **new** thought system, for **you** **will** **have** no **desire** to communicate with anything **less**. _T3:10.14.2-5_

~ the **new** thought system is simple to **learn**. What is of **love** is **truth**. What is of **fear** is **illusion**. _T3:13.4.5-7_

~ the **death** of the **ego** thought system has made **way** for the **birth** of the thought system of the **truth**. The thought system of the **ego** was based on **fear**. In this **time** of **translation** from one thought system to the other, the most subtle and yet significant **change** is the **change** from the **foundation** of **fear** , the basis of the **ego** thought system, to a **foundation** of **love** , the basis of the thought system of **truth**. _T3:14.1.1-3_

~ the **new** thought system **will** still **exist** **within** your **mind** and **heart** , as nothing can now take this **memory** from **you** , but to **experience** the **new** thought system as **thought** **alone** **will** not bring about the changes **you** would so **desire** to **have** come about **within** your physical **experience**. **You** may live a **more** peaceful and meaningful **life** , but **you** **will** not **become** the savior **I** **ask** **you** to be, or the architects of the **new** **world** of **heaven** on earth that **I** **call** **you** to **create**. _T3:14.1.6-7_

~ let me attempt to make the **difference** between having a **new** thought system and **living** by a **new** thought system **more** clear. Because **you** now are translating the thought system of the **ego** into the thought system of the **truth** , **you** **will** begin to believe in such things as benevolence and **abundance**. _T3:14.2.1-2_

~ the total **replacement** of **illusion** with the **truth** is what the **new** thought system **will** accomplish. _T3:15.18.2_

~ the thought system of the **truth** is a thought system that is not split by varying goals and desires. It is a thought system of unity. It is a thought system of one **thought** , one **goal**. _T3:19.9.3-5_

~ your **new** thought system is not tied to beliefs of an "if this, then that" **nature**. _T3:20.10.1_

**Dialogues**

~ systems of **thought** are both divinely inspired and products of the separated **self**. _D:4.14.1_

~ systems of **thought** are thus the **foundation** upon which how **you** live arises. The **truth** is a **system** of **thought**. It exists in **wholeness** and has always been available. _D:4.14.4-6_

~ systems of **thought** that arose from the separated **self** are those **you** **have** accepted as the **truth**. Some of these systems of **thought** were part of the divine **pattern**. **Contrast** is one such **system**. _D:4.15.1-3_

~ other systems of **thought** were not part of the divine **pattern**. The **ego** is one such **system**. _D:4.16.1-2_

**TIME**

| tīm |

**A Course of Love**

~ time is an **illusion**. It too does not **matter**. _C:1.6.6-7_

~ time too is of your making, an **idea** of **use** gone mad, as once again **you** **have** taken something made for your own **use** and allowed it to **become** the user. _C:9.33.3_

~ time was not made for **happiness**. _C:9.33.8_

~ **perception** of levels is a **function** of time, and thus it seems that great amounts of time are needed before **change** of a lasting **nature** can occur. This is why miracles save time, for they integrate **all** levels, temporarily collapsing time. Time is actually a measurement of learning, or the "time" it takes for learning to pass from one **level** to another through **experience** , for **here** learning is experienced in time. _C:18.12.1-3_

~ the time of parables has ended. A **new** time of no time awaits. Nothing is like unto anything else. _C:20.13.1-3_

~ **being** **present** has nothing to do with time as **you** think of it. **You** think of this instruction to be **present** as an instruction that relates to time. **You** think of **present** time, **past** time, **future** time. **We** **have** spoken of these modes of keeping time as well, but as the **word** keeping illustrates, there is nothing about time that can be kept. The only thing **real** about time is its eternal **nature**. _C:30.4.2-6_

**Treatises**

~ time is but a measurement of the "time" it takes for learning to occur. As this notion of time dissolves, the **state** of **miracle** -readiness becomes your natural **state**. _T2:4.18.3-4_

~ there is no time in the place **we** are **calling** **within** and your **heart** knows not of time even while it adheres to the rules of time **you** would place upon yourself. Cease adhering to the rules of time and **see** how much **more** the **language** of your **heart** becomes known to **you**. _T2:6.1.3-4_

~ if time is but a measure of learning, and if your learning is now at the **stage** at which it occurs in unison with unlearning, then the end of time as **you** **know** it is close at hand. If **you** can begin now to think without the barriers of time **you** but place upon your **thinking** , **you** **will** advance this process and **more** quickly bring about the end of the **pattern** of learning that **you** refer to as time. The end of the **pattern** of learning that **you** refer to as time is the **beginning** of the time of unity. _T2:6.2.2-4_

~ what **we** are about to do is move the **human experience** out of the realm of time. For this to happen, **we** must remove the time-bound temptations of the **human experience** of the **personal self**. _T3:12.3.2-3_

~ **matter** or **form** is bound by time. **Spirit** is not. The **House** of **Truth** cannot be bound by time and be a **House** of **Truth**. How then can the **personal self** begin to realize the **human experience** outside of time? The **answer** is thus: by changing the **consciousness** of the **personal self** from a time-bound **state** of **consciousness** to an eternal **state** of **consciousness**. This **change** , as has been said before, is the **miracle**. This **miracle** is the **goal** toward which **we** now **work**. _T3:12.4.1-7_

~ by saying that there is no longer any time to be wasted on **illusion** **we** are saying that **you** **will** no longer serve time but that time **will** serve **you**. Time was wasted on **illusion** and so but seemed to **become** a master that made of **you** a slave. Now time must be **thought** of in a **new** **way** , a **way** that has to do with effectiveness. _T3:20.1.1-3_

~ time is not **real** and **will** no longer be **real** to **you** as **you** come to live by the **truth**. _T4:1.16.5_

~ because **you** are a **being** still existing in **form** , **you** still **exist** in the realm of time and **space**. Yet time and **space** no longer **separate** us. _T4:12.33.2-3_

**Dialogues**

~ this **new** time of no time. _D:5.21.2_

~ **form** and time go together. Yet **you** **have** been told time is a measurement of learning. If **you** are no longer a learning **being** , for what is time needed? Time is needed now only for the **transformation** of the **self** from a learning **being** to a **being** that can accept the shared **consciousness** of unity and begin to discover what this **means**. _D:6.28.1-4_

~ time is what begins and ends. Time is what began when **life** took on existence in **form** and **space**. It is temporal rather than eternal. Alongside it, in the **state** of unity, rests **all** that is eternal, **all** that is **real**. _D:15.11.1-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ time has not yet ceased to be, but as **you** are in a **state** of **transformation** , so too is it. _D:Day7.7.3_

~ as **you** let go of time's hold on **you** , it **will** let go of **you**. Time **will** seem to **expand** but **will** actually be contracting into **nothingness**. Time is replaced by presence, by your **ability** to **exist** in the **here** and now in **acceptance** and without **fear**. _D:Day7.7.5-7_

~ when **Christ-consciousness** is sustained, time **will** collapse and the sun may not need to rise or set to **separate** **day** into night. Resting and waking **will** be part of the same continuum of **being**. _D:7.3.4-5_

~ **you** are time-bound only as a **particular** **self** , existing as man or woman in a **particular** time in history. Now **you** are called to discover how to **exist** in **form** without **being** defined by this time-bound particularity. _D:7.7.1-2_

~ time is not an aspect of **eternity** or of unity. Time is thus what has separated the **self** that exists in **form** from the **Self** that exists in **union** or the **state** of **Christ-consciousness**. _D:7.18.4-5_

~ **all** time is included in the spacious **Self**. _D:Day14.1.1_

~ this **change** , this **transformation** , can only take place **within** time. _D:Day28.18.1_

~ "Time outside of time" by itself **will** not cause the shift that **needs** to occur, however. What **will** **create** the shift is the **ability** to **experience** "time outside of time" and "time" simultaneously. Thus is the " **wholeness** " of time, or **eternity** , experienced and made **real**. _D:Day28.20.1-3_

~ a **being** in time wants to be known in time but can only be known in **eternity**. _D:Day39.48.7_

**TIME OF CHRIST**

_A Course of Love Term_

**Treatises**

~ the **difference** between this **time** and the **time** that has but seemed to **have** gone before has already been stated as the **difference** between the **time** of the **Holy Spirit** and the time of Christ. This has also been restated as the **difference** between the **time** of learning through **contrast** and the **time** of learning through **observation**. It is further stated **here** as the **difference** between learning by **contrast** and indirect communication and learning through **observation** and direction communication or **experience**. The same **truth** has always existed, but the **choice** of a **means** of coming to **know** the **truth** has shifted. **All** were **chosen** and **all** are **chosen**. _T4:1.17.1-5_

~ many not yet grown to maturity **have** been born into the time of Christ, and do not fit **within** the **time** or the **consciousness** of the **Holy Spirit**. _T4:1.24.3_

~ those born into the time of Christ **will** settle for nothing **less** than the **truth** and **will** soon begin looking earnestly for it. Even the **ego** - **self** **will** be perceived clearly by these, and they **will** not **want** it for their **identity** but only **will** accept it until another **identity** is offered. _T4:1.26.1-2_

~ this is the time of Christ and thus of your **ability** to choose **Christ-consciousness** , the **consciousness** returned to those loosed of the **body** by **death**. **Being** loosed of the **body** by **death** was the **chosen** **means** of the **time** of the **intermediary** , the **chosen** **means** of attaining **Christ-consciousness** and direct **revelation**. The **elevation** of the **personal self** in this time of Christ can be the **new** **choice**. _T4:5.13.10-12_

~ in this time of Christ, this **time** of direct **revelation** and direct sharing, the probable **future** **you** imagine, **envision** , **desire** , **will** be what **you** **create**. This is the **power** of the **devotion** of the observant. A shared **vision** of unity and a return of **all** to the **state** natural to **all** is what **I** **ask** **you** to imagine, **envision** and **desire**. _T4:6.4.1-3_

~ **you** **have** the unequalled opportunity now, because **you** **exist** in the Time of Christ, to directly **share** **Christ-consciousness** and thus sustain **Christ-consciousness**. **You** can pass on the **inheritance** **you** accept in this **fullness** of **time**. In this **time** of unity, dedicate **all** **thought** to unity. Accept no **separation**. Accept **all** choices. Thus are **all** **chosen** in the **fullness** of **time**. _T4:6.8.1-6_

~ that **you** are **living** in the time of Christ does not mean that **you** **will** automatically realize **Christ-consciousness**. _T4:7.12.1_

~ during the time of Christ, your understanding of your **Self** and **God** cannot **help** but grow through the direct and observable **means** now available. _T4:7.2.2_

~ during the time of Christ, **Christ-consciousness** is available to **all**. _T4:7.2.3_

~ now is the **time** to move out of the **time** of becoming who **you** are to the **time** of **being** who **you** are. _T4:9.4.3_

~ **you** **have** felt this **time** coming. _T4:9.5.1_

~ the **new** **time** is **here** and be ready to **embrace** it as it embraces **you**! _T4:9.6.2_

~ this is the **time** that is before us, the **time** of **creation** of the **future** , the **time** of the **creation** of a **future** not based upon the **past**. _T4:12.32.3_

~ this **time** is before us. _T4:12.33.1_

**Dialogues**

~ in this **time of Christ** , **we** are not called to recreate the "tools" of learning but to allow **all** that was created to show the **way** back to **Self** and **God** to be what it is in **truth**. This is the return of **love** to **love**. This is **acceptance** of your **Self**. _D:5.14.1-3_

~ a **time** when no intermediaries are needed or required. _D:13.7.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the time of Christ, and the second-coming of **Christ** , are expressions meant to symbolize the completion of the cycle of **birth** , **death** , and re- **birth** as a **means** of coming to **know**. _D:Day17.11.2_

~ what **Jesus** represented or demonstrated has now been realized, which is why this is called the time of Christ. The "" **time** "" of **Christ** , whom so many associate with **Jesus** **Christ** , represents the "" **time** "" of **fulfillment** of the **way** of **Jesus**. What could be taught and learned has been taught and learned. Now it is **time** to move beyond what could be taught and learned to what can only be realized through **relationship**. Now is the **time** of the final **revelation** of what can be realized, or made **real** , through following the **example** **life** of **Jesus**. _D:Day17.12.1-5_

~ thus **we** enter the ending **stage** of what can be realized through **fulfillment** of the **way** of **Jesus** and the **beginning** of the **fulfillment** of the **way of Mary**. This ending **stage** of the **fulfillment** of the **way** of **Jesus** is the **stage** of interaction with the **world** , the **time** of miracles, the **death** of the **old** **way** and the **birth** of the **new**." _D:Day17.13.1-2_

~ everyone knows, in this time of Christ, that the end of the **old** **way** is near and that the **new** is coming. _D:7.23.1_

~ the time of Christ is about the end of the need for the **intermediary**. _D:Day39.7.6_

**Addendum**

~ a major **difference** between **A Course in Miracles** and **A Course of Love** has to do with the **movement** into the Time of Christ, a **time** of direct learning in **union** and **relationship** with **God**. _A.1.1_

~ the **way** of the **heart** is the **way** of the Time of Christ. _A.19.1_

~ the **way** of learning in the Time of Christ brings with it a **new** kind of evidence, an evidence demonstrated clearly and plainly with every **willingness** to end **reliance** on the **ego** - **mind** and to leave the **hell** of the **separate** **self** behind. What **will** be demonstrated and shared is the perfect logic of the **heart**. _A.22.1-2_

~ this is a **time** of great intimacy. This is a **time** that is between **you** and **I** **more** so than has been the coursework up to this point. It is a **time** of realizing that " **I** " am speaking to " **you** " directly in every moment of every **day** , in **all** that **you** encounter, in **all** that **you** feel. It is a **time** of true **revelation** in which **you** are revealed to your **Self**. _A.39.1-4_

**TIME OF TENDERNESS**

_A Course of Love Term_

**A Course of Love**

~ the time of tenderness is a sure **path** on the **way** **home**. _C:24.3.4_

~ the time of tenderness precedes the **time** of **peace** and is the forerunner of **compassion**. The time of tenderness is thus the final learning ground before **accomplishment** is complete. The learning that occurs during the time of tenderness is learning from **love**. _C:24.4.1-3_

~ during the time of tenderness **you** may feel vulnerable. But the time of tenderness is a **time** of healing, and as **you** are healed **you** **will** realize **you** are no longer vulnerable to **being** wounded. _C:25.13.4-5_

~ **being** healed and recognizing your own **state** of **being** healed is a key **purpose** of the time of tenderness. _C:25.13.7_

~ the time of tenderness is the **time** of your approach to unity. _C:29.9.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the **time** that preceded your **giving** and receiving of **forgiveness** , your request for and granting of **atonement** , your re-viewing and unlearning of the perceived lessons of your **life**. _D:Day2.14.2_

**Addendum**

~ **you** **have** entered the time of tenderness. _A.14.2_

**TRAIT**

| trāt |

**Treatises**

~ **all** of your traits **have** been **chosen** either in accordance with the ego's desires or in **opposition** to them. Whether they be in accord or in **opposition** , their **source** has still been the **ego**. These traits, whether **you** **see** them as good or bad or somewhere in between are what **you** **have** seen as making **you** loveable or unlovable. Yet **you** **have** also often made them challenges to **love** , saying in **effect** to those who **love** **you** , " **Love** me in spite of these traits that are not loveable and then **I** **will** **know** your **love** is true." _T3:3.2.2-5_

**TRANSFORMATION**

| ˌtran(t)sfərˈmāSH(ə)n |

**A Course of Love**

~ the **beginning** of **all** transformation is at the **source** , and this is as true of **illusion** as of the **truth**. _C:10.4.1_

~ transformation occurs in **time**. Thus transformation and miracles need to **work** hand-in-hand. _C:18.18.6-7_

~ the transformation from a **state** of **separation** to a **state** of unity is a **miracle** indeed, for this transformation requires recognition of a **state** that **you** cannot **recognize** in **separation**. _C:18.19.1_

~ what passes through **you** is transformed by the **relationship** with **you** just as surely as **you** are transformed by the **relationship** with it. _C:22.14.3_

**Dialogues**

~ this **will** not occur by **means** of preparation but by **means** of **acceptance**. This **will** not occur by **means** of trying but by **means** of **surrender**. _D:1.18.3-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ if **you** **desire** this transformation wholeheartedly, if **you** make this **choice** with wholehearted **desire** , it **will** be done, and **we** **will** continue our **dialogue** so that **you** **know** **more** of the **difference** **you** **have** **chosen**. Once this **difference** is wholly known to **you** , **we** **will** begin true discussion of **creation of the new** , for **you** **will** be done with becoming. _D:Day4.48.2-3_

~ **you** **will** be able, of course, to continue on without making this wholehearted **choice** , but **you** **will** read only to **learn** and learning **will** not transform **you**. If **you** do not truly and wholeheartedly **desire** this **choice** , if **you** do not truly and wholeheartedly meet the condition of **being** fearless, **you** **will** **know** this, and **you** **will** pass through the **time** of coming to **acceptance** again and again until **you** are ready. **You** cannot fail but can only delay. For some the **time** of delay has passed. For those who linger in the **time** of **acceptance** , there is **reason** for this as well. _D:Day4.49.2-5_

~ **you** simply **want** to **rest** and **have** whatever transformation is to come to **you** to come. If **you** could indeed give in to this **desire** fully, it would speed the transformation along quite nicely. _D:Day5.20.3-4_

~ what was created cannot be uncreated. Thus transformation is needed. _D:7.5.1-2_

~ during this transformation, **we** **work** with what is as well as with the **new** and the forgotten. _D:Day10.12.3_

~ this transformation **will** , however, take **you** beyond **time**. _D:Day28.18.2_

~ only this **first** **change** , this **first** transformation, must take place in **time**. _D:Day28.18.4_

**TRANSITION**

| tranˈziSH(ə)n |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ this is the **first** transition, the transition in which **you** really "get it" that the **unknown** cannot be taught, laid out on a map, or shown to **you** by another. _D:Day20.3.1_

~ the **first** transition, as **you** **have** probably already realized, is about a letting-go of any of the ideas that **you** may still **have** that an outside **source** exists. _D:Day21.1.1_

**TRANSLATION**

| transˈlāSH(ə)n |

**Treatises**

~ although **you** dwell in the **house** of the **truth** , **you** are capable of bringing with **you** **old** patterns of behavior. Once the translation of the **new** **thought system** for the **old** is complete, this **will** no longer happen. But the translation cannot be completed if **you** refuse to live by what **you** **know**.if **you** refuse to live as who **you** are. _T3:14.3.1-3_

**TREASURE**

| ˈtreZHər |

**Treatises**

~ there are treasures that lie **within** **you**. What was once regarded as treasure, such as a talent that was in need of developing, when realized, is often disregarded thereafter as a treasure and becomes instead something regarded as an **ability** and later as simply part of your **identity**. _T2:1.1.1-2_

~ a treasure that **you** do not as yet **recognize** is going to be recognized. Once recognized it **will** begin to be regarded as an **ability**. And finally, through **experience** , it **will** **become** your **identity**. _T2:1.1.4-6_

~ treasure is most often seen in one of two ways—as something valuable to be sought and found or as something found that is kept secure and cherished. _T2:1.2.1_

~ treasure in the **first** sense is, **first** and foremost, something that **you** believe exists and **have** defined as **being** of value. _T2:1.3.1_

~ the feelings that cause one to think that any physical thing is capable of **being** a treasure or **being** treasured are of the **ego**. _T2:1.3.2_

~ those of **you** who **have** moved beyond the realm of the **ego** , in your **fear** of returning to it, often turn away from internal treasures that **you** believe, when realized, might feed the **ego**. _T2:1.4.1_

~ the treasure that lies **within** that **you** do not yet fully **recognize** is that of unity. _T2:1.8.1_

~ treasure already is and it is already valuable and available. _T2:1.13.9_

~ **all** **you** must do is wholeheartedly **recognize** the treasure **you** **have** already **chosen** to bring to the **world**. Your **heart** speaks to **you** of this treasure and guides **you** to open the trunk and **release** it to the **world** —to your **world** —to the human **world**. _T2:3.2.8-9_

**Addendum**

~ the treasure is them. _A.34.8_

**TREATISE**

| ˈtrēdis |

**Treatises**

~ these Treatises are no longer concerned with coursework as the **work** of this Course has been **accomplished** in **you**. These Treatises are simply concerned with assisting **you** to live what **you** **have** learned. _T3:15.13.1-2_

**Dialogues**

~ **a** Treatise **on the Art of Thought** was but a forerunner to what **we** now **will** **embrace** together. It was a **means** and an end. _D:9.8.5-6_

~ **trust** the knowing that has been returned to **you** as **you** begin to live in the **reality** of the **truth**. _D:1.22.5_

~ just as the **Art of Thought** led to abilities beyond the **thinking** of the **ego** - **mind** , the beliefs of the Treatise on Unity were meant to lead beyond the need for beliefs, and A Treatise on the **Personal Self** meant to lead beyond the **personal self**. Thus the Treatises were not inconsistent with our aims **here**. _D:9.10.1-2_

~ with A Treatise on the **New** **we** established what lies beyond learning. _D:9.10.4_

**TRINITY**

| ˈtrinədē |

**A Course of Love**

~ these words, **Father** , Son, and **Holy Spirit** , like the **word** **love** , are but symbols representing ideas that represent what is. That **you** **have** made of the **Father** a singular figure, somehow greater than the Son, and accepted the **Holy Spirit** as something largely not **within** your understanding, only exemplifies the **nature** of the **error** in need of **correction**. _C:12.16.1-2_

~ the Son and **Holy Spirit** , like unto **Creation** , proceeded from the starting point of **God**. **God** is the Son and **Holy** Spirit's starting point as well, the **Creator** of the Son and **Holy Spirit** , yet He also is the Son and **Holy Spirit**. _C:12.24.9-10_

~ thus is the Sacred Trinity always available in every **situation** , and for whichever learning mode **you** are most comfortable. **All** learning modes, however, **will** eventually return **you** to the **Source** , which is **Love**. The **difference** between **Father** , Son, and **Holy Spirit** is but the same **difference** of which **we** speak when **we** assure **you** that **you** are of one **Mind** and one **Heart** , and that regardless of this **truth** **you** **will** not, in coming to **know** and **experience** this, lose your **Self**. The **way** in which **you** **experience** **relationship** with **each** aspect of the Trinity is **different** despite the **oneness** of the Trinity. _C:32.2.7-10_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ this is the **example** that the ideas of **Father** , Son, and **Holy Spirit** as a trinity representing one **God** were meant to portray. The Son could only be **God** in **relationship** to **God**. The **Holy Spirit** could only be **God** in **relationship** to **God**. The **Father** could only be **God** in **relationship** to **God**. **God** could only be the **Father** , Son, and **Holy Spirit** in **relationship**. _D:Day36.11.2-4_

**TRUST**

| trəst |

**Treatises**

~ trusting is not a condition or **state** of **being** that **you** **have** heretofore seen as **being** an active one. Your attitude toward trust is one of waiting, as if an active stance toward trust would be distrustful. **You** thus **will** often say that **you** trust when what **you** are doing is hoping for a specific outcome. **Real** trust is not a trust that waits and hopes but a trust that acts from who **you** truly are. **Real** trust requires the **discipline** of **being** who **you** are in every circumstance and in every **relationship**. **Real** trust begins with your **Self**. _T2:7.16.1-6_

**Addendum**

~ **you** begin to trust and as **you** begin to trust **you** begin to extend who **you** are. _A.14.4_

**TRUTH**

| tro͞oTH |

**A Course of Love**

~ the only **way** that **you** can fail to **learn** the truth is to demand to **learn** it on **you** own. For on your own it is impossible to **learn**. _C:1.9.14-15_

~ the truth unites. It does not divide. The truth invites **peace** , not **conflict**. Partial truth is not only impossible, it is damaging. _C:P.15.6-9_

~ truth is truth. There are no degrees of truth. _C:3.3.7-8_

~ **all** truth is generalizable because truth is not concerned with any of the specific details or forms of your **world**. _C:5.5.3_

~ **all** truth lies in **relationship**. _C:5.6.5_

~ in truth are **all** illusions gone. _C:6.14.7_

~ where truth has come **illusion** is no **more**. Truth has no need of your **protection** , for truth brought to **illusion** shines its **light** into the darkness, causing it to be no **more**. _C:7.10.2-3_

~ **you** **have** long embraced **fear** and rejected **love**. Now the reverse is true. This reversal of truth has changed the **nature** of your **universe** and the laws by which it operates. _C:20.31.2-4_

~ the truth is that which exists. _C:20.48.9_

~ only unity, however, allows **you** to **see** the truth and to **claim** it as your **discovery** and your truth as well as **universal** truth. _C:21.9.3_

~ knowing the one truth is not about knowing a certain dogma or a set of facts. Those who **know** the truth do not **see** themselves as right and **others** as wrong. Those who **know** the truth find it for themselves by joining **mind** and **heart**. Those who **know** the truth **become** beings of **love** and **light** and **see** the same loving truth in **all**. _C:21.10.1-4_

~ **fear** of the truth is like a **fear** of the impossible **being** possible. Like the **fear** of **death** , it is the product of upside-down **thinking**. _C:31.3.2-3_

~ the truth is your **identity**. _C:31.18.1_

~ this truth lies **within** **everything** that exists, as it lies **within** **you**. _C:31.23.2_

~ the truth and the **mind** are one in truth. The truth is what is. What is not the truth is **illusion**. _C:31.31.3-5_

**Treatises**

~ the truth is the truth and not dependent upon your definition of it. _T1:4.18.2_

~ even though many versions of the truth **have** been accepted previously, there is only one truth. There was only one truth at the **time** the event or **change** took place, and there is only one truth in **time** or **eternity** regardless of the variety of interpretations of the truth. _T1:8.3.6-7_

~ **all** of **you** are capable of hearing the truth of what the **heart** would tell **you**. **All** of **you** are just as capable of believing in that truth as of doubting it. **All** that prevents **you** from believing in truth is a **mind** and **heart** acting in **separation** rather than in **union**. _T2:2.8.1-3_

~ just beyond your mind's **ability** to **call** it forth lies the truth that **you** and **all** other beings **know**. _T2:10.8.1_

~ truth **needs** no **protection**. The truth is not threatened by untruth. The truth simply exists as **love** exists and as **you** **exist**. When **we** say something is, this is what it is of which **we** speak. When **we** say **all** truth is generalizable, **all** **needs** are shared, **all** knowing is shared, this is of what it is **we** speak. _T2:11.5.1-5_

~ when the truth becomes known to **you** , **you** **know** **God** for **you** **know** **love**. _T3:3.7.2_

~ the untrue cannot **exist** with the true. _T3:6.5.1_

~ **you** can represent the truth **here**. **You** cannot do this with beliefs but **you** can do this with ideas. _T3:7.3.1-2_

~ realize **here** the subtle **difference** between a **symbol** that represents the truth, and the truth, for this is what **we** **work** toward. _T3:8.1.4_

~ the **universe** of truth contains **everything** **within** its benevolent **embrace**. _T3:9.4.1_

~ nothing need be given up to enter the **house** of truth, or to encounter the truth. _T3:10.1.3_

~ the **house** of truth is the dwelling place of those who no longer live in **fear** and thus **have** no need for a **structure** of seeming **protection**. _T3:11.4.4_

~ few realize that they **exist** in the **House** of Truth. _T3:11.15.1_

~ **you** are quite capable of seeing the truth and still acting as if **you** **see** it not. _T3:14.4.1_

~ it is impossible to **learn** the truth through the same methods that **have** been used in the **past** to **learn** **illusion**. _T3:15.11.3_

~ truth, like **love** , is not something that **you** can **learn**. The Good News is that **you** **have** no need to **learn** the truth. The truth exists **within** **you** and **you** are now aware of its **reality**. _T3:15.11.6-8_

~ nothing but the truth is **all** encompassing. _T3:16.16.2_

~ accept one "part" or tenet of the truth and **see** the reverse take place. **See** how quickly the **thought system** of the truth builds upon itself and forms a **real** and true interrelated **whole**. What forms the **house** of truth is **love** eternal and it has always encompassed **you** , even unto encompassing the **house** of **illusion** that **you** made to obscure it from yourself. _T3:16.17.3_

~ to live in truth is to live without **fear** of the meaningless acts of those **living** in **illusion** because they **will** be unable to cause **effect** in the **house** of truth. _T3:19.11.5_

~ there are many ways that can still be found to come to the truth. But a **way** of getting to the truth **will** **become** so attractive that few **will** be able to resist. What **will** make this **choice** so attractive **will** not be martyrs and saintly souls stricken with every calamity and yet remaining to tell those who would **listen** about the **glory** of **God**. What **will** make this **choice** so attractive are ordinary people **living** extraordinary, and miraculous, and observable lives. _T3:19.16.4-7_

~ **you** can no longer be, live, or think as other than who **you** are in truth. _T3:20.11.4_

~ the truth is not a set of facts. Written truth is not the truth but only the arrangement of the truth into **language**. _T3:21.1.1-2_

~ the truth is not symbolic. It is. It is the same for everyone. _T3:21.2.1-3_

~ there are no two sides to the truth. There is not **more** than one truth. There is one truth. _T3:21.3.1-3_

~ the truth is not a **concept**. It is **real**. It is **all** that is **real**. _T3:21.4.1-3_

~ in order for the truth to be lived in **time** **you** must **forget** your **uncertainty** and be certain of the truth. _T3:21.7.2_

~ **you** think that to believe in one truth is to deny other truths. There is only one truth. Untruth must now be denied. _T3:21.8.2-4_

~ the truth exists in the **present**. _T4:1.16.3_

~ the truth exists **within** **you**. _T4:1.16.4_

~ **all** messages of the truth say the same thing but in **different** ways. There seems to be nothing **new** to be said, nothing to move **you** beyond this point that **you** **have** reached in your understanding of the truth. _T4:9.5.4-5_

**Dialogues**

~ to **learn** the truth and not accept it is **different** from learning what is necessary for a career. To **learn** the truth and not accept the truth is insane. To **learn** the truth and not accept the completion of your learning is insane. _D:2.7.2-4_

~ the truth is still available to be seen. _D:5.3.4_

~ this seeing of the truth is the **first** step as it is the step necessary for the restoration of **divine design**. _D:5.9.3_

~ partial truth is never the **whole** truth. _D:13.9.4_

~ the **whole** truth is the only truth. _D:13.9.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to realize the truth **you** must now fully reject the untruths that **you** learned. _D:Day3.25.4_

~ **all** that exists in truth, the truth of who **you** are is **means** and end as well. _D:Day4.27.5_

~ the truth is the truth. It doesn't **change**. It is the same for everyone. _D:Day20.5.1-3_

**UNCERTAINTY**

| ˌənˈsərtn(t)ē |

**A Course of Love**

~ uncertainty of any kind is **doubt** about your **self**. _C:12.8.1_

~ if **you** follow the **way** that is shown to **you** , **all** uncertainty **will** end. Uncertainty is where difficulty lies. _C:28.13.7-8_

**Treatises**

~ uncertainty, like **all** the **rest** of the ego's **thought system** , was learned. Your true **Self** has no cause for uncertainty. Thus **you** are called, as well, to **forget** the uncertainty of the **past**. _T3:10.10.3-5_

~ **you** are no longer called to a **time** of uncertainty to **learn** through **contrast** the lessons of **certainty**. _T3:10.11.2_

~ the **time** for uncertainty is **past**. Uncertainty **will** not now come to **teach** **you** lessons **you** **have** already learned but **will** only visit **you** as an echo from the **past**. It is a habit, a **pattern** of the **old** **thought system**. **All** **you** must do is not **listen** to it. Its **voice** **will** not be gentle or full of **love**. Its **voice** **will** hold the unmistakable edge of **fear**. _T3:10.11.4-9_

~ try to **remember** to turn to the **new** rather than the **old** **each** **time** **you** think **you** are experiencing uncertainty or **lack**. _T4:12.19.4_

**UNDERSTAND**

| ˌəndərˈstand |

**A Course of Love**

~ because **you** do not understand does not mean that **you** are not learning the **truth**. **You** do not understand because **you** think in terms of singularity rather than in terms of unity. _C:27.12.1-2_

~ trying to come to understanding with a split **mind** is impossible. _C:31.13.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ there is still fine-tuning to your understanding to be done, and this **will** be done as **you** come to **know** what unity is, and so **more** fully come to **know** your **Self** and **love**. _D:Day5.10.1_

**Addendum**

~ if **you** do not understand, accept that **you** do not understand and go on. _A.5.4_

~ now **you** are ready to let understanding come without the aggressiveness of going out to get it. _A.13.5_

**UNION**

| ˈyo͞onyən |

**A Course of Love**

~ it is only through union with me that **you** **learn** , because it is only in union with me that **you** are your **Self**. _C:5.3.1_

~ union is impossible without **God**. **God** is union. _C:5.4.1-2_

~ union is **all** that **you** invite me into and **share** with **God**. _C:5.29.4_

~ without union **all** your seeking **will** not reveal the **truth**. And while there is a part of **you** that knows this, **you** prefer instead of union a game of speculation, conjecture, and probable cause. _C:8.11.3-4_

~ **grace** -filled place of union. _C:8.11.7_

~ unity and **wholeness** go hand in hand. _C:8.13.1_

~ unity is **wholeness**. **All** for **all**. _C:8.13.6-7_

~ your natural **state** is one of union, and **each** joining that **you** do in **holy relationship** returns a little of the **memory** of union to **you**. This **memory** of your divinity is what **you** **seek** in **truth** from **each** **special relationship** **you** enter into, but your true quest is hidden by the **concept** of **use** that gets in its **way**. While your **heart** seeks for union, your separated **self** seeks for what it can **use** to fill the **emptiness** and ease the terror of its **separation**. What your **heart** seeks in **love** it attains, but your separated **self** would **keep** this attainment from **you** by turning every **situation** into a **means** to serve its ends. As long as union is seen as a **means** only to **keep** **loneliness** from **you** it is not seen for what it truly is. _C:9.36.1-5_

~ **you** **will** never fully **understand** what unity **means** , but **you** **will** come to feel what unity **means** , and this **I** promise **you**. This is what **we** **work** toward in this Course, for once **you** **have** experienced the **feeling** of unity, **you** **will** need no understanding of it. _C:13.1.1-2_

~ **you** who do not **know** how to trade your separated **state** for that of union **have** still done so when **you** **have** loved freely and without **fear**. In this **state** your **memory** returns to **you** of who **you** are, and **you** are innocent and joyous and one with **love** itself. That this **memory** does not last, and these feelings seem unsustainable, is the result only of that which does discard and replace. _C:14.28.1-3_

~ the **experience** of unity **will** alter your **belief** **system** and that of **others** , for what **you** **learn** in unity is shared. Because **you** are currently learning from **separation** , however, **each** must **experience** unity individually before their **belief** **system** can be changed. _C:18.11.1-2_

~ in unity, **all** that **you** desired was participated in fully by a **mind** and **heart** combined in **wholeheartedness**. **You** knew your **Self** to be the **creator** , and loved **all** that **you** created. **You** did not **desire** and **fear** something at the same **time** , and your desires did not **change** from moment to moment. What **you** desired **you** experienced fully with your **whole** **being** , making it one with **you**. _C:18.14.3-6_

~ the **first** unification, the unification of **mind** and **heart** , after which unification with **God** is naturally returned to your **awareness** , for this unification returns **you** to the **Christ** in **you** and the one **mind** united with **God** which **you** **have** never left. Creation's **power** then returns to **you** to **help** **all** the separated ones **remember** union. _C:19.4.5-6_

~ the separated **self** cannot relearn unity except through union. **Here** , union is achieved in **relationship**. _C:19.10.1-2_

~ **you** need to but **ask** for unity to return for it to be so. _C:19.18.3_

~ in order to **remember** unity **you** must, in a sense, travel back to it, undoing as **you** go **all** **you** **have** learned since last **you** knew it, so **all** that remains is **love**. _C:19.19.3_

~ what **you** long for is re-union. Yet reunion too is **relationship** , because union is **relationship**. _C:23.9.1-2_

~ your return to unity is your return to your full **power** and your **ability** to be of quite literal **service** to **God** and your brothers and sisters. _C:29.5.3_

~ your return to unity is **all** **God** seeks for **you** , for Himself, and for **all** His children. The return to unity was my **accomplishment**. _C:29.6.3-4_

~ only those reunited with **God** achieve the **state** of unity. Only the **state** of unity exists. _C:29.24.2-3_

**Treatises**

~ to acknowledge the **relationship** and the **nature** of the **gift** is to realize unity. _T1:2.22.1_

~ union is the **mind** and **heart** **being** joined in **wholeheartedness**. It is your union with your **Self**. Union with your **Self** is union with **God**. _T1:6.4.3-5_

~ this union of the male and female is but union of the parts of yourself expressed in **form** and story, expressed, in other words, in a visual **pattern** that aides your understanding of the invisible. It is one **more** demonstration of the union that returns **you** to your natural **state**. It is one **more** demonstration of cause and **effect** **being** one in **truth**. It is one **more** demonstration of what **needs** to occur now, in this **time** , in order for the **truth** of the **resurrection** to be revealed and lived. _T1:8.16.3-6_

~ **we** **have** talked thus far of union of **heart** and **mind**. Lest **you** think that this union is not **all** -encompassing, **we** **will** reflect a moment **here** on how the **art of thought** brings **all** **you** **have** seen as parts of the **self** , such as male and female, conception and **action** , **inspiration** and manifestation, together into the wholehearted. _T1:8.17.1-2_

~ the **first** union is of **mind** and **heart**. The **first** union is union with the **Self**. This union with the **Self** is **resurrection** or rebirth. **All** are capable of this **life** - **giving** union. _T1:9.17.1-4_

~ as **you** **have** learned much of unity **within** the context of this Course, unity, like **rest** , may **have** come to be viewed as a place at which **you** can arrive. Like **peace** , it may feel like a bubble of **protection** , something that sets **you** apart from **life** and the chaos that seems to reign there. _T2:1.8.2-3_

~ **thinking** without **form** is a harbinger of unity. _T2:1.10.1_

~ unity is not a place or a thing but the realm of the one **heart** and one **mind** ; the realm of the formless and timeless. But also the realm of connectedness, of what binds **all** that lives in **creation** with the **Creator**. _T2:1.10.3-4_

~ unity exists only in the **here** and now of the **present**. There is no **will** be in unity. There is only what is. _T2:6.6.5-7_

~ the recognition that **you** are already **accomplished** is a condition of your recognition of the **state** of unity. _T2:6.9.1_

~ **you** are creating the **state** of unity as a **new** **reality** for your **Self** even though it is actually a return to what has always been. _T2:6.9.8_

~ there is no such thing as a static **level** in unity where **creation** is continuous and ongoing. _T2:9.14.1_

~ **you** might think of unity as **you** **have** so often **thought** of your brain, but rather than **thinking** of it in the singular, think of it as a storehouse or giant brain in which **all** that has ever been known or **thought** is contained. _T2:10.4.1_

~ the union of **mind** and **heart** is, as was stated previously, the **first** union, the union that must proceed **all** the **rest**. **You** are in a **state** of unity when **you** **have** achieved **wholeheartedness**. **You** are in a **state** in which **you** are able to **learn**. _T2:10.13.3-5_

~ **recognize** now that unity is **within** **you** and without **you** , in **all** **you** are and **all** **you** are in **relationship** with. Feel the **embrace** and the **love** that is this unity and **know** that it is **you** and me and our **Creator** and **all** that was created. _T2:12.14.1-2_

~ **know** that, in the **time** of unity, the **truth** **will** be shared by **all**. _T2:13.4.4_

~ in unity, **all** **others** are one with **you**. _T3:20.3.2_

~ unity always existed. _T4:2.22.4_

~ the **real** **state** of union, returned to **you** through the joining of **mind** and **heart** , **will** now reveal to **you** the **truth** of what was created and allow **you** to **create** anew. _T4:2.27.5_

~ **you** **have** come to **recognize** unity. _T4:2.30.4_

~ to abide in unity is to abide in your natural **state** , a **state** of **life** -everlasting. _T4:4.15.4_

~ the **realization** of unity is the binding **realization** that **will** return **all** , as one **body** , to the natural **state** of **Christ-consciousness**. _T4:6.3.4_

~ the unity that creates and sustains **all** **living** things. _T4:7.3.2_

~ many **will** be surprised by experiences of unity and **know** not what to make of them. Those who attempt to figure them out **will** come ever closer to the **truth** by **means** of **science** , technology, and even **art** and literature. Those who allow themselves to **experience** **revelation** **will** enter **Christ-consciousness**. _T4:7.3.4-6_

~ in unity there is no need for teachers or for learners. There is need only for the sustainability of **Christ-consciousness** in which **we** **exist** together as creators in unity and **relationship**. _T4:11.3.3-4_

~ the **state** of union in which **all** that **you** **learn** is shared, **first** by **mind** and **heart** , and then in unity with your brothers and sisters. **You** achieve this **state** only by listening to one **voice** , or, in other words, by ending the separated **state** which is the **state** in which the **ego** exists. The end of the separated **state** or the **ego** , is the **beginning** of your **ability** to hear only one **voice** , the **voice** **we** **all** **share** in unity. _T2:10.13.7-9_

**Dialogues**

~ in our union **we** bear the **sameness** of the **Son of God**. In going forth with the **vision** of unity **you** **become** as **I** was during **life**. _D:1.2.3-4_

~ **i** dwell in unity. _D:1.14.3_

~ **you** **have** achieved an incredible feat by allowing and accepting the **state** of unity even though **you** could not **learn** how to do so. _D:1.21.2_

~ in unity **you** are **whole** and **inseparable** , one **living** organism now raised above the **level** of the organism as **you** **become** aware of unity of **form**. _D:4.2.3_

~ unity is where the **heart** and **mind** are joined. Unity is the place from which the **expression** , the right-minded **action** of the **elevated Self of form** , arises. Unity is the **Source** of these words. _D:11.18.3-5_

~ union isn't achieved with a flash of **light** from above, but that it quietly infiltrates the dot of the **self** in its unguarded moments. _D:12.12.1_

~ **you** **have** already benefited from moments of interaction with, if not **awareness** of, the **state** of unity. _D:12.13.4_

~ union is not other than **you**. _D:12.19.2_

~ union includes **you**. _D:12.19.3_

~ a **state** **you** **share** with **all** at the **level** of **Christ** **consciousness** but that may literally not be sharable with those who **remain** in a **separate** **state** except through the sharing of who **you** are and who **you** **know** **others** to be. _D:13.2.1_

~ a shared **state**. _D:13.3.1_

~ what comes of unity is in union and thus is **whole**. _D:13.5.1_

~ **you** also do not come to the knowing of the **state** of unity **alone**. _D:13.9.1_

~ **you** **have** experienced unity now and **you** wish it to continue to serve **you**. **You** thus must **strive** to maintain the conditions that **will** allow it to do so. This is, as with **all** maintenance, a temporary measure. _D:15.19.2-4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ in unity a "place" exists that is your natural **state** , a **state** free from **want** , a **state** free from **suffering** , a **state** free from learning, a **state** free from **death**. _D:Day4.13.1_

~ **you** needed to **first** **know** yourself as a **being** existing in union before **you** could **know** anything else with the **certainty** **you** **seek** , for union is the **treasure** that has been locked away from **you**. _D:Day4.23.2_

~ union is both the **treasure** and the key to the **treasure**. Union is both **access** and the place to which **you** **desire** **access**. As **all** that exists in **truth** , union is **means** and end. _D:Day4.26.1-3_

~ the **relationship** of union is what **you** are **here** coming to **know** once again. _D:Day4.51.7_

~ unity and **Love** —as **we** **have** **within** this **work** shown them to be—are the same. _D:Day5.7.1_

~ like **love** , unity is known through its effects. **All** the benefits of union can be given away to any willing to **receive**. _D:Day5.12.3-4_

~ like **love** , unity has one **source** and many expressions. _D:Day5.14.1_

~ union is **being** fully who **you** are and expressing fully who **you** are. This is the **miracle** , the **goal** , the **accomplishment** that is achieved through the reign of **love** , the maintenance and finally the sustainability of union. _D:Day5.17.3-4_

~ union cannot be learned, for if it could be, the **time** of learning would be perpetuated rather than ended. _D:Day5.19.5_

~ what comes of unity enters **you** and passes through **you** to the **world**. This is the **relationship** **you** **have** with unity while in **form** —a **relationship** of **intersection** and **pass-through**. _D:Day5.21.5-6_

~ **each** **expression** of union must **remain** as what it is—untaught and unlearned. **Each** **gain** from unity **will** only, in this **way** , be seen as the **new** **givens** come to replace learning. _D:Day5.24.1-2_

~ **you** **have** developed the creative **relationship** that is union. _D:Day6.11.3_

~ there are no conditions in the **state** of union. _D:Day7.16.2_

~ **you** cannot **know** the **experience** of unity without entering into it. _D:7.1.1_

~ to "enter" into the **experience** of unity is something **more** **difficult** to imagine, and something for which **you** **have** little **language**. _D:7.1.3_

~ the **state** in which there is no **division** between who **you** are and what **you** do. _D:7.6.2_

~ the circle of unity where **all** **you** **desire** is already **accomplished** in the **fullness** and **wholeness** of the undivided **Self**. _D:8.11.2_

~ the place of no **division** , the place of shared **consciousness** , the place of **wholeness**. _D:8.12.2_

~ now unity is **being** sought and unity is **being** found. _D:Day10.36.2_

~ in union there is no distinction between the **Self** and the creative force of the **universe** , the animator and informer of **all** things. _D:Day15.10.7_

~ now a **new** degree of union is occurring to allow for a **new** type of **experience**. _D:Day18.9.5_

~ no **intermediary** is needed when **you** **exist** in union. It is recognized that the **knowledge** , **wisdom** , guidance, or information that is needed in **each** moment is available **within** **each** moment and that the interaction, rather than **being** one of taking something from an outside **source** into the **self** where it is learned and then regurgitated or even applied, has given **way** to an interaction that begins **within** and extends outward. _D:Day21.7.4-5_

~ **you** **know** union in order to sustain and **create** union by channeling the **unknown** **reality** of union into the known **reality** of **separation**. _D:Day22.7.4_

~ a place where nothing but **love** exists, where there is no **suffering** , no **death** , no **pain** nor sorrow, no **separation** or alienation. _D:Day22.7.6_

~ a place of union exists in which **you** **know** **God** , in which **you** **know** **love** , in which **you** **know** of **joy** without sorrow, and **life** everlasting. This is the great **unknown** that **you** can make known. _D:Day22.11.1-2_

~ **creator** and created are one and the homecoming experienced is that of union. _D:Day26.7.5_

~ union is the realm of the One. _D:Day31.7.2_

~ unity is **oneness** of **being**. _D:Day35.13.1_

~ **being** in union is **being** **all**. **Being** in union and **relationship** requires individuation. _D:Day39.9.1-2_

~ union is no **more** than this, as **we** are one in **being** and when **you** **have** discovered **relationship** , **we** are one in union as well. _D:Day39.11.8_

~ with this **ability** to individuate in unity and **relationship** comes the greatest **gift** of **all**. It is the end of becoming and the **beginning** of **being** who **you** are. With this **gift** comes the **ability** to be known and to **know**. _D:Day40.30.1-3_

**Addendum**

~ in the direct **relationship** achieved in union, no learning is required. _A.4.5_

~ in unity and **relationship** , **each** is not only capable but **will** inevitably **receive** the **answer** and come to the understanding or **interpretation** that is "right" for them. _A.16.4_

~ those who do not enter unity and **relationship** cannot be helped, fixed, or shown the inaccuracies of their perceptions. Their perceptions **will** **remain** true for them because their minds **have** told them they are true and their **belief** in the supremacy of the **mind** has temporarily overridden the openness of their hearts. _A.17.1-2_

~ in unity, **perfection** is the **reality**. _A.25.3_

**UNIQUE**

| yo͞oˈnēk |

**A Course of Love**

~ it is in the **different** **relationship** of one aspect of **creation** with **all** the **rest** that the **difference** **you** so prize as your uniqueness exists. And only there. Only in **relationship** are **you** uniquely **you**. _C:32.2.13-15_

**UNIVERSAL**

| ˌyo͞onəˈvərsəl |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the universal is **everything**. _D:Day22.3.8_

**UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS**

| ˌyo͞onəˈvərsəl ˈkän(t)SHəsnəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** are headed toward what might be called universal consciousness, though **you** **will** not **know** it when it is at **first** achieved. For universal consciousness is knowing **Self** , while **you** think it is knowing **all**. _C:30.5.1-2_

~ universal consciousness is **being** in **relationship**. It is the true **Self** , the known **Self** , in **all** its glorious **relationship** with **life**. _C:30.6.1-2_

**UNIVERSE**

| ˈyo͞onəˌvərs |

**A Course of Love**

~ it is a shared universe with no divisions. There are no sections, no parts, no inside and no outside, no dreams and no illusions that can **escape** or hide, disappear, or cease to be. _C:3.3.1-2_

~ **god** created the universe as an interrelated **whole**. That the universe is an interrelated **whole** is no longer disputed even by **science**. _C:6.4.5-6_

~ **you** **have** created a universe for yourself, a universe that **you** are required to maintain, and that without your **effort** would dissolve. This universe is yourself and **you** are **everything** in it. _C:14.16.2-3_

~ since only what **you** **know** is part of your universe, do **you** not **see** that it depends on **you** , and if it depends on **you** that it is **you**? Only what **you** are aware of exists in the universe that is **you**. Only what happens to **you** affects your universe. Your universe is completely **different** than anyone else's and completely **self** -contained. The laws of your universe are for the maintenance of your **body** , because without it **you** would not **exist**. And when **you** cease to **exist** , so does your universe. _C:14.18.2-7_

~ **being** who **you** are is necessary for the completion of the universe. Without the **real** **you** in it, there would be a void **within** the universe—and this would be impossible. And yet there is a **way** in which **you** are missing. _C:17.1.2-4_

~ the **rest** of the universe, existing in a **state** of compassionate **free will** devoid of **fear** , knows what it does. There are no opposing forces that are not in agreement about their opposing force. No atoms do **battle**. No molecules compete for dominance. The universe is a dance of **cooperation**. **You** are but asked to rejoin the dance. _C:20.33.1-6_

~ to believe **you** are in concert with the universe is to believe that **you** **have** no need for **struggle** , to believe **you** **have** no **lack** , to believe in your **state** of **grace**. _C:25.12.1_

~ **you** need to let the universe be of **service** to **you** rather than trying to **use** the universe to accomplish your goals. _C:29.4.1_

~ **all** of the vast universe was created the same: to live and to serve **life** , to be of **God** and be of **service** to **God**. To be served and to serve. To be provided for and to provide. To **have** **needs** met and to meet **needs**. This circular **nature** of the universe leaves no one unattended. Yet. _C:29.15.5-10_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ the universe is not comprised of the unnecessary, nor are human beings. The universe, as well as human beings, are comprised of nothing that is superfluous, but only of the necessary in the sense that **all** the given components are necessary for **wholeness**. _D:Day17.8.2_

~ the universe is comprised of no superfluous elements. _D:Day18.14.13_

~ **you** no longer **have** a universe of **projection** to maintain but a universe of **love** to enjoy and a universe of **love** to **create**. So be it. E.8.1-2

**UNKNOWN**

| ˌənˈnōn |

**A Course of Love**

~ the unknown is benevolent. _C:17.8.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to cease to accept the unknown is to cease to come to **know**. _D:Day15.17.8_

~ what, then, is the unknown? The reception and **expression** of **truth**. _D:Day20.6.1-2_

~ this is why **you** can " **know** " while always coming to **know**. Why **you** can **know** yourself and constantly be coming to **know**. The only thing there is to **know** is the One **Self** in its many expressions. **You** are the known and the unknown. **Everything** is both the known and the unknown. _D:Day20.7.1-5_

~ **you** **know** the unknown and **you** **desire** to make the unknown knowable. _D:Day22.7.5_

~ the unknown can only be made known through reception and **expression**. _D:Day22.10.5_

**USE**

| yo͞os |

**A Course of Love**

~ what **God** created cannot be used, but what **you** **have** made can, for its only **purpose** is your use. Choose to use it now to return **you** to your **real** **Self** , and the **new** **purpose** **you** establish **will** **change** its conditions as well as its usefulness to **you**. _C:9.10.5-6_

~ **all** use is predicated on the simple **idea** that **you** do not **have** what **you** need. **You** **will** continue to believe this while your allegiance remains split. Until **you** **have** withdrawn **all** **faith** in what **you** **have** made, **you** **will** believe that what **you** made remains useful to **you**. Since this is the case, and since it cannot be changed without your total **willingness** to **change** it—a **willingness** not yet complete— **we** **will** , instead of trying to ignore what **you** **have** made, use it in a **new** **way**. **Keep** in **mind** , however, that **we** are merely saving **time** , and that your **real** **Self** has no need to use anything at **all**. _C:9.11.1-5_

~ use, in any **form** , leads to bondage, and so to perceive a **world** based on use is to **see** a **world** where **freedom** is impossible. _C:9.43.1_

~ it is its **purpose** that makes use improper. The **Holy Spirit** can **guide** **you** to use the things that **you** **have** made in ways that **benefit** the **whole** , and this is the distinction between proper and improper use, or use and **abuse**. **You** would use for the **benefit** of the separated **self**. _C:9.45.1-3_

~ **all** use ends with joining, for use is what **you** **have** traded joining for. _C:9.49.3_

~ the **idea** of use created **all** ideas of toil as the only **means** of having **needs** met. The **idea** of use created **all** notions of distrust, starting with—as **we** **have** stated before—your ideas of using the very **body** **you** **call** your **home** rather than allowing it to serve **you**. _C:29.16.8-9_

**VARIABLE**

| ˈverēəb(ə)l |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ a variable is an aspect of **separation**. _D:Day27.12.10_

~ this is what **we** move toward as **we** **practice** participating in two levels of **experience** simultaneously. **We** **practice** experiencing the **constant** and the variable as one. **We** **practice** experiencing the **constant** and the variable together. **We** **practice** in order to move toward an **experience** of variability **within** **wholeness** rather than **within** **separation**. It can be done. _D:Day27.14.1-5_

~ **life** , your humanity, is the variability. _D:Day27.15.1_

**VENGEANCE**

| ˈvenjəns |

**Treatises**

~ **you** **have** been shown that **God** is not a **God** of vengeance but that **you** are still in the process of learning that your **Self** is not vengeful. _T3:6.4.3_

**VIOLENCE**

| ˈvī(ə)ləns |

**A Course of Love**

~ what terror can be caused by an urge to violence that, once joined with **love** , becomes something else? An urge to violence may mean many things, but always lurking behind it is an overwhelming **desire** for **peace**. _C:5.13.2-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **all** that causes violence is **rejection** of feelings. _D:Day14.2.5_

**VIRGIN BIRTH**

| ˈvərjən bərTH |

**Treatises**

~ the virgin birth was thus a necessary step in the reclaiming of the **real** act of **creation** , the bringing forth of the **new** through **union** with the divine **Self**. _T1:8.11.1_

**VIRGIN STATE**

| ˈvərjən stāt |

**Treatises**

~ **you** are **each** called to return to your virgin state, to a **state** unaltered by the **separation** , a **state** in which what is begotten is begotten through **union** with **God**. It is from this unaltered **state** that **you** are free to resurrect, as **I** resurrected. _T1:8.13.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ your virgin state, the **state** unaltered by the **separation** , has been returned. _D:Day18.6.5_

**VISION**

| ˈviZHən |

**A Course of Love**

~ only Christ's vision beholds the face of **God**. _C:2.1.10_

**Treatises**

~ this **ability** to **see** in **union** and **relationship** is the shared vision to which **you** are called. _T4:2.28.4_

~ **you** **have** lived with the vision of the separated **self** for so long that **you** cannot imagine what shared vision **will** mean, and do not yet **recognize** it when **you** **experience** it. _T4:2.29.1_

~ yet your vision has already changed, although **you** are not aware of the extent of this **change**. _T4:2.30.3_

~ true vision is seeing **relationship** and **union**. It is the **opposite** of seeing with the eyes and the attitude of **separation**. It is seeing with an expectation **first** and foremost of **revelation**. It is believing that **you** **exist** in **relationship** and **union** with **all** , and that **each** encounter is one of **union** and **relationship** , and **purpose** - **purpose** that **will** be revealed to **you** because **you** **exist** in **union** with the **Source** and Cause of **revelation**. _T4:2.32.2-5_

~ seeing with the vision of **Christ-consciousness** is already upon **you**. **You** are in the process of learning what it **means**. _T4:2.33.1-2_

~ only from a shared vision of what is can **you** begin to produce unity and **relationship** through unity and **relationship**. This is your **purpose** now. _T4:2.33.6-7_

~ vision has to do with what cannot be elevated. Vision has to do with the divine **pattern** , the unity that binds **all** **living** things. _T4:3.2.3-4_

~ the vision that **will** arise in **you** now is not **new**. It is your natural vision, the vision of **love**. _T4:3.9.1-2_

~ vision **will** allow **you** to **see** the **nature** of the **world** and **all** that exists **within** it truly. _T4:3.10.1_

~ vision is the natural **means** of knowing of **all** who were created in **love**. _T4:3.11.1_

~ vision is the **means** by which the original **nature** of the created can once again be known. _T4:3.12.2_

~ **i** **ask** **you** to **share** a vision of what is, the very vision of what is that is **Christ-consciousness**. It is a vision of the **perfection** of **creation**. It is a vision of unity and **relationship** in **harmony**. It excludes no one and no one's **choice** and no one's vision. _T4:6.5.1-4_

**VOICE**

| vois |

**Treatises**

~ this voice speaks to **you** in a thousand ways. It is the voice of **love** , the voice of **creation** , the voice of **life**. It is the voice of **certainty** that allows **you** to move through **each** **day** and **all** the experiences **within** it as who **you** are in **truth**. It releases **you** from the **feeling** of needing to **control** or protect your **treasure**. It releases **you** as well from the static **state** of trying to hang on to who **you** were yesterday, or trying to prevent **change** tomorrow. _T2:10.14.1-5_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **i** do, however, **ask** **you** to give up your identification of the **voice** of this dialogue as that belonging to the man **Jesus** who lived two thousand years ago. To continue to identify this **voice** with that man is to be unable to **recognize** this **voice** as the **voice** of your own true **consciousness** —the **voice** of **Christ-consciousness**. Yet to realize that this is the same **voice** that animated the man **Jesus** two thousand years ago **will** aide **you** in realizing that this is the **voice** that **will** now animate the **elevated Self of form** , or in other words, **you**. _D:Day10.20.2-4_

**WANT**

| wänt |

**Dialogues**

~ want asks for **provision**. _D:17.17.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** can only fast from wanting by realizing what it is **you** **desire**. _D:Day1.27.1_

~ the condition of want, like **all** conditions of learning, ended with the end of learning. The condition of want was a **learning device** —not one of **divine design** , but one of the **thought system** of the **ego**. It was a trick to **keep** **you** constantly striving for **more** , a trick to guarantee the survival of the **ego** - **self** , a trick that provided the small rewards of **time** -bound **evolution** , the small rewards that would **keep** **you** assured of progress through **effort** , and just as assured of ruin through **lack** of **effort**. _D:Day3.28.1-3_

~ when **you** **have** felt the **reality** of **union** , **you** **have** felt the place in which no want exists. **You** felt this through the responsiveness of the **relationship** that is unity. _D:Day3.39.1-2_

~ **you** cannot accept that **you** no longer **have** to **learn** and accept the condition of learning that is want. _D:Day3.59.5_

**WAR**

| wôr |

**A Course of Love**

~ he who is your **enemy** **you** cannot **help** but be at war with. Where there is war there can be no **peace**. War is not simply the existence of **external** activity. **External** activity is but the **effect** of a cause that remains internal, and **all** war is but war upon yourself. _C:14.3.4-7_

**WAY**

| wā |

**Treatises**

~ the Way has come into the **time** of its **fullness**. _T4:2.5.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ what **you** **have** "learned," and since the **time** of learning had revealed to **you** , is a **new** way, the way of direct **relationship** with **God** , the way of knowing through **discovery**. _D:Day3.38.1_

**WAY OF MARY**

_A Course of Love Term_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ those of **you** who are the forerunners of the way of Mary may **have** felt **confusion** over your sense of **calling**. **You** **know** **you** are called to something, and something important, but it does not **have** a **form** **within** your **mind** and so **you** **see** not how it can **become** manifest in the **world**. In other words, **you** **know** not what to do. **You** perhaps **see** no "specific" **accomplishment** in your **future** , but **see** instead a **way** of **living** as the ultimate **accomplishment**. **You** **see** **living** as who **you** are in the **world** as the **accomplishment** that is needed from **you** and yet at times **you** compare yourselves to those who are able to live as who they are in the **world** and accomplish certain functions **within** the **world**. **You** perhaps feel **function** - **less** and purposeless at times, while at other times, **you** feel as if **you** are **being** exactly as **you** are meant to be. _D:Day19.1.1-6_

~ those of the way of Mary are **content** with a **way** of **living**. _D:Day19.2.3_

~ those called to the way of Mary are called to be what they **want** to **see** reflected in the **world** and to the **realization** that this reflection is the **new** **way** of **creation**. In their **being** they **become** what they **want** to **create**. _D:Day19.4.4-5_

~ those called to the way of Mary, however, are called to the **creation** and anchoring of the **new** **relationship** in the **new** **world**. Their **relationship** of **union** , upon which their contentment is based, is the birthplace, the womb of the **new**. Their **expression** is **expression** of this **union**. _D:Day19.6.5-7_

~ the way of Mary is not a place or **state** of non-interaction however. This is not the **state** or place of the monks, nuns, or the contemplatives of **old**. It is not solitary nor isolated, nor confined to a specific community. It is a **way** of existence in which **relationship** is paramount. It is not listening to a **calling** to "do" but a **calling** to " **become**." _D:Day19.9.5_

~ the **truth** of this **way** is not discovered through the passing on of **knowledge** in **form** but through **relationship**. Those following the way of Mary **become** mirrors of the **truth** they discover, reflecting the **way** to their brothers and sisters. This is why this is not a place or **state** of non-interaction but of great interaction. It is a **state** that facilitates knowing through **relationship**. This occurs through the one **Self** of **form**. _D:Day19.14.1-5_

~ those who accept completion of the **way** of **Jesus** accept their **power** to be generators of **light** in darkness without judging or expelling darkness. They accept their **power** to represent both the known and the **unknown** and to reveal the **unknown** through the known. They accept the **death** of the **self** and the **resurrection** of the One **Self** , the end of the **individual** and the individuation of the One **Self** amongst the many. They find renewed **pleasure** in **being** who they are because they **have** been renewed through **resurrection**. They follow the **calling** of their hearts without attachment to previous concerns, for in their renewal they fully realize the necessity of what can be given only through **expression** of what is **within** them. They realize that what is needed now is needed in order to renew or resurrect the **world** and **all** who abide **within** it. _D:Day18.5.4-9_

**WE**

| wē |

**A Course of Love**

~ we are one **heart**. We are one **mind**. Joined in **wholeheartedness** we are the **heaven** of the **world**. We replace **bitterness** with sweetness. We dwell in the **reality** of the One **Heart**. _C:I.11.4-8_

~ we are **all** the same because we are not **separate**. _C:6.4.4_

~ none of us leave **wholeness** or **each** other. _C:18.5.2_

~ one creative force gathering the atoms, establishing the order, blessing the silence, gracing the cosmos, manifesting the **light** of the **heart**. **Here** we live as one **body** , experiencing **communion** , the soul's delight. _C:20.6.2-3_

~ we are the **heartbeat** of the **world**. _C:20.10.5_

~ **i** say we because **I am** with **you** and **will** not leave your side. **I** say we because your **first** involvement is involvement with **Christ** , an involvement that links us in **oneness** and **glory** once again. **I** say we because we are **life**. **I** say we because we cannot live **love** apart from one another. _C:26.8.2-5_

~ we, **all** of us together, are the **heartbeat** of the **world**. Without unity we would not be. Without our **Source** , which is **God** , we would not be. _C:30.13.7-9_

**Treatises**

~ we are **here** , together, in **love** , to **share** **love**. _T2:13.6.6_

**Dialogues**

~ we are one **body** , one **Christ**. We are one **Self**. _D:1.23.3-4_

~ we are the sacred **heart**. _D:11.13.3_

~ we, together, are the well of **spirit**. We, together, are the shared **consciousness** of unity. _D:11.13.4-5_

~ we are, in unity, one **body**. We are, in **Christ** **consciousness** , one **Christ**. We are, in **wholeheartedness** , one **heart** and one **mind**. _D:12.19.4-6_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ we are one **Self**. _D:Day11.1.1_

~ because we are one **heart** , one **mind** , one **Self** , we can only **know** our selves through sharing in unity and **relationship**. _D:Day11.2.1_

~ we realize the sacred **space** we **have** **become**. _D:Day12.1.7_

~ we are not two beings who are **separate** but relating in **union**. We are **each** other's own **being**. We are one and we are many. We are the same and we are **different**. _D:Day38.13.3-6_

~ we jointly individuate rather than **separate**. We can only do this in **relationship**. We can only **have** **relationship** as individuated beings. _D:Day39.12.7-9_

~ we are creators. _D:Day39.48.2_

**WHOLE**

| hōl |

**A Course of Love**

~ the whole exists untroubled by what it **will** be. It is. _C:20.12.4-5_

~ **being** whole is **being** **present**. **Being** whole is **being** **all** **you** are. **Being** whole is **being** **present** as **all** **you** are. When this occurs **you** are **All** in **All** , One in **being** with your **Father**. _C:26.26.1-4_

**Dialogues**

~ **being** whole is **being** **present**. **Being** whole is **being** **all** **you** are. **Being** whole is **being** **present** as **all** **you** are. _D:14.16.1-3_

~ when **you** are whole, creation's principles **will** be what **you** do and what **you** are rather than what is happening to **you**. _D:16.10.3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ to make whole is to **become** the spacious **Self**. _D:Day15.15.4_

**WHOLEHEARTEDNESS**

| ˌhōlˈhärdədnəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ sincerity is synonymous with wholeheartedness—a **concept** **you** do not **understand** for it is beyond concepts. _C:17.17.1_

~ a united **mind** and **heart** is a **whole** **heart** , or wholeheartedness. _C:17.17.4_

~ what is the same cannot **have** **different** functions. And now your **mind** and **heart** must **work** together in the united **function** **we** **have** established—returning to **you** your **identity** **within** God's **creation**. _C:17.18.1-2_

~ thus the integration of **mind** and **heart** must be our **goal** in order for **you** to **create** the **state** in which unity can be experienced. _C:18.15.1_

~ the center is but the **Source** in which **all** **exist** as one **mind**. To say this to **you** before **we** loosened some of your perceptions about the supremacy of the **mind** , however, would **have** been folly. The one **mind** is not as **you** **have** perceived your **mind**. The one **mind** is but a **mind** in which **love** rules, and **mind** and **heart** are one. **We** **will** proceed by **calling** this wholeheartedness rather than **mind** or **heart**. _C:18.16.5-9_

~ wholeheartedness is but a full **expression** of your **power**. _C:18.18.2_

~ wholeheartedness is unity regained. _C:29.5.2_

**Treatises**

~ while **A Course of Love** has led **you** to a **state** of **wholeness** of **mind** and **heart** , or wholeheartedness, your **realization** of this **state** of **being** requires further guidance. _T1:1.2.1_

~ the wholehearted is but the **heart** and **mind** joined in unity. _T1:3.4.3_

~ wholeheartedness **will** aid **you** in reconciling the laws of **God** with the **laws of man**. _T1:5.14.3_

~ through wholeheartedness **you** **will** be who are. _T1:5.14.5_

~ **we** **call** to one another in **gratitude**. This is the attitude of the wholehearted, the place from which **all** calls are sounded and received, the place where the true **thinking** of those united in **mind** and **heart** arises. _T2:13.5.2-3_

**Dialogues**

~ as the wholehearted, **you** **have** it **within** your **ability** to do what those who live their lives with a split **mind** could never do. _D:3.5.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ wholeheartedness is comprised of the **mind** and **heart** joined in unity. _D:Day3.40.3_

~ **you** chose to **join** **mind** and **heart** and it was done. _D:8.8.6_

~ what has been learned **will** **become** an **ability** to think wholeheartedly, or with **mind** and **heart** in **union** , and then that **ability** **will** transcend **ability** and wholehearted **will** **become** what **you** are, and wholeheartedness your sole **means** of **expression**. _D:8.9.3_

**Addendum**

~ in wholeheartedness, then, **you** are ready to return to a second **reading** of the Course. In wholeheartedness **you** **will** find difficulty falling away and understanding arising. _A.8.1-2_

**WHOLENESS**

| ˈhōlnəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ it is **here** , in wholeness, that **peace** abides and **heaven** is. It is from wholeness that **heaven** waits for **you**. _C:6.18.4-5_

~ **you** **remember** that wholeness is achieved through **union** , but not how to accomplish it. **You** **have** forgotten that only **you** can be **accomplished**. **You** believe that by putting various parts together a **whole** can be achieved. **You** speak of balance, and try to find something for one part of yourself in one place and something for another somewhere else. _C:9.38.2-5_

~ what **you** truly do not **understand** is wholeness. **All** things **exist** in wholeness, including the **thought system** that **you** made. _C:10.3.2-3_

~ the **first** move toward wholeness is but to **understand** this: **heart** and **mind** are not **separate**. _C:17.17.3_

~ wholeness is peaceful. _C:20.26.3_

~ comprehension of the **whole** is aided by a return to wholeness of the **Self**. Until wholeness of the **Self** is complete, **discernment** is necessary. _C:25.21.4-5_

**Dialogues**

~ **principle** of wholeness: **Movement** , **being** , **expression**. One did not occur before the other, as they are not **separate**. _D:15.6.1-2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** are about to achieve your **first** glimpse of wholeness, of **oneness** with **God**. To **know** the **truth** of your **inheritance**. _D:Day4.54.8-9_

~ "Right" **action** comes from the **state** of wholeness. **Being** **whole** is **being** **all** **you** are. _D:7.6.3-4_

~ a **state** in which **you** are not **separate** from me or from the **state** of **union**. _D:Day10.17.4_

~ wholeness exists in every cell, in **each** of every smallest particle of existence. Wholeness exists in **you**. Nothing can take wholeness from **you**. It is as natural to **you** as it is to **all** of **creation**. It does not **exist** only once **potential** is realized or made manifest, but always in **all** things. _D:Day24.2.4-8_

~ there is, in other words, a necessity for **each** step in the **accomplishment** of wholeness, even while wholeness has always existed as **potential**. _D:Day24.5.4_

~ wholeness has always existed. _D:Day24.5.4_

~ it is not wholeness that is **new** , but the **reality** of wholeness that is **new**. The **reality** of **being** able to **experience** the variability of **separation** from **within** the **state** of wholeness is what is **new**. _D:Day28.8.4-5_

~ if **you** can integrate **all** that opposes wholeness into one **level** of **experience** , **you** **will** be able to **experience** **life** from **within** the **reality** of wholeness rather than from **within** the **reality** of **separation**. _D:Day29.1.6_

~ wholeness cannot be achieved without joining, thus the commonly known injunction of "where two or **more** are joined together." _D:Day30.4.1_

~ wholeness could not be experienced without **division**. Wholeness and **oneness** are the same. _D:Day31.4.1-2_

~ wholeness is actual. **All** that is left to be created is **awareness** that this is so. _D:Day35.16.5-6_

**WILL**

| wəl |

**A Course of Love**

~ there is only one Will. _C:31.1.1_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ **you** hold **within** yourself a will to **know** and to make known. This will is divine will, your will, **Christ-consciousness**. It is **alive** **within** **you**. **All** that is required is that **you** carry it with **awareness** , honor, **willingness**. From this will the **new** be birthed. _D:Day23.5.2-6_

~ will activates **potential**. It is the greatest of **all** triggers. An activated will realizes that **you** are the carrier of **all** the **potential** that exists. An activated will releases the **power** that is **potential**. _D:Day24.8.1-4_

~ your will and God's are one and thus it is **being** made so. _D:Day28.25.2_

~ only with our **willingness** joined, are **we** able to negate the need for intermediaries and be in **relationship**. Only with our **willingness** joined do **we** both **become** , welcome, and **share** , the **Christ** **relationship** to and with **each** other. _D:Day39.49.4-5_

**WILLINGNESS**

| ˈwiliNGnəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ willingness is **all** that is necessary. _C:P.42.2_

~ a willingness to believe that **you** **have** **everything** **you** need despite the "fact" that it does not seem so. _C:10.10.2_

~ willingness must thus be talked about and separated from what **you** would **have** it be. Willingness and **faith** go together. What **you** **have** **faith** in, **you** **will** **see**. This Course asks for your willingness to **have** **faith** in something **new**. **You** **have** placed your **faith** in what **you** **have** made, and while it remains there **you** **remain** unwilling to relinquish illusion's hold on **you**. **You** can be faithful to but one **thought system**. One is the **thought system** of the separated **self** and is based on **separation**. The other is the **thought system** of **creation** and is based on **union**. Your **faith** in what **you** **have** made has been shaken now, and **you** realize **you** would like to place your **faith** elsewhere. **You** would like to, but **you** **have** your doubts, and this is where **you** **become** confused on the issue of willingness. _C:11.6.1-10_

~ willingness does not arise from **conviction** but brings **conviction**. Willingness is your declaration of openness, not necessarily of firm **belief**. **You** **see** **free will** and willingness together and while they are the same, their application is quite **different**. _C:11.7.1-3_

~ it can come in many manners and be given many forms. It can be called a willingness to **change** your **mind** , or to allow yourself to be open to **new** possibilities. It can be called a **change** of **heart** , or a willingness but to, for a little while, withdraw your **fear** and your **protection** from it. But what this willingness really does is allow your **call** to be sounded, your **call** to **love** and to be loved. It is a willingness to **receive** **love** from your **Source** and to be loved for who **you** are. _C:11.15.2-6_

~ **you** must replace your willingness to believe in your inadequacy and smallness with your willingness to believe in your **ability** and mightiness. _C:20.46.2_

**Treatises**

~ willingness does not require **conviction** but leads to **conviction**. _T1:3.10.1_

~ only in your own willingness does anything **exist** because only in your willingness is the **power** of **creation** expressed. _T2:2.9.6_

~ willingness to live by the **truth** is the only **offering** **you** are asked to make to **God**. _T3:16.1.1_

~ saying that willingness is the only **offering** that is required of **you** is the same as saying that **you** do not need to, and in **truth** , cannot, give anything else or anything **less**. _T3:16.2.1_

~ your willingness for the **new** , a willingness that included the leaving behind of the **old** , a willingness that included the leaving behind of **fear** and **judgment** and a **separate** **will** , was necessary to begin **creation of the new**. Your former willingness to accept the **old** but kept creation's **power** harnessed to the **old**. _T4:12.34.7-8_

**Dialogues**

~ willingness to **receive** is quite contrary to the attitudes and actions with which **you** **have** led your **life** thus far. _D:2.1.4_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ willingness is now upon humankind. _D:Day2.26.1_

**WISDOM**

| ˈwizdəm |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ as **you** advance, and as **you** **become** **more** open to other **means** of accessing the wisdom **you** once sought through learning, or through the **mind** , other **means** **will** open to **you**. _D:Day3.40.7_

**WITHHOLD**

| wiTHˈhōld |

**A Course of Love**

~ **you** would withhold a piece of yourself even from **love** , and this is what **we** must correct. For what **you** withhold **you** cannot **receive** , and **you** cannot **receive** a piece of **heaven** nor **know** a piece of **God** or your own **Self**. _C:7.2.1-2_

~ as the **awareness** of your withholding dawns upon your **heart** , **you** **will** begin to realize what **you** do not give, and with that **realization** , what **you** **have** to give. _C:7.2.6_

~ this is, indeed, the **first** and most general **lesson** in regard to withholding: The **world** does not **keep** **you** **separate**. **You** **keep** yourself **separate** from the **world**. This is what has made the **world** the **world** it is. What **you** withhold allows **illusion** to rule and **truth** to be locked away in a vault so impenetrable and so long secured that **you** **have** **thought** it forgotten. **You** **have** not realized the vault is your own **heart** , or that the **truth** is what **you** **have** **chosen** to **keep** secure and set aside there. _C:7.9.2-6_

~ there are but two forms of withholding: what **you** withhold of yourself from the **world** and what **you** withhold for yourself from the **world**. _C:7.11.1_

~ **you** withhold even a smile, because **you** **have** **chosen** grievances over **love**. _C:7.11.8_

~ **you** relate to someone or something in every **situation** **you** encounter, and what **you** hold against them **you** withhold from them. _C:7.13.2_

~ what **you** **claim** for yourself at another's expense is indeed withholding, and in your **world** **you** **know** not how to **claim** anything for yourself without withholding it from someone else. _C:7.15.1_

**WITHIN**

| wəˈT͟Hin |

**A Course of Love**

~ the **world** is but a reflection of your inner **life** , the **reality** unseen and unprepared for by **all** your strategy and defenses. **You** **prepare** for **everything** that goes on outside yourself and nothing that occurs within. Yet it is a joining that occurs within that brings about the joining of **all** the **world** for **all** the **world** to **see**. This joining of the **world** within is but your recognition of what **love** is, safe and secure within **you** and your brother, as **you** **join** together in **truth**. Think **you** not that this joining is a metaphor, a string of pleasant words that **will** bring **you** comfort if **you** heed them, one **more** sentiment in a **world** where lovely words replace what they would mean. This joining is the **goal** **you** **seek** , the only **goal** worthy of love's **call**. _C:4.26.1-6_

~ this **goal** is set apart from **all** **others** as **love** is **here** , a **goal** that touches not on what **you** perceive to be a loveless **world**. It has no relation to the **world** outside of **you** , but every relation to the **world** within, where in love's presence both outer and inner worlds **become** as one and leave beyond your **vision** the **world** that **you** **have** seen and called your **home**. This foreign **world** where **you** **have** been so lonely and afraid **will** linger for a while where it can terrify **you** no longer, until finally it **will** fade away into the **nothingness** from which it came as a **new** **world** rises up to take its place. _C:4.27.1-3_

~ within **you** is **all** the **world** safe, sure, and secure. No terror reigns. No nightmares rule the night. _C:5.14.1-3_

~ to look inward at the **real** **world** requires another kind of **vision** : the **vision** of your **heart** , the **vision** of **love** , the **vision** of the **Christ** in **you**. _C:5.15.4_

~ within **you** is the **altar** for your worship, within **you** has love's **holiness** been protected, within **you** abides the Host who loves **all** dearly. Within **you** is the **light** that **will** show **you** what **love** is and **keep** it not set apart from **life** any longer. _C:4.24.2-3_

**Treatises**

~ what **I** refer to so often **here** as **being** within, as if "within" is a place in which something resides, is unity and it is the place where **being** resides. It is the place or realm of one **heart** and one **mind**. It is the place where **everything** already exists fully realized. It is like a trunk full of **treasure**. Like a menu of possibilities. _T2:3.2.3-7_

~ your inaccurate ideas about yourself **have** their cause within **you** , as does your **ability** to **change** this cause and its effects. _T3:7.3.3_

~ the **home** of **truth** is within **you**. _T3:7.10.1_

~ the **Source** of **Truth** is within **you**. _T3:8.2.1_

~ what exists within **you** is shared by **all**. _T3:18.10.9_

~ where once **you** turned outward in your seeking and saw within what **you** perceived without, now **you** turn inward and reflect what **you** discover within outward. What **you** discover within is in a **way** that what **you** perceive without is not. _T4:2.2.1-2_

**Dialogues**

~ **we** go beyond what can be symbolized to what can only be known within. _D:1.12.8_

~ **all** — **all** —that **you** need in order to **create** the **new** is available within **you**. _D:3.23.2_

~ within is where the **real** **world** and **all** your brothers and sisters **exist** in the unity of **Christ-consciousness**. **Change** within effects **change** without, not the other **way** around! Within is where **you** look to your own **heart** , rather than to any other authority, for advice or guidance. Within is where **you** find the knowing of **Christ-consciousness** , the **consciousness** of unity. Within is where **you** find the **power** of **creation** , the **power** to **create** the patterns of the **new**. Looking within is not an attempt to find the answers of the **personal self** of **old** , the separated **self** who depended on learned **wisdom** for answers. Looking within is turning to the **real** **Self** and the **consciousness** shared by **all** for the **creation** of a **new** **answer** , the **answer** to the only remaining question; that of how to sustain **Christ-consciousness** in **form**. _D:2.22.1-7_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ within **you** is the **access** that **you** **seek** , just as within **you** is the **Kingdom** of **Heaven**. _D:Day4.28.1_

~ as within, so without is the operative phrase **here**. It is not the other **way** around. _D:Day6.19.4-5_

~ it is only the **relationship** **we** are developing in this elevated place within that **will** bring to your full **realization** and manifestation without the **accomplishment** that already exists. _D:Day6.19.9_

~ this place within is what **we** are creating **here**. It is a truly elevated place. It is as **real** as a **mountain top** , in fact much **more** **real**. _D:Day6.21.1-3_

~ it is the **transformation** that is caused within that **will** affect the **world** without. _D:Day10.33.7_

~ it is from within that your **power** **will** save the **world**. _D:Day10.37.7_

~ **we** hold within only what is **real**. _D:Day14.10.7_

~ to move to internally directed **experience** is to make the move into **wholeness** that **will** cause the "shift of the ages," the **experience** of variability within **wholeness**. _D:Day28.22.1_

**WITHIN VS. WITHOUT**

A Course of Love Term

**A Course of Love**

~ let me give **you** once again the **difference** between what is within and what is without: Within is **all** that has joined with **you**. Without is **all** that **you** would **keep** **separate**. Within **you** is every **relationship** **you** **have** ever had with anything. Outside of **you** is **all** that **you** **have** kept apart, labeled, judged, and collected on your shelves. _C:5.14.4-7_

~ this is **all** the two worlds are made up of. The one **you** **see** as **real** is the one **you** **keep** outside of yourself, making it possible to look upon it with your body's eyes. The one **you** do not **see** and do not believe in is the one **you** cannot look outward to **see** , but is the one that nonetheless is truly **real**. _C:5.15.1-3_

**WITNESS**

| ˈwitnəs |

**A Course of Love**

~ my testimony witnessed to your arrival just as the scriptures witnessed to mine. Even while some of my words were distorted or misinterpreted, **you** can still revisit them and **see** that this is so. **I** did not proclaim myself to be above or **different** from the **rest** , but called **each** of **you** brother and sister and reminded **you** of our Father's **love** and of our **union** with Him. _C:19.11.1-3_

~ any attempt to turn bearing witness into a convincing **argument** for your point of view, no **matter** what that point of view may be, makes what **you** **have** come to **know** pointless to **you** as well as to those **you** would convince. _C:28.9.1_

~ now it is no longer the **time** to rely on **conviction** that comes from the witnesses **you** find along your **way**. They serve a limited **purpose** for a limited **time**. Now is the **time** to step beyond the validation that your teachers can give **you**. When this step is not taken, gatherings of witnesses abound, and what they bear witness to stops short of what they would **see**. _C:28.10.10-13_

~ witnesses are for the **mind** and fall short of **devotion**. _C:28.11.1_

**WORD**

| wərd |

**A Course of Love**

~ these words are spoken **heart** to **heart** , from One **Heart** to One **Heart**. _C:I.10.3_

~ these words are given to **each** One. They are heard only by **each** " **alone** " by which **I** mean in the **sanctity** of the One **Heart**. _C:I.11.2-3_

~ these words **you** **see** upon this page are symbols only of **meaning** far beyond what the symbols can suggest. _C:3.4.4_

~ **you** who are looking for **help** wonder now how this would **help** **you**. What is there left to say that has not been said? What are these words but symbols, by my own admission? It is in what they symbolize that **help** arrives. **You** do not need to believe in the words nor the **potential** of the exercises to **change** your **life** , for these words enter **you** as what they are, not the symbols that they represent. An **idea** of **love** is planted now, in a garden rich with what **will** make it grow. _C:3.9.1-6_

~ as **you** read these words—and when **you** finish **reading** these words—their **truth** **will** be revealed to **you**. _C:7.23.3_

~ while words, as symbols, cannot fully explain what cannot be symbolized, a **beginning** is made that must be completed through the memories of your **heart**. So **we** continue, realizing that these words can express the **truth** only **within** their **ability** as symbols, and that farther than where these symbols can take **you** , the **truth** lies **within** your **Self**. _C:12.16.3-4_

~ to think without **thought** or **know** without words are ideas quite foreign to **you** , and truly, while **you** **remain** **here** , even experiences beyond thoughts and words **you** **will** apply word and **thought** to. Yet **love** has often brought **you** close to a " **thought** - **less** " and "word- **less** " **state** of **being** , and it can do so again. _C:19.16.1-2_

~ let my words touch your **heart**. _C:26.9.5_

~ **you** who **struggle** to **understand** what these words say and what they might mean, who **strive** to find the clues to what they **ask** **you** to do, **will** find it **difficult** to cease your **struggle** and your striving. _C:26.10.1_

~ these words **have** entered your **heart** and sealed the rift between your **mind** and **heart**. _C:32.4.7_

~ read again these words of **love** and let the sound of **love** soothe your worries away. _C:32.5.2_

~ these words of **love** do not enter your **body** through your eyes and take up residence in your brain, there to be distilled into a **language** that **you** can **understand**. _C:3.14.1_

**Treatises**

~ neither my **birth** nor my **death** were consequent with the Word as the Word is **I Am** , the Word is **Life** Eternal. _T1:8.5.6_

~ these words, **truth** and **peace** and **love** , are interchangeable in the **house** of **truth** as their **meaning** there is the same. These words, like the words **House** of **Truth** represent an **awareness** of a **new** **reality** , a **new** dwelling place. _T3:11.3.1-2_

**Dialogues**

~ it matters not that **I** say these same words to many, for **you** and the many who **join** **you** in receiving these words are one. _D:1.20.7_

~ these words enter through your **heart**. _D:12.4.7_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ if **you** believe these are words of **wisdom** and that **you** can **remain** ambivalent about their **source** , **you** **will** not **know** me nor accept me, and **you** **will** not **know** or accept your **Self**. _D:Day1.7.3_

~ words **have** been put on the feelings and remembrances that **you** **have** **within** your minds and hearts. _D:Day20.4.3_

~ **all** the words that **have** been expressed **here** , that say so many similar things in so many **different** ways, are words that are simply **calling** **you** to **realization** of your **union** with **God** and to the **new** **world** **you** can **create** once **you** accept and make **real** this **union**. _D:Day22.9.2_

~ throw out **all** the words that express the **unknown** in ways that **you** would not, and find your own. _D:Day22.10.7_

~ these words are **being** given to **you** so that **you** do not respond to **love** in the same **way** again. _D:Day33.7.2_

**WORK**

| wərk |

**Treatises**

~ the work that is upon **you** now is that of replacing the **house** of **illusion** once and for **all** with the **home** of **truth**. The work that is upon **you** now is that of **revelation** of the **Source**. _T3:8.1.12-13_

~ is your own **revelation** toward which **we** work. _T3:8.2.1_

~ what **we** work toward now is to advance from learning and producing things and perceived **meaning** , to producing unity and **relationship** through unity and **relationship**. _T4:10.7.1_

**Dialogues**

~ **we** work now toward **acceptance** of what **you** **have** learned in unity. **We** work towards your **acceptance** of **sanity** and your **rejection** of **insanity**. **We** work together in **love** and unity for what can only be received in the **love** and unity in which **we** truly **exist** together, as one **body** , one **Christ** , one **Self**. _D:1.27.1-3_

~ the work of replacing the **old** patterns of learning with the **new** **pattern** of **acceptance**. _D:2.1.6_

~ your work, as **will** be often repeated, is to accept the **new** , and deny or refuse to accept the **old**. Only in this **way** **will** the **new** triumph over the **old**. _D:3.3.5-6_

~ the bringing forth of the **accomplishment** that already exists in unity is your **new** work, the work of the **Self** of **union** , the work that can fill **you** with the true **joy** of true **accomplishment** , because it is your **real** work—work with what is. _D:10.4.3_

~ working with what is in unity is not work but **relationship**. _D:10.5.1_

**WORLD**

| wərld |

**Treatises**

~ **you** are changing the world **you** perceive by perceiving a **new** world. _T2:6.9.9_

~ while it was important to the desired **experience** to **learn** the lessons of what was observable **within** the physical realm, to **have** begun to **forget** the unobservable began a process of unlearning or forgetting of the **truth** that has led, through the learning of untruth in the mechanism of **time** , to the world in which **you** now **exist**. _T3:17.5.2_

~ the **thought system** of the **truth** realizes that the **external** world is but a reflection of the internal world. _T3:18.10.5_

~ the world **you** were born into, regardless that it was the same world as **all** other human beings were born into, is also **different** than that of **all** other human beings. And what's **more** , your experiences **within** that world are also **different** than the experiences of **all** other human beings. _T3:21.15.6-7_

~ while the **state** of the world and the people **within** it may not outwardly seem much changed from the world of your ancestors despite the advances of learning that **have** taken place, it is a **different** world. _T4:1.23.1_

**Dialogues**

~ invite yourself **first** to this **new** world, but leave not your brothers and sisters behind. Invite them too. _D:4.30.7-8_

~ what **we** are doing now is returning the world to its true **representation**. _D:5.3.1_

~ the world without was created as a true **representation** of the world **within** , and as **you** **become** aware of the **truth** represented in **all** that encompasses and surrounds **you** , the boundaries between the inner and outer world **will** diminish and eventually cease to be. _D:5.4.1_

~ the **new** world **you** **have** entered need not be filled with misrepresentations. _D:5.8.2_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ it is the visible world, the outer world, through which your wants find **provision**. It is the world of unity, the true **reality** , through which your desires are responded to. This does not mean that the place of unity is a place that does not interact with the place of **form**. It is interacting with the world of **form** through **you**. _D:Day3.42.1-4_

~ **all** the benefits **you** might **want** to bring to the world are brought about in only one **way** : The **way** of sharing in **union** and **relationship**. _D:Day11.5.1-2_

~ the outer world is a **projection** and most often a **rejection** rather than an **extension** of what is **within**. _D:Day14.2.1_

~ this is your world and your **experience**. _D:Day34.6.1_

~ a **new** world can only be created. _D:Day35.12.3_

~ the world as **you** **know** it is what **you** **have** made. _D:Day35.18.7_

~ the world does not **exist** without **relationship**. _D:Day37.3.4_

~ this is what the world of **time** and **space** is. A world that is a **projection** that **you** **have** made, a world that has the shape and **form** , the character and value, the **image** and **meaning** , that **you** would give it. This is your **universe**. _D:Day39.18.4-6_

**WORRY**

| ˈwərē |

**A Course of Love**

~ let your worries come and let your worries go. **Remember** always that they simply do not **matter** except in terms of **time** , and that **you** **will** save **time** by letting them go. **Remember** that your worries affect nothing. **You** think if your worries affect **time** this is an **effect**. _C:1.6.3-6_

~ the worries that would occupy **you** can be let go if **you** but **work** instead for the return of **heaven** and the return of your own **Self**. _C:16.26.3_

~ **all** your worry over the **future** and the **past** is but a worry about the return of gifts given. _C:29-26.2_

**WOUND**

| wo͞ond |

**A Course of Love**

~ **fear** of **being** wounded—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—has kept **you** from engaging with **life**. _C:25.13.6_

~ **you** cannot realize your true **identity** while **you** hang on to wounds of any kind. **All** wounds are evidence of your **belief** that **you** can be attacked and hurt. **You** **have** not necessarily seen disappointment as attack or hopelessness as hurt, but **you** do feel these emotions as wounds. _C:25.13.8-10_

**YEARN**

| yərn |

**A Course of Love**

~ to yearn for what is like yourself is to yearn for your **Creator** and, when **perception** is healed, to **create** like your **Creator**. This yearning exists naturally **within** **you** and cannot be diminished or satiated. _C:1.12.9-10_

**Treatises**

~ this is the yearning **we** **have** spoken of as the proof of love's existence and of your existence in a **state** of unity rather than a **state** of **separation**. This yearning called **you** to the limits of the **state** of **consciousness** that was the **time** of the **Holy Spirit**. This **limit** acted upon **you** as a catalyst to **create** **desire** for the **new**. It is what has caused your growing **impatience** with the **personal self** , with acquiring **all** that your **new** learning in **science** and technology but seemed to offer. It is what has caused your growing **desire** for **meaning** and **purpose**. It is what has caused **you** to finally be ready to still your **fear** , a **fear** that once prevented the direct and observable learning that now is available to **you**. _T4:1.22.2-7_

~ **you** **have** not known the secret yearning in the hearts of your brothers and sisters, nor **have** **you** known that it matched your own. _T4:1.23.2_

**YIELD**

| yēld |

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ yielding is a natural process. To yield is to give up, **surrender** , but also to produce and bear fruit. _D:Day30.1.4-5_

**YOU**

| yo͞o |

**A Course of Love**

~ you are no **less** your **Self** even though you do not realize that without **love** you would not **exist**. _C:1.3.8_

~ you are complete only **within** **God** , where you endlessly abide. _C:1.13.6_

~ you are the **creation** like unto your **Father**. _C:P.30.1_

~ you sit in darkness awaiting proof that only your own **light** **will** dispel. _C:P.41.5_

~ you believe you are something other than **love** and **separate** from **love**. You label **love** a **feeling** , and one of many. _C:2.3.2-3_

~ **christ** is **within** you and you **rest** **within** **God**. _C:2.15.3_

~ **all** **exist** **within** you. You are the **universe** itself. _C:3.2.7-8_

~ you are not **form** , nor is your **real** **world**. _C:3.4.1_

~ you are **holiness** itself. You do not **know** this only because you fill your **mind** and leave your **heart** empty. _C:5.19.1-2_

~ if you cannot be **alone** you must be continuously in **relationship**. _C:7.21.1_

~ you **have** always been as you were created, but this is what you chose to make from that with which you started. In other words, you took what you are and made this of yourself. You did not **create** something from nothing and you did not usurp the **power** of **God**. You took what **God** created and turned it into an **illusion** so powerful that you believe it is what you are, rather than believing in the **truth**. But just as you **have** done this, you can undo this. _C:9.8.1-5_

~ you are not a thing. _C:20.17.7_

~ you are the **beauty** of the **world** and **peace** abides **within** you. _C:20.25.4_

~ you flow from **love** , an outpouring without end. You are thus eternal. You are pure and innocent because you flow from **love**. _C:20.27.2-4_

~ you are without **limit**. _C:20.27.6_

~ because you are changeless and boundless, you are **all** -powerful. _C:20.28.2_

~ your construction was no **mistake**. You are not flawed. You are not wanting. _C:20.41.4-6_

~ you would not be other than who you are. You may **know** that this is true or you may dwell in fantasies, desiring what another has or some **success** , fame, or riches that seem impossible for you to attain. And yet, whether you **know** it is true or not, it is true: You would not be other than who you are. Herein lie your **peace** and your **perfection**. If you would not be other than you are, then you must be perfect. This is a conclusion both logical to the **mind** and believable to the **heart** , and its **acceptance** is a step toward **wholeheartedness**. _C:20.42.1-6_

~ your story is one of **glory**. Your greatness can no longer be denied, unless you deny it. _C:26.5.5-6_

~ you are a **thought** of a **God**. An **idea**. This **thought** , or **idea** , is what you **seek**. It can be found only at its **source**. Its **source** is **love** , and its location is your own **heart**. _C:26.21.1-5_

~ **god's idea** of you is perfect, and until now your **form** has been but an imperfect **representation** of God's **idea**. In God's **idea** of you is the **pattern** of the **universe** , much as **within** a novel, movie, piece of music, invention or artistic **idea** is the completion of the **pattern** that **will** make that **idea** a masterpiece. _C:26.22.4-5_

~ there was no **God** **separate** from you to **have** this **idea** of you. You were birthed in unison with God's **idea** of you. _C:26.22.7-8_

~ as a **being** birthed by a **thought** of **God** , you grew simultaneously with God's **thought**. You knew your place in the **pattern** of **creation** from the outset. _C:26.25.6-7_

~ you are **God** in **life**. Thus you are both **life** and **service** to **life** , both **God** and **service** to **God**. _C:29.15.3-4_

~ what you live is what you believe is the **truth** about yourself. While you continue to live dishonestly, your notion of what your **identity** truly is cannot improve. _C:31.16.7-8_

~ what you truly are cannot be improved upon. But because you are in a **state** of unremembering, you must relearn who you are. You can only relearn who you are by **being** who you are. You can only be who you are by sharing who you are. _C:31.17.1-4_

~ who you are is **love**. _C:31.20.1_

**Treatises**

~ who you are is a **miracle** worker. This is not **all** that you are but is a measure of who you are. This is not **all** that you are but this is the quickest **means** of realizing who you are. _T1:3.15.1-3_

~ you who **have** come after me are not as **I** was but as **I Am**. _T1:8.5.8_

~ you are the resurrected and the **life**. _T1:8.5.10_

~ you **have** been reborn as **god** -man, as **God** and man united. _T1:8.6.2_

~ you are the **living** **Body of Christ**. _T1:9.11.3_

~ you are not only part of **creation** , but as has been said many times, a **creator** , and as such a continuing act of **creation**. _T2:4.2.1_

~ you **exist** fully **accomplished** **within** the seed that is the **Christ** in you even while you continue to grow and **change**. _T2:6.8.2_

~ you are changing from who you **have** **thought** yourself to be to who you are. _T2:6.9.10_

~ who you are cannot be denied in favor of who you " **will** be." _T2:7.18.1_

~ you stand at the **beginning** , with a **Self** now devoid of the meaninglessness you but attempted to assign to it. You stand empty of untruth and about to embark on the **journey** of **truth**. You stand in the transformational moment between the unreal and the **real**. **All** you await is an **idea** , a **remembrance** of the original **idea** about your **personal self**. _T3:2.10.1-4_

~ **i** **have** always loved you because **I** **have** always recognized you. _T3:3.1.2_

~ with the **ego** gone, you are perfectly capable of representing the **truth** of who you are and returning to an existence that is meaningful. _T3:7.5.3_

~ you are **love** , you live in **peace** , you live by or in accord with the **truth**. _T3:11.8.1_

~ you must represent the **truth** of these words with your **life**. _T3:13.9.4_

~ you would not be other than who you are. This is a key **idea** that **will** **help** you immeasurably in leaving behind patterns of behavior based on the **old** **thought system** of **fear**. _T3:14.5.2-3_

~ who you are is not limited to the **concept** of human **being** nor to the **laws of man**. _T3:15.17.1_

~ the **truth** goes with you as does the **love** and **peace** of **God**. _T3:15.18.5_

~ you can no longer return to the **house** of **illusion** , not even to cause explosions **within** it. You **have** stepped out of this **house** and are called not to return. To turn your back not on the **truth** nor on **God** or **love**. _T3:20.12.1-3_

~ you are a beautiful **representation** of the **truth** and cannot be otherwise. _T3:22.3.1_

~ you still find it hard to believe in your own worthiness, and particularly in your own chosenness. _T4:1.3.2_

~ you would not be **here** if you were still interested in glorifying the **ego** , but you also are not yet completely certain of your **Self** and in your **uncertainty** , still subject to the patterns of **thought** of the **old**. _T4:2.13.2_

~ you are not other than whom you **have** always been. Who you are now was there when you were a child, and there in **all** the years since then, and there before you began your learning of this Course. _T4:2.15.3-4_

~ to **have** to try to be who you are and to express who you are is the result of the displacement of the **nature** of **love** with the **nature** of **fear**. What **we** now are about is reversing this displacement and returning you to your true **nature**. _T4:3.5.4-5_

~ a Song of **God**. You are God's **harmony** , God's **expression** , God's melody. You, and **all** that **exist** with you, **form** the orchestra and chorus of **creation**. _T4:5.2.1-3_

~ you are the substance of the **universe**. _T4:5.5.4_

~ you are part of the **body of Christ** , the **body** of **energy** that makes up the **universe**. _T4:5.7.1_

~ the only guarantee **I** can offer you is the guarantee that you are who **I** say you are, and that **I** speak the **truth** concerning your **identity** and **inheritance**. What you choose to do with this **knowledge** is still up to you. What you choose to **create** with this **knowledge** is still up to you. _T4:6.2.1-3_

**Dialogues**

~ you are **everything** and everyone. **All** that you **see** is you. You stand not **separate** and apart from anything. _D:1.24.5-7_

~ you are the ushers, the pioneers of the **new**. _D:3.3.4_

~ you, as the **elevated Self of form** , are a continual **representation** of what is continuously **being** given and received, what is continuously **being** shared. You are a **representation** , for instance, of this **dialogue**. You are a **representation** of **all** of your brothers and sisters in **Christ**. You are a **representation** of the **truth**. You are a **representation** of **all** that is given and received in **truth**. You are a **representation** of **creation**. A **representation** of **union**. You are a **representation** of the **Self**. _D:3.15.7-14_

~ you **have** been returned to your **Self**. _D:4.29.4_

~ you are cause and **effect**. _D:5.8.2_

~ you are **whole** once again and your **form** **will** merely represent one aspect of your **wholeness** in the field of **time**. _D:6.26.9_

~ you are not called to **become** an **intermediary** trying to **bridge** the knowing of the separated **self** and the **Self** of **union**. What you are called to do is to **share** in **union** with **others** whose **awareness** is expanding. _D:13.7.2-3_

~ you are thus entering the **time** of becoming, the **time** of becoming the **new** you which must precede **creation of the new** **world**. For as it has been said: As **within** , so without. _D:14.15.4-5_

~ you were animated with **spirit** and you too entered a **state** of becoming. _D:16.3.8_

~ in your **time** of directly experiencing the **movement** , **being** , and **expression** of unity, you are **being** who you are. At other times, you are becoming who you are. _D:16.13.7-8_

~ in your **time** of directly experiencing the **movement** , **being** , and **expression** of unity, you are **whole** and complete, you feel no **lack** , no **uncertainty** , no **doubt**. You are confident in what you **know**. You realize fully that you are no longer a learning **being** and that you **have** no need for teachers or for guidance other than for that which comes from your own **heart**. _D:16.14.1-3_

**40 days & 40 nights**

~ you are **all** beloved sons and daughters of **love** itself, no **matter** what you **call** that **love**. You **all** are equally beloved. _D:Day1.15.1-2_

~ you **have** let go the **ego** , re-viewed your **life** , unlearned previous patterns, and now **see** the **difference** between the **image** you hold of yourself and your **present** **Self**. _D:Day2.2.1_

~ you are like an inventor who wasted many years, much money, and endured many hardships over many projects that did not come to fruition, and now has succeeded in inventing just what was always envisioned. _D:Day2.4.1_

~ you are the entry point, the only **channel** through which **all** that is available in unity can flow. _D:Day3.43.2_

~ you are a **work** of **art** headed for this **oneness** of full and true **expression**. _D:Day6.10.1_

~ you are the "same" or "as" **accomplished** as every enlightened one who has ever existed. Without realizing this, however, your **unique** **expression** of your **accomplishment** **will** not be realized. _D:Day9.23.1-2_

~ you, as man or woman, existing in this **particular** **time** and **space** , can **join** with **Christ-consciousness**. You can be both/and, rather than either/or. _D:Day10.21.2-3_

~ you are **means** and end. It is **within** your **power** to be saviors of the **world**. _D:Day10.37.5-6_

~ you are the knowable of **God**. You are the knowable because you are the **relationship** of **All** with Its **Self**. _D:Day11.6.5-6_

~ **god** holds you **within** Himself. _D:Day17.2.5_

~ you are the **expression** of the **unknown** and the only **means** of the **unknown** becoming known. _D:Day20.8.1_

~ **all** the **truth** and **all** the **wisdom** that is available but **unknown** to you, takes you to make it known. _D:Day20.9.1_

~ you are the **source** and the **power** of coming to **know** and making known. _D:Day20.9.2_

~ you are **life**. _D:Day22.2.9_

~ you, in other words, are the **channel** , the conduit, of the **unknown** becoming known. _D:Day22.4.4_

~ there is no one else who knows what you **know** the **way** you **know** it or who can express the **unknown** in the **way** that you can express it. _D:Day22.10.4_

~ you must be a **being** who knows **love** without **fear** , **joy** without sorrow, and **life** everlasting. You must be this. _D:Day23.1.1-2_

~ you are not **separate** from what you **have** been given, and you do carry what you **have** received **within** you. _D:Day23.2.3_

~ you are capable of **self** -guidance. _D:Day26.1.2_

~ you are and always **have** been both human and **spirit** , both **form** and **content**. _D:Day27.6.4_

~ you are the **experience** and the experiencer, the knower and the known. _D:Day31.3.4_

~ you are one in **being** with your **Father** , your **Creator** , the originator and denominator of **life**. _D:Day31.4.3_

~ you are a **creator** and that you always **have** been. _D:Day31.5.2_

~ you are one in **being** with your **Father** , with **God** , with the **Creator** and with **all** of **creation**. You are also, however, a **being** that exists in **relationship**. _D:Day32.19.7-8_

~ you are **being** a who. Your who is your individuated **self**. But your who is also your **representation** of **being**. The two becoming one—the individuated **self** becoming one in **being** —is the aim toward which **we** **have** journeyed together. _D:Day33.6.1-4_

~ you are **being** in **relationship** : The **creator** of events as well as the experiencer of events, the **creator** of **relationship** as well as the **relationship** itself. _D:Day33.10.2-3_

~ you are the **relationship** of **everything** to **God**. _D:Day35.4.1_

~ you are one in **being** with the **power** of **creation** and **different** in your **relationship** to and **expression** of that **power**. _D:Day36.7.4_

~ the most basic **truth** about you is that you are **being**. _D:Day37.2.2_

~ **call** yourself daughter or son, sister or brother, co- **creator** or **friend**. But **call** yourself mine. For **we** belong to one another. _D:Day38.6.1-3_

~ you came into the **world** , into **form** , as a **being** in **relationship**. _D:Day40.5.5_

~ you **have** been **being** **separate** —a **separate** **being** with attributes. Now you are **being** in **union** and **relationship** —an individuated **being** with attributes. _D:Day40.12.3-4_

~ you are who you are in **relationship**. _D:Day40.16.5_

~ because you **exist** as an **extension** of **love** , you **have** always held **within** you the **Christ** , who is the **relationship** with **love**. _D:Day40.22.3_

**Addendum**

~ you are **beginning** to **know** yourself in a **new** **way**. You are **beginning** to **know** yourself without the perceptions and the judgments of the **mind**. You are **beginning** to **know** yourself as you truly are and you **will** begin to hear the **language** of the Course as the **language** of your own **heart**. _A.8.3-5_

~ you are patient, loving, and kind. _A.14.1_

~ you are not a " **student** " of The Dialogues but a full participant in The Dialogues. You **have** entered the final stages of **revelation** of Who You Are. When Who You Are is fully revealed you **will** realize that it is **time** to leave the classroom and live as Who You Are in the **world**. You **will** realize that your participation in the **world** as Who You Are is part of an on-going **dialogue** , and that it is an on-going aspect of **creation** by which the **new** **will** be created. _A.42.1-4_

~ this is the **gift** you **have** been given and the **gift** you bring the **world** : your own **voice** , the **voice** of Who You Are. This is not a **voice** of **separation** or of the separated **self** but a **voice** of **union** and of the One **Self**. It is how **union** is expressed and made recognizable in **form**. It is what **will** usher in the **new** and **change** the **world**. It cannot be **accomplished** without you—without your **ability** to stand in unity and **relationship** as The **Accomplished**. _A.49.3-7_
**A FTERWORD**

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**W ORKS CITED**

Adamsz, Schelte. _Mary With Child on the Globe, Trampling the Devil_. 1596 - 1709. Engraving. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Perron, Mari "First Receiver." _A Course of Love, Combined Volume_. Nevada City, California: Take Heart Publications. 2014. ebook & print. www.acourseoflove.org

**B IOGRAPHY**

The details of our lives are quite inconsequential.  
All that need be known is that a tranquil mind has been achieved.

# Table of Contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. A
    1. A Course In Miracles
    2. A Course Of Love
    3. A Treatise On The Art Of Thought
    4. Ability
    5. Abundance
    6. Abuse
    7. Acceptance
    8. Acceptance/Denial
    9. Access
    10. Accident
    11. Accomplished
    12. Accomplishment
    13. Achievement
    14. Action
    15. Adam And Eve
    16. Addiction
    17. After-Image
    18. After-Life
    19. Alive
    20. All
    21. All Of Everything
    22. Alone
    23. Altar
    24. Alternative
    25. Angel
    26. Anger
    27. Answer
    28. Apostle
    29. Appreciation
    30. Apprehension
    31. Argument
    32. Art
    33. Art Of Thought
    34. Ask
    35. Atonement
    36. Attention
    37. Attribute
    38. Authority Problem
    39. Awareness
    40. Awe
  6. B
    1. Barren
    2. Barter
    3. Battle
    4. Beauty
    5. Become
    6. Beginning
    7. Being
    8. Belief
    9. Benefit
    10. Birth
    11. Bitterness
    12. Blame
    13. Body
    14. Body Of Christ
    15. Boundary
    16. Bridge
    17. Brother/Sister
  7. C
    1. Call
    2. Calling
    3. Cause/Effect
    4. Certainty
    5. Challenge
    6. Chance
    7. Change
    8. Channel
    9. Charity
    10. Child Of God
    11. Choice
    12. Chosen
    13. Christ
    14. Christ-Consciousness
    15. Church
    16. Claim
    17. Collective Consciousness
    18. Common Denominator
    19. Communion
    20. Comparison
    21. Compassion
    22. Competition
    23. Concept
    24. Concern
    25. Confession
    26. Confidence
    27. Conflict
    28. Confusion
    29. Consciousness
    30. Constant
    31. Content
    32. Contrast
    33. Contribution
    34. Control
    35. Conviction
    36. Cooperation
    37. Correction
    38. Covenant Of The New
    39. Create
    40. Creation
    41. Creation Of The New
    42. Creations
    43. Creative Tension
    44. Creativity
    45. Creator
    46. Crucifixion
    47. Curricul'um
  8. D
    1. Day
    2. Death
    3. Debate
    4. Deception
    5. Decision
    6. Demonstrate
    7. Denial
    8. Dependence
    9. Desire
    10. Devotion
    11. Dialogue
    12. Difference
    13. Different
    14. Difficult
    15. Discernment
    16. Disciple
    17. Discipline
    18. Discovery
    19. Diversity
    20. Divine Design
    21. Division
    22. Doubt
    23. Duality
  9. E
    1. Each
    2. Eagerness
    3. Effect
    4. Effort
    5. Ego
    6. Elevated Self Of Form
    7. Elevation
    8. Elevation Of Form
    9. Embrace
    10. Emotion
    11. Emptiness
    12. Enemy
    13. Energy
    14. Envision
    15. Equality
    16. Error
    17. Escape
    18. Eternity
    19. Evangelize
    20. Everlasting Life
    21. Everybody
    22. Everything
    23. Evil
    24. Evolution
    25. Example
    26. Exercise
    27. Exist
    28. Expand
    29. Expansion
    30. Expect
    31. Experience
    32. Expression
    33. Extension
    34. External
  10. F
    1. Facilitator
    2. Faith
    3. False
    4. Family
    5. Fate
    6. Father
    7. Fear
    8. Fear/Learning
    9. Feeling
    10. Final Judgment
    11. First
    12. Focus
    13. Forerunner Of The New
    14. Forget
    15. Forgiveness
    16. Form
    17. Forsake
    18. Foundation
    19. Free Will
    20. Freedom
    21. Friend
    22. Fulfillment
    23. Fullness
    24. Function
    25. Future
  11. G
    1. Gain
    2. Garden Of Eden
    3. Gardener
    4. Gift
    5. Givens
    6. Giving/Receiving
    7. Glory
    8. Goal
    9. God
    10. God's Idea
    11. God's Will
    12. Going Back
    13. Good Intention
    14. Grace
    15. Gratitude
    16. Grievance
    17. Groups
    18. Growth
    19. Guide
    20. Guru
  12. H
    1. Happiness
    2. Happy Thoughts
    3. Harmony
    4. Have
    5. Heal
    6. Healer
    7. Heart
    8. Heartbeat
    9. Heaven
    10. Heaven/Hell
    11. Hell
    12. Help
    13. Here
    14. Holiness
    15. Holy Instant
    16. Holy Relationship
    17. Holy Spirit
    18. Home
    19. Honesty
    20. Hope
    21. House
    22. Human Experience
    23. Human/Divine
  13. I
    1. I
    2. I Am
    3. Idea
    4. Identity
    5. Idol
    6. Illusion
    7. Image
    8. Imagination
    9. Impatience
    10. Imperfection
    11. In-Between
    12. Incarnation
    13. Independence
    14. Individual
    15. Inform
    16. Inheritance
    17. Innocence
    18. Insanity
    19. Inseparable
    20. Insight
    21. Inspiration
    22. Intention
    23. Intermediary
    24. Interpretation
    25. Intersection
    26. Intolerance
    27. Intuition
    28. Invulnerable
  14. J
    1. Jesus
    2. Jesus Vs. Mary
    3. Join
    4. Journey
    5. Joy
    6. Judgment
    7. Justice
  15. K
    1. Keep
    2. Kingdom
    3. Know
    4. Knowledge
  16. L
    1. Lack
    2. Language
    3. Language Of The Heart
    4. Law
    5. Laws Of Love
    6. Laws Of Man
    7. Learn
    8. Learning Device
    9. Less
    10. Lesson
    11. Level
    12. Level-Ground
    13. Life
    14. Light
    15. Limit
    16. Listen
    17. Living
    18. Loneliness
    19. Loss
    20. Love
    21. Loyalty
  17. M
    1. Magic
    2. Maintenence
    3. Make Vs. Create
    4. Male/Female
    5. Mary
    6. Matter
    7. Meaning
    8. Means
    9. Meditation
    10. Memory
    11. Mental Construct
    12. Mind
    13. Mindfulness
    14. Miracle
    15. Miracle-Mindedness
    16. Mistake
    17. Mistery Of Faith
    18. More
    19. Mother
    20. Mountain Top
    21. Movement
    22. Myth
  18. N
    1. Natural Laws
    2. Nature
    3. Needs
    4. New
    5. New Testament
    6. Nothingness
  19. O
    1. Observation
    2. Obstacle
    3. Offering
    4. Old
    5. Oneness
    6. Opposite
    7. Opposition
    8. Original Purpose
    9. Others
    10. Overlap
    11. Ownership
  20. P
    1. Pain
    2. Paradise
    3. Particular
    4. Pass-Through
    5. Past
    6. Path
    7. Patience
    8. Pattern
    9. Payment
    10. Peace
    11. Perception
    12. Perfection
    13. Personal Self
    14. Personality
    15. Philosophy
    16. Plan
    17. Pleasure
    18. Pleasure/Pain
    19. Potential
    20. Power
    21. Practice
    22. Prayer
    23. Prepare
    24. Present
    25. Principle
    26. Prison
    27. Problem
    28. Prodigal Son
    29. Projection
    30. Promised Land
    31. Protection
    32. Provision
    33. Purpose
  21. R
    1. Reader
    2. Reading
    3. Real
    4. Reality
    5. Realization
    6. Reason
    7. Receive
    8. Recognize
    9. Redemption
    10. Regeneration
    11. Regret
    12. Rejection
    13. Relationship
    14. Release
    15. Reliance
    16. Remain
    17. Remember
    18. Remembrance
    19. Replacement
    20. Representation
    21. Reproduction
    22. Response
    23. Responsibility
    24. Rest
    25. Resurrection
    26. Revelation
    27. Reverence
    28. Reward
  22. S
    1. Sacrifice
    2. Safety
    3. Salvation
    4. Sameness
    5. Sanctity
    6. Sanity
    7. Science
    8. Second Coming
    9. See
    10. Seek
    11. Self
    12. Separate
    13. Separation
    14. Service
    15. Sex
    16. Share
    17. Sickness
    18. Situation
    19. Solution
    20. Son Of God
    21. Source
    22. Space
    23. Special Function
    24. Special Relationship
    25. Specialness
    26. Spirit
    27. Spiritual Freedom
    28. Stage
    29. State
    30. Strive
    31. Structure
    32. Struggle
    33. Student
    34. Study
    35. Success
    36. Succession
    37. Suffering
    38. Surprise
    39. Surrender
    40. Sustenance
    41. Symbol
    42. System
  23. T
    1. Task
    2. Teach
    3. Teacher
    4. Teacher/Student
    5. Teaching/Learning
    6. Temptation
    7. Territory
    8. The Fall
    9. Thinking
    10. Thinking Vs. Thought
    11. Thought
    12. Thought System
    13. Time
    14. Time Of Christ
    15. Time Of Tenderness
    16. Trait
    17. Transformation
    18. Transition
    19. Translation
    20. Treasure
    21. Treatise
    22. Trinity
    23. Trust
    24. Truth
  24. U
    1. Uncertainty
    2. Understand
    3. Union
    4. Unique
    5. Universal
    6. Universal Consciousness
    7. Universe
    8. Unknown
    9. Use
  25. V
    1. Variable
    2. Vengeance
    3. Violence
    4. Virgin Birth
    5. Virgin State
    6. Vision
    7. Voice
  26. W
    1. Want
    2. War
    3. Way
    4. Way Of Mary
    5. We
    6. Whole
    7. Wholeheartedness
    8. Wholeness
    9. Will
    10. Willingness
    11. Wisdom
    12. Withhold
    13. Within
    14. Within Vs. Without
    15. Witness
    16. Word
    17. Work
    18. World
    19. Worry
    20. Wound
  27. Y
    1. Yearn
    2. Yield
    3. You
  28. Afterword
  29. Bibliography
  30. Biography

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