The Daily Lessons
Workbook - Part 2
What is Salvation
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Salvation is a promise, made by God,
that you would find your way to Him at last.
It cannot but be kept. It guarantees
that time will have an end, and all the thoughts
that have been born in time will end as well.
God's Word is given every mind which thinks
that it has separate thoughts, and will replace
these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.
The Thought of peace was given to God's Son
the instant that his mind had thought of war.
There was no need for such a Thought before,
for peace was given without opposite,
and merely was. But when the mind is split,
there is a need of healing. So the Thought
Which has the power to heal the split became
a part of every fragment of the mind
which still was one, but failed to recognize
its oneness. Now it did not know itself,
and thought its own identity was lost.
Salvation is undoing in the sense
that it does nothing, failing to support
the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets
illusions go. By not supporting them,
it merely lets them quietly go down
to dust. And what they hid is now revealed;
an altar to the holy Name of God
whereon His Word is written, with the gifts
of your forgiveness laid before It, and
the memory of God not far behind.
Let us come daily to this holy place,
and spend a while together. Here we share
our final dream. It is a dream in which
there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint
of all the glory given us by God.
The grass is pushing through the soil, the trees
are budding now, and birds have come to live
within their branches. Earth is being born
again in new perception. Night has gone,
and we have come together in the light.
From here we give salvation to the world,
for it is here salvation was received.
The song of our rejoicing is the call
to all the world that freedom is returned,
that time is almost over, and God's Son
has but an instant more to wait until
his Father is remembered, dreams are done,
eternity has shined away the world,
and only Heaven now exists at all. "
Introduction
Words will mean little now. We use them but
as guides on which we do not now depend.
For now we seek direct experience
of truth alone. The lessons which remain
are merely introductions to the times
in which we leave the world of pain, and go
to enter into peace. Now we begin
to reach the goal this course has set, and find
the end t'ward which our practicing is geared.
Now we attempt to let the exercise
be merely a beginning. For we wait
in quiet expectation for our God
and Father. He has promised He will take
the final step Himself. And we are sure
His promises are kept. We have come far
along the road, and now we wait for Him.
We will continue spending time with Him
each morning and at night, as long as makes
us happy. We will not consider time
a matter of duration now. We use
as much as we will need for the result
that we desire. Nor will we forget
our hourly remembrance, in between
calling to God when we have need of Him
as we are tempted to forget our goal.
We will continue with a central thought
for all the days to come. And we will use
that thought to introduce our times of rest,
and calm our minds at need. Yet we will not
content ourselves with simple practicing
in the remaining holy instants which
conclude the year that we have given God.
We say some simple words of welcome, and
expect our Father to reveal Himself
as He has promised. We have called on Him,
and He has promised that His Son will not
remain unanswered when he called His Name.
Now do we come to Him with but His Word
upon our minds and hearts. And wait for Him
to take the step to us that He has told
us, through His Voice, He would not fail to take
when we invited Him. He has not left
His Son in all his madness, nor betrayed
His trust in him. Has not His faithfulness
earned Him the invitation that He seeks
to make us happy? We will offer it,
and it will be accepted. So our times
with Him will now be spent. We say the words
of invitation that His Voice suggests,
and then we wait for Him to come to us.
Now is the time of prophesy fulfilled.
Now are all ancient promises upheld
and fully kept. No step remains for time
to separate from its accomplishment.
For now we cannot fail. Sit silently
and wait upon your Father. He has willed
to come to you when you have recognized
it is your will He do so. And you could
have never come this far unless you saw,
however dimly, that it is your will.
I am so close to you we cannot fail.
Father, we give these holy times to You
in gratitude to Him Who taught us how
to leave the world of sorrow, in exchange
for its replacement given us by You.
We look not backward now. We look ahead,
and fix our eyes upon the journey's end.
Accept these little gifts of thanks from us,
as through Christ's vision we behold a world
beyond the one we made, and take that world
to be the full replacement of our own.
And now we wait in silence, unafraid,
and certain of Your coming. We have sought
to find our way by following the Guide
You sent to us. We did not know the way,
but You did not forget us. And we know
that You will not forget us now. We ask
but that Your ancient premises be kept
which are Your Will to keep. We will with You
in asking this. The Father and the Son,
Whose holy Will created all that is,
can fail in nothing. In this certainty,
we undertake these last few steps to You,
and rest in confidence upon Your Love,
Which will not fail the Son who calls to You.
And so we start upon the final part
of this one holy year, which we have spent
together in the search for Truth and God,
Who is its Its one Creator. We have found
the way He chose for us, and made the choice
to follow it as He would have us go.
His hand has held us up. His Thoughts have lit
the darkness of our minds. His Love has called
to us unceasingly since time began.
We had a wish that God would fail to have
the Son whom He created of Himself.
We wanted God to change Himself, and be
what we would make of Him. And we believed
that our insane desires were the truth.
Now we are glad that this is all undone,
and we no longer think illusions true.
The memory of God is shimmering
across the wide horizons of our minds.
A moment more, and It will rise again.
A moment more, and we who are God's Son
are safely home, where He would have us be.
Now is the need for practice almost done.
For in this final section we will come
to understand that we need only call
to God, and all temptations disappear.
Instead of words, we need but feel His Love.
Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name.
Instead of judging, we need but be still
and let all things be healed. We will accept
the way God's plan will end, as we received
the way it started. Now is it complete.
This year has brought us to eternity.
September 21, 1970
One further use for words we still retain.
From time to time, instructions on a theme
of special relevance will intersperse
our daily lessons and the periods
of wordless, deep experience which should
come afterwards. These special thoughts should be
reviewed each day, each one of them to be
continued till the next is given you.
They should be slowly read and thought about
a little while, preceding one of the
holy and blessed instants in the day.
We give the first of these instructions now.
What is Forgiveness
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Forgiveness recognizes what you thought
your brother did to you has not occurred.
It does not pardon sins and make them real.
It sees there was no sin. And in this view
are all your sins forgiven. What is sin
except a false idea about God's Son?
Forgiveness merely sees its falsity,
and therefore lets it go. What then is free
to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes
a judgment that it will not raise to doubt,
although it is untrue. The mind is closed,
and will not be released. The thought protects
projection, tightening its chains, so that
distortions are more veiled and more obscure;
less easily accessible to doubt,
and further kept from reason. What can come
between a fixed projection and the aim
that it has chosen as its needed goal?
An unforgiving thought does many things.
In frantic action it pursues its goal,
twisting and overturning what it sees
as interfering with its chosen path.
Distortion is its purpose and the means
by which it would accomplish it as well.
It sets about its furious attempts
to smash reality without concern
for anything that would appear to pose
a contradiction to its point of view.
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still,
and quietly does nothing. It offends
no aspect of reality, nor seeks
to twist it to appearance that it likes.
It merely looks and waits and judges not.
He who would not forgive must judge, for he
must justify his failure to forgive.
But he who would forgive himself must learn
to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show
you what to do through Him Who is your Guide,
your Saviour and Defender, strong in hope
and certain of your ultimate success.
He has forgiven you already, for
such is His function, given Him by God.
Now must you share His function, and forgive
whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees,
and whom He honors as the Son of God.
Workbook - Part 1
Review VI
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I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
- For this review, we take but one idea
each day, and practice it as often as
is possible. Besides the time you give
morning and ev'ning, which should not be less
than fifteen minutes, and the hou_rly
remembrances you make throughout the day,
use the idea as often as you can
between them. Each of these ideas alone
would be sufficient for salvation, if
it were learned truly. Each would be enough
to give release to you and to the world
from every form of bondage, and invite
the memory of God to come again.
With this in mind, we start our practicing
in which we carefully review the thoughts
the Holy Spirit has bestowed on us
in our last twenty lessons. Each contains
the whole curriculum, if understood,
practiced, accepted and applied to all
the seeming happenings throughout the day.
One is enough. But from that one, there must
be no exceptions made. And so we need
to use them all, and let them blend as one
as each contributes to the whole we learn.
These practice sessions, like our last review,
are centered round a central theme with which
we start and end each lesson. It is this:
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
The day begins and ends with this. And we
repeat it ev'ry time the hou_r strikes,
or we remember, in between, we have
a function that transcends the world we see.
Beyond this, and a repetition of
the special thought we practice for the day,
no form of exercise is urged, except
a deep relinquishment of ev'rything
that clutters up the mind, and makes it deaf
to reason, sanity and simple truth.
We will attempt to get beyond all words
and special forms of practicing for this
review. For we attempt this time to reach
a quickened pace along a shorter path
to the serenity and peace of God.
We merely close our eyes, and then forget
all that we thought we knew and understood.
For thus is freedom given us from all
we did not know and failed to understand.
There is but one exception to this lack
of structuring. Permit no idle thought
to go unchallenged. If you notice one,
deny its hold and hasten to assure
your mind that this is not what it would have.
Then gently let the thought which you denied
be given up in sure and quick exchange
for the idea we practice for the day.
When you are tempted, hasten to proclaim
your freedom from temptation, as you say:
"This thought I do not want. I choose instead . . ."
And then repeat the idea for the day,
and let it take the place of what you thought.
Beyond such special applications of
each day's i_de_a, we will add but a
few formal sessions or specific thoughts
to aid in practicing. Instead we give
these times of quiet to the Teacher Who
instructs in quiet, speaks of peace, and gives
our thoughts whatever meaning they may have.
To Him I offer this review for you.
I place you in His charge, and let Him teach
you what to do and say and think each time
you turn to Him. He will not fail to be
available to you each time you call
to Him to help you. Let us offer Him
the whole review we now begin, and let
us also not forget to Whom it has
been given, as we practice, day by day,
advancing t'ward the goal He set for us;
allowing Him to teach us how to go,
and trusting Him completely for the way
each practice period can best become
a loving gift of freedom to the world. "
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"I am the holy Son of God Himself" L191
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INTRODUCTION to LESSONS 181 - 200
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Our next few lessons make a special point
of firming up your willingness to make
your weak commitment strong; your scattered goals
blend into one intent. You are not asked
for total dedication all the times,
as yet. But you are asked to practice now
in order to attain the sense of peace
such unified commitment will bestow,
if only intermittently. It is
experiencing this which makes it sure
that you will give your total willingness
to following the way the course sets forth.
Our lessons now are geared specific'lly
to widening horizons, and direct
approaches to the special blocks which keep
your vision narrow, and too limited
to let you see the value of our goal.
We are attempting now to lift these blocks,
however briefly. Words alone can not
convey the sense of liberation which
their lifting brings. But the experience
of freedom and of peace that comes as you
give up your tight control of what you see
speaks for itself. Your motivation will
be so intensified that words become
of little consequence. You will be sure
of what you want, and what is valueless.
And so we start our journey beyond words
by concentrating first on what impedes
our progress still. Experience of what
exists beyond defensiveness remains
beyond achievement while it is denied.
It may be there, but you cannot accept
its presence. So we now attempt to go
past all defenses for a little while
each day. No more than that is asked because
no more than this is needed. It will be
enough to guarantee the rest will come.
Workbook - Part 1
Review V
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God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
- [Now we] review again. This time we are
ready to give more effort and more time
to what we undertake. We recognize
we are preparing for another phase
of understanding. We would take this step
completely that we may go on again
more certain, more sincere, with faith upheld
more surely. Our footsteps have not been
unwavering, and doubts have made us walk
uncertainly and slowly on the road
this course sets forth. But now we hasten on,
for we approach a greater certainty,
a firmer purpose and a surer goal.|
- "Steady our feet, our Father; let our doubts
be quiet and our holy minds be still,
and speak to us. We have no words to give
to You. We would but listen to Your Word
and make it ours. Lead our practicing
as does a father lead a little child
along a way he does not understand.
Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe
because his father leads the way for him.|
#So do we bring our practicing to You.
And if we stumble, You will raise us up.
If we forget the way, we count upon
Your sure remembering. We wander off,
but You will not forget to call us back.
Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk
more certainly and quickly unto You.
And we accept the Word You offer us
to unify our practicing as we
review the thoughts that You have given us."|
- This is the thought which should precede the thoughts
that we review. Each one but clarifies
some aspect of this thought, or helps it be
more meaningful, more personal and true,
and more descriptive of the holy Self
we share and now prepare to know again:
"God is but love, and therefore so am I."
- This Self alone knows love. This Self alone
is perfectly consistent in Its thoughts;
knows Its Creator, understands Itself,
is perfect in Its knowledge and Its love,
and never changes from Its constant state
of union with Its Father and Itself.|
- And it is This that waits to meet us at
the journey's ending. Every step we take
brings us a little nearer. This review
will shorten time immeasurably, if
we keep in mind that This remains our goal,
and as we practice it is This to which
we are approaching. Let us raise our hearts
from dust to life as we remember This
is promised us, and that this course was sent
to open up the path of light to us,
and teach us, step by step, how to return
to the Eternal Self we [think] we lost.|
- I take the journey with you. For I share
your doubts and fears a little while, that you
may come to me who recognize the road
by which all [doubts and fears] are overcome.
We walk together. I must understand
uncertainty and pain, although I know
they have no meaning. Yet a Saviour must
remain with those he teaches, seeing what
they see, but still retaining in his mind
the way which led him out, and now will lead
you out with him. God's Son is crucified
until you walk along the road with me.|
- My resurrection comes again each time
I lead a brother safely to the place
at which the journey ends and is forgot.
I am renewed each time a brother learns
there is a way from misery and pain.
I am reborn each time a brother's mind
turns to the light in him and looks for me.
I have forgotten no-one. Help me now
to lead you back to where [your] journey was
begun, [and] make another choice with me.|
- Release me as you practice once again
the thoughts I brought to you from Him Who sees
your bitter need, and knows the answer God
has given Him. Together we review
these thoughts. Together we devote our time
and effort to them. And together we
will teach them to our brothers. God would not
have Heaven incomplete. It waits for you,
as I do. I am incomplete without
your part in me. And as I am made whole,
we go together to our ancient home,
prepared for us before time was and kept
unchanged by time, immaculate and safe,
as it will be at last, when time is done.|
- Let this review be then your gift to me.
For this alone I need; that you will hear
the words I speak, and give them to the world.
You are my voice, my eyes, my feet, my hands,
through which I save the world. The Self from Which
I call to you is but your Own. To Him
we go together. Take your brother's hand,
for this is not a way we walk alone.
In him I walk with you and you with me.
Our Father wills His Son be One with Him.
What lives but must not then be one with you?|
- Let this review become a time in which
we share a new experience for you,
yet one as old as time and older still.
Hallowed your name. Your glory undefiled
forever. And your wholeness now complete,
as God established it. You are His Son,
completing His extension in your own.
We practice but an ancient truth we knew
before illusion seemed to claim the world.
And we remind the world that it is free
of all illusion every time we say,
"God is but love, and therefore so am I."|
- With this we start each day of our review.
With this we start and end each period
of practice time. And with this thought we sleep,
to waken once again with these same words
upon our [tongue] to greet another day.
No thought that we review but we surround
with it, and use the thoughts to hold it up
before our minds and keep it clear in our
rememberance throughout the day. And thus
when we have finished this review, we will
have recognized the words we speak are true.|
- Yet are the words but aids, and to be used,
except at the beginning and the end
of practice periods, but to recall
the mind, as needed, to its purpose. We
place faith in the experience that comes
from practice, not the means we use. We wait
for the experience, and recognize
that it is only here conviction lies.
We use the words, and try and try again
to go beyond them to their meaning, which
is far beyond their sound. The sound grows dim
and disappears, as we approach the Source
of meaning. It is here that we find rest.
Workbook - Part 1
Workbook - Part 1
Review IV
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Now we review again, this time aware we are preparing for the second part of learning how the truth can be applied. Today we will begin to concentrate on readiness for what will follow next. Such is our aim for this review and for the lessons following. Thus we review the recent lessons and their central thoughts in such a way as will facilitate the readiness which we would now achieve.
2 There is a central theme that unifies each step in the review we undertake, which can be simply stated in these words:
3 My mind holds only what I think with God.
4 This is a fact and represents the truth of what you are and what your father is. It is this thought by which the father gave creation to the Son, establishing the Son as co-creator with Himself. It is this thought which fully guarantees salvation to the Son. For in his mind no thoughts can dwell but those his father shares. Lack of forgiveness blocks this thought from his awareness. Yet it is forever true.
5 Let us begin our preparation with some understanding of the many forms in which the lack of true forgiveness may be carefully concealed. Because they are illusions, they are not perceived to be but what they are—defenses which protect your unforgiving thoughts from being seen and recognized. Their purpose is to show you something else and hold correction off through self-deceptions made to take its place.
6 And yet your mind holds only what you think with God. Your self-deceptions cannot take the place of truth. No more than can a child who throws a stick into the ocean change the coming and the going of the tides, the warming of the water by the sun, the silver of the moon on it by night. So do we start each practice period in this review with readying our minds to understand the lessons that we read and see the meaning which they offer us.
7 Begin each day with time devoted to the preparation of your mind to learn what each idea you will review that day can offer you in freedom and in peace. Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive, and let this thought alone engage it fully and remove the rest:
8 My mind holds only what I think with God.
9 Five minutes with this thought will be enough to set the day along the lines which God appointed and to place His Mind in charge of all the thoughts you will receive that day. They will not come from you alone, for they will all be shared with Him. And so each one will bring the message of His love to you, returning messages of yours to Him. So will communion with the Lord of Hosts be yours, as He Himself has willed it be. And as His own completion joins with Him, so will He join with you who are complete as you unite with Him and He with you.
10 After your preparation, merely read each of the two ideas assigned to you to be reviewed that day. Then close your eyes and say them slowly to yourself. there is no hurry now, for you are using time for its intended purpose. Let each word shine with the meaning God has given it as it was given to you through His Voice. Let each idea that you review that day give you the gift which He has laid in it for you to have of Him. And we will use no format for our practicing but this:
11 Each hour of the day bring to your mind the thought with which the day began and spend a quiet moment with it. Then repeat the two ideas you practice for the day unhurriedly, with time enough to see the gifts which they contain for you, and let them be received where they were meant to be. We add no other thoughts, but let them be the messages they are. We need no more than this to give us happiness and rest and endless quiet, perfect certainty, and all our father wills that we receive as the inheritance we have of Him.
12 Each day of practicing, as we review, we close as we began, repeating first the thought that made the day a special time of blessing and of happiness for us and through our faithfulness restored the world from darkness to the light, from grief to joy, from pain to peace, from sin to holiness. God offers thanks to you who practice thus the keeping of His Word. And as you give your mind to the ideas for the day again before you sleep, His gratitude surrounds you in the peace wherein He wills you be forever and are learning now to claim again as your inheritance.
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"Forgiveness offers everything I want" L122
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Workbook - Part 1
Review III
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1 Our third review begins today. We will review two of the last 20 ideas each day until we have reviewed them all. We will observe a special format for these practice periods which you are urged to follow as closely as you can. We understand, of course, that it may be impossible for you to undertake what is suggested here as optimal each day and every hour of the day.
2 Learning will not be hampered when you miss a practice period because it is impossible at the appointed time. Nor is it necessary that you make excessive efforts to be sure that you catch up in terms of numbers. Rituals are not our aim and would defeat our learning goal.
3 But learning will be hampered when you skip a practice period because you are unwilling to devote the time to it which you are asked to give. Do not deceive yourself in this. Unwillingness can be most carefully concealed behind a cloak of situations you can not control. Learn to distinguish situations which are poorly suited to your practicing from those which you establish to uphold a camouflage for your unwillingness.
4 Those practice periods which you have lost because you did not want to do them for whatever reason should be done as soon as you have changed your mind about your goal. You are unwilling to cooperate in practicing salvation only if it interferes with goals you hold more dear. When you withdraw the value given them, allow your practice periods to be replacements for your litanies to them. They gave you nothing. But your practice periods offer you everything. Accept their offering and be at peace.
5 The format you should use for these reviews is this: devote five minutes twice a day or longer if you would prefer to contemplating the ideas assigned. Read over the ideas and comments which are written first in each day’s exercises. Then begin to think about them quietly, letting your mind relate them to your needs, your seeming problems, and all your concerns.
6 Place the ideas within your mind, and let it use them as it chooses. Give it faith that it will use them wisely, being helped in its decisions by the One Who gave the thoughts to you. What can you trust but what is in your mind? Have faith, in these reviews, the means the Holy Spirit uses will not fail. The wisdom of your mind will come to your assistance. Give it direction at the start, then lean back in quiet faith, and let it use the ideas you have given it as they were given you.
7 You have been given them in perfect trust, in perfect confidence that you would use them well, in perfect faith that you would understand their messages and use them for yourself. Offer them to your mind in that same trust and confidence and faith. It will not fail. It is the Holy Spirit’s chosen means for your salvation. And with His trust merits yours as well.
8 We emphasize the benefits to you if you devote the first five minutes of the day to your review and also give the last five minutes of your waking day to it. If this cannot be done, at least try to divide them so you undertake one in the morning, and the other in the hour just before you go to sleep.
9 The exercises to be done throughout the day are equally important and perhaps of even greater value. You have been inclined to do the exercises and then go on to other things, without applying what you learned to them. As a result, your learning has had little reinforcement, and you have not given it the opportunity to prove its worth to you.
10 Here is another chance to use it well. In these reviews we stress the need to let your learning not lie idly by between your longer practice periods. Attempt to give your daily two ideas a brief but serious review each hour. Use one on the hour and the other one a half an hour later. You need not give more than just a moment to each one.
11 Repeat it, and allow your mind to rest a little time in silence and in peace. Then turn to other things, but try to keep the thought with you and let it serve to help you keep your peace throughout the day. If you are shaken, think of it again. These practice periods are planned to help you form the habit of applying what you learn each day to everything you do.
12 Do not repeat it and then lay it down. Its usefulness is limitless to you. And it is meant to serve you in all ways, all times and places, and whenever you need help of any kind. Try, then, to take it with you in the business of the day and make it holy, worthy of God’s Son, acceptable to God and to your Self.
13 Each day’s review assignment will conclude with a restatement of the thought to use each hour and the one to be applied on each half hour as well. Forget them not. This second chance with each of these ideas will bring such large advances that we come from these reviews with learning gains so great that we begin again on solid ground.
14 Do not forget how little you have learned. Do not forget how much you can learn now. Do not forget your Father’s need of you as you review these thoughts He gave to you.
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Review II
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1We are now ready for another review. We will begin where our last review left off and cover two ideas each day. The earlier part of each day will be devoted to one of these ideas, and the latter part of the day to the other. We will have one longer exercise period and frequent shorter ones in which we practice each of them.
2 The longer practice periods will follow this general form: take about 15 minutes for each of them, and begin by thinking about the idea and the comments which are included in the assignments. Devote about three or four minutes to reading them over slowly, several times if you wish, and then close your eyes and listen. Repeat the first phase if you find your mind wandering, but try to spend the major part of the practice period listening quietly but attentively.
3 There is a message waiting for you. Be confident that you will receive it. Remember that it belongs to you and that you want it. Do not allow your intent to waver in the face of distracting thoughts. Realize that, whatever form they take, they have no meaning and no power. Replace them with your determination to succeed. Do not forget that your will has power over all fantasies and dreams. Trust it to see you through and carry you beyond them all.
4 Regard these practice periods as dedications to the way, the truth, and the life. Refuse to be side-tracked into detours, illusions, and thoughts of death. You are dedicated to salvation. Be determined each day not to leave your function unfulfilled.
5 Reaffirm your determination in the shorter practice periods as well, using the original form of the idea for general application and a more specific form when needed. Some specific forms will be included in the comments. These, however, are merely suggestions. It is not the particular words you use that matter.
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Workbook - Part 1
Workbook - Part 1
1Beginning with today, we will have a series of review periods. Each of them will cover five of the ideas already presented, starting with the first and ending with the fiftieth. There will be a few short comments after each of the ideas, which you should consider in your review. In the practice periods, the exercises should be done as follows:
2 Begin the day by reading the five ideas, with the comments included. Thereafter, it is not necessary to follow any particular order in considering them, though each one should be practiced at least once. Devote two minutes or more to each practice period, thinking about the idea and the related comments. Do this as often as possible during the day. If any one of the five ideas appeals to you more than the others, concentrate on that one. At the end of the day, however, be sure to review all of them once more.
3 It is not necessary to cover the comments that follow each idea literally or thoroughly in the practice periods. Rather, try merely to emphasize the central point and think about it as part of your review of the idea to which it relates.
4 The review exercises should be done with your eyes closed, and when you are alone in a quiet place, if possible. This is emphasized particularly for reviews at your stage of learning. It will be necessary, however, that you learn to require no special settings in which to apply what you have learned. You will need it most in situations which appear to be upsetting, rather than in those which already seem to be calm and quiet.
5 The purpose of your learning is to enable you to bring the quiet with you and to heal distress and turmoil. This is not done by avoiding them and seeking a haven of isolation for yourself. You will yet learn that peace is part of you and requires only that you be there to embrace any situation in which you are. And finally you will learn that there is no limit to where you are, so that your peace is everywhere, as you are.
6 You will note that for review purposes the ideas are not always given in quite their original form of statement. Use them as they are given here. It is not necessary to return to the original statements, nor to apply the ideas as was suggested then. We are now emphasizing the relationships among the first fifty of the ideas we have covered and the cohesiveness of the thought system to which they are leading you.
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