Week 25, Lessons 166-172, Academy for the Workbook of A Course in Miracles, 6/21/25

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⁴Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts and feel the touch of Christ. ⁵Such is your mission now.
☀️[CE W-166.15:2-5]

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. ²We place faith in the experience that comes from practice, not the means we use. ³We wait for the experience, and recognize that it is only here conviction lies.
☀️[CE W-Re.5.In.12:1-3]

I and the Father are one.
I am as God created me.
God is but love and therefore so am I.

2 Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world. ²This world is not the will of God, and so it is not real. ³Yet those who think it real must still believe there is another will, and one which leads to opposite effects from those He wills. ⁴Impossible indeed, but every mind which looks upon the world and judges it as certain, solid, trustworthy, and true believes in two creators—or in one, himself alone. ⁵But never in one God.
☀️[CE W-166.2]

1 There are not different kinds of life, for life is like the truth. ²It does not have degrees. ³Life is the one condition in which all that God created share. ⁴Like all His thoughts, it has no opposite. ⁵There is no death because what God created shares His life. ⁶There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist. ⁷There is no death because the Father and the Son are one.
☀️[CE W-167.1]

³When you think that you attack in self-defense, you mean that to be cruel is protection; you are safe because of cruelty. ⁴You mean that you believe to hurt another brings you freedom.
☀️[CE W-170.1:3-4]

…unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received. ⁶But what would make you think there is another will than His?
☀️[CE W-166.1:5-6]

3 You think that death is of the body. ²Yet it is but an idea, irrelevant to what is seen as physical.
☀️[CE W-167.3]

4 Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator. ²It is the belief conditions change, emotions alternate because of causes you cannot control, you did not make, and you can never change. ³It is the fixed belief ideas can leave their source and take on qualities the source does not contain, becoming different from their own origin, apart from it in kind as well as distance, time, and form.
☀️[CE W-167.4]

6 The mind can think it sleeps, but that is all. ²It cannot change what is its waking state. ³It cannot make a body, nor abide within a body. ⁴What is alien to the mind does not exist, because it has no source.
☀️[CE W-167.6:1-4]

2 Grace is acceptance of the love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. ²By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace cannot believe the world of fear is real.
☀️[CE W-169.2]

²Our faith lies in the Giver, not our own acceptance. ³We acknowledge our mistakes, but He to Whom all error is unknown is yet the One Who answers our mistakes by giving us the means to lay them down and rise to Him in gratitude and love.
☀️[CE W-168.5:2-3]

⁶You make what you defend against, and by your own defense against it is it real and inescapable. ⁷Lay down your arms, and only then will you perceive it false.
☀️[CE W-170.2:6-7]

⁴As you play the role assigned to you, salvation comes a little nearer each uncertain heart that does not beat as yet in tune with God.
☀️[CE W-169.10:4]

9 Your ancient fear has come upon you now, and justice has caught up with you at last. ²Christ’s hand has touched your shoulder, and you feel that you are not alone. ³You even think the miserable self you thought was you may not be your identity.
☀️[CE W-166.9:1-3]

8 This moment can be terrible. ²But it can also be the time of your release from abject slavery. ³You make a choice, standing before this idol, seeing him exactly as he is. ⁴Will you restore to love what you have sought to wrest from it and lay before this mindless piece of stone?
☀️[CE W-170.8:1-4]

10 Let us today be children of the truth, and not deny our holy heritage. ²Our life is not as we imagine it. ³Who changes life because he shuts his eyes, or makes himself what he is not because he sleeps and sees in dreams an opposite to what he is?
☀️[CE W-167.10:1-3]