Week 27, Lesson 180-186, Academy for the Workbook of A Course in Miracles, 7/5/25

Week 27 Lessons 180-186, Academy for the Workbook of A Course in Miracles, 7/5/25

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⁴The arrogant must cling to words, afraid to go beyond them to experience which might affront their stance. ⁵Yet are the humble free to hear the Voice Which tells them what they are and what to do.

6 Arrogance makes an image of yourself that is not real. ²It is this image which quails and retreats in terror as the Voice for God assures you that you have the strength, the wisdom, and the holiness to go beyond all images. ³You are not weak, as is the image of yourself.

7 All this the Voice for God relates to you. ²And as He speaks, the image trembles and seeks to attack the threat it does not know, sensing its basis crumble. ³Let it go.
☀️[CE W-186.5-7]

5 There is one way, and only one, to be released from the imprisonment your plan to prove the false is true has brought to you: Accept the plan you did not make instead.
☀️[CE W-186.5:1]

3 And so we start our journey beyond words by concentrating first on what impedes our progress still. ²Experience of what exists beyond defensiveness remains beyond achievement while it is denied. ³It may be there, but we cannot accept its presence. ⁴So we now attempt to go past our defenses for a little while each day. ⁵No more than this is asked, because no more than this is needed. ⁶It will be enough to guarantee the rest will come.
☀️[CE W-181-200.In.3]

3 Therefore, in practicing today, we first let all such little focuses give way to our great need to let our sinlessness become apparent. ²We instruct our minds that it is this we seek and only this, for just a little while.
☀️ [CE W-181.3:1-2]

⁶We do not look to past beliefs, and what we will believe will not intrude upon us now. ⁷We enter in the time of practicing with one intent: to look upon the sinlessness within.
☀️[CE W-181.5:6-7]

…³So, for this little while, without regard to past or future, should such blocks arise we will transcend them with instructions to our minds to change their focus, as we say:

⁴It is not this that I would look upon. ⁵I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

³As each obstruction seems to block the vision of our sinlessness, we seek but for surcease an instant from the misery the focus upon sin will bring, and uncorrected will remain.
☀️[CE W-181.6,7:3]

⁴We look neither ahead nor backwards. ⁵We look straight into the present.
☀️[CE W-181.9:4-5]

3 Two minds with one intent become so strong that what they will becomes the will of God. ²For minds can only join in truth. ³In dreams, no two can share the same intent. ⁴To each, the hero of the dream is different; the outcome wanted not the same for both. ⁵Loser and gainer merely shift about in changing patterns, as the ratio of gain to loss and loss to gain takes on a different aspect or another form.
☀️[CE W-185.3:1-3]

²What do you ask for in your heart? ³Forget the words you use in making your requests. ⁴Consider but what you believe will comfort you and bring you happiness. ⁵But be you not dismayed by lingering illusions, for their form is not what matters now. ⁶Let not some dreams be more acceptable, reserving shame and secrecy for others. ⁷They are one. ⁸And being one, one question should be asked of all of them:

⁹Is this what I would have in place of Heaven and the peace of God?
☀️[CE W-185.8:2-9]

It is this Child Who knows His Father. ³He desires to go home so deeply, so unceasingly, His voice cries unto you to let Him rest a while. ⁴He does not ask for more than just a few instants of respite; just an interval in which He can return to breathe again the holy air that fills His Father’s house. ⁵You are His home as well. ⁶He will return. ⁷But give Him just a little time to be Himself, within the peace that is His home, resting in silence and in peace and love.
☀️[CE W-182.5:2-7]

6 Practice but this today: Repeat God’s Name slowly again and still again. ²Become oblivious to every name but His. ³Hear nothing else. ⁴Let all your thoughts become anchored on this.
☀️[CE W-183.5-6]

10 Thus what you need are intervals each day in which the learning of the world becomes a transitory phase, a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. ²Here you understand the Word, the Name which God has given you, the one identity which all things share, the one acknowledgment of what is true. ³And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world which darkness rules.
☀️[CE W-184.10]