“The idea for today is a beginning step in dispelling the belief that your thoughts have no effect. Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. There is no

Here’s the first paragraph of this lesson: It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing. You think

This lesson hearkens back to the introduction in A Course in Miracles: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. What the introduction and

Everything we see and experience in the world is without meaning. There is no good. There is no bad. But we project onto this “blank slate” all the meaning everything

The word “meaningless” is typically associated with some negative judgment. But when the Course uses that word, it literally means “without meaning”. In fact, toward the end of this lesson,

This lesson starts off with these very powerful lines: “It seems as if the world determines what you perceive. Today’s idea introduces the concept that your thoughts determine the

One of the most important themes that recurs throughout the Course is the idea that our thoughts determine our experience. In other words, what we experience in what we call

This lesson follows from both Lesson 7 and Lesson 8. But as we learn in this lesson, “while you may be able to accept it intellectually, it is unlikely that

There are so many powerful thoughts contained in this lesson. The first is this: “we see only our thoughts projected outward.” What this means is that everything we see in

This lesson introduces the topic of time into the Course workbook. And it is teaching us that everything we believe is rooted in time. In A Course in Miracles Lesson

Following up on A Course in Miracles Lesson 5 that we are never upset for the reason we think – we think we get upset because of something that happened. Someone

“This idea can be used with any person, situation or event you think is causing you pain. The upset may seem to be fear, worry, depression, anxiety, anger, hatred, jealousy