Archives of A Course in Miracles

Lesson 339 I will receive whatever I request. “Father, this is Your day.  It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me” (ACIM Lesson 339 2:1-2). Today is a powerful teaching […]

Lesson 338 I am affected only by my thoughts. “Your plan is sure, my Father,–only Yours.  All other plans will fail.  And I will have thoughts that will frighten me, until I learn that You have given me the only Thought that leads me to salvation.  Mine alone will fail, and lead me nowhere.  But […]

Lesson 337 My sinlessness protects me from all harm. “You Who created me in sinlessness are not mistaken about what I am.  I was mistaken when I thought I sinned, but I accept Atonement for myself.  Father, my dream is ended now.  Amen”  (ACIM Lesson 337 2:1-4).   What must we do to achieve the […]

Lesson 336 Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined. “In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my dreams of separation and of sin.  Then let me, Father, look within, and find Your promise of my sinlessness is kept; Your word remains unchanged within my mind, Your Love is still abiding in my heart” (ACIM Lesson […]

Lesson 335 I choose to see my brothers sinlessness. “What could restore Your memory to me, except to see my brother’s sinlessness?  His holiness reminds me that he was created one with me, and like myself.  In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I find the memory of You as well” (ACIM […]

Lesson 334 Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives. “I seek but the eternal.  For Your Son can be content with nothing less than this.  What, then, can be his solace but what You are offering to his bewildered mind and frightened heart, to give him certainty and bring him peace?  Today I would behold […]

Lesson 333 Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.   “Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light way for our return to You.  No light but this can end our evil dream.  No light but this can save the world.  For this alone will never […]

Lesson 332 Fear binds the world.  Forgiveness sets it free. “We would not bind the world again today.  Fear holds it prisoner.  And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free.  Father, we would release it now.  For as we offer freedom, it is given us.  And we would not remain […]

Lesson 331 There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.   “How foolish, Father, to believe Your Son could cause himself to suffer!  Could he make a plan for his damnation, and be left without a certain way to his release?  You love me, Father.  You could never leave me desolate, to die within […]

12.  What Is the Ego? This is a question that perplexes most spiritual students and scientists:  What exactly is the ego?  As with all esoteric terms, it is not something that can be quantified, accurately tested, or even physically held in one’s hand, although we tend to carry it around with us always.  But to […]