A Course in Miracles

What you believe is true for you. In this sense the separation has occurred, and to deny it is merely to use denial inappropriately.

No one who lives in fear is really alive.

The initial corrective procedure is to recognize temporarily that there is a problem, but only as an indication that immediate correction is needed.

Miracles honor you because you are lovable. They dispel illusions about yourself and perceive the light in you. They thus atone for your errors by freeing you from your nightmares. By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity.

Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use t

This belief can exist only to the extent that you believe in the efficacy of judgment as a weapon of defense for your own authority.

Remember that where your heart is, there is your treasure also.

You cannot find it outside. Illness is some form of external searching. Health is inner peace. It enables you to remain unshaken by lack of love from without and capable, through your acceptance of miracles, of correcting the conditions proceeding from lack of love in others.

If we are using perception to justify our own mistakes–our anger, our impulses to attack, our lack of love in whatever form it may take–we will see a world of evil, destruction, malice, envy and despair.