A Course in Miracles

Workbook For Students

You are at the home of a new format of the workbook of A Course in Miracles. The content is exactly the same as the Original Edition, but it is presented in a way that makes it easier to comprehend and practice.

The purpose of these workbook exercises is to train your mind to a different perception of everything in the world.

The workbook is divided into two sections:

1) the first dealing with the undoing of what you see now, and

2) the second with the restoration of sight.

"The exercises are very simple. They do not require more than a few minutes, and it does not matter where or when you do them.

Some of the ideas you will find hard to believe, and others will seem quite startling. It does not matter.

You are merely asked to apply them to what you see.

You are not asked to judge them nor even to believe them.

You are asked only to use them. It is their use which will give them meaning to you and show you they are true.

Whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than this is required."

From the Introduction to the ACIM Workbook For Students

What Are The Workbook Exercises For?

One of the major purposes of the Course workbook exercises is to train our minds to remember the peace and magnitude of our real spiritual identity through the undoing of the false images we have made of ourselves.

By Marianne Williamson 

What will happen as we grow into our spiritual magnitude?

In each of our lives, it will look different. Every moment holds infinite possibilities, and how much magnificence we allow to move into us and through us is determined by our willingness and receptivity.

To whatever extent the blocks are removed to the awareness of our divine nature, to that extent we are magnetized to the events and situations—and they are magnetized to us—that resonate with our grandeur.

If we’re vibrating at a low energy, we’ll attract low-energy situations (how many times have we stubbed a toe or banged a finger when we were angry?); if we’re vibrating at a high energy, we’ll attract miracles.

People will call out of nowhere; situations will just seem to improve; abundance of all kinds will just appear. And when they do, it is good to acknowledge them. We often build an altar to our disasters, giving them so much time and attention and energy. But do we do the same for our blessings?

Are our minds truly disciplined to call forth and accept the good?

We’re living during a “celestial speed-up” in which everything is moving more quickly—including us! Our issues aren’t coming through in slow gentle breezes anymore, but in huge torrential storms! And that’s not because we’re failing; it’s because we’re available, God knows it, and this is it.

I remember watching television one night about the D-Day invasion, how the Allied forces had rehearsed it for months, and then one morning things were different: this was real.

This is a critical time in all our lives because it’s a critical time on earth. Each of us has the opportunity now to grow into the fullness of our divine potential in order to take our place in God’s plan.

The plan exists in the Mind of God, and to the extent to which we surrender our thinking to Him, we take our part.

Our primary function is to stand in the light of who we are and become the people we are capable of being. From that, all good will follow. And we step into that light in any moment we choose.

When our hearts are closed to Love—when we’re judgmental, withholding, unforgiving—we are literally not being ourselves. We are, in those moments, choosing to be hostage to the ego rather than host to God.

Our function, our happiness, and our purpose all emanate from the same point of power; our capacity to embody love in any given instant.

And love is more than being nice. It is the surrender of a separate sense of ego self, a claim to the totality of life as part of ourselves. Knowing that we are part of the whole, we shift our perspective from a sense of individual identity to a sense of universal connection.

It becomes impossible to act only for yourself when you know that your self includes everyone.

If someone suffers on the other side of the world, he or she is no less a part of ourselves. And when a critical mass of humanity realizes this, then obstacles to world peace will fade.

In the realm of spirit, we see our goal fully accomplished: we want a world remade in the image of love.

In the realm of the body, we achieve it gradually; we will do what we can to make the world a better place. Yet the power of the vision keeps the process on track. We know that through our individual efforts, we are contributing to a larger one.

Our goal is not just to create a world in which loveless things are outlawed; our vision is a world in which such things have become literally unthinkable.

That is the role of the miracle worker: to think with so much love that fear begins to lose the false authority by which it rules the world.

Think of a world in which there is only love, and hold that thought for several minutes each day. The day will come when our thinking will lead to our believing, which will lead to our acting to make it so.

After 365 days of workbook lessons, the Course concludes with these words:

"This course is a beginning, not an end.

Your Friend goes with you.

You are not alone. No one who calls on Him can call in vain. Whatever troubles you, be certain that he has the answer and will gladly give it to you if you simply turn to Him and ask it of Him.

He will not withhold all answers that you need for anything that seems to trouble you.

He knows the way to solve all problems and resolve all doubts.

His certainty is yours. You need but ask it of Him, and it will be given you.

You are as certain of arriving home as is the pathway of the sun laid down before it rises, after it has set, and in the half-lit hours in between. Indeed, your pathway is more certain still, for it cannot be possible to change the course of those whom God has called to Him.

Therefore obey your will, and follow Him Whom you accepted as your Voice, to speak of what you really want and really need.

His is the Voice for God, and also yours. And thus He speaks of freedom and truth.

THE HOLY SPIRIT

INNER GUIDANCE

"A theoretical foundation such as the text is necessary as a background to make the exercises meaningful. Yet it is the exercises which will make the goal possible." ACIM Workbook Introduction

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, Will of God." Romans 12:2

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

Marrianne Williamson