This book is a line-by-line analysis and in-depth discussion of the fifty miracle principles that begin and summarize the text of A Course in Miracles . These principles introduce students to concepts central to the Course's thought system. Based on a workshop, this study of the fifty miracle principles provides a clear summary of the teachings of A Course in Miracles , and includes questions from the group, allowing for further discussion of the principles and related ideas.
Dr. Wapnick was a close colleague and friend to the author of A Course in Miracles, and has a deep understanding of the Course and clarifies everything about it. He is a huge help, and I recommend any of his books to someone who could go for some extra guidance in the Course.
HIGHLIGHTS: 1. The simplest definition of a miracle is that it is a correction for how we perceive for for how we think. - forgiveness heals the problem. - There is nothing out in the world, except for what we put there. - Forgive others to forgive ourselves. - Changing my mind about myself. We project what is in our minds onto the world. - I creations are really the extension of us in our true state. - The real miracle is the love that inspires the miracle. Choose the miracle instead of the ego. - The solution to every distress, and every problem in our world would be to join and heal through forgiveness.
2. Love comes from God. - Our habitual response should be: what can I learn from this? - Our responsibility is simply to ask for help to see something the way Jesus sees it rather than the way the ego sees it. That is our only responsibility. - The most natural thing in this world is to be at peace and one with God. - The more that we love, heal, and, forgive, the more loved, healed, and forgiven we become.
3. Prayer is the medium of miracles. - The only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness. - Everything is either of God, or of the ego. There is no in between, no compromise. - Miracle of thoughts are corrective thoughts to take the place of the thoughts of the ego. - When you find yourself in a very difficult and painful situation, there is a purpose that you could identify within the situation. The purpose is that you could learn not to see yourself as a victim, and to the extent that you learned that, to the extent you will heal all this guilt in yourself. - The basic source of guilt is our believing that we attacked God and separated from him. - We make up problems, then we take them very seriously. - If we could learn not to take her ego, so seriously, we would be much better off. - If I am angry at you right now, and at this moment, it is because I am not living with you right now at this moment. I am bringing some thing from the past. - The miracle and does the past in the present, and then and that releases the future. The miracle takes the egos view of time and freezes from it. - Ask the Holy Spirit to remove your ego investments in the outcome that would interfere with your hearing his answer. - The problem is not in someone else, it is in me. We keep changing the forms of the problem, and never get to the real cause of the problem, which is our belief in separation.
3. Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating it is as blessed to give as to receive. - By changing our minds, we can transcend the laws of the body.
4. Through miracles, you accept God’s forgiveness by extending it to others. - Nothing has been done to you. It is all something that you did to yourself. - When you look within, you will not see sin. You will see that there was no sin. - The body is totally neutral. The body merely carries out the dictates of the mind.
5. Only the creation of light or real. - You are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of your creator. - Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist.
EX: the problem is not that you need a parking space. The problem is your concern about needing the parking space. The better prayer would be to ask his help to relieve you of any concern that you have to find a parking spot.
- Ask the Holy Spirit: what should I do? - Keep asking him to help me be less resistant about being a forgiving and loving person.
6. Change the nightmare dream into a happy dream. - Sins are punished, mistakes are corrected. - Shift your interpretation from “sin” to a “mistake” that has to be corrected.
7. The love of God is all inclusive. No exceptions. - People heal because they deny body identification in affirm spirit identification. - Ask Holy Spirit, what would you have me do? - Ask his help that your perception be healed - Perception is an interpretation, not a fact. - Miracles should inspire gratitude. - Choosing a miracle means choosing to hear God‘s voice rather than egos - The protection of spirit is merely the awareness of the invulnerability of spirit. - We make the error real by believing we have to do something for or against the error. once we believe, there is a problem on the level of the body, which is which has to be healed, then we are making the error real.
8. Protection of our thought system. - We correct the misthought that we have. - Bring allusions to the truth. - Nothing of the body is spiritual. It is the use of it which is important. If something becomes a preoccupation, that is a red flag. - Don’t make a big deal about us some thing that is not a big deal. - Our only job is to have our individual mind healed. What happens after that is up to the Holy Spirit - We could never be in the wrong place at the wrong time because we can always learn from any and everything. The script is already written. We have already been through all of this. We are reviewing mentally what has already gone by. We can review or re-experience what has already happened either by choosing the ego or the Holy Spirit. Being in the right or wrong place has no meaning. - Pray for help to get ourselves out of the way, so the Holy Spirit can extend through our mind to other minds.
9. The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium. - Use time to help us realize there is no time. - The miracle lift us up above the world. If you are choosing to forgive this huge chunk of guilt. Our problems are not what others or the world do to us, but rather what we believe we have done to ourselves. - We are the victims only of other thoughts.
10. The person who seems to be attacking is really calling out for help. - You do not deny what your eyes see. You just shift your interpretation. - Let go as much guilt as you can. - The ego is more than the body, and we just choose whenever we wish to, this is our choice, to come back into the world of the body so we can work through whatever parts of a hologram we have not worked through.
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