A Course in Miracles Blog

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2357. Whatever you want to have you must give, including atonement and healing

Thursday, Jan 01, 2026 1925 words 8 mins 33 secs

God's laws aren't the same as earthly laws. In God, there is a law that giving and receiving are one. This means that in order to have anything, ie to receive anything, you have to give it. And if...

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2356. Do you have power over what happens, including death?

Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025 2991 words 13 mins 17 secs

Is there a power OTHER than the mind that can cause things to happen to us? What causes sickness? What makes death happen? Do we actually have any control over this world? Do we have a power, to such...

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2355. The proper healing of the body

Tuesday, Dec 30, 2025 617 words 2 mins 44 secs

"Defend the body and you have attacked your mind. For you have seen in it the faults, the weaknesses, the limits and the lacks from which you think the body must be saved. You will not see the mind...

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2354. The body can be re-purposed to cause healing in others

Monday, Dec 29, 2025 1819 words 8 mins 5 secs

Think of the physical body as having a purpose. It has a purpose, because it has a USE, because it has a USER. It is being used FOR something, other than the body in and of itself - because...

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2353. Who is responsible for causing death to happen?

Friday, Dec 26, 2025 1509 words 6 mins 42 secs1 comments

It's a matter of responsibility. Is death of the body caused solely by your mind and is your mind solely responsible for whether or not it happens? Do you actually have the freedom NOT TO DIE if you so...

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2352. Simply stop being a victim forever

Tuesday, Dec 23, 2025 436 words 1 mins 56 secs

You could sum everything up as simply .... stop being a victim.

The question is, how far do you have to take this? The answer is, ALL THE WAY. The question then is, is it possible to not be...

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2351. The truth is reassuring

Monday, Dec 22, 2025 1231 words 5 mins 28 secs

"You are at home in God, dreaming of exile, but perfectly capable of awakening to Reality. Is it your will to do so?"

The truth is that there is nothing wrong. There is nothing wrong with you, there is...

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2350. True healing

Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 1285 words 5 mins 42 secs

If you believe bodies and sickness are real, you will look upon bodies suffering and want to fix them. The nightmare of things going wrong compels you to do something in guilt and desperation. So you try to heal,...

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2349. How to actually heal another’s mind

Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 720 words 3 mins 12 secs

Healing requires that we see the other person as already perfect, completely equal to our perfect self. We must START there and STRENGTHEN their perfection in THEIR mind by seeing it FOR them.

If we start with “you are...

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2348. Miracle healing doesn’t tackle sickness, it affirms life

Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 858 words 3 mins 48 secs

I think one of the things that blocks us from healing others, is that we become deceived by their appearances. We look at the body and think that’s the person. We see signs of sickness. We see the person’s...

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2347. If something changes it is not the truth, it is a lie

Saturday, Dec 20, 2025 610 words 2 mins 42 secs

There is a VERY EASY way to determine whether this world - Earth etc - is REAL. You simply need to ask yourself, whether real things are capable of change?

As ACIM clearly states, what is real NEVER CHANGES....

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2346. Revisiting the secret of salvation

Friday, Dec 19, 2025 1377 words 6 mins 7 secs

The idea is simple. There is only one lesson. This one lesson sets you free from every form of suffering. It's simply this:

Take full responsibility for everything that you are experiencing.

What is this based on? It's based...

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2345. It's not enough to not be affected by the world

Friday, Dec 19, 2025 1072 words 4 mins 45 secs

Quite often we are driven by a desire to stop being affected by the world. We all want to get away from suffering and find some peace.

We initially see ourselves as an EFFECT, and we see CAUSE as...

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2344. Does the holy spirit operate in the physical world? Yes!

Thursday, Dec 18, 2025 727 words 3 mins 13 secs

There is a myth which is perpetuating in the ACIM community that the Holy Spirit does not operate in the world. That he does not "find you parking spaces" or help you deal with your bank account, especially not...

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2343. True miracles use the power of God

Thursday, Dec 18, 2025 1054 words 4 mins 41 secs

I would like to propose that TRUE miracle working entails the USE OF the POWER OF GOD. And nothing less than total absolute unlimited power!!!!!!!!!!

A miracle is thus not a mere small shift in a perception, or a...

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2342. God is miraculous and a miracle worker

Monday, Dec 15, 2025 445 words 1 mins 58 secs

There are numerous statements in the course that confirm that there are miraculous things going on in God in heaven.

Not only does the course ACTUALLY SAY that God perform miracles, it also says that WE as sons of...

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2341. Are you having nightmares about sin? What is sin?

Sunday, Dec 14, 2025 1461 words 6 mins 29 secs

Illusions + reality = sin.

Reality - illusions = innocence.

This world we're in is a place of limitations. Everything is an illusion. Nothing is whole. Everything is partial. And all the forms that things take seem to depict...

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2340. What does it really mean that I need do nothing?

Sunday, Dec 14, 2025 1866 words 8 mins 17 secs

We hear people latching onto this phrase quite often and using it to justify inaction. But Jesus doesn't use it in this way in the course. He speaks of it more as a psychological state and a recognition of...

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2339. Everyone's trying to be a victim

Saturday, Dec 13, 2025 1147 words 5 mins 5 secs

If you are not being absolutely immortal, then you are trying to be a victim. Victims are not just those who seem to be overtly attacked by another. Victims are those who believe they can be CHANGED AT ALL...

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2338. You already have a perfect self

Saturday, Dec 13, 2025 614 words 2 mins 43 secs

Somewhere seemingly inside you, there is a perfect self. The soul that God created, one in Christ. That's you. That's what you are.

This perfect self has nothing wrong with it at all. It is already absolutely perfect. God...

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