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v1.0 · Course text used under CIMS license

Workbook for Students

Contents

Opening

Introduction

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Part I

Lessons 1 - 50

50 lessons

Part I

Review I [51 - 60]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 61 - 80

20 lessons

Part I

Review II [81 - 90]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 91 - 110

20 lessons

Part I

Review III [111 - 120]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 121 - 140

20 lessons

121.Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

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122.Forgiveness offers everything I want.

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123.I thank my Father for His gifts to me.

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124.Let me remember I am one with God.

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125.In quiet I receive God's Word today.

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126.All that I give is given to myself.

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127.There is no love but God's.

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128.The world I see has nothing that I want.

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129.Beyond this world there is a world I want.

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130.It is impossible to see two worlds.

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131.No one can fail who asks to reach the truth.

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132.I loose the world from all I thought it was.

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133.I will not value what is valueless.

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134.Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.

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135.If I defend myself, I am attacked.

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136.Sickness is a defense against the truth.

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137.When I am healed, I am not healed alone.

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138.Heaven is the decision I must make.

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139.I will accept Atonement for myself.

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140.Only salvation can be said to cure.

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Part I

Review IV [141 - 150]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 151 - 170

20 lessons

Part I

Review V [171 - 180]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 181 - 200

20 lessons

Part I

Review VI [201 - 220]

20 lessons

Part II

Introduction

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Part II

Lessons 221 - 230

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 231 - 240

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 241 - 250

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 251 - 260

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 261 - 270

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 271 - 280

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 281 - 290

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 291 - 300

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 301 - 310

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 311 - 320

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 321 - 330

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 331 - 340

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 341 - 350

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 351 - 360

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 361 - 365

5 lessons

Closing

Epilogue

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Part I · Lesson 122

Forgiveness offers everything I want.

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1What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safety and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep, abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?

2All this forgiveness offers you, and more. It sparkles in your eyes as you awake and gives you joy with which to meet the day. It soothes your forehead while you sleep and rests upon your eyelids so you see no dreams of fear and evil, malice, and attack. And when you wake again, it offers you another day of happiness and peace. All this forgiveness offers you, and more.

3Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up which hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. It lets you recognize the Son of God and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind.

4What would you want forgiveness cannot give? What gifts but these are worthy to be sought? What fancied value, trivial effect, or transient promise never to be kept can hold more hope than what forgiveness brings? Why would you seek an answer other than the answer that will answer everything? Here is the perfect answer, given to imperfect questions, meaningless requests, half-hearted willingness to hear, and less than halfway diligence and partial trust.

5Here is the answer! Seek for it no more. You will not find another one instead. God's plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail. Be thankful it remains exactly as He planned it. Changelessly it stands before you like an open door with warmth and welcome calling from beyond the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home where you belong.

6Here is the answer! Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits for you within? Forgive and be forgiven. As you give, you will receive. There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God. Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth.

7Here is the answer! Do not turn away in aimless wandering again. Accept salvation now. It is the gift of God and not the world. The world can give no gifts of any value to a mind which has received what God has given as its own. God wills salvation be received today and that the intricacies of your dreams no longer hide their nothingness from you.

8Open your eyes today, and look upon a happy world of safety and of peace. Forgiveness is the means by which it comes to take the place of hell. In quietness it rises up to greet your open eyes and fill your heart with deep tranquility as ancient truths, forever newly born, arise in your awareness. What you will remember then can never be described. Yet your forgiveness offers it to you.

9Remembering the gifts forgiveness gives, we undertake our practicing today with hope and faith that this will be the day salvation will be ours. Earnestly and gladly will we seek for it today, aware we hold the key within our hands, accepting Heaven's answer to the hell we made, but where we would remain no more.

10Morning and evening do we gladly give a quarter of an hour to the search in which the end of hell is guaranteed. Begin in hopefulness, for we have reached the turning point at which the road becomes far easier. And now the way is short that yet we travel. We are close indeed to the appointed ending of the dream.

11Sink into happiness as you begin these practice periods, for they hold out the sure rewards of questions answered, and what your acceptance of the answer brings. Today it will be given you to feel the peace forgiveness offers and the joy the lifting of the veil holds out to you.

12Before the light you will receive today the world will fade until it disappears, and you will see another world arise you have no words to picture. Now we walk directly into light, and we receive the gifts which have been held in store for us since time began, kept waiting for today. Forgiveness offers everything you want. Today all things you want are given you.

13Let not your gifts recede throughout the day, as you return again to meet a world of shifting change and bleak appearances. Retain your gifts in clear awareness as you see the changeless in the heart of change, the light of truth behind appearances. Be tempted not to let your gifts slip by and drift into forgetfulness but hold them firmly in your mind by your attempts to think of them at least a minute as each quarter of an hour passes by.

14Remind yourself how precious are these gifts with this reminder, which has power to hold your gifts in your awareness through the day:

15Forgiveness offers everything I want. Today I have accepted this as true. Today I have received the gifts of God [and they belong to me eternally].