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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
1.Nothing I see in this room[on this street, from this window in this place] means anything.
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2.I have given everything I see in this room[on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me.
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3.I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].
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4.These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].
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5.I am never upset for the reason I think.
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6.I am upset because I see something that is not there.
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7.I see only the past.
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8.My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
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9.I see nothing as it is now.
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10.My thoughts do not mean anything.
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11.My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.
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12.I am upset because I see a meaningless world.
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13.A meaningless world engenders fear.
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14.God did not create a meaningless world.
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15.My thoughts are images which I have made.
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16.I have no neutral thoughts.
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17.I see no neutral things.
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18.I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
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19.I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
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20.I am determined to see.
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21.I am determined to see things differently.
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22.What I see is a form of vengeance.
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23.I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.
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24.I do not perceive my own best interests.
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25.I do not know what anything is for.
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26.My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
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27.Above all else I want to see.
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28.Above all else, I want to see things differently.
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29.God is in everything I see.
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30.God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.
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31.I am not the victim of the world I see.
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32.I have invented the world I see.
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33.There is another way of looking at the world.
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34.I could see peace instead of this.
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35.My mind is part of God's. I am very holy.
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36.My holiness envelops everything I see.
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37.My holiness blesses the world.
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38.There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
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39.My holiness is my salvation.
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40.I am blessed as a Son of God.
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41.God goes with me wherever I go.
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42.God is my strength. Vision is His gift.
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43.God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
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44.God is the Light in which I see.
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45.God is the Mind with which I think.
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46.God is the Love in which I forgive.
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47.God is the Strength in which I trust.
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48.There is nothing to fear.
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49.God's Voice speaks to me all through the day.
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50.I am sustained by the Love of God.
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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
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 42
God is my strength. Vision is His gift.
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1The idea for today combines two very powerful thoughts, both of major importance. It also sets forth a cause and effect relationship which explains why you cannot fail in your efforts to achieve the goal of the course. You will see because it is the Will of God. It is His strength, not your own, that gives you power. And it is His gift to you, rather than your own, which offers vision to you.
2God is indeed your strength. And what He gives is truly given. This means that you can receive it any time and anywhere, wherever you are and in whatever circumstances you find yourself. Your passage through time and space is not random. You cannot but be in the right place at the right time. Such is the strength of God. Such are His gifts.
3We will have two three- to five-minute longer exercise periods today, one as soon as possible after you wake and another as close as possible to the time you go to sleep. It is better, however, to wait until you can sit quietly by yourself at a time when you feel ready than it is to be concerned with the time as such.
4Begin the practice period by repeating the idea for today slowly with eyes open, looking about you. Then close your eyes and repeat the idea again, quite slowly. After this, try to think of nothing except thoughts which occur to you in relation to today's idea. You might think, for example:
5Vision must be possible. God gives truly; or,
6God's gifts to me must be mine because He gave them to me.
7Whatever thought that is clearly related to the idea itself is suitable. You may, in fact, be astonished at the amount of course-related understanding some of your own thoughts contain. Let them come without censoring unless you realize your mind is merely wandering and you have let obviously irrelevant thoughts intrude. You may also reach a point where no thoughts at all seem to come to mind. If such interferences occur, open your eyes and repeat the thought once more while looking slowly about; close your eyes, repeat the idea once more, and then continue to look for related thoughts in your mind.
8Remember, though, that active searching is not appropriate for today's exercises. Try merely to step back and let the thoughts come. If you find this difficult, it is better to spend the practice period alternating between slow repetitions of the idea with eyes open, then closed, then open, and so on, than it is to strain in order to find suitable thoughts.
9There is no limit on the number of short practice periods which would be most beneficial. The idea for the day is a beginning step in bringing thoughts together and teaching you that what you are studying is a unified thought system in which nothing is lacking that is needed, and nothing is included that is contradictory or irrelevant.
10The more often you repeat the idea during the day, the more often you will be reminding yourself that the goal of the course is important to you, and that you have not forgotten it.