
Simple ACIM
Original Edition
v1.0 · Course text used under CIMS license
Workbook for Students
Contents
51.Review of Lessons 1 - 5
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52.Review of Lessons 6 - 10
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53.Review of Lessons 11 - 15
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54.Review of Lessons 16 - 20
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55.Review of Lessons 21 - 25
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56.Review of Lessons 26 - 30
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57.Review of Lessons 31 - 35
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58.Review of Lessons 36 - 40
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59.Review of Lessons 41 - 45
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60.Review of Lessons 46 - 50
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Part I
Review II [81 - 90]
10 lessons
Part I
Review III [111 - 120]
10 lessons
Part I
Review IV [141 - 150]
10 lessons
Part I
Review V [171 - 180]
10 lessons
Part I
Review VI [201 - 220]
20 lessons
Part I · Lesson 52
Review of Lessons 6 - 10
1Today’s review covers these ideas:
[6] I am upset because I see what is not there.
2Reality is never frightening. It is impossible that it could upset me. Reality brings only perfect peace. When I am upset, it is always because I have replaced reality with illusions which I made up. The illusions are upsetting because I have given them reality and thus regard reality as an illusion. Nothing in God’s creation is affected in any way by this confusion of mine. I am always upset by nothing.
3As I look about, I condemn the world I look upon. I call this seeing. I hold the past against everyone and everything, making them my “enemies.” When I have forgiven myself and remembered who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see. There will be no past and therefore no “enemies.” And I will look with love on all that I failed to see before.
[8] My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
4I see only my own thoughts, and my mind is preoccupied with the past. What, then, can I see as it is? Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind. Let me understand that I am trying to use time against God. Let me learn to give the past away, realizing that in so doing I am giving up nothing.
[9] I see nothing as it is now.
5If I see nothing as it is now, it can truly be said that I see nothing. I can see only what is now. The choice is not whether to see the past or the present: it is whether to see or not. What I have chosen to see has cost me vision. Now I would choose again that I may see.
[10] My thoughts do not mean anything.
6I have no private thoughts. Yet it is only private thoughts of which I am aware. What can these thoughts mean? They do not exist, and so they mean nothing. Yet my mind is part of creation and part of its Creator. Would I not rather join the thinking of the universe than to obscure all that is really mine with my pitiful and meaningless “private” thoughts?