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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 7
I see only the past.
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1This idea is particularly difficult to believe at first. Yet it is the rationale for all of the preceding ones.
2It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything.
3It is the reason why you have given everything you see all the meaning that it has for you.
4It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see.
5It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything and why they are like the things you see.
6It is the reason why you are never upset for the reason you think.
7It is the reason why you are upset because you see something that is not there.
8Old ideas about time are very difficult to change because everything you believe is rooted in time and depends on your not learning these new ideas about it. Yet that is precisely why you need new ideas about time. This first time idea is not really so strange as it may sound at first. Look at a cup, for example.
9Do you see a cup, or are you merely reviewing your past experiences of picking up a cup, being thirsty, drinking from a cup, feeling the rim of a cup against your lips, having breakfast, and so on? Are not your aesthetic reactions to the cup, too, based on past experiences? How else would you know whether or not this kind of cup will break if you drop it? What do you know about this cup except what you learned in the past? You would have no idea what this cup is except for your past learning. Do you, then, really see it?
10Look about you. This is equally true of whatever you look at. Acknowledge this by applying the idea for today indiscriminately to whatever catches your eye. For example:
11I see only the past in this pencil.
I see only the past in this shoe.
I see only the past in this hand.
I see only the past in that body.
I see only the past in that face.
12Do not linger over any one thing in particular, but remember to omit nothing specifically. Glance briefly at each subject, and then move on to the next.