Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you will need not accept them, and you'll need not really welcome them. A number of them you might actively resist. None of this can matter, or decrease their efficacy. But don't allow yourself to produce exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas might be, use them. Nothing more than that's required” (W.in.9).
Lessons might be repeated if desired. When it is a really meaningful or difficult lesson, maybe it's a good idea to keep with it for a couple of days or so. However, there's a chance in convinced that a training must be performed perfectly before moving on to another location one. This would be a trap because it is unlikely that most of us will ever do the lessons perfectly. If we could, we'd reach such an advanced state of spiritual growth that we would not need the lessons at all.
The center of Lesson 95 helps know how to proceed if several days or weeks are missed in practising the lessons. Importantly, it is not necessary to begin all over again. The instruction in Lesson 95 centers on recognizing how the ego creeps into the procedure, and that we must respond to “our lapses in diligence, and our failures to check out the instructions” (W.pI.95.8:3) with forgiveness. That is the key.
Jesus doesn't record how punctual we're in following a instructions for the day; his interest is just in aiding us train our minds to believe more and more with regards to forgiveness, and then eventually to generalize our learning how to all facets of our lives and experience. The core idea is that we are sincere in our attempts to examine and practice what the workbook teaches, aware that we all have strong resistance, yet are ready to forgive ourselves for the often inadequate efforts. So long as we continue to study and apply the lessons as we're instructed, we can make progress.
It is essential to focus on this content, as opposed to the form. What matters is building a sincere effort to follow along with the instructions as carefully as we are able to, without judging ourselves whenever we fail. Indeed, we are able to say that the purpose of doing the lessons is to complete them wrong and then forgive our mistakes. This may reflect our ultimate forgiveness of ourselves for the mistake of separating from our Creator-Source.
The manual for teachers, the 3rd book, is the simplest and most approachable of the three. The Course helps us realize that people are teachers and students of every other and that there surely is no line separating teachers and students. Even as we teach we learn, and once we learn we teach; but it's nothing related to a proper teaching setting.
This is is that individuals teach by demonstration. A Course in Miracles is never focused on form (body) but only content (mind). The manual is available in question-and-answer form, with the questions addressing a few of the more important themes within the Course itself. There's an appendix to the manual, which Helen took down several years after the Course was completed.
That is called the clarification of terms, which in a feeling is such as for instance a glossary of a few of the key terms that are found in the Course, the ostensible purpose being to define them for the Course's students. What one finds, however, is that when you do not already know just what the word means, the clarification of terms probably will not be helpful. What it's, however, is a lovely, and often times poetic summary of what these terms mean. It is another method of revisiting what we already have.
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