NATURE OF THE COURSE
This is a course in miracles.
It is a required course.
Only the time you take it is voluntary.
This is…a special curriculum…a special form…
There are many thousands of other forms, all with the same outcome.
This a course in mind training.
...a unified thought system.
Learning is all that causes change.
For mind can learn, and there is all change made.
This is not a course in philosophical speculation,
nor is it concerned with precise terminology.
This course is perfectly clear.
If you do not see it clearly,
is because you are interpreting against it, and therefore do not believe it.
… those who seek controversy will find it. Yet those who seek clarification will find it as
well. They must, however, be willing to overlook controversy, recognizing that it is a
defense against truth in the form of a delaying maneuver.
This course will be believed entirely or not at all.
This course is easy just because it makes no compromise.
the ideas used for the exercises are very simple, very clear and totally unambiguous.
I have made every effort to use words that are almost impossible to distort,
but it is always possible to twist symbols around if you wish.
words are but symbols of symbols. They are thus twice removed from reality.
[The course's] results are more convincing than its words.
Truth can only be experienced.
Instead of words, we need but feel His Love.
Seek only this, and do not let theology delay you.
A universal theology is impossible,
but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary.
It is this experience toward which the course is directed.
...you need not believe the ideas, You are merely asked to apply the ideas...
It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.
Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created
cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real.
In this one sentence is our course explained.
Ref.: T-Int.1:1-3; M-1.4:1-2; T-1.VII.4:1; W-42.7:2; T-31.III.4:8,10; C-int.1:1; T-11.VI.3:1,2; C-int.2:2,3;T-22.II.7:4;T-23.III.4:1; W- pI.39.1:2; T-3.I.3:11; M-21.1:9,10; T-9.V.9:3; T-8.VI.9:8;
W-pII.int.10:3;
C-int.4:5; C-int.2:5,6; W-int.9:1,8:3,6; M-20.5:7,8