A Course in Miracles is a self-study course that aims to assist students in achieving spiritual transformation. ACIM presents a purely non-dualistic philosophy of forgiveness and includes practical lessons and applications for the practice of forgiveness in one’s daily life. You do not need to have read the Text before doing the daily lessons in the Workbook.
‘A theoretical foundation such as the text is necessary as a background to make the exercises in this workbook meaningful. Yet it is the exercises that will make the goal of the course possible. An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines the course sets forth.’ – Complete and Annotated Edition of A Course In Miracles
Introduction
A theoretical foundation such as the text is necessary as a background to make the exercises in this workbook meaningful. Yet it is the exercises that will make the goal of the course possible. An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines the course sets forth.
The exercises are very simple. They do not require a great deal of time, and it does not matter where you do them. They need no preparation. They are numbered, running from 1 to 365. The training period is one year. Do not undertake more than one lesson a day.
The purpose of the workbook is to train the mind in a systematic way to a different perception of everything in the world. The workbook is divided into two sections, the first dealing with the undoing of the way you see now, and the second with the restoration of sight.
Each day’s exercises are planned around one central idea, which is stated first. This is followed by a description of the specific procedures by which the idea for the day is to be applied. Many of the earlier exercises should be practiced with eyes open, to emphasize that the aim is to learn how to see. Also, unless you are instructed otherwise, it is recommended that each exercise be repeated several or even many times a day, preferably in a different place each time, and if possible in every situation in which you spend any long period of time. The purpose is to train the mind to generalize the lessons, so that you will understand that each of them is as applicable to one situation as it is to another.
The only rules that should be followed throughout are these: First, to practice the exercises with great specificity. Each one applies to every situation in which you find yourself, and to everything you see in it. Second, be sure that you do not decide that there are some things to which the idea for the day is inapplicable. The aim of the exercises will always be to increase the application of the idea to everything. This will require no effort on your part. The exercises themselves meet the conditions necessary for this kind of transfer. Only be sure that you make no exceptions in applying the idea. This will interfere with transfer of training.
Transfer of training in true perception does not proceed as does transfer of the training of the world. If true perception has been achieved in connection with any person, situation, or event, total transfer to everyone and everything is certain. On the other hand, one exception held apart from true perception makes its accomplishment anywhere impossible. The very nature of true perception is that it has no limits. It is the opposite of the way you see now.
Some of the ideas you will find difficult to believe, and others will seem quite startling. It does not matter. You are merely asked to apply them as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them or even to believe them. You are merely asked to use them. It is their use that will give meaning to you, and show you they are true.
Remember only this: You need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But allow yourself to make no exceptions in applying the ideas the exercises contain. Whatever your reaction to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than this is required.
The above is quoted from the Complete and Annotated Edition of A Course in Miracles. You can purchase a copy of this version of A Course in Miracles here.
Lessons 1 - 50
- Lesson 1 – Nothing I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) means anything.
- Lesson 2 – I have given everything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) all the meaning it has for me.
- Lesson 3 – I do not understand anything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place).
- Lesson 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).
- Lesson 5 – I am never upset for the reason I think.
- Lesson 6 – I am upset because I see something that is not there.
- Lesson 7 – I see only the past.
- Lesson 8 – My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
- Lesson 9 – I see nothing as it is now.
- Lesson 10 – My thoughts do not mean anything.
- Lesson 11 – My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.
- Lesson 12 – I am upset because I see a meaningless world.
- Lesson 13 – A meaningless world engenders fear.
- Lesson 14 – God did not create a meaningless world.
- Lesson 15 – My thoughts are images that I have made.
- Lesson 16 – I have no neutral thoughts.
- Lesson 17 – I see no neutral things.
- Lesson 18 – I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
- Lesson 19 – I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
- Lesson 20 – I am determined to see.
- Lesson 21 – I am determined to see things differently.
- Lesson 22 – What I see is a form of vengeance.
- Lesson 23 – I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.
- Lesson 24 – I do not perceive my own best interests.
- Lesson 25 – I do not know what anything is for.
- Lesson 26 – My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
- Lesson 27 – Above all else I want to see.
- Lesson 28 – Above all else I want to see things differently.
- Lesson 29 – God is in everything I see.
- Lesson 30 – God is in everything I see because God is in mind.
- Lesson 31 – I am not the victim of the world I see.
- Lesson 32 – I have invented the world I see.
- Lesson 33 – There is another way of looking at the world.
- Lesson 34 – I could see peace instead of this.
- Lesson 35 – My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.
- Lesson 36 – My holiness envelops everything I see.
- Lesson 37 – My holiness blesses the world.
- Lesson 38 – There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
- Lesson 39 – My holiness is my salvation.
- Lesson 40 – I am blessed as a Son of God.
- Lesson 41 – God goes with me wherever I go.
- Lesson 42 – God is my strength. Vision is His gift.
- Lesson 43 – God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
- Lesson 44 – God is the light in which I see.
- Lesson 45 – God is the Mind with which I think.
- Lesson 46 – God is the love in which I forgive.
- Lesson 47 – God is the strength in which I trust.
- Lesson 48 – There is nothing to fear.
- Lesson 49 – God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.
- Lesson 50 – I am sustained by the love of God.
Review 1
- Lesson 51 – Review of Lessons 1 – 5
- Lesson 52 – Review of Lessons 6 – 10
- Lesson 53 – Review of Lessons 11 – 15
- Lesson 54 – Review of Lessons 16 – 20
- Lesson 55 – Review of Lessons 21 – 25
- Lesson 56 – Review of Lessons 26 – 30
- Lesson 57 – Review of Lessons 31 – 35
- Lesson 58 – Review of Lessons 36 – 40
- Lesson 59 – Review of Lessons 41 – 45
- Lesson 60 – Review of Lessons 46 – 50
Lessons 61 - 80
- Lesson 61 – I am the light of the world.
- Lesson 62 – Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
- Lesson 63 – The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.
- Lesson 64 – Let me not forget my function.
- Lesson 65 – My only function is the one God gave me.
- Lesson 66 – My happiness and my function are one.
- Lesson 67 – Love created me like Itself.
- Lesson 68 – Love holds no grievances.
- Lesson 69 – My grievances hide the light of the world in me.
- Lesson 70 – My salvation comes from me.
- Lesson 71 – Only God’s plan for salvation will work.
- Lesson 72 – Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.
- Lesson 73 – I will there be light.
- Lesson 74 – There is no will but God’s.
- Lesson 75 – The light has come.
- Lesson 76 – I am under no laws but God’s.
- Lesson 77 – I am entitled to miracles.
- Lesson 78 – Let miracles replace all grievances.
- Lesson 79 – Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.
- Lesson 80 – Let me recognize my problems have been solved.
Review 2
- Lesson 81 – Review of Lessons 61 – 62
- Lesson 82 – Review of Lessons 63 – 64
- Lesson 83 – Review of Lessons 65 – 66
- Lesson 84 – Review of Lessons 67 – 68
- Lesson 85 – Review of Lessons 69 – 70
- Lesson 86 – Review of Lessons 71 – 72
- Lesson 87 – Review of Lessons 73 – 74
- Lesson 88 – Review of Lessons 75 – 76
- Lesson 89 – Review of Lessons 77 – 78
- Lesson 90 – Review of Lessons 79 – 80
Lessons 91 - 110
- Lesson 91 – Miracles are seen in light.
- Lesson 92 – Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.
- Lesson 93 – Light and joy and peace abide in me.
- Lesson 94 – I am as God created me.
- Lesson 95 – I am one Self, united with my Creator.
- Lesson 96 – Salvation comes from my one Self.
- Lesson 97 – I am spirit.
- Lesson 98 – I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.
- Lesson 99 – Salvation is my only function here.
- Lesson 100 – My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.
- Lesson 101 – God’s will for me is perfect happiness.
- Lesson 102 – I share God’s will for happiness for me.
- Lesson 103 – God, being love, is also happiness.
- Lesson 104 – I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
- Lesson 105 – God’s peace and joy are mine.
- Lesson 106 – Let me be still and listen to the truth.
- Lesson 107 – Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
- Lesson 108 – To give and receive are one in truth.
- Lesson 109 – I rest in God.
- Lesson 110 – I am as God created me.
Review 3
- Lesson 111 – Review of Lessons 91 – 92
- Lesson 112 – Review of Lessons 93 – 94
- Lesson 113 – Review of Lessons 95 – 96
- Lesson 114 – Review of Lessons 97 – 98
- Lesson 115 – Review of Lessons 99 – 100
- Lesson 116 – Review of Lessons 101 – 102
- Lesson 117 – Review of Lessons 103 – 104
- Lesson 118 – Review of Lessons 105 – 106
- Lesson 119 – Review of Lessons 107 – 108
- Lesson 120 – Review of Lessons 109 – 110
Lessons 121 - 140
- Lesson 121 – Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- Lesson 122 – Forgiveness offers everything I want.
- Lesson 123 – I thank my Father for His gifts to me.
- Lesson 124 – Let me remember I am one with God.
- Lesson 125 – In quiet I receive God’s Word today.
- Lesson 126 – All that I give is given to myself.
- Lesson 127 – There is no love but God’s.
- Lesson 128 – The world I see has nothing I want.
- Lesson 129 – Beyond this world there is a world I want.
- Lesson 130 – It is impossible to see two worlds.
- Lesson 131 – No one can fail who asks to reach the truth.
- Lesson 132 – I loose the world from all I thought it was.
- Lesson 133 – I will not value what is valueless.
- Lesson 134 – Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
- Lesson 135 – If I defend myself I am attacked.
- Lesson 136 – Sickness is a defense against the truth.
- Lesson 137 – As I am healed I am not healed alone.
- Lesson 138 – Heaven is the decision I must make.
- Lesson 139 – I will accept Atonement for myself.
- Lesson 140 – Only salvation can be said to cure.
Review 4
- Lesson 141 – Review of Lessons 121 – 122
- Lesson 142 – Review of Lessons 123 – 124
- Lesson 143 – Review of Lessons 125 – 126
- Lesson 144 – Review of Lessons 127 – 128
- Lesson 145 – Review of Lessons 129 – 130
- Lesson 146 – Review of Lessons 131 – 132
- Lesson 147 – Review of Lessons 133 – 134
- Lesson 148 – Review of Lessons 135 – 136
- Lesson 149 – Review of Lessons 137 – 138
- Lesson 150 – Review of Lessons 139 – 140
Lessons 151 - 170
- Lesson 151 – All things are echoes of the Voice of God.
- Lesson 152 – The power of decision is my own.
- Lesson 153 – In my defenselessness my safety lies.
- Lesson 154 – I am among the ministers of God.
- Lesson 155 – I will step back and let Him lead the way.
- Lesson 156 – I walk with God in perfect holiness.
- Lesson 157 – Into His presence would I enter now.
- Lesson 158 – Today I learn to give as I receive.
- Lesson 159 – I give the miracles I have received.
- Lesson 160 – I am at home. Fear is the stranger is here.
- Lesson 161 – Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.
- Lesson 162 – I am as God created me.
- Lesson 163 – There is no death. The Son of God if free.
- Lesson 164 – Now we are one with Him Who is our Source.
- Lesson 165 – Let not my mind deny the thought of God.
- Lesson 166 – I am entrusted with the gifts of God.
- Lesson 167 – There is one life, and that I share with God.
- Lesson 168 – Your grace is given me. I claim it now.
- Lesson 169 – By grace I live. By grace I am released.
- Lesson 170 – There is no cruelty in God and none in me.
Review 5
- Lesson 171 – Review of Lessons 151 – 152
- Lesson 172 – Review of Lessons 153 – 154
- Lesson 173 – Review of Lessons 155 – 156
- Lesson 174 – Review of Lessons 157 – 158
- Lesson 175 – Review of Lessons 159 – 160
- Lesson 176 – Review of Lessons 161 – 162
- Lesson 177 – Review of Lessons 163 – 164
- Lesson 178 – Review of Lessons 165 – 166
- Lesson 179 – Review of Lessons 167 – 168
- Lesson 180 – Review of Lessons 169 – 170
Lessons 181 - 200
- Lesson 181 – I trust my brothers, who are one with me.
- Lesson 182 – I will be still a moment and go home.
- Lesson 183 – I call upon God’s Name and on my own.
- Lesson 184 – The Name of God is my inheritance.
- Lesson 185 – I want the peace of God.
- Lesson 186 – Salvation of the world depends on me.
- Lesson 187 – I bless the world because I bless myself.
- Lesson 188 – The peace of God is shining in me now.
- Lesson 189 – I feel the love of God within me now.
- Lesson 190 – I choose the joy of God instead of pain.
- Lesson 191 – I am the holy Son of God Himself.
- Lesson 192 – I have a function God would have me fill.
- Lesson 193 – All things are lessons God would have me learn.
- Lesson 194 – I place the future in the hands of God.
- Lesson 195 – Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
- Lesson 196 – It can be but myself I crucify.
- Lesson 197 – It can be but my gratitude I earn.
- Lesson 198 – Only my condemnation injures me.
- Lesson 199 – I am not a body. I am free.
- Lesson 200 – There is no peace except the peace of God.
Review 6
- Lesson 201 – Review of Lesson 181
- Lesson 202 – Review of Lesson 182
- Lesson 203 – Review of Lesson 183
- Lesson 204 – Review of Lesson 184
- Lesson 205 – Review of Lesson 185
- Lesson 206 – Review of Lesson 186
- Lesson 207 – Review of Lesson 187
- Lesson 208 – Review of Lesson 188
- Lesson 209 – Review of Lesson 189
- Lesson 210 – Review of Lesson 190
- Lesson 211 – Review of Lesson 191
- Lesson 212 – Review of Lesson 192
- Lesson 213 – Review of Lesson 193
- Lesson 214 – Review of Lesson 194
- Lesson 215 – Review of Lesson 195
- Lesson 216 – Review of Lesson 196
- Lesson 217 – Review of Lesson 197
- Lesson 218 – Review of Lesson 198
- Lesson 219 – Review of Lesson 199
- Lesson 220 – Review of Lesson 200
