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A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume
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It is very important to focus on the content, rather than the form. What matters is making a sincere effort to check out the instructions as carefully as we could, without judging ourselves whenever we fail. Indeed, we could say that the purpose of doing the lessons is to accomplish them wrong and then forgive our mistakes. This will reflect our ultimate forgiveness of ourselves for the mistake of separating from our Creator-Source.
The manual for teachers, the third book, is the easiest and most approachable of the three. The Course helps us realize that individuals are teachers and students of every other and that there's no line separating teachers and students. Once we teach we learn, and as we learn we teach; but it's nothing regarding a conventional teaching setting.
This is is that people teach by demonstration. A Course in Miracles is never concerned with form (body) but only content (mind). The manual will come in question-and-answer form, with the questions addressing a few of the more important themes within the Course itself. There is an appendix to the manual, which Helen took down a couple of years following the Course was completed.
This is called the clarification of terms, which in an expression is just like a glossary of some of the key terms that are utilized in the Course, the ostensible purpose being to define them for the Course's students. What one finds, however, is when you do not know what the phrase means, the clarification of terms probably will not be helpful. What it is, however, is a wonderful, and many times poetic summary of what these terms mean. It is another method of revisiting what we already have.
The role of teaching and learning is reversed in the thinking about the world. The reversal is characteristic. It appears like the teacher and the learner are separated, the teacher giving something to the learner rather than to himself. Further, the act of teaching is regarded as a particular activity, in which engages only a relatively small proportion of one's time. The course, on one other hand, emphasizes that to teach is to understand, so that teacher and learner would be the same. In addition it emphasizes that teaching is a continuing process; it continues every moment of the day and continues into sleeping thoughts as well.
David's message speaks to all people, whether or not their background is religious, spiritual, scientific, or atheist. He's as comfortable delving into the metaphysics of modern-day movies as he is in pointing to the underlying meaning of the scriptures in the Bible. David's journey involved the analysis of many pathways, culminating in a deeply committed practical application of “A Course in Miracles,” of which he is a world-renowned teacher. His teachings have been translated into 12 languages and taken to the hearts and minds of millions through the intimate design of his books, audio, and videos.
To teach is always to demonstrate. You can find only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you imagine one or one other is true all the time. From your own demonstration, others learn, and so do you. The question isn't whether you will teach, for in that there surely is no choice. The goal of the course may be said to offer you a method of choosing what you would like to show based on what you want to learn. You can't give to someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest from what you believe. It's a way of conversion. This is simply not done by words alone. Any situation must be to you to be able to teach others what you are, and what they are to you. No more than that, but also never less.
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