Commentary on Commentary on the Introduction to Review III It is conventional wisdom among Course students that we shouldn't try too hard to follow the practice instructions in the Workbook, because that just turns Workbook practice into a ritual. But what is the...
There is a very puzzling statement in Workbook Lesson 184, so puzzling that I have been asked about it several times: Think not you made the world. Illusions, yes! But what is true in earth and Heaven is beyond your naming. (W-184.8:1-3) The apparent problem with this...
Lesson 133, "I will not value what is valueless," is a fascinating and important lesson. It provides a series of four criteria or tests by which we can decide when we are choosing the valuable and when we are choosing the valueless. At first glance these tests seem...
In the first paragraph of Lesson 247, we find these beautiful but puzzling lines: Brother, come and let me look on you. Your loveliness reflects my own. Your sinlessness is mine. You stand forgiven, and I stand with you. [CE W-247.1:5-8] We immediately wonder: Who is...
Question: I began the Workbook last November. I was going strong until I hit the last review of Part I and now I am having a tremendous problem focusing and doing the lessons correctly. I feel as if I have hit a brick wall and so, over the last few weeks, I have taken...
Treasure House Visualization Based on Workbook Lesson 316 Begin by repeating this line, "Help me to perform whatever miracles you want of me today." Then ask the Holy Spirit to whom He wants you to give a miracle today. We'll focus on just one person, so you don't...
The progression of the Workbook The kind of day described at the end of Part 4 of this "Workbook/Practice" section may sound wonderful, but for most of us it seems out of reach. It seems impossible that we could ever make practice that much a part of our lives. How...
Meditation and prayer are probably humanity's most universal and time-honored inner practices for making contact with the spiritual domain. Forms of these can be found in almost every religion, both East and West. It would be surprising indeed if the Course did not...
Now let us look at what exactly Workbook practice is. The full picture of that practice emerges in the final review of Part I (Lessons 201-220), and continues through Lesson 365. I call this the four-fold structure of Workbook practice because it is composed of four...
The importance of the structure The Workbook starts out asking almost nothing of its students. Just as it does not demand that we believe the ideas, so it does not require a great deal of our time. The first nineteen lessons ask for only two to five practice periods a...
Study and practice We have seen that the first aspect of the Course's program is studying the teaching, which is primarily set forth in the first volume, the Text. This study takes us on a mental tour of some of the most mind-bending, mind-expanding and mind-inverting...
Please close your eyes and get comfortable. Begin by thinking of a beautiful moment you’ve had, When, just for a moment, nothing came to interrupt your peace, When you were certain you were loved and safe, When, for a moment, everything seemed OK, or even better than...
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