Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 27 - THE HEALING OF THE DREAM.

T-27.V.9. Your healing will extend, and will be brought to problems that you thought were not your own. 2 And it will also be apparent that your many different problems will be solved as any one of them has been escaped. 3 It cannot be their differences which made this possible, for learning does not jump from situations to their opposites and bring the same results. 4 All healing must proceed in lawful manner, in accord with laws that have been properly perceived but never violated. 5 Fear you not the way that you perceive them. 6 You are wrong, but there is One within you Who is right.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 8 - THE JOURNEY BACK.

T-8.I.4. Your past learning must have taught you the wrong things, simply because it has not made you happy. 2 On this basis alone its value should be questioned. 3 If learning aims at change, and that is always its purpose, are you satisfied with the changes your learning has brought you? 4 Dissatisfaction with learning outcomes is a sign of learning failure, since it means that you did not get what you wanted.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 23 - THE WAR AGAINST YOURSELF.

T-23.III.6. Mistake not truce for peace, nor compromise for the escape from conflict. 2 To be released from conflict means that it is over. 3 The door is open; you have left the battleground. 4 You have not lingered there in cowering hope that it will not return because the guns are stilled an instant, and the fear that haunts the place of death is not apparent. 5 There is no safety in a battleground. 6 You can look down on it in safety from above and not be touched. 7 But from within it you can find no safety. 8 Not one tree left still standing will shelter you. 9 Not one illusion of protection stands against the faith in murder. 10 Here stands the body, torn between the natural desire to communicate and the unnatural intent to murder and to die. 11 Think you the form that murder takes can offer safety? 12 Can guilt be absent from a battlefield?

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 8 - THE JOURNEY BACK.

T-8.VIII.3. It has been particularly difficult to overcome the ego's belief in the body as an end, because it is synonymous with the belief in attack as an end. 2 The ego has a profound investment in sickness. 3 If you are sick, how can you object to the ego's firm belief that you are not invulnerable? 4 This is an appealing argument from the ego's point of view, because it obscures the obvious attack that underlies the sickness. 5 If you recognized this and also decided against attack, you could not give this false witness to the ego's stand.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 2 - THE SEPARATION AND THE ATONEMENT.

T-2.VI.5. Fear is always a sign of strain, arising whenever what you want conflicts with what you do. 2 This situation arises in two ways: First, you can choose to do conflicting things, either simultaneously or successively. 3 This produces conflicted behavior, which is intolerable to you because the part of the mind that wants to do something else is outraged. 4 Second, you can behave as you think you should, but without entirely wanting to do so. 5 This produces consistent behavior, but entails great strain. 6 In both cases, the mind and the behavior are out of accord, resulting in a situation in which you are doing what you do not wholly want to do. 7 This arouses a sense of coercion that usually produces rage, and projection is likely to follow. 8 Whenever there is fear, it is because you have not made up your mind. 9 Your mind is therefore split, and your behavior inevitably becomes erratic. 10 Correcting at the behavioral level can shift the error from the first to the second type, but will not obliterate the fear.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 8 - THE JOURNEY BACK.

T-8.VII.2. Remember that the Holy Spirit interprets the body only as a means of communication. 2 Being the Communication Link between God and His separated Sons, the Holy Spirit interprets everything you have made in the light of what He is. 3 The ego separates through the body. 4 The Holy Spirit reaches through it to others. 5 You do not perceive your brothers as the Holy Spirit does, because you do not regard bodies solely as a means of joining minds and uniting them with yours and mine. 6 This interpretation of the body will change your mind entirely about its value. 7 Of itself it has none.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 24 - THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS.

T-24.II.2. Pursuit of specialness is always at the cost of peace. 2 Who can attack his savior and cut him down, yet recognize his strong support? 3 Who can detract from his omnipotence, yet share his power? 4 And who can use him as the gauge of littleness, and be released from limits? 5 You have a function in salvation. 6 Its pursuit will bring you joy. 7 But the pursuit of specialness must bring you pain. 8 Here is a goal that would defeat salvation, and thus run counter to the Will of God. 9 To value specialness is to esteem an alien will to which illusions of yourself are dearer than the truth.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 16 - THE FORGIVENESS OF ILLUSIONS.

T-16.IV.3. The special love relationship is an attempt to limit the destructive effects of hate by finding a haven in the storm of guilt. 2 It makes no attempt to rise above the storm, into the sunlight. 3 On the contrary, it emphasizes the guilt outside the haven by attempting to build barricades against it, and keep within them. 4 The special love relationship is not perceived as a value in itself, but as a place of safety from which hatred is split off and kept apart. 5 The special love partner is acceptable only as long as he serves this purpose. 6 Hatred can enter, and indeed is welcome in some aspects of the relationship, but it is still held together by the illusion of love. 7 If the illusion goes, the relationship is broken or becomes unsatisfying on the grounds of disillusionment.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 9 - THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE ATONEMENT.

T-9.I.1. Fear of the Will of God is one of the strangest beliefs the human mind has ever made. 2 It could not possibly have occurred unless the mind were already profoundly split, making it possible for it to be afraid of what it really is. 3 Reality cannot "threaten" anything except illusions, since reality can only uphold truth. 4 The very fact that the Will of God, which is what you are, is perceived as fearful, demonstrates that you are afraid of what you are. 5 It is not, then, the Will of God of which you are afraid, but yours.

T-9.I.2. Your will is not the ego's, and that is why the ego is against you. 2 What seems to be the fear of God is really the fear of your own reality. 3 It is impossible to learn anything consistently in a state of panic. 4 If the purpose of this course is to help you remember what you are, and if you believe that what you are is fearful, then it must follow that you will not learn this course. 5 Yet the reason for the course is that you do not know what you are.

T-9.I.3. If you do not know what your reality is, why would you be so sure that it is fearful? 2 The association of truth and fear, which would be highly artificial at most, is particularly inappropriate in the minds of those who do not know what truth is. 3 All this could mean is that you are arbitrarily associating something beyond your awareness with something you do not want. 4 It is evident, then, that you are judging something of which you are totally unaware. 5 You have set up this strange situation so that it is impossible to escape from it without a Guide Who does know what your reality is. 6 The purpose of this Guide is merely to remind you of what you want. 7 He is not attempting to force an alien will upon you. 8 He is merely making every possible effort, within the limits you impose on Him, to re-establish your own will in your awareness.

T-9.I.4. You have imprisoned your will beyond your own awareness, where it remains, but cannot help you. 2 When I said that the Holy Spirit's function is to sort out the true from the false in your mind, I meant that He has the power to look into what you have hidden and recognize the Will of God there. 3 His recognition of this Will can make it real to you because He is in your mind, and therefore He is your reality. 4 If, then, His perception of your mind brings its reality to you, He is helping you to remember what you are. 5 The only source of fear in this process is what you think you will lose. 6 Yet it is only what the Holy Spirit sees that you can possibly have.

T-9.I.5. I have emphasized many times that the Holy Spirit will never call upon you to sacrifice anything. 2 But if you ask the sacrifice of reality of yourself, the Holy Spirit must remind you that this is not God's Will because it is not yours. 3 There is no difference between your will and God's. 4 If you did not have a split mind, you would recognize that willing is salvation because it is communication.

T-9.I.6. It is impossible to communicate in alien tongues. 2 You and your Creator can communicate through creation, because that, and only that is Your joint Will. 3 A divided mind cannot communicate, because it speaks for different things to the same mind. 4 This loses the ability to communicate simply because confused communication does not mean anything. 5 A message cannot be communicated unless it makes sense. 6 How sensible can your messages be, when you ask for what you do not want? 7 Yet as long as you are afraid of your will, that is precisely what you are asking for.

T-9.I.7. You may insist that the Holy Spirit does not answer you, but it might be wiser to consider the kind of questioner you are. 2 You do not ask only for what you want. 3 This is because you are afraid you might receive it, and you would. 4 That is why you persist in asking the teacher who could not possibly give you what you want. 5 Of him you can never learn what it is, and this gives you the illusion of safety. 6 Yet you cannot be safe from truth, but only in truth. 7 Reality is the only safety. 8 Your will is your salvation because it is the same as God's. 9 The separation is nothing more than the belief that it is different.

T-9.I.8. No right mind can believe that its will is stronger than God's. 2 If, then, a mind believes that its will is different from His, it can only decide either that there is no God or that God's Will is fearful. 3 The former accounts for the atheist and the latter for the martyr, who believes that God demands sacrifices. 4 Either of these insane decisions will induce panic, because the atheist believes he is alone, and the martyr believes that God is crucifying him. 5 Yet no one really wants either abandonment or retaliation, even though many may seek both. 6 Can you ask the Holy Spirit for "gifts" such as these, and actually expect to receive them? 7 He cannot give you something you do not want. 8 When you ask the Universal Giver for what you do not want, you are asking for what cannot be given because it was never created. 9 It was never created, because it was never your will for you.

T-9.I.9. Ultimately everyone must remember the Will of God, because ultimately everyone must recognize himself. 2 This recognition is the recognition that his will and God's are one. 3 In the presence of truth, there are no unbelievers and no sacrifices. 4 In the security of reality, fear is totally meaningless. 5 To deny what is can only seem to be fearful. 6 Fear cannot be real without a cause, and God is the only Cause. 7 God is Love and you do want Him. 8 This is your will. 9 Ask for this and you will be answered, because you will be asking only for what belongs to you.

T-9.I.10. When you ask the Holy Spirit for what would hurt you He cannot answer because nothing can hurt you, and so you are asking for nothing. 2 Any wish that stems from the ego is a wish for nothing, and to ask for it is not a request. 3 It is merely a denial in the form of a request. 4 The Holy Spirit is not concerned with form, being aware only of meaning. 5 The ego cannot ask the Holy Spirit for anything, because there is complete communication failure between them. 6 Yet you can ask for everything of the Holy Spirit, because your requests to Him are real, being of your right mind. 7 Would the Holy Spirit deny the Will of God? 8 And could He fail to recognize it in His Son?

T-9.I.11. You do not recognize the enormous waste of energy you expend in denying truth. 2 What would you say of someone who persists in attempting the impossible, believing that to achieve it is to succeed? 3 The belief that you must have the impossible in order to be happy is totally at variance with the principle of creation. 4 God could not will that happiness depended on what you could never have. 5 The fact that God is Love does not require belief, but it does require acceptance. 6 It is indeed possible for you to deny facts, although it is impossible for you to change them. 7 If you hold your hands over your eyes, you will not see because you are interfering with the laws of seeing. 8 If you deny love, you will not know it because your cooperation is the law of its being. 9 You cannot change laws you did not make, and the laws of happiness were created for you, not by you.

T-9.I.12. Any attempt to deny what is must be fearful, and if the attempt is strong it will induce panic. 2 Willing against reality, though impossible, can be made into a very persistent goal even though you do not want it. 3 But consider the result of this strange decision. 4 You are devoting your mind to what you do not want. 5 How real can this devotion be? 6 If you do not want it, it was never created. 7 If it were never created, it is nothing. 8 Can you really devote yourself to nothing?

T-9.I.13. God in His devotion to you created you devoted to everything, and gave you what you are devoted to. 2 Otherwise you would not have been created perfect. 3 Reality is everything, and you have everything because you are real. 4 You cannot make the unreal because the absence of reality is fearful, and fear cannot be created. 5 As long as you believe that fear is possible, you will not create. 6 Opposing orders of reality make reality meaningless, and reality is meaning.

T-9.I.14. Remember, then, that God's Will is already possible, and nothing else will ever be. 2 This is the simple acceptance of reality, because only that is real. 3 You cannot distort reality and know what it is. 4 And if you do distort reality you will experience anxiety, depression and ultimately panic, because you are trying to make yourself unreal. 5 When you feel these things, do not try to look beyond yourself for truth, for truth can only be within you. 6 Say, therefore:
7 Christ is in me, and where He is God must be, for Christ is part of Him.

T-9.II.1. Everyone who ever tried to use prayer to ask for something has experienced what appears to be failure. 2 This is not only true in connection with specific things that might be harmful, but also in connection with requests that are strictly in line with this course. 3 The latter in particular might be incorrectly interpreted as "proof" that the course does not mean what it says. 4 You must remember, however, that the course states, and repeatedly, that its purpose is the escape from fear.

T-9.II.2. Let us suppose, then, that what you ask of the Holy Spirit is what you really want, but you are still afraid of it. 2 Should this be the case, your attainment of it would no longer be what you want. 3 This is why certain specific forms of healing are not achieved, even when the state of healing is. 4 An individual may ask for physical healing because he is fearful of bodily harm. 5 At the same time, if he were healed physically, the threat to his thought system might be considerably more fearful to him than its physical expression. 6 In this case he is not really asking for release from fear, but for the removal of a symptom that he himself selected. 7 This request is, therefore, not for healing at all.

T-9.II.3. The Bible emphasizes that all prayer is answered, and this is indeed true. 2 The very fact that the Holy Spirit has been asked for anything will ensure a response. 3 Yet it is equally certain that no response given by Him will ever be one that would increase fear. 4 It is possible that His answer will not be heard. 5 It is impossible, however, that it will be lost. 6 There are many answers you have already received but have not yet heard. 7 I assure you that they are waiting for you.

T-9.II.4. If you would know your prayers are answered, never doubt a Son of God. 2 Do not question him and do not confound him, for your faith in him is your faith in yourself. 3 If you would know God and His Answer, believe in me whose faith in you cannot be shaken. 4 Can you ask of the Holy Spirit truly, and doubt your brother? 5 Believe his words are true because of the truth that is in him. 6 You will unite with the truth in him, and his words will be true. 7 As you hear him you will hear me. 8 Listening to truth is the only way you can hear it now, and finally know it.

T-9.II.5. The message your brother gives you is up to you. 2 What does he say to you? 3 What would you have him say? 4 Your decision about him determines the message you receive. 5 Remember that the Holy Spirit is in him, and His Voice speaks to you through him. 6 What can so holy a brother tell you except truth? 7 But are you listening to it? 8 Your brother may not know who he is, but there is a light in his mind that does know. 9 This light can shine into yours, giving truth to his words and making you able to hear them. 10 His words are the Holy Spirit's answer to you. 11 Is your faith in him strong enough to let you hear?

T-9.II.6. You can no more pray for yourself alone than you can find joy for yourself alone. 2 Prayer is the restatement of inclusion, directed by the Holy Spirit under the laws of God. 3 Salvation is of your brother. 4 The Holy Spirit extends from your mind to his, and answers you. 5 You cannot hear the Voice for God in yourself alone, because you are not alone. 6 And His answer is only for what you are. 7 You will not know the trust I have in you unless you extend it. 8 You will not trust the guidance of the Holy Spirit, or believe that it is for you unless you hear it in others. 9 It must be for your brother because it is for you. 10 Would God have created a Voice for you alone? 11 Could you hear His answer except as He answers all of God's Sons? 12 Hear of your brother what you would have me hear of you, for you would not want me to be deceived.

T-9.II.7. I love you for the truth in you, as God does. 2 Your deceptions may deceive you, but they cannot deceive me. 3 Knowing what you are, I cannot doubt you. 4 I hear only the Holy Spirit in you, Who speaks to me through you. 5 If you would hear me, hear my brothers in whom God's Voice speaks. 6 The answer to all prayers lies in them. 7 You will be answered as you hear the answer in everyone. 8 Do not listen to anything else or you will not hear truly.

T-9.II.8. Believe in your brothers because I believe in you, and you will learn that my belief in you is justified. 2 Believe in me by believing in them, for the sake of what God gave them. 3 They will answer you if you learn to ask only truth of them. 4 Do not ask for blessings without blessing them, for only in this way can you learn how blessed you are. 5 By following this way you are seeking the truth in you. 6 This is not going beyond yourself but toward yourself. 7 Hear only God's Answer in His Sons, and you are answered.

T-9.II.9. To disbelieve is to side against, or to attack. 2 To believe is to accept, and to side with. 3 To believe is not to be credulous, but to accept and appreciate. 4 What you do not believe you do not appreciate, and you cannot be grateful for what you do not value. 5 There is a price you will pay for judgment, because judgment is the setting of a price. 6 And as you set it you will pay it.

T-9.II.10. If paying is equated with getting, you will set the price low but demand a high return. 2 You will have forgotten, however, that to price is to value, so that your return is in proportion to your judgment of worth. 3 If paying is associated with giving it cannot be perceived as loss, and the reciprocal relationship of giving and receiving will be recognized. 4 The price will then be set high, because of the value of the return. 5 The price for getting is to lose sight of value, making it inevitable that you will not value what you receive. 6 Valuing it little, you will not appreciate it and you will not want it.

T-9.II.11. Never forget, then, that you set the value on what you receive, and price it by what you give. 2 To believe that it is possible to get much for little is to believe that you can bargain with God. 3 God's laws are always fair and perfectly consistent. 4 By giving you receive. 5 But to receive is to accept, not to get. 6 It is impossible not to have, but it is possible not to know you have. 7 The recognition of having is the willingness for giving, and only by this willingness can you recognize what you have. 8 What you give is therefore the value you put on what you have, being the exact measure of the value you put upon it. 9 And this, in turn, is the measure of how much you want it.

T-9.II.12. You can ask of the Holy Spirit, then, only by giving to Him, and you can give to Him only where you recognize Him. 2 If you recognize Him in everyone, consider how much you will be asking of Him, and how much you will receive. 3 He will deny you nothing because you have denied Him nothing, and so you can share everything. 4 This is the way, and the only way to have His answer, because His answer is all you can ask for and want. 5 Say, then, to everyone:
6 Because I will to know myself, I see you as God's Son and my brother.

T-9.III.1. The alertness of the ego to the errors of other egos is not the kind of vigilance the Holy Spirit would have you maintain. 2 Egos are critical in terms of the kind of "sense" they stand for. 3 They understand this kind of sense, because it is sensible to them. 4 To the Holy Spirit it makes no sense at all.

T-9.III.2. To the ego it is kind and right and good to point out errors and "correct" them. 2 This makes perfect sense to the ego, which is unaware of what errors are and what correction is. 3 Errors are of the ego, and correction of errors lies in the relinquishment of the ego. 4 When you correct a brother, you are telling him that he is wrong. 5 He may be making no sense at the time, and it is certain that, if he is speaking from the ego, he will not be making sense. 6 But your task is still to tell him he is right. 7 You do not tell him this verbally, if he is speaking foolishly. 8 He needs correction at another level, because his error is at another level. 9 He is still right, because he is a Son of God. 10 His ego is always wrong, no matter what it says or does.

T-9.III.3. If you point out the errors of your brother's ego you must be seeing through yours, because the Holy Spirit does not perceive his errors. 2 This must be true, since there is no communication between the ego and the Holy Spirit. 3 The ego makes no sense, and the Holy Spirit does not attempt to understand anything that arises from it. 4 Since He does not understand it, He does not judge it, knowing that nothing the ego makes means anything.

T-9.III.4. When you react at all to errors, you are not listening to the Holy Spirit. 2 He has merely disregarded them, and if you attend to them you are not hearing Him. 3 If you do not hear Him, you are listening to your ego and making as little sense as the brother whose errors you perceive. 4 This cannot be correction. 5 Yet it is more than merely a lack of correction for him. 6 It is the giving up of correction in yourself.

T-9.III.5. When a brother behaves insanely, you can heal him only by perceiving the sanity in him. 2 If you perceive his errors and accept them, you are accepting yours. 3 If you want to give yours over to the Holy Spirit, you must do this with his. 4 Unless this becomes the one way in which you handle all errors, you cannot understand how all errors are undone. 5 How is this different from telling you that what you teach you learn? 6 Your brother is as right as you are, and if you think he is wrong you are condemning yourself.

T-9.III.6. You cannot correct yourself. 2 Is it possible, then, for you to correct another? 3 Yet you can see him truly, because it is possible for you to see yourself truly. 4 It is not up to you to change your brother, but merely to accept him as he is. 5 His errors do not come from the truth that is in him, and only this truth is yours. 6 His errors cannot change this, and can have no effect at all on the truth in you. 7 To perceive errors in anyone, and to react to them as if they were real, is to make them real to you. 8 You will not escape paying the price for this, not because you are being punished for it, but because you are following the wrong guide and will therefore lose your way.

T-9.III.7. Your brother's errors are not of him, any more than yours are of you. 2 Accept his errors as real, and you have attacked yourself. 3 If you would find your way and keep it, see only truth beside you for you walk together. 4 The Holy Spirit in you forgives all things in you and in your brother. 5 His errors are forgiven with yours. 6 Atonement is no more separate than love. 7 Atonement cannot be separate because it comes from love. 8 Any attempt you make to correct a brother means that you believe correction by you is possible, and this can only be the arrogance of the ego. 9 Correction is of God, Who does not know of arrogance.

T-9.III.8. The Holy Spirit forgives everything because God created everything. 2 Do not undertake His function, or you will forget yours. 3 Accept only the function of healing in time, because that is what time is for. 4 God gave you the function to create in eternity. 5 You do not need to learn that, but you do need to learn to want it. 6 For that all learning was made. 7 This is the Holy Spirit's use of an ability that you do not need, but that you made. 8 Give it to Him! 9 You do not understand how to use it. 10 He will teach you how to see yourself without condemnation, by learning how to look on everything without it. 11 Condemnation will then not be real to you, and all your errors will be forgiven.

T-9.IV.1. Atonement is for all, because it is the way to undo the belief that anything is for you alone. 2 To forgive is to overlook. 3 Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. 4 Accept as true only what your brother is, if you would know yourself. 5 Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. 6 Remember always that your Identity is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.

T-9.IV.2. You have a part to play in the Atonement, but the plan of the Atonement is beyond you. 2 You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. 3 It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct them without a Guide to correction. 4 And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. 5 The plan is not yours because of your limited ideas about what you are. 6 This sense of limitation is where all errors arise. 7 The way to undo them, therefore, is not of you but for you.

T-9.IV.3. The Atonement is a lesson in sharing, which is given you because you have forgotten how to do it . 2 The Holy Spirit merely reminds you of the natural use of your abilities. 3 By reinterpreting the ability to attack into the ability to share, He translates what you have made into what God created. 4 If you would accomplish this through Him you cannot look on your abilities through the eyes of the ego, or you will judge them as it does. 5 All their harmfulness lies in the ego's judgment. 6 All their helpfulness lies in the judgment of the Holy Spirit.

T-9.IV.4. The ego, too, has a plan of forgiveness because you are asking for one, though not of the right teacher. 2 The ego's plan, of course, makes no sense and will not work. 3 By following its plan you will merely place yourself in an impossible situation, to which the ego always leads you. 4 The ego's plan is to have you see error clearly first, and then overlook it. 5 Yet how can you overlook what you have made real? 6 By seeing it clearly, you have made it real and cannot overlook it. 7 This is where the ego is forced to appeal to "mysteries," insisting that you must accept the meaningless to save yourself. 8 Many have tried to do this in my name, forgetting that my words make perfect sense because they come from God. 9 They are as sensible now as they ever were, because they speak of ideas that are eternal.

T-9.IV.5. Forgiveness that is learned of me does not use fear to undo fear. 2 Nor does it make real the unreal and then destroy it. 3 Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you. 4 Do not let any belief in its realness enter your mind, or you will also believe that you must undo what you have made in order to be forgiven. 5 What has no effect does not exist, and to the Holy Spirit the effects of error are nonexistent. 6 By steadily and consistently cancelling out all its effects, everywhere and in all respects, He teaches that the ego does not exist and proves it.

T-9.IV.6. Follow the Holy Spirit's teaching in forgiveness, then, because forgiveness is His function and He knows how to fulfill it perfectly. 2 That is what I meant when I said that miracles are natural, and when they do not occur something has gone wrong. 3 Miracles are merely the sign of your willingness to follow the Holy Spirit's plan of salvation, recognizing that you do not understand what it is. 4 His work is not your function, and unless you accept this you cannot learn what your function is.

T-9.IV.7. The confusion of functions is so typical of the ego that you should be quite familiar with it by now. 2 The ego believes that all functions belong to it, even though it has no idea what they are. 3 This is more than mere confusion. 4 It is a particularly dangerous combination of grandiosity and confusion that makes the ego likely to attack anyone and anything for no reason at all. 5 This is exactly what the ego does. 6 It is unpredictable in its responses, because it has no idea of what it perceives.

T-9.IV.8. If you have no idea what is happening, how appropriately can you expect to react? 2 You might ask yourself, regardless of how you may account for the reaction, whether its unpredictability places the ego in a sound position as your guide. 3 Let me repeat that the ego's qualifications as a guide are singularly unfortunate, and that it is a remarkably poor choice as a teacher of salvation. 4 Anyone who elects a totally insane guide must be totally insane himself. 5 Nor is it true that you do not realize the guide is insane. 6 You realize it because I realize it, and you have judged it by the same standard I have.

T-9.IV.9. The ego literally lives on borrowed time, and its days are numbered. 2 Do not fear the Last Judgment, but welcome it and do not wait, for the ego's time is "borrowed" from your eternity. 3 This is the Second Coming that was made for you as the First was created. 4 The Second Coming is merely the return of sense. 5 Can this possibly be fearful?

T-9.IV.10. What can be fearful but fantasy, and who turns to fantasy unless he despairs of finding satisfaction in reality? 2 Yet it is certain that you will never find satisfaction in fantasy, so that your only hope is to change your mind about reality. 3 Only if the decision that reality is fearful is wrong can God be right. 4 And I assure you that God is right. 5 Be glad, then, that you have been wrong, but this was only because you did not know who you were. 6 Had you known, you could no more have been wrong than God can.

T-9.IV.11. The impossible can happen only in fantasy. 2 When you search for reality in fantasies you will not find it. 3 The symbols of fantasy are of the ego, and of these you will find many. 4 But do not look for meaning in them. 5 They have no more meaning than the fantasies into which they are woven. 6 Fairy tales can be pleasant or fearful, but no one calls them true. 7 Children may believe them, and so, for a while, the tales are true for them. 8 Yet when reality dawns, the fantasies are gone. 9 Reality has not gone in the meanwhile. 10 The Second Coming is the awareness of reality, not its return.

T-9.IV.12. Behold, my child, reality is here. 2 It belongs to you and me and God, and is perfectly satisfying to all of Us. 3 Only this awareness heals, because it is the awareness of truth.

T-9.V.1. The ego's plan for forgiveness is far more widely used than God's. 2 This is because it is undertaken by unhealed healers, and is therefore of the ego. 3 Let us consider the unhealed healer more carefully now. 4 By definition, he is trying to give what he has not received. 5 If an unhealed healer is a theologian, for example, he may begin with the premise, "I am a miserable sinner, and so are you." 6 If he is a psychotherapist, he is more likely to start with the equally incredible belief that attack is real for both himself and the patient, but that it does not matter for either of them.

T-9.V.2. I have repeatedly said that beliefs of the ego cannot be shared, and this is why they are unreal. 2 How, then, can "uncovering" them make them real? 3 Every healer who searches fantasies for truth must be unhealed, because he does not know where to look for truth, and therefore does not have the answer to the problem of healing.

T-9.V.3. There is an advantage to bringing nightmares into awareness, but only to teach that they are not real, and that anything they contain is meaningless. 2 The unhealed healer cannot do this because he does not believe it. 3 All unhealed healers follow the ego's plan for forgiveness in one form or another. 4 If they are theologians they are likely to condemn themselves, teach condemnation and advocate a fearful solution. 5 Projecting condemnation onto God, they make Him appear retaliative, and fear His retribution. 6 What they have done is merely to identify with the ego, and by perceiving what it does, condemn themselves because of this confusion. 7 It is understandable that there have been revolts against this concept, but to revolt against it is still to believe in it.

T-9.V.4. Some newer forms of the ego's plan are as unhelpful as the older ones, because form does not matter and the content has not changed. 2 In one of the newer forms, for example, a psychotherapist may interpret the ego's symbols in a nightmare, and then use them to prove that the nightmare is real. 3 Having made it real, he then attempts to dispel its effects by depreciating the importance of the dreamer. 4 This would be a healing approach if the dreamer were also identified as unreal. 5 Yet if the dreamer is equated with the mind, the mind's corrective power through the Holy Spirit is denied. 6 This is a contradiction even in the ego's terms, and one which it usually notes even in its confusion.

T-9.V.5. If the way to counteract fear is to reduce the importance of the mind, how can this build ego strength? 2 Such evident inconsistencies account for why no one has really explained what happens in psychotherapy. 3 Nothing really does. 4 Nothing real has happened to the unhealed healer, and he must learn from his own teaching. 5 His ego will always seek to get something from the situation. 6 The unhealed healer therefore does not know how to give, and consequently cannot share. 7 He cannot correct because he is not working correctively. 8 He believes that it is up to him to teach the patient what is real, although he does not know it himself.

T-9.V.6. What, then, should happen? 2 When God said, "Let there be light," there was light. 3 Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance? 4 Healing is not mysterious. 5 Nothing will change unless it is understood, since light is understanding. 6 A "miserable sinner" cannot be healed without magic, nor can an "unimportant mind" esteem itself without magic.

T-9.V.7. Both forms of the ego's approach, then, must arrive at an impasse; the characteristic "impossible situation" to which the ego always leads. 2 It may help someone to point out where he is heading, but the point is lost unless he is also helped to change his direction. 3 The unhealed healer cannot do this for him, since he cannot do it for himself. 4 The only meaningful contribution the healer can make is to present an example of one whose direction has been changed for him, and who no longer believes in nightmares of any kind. 5 The light in his mind will therefore answer the questioner, who must decide with God that there is light because he sees it. 6 And by his acknowledgment the healer knows it is there. 7 That is how perception ultimately is translated into knowledge. 8 The miracle worker begins by perceiving light, and translates his perception into sureness by continually extending it and accepting its acknowledgment. 9 Its effects assure him it is there.

T-9.V.8. A therapist does not heal; he lets healing be. 2 He can point to darkness but he cannot bring light of himself, for light is not of him. 3 Yet, being for him, it must also be for his patient. 4 The Holy Spirit is the only Therapist. 5 He makes healing clear in any situation in which He is the Guide. 6 You can only let Him fulfill His function. 7 He needs no help for this. 8 He will tell you exactly what to do to help anyone He sends to you for help, and will speak to him through you if you do not interfere. 9 Remember that you choose the guide for helping, and the wrong choice will not help. 10 But remember also that the right one will. 11 Trust Him, for help is His function, and He is of God. 12 As you awaken other minds to the Holy Spirit through Him, and not yourself, you will understand that you are not obeying the laws of this world. 13 But the laws you are obeying work. 14 "The good is what works" is a sound though insufficient statement. 15 Only the good can work. 16 Nothing else works at all.

T-9.V.9. This course offers a very direct and a very simple learning situation, and provides the Guide Who tells you what to do. 2 If you do it, you will see that it works. 3 Its results are more convincing than its words. 4 They will convince you that the words are true. 5 By following the right Guide, you will learn the simplest of all lessons:
6 By their fruits ye shall know them, and they shall know themselves.

T-9.VI.1. How can you become increasingly aware of the Holy Spirit in you except by His effects? 2 You cannot see Him with your eyes nor hear Him with your ears. 3 How, then, can you perceive Him at all? 4 If you inspire joy and others react to you with joy, even though you are not experiencing joy yourself there must be something in you that is capable of producing it. 5 If it is in you and can produce joy, and if you see that it does produce joy in others, you must be dissociating it in yourself.

T-9.VI.2. It seems to you that the Holy Spirit does not produce joy consistently in you only because you do not consistently arouse joy in others. 2 Their reactions to you are your evaluations of His consistency. 3 When you are inconsistent you will not always give rise to joy, and so you will not always recognize His consistency. 4 What you offer to your brother you offer to Him, because He cannot go beyond your offering in His giving. 5 This is not because He limits His giving, but simply because you have limited your receiving. 6 The decision to receive is the decision to accept.

T-9.VI.3. If your brothers are part of you, will you accept them? 2 Only they can teach you what you are, for your learning is the result of what you taught them. 3 What you call upon in them you call upon in yourself. 4 And as you call upon it in them it becomes real to you. 5 God has but one Son, knowing them all as One. 6 Only God Himself is more than they but they are not less than He is. 7 Would you know what this means? 8 If what you do to my brother you do to me, and if you do everything for yourself because we are part of you, everything we do belongs to you as well. 9 Everyone God created is part of you and shares His glory with you. 10 His glory belongs to Him, but it is equally yours. 11 You cannot, then, be less glorious than He is.

T-9.VI.4. God is more than you only because He created you, but not even this would He keep from you. 2 Therefore you can create as He did, and your dissociation will not alter this. 3 Neither God's light nor yours is dimmed because you do not see. 4 Because the Sonship must create as one, you remember creation whenever you recognize part of creation. 5 Each part you remember adds to your wholeness because each part is whole. 6 Wholeness is indivisible, but you cannot learn of your wholeness until you see it everywhere. 7 You can know yourself only as God knows His Son, for knowledge is shared with God. 8 When you awake in Him you will know your magnitude by accepting His limitlessness as yours. 9 But meanwhile you will judge it as you judge your brother's, and will accept it as you accept his.

T-9.VI.5. You are not yet awake, but you can learn how to awaken. 2 Very simply, the Holy Spirit teaches you to awaken others. 3 As you see them waken you will learn what waking means, and because you have chosen to wake them, their gratitude and their appreciation of what you have given them will teach you its value. 4 They will become the witnesses to your reality, as you were created witnesses to God's. 5 Yet when the Sonship comes together and accepts its Oneness it will be known by its creations, who witness to its reality as the Son does to the Father.

T-9.VI.6. Miracles have no place in eternity, because they are reparative. 2 Yet while you still need healing, your miracles are the only witnesses to your reality that you can recognize. 3 You cannot perform a miracle for yourself, because miracles are a way of giving acceptance and receiving it. 4 In time the giving comes first, though they are simultaneous in eternity, where they cannot be separated. 5 When you have learned they are the same, the need for time is over.

T-9.VI.7. Eternity is one time, its only dimension being "always." 2 This cannot mean anything to you until you remember God's open Arms, and finally know His open Mind. 3 Like Him, you are "always"; in His Mind and with a mind like His. 4 In your open mind are your creations, in perfect communication born of perfect understanding. 5 Could you but accept one of them you would not want anything the world has to offer. 6 Everything else would be totally meaningless. 7 God's meaning is incomplete without you, and you are incomplete without your creations. 8 Accept your brother in this world and accept nothing else, for in him you will find your creations because he created them with you. 9 You will never know that you are co-creator with God until you learn that your brother is co-creator with you.

T-9.VII.1. God's Will is your salvation. 2 Would He not have given you the means to find it? 3 If He wills you to have it, He must have made it possible and easy to obtain it. 4 Your brothers are everywhere. 5 You do not have to seek far for salvation. 6 Every minute and every second gives you a chance to save yourself. 7 Do not lose these chances, not because they will not return, but because delay of joy is needless. 8 God wills you perfect happiness now. 9 Is it possible that this is not also your will? 10 And is it possible that this is not also the will of your brothers?

T-9.VII.2. Consider, then, that in this joint will you are all united, and in this only. 2 There may be disagreement on anything else, but not on this. 3 This, then, is where peace abides. 4 And you abide in peace when you so decide. 5 Yet you cannot abide in peace unless you accept the Atonement, because the Atonement is the way to peace. 6 The reason is very simple, and so obvious that it is often overlooked. 7 The ego is afraid of the obvious, since obviousness is the essential characteristic of reality. 8 Yet you cannot overlook it unless you are not looking.

T-9.VII.3. It is perfectly obvious that if the Holy Spirit looks with love on all He perceives, He looks with love on you. 2 His evaluation of you is based on His knowledge of what you are, and so He evaluates you truly. 3 And this evaluation must be in your mind, because He is. 4 The ego is also in your mind, because you have accepted it there. 5 Its evaluation of you, however, is the exact opposite of the Holy Spirit's, because the ego does not love you. 6 It is unaware of what you are, and wholly mistrustful of everything it perceives because its perceptions are so shifting. 7 The ego is therefore capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst. 8 That is its range. 9 It cannot exceed it because of its uncertainty. 10 And it can never go beyond it because it can never be certain.

T-9.VII.4. You, then, have two conflicting evaluations of yourself in your mind, and they cannot both be true. 2 You do not yet realize how completely different these evaluations are, because you do not understand how lofty the Holy Spirit's perception of you really is. 3 He is not deceived by anything you do, because He never forgets what you are. 4 The ego is deceived by everything you do, especially when you respond to the Holy Spirit, because at such times its confusion increases. 5 The ego is, therefore, particularly likely to attack you when you react lovingly, because it has evaluated you as unloving and you are going against its judgment. 6 The ego will attack your motives as soon as they become clearly out of accord with its perception of you. 7 This is when it will shift abruptly from suspiciousness to viciousness, since its uncertainty is increased. 8 Yet it is surely pointless to attack in return. 9 What can this mean except that you are agreeing with the ego's evaluation of what you are?

T-9.VII.5. If you choose to see yourself as unloving you will not be happy. 2 You are condemning yourself and must therefore regard yourself as inadequate. 3 Would you look to the ego to help you escape from a sense of inadequacy it has produced, and must maintain for its existence? 4 Can you escape from its evaluation of you by using its methods for keeping this picture intact?

T-9.VII.6. You cannot evaluate an insane belief system from within it. 2 Its range precludes this. 3 You can only go beyond it, look back from a point where sanity exists and see the contrast. 4 Only by this contrast can insanity be judged as insane. 5 With the grandeur of God in you, you have chosen to be little and to lament your littleness. 6 Within the system that dictated this choice the lament is inevitable. 7 Your littleness is taken for granted there and you do not ask, "Who granted it?" 8 The question is meaningless within the ego's thought system, because it would open the whole thought system to question.

T-9.VII.7. I have said that the ego does not know what a real question is. 2 Lack of knowledge of any kind is always associated with unwillingness to know, and this produces a total lack of knowledge simply because knowledge is total. 3 Not to question your littleness therefore is to deny all knowledge, and keep the ego's whole thought system intact. 4 You cannot retain part of a thought system, because it can be questioned only at its foundation. 5 And this must be questioned from beyond it, because within it its foundation does stand. 6 The Holy Spirit judges against the reality of the ego's thought system merely because He knows its foundation is not true. 7 Therefore, nothing that arises from it means anything. 8 He judges every belief you hold in terms of where it comes from. 9 If it comes from God, He knows it to be true. 10 If it does not, He knows that it is meaningless.

T-9.VII.8. Whenever you question your value, say:
2 God Himself is incomplete without me.
3 Remember this when the ego speaks, and you will not hear it. 4 The truth about you is so lofty that nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you. 5 Choose, then, what you want in these terms, and accept nothing that you would not offer to God as wholly fitting for Him. 6 You do not want anything else. 7 Return your part to Him, and He will give you all of Himself in exchange for the return of what belongs to Him and renders Him complete.

T-9.VIII.1. Grandeur is of God, and only of Him. 2 Therefore it is in you. 3 Whenever you become aware of it, however dimly, you abandon the ego automatically, because in the presence of the grandeur of God the meaninglessness of the ego becomes perfectly apparent. 4 When this occurs, even though it does not understand it, the ego believes that its "enemy" has struck, and attempts to offer gifts to induce you to return to its "protection." 5 Self-inflation is the only offering it can make. 6 The grandiosity of the ego is its alternative to the grandeur of God. 7 Which will you choose?

T-9.VIII.2. Grandiosity is always a cover for despair. 2 It is without hope because it is not real. 3 It is an attempt to counteract your littleness, based on the belief that the littleness is real. 4 Without this belief grandiosity is meaningless, and you could not possibly want it. 5 The essence of grandiosity is competitiveness, because it always involves attack. 6 It is a delusional attempt to outdo, but not to undo. 7 We said before that the ego vacillates between suspiciousness and viciousness. 8 It remains suspicious as long as you despair of yourself. 9 It shifts to viciousness when you decide not to tolerate self-abasement and seek relief. 10 Then it offers you the illusion of attack as a "solution."

T-9.VIII.3. The ego does not understand the difference between grandeur and grandiosity, because it sees no difference between miracle impulses and ego-alien beliefs of its own. 2 I told you that the ego is aware of threat to its existence, but makes no distinctions between these two very different kinds of threat. 3 Its profound sense of vulnerability renders it incapable of judgment except in terms of attack. 4 When the ego experiences threat, its only decision is whether to attack now or to withdraw to attack later. 5 If you accept its offer of grandiosity it will attack immediately. 6 If you do not, it will wait.

T-9.VIII.4. The ego is immobilized in the presence of God's grandeur, because His grandeur establishes your freedom. 2 Even the faintest hint of your reality literally drives the ego from your mind, because you will give up all investment in it. 3 Grandeur is totally without illusions, and because it is real it is compellingly convincing. 4 Yet the conviction of reality will not remain with you unless you do not allow the ego to attack it. 5 The ego will make every effort to recover and mobilize its energies against your release. 6 It will tell you that you are insane, and argue that grandeur cannot be a real part of you because of the littleness in which it believes. 7 Yet your grandeur is not delusional because you did not make it. 8 You made grandiosity and are afraid of it because it is a form of attack, but your grandeur is of God, Who created it out of His Love.

T-9.VIII.5. From your grandeur you can only bless, because your grandeur is your abundance. 2 By blessing you hold it in your mind, protecting it from illusions and keeping yourself in the Mind of God. 3 Remember always that you cannot be anywhere except in the Mind of God. 4 When you forget this, you will despair and you will attack.

T-9.VIII.6. The ego depends solely on your willingness to tolerate it. 2 If you are willing to look upon your grandeur you cannot despair, and therefore you cannot want the ego. 3 Your grandeur is God's answer to the ego, because it is true. 4 Littleness and grandeur cannot coexist, nor is it possible for them to alternate. 5 Littleness and grandiosity can and must alternate, since both are untrue and are therefore on the same level. 6 Being the level of shift, it is experienced as shifting and extremes are its essential characteristic.

T-9.VIII.7. Truth and littleness are denials of each other because grandeur is truth. 2 Truth does not vacillate; it is always true. 3 When grandeur slips away from you, you have replaced it with something you have made. 4 Perhaps it is the belief in littleness; perhaps it is the belief in grandiosity. 5 Yet it must be insane because it is not true. 6 Your grandeur will never deceive you, but your illusions always will. 7 Illusions are deceptions. 8 You cannot triumph, but you are exalted. 9 And in your exalted state you seek others like you and rejoice with them.

T-9.VIII.8. It is easy to distinguish grandeur from grandiosity, because love is returned and pride is not. 2 Pride will not produce miracles, and will therefore deprive you of the true witnesses to your reality. 3 Truth is not obscure nor hidden, but its obviousness to you lies in the joy you bring to its witnesses, who show it to you. 4 They attest to your grandeur, but they cannot attest to pride because pride is not shared. 5 God wants you to behold what He created because it is His joy.

T-9.VIII.9. Can your grandeur be arrogant when God Himself witnesses to it? 2 And what can be real that has no witnesses? 3 What good can come of it? 4 And if no good can come of it the Holy Spirit cannot use it. 5 What He cannot transform to the Will of God does not exist at all. 6 Grandiosity is delusional, because it is used to replace your grandeur. 7 Yet what God has created cannot be replaced. 8 God is incomplete without you because His grandeur is total, and you cannot be missing from it.

T-9.VIII.10. You are altogether irreplaceable in the Mind of God. 2 No one else can fill your part in it, and while you leave your part of it empty your eternal place merely waits for your return. 3 God, through His Voice, reminds you of it, and God Himself keeps your extensions safe within it. 4 Yet you do not know them until you return to them. 5 You cannot replace the Kingdom, and you cannot replace yourself. 6 God, Who knows your value, would not have it so, and so it is not so. 7 Your value is in God's Mind, and therefore not in yours alone. 8 To accept yourself as God created you cannot be arrogance, because it is the denial of arrogance. 9 To accept your littleness is arrogant, because it means that you believe your evaluation of yourself is truer than God's.

T-9.VIII.11. Yet if truth is indivisible, your evaluation of yourself must be God's. 2 You did not establish your value and it needs no defense. 3 Nothing can attack it nor prevail over it. 4 It does not vary. 5 It merely is. 6 Ask the Holy Spirit what it is and He will tell you, but do not be afraid of His answer, because it comes from God. 7 It is an exalted answer because of its Source, but the Source is true and so is Its answer. 8 Listen and do not question what you hear, for God does not deceive. 9 He would have you replace the ego's belief in littleness with His Own exalted Answer to what you are, so that you can cease to question it and know it for what it is.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 20 - THE VISION OF HOLINESS.

T-20.VIII.6. Everything looked upon with vision falls gently into place, according to the laws brought to it by His calm and certain sight. 2 The end for everything He looks upon is always sure. 3 For it will meet His purpose, seen in unadjusted form and suited perfectly to meet it. 4 Destructiveness becomes benign, and sin is turned to blessing under His gentle gaze. 5 What can the body's eyes perceive, with power to correct? 6 Its eyes adjust to sin, unable to overlook it in any form and seeing it everywhere, in everything. 7 Look through its eyes, and everything will stand condemned before you. 8 All that could save you, you will never see. 9 Your holy relationship, the source of your salvation, will be deprived of meaning, and its most holy purpose bereft of means for its accomplishment.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 13 - THE GUILTLESS WORLD.

T-13.III.11. In peace he needed nothing and asked for nothing. 2 In war he demanded everything and found nothing. 3 For how could the gentleness of love respond to his demands, except by departing in peace and returning to the Father? 4 If the Son did not wish to remain in peace, he could not remain at all. 5 For a darkened mind cannot live in the light, and it must seek a place of darkness where it can believe it is where it is not. 6 God did not allow this to happen. 7 Yet you demanded that it happen, and therefore believed that it was so.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 20 - THE VISION OF HOLINESS.

T-20.VI.11. The body is the ego's idol; the belief in sin made flesh and then projected outward. 2 This produces what seems to be a wall of flesh around the mind, keeping it prisoner in a tiny spot of space and time, beholden unto death, and given but an instant in which to sigh and grieve and die in honor of its master. 3 And this unholy instant seems to be life; an instant of despair, a tiny island of dry sand, bereft of water and set uncertainly upon oblivion. 4 Here does the Son of God stop briefly by, to offer his devotion to death's idols and then pass on. 5 And here he is more dead than living. 6 Yet it is also here he makes his choice again between idolatry and love. 7 Here it is given him to choose to spend this instant paying tribute to the body, or let himself be given freedom from it. 8 Here he can accept the holy instant, offered him to replace the unholy one he chose before. 9 And here can he learn relationships are his salvation, and not his doom.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 13 - THE GUILTLESS WORLD.

T-13.XI.7. Have faith in only this one thing, and it will be sufficient: God wills you be in Heaven, and nothing can keep you from it, or it from you. 2 Your wildest misperceptions, your weird imaginings, your blackest nightmares all mean nothing. 3 They will not prevail against the peace God wills for you. 4 The Holy Spirit will restore your sanity because insanity is not the Will of God. 5 If that suffices Him, it is enough for you. 6 You will not keep what God would have removed, because it breaks communication with you with whom He would communicate. 7 His Voice will be heard.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 10 - THE IDOLS OF SICKNESS.

T-10.V.2. Do not forget, however, that to deny God will inevitably result in projection, and you will believe that others and not yourself have done this to you. 2 You must receive the message you give because it is the message you want. 3 You may believe that you judge your brothers by the messages they give you, but you have judged them by the message you give to them. 4 Do not attribute your denial of joy to them, or you cannot see the spark in them that would bring joy to you. 5 It is the denial of the spark that brings depression, for whenever you see your brothers without it, you are denying God.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 18 - THE PASSING OF THE DREAM.

T-18.II.3. You do not find the differences between what you see in sleep and on awaking disturbing. 2 You recognize that what you see on waking is blotted out in dreams. 3 Yet on awakening, you do not expect it to be gone. 4 In dreams you arrange everything. 5 People become what you would have them be, and what they do you order. 6 No limits on substitution are laid upon you. 7 For a time it seems as if the world were given you, to make it what you wish. 8 You do not realize you are attacking it, trying to triumph over it and make it serve you.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 11 - GOD OR THE EGO.

T-11.II.2. Healing thus becomes a lesson in understanding, and the more you practice it the better teacher and learner you become. 2 If you have denied truth, what better witnesses to its reality could you have than those who have been healed by it? 3 But be sure to count yourself among them, for in your willingness to join them is your healing accomplished. 4 Every miracle that you accomplish speaks to you of the Fatherhood of God. 5 Every healing thought that you accept, either from your brother or in your own mind, teaches you that you are God's Son. 6 In every hurtful thought you hold, wherever you perceive it, lies the denial of God's Fatherhood and of your Sonship.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 11 - GOD OR THE EGO.

T-11.V.12. God is as dependent on you as you are on Him, because His Autonomy encompasses yours, and is therefore incomplete without it. 2 You can only establish your autonomy by identifying with Him, and fulfilling your function as it exists in truth. 3 The ego believes that to accomplish its goal is happiness. 4 But it is given you to know that God's function is yours, and happiness cannot be found apart from Your joint Will. 5 Recognize only that the ego's goal, which you have pursued so diligently, has merely brought you fear, and it becomes difficult to maintain that fear is happiness. 6 Upheld by fear, this is what the ego would have you believe. 7 Yet God's Son is not insane, and cannot believe it. 8 Let him but recognize it and he will not accept it. 9 For only the insane would choose fear in place of love, and only the insane could believe that love can be gained by attack. 10 But the sane realize that only attack could produce fear, from which the Love of God completely protects them.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 3 - THE INNOCENT PERCEPTION.

T-3.VI.6. God offers only mercy. 2 Your words should reflect only mercy, because that is what you have received and that is what you should give. 3 Justice is a temporary expedient, or an attempt to teach you the meaning of mercy. 4 It is judgmental only because you are capable of injustice.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 18 - THE PASSING OF THE DREAM.

T-18.I.7. When you seem to see some twisted form of the original error rising to frighten you, say only, "God is not fear, but Love," and it will disappear. 2 The truth will save you. 3 It has not left you, to go out into the mad world and so depart from you. 4 Inward is sanity; insanity is outside you. 5 You but believe it is the other way; that truth is outside, and error and guilt within. 6 Your little, senseless substitutions, touched with insanity and swirling lightly off on a mad course like feathers dancing insanely in the wind, have no substance. 7 They fuse and merge and separate, in shifting and totally meaningless patterns that need not be judged at all. 8 To judge them individually is pointless. 9 Their tiny differences in form are no real differences at all. 10 None of them matters. 11 That they have in common and nothing else. 12 Yet what else is necessary to make them all the same?

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 5 - HEALING AND WHOLENESS.

T-5.VII.1. Do you really believe you can make a voice that can drown out God's? 2 Do you really believe you can devise a thought system that can separate you from Him? 3 Do you really believe you can plan for your safety and joy better than He can? 4 You need be neither careful nor careless; you need merely cast your cares upon Him because He careth for you. 5 You are His care because He loves you. 6 His Voice reminds you always that all hope is yours because of His care. 7 You cannot choose to escape His care because that is not His Will, but you can choose to accept His care and use the infinite power of His care for all those He created by it.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 8 - THE JOURNEY BACK.

T-8.III.3. The Will of the Father and of the Son are One, by Their extension. 2 Their extension is the result of Their Oneness, holding Their unity together by extending Their joint Will. 3 This is perfect creation by the perfectly created, in union with the perfect Creator. 4 The Father must give fatherhood to His Son, because His Own Fatherhood must be extended outward. 5 You who belong in God have the holy function of extending His Fatherhood by placing no limits upon it. 6 Let the Holy Spirit teach you how to do this, for you can know what it means only of God Himself.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 12 - THE HOLY SPIRIT'S CURRICULUM.

T-12.II.3. Perceive in sickness but another call for love, and offer your brother what he believes he cannot offer himself. 2 Whatever the sickness, there is but one remedy. 3 You will be made whole as you make whole, for to perceive in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love. 4 And to give a brother what he really wants is to offer it unto yourself, for your Father wills you to know your brother as yourself. 5 Answer his call for love, and yours is answered. 6 Healing is the Love of Christ for His Father and for Himself.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 23 - THE WAR AGAINST YOURSELF.

T-23.III.1. Is it not true you do not recognize some of the forms attack can take? 2 If it is true attack in any form will hurt you, and will do so just as much as in another form that you do recognize, then it must follow that you do not always recognize the source of pain. 3 Attack in any form is equally destructive. 4 Its purpose does not change. 5 Its sole intent is murder, and what form of murder serves to cover the massive guilt and frantic fear of punishment the murderer must feel? 6 He may deny he is a murderer and justify his savagery with smiles as he attacks. 7 Yet he will suffer, and will look on his intent in nightmares where the smiles are gone, and where the purpose rises to meet his horrified awareness and pursue him still. 8 For no one thinks of murder and escapes the guilt the thought entails. 9 If the intent is death, what matter the form it takes?

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 23 - THE WAR AGAINST YOURSELF.

T-23.IV.2. What can be equal to the truth, yet different? 2 Murder and love are incompatible. 3 Yet if they both are true, then must they be the same, and indistinguishable from one another. 4 So will they be to those who see God's Son a body. 5 For it is not the body that is like the Son's Creator. 6 And what is lifeless cannot be the Son of Life. 7 How can a body be extended to hold the universe? 8 Can it create, and be what it creates? 9 And can it offer its creations all that it is and never suffer loss?

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 28 - THE UNDOING OF FEAR.

T-28.IV.8. The Holy Spirit's function is to take the broken picture of the Son of God and put the pieces into place again. 2 This holy picture, healed entirely, does He hold out to every separate piece that thinks it is a picture in itself. 3 To each He offers his Identity, which the whole picture represents, instead of just a little, broken bit that he insisted was himself. 4 And when he sees this picture he will recognize himself. 5 If you share not your brother's evil dream, this is the picture that the miracle will place within the little gap, left clean of all the seeds of sickness and of sin. 6 And here the Father will receive His Son, because His Son was gracious to himself.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 5 - HEALING AND WHOLENESS.

T-5.II.12. I have enjoined you to behave as I behaved, but we must respond to the same Mind to do this. 2 This Mind is the Holy Spirit, Whose Will is for God always. 3 He teaches you how to keep me as the model for your thought, and to behave like me as a result. 4 The power of our joint motivation is beyond belief, but not beyond accomplishment. 5 What we can accomplish together has no limits, because the Call for God is the Call to the unlimited. 6 Child of God, my message is for you, to hear and give away as you answer the Holy Spirit within you.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 7 - THE GIFTS OF THE KINGDOM.

T-7.X.3. The Holy Spirit will direct you only so as to avoid pain. 2 Surely no one would object to this goal if he recognized it. 3 The problem is not whether what the Holy Spirit says is true, but whether you want to listen to what He says. 4 You no more recognize what is painful than you know what is joyful, and are, in fact, very apt to confuse the two. 5 The Holy Spirit's main function is to teach you to tell them apart. 6 What is joyful to you is painful to the ego, and as long as you are in doubt about what you are, you will be confused about joy and pain. 7 This confusion is the cause of the whole idea of sacrifice. 8 Obey the Holy Spirit, and you will be giving up the ego. 9 But you will be sacrificing nothing. 10 On the contrary, you will be gaining everything. 11 If you believed this, there would be no conflict.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 2 - THE SEPARATION AND THE ATONEMENT.

T-2.VI.5. Fear is always a sign of strain, arising whenever what you want conflicts with what you do. 2 This situation arises in two ways: First, you can choose to do conflicting things, either simultaneously or successively. 3 This produces conflicted behavior, which is intolerable to you because the part of the mind that wants to do something else is outraged. 4 Second, you can behave as you think you should, but without entirely wanting to do so. 5 This produces consistent behavior, but entails great strain. 6 In both cases, the mind and the behavior are out of accord, resulting in a situation in which you are doing what you do not wholly want to do. 7 This arouses a sense of coercion that usually produces rage, and projection is likely to follow. 8 Whenever there is fear, it is because you have not made up your mind. 9 Your mind is therefore split, and your behavior inevitably becomes erratic. 10 Correcting at the behavioral level can shift the error from the first to the second type, but will not obliterate the fear.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 24 - THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS.

T-24.III.5. God asks for your forgiveness. 2 He would have no separation, like an alien will, rise between what He wills for you and what you will. 3 They are the same, for neither One wills specialness. 4 How could They will the death of love itself? 5 Yet They are powerless to make attack upon illusions. 6 They are not bodies; as one Mind They wait for all illusions to be brought to Them, and left behind. 7 Salvation challenges not even death. 8 And God Himself, Who knows that death is not your will, must say, "Thy will be done" because you think it is.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 15 - THE HOLY INSTANT.

T-15.IV.6. The reason this course is simple is that truth is simple. 2 Complexity is of the ego, and is nothing more than the ego's attempt to obscure the obvious. 3 You could live forever in the holy instant, beginning now and reaching to eternity, but for a very simple reason. 4 Do not obscure the simplicity of this reason, for if you do, it will be only because you prefer not to recognize it and not to let it go. 5 The simple reason, simply stated, is this: The holy instant is a time in which you receive and give perfect communication. 6 This means, however, that it is a time in which your mind is open, both to receive and give. 7 It is the recognition that all minds are in communication. 8 It therefore seeks to change nothing, but merely to accept everything.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 19 - THE ATTAINMENT OF PEACE.

T-19.IV.A.4. Would you thrust salvation away from the giver of salvation? 2 For such have you become. 3 Peace could no more depart from you than from God. 4 Fear not this little obstacle. 5 It cannot contain the Will of God. 6 Peace will flow across it, and join you without hindrance. 7 Salvation cannot be withheld from you. 8 It is your purpose. 9 You cannot choose apart from this. 10 You have no purpose apart from your brother, nor apart from the one you asked the Holy Spirit to share with you. 11 The little wall will fall away so quietly beneath the wings of peace. 12 For peace will send its messengers from you to all the world, and barriers will fall away before their coming as easily as those that you interpose will be surmounted.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 14 - TEACHING FOR TRUTH.

T-14.XI.15. The power of God, from which they both arise, is yours as surely as it is His. 2 You think you know Him not, only because, alone, it is impossible to know Him. 3 Yet see the mighty works that He will do through you, and you must be convinced you did them through Him. 4 It is impossible to deny the Source of effects so powerful they could not be of you. 5 Leave room for Him, and you will find yourself so filled with power that nothing will prevail against your peace. 6 And this will be the test by which you recognize that you have understood.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 12 - THE HOLY SPIRIT'S CURRICULUM.

T-12.IV.4. Do you realize that the ego must set you on a journey which cannot but lead to a sense of futility and depression? 2 To seek and not to find is hardly joyous. 3 Is this the promise you would keep? 4 The Holy Spirit offers you another promise, and one that will lead to joy. 5 For His promise is always, "Seek and you will find," and under His guidance you cannot be defeated. 6 His is the journey to accomplishment, and the goal He sets before you He will give you. 7 For He will never deceive God's Son whom He loves with the Love of the Father.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 15 - THE HOLY INSTANT.

T-15.IV.9. The necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no thoughts that are not pure. 2 But it does require that you have none that you would keep. 3 Innocence is not of your making. 4 It is given you the instant you would have it. 5 Atonement would not be if there were no need for it. 6 You will not be able to accept perfect communication as long as you would hide it from yourself. 7 For what you would hide is hidden from you. 8 In your practice, then, try only to be vigilant against deception, and seek not to protect the thoughts you would keep to yourself. 9 Let the Holy Spirit's purity shine them away, and bring all your awareness to the readiness for purity He offers you. 10 Thus will He make you ready to acknowledge that you are host to God, and hostage to no one and to nothing.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 12 - THE HOLY SPIRIT'S CURRICULUM.

T-12.IV.7. The Atonement is not the price of your wholeness, but it is the price of your awareness of your wholeness. 2 For what you chose to "sell" had to be kept for you, since you could not "buy" it back. 3 Yet you must invest in it, not with money but with spirit. 4 For spirit is will, and will is the "price" of the Kingdom. 5 Your inheritance awaits only the recognition that you have been redeemed. 6 The Holy Spirit guides you into life eternal, but you must relinquish your investment in death, or you will not see life though it is all around you.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 24 - THE GOAL OF SPECIALNESS.

T-24.II.3. Specialness is the idea of sin made real. 2 Sin is impossible even to imagine without this base. 3 For sin arose from it, out of nothingness; an evil flower with no roots at all. 4 Here is the self-made "savior," the "creator" who creates unlike the Father, and which made His Son like to itself and not like unto Him. 5 His "special" sons are many, never one, each one in exile from himself, and Him of Whom they are a part. 6 Nor do they love the Oneness which created them as one with Him. 7 They chose their specialness instead of Heaven and instead of peace, and wrapped it carefully in sin, to keep it "safe" from truth.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 16 - THE FORGIVENESS OF ILLUSIONS.

T-16.I.3. Your part is only to remember this; you do not want anything you value to come of a relationship. 2 You choose neither to hurt it nor to heal it in your own way. 3 You do not know what healing is. 4 All you have learned of empathy is from the past. 5 And there is nothing from the past that you would share, for there is nothing from the past that you would keep. 6 Do not use empathy to make the past real, and so perpetuate it. 7 Step gently aside, and let healing be done for you. 8 Keep but one thought in mind and do not lose sight of it, however tempted you may be to judge any situation, and to determine your response by judging it. 9 Focus your mind only on this:
10 I am not alone, and I would not intrude the past upon my Guest.
11 I have invited Him, and He is here.
12 I need do nothing except not to interfere.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 22 - SALVATION AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP.

T-22.VI.14. This is the function of your holy relationship. 2 For what one thinks, the other will experience with him. 3 What can this mean except your mind and your brother's are one? 4 Look not with fear upon this happy fact, and think not that it lays a heavy burden on you. 5 For when you have accepted it with gladness, you will realize that your relationship is a reflection of the union of the Creator and His Son. 6 From loving minds there is no separation. 7 And every thought in one brings gladness to the other because they are the same. 8 Joy is unlimited, because each shining thought of love extends its being and creates more of itself. 9 There is no difference anywhere in it, for every thought is like itself.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 30 - THE NEW BEGINNING.

T-30.IV.3. The gap that is not there is filled with toys in countless forms. 2 And each one seems to break the rules you set for it. 3 It never was the thing you thought. 4 It must appear to break your rules for safety, since the rules were wrong. 5 But you are not endangered. 6 You can laugh at popping heads and squeaking toys, as does the child who learns they are no threat to him. 7 Yet while he likes to play with them, he still perceives them as obeying rules he made for his enjoyment. 8 So there still are rules that they can seem to break and frighten him. 9 Yet is he at the mercy of his toys? 10 And can they represent a threat to him?

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 5 - HEALING AND WHOLENESS.

T-5.VI.10. You need not fear the Higher Court will condemn you. 2 It will merely dismiss the case against you. 3 There can be no case against a child of God, and every witness to guilt in God's creations is bearing false witness to God Himself. 4 Appeal everything you believe gladly to God's Own Higher Court, because it speaks for Him and therefore speaks truly. 5 It will dismiss the case against you, however carefully you have built it up. 6 The case may be fool-proof, but it is not God-proof. 7 The Holy Spirit will not hear it, because He can only witness truly. 8 His verdict will always be "thine is the Kingdom," because He was given to you to remind you of what you are.

Quote from A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 9 - THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE ATONEMENT.

T-9.I.1. Fear of the Will of God is one of the strangest beliefs the human mind has ever made. 2 It could not possibly have occurred unless the mind were already profoundly split, making it possible for it to be afraid of what it really is. 3 Reality cannot "threaten" anything except illusions, since reality can only uphold truth. 4 The very fact that the Will of God, which is what you are, is perceived as fearful, demonstrates that you are afraid of what you are. 5 It is not, then, the Will of God of which you are afraid, but yours.

T-9.I.2. Your will is not the ego's, and that is why the ego is against you. 2 What seems to be the fear of God is really the fear of your own reality. 3 It is impossible to learn anything consistently in a state of panic. 4 If the purpose of this course is to help you remember what you are, and if you believe that what you are is fearful, then it must follow that you will not learn this course. 5 Yet the reason for the course is that you do not know what you are.

T-9.I.3. If you do not know what your reality is, why would you be so sure that it is fearful? 2 The association of truth and fear, which would be highly artificial at most, is particularly inappropriate in the minds of those who do not know what truth is. 3 All this could mean is that you are arbitrarily associating something beyond your awareness with something you do not want. 4 It is evident, then, that you are judging something of which you are totally unaware. 5 You have set up this strange situation so that it is impossible to escape from it without a Guide Who does know what your reality is. 6 The purpose of this Guide is merely to remind you of what you want. 7 He is not attempting to force an alien will upon you. 8 He is merely making every possible effort, within the limits you impose on Him, to re-establish your own will in your awareness.

T-9.I.4. You have imprisoned your will beyond your own awareness, where it remains, but cannot help you. 2 When I said that the Holy Spirit's function is to sort out the true from the false in your mind, I meant that He has the power to look into what you have hidden and recognize the Will of God there. 3 His recognition of this Will can make it real to you because He is in your mind, and therefore He is your reality. 4 If, then, His perception of your mind brings its reality to you, He is helping you to remember what you are. 5 The only source of fear in this process is what you think you will lose. 6 Yet it is only what the Holy Spirit sees that you can possibly have.

T-9.I.5. I have emphasized many times that the Holy Spirit will never call upon you to sacrifice anything. 2 But if you ask the sacrifice of reality of yourself, the Holy Spirit must remind you that this is not God's Will because it is not yours. 3 There is no difference between your will and God's. 4 If you did not have a split mind, you would recognize that willing is salvation because it is communication.

T-9.I.6. It is impossible to communicate in alien tongues. 2 You and your Creator can communicate through creation, because that, and only that is Your joint Will. 3 A divided mind cannot communicate, because it speaks for different things to the same mind. 4 This loses the ability to communicate simply because confused communication does not mean anything. 5 A message cannot be communicated unless it makes sense. 6 How sensible can your messages be, when you ask for what you do not want? 7 Yet as long as you are afraid of your will, that is precisely what you are asking for.

T-9.I.7. You may insist that the Holy Spirit does not answer you, but it might be wiser to consider the kind of questioner you are. 2 You do not ask only for what you want. 3 This is because you are afraid you might receive it, and you would. 4 That is why you persist in asking the teacher who could not possibly give you what you want. 5 Of him you can never learn what it is, and this gives you the illusion of safety. 6 Yet you cannot be safe from truth, but only in truth. 7 Reality is the only safety. 8 Your will is your salvation because it is the same as God's. 9 The separation is nothing more than the belief that it is different.

T-9.I.8. No right mind can believe that its will is stronger than God's. 2 If, then, a mind believes that its will is different from His, it can only decide either that there is no God or that God's Will is fearful. 3 The former accounts for the atheist and the latter for the martyr, who believes that God demands sacrifices. 4 Either of these insane decisions will induce panic, because the atheist believes he is alone, and the martyr believes that God is crucifying him. 5 Yet no one really wants either abandonment or retaliation, even though many may seek both. 6 Can you ask the Holy Spirit for "gifts" such as these, and actually expect to receive them? 7 He cannot give you something you do not want. 8 When you ask the Universal Giver for what you do not want, you are asking for what cannot be given because it was never created. 9 It was never created, because it was never your will for you.

T-9.I.9. Ultimately everyone must remember the Will of God, because ultimately everyone must recognize himself. 2 This recognition is the recognition that his will and God's are one. 3 In the presence of truth, there are no unbelievers and no sacrifices. 4 In the security of reality, fear is totally meaningless. 5 To deny what is can only seem to be fearful. 6 Fear cannot be real without a cause, and God is the only Cause. 7 God is Love and you do want Him. 8 This is your will. 9 Ask for this and you will be answered, because you will be asking only for what belongs to you.

T-9.I.10. When you ask the Holy Spirit for what would hurt you He cannot answer because nothing can hurt you, and so you are asking for nothing. 2 Any wish that stems from the ego is a wish for nothing, and to ask for it is not a request. 3 It is merely a denial in the form of a request. 4 The Holy Spirit is not concerned with form, being aware only of meaning. 5 The ego cannot ask the Holy Spirit for anything, because there is complete communication failure between them. 6 Yet you can ask for everything of the Holy Spirit, because your requests to Him are real, being of your right mind. 7 Would the Holy Spirit deny the Will of God? 8 And could He fail to recognize it in His Son?

T-9.I.11. You do not recognize the enormous waste of energy you expend in denying truth. 2 What would you say of someone who persists in attempting the impossible, believing that to achieve it is to succeed? 3 The belief that you must have the impossible in order to be happy is totally at variance with the principle of creation. 4 God could not will that happiness depended on what you could never have. 5 The fact that God is Love does not require belief, but it does require acceptance. 6 It is indeed possible for you to deny facts, although it is impossible for you to change them. 7 If you hold your hands over your eyes, you will not see because you are interfering with the laws of seeing. 8 If you deny love, you will not know it because your cooperation is the law of its being. 9 You cannot change laws you did not make, and the laws of happiness were created for you, not by you.

T-9.I.12. Any attempt to deny what is must be fearful, and if the attempt is strong it will induce panic. 2 Willing against reality, though impossible, can be made into a very persistent goal even though you do not want it. 3 But consider the result of this strange decision. 4 You are devoting your mind to what you do not want. 5 How real can this devotion be? 6 If you do not want it, it was never created. 7 If it were never created, it is nothing. 8 Can you really devote yourself to nothing?

T-9.I.13. God in His devotion to you created you devoted to everything, and gave you what you are devoted to. 2 Otherwise you would not have been created perfect. 3 Reality is everything, and you have everything because you are real. 4 You cannot make the unreal because the absence of reality is fearful, and fear cannot be created. 5 As long as you believe that fear is possible, you will not create. 6 Opposing orders of reality make reality meaningless, and reality is meaning.

T-9.I.14. Remember, then, that God's Will is already possible, and nothing else will ever be. 2 This is the simple acceptance of reality, because only that is real. 3 You cannot distort reality and know what it is. 4 And if you do distort reality you will experience anxiety, depression and ultimately panic, because you are trying to make yourself unreal. 5 When you feel these things, do not try to look beyond yourself for truth, for truth can only be within you. 6 Say, therefore:
7 Christ is in me, and where He is God must be, for Christ is part of Him.

T-9.II.1. Everyone who ever tried to use prayer to ask for something has experienced what appears to be failure. 2 This is not only true in connection with specific things that might be harmful, but also in connection with requests that are strictly in line with this course. 3 The latter in particular might be incorrectly interpreted as "proof" that the course does not mean what it says. 4 You must remember, however, that the course states, and repeatedly, that its purpose is the escape from fear.

T-9.II.2. Let us suppose, then, that what you ask of the Holy Spirit is what you really want, but you are still afraid of it. 2 Should this be the case, your attainment of it would no longer be what you want. 3 This is why certain specific forms of healing are not achieved, even when the state of healing is. 4 An individual may ask for physical healing because he is fearful of bodily harm. 5 At the same time, if he were healed physically, the threat to his thought system might be considerably more fearful to him than its physical expression. 6 In this case he is not really asking for release from fear, but for the removal of a symptom that he himself selected. 7 This request is, therefore, not for healing at all.

T-9.II.3. The Bible emphasizes that all prayer is answered, and this is indeed true. 2 The very fact that the Holy Spirit has been asked for anything will ensure a response. 3 Yet it is equally certain that no response given by Him will ever be one that would increase fear. 4 It is possible that His answer will not be heard. 5 It is impossible, however, that it will be lost. 6 There are many answers you have already received but have not yet heard. 7 I assure you that they are waiting for you.

T-9.II.4. If you would know your prayers are answered, never doubt a Son of God. 2 Do not question him and do not confound him, for your faith in him is your faith in yourself. 3 If you would know God and His Answer, believe in me whose faith in you cannot be shaken. 4 Can you ask of the Holy Spirit truly, and doubt your brother? 5 Believe his words are true because of the truth that is in him. 6 You will unite with the truth in him, and his words will be true. 7 As you hear him you will hear me. 8 Listening to truth is the only way you can hear it now, and finally know it.

T-9.II.5. The message your brother gives you is up to you. 2 What does he say to you? 3 What would you have him say? 4 Your decision about him determines the message you receive. 5 Remember that the Holy Spirit is in him, and His Voice speaks to you through him. 6 What can so holy a brother tell you except truth? 7 But are you listening to it? 8 Your brother may not know who he is, but there is a light in his mind that does know. 9 This light can shine into yours, giving truth to his words and making you able to hear them. 10 His words are the Holy Spirit's answer to you. 11 Is your faith in him strong enough to let you hear?

T-9.II.6. You can no more pray for yourself alone than you can find joy for yourself alone. 2 Prayer is the restatement of inclusion, directed by the Holy Spirit under the laws of God. 3 Salvation is of your brother. 4 The Holy Spirit extends from your mind to his, and answers you. 5 You cannot hear the Voice for God in yourself alone, because you are not alone. 6 And His answer is only for what you are. 7 You will not know the trust I have in you unless you extend it. 8 You will not trust the guidance of the Holy Spirit, or believe that it is for you unless you hear it in others. 9 It must be for your brother because it is for you. 10 Would God have created a Voice for you alone? 11 Could you hear His answer except as He answers all of God's Sons? 12 Hear of your brother what you would have me hear of you, for you would not want me to be deceived.

T-9.II.7. I love you for the truth in you, as God does. 2 Your deceptions may deceive you, but they cannot deceive me. 3 Knowing what you are, I cannot doubt you. 4 I hear only the Holy Spirit in you, Who speaks to me through you. 5 If you would hear me, hear my brothers in whom God's Voice speaks. 6 The answer to all prayers lies in them. 7 You will be answered as you hear the answer in everyone. 8 Do not listen to anything else or you will not hear truly.

T-9.II.8. Believe in your brothers because I believe in you, and you will learn that my belief in you is justified. 2 Believe in me by believing in them, for the sake of what God gave them. 3 They will answer you if you learn to ask only truth of them. 4 Do not ask for blessings without blessing them, for only in this way can you learn how blessed you are. 5 By following this way you are seeking the truth in you. 6 This is not going beyond yourself but toward yourself. 7 Hear only God's Answer in His Sons, and you are answered.

T-9.II.9. To disbelieve is to side against, or to attack. 2 To believe is to accept, and to side with. 3 To believe is not to be credulous, but to accept and appreciate. 4 What you do not believe you do not appreciate, and you cannot be grateful for what you do not value. 5 There is a price you will pay for judgment, because judgment is the setting of a price. 6 And as you set it you will pay it.

T-9.II.10. If paying is equated with getting, you will set the price low but demand a high return. 2 You will have forgotten, however, that to price is to value, so that your return is in proportion to your judgment of worth. 3 If paying is associated with giving it cannot be perceived as loss, and the reciprocal relationship of giving and receiving will be recognized. 4 The price will then be set high, because of the value of the return. 5 The price for getting is to lose sight of value, making it inevitable that you will not value what you receive. 6 Valuing it little, you will not appreciate it and you will not want it.

T-9.II.11. Never forget, then, that you set the value on what you receive, and price it by what you give. 2 To believe that it is possible to get much for little is to believe that you can bargain with God. 3 God's laws are always fair and perfectly consistent. 4 By giving you receive. 5 But to receive is to accept, not to get. 6 It is impossible not to have, but it is possible not to know you have. 7 The recognition of having is the willingness for giving, and only by this willingness can you recognize what you have. 8 What you give is therefore the value you put on what you have, being the exact measure of the value you put upon it. 9 And this, in turn, is the measure of how much you want it.

T-9.II.12. You can ask of the Holy Spirit, then, only by giving to Him, and you can give to Him only where you recognize Him. 2 If you recognize Him in everyone, consider how much you will be asking of Him, and how much you will receive. 3 He will deny you nothing because you have denied Him nothing, and so you can share everything. 4 This is the way, and the only way to have His answer, because His answer is all you can ask for and want. 5 Say, then, to everyone:
6 Because I will to know myself, I see you as God's Son and my brother.

T-9.III.1. The alertness of the ego to the errors of other egos is not the kind of vigilance the Holy Spirit would have you maintain. 2 Egos are critical in terms of the kind of "sense" they stand for. 3 They understand this kind of sense, because it is sensible to them. 4 To the Holy Spirit it makes no sense at all.

T-9.III.2. To the ego it is kind and right and good to point out errors and "correct" them. 2 This makes perfect sense to the ego, which is unaware of what errors are and what correction is. 3 Errors are of the ego, and correction of errors lies in the relinquishment of the ego. 4 When you correct a brother, you are telling him that he is wrong. 5 He may be making no sense at the time, and it is certain that, if he is speaking from the ego, he will not be making sense. 6 But your task is still to tell him he is right. 7 You do not tell him this verbally, if he is speaking foolishly. 8 He needs correction at another level, because his error is at another level. 9 He is still right, because he is a Son of God. 10 His ego is always wrong, no matter what it says or does.

T-9.III.3. If you point out the errors of your brother's ego you must be seeing through yours, because the Holy Spirit does not perceive his errors. 2 This must be true, since there is no communication between the ego and the Holy Spirit. 3 The ego makes no sense, and the Holy Spirit does not attempt to understand anything that arises from it. 4 Since He does not understand it, He does not judge it, knowing that nothing the ego makes means anything.

T-9.III.4. When you react at all to errors, you are not listening to the Holy Spirit. 2 He has merely disregarded them, and if you attend to them you are not hearing Him. 3 If you do not hear Him, you are listening to your ego and making as little sense as the brother whose errors you perceive. 4 This cannot be correction. 5 Yet it is more than merely a lack of correction for him. 6 It is the giving up of correction in yourself.

T-9.III.5. When a brother behaves insanely, you can heal him only by perceiving the sanity in him. 2 If you perceive his errors and accept them, you are accepting yours. 3 If you want to give yours over to the Holy Spirit, you must do this with his. 4 Unless this becomes the one way in which you handle all errors, you cannot understand how all errors are undone. 5 How is this different from telling you that what you teach you learn? 6 Your brother is as right as you are, and if you think he is wrong you are condemning yourself.

T-9.III.6. You cannot correct yourself. 2 Is it possible, then, for you to correct another? 3 Yet you can see him truly, because it is possible for you to see yourself truly. 4 It is not up to you to change your brother, but merely to accept him as he is. 5 His errors do not come from the truth that is in him, and only this truth is yours. 6 His errors cannot change this, and can have no effect at all on the truth in you. 7 To perceive errors in anyone, and to react to them as if they were real, is to make them real to you. 8 You will not escape paying the price for this, not because you are being punished for it, but because you are following the wrong guide and will therefore lose your way.

T-9.III.7. Your brother's errors are not of him, any more than yours are of you. 2 Accept his errors as real, and you have attacked yourself. 3 If you would find your way and keep it, see only truth beside you for you walk together. 4 The Holy Spirit in you forgives all things in you and in your brother. 5 His errors are forgiven with yours. 6 Atonement is no more separate than love. 7 Atonement cannot be separate because it comes from love. 8 Any attempt you make to correct a brother means that you believe correction by you is possible, and this can only be the arrogance of the ego. 9 Correction is of God, Who does not know of arrogance.

T-9.III.8. The Holy Spirit forgives everything because God created everything. 2 Do not undertake His function, or you will forget yours. 3 Accept only the function of healing in time, because that is what time is for. 4 God gave you the function to create in eternity. 5 You do not need to learn that, but you do need to learn to want it. 6 For that all learning was made. 7 This is the Holy Spirit's use of an ability that you do not need, but that you made. 8 Give it to Him! 9 You do not understand how to use it. 10 He will teach you how to see yourself without condemnation, by learning how to look on everything without it. 11 Condemnation will then not be real to you, and all your errors will be forgiven.

T-9.IV.1. Atonement is for all, because it is the way to undo the belief that anything is for you alone. 2 To forgive is to overlook. 3 Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. 4 Accept as true only what your brother is, if you would know yourself. 5 Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. 6 Remember always that your Identity is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.

T-9.IV.2. You have a part to play in the Atonement, but the plan of the Atonement is beyond you. 2 You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. 3 It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct them without a Guide to correction. 4 And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. 5 The plan is not yours because of your limited ideas about what you are. 6 This sense of limitation is where all errors arise. 7 The way to undo them, therefore, is not of you but for you.

T-9.IV.3. The Atonement is a lesson in sharing, which is given you because you have forgotten how to do it . 2 The Holy Spirit merely reminds you of the natural use of your abilities. 3 By reinterpreting the ability to attack into the ability to share, He translates what you have made into what God created. 4 If you would accomplish this through Him you cannot look on your abilities through the eyes of the ego, or you will judge them as it does. 5 All their harmfulness lies in the ego's judgment. 6 All their helpfulness lies in the judgment of the Holy Spirit.

T-9.IV.4. The ego, too, has a plan of forgiveness because you are asking for one, though not of the right teacher. 2 The ego's plan, of course, makes no sense and will not work. 3 By following its plan you will merely place yourself in an impossible situation, to which the ego always leads you. 4 The ego's plan is to have you see error clearly first, and then overlook it. 5 Yet how can you overlook what you have made real? 6 By seeing it clearly, you have made it real and cannot overlook it. 7 This is where the ego is forced to appeal to "mysteries," insisting that you must accept the meaningless to save yourself. 8 Many have tried to do this in my name, forgetting that my words make perfect sense because they come from God. 9 They are as sensible now as they ever were, because they speak of ideas that are eternal.

T-9.IV.5. Forgiveness that is learned of me does not use fear to undo fear. 2 Nor does it make real the unreal and then destroy it. 3 Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you. 4 Do not let any belief in its realness enter your mind, or you will also believe that you must undo what you have made in order to be forgiven. 5 What has no effect does not exist, and to the Holy Spirit the effects of error are nonexistent. 6 By steadily and consistently cancelling out all its effects, everywhere and in all respects, He teaches that the ego does not exist and proves it.

T-9.IV.6. Follow the Holy Spirit's teaching in forgiveness, then, because forgiveness is His function and He knows how to fulfill it perfectly. 2 That is what I meant when I said that miracles are natural, and when they do not occur something has gone wrong. 3 Miracles are merely the sign of your willingness to follow the Holy Spirit's plan of salvation, recognizing that you do not understand what it is. 4 His work is not your function, and unless you accept this you cannot learn what your function is.

T-9.IV.7. The confusion of functions is so typical of the ego that you should be quite familiar with it by now. 2 The ego believes that all functions belong to it, even though it has no idea what they are. 3 This is more than mere confusion. 4 It is a particularly dangerous combination of grandiosity and confusion that makes the ego likely to attack anyone and anything for no reason at all. 5 This is exactly what the ego does. 6 It is unpredictable in its responses, because it has no idea of what it perceives.

T-9.IV.8. If you have no idea what is happening, how appropriately can you expect to react? 2 You might ask yourself, regardless of how you may account for the reaction, whether its unpredictability places the ego in a sound position as your guide. 3 Let me repeat that the ego's qualifications as a guide are singularly unfortunate, and that it is a remarkably poor choice as a teacher of salvation. 4 Anyone who elects a totally insane guide must be totally insane himself. 5 Nor is it true that you do not realize the guide is insane. 6 You realize it because I realize it, and you have judged it by the same standard I have.

T-9.IV.9. The ego literally lives on borrowed time, and its days are numbered. 2 Do not fear the Last Judgment, but welcome it and do not wait, for the ego's time is "borrowed" from your eternity. 3 This is the Second Coming that was made for you as the First was created. 4 The Second Coming is merely the return of sense. 5 Can this possibly be fearful?

T-9.IV.10. What can be fearful but fantasy, and who turns to fantasy unless he despairs of finding satisfaction in reality? 2 Yet it is certain that you will never find satisfaction in fantasy, so that your only hope is to change your mind about reality. 3 Only if the decision that reality is fearful is wrong can God be right. 4 And I assure you that God is right. 5 Be glad, then, that you have been wrong, but this was only because you did not know who you were. 6 Had you known, you could no more have been wrong than God can.

T-9.IV.11. The impossible can happen only in fantasy. 2 When you search for reality in fantasies you will not find it. 3 The symbols of fantasy are of the ego, and of these you will find many. 4 But do not look for meaning in them. 5 They have no more meaning than the fantasies into which they are woven. 6 Fairy tales can be pleasant or fearful, but no one calls them true. 7 Children may believe them, and so, for a while, the tales are true for them. 8 Yet when reality dawns, the fantasies are gone. 9 Reality has not gone in the meanwhile. 10 The Second Coming is the awareness of reality, not its return.

T-9.IV.12. Behold, my child, reality is here. 2 It belongs to you and me and God, and is perfectly satisfying to all of Us. 3 Only this awareness heals, because it is the awareness of truth.

T-9.V.1. The ego's plan for forgiveness is far more widely used than God's. 2 This is because it is undertaken by unhealed healers, and is therefore of the ego. 3 Let us consider the unhealed healer more carefully now. 4 By definition, he is trying to give what he has not received. 5 If an unhealed healer is a theologian, for example, he may begin with the premise, "I am a miserable sinner, and so are you." 6 If he is a psychotherapist, he is more likely to start with the equally incredible belief that attack is real for both himself and the patient, but that it does not matter for either of them.

T-9.V.2. I have repeatedly said that beliefs of the ego cannot be shared, and this is why they are unreal. 2 How, then, can "uncovering" them make them real? 3 Every healer who searches fantasies for truth must be unhealed, because he does not know where to look for truth, and therefore does not have the answer to the problem of healing.

T-9.V.3. There is an advantage to bringing nightmares into awareness, but only to teach that they are not real, and that anything they contain is meaningless. 2 The unhealed healer cannot do this because he does not believe it. 3 All unhealed healers follow the ego's plan for forgiveness in one form or another. 4 If they are theologians they are likely to condemn themselves, teach condemnation and advocate a fearful solution. 5 Projecting condemnation onto God, they make Him appear retaliative, and fear His retribution. 6 What they have done is merely to identify with the ego, and by perceiving what it does, condemn themselves because of this confusion. 7 It is understandable that there have been revolts against this concept, but to revolt against it is still to believe in it.

T-9.V.4. Some newer forms of the ego's plan are as unhelpful as the older ones, because form does not matter and the content has not changed. 2 In one of the newer forms, for example, a psychotherapist may interpret the ego's symbols in a nightmare, and then use them to prove that the nightmare is real. 3 Having made it real, he then attempts to dispel its effects by depreciating the importance of the dreamer. 4 This would be a healing approach if the dreamer were also identified as unreal. 5 Yet if the dreamer is equated with the mind, the mind's corrective power through the Holy Spirit is denied. 6 This is a contradiction even in the ego's terms, and one which it usually notes even in its confusion.

T-9.V.5. If the way to counteract fear is to reduce the importance of the mind, how can this build ego strength? 2 Such evident inconsistencies account for why no one has really explained what happens in psychotherapy. 3 Nothing really does. 4 Nothing real has happened to the unhealed healer, and he must learn from his own teaching. 5 His ego will always seek to get something from the situation. 6 The unhealed healer therefore does not know how to give, and consequently cannot share. 7 He cannot correct because he is not working correctively. 8 He believes that it is up to him to teach the patient what is real, although he does not know it himself.

T-9.V.6. What, then, should happen? 2 When God said, "Let there be light," there was light. 3 Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance? 4 Healing is not mysterious. 5 Nothing will change unless it is understood, since light is understanding. 6 A "miserable sinner" cannot be healed without magic, nor can an "unimportant mind" esteem itself without magic.

T-9.V.7. Both forms of the ego's approach, then, must arrive at an impasse; the characteristic "impossible situation" to which the ego always leads. 2 It may help someone to point out where he is heading, but the point is lost unless he is also helped to change his direction. 3 The unhealed healer cannot do this for him, since he cannot do it for himself. 4 The only meaningful contribution the healer can make is to present an example of one whose direction has been changed for him, and who no longer believes in nightmares of any kind. 5 The light in his mind will therefore answer the questioner, who must decide with God that there is light because he sees it. 6 And by his acknowledgment the healer knows it is there. 7 That is how perception ultimately is translated into knowledge. 8 The miracle worker begins by perceiving light, and translates his perception into sureness by continually extending it and accepting its acknowledgment. 9 Its effects assure him it is there.

T-9.V.8. A therapist does not heal; he lets healing be. 2 He can point to darkness but he cannot bring light of himself, for light is not of him. 3 Yet, being for him, it must also be for his patient. 4 The Holy Spirit is the only Therapist. 5 He makes healing clear in any situation in which He is the Guide. 6 You can only let Him fulfill His function. 7 He needs no help for this. 8 He will tell you exactly what to do to help anyone He sends to you for help, and will speak to him through you if you do not interfere. 9 Remember that you choose the guide for helping, and the wrong choice will not help. 10 But remember also that the right one will. 11 Trust Him, for help is His function, and He is of God. 12 As you awaken other minds to the Holy Spirit through Him, and not yourself, you will understand that you are not obeying the laws of this world. 13 But the laws you are obeying work. 14 "The good is what works" is a sound though insufficient statement. 15 Only the good can work. 16 Nothing else works at all.

T-9.V.9. This course offers a very direct and a very simple learning situation, and provides the Guide Who tells you what to do. 2 If you do it, you will see that it works. 3 Its results are more convincing than its words. 4 They will convince you that the words are true. 5 By following the right Guide, you will learn the simplest of all lessons:
6 By their fruits ye shall know them, and they shall know themselves.

T-9.VI.1. How can you become increasingly aware of the Holy Spirit in you except by His effects? 2 You cannot see Him with your eyes nor hear Him with your ears. 3 How, then, can you perceive Him at all? 4 If you inspire joy and others react to you with joy, even though you are not experiencing joy yourself there must be something in you that is capable of producing it. 5 If it is in you and can produce joy, and if you see that it does produce joy in others, you must be dissociating it in yourself.

T-9.VI.2. It seems to you that the Holy Spirit does not produce joy consistently in you only because you do not consistently arouse joy in others. 2 Their reactions to you are your evaluations of His consistency. 3 When you are inconsistent you will not always give rise to joy, and so you will not always recognize His consistency. 4 What you offer to your brother you offer to Him, because He cannot go beyond your offering in His giving. 5 This is not because He limits His giving, but simply because you have limited your receiving. 6 The decision to receive is the decision to accept.

T-9.VI.3. If your brothers are part of you, will you accept them? 2 Only they can teach you what you are, for your learning is the result of what you taught them. 3 What you call upon in them you call upon in yourself. 4 And as you call upon it in them it becomes real to you. 5 God has but one Son, knowing them all as One. 6 Only God Himself is more than they but they are not less than He is. 7 Would you know what this means? 8 If what you do to my brother you do to me, and if you do everything for yourself because we are part of you, everything we do belongs to you as well. 9 Everyone God created is part of you and shares His glory with you. 10 His glory belongs to Him, but it is equally yours. 11 You cannot, then, be less glorious than He is.

T-9.VI.4. God is more than you only because He created you, but not even this would He keep from you. 2 Therefore you can create as He did, and your dissociation will not alter this. 3 Neither God's light nor yours is dimmed because you do not see. 4 Because the Sonship must create as one, you remember creation whenever you recognize part of creation. 5 Each part you remember adds to your wholeness because each part is whole. 6 Wholeness is indivisible, but you cannot learn of your wholeness until you see it everywhere. 7 You can know yourself only as God knows His Son, for knowledge is shared with God. 8 When you awake in Him you will know your magnitude by accepting His limitlessness as yours. 9 But meanwhile you will judge it as you judge your brother's, and will accept it as you accept his.

T-9.VI.5. You are not yet awake, but you can learn how to awaken. 2 Very simply, the Holy Spirit teaches you to awaken others. 3 As you see them waken you will learn what waking means, and because you have chosen to wake them, their gratitude and their appreciation of what you have given them will teach you its value. 4 They will become the witnesses to your reality, as you were created witnesses to God's. 5 Yet when the Sonship comes together and accepts its Oneness it will be known by its creations, who witness to its reality as the Son does to the Father.

T-9.VI.6. Miracles have no place in eternity, because they are reparative. 2 Yet while you still need healing, your miracles are the only witnesses to your reality that you can recognize. 3 You cannot perform a miracle for yourself, because miracles are a way of giving acceptance and receiving it. 4 In time the giving comes first, though they are simultaneous in eternity, where they cannot be separated. 5 When you have learned they are the same, the need for time is over.

T-9.VI.7. Eternity is one time, its only dimension being "always." 2 This cannot mean anything to you until you remember God's open Arms, and finally know His open Mind. 3 Like Him, you are "always"; in His Mind and with a mind like His. 4 In your open mind are your creations, in perfect communication born of perfect understanding. 5 Could you but accept one of them you would not want anything the world has to offer. 6 Everything else would be totally meaningless. 7 God's meaning is incomplete without you, and you are incomplete without your creations. 8 Accept your brother in this world and accept nothing else, for in him you will find your creations because he created them with you. 9 You will never know that you are co-creator with God until you learn that your brother is co-creator with you.

T-9.VII.1. God's Will is your salvation. 2 Would He not have given you the means to find it? 3 If He wills you to have it, He must have made it possible and easy to obtain it. 4 Your brothers are everywhere. 5 You do not have to seek far for salvation. 6 Every minute and every second gives you a chance to save yourself. 7 Do not lose these chances, not because they will not return, but because delay of joy is needless. 8 God wills you perfect happiness now. 9 Is it possible that this is not also your will? 10 And is it possible that this is not also the will of your brothers?

T-9.VII.2. Consider, then, that in this joint will you are all united, and in this only. 2 There may be disagreement on anything else, but not on this. 3 This, then, is where peace abides. 4 And you abide in peace when you so decide. 5 Yet you cannot abide in peace unless you accept the Atonement, because the Atonement is the way to peace. 6 The reason is very simple, and so obvious that it is often overlooked. 7 The ego is afraid of the obvious, since obviousness is the essential characteristic of reality. 8 Yet you cannot overlook it unless you are not looking.

T-9.VII.3. It is perfectly obvious that if the Holy Spirit looks with love on all He perceives, He looks with love on you. 2 His evaluation of you is based on His knowledge of what you are, and so He evaluates you truly. 3 And this evaluation must be in your mind, because He is. 4 The ego is also in your mind, because you have accepted it there. 5 Its evaluation of you, however, is the exact opposite of the Holy Spirit's, because the ego does not love you. 6 It is unaware of what you are, and wholly mistrustful of everything it perceives because its perceptions are so shifting. 7 The ego is therefore capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst. 8 That is its range. 9 It cannot exceed it because of its uncertainty. 10 And it can never go beyond it because it can never be certain.

T-9.VII.4. You, then, have two conflicting evaluations of yourself in your mind, and they cannot both be true. 2 You do not yet realize how completely different these evaluations are, because you do not understand how lofty the Holy Spirit's perception of you really is. 3 He is not deceived by anything you do, because He never forgets what you are. 4 The ego is deceived by everything you do, especially when you respond to the Holy Spirit, because at such times its confusion increases. 5 The ego is, therefore, particularly likely to attack you when you react lovingly, because it has evaluated you as unloving and you are going against its judgment. 6 The ego will attack your motives as soon as they become clearly out of accord with its perception of you. 7 This is when it will shift abruptly from suspiciousness to viciousness, since its uncertainty is increased. 8 Yet it is surely pointless to attack in return. 9 What can this mean except that you are agreeing with the ego's evaluation of what you are?

T-9.VII.5. If you choose to see yourself as unloving you will not be happy. 2 You are condemning yourself and must therefore regard yourself as inadequate. 3 Would you look to the ego to help you escape from a sense of inadequacy it has produced, and must maintain for its existence? 4 Can you escape from its evaluation of you by using its methods for keeping this picture intact?

T-9.VII.6. You cannot evaluate an insane belief system from within it. 2 Its range precludes this. 3 You can only go beyond it, look back from a point where sanity exists and see the contrast. 4 Only by this contrast can insanity be judged as insane. 5 With the grandeur of God in you, you have chosen to be little and to lament your littleness. 6 Within the system that dictated this choice the lament is inevitable. 7 Your littleness is taken for granted there and you do not ask, "Who granted it?" 8 The question is meaningless within the ego's thought system, because it would open the whole thought system to question.

T-9.VII.7. I have said that the ego does not know what a real question is. 2 Lack of knowledge of any kind is always associated with unwillingness to know, and this produces a total lack of knowledge simply because knowledge is total. 3 Not to question your littleness therefore is to deny all knowledge, and keep the ego's whole thought system intact. 4 You cannot retain part of a thought system, because it can be questioned only at its foundation. 5 And this must be questioned from beyond it, because within it its foundation does stand. 6 The Holy Spirit judges against the reality of the ego's thought system merely because He knows its foundation is not true. 7 Therefore, nothing that arises from it means anything. 8 He judges every belief you hold in terms of where it comes from. 9 If it comes from God, He knows it to be true. 10 If it does not, He knows that it is meaningless.

T-9.VII.8. Whenever you question your value, say:
2 God Himself is incomplete without me.
3 Remember this when the ego speaks, and you will not hear it. 4 The truth about you is so lofty that nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you. 5 Choose, then, what you want in these terms, and accept nothing that you would not offer to God as wholly fitting for Him. 6 You do not want anything else. 7 Return your part to Him, and He will give you all of Himself in exchange for the return of what belongs to Him and renders Him complete.

T-9.VIII.1. Grandeur is of God, and only of Him. 2 Therefore it is in you. 3 Whenever you become aware of it, however dimly, you abandon the ego automatically, because in the presence of the grandeur of God the meaninglessness of the ego becomes perfectly apparent. 4 When this occurs, even though it does not understand it, the ego believes that its "enemy" has struck, and attempts to offer gifts to induce you to return to its "protection." 5 Self-inflation is the only offering it can make. 6 The grandiosity of the ego is its alternative to the grandeur of God. 7 Which will you choose?

T-9.VIII.2. Grandiosity is always a cover for despair. 2 It is without hope because it is not real. 3 It is an attempt to counteract your littleness, based on the belief that the littleness is real. 4 Without this belief grandiosity is meaningless, and you could not possibly want it. 5 The essence of grandiosity is competitiveness, because it always involves attack. 6 It is a delusional attempt to outdo, but not to undo. 7 We said before that the ego vacillates between suspiciousness and viciousness. 8 It remains suspicious as long as you despair of yourself. 9 It shifts to viciousness when you decide not to tolerate self-abasement and seek relief. 10 Then it offers you the illusion of attack as a "solution."

T-9.VIII.3. The ego does not understand the difference between grandeur and grandiosity, because it sees no difference between miracle impulses and ego-alien beliefs of its own. 2 I told you that the ego is aware of threat to its existence, but makes no distinctions between these two very different kinds of threat. 3 Its profound sense of vulnerability renders it incapable of judgment except in terms of attack. 4 When the ego experiences threat, its only decision is whether to attack now or to withdraw to attack later. 5 If you accept its offer of grandiosity it will attack immediately. 6 If you do not, it will wait.

T-9.VIII.4. The ego is immobilized in the presence of God's grandeur, because His grandeur establishes your freedom. 2 Even the faintest hint of your reality literally drives the ego from your mind, because you will give up all investment in it. 3 Grandeur is totally without illusions, and because it is real it is compellingly convincing. 4 Yet the conviction of reality will not remain with you unless you do not allow the ego to attack it. 5 The ego will make every effort to recover and mobilize its energies against your release. 6 It will tell you that you are insane, and argue that grandeur cannot be a real part of you because of the littleness in which it believes. 7 Yet your grandeur is not delusional because you did not make it. 8 You made grandiosity and are afraid of it because it is a form of attack, but your grandeur is of God, Who created it out of His Love.

T-9.VIII.5. From your grandeur you can only bless, because your grandeur is your abundance. 2 By blessing you hold it in your mind, protecting it from illusions and keeping yourself in the Mind of God. 3 Remember always that you cannot be anywhere except in the Mind of God. 4 When you forget this, you will despair and you will attack.

T-9.VIII.6. The ego depends solely on your willingness to tolerate it. 2 If you are willing to look upon your grandeur you cannot despair, and therefore you cannot want the ego. 3 Your grandeur is God's answer to the ego, because it is true. 4 Littleness and grandeur cannot coexist, nor is it possible for them to alternate. 5 Littleness and grandiosity can and must alternate, since both are untrue and are therefore on the same level. 6 Being the level of shift, it is experienced as shifting and extremes are its essential characteristic.

T-9.VIII.7. Truth and littleness are denials of each other because grandeur is truth. 2 Truth does not vacillate; it is always true. 3 When grandeur slips away from you, you have replaced it with something you have made. 4 Perhaps it is the belief in littleness; perhaps it is the belief in grandiosity. 5 Yet it must be insane because it is not true. 6 Your grandeur will never deceive you, but your illusions always will. 7 Illusions are deceptions. 8 You cannot triumph, but you are exalted. 9 And in your exalted state you seek others like you and rejoice with them.

T-9.VIII.8. It is easy to distinguish grandeur from grandiosity, because love is returned and pride is not. 2 Pride will not produce miracles, and will therefore deprive you of the true witnesses to your reality. 3 Truth is not obscure nor hidden, but its obviousness to you lies in the joy you bring to its witnesses, who show it to you. 4 They attest to your grandeur, but they cannot attest to pride because pride is not shared. 5 God wants you to behold what He created because it is His joy.

T-9.VIII.9. Can your grandeur be arrogant when God Himself witnesses to it? 2 And what can be real that has no witnesses? 3 What good can come of it? 4 And if no good can come of it the Holy Spirit cannot use it. 5 What He cannot transform to the Will of God does not exist at all. 6 Grandiosity is delusional, because it is used to replace your grandeur. 7 Yet what God has created cannot be replaced. 8 God is incomplete without you because His grandeur is total, and you cannot be missing from it.

T-9.VIII.10. You are altogether irreplaceable in the Mind of God. 2 No one else can fill your part in it, and while you leave your part of it empty your eternal place merely waits for your return. 3 God, through His Voice, reminds you of it, and God Himself keeps your extensions safe within it. 4 Yet you do not know them until you return to them. 5 You cannot replace the Kingdom, and you cannot replace yourself. 6 God, Who knows your value, would not have it so, and so it is not so. 7 Your value is in God's Mind, and therefore not in yours alone. 8 To accept yourself as God created you cannot be arrogance, because it is the denial of arrogance. 9 To accept your littleness is arrogant, because it means that you believe your evaluation of yourself is truer than God's.

T-9.VIII.11. Yet if truth is indivisible, your evaluation of yourself must be God's. 2 You did not establish your value and it needs no defense. 3 Nothing can attack it nor prevail over it. 4 It does not vary. 5 It merely is. 6 Ask the Holy Spirit what it is and He will tell you, but do not be afraid of His answer, because it comes from God. 7 It is an exalted answer because of its Source, but the Source is true and so is Its answer. 8 Listen and do not question what you hear, for God does not deceive. 9 He would have you replace the ego's belief in littleness with His Own exalted Answer to what you are, so that you can cease to question it and know it for what it is.