“The line I always quote from the workbook says, “Forgiveness…is still and quietly does nothing. The only choice you get's your point of view. Or keep you stuck in time like flies in glue. You've got to watch your mind for thoughts that are unkind Which in the Course is the same thing because the ego never looks. That’s why the primary definition of forgiveness is looking without judgment. “I can begin to watch myself do what I’m doing. I watch myself in relationships: I seduce, I manipulate, I control.” Watch myself think and feel, get sick, get well, get angry, be happy, be sad, begin to make plans. I can begin to learn to watch myself, see myself. In fact, that’s the kind of training that we’re asked to pursue in this course. The mind’s function (when we choose the right teacher: namely, Jesus or the Holy Spirit) is that it becomes an observer. We can begin to relate to the mind’s function. But he does help us understand the mind’s function. In other words, as with all my other work on A Course in Miracles, this book is meant to supplement a student's experience of the workbook, not to substitute for the workbook as it was given to us.“Jesus doesn’t tell us what the mind is. I would urge students, however, if they are doing the workbook for the first time, to read the lessons as they are, without my commentary. Without such application, the brilliance of Jesus' words is wasted, and they become simply a sterile system of intellectual teachings.This book can be read in at least three ways: 1) straight through, as one would do with the text 2) different lessons at different times or 3) one lesson at a time, as a companion to each lesson. I have considerably enlarged some of the original discussion, supplying additional references to other relevant portions of the Course, the Preface, the two pamphlets, poems from The Gifts of God, and the prose poem "The Gifts of God." This work can thus be seen as a complete Course companion to accompany students on their own journey through the workbook.My purpose in presenting the classes originally, as it remains in this book, was to help students better understand the meaning of the lessons and their place in the curriculum of A Course in Miracles, and most of all, to help students see the importance of applying the daily lessons to their everyday lives. The classes consisted of a line-by-line analysis of the lessons, introductions, reviews, summaries, and the Epilogue. This eight-volume set is the end product of a series of classes I conducted at our Foundation's former location in New York.
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