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Jesus does not keep track of how punctual we are in following the instructions for your day; his interest is only in aiding us train our minds to consider more and more when it comes to forgiveness, and then eventually to generalize our learning to all facets of our lives and experience. The core idea is that we are sincere inside our attempts to review and practice what the workbook teaches, aware that individuals all have strong resistance, yet are prepared to forgive ourselves for the often inadequate efforts. As long as we continue to examine and apply the lessons as we are instructed, we will make progress.

It is very important to target on this content, rather than the form. What matters is making a sincere effort to check out the instructions as carefully as we are able to, without judging ourselves when we fail. Indeed, we could claim that the purpose of doing the lessons is to complete them wrong and then forgive our mis­takes. This may reflect our ultimate forgiveness of ourselves for the mistake of separating from our Creator-Source.

The manual for teachers, the 3rd book, is the easiest and most approachable of the three. The Course helps us realize that we are teachers and students of every other and that there surely is no line separating teachers and students. Even as we teach we learn, and once we learn we teach; but this has nothing regarding a conventional teaching setting.

This is is that people teach by demonstration. A Course in Miracles is never worried about form (body) but only content (mind). The manual is available in question-and-answer form, with the questions addressing some of the more important themes present in the Course itself. There's an appendix to the manual, which Helen took down a few years after the Course was com­pleted.

That is called the clarification of terms, which in an expression is just like a glossary of some of the key terms which can be used in the Course, the ostensible purpose being to define them for the Course's stu­dents. What one finds, however, is when you don't know what the word means, the clarification of terms probably will not be helpful. What it is, however, is a beautiful, and many times poetic summary of what these terms mean. It's another way of revisiting what we already have.

The role of teaching and learning is reversed in the thinking about the world. The reversal is characteristic. This indicates like the teacher and the learner are separated, the teacher giving something to the learner as opposed to to himself. Further, the act of teaching is regarded as a unique activity, in which engages only a relatively small proportion of one's time. The course, on one other hand, emphasizes that to show is to master, to ensure that teacher and learner are the same. In addition, it emphasizes that teaching is a consistent process; it goes on every moment of the day and continues into sleeping thoughts as well.

David's message speaks to any or all people, no matter whether their background is religious, spiritual, scientific, or atheist. He's as comfortable delving into the metaphysics of modern-day movies as he's in pointing to the underlying meaning of the scriptures in the Bible. David's journey involved the research of many pathways, culminating in a deeply committed practical application of “A Course in Miracles,” of which he is a world-renowned teacher. His teachings have already been translated into 12 languages and taken into the hearts and minds of millions through the intimate design of his books, audio, and videos.

To instruct is to demonstrate. You will find only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you imagine one or one other is true most of the time. From your demonstration, others learn, and so do you. The question isn't whether you will teach, for in that there surely is no choice. The objective of the course might be thought to give you a means of choosing what you want to show based on what you would like to learn. You cannot give to someone else, but simply to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a phone to witnesses to attest as to the you believe. It's a way of conversion. This isn't done by words alone. Any situation must be for you an opportunity to teach others everything you are, and what they're to you. Only that, but also never less.