Teachings Based on ACIM

Separation and Atonement.

The following quotes from the text of ACIM offer clarification re the course perspective on the subjects of Separation and Atonement.

Separation.

• The Separation is the notion of rejection.
  
  
• The separation is nothing more than the belief that your will is different from God's.
  
  
• Separation is only the decision not to know yourself.
  
  
• The separation is another term for split mind.
  
  
• The separation was not a loss of perfection, but a failure in communication.
  
  
• Exclusion and separation are synonymous, as are separation and dissociation.
  
  
• For the separation is only the denial of union, and correctly interpreted, attests to your eternal knowledge that union is true.
  
  
• For the love of God, no longer seek for union in separation, nor for freedom in bondage!
  
  
• Separation is overcome by union.
  
  
• The separation is a system of thought real enough in time, though not in eternity.
  
  
• The separation is merely a faulty formulation of reality, with no effect at all.
  
  
• We have said before that the separation was and is dissociation, and that once it occurs projection becomes its means of defence or the device that keeps it going.
  
  
• Separation must be corrected where it was made.
  
  
• All who believe in separation have a basic fear of retaliation and abandonment.
  
  
• Separation is the source of guilt, and to appeal to it for salvation is to believe you are alone.

Atonement

• Acceptance of the Atonement is the end of separation.
  
  
• Accepting the Atonement for yourself means not to give support to someone's dream of sickness and of death.
  
  
• The full awareness of the Atonement is the recognition that the separation never occurred.
  
  
• By accepting the Atonement you are deciding against the belief that you can be alone, thus dispelling the idea of separation and affirming your true identification with the whole Kingdom as literally part of you.
  
  
• The Atonement cannot come to those who think they must first atone, but only to those who offer it simple willingness to make way for it.
  
  
• The atonement is the correction of the belief in nothingness.
  
  
• The Atonement teaches you how to escape from everything that you have taught yourself in the past; by showing you only what you are now.
  
  
• The Atonement gives you the power of a healed mind, but the power to create is of God.
  
  
• Everyone has a special part to play in the Atonement, but the message given to each one is always the same: God's Son is guiltless.
  
  
• The purpose of the Atonement is to restore everything to you, or rather, to restore it to your awareness.
  
  
• If you already understood the difference between truth and illusion, the Atonement would have no meaning.
  
  
• 'Atoning' means 'undoing'

Sickness and Healing.

The following quotes from ACIM offer clarification from the 'miracle' perspective on the subjects of 'Sickness and Healing':

• Sickness is a defence against the truth.
  
  
• Sickness is anger taken out upon the body, so that it will suffer pain.
  
  
• Sickness is merely another example of your insistence on asking guidance of a teacher who does not know the answer.
  
  
• For sickness is a meaningless attempt to give effects to causelessness, and make it be a cause.
  
  
• Sickness is a demand that the body be a thing that it is not.
  
  
• Sickness is meaningful only if the two basic premises on which the ego's interpretation of the body rests are true; that the body is for attack, and that you are a body.
  
  
• Always in sickness does the Son of God attempt to make himself his cause, and not allow himself, to be his Father's Son.
  
  
• Sickness or 'not right mindedness', is the result of level confusion, because it always entails the belief that what is amiss on one level can adversely affect another.
  
  
• All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of fear of awakening.
  
  
• Sickness is a way of demonstrating that you can be hurt.
  
  
• All forms of sickness are signs that the mind is split, and does not accept a unified purpose.
  
  
• All sickness comes from separation.
  
  
• The seeds of sickness come from the belief that there is joy in separation, and its giving up would be a sacrifice.
  
  
• It is hard to perceive sickness as a false witness, because you do not realise that it is entirely not in keeping with what you want.
  
  
• Do not side with sickness in the presence of a Son of God even if he believes in it, for your acceptance of God in him acknowledges the Love of God he has forgotten.
  
  
• The acceptance of peace is the denial of illusion, and sickness is an illusion.
  
  
• Your vigilance against sickness is the way to heal it.
  

Healing and sickness

• To have faith is to heal
  
  
• To heal then is to correct perception in your brother and yourself by sharing the Holy Spirit with him.
  
  
• Who forgives is healed.
  
  
• The only way to heal is to be healed. If you wish only to be healed, you heal.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• By definition, the unhealed healer is trying to give what he has not received.
  
  
• Healing is the one ability everyone must develop and must develop if he is to be healed.
  
  
• Healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees any value in pain/the world/ the body.
  
  
• The body needs no healing.
  
  
• Healing is the result of using the body solely for communication.
  
  
• Healing is the release from the fear of waking and the substitution of the decision to wake.
  
  
• Nothing employed for healing represents an effort to do anything at all. All healing is essentially the release from fear.
  
  
• Forget not that the healing of God's Son is all the world is for.
  
  
• What is healing but the removal of all that stands in the way of knowledge.
  
  
• Help and healing are the normal expressions of a mind that is working through the body, but not in it.
  
  
• Yet must all healing come about because the mind is recognised as not within the body, and its innocence is quite apart from, it, and where all healing is.
  
  
• All healing is release from the past.
  
  
• Healing must be accomplished in the present to release the future.
  
  
• It makes no difference to what part or by what part of the Sonship the healing is offered. Every part benefits, and benefits equally.
  
  
• Healing replaces suffering.
  
  
• Thus is your healing everything the world requires, that it may be healed.
  
  
• Health is the proper perspective on life under the guidance of the one Teacher who knows what life is, being
  the Voice for life itself.
  
  
• Health is inner peace.
  
  
• Health is nothing more than united purpose