Review VI
Introduction
1. For this review we take but one idea each day, and practice it as often as is possible. ²Besides the time you give morning and evening, which should not be less than fifteen minutes, and the hourly remembrances you make throughout the day, use the idea as often as you can between them. ³Each of these ideas alone would be sufficient for salvation, if it were learned truly. ⁴Each would be enough to give release to you and to the world from every form of bondage, and invite the memory of God to come again.
2. With this in mind we start our practicing, in which we carefully review the thoughts the Holy Spirit has bestowed on us in our last twenty lessons. ²Each contains the whole curriculum if understood, practiced, accepted, and applied to all the seeming happenings throughout the day. ³One is enough. ⁴But from that one, there must be no exceptions made. ⁵And so we need to use them all and let them blend as one, as each contributes to the whole we learn.
3. These practice sessions, like our last review, are centered round a central theme with which we start and end each lesson. ²It is this:
³I am not a body. ⁴I am free.
⁵For I am still as God created me.
⁶The day begins and ends with this. ⁷And we repeat it every time the hour strikes, or we remember, in between, we have a function that transcends the world we see. ⁸Beyond this, and a repetition of the special thought we practice for the day, no form of exercise is urged, except a deep relinquishment of everything that clutters up the mind, and makes it deaf to reason, sanity and simple truth.
4. We will attempt to get beyond all words and special forms of practicing for this review. ²For we attempt, this time, to reach a quickened pace along a shorter path to the serenity and peace of God. ³We merely close our eyes, and then forget all that we thought we knew and understood. ⁴For thus is freedom given us from all we did not know and failed to understand.
5. There is but one exception to this lack of structuring. ²Permit no idle thought to go unchallenged. ³If you notice one, deny its hold and hasten to assure your mind that this is not what it would have. ⁴Then gently let the thought which you denied be given up, in sure and quick exchange for the idea we practice for the day.
6. When you are tempted, hasten to proclaim your freedom from temptation, as you say:
²This thought I do not want. ³I choose instead _____________.
⁴And then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what you thought. ⁵Beyond such special applications of each day’s idea, we will add but a few formal expressions or specific thoughts to aid in practicing. ⁶Instead, we give these times of quiet to the Teacher Who instructs in quiet, speaks of peace, and gives our thoughts whatever meaning they may have.
7. To Him I offer this review for you. ²I place you in His charge, and let Him teach you what to do and say and think, each time you turn to Him. ³He will not fail to be available to you, each time you call to Him to help you. ⁴Let us offer Him the whole review we now begin, and let us also not forget to Whom it has been given, as we practice day by day, advancing toward the goal He set for us; allowing Him to teach us how to go, and trusting Him completely for the way each practice period can best become a loving gift of freedom to the world.
Lesson 201
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
1. (181) I trust my brothers, who are one with me.
²No one but is my brother. ³I am blessed with oneness with the universe and God, my Father, one Creator of the whole that is my Self, forever One with me.
⁴I am not a body. ⁵I am free.
⁶For I am still as God created me.