Helen Schucman Quotes & Sayings

if you wish to be the author of reality, which is totally impossible anyway, you will insist on holding onto judgment. You will also use the term with considerable fear, believing that judgment will someday be used against you. To whatever extent it is used against you, it is due only to your belief in its efficacy as a weapon of defense for your own authority. The issue of authority is really a question of authorship. When an individual has an "authority problem," it is always because he believes he is the author of himself, projects his delusion onto others, and then perceives the situation as one in which people are literally fighting him for his authorship. — Helen Schucman

The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. — Helen Schucman

Father, we do not know the way to You. But we have called, and You have answered us. We will not interfere. Salvation's ways are not our own, for they belong to You. And it is unto You we look for them. Our hands are open to receive Your gifts. We have no thoughts we think apart from You and cherish no beliefs of what we are or who created us. Yours is the way that we would find and follow. And we ask but that Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world, that it becomes a part of Heaven now. Amen. Lesson — Helen Schucman

There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level. — Helen Schucman

Dreams show you that you have the power ... — Helen Schucman

An untrained mind can accomplish nothing. It is the purpose of these exercises to train the mind to think along the lines which the course sets forth. — Helen Schucman

Everyone defends his treasure, and will do so automatically.The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you have learned to consider these questions and to bring them into all your actions, you will have little difficulty in clarifying the means. The means are available whenever you ask. You can, however, save time if you do not protract this step unduly. The correct focus will shorten it immeasurably. — Helen Schucman

When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer. — Helen Schucman

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand. — Helen Schucman

To take offense is to give offense. — Helen Schucman

Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation. — Helen Schucman

I am never upset for the reason I think. — Helen Schucman

Love holds no grievances. — Helen Schucman

God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles — Helen Schucman

When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be willing to enter into communion but will also understand peace and joy. — Helen Schucman

God is not partial. All His children have His total Love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike. — Helen Schucman

Teach only love for that is what you are. — Helen Schucman