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 gospels] are not merely antiquarian documents telling a strange story about a powerful but now long-gone moment of history. They are the moment of sunrise on a new morning, casting a strange glory over the landscape and inviting all readers to wake up, rub the sleep from their eyes, and come out to enjoy the fully dawned day and give themselves to its tasks. — N. T. Wright

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

The word "inevitable" is fearful to the ego, but joyous to the spirit. God is inevitable, and you cannot avoid Him any more than He can avoid you. — Foundation For Inner Peace

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use. — Spoken Reasons

Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines — Kent Bach

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more. — David Maraniss

Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage. — Pope Clement VIII

To take offense is to give offense. — Helen Schucman

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

T-4.II.5. Undermining the ego's thought system must be perceived as painful, even though this is anything but true. Babies scream in rage if you take away a knife or scissors, although they may well harm themselves if you do not. In this sense you are still a baby. You have no sense of real selfpreservation, and are likely to decide that you need precisely what would hurt you most. — Foundation For Inner Peace

T-4.I.2. Many stand guard over their ideas because they want to protect their thought systems as they are, and learning means change. Change is always fearful to the separated, because they cannot conceive of it as a move towards healing the separation. They always perceive it as a move toward further separation, because the separation was their first experience of change. — Foundation For Inner Peace

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

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

It was the greatest in its subtleties. It — Mariana Zapata

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

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

Love holds no grievances. — Helen Schucman

Life is a series of dogs. — George Carlin

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

Hey Lucia, Pay up, suckah, Emma got dental with some dude. — Kresley Cole

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

I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it's not on your side or against you. It's an invitation into the onward flow. — David Whyte

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