Helen Schucman

"Forgive the script. Peace is a shift."

Helen Cohn Schucman (1909–1981) was a clinical and research psychologist at Columbia-Presbyterian who scribed A Course in Miracles after William Thetford said there must be another way than their hostile meetings. Inner dictation began 21 October 1965. The Combined Volume is the mind-training she left: forgive the meaning you glued onto this slight.

1 book·Mind-training, forgiveness & perception

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Two thought systems

You consult ego or right-mind in the next hour. The scenery can stay.

A miracle is a change of mind

Not a rearranged event. Forgiveness withdraws the meaning you gave.

The Workbook is the gym

365 short lessons. Theory without practice is the ego’s favourite degree.

Notable Quotes

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."
— A Course in Miracles
"The ego’s death is your life."
— A Course in Miracles

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