It seems to you the world will utterly abandon you if you but raise your eyes. ²Yet all that will occur is you will leave the world forever. ³This is the re-establishment of your will. ⁴Look upon it, open-eyed, and you will nevermore believe that you are at the mercy of things beyond you, forces you cannot control, and thoughts that come to you against your will. (ACIM, T-19.IV-D.7:1-4)

The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself. ²No matter what the form of the attack, this still is true. ³Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth. ⁴Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. ⁵For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. ⁶Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is your dream. (ACIM, T-27.VIII.10:1-6)

is the ego the great imposter?

Learning of Christ is easy, for to perceive with Him involves no strain at all. ⁸His perceptions are your natural awareness, and it is only the distortions you introduce that tire you. (ACIM, T-11.VI.3:7-8)

Your mind can be possessed by illusions, but spirit is eternally free (ACIM, T-1.IV.2:8)

Christ waits for your acceptance of Him as yourself, and of His Wholeness as yours. (ACIM, T-11.IV.7:3)

Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. (ACIM, M-19.5:2)

The sight of Christ is all there is to see. ⁸The song of Christ is all there is to hear. ⁹The hand of Christ is all there is to hold. ¹⁰There is no journey but to walk with Him. (ACIM, T-24.V.7:7-10)

if God created you by extending Himself as you, you can only extend yourself as He did. ³Only joy increases forever, since joy and eternity are inseparable (ACIM, T-7.I.5:2-3)

But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is. ²There is no world! ³This is the central thought the course attempts to teach. ⁴Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. ⁵He will return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again (ACIM, W-132.6:1-5)

although you can perceive false associations, you can never make them real except to yourself. ⁸You believe in what you make (ACIM, T-1.VII.3:7-8)

The ego and the spirit do not know each other (ACIM, T-4.VI.4:1)

The reason this course is simple is that truth is simple. ²Complexity is of the ego, and is nothing more than the ego’s attempt to obscure the obvious (ACIM, T-15.IV.6:1-2)

I will not lead my life alone today. ²I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. ³But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. ⁴And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. ⁵I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God. (W-242.1:1-5)

God calls you and you do not hear, for you are preoccupied with your own voice (ACIM, T-13.V.6:6)

caligraphy from Mark

Guilt is a sure sign that your thinking is unnatural (ACIM, T-5.V.4:8)

Here is your innocence, waiting to clothe you and protect you, and make you ready for the final step in the journey inward. ⁷Here are the dark and heavy garments of guilt laid by, and gently replaced by purity and love. (ACIM, T-18.IX.9:6-7)

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. ²You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. ³In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. ⁴For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. (ACIM, W-264.1:1-4)

You have probably reacted for years as if you were being crucified. ²This is a marked tendency of the separated, who always refuse to consider what they have done to themselves. (ACIM, T-6.I.3:1-2)

Nothing you give is lost to you or anyone, but cherished and preserved in Heaven, where all of the treasures given to God’s Son are kept for him, and offered anyone who but holds out his hand in willingness they be received. (ACIM, T-25.IX.2:4)

The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. ²So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God. ³The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body that appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. ⁴Yet who can save unless he sees illusions and then identifies them as what they are? ⁵Jesus remains a Savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true. ⁶And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their own illusions. (ACIM, C-5.2:1-6)

Each day should be devoted to miracles (ACIM, T-1.I.15:1)

Perception is a choice and not a fact. ⁸But on this choice depends far more than you may realize as yet. ⁹For on the voice you choose to hear, and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are. ¹⁰Perception is a witness but to this, and never to reality. (ACIM, T-21.V.1:7-10)

All the effects of guilt are here no more. ²For guilt is over. ³In its passing went its consequences, left without a cause. ⁴Why would you cling to it in memory if you did not desire its effects? ⁵Remembering is as selective as perception, being its past tense. ⁶It is perception of the past as if it were occurring now, and still were there to see. ⁷Memory, like perception, is a skill made up by you to take the place of what God gave in your creation (ACIM, T-28.I.2:1-7)

Handy little mud map of ACIM ideas

Seek not outside yourself. ⁷For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. ⁸What if it is not there? ⁹Do you prefer that you be right or happy? (ACIM, T-29.VII.1:6-10)

This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace (ACIM, W-361-365)

Your creation by God is the only Foundation that cannot be shaken, because the light is in it. ⁶Your starting point is truth, and you must return to your Beginning. ⁷Much has been seen since then, but nothing has really happened. ⁸Your Self is still in peace, even though your mind is in conflict. ⁹You have not yet gone back far enough, and that is why you become so fearful. ¹⁰As you approach the Beginning, you feel the fear of the destruction of your thought system upon you as if it were the fear of death. ¹¹There is no death, but there is a belief in death. (ACIM, T-3.VII.5:5-11)

Your mind can be possessed by illusions, but spirit is eternally free. ⁹If a mind perceives without love, it perceives an empty shell and is unaware of the spirit within. ¹ (ACIM, T-1.IV.2:8-10)

Father, we would return our minds to You. ²We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death. ³Now would we rest again in You, as You created us (ACIM, W-249.2:1-3)