# A Course in Miracles  ## Metadata - Author: [[Dr. Helen Schucman]] - Full Title: A Course in Miracles - Category: #books ## Highlights - It is not intended to become the basis for another cult. Its only purpose is to provide a way in which some people will be able to find their own Internal Teacher. ([Location 1646](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0018A01L4&location=1646)) - Tags: [[pink]] - If we are using perception to justify our own mistakes–our anger, our impulses to attack, our lack of love in whatever form it may take–we will see a world of evil, destruction, malice, envy and despair. All this we must learn to forgive, not because we are being “good” and “charitable,” but because what we are seeing is not true. We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses, and are therefore seeing what is not there. As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or “forgive.” At the same time we are forgiving ourselves, looking past our distorted self-concepts to the Self That God created in us and as us. ([Location 1700](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0018A01L4&location=1700)) - Tags: [[pink]]