Lesson 201

Review VI

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About This Review

This is a review lesson in the ACIM Workbook. Review lessons revisit earlier ideas, allowing them to deepen and integrate into your awareness. Each review period is an opportunity to see these ideas with fresh eyes and a more receptive mind.

Practice Guidance

The review lessons are designed to consolidate the ideas you've been practicing. Spend time with each idea being reviewed, letting it settle more deeply than before. You may notice that ideas which seemed abstract or difficult when you first encountered them now carry a different quality.

Don't rush through the review. Each idea deserves your full, unhurried attention. You might find that your understanding has shifted in subtle ways since you first practiced these lessons.

Contemplation

As you review, notice which ideas resonate more strongly now than they did initially. This natural deepening is part of the workbook's design — each review builds on the foundation of daily practice.

From Walking the Workbook

The closing of Part I begins, and for the next twenty days this is the heart of our practice.

Open the Workbook today. You will find the affirmation above as the opening of the lesson, and beneath it an applied idea that the Course gives for today specifically. Read what the Workbook offers. We will not name the day's particular applied idea here, because the Workbook itself is your teacher in this passage. We are walking beside you, not in front.

Beloved, this is the sentence the year has been preparing you to receive. I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me. You do not have to feel that it is true. The feeling is not the work. The willingness to sit with it, to let it move through you slowly, to let it be said many times as you go through the day — that is the work.

The body continues to do what bodies do. The day continues to be the day. And underneath, this recognition is dawning, quietly, in a mind that has been doing the practice. We are not what the body's story has been suggesting. We are not even what the personality has been arranging. We are what God created — and God's creation has not been changed by anything that has happened in the dream.

For today. Read today's lesson in the Workbook. Repeat the affirmation many times. Carry it lightly. Let it do its work.

A musical companion to today's lesson is available below.

Walking the Workbook, Volume Two is the ACIM.live companion for Lessons 121 through 240 — the middle third of the year, including the central forgiveness lessons and the closing of Part I. Read more about the book →

*This is original commentary and practice guidance. For the complete lesson text, please visit The Foundation for Inner Peace.*