Lesson 218

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

Three days remain. Beloved, we are close.

Today's applied idea is in the Workbook. Open the book. Sit with it.

The mind that has practiced for 218 days notices something about this stretch of repetition. The repetition is not boring. It has become a kind of resting place. Each day's return to the same affirmation is the mind coming home to a sentence that has, by now, become a friend. The friend is not new each day. The friendship is, by now, settled.

This is one of the gifts of devotional practice that the Workbook is teaching us. The same recognition, repeated, becomes more available — not less interesting. The mind that wants something new each day has been the mind that has been doing the dream's work. The mind that can rest in the same sentence for twenty days is the mind the practice has been forming.

For today. Read today's lesson in the Workbook. Repeat the affirmation. Rest in it.

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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.*