The Peace of God

This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish its curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a give time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. This course can, therefore, be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened; Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

From the Introduction to A Course in Miracles