Zingers from A Course in Miracles, Daan Dehn

ZINGERS

"There is no middle ground in any aspect of salvation." [T561/604]
"Anger is never justified." [T593/638]
"You have one test...If you are wholly free of fear of any kind." [T276/297]
"You need offer only undivided attention." [T211/227]
"Now you need but to remember you need do nothing." [T363/389]
"Your task is not to seek for love...." [T315/338]
"The body no more dies than it can feel. It does nothing." [T389/418]
"...guilt is...the sole cause of pain in any form." [T591/635]
"The world you see does not exist." [T559/602]
"...eyes and ears are senses without sense." [T559/601]
"You are not sick and you cannot die." [T177/191]
"...the essential thing is learning that you do not know." [T275/296]
"The present is before time was...." [T234/252]
"What is joyful to you is painful to the ego...." [T124/134]
"...it is necessary to seek for what is false." [T315/338]
"This is an insane world...." [T251/271]
"...your mind is really a blank." [W16/16]
"Only very few can hear God's Voice at all...." [M30/31]
"Simplicity is very difficult for twisted minds." [T253/272]
"Who is the 'you' who are living in this world?" [T54/59]
"...you have no basis at all for ordering your thoughts." [T273/294]
"...you do not see anything that is really alive or really joyous." [W28/28]
"One illusion cherished...makes all truth meaningless...." [T439/472]
"The first step...is the undoing of the getting concept." [T99/107]
"There are no idle thoughts." [T27/31]
"There is no world!" [W237/243]
"All that you are asked to do is to make room for truth." [T419/449]
"Do you prefer that you be right or happy?" [T573/617]
"The past that you remember never was...." [T270/291]
"Your function...is only to decide against deciding what you want..." [T260/280]
"There is no life outside of Heaven." [T459/493]
"There is nothing outside you." [T358/384]
"A healed mind does not plan." [W246/253]
"Mistake not truce for peace...." [T461/496]
"Depression is an inevitable consequence of separation." [W63/63]
"To be alone is to be guilty." [T290/312]
"...to be with a body is not communication." [T297/319]
"Forget this world, forget this book...." [W350/360]
"Ownership is a dangerous concept if it is left to you." [T238/256]
"...there are no private thoughts." [W30/30]
"There is no point in trying to change the world." [W34/34]
"Ultimately space is as meaningless as time. Both are merely beliefs." [T11/14]
"Those who see themselves as whole make no demands." [W56/56]
"No one who lives in fear is really alive." [T30/35]
"...sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with the body." [M17/18]
"Love makes no comparisons." [W362/372]
"You do not know the meaning of anything you perceive." [T196/211]
"What is not love is murder." [T461/496]
"This course is easy just because it makes no compromise." [T460/495]
"There is no death, but there is a belief in death." [T46/51]
"The Atonement is a total commitment." [T17/20]

All quotes from A Course in Miracles ©1975,85,92 Foundation for Inner Peace
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More ZINGERS

"The truth is simple; it is one without an opposite." [T508/546]
"What you think you are is a belief to be undone." [W155/157]
"...self-esteem in ego terms must be delusional." [T53/58]
"Those you do not forgive you fear." [T393/422]
"You made this up." [T400/429]
"It is impossible to overestimate your brother's value." [T405/434]
"The world you see has nothing to do with reality." [W23/23]
"...be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything." [W38/38]
"There is no relationship between what is real and what you think is real." [W71/71]
"Your goal is to find out who you are." [W103/104]
"Who can dream of hatred and not fear God?" [W114/115]
"Salvation is our only need. There is no other purpose here...." [W116/117]
"...nothing outside yourself can hurt you, or disturb your peace...." [W118/119]
"Be not afraid to circumvent the voices of the world." [W187/190]
"Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is?" [W189/192]
"...His Word cannot be heard until your mind is quiet for a while." [W220/225]
"You do not understand forgiveness." [W222/227]
"Love is one. It has no separate parts and no degrees." [W225/230]
"Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds." [W240/247]
"...your life is not part of anything you see." [W272/279f]
"To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams." [W339/348]
"It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain." [W351/361]
"The thing you dread the most is your salvation." [W365/375]
"Partial Atonement is a meaningless idea...." [M53/55]
"To say, 'Of myself I can do nothing' is to gain all power." [M67/70]
"Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one." [M81/85]
"Jesus became what all of you must be." [M83/87]
"To overlook nothingness is merely to judge correctly." [T174/187]
"...the illusion of peace is not the condition in which truth can enter." [T342/367]
"Happiness must be constant,...." [T433/464]
"If you are joined, how could it be that you have private thoughts?" [T428/459]
"Perception is a choice and not a fact." [T425/456]
"...any brother with whom you have a limited relationship, you hate." [T421/451]
"...the retreat to death is not the end of conflict." [T390/418]
"...sin is the belief that your perception is unchangeable." [T377/405]
"Partial dedication is impossible." [T372/399]
"Heaven is not a place....It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness." [T359/384]
"...the present is forgiveness." [T332/357]
"You cannot really not let go what has already gone." [T324/348]
"You must choose between total freedom and total bondage." [T303/326]
"This world was over long ago." [T547/589]
"...the concept of size exists on a plane that is itself unreal." [T8/11]
"Spiritual vision literally cannot see error,...." [T18/22]
"Whenever you are afraid you are deceived." [T/19/22]
"...you do not guard your thoughts carefully enough." [T27/31]
"...ultimately no compromise is possible between everything and nothing." [T28/32]
"If you attack error in another, you will hurt yourself." [T37/41]
"All are called but few choose to listen." [T39/44]
"...the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness,...." [T40/45]
"Sickness is a defense against the truth." [Lesson 136]
"..no one can be angry at a fact." [M43/44]

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...More Zingers

"Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes." [W347/357]
"In the world of scarcity, love has no meaning and peace is impossible." [T293/315]
"...nothing is difficult that is wholly desired." [T100/108]
"...you cannot be anywhere but in the Mind of God." [T166/179]
"The Second Coming is merely the return of sense." [T158/170]
"No one can serve contradicting goals and serve them well." [W413/423]
"Depression is isolation, and so it could not have been created." [T176/190]
"Do not see error. Do not make it real." [SOP9]
"All that you need to do is to step back and not to interfere." [SOP13]
"Listen and learn, and do not judge." [SOP14]
"The secret of true prayer is to forget the things you think you need." [SOP2]
"Prayer is an offering; a giving up of yourself to be at one with Love." [SOP2]
"All other goals are at the cost of God." [SOP6]
"Prayer for specifics always asks to have the past repeated in some way." [SOP7]
"...humility does not oppose." [SOP7]
"Only in someone else can you forgive yourself,...." [SOP10]
"God is ready now, but you are not." [T300/322]
"Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all." [W347/357]
"Salvation can be seen as nothing more than the escape from concepts." [T613/659]
"There is nothing that you cannot do." [W354/364]
"Inventiveness is wasted effort even in its most ingenious form." [T39/44]
"The ego is a contradiction." [T48/53]
"The mind that accepts attack cannot love." [T114/123]
"All confusion comes from not extending life,...." [T118/128]
"Reality cannot be partly appreciated." [T118/127]
"Confusion is not limited. If it occurs at all it will be total." [T523/562]
"...what we think we understand is but confusion born of error." [W356/366]
"...all the 'pleasures' of the world are nothing." [M32/33]
"...you are too confused to recognize your own hope." [T59/65]
"You...must first recognize that you are miserable and not happy." [T252/272]
"Joy is eternal." [T439/471]
"...the ego is totally confused and totally confusing." [T129/139]
"You cannot be faithful to two masters who ask conflicting things of you." [T327/351]
"Dreams are chaotic because they are governed by your conflicting wishes...." [T350/375]
"The images you make give rise to but conflicting goals...." [W343/352]
"Doubt is the result of conflicting wishes." [M22/23]
"...you must emerge from the conflict if you are to bring peace to other minds." [T30/34]
"Spirit has no levels, and all conflict arises from the concept of levels." [T37/42]
"Look at your life and see what the devil has made." [T45/50]
"The Kingdom of Heaven is you." [T54/60]
"Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all." [T97/104]
"...only the conflict-free are whole." [T112/120]
"...if you want peace, you must give up the idea of conflict entirely...." [T116/125]
"You will never be able to exclude yourself from your thoughts." [T118/127]
"Only the special could have enemies...." [T465/500]
"...time is not involved and every problem can be answered now." [T533/574]
"Real choice is no illusion. But the world has none to offer. [T607/653]
"The world was made that problems could not be escaped." [T608/653]
"Without illusions conflict is impossible." [W128/130]
"Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. Death is illusion; life, eternal truth." [W458/468]
"You are not weak, as is the image of yourself." [W343/352]
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ZINGERS ad infinitum

"Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection." [T330/354]
"Let the dead and gone be peacefully forgotten." [T512/551]
"There is a place in you where this whole world has been forgotten...." [T570/614]
"You must learn that time is solely at your disposal...." [T168/181]
"Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly." [T146/157]
"...a slight twinge of annoyance is nothing but a veil drawn over intense fury." [W32/32]
"The world you see is but a judgment on yourself." [T400/430]
"Always has no direction." [T221/237]
"The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that." [T415/445]
"You are not the victim of the world you see because you invented it." [W49/49]
"The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all." [W351/362]
"The body is outside you...." [T360/386]
"You cannot lay aside the obstacles to real vision without looking upon them...." [T204/220]
"Understand totally by understanding totality." [T120/129]
"You do not see." [T415/445]
"The special love relationship is an attempt to bring love into separation." [T315/338]
"Love is not special." [T247/265]
"...to believe in truth you do not have to do anything." [T200/215]
"...if you perceive but one need in yourself you will be healed." [T201/216]
"...fear and attack are inevitably associated." [T202/217]
"If you cannot hear the Voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen." [T57/62]
"All things work together for good." [T59/65]
"Any thought system that confuses God and the body must be insane." [T60/66]
"The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about yourself." [T61/67]
"The Holy Spirit knows that you both have everything and are everything." [T56/62]
"...to know your brother is to know God." [T62/69]
"Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right." [T63/69]
"...in the Kingdom there is no difference between having and being...." [T64/70]
"God is praised whenever any mind learns to be wholly helpful." [T65/71]
"Health is inner peace." [T15/18]
"[Love] has no secrets; nothing that it would keep apart and hide." [T407/436]
"Salvation is always ready and always there." [M6/7]
"You do not know the meaning of love, and that is your handicap." [T210/226]
"Ask for light and learn that you are light." [T131/141]
"Heal your brothers simply by accepting God for them." [T171/184]
"To believe a Son of God is sick is to worship the same idol he does." [T171/185]
"Reality can dawn only on an unclouded mind." [T174/187]
"'Laws of chaos' is a meaningless term." [T174/188]
"To sense is not to know." [W409/419]
"...all attitudes are ego-based." [T52/57]
"Body appetites are not physical in origin." [T53/58]
"Illusions are investments. They will last as long as you value them." [T118/127]
"The Son of God is you." [W105/106]

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Last of the Red Hot ZINGERS

"There is no partial healing." [SOP17]
"What is false cannot be partly true." [SOP17]
"God's teachers can have no regret on giving up the pleasures of the world." [M32/33]
"The Word of God has no exceptions." [M33/34]
"Everything in this world is little because it is a world made out of littleness...." [T285/306]
"You can wish for the impossible, but you can will only with God." [T125/134]
"It is not will for life but wish for death that is the motivation for this world." [T526/566]
"Why should the body be anything to you?" [T387/415]
"...to sacrifice the body is to sacrifice nothing...." [T305/328]
"If you believe you can be sick, you have placed other gods before Him." [T173/187]
"Oneness cannot be divided." [T174/187]
"Dreams disappear when light has come and you can see." [T232/249]
"To spirit getting is meaningless and giving is all." [T67/73]
"What guilt has wrought is ugly, fearful and very dangerous." [T323/347]
"What the body's eyes behold is only conflict." [M23/24]
"...your life is not a part of anything you see." [Lesson 151]
"The closed mind believes the future and the present will be the same." [T36/40]
"Certainty does not require action." [T36/41]
"If you attack error in another, you will hurt yourself." [T37/41]
"Your inheritance awaits only the recognition that you have been redeemed." [T209/225]
"Healing is a thought by which two minds perceive their oneness and become glad." [T66/73]
"Illusions are always illusions of differences." [M23/24]
"...only the mind is responsible for seeing." [M23/24]
"God is not the author of fear. You are." [T49/55]
"Salvation is not theoretical." [M61/65]
"Truth is so far beyond time that all of it happens at once." [T283/305]
"The world you see is an illusion of a world. God did not create it...." [M81/85]
"...the time will come when all things visible will have an end." [M81/85]
"...forgiveness looks past bodies." [M81/85]
"All differences among the Sons of God are temporary." [M8/9]
"No gift of Heaven has been more misunderstood than has forgiveness." [SOP9]
"Illusion recognized must disappear." [Lesson 187]
"There is no place for sacrifice in what has any value." [Lesson 187]
"The emphasis on beautiful structures is a sign of the fear of Atonement...." [T18/21]
"Delay is of the ego, because time is its concept." [T72/79]
"Only unwillingness to learn it could make such an easy lesson difficult." [T600/645]
[M83/87]
"A mind and body cannot both exist." [Lesson 96]
"Real choice is no illusion. But the world has none to offer." [T607/653]
"The world was made that problems could not be escaped." [T608/653]
"...love was never in the world of dreams." [T554/596]

ZINGERS Forever!

"...analyzing the motives of others is hazardous to you." [T200/215]
"What you think you are is a belief to be undone." [W155/157]
"Only in the world is the idea of an authority problem meaningful." [T46/51]
"The world is not left by death but by truth...." [T46/51]
"Nothing you have ever learned can help you understand the present...." [T276/297]
"Questioning illusions is the first step in undoing them." [T36/40]
"You were created only to create, neither to see nor do." [T252/271]
"The world has never been at all." [W315f/324]
"Spiritual vision literally cannot see error...." [T18/22]
"All healing is essentially the release from fear." [T19/23]
"Only the mind is capable of error." [T19/23]
"Physical illness represents a belief in magic." [T19/23]
"No belief is neutral." [T464/499]
"What God creates has no alternative." [T464/499]
"Only the special could have enemies...." [T465/500]
"Specialness is the great dictator of the wrong decisions." [T465/500]
"What you keep is lost to you." [T466/501]
"Never can there be peace among the different." [T466/502]
"Comparison must be an ego device, for love makes none." [T466/502]
"Pursuit of specialness is always at the cost of peace." [T467/502]
"You are not special." [T467/502]
"You need only recognize that everything you learned you do not want." [T276/297]
"The self you made is not the Son of God." [W159/161]
"Knowledge never involves comparisons." [T54/60]
"Remember that those who attack are poor." [T205/221]
"...it is but your thoughts that bring you fear...." [W365/375]
"Freedom from illusions lies only in not believing them." [T143/154]
"Unless you hurt yourself you could never suffer in any way...." [T184/199]
"Conflict is the root of all evil...." [184/199]
"All illusions are but one." [T509/547]
"That there is choice is an illusion." [T509/547]
"...no one in whom true forgiveness rests can suffer." [T528/569]
"Sickness is anger taken out upon the body...." [T560/603]
"You were not meant to suffer and to die." [W190/193]
"No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision." [W274/281]
"...it is impossible that you be hurt except by your own thoughts...." [W365/375]
"The gentle have no pain. They cannot suffer." [M12/13]
"All that I do I do unto myself." [W385/395]
"Certainty does not require action." [T36/41]
"The ego is a confusion in identification." [T121/131]
"The sun and ocean are as nothing beside what you are." [T365/391]
"Love knows no bodies...." [T365/392]
"The body is not cured. It is merely recognized as what it is." [PPPP10]
"What is not love is murder." [T461/496]
"You will never learn how to make nothing everything." [T254/273]
"Experience - unlearned, untaught, unseen - is merely there." [W291/299]
"The dreamer of a dream is not awake, but does not know he sleeps." [T551/594]
"The truly given gift entails no loss." [W185/188]
"Salvation is no more than a reminder this world is not your home." [T493/530]
"Every mistake must be a call for love." [T377/404]
"You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you." [T16/19]

all quotations from A Course in Miracles ©1975,85,92 Foundation for Inner Peace

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