A course in miracles.
Only salvation can be set to cure.
Cure is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world accepts as beneficial.
What the world perceives as therapeutic is but what will make the body better.
When it tries to heal the mind,
The world sees no separation from the body.
Where the body thinks,
The mind exists.
The world's form of healing,
Therefore,
Must substitute illusion for illusion.
One belief in sickness takes another form,
And so the patient now perceives themselves as well.
They are not healed,
They merely had a dream that they were sick,
And in the dream they found the magic formula to make them well.
Yet they have not awakened from the dream,
And so their mind remains exactly as it was before.
They have not seen the light that would awaken them and end the dream.
What difference does the content of a dream make in reality?
One either sleeps or wakens.
There is nothing in between.
The happy dreams that the Holy Spirit brings are different from the dreaming of the world,
Where one can merely dream they are awake.
The dreams forgiveness lets the mind perceive do not induce another form of sleep so that the dreamer dreams another dream.
Happy dreams are heralds of the dawn of truth upon the mind.
They lead from sleep to gentle waking so that dreams are gone and thus these dreams are the cure for all eternity.
Atonement heals with certainty and cures all sickness,
For the mind which understands that sickness can be nothing but a dream is not deceived by forms the dream may take.
Sickness,
Where guilt is absent,
Cannot come,
For sickness is but another form of guilt.
Atonement does not heal the sick,
For that is not a cure.
Atonement takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible,
And that is cure indeed,
For sickness now is gone,
With nothing left to which it can return.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
Only salvation can be said to cure.
Only salvation can be said to cure.
Peace be to you who have been cured in God,
And not in idle dreams.
Cure must come from holiness,
And holiness cannot be found where sin is cherished.
God abides in holy temples.
God is barred where sin has entered.
Yet there is no place where God is not.
Therefore,
Sin can have no home in which to hide from God's beneficence.
There is no place where holiness is not.
There is no place where sin and sickness can abide.
This is the thought that cures.
This thought does not make distinctions among unrealities,
Nor does it seek to heal what is not sick,
Unmindful where the need for healing is.
This is no magic.
It is merely an appeal to truth,
Which cannot fail to heal,
And heal forever.
This is not a thought that judges an illusion by its size,
Its seeming gravity,
Or anything that is related to the form it takes.
The thought,
There is no place where holiness is not,
Merely focuses on what is,
And knows that no illusion can be real.
Let us not try today to seek to cure what cannot suffer sickness.
Healing must be sought where it is,
And then applied to what is sick,
So that it can be cured.
There is no remedy the world provides that can affect a change in anything.
The mind that brings illusions to the truth is really changed.
There is no change but this,
For how can one illusion differ from another,
But in attributes that have no substance,
In attributes that have no reality,
No core,
Nothing that is truly different.
Repeat to yourself,
In your mind,
Only salvation can be said to cure.
Only salvation can be said to cure.
Today,
We seek to change our minds about the source of sickness,
For we seek a cure for all illusions,
Not another shift among them.
We will try today to find the source of healing,
Which is in our minds,
Because God our Father placed it there for us.
The source is not farther from us than ourselves.
The source is as near to us as our own thoughts.
So close it is impossible to lose,
But we need to seek the source and it must be found.
We will not be misled today by what appears to us as sick.
We go beyond appearances today and reach the source of healing,
From which nothing is exempt.
We will succeed to the extent to which we realize that there can never be a meaningful distinction made between what is untrue and equally untrue.
Here there are no degrees and no beliefs that what does not exist is truer in some forms than others.
All of them are false.
All of them can be cured because they are not true.
So we lay aside our amulets,
Our charms and medicines.
We set aside our chants and bits of magic in whatever form they take.
We will be still and listen for the voice of healing,
Which will cure all ills as one,
Restoring saneness to the child of God.
No voice but this can cure.
Today we hear a single voice which speaks to us of truth,
Where all illusions end and peace returns to the eternal,
Quiet home of God.
We waken hearing God speak to us for five minutes as the day begins.
We end the day by listening again five minutes more before we go to sleep.
Our only preparation is to let our interfering thoughts be laid aside.
Not separately,
But all of them as one.
They are the same.
We have no need to make them different and thus delay the time when we can hear our Father speak to us.
We hear Him now.
We come to Him today with nothing in our hands to which we cling.
With lifted hearts and with listening minds we pray.
Only salvation can be said to cure.
Speak to us,
Father,
That we may be healed and we will feel salvation cover us with soft protection,
With a peace so deep that no illusion can disturb our minds.
A peace so deep that no illusion will offer proof to us that it is real.
This we will learn today as we repeat our prayer now in our mind.
Only salvation can be said to cure.
Speak to us,
Father,
That we may be healed.
Only salvation can be said to cure.
Speak to us,
Father,
That we may be healed.
Now lay aside your interfering thoughts.
Not separately,
But all of your thoughts together as one thought.
They are the same.
There is no need to make them different.
Lay aside your thoughts as we pray.
Only salvation can be said to cure.
Speak to us,
Father,
That we may be healed.
This is the day when healing comes to us.
This is the day when separation ends.
This is the day we remember who we really are.
