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This is the edition of "A Course in Miracles" ("the Course") that its two scribes, Drs. Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford, authorized for publication by the Foundation for Inner Peace in 1975. It is now available in translation in 27 languages and is widely used by students in thousands of…

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No book has challenged me, frustrated me, comforted me, and transformed me more than A Course in Miracles.

What began as curiosity became a companion for decades. I've returned to it through success and failure, addiction and recovery, love and loss, certainty and confusion. Somehow it continues to meet me wherever I am. 

I've put the book down more than once. Sometimes out of frustration. Sometimes, because I needed to stop studying what it pointed toward and go live it. Yet I always found myself returning. It continually invites me to question the stories, fears, and identities I've mistaken…

I recommend this book because this spiritual text helped me—more than any other—to see and choose from love instead of fear in my own life. When I left my prestigious law job, I had a storm of fears weaken my creative dreams. This book helped me to find and trust my own inner authority. It also helped me to feel more secure in life, no matter what was going on. At first, I found the language off-putting because it “sounded” religious at times. But this path is not about any religion, other than the love and infinite power in all…

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