Lesson 213

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

The affirmation continues. Beloved, here we are.

Today's applied idea is in the Workbook. Read it carefully.

The mind that has been doing this practice for over two hundred days has been changed. Not the way the world changes — gradually, visibly, with measurable milestones. The way grace changes the mind — slowly, quietly, often without the mind's awareness. We will sometimes look back at our former reactions and recognize that we are no longer reactive in that way. The reactivity has thinned. The thinning was not our work. It happened in the willingness, by grace.

There is sometimes joy in this recognition. Sometimes a quiet sadness for the years before, when the practice was not yet underway. Both are fine. The Course meets both.

For today. Read today's lesson in the Workbook. Repeat the affirmation. Notice what has been quietly happening.

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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.*