Lesson 214

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

Beloved, the recognition continues. We are here.

Today's applied idea is in the Workbook. Open the book. Read what is offered.

The body, while we are doing this practice, is being released from a role it never could fully play. It has been carrying the weight of being who we are. The Course has been showing us that this is not the body's role. The body is a temporary vehicle, used kindly, used wisely, used for the year of practice and for whatever the rest of the life will hold. It does not need to be the bearer of our identity.

When the body is released from this role, something curious happens. The body becomes lighter to inhabit. The aches do not need to be defended against quite so vigorously. The mirror does not need to be argued with. The body is allowed to be a body, and what we are is allowed to be what we are. Both, at the same time, in a peaceful coexistence the practice has been preparing.

For today. Read today's lesson in the Workbook. Repeat the affirmation. Be kind to the body that is carrying you through this year.

A musical companion to today's lesson is available below.

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.*