by Robert Perry. Twelve brief principles for the ongoing practice of forgiveness. Category: Articles

by Robert Perry. "Anger takes many forms," the Course says. Here are a number of Course passages that identify a number of other emotions as anger, even though we would not normally consider them such. Category: Article

by Robert Perry. In contemporary thought, the choices of what to do with our anger are either repress it or express it. The Course, however, presents a third alternative. Category: Articles

by Robert Perry. A forgiveness exercise composed of Course passages reworded in the second person, so that they directly address the person you are forgiving. Aimed at seeing this person as a Son of God who saves you, rather than a sinner who damns you. Category: Articles

by Robert Perry. An essential part of forgiveness is seeing an attack as a call for love. Yet what does that really mean? How is the attack a call for love? Actually, the Course more often uses the term "call for help." In these class notes, Robert clarifies this extremely helpful facet of forgiveness. Category: Articles

by Robert Perry. Robert has taken a long list of Course quotes about nonjudgment and turned each one into a first person statement to repeat as a Workbook-like practice. Category: Exercises and Visualizations

by Robert Perry. A very powerful exercise for reading "Salvation from Fear" (T-24.VI), with some added comments, in a slow, contemplative fashion, applying every line to a person you are attempting to forgive. Category: Articles

by Greg Mackie. It seems to me that Course students are constantly condemning the ego and fighting against it. This seems to contradict the Course's teaching on forgiveness. Since the Course says we should forgive everyone, shouldn't we forgive the ego as well? Category: Articles

by Robert Perry. The Course seems to provide elaborate reasons for forgiving another person, like the person is really a Son of God, or is really calling for help, or it's all a dream and so the offense never really happened. Can't we just do away with all this complexity and simply say that we forgive people because they are doing their best? Category: Articles

by Greg Mackie. A Course in Miracles says, "You cannot be unfairly treated"(T-26.X.3:2). I'm in a situation where I feel like I'm being unfairly treated. How can I change my perception of this situation? Category: Articles

by Robert Perry. When I see other people's mistakes of any kind, when I think the way they are acting or talking is wrong or hurtful or selfish, am I judging them? Do I have to accept everybody's wrongdoings? In the last year my experience was that they even took advantage of my acceptance!! Category: Articles

by Allen Watson. What does it mean to “make error real”? Allen demonstrates that the phrase means something very different from what is commonly thought, and discusses the miracle of not reacting to other people's mistakes. Category: Articles

by Robert Perry. This article unpacks a portion of Lesson 133. This lesson teaches that the way to heal our pangs of guilt is not to assert the purity of our motives, but to look on our motives undisguised. How can this wipe away our guilt? The lesson provides a brilliant answer. Category: Articles

by Allen Watson. Allen examines a passage in the Text that implicitly asks us to place ourselves in the position of the thief on the cross, and to see that person we have been resenting as the Christ, crucified next to us, yet able to take us to Paradise with him. Category: Articles

by Greg Mackie. Perhaps no one in our world today inspires such intense reactions as President George W. Bush. Many people hold strong grievances against him, and in our work at the Circle, we’ve seen that many Course students are struggling to forgive him. This article is meant to help alleviate this struggle. It provides practical Course tools, including a visualization exercise, to help those who hold grievances against Bush forgive him and see him as the holy Christ he really is. Category: Articles

by Greg Mackie. In this article, Greg explores the topic of grievances, drawing from the Course and relating its teaching to his own wrestling with grievances during his move to Arizona. What exactly is a grievance? What are the consequences of holding grievances? Most importantly, how can we let grievances go? Category: Articles

by Allen Watson. Allen's commentary on the Workbook page, What Forgiveness?, has been extracted from A Workbook Companion and made available as a separate article. Category: Articles

by Greg Mackie. Why are some judgments more difficult to give up than others? For example, why is it easy for me not to judge people for the color of their skin, but difficult not to judge their behavior or character? Category: Articles

by Greg Mackie. Is the word "love," as applied in the Course to our earthly lives, synonymous with forgiveness? Category: Articles

by Greg Mackie. If the sins we see in our brothers are really our own sins, then is forgiveness based on recognizing that the particular "sinful" character trait that I'm seeing in my brother is really my projection of a character trait that I'm seeing and not acknowledging in myself? Category: Articles

by Greg Mackie. What is the difference between false forgiveness and true forgiveness? Category: Articles

by Greg Mackie. How can we forgive people like murderers, rapists, and child molesters? How can we accept these people as loving children of God who perpetrate "bad" behaviors without judging the behavior? Category: Articles

by Robert Perry. Course students are often confused about how to forgive. Yet the Workbook offers many exercises in which we pick a person and then forgive that person. This article walks us through one of the Course's key forgiveness exercises, which is found in Workbook Lesson 78. Category: Exercises and Visualizations