By Gonny 
Let’s be honest, none of us started reading A Course in Miracles from pure awareness. We all began with our favorite travel companion, the ego.
The ego loves books, especially ones that promise enlightenment. It underlines, highlights, writes notes in the margins, and proudly declares, “Now I understand!” It can even quote Jesus fluently, usually to prove a point.
It joins study groups, nods wisely, and occasionally says, “That’s not what Jesus meant.”
But all this is okay, because every sincere attempt to understand the Course, no matter how intellectual or self-focused, is still a tiny crack of willingness. And through that crack, the Light enters.
The Holy Spirit never waits for us to be ready. He simply uses what we give Him, even our pride, our need to be right, or our endless analysis, and gently transforms it into a path toward truth.
So don’t feel guilty if your Course looks like a battlefield of underlines and notes. That’s how the journey begins. The student may start as a “holy corrector,” but ends as a humble listener.
And in that quiet moment, something shifts.
The words are no longer read by the ego, but by the heart.
The mind suddenly recognizes that there was never a separate self trying to learn anything at all.
But sometimes the ego is very strong. It uses even the most sacred language to defend its position. It uses the Course to do the very thing it was meant to undo, it uses it to separate.
These strong ego personalities take their favorite passages and turn them into walls instead of bridges, posting their interpretations as if they were absolute truth, forgetting that Truth needs no defense.
They argue about who understands Jesus better, as if the One Mind could ever be divided into right and wrong.
And yet, even this can become a moment of grace, the instant we see those strong egos, or realize we are one of them, and simply offer it to the Holy Spirit and smile.
Because the Holy Spirit doesn’t judge mistakes, He gently reinterprets them.
Each “correction” we try to make for others becomes another opportunity to forgive ourselves.
The Course reminds us that “there is no separation.”
So whenever we find ourselves wanting to be right, or to win a discussion, we can pause and remember that the one I am trying to correct is not outside me.
It is my own frightened mind asking for love.
And love has no need to correct, it only embraces.
In that recognition, the study ends and the living begins.
Not as separate students trying to master a teaching,
but as one Mind remembering Itself,
reading the same eternal line:
We are all part of the One Son of God.
With love and light
G.