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Volume 23 Number 3 September 2012

AMOR FATI1
The Birth of Gratitude
Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.
Introduction: Stoic Antecedents to
A Course in Miracles
Over the years I have written and spoken about the
Platonic and neo-Platonic antecedents to A Course in
Miracles.2 In the current article I expand the range of these
philosophical predecessors to include the ancient schools of
Stoicism, that we may see how their astoundingly contemporary principles are reflected in the Course. Specifically, I
shall discuss the application of these Stoic teachings to the
exigencies of our daily living, in harmony with my ongoing
discussion in other writings of the practical applications of
the Courses fundamental non-dualistic principles.
To begin, the philosophy of Stoicism has been pejoratively distorted by the popularization of the term to mean
someone who can endure pain in an almost insensitive or
cold manner. Its Greek and Roman roots, however, are quite
different, reflecting the same content of the well-known line
from A Course in Miracles: Therefore, seek not to change
the world, but choose to change your mind about the world
(T-21.in.1:7). Very succinctly stated, the essential tenets of
Stoicism were that the goal of virtue and happiness (virtually
synonymous to the Greeks) was attainable only through the
minds accepting what is uncontrollable, our no longer
believing, to quote the Course, that [we] are at the mercy of
things beyond [us], forces [we] cannot control (T-19.IVD.7:4).
Stoicism originated with Zeno (334-262 BC), who taught
from the porch/colonnade (stoa in Greek) of the Athenian
Agora, and found two of its greatest exponents in the former
Greek slave Epictetus (55-135 AD) and Roman Emperor
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD). In modern times, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche gave it consummate
1. From the Latin, meaning love of fate.
2. See, for example, my Love Does Not Condemn: The World, the Flesh, and
the Devil According to Platonism, Christianity, Gnosticism, and A Course
in Miracles as well as CD-107 Shadows of Limitation.

expression in his doctrine of Amor Fati, referred to several

times in his writings and representative of his basic outlook
on life. Here are brief statements from each that serve to
introduce one of the central themes of this article, the heart
and soul of A Course in Miracles: the minds the thing (to
paraphrase Hamlet), not the world. We begin with Zeno:
It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state
of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious
(source unknown).

Epictetus defined a true Stoic this way:

one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy,
dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and
happy (The Discourses of Epictetus, XIX).

From the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius:

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything
tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To
bear this worthily is good fortune.
You have power over your mindnot outside events.
Realize this, and you will find strength.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not
due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this
you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Finally, two quotes from Nietzsche, first The Gay Science:

Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to
wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I
do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking
away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the
whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

And from Why I Am So Clever, a section of Ecce Homo:

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati:
that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not
backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal itbut love it (section 10:[2]).

This Stoic wisdom of living harmoniously in a disharmonious universe means not giving the circumstances of our

Amor Fati: The Birth of Gratitude (continued)

First our brothers, and then God Himself. Like Job, our
wrong minds exclaim: Curse God (for our fate) and die!
And after making the world of specific bodies, we use as our
rallying cry from birth on: Curse our brothers (for our fate)
and have them die instead of us!
Jesus describes our unhappy lot in life in a telling
description from the workbook (W-pI.166.5-6), here paraphrased and embellished: We hate our fate (odium fati),
blaming everyone and everything for our unhappiness and
pain as we senselessly wander through the labyrinth of darkness we call our lives. We are aware of the futility we see
about us, perceiving how our little lot dwindles as we travel
on to nowhere, from nowhere, through nowhereall alone in
our impoverished misery. We seem to be sorry figures,
weary, worn, in threadbare clothing, and with feet that bleed
from the rocky road we walk along in defeat and hopelessness. Not a person lives who cannot identify with this
pathetic parody of the Christ Whom God created Son, for it
is this self we embrace in our odium fati. We glorify our misery so we may, to cite the egos raison detre for existence,
denounce the world and its inhabitants by saying: Behold
me, brother, at your hand I die (T-27.I.4:6).
This reason for being is the hallmark of the egos
thought system of hate, and I would argue is the most difficult aspect of A Course in Miracles for its students. It
touches upon the core of all special relationships: that by
attacking others we fulfill our wrong-minded desire to escape
the horrifying burden of guilt we carry over the ontological
belief that we separated from our Creator and Source. Hurling our brothers over the precipice of sin (T-24.V.4), we revel
in the magically insane belief that we have avoided the selfinduced immolation of our sin-laced individuality. The perversity of this madness reaches its zenith in the decision we
all make that we would go to any lengths, up to and including
suffering and death, to prove that another is guilty of the sin
we secretly harbor within the deeper recesses of our minds.
Yet, paradoxically, what poses as odium fati is really
amor fati, but for all the wrong reasons. It is the consummation of our specialness, for we love our fate as abused,
persecuted, and suffering victims. This experience allows us
in fevered dreams of madness to once more triumph over our
brothers, the world, and ultimately (and exultingly) over
God. We have defied the Creator by defiantly proving the
reality of separation, yet escaping His wrathful punishment
that now rightfully belongs to another. The minds guilt has
now been perceived outside in the world, leaving us with the
self-concept of the face of innocence (T-31.V.2:6). It is our
suffering at the hands of another, in whatever form, that
establishes our sinlessness for all to see. Following the egos
reigning dictum of hateone or the other, kill or be killed
(M-17.7:11)anothers guilt proves we are innocent of all
sin, and this person deserves the punishment that we secretly
believe is our just desert.

world power to affect our minds happiness or peace, and

instead saying Yes to the minds power to love in the face of
the worlds hate, despair, and death. All this is quite comparable to A Course in Miracles, though without the nondualistic metaphysics that would be the foundation for the
true Stoic response to the otherwise meaningless dream we
call life. The similarity between the two thought systems
separated by over two thousand yearsis striking, not only
in content but often in the very words themselves.
But the ego speaks first, and so we begin the article
proper with the egos resentful attitude toward life and the
harsh vicissitudes of our living here, hardly the attitude of
gratefulness that Jesus tells us in his course is a prerequisite
for awakening from the dream (e.g., W-pI.195).
One final and cautionary word, however, before we
embark on our mini-journey to the truth. The reader needs to
remember, as has been clearly implied in the present introduction, that this truth comes from the mind of A Course in
Miracles to the mind of its students. The Course encourages
us to recognize that we are, in fact, decision-making minds
and not the bodily person that is the illusory identity of our
everyday experience. Otherwise, these concepts will seem to
make no sense at best, and appear harsh and insensitive at
worst. Consider how a body would read a line like this: He
[the right-minded person] laughs as well at pain and loss, at
sickness and at grief, at poverty, starvation and at death
(W-pI.187.6:4). As Jesus reminds us, thoughts are dangerous
only to bodies (T-21.VIII.1:1-2). Minds are impervious to
illusions, andagainwe are minds, and can be taught that
the self resides above the worlds battleground of bodies at
war with each other. Thus we can meet suffering with the
gentle laughter of recognition that heals (W-pI.187.6:5), the
recognition that returns the cause of suffering to the mind,
where alone resides the undoing of guilts pain-filled effects:
It is not easy to perceive the jest when all around you do
your eyes behold its heavy consequences, but without
their trifling cause. Without the cause do its effects seem
serious and sad indeed. Yet they but follow. And it is their
cause that follows nothing and is but a jest (T-27.VIII.
8:4-7).

With this caution duly noted about the mistake of bodily

identification, we are ready to listen to the egos complaints
about the austere world and our cruel fate in living here.
Odium Fati (Hatred of Fate)
We all wander in this world, not only uncertain, lonely,
and in constant fear (T-31.VIII.7:1), but certain we are correct that we are, and have always been unfairly treated. Why
else would we, having left Heaven, choose to be born as a
body except to prove we are innocent victims of a cold, cruel,
and uncaring world? Indeed, it is the egos secret wish to
prove our existence but hold someone else responsible for it.

Amor Fati: The Birth of Gratitude (continued)

you literally scream, I want it thus! (T-18.II.4:1). I want it
thus is our justified scream whenever our perceived needs are
not metas children in little bodies, or as children in adult
bodiesthinking we are perfectly within our rights to feel
bitter over our unfair treatment. Therefore Jesus cautions all
his little siblings, in words more than familiar to students of
A Course in Miracles: Beware of the temptation to perceive
yourself unfairly treated (T-26.X.4:1). How silly, he
would continue, to persist in wearing the shabby clothes of a
needy child when you can stand up tall with me and remember who you are! Gratefully we read these words of encouragement from our elder brother:

Nevertheless, this dream (odium fati) is only a mask

drawn across the face of what the Course calls the secret or
first dream (T-27.VII.11-12; The Gifts of God, p. 120): the
egos amor fati. After all, the ego loves to hate, its underlying and perennial goal being murder. Its curses of fate conceal the underlying attraction to pain as the motivation
behind its life in the body. Purpose is everything, we are
taught (e.g., T-4.V.6:8-11), and the purpose behind the body
as an instrument of physical and psychological pain is to
demonstrate our existence, at the same time that we make
another the agent who is responsible for our suffering. This
agent can be the hateful macroorganisms we call homo
sapiens, the virulent microorganisms known as viruses or
bacteria, our heredity, or the multitudinous worldly events
that impinge upon our innocent and vulnerable selves.
The good news within this cesspool of guilt and death is
that while the ego thought system is fool-proof, it is not
God-proof (T-5.VI.10:6). Always present within the dream
is the Holy Spirits golden thread of hope, the thought of
Atonement we carried with us when we separated, and which
reminds us we but sleep, all the while we are awake in God
(T-10.I.2:1). Within every seemingly separated fragment of
the Sonship is a built-in limit to pain, a limit on our ability to
miscreate (T-2.III.3:3). When the tolerance for pain reaches
its zenith and our limit, we cry out: There must be a better
way (T-2.III.3:5-6); there must be another way of looking at
the world of relationships, the world of bodies. This allows
Jesus to change our nightmarish dreams of guilt, suffering,
and death to the happy dream of forgiveness and peace.
Odium (amor) fati happily now becomes a genuine amor
fati.

Walk you in glory, with your head held high, and fear
no evil. Let us not let littleness lead Gods Son into
temptation. His glory is beyond it, measureless and timeless as eternity (T-23.in.3:1; 5:1-2).

This, then, is our choice: littleness or magnitude, the

gore of the egos thought system of murder, or the glory of
Gods innocent Son. How we look at our world reflects the
decision our mind has made through which eyes we shall see
the world: the eyes of gratitude or those of bitterness: Vision
or judgment is your choice, but never both of these (T-20.
V.4:7).
We learn to be grateful for our unkind fate because what
occur in our lives are the classrooms we have chosen for ourselves. If there is no world out there (e.g., W-pI.132.4-6), and
all this is merely our dream, how can our minds not be
responsible for the circumstances and events that seemingly
befall us? Who else could be? Does one blame an actor if one
does not like the tragic denouement of a Eugene ONeill
play? Or hold a puppet responsible for the violence on stage
when it strikes another puppet dead?
The fact of the matter is that the decision-making mind
has written the scripts we call our lives, or better, the observing mind has chosen which ancient scriptswritten before
time seemed to bewe will review (W-pI.158.4). Stated
another way, before we choose to be born, we research the
holographic contents of the mindits repository of guilt,
judgment, and deathfor whatever aspects of the dream will
best serve the egos purpose of proving our existence for all
to see, at the same time parading our innocence before a
world we have laced with our projected guilt.
Given this, could we possibly justify the bitter complaints about our unhappy lot in life? It is our dream, and as
the dreamer, how we perceive the world around us can only
be caused by the minds decision. Recall these trenchant
words from the text:

Amor Fati: Gentle Acceptance

Lesson 268 (Let all things be exactly as they are), if
understood correctly, points to this shift from the arrogance
of our bitterness to the humble gratitude that marks our salvation. As we say to our God:
Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and
distort it into sickly forms. Let me be willing to withdraw
my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it. What can frighten me, when I let all things be
exactly as they are?
Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our
ears attend to lying tongues (W-pII.268.1:2-3,6; 2:1).

The lesson itself refers to our reality as Gods one Son, but in
the call to us not to be blasphemous, Jesus is implicitly asking us to see the world we perceive either as reflecting realitys love, or calling for it.
This change in how we perceive ourselves is characterized by changing our attitude from resentment to acceptance,
bitterness to gratitude. Our ego reactions are like those of little children who throw temper tantrums when they do not get
their way: Dreams are perceptual temper tantrums, in which

Once you were unaware of what the cause of everything

the world appeared to thrust upon you, uninvited and
unasked, must really be. Of one thing you were sure: Of
all the many causes you perceived as bringing pain and
suffering to you, your guilt was not among them
(T-27.VII. 7:3-4).

Amor Fati: The Birth of Gratitude (continued)

Guilt, which really means the decision-making minds
choice to believe in guilt, is the cause of our dreams of suffering and death. This vitiates the egos feeble attempts to
hold another accountable for our experiencewhether,
again, we accuse a person, damaged chromosomes, poisonous germs, or the toxic world itselffor all along our suffering has been the minds choice. Only we can give power to
other dreamers to affect us; they themselves have none. It is
merely the minds belief that gives illusion the strength to
change us (see, for example, T-4.VI.1; T-7.VIII.5-7). Read
further how Jesus removes our delusions of projection onto
others for what is in truth our responsibility for being
unhappy:

Learning this, we do not give the worlds dream (our

fate) power to affect our minds love and peace. We stand
tall, above the worlds battleground of guilt and hate, fear and
pain. This is the true meaning of strength:
You always choose between your weakness and the
strength of Christ in you. Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power
(T-31.VIII.2:3,5).

Under Jesus kind and gentle tutelage we learn to love

our classroom, not because we masochistically enjoy suffering, but because our life experiences alone hold the key that
will lead us on the path that bridges the gap between hell and
Heaven. Who, knowing this, could not exuberantly embrace
such an opportunity, loving it for its capacity to lead us
home? Only the insane, who still believe that the dualistic
world of bodies and seeming events is real, for its underlying
causethe belief in the reality of separation and guiltis
possible of both accomplishment and real effects (T-27.
VIII.6:3).
Amor fati! That is the joyful cry of all those who seek to
end the egos nightmare and awaken from its dreams of suffering and spite. We happily accept the life we chose because
it is the way home, and we gladly receive its lessons, as painful to the body as they may be. Where once we saw a curse,
we now feel the comforting wings of blessing hover over us
as we join Jesus on the journey home:

The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing

this unto yourself. For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let
them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could
have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is
your dream (T-27.VIII.10:1,5-6).

But the problem remains: we do not know we are dreaming! How can we change a situation that we believe was not
caused by us, and that moreover is the result of forces we
clearly cannot control? Recall the Courses words about the
egos plan to defend ourselves from the truth that we are a
decision-making mind, which can choose at any instant to
remember its reality as non-corporeal spirit:
Who but yourself evaluates a threat, decides escape is
necessary, and sets up a series of defenses to reduce the
threat that has been judged as real?your plan requires
that you must forget you made it, so it seems to be external to your own intent; a happening beyond your state of
mind, an outcome with a real effect on you, instead of one
effected by yourself (W-pI.136.4:1,3).

What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come,
are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your
good? While you made plans for death, He led you
gently to eternal life (W-pI.135.18:1,4).

And what is the Holy Spirits plan to lead us from hell

to Heaven? It is nothing more or less than helping us not
indulge our bitterness about life. While on one level of the
collective mind we are responsible for our dreams, as I have
been saying here, on the practical level of our everyday experience it is more helpful to consider that we are responsible
for the way we see the world. Watching the news, for example, I am responsible only for my reactions to events, not
the events themselves. We are taught that perception is interpretation and not fact (see, for example, M-17.4), and learn
to recognize the lesson that inherent in all our experiences is
the choice between the Holy Spirits interpretation and the
egos. That and only that gives meaning to what is otherwise
a totally meaningless world. Being responsible for what we
see (T-21.II.2:3) means that we accept full responsibility for
our responses to, or interpretations of events, knowing on
another level that we right-mindedly put them in our dream
for the specific purpose of learning the lessons that would
deliver us from all dreams.
It is important to note that the Courses principles, the
application of ancient Stoic wisdom, does not mean we do

The obvious question remains: how do we get from here

to there, from our experiences as victimized bodies attacked
by a cold and cruel world external to us, to a decision-making
mind that delights in feeling so unfairly treated by forces
seemingly beyond its control? Amor fati is the answer. We
learn that the world is not a prison, a dry and dusty [place],
where starved and thirsty creatures come to die (W-pII.
13.5:1), but a classroom in which we can gratefully learn the
lessons of happiness that will happily bring us to the happy
dreams of forgiveness, past which is the reality of love
beyond all dreams, even those of forgiveness. We do not join
the worlds dreams of suffering and death, but rather see
them as decisions of a delusional mind that we now choose
against:
Accepting the Atonement for yourself means not to
give support to someones dream of sickness and of death.
It means that you share not his wish to separate, and let
him turn illusions on himself. Nor do you wish that they
be turned, instead, on you (T-28.IV.1:1-3).

Amor Fati: The Birth of Gratitude (continued)

not do things or respond to events. The issue is never what
we do, but with whom we do it. Joining with Jesus, meaning
we no longer identify with the ego and its thought system of
bitterness and despair, leads to the minds quiet center that
lovingly guides our behavior. From I Need Do Nothing:

Our self-pitying, temper-tantrum-throwing egos now

exposed, we can no longer believe the lies that would convince us, again, that we are at the mercy of things beyond us,
forces we cannot control (T-19.IV-D.7:4). It is but ourselves
we crucify (W-pI.196), and since our minds have chosen
dreams of crucifixion in which they conceal the underlying
dream of being the crucifier of others, these same minds can
choose the happy dreams of gratitude that become the means
of awakening. These dreams offer the forgiveness that
relieves others of the burden of guilt we placed upon them
when we sacrificed their holiness, achieving the goal set in
feverish dreams that we could claim the holiness as our own
alone. But now we assume the mantle of gratitude, that Gods
holy blessing would rest on all His Sons, leaving no one outside Christs comforting shelter, the Self that God created
one with Him:

This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain

with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing
on which you are sent. For from this center will you be
directed how to use the body sinlessly (T-18.VII.8:3-4).

Again, Jesus is never saying in his course to deny the world

or our experiences here (a particularly unworthy form of
denial (T-2.IV.3:11), or not to react to them. Rather, when
we do respond, we take as our own his non-judgmental
vision that embraces every part of the Sonship, without
exception.
We are not entitled therefore to our bitterness

Give thanks as you receive it. Be you free of all ingratitude to anyone who makes your Self complete. And from
this Self is no one left outside (W-pI.197.9:1-3).

At the end of the text, Jesus talks to us about temptation:

Be vigilant against temptation, then, remembering that
it is but a wish, insane and meaningless, to make yourself
a thing that you are not. It would persuade the holy Son
of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to
escape its frailty, and bound by what it orders him to feel
(T-31. VII.14:1; T-31.VIII.1:2).

This gratitude is born of the recognition that it is only the

minds purpose that ascribes meaning to the events and circumstances of our experience. Suddenly our lives have significance, for we remember that we are here to learn that we
do not live in this joyless place but in the Heaven where God
put us in our creation (T-6.II.6:1-3).

To be a body means that we choose to identify with its purpose: choosing a life as the eternal victim, a self-concept buttressed by our warranted bitterness in having to suffer at the
merciless hands of a world hellbent on hurting us. Yet Jesus
specifically cautions us against such paranoia, explaining
that our thoughts of hurt and retaliation are unjustified:

Amor Fati: Gratitude to Ourselves

Yet it is not God or Jesus who need our gratitude, but we.
The true meaning of feeling grateful is that we give thanks to
our decision-making minds for choosing to learn the lessons
of forgiveness for what never happened, that we may come
home at last. For this reason Jesus says to us:

Today we learn to think of gratitude in place of anger,

malice and revenge. We have been given everything. If we
refuse to recognize it, we are not entitled therefore to our
bitterness, and to a self-perception which regards us in a
place of merciless pursuit, where we are badgered ceaselessly, and pushed about without a thought or care for us
or for our future (W-pI.195.9:1-3; italics mine).

I do not need gratitude, but you need to develop your

weakened ability to be grateful, or you cannot appreciate
God. He does not need your appreciation, but you do. You
cannot love what you do not appreciate(T-6.I.17:1-3).

We cannot love what we do not appreciate! We appreciate not only our brothers who show us both the wrong- and
right-minded contents of our split mind by walking the same
path we do, but even more importantly we come to recognize
the power of our minds that we appreciate above all else.
Free from the burden of living in an unfair and unkind world,
we are ultimately able to choose the love we foreswore when
we chose the egos special love and hate over the Love of our
Source, deciding for nothing instead of the Everything of our
Self. The same power of mind that chose to hurt and hate
ourselves, God, and the worldwe reclaim as our own, and
so we are released from the shackles of guilt to choose again:
Such is the Holy Spirits kind perception of specialness; His
use of what you made, to heal instead of harm (T-25.
VI.4:1).

An earlier lesson spells this out even more clearly, so

clearly in fact that only the egos use of its most primitive and
potent defense of denial can counteract the lessons lightfilled truth by hiding it under a thundercloud of forgetfulness.
This truth asks the question: How can our lives be seen as
tragic when, in fact, it was our decision-making minds that
chose them?
Yet is he really tragic, when you see that he is following
the way he chose, and need but realize Who walks with
him and open up his treasures to be free?
This is your chosen self, the one you made as a
replacement for reality. How could you then proclaim
your poverty in exile? Where is self-pity then? And
what becomes of all the tragedy you sought to make for
him whom God intended only joy? (W-pI.166.6:3-7:1;
8:2,4-5)

Amor Fati: The Birth of Gratitude (continued)

We begin such reclamation by shifting our perception of
the ones we sought to keep outside the circle of Atonement
(T-14.V):

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with

the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious,
unsocial. I can neither be injured by any of them, for no
one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my
kinsman, nor hate him (Book Two).

Then let our brothers lean their tired heads against our
shoulders as they rest a while. We offer thanks for them.
For if we can direct them to the peace that we would find,
the way is opening at last to us. An ancient door is swinging free again; a long forgotten Word re-echoes in our
memory, and gathers clarity as we are willing once again
to hear (W-pI.195.7).

Whether enjoined by a Roman emperor or our elder

brother, our eyes gladly open every morning to a day of gratitude, born of the thought of the thousand years we save on
our journey by the simple embrace of the happy thought that
our reactions to events seemingly outside us come only from
the minds decision. We are made loose of our projected hate,
leaving only the love that created us. The world no longer
greets us with the ravages of fate, but welcomes the kind forgiveness of our special partners as our hearts rejoice in a
humble song of gratitude, sung for us here by Jesus:

That Word of Atonement has long been buried in our

decision-making minds, protected by the egos persuasive
arguments of the reality of our mindless (read: bodily) state.
But now, through the gentle guidance of our gentle teacher,
we have been led from perceptions of a cruel fate that justifies our hate, to seeing the world as the loving means for our
return. Joyously we walk through the ancient door that leads
from the world to the mind, and to the home we only
dreamed we left.
Without skipping the steps of this return that would have
us deny our hate-filled feelings and experiences of pain, the
hallmarks of odium fati, we rejoice in the healed perception
of a world made clean of our projections. Gratitude fills our
hearts as the mind that had chosen wrongly has been liberated by our forgiveness, finally able to accept its rightful
place as shaper of our destiny, the home of the gift of gifts:
amor fati. The world is transformed into a joyful place in
which the erstwhile objects of our anger are suddenly transformed from enemy to savior; from the devil into Christ
(W-pI.161.12:6). We stand apart from the temporal-spatial
world of bodies and see the truth only in what frees us from
the tyrannical, guilt-driven forces of the ego, and perceive the
false in anything that roots us in dreams of fear and death.
Listen again to Marcus Aurelius, who foreshadows by
two millennia the lessons of the workbook, and whose teachings are so similar in meaning to Jesus words from the text:
When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter
(T-8.III.4:1):
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Father, we thank You for these gifts that we have

found together. Here we are redeemed. For it is here we
joined, and from this place of holy joining we will come
to You because we recognize the gifts You gave and
would have nothing else (The Gifts of God, p. 119).

We conclude with a reprise of Nietzsches words from

Ecce Homo, calling us once again to hear the ancient Voice
of wisdom:
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati:
that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not
backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal itbut love it (section 10:[2]).

Jesus calls us similarly: Choose me as your teacher and let

me teach you that your life is a classroom, that you may learn
to embrace the circumstances of your life in gratitude. Come
to me and accept the lessons that will take you home on the
wings of forgiveness, with the song of love in your heart.
Joyously we listen at last, coming to love the world we
conceived in hate, a world that in the end has brought us to
the Love that conceived us in Its Love. We are nothing but
this Self of Love, for amor fati has transformed us into amatores dei (lovers of God): our reality as Gods Son, the Christ
He created as one with Him in perfect Joy.

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IN

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ANNOUN CEMEN TS
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(the minds secret dream of sin, guilt, and fear, and the worlds dream of victims and victimizers) and the undoing of
these dreams by the Holy Spirits happy dream of the miracle and forgiveness.

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FOR THE TEMECULA CENTER
REGISTRATION

the office MondayFriday, 9:00 a.m.5:00 p.m. Pacific

time to verify your acceptance into a program.

Pre-registration is encouraged for all programs, and

REQUIRED for the five-day Academy class taught by
Kenneth Wapnick.

It is important that you double-check the registration

information sent with your confirmation letter to
ensure the accuracy of the information. In the event the
program you register for is filled, your registration form
and fee will be returned to you, unless you have requested
that your name be placed on a waiting list. Thus, you may
be confirmed either as a participant or as being on the
waiting list.

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If you register by phone, please have your credit card
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REGISTRATION CHANGES & CANCELLATIONS

We charge a $20.00 fee for all registration changes, including cancellations, so please review the program schedule
carefully.

Payment for programs must be made in full at the time of

registrationby check, money order, credit card, or
PayPal (payments@facim.org). International students
may also use wire transfer, which will incur a $15.00
fee (call our office for information). Your check or
money order should be made payable to ITIP-ACIM (in
US funds only, drawn on a US bank). There will be a
$20 fee for any check returned to us for insufficient
funds.

Five-Day Academy Class: To avoid a $50.00 cancellation

fee, your cancellation must be received at least 21 days
prior to the start of a 5-day Academy class.
WALK-INS
While walk-in registrations are accepted for all programs
EXCEPT the five-day Academy classes, pre-registration
is encouraged, as classroom seating cannot be guaranteed.

CONFIRMATIONS
Confirmation information will be given over the phone if
your registration form does not reach us in time for a
letter to be sent to you. In this instance, you may call

Payment by cash or US check only at the door.

LODGING ACCOMMODATIONS IN TEMECULA

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Foundation discounted rates: Sun-Thurs $65.00, Friday $95.00, and Saturday $109-$129.
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(10-45 minutes from Temecula), please call our office at 951.296.6261
between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. PT, Monday through Friday.

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FALLWINTER 2012-2013 SCHEDULE

INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING INNER PEACE
THROUGH A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Temecula Center Faculty: Dr. Kenneth Wapnick

Pre-registration is encouraged for all programs, and REQUIRED for the

5-day Academy classes taught by Kenneth.
SEMINARS
Time: 2:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Fee: $30.00
2013

2012
S-9

A COURSE IN MIRACLES AS A WORK OF ART:

HEARING AND READING ITS MESSAGE

S-1

Saturday, January 12

Saturday, October 6

S-10

THE LITTLE THINGS OF GOD

S-2

WATCHING WITH ANGELS

THE MINDLESS MADNESS OF

MISCREATION
Saturday, February 9

Saturday, December 8

Morning Discussion and Evening Study Groups on A Course in Miracles

The Foundation conducts weekly ninety-minute discussion and study groups on the Course (except on
November 21, December 26, January 2, 2013, and days when an Academy class is in progress). These
Wednesday sessions (11:00 a.m.12:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.8:30 p.m.) are facilitated by the Foundation
Staff. There is a $5.00 fee per session.

Morning Excerpts Study Group on A Course in Miracles

The Foundation conducts a weekly ninety-minute (11:00 a.m.12:30 p.m.) study group that focuses on
themes drawn from excerpts of various printed and audio publications of the Foundation. These Thursday
sessions (except on Thanksgiving, December 27, January 3, 2013, and days when an Academy class is in
progress) are facilitated by the Foundation Staff. There is a $5.00 fee per session.

KENNETH WAPNICK SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

Emeryville, CA: Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge 1800 Powell Street Emeryville CA 94608
Date: Thursday October 11, 2012 Time: 6:008:30 p.m.
Fee: $40.00
Sponsored by: Center for A Course in Miracles
Registration: Online at www.centerforacim.org or by mail a 1151 Harbor Bay Parkway, Suite 105, Alameda, CA
94502. For further information, please contact Maria Young at 510.306.5203, or email: maria@centerforacim.org.
Walk-ins welcome; $45 at the door (cash or check only).
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ACADEMY CLASSES
Faculty: Kenneth Wapnick, Rosemarie LoSasso, Loral Reeves, and Jeffrey Seibert
Times: 10:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.

A-6 THE EGOS GILDED THREADS OF SELF-DESTRUCTION

Dates: October 7 9
Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
A-6D1 October 7
Fee: $40.00
A-6D2 October 8
Fee: $40.00
A-6D3 October 9

Fee: $40.00

The ego thought system is a fabric of guilt and fear, woven by gilded threads of self-destruction that do not appear to
be what they are. The ornately seductive forms that specialness takes conceal the true nature of the egos gift of death.
We are taught that the egos sole intent is murder (T-23.III.1:5), and the ultimate object of its hate is ourselves. The
class will explore the multitudinous forms of our special relationships and how they are undone by the Holy Spirits
golden threads of forgiveness.

5-DAY ACADEMY 7 PROGRAM IS CLOSED.

WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
PLEASE CALL OUR OFFICE TO PUT YOUR NAME ON THE WAITING LIST

A-7 FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING

Dates: November 5 9

Fee: $175.00

No registration for individual days.

Drawing upon Wordsworths famous Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, the
class will discuss the core of the Holy Spirits correction: forgetting the ego illusory thought system we have remembered, and remembering the loving reality we have chosen to forget. Forgiveness is the means He uses to help us look at
our projections, based always on a non-existent past we hold in memory, allowing us to undo the sin that never was. Our
minds, liberated from the egos thought system of separation and guilt, are able at last to remember the Love that created
us and that we are.

2013

A-1 GUILT AND JUDGMENT: OUR SAVIORS FROM SALVATION

Dates: January 13 15 9 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day.
A-1D1 January 13
Fee: $40.00
A-1D2 January 14
Fee: $40.00
A-1D3 January 15

Fee: $40.00

In its perverse insanity, the ego has convinced us that guilt is our savior from the Atonement, and in turn, judgment of
others saves us from our guilt. Yet we are taught by Jesus that self-blame (guilt) and blame (judgment) are the same
(T-11.IV.4-5), and so they have the same correction: forgiveness. Forgiveness of ourselves and others, therefore, is the
true savior, which is reflected by shifting perceptions of our special relationships, letting miracles replace all grievances
(W-pI.78) and kindness take the place of attack.

ALL Academy 2 classes will be taught by Kenneth Wapnick

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

A-2 WEEDING OUR GARDEN

REGISTRATION ENDS WHEN CLASS FILLS. WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED .
Dates: March 11 15
Fee: $175.00
No registration for individual days.
The class draws its inspiration from one of Hamlets soliloquies, in which the Danish prince says: tis an unweeded
garden that grows to seed. These five days will focus on the importance of weeding our minds garden so that its guilt,
fear, and specialness are undone. Forgiveness is the means the Holy Spirit uses to uproot the thoughts that do not belong,
allowing His thought of Atonement to flower in our minds, its gentle fragrance of correction free to embrace the Sonship in its kindness and love.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR TEMECULA CENTER

OCTOBER
Sun

Mon
1

Tue
2

Wed
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Thu
4

Disc. Group

10

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FEBRUARY

Study Group

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Fri
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Excerpts
Group

Study Group

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10

Thu
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Excerpts
Group

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Group

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2

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Tue
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30

Excerpts
Group

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Mon

29

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13

Study Group

31

28

Thanksgiving

Study Group

Excerpts
Group

Disc. Group

30

27

Excerpts
Group

Study Group

24

22

JANUARY

Disc. Group

23

21

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Study Group

17

20

Study Group

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16

Excerpts
Group

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10

Disc. Group

25

Wed

10

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Tue

Study Group

27

Sat
3

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26

Fri
2

Excerpts
Group

Study Group

Disc. Group

Disc. Group

Thu

Disc. Group

S-9

31

Study Group

Wed
1

Tue

Excerpts
Group

Study Group

28

Sun

Excerpts
Group

Study Group

21

Sat
6

Excerpts
Group

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17

Fri
5

Excerpts
Group

Study Group

NOVEMBER

Study Group

14

Excerpts
Group

28
Excerpts
Group

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CALCULATE YOUR PAYMENT

SCHEDULE OF RATES

AMOUNT HERE:

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Number

Fee
Person 1

Person 2

Person 1

Person 2

Person 1

$100.00

Person 2

CLOSED

Person 1

November 5 9

Person 2

WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT

BE ACCEPTED.

Person 1

Person 2

Person 1

Person 2

Person 1

Person 2

Person 1

Person 2

Person 1

Person 2

Person 1

Person 2

Person 1

Person 2

Person 1

Person 2

Program
Number

Program
Date

Fee

ACADEMY CLASSES
Please use program numbers listed on page 11
when registering for portions of, rather than
a complete, Academy class.
A-6

October 7 9

A-7

2013
A-1

January 13 15

A-2

$100.00

$175.00
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
March 11 15

WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT

BE ACCEPTED.

SEMINARS
(2:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m.) Fee $30.00

2012
S-9

October 6

S-10 December 8

2013
S-1

January 12

S-2

February 9
TOTAL

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FALLWINTER 2012-2013 SCHEDULE

INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING INNER PEACE
THROUGH A COURSE IN MIRACLES
La Jolla Branch
7843 Girard Avenue, Suite E La Jolla, CA 92037 858.551.1227

FACULTY: ROBERT AND KATHLEEN DRAPER

LECTURES
Classes are held each Thursday (except Thanksgiving) from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The fee for these lectures is $5, payable at the door.

CD STUDY

SUNDAY WORKSHOPS

Monday: 6 p.m. 7:30 p.m. or Tuesday: 10 a.m. 11:30 a.m.

Pre-registration is required at the La Jolla Branch. Call: 858.551.1227.

10 a.m. 1 p.m. $15 fee

No registration required.

INTIMACY: LOVE WITHOUT NEEDS

FW-7

2013

Dates: Oct. 1 Oct. 15 (Mon.)

Oct. 2 Oct. 16 (Tue.)
Fee: $15.00 plus CD set
Registration ends: September 20

T HE GLORY

OF THE

Date: October 21

INFINITE
FW-8

Dates: January 7 January 21 (Mon.)

January 8 January 22 (Tue.)
Fee: $15.00 plus CD set
Registration ends: December 27

ON BECOMING THE TOUCHES OF

SWEET HARMONY

THE NEW INTERPRETATION

Date: November 18
2013

THE INHERITANCE OF GODS SON

Dates: Nov. 5 Nov. 12 (Mon.)

Nov. 6 Nov. 13 (Tue.)
Fee: $10.00 plus CD set
Registration ends: October 25

THE ONLY REAL RELATIONSHIP

FW-1

Dates: February 4 11 (Mon.)

February 5 12 (Tue.)
Fee: $10.00 plus CD set
Registration ends: January 24

SPECIALNESS AS A SUBSTITUTE
FOR L OVE
Date: January 27

FW-2

SHADOWS OF THE PAST

Date: February 24

OCTOBER
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THE LIGHTHOUSE (09/12)

Foundation for A COURSE IN MIRACLES
41397 Buecking Drive
Temecula, CA 92590-5668

TRAVEL INSTRUCTIONS
The Foundation is located just off I-15.
From the north: Take the CA-79 N/Winchester Road
exit and stay in the far right lane. Turn right onto Winchester Road/CA-79, again staying in the far right-hand lane.
Turn right onto Jefferson Avenue, which is the first stop
light. Continue straight on Jefferson (heading north) for
two long blocks until you reach Buecking Drive. Turn
right onto Buecking Drive. The Foundation is the second
building on the left.
From the south: Take the CA-79N/Winchester Road
exit, turning left onto Winchester Road. Get into the far
right lane and turn right onto Jefferson Avenue, which is
the second stop light. Continue straight on Jefferson (heading north) for two long blocks until you reach Buecking
Drive. Turn right onto Buecking Drive. The Foundation is
the second building on the left.