Lesson 121: Forgiveness is the key to happiness. ACIM explained to a child (but for everybody)

Welcome to lesson 121 of our video series on A Course in Miracles, explained to a child (but for everybody)!

Today's lesson is about forgiveness and how forgiveness is the secret to happiness. It's a VERY IMPORTANT lesson indeed!

HERE'S THE TRANSCRIPT of LESSON 121:

[note: the transcription of this video is too long for the YouTube description, so here below is reported the most important part of the transcript, the one concerning the exercise to be made as the practice period of the lesson]

Today, we'll practice learning to forgive.

We can learn it today to take the key to happiness and use it for ourselves.
We'll dedicate 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes at night to learning how to give and receive forgiveness.
When we are unable to forgive, we can't believe that giving and receiving are one.
Today we will try to learn it again, practicing forgiveness towards someone we think of as an enemy and someone we consider a friend.
As we learn to see them both as one, we can extend the lesson to ourselves and realize that their salvation includes our own.

Begin the longer practice periods by thinking of someone who irritates or upsets you, someone you actively despise or try to overlook.
It doesn't matter which form your anger takes, you've probably already chosen the person to practice with.

Close your eyes and visualize this person. Look at them for a while. Try to perceive some light in them somewhere, a little gleam you'd never noticed. Search for a spark of brightness shining through the ugly picture you have of them.
Keep looking until you see a light somewhere within the picture and then try to let this light extend until it covers all the picture and makes it beautiful and good.
Stay with this image and the changed perception of this person for a while.

Next, turn your mind to someone you consider a friend. Imagine transferring the light you have learned to see around your former enemy to your friend.
Perceive this person as more than a friend to you because in that light, you can see their holiness, you can see them as your savior, saved and saving, healed and whole.

Allow your friend to offer you the light you see in them and let your enemy and friend unite. They bless you with the light you gave them.
Now you are one with them and they are one with you.
You have been forgiven by yourself.
Throughout the day, remember the role forgiveness plays in bringing happiness to you and everyone else.

Every hour, remind yourself:

"Forgiveness is the key to happiness. I will awaken from the dream that I am mortal, fallible and full of sin, and know I am the perfect Son of God."

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Don't forget to visit the ACIM website to read the original lesson 121: https://acim.org/acim/en/s/526

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