When you are sad, know this need not be. Depression comes from a sense of being deprived of something you want and do not have. Remember that you are deprived of nothing except by your own decisions, and then decide otherwise.

A Course In Miracles Ch4-IV

When you equate yourself with a body you will always experience depression.
When a child of God thinks of himself in this way he is belittling himself, and seeing his brothers as similarly belittled. Since he can find himself only in them, he has cut himself off from salvation.

A Course In Miracles Ch8-VII

Remember, then, that God’s Will is already possible, and nothing else will ever be.
This is the simple acceptance of reality, because only that is real.
You cannot distort reality and know what it is. And if you do distort reality you will experience anxiety, depression and ultimately panic, because you are trying to make yourself unreal.
When you feel these things, do not try to look beyond yourself for truth, for truth can only be within you. Say, therefore:

Christ is in me, and where He is God must be, for Christ is part of Him.

A Course In Miracles Ch9-I

To you who have acknowledged the Call of your Redeemer, the strain of not responding to His Call seems to be greater than before. This is not so.
Before, the strain was there, but you attributed it to something else, believing that the “something else” produced it. This was never true.
For what the “something else” produced was sorrow and depression, sickness and pain, darkness and dim imaginings of terror, cold fantasies of fear and fiery dreams of hell. And it was nothing but the intolerable strain of refusing to give faith to truth, and see its evident reality.

A Course In Miracles Ch17-VIII

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