The second volume, the workbook, contains 365 lessons, one for each day of the year. In each lesson (with the exception of review lessons), we take a single course idea and practice it in specified ways throughout the day. As we apply it to ourselves, to others, and to our daily situations and events, our perception shifts and we see with new eyes. We feel peace where before we felt anxiety and agitation. We ultimately learn to enfold each day in peace so that we begin the day in a state of peace, renew that peace throughout the day, recover it when it is shaken, and end the day resting in that same peace. In service of this goal, the workbook teaches us a variety of different practices, including its own methods of meditation and prayer. The workbook, then, is really a training program in the course’s system of spiritual practice. Even though it is designed as a one-year program, it is meant to ground in us a lifelong habit of spiritual practice, to usher us into a new internal way of life.

Practice of the workbook is the second phase in the course’s curriculum. Through practice, the same ideas that we learned in the text become more deeply internalized. They increasingly become the lens through which we see and the source of what we feel.