One can consider ACIM or A Course in Miracles as a self-study material that can help individuals to regain peace and built up their mental strength. It also teaches individuals how forgiveness plays an important role in our daily life. It is a book, but doesn't considerably have an author; however one can find it listed in the US library.

Again when you try to look for the good apart from the one inside you, you get to understand the feelings of the people around you and also get aware of the situation that arise and fall around you. When you have a deep understanding of this you can lay the Foundation for inner peace. This also results in a life with no upsetting situations of conflicts.

The moment you start looking for the good in you, you start getting more aware of your inner self, get stronger acceptance and more authenticity. You start believing in the qualities that you possess and get closer to the divine essence. Also you start working on yourself to get better and better. Once you start acknowledging the goodness inside you, it further helps you to strengthen your inner self and leads you to the Foundation of inner peace.

You must also remember that looking for the good in yourself, doesn't make you a selfish individual. This simply shows that you are accepting your life as it is and also respect the honourable divine essence in you and also other living beings around you. Also going through the divine in all the individuals supports you to instantly get connected to the inner peace.

Later they also got the opportunity to meet Robert Skutch and Judith Skutch Whitson, members of the Foundation for inner peace. Then in the 1976 the first book was published, both the Foundation and Penguin Book publishers wanted to own the copyright for the material, however due to litigations the first edition of the book is still under public domain.

Everyone have their own freedom to express and you need to accept them as they are, they are going to do what they want and when they want, which is the only truth. When you accept the fact that an individual is going to be the same as it is and then it saves itself from all the confusion, judgemental factors, also you don't have to waste time on trying to control or manipulate someone else.

The emphasis of the course is to project both the theoretical and practical aspects of life using the books material. One has to go through the text book to understand the base, only then it can understand the Workbook and its applications.

Every time you go through your inner self, in various situations and are able to find the goodness in you, you will be able to recognize that the practical life that you live and the spiritual life start complying with each other. Following all the daily activities that you do is smoothly flowing leading you towards your inner peace.