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Sickness is a defense against the truth. Here we are invited to take a close look at what sickness is, and in doing so begin a critical discernment: what is the body and what is the mind? And what am I that I should be able to choose how to see myself? What am IContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 136”

Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Forgiveness is the end of illusions, for it sees through them to reality, and thus releases us from bondage and suffering. It is a way of seeing, rather than a response to wrongdoing. Lesson 134 offers us an interesting correction: when we see a brother or sister asContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 134”

I will not value what is valueless. Today’s lesson takes the abstract intensity of “there is no world” and seeks to make it practical. It wants to give us a means by which to approach the truth of their is no world here in the world. In a sense, this is a hand-holding lesson, aContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 133”

I loose the world from all I thought it was. A Course in Miracles invites us to investigate not the world – which is an effect of our thoughts – but rather the source of thought, in order that we might realize that salvation is as easy as changing our mind (W-pI.132.2:1). You free theContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 132”

No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. The confidence inherent in today’s lesson rests upon a subtle fact: what we seek is up to us. If we seek peace where peace is not, then we cannot find peace. It’s like going to the desert and wondering where the ocean is. To bodies,Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 131”

It is impossible to see two worlds. A Course in Miracles is simple because it offers us only two choices: reality or unreality, love or fear, innocence or guilt. It is hard – sometimes brutally so – because choosing the reality of our innocence manifest in our inheritance of love means the end of suffering.Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 130”