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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”

Beyond this world there is a world I want. Lesson 129 saves us from the nihilism that can arise from rejecting the world. It makes clear that our learning process does not involve just the negative, but also a positive. This world holds nothing we want; but there is a world beyond it that weContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 129”

The world I see holds nothing that I want. Today’s lesson is not a statement about the world. Rather, it is a statement about what we are in truth. It is an invitation to remember our true self, and in doing so, to let go of the small self whose investment is not in truthContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 128”

There is no love but God’s. Slightly more a than a third of the way through the ACIM workbook, we reach a lesson that declares itself “the largest single step this course requests in your advance towards its established goal” (W-pI.127.6:5) This step has to do with recognizing the full breadth and meaning of “thereContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 127”

All that I give is given to myself. The fundamental idea this lesson teaches appears over and over in A Course in Miracles, because it reflects a law (giving and receiving are the same) that – once understood and brought into application – ends the separation and all the suffering that goes along with it.Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 126”

In quiet I receive God’s word today. Today our practice opens up to direct contact with God. In quiet and stillness, with neither insistence on certain outcomes nor resistance to others, we wait on God’s Voice to call from within our mind, which is where God abides (W-pI.125.1:3). Today, we refuse to judge and weContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 125”