When we encounter resistance, it’s good to be patient. Resistance is a good teacher. Sometimes I open a lesson – review or otherwise – or read a section of the text, and I don’t understand it. Or it annoys me. I can feel myself obscuring the words, pushing their message as far away as possible.Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 58”
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A Course in Miracles Lesson 57
A Course in Miracles suggests that when it comes the illusion of being bodies in a world we are effectively willing prisoners. Our suffering is a decision we make. And because the power of decision is ours, we can make another. Nothing holds me in this world. Only my wish to stay keeps me aContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 57”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 56
The egoic perspective is that we are bodies. Bodies are vulnerable. They get sick. They can be assaulted. They feel pain and discomfort. They even die. If in fact we are bodies, then defense measures – ranging from cardiovascular exercise to gun ownership – can make sense. But if we are not bodies, then theContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 56”
Food and A Course in Miracles
A lot of people ask about ACIM and diet – are we encouraged, as students of the course, to eat a certain way? Avoid certain foods? Do we fast at this or that time of year and so forth? Does A Course in Miracles forbid eating meat? I think those are natural questions amongst seekersContinue reading “Food and A Course in Miracles”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 55
Lesson 55 of A Course in Miracles – and the lessons it reviews – is a chance to see again – to experience again – that we do not not know our own best interests because we do not know who or what we are. Our experience, filtered through the ego’s teaching lens, establishes thatContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 55”
Be Vigilant Only for God and His Kingdom
So as students of A Course in Miracles we have to make this fundamental decision – we have to choose that we want joy (which is the Kingdom of Heaven) and we have to turn to the teacher who knows how to bring us there. That is what we have to do. This happens naturally whenContinue reading “Be Vigilant Only for God and His Kingdom”