Miracles are associated with fear only because of the belief that darkness can hide. You believe that what your physical eyes cannot see does not exist. This leads to a denial of spiritual sight (T-1.I.22:1-3). The ego advocates for reliance on physical perception as the sole means of understanding reality. If the body cannot senseContinue reading “The Twenty-Second Principle of A Course in Miracles”
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The Secret to True Safety
True safety resides in our willingness to offer only empathy and compassion to our brothers and sisters. When we love even our enemies – when we are even willing to love our enemies – then we no longer have enemies. Love is our protection. Love is the secret to true safety. And Love holds everything.Continue reading “The Secret to True Safety”
The Twenty-First Principle of A Course in Miracles
Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness. Through miracles you accept God’s forgiveness by extending it to others (T-1.I.21:1-2). Again, the emphasis here is that miracles are natural rather than supernatural. They are not spectacles. They are shifts in our understanding of perception that make us and others happier. This happiness is self-replicating. To be miracle-mindedContinue reading “The Twenty-First Principle of A Course in Miracles”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 196
It can be but myself I crucify. This is a more acute phrasing of the standard ACIM teaching that the secret to salvation is that we are doing this – causing suffering by accepting the ego’s interpretation of self and world – to ourselves (T-27.VIII.10:1). The great lie of projection is that we can avoidContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 196”
Rethinking our Function: ACIM Lesson 186
A Course in Miracles revolves around the idea that salvation – ours and the world’s – is found in our ability to recognize and embrace our true identity as extensions of God in Creation, which identity is far beyond the ego’s limited perception. On this view, the statement “salvation of the world depends on me”Continue reading “Rethinking our Function: ACIM Lesson 186”
The Twentieth Principle of A Course in Miracles
Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle (T-1.I.20:1-2). The confusion that A Course in Miracles is given to correct is our identification with the body rather than spirit, and the various arguments and rationalesContinue reading “The Twentieth Principle of A Course in Miracles”