I am not a body. I am free. Few lessons pose such a challenge to the ego’s framework as this one: every lie the ego tells, and every story it convinces us is true, rests on the premise that we are bodies, that bodies are limits, and that we are subject to those limits. OnlyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 199”
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A Course in Miracles Lesson 170
There is no cruelty in God and none in me. Lesson 170 asks us to consider that we are confused about the difference between fear and love – that we are calling fear love, and worshipping it accordingly, and as a consequence are actually afraid of love. This reversal divides us against ourselves, making peaceContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 170”
Lost Sections of the Manual for Teachers: Nonviolence
Here is a lost section from the Manual for Teachers in A Course in Miracles: The Teacher of God is nonviolent. He does not recognize conflict at all. In any circumstance in which his interests appear to separate from his brother’s, he quietly bridges the gap by remembering that his brother is his savior, andContinue reading “Lost Sections of the Manual for Teachers: Nonviolence”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 197
It can be but my gratitude I earn. A Course in Miracles makes an interesting point in this lesson. It notes that we have good intentions, that we are perfectly willing to be kind and generous and merciful, but that our efforts are always conditional upon receiving praise and honor in return. We’re happy toContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 197”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 192
I have a function God would have me fill. We do not appear to live in a world that is governed by the laws of love. There is suffering everywhere. There is war and famine. There is injustice. We may scrape some crumbs of solace and peace here and there, but we are ever underContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 192”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 191
I am the holy Son of God Himself. A Course in Miracles is a course designed to teach us what we are in truth. It is the solution to an identity crisis so profound that it has literally distorted the cosmos and made what is capable only of Love into an enemy. We are lonelyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 191”