Someone asked me recently if I could say for certain that God has given us the answer to all our problems and we have ignored it. My answer is: yes, with a slight amendment. “God had given us the answer to all our problems but we have forgotten it.” The difference in framing is nontrivial.Continue reading “Remembering the Playfulness of God”
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The Third Principle of A Course in Miracles
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense, everything that comes from love is a miracle (T-1.3:1-3). Here in the world – in these bodies in the world – love appears as a special emotion, one that we offer to some people, places andContinue reading “The Third Principle of A Course in Miracles”
You and Your Perfection
You are enough. You are okay – you are more than okay. I don’t mean that in an ACIM-theological way – like saying, yeah, the embodied egoic you sucks but the real you is enough. I mean rather that when you’re out walking and pause beneath a tree, the tree is grateful. I mean thatContinue reading “You and Your Perfection”
Ending our Spiritual Identity Crisis
In The Voice that Precedes Thought Tara Singh writes that we either “avoid the crisis or we act.” The crisis is spiritual; it is the crisis of identity; we do not know what we are in truth, and so continually project illusions of identity, which brings us to grief, and the world too. All thoughtContinue reading “Ending our Spiritual Identity Crisis”
Distinguishing Between Illusion and Hallucination
A hallucination is, I can put my hand through a chair because it’s not really there. There is no chair. But an illusion is, something is there but I am not seeing it. I’m seeing something else. I see a chair but it’s actually atoms. Or information. Or Jesus teaching me how to forgive theContinue reading “Distinguishing Between Illusion and Hallucination”
On Self Love
Self-love is important. We cannot give away what we don’t have (or don’t know that we have). Just as importantly, we cannot accept love from our brothers and sisters if we do not recognize the love as it is offered. Self-love is both how we know we have something to give to everyone, and howContinue reading “On Self Love”