A cup of coffee or a single walk can change our life forever. One glance from a brother or sister who sees us without any projection of guilt, theirs or ours, is perfect healing. Only after it is given to us can we offer it to others. One way to understand our role as studentsContinue reading “Notes at Summer’s End”
Author Archives: Sean
Remembering our Guiltlessness
We learn of our guiltlessness when a brother or sister looks at us and sees not a body but rather that which is worthy of love and wholly undeserving of punishment (e.g., T-13.In.1:2). It is the so-called other who reminds us of God’s uninterrupted, unconditional Love, effectively restoring it to our mind. And it isContinue reading “Remembering our Guiltlessness”
Refusing to Wait on Love
We have to love in the very circumstances of our lives as they are given to us moment by moment. We cannot postpone love in favor of the life we long for or think we deserve. We can’t wait on love – neither as a gift we receive nor as one that we give. GodContinue reading “Refusing to Wait on Love”
Between Attention and Love, This Love
In a newsletter today I wrote about the relationship between attention and Love. You can sign up here if you like. I want to think out loud here a bit more about this. Healing and awakening are both implicated in it. In his notebooks, Paul Brunton said that misunderstandings about our identity – i.e., ourContinue reading “Between Attention and Love, This Love”
Beyond Choice, Love
In a sense, to come to stillness is to see clearly that choice is the last illusion. There is nothing to choose between; there is only this: this this. The many choices that appear to us are always various forms of the one choice, which is the choice to remember God or not remember GodContinue reading “Beyond Choice, Love”
Mid-Summer Notes on Love
I wrote a newsletter today – first in months – about how projection is a denial of the fact that we are creations of God, who is Love, and Who is not mocked. The clarity of this is blinding, and we tend to look away. You can sign up here, if you are interested. AContinue reading “Mid-Summer Notes on Love”