What do we mean when we say “oneness?” When we use that word in a spiritual context, to what does it point? How do we expect folks with whom we are in dialogue to hear and understand that word? How do we want them to hear and understand it? Really, those questions are variants ofContinue reading “What Is This Oneness Of Which We Speak”
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Thinking through A Course in Miracles
How shall we organize our thinking? Through what lens or prism shall we allow our thoughts to pass in order to see brought forth clarification and subsequently helpfulness and love? When made the subject of contemplation, clarity begets helpfulness, which initiates service, which is love. Through service the one loves the other and through service thatContinue reading “Thinking through A Course in Miracles”
On Holy Relationships and Love
. . . in the relational domain of love the other is not asked and is not expected to justify his or her existence . . . love is unidirectional, and occurs as a spontaneous happening of accepting the legitimacy of the other as a matter of course . . . ~ Humberto Maturana InContinue reading “On Holy Relationships and Love”
Beyond Jesus and History, This Love
It can be helpful to see both history and present events not in terms of people but of currents; often the current gets a face – Jesus, say, or Buddha – but it is still a current, not an individual. And the current is merely a pattern in life, broadly defined, which is in motion,Continue reading “Beyond Jesus and History, This Love”
Becoming Responsible for Happiness
Helen Schucman wrote A Course in Miracles and projected responsibility for that project onto her ideal of Jesus. Because the course is so helpful to me, I am deeply grateful to her for seeing the work through, and am not especially concerned about the ethics and particulars of her writing process. You do what youContinue reading “Becoming Responsible for Happiness”
A Non-Illusory Stillness
Yet ask: if stability is a “user-generated illusion that is helpful,” then what is stillness? After all, I have said and not retracted this: The you you think that you are – this body, this personality, this history – isn’t God. Rather, the stillness inside us – the deep center from which all peace springsContinue reading “A Non-Illusory Stillness”