I want to make an observation related to Lesson 61 of A Course in Miracles. It has to do with the question of the extent to which understanding the course intellectually matters to our practice. I think this lesson is one of the times when the course implicitly suggests that intellectual grasp isn’t so important,Continue reading “Accepting Uncertainty: Practicing ACIM Lesson 61”
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Giving Attention to Nonduality
If we study nonduality – through the lens of A Course in Miracles, say – because we believe it’s right or true, or more right and more true than some other spiritual concept – then we are likely to end up disappointed. Nondual spiritual practice may be helpful according to the context in which weContinue reading “Giving Attention to Nonduality”
Loving God Means Loving Others
I am moved by these lines from Matthew’s Gospel: You shall love God with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. The second commandment is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.Continue reading “Loving God Means Loving Others”
Love is the Law and the Prophets
I give you a new commandment: you shall love one another in the way that I have loved you. (John 13:34). Love is the way we remember love. This is the law and the prophets. These words of Jesus are clearly a call to action. They are a call to a radical way of livingContinue reading “Love is the Law and the Prophets”
A Course in Miracles: The Immediacy of Salvation
In The Immediacy of Salvation,” A Course in Miracles makes the reasonable point that all our plans for safety are forward-looking, and since we can’t actually know what the future holds, our “plans” as such are essentially useless. Yet the course also recognizes that some fear exists in us that causes us to make thoseContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: The Immediacy of Salvation”
The Other in A Course in Miracles
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us (John’s Gospel 1:1, 1:14) One of the more helpful insights in western and Christian thinking – which Helen Schucman understood well, at least intuitively – is thatContinue reading “The Other in A Course in Miracles”