Letting Happiness be Our Spiritual Teacher

Stability and durability are user-generated illusions that are helpful. They facilitate happiness and happiness – like attention – can be our spiritual teacher if we want. What do I mean when I say that “stability and durability are user-generated illusions that are helpful?” Well, I don’t perceive the back stairs as clouds of atoms whichContinue reading “Letting Happiness be Our Spiritual Teacher”

Accepting Uncertainty: Practicing ACIM Lesson 61

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”

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”