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”
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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”
Transcending Even Awakening: A Haibun
Say that we go to Boston, you and I. Everybody wants to go to Boston. Boston is fun and interesting and once you’ve been there, you’re a changed person. Boston goes with you. It becomes a way of life. Say, too, that we have heard stories about a certain Boston experience – a way theContinue reading “Transcending Even Awakening: A Haibun”
Looking at “I AM”
One has the sense that there is a kind of permanent presence – a unified whole – that attends this experience of existing. Before anything occurs – any seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching – there is this awareness, this boundless flow in and to which all phenomena and sensation appear. In contemporary nondual traditions thatContinue reading “Looking at “I AM””