We experience the world through symbols of both love and hate. For example, I think of the chickadee as a particular symbol of love, but really it is just a bird. The world offers itself to us fresh and new, over and over, but we interpret it, and then live by our interpretations. This isContinue reading “Undoing Symbols in A Course in Miracles”
Author Archives: Sean
Choosing the Right Spiritual Path
So long as we believe a spiritual path and practice is necessary, then a spiritual path and practice will be necessary. Thus, for most of us – certainly for me – it is essential to find something that is helpfully resonant and clarifying. It will undo itself in time – and we will see theContinue reading “Choosing the Right Spiritual Path”
On Remaining Teachable
Being teachable matters in the sense that we don’t know what we don’t know. Reality is that which contains all possibility (all potential) equally, including the possibility of impossibility. Since the only answer is “there is no only answer”, sitting around and admiring sunlight on snow (or rain on tulips or what-have-you) is all thereContinue reading “On Remaining Teachable”
Waiting on Miracles
The miracle is a shift in thinking in which thought aligns, however briefly, with Truth. This means that we are not indulging our narrative preferences – this is good, this is bad, I am this, you are that. We let those be, like blades of grass or floating contrails. They are no longer our concern.Continue reading “Waiting on Miracles”
The Sufficiency of Life
. . . and am reminded that when we die nothing really happens: the whole loveliness of the world continues, the whole sufficiency of life – of us, together, one within the other – continues. Our subjective experience of life ends, yes, but nothing is contingent on our subjective experience – it is merely awarenessContinue reading “The Sufficiency of Life”
Depression, Expectation, Liberation
. . . thus, it is good to be clear about the nature of our expectations: when I am an awakened being, it will look like this. It will feel like this. Others will respond to me in this way. And so forth. Expectation, even though it is directed at the future, is predicated onContinue reading “Depression, Expectation, Liberation”