We are apt to think that self-improvement matters: that we are in a state of becoming that can go in any number of directions and that this state is subject to a personal power of choice. In general, spiritual seekers almost always want to be better people – kinder and gentler, slower to anger, givenContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Ending Self-Improvement”
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Intellect and A Course in Miracles
There is something about A Course in Miracles that brings out the academic in many students. It brings out the intellectual. The text is both abstract and complex in its consideration of big subjects like God and time and reality. In the ACIM community there is a lot of energy around being right and wrongContinue reading “Intellect and A Course in Miracles”
On Concluding
Often it is helpful to go slowly: to not rush to conclusions, and to be aware of the many threads that are present in thought. Attention is a way of asking: what is showing up? What is here? For most of us, what shows up is some variation on “our” lives. The first-person subjective lensContinue reading “On Concluding”
On Knowledge and Perception
(1) In my dream we walked to the lake and you asked me questions about awakening and love. Your hands gestured in the moonlight like birds whose name was not yet given. “I want to know what you know,” you said. “I want to know the whole of it.” When we reached the water youContinue reading “On Knowledge and Perception”
A Course in Miracles: Changing our Mind
Something obstructs our happiness. We try and try and we don’t get any happier. Maybe we even get more scared and lonely and sad. Can we see that thinking is not always our ally? That our happiness may depend on a change of mind that transcends what we thought we knew? Richard Feynman, a notedContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Changing our Mind”
On Error and Correction
We might be tempted to say that the student who sees a snake and subsequently sees it is a rope made a mistake. Thought inclines towards right and wrong so that kind of judgment can seem natural and even necessary. Yet there is a way to see this that is not about mistakes at all.Continue reading “On Error and Correction”