The healing anticipated by A Course in Miracles – which is the healing that attends one’s study of it – is simply the ability to discern between what is false and what is true. This discernment is natural but having forgotten we can do it, we need to remember how to do it. That isContinue reading “Healing and A Course in Miracles”
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On Remembering to be Grateful
The debt I feel to A Course in Miracles is large; yet simultaneously, it is known that there is nothing to be in debt to, nor a self to be so indebted. This paradox is problematic only if one expects language to function differently than is its nature. Words are separative – once they areContinue reading “On Remembering to be Grateful”
Mutuality of Being and Nonbeing
The Tao Te Ching observes that ‘to be’ and ‘not to be’ arise mutually. The one includes – necessarily makes possible – the other. It is like holding a coin and asserting that only the side we “see” exists; of course both sides exist. How could it be otherwise? Thus, as soon as one saysContinue reading “Mutuality of Being and Nonbeing”
The Seeking that Comes and Goes
So long as there is seeking, there will be people who appear to have answers, and who will share those answers as part of an exchange – for money, for worship, for intimacy and so forth. There is nothing wrong with this. When questions are projected, answers appear. When answers appear, acceptance or rejection ofContinue reading “The Seeking that Comes and Goes”
Looking Deeply into God
Space is a helpful metaphor for what we are calling God – those of us prone to that word – but it is still just a metaphor. In and of itself it is not liberating. It is not that to which it points. Consider a ceramic tea pot. In late morning, after we have finishedContinue reading “Looking Deeply into God”
The Here-and-Now of Heaven
Eventually you see through the details that seem to comprise your life. The lovers, the friends, the roads, the jobs, the poems. The this and the that. You see how it all comes and goes, rises and falls, clarifies here and blurs over there. You see how on close observation edges and seams aren’t actuallyContinue reading “The Here-and-Now of Heaven”