We could say that the self emerges from attention, in the sense that what it gives attention to and how it gives attention become the self, or what we are – for now – calling the self. If we are inattentive, then the self will be a sort of mess. Whatever enters is taken withoutContinue reading “What Emerges from Attention”
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The Gift of Undivided Love
attention is the gift of undivided love, effortlessly giving as it was given attention yields discernment which is to see clearly what is and on that basis to separate the true from the false discernment yields detachment – detachment from outcomes and goals, from having and not having – detachment from the false – detachmentContinue reading “The Gift of Undivided Love”
Read by A Course in Miracles
One can make the argument that A Course in Miracles just means what it means – you get it or you don’t, and that’s it. It isn’t subject to interpretations. Certainly, this was Ken Wapnick’s position. IP: You claim that you are teaching what the Course actually says. If you read a line from theContinue reading “Read by A Course in Miracles”
One Mind and A Course in Miracles
When we say that we are “one mind” or “there’s only one of us here,” we are not talking about discrete material reality. We are not going to trade these bodies for spirit cloaks, or for angel bodies, or prismatic spiral nebulae or something like that. Rather, when we talk about “one mind,” we areContinue reading “One Mind and A Course in Miracles”
Loving in a Loveless Place
Fail not in your function of loving in a loveless place (T-14.IV.4:10). This is a powerful sentence from A Course in Miracles, neatly summarizing the curriculum’s emphasis on the miracle as a shift from fear towards love, and our ongoing responsibility to bring forth love with our brothers and sisters. It requires humility and open-mindedness.Continue reading “Loving in a Loveless Place”
Beyond the Metaphor to Home
At some point, as serious students of A Course in Miracles, we need to understand that the Holy Spirit is simply a metaphor for right choosing – or the action of our right mind – which we could also call right perception – and that although the rightness is real, the Holy Spirit is itselfContinue reading “Beyond the Metaphor to Home”