Trying to tease out the self, and make the self happy and productive in its apparent life, is like bucketing out the sea with a sieve. We can try to do it, and it might appear successful from time to time, but eventually the futility becomes clear. What then? In essence, what we call “our”Continue reading “Participation in Love”
Author Archives: Sean
The Way of No Path
From time to time someone will say that there are no doctrines or methods or paths by or through which awakening happens. There is just this perfect awareness presently manifesting as multiplicity. There are countless variations on this concept; it’s a staple of the contemporary nondual movement. The fly in the ointment is that sayingContinue reading “The Way of No Path”
Yet Another Newsletter
I sent out another newsletter. If you are interested, you can sign up here or in the sidebar. If you’ve already signed up, it ought to have arrived. Let me know. I know not everyone is interested in yet another message cluttering the inbox, so no hard feelings. It’s just another way to keep inContinue reading “Yet Another Newsletter”
A Course in Miracles and Gratitude
The unhealed healer wants gratitude from his brothers, but he is not grateful to them. That is because he thinks he is giving something to them, and is not receiving something equally desirable in return (T-7.V.7:1-2). This concept of relationships – giving to get and needing to come out ahead in the bargain – isContinue reading “A Course in Miracles and Gratitude”
A Course in Miracles: Forgetting What We Know
Think but an instant just on this; you can behold the holiness God gave His Son. And never need you think that there is something else for you to see (T-20.VIII.11:3-4). Our task as students of A Course in Miracles is simply to choose the goal of peace. There is literally nothing else that weContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Forgetting What We Know”
A Course in Miracles: On Holiness and Truth
The holy do not interfere with truth (T-20.III.3:1). I write by a window facing north. Robins are working a patch of earth beneath the dogwood tree whose blossoms have yet to soften and open. The sky is pale gray; rain fell earlier and may yet again. Beyond the early summer bird song and far offContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: On Holiness and Truth”