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”
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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”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 194
My practice of A Course in Miracles is grounded in the ordinary. It finds itself in what arises day-to-day – baking bread, mowing the lawn, writing poetry, drinking tea, and walking and talking with my children. The course is efficient and practical. The attention I give to it on its terms is returned to meContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 194”
A Course in Miracles Lesson 186
Salvation of the world depends on me. Ask yourself: when told that salvation of the world depends on you, does not a chorus of internal voices begin to clamor in various degrees of consent and disagreement? Anticipation and resistance? And hearing those voices – and not pretending they are not there, and not playing favoritesContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 186”
Giving is What Matters
It is helpful to remember that as we become more aware of what A Course in Miracles calls the ego, we may feel the effects of egoic thinking quite intensely. Patterns of thought and behavior and feeling that went unnoticed before suddenly call attention to themselves. It is not always comfortable when this happens! ItContinue reading “Giving is What Matters”