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”
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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”
Miracles are Effects, Not Causes
A miracle, as that word is brought to application by A Course in Miracles, is not a cause of anything but rather an effect. It is an effect of a decision to give attention to the present moment without bringing either the past or the future into it. The miracle denies nothing and accepts theContinue reading “Miracles are Effects, Not Causes”
Attention is a Form of Acceptance
Attention is a kind of questioning, but not questioning as the brain and the egoic self understand it. The egoic self wants answers that do not exist and so cannot be found because its maxim is seek but do not find (e.g. T-12.IV.4:1-5). But attention is content to let what is be. It no longerContinue reading “Attention is a Form of Acceptance”
Life is Not Personal
. . . What I am trying to say is that life is not personal. The same force that sustains the bluet, the pine tree, the box turtle and the moose sustains us. More, it sustains us all equally, so that a blade of grass truly does encompass as much of life as you orContinue reading “Life is Not Personal”