Someone asked me recently if I could say for certain that God has given us the answer to all our problems and we have ignored it. My answer is: yes, with a slight amendment. “God had given us the answer to all our problems but we have forgotten it.” The difference in framing is nontrivial.Continue reading “Remembering the Playfulness of God”
Category Archives: A Course in Miracles
The Third Principle of A Course in Miracles
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense, everything that comes from love is a miracle (T-1.3:1-3). Here in the world – in these bodies in the world – love appears as a special emotion, one that we offer to some people, places andContinue reading “The Third Principle of A Course in Miracles”
On Self Love
Self-love is important. We cannot give away what we don’t have (or don’t know that we have). Just as importantly, we cannot accept love from our brothers and sisters if we do not recognize the love as it is offered. Self-love is both how we know we have something to give to everyone, and howContinue reading “On Self Love”
A Story to Shed Light on the Ego
In this post I talked about how projection can work in our lives, especially in terms of relationships. We project onto others what we do not want to look at in our own self, and then judge the other exactly the way we fear WE would be judged. A lawyer was mean to me once,Continue reading “A Story to Shed Light on the Ego”
A Story to Shed Light on Forgiveness
Once when I was a young lawyer another lawyer – a guy maybe twenty years older than me, a skillful attorney I admired a lot – humiliated me publicly. During a meeting before about two hundred other lawyers, he spoke from the podium about how he hated working with “dumb young lawyers” and – pointingContinue reading “A Story to Shed Light on Forgiveness”
Special Relationships as Forms of Avoidance
Special relationships reflect a decision to avoid looking at guilt and hate within by renaming them “love” and projecting them onto a partner. This only exacerbates the underlying problem, which is our refusal to be responsible for the decision to be separate from both Creator and Creation. Separation is only a decision not to knowContinue reading “Special Relationships as Forms of Avoidance”