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”
Category Archives: A Course in Miracles
Interlude: Looking is the Holy Spirit
Yesterday I talked about giving our mind over to the Holy Spirit, both in terms of its content and its function. In that way, our problems end. I suggested a next post would relate to how to give our minds over. That’s still coming, but here I offer a side note about what the HolyContinue reading “Interlude: Looking is the Holy Spirit”
On the End of Problems
There are no problems. Not even the problem of thinking we have problems is a problem. Even that is an illusion. It is a miracle that makes this perfection, this utter absence of problems, possible, and it is a miracle that allows us to see perfection so clearly that we know instantly it is ourContinue reading “On the End of Problems”
Remembering our Guiltlessness
We learn of our guiltlessness when a brother or sister looks at us and sees not a body but rather that which is worthy of love and wholly undeserving of punishment (e.g., T-13.In.1:2). It is the so-called other who reminds us of God’s uninterrupted, unconditional Love, effectively restoring it to our mind. And it isContinue reading “Remembering our Guiltlessness”
Refusing to Wait on Love
We have to love in the very circumstances of our lives as they are given to us moment by moment. We cannot postpone love in favor of the life we long for or think we deserve. We can’t wait on love – neither as a gift we receive nor as one that we give. GodContinue reading “Refusing to Wait on Love”
ACIM and Christian Nonduality
The World is Real Imagine you are sitting by a brook. The water is clear and clean. A day or so later, the brook is clouded and full of trash, sluggishly working its way between muddy banks. Then, a day or two after that, it is clear again. In this example, the brook’s cleanliness andContinue reading “ACIM and Christian Nonduality”