Category Archives: A Course in Miracles

Yet the essential thing is learning that you do not know (T-14.XI.1:1). To be a student of A Course in Miracles is in part to embrace humility and in part to develop a tolerance for uncertainty. It is not only these things, but these things help. They can buttress a spiritual practice that is bentContinue reading “Humility and Uncertainty: A Course in Miracles”

Generally we conflate inner peace with a good feeling – an ideal personal experience. It’s subjective, meaning it happens to us – it’s our experience of being. We have it. A lot of us know intellectually that’s an inaccurate representation, but underneath it remains a powerful belief. It’s part of the working algorithm of ourContinue reading “Present Moment Awareness and A Course in Miracles”

The Atonement is a total commitment (T-2.II.7:1). We don’t want to mistake those words – especially the phrase “total commitment” – for a kind of rallying cry. This is not Jesus in the role of a coach exhorting us to “give our all” or “leave nothing on the field.” He is not saying – norContinue reading “Atonement and Total Committment”

It may be that we look at the external world as being full of lessons which, once learned, will undo that world in favor of peace and love. It is not the worst way to think about the world, but it is not how the world is undone. Any investment in the external world andContinue reading “Reading A Course in Miracles: The Appointed Friend”

We are apt to think that self-improvement matters: that we are in a state of becoming that can go in any number of directions and that this state is subject to a personal power of choice. In general, spiritual seekers almost always want to be better people – kinder and gentler, slower to anger, givenContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Ending Self-Improvement”

There is something about A Course in Miracles that brings out the academic in many students. It brings out the intellectual. The text is both abstract and complex in its consideration of big subjects like God and time and reality. In the ACIM community there is a lot of energy around being right and wrongContinue reading “Intellect and A Course in Miracles”