Category Archives: Atonement

Here is what the Holy Spirit tells you when you listen: happiness is given; joy is given. You don’t have to do anything. People hear this and panic. I have to go to work! I have to have sex! I have to have coffee! I have to floss! And vote! And so forth! I appreciateContinue reading “On Listening to the Holy Spirit”

On the other hand, if you think that this stuff matters – that is, if you believe a political party is right or wrong, better or worse than the others – then you’re in as deep as you can go. At that level it’s just ego; there are no checks. You might as well pretendContinue reading “Building Better Worlds: ACIM in Practice”

The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its sound but dost not know where it comes from or where it goes. ~ John 3:8 Yet the utterly subjective nature of our experience as human observers must be entered as into a mystery, its apparent infinities and eternities robustly explored. The interior is allContinue reading “Spiritual Poverty and the Mystery of Subjectivity”

“There is no answer; only an experience” (C-In.4:4). That lovely line – all of seven words – is found in the introduction to the Clarification of Terms in A Course in Miracles. Its simplicity underscores an important tenet of the course: it is a deeply practical curriculum that aims at an experience of inner peaceContinue reading “The Experience of Inner Peace”

attention is the gift of undivided love, effortlessly giving as it was given attention yields discernment which is to see clearly what is and on that basis to separate the true from the false discernment yields detachment – detachment from outcomes and goals, from having and not having – detachment from the false – detachmentContinue reading “The Gift of Undivided Love”

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”