Category Archives: Awakening

One thing about the present moment is its fullness – which is also a kind of emptiness. Everything is there and nothing is there. There is only thing in the present moment and it has no name and yet everyone knows what it is. You can’t carry anything into the present. It is fascinating toContinue reading “Stillness and Presence”

The memory of God comes to the quiet mind (T-23.I.1:1). There are many ways that we can define this use of “quiet” in A Course in Miracles, but for the moment let’s say that it is a mind that is free of “want.” Can we imagine this? There are two helpful definitions of “want.” The moreContinue reading “A Quiet Mind Wants Nothing”

There are gentle reminders that we are not alone, and that our awakening from dreams of death and separation into the light of seamless life is sure, and Christmas can be one of them, if we want it to be. Christmas is another story in time, another cultural artifact reflective of learning and place, anotherContinue reading “Merry Christmas (2016)”

Often it is helpful to go slowly: to not rush to conclusions, and to be aware of the many threads that are present in thought. Attention is a way of asking: what is showing up? What is here? For most of us, what shows up is some variation on “our” lives. The first-person subjective lensContinue reading “On Concluding”

Something obstructs our happiness. We try and try and we don’t get any happier. Maybe we even get more scared and lonely and sad. Can we see that thinking is not always our ally? That our happiness may depend on a change of mind that transcends what we thought we knew? Richard Feynman, a notedContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Changing our Mind”

We might be tempted to say that the student who sees a snake and subsequently sees it is a rope made a mistake. Thought inclines towards right and wrong so that kind of judgment can seem natural and even necessary. Yet there is a way to see this that is not about mistakes at all.Continue reading “On Error and Correction”