Category Archives: Awakening

Even the articulation of “the present” – what A Course in Miracles calls the holy instant – is a concept, because both perception and conception require time. Whatever the present is – even if if is – it is obscured entirely by perception and concept. And if we are honest, most of us, we willContinue reading “That Which Obscures”

In the meantime, I turn my attention to what works, which is only what I perceive as helpful. The world does what it does and the circumstances that arise accordingly are like waves I do not trust to hold me yet. Hence, the daily lesson of A Course in Miracles. Hence a walk into moonlitContinue reading “Letters from the Hill (#2)”

I like how thought includes thou . . . In time we have a practice, which is in the nature of attending to a relationship where the relationship is with all that is. In order to fully realize this relationship, we have to learn how to give attention to it, and then give attention toContinue reading “Letters from the Hill (#1)”

We could say that the self emerges from attention, in the sense that what it gives attention to and how it gives attention become the self, or what we are – for now – calling the self. If we are inattentive, then the self will be a sort of mess. Whatever enters is taken withoutContinue reading “What Emerges from Attention”

So as we go through our lives there is a sense in which we feel wronged, say, or blessed. Things happen, people do things, or don’t do things, and we experience those effects as good or bad, and then respond accordingly. But we never give much attention to the self that is experiencing these effectsContinue reading “Looking at the Looker”

When I say “give attention to thought” I mean literally sitting quietly and observing what is happening in the interior. A thought about moonlight arises and I look at it – does it have an edge? Where did it come from and where does it go? Can I stay with it? Does it respond toContinue reading “On Attention to Thought”