Favorite Workbook Lessons
My mind holds only what I think with God
Nov 25th, 2009
I put together a list of my favorite ACIM Workbook Lessons, about 80, in a one-page document to help me in my reviews.
Razor's Edge
and Hindu mysticism
Nov 23rd, 2009
I located an article the shows how W. Somerset Maugham's novel, The Razor's Edge, integrates spiritual wisdom from the Hindu Upanishads. I edited it down to a four-page document. The truth is eternal.
David Hoffmeister recently spoke about similarities between the Advaita Vedanta and A Course in Miracles. His talk is summarized here.
Tags: Self
Responding to a Call for Help
With forgiveness or with magic?
Nov 22nd, 2009
What is the most helpful thing I can give to or do for my brother? I've got to choose between forgiveness and magic.
Forgiveness
To forgive is to see the things, people and events in the world as false. Whenever I feel irritated I need to stop and forgive myself for thinking that something I imagined was reality. When I understand that the perception is false, my mind lets it go. With the Holy Spirit I can then see the situation differently. This is how I change my mind about the world.
Tags: Ego Forgiveness Giving
Lesson One
Crucial
Nov 21st, 2009
“Nothing I see in this room means anything.” This is explained in Lesson 51: “The reason this is so is that I see nothing, and nothing has no meaning.”
I see nothing! That is a big one! My cat is nothing? My partner isn’t real? My body is nothing? They are nothing and have no meaning.
Tags: Ego Forgiveness
Choice
Identity, perception and my mistaken attitude
Nov 20th, 2009
My Recent Mistake
Yesterday morning, just as I was about to begin a task, a member of my ACIM group called me. He said he wanted to drop his car off at a garage and asked if I would give him a ride home afterwards. I thought, “He’s a brother asking for help; I’ve got to say yes.” I had been planning to do some things and felt reluctance about having to leave them to drive him around. I thought, “He’s always asking me to do this; why doesn’t he get his act together?” I gave him the ride and on the way home I ate three ice cream sandwiches. Evidently I was not at peace.
Tags: Ego Forgiveness Love
How I’m Stuck
And how it shifts
Nov 14th, 2009
My mind is vast, all-inclusive and joyful.
But I have restricted myself to a sleeping ego state in which my “thinking” is the internal verbalization of my reactions to perceived images. This gives me the illusion of knowing what is going on. People-images seem to confirm my “reality,” but they are merely acting out wishes that I forget having made. I am the one projecting the images in the vain hope of putting fear out of my mind. It doesn’t work. Yet I cling to the nightmare of being a person because, deep down, I mistakenly believe that I separated from God.
Tags: Awakening Ego Forgiveness
Where’s the Fun in That?
A New Purpose
Nov 11th, 2009
I used to meet with friends, listen to them (automatically judge everything they said), become involved in the conversation, offer my comments and opinions, and part with a warm feeling of connection. Ah, the good old days (!?)
Now my purpose is forgiveness. In the morning I ask for a happy day of forgiveness. I’m happy to see my friends. But when I listen, I immediately notice I’m judging. I identify the judgment, see it is false, and let it go. Something else is said and I need to forgive again; and again. I realize my whole basis of interaction has been based on judgment. I want to share this idea, to talk about this, but it would break the easy flow of conversation. So I’m stuck, teetering with one foot on the dock of egoic people-pleasing and one in the boat of spirit.
Tags: Ego Forgiveness Judgment Love Self
The Power of Wanting
Rebirth
Nov 10th, 2009
My mind is very powerful. My mind has been deceived, however, and has believed in the illusion of separation. It became accustomed to wanting things like money, food and friends and not wanting pain and loss.
I see clearly that in this illusory world, money, food and friends are brief possibilities, but pain, loss and death are inevitable.
Tags: Awakening
What Do I Know?
That I need to listen to the Voice for God
Nov 09th, 2009
There will come a time when images have all gone by, and you will see you know not what you are. It is to this unsealed and open mind that truth returns, unhindered and unbound. Where concepts of the self have been laid by is truth revealed exactly as it is.
I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself.
…in this learning is salvation born. And What you are will tell you of Itself. T-31.V.17
The savior's vision is as innocent of what your brother is as it is free of any judgment made upon yourself. It sees no past in anyone at all. And thus it serves a wholly open mind, unclouded by old concepts, and prepared to look on only what the present holds. It cannot judge because it does not know. And recognizing this, it merely asks, "What is the meaning of what I behold?" Then is the answer given. And the door held open for the face of Christ to shine upon the one who asks, in innocence, to see beyond the veil of old ideas and ancient concepts held so long and dear against the vision of the Christ in you. T-31.VII.13
The Holy Spirit's Perspective
Or Roseanne Roseannadanna's?
Nov 05th, 2009
I think all day; always talking to myself in my head, often about a problem.
As the great mystic, Roseanne Roseannadanna, used to say on Satuday Night Live, “Ya know, it’s always something!”
Tags: Forgiveness Self
