Where in the Course Does it Say...?
Annotated table of contents
Sep 30th, 2009
As a way to help me return to certain quotations in the text, I began making brief notes on the Table of Contents pages. A few days ago I flipped through these Contents pages and found they were an interesting way to review the text.
I put them all together in a 6-page Word document - Annotated Table of Contents
Tags: Ego
My Only Purpose
T-30.IV-V
Sep 26th, 2009
The purpose of the world is idolatry, that I might forget the truth. Idolatry brings only guilt, and guilt is the only cause of pain in any form. I believe in idols. I expect something from my brother and attack him in my thoughts when he does not satisfy. It is my judgment and my attack that make the world seem real to me. I have set myself up, and I continually mistake illusions for reality.
There is no world; it is only my dream. The world is harmless because it is my dream. Nothing bad can happen because nothing really happens. There is no gap between me and my brother.
Tags: Forgiveness Guilt
Simple is Good
All I need to know
Sep 25th, 2009
My Problem
There is only God’s Mind and mine. Unhappily, I have dissociated, and my mind is temporarily locked in an insane dream. But God lovingly placed the Answer, the Holy Spirit, in my mind.
Tags: Awakening Ego Forgiveness Guilt Judgment
Highlighting in Posts
Offers quick review
Sep 23rd, 2009
I review my posts and sometimes highlight the most important points. They give me quick reminders of what I most need to learn. I recently highlighted phrases in these posts:
This is a Course in Cause and Not Effect
Guilt Underlies the World
Reason Brings Vision
Fear of Redemption
Guilt
Changing My Purpose
The Decision for Guiltlessness
Tags: Guilt
Dealing with Money Worries
By being right-minded
Sep 21st, 2009
After reviewing some financial events, I found myself worrying about money. To break this thought-cycle I wrote down some ideas I have learned:
I am not a body; I am not even a person.
I am spirit. I am the Son of God.
There is nothing of value here, except for me to love my spirit-brothers equally.
There is nothing I need do.
I let all things be exactly as they are.
I think the thoughts of God.
I pray to God.
I think about God.
There is nothing to lose in giving up the world.
It was a mistake from the non-existent past, a hallucination.
It is not real.
It is a deceitful prison. It is hell.
Happily, all my problems have been solved.
In my mind I give my allegiance to the Holy Spirit:
Perfect Peace
and happiness
Sep 19th, 2009
This morning I read some Course prayers slowly several times. Then I was quiet. I went very deep. I heard Elizabeth call and speak to several family members. I just listened. When ideas arose to judge anything or to do anything, I reminded myself that it was all nothing. I gently stepped off thought trains. I let all things be exactly as they are. It is all Divine Order and my only job is to feel peace, love and joy; which I did. A while later I stretched out.
Tags: Self
Unlearning the World
Week Intensive with David Hoffmeister
Sep 18th, 2009
David Hoffmeister has a classic mp3 audio recording of an intensive week-long ACIM program on his Teacher of Teachers website. Topics include the ego belief system, roles, ordering thought, tracing back upsets with the Instrument for Peace, special relationships, death and the bridge to the real world. I have made an expanded version of notes on this program as a learning aid. It includes charts of the projector metaphor and the five levels of mind. Click on Notes on David's Week Intensive.
Subtle Guidance
From the Holy Spirit
Sep 09th, 2009
Since my readings and meditations yesterday, I have seemed a step removed from the busy-ness of human life and have felt peaceful, content and happy. This morning, after asking Holy Spirit for guidance, I met some friends for breakfast and had a wonderful time connecting with them about whatever.
A little after 8:00 I went to the bank, which hadn’t opened yet. I looked closely at the door for the banking hours and couldn’t find them so I went back to my car in the parking garage and put on Resta Burnham’s CD “Come to the Quietness.” I quickly went very deep inside. More than ever, each word resonated with me as the present truth. I felt great love for everyone, freedom, security and joy—definitely a touch of my true nature as God’s Son loved by His Father.
Tags: Self
Kindness of Jesus
Selections from the Book of Urantia
Sep 07th, 2009
When I was growing up I knew my older brother loved me. He was my hero and role model until I was 19. Unfortuantely, his life was desperate and brief. After his death, I floundered for a long time.
Recently, however, reading the Book of Urantia, I discovered my real older brother, Jesus. I identify a lot with the story of "The Young Man Who Was Afraid," who was born again. As a student of A Course in Miracles, I am being approached by Jesus in a similar way.
Tags: Jesus
Summary of Miracle Principles
Sep 06th, 2009
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
Miracle Principles
My current thoughts are unreal, based in false perception, representing the lower or bodily level of experience.
Tags: Forgiveness Love Miracle Self
