The Course is Simple
The Focus is on Relationship
Posted by aplecompte on April 5th, 2009
Forgiveness, the central practice of A Course in Miracles , has three basic steps, and you are only responsible for initiating the first two.
The Course is a big book, however, because considerable learning and unlearning is needed for you to really understand these preliminaries:
- What you are (spirit)
- How you are currently thinking (the ego dream) and
- How you would rather think (your real thoughts with God)
You must come to genuinely desire this major change of mind, which requires developing trust in the Holy Spirit as you give up what you think you know and your “personal” control.
The special relationship is the crucible where your thought impurities can be transformed.
In this context, the three working steps to practice again and again are:
- I recognize that I am having an attack thought (I am misperceiving my brother in my dream)
- I choose to let it go (because it has no reality and causes pain where I would rather have peace and joy)
- I welcome the holy instant of release for both of us and see my brother in a new light (a miracle)
With the growth of your miracle experience you come to accept the Atonement, your emergence into real or holy relationship, with no loss and the full recovery of your joyful, peaceful, loving reality.
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