A resource for students of A Course In Miracles
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All our struggles in trying to understand the Course, our very struggle to understand it arises because we are attempting to understand it through the filter of our belief in object(s) or an objectified reality out there. It simply means that we are attempting to reconcile its principles with an unexamined image of “the world”, as if there could be a world apart from our perception of it. There can be no reconciliation.
To judge is to re-enact the authority problem. It is an existential gesture of “ I want it thus”. It is a gesture that implies there is an “I” to judge, a person who understands something and a person who understands or sees something correctly. It is a gesture that presumes to select from and reject parts of reality as it sees it. It is a gesture that usually leads to a behaviour which is coercive or which moodily sulks about the way things are.
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Our only purpose is forgiveness. We are not asked to judge or to select from whatever is arising. We are not asked to declare our preferences or to hold to the idea that my happiness depends on persons, events and circumstances presenting themselves differently. Read the rest of this entry »
I am as God created me
I am as God created me is the idea of the Atonement. It expresses perfectly the Truth that I am as God created and nothing else. There is nothing else to choose from Read the rest of this entry »