If you are not really clear that there is NO TRUTH in the world, because the entire world is an illusion, you will become quite confused.
You'll mistakenly keep searching for answers in forms, situations, explanations, authorities, rational deductions, conclusions, diagnosis,...
When shit happens and stuff goes badly wrong and life sucks bigtime, you have one of two conclusions:
a) Shit happened and where was God? God is either cruel or he doesn't exist, because the shit is "real". Or...
b) Shit only...
In A Course in Miracles, forgiveness is a movement away from believing that illusions are true and real, towards recognizing that they are in fact not true or real. This becomes clear when your awareness increases sufficiently to reveal a...
We have allowed ourselves to LEARN what we think the truth is, based on how the physical world seems to function.
We think that there are causes out there which have effects on other things.
We think that the world is able...
Whatever you see in something, if you think it is inherently offensive, it is not. The offensiveness is in your own mind, and you put it there.
That can be hard to accept because it means that you've been used to...
We continually look for meaning outside of ourselves. We look for salvation outside of ourselves. We look for ourselves outside of ourselves. We look for love outside of ourselves. We look for happiness outside of ourselves.
And we do not find...
A major mistake I keep making, or at least am starting to notice I'm making, is trying to find answers in the world.
Jesus is often hinting to me that I'm doing something wrong when I do this.
I'll be lost in...
Just about everyone believes in it.
Just about everyone bows down and allows it to happen.
Just about everyone wants it to happen to them.
Just about everyone fears it as a result.
Just about everyone is choosing it.
Just about everyone knows someone who...
What it claims is that if you will not say certain things, or do certain things, other people will be less hurt and less offended and less victimized. And that therefore, this is more loving and supportive.
This is not true.
What...
What God creates must be permanent because He is permanence and can only create like Himself.
Therefore, if something is not permanent, if it changes at all in any way, if it is born or dies, or if it comes and...
In this world, the ego has reversed everything. What was visible has become invisible, and what was nothing at all seems to be something.
Similarly, in the world of form, "space" seems to be where nothing exists. And it seems like...
If you are open and whole and unified as a single awareness, that is who you are. That is your identity.
If you close down and put yourself into a box, associating yourself with some 'part' of the environment that is...
The physical world we live in was deliberately designed by the ego mind to create the ILLUSION that separation is real. It is meant to, on purpose, deceive your awareness so that you believe how it APPEARS to be. Taking...
There is a mistake that many of us make when it comes to ACIM, where we seem to think we should change our minds about the world in order to find peace.
It seems like the Course is saying we shouldn't...
The real world is a symbol, like the rest of what perception offers. Yet it stands for what is opposite to what you made. Your world is seen through eyes of fear, and brings the witnesses of terror to your...
There are two things that you can receive from the world when you are being a victim:
1) It does bad stuff to me
2) It does good stuff to me
Both of these are really the same. They both rely on you...
There is a significant ego trap at play, when people are significantly upset about the world. Maybe upset about cruelty to animals, upset about violence or torture, upset about the economy, upset about how people treat each other, upset about...
Many ACIM folks appear to struggle between two sort of 'camps', in regards to whether to change the world or not.
There are many passages and quotable concepts in the Course which could be used to back up either viewpoint.
I think...
God's nature is not alluded to by the nature of things in this world. We are incredibly used to this world, conditioned in believing that everything does and must change all the time. Even time and space possess properties of...
Jesus gave us a nice analogy this evening for how we reverse cause and effect, how the ego functions, how we create scapegoats, and how we do stuff to ourselves.
The analogy is that of a hand puppet or glove puppet....