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25. This world runs on the yin-yang principle - lies within lies

Wednesday, Apr 22, 2026 938 words 4 mins 10 secs

All of spacetime, and everything within the realm of relativity, is contradictory, impossible, insane, self-defeating, lacking and unwhole.

The reason is that it was made entirely by denying God, denying the absolute, denying wholeness, and trying to bring about...

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24. More on dealing with loss

Friday, Mar 06, 2026 1011 words 4 mins 29 secs

If you're going through a loss, it can be hard to deal with the feelings.

At first I felt that the feelings were just overpowering and I was a victim of them, unable to control or stop them, albeit that...

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23. Why you need to ask for help

Saturday, Feb 28, 2026 562 words 2 mins 29 secs

We don't want to ask for help. Because in our ego we think we don't need help. Because we think we're so amazing and masterful all on our own, that we can do everything on our own, and don't...

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22. The cause of loss and how to let go and live

Thursday, Feb 05, 2026 1679 words 7 mins 27 secs1 comments

"Hold onto nothing."

Loss is self-induced suffering. It is a feeling of not getting what you want, like a childish temper tantrum. It's produced by the demand that things should be the way you want them to be, at...

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21. How and why you keep making an ego identity

Sunday, Jan 25, 2026 1662 words 7 mins 23 secs

Ego is identification with form. That means, first believing in separation, so that there can be different things, and thus forms. And then attempting to be ONE WITH those things, so that they become associated with what you ARE,...

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20. The ego drives of desire and fear and loss

Thursday, Oct 23, 2025 491 words 2 mins 10 secs

The ego thrives on two sides of a coin: desire and fear.

Desire is its attempt to "get", which really means to steal from another and deprive them of it.

Fear is its attempt to "not get" or to...

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19. What suffers loss is not my self

Wednesday, Oct 08, 2025 415 words 1 mins 50 secs

I see that, in the end, loss is a form of victimhood. It's not something that can happen to an immortal being. It suggests that something valued has been taken away from you against your will, with no hope...

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18. Respect me or else!!!

Monday, Sep 08, 2025 1059 words 4 mins 42 secs

What do you mean, you're not treating me exactly the way that I expect you to? How dare you! lol

"Respect" is a term that egos love to use. It's supposed to be a sign of treating someone right....

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17. Dealing with grief and loss

Saturday, Jul 13, 2024 2101 words 9 mins 20 secs

All sense of loss arises from believing that a changing world is real. If it is real, and if something goes away, a part of reality has been lost. If it is real, there has been a real separation. And...

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16. Lessons learned from sickness and death

Friday, Jun 07, 2024 2655 words 11 mins 48 secs1 comments

Since my wife "died" in January, my perspective on this world and the body, sickness and death has changed drastically.

My wife (her body) was afflicted with various disabilities and medical conditions for over 12 years. For the past 4...

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15. The two categories

Tuesday, Mar 07, 2023 760 words 3 mins 22 secs

After a while you realize that many things are really the same thing. And there are really only two categories of things. There's what's real, and what isn't. Love/life and its opposite - a seeming lack of love/life.

For...

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14. Information loss in a course in miracles

Saturday, Aug 07, 2021 2064 words 9 mins 10 secs

We often talk about the versions of the course, the editing, whether all the facts are included etc. And then on top of that we try to understand its metaphysical model, its concepts and ideas, and argue over which model...

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13. Being needy and overcoming neediness

Wednesday, Sep 11, 2019 875 words 3 mins 53 secs

When you see yourself as lacking in some way, whether it be that you're tired and spent, nothing left to give, stressed out, overwhelmed or whatever, you'll see yourself as "in need".

The world will now start to appear to you...

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12. Needing someone to love you is unloving neediness

Wednesday, Jul 31, 2019 715 words 3 mins 10 secs

"This meant that man had no needs at all. If he had not deprived himself, he would never have experienced them. After the Separation, needs became the most powerful source of motivation for human action. All behavior is essentially motivated...

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11. Letting go is similar to a process of loss and grief

Monday, Aug 13, 2018 1881 words 8 mins 21 secs

It's difficult to put this into words, but here goes.

To understand letting go, you have to first understand what it means to "hold on". What is it you are doing with your mind?

Before the separation, you knew you were love....

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10. Grief and Loss - it is not necessary to grieve at all

Tuesday, Dec 26, 2017 2182 words 9 mins 41 secs

"No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision."

"The miracle is proof he is not bound by loss or suffering in any form, because it can so easily be changed."

"I am in the likeness of my Creator. I...

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9. Learning not to depend on other people's love (or lack of it)

Monday, Nov 20, 2017 1282 words 5 mins 41 secs

If someone is not loving you, and you are trying hard to figure out why they won’t, and you are desperate for them to love you, you’re not going to be happy.

If you have a need for the person to...

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8. When you do not lack or need love, because God is with you, you can only extend it

Monday, Sep 11, 2017 765 words 3 mins 24 secs

A few years ago when I was having a profound spiritual experience, I had so much love and joy inside of me.

It was just pouring out, shining outwards. I felt like I was just 'beaming' it out of me like...

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7. A miracle of manifesting tree blossoms out of thin air

Thursday, Sep 07, 2017 390 words 1 mins 44 secs

I have another miracle manifestation story to share.

Years ago also, still in England, I was in my bedroom standing at the window. It was spring time. My window looked out on the back yards of a row of houses which...

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6. If your lack of information is leading you to false conclusions, you need more truth

Monday, Jul 10, 2017 565 words 2 mins 30 secs

Most of your perceptual errors and projections come about because you simply lack some information. You are unaware of some truth. Some pieces of the picture are missing for you.

You try to make sense of what you see, ie what...

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