I was being controlling. I did not want things to be the way they are. i wanted to stop them being the way they are and be different. I could not accept that this was okay or that it should...
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...
Can I ACTUALLY do anything to change this outcome/situation whatsoever?
If the answer is NO: surrender and accept what is.
If the answer is YES: surrender to Holy Spirit and let Him inspire you what action to take.
Either way surrender brings peace...
One of the biggest ego traps is when you see that someone else is very wrong, and, as all evidence would have it, they actually ARE wrong.
And probably most people would agree they're wrong.
And the situation itself even 'proves' they...
When you resist something in life, when you can't accept the fact of what is, or what has seemingly happened, when you are fighting with it and don't want it and want it to be a different way, you WILL...
When you resist what is, you attempt the impossible.
When you are attempting the impossible, you will become aware of impossibilities.
You will attempt to change those impossibilities.
You won't be able to do anything about them because they are literally impossible.
They are...
Jesus speaks of how we believe that "darkness can hide".
"Darkness" is the idea that there can be 'diminished light', or indeed 'no light'.
"Light" is the light of awareness. God is light. Your True Self is light.
So in order to seemingly...
If you are feeling like someone else is wrong, someone else is guilty, someone else is at fault, someone else is sick, someone else is doing something they shouldn't be, someone else is afraid, someone else is not awake, someone...
"I've got to do something about this!" shrieks the ego. I MUST FIX IT!!!
Arghhh!!
Ok. Stop.
1) We believe something has gone wrong and think it's real.
2) Believing it is broken, we MUST believe that a remedy is needed.
3) We now try...
To us folk who are not used to miracles, or are not used to the power that we share with God, or the potential freedom of Christ, or the endless possibilities of immortality .... which is most of the planet...
Experientially, this is very simple. Try this:
Sit calmly.
Stop seeking for God outside of you. Stop trying to find Him. Stop going out of yourself. Stop looking for Him. Stay still.
That's all.
You might notice, if you stop seeking.... God shows up....
Once again, last evening, I asked God what he wanted me to 'do', thinking that there were actions or things to 'do', and His reply to me was:
"Receive."
I realize that my ego mind is SO used to 'seeking', which is...
Pretty simple huh.
The ego persona wants to seek because seeking means, you do not already have. Seeking takes you away from what you have.
So let's say, you have a home to live in. You know that you HAVE it. It's...
Unworthiness comes from the belief that you cannot have the 'real thing' - the real love - God, because of something you did (sin), which means you have to SETTLE for lesser substitutes.
And likely, these lesser substitutes, you don't really...
"Nothing so blinding as sight of form" - ACIM
Forms, forms, forms, forms. Objects, stuff. Choices, options. Things.
It's incredible how it is possible for a slight change in the form of something seems to give us enough reason to believe that...
The ego mind is in the business of seeking to try to find whatever it is that it believes you do not have.
And that is pretty much everything, because the ego is quite adamant that you are totally empty and...
The ego has two parts to it, because the ego is a belief-system based on duality. Duality is based on separation. The ego mind is a 'split mind'. The ego mind is at war with itself and is in conflict....
You can see this in stores, where people are standing looking at several shelves filled with basically the same product, wondering which one to pick. And this is also me ;-)
In ego metaphysical terms, what's happening is the ego presents...
Last night, there I was opening up to Jesus and allowing Him to do some healing in me. I was offering up experiences of rejection/abandonment and allowing Him to come in and heal them. Which he did.
It then occurred to...
When Jesus speaks of 'sickness' in ACIM, he doesn't just refer to what we think of as sickness.
You see, to Him, sickness occurs because of some very very fundamental things happening. e.g. "seeking outside yourself" produces sickness". e.g. "confusing the...