It is more important to heal the problem than to figure out why the problem is happening.
The ego believes if it can figure out the origins of the problem, or what is happening, it will then have an answer and...
For the ego, an answer is not an answer that solves a problem. Instead its answers are merely manipulations which describe the problem and compound it.
Sometimes the ego makes it appear that a problem is being 'solved' by, apparently practically,...
It's not that God isn't sending, giving or sharing. God is automatically doing that all the time.
But are you receiving it?
In order to receive it you need to get yourself to where you deeply BELIEVE that you HAVE RECEIVED. Right...
Know this. It is not possible to objectively and neutrally try to determine what the truth is, using the ego, without avoiding the truth.
There is no 'innocently seeking for the answer'. There is no mode that you can be in...
The ego makes a problem seem real, gets intense about it, magnifies it, and then tries to do something about it.
The ego can put on a mask of being a 'problem solver' or 'fixer' or 'doer' or 'seeker', claiming that...
What is more important?
To spend huge amounts of time studying and analyzing sickness to try to describe all the ways that it is behaving and all the possible causes and all the remedies that may or may not work, only...
Where do you find a sense of certainty? A sense of something you can trust? A sense of actuality or correctness? Where do you find a truth, that is so acceptable and so full and complete that you have no...
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...
It's not just a matter of me taking back responsibility for everything in life, and then sitting there all by myself.
There is instead a shift away from ego-self and towards being aware of and TRUSTING in God.
It's not just a...
I've come to realize, through painful lessons and helpful support, that I've for a long time now been using my learning about 'truth' as a way to justify being 'right' about that truth.
It's a trap. It's not just that in...
When the mind clearly recognizes that CAUSE is in the mind, and Cause is God, and that the mind extends God's will, God's Power can extend forth to enact miracles.
This means, that God has FULL power over illusions. Or in...
The Son of God is causal and creative.
The Son of God paints brand new pictures on a blank canvas.
The Son of God does not paint pictures on top of old pictures.
The Son of God does not ask old pictures to...
As you work on recognizing that causes are not outside of you, but that they are in your mind, please realize that there is a powerful difference between these two perspectives.
It's not just a matter of you taking back projections...
As you perform miracles, you might have some sense that they may not be fully applied or that they might not work. This is because you are still of the belief that there is a separate will out there capable...
I once thought that unconditional love meant that I would unconditionally love one person. That is, that I would love them a lot. I thought that this 'big love' was an unconditional love, until I found out that I sometimes...
When you defend your ego self, you become righteous. And as you do this, you will become angry.
The Course says "anger is never justified", but when we are defending an idea of "why I am right", I AM attempting to...
The Course says "Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world (T-21.in.1:7)."
This seems to say only focus on changing your mind and never try to change the world (not even with the...
"The sole responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the Atonement for himself. This means you recognize that mind is the only creative level, and that its errors are healed by the Atonement. Once you accept this, your mind...
We are meant to extend God's reality, as the Son of God, to extend His Kingdom.
When we deny Him and deny we are His Son, we stop extending Him (as source of everything) and instead have to 'make up' stuff...
One trap I often fall into is this... it's particularly sneaky...
Someone else is 'actually wrong' about something, I am 'actually right' about something.
i.e. based on the situation, on the ego level, somebody actually has made some mistake that's obvious, I...