Whatever you're upset about, it's not about anyone else, NO MATTER how much it seems to be someone else's fault.
Where is the upset located? Is your upset inside someone else's body? No, it's inside your body.
All of your feelings are...
Sometimes you may not realize that you are being a victim, particularly if you are angry.
A person becomes angry as a reaction to the perception that something has happened to them that they didn't seem to choose.
The perception of things...
When you think of guidance you think of you being separate from the source of guidance - God, and attempting to receive some kind of communication. You hope at first to get any kind of communication at all, and later...
Real Love, is not like anything else in this world. Love, to be experienced, must be shared by all.
Love is a presence that exists everywhere and extends everywhere. It radiates. It flows. It overcomes all separations. It does not and...
Everything in the ego's mindset looks like one thing but is actually something completely opposite.
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What we call attack, is actually retreat.
God cannot be attacked. When you try to attack God, if you were to go punch God in the face,...
Choosing not to control anything, to me, feels just like a surrender.
I used to say several times, "I surrender". Particularly saying them in quick-succession so that my ego doesn't jump in with its distractions and objections.
But now I find, if...
For a while now I've been experiencing the Holy Spirit working in me quite actively to clear and heal my mind, emotions and body. And I've been unsure how this correlates with A Course in Miracles because I don't hear...
Just because you believe that you are not yet perfect, and are still trying to perfect yourself and attain some kind of 'better you', does not actually mean that you are not already perfect.
In fact, from God's vantage point, He...
The secret to salvation is that "we are doing this only to ourselves". This means taking full responsibility for everything we experience, all of our feelings, all of our reactions. It means owning everything about who and what we really...
For a long time I thought that if I would just SAY what the truth is, or 'get it intellectually', or be able to describe it, or have the right insight to put some pieces of the puzzle together, then...
If you perceive that someone out there is your enemy, opposition, separate from you or wrong in some way, you absolutely MUST and WILL simultaneously see yourself as under attack and victimized by them.
It doesn't even matter if they actually...
It is not possible to be angry at another person and see the other person correctly.
If you are in any way experiencing the other person as anything other than PURE LOVE, there must be some kind of negative attitude in...
We have appointed our own worst enemies, our controllers, our dominators, our victimizers, our haters, and everyone we do not like, to do all of these things TO us, FOR us, because we have a secret agenda.
We do not want...
What we see in our lives outside of ourselves, is a displacement of all of our own sense of self, which we do not want to own up to.
We are Christ. We do not want to own up to that....
You do not need to find the power to rise up against a seemingly mighty external power.
That external power is YOUR power. It's your own power that you have temporarily displaced into the hands of someone else.
You want that other...
ACIM leads off with this:
"This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you...
"Having been restored to your original state, you naturally become part of the Atonement yourself. You now share my inability to tolerate the lack of love in yourself and in everyone else, and must join the Great Crusade to correct...
If God created you perfect, and you cannot change because you are permanent, then what the heck are you doing trying to change yourself?
Ultimately, being able to accept the truth about you is all that is asked of you. And...
Let's say you're in a regular situation, maybe you're around someone you know. And there's something this person is doing that you 'describe' or 'label' as something. You think you're just making a basic observation, like it's obvious.
So maybe you...
It's interesting that it is people with egos who seek to become more spiritual.
This is based on the ego belief that they are not already perfect, complete, holy, innocent etc. Life probably sucks in some way, and this compels them...