When Jesus says that nothing can happen without our consent, and that nobody can die without their own consent, what he's saying seems pretty extreme.
We are so used to living in such a way that we constantly believe things happen...
The happy truth behind every seeming disasterous illusion in this world, is that nothing has gone wrong at all and we are still with God.
The happy truth is also that it is actually possible to be immortal, as spirit, and...
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...
Another ego trap with forgiveness is believing that you need to be at peace regardless of what's going on in life. While this might ultimately be the goal, meanwhile the things that happen in life are there because they are...
Well actually yes you do. Here's why.
Evaluations of 'good and bad' are both ego. In your ego, there are two parts.
A) The persona self, which is what the ego 'keeps' of your identity, and is only a part of the...
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...
Forgiveness only seems to be needed, as a process, because you currently believe there are things that need to be forgiven.
In other words, you currently are experiencing unforgiveness, and therefore the world seems unforgiven and unforgiving. And therefore, you think...
You know sometimes when you're doing something on a computer and there's a progress bar, and sometimes there are actually two progress bars - overall progress and the progress of one of many smaller tasks? Well I think it's kind...
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...
It makes sense that if you keep seeing people as being able to affect you, as being the cause of your problems, as being to blame, as being an enemy, or having power over you, you will simply have to...
Disassociation plays a big part in making your forgiveness seem much more difficult.
Disassociation means that you are "not associating your self" with something. You're trying to put distance between you and something.
The problem is that you use disassociation on your...
When we separated from God, believing we had sinned, we projected the idea of this sin onto God, blaming Him for abandoning us and forcing us to be separate.
When we then entered into guilt, we projected this guilt onto God,...
Often Holy Spirit will say to me:
"Let me"
And often I am confused about what he really intends or means or what I should do in order to let Him. Like, does he want me to let Him express through me?...
Here's why having a thought of attack or judgement about someone else automatically includes you and attacks you.
Mind in its natural state is free of all judgements and attacks. It is "empty". It sees reality for what it is with...
The way existence is set up, you're supposed to be completely provided for by God, you're supposed to be connected to His Mind, you're supposed to receive unlimited Power and Love from Him which you extend all the time, and...
It sounds counter-intuitive, but the more you try to rely on your own separate self, the more afraid you will become.
This means you are trusting the ego, and since the ego is completely unfounded and uncertain, it can only lead...
There is a reason why you should not judge, and it has absolutely nothing to do with other people or whether it hurts them.
There is also a reason why you need to forgive, and it has absolutely nothing to do...
But this is going to require that you come to accept and live from a very simple truth, which is somewhat 'secret' for most people: the secret to salvation is that you are doing this to yourself.
What this means and...
The ego was His idea of exploring what it might be like to be separate from God - to end Life.
The ego has since done a pretty good job of ending life, or at least, pretending to.
The ego is thus...