Musings: A Little Willingness
“Salvation is easy just because it asks nothing you cannot give right now.” – A Course in Miracles, Text, page 382
It is of enormous relief to know—finally, and with certainty—what our only function is. We should be looking one another in the eye and winking the “we’ve got a secret” look of lovers in love.
The secret is that we have the key to our happiness in our very hands. It is nowhere else.
The key to happiness is forgiveness. It is the simplest thing you will ever learn because it requires nothing of us that we cannot give right now. How do you like them apples? Do I have your attention, or did you turn away again? From the bottom of my heart I hope not, because this is the “pearl worth any price.”
The key is in your hand: guaranteed!!!! Think mind when you read hand. Hopefully you will learn here and now how to turn it: also in your mind. Learning requires that you be right-minded as opposed to wrong-minded.
Wrong-mindedness fears change. It fixates on what it thinks it knows. It thinks happiness is getting what we want. It thinks a whole lot of things are real, all of which turn out to be illusions.
Right-mindedness is willing to question what it thinks it knows, including where happiness comes from. It is willing to learn another way of seeing. It is willing to turn away from all assumptions of what reality is and walk the razor’s edge where our true education can begin.
The choice is yours. You have the willingness; it has already been given you. Don’t let fear hold you back. Give it to the One Who gave you willingness instead. Daily, a thousand times a day, you make this choice.
In order to learn from the teacher of forgiveness who knows the way to happiness, you must resign as your own teacher. This is signified by the little willingness. This is the only way that you can ever be happy.
“If you listen to the wrong voice, you have lost sight of your soul.” – A Course in Miracles
There is a silent voice in you that will show you the way. Every second that you do not plan is an instant made available to the one who can give you your function. Your function is your happiness. To learn that your function and your happiness are the same is the simplest thing you will ever do. Any effort that you make will interfere. The following prayer from The Little Willingness, shows us how small our part is.
“I who am host to God am worthy of Him.
He Who established His dwelling place in me created it as
He would have it be.
It is not needful that I make it ready for Him, but only
that I do not interfere with His plan to restore to me
my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal.
I need add nothing to His plan.
But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my
Own in place of it.”
Musings: All Would Be Love
“…you believe that without the ego all would be chaos. Yet I assure you that without the ego, all would be love.”
(T. 15. V. 1: 6-7)
If we would lay aside our need to be somebody—all ideas about our self and all ideas we hold about the person before us—we would find that we are peacefully joined beyond either of those identities.
What is real is shared and what is unreal can’t be. Only the mind can be shared and it is common to all without exception. It is the personal—the body, private thoughts, the psychological self with all its needs and wants—that is unreal and therefore can’t be shared.
Awakening is from the personal. The unwillingness to enter a shared experience is the only hindrance to the realization of our Self which resides in the mind. (This is why the ego does not want us to learn that we are a mind.)
The shift from identification with the body to the awareness of the self as mind is a choice. We all will eventually make it, but usually not until we experience the pain and suffering our personal needs, wants and special interests bring upon ourselves and others. At this point we may begin to ask ourselves if there might not be a better way of relating that does not involve our specialness.
I have made it my practice to learn from Jesus that my brother and I share the same mind. It is a choice I make every morning before I begin the busy doings of the day. Remembering my goal, my part in every encounter is simply to recognize when the ego asserts its special interests and be willing to offer them to Jesus in exchange for something of greater value. I am the learner and I have a teacher.
In this process I find there is no strain to get approval, acceptance, or recognition from my brother. The listening is open and gentle when I realize the relationship is not in my hands and I do not have to make anything happen. There is no fixing, correcting, dazzling, enthralling, outsmarting, captivating, or manipulating. In allowing the presence of love beyond either body to hold the relationship I experience ease and acceptance of myself and my brother.
Jesus has never failed to show me that my brother is a much better witness to our shared reality of holiness than he is to my ego’s demands that my specialness be indulged.
The mind is truly miraculous when it is not contaminated by the ego. Spiritual practice is learning how to use the mind effectively to choose against the ego. Once we learn that we have a mind and that our only option in this world is to choose between the ego’s tyrannical rule or Jesus’ kind and gentle teaching of forgiveness we can become the happy learners of the truth of the following statement:
“…you believe that without the ego all would be chaos. Yet I assure you that without the ego, all would be love.” T. 15. V. 1: 6-7
Essential Metaphysics/ 2013 Date Changes
This class begins with a FREE INTRODUCTORY CLASS on Sunday, Oct. 20, from 2 to 3:30 at Rocky Mountain Miracle Center, 1939 S. Monroe St., Denver, 80210
The free introduction is followed by a series of three 2-hour classes, Sunday afternoons, 2 to 4 PM
Dates: Nov. 3, 10, and 17
This class will be offered again
March 2 (free), 9, 23, 30, or
June 1 (free), 8, 22, 29
This is a good place to start your education in the Course.
Understanding the unique metaphysics of A Course in Miracles is essential to applying the workbook lessons, and applying the workbook lessons is essential to changing your mind and the way you see the world.
Essential Metaphysics is for two categories of students. If you are new to the Course, it is an opportunity to learn “what it says” so you can choose whether to pursue A Course in Miracles as your path of awakening. For those already on the journey it is a chance to re-commit. Both levels of participants have reported significant value in taking this class.
The class also offers a chance for newcomers to meet on-going learners and hear first hand how the Course has changed their lives.
Facilitated by Lyn Corona
Pre-registration requested
Tuition: First class free, $15 per class for remainder of series
Understanding and Applying the Lessons of A Course in Miracles
Series of eight 2-hour classes – 7 to 9 PM
2014 Dates: Thursdays, Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, or
Thursdays, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22.
Location: Rocky Mountain Miracle Center, Denver, CO
The text provides the essential metaphysics of the Course and the Workbook lessons provide the means for healing our minds by bringing the theory into practice in our daily lives.
The focus of this class is to learn to recognize the Course’s metaphysics embedded in the lessons.
Specific Lessons are selected for the extent to which they integrate theory and illustrate the thought systems of the Course. We must learn to recognize and choose between them.
To support us in our engagement with the lessons we will also use sections in the Workbook where Jesus acts as a coach in helping us get the most from his lessons.
Facilitated by Lyn Corona
Pre-registration required.
Pre-requisite: Essential Metaphysics or equivalent
Tuition: $160
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