School for A Course In Miracles

"The universe of learning will open up before you."

School for A Course In Miracles

“The universe of learning will open up before you in all its gracious simplicity.” T-14. II. 6:4
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Musings: Living the Course

SharingThis is a course in miracles. It is a required course.

What exactly is a miracle? And why is it required?

We long to be earnest about the Course’s teachings, yet the deeper we go into it the more we learn how small our part is. In fact it is a tiny wish, a little willingness, the tiniest grain of wisdom. We learn it is arrogance that makes our part seem big– too hard to accomplish. Mostly we learn how not to interfere.

All salvation asks of us is but a little wish that the truth be true, and a little willingness to overlook what is not there….a little sigh that speaks for Heaven as a preference to this world that death and dissolution seem to rule.

“Your wishes and the Will of God are one.

God wills that His Son have everything.”

The extent to which we suffer is unfathomable. And what for? To preserve the belief in a will contrary to God’s?  And whose will might that be. It must be an imaginary will for there is no will but God’s. It is this imaginary will that “get’s busted” as we travel together the path of the miracle.

 

 

Musings: A Simple Daily Practice

The door to peace is always open. We just need to turn toward it.
The Open Door

Lesson 5 and Lesson 34 are two excellent lessons in A Course in Miracles that would be really helpful to remember and practice daily. Apply these any time that you do not feel loving toward all your relationships and yourself.

Ask yourself frequently how you feel throughout the day.

Being self aware means watching yourself from outside the dream instead of being completely absorbed in it. When you are watching you are awake in the dream meaning you are bringing awareness to it. When you are completely involved in the dream you are sleepwalking.

When you feel anything other than peace, say:

“I am never upset for the reason I think.” Lesson 5

There is no need to analyze. There is no need to talk with someone else about how you feel. It is your business, your work, and the point at which a shift in identity from the body to the mind occurs. You are a mind, not a body.

The ego would have you think you are upset because of something that happened outside* you. Saying “I am never upset for the reason I think” means you are willing to question and let go of your investment in the ego’s perception of why you are upset. It is always wrong.

Remember unless you notice when you are upset and then look at how you are using the world, the body and your relationships to justify the upset, you can’t take this step of admitting you are wrong. The fact is that you decided to abandon the peace of God first and now you are looking for a way to keep this decision hidden. If you were experiencing the peace of God nothing could upset you. What better way to avoid responsibility than to blame someone or something outside you. This is how the ego keeps the guilt in your mind over separating from God. It projects it and sees it in the bodies around you (including your own).

“I could see peace instead of this”. Lesson 34

When you are not invested in your idea about why you are upset you can sincerely say “I could see peace instead of this.”  

Returning to peace is not some super extraordinary mystical thing. Peace is always just beyond the ego’s interpretation of things.  A decision against the ego is a decision for the Holy Spirit. It is one or the other. This is the only decision we ever need make.

*What is considered to be outside you? The body and the world. Both are projections of the thought of separation in the mind. Included in the body are thoughts, feelings, the brain, and the all sensory apparatus which report to the brain for interpretation. The mind, according to the Course, is not our brain. It is the place inside us where we choose to believe in separation, or forgiveness.