A Course In Miracles

NEW BLOG

2007-01-21T16:38:00.000-08:00

Hey, I now have a new blog...

Here is a link - see you there!

How funny!

2006-10-25T11:10:00.000-07:00

INSTALLING LOVE

Tech Support:
Yes, ma'am, how can I help you?

Customer:
Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install Love. Can you
guide me through the process?

Tech Support:
Yes, I can help you, are you ready to proceed?

Customer:
Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do
first?

Tech Support:
The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart
ma'am?

Customer:
Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to
install Love while they are running?

Tech Support:
What programs are running ma'am?

Customer:
Let's see, I have Past-Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge, and Resentment
running right now.

Tech Support:
No problem, Love will gradually erase Past-Hurt from your current
operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory, but it will no longer
disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem
with a module of it's own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to
completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love
from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ma'am?

Customer:
I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support:
With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as
many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have completely
erased.

Customer:
Okay, done, Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support:
Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to
begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer:
Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "Error-program not run
on external components. What should I do?

Tech Support:
Don't worry ma'am, It means the Love program is set-up to run on
Internal Hearts but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms,
it means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer:
So what should I do?

Tech Support:
Can you pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files:
Forgive-Self; Realise Your Worth; and Acknowledge Your Limitations.

Customer:
OK, done.

Tech Support:
Now copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system will overwrite
any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need
to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your
Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer:
Got it. Hey!!! My Heart is filling up with new files.
Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support:
Sometimes. For others it takes a while, but eventually everyone gets it
at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing
before we hang-up, Love is FreeWare. Be sure to give it and its various modules
to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return
some cool modules back to you.

Customer:
I promise to do just that. By the way, what's your name?

Tech Support:
Just call me the Divine Cardiologist, also known as the Great
Physician, or just "I AM." Most people feel all they need is an annual check-up to
stay heart-healthy, but the manufacturer (ME) suggests a daily maintenance
schedule for maximum Love efficiency.

World Wellness Weekend with Master Teacher and Deepak Chopra in San Jose, Nov. 3-5, 2006

2006-10-22T22:56:00.000-07:00

Hey! Look at this incredible E-BOOK and let me know about your experience with it.

Did you know...

2006-10-15T18:40:00.000-07:00

Hey, nice to meet you.

Do you know that you with all your incredible ideas and wisdom are not real?

Q: What do you mean "I am not real"?

The way you know yourself and define everything else is based on what you think is true.
If you call what you can see reality, because it proves it’s reality to you by having an impact on you - a power over you that is influencing you and putting the limits on your identity and existence - you might want to know about this:

Watch the first 19 minutes of this video and come back click here

Hey, nice to meet again.
Do you know that you are not real?

Q: Well, it spins my head that you would say that, but I really can’t be sure of anything anymore.

Wow, nice. Now consider this:

"My Thoughts Are Images I Have Made" read this lesson

Now, you might see the necessity to train your mind to a different perception of everyone and everything in this world. You realize, that you are responsible for what you see. But you really don’t see, don’t know and you can’t rely on yourself, because “yourself”, as you see it, relies completely on your body’s senses and perceptions.

You have no prove for reality as you see it.
You want to know why?

It always only verifies itself.
For example: How do you know your body is real? (Well, in the video you just learned that it really is not, if what you think you are is not) Think of this: Your body is verified through it’s own eyes: You see it. Now close your eyes. It’s gone.

Q: Oh no, it’s still here. I can move around and hear the sounds it makes and I feel it with my hands.

Yes, with it’s own ears and it’s own hands.
Now look at all the objects and bodies around you. How do you know they are real?

Q: Well, if I cross the street without looking, one of those “unreal” objects might roll over me and kill me. Or one of these bodies can walk away from me and break my heart.

You are describing the human condition here. So you are never really save. All your life you try, as good as you can to protect yourself and your loved ones. But there is always the thought that some one out there could cause you harm. If you are lucky, you’ll stay healthy and die from natural cause. But more likely you will get cancer and have a divorce.
All your perception and experience is based on how you see yourself, who you think you are and therefore what you think you deserve and what is possible for you and anything else.

Are you happy with all that? Or would you like a real alternative?

Q: Are you talking about "God"?

With all the horror you witness happening all over the world it’s hard to believe that a God, who created all this, would see it as his priority to keep you save. So you rely on yourself, aren’t you?

And now I’m telling you, you are not real.
What is real then? What is true? Who are you?

Q: --

I tell you about all this, because I am in an experience of "something else". I stood, where you may be standing right now. I did not trust in anything anymore. I had a moment, where my whole believesystem collapsed. I had asked to be shown the truth, but you never know how your prayers will be answered, so I was scared. But also I entered into a new moment, when, under all the confusion and disillusionment that was going on in me in that moment, I found a power, that was real, that was in me.

Somewhere below all the business of my world, I found a new experience of myself that had nothing to do with this world and that was given to me. It showed me that my reality is not based on anything I see or hear or remember. But it is. It is something true that I can rely on. And it is one with God. An all loving God, who also has nothing to do with this world as I see it. And Who knows me as who I really am.

No matter how you arrive at the realization of who you really are, it’s sure, that you can experience yourself in truth, if that is what you want above all else.

There is a solution! It is in you. You can find it now. Just ask for help - sincerely. A prayer of the heart is always answered.

I talked about the Mind-Training before, because that is what works for me and for anyone who tries it. The Lessons of A Course In Miracles helped me to wake up to reality. I found communication with God. It’s not hard, it’s the most natural thing you could do. Try it. It's healing and it showed me what love REALLY is. I love you and I am here for you. Now here is one lesson for you. Let it show you a new and incredible you. Try it…

What have you got to loose?

“I am the holy Son of God Himself.”

Here is your declaration of release from bondage of the world. And here as well is all the world released. You do not see what you have done by giving to the world the role of jailer to the Son of God. What could it be but vicious and afraid, fearful of shadows, punitive and wild, lacking all reason, blind, insane and sad?

What have you done that this should be your world? What have you done that this is what you see? Deny your own identity and this is what remains. You look on chaos and proclaim it as yourself. There is no sight that fails to witness this to you. There is no sound that does not speak of frailty within you and without; no breath you draw that does not seem to bring you nearer death; no hope you hold but will dissolve in tears.

Deny your own identity and you will not escape the madness which induced this weird, unnatural and ghostly thought which mocks creation and which laughs at God. Deny your own identity and you assail the universe alone, without a friend, a tiny particle of dust against the legions of your enemies. Deny your own identity and look on evil, sin and death. And watch despair snatch from your fingers every scrap of hope, leaving you nothing but the wish to die.

Yet what is it except a game you play in which identity can be denied? You are as God created you. Read on…

If you want to keep having a new experience of yourself, try to get yourself the book " A Course in Miracles" and read in it. Start doing the lessons and if you need anything, contact the Miracles Healing Center or get help with going through the lessons with an Online Course and you can also always write to me.

from Jesus...

2006-09-23T19:19:00.000-07:00

A Course In Miracles

2006-09-23T19:13:00.000-07:00

Simply do this:
Be still and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false or good or bad; of every thought it judges worthy and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget with wholly empty hands unto your God.

Read Lesson 189 here.

Immediate Happiness

2006-04-18T14:19:00.000-07:00

Have an incredible experience by following these 3 simple steps right now:

1)Read the Workbook Lesson 108 below
2)Practice as directed in the lesson
3)Receive the incredible gift and help

To give and to receive are one in truth.
Vision depends upon today’s idea. The light is in it, for it reconciles all seeming opposites. And what is light except the resolution, born of peace, of all your conflicts and mistaken thoughts into one concept which is wholly true? Even that one will disappear because the Thought behind it will appear instead, to take its place. And now we are at peace forever, for the dream is over now.

True light which makes true vision possible is not the light the body’s eyes behold. It is a state of mind which has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all. And thus what is the same is seen as one, while what is not the same remains unnoticed, for it is not there.

This is the light which shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal. This is the light that brings your peace of mind to other minds, to share it and be glad that they are one with you and with themselves. This is the light which heals because it brings single perception, based upon one frame of reference from which one meaning comes.

Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of one Thought Whose truth does not depend on which is seen as first, nor which appears to be in second place. Here it is understood that both occur together, that the Thought remain complete. And in this understanding is the base on which all opposites are reconciled, because they are perceived from the same frame of reference which
unifies this Thought.

One thought, completely unified, will serve to unify all thought. This is the same as saying one correction will suffice for all correction, or that to forgive one brother wholly is enough to bring salvation to all minds. For these are but some special cases of one law which holds for every kind of learning, if it be directed by the One Who knows the truth.

To learn that giving and receiving are the same has special usefulness, because it can be tried so easily and seen as true. And when this special case has proved it always works in every circumstance where it is tried, the thought behind it can be generalized to other areas of doubt and double vision. And from there it will extend, and finally arrive at the one Thought Which underlies them all.

Today we practice with the special case of giving and receiving. We will use this simple lesson in the obvious because it has results we cannot miss. To give is to receive. Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see. So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today,
and say:

“To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.”

Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone to have it yours. You might, for instance, say:

“To everyone I offer quietness.”
“To everyone I offer peace of mind.”
“To everyone I offer gentleness.”

Say each one slowly, and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave, and it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. You will find you have exact return, for this is what you asked. It might be helpful, too, to think of one to whom to give your gifts. He represents the others, and through him you give to all.

Our very simple lesson for today will teach you much. Effect and cause will be far better understood from this time on, and we will make much faster progress now. Think of the exercises for today as quick advances in your learning, made still faster and more sure each time you say:

“To give and to receive are one in truth.”
Workbook Lesson 108 from A Course In Miracles

Uncertainty

2006-02-22T13:08:00.000-08:00

I am very excited! Master Teacher watched with us the video he filmed yesterday and it is the most incredible thing!!!
He talked about Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (“The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.“)

He said also: If you solve your problem, you are wrong.
While I was listening, all these thoughts started connecting in me and I got so excited!!!

What I saw was that there is a choice that you make: If you are determined to solve your problem, you will try to determine what is going on and then, based on that ‘precise’ definition, start to react to it. Yet you will always be wrong, because you ignored actually all of what was really happening. You ignored reality as it is and cut one movie frame out of a whole movie scroll to treat it as if it were the whole movie – as if it were the truth. It’s as if you were a quantum physicist and you determined a rather precise position of a particle and pretended that you now know everything about it although you are really blind to what is happening in reality.

What you ignored and excluded then was God and the fact that you are as He created you. There is no uncertainty in that.

Lesson 15 (in the Review): “ My thoughts are images which I have made.”
Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts which tell me where I am and what I am. The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His and I will place no other gods before Him.”

This lesson describes that same idea. In that sense solving your problem is equivalent to your insane thoughts.
You can as well choose to be uncertain for a moment.
When you think about what uncertainty is for a human being, you see, that it is actually a weird certainty. When you are uncertain you feel that way, because you are certain that you will feel horrible, or can’t trust the ones involved, or will get hurt,…or whatever else you are holding on to.
For a moment then be uncertain. Be uncertain of the reality of all the unworthiness and guilt and pain and fear and the reality of this world!
Stop occupying yourself with this one movie frame and look instead at reality.
As it says in the lesson: ”Yet God’s way is sure.”
"Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the Peace or God."
It’s an incredible thing your awakening.

I'm so grateful!
I love you! Susanne

...that you be WILLING that this happy change occur

2006-02-18T10:34:00.000-08:00

Here are two paragraphs from Chapter 31, The Savior's Vision, that I read today as part of a Video Master Teacher watched with us. And I just find them so incredibly awesome!!!
I love you!!! Susanne

The concept of yourself which now you hold would guarantee your function here remain forever unaccomplished and undone. And thus it dooms you to a bitter sense of deep depression and futility. Yet it need not be fixed, unless you choose to hold it past the hope of change, and keep it static and concealed within your mind. Give it instead to Him Who understands the changes that it needs to let it serve the function given you to bring you peace, that you may offer peace to have it yours. Alternatives are in your mind to use, and you CAN see yourself another way. Would you not rather look upon yourself as NEEDED for salvation of the world, instead of as salvation's enemy?

Have faith in him who walks with you, so that your fearful concept of yourself may change. And look upon the "good" in him, that you may not be fearful of your "evil" thoughts, because they do not cloud your view of him. And all this shift requires is that you be WILLING that this happy change occur. No more than this is asked. On its behalf, remember what the concept of yourself which now you hold has brought you in its wake, and welcome the glad contrast offered you. Hold out your hand, that you may have the gift of kind forgiveness, which you offer one whose need for it is just the same as yours. And let your cruel concept of yourself be changed to one which brings the peace of God.

Chapter 1 in A Course in Miracles

2006-02-18T10:20:00.000-08:00

This is how Jesus ends that chapter:
"I have said that awe is inappropriate in connection with the Sons of God, because you should not experience awe in the presence of your equals. However, it was also emphasized that awe is proper in the presence of your Creator.

I have been careful to clarify my role in the Atonement without either over- or understating it. I am also trying to do the same with yours. I have stressed that awe is not an appropriate reaction to me because of our inherent equality. Some of the later steps in this course, however, involve a more direct approach to God Himself. It would be unwise to start on these steps without careful preparation, or awe will be confused with fear, and the experience will be more traumatic than beatific. Healing is of God in the end. The means are being carefully explained to you. Revelation may occasionally reveal the end to you, but to reach it the means are needed."

The Prayer Of The Heart

2006-01-01T16:13:00.000-08:00

Prayer works - in any situation - Prayer is the medium of miracles. Prayer is the natural communication of the Created with the Creator. Through prayer, love is received, and through miracles love is expressed. ( A Course In Miracles, Ch. 1 Introduction to Miracles)

That is my experience.

Try it yourself and you will find, that the miracle is always there, if you are looking for it. Say you find yourself in a no-win situation - you could then say that you are hopeless and you have no alternative but to suffer or die - right? Let me tell you that, as a human being, bound under the laws of this world, you are in a no-win situation right now- at the end you will die, no matter what. Not only that, but you rely on it.

Look at this:

"There is no death, the Son of God is free. - A Course In Miracles, Lesson 163 - Death is a thought which takes on many forms, often unrecognized. It may appear as sadness, fear, anxiety or doubt; as anger, faithlessness and lack of trust; concern for bodies, envy, and all forms in which the wish to be as you are not may come to tempt you. All such thoughts are but reflections of the worshipping of death as savior and as giver of release.

...All things but death are seen to be unsure, too quickly lost however hard to gain, uncertain in their outcome, apt to fail the hopes they once engendered, and to leave the taste of dust and ashes in their wake in place of aspirations and of dreams. But death is counted on. For it will come with certain footsteps when the time has come for its arrival. It will never fail to take all life as hostage to itself.

...Death is total. Either all things die, or else they live and cannot die. No compromise is possible. ...The idea of the death of God is so preposterous that even the insane have difficulty in believing it. For it implies that God was once alive and somehow perished, killed, apparently, by those who did not want him to survive. Their stronger will could triumph over His, and so eternal life gave way to death. And with the Father died the Son as well.

...Death’s worshippers may be afraid. And yet can thoughts like these be fearful? If they saw that it is only this which they believed, they would be instantly released. And you will show them this today. There is no death, and we renounce it now in every form, for their salvation and our own as well. God made not death. Whatever form it takes must therefore be illusion. This the stand we take today. And it is given us to look past death and see the light beyond." (read the whole Lesson)

One of my favorite ideas from A Course in Miracles is: A prayer of the heart is always answered. And I know for myself that it takes my honest desire for an alternative or freedom or love instead of a grievance (however you call it for yourself), to receive my healing - to wake up to reality where I am free as God created me. Sometimes a prayer in the quietness of my room is the key and sometimes I need to reach out to someone and pray together. "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matt 18, 20)

The miracle is yours for the asking.

What is a miracle?

It is a correction. Miracles rest on the law and order of eternity, not of time. A miracle is a beginning and an ending. It thus abolishes time. It is always an affirmation of re-birth, which seems to go back, but really goes forward. It undoes the past in the present, and thus releases the future.

(A Course in Miracles, Introduction to Miracles)

The miracle always sets me free. It is the answer to my prayers and it changes everything.
And once I am healed, I can see that everything is dirfferent. I look around and that particular situation, all people around me, but most importantly I, have changed. The problem was in me - and that is also where the solution is.

Want to pray?

Our Father, bless our eyes today. We are Your messengers, and we would look upon the glorious reflection of Your Love Which shines in everything. We live and breathe in You alone. Weare not separate from Your eternal life. There is no death, for deathis not Your Will. And we abide where You have placed us, in theLife we share with You and with all living things, to be like Youand part of You forever. We accept Your Thoughts as ours, and ourwill is One with
Yours eternally. Amen.

I love you! Susanne

Visited by an angel

2005-12-18T20:41:00.000-08:00

Today is a really miraculous day! It really has nothing to do with what I do - I mean: I practice my lesson from the Workbook, as I am told in the Course, but I am aware of that God does for me, what I cannot do for myself! I am having those experiences today that seemingly come out of nowhere:
First I get major upset about one little thing - and then an incredible experience follows! Just a moment ago it happened again. I was working in Mambo on a new site and suddenly all I just worked on did not show anymore and I got so angry, because I did not understand!
So I sit there and can't do it anymore - and suddenly I am aware of an angel!

(you can jump over this explanation, but I have to tell you that I used to believe in angels, but never experienced them, then at one point I threw all my believes in anything like that over board and asked for the truth to be shown to me. When I started to read in A Course in Miracles, I saw the word angels appear there sometimes, but it did not mean anything to me.
So that is where I come from..)

And the funniest thing is that I was aware of, that he was standing behind me - physically and I could see his wings and everything, but not in this world. And something inside told me that I was altogether slipping into a different world, where there is only mind and I am mind and I experienced this communication got broader and broader - and I felt myself being myself so deeply that I started crying from this deep fulfillment. This is the best I can put it - or in other words I can say that this world that was physical and real to me before suddenly was gray and faded away and nothing was going on at all. This angel and then more angels and Saints and my grandma and good friends, that I had just talked to a minute ago, were very real and physical waiting for me in this other world, that was so alive and made my world disappear and this Real World was happening everywhere already. It was as though a veil fell and I lifted up my head and with that I was myself, as I knew myself in total freedom. Everything went back to normal -normal as in:
I am God’s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. I am the holy home of God Himself. I am the Heaven where His Love resides. I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His own.
read on>>

I want to end this message with a prayer from A Course in Miracles which come to my mind during that experience that is still now with me. This is my awakening and I share it with you. It's a new frequency! Nothing is real! So here is the prayer for you. I love you!!!!

“The holy Christ is born in me today.”Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. Let all God’s holy Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven’s Son is born. Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear. Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home, and let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights which show His Father’s Love. Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He is born again in me today. “Your Son is welcome, Father. He has come to save me from the evil self I made. He is the Self that You have given me. He is but what I really am in truth. He is the Son You love above all things. He is my Self as You created me. It is not Christ that can be crucified. Safe in Your arms let me receive Your Son.”

Oh, seems like Christmas is happening after all!
I love you forever! Susanne

And so it is Christmas...

2005-12-15T15:58:00.000-08:00

It's supposed to be Christmas soon.... but I feel like getting away from everyone, who celebrates Christmas and coming back, after they are done. At the same time I feel something new is happening in me. Everything is changing - all that used to be such a big part of me, my day and the way I lived - now it is changing and I look at it differently. I feel dislodged because of that. I can see that it happens through a miracle. (Today's lesson talks about that too.)

I am certain, that what happens in me is just for more freedom and release of ideas that do not serve me anymore. So I obviously had an idea about Christmas, which is old now and cannot serve me anymore.

I love how Jesus says in A Course In Miracles that Christmas is not a time but a state of mind.

"The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness.
See it not OUTSIDE of yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come. He comes demanding NOTHING.
No sacrifice of ANY kind, of ANYONE, is asked by Him. In His Presence, THE WHOLE IDEA of sacrifice loses ALL meaning. For He is Host to God. And you need but invite Him in Who is there ALREADY, by recognizing that His Host is One." Read on...
"This Christmas, give the Holy Spirit EVERYTHING that would hurt you. LET yourself be healed completely, that you may JOIN with Him in healing. And let us celebrate our release together, by releasing everyone WITH us. Leave nothing behind, for release is TOTAL. And when you have accepted it WITH me, you will GIVE it with me. All pain and sacrifice and littleness will disappear in OUR relationship, which is as innocent as our relationship with our Father, and as powerful. Pain will be brought to us, and disappear in our presence. And, WITHOUT pain, there can BE no sacrifice. And WITHOUT SACRIFICE, there love MUST be." A Course In Miracles, Chapter 15

Well, that's all I have to say about that!
It's all changing and it's okay!

back, after they are done.

2005-12-14T12:34:00.000-08:00

I just read a lot in chapter 15; it is the "Christmas Chapter" and I found this quote that means a lot to me right now:
"If you are tempted to be dispirited by thinking how long it would take to change your mind so completely, ask yourself, "How long is an instant?" Could you not give so short a time to the Holy Spirit for your salvation? He asks no more, for He has no need of more. It takes far longer to teach you to be willing to give Him this than for Him to use this tiny instant to offer you the whole of Heaven. In exchange for this instant He stands ready to give you the remembrance of eternity." A Course In Miracles, Chapter 15
No matter what, I can always trust that God's Plan for my salvation is working. Everything is changing now all the time - that is my experience. Mostly I get worried and feel uncomfortable whenever another shift happens. But this paragraph just now reminded me of my certainty (which happens also by reading today's lesson : L e s s o n 348 - click here to read ) about who I am. That I am loved by God, I am His son and I am free.
So this is today's message:

Just as my Father has loved me,
I also have loved you; remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love;
even as I have kept my Father’s commandments,
and I remain in his love. I have spoken these things to you,
that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
This is my commandment, that you love one another,
just as I have loved you.
John 15

I love you! Susanne

“Love is the way I walk in gratitude.”

2005-11-07T15:47:00.000-08:00

Gratitude is a lesson hard to learn for those who look upon the world amiss. The most they can do is see themselves as better off than others. And they try to be content because another seems to suffer more than them. How pitiful and deprecating are such thoughts! For who has cause for thanks while others have less cause, and who could suffer less because he sees another suffer more? Your gratitude is due to Him alone Who made all cause of sorrow disappear throughout the world.

It is insane to offer thanks because of suffering. But it is equally insane to fail in gratitude to One Who offers you the certain means whereby all pain is healed, and suffering replaced with laughter and with happiness. ...

...Walk then in gratitude the way of love. For hatred is forgotten when we lay comparisons aside. What more remains as obstacles to peace? The fear of God is now undone at last, and we forgive without comparing. Thus we cannot choose to overlook some things, and yet retain some other things still locked away as sins. When your forgiveness is complete you will have total gratitude, for you will see that everything has earned the right to love by being loving, even as your Self.

Today we learn to think of gratitude in place of anger, malice and revenge. We have been given everything. If we refuse to recognize it, we are not entitled therefore to our bitterness, and to a self-perception which regards us in a place of merciless pursuit, where we are badgered ceaselessly and pushed about without a thought or care for us or for our future. Gratitude becomes the single thought we substitute for these insane perceptions. God has cared for us, and calls us Son. Can there be more than this?

Our gratitude will pave the way to Him, and shorten our learning time by more than you could ever dream of. Gratitude goes hand in hand with love, and where one is the other must be found. For gratitude is but an aspect of the love which is the Source of all creation. God gives thanks to you, His Son, for being what you are; His Own completion and the Source of love, along with Him. Your gratitude to Him is one with His to you. For love can walk no road except the way of gratitude, and thus we go who walk the way to God.
A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 195

I'm so grateful that I always get all the help I need!

2005-11-02T11:38:00.000-08:00

No matter how impossible everything seems. My cry for help is always answered!!! I am so grateful!!!
Here is something from Jesus in the Epilogue of A Course In Miracles. It pops into my mind a lot!

"Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again. Yet is the ending sure. No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. Who could despair when hope like this is his? Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them. Behind each one there is reality and there is God. Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? 0 The end is sure and guaranteed by God. Who stands before a lifeless image when a step away the Holy of the Holies opens up an ancient door that leads beyond the world?

You are a stranger here. But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. We have begun the journey. Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well. And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.

Be not afraid. We only start again an ancient journey long ago begun that but seems new. We have begun again upon a road we travelled on before and lost our way a little while. And now we try again. Our new beginning has the certainty the journey lacked till now. Look up and see His Word among the stars, where He has set your Name along with His. Look up and find your certain destiny the world would hide but God would have you see.

Let us wait here in silence, and kneel down an instant in our gratitude to Him Who called to us and helped us hear His Call. And then let us arise and go in faith along the way to Him. Now we are sure we do not walk alone. For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. Now we know that we will never lose the way again. The song begins again which had been stopped only an instant, though it seems to be unsung forever. What is here begun will grow in life and strength and hope, until the world is still an instant and forgets all that the dream of sin had made of it.

Let us go out and meet the newborn world, knowing that Christ has been reborn in it, and that the holiness of this rebirth will last forever. We had lost our way but He has found it for us. Let us go and bid Him welcome Who returns to us to celebrate salvation and the end of all we thought we made. The morning star of this new day looks on a different world where God is welcomed and His Son with Him. We who complete Him offer thanks to Him, as He gives thanks to us. The Son is still, and in the quiet God has given him enters his home and is at peace at last."
A Course in Miracles, Epilogue

I thought you would be interested...

2005-10-03T15:38:00.000-07:00

Here is a direct link to get your own
A Course In Miracles Book

Think of all the horror and pain you have seen in the last days and then do this lesson....

2005-09-08T19:36:00.000-07:00

I Will There Be Light!

Today we are considering the will you share with God. This is not the same as the ego’s idle wishes, out of which darkness and nothingness arise. The will you share with God has all the power of creation in it. The ego’s idle wishes are unshared, and therefore have no power at all. Its wishes are not idle in the sense that they can make a world of illusions in which your belief can be very strong. But they are idle indeed in terms of creation. They make nothing that is real.

Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, and the ego’s need for grievances, which are necessary to maintain it, peoples it with figures that seem to attack you and call for “righteous” judgement. They become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances and stand between your awareness and your brothers’ reality. Beholding them, you do not know your brothers nor your Self.

Your will is lost to you in this strange bartering, in which guilt is traded back and forth, and grievances increase with each exchange. Can such a world have been created by the will the Son of God shares with his Father? Did God create disaster for His Son? Creation is the Will of Both together. Would God create a world that kills Himself?

Today we will try once more to reach the world that is in accordance with your will. The light is in it because it does not oppose the Will of God. It is not Heaven, but the light of Heaven shines on it. Darkness has vanished; the ego’s idle wishes have been withdrawn.

Yet the light which shines upon this world reflects your will, and so it must be in you that we will look for it. Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light.

We have repeatedly emphasized that the barrier of grievances is easily passed, and cannot stand between you and your salvation. The reason is very simple. Do you really want to be in hell? Do you really want to weep and suffer and die? Forget the ego’s arguments which seek to prove all this is really Heaven. You know it is not so. You cannot want this for yourself. There is a point beyond which illusions cannot go.

Suffering is not happiness, and it is happiness you really want. Such is your will in truth. And so salvation is your will as well. You want to succeed in what we are trying to do today. We undertake it with your blessing and your glad accord.

We will succeed today if you remember that you will salvation for yourself. You will to accept God’s plan because you share in it. You have no will that can really oppose it, and you do not want to do so. Salvation is for you. Above all else you want the freedom to remember who you really are.

Today it is the ego which stands powerless before your will. Your will is free, and nothing can prevail against it. Therefore we undertake the exercises for today in happy confidence, certain that we will find what it is your will to find, and remember what it is your will to remember. No idle wishes can detain us, nor deceive us with an illusion of strength. Today let your will be done. And end forever the insane belief that it is hell in place of Heaven that you choose.

We will begin our longer practice periods with the recognition that God’s plan for salvation, and only His, is wholly in accord with your will. It is not the purpose of an alien power, thrust upon you unwillingly. It is the one purpose here on which you and your Father are in perfect accord.

You will succeed today, the time appointed for the release of the Son of God from hell and from all idle wishes. His will is now restored to his awareness. He is willing this very day to look upon the light in him and be saved.

After reminding yourself of this and determining to keep your will clearly in mind, tell yourself with gentle firmness and quiet certainty:

“I will there be light. Let me behold the light that reflects
God’s Will and mine.”

Then let your will assert itself, joined with the power of God and united with your Self. Put the rest of the practice period under Their guidance. Join with Them as They lead the way.

In the shorter practice periods, again make a declaration of what you really want. Say:

“I will there be light. Darkness is not my will.”

This should be repeated several times an hour. It is most important, however, to apply today’s idea in this form immediately you are tempted to hold a grievance of any kind. This will help you let your grievances go, instead of cherishing them and hiding them in the darkness.

A Course In Miracles, Workbook Lesson 73: I will there be light.

Father, I am grateful, that you created me perfect!

2005-08-31T12:20:00.000-07:00

Today, since I just resurrected out of my tomb that had no doors to escape from, and in which I spent, what seemed like a VERY LONG TIME, I want to share this part from A Course In Miracles with you.
Before I do so, I want to tell you, that I love you!
Just now I am so aware, that God loves me and that I am save and that I am at home - of course not in this world!!! - now and that I really can find freedom, wholeness and sinlessness in you, and thereby experience them as mine and as what I am.

So, that is what I read about in Chapter 14 when I was rolling around in my tomb. Though it sounded reasonable to me, I had NO experience of it and was instead full of doubt! There was only darkness.
Now I find myself in a totally new moment. Free from whatever I thought happened before and now I am filled with gratitude and love for everyone I meet! That truly is my salvation! It feels so good. I am totally new and it's a brand new day! I am free from the past and all that heavy stuff that made my head hurt and pressed on my shoulders is gone. Praying feels good again too!

Wow, I am very grateful! I love you and...Here it is:
Whenever you choose to make decisions for yourself you are thinking destructively, and the decision will be wrong. It will hurt you because of the concept of decision that led to it. It is not true that you can make decisions by yourself or for yourself alone. No thought of God's Son can be separate or isolated in its effects. Every decision is made for the whole Sonship, directed in and out, and influencing a constellation larger than anything you ever dreamed of. ...
The One Who knows the plan of God that God would have you follow can teach you what it is. ...Every decision you undertake alone but signifies that you would define what salvation is, and what you would be saved from.The Holy Spirit knows that all salvation is escape from guilt. You have no other "enemy," and against this strange distortion of the purity of the Son of God the Holy Spirit is your only friend. ... Let Him, therefore, be the only Guide that you would follow to salvation.Say to the Holy Spirit only, "Decide for me," and it is done.

Whenever you are in doubt what you should do, think of His Presence in you, and tell yourself this, and only this:

He leadeth me and knows the way, which I know not.
Yet He will never keep from me what He would have me learn.
And so I trust Him to communicate to me all that He knows for me.

Then let Him teach you quietly how to perceive your guiltlessness, which is already there.

I love you!
AMEN

Oh my God, look at this!!!

2005-08-23T17:33:00.000-07:00

Check this out!
When I listened to it I just melted and was so inspired and got soooo loaded!
This guy is talking about doing the mind-training of A Course In Miracles and working the 12 steps and that you realize that there is only one problem and that is you...and that that realization brings you to the total solution... It shows you the miracle, that peace through God is possible!... That real peace and real joy is not of this world; and that you find the freedom to be who you are, as God created you,... to have an experience of God, of that there is no world,...that this is not where you are from...
I'm just blown out of my socks!
And here is where you can get a copy...

Incredible CD!!!!

2005-08-23T16:27:00.000-07:00

I wanted to share this Slide-Show with you!
If you open it you will listen to a sample track of a CD called:
YOUR QUANTUM AWAKENING
Instantaneous Communication with Reality
It really shows in an exciting and very personal manner the reasonability of YOUR AWAKENING and offers you an immediate experience!
I love you!
Enjoy!
Here is where your can get your own copy of this CD

More restful than sleep...

2005-08-19T14:37:00.000-07:00

When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort, and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer. Only your own volition seems to make deciding hard. The Holy Spirit will not delay in answering your every question what to do. He knows. And He will tell you, and then do it for you. You who are tired will find this is more restful than sleep. For you can bring your guilt into sleeping, but not into this.
A Course In Miracles, Chap.14, IV

This pretty much sums it up!!!!!

2005-08-08T18:38:00.000-07:00

Salvation is a paradox indeed! What could it be except a happy dream? It asks you but that you forgive all things that no one ever did; to overlook what is not there, and not to look upon the unreal as reality. You are but asked to let your will be done, and seek no longer for the things you do not want. And you are asked to let yourself be free of all the dreams of what you never were, and seek no more to substitute the strength of idle wishes for the Will of God.
A Course In Miracles, Chap. 30, IV

Witness To The Awakening. You are the one!!!

2005-08-05T12:42:00.001-07:00

Everything looked upon with vision falls gently into place, according to the laws brought to it by His calm and certain sight. The end, for everything He looks upon, is always sure. For it will meet His purpose, seen in unadjusted form, and suited perfectly to meet it. Destructiveness becomes benign, and sin is turned to blessing under His gentle gaze.

What can the body's eyes perceive, with power to CORRECT? Its eyes ADJUST to sin, unable to overlook it in any form, and seeing it everywhere, in everything. Look through its eyes, and everything will stand condemned before you. All that could save you, you will never see. Your holy relationship, the source of your salvation, will be deprived of meaning, and its most holy purpose bereft of means for its accomplishment. Judgment is but a toy, a whim, the senseless means to play the idle game of death in your imagination. But vision sets all things right, bringing them gently within the kindly sway of Heaven's laws.

What if you recognized this world is a hallucination? What if you really understood you made it up? What if you realized that those who seem to walk about in it, to sin and die, attack and murder and destroy themselves, are wholly unreal? Could you have faith in what you see, if you ACCEPTED this? And would you SEE it? Hallucinations disappear when they are recognized for what they are. This is the healing and the remedy. Believe them not, and they are gone. And all you need to do is recognize YOU did this. Once you accept this simple fact, and take unto yourself the power you GAVE them, YOU are released from them.

One thing is sure; hallucinations serve a purpose, and when that purpose is no longer held, they disappear. Therefore, the question never is whether you want THEM, but always do you want the purpose that they serve? This world seems to hold out many purposes, each different, and with different values. Yet they are all the same. Again, there is no order, but a seeming hierarchy of values. Only two purposes are possible. And one is sin; the other holiness. Nothing is in between, and which you choose determines what you see. For what you see is merely how you elect to meet your goal.

Hallucinations serve to meet the goal of madness. They are the means by which the outside world, projected from within, adjusts to sin, and seems to witness to its reality. It still is true that nothing is without. Yet, upon nothing, are ALL projections made. For it is the PROJECTION which gives the "nothing" all the meaning that it holds. What has no meaning, cannot BE perceived. And meaning always looks within, to find itself. And THEN looks out. All meaning that you give the world outside, must thus reflect the sight you saw within. Or better, if you saw at all, or merely judged against.

Vision is the means by which the Holy Spirit translates your nightmares into happy dreams; your wild hallucinations, that show you all fearful outcomes of imagined sin, into the calm and reassuring sights with which He would replace them. These gentle sights and sounds are looked on happily, and heard with joy. They are His substitutes for all the terrifying sights and screaming sounds the ego's purpose brought to your horrified awareness. They step away from sin, reminding you that it is not reality that frightens you, and that the errors which you made CAN be corrected.

When you have looked on what seemed terrifying, and seen it change to sights of loveliness and peace; when you have looked on scenes of violence and death, and watched them change to quiet views of gardens under open skies, with clear life-giving water running happily beside them in dancing brooks that never waste away; who need persuade you to accept the gift of vision? And after vision, who is there who could refuse what MUST come after? Think but an instant just on this. You can behold the holiness God gave His Son. And never need you think that there is something else for you to see.
A Course In Miracles, Chap. 20

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The Mind Of The Cells

2005-08-03T12:47:00.000-07:00

69.3.15
What is this creation after all?...Separateness, and tehn meanness and cruellty—the thirst to harm—and then suffering;and then illness, decay and death—destruction. All that is part of the same thing. And what I experienced was the UNREALITY of those things, as if we were trapped in an unreal falsehood, and everything vanishes when we get out ot it—it DOESN'T EXIST, it isn't! That's what is frightening! That all those things which are so real, so concrete, so frightening for us do not exist. That...we are simply trapped in falsehood. Why? How? What?... Never, ever, not once in all its life, had this body felt such total and profound pain as It did that day, oh!... Then, at the end of it: bliss. And everything vanished. As if all that, all those awful things, didn't exist. And all the methods—which could be termed artificial, including Nirvana—(which gives the impression you can escape), all that is worthless. They are at different levels, but they are worthless. And after that, just when you feel you are stuck in fell forever, suddenly...suddenly, a state of consciousness in which everything is light, splendor, beauty, happiness, kindness... It is impossible to express. "Here I am," it comes, then zap! Gone. Is that it? Is that the key?... I don't know. But salvation is physical—not mental in the least, but PHYSICAL. I mean it isn't found in flight: it's HERE. And it isn't veiled or hidden or anything: it's here. What is it in the whole that prevents us from living "that," and why? I don't know. It's here. It is HERE. And all the rest, including death and all that, simply becomes a falsehood, meaning something that doesn't exist...
...But one can't get out all alone.
It's not being done for one body, it's for all the bodies of the earth.
by Mother Aurobindo

From "Mind of the Cells" by Satprem