A Brighter Light

A brighter light: 

what I knew, deeply and intuitively so, was that I could not hate my way through another presidential campaign season, that only way to survive, emotionally and spiritually intact, was to turn to another way of navigating through these darker days. A Course in Miracles has been part of my life for over three decades, invaluable, and a constant source of inspiration. It was a path with many levels though, at least for me, but the urge to take a deep dive, committing myself fully to a complete surrender to its path of light - was urgent in it's call. 

which brings me here.

right now...it feels dark.

and I know that my only way through this is to love, it's to forgive, and to keep returning to a brighter light that shines through every bit of darkness. This is my greatest practice, it's what I'm ready for, even if it feels impossible right now. But it's what I'm called to do, we all are, everyone of us....

love

forgive

and keep returning to a brighter light within us.

~

Peace, Eric 

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The Only Choice That Matters

The only choice that matters:

we mistakenly believe that the election is between two candidates and their parties. It's approached as a matter of sides to be taken, one warring faction against another, and that there will be a wining party and a losing one. This is the politics of the ego - and it keeps us trapped in the paradigm of previous generations, a perpetual battle against ourselves.

and everybody loses.

every election, this one included, is a personal matter and has little to do with who we vote for. It's not about election day itself, nor political wins and losses, and nothing to do with candidates. Here's the significance, and maybe most important of all in these next few days -

what do we do after? 

this is when we presented an important opportunity - 

do we choose peace? 

love?

or continuing warring against each other?

it's the only choice that matters.

I'm reminded that a that we're all teachers of God, students too, and right now we're in a unique position to teach/learn exactly who we truly are. In the Manual for Teachers A Course in miracles states that our qualifications as a teacher consist solely on a single moment when we make a deliberate choice to not see our own interest as being separate from another's - 

or perhaps more concisely stated...

we simply choose to love.

so do we teach/learn this all important lesson?

I don't now.

but it's the only choice that really matters.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Only Lesson

Only lesson: 

I'm not so sure that we're as politically divided as we're led to believe. Yet, it's a contentious elections and sides have been drawn across the social and political aisle. But it seems that if actually talk to each other, a real conversation, we come to find that our differences aren't a barrier at all, they're more of an opportunity to lay aside  our perceived grievances and come to know each other better. 

it's an opportunity to discover who we truly are as well.

of course not everyone will take this as an opportunity to learn about themselves, some will cling to an ego's point of view through any cost, including making entire groups of people, not just wrong, but actually evil. It's with this that they actually condemn themselves. Once that line is crossed they're mind is divided in a chasm that's almost impossible to mend.

yet still, we try.

 and here's the plan....

love each other.

forgive.

it's really that simple.

but not always easy. 

So we have to think of this as a practice, being mindful of our own thoughts and actions, asking ourselves what we're demonstrating to others through our needs. We're teachers, all of us, and students too, at once learning and offering lessons to each other through our every moment together.

what is it we wish to learn?

what are we teaching?

it's that simple.

teach only love. 

for that's the only lesson.

~

Peace, Eric 

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The Greatest Commandment

The greatest commandment: 

when Jesus was asked of the greatest commandment it was a two part reply - to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, placing worship of the divine above all else. The second part was a clear directive to love others as we love ourselves.Truly a task worthy of a Christian, and one that I've long wondered if we're capable of achieving, indeed, if we've even bothered to try. 

my consideration is this,

that we've succeeded on both accounts.

although not in the way imagined.

what's happened is that we've made God an object to be worshiped, materialistic, and a figurehead that resembles more our ego than anything truly divine. We worships images, possessions, and items, all at the expense of an all inclusive spirit. This is what we call God now, false idols that compromise our soul, leaving us void of any deep realization of our source. 

yet we certainly obey the above commandment...

fully worshiping the image that we've made.

as for loving others as we love ourselves? 

this too is obeyed.

our self love is only on the surface, there's little contact with our divine nature, no real belief that we are always connected to the source of our creation. We love others as we love ourselves and this is sadly only a mere token of our true depth of love. 

but the commandment is obeyed at least.

however,

there is a solution.

an inner revolution of worship.

we just need to remember who we really are.

to look within,

falling in love

heart

soul

mind.

seeing that there are no others apart from us - 

no separation from the divine.

and only love is real.

~

Peace, Eric 

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A Happier Dream

A Happier Dream:

it's a beautiful life, and this is meant to be stated singularly, just one thing, life - that through a long time practice of kindness and forgiveness it's almost impossible now to perceive a sense of separation between myself and other aspects of this beauty. 

this is the seeds of continuous practice bearing fruit, commitment paying off in happier dream of the world. Not an end result at all, ongoing, but a glimpse of our perfection. The path of yoga starts with ethical restraints for a reason, through refraining from harm a sense of peace eventually overflows into our lives and cleanses it of  any false perceptions.

we see things more clearly.

only love is real.

and that is what we give to the world.

it's all we have to offer.

A Course in Miracles says that we reach a point of a happier dream, still in the illusory world, but light filled, seamless in our connection with each other. It's this way now, already, and always, only waiting for the slightest shift of dreaming. 

we can dream a happier world.

right now.

with just a little practice. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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Our Truest Favor

Our truest favor: 

it's funny as I think about all the things that have never worked for me throughout life,  the thoughts and habits that haven't made me happy in anyway, or worse, have contributed to a great deal of discomfort, and too often, no small amount of sorrow. Yet, it seems, I have clung to such ideas with passion, defending them to myself and others even as I knew the truth of what they offered. 

and I really have no idea why.

my guess is that I believed that they were somehow part me, an identity that, for better or worse, defined me in what I considered an important way. And of course they did - but only because I allowed them to do so, giving these thoughts the power to prove my own world view. However unhappy they might seem to make me. I believed every story that I told about myself, embraced every lie that I thought, and gave myself permission to suffer these illusions.

and not a single one of them were true.

ever.

not really.

these days I find myself smiling more, deeply and sincere. I'm kinder to myself, and I'm honest with my own self-assessment now. None of these thoughts, opinions, or beliefs, not of myself nor any other, are even close to being true.

not a single one.

they're just stories that we tell. 

so often that we believe they're real.

but they're not.

we can see right through our illusions...viewing the world a different way.

by questioning our stories just a little.

and being willing to let go -

of all that doesn't serve our truest favor.

~

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Election

Election: 

this is a high stakes election for many, viewed as one that could change the course of the nation, and emotions are heated on both sides of the political aisle. I obviously have my own preference and most people guess correctly through conversations and my writing. But I don't talk about it as much as I used once did, there's little need as I don't need confirmation and I know that there's little, if any, chance in changing anyone's mind. 

nor do I really wish to.

I simply live my life by values held dear.

kindness.

empathy.

compassion.

forgiveness.

trusting that others will arrive here on their own.

so with this I surrender the results of this election. I will vote, but refuse to take a side that pits me against another. I am not a political party and neither are you. We're family, deeper still, we're heart connected, belonging together as loving thoughts in the single mind of God. There's no way I could ever take a side against you, an impossible task and one I will no longer even entertain. 

whatever the outcome...

I will love you.

happily so. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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