A Peaceful Mind

A peaceful mind: 

it's those lessons that interrupt thought patterns that are so important to me, vital in arresting those downward spirals into judgement and resentments. A Course in Miracles has become a mind-reference for me, while decades of practice hasn't rid me of every grievance, there's a quicker return to peace now, with a quiet mind more natural than the chaos of  the ego's every demand. And it's so often those early lessons that come easiest to mind, especially the reminder that I am never upset for the reason I think being an abrupt full-stop, almost urgent in it's arrival - and my ego's almost instantly in check, a readiness prevails, and the Holy Spirit then speaks gently through my mind. So after decades of practice it all comes down to this....just a little willingness to forgive. 

and everything else seems to happen on it's own.

natural,

easily. 

a peaceful mind abides.

~

I love you, Eric

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Awakening

Awakening; 

it's a direct path, and the reason is that it's very beginning is also the endpoint of our journey. A Course in Miracles offers zero detours, at least not in its purest sense. If everything is to be forgiven, with no exceptions made, then whatever confronts us, even if we feel ill prepared, is at the very least examined before we forgive or decide otherwise. Nothing is demanded of us, but we are asked to choose which internal teacher we wish to learn from right then, and we always have the option of choosing once again when we feel more ready reexamine whatever it is that troubles us. Personally, each time I forgive, in the truest sense of the practice - I'm awakening. By this I mean, quite literally, that I experience the light of reality right then and there, directly, and then there's the grace of letting go...

if only for the moment of my practice.

until once more,

I'm asked to choose again. 

and so indeed, 

awakening never ends.

~

I love you, Eric

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My Errors

My errors: 

it seems a sobering thought though, a reminder given in lesson 115 of a Course in Miracles that my only function here is to forgive the world for all the errors I have made - and who could blame me for not being ready for such a heavy task? This could definitely feel like a burden, believing that is's my job to the do the work of fixing all of the innocent mistakes I've made, and worse, that there are many grievances I feel completely justified to carry with me. Yet, indeed, these are all my errors, every perceived sin is a mistake I've made in judgement on the world. It's all me. And now, many years into my practice of forgiveness, I find that this isn't a burden at all, but a great joy that frees me from having to carry the weight of my own misjudgment. The truth is, there's only one thing to forgive and that's  the misperception that there's a world actually here that needs forgiveness. What I'm forgiving is the singular belief that created the world to begin within - that I am separate from the love of God, and worse, that I have caused this separation through my wish to feel more special. 

that's the one error.

multiplied through the illusory appearance of t's aftereffects. 

and the great news is that the separation didn't really happen, the impossible never actually occurred, and I am guilt free and at home in God right now. And with this in mind forgiveness simply becomes a joyous remembering of my own innocence. The world is full of opportunities to remember, and yes, some feel very painful in their blessing, and it's okay to not feel ready to receive them - but what a relief to deeply know that when I'm ready, whenever that might be....heaven is revealed in a forgiven world.

and my only function here is to see it. 

as often as I'm able.

~

I love you, Eric

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A Instant Grace

An instant grace: 

here's the possibility that's offered in the closing words of chapter 20 of A Course in Miracles - coming almost in a soft urgency of a whisper, asking me to think 'but an instant" on the holiness of God's son and then consider the possibility that there is nothing else to ever see. The Course says it in beautiful and powerful language, creating a zen moment of instant awakening if the reader is ripe for such a thing. There are moments, brief and often lengthy between them, when I truly behold only the holiness of another. A near lifetime of practicing forgiveness has sometimes given me a glimpse of this reality. I have been blessed by this holy sight...an instant grace of eternity it seems. 

and the world after this is never quite the same.

as I found myself in the very same light that holds you...

a holy son as well. 

~

I love you, Eric

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Words Appear

Words appear: 

there was a time I chased the muse each morning, an intense pursuit of inspiration that often left me creatively exhausted and with only a few satisfying words given to the page. Writing was a difficult task because I feared failure, more so, I feared emptiness, silence, an unfilled page that matched my own loneliness and lack of meaning in life. This wasn't too many years ago, but I'm a different writer now, content with whatever words arrive, at peace with the intervals between them, and unafraid of the sheer potentiality an an empty page presents. The only real difference through those years was my deepening practice of forgiveness. 

no longer reserved for major events and the most troublesome people, forgiveness has become a softer approach to life, gentle, and even the slightest agitation is handed over to the Holy Spirit with a smile. Maybe not right away - but sooner now than ever. It seems that words flow to a forgiving mind, with a void left in their absence inspiration readily arrives in replacement. What feels most meaningful to me is that I'm now content to sit in silence until words appear, not in anticipation, just a quiet wonder at the trade of emptiness and form that plays across the page. 

yes, forgiveness offers me everything I could possibly want, and even provides meaning where none was found before. I have forgiven that struggling writer of just a few years ago, a false image really, yet the suffering certainly felt very real. Whatever struggle, anxiety, or blocks to inspiration are forgiven - and I am blessed by the silence of their absence. 

and in that creative, primordial space,

words appear.

~

I love you, Eric

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Transcendence

Transcendence: 

I see it now as transcendence, a meditation that quite literally takes me beyond the ego's realm of time and judgement to seamlessly touch upon eternity and the bliss of love's awareness. Forgiveness has become my continuous practice, not as a need to get it right, but as a means transcending the mundane experience of what my ego always seems to offer. There's no battle here, much like mantra meditation it's a soft return to ease my wandering mind back towards the quiet fields of peace. But here, with forgiveness, the mantra is my own petty grievances, my slightest resentments, and they all serve for my release from a self-created world of harsh judgement and condemnation. This is why nothing can be bypassed, everything is brought directly to awareness and examined for it's sense of worth - asking does this thought bring me peace is the predecessor to forgiveness.  

and as it is with meditation, a shift of mind comes completely on its own.

I'm not the one that makes anything happen. 

transcendence,

being the grace of pure awareness...

shows me a forgiven world.

~

I love you, Eric

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Turned Over

 

Turned over: 

my entire life has been turned over, a higher source has  now been given charge. This takes me right back to one of the earliest lesson in which I'm reminded that I don't know what anything is for, a profound realization that has proven itself true through the years. And yet I'm also told that there is a connection to the divine source of all answers, a guide that gives voice to me every sure direction and that I only must be still enough to listen to

and so I do.

finally.

as completely as possible right now. 

it's a relief to understand my own misguidance, to surrender every past mistaken and give each future choice to a wiser source than relied upon before. I don't need to know what anything is for - the Holy Spirit most certainly does and it's voice is ever available for me to turn to whenever I need sure and steady guidance. I've known this for quiet sometime and it seems that life has been preparing me to turn within, to listen more intently...to trust. And now I'm ready. 

I don't know what anything is for.

and I don't need to.

as the Holy Spirit, my sure and always present connection to God...

is always here to guide me. 

I love you, Eric

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