Early Lessons

Early lessons: 

those early lessons given from the workbook of A Course in Miracles, maybe the first 50, so difficult, demanding really, stripping me bare of every previously held notion of myself. The Course took everything away from me, leaving an empty slate for the truth of God to be written. It's little wonder that it took me well over a decade to finally work my through the entire workbook. Truthfully, I'm surprised I ever made it past the first one:

nothing I see in this room (or anywhere)

means anything. 

and the Course doesn't even give me anything to hold onto, nothing that felt very solid at least, until around lesson 29. It's there I began to feel a glimmer of where the Course was leading me. The whole basis for true vision is given here: 

God is in everything I see. 

but in order to get here my previous view of life, how I saw the world, and most importantly my own best opinions of myself - all of it had to be seen through and then discarded. The course emptied me of notions and left me there for a bit, no rushed to be filled, asking to just notice the void and be still, quiet, and relearn the art of simply listening, seeing, being. 

sometimes I think I could work with those early lessons, never a need to go any further, continuously emptied of any beliefs that gain traction - and then  rediscovering that divine presence withing. That alone would be a wonderful practice.Someday, I'll probably leave the Course behind, or with brief revisits to refresh my heart and mind. Those early lessons will strip me bare one last time, emptied again, and only love will then remain...

 nothing more ever added. 

~

Love, Eric 

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