Trusting:
more than anything else, it comes down to trust, always an issue for me, but now arriving to the point where it's imperative. This isn't to imply that I'm mistrustful of others, but in the deeper sense of living in full faith that Gold alone provides. It strikes me as ironic that I write this as an abundance of air is available for me to draw each breath, my body functions without any conscious effort, and the universe is perfectly aligned for my comfort and ease. I don't question any of this, fully trusting in the present moment for these essential needs to be met.
and yet a certain doubt persists.
as my later years old there's been a series of loss that confronts me, knowing that at my age it's inevitable for more to follow. Fear seems natural and it's so easy to give in to, feeling almost impossible to place my trust in an ever changing world. And of course it is - I'm not asked to trust anything that changes, but only to continuously look deeper to the changeless source beneath all things. My faith is now being drawn there, just a little more each day, and my trust is growing.
so what's really called for is my surrender.
ego traded for faith in God.
giving up illusions.
and trusting in the reality of always being cared for.
faced with this surrender I simply say...
thank you, thank you, thank you.
trusting.
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Nothing unreal exists:
the beginning gives it all away, right from the start of A Course in Miracles we're told that nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, and in this theses two lines we find the peace of God. Already we're set up for debate, just glancing around shows us exactly what exists, and the realness of our thoughts and body speak of their reality. Yet all of these can be threatened in someway, so ultimately, they're untrue.
and, indeed, therein lies the peace of God.
it's here where we make a helpful distinction - only what God has made is real, and it's eternal, having the lasting value of God's love. It can never be threatened. Of course this doesn't mean that we don't care for our material possession, or not taking joy in our bodies. But all of these are threatened by time itself, having a shelf life of a certain number of years.They are unreal in this sense, and so to believe that they will bring us any lasting peace will always, eventually, lead us to suffering.
that which is real, God, is beyond suffering.
only love is real.
and therein lies our peace.
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Invented:
that I have invented the world I see, an early lesson in A Course in Miracles and vital in our understanding. What's meant here is that the world, and all that it entails, is a product of the mind. If I look around and see a world of evil, suffering, and division, it's only a matter of the thought system chosen, my beliefs given completely to the ego. Yet there's always another choice, that even through my miscreation there is an option of another world that exist beneath illusory vision that I now offer. This isn't a battle of good vs. evil, it's not God against dark forces - it's a choice, simple and clear.
choose love.
only.
and the world shifts in your perception.
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What we teach is love:
I love that single qualification offered in A Course in Miracles, a teacher of God being anyone who has somehow, somewhere made a deliberate choice in which they did not see their interest apart from someone else's. A teacher of God is, indeed, someone who performs miracles, with this being the ability to pause and ask for a shift in their perception. We are all capable of such miracles, and all of us are called to be teachers of such - yet only when we're ready. So with this we begin to see the world as a learning opportunity, a classroom, with a curriculum set in order.
today there will be a lesson.
it is not pass or fail.
but only the acceptance,or delay of our role as teachers.
so there really are no chance encounters here
only teaching opportunities.
and what we teach is love.
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My teachers:
and thank you to all of those who have taught me the way of true love, teachers that have urged me to look deeper through the illusory veils of separation between us, challenging me to see their light beyond the present point of darkness. It's those teachers that appear at the most inconvenient times, arriving during those already difficult moments, offering their hardest lessons. I love you because it has not always been so easy to do so, at times feeling almost impossible, and yet these teachers still have such great faith in my ability to learn.
thank you, thank you, thank you.
for as long as you appear.
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Begin again:
and I am right back where I started, beginning the workbook for A Course in Miracles, fresh from another years study and eager to dive in again. Truthfully, there's probably no real reason to do so, as every previous lessons from decades before still ring fresh in my mind. Forgiveness rolls pretty easily and naturally from me these days, sometimes as a first response, fairly often still after a few moments of consideration. I am not seeking anything, nothing at all aside from each moments peace of mind.
so why begin again?
just for the comfort of the words, daily reminders that I am hear only to be truly helpful, to be kind, and that now the path isn't mine alone, but ours, and that we will begin heal together. The instructions aren't really needed, nor is a reminder truly necessary - but I enjoy the company, that soft whisper of a voice that's so familiar to me now.
and so another year begins.
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I promise:
go out onto the world and love others, with no exceptions, and don't exclude yourself. There it is, our life purpose laid clear and without any further instructions really needed. Anything else than this is simply furnishing in our lives, nice, maybe even greatly needed, but not our true dharma. The beautiful thing is that anything we feel called to do career wise, or how we wish to express ourselves, becomes an essential part of our sharing love.
when we know this...our path is simple, easy, grace-filled.
I promise.
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Our conceptual world:
so what we really have is a conceptual world, and more so, our own image is constructed in the very same way and the validity of it all is never even questioned. We live with and as images, none of it true in a real sense, and this has entrapped us in a world of self-created suffering. The path of Jhana Yoga offers us one means of escape, relentless self-inquiry and study until we see straight through to the truth. Buddhism too is designed to guide us through illusions, eventually, with committed effort, we arrive to a clear view of ourselves and the world.
yet for me,
I love the quick means of forgiveness.
and what I forgive is every illusion presented, each story that appears is my opportunity to see through my perceptions to the clarity of truth - with, honestly, varying degrees of success. But the opportunity is always there, and the more willing I am to forgive, the easier it is to navigate through an often harsh and difficult world. That's actually how we forgive, really, the only effort is in the request to see things differently, accepting the stories that we've told and asking to seeing everything a bit more clearly. If even just a little.
truthfully, all we ask for is light.
and that's already present.
it's in this way...
that we awaken from the world we've dreamed.
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About intelligence;
about intelligence, truly so, and not the accumulation or ability to talk of knowledge and information. In yoga intelligence is seen to be throughout the body, a universal connection of cells that work in a cohesive function for the whole. This is the entirety of the universe working through us, more importantly, we can see ourselves as an expression of pure, divine intelligence.
no one posses this in greater amount than anyone else.
if we wish to measure, our emotional intelligence is perhaps even more important than our ability to acquire and share knowledge. Are we able to access states of compassion and empathy and use them in a truly meaningful way? If not, than we are stunted, cutoff from a remarkable source of the only intelligence that will ever be able to heal the world.
for me, A Course in Miracles has provided a training guide for true intelligence. It awakens the heart and urges me to choose the whisper of love over the shouting of ego, allowing me access a deep sense of sure intelligence that always steers me to a peaceful point of mind. My own intelligence is found here, heart-centered in body, yet connected to the voice of God that carries my every answer needed.
no one can hear this any clearer than another.
but some listen more intently.
and point us back towards the source.
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Humility:
it's a path towards humbleness, and not even as a particular practice or tradition, but that life itself leads us to a sense of humility, an utter interdependence upon each other in a truly loving fashion. If I think of this as a means of awakening than I know the value that you offer me - as at no point will I ultimately wake up without you, we are too deeply joined to ever proceed alone.
my own humility is found through forgiveness.
that we share the same essence.
and how often we seem to forget this -
yet our every mistake...
allows us to remember.
thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Just forgive:
let's not make a grand battle out of this, we're not setting forth to annihilate the go, to slay the beast that brings us so much suffering in life. This is a gentle approach of recognition, it's just seeing through the illusion of separation, and letting go of a false sense of who we believe we are. In truth we're not really doing anything, our practice of forgiveness reveals to us the ego's world of anger, fear, blame, and from here we simply choose to see a different world based entirely on our thoughts of love.
there's no sense battling an illusion.
we just forgive.
and see a different world.
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Student again:
I'm nearing the end of another year long immersion of studying A Course in Miracles, studying the text and taking the workbook lessons as a daily practice. This has been a year of loss and deep sorrow for me in so many ways, and it seems as if on a certain level I knew that great changes were arriving. So I needed to start over with the Course as a complete beginning, even after decades of it's importance to me. What I soon found was that I was called to teach, not an easy role for me, yet maybe the only way for me to truly live the message of forgiveness more fully, was to teach what I most needed to learn. I'm still not really sure that I consider myself a teacher, but through this year of loss and sorrow, immersed in lessons only love can truly teach...
I certainly became a student again.
learning to love more deeply, letting go of a great deal of fear,
forgiving old wounds.
and so another year soon begins...
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It's all Yoga:
what I most love about yoga is that it shows me how distracted I might be at any given moment of my practice, if my posture wavers in a particular asana, or my mind wanders from breath and mantra, every little detail matters to my successful focus. Yet these distractions can serve as well, but only when noticed, brought to my attention by an unsuccessful pose, or far wandering mind. The importance has been in bringing my yoga off the mat, allowing life to point out my distractions, and then being able to bring my focus back to the most important task at hand.
I am here only to be truly helpful.
those are words from a beautiful prayer in A Course in Miracles, they're my off the mat yoga, a vital reminder that I am here to serve others, to be helpful and kind, forgiving. Anything else is a distraction and doesn't serve my purpose here. What's important to remember is that even my helpfulness is meant to be a means of awakening, reminding me that I am representing a more powerful force, and that ultimately my only true role is to awaken from the dream of all distractions.
so it's all yoga, every point and part of life.
reminding me why I'm truly here.
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No hurry:
I'm asked to surrender everything, with nothing small held back to cherish, but with my entire life given completely to the will of the Holy Spirit. This is the direction I'm drawn to, or really I should say directionless, as the more I'm willing to surrender, the less focused attention that's called for, there's a greater trust involved here now. Of course I haven't fully committed to this call, I've held back, and with no small amount of fear involved. There's so much I don't want to let go of, a last, yet powerful, grasp of all that the ego treasures.
but I'm not asked to hurry.
just to trust.
and really, all that's ever truly surrendered...is fear.
with only love remaining behind.
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A better way:
perhaps only dimly now, as A Course in Miracles states, but I begin to recognize that there is, indeed, a better way. Yes, as with everyone, my tolerance for pain is high, there's a capacity within each of us that manages to embrace a large degree of suffering throughout our lives. This is a chronic condition, and needlessly so, but again, as the Course says, it is not without limit.
yes, there is a better way.
for me, and it hasn't always come easily, it's to relinquish my own demands placed upon so many situations. It is not my job to be in charge of the world, not even the seemingly private inner-real estate I call my mind. My every demand, unmet or otherwise, has led me to this high tolerance of pain, and now they lead to me surrender.
I am not without limit to my suffering.
none of us are.
and here's the better way...
to forgive myself through every situation, no exceptions, turning each painful event over to a higher light that always urges me to love my way through it. That's the better way, it's love, expressed through the gentle practice of forgiveness.
I choose Love.
always.
and that's the only way.
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I'll meet you there;
it's a troubled world by all accounts, maybe more so than ever, or at least more sophisticated in it's means of connecting us to a sense of global problems. Many of these issues are ancient hatreds that have just continued in new and different forms, having never been truly resolved within our hearts. And of course that's the real issue at hand, not the world at all, but our own unresolved belief in isolation, believing that we are small and insignificant bodies navigating a vast and senseless realm.
yet if we only knew how deeply we are actually connected.
A Course in Miracles suggests that nothing will be solved at the level of the problem itself. We're not talking bypassing here, yes, we should definitely help others, feed the hungry and shelter the most vulnerable among us. Vote, be politically active if that's what your heart calls for. But never thing that any of this will ever really address our deepest issues.
they never have before.
here's another thought from A Course in Miracles, that "the holiest place on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love." And there's the answer to our every trouble - we've forgotten how to truly love. It's never taught, not even in our most traditional institutes of religious learning. We've only learned beliefs systems that keep us rooted in the problem.
we need to learn to love again.
an entirely new level.
a beautiful quote from Rumi -
"out beyond the ideas of right and wring doing there is a field. I'll meet you there".
and that is we're the problem is solved.
a field of love present within us all.
indeed,
I'll meet you there.
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Holier still:
as it truly is, that's the real world A Course in Miracles talks of, a place not seen through the perception of the ego, but a state of mind experienced through our forgiveness of the illusory world. This is a borderland, a thin mind-strip between here, what we've created, and our eternal place in heaven. We could claim this as the final step before reaching Nirvana, restful and at peace before entirely awakening from this collective dream of ours. Of course this is metaphysics, and a skeptic might ask if any of this is true at all and do I really believe it.
my honest answer is...
I don't know.
but there are glimmer of a pure light that seem to leak through as my practice of forgiveness deepens, as if there's a word made entirely from a holier light that only shows as my perception changes. These are the times when I experience real love, unconditional, and possessing a will that only seeks to be extended as a gift to others. I'm no longer really concerned with metaphysics - but that light, softly brilliant, and peeking through from somewhere holier still...
I believe that light is real.
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Classroom:
if life is a classroom, an opportunity really, then our role here is to be both student and teacher, and the subject is always how to express ourselves as love. I've long resisted this analogy, not liking the idea of cosmic assignments for us to fulfill. Over the years though, and through my own experiences, I've come to embrace in a more subtle way - this isn't about learning and then moving on to a more advance assignment or another classroom, it's life, each moment, and my own most intimate involvement. The classroom is my every thought that holds judgement against myself or another, my lesson is recognizing resentment in all of it's many forms and remembering to forgive.
the subject is always love.
and my only assignment, in every classroom moment....
is to extend it to the world.
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Bedrock:
my own deep sadness is still often present, there's been no spiritual cure that has chased depression away and delivered me a perfect life. Not yet at least, and I suspect not in this lifetime. But there is a difference, noticeable so, and brings me great relief - there's an ever present state of joy now too, an underlying bedrock that the currents of sadness pass through. It's always been here, though largely unnoticed, yet as I grow older it has become more central to my focus, a sanctuary of absolute love that calls so readily for my return. Yes, I still get drawn into those upper currents, sometimes lost for brief moments. There's just no longer the fear of drowning.
as there's a bedrock of joy beneath these currents,
always.
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Decisions:
today I will make no decisions by myself, and how freeing I'm finding these words, a declaration of freedom that's bringing a brand new sense of spontaneity and trust to my life. In chapter 30 of A Course in Miracles we're given the rules of decisions, and at first this may seem just another practice added to our spiritual list of things we need to do - yet really, once clearly understood and tried with only a little effort of remembering to check within for guidance...
it's completely freeing.
so it's with this these words each morning that I free myself of the burden of my own worst decisions. I begin the day with gratitude and then an immediate surrender. My only practice here is to remember that I am guided to the experience of love throughout the day, and if, or rather when, there is forgetfulness, my discomfort with any situation will guide me back to surrendering again. This is where the spontaneity begins - letting go of my every demand for how life should meet my ego.
and simply trusting in the unfolding gift...
a life of love now offers.
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A return:
surprisingly, for me, there's been a return of Jesus as a presence in my life, absent for quite sometime, and now I find myself comforted by the heart space that he offers. This isn't in any formal sense, it's not religious in anyway - it's Jesus as a symbol of my own best thinking, an ever present loving thought that always seeks to guide me towards forgiveness and the release of my worst judgement's.I haven't questioned this return, and have no idea as to why it has occurred other than my heart was ready and this guidance was much needed. It's also a very private affair, personal and intimate.
so I will only offer these few words...when the heart is ready,
when it's broken open, and now spacious.
love appears.
in whatever form it's needed.
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Miracle workers:
and so we're call is to be a miracle worker, to set forth in life and cast away all judgement for the sake of regaining our own lost innocence, recognizing who we truly our through the eyes of another. A miracle is simply a shift of perception, taking us from a fearful thought system that's projected outward, to a mind that's healed through the practice of forgiveness.
miracles heal our misperception of the world.
we're miracle workers.
all of us.
and we're called to heal right now.
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Magic:
it's a different perspective on magic, there here, as offered by A Course in Miracles, magic is seen only as a misperception of our available tools, illusions working with illusions, and never truly taking us to the cause of our deepest wound. Magic perpetuates an outer world of turmoil, forcing us to look upon the ego surface as the source of any healing.
yet what we truly need is a miracle.
a miracle is a shift from the manipulation of form towards the formless source of healing. It's a recognition that only the mind is real, and that this is where every decision to heal must be made. To choose a miracle is recognize that Love is our reality, our true home, and that this must be where we return to in ordered to be healed. Magic,in certain forms, can certainly be useful to navigate the world - yet deeper still, beyond the dreaming of this world, our home awaits...
and it's forgiveness, seeing through our every illusion here,
that finally takes us home.
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A happier life:
less so now, my preference to be right has dwindled to a slight urge, and more than ever my only true wish is to live a happier life of kindness, forgiving my every projection that seems to keep the world caught in an illusion of separation and fear. I'm not (much) concerned with the next shiny thought or belief that used to draw me into a chase towards awakening. I don't care about any big truth that promises me the ultimate reward of total liberation.
it's forgiveness all the way.
kindness.
and it's a happier life by far.
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Seamless steps to Forgiveness:
our every form of upset,no matter how slight, is an opportunity for our forgiveness - and in this way, the entire world is then transformed. There are three steps here for forgiveness, however, so seamless in actual practice that we'll actually only recognize them as one.
and in the end, it's not even our role to forgive.
as the last step belongs to the Holy Spirit
so our first concern is to identify the real cause of our upset, a recognition that we are not aligned with God. Secondly is the awareness that once again we wish to be in alignment, to be at peace, and with an easy return to our naturally loving state.
and finally,
we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our mind.
again, a seamless task here.
and this is how we change the world...
just one small upset at a time.
forgiven.
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Darkest fear:
and so it is in this light of trust, that darkness serves as a reminder to turn towards home, and how our every darkest fear is meant to be a cause for illumination on the path of love. Trust isn't the elimination of doubt, no, it's an inner place where our every concern is surrendered, forgiven as an illusion that somehow gained a momentary belief of its reality,
and that now we only wish to be guided by the truth.
love is the light in which we trust.
our every darkest fear...
is now,
surrendered.
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Partnership:
it's about my partnerships, that primarily my decisions have been made after a quick consultation with the ego, confirming my present bias, and then proceeding through life with a false and fragile confidence provided to me. It's never really turned out well, perhaps a temporary stay of elation mistaken for true joy- but only for what seemed a few moments before the fear of loss and change appeared again.
yet, finally, now,
a true partnership begins.
or really, it's always been present but too often ignored. What A Course calls the Holy Spirit is a higher wisdom that's been patiently waiting for it's time of consultation. As a child I turned to it often, comforted by it's voice of love. Soon though, rushing to adulthood. and the world began to produce too much noise to clearly hear, too many distractions to even take the time to listen.
maybe it's my later years.
being less distracted.
but I'm listening now, tuned in with a clarity that's been absent for so long.
I'm ready for this partnership.
full time.
consulting only with the voice of love.
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Threatened:
that nothing real can be threatened, there's my safety as well as my awakening in a single line offered in the introduction of A Course in Miracles. I often feel that if I went no further in the Course than this that it would be enough for my entire life's practice. The reminder is, if in anyway I'm experiencing a threat as real, than only my beliefs in an external world of chaos has made it so. The second line yells me that nothing unreal exist. Meaning my thoughts have given this world all the reality it has, causing my perception of its chaotic nature.
and that through my remembrance of love
, a presence found here,
right now,
I will be lead to the safety of my true home.
and therein lies the peace of God.
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From This point On:
largely because I don't know what else to do, and this is my reason now for life's surrender - everything from this point on has been given to the cause of extending only love. I have no idea what this actually entails, where it might lead, who is meant to walk beside me. But I'm done trying to figure these things out, finished with seeking to understand life's infinite mysteries.
I know that I'm supposed to love.
to be kind.
forgive.
I'm asked to trust that my heart is guided,
completely so.
and from this point on...
I do.
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