Otherwise

Otherwise: 

and so it seems that I've carried the weight of a million disappointments through life, an accumulation of views that I've made completely my own. This is my healing work, not addressing each disappointment individually, and even collectively there's no need to let them go - this is really a matter of simply recognizing a truth about myself that solves every judgement ever made. 

here's the key to letting go of every disappointing thought I've ever held about myself, no matter how it might have arrived to me. These words remind me to drop the weight of my own judgements and walk through life with greater ease...

And God thinks otherwise. (ACIM, T-23.I.2:7)

amen.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Light

Also, please visit to browse: Forgiveness and Jesus: The Meeting Place of A Course in Miracles and Christianity

Thank you. 

Light

Light:

and so my only purpose is now laid clear, that I am the light of Christ extending myself through the recognition of my completion. And you - you are the very same light which receives me, and then continues on in an ever greater expansion.

we're divine sparks.

each of us.

I love the simplicity of my role, what I'm tasked to do in such a vital fashion. Look for Christ within all things. No exceptions. Nothing excluded. This can be such a lovely way to move through life, recognizing my truest self in the guise of another. Yes, of course, I'm often confronted with a more challenging disguise, a light that seems so far hidden that it might be impossible to find. I'm only asked to look, to have a little willingness, and to maybe let the light  find me through my own shadows of judgement and fear. 

I think my light can be difficult to see sometimes too.

and I'm so happy when you see it.

thank you, thank you,

thank you.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more form Headless Now, please visit; On My Behalf

Also, please visit to browse: The Universal Christ 

Thank you. 

On My Behalf

On my behalf: 

to judge on my behalf - and this is my only true request of Holy Spirit, although I certainly do get caught up in prayers of action and more visible results. What A Course in Miracles teaches is that my own best judgement if literally impossible. It's not just that I'm wrong on occasion, but that I'm continuously wrong every time I judge the illusion of the world as well. That's the bottom line, and it's been a tough one to arrive to. I'm always wrong, always, and this is solely because I am limited in my perception, judging the tiniest slice of a dream as the entirety of reality. So the truth is that I am really incapable of seeing anything accurately let alone offering a judgement. My only daily prayer should be -

Today I will judge nothing that occurs.

1. I will be honest with myself today. ²I will not think that I already know what must remain beyond my present grasp. ³I will not think I understand the whole from bits of my perception, which are all that I can see. ⁴Today I recognize that this is so. ⁵And so I am relieved of judgments that I cannot make. ⁶Thus do I free myself and what I look upon, to be in peace as God created us.

(ACIM, W-243)

and each time that I'm mistaken...a miracle awaits in correction.

I only have to ask, 

 and then with the silence of the answer,

 look upon a forgiven world

~

I love you, Eric

To read read more from Headless Now, please visit: Ladder

Also, please visit to browse: Purpose is the Only Choice

Thank you. 

Ladder

Ladder: 

there's been times, more often than I care to state, that I slip to the bottom rung of the ladder, praying from a place of need and sense of lack. This is the beginning point offered by The Song of Prayer, a supplemental pamphlet adjustment to A Course in Miracles - our life of prayer starts with worldly requests that our needs be met, and we should definitely celebrate that we are on the ladder. The second rung begins when our prayers turun towards forgiveness, seeing through the illusion of lack and asking for the more subtle things such as peace of mind and a love-filled heart. Finally, that last rung, and no request is needed - this is an open-hearted communion, with only love received and given in a beautiful, seamless exchange. Of course this can be a sliding ladder, or it's been so with me. I've felt my toes on that top rung, however briefly, completely broke opened and filled with light. I've never stayed there though, not for very long, but it honestly feels enough right now to know that in the briefness of those moments... I touched upon eternity. 

and sometimes, again, I'm firmly planted on that bottom rung. 

yet what I realize is that I'm not even in charge of my position on this ladder, it's not a climb of achievement nor hierarchy of prayer. It's a gentle climb, and every so often I'm given a lift to a higher rung, a gift of grace and light filled view. What I find is that those lifty views are gifted so that my worldly prayers become more inspired, having a greater sense of their potential. So now, with my feet once again on ground floor, reaching for that very first rung...

I ask for grace to replace my fear.

I pray for faith,

courage.

and begin to gently climb this ladder once more.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Specialness

Also, please visit to browse: Purpose is the Only Choice

Thank you. 

Specialness

Specialness: 

 it's a sense that I've been set apart from God in some unbelievable way that keeps me in a world of suffering, that I am somehow separate from the source of all creation. Special. And of course we all feel this specianess too, a unique body that stands above or below others in an endless scale of contrast and comparison. Perhaps most insidious of all, how my suffering keeps me in a world of my own, separate from you, a private sorrow no one else will ever really understand. 

A Course in Miracles tells us that this is all a substitute for God's love. Yes, even, or maybe especially, our suffering. Our addiction to specialness is a plight that keeps us truly alone, pitted against each other in the belief that no one really understands us, or knows our special sorrow. We all suffering in the absence of love, no one more so than any other, equal in pain and loneliness. The very thing that should join us in healing is just another belief that keeps us apart. You loneliness should call to me, breakthrough any barriers between us. But lost in my own specialness, the cherished belief that I suffer alone, your voice is lost to me, unheard, or worse, ignored. 

I'm sorry.

and that's the real breakthrough.

finally.

yet my specialness has worn thin -I hear your faint cries above my own, and those barriers between us don't seem so impenderable anymore. I'm sorry that I didn't hear you sooner. But I do now. And what I hear is your truest voice, faint, yet reaching me in greater strength as I begin to tune in. We are not special in our aloneness. That's what your your voice tells me. I know this for certain, because astonishingly enough, your truest voice is my own, not special at all, one voice in an infinite song of God.

I hear you.

finally.

and thank you.

may we continue now in song.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Asana of Forgiveness

Also, please visit to buy: The Healing Power of Kindness

Thank you.

Asana of Forgiveness

An asana of forgiveness: 

I've missed very few days of my yoga asana practice, decades of earliest morning, a quiet stretch through the long familiar terrain of my body. This has become an essential path of forgiveness for me, a mindful journey of noting the ever changing landscape of my body, and gently bringing the light of loving awareness to whatever now calls for my attention. When I was younger, even just a few years ago, I would glide through this routine with a light focus on breath and the length of time held for each posture. Older now, a slower pace, each morning truly is a journey of forgiveness, softly noting every ache from a long ago injury, discoveries of limitations that never existed before - everything is forgiven, brought to the present moment with a blessing and a smile. 

This is where I am. 

I've arrived to an asana where forgiveness is essential, letting the memory of every previous body go and simply resting in this present moment posture. 

I am not a body. I am free.

Freedom must be impossible as long as you perceive a body as yourself. ²The body is a limit. ³Who would seek for freedom in a body looks for it where it can not be found. ⁴The mind can be made free when it no longer sees itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its presence.

(ACIM, W-199)

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: A Dream of Hill and Boulder

Also, please visit to buy: 

Thank you.

A Dream of Hill and Boulder

A dream of hill and boulder: 

it seems as if I'm unraveling, layers shown through forgiveness and then finally let go - and then, of course, another one revealed. This is endless work, or at least it's been so for me. But it's also quite joyous at times, finally arriving to a layer of hurt that's long been calling for my attention, bringing a tenderness to bear that just wouldn't have been possible a short time ago. 

it's healing work.

and it's also quite frightening at times. 

right now there's a layer of trust that's been slow to heal, worries that keep reappearing in multiple forms, yet always concern issues of finance, aging, and staying purposeful to the Holy Spirit's plan. I'm asked to trust at the deepest level yet, and my great fear is that I'm simply not up for the task at hand. These last few years it's often felt like I've been stripped all the way past the bone, almost down to the last layer that can be possibly healed - and then another layer makes itself known. It's turned into a sisyphean task, seemingly endless, but gaining value as I continue to heal. And yet, even as I write this now I'm being given some very specific words...

there's no boulder to push, nor steep hill to be repeatedly climbed - in fact there's no task to be performed at all. It's a dream of fear. One I still believe in deeply at times, but none the less a dream. And the only thing I'm very gently being asked to do...is to wake up. 

that's it. 

just let the dream of hills and boulders go.

dawn is already here.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Lessons

Also, please visit to buy: Daily Moments with the Angels

Thank you

Lessons

Lessons:

it's not a course in bypassing, we're not asked to bury or shove our suffering aside, denial isn't part of any divine plan. In my own case, I'm certainly not completely healed from a host of issues that have plagued me through life - and yet, there's a deepening peace when any issues does come to surface, a tenderness that's present, and I find myself acting as a caregiver in a truly loving way. A Course in Miracles, and more so, the developing relationship with my internal healer, has allowed me to be an open and caring presence to all that arises, unhealed, unresloved, and calls for my attention.  

so for me,

it's been a course in healing.

forgiving.

and to bypass anything would be to miss a lesson.

All things are lessons God would have me learn.

(ACIM, W-193)

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Conversation

Also, please visit to buy: The Healing Power of Kindness

Thank you.

Conversation

Conversation: 

it's a deepening dialog, my every word given to silence and answered with the soft reply of presence - and more so than ever now my wish is to keep this conversation ongoing, relying solely on the Holy Spirit's guidance to see me through my day. This isn't just about those troubling times when it seems like there's no choice but to surrender, no, I want my every daily choice to be based on love. And of course this is what I need the most help with. Those times of distress make it easy to surrender, I recognize my great mess and immediately see the need for some divine comfort and guidance. It's the little things though that eventually get me in the most trouble, small decisions quickly made by ego that add to larger troubles later. So my practice now is having a consistent dialog with the Holy Spirit, more so in silence that actual words, setting the intention right at the instant of waking up that my entire day will be handed over to this loving presence. My first decision of the morning is that I will do my very best to make no more decisions on my own...

²Today I will make no decisions by myself. (ACIM, T-30.I.2:2 

and the conversation begins to deepen from here.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: A Contemplative Life

Also, please visit to buy: The Naken Now

Thank you.

A Contemplative Life

A contemplative life: 

it's already a contemplative life, an opportunity for continuous meditation through my every interaction - forgiveness isn't an act of pardoning, it's zen, mindfulness at its deepest practice. There was a time when I considered monastic living, quieting my life to such a degree that I couldn't help but know myself as one with God. Of course that wasn't necessary, and in fact, would have kept me far removed from what really needed to be done. Lesson 122 of A Course in Miracles was my reintroduction to the world, reminding me that forgiveness truly offers everything I want and it's everyday life that offers me it's full value. Here's my practice, just a few steps away from my meditation cushion and life rushes at me, full of tiny mad ideas that try and prove how I've somehow separated myself from God - and yet every idea now serves as a reminder to simply look deeper, past the surface of my daily affairs, and find the light that exists just beneath the world's appearance. 

the light is always there, easier to find than ever.

it's a contemplative life.

and I'm finding God everywhere.

thank you.

~

I love you, Eric 

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Smallest Act 

Also, please visit to find: The Naked Now

Thank you. 

Smallest Act of Kindness

knowing that all expressions of love are maximal, this is the only guidance I really needed - and how even the smallest act of kindness carries the entirety of God's presence. That one sentence has changed the trajectory of my life, ending a long search for any sort of enlightenment, and leaving me thick in every present moment that calls for love. The only awakening that matters is when kindness dawns as softest light, a simple act of courtesy in which I attempt to see everyone as they truly are. Those are the moments that matter most, each one adding to a lifetime devoted to our mutual awakening.

All expressions of love are maximal. (ACIM, T-1.I.1:4)

even our smallest act of kindness.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Layers

Also, please visit to buy: Deep Kindness

Thank you.

Layers

Layers: 

there's layers, every unhealed encounter still exists within us, hidden, yet acted out in various ways that leaves us baffled by our response. These are called samskaras in yogic psychology, subtle mental impressions that continue to bind us to a karmic pattern of reactions that most often seem far beyond their cause. What's happening is that the original unhealed wound is dictating our present response, we automatically click onto a past script that suddenly demands our attention. 

we're asking to be healed.

heared.

seen.

and of course we can't explain this, it's beyond the scope of our understanding. We just know that we hurt and we're left surprised at the depth of pain that even the slightest wound can sometimes trigger. This is why we need forgiveness, having a deep practice of offering light to those cast off shadows that still haunt us. We don't need to explore every darkened corner of our minds, but to just recognize that the past is still playing through the present moment, triggering us, causing us to still suffer their effects right now. What we need is a somatic healing, easing those emotional imprints to a finer degree. Meditation alone isn't enough, nor is self-inquiry, although both serve to calm us, allowing the depth work of forgiveness to begin. And that's all it is, really, a simple plan of awareness, acknowledgement, and then the softest healing light sent in that direction. 

God is the Love in which I forgive. (ACIM, W-46)

visual that love through the symbol of light, bathe in it, expand it to the point that it encompasses every shadow of the past and illuminates their present absence. Smile. We're healing. Forgiving. We're erasing karmic patterns that have long haunted our every moment. But now we're free, It really is that simple, but not without effort. These are deep patterns, even the slightest ones remain active until fully healed. So just repeat the process - we literally have all the time in the world for just this purpose. 

it's why we're here.

~

I love you, Eric 

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Sometimes

Also, please visit to buy: Forgiveness is The Home of Miracles

Thank you. 

Sometimes

Sometimes: 

sometimes only a few words arrive, a small blessing of inspiration given- being just enough for writer and page to be fulfilled. Sometimes I ask the Holy Spirit what should I write about this morning, and I sense a smile that hints of a deeper silence to follow, as if too many words would only spoil our true communication...

but he knows of my insistence as a writer 

and provides a small favor. 

like now.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: An Intervening God

Also, please visit to buy:The Gift of Kabbalah

Thank you. 

An Intervening God

 

An intervening God: 

so I'm not asked to believe in an intervening God, not an entity swayed by prayers - no, my faith is placed beyond a dream that's in need of an intervention. I believe in a God that doesn't acknowledge suffering and catastrophic events, giving no thought to my personal affairs, and yet still offers a love that's more intimate than can possibly be imagined. No, this isn't a paradox. This is not the world of God's creation and to intervene would only make this dreamscape a reality. It would validate our suffering. I believe in a God of love and only love, and everything that seems to exist in pain and anguish belongs to a mind that's dreaming of separation from the the source of this all encompassing love. And so my own task is to simply acknowledge my own suffering, yours too, addressing it as tenderly as possible, with infinite care....and gently forgive this dream of separation. 

my role is to wake up,

and lovingly extend my hand to you.

that's what I believe. 

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: An Undercurrent of Light

Also, please visit to buy: Endless Light: The Ancient Path of Kabbalah

Thank you.

An Undercurrent of Light

An undercurrent of light: 

it's become my first note in a song of forgiveness, a means of bearing light and extending it towards others, an easy remembering of what the Holy Spirit would have me do in every situation. Lesson 46 of A Course in Miracles is a quick return to sanity, as well, it's long form meditation that's meant to transform my experience of life. 

³God is the Love in which I forgive (ACIM, W-46.5:3)

and this simple phrase brings me to the undercurrent of light existing as my only true instrument of pure creation. It's my most meaningful prayer, a sense of peace that heals a fractured mind. This is an easy visualization, from my heart to yours and starting as no more than the tiniest of sparks.Expanding this small flame, adding fuel by a few loving thoughts, and there comes a sudden revelation that light is all there is, how every shadow's an illusion, and that the real world has been hidden beneath my own heavy cloak of darkness. I'm ready to heal the world, to reveal that undercurrent of light as our true existence, and it starts with that tiniest flicker holding steady in my heart. 

yes,

³God is the Love in which I forgive myself. (ACIM, W-46.5:3)

and a most brilliant light expands from here.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Authenticity

Also, please visit to buy: Endless Light: The Ancient Path of Kabbalah

Thank you.

Authenticity

Authenticity: 

authenticity, it's a keen buzzword that often sparks a search for our truest, most genuine self - we're tasked with uncovering the falsity of societal masks and then living from our deepest convictions. As with every worldly concept, A Course in Miracles strrips this journey bare, offering a stark contrast between every identity uncovered and the truth of who we really, really are. Right at the introduction we're told the great secret that should immediately end our every search, or at the very least, simplify it to a gentle inquiry into our true nature:

²Nothing real can be threatened.
³Nothing unreal exists. (ACIM, T-in.2:2-3)

and herein lies our authenticity.

~

I love you, Eric 

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Previous Page

Also, please visit to buy: Lesson 101: Perfect Happiness

Thank you.

Previous Page

Previous page: 

I love the clean emptiness of a fresh page, nothing carried from a previous morning's writing, and now inviting words to arrive for whatever new expression they might hold. Writing has become another aspect of forgiveness for me, a demonstration of innocence. I don't have to try and see the original essence of a page, being clear of story, I'm shown by the acceptance of every word it receives. If a page or screen held the memory of past stories, my writing would be limited to what was told before. When I come to my keyboards each morning I see innocence, a fresh start, and I begin to write from there. 

and so it is every morning. 

a beginning.

with a previous page forgiveness.

`

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: For

Also, please visit to buy: A Course in Miracles

Thank you.

For

For: 

and now it's about allowing myself to have a softer conversation with Holy Spirit, not just an emergency turn towards as it was early on, but an actual presence that guides me through the day. This is clearly reflected in a misread of A Course in Miracles that somehow continued through the years. My childhood foundation of Christianity must have filtered my reading of the text, a mental shift of single word misrepresented my entire relationship with the Holy Spirit. For so many years I carried the thought that the Holy Spirit was the voice of God, an innocent enough mistake, yet it was repeated often through many readings and had a significant impact on my connection and communication. The actual words being...the Holy Spirit is the voice for God - and that makes all the difference in the world.

the voice of God is a beautiful sentiment, yet it's distant, authoritative, implying an existing chasm between the listener and the voice. And so my relationship reflected that, there was an authority figure that I could turn to with prayer, and that, if my mind was clear, I might actually hear a reply. It was comforting, but not intimate in any real way. One day, years into the Course, my filters thinned through years of practice, and I read correctly - Holy Spirit is the voice for God. 

and everything changed.

here is true intimacy, distance bridged to the point of actual connection. The voice for God exists within me, a consistent whisper in the most loving way. It's never absent, without any judgement, and was so patiently waiting for me to engage in conversation. And I do now, all through the day and even in dreams of deep connection. What a difference a single word can make. 

such a small error...so easily corrected.

and now my world has changed.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: There Is

Also, please visit to buy: A Course in Miracles

Thank you.

There Is

There is: 

I don't know why it took me so long to realize that my most difficult relationships were actually meant to save me - forgiveness at its most intimate level being fundamental to my practice. Of course theoretically I knew this, it's clearly taught throughout A Course In Miracles, and I have been sincere in my focus on healing. But I missed the depth of what's being asked for, that no one is placed here by accident and that this, whatever's at hand, no matter the actions or words being said....this is my most valuable moment for a miracle to be asked for. I honestly think that A Course in Miracles prepares the central nervous system over time for such occasions, a slow process of retaining from reactive to loving response. I see this clearly in my own dedicated practice, that it is indeed just that, a practice that develops ever more deeply overtime. Life has provided me an abundance of opportunities for practice, as it has for us all, and it's a wonderful point when love has become so much easier to recall...when a miracle has been truly asked for and then instantly received. 

really, it didn't take me very long to realize this at all. I just didn't always ask, at least not immediately. It seems I was addicted to the sugar rush of resentment, the lingering effects of feeling justified in my grievances, and just didn't want to let them go just yet. That's how it is with every addiction, well, until suffering outweighs any sense of need or pleasure. Eventually, we all suffer enough to finally ask that one all important question...there has to be another way.

and there is.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: A Beautiful Thing

Also, please visit to buy: A Manual for Holy Relationships

Thank you.

A Beautiful Thing

A beautiful thing: 

what a beautiful thing to come to know, realizing that every relationship is meant for my own transformation, a holy encounter that has the potential for my awakening. Really, life has become a continuous practice of self-inquiry now, a form of jhana yoga in which I only seek the truth of who I am, and this is not possible without you. Forgiveness, and what an earlier edition of A Course in Miracles calls "consistent courtesy' is the means of this seeing, a profound recognition that defies initial appearance and settles into an inquiry of our reality. There is only love present. That's the bottom line of every relationship, even the briefest point of contact with someone contains the entirety of heaven. 

with no exception.

and so there's really no need for seeking, enlightenment is at the ready, a holy encounter brought to view in every moment. I look with new eyes upon the world, eager to find myself in a strangers smile or casual passing - and even more so in those difficult opportunities that seem to break me completely open with their potential. These moments are ripe for our awakening, and the truth is, it only takes one person to realize the holiness shared between us. Your forgiveness blesses me, and becomes another seed planted for my own awakening. And I wish the same blessing for you. 

such a beautiful thing to know.

indeed.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Closer

Also, please visit to buy: A Manual for Holy Relationships

Thank you.

Closer

Closer: 

not quite, but ever closer now - forgiveness is becoming the default network mode for my expression, a soft replacement for the previous underlying replay of grievances and judgement. There'a deeper experience of peace, a background more free of the ego's chatter. For years my meditation was left on the cushion, it's a profound practice that quite literally saved my life, but in between those peaceful sittings my mind would fill with the daily itinerary of complaints it just didn't want to let go of. This was really just background noise, a constant play of comparisons, complaints, wishes and demands. Ego chatter. My practice of meditation helped soften this to a murmur, yet it's forgiveness that brings me to a deeper silence known. The reason is that forgiveness, practiced truly, instantly replaces every thought the ego has with a quick response from Holy Spirit, which is actually the silence of the mind itself. It's becoming habitual now, decades of practice, moment after moment of choosing this return to love - and now, finally, it feels more of a continuous meditation, a mantra of sincere repetition that erases every background noise that the ego wishes to entertain for more than just the briefest, briefest moment. Yes, I'm still drawn to clatter of ego's noise, just never for to long before it's silenced by a few forgiving words.

there's always a safe return to a quite mind.

it's almost automatic.

not quite...

but getting ever closer now.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Objective

Also, please visit to buy: Evolving Beyond Thought  

Thank you.

Objective

Objective: 

the key objective is love, that we should be experiencing it's expression as our only reality. Our practice is simply seeing through every obstacle that seems to block the presence of love from our awareness. That's it, that's the objective of A Course in Miracles. The tool we use to fulfill its aim is forgiveness. As we practice forgiveness we come to a kinder point of being, we're more patient, tolerant, and yet purposeful in our focus. Our objective is returning home to God. Life, and all that happens, daily affairs large and small...is the pathway that leads us there.

we walk together,

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: A Little Kinder

Also, please visit to buy: Love is Letting Go of Fear

Thank you.

 

A Little Kinder

A little kinder: 

towards the end of his life, author Aldous Huxley was asked by a reporter if he could summarize the accumulated spiritual wisdom gained from 45 years of spiritual exploration. Huxley said he was a little embarrassed by the simplicity of the result of his lifelong pursuit. His message -

try and be a little kinder. 

a few decades later A Course in Miracles teacher Kenneth Wapnick echoed that sentiment with remarkable clarity and sincerity. He would often remark that kindness was the natural conclusion of our forgiveness practice, grace easily extended towards every aspect of our lives. Be kind, no exceptions, was a favorite declaration. 

I've been very fortunate to take this to heart, and although still imperfect, it's been the cornerstone of my practice for quite some time now. The metaphysics of A Course in Miracles provide a thought system that works as a guiding principle for me, a large framework that give structure to my practice. But it's the daily interactions that matter most to me, and yes, and Kenneth Wapnick said, everything is included, from chair to smallest insect crossing my path while walking each morning - 

my only aim is kindness.

this is Occam's Razor in conclusion, a life stripped of complexities, no great spiritual secrets left to be revealed, and nothing more to be gained in their pursuit.

just be kind...

in the end, 

that's all that really matters.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Small Determination 

Also, please visit to buy: The Healing Power of Kindness

Thank you. 

Small Determination

 Small determination: 

it's seeing past the ego's every mask - consistent courtesy is a moment's meditation in which we reach out with gentle vision, having just a small determination to see each other as we truly are. I love the message of consistent courtesy, being from the original edition of A Course in Miracles, most recently coming to my attention, but now a practice that I so eagerly embrace. My entire day is given to that small determination, every encounter, and even my failures are given to the practice - courtesy, the easiest grace of  forgiveness, is meant for my own mishaps as well. 

it's a beautiful way of living.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Imagine

Also, please visit to buy: A Complaint Free World

Thank you. 

Imagine

Imagine: 

it's the shift from transactional relationships to a purely holy love, surrendering the belief that anything is needed from another for our own completion to be be true. This is a very different way of viewing the world, an evolution of relationships to their highest order. Imagine if the bottom line was always about service to each other, how we could help the least among us feel that they belonged, and that everyone knew that they were loved simply for who they really are. Imagine if this was our only goal and the loving world that we would then see.

a simple shift...

and our world would change forever.

imagine.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: At My Most Helpful

Also, please visit to buy: A Complaint Free World

Thank you.

At My Most Helpful

At my most helpful: 

from fear to love, at my my most helpful there's little that I actually do beyond making this shift and then asking to be guided. This resolves of me the need to fix people, calms me of the urgency to rush in and immediately get involved in every situation. To be truly helpful begins with listening, checking in with the Holy Spirit consistently for the guidance to respond. Really, it's the ultimate display of trust - gaining a form conviction that there is, indeed, a better way than anything I've ever tried before. And at my most helpful...it's love that guides the way.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: The Very Next Step

Also, please visit to buy: Never Forget to Laugh

Thank you.

The Very Next Step

The very next step: 

and so it is with my own struggle, what seems to be playing through is a path of small service, kindness, and what the original text of A Course in Miracles calls consistent courtesy. This always presents itself as my only real option, suffering less by being truly helpful, not bypassing my issues, but realizing the reality that all minds are indeed joined, and that my own healing is linked to yours. What I love most about this is that I don't have to seek out this path, my feet are planted firmly in the midst of life right now, and whatever presents itself is my present practice. I am healed by forgiving the very next thing that appears before me, loving myself through whatever struggle appears...

and then taking the very next step that's given. 

that's my healing path. 

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Only Prayer

Also, please visit to buy: Passage Meditation

Thank you.

Only Prayer

Only prayer: 

what I notice now is that most every issue of disturbance, slightest resentment, or beginning thought of fear, is almost always followed by it's release to Holy Spirit. It's automatic, a reflex of forgiveness that comes immediately to mind. I have been saved from countless spirals by just a few simple phrases, a quick reminder that I am never upset for the reason I believe and then a asking to see the present, or even a past situation differently, clearly, and this always brings me directly to the Holy Spirit with a prayerful request - I hand this person or situation over to you Holy Spirit, so that we might both be released and see only the truth. That's it, an easy thought interruption that's powerful in it's effects. 

forgiveness is the only prayer I offer.

and through this -

my world is continuously healed.

~

I love you, Eric

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Spiritual Technology

Also, please visit to buy: Passage Meditation

Thank you.

Spiritual Technology

Spiritual technology: 

it feels like alignment, how a deepening practice of A Course in Miracles is bring me back full circle to my original formal practice of sitting meditation. After decades of practicing mantra meditation, and even becoming certified to instruct, I find myself back on my meditation cushion with the prayer of Saint Francis slowly playing through my mind. I first learned Passage Meditation from Eknath Easwaran in the early 1990's when I desperately needed a guiding hand. It was perfect for me at the time, transformative in spiritual, as well as practical way. Through the ensuing years almost everything about my life began to change, and in some ways in a very dramatic fashion - such as alcohol completely leaving my life in a truly miraculous way. This prayer, especially applied through Passage Meditation is spiritual technology and almost feels required for the world we have today. And right now it feels so completely aligned with my commitment to the Course. It's a prayer of non-duality, deeply so, word by word revealing the absence of any line drawn between us and God. Even the opening words are a please to be used completely for God's will alone....

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. 

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Where there is injury, pardon. 

it's the very essence of A Course in Miracles, a foreshadowing of it's arrival 800 years in advance, and, for whatever reason the Holy Spirit has planned - it has called for my return. Perhaps it's time for another transformation, an inner shift to a more complete surrender. Whatever unfolds I will be guided by the words of Saint Francis, and if there is doubt, the prayer will lead me to peace, replacing any darkness with the light of God. The final words of the  reveal the nature of the plan...

it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

amen.

~

I love you, Eric 

To read more from Headless Now, please visit: Editions

Also, please visit to buy: Passage Meditation

Thank you.