Of Love and Values

Of love and values: 

from first reading on I took the directives offered by A Course in Miracles very seriously. Being told to teach only love resonated to my core level, and I've done my best to do so through the decades of my practice. To hear that love is actually who I am and that I could experience this as my reality by extending it to others stirred something deep within me. Perhaps it was the call to action. Decades later now and this still feels like an inner-revolution, not one of battle but of gentle inquiry into my values. To teach only love means that I demonstrate my truest values, that I cherish more the innocence of another than I do my own projections. It's always a value choice. Fortunately there is a guidance system within the mind that is always clear, in starkest terms, on the consequences of my values. The ego would have me continue to treasure the things of the world that are always temporary in existence, short-termed in pleasure and leaving me empty in their absence. The Holy Spirit speaks in terms of cherishing the eternal, the lasting values that only love can offer. Whichever choice I make will be demonstrated through my actions, a life grasping for empty pleasures, or softly teaching the reality of love. 

now, reaching this point later in my life...

I teach only love,

for that is what I am. 

~

I love you, Eric

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Teach Only Love

Teach only love: 

maybe selfish in a way, that I really wish to know myself so completely as love that my agenda is to try and always teach it through my own gentle demonstration. A Course in Miracles offers us an interpretation of the crucifixion, it's true lesson is to teach only love for that is what we are. The world will always present us with someone to crucify, and indeed, we ourselves will be placed upon someone's cross and judged harshly for our errors. But the Course says that we teach by demonstration, having a choice between ego's condemnation and the Holy Spirit's steady guidance towards choosing love. 

I really want to know myself as love, 

completely so.

and I see these two choices clearly, Holy Spirit's quiet voice is now a soft and constant urge to deny any crucifixion no matter how loudly my ego shouts otherwise. I am imperfect in my demonstration. But I'm perfectly clear in my objective.

teach only love...

for that is what I am.

(and you are too)

~

I love you, Eric

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Committed

Committed: 

today is day one, all over again, and still nothing I see means anything. Last year I began another deep dive into A Course in Miracles, it had been awhile, and although always part of my life, I hadn't done the workbook lessons in several years. Reflecting on this past year it seems that I may have anticipated the drastic changes that were to come, and intuitively returned to that which always saves me.

more so,

I've finally become a teacher.

in terns of the Course, a teacher is anyone who chooses to be one, but the qualification is in the commitment to teach and demonstrate what we most need to learn - a teacher and student both at once without distinction between the two. This past year has been that demonstration, and yesterday, with last lesson closed, I deepen my commitment. 

I will teach only love...for that is what I am 

it's what we all are.

and I am committed to remember. 

~

I love you, 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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Teach Only Love

Teach only love: 

there comes a directive, straightforward, and only a little explanation needed - teach only love, for love is what you are. That's it, simple, and all we really need to know is that we're already teaching, we're demonstrating a fear inspired lifestyle by our refusal to forgive. Except, of course, we don't truly know that we're teachers, we believe that this is the only way in which to live. 

but it isn't.

here's the second way of teaching, simply believe, even slightly, that there's a better, happier, and more freeing way to live. Then ask for help for this to be shown. After that - we just surrender, giving all of our thoughts of grievance, resentment, and judgments to a greater power than the ego. Some traditions might call this the Holy Spirit, perhaps we hand things over to Jesus directly, maybe Krishna or the Tao. It doesn't matter, they're all labels for the undivided love that is our reality. 

we teach...by learning to go. 

each barrier to our joy is given away, repeatedly, as often they appear and reappear. Forgiveness becomes a joyful experience of freedom, that yes, even this, can be let go of - 

and that indeed...

we can teach only love through our surrender. 

~

Peace, Eric

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Teach Only Love

Teach only love: 

it's a small YouTube channel, growing by a few each day, but I don't anticipate large numbers for what I do - which is mainly share short  clips of nature that I'm able to capture each morning in my beautiful early morning walks. And I talk. The live streaming service provides me a platform to present the ideas that have been meaningful for me through the years. Yoga, meditation and breathwork, creativity, health, and after keeping fairly quiet about it for some time, my devotion to A Course in Miracles. It now feels like I've been called to teach, and it's important to not that the Course doesn't distinguish between a teacher and student, that we're here to teach what we most need to learn, which is a peace  found only through a return to love.

as the course asks of us...

teach only love.

so that's my plan.

and it's with this small platform that I'll stake my livelihood for now, being inspired to share beautiful scenes of nature and talking of all the things I need to learn as I proceed on this new path of life. I have no idea if I'll be successful with this livelihood, if I will be able to earn just enough to provide for my concerns. We'll see, as I'm fortunate to reach this stage of life without a great desire for more than what is needed. There's a great opportunity for me here, as well as a large amount of fear being present, perfect, it's time for me to learn through my own demonstration -

seeing through thus fearful presence...

and teach only love.

~

Peace, Eric

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