Special Relationships

Special relationships: 

it becomes a shift of values, how my every relationship is now examined under the light of forgiveness, exposing them for the base support they offer to my ego. This is what A Course in Miracles calls "Special relationships" they're props that keep us firmly in denial to the reality of love. If I see anyone as offering an opportunity to bargain for my worth, or allowing me to feel as if their own value is somehow less than mine - then I have assuredly assigned them a role they do not truly own.

we make these relationships through hate and affection, they're all judgment based, and subject to a quick change of our consideration. I might value someone for how they invoke my sense of romantic love and then be dismayed as my heart gets broken. How bitterness follows sadness, resentments set in, and this once true love is now special in an entirely different way. Yet this was never truly love, only a device for the ego to measure its importance. The Course tells us, our hearts remind us too, that love has no opposite, every relationship is valued equally for its worth. 

love is always all accepting.

or it isn't truly love. 

so my special relationships are really tools of transformation, to just bring awareness to the values I assign to others, observing how my moods might shift in their presence. There's no dramatic change here, it's just a moments meditation as I remind myself that the presence of love is present in every situation and encounter. And with this soft notice...

my relationships are transformed. 

seen as holy.

for that's the truth of what they are.

~

Love, Eric

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Activist

Activist: 

at this point it feels like I'm called to be an activist, bringing great change to the world at large, and to do so without ever having to leave my home. It's up to me to be the healing that we all desperately need right now. 

it's up to you as well. 

A Course in Miracles reminds us that this is not the real world, it's an illusion of miscreation and only waits for the gentle thoughts of our correction. That's our activism, starting this moment and with a simply choice of aligning ourselves with reality, a true vision of how to see each other and the world. The reminder to clear, direct, easy to follow: 

only loving thoughts are real. 

anything else is an appeal for healing.

our role as activists to to heal, reinterpreting the false narrative of ego entirely to the voice of love. It's really not so difficult to do, and little effort is required of us other than our surrender. The world we see is our creation, made of of our most quiet thoughts of fear and desperation. We've judged ourselves unworthy of anything more, believing that we'er small, separate from the source of love, and undeserving of a better world. Our entrapment keeps us idle, or perhaps worse, busy with tasks that only serve to further our commitment to this delusion. 

our busyness distracts us from the softest voice of love, 

whispering of awakeness,

calling for our action.

so we're activist, and all we're asked to do is wake up and allow the illusions of this world fade to the greater light we now offer. It's a quiet task, no one even has to know that we're actively changing the world. But through this one choice, by just recognizing and hearing an appeal for healing...

we'll make all the difference in the world. 

Love, Eric

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To Justify

To justify: 

perhaps the most common expression in relation to the ego, as read in A Course in Miracles, is the word justify and its variations. It is, indeed, and apt term to use and I'm amazed at how subtle its usage is by my own ego so very often. Really, it's an insidious energy, how almost all of my unmet demands, my resentments, and grievances, however slight or grand, can be justified. This is all it takes for the ego to run with every thought of perceived mistreatment. In just an instant we've built our case against another, condemning those we've judged hurtful or against us to a prison sentence within our minds. 

ego justifies a closed off heart.

here's the simple instructions as offered by the Holy Spirit - 

no hurt against another is ever justified, our own pain is not an excuse to close our hearts and refuse to offer forgiveness. Yes, simple instructions, but not exactly easy. Or at least not so for the ego, truly, it's an impossible task for it to perform as ego will always justify it's every misperception. This is why we don't turn to the ego for forgiveness, it's only role is to bargain for its favor. 

forgiveness belongs solely to the Holy Spirit.

so really, 

our task is to turn our every grievance over to a greater understanding. 

it's that simply.

maybe even easy. 

here's the formula as offered by A Course in Miracles:

every loving thought is true.

anything else is an appeal for healing or help,

no matter what form it might take.

and our only justified response -

is a willingness to love. 

~

Love, Eric

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Only What is Real

Only what is real; 

an unforgiving thought is one that's not questioned The mind is closed around such judgments so as to make them absolutely real and without room for any healing to occur. When this happens our every grievance becomes real, and resentments solidify as our view of the world. Yet still they remain just thoughts projected outward, continuously remembered, almost cherished really. 

and never once questioned so it seems.

A Course in Miracle reminds us that what we thought happened didn't occur, not in the actuality of the Holy Spirit, which only views things through the present moment and only through the eyes of love. So all we're asked to do, as far as forgiveness is concerned, is to bring to mind the reality of this moment, a holy instant that's always free of past and never holds resentments. 

that's it, 

really, we do nothing, 

the entirety of forgiveness is simply resting in this moment.

 and accepting only what is real.

~

Love, Eric 

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Light

Light: 

so the nature of light, being synonymous with love, is always to extend itself in an all embracing reach, unconditionally, and without making any distinctions. Once directed - there is no place where light refuses to shine. We are that light, we're love, in essence and practicality. Our only role here is to extend this light to our own darkened corners, an illusion really as love is never truly absent, 

and through this,

shining brightly from within...

we now begin to the illuminate the entire world.

as there's only light to give. 

~

Love, Eric 

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Lesson 33

Lesson 33

it often feels as if a single lesson contains the entirety of the Course, that if properly understood, deeply so, just one lesson would be enough. This probably true, as really, this isn't new information at all, but rather a revelation of what we's always known about ourselves. Lesson 33 from the workbook of A Course in Miracles tells us that there's another way of looking at the world. Imagine, everything witnessed right now could be reevaluated and seen through the lens of love.

reality.

we could see ourselves another way.

but of course we don't know that's even possible, it seems beyond us, or perhaps requiring such great effort that we're too intimidated to even try. It only takes a shift though, more of a letting go than anything else., surrendering to a greater field of vision than our own limited view. Lesson 33 asks for just a little bit of faith, a willingness to believe such of shift is possible. 

and that something better might exists.

we're only asked to try.

~

Love, Eric

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Listening

Listening:

there are two thought systems at play here. Yet jut one is in opposition to the other, for only thoughts of love are ever real, and the voice of ego eventually rings hollow to our ears. That's the psychology of A Course in Miracles, summed up, but it doesn't really need to be explained much further than this. 

only love is real and it's voice is expressed through acts of kindness, brought to the forefront of the mind by continuously choosing to forgive the issues of our world. Ego, a voice-dream,speaks only of illusions while loudly proclaiming itself as real. The voice of love is silence, all-accepting, and patiently awaits for our listening-return. 

so we can see that there can be no true opposition.

reality, love, is never opposed.

 it only waits for our attention, and that's the purpose of the Course. This is true for yoga as well, Buddhism too, they point us towards reality. They're techniques in listening to the voice of love, practices in the art of heart-listening. Each moment gives us an opportunity to listen a bit deeper, to notice the briefest pause that's present just before the rush of ego's first shout. There's no need to fight it, or attempt to stifle its concerns. 

it's a dream voice, 

an echo of an illusory life we've never truly lived.

only love is truly present.

and eventually...it's all we ever hear.

until then,

we simply practice listening.

~

Love, Eric 

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