Unhealed Healers

Unhealed healers: 

it should become apparent to us, clearly so by now, that we're unable to forgive, it's simply not our ego's function and we've given it this mistaken task. This might be hard to admit as we like to pride ourselves on our forgiving nature - and yet so often we're still left wounded, a lingering hurt, carried over through the years. 

we're unhealed healers. 

unable to mend ourselves or others.

but the only mistake here is in choosing the wrong healer. We've asked ourselves to perform a task we're unsuitable for and then cause even more friction within ourselves. The ego isn't meant to forgive, it's a mistake identity that has gain too much traction through our minds. It does serve a useful function though, pointing out all what's been left unhealed and how they will continuously resurface in so many hurtful ways. That's the ego's job, pointing out distinctions, showing us a world of division that's in desperate need of mending.

we're incapable of healing.

yet there is a healer within us all.

and that's the Holy Spirit, our true guide and teacher. Forgiveness is not the ego's function and that's actually glorious news. We're not ego. That's what the Holy spirit continuously whispers to us from within, giving us real identity in its quiet voice of love. Our role, our one and only job, is to turn everything over to that which always heals, forgiveness being the Holy Spirits very nature. So we're really not asked to do very much at all - to just recognize the right teacher, the aspect of ourselves that's always ready to forgive, instantly and surely. 

and with that...

we're healed. 

everything's forgiven. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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Remembering

Remembering: 

the miracle is my defense, asking for the right mind to be shown to me and trusting in the gentleness of its protection. At any moment I can ask for this, and it's so easy when things align my way. Yet in difficult times the urge remains to counter-attack, offering up the ego's plan for my salvation. Of course it doesn't work, never has in the past and remains just as ineffectual now. 

asking for a miracle, a shift in perception...

and forgiveness becomes possible. 

but first I have to ask for that miracle, reminding myself of the folly of the ego - and have a little willingness to let go of any resentments. I love how a near lifetime of practice comes rushing to the moment I remind myself of this, that I have all the tools of miracles at my disposal, and with simply asking for a miracle I place myself directly in the care of Holy Spirit. 

it's the easiest thing to do.

as long as I remember.

and that's really the only practice needed - just a little willingness to see every attack not as a justification to prove myself worthy of defense, but that my safety lies only through forgiveness. What's important here is availability, and forgiveness is always present, forthcoming the instant it's requested. So really, it's not even about remembering...

only how long I'm willing to suffer,

before the miracle of forgiveness is requested. 

~

Love, Eric 

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Our Reply

Our reply: 

how easy it is to fall back into the habit of critiquing others, an energy of subtle significance which traps us again into listening to ego. Yoga psychology would call this Samskara, an emotional pattern imprinted through the mind by long and frequent use. A Course in Miracles simply calls it another voice of ego and reminds us that we have a choice - to relinquish our own ego that recognizing only the need to correct others, an outward focus on form alone,

or simply view others through the eyes of love.

and once more asking the Holy Spirit to be our guide. 

it's a clear choice, ego is always concerned with the outer form of every complaint, how it takes shape as the appearance of another. While the Holy Spirit doesn't recognize form at all, asking only that we turn within and make a gentle correction to the content that we offer to the world. This is about radical honestly and self-recognition, that our projections are giving rise to everything seen and heard, and that our role isn't to critique others, it's not to offer complaints about the world...but to only and always recognize our projections for what they truly are - 

a heart-felt plea for healing.

and our reply to this, 

is love.

~

Love, Eric

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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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Lessons

Lessons: 

it's just the same lesson, repeatedly endlessly it seems, and only the form ever changes, the content itself always remains singular in its solution. I've always resisted this idea, never liking the analogy of life as a classroom with lessons we must learn. Yet looking back through the years I see repeated patterns that if recognized, would indeed have been a tremendous lesson learned. 

saving me much suffering.

A Course in Miracles offers a different take here, yes, there's the analogy of the classroom, but it isn't setup as a means of graduation. The only concern is to wake up, ending our own suffering and then extending this peace to others. 

it's a much needed lesson to learn.

the only one, really.

from the Course workbook: 

all things are lessons God would have me learn.

and it truly comes down to this -

every unforgiven thought only needs correction.

so with this, 

as it is with every lesson...

forgive, 

and I will see this, everything, different.

~

Love, Eric 

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Only Love

Only love: 

and then comes the Holy Relationships, those drawn to a greater healing between two that will then extend itself towards the entire world. These are shared values, guided by the Holy Spirit, and the self-interest of each is surrendered to the whole. No, it's not an easy path, made available only to those who are committed to forgiveness and the way of love. 

it's a life guided by the Holy Spirit.

listening,

deeply so,

and then living with the message heard.

again, the Holy Spirit here is our own truest voice, one that only and always whispers to us of love. Anything else is the shout of ego, defending it's demands, fortifying illusions, and drawing non-existent lines between us. A Holy Relationship is simply the choice of listening, hearing, and paying attention to one voice of love over the pettiness of ego, 

it's a commitment made to each other, 

a vow to remember only love,

and with that - 

we begin to heal the world.

~

Love, Eric

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Once More

Once More: 

and we're healed through what A Course in Miracles calls the Holy Instant, being just a moment when are private thoughts about the world fall aside and all that's left is the purity of who we truly are. This is eternity, with no touch of our dreaming of time, only seeming to last an instant. Yet it's here that we are revealed, reality is shown, and we're never quite the same after. 

the Holy Instant is who we are.

finally seen,

once more.

~

Love, Eric 

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