The light......

I stumbled across a website earlier where a lady had written her own simplified synopsis of what she thinks a course in miracles is all "about". I printed this off and i keep it in my pocket to read, because i thinks she puts it beautifully. In the past couple of days, through times when i felt daunted or frustrated by my progress, reading this has put me right back on the path, and shone a beautiful light in front of me......

God is.

God is Mind. God is Spirit. God is Reality.

The experience of God is eternal unity, deep peace and boundless joy. In God, being and experiencing are the same thing.

A Part of God’s Mind has decided not to be God. This is not possible, yet it can be believed. To make it believable, and attesting to the power of this Part of God’s Mind, a physical universe of time and space, full of diverse things, beings and identities seemed to come into being. None of this is real, but through the denial of Reality it is experienced as real.

To God, this is never real. It is a wisp of a thought that has come and gone, in laughter. How could a Part of God not be God?

However, to this Part in all of its many parts, it is very real and serious and heavy. You experience yourself as a part of this Part of God. You live a life separate -- from God, and everything in the world. You are born only to suffer and to die. Because you have chosen not to be whole, you are forever seeking for love and peace and happiness in various forms. You never find it, always having to move on to something else. Being everything God is not, this world is hell. Yet you love it because you made it and it is a part of you.

Deep, deep down you feel you have attacked God and you feel guilty. Because you attack, you expect God to attack you back and punish you. You fear God because of this. You cling to your guilt – partly to punish yourself in the hopes that this will mitigate God’s punishment; partly because your guilt goes hand-in-hand with the world you made as “proof” that you have overcome God.

To maintain your illusion of separation from God, you deny it by projecting it outward so that it seems to have made you. Instead of you rejecting God, it seems God has rejected you. Instead of you having made attack, it seems the world attacks you. Instead of you being guilty, it seems the world is a “sinful” place. Yet you have done all of this. This is not cause for guilt, for it is not real. But its very unreality does call for correction. And the Correction is always with you.

God is still in your mind, because you are still in God’s Mind. This part of your mind always calls to you to return to your natural awareness of Oneness. Only by heeding this Call will you feel whole again. But to do this you have to let go of what you have made to take God’s place and welcome another experience in its place.

The physical world you made is in fact neutral. It is a mirror that reflects back to you what you believe about yourself. It can reflect attack, guilt and fear; or oneness and love. What it shows you depends on which part of your mind you choose to listen to: The part that does not want to be Part of God; or the one that calls you to be One with God again.

Everyone will eventually choose to be One with God again. The only question is: When? How long do you want to be in pain? There are many means for unlearning all the illusions you have taught yourself about yourself, but they all lead to the same experience of Oneness. A Course in Miracles is a shortcut. It uses the experiences of the miracle, the holy instant and the holy relationship to save time. The Course emphasizes experiencing Oneness over accepting a theology, though the theology is necessary as a context for the experience.

Your individual body, personality and behavior do not matter. These are the illusion. It is the Oneness beyond these illusions that is real. Forgiveness recognizes that God is unchanged by any of your illusions. And as you choose forgiveness and allow yourself to experience Oneness more and more, the world will come to reflect God’s love back to you. From there, transition to Heaven, where the awareness of Oneness is all there is, is made easier."

I absolutely love it, and i just wanted to share it with you all. Let me know what you think!

The return.....

Wow, i haven't updated this in a while. There's nothing new to report as such, nothing material anyway, except perhaps for me and my girlfriend have invited a friend to come and live with us for a couple of weeks. He found himself at a loose end between the house he just left and the house he is moving into at the end of the month. So we took him under our wings! It should be a gret experience, he's a lovely guy.

Well, the past two weeks have been interesting. I have not been keeping to my meditation routine as much as i would have liked to, although it is picking up as of late. I am also noticing that i am staying present during work alot more than i ever used to. I no longer find myself lost in thoughts and worries hour after hour. It's nice to be able to get on with my job, and just be doing that and that alone. In that moment. It's beautiful. If something has gone wrong, it has simply gone wrong then something has been done about it with a clear mind free of any anger, frustration or worry. For the most part at least! I can't say i haven't had my moments.....

My mother has seemed alot better these past few days. She has had her breast removed entirely, and apparently the cancer has gone into remission. She has some chemotherapy sessions remaining, just to make sure, and then she finishes off the treatment with some radiotherapy. She is around some great people, so that makes me feel good.

Apart from these things, there is nothing new to report at all. Suffice to say that i intend to push myself to work harder at sticking to a routine as far as my meditation goes. I know i don't have to, as there is no real perfect way, but i know that i'd like to.

Well, i thank you for reading this. I hope you are well, and that you are having a beautiful day. May it continue to remain so.

Peace and love in abundance.

David x