A Course in Miracles says it is beyond “what can be taught”. All I know is the way I FEEL when I notice its divine presence. When I am quiet, still, and observing, my mind shifts. It feels warm, familiar, complete, peaceful, open, non-dualistic, free and oh so joyful. It feels real and I always want more and more of it. I guess that’s why I’m hyper-focused on studying the Course because I have now reached a place in my mind where I experience this kind of love quite often. Not always, but more and more often. Growing, ever so slowly and surely. It doesn’t matter if I am alone or surrounded by loved ones. I recognize this love is only within me and not without. My addictions of the past are fading, I have a completely different perspective after having devoted myself to this study.
Why wouldn’t I want more and more of that feeling, that knowing? Doesn’t everyone?
I often get tripped up by this question and then I have to examine all the egoic lessons I have learned over this lifetime. The ones that led me to competition, pride, jealousy, insecurity, uncertainty, littleness, closure. They, too, were necessary in transporting me to this exact time and place and so I bless them. I realize that I have learned by contrasts. But perspectives can change and I am allowing myself, in the now, to sink into a new reality. Those old lessons are in the past and I am being led to challenge all those thoughts that never really served me…. and that certainly don’t serve me now… or in the future. It is invigorating to think this power is, and will always be, available in my thinking. Taking only the good and valuable with me into this present moment. It is glorious. It is miraculous.
It’s really just allowing myself to go there, and receive the truth… it is eternally available in every now moment. “Love’s total lack of limit is its meaning. It is completely impartial in its giving, encompassing only to preserve and keep complete what it would give.” Open your heart to A Course in Miracles! It will teach you HOW to achieve this and you will never be the same!
Peace, Kristin