#a course in miracles

[lazyyogi]

Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness…You are holy because your mind is part of God’s.

Your holiness is the salvation of the world. It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.

A Course in Miracles

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[napolonio]

Do you accept asks? It's okay you can just delete this if you don't. So I've been detaching from ego and at times I feel at peace, then the ego is triggered and I'm back to being anxious. I think I'm expecting this "special" experience to happen like this euphoric feeling, cause I know that I'm not the ego, or whatever it thinks or feels, but I guess I'm expecting the thoughts and feelings to stop completely. And they're still here. Which makes me feel like I'm not detaching correctly lol. Do you mind sharing how you were able to let go of your ego for good? Thanks!

See, I think that many of us will continue to make use of a body, concepts and live in a world of perception, so really, ego will still be there in some shape or form. What you really need to realize is that you are not it.

To understand ego is to understand time. Through life when we operate as a body, we learn concepts, we learn rules, we learn structures, and that's how ego gets shaped. It is used to navigate life. You know that if a car is driving at high speed, you should not cross the street, that's ego. You have learned social qeues so that you can interact with others, that's ego. "If ___ happens I should do ___". It's a literal program. Now, all ego knows is illusory, because it's the past, it no longer exists. You see life through the past, you aren't really in the now, so really what does ego know? How can ego be helpful in the now if it only operates based on something that does not exist?

Say you were betrayed by a friend. What does the ego do? It feels like its sense of identity has been menaced, so it has to defend itself. It internalizes this experience, it keeps the memory and uses it as its favorite accesory. Friends are fake, you're unlucky and everyone betrays you, you need to keep your defenses up. Not only are you giving yourself this identity, but also your friend, perpetuating the whole story thinking that keeping such memory alive in the now, will bring you a different future and keep you safe in the present.

You wouldn't dare forgive your friend. They deserve your cold stare and hatred. What if you thought about forgiving them? Forgiveness not in the conventional way, but in a new meaning. Forgiveness being an act of correction. What forgiveness really is, is the realization that the betrayal was illusory, it was never real, your friend is innocent. Your ego would feel so frightened by the sole idea, it will feel so vulnerable and unprotected. But you can't really stop identification with your own identity, while also keeping alive the menacing stories you have of seeming others. They're not separate from you and how you see them, directly affects you.

As long as you keep alive your labels of this world, its people, the body, you will still continue to need that ego that created this world. It will keep you bound.

The reason why I think mentioning other people is important, is because seeming others is one of the reasons ego exists. Ego sees others as an enemy. You can let them close, but not too much. As long as you keep stories of others, it will have an effect on you. You can't get rid of your own stories and keep others' alive. Because imagine again your betrayer friend, say you think you successfully "let go of your ego" and the friend comes into frame again, you still hold their story, what will happen? What you mentioned in your ask, ego gets triggered, and what does it bring back?? Correct, your identity of being an unlucky person who has fake friends.

This applies for everything you have learned about this world, society, science, objects, history, all of it. None of it is the now. Continuing to see life through those lenses, is to keep the past alive.

So, to conclude ego=past learnings. If you realize all is now, ego becomes useless. If you trust and surrender to your true nature, you can learn to live as God/imagination/consciousness, and cease the contract with the ego.

It's not linear. Personally I'm not a huge fan of trying to rush things, I enjoy patience. Which brings me to my favorite ACIM quote "infinite patience, brings immediate results".

Also, something fun that not everyone on here might be a fan of, challenge yourself to do things you don't usually do because it's soo "out of character". Say you ask for dark coffee every day, now choose the craziest drink in the menu you can think of. Say your bed sheets are always dark colored, buy a bright colored one. Do/say something that makes you cringe. Dress in a way you would never 😈. It's very funny, I do it every day lmao. Challenge your perception of self. If you feel like you can't, start by imagining it. Imagine yourself doing out of character stuff. You'll see you'll naturally stop being the character.

Disclaimer: as I mentioned at the beginning, most likely you will continue to make use of a body, therefore don't put it in situations of danger. It still has to eat (because I've seen some people asking about eating in imagination 🥴), it can't fly, don't cross the street without looking both ways. This work is mental, so don't feel the need to prove something in the "physical", that's very foolish to do, considering that you probably are still attached to the body and your concepts of it and of this world. Meaning it can be endangered if you try to defy those concepts.

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[thepersonalwords]

Everyone defends his treasure, and will do so automatically.The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you have learned to consider these questions and to bring them into all your actions, you will have little difficulty in clarifying the means. The means are available whenever you ask. You can, however, save time if you do not protract this step unduly. The correct focus will shorten it immeasurably.

Helen Shucman, A Course in Miracles, Combined Volume: Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers, 2nd Edition

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[saktirising]

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

- a course in miracles

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[thekidyouforgot]

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Marianne Wiliamson, A Return to Love

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[noverim-te]

Prayer has no beginning and no end. It is a part of life. But it does change in form, and grow with learning until it reaches its formless state, and fuses into total communication with God.

—A Course In Miracles

(ACIM, S-1.II.1:1-3)

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[loveandthepsyche]

Whatever season of life you find yourself in, celebrate it. Don’t judge it (or others). A Course in Miracles suggests we each have our own unique curriculum. It states that you don’t get to choose what you learn, but you do get to choose how you learn — you can learn through pain or through joy.

You get to decide what perspective to come from. Opt for the power position. When you choose joy and a more optimistic perspective, grounded in gratitude and accepting what is, even if you aren't exactly where you want to be, it's a much easier space to create from and for circumstances to shift in your favor ❤️

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[realthoughtsrawemotions]

I think a lot about a course in miracles talking about how my perception is my reality. How what I imagine to be true becomes my reality. How if I hold grievances in the world and towards others I will only make my relationships with those people even worse. That they will live up to these terrible expectations and further validate these expectations by reflecting them back to me in reality. By letting go of these grievances and seeing these people as my brothers and sisters I free up space for them to become so. Sometimes it gets complicated trying to understand this. Fundamentally it makes sense but when I am trapped in a negative head space I want to believe I am perceiving all the right things but my emotions say otherwise. Thought alone will not change my reality. I may understand these principles on a mental level but if I cannot feel what I want to attract in reality then it can never be so. This is where my energizers become very important. For me that is jiu-jitsu, art, weight lifting, taking baths, cold showers, and breath work. When the mind spins in circles the heart points the way. It is time to feel good now.

#a course in miracles #perception #law of attraction

[respite-in-god]

You can't ever be at peace if you believe hell is real.

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[nondualcafe]

T-1.I.11. Prayer is the medium of miracles. It is a means of communication of the created with the Creator. Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.

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[myanonymousthoughts]

Prayer for Food, Part 2

God,

I offer you my thoughts about food.

Direct me toward gratitude & nourishment of spirit.

I ask for physical & spiritual protection for all

who had a loving hand in preparation of this bounty:

the chefs, butchers, cooks, farmers, gardeners,

facility workers, and delivery drivers alike.

May all these brothers know that their efforts

contribute to our health & benefit the world.

May I never take them for granted!

May this recognition be top of mind,

That I may follow suit and so too heal the world

with a contribution of my own.

Thy will, not mine, be done.

Amen.

#higher power #myanonymousthoughts #recovery #just for today #miracles #a course in miracles #prayer #11th step

[moonlitvixen09]

Healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees any value in pain. Who would choose suffering unless he thought it brought him something, and something of value to him? He must think it is a small price to pay for something of greater worth. For sickness is an election; a decision. It is the choice of weakness, in the mistaken conviction that it is strength. (ACIM, M-5.I.1:1-5)

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[napolonio]

I AM BETTER THAN NO ONE, AND NO ONE IS BETTER THAN ME

Let that sink in.

There are no differences, disbelieve them.

Person A is no different from Person B.

This also applies for experiences. Experience A is no different from Experience B.

As long as some things are special for you, they will be on a pedestal, because you are recognizing that there is something about that thing separate from you. Different from you.

Disbelieve in specialness and set yourself free.

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[barbaragenova]

“Is Marianne Williamson’s promotion of A Course in Miracles any more relevant to her political persona than Biden’s Catholicism? If it demonstrably informs her every instinct and communication (as we expect it would given she sermonizes out of it every day), then yes, it is. If it leads her to suggest that meditation can help contain nuclear waste, divert hurricanes, heal the “scam” of clinical depression, or “boost the immune system” against COVID19, then yes, it is. 

Is it sexist to highlight Williamson’s reported history of interpersonal abusiveness, when male politicians get away with far worse? There is definitely a double standard to resist. But when a candidate builds a political persona on being a love-and-light wayshower, it’s important to evaluate what that actually looks like ground-level. It’s also important to consider whether immature behavior might be a plausible outcome of following the Jesus of A Course in Miracles, who is a huge asshole. 

Finally: if Williamson is the only candidate out there talking about reparations and M4A, is it reactionary to dismiss her on religious or behavioral grounds? Not if you’re actually interested in a functional progressive politics, free from magical thinking and charismatic bafflement.” 

#AHAHAH #conspirituality #podcast #marianne williamson #a course in miracles #asshole jesus #WHAT

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"Every loving thought is true. Everything else is an appeal for healing and help, regardless of the form it takes."

[—Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles]

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[zack263]

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