Sean, I read your piece...again. I read it followed by lesson 191, read it again, lesson 192, lesson 193...your piece. The warp and the weave of these together...heartbreaking (as i commented earlier). I say YES! Truth is truth...please continue to serve 'meat'. Thank you...Love...Carleton
Hello. I'm new to the Course and am enjoying reading your posts. Your commentary on the lessons is especially helpful. I am a teacher of literature and poetry and am especially fond of Emily Dickinson as well. This post makes me think of "One May Not Be a Chamber." with respect to interior/exterior fears and frights...and how"Ourself behind ourself concealed/Should startle most" is far more frightening than any exterior, physical threat. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this and any further connections you can make between this poem and the ideas you express in this post or ACIM as a whole.
Your compelling reflection and call-to-action reminded me of Gandhi's definition of ahimsa - "The avoidance of harm to any living creature in thought or deed."
Gandhi also said:
"I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction. Therefore there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
If that is the law of life we must work it out in our daily existence.
Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love.
I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done."
It is completely beyond me, my ability, to see it differently. The only thing I can do is be willing to see it differently. "I am not a body, I am free. I am as God created me. His son can suffer nothing. And I am his son." This is a continual refrain in my head. Eventually (at least this is my understanding of what ACIM is saying), we will see the horrors differently. Rather be able to "looK' at them with more peace. Thanks again for your work-means a lot
Now we wait, together, side by side knowing we are never alone.
In Lesson 25 we are comforted knowing that we don’t know what anything is for but are “guaranteed” that is in our best interest. I often wonder how this horror show is in my best interest and that’s where true faith comes in for me.
Searching for the answers is all Ego based. My ego wants to find out, know the truth, become enlightened ect, Good, bad or indifferent, it really doesn’t matter, it just seems like does.
So, through all of your thought provoking posts, which I am always grateful for, you help bring me back to the simple truth that I really don’t know what anything is for but I trust that it is for my own good. After all, if I don’t know what it’s for I can’t judge it. Thank you my friend 🙏
Hang in there Brother and thanks for sharing. The "Dark Night of the Soul" has reared it's ugly head and you've remembered what it's for...........thanks for reminding the rest of us!!
Sean, Thank you for this beautiful understanding. If I want to embody that everything but love is illusion I must be vigilant. I can no longer allow judgement to be a squatter. Im tired of disrupting my peace with incessant separation.
Sean and his readers surely trust that when thousands of seekers embrace the love that we all are, the "outside" world will look different. We trust humanity's love through thousands of meaningful small ripples can create love in the world. To end violence on the planet we know we must first end our internal wars. So we read, practice and start over daily. Hopefully we remind ourselves there is nothing to forgive.
Powerful post Sean. As I was re-reading it (because it takes a few passes to absorb the truths), I was again reminded that all of these "horrors" involve the body. Absent the belief the body is real and valuable for what (the ego has determined) it offers, we would not be disturbed. The world doesn't change-it keeps recycling its nonsense, year-after-year. That is the purpose we gave it. The only task (as I perceive my role as a student) is to ask to see it differently.
Beautiful post Sean. Avoiding and hiding is a common pattern that prevents deeper levels of realization. I know this post will give many courage to face what needs to be faced so that it can the less supportive thought forms and emotions can be acknowledged and replaced with love.
Sean, I read your piece...again. I read it followed by lesson 191, read it again, lesson 192, lesson 193...your piece. The warp and the weave of these together...heartbreaking (as i commented earlier). I say YES! Truth is truth...please continue to serve 'meat'. Thank you...Love...Carleton
Hello. I'm new to the Course and am enjoying reading your posts. Your commentary on the lessons is especially helpful. I am a teacher of literature and poetry and am especially fond of Emily Dickinson as well. This post makes me think of "One May Not Be a Chamber." with respect to interior/exterior fears and frights...and how"Ourself behind ourself concealed/Should startle most" is far more frightening than any exterior, physical threat. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this and any further connections you can make between this poem and the ideas you express in this post or ACIM as a whole.
Beautiful...eloquent, heartbreaking cry...Thank you.
Wake up call on steroids!
That's the deepest dive into the course of all - I think? Heavy duty shit but I get it 100%
5yrs into ACIM and this journey is challenging.
Not because the path is hard in and of itself, but because of my resistance to remember who I am in truth.
Remembering that "all" minds are connected and what I do for myself I do for a brother💕
Thank you for keeping me on my tippy toes 🥲
It's needed today.
I Love you💛
Thank you kindly, Sean.
Your compelling reflection and call-to-action reminded me of Gandhi's definition of ahimsa - "The avoidance of harm to any living creature in thought or deed."
Gandhi also said:
"I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction. Therefore there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
If that is the law of life we must work it out in our daily existence.
Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love.
I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done."
Namaste 🕉
It is completely beyond me, my ability, to see it differently. The only thing I can do is be willing to see it differently. "I am not a body, I am free. I am as God created me. His son can suffer nothing. And I am his son." This is a continual refrain in my head. Eventually (at least this is my understanding of what ACIM is saying), we will see the horrors differently. Rather be able to "looK' at them with more peace. Thanks again for your work-means a lot
Hi Sean,
Now we wait, together, side by side knowing we are never alone.
In Lesson 25 we are comforted knowing that we don’t know what anything is for but are “guaranteed” that is in our best interest. I often wonder how this horror show is in my best interest and that’s where true faith comes in for me.
Searching for the answers is all Ego based. My ego wants to find out, know the truth, become enlightened ect, Good, bad or indifferent, it really doesn’t matter, it just seems like does.
So, through all of your thought provoking posts, which I am always grateful for, you help bring me back to the simple truth that I really don’t know what anything is for but I trust that it is for my own good. After all, if I don’t know what it’s for I can’t judge it. Thank you my friend 🙏
Hang in there Brother and thanks for sharing. The "Dark Night of the Soul" has reared it's ugly head and you've remembered what it's for...........thanks for reminding the rest of us!!
Sean, Thank you for this beautiful understanding. If I want to embody that everything but love is illusion I must be vigilant. I can no longer allow judgement to be a squatter. Im tired of disrupting my peace with incessant separation.
Sean and his readers surely trust that when thousands of seekers embrace the love that we all are, the "outside" world will look different. We trust humanity's love through thousands of meaningful small ripples can create love in the world. To end violence on the planet we know we must first end our internal wars. So we read, practice and start over daily. Hopefully we remind ourselves there is nothing to forgive.
I hear you and see you
Powerful post Sean. As I was re-reading it (because it takes a few passes to absorb the truths), I was again reminded that all of these "horrors" involve the body. Absent the belief the body is real and valuable for what (the ego has determined) it offers, we would not be disturbed. The world doesn't change-it keeps recycling its nonsense, year-after-year. That is the purpose we gave it. The only task (as I perceive my role as a student) is to ask to see it differently.
Thank you so much 🙏🙏 It is very Helpful and Empowering in Healing Process.
Beautiful post Sean. Avoiding and hiding is a common pattern that prevents deeper levels of realization. I know this post will give many courage to face what needs to be faced so that it can the less supportive thought forms and emotions can be acknowledged and replaced with love.