Every time you write about what it is all about that we are doing, it is a great reminder and brings clarity that i cannot express myself, and it helps so much with building up the real Hope in my awareness when we are going through seeming difficulties with the Course. You certainly are gifted and thank you for using it for Healing.
Thanks for being here, Carl. Yeah, that's always been on one of my favorite stories; I identify so much with Peter there! And am grateful for the reminder to come down and go forward 🙏
Much of my attention over recent years, and far more intensely over the last 12 Months, has been placed on nurturing and growing my spiritual connection and allowing it to express itself through me. The barriers and stumbling blocks, internal and external, that seem to block my path are stubborn and insistent. Many of them are known well by me but so many more are beyond my grasp of conscious understanding. I've endeavoured to plough on through. To ignore, in many ways, these barriers on the premise that by allowing my spirit to unfold, by bringing the light to the dark, then these barriers will yield, eventually.
More recently, I have come to the realisation that I need to address these parts of me that I form the underlying resistance in my life. The course would address all of this resistance, these attacks against myself as having the same underlying cause; separation from God. I'm not ready to accept that. But I am ready to acknowledge that I have some shit to address. Part of me is even quite excited by this growing inner feeling to looking a little deeper into this. A feeling that is new to me. My resistance to resistance is yielding. But through that is a realisation that actually, a huge part of might just be playing a game here. But beyond all that is that whatever means I use to address this stuff, then as it comes out, I can at least bring this darkness to the light and the journey will continue.
Thank you Martin. You are right that the Course teaches that we have only one problem - our separation from God (W-pI.79.1:4). But it also qualifies that assertion with the further assertion that the problem (of separation) has already been solved (W-pI.80.1:2). So we aren't actually separated, and we don't actually have problems at all.
I agree that is a big metaphysical lift with a corresponding psychological bullet that nobody really wants to bite but it IS what the Course teaches.
And I agree - you said this more implicitly than explicitly - that one can take their time getting around to investigating and accepting and integrating this idea. Indeed, the whole point of the the course is to learn that time is in our hands and under our control.
As the course emphasizes, "you are not free to choose the curriculum, or even the form in which you will learn it. You are free, however, to decide when you want to learn it" (M-2.3:6-7).
So yes, light unto the dark places, and light to clarify the road ahead, so the spiritual journey will continue. And companionship, too. But also, yes to the "game" that you mention - the game that any of this is real, that any of it matters, and that anything is at stake in any of our so-called decisions and choices.
Thank you for being here and sharing, Martin. I appreciate your practice and study very much.
I'm a new student....but what I hear in this article is.....don't let anything get in the way of your journey.....the curriculum of ACIM if we strive to heal and see the truth of what is going on. The world has us hypnotized and preoccupied...we don't even have time to go within and ask ourselves serious questions. We are lost. Waking up is a challenge because we ourselves....can't or don't want to go deep and give up our ego and comfort zone. I hear that if I practice my lessons and ask the Holy Spirit to open my heart....In an instant a radial thing could happen. I could wake up and see the truth. I must shake myself when I get too cozy...or pulled back into distractions....I must practice with sincerity and love and ask the Holy Spirit to show me what is important and real....This article was a wake up.....it's so easy to get in a lazy routine...I have to get creative with my ACIM studies...this article was very helpful. Thank You Sean....you are a real healing presence in my life....on Zoom and in writing. Much Love, Debbie M
Thank you Debbie for the kind words. I appreciate your clarity here. This very much is how I experience the course - understand and apply it. Its promises come true when we are ready to accept them . . . thank you for being here and sharing this path with me.
This was such a lovely message to read on Christmas Day Sean, "The world was made in order that we might forget who and what we are (e.g., T-5.III.11:1, T-12.III.7:5). It has no other purpose. It is filled with gadgets, dietary and exercise fads, wars and starving children, poverty and riches, endless gossip about celebrities and gurus. Bodies break or get sick and then die".
It is a good time to be reminded that non of this is real and that "Heaven is here. Heaven is now.
There is no other place. There is no other time.
M-24.6:4-8"
It is the perfect Christmas gift to read "It does not matter if you think you are in earth or Heaven. What your Father wills of you can never change. The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself (T-31.VI.7:2-4).
And... it is a perfect way to enter the New Year ahead.
Thank you for reading and sharing, Suzy. I am so grateful for our companionship and especially for the ability to connect with you around the course on Christmas. Your words are light in the darkness, always. Thank you again. I hope you have a beautiful and peaceful day.
Thank you Sean, your articles are always exactly what I need to hear. I loved how you laid out the external and internal perceived resistances....Brilliant, clear, and so very helpful. 🙏
Sean this post is telling my story and everyone else's it's the whole course. The way you describe our resistance comes from your own experiences with the course which mirrors mine. When I discovered i was reading spiritual books and listening to all the teachings I could find on the course ,i was using them as a form of resistance,but still continued on. This post is the essence of the course nothing less. Thanks again Sean
Thanks, Sean . . . I appreciate you sharing and being here. Resistance is no joke! And our good intentions are often just forms of resistance that we refuse to investigate. I wish I was a quicker learner but I'm grateful I don't give up and am grateful too for the folks who travel with me. We are in this together.
Thanks for sharing & being here, Annie . . . yes the intertwining doing and not doing . . . Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times to feel that flow! I hope you and your family are well 🙏
Thank you thank you thank you Sean!!!
Thank you Holy Spirit.
Every time you write about what it is all about that we are doing, it is a great reminder and brings clarity that i cannot express myself, and it helps so much with building up the real Hope in my awareness when we are going through seeming difficulties with the Course. You certainly are gifted and thank you for using it for Healing.
Much gratitude for your time and efforts🙏🙏
You're welcome, Aysin - thank you for the kind words 🙏. And thank you for being here and sharing this way with me.
Love,
Sean
God bless you for making this effort to explain your understanding and your willingness to share your experience. I love your scriptural references.
Thanks for being here, Carl. Yeah, that's always been on one of my favorite stories; I identify so much with Peter there! And am grateful for the reminder to come down and go forward 🙏
Love,
Sean
Much of my attention over recent years, and far more intensely over the last 12 Months, has been placed on nurturing and growing my spiritual connection and allowing it to express itself through me. The barriers and stumbling blocks, internal and external, that seem to block my path are stubborn and insistent. Many of them are known well by me but so many more are beyond my grasp of conscious understanding. I've endeavoured to plough on through. To ignore, in many ways, these barriers on the premise that by allowing my spirit to unfold, by bringing the light to the dark, then these barriers will yield, eventually.
More recently, I have come to the realisation that I need to address these parts of me that I form the underlying resistance in my life. The course would address all of this resistance, these attacks against myself as having the same underlying cause; separation from God. I'm not ready to accept that. But I am ready to acknowledge that I have some shit to address. Part of me is even quite excited by this growing inner feeling to looking a little deeper into this. A feeling that is new to me. My resistance to resistance is yielding. But through that is a realisation that actually, a huge part of might just be playing a game here. But beyond all that is that whatever means I use to address this stuff, then as it comes out, I can at least bring this darkness to the light and the journey will continue.
Thank you Martin. You are right that the Course teaches that we have only one problem - our separation from God (W-pI.79.1:4). But it also qualifies that assertion with the further assertion that the problem (of separation) has already been solved (W-pI.80.1:2). So we aren't actually separated, and we don't actually have problems at all.
I agree that is a big metaphysical lift with a corresponding psychological bullet that nobody really wants to bite but it IS what the Course teaches.
And I agree - you said this more implicitly than explicitly - that one can take their time getting around to investigating and accepting and integrating this idea. Indeed, the whole point of the the course is to learn that time is in our hands and under our control.
As the course emphasizes, "you are not free to choose the curriculum, or even the form in which you will learn it. You are free, however, to decide when you want to learn it" (M-2.3:6-7).
So yes, light unto the dark places, and light to clarify the road ahead, so the spiritual journey will continue. And companionship, too. But also, yes to the "game" that you mention - the game that any of this is real, that any of it matters, and that anything is at stake in any of our so-called decisions and choices.
Thank you for being here and sharing, Martin. I appreciate your practice and study very much.
Love,
Sean
Hi Sean,
Thank you for your words.
I'm a new student....but what I hear in this article is.....don't let anything get in the way of your journey.....the curriculum of ACIM if we strive to heal and see the truth of what is going on. The world has us hypnotized and preoccupied...we don't even have time to go within and ask ourselves serious questions. We are lost. Waking up is a challenge because we ourselves....can't or don't want to go deep and give up our ego and comfort zone. I hear that if I practice my lessons and ask the Holy Spirit to open my heart....In an instant a radial thing could happen. I could wake up and see the truth. I must shake myself when I get too cozy...or pulled back into distractions....I must practice with sincerity and love and ask the Holy Spirit to show me what is important and real....This article was a wake up.....it's so easy to get in a lazy routine...I have to get creative with my ACIM studies...this article was very helpful. Thank You Sean....you are a real healing presence in my life....on Zoom and in writing. Much Love, Debbie M
Thank you Debbie for the kind words. I appreciate your clarity here. This very much is how I experience the course - understand and apply it. Its promises come true when we are ready to accept them . . . thank you for being here and sharing this path with me.
Love,
Sean
This is wonderful. What a great read to start the week. I am Givingthanks for you.
And I give thanks for you, Nancy! Thank you for reading and sharing. I hope you are well 🙏
Love,
Sean
Started the Course in September 2021. Have saved your posts since March 2022. I believe this is the best one yet. Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words, Kim, and you're welcome. I'm glad the posts are helpful! And I'm glad you're here, sharing this path with me 🙏
Love,
Sean
This one is right on time for me this morning. Thank you.
You're welcome, Rebecca. Thank you for being here 🙏
Love,
Sean
This was such a lovely message to read on Christmas Day Sean, "The world was made in order that we might forget who and what we are (e.g., T-5.III.11:1, T-12.III.7:5). It has no other purpose. It is filled with gadgets, dietary and exercise fads, wars and starving children, poverty and riches, endless gossip about celebrities and gurus. Bodies break or get sick and then die".
It is a good time to be reminded that non of this is real and that "Heaven is here. Heaven is now.
There is no other place. There is no other time.
M-24.6:4-8"
It is the perfect Christmas gift to read "It does not matter if you think you are in earth or Heaven. What your Father wills of you can never change. The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself (T-31.VI.7:2-4).
And... it is a perfect way to enter the New Year ahead.
Love and Blessings as always, Suzy xxx
Thank you for reading and sharing, Suzy. I am so grateful for our companionship and especially for the ability to connect with you around the course on Christmas. Your words are light in the darkness, always. Thank you again. I hope you have a beautiful and peaceful day.
Love,
Sean
Thank you Sean, your articles are always exactly what I need to hear. I loved how you laid out the external and internal perceived resistances....Brilliant, clear, and so very helpful. 🙏
You're welcome, Glenda. Thank you for being here 🙏
Love,
Sean
thank you Sean. I appreciate your writing, it resonates with me.
You're welcome, Cyndi. Thank you for sharing and being here. I'm grateful 🙏
Love,
Sean
Sean this post is telling my story and everyone else's it's the whole course. The way you describe our resistance comes from your own experiences with the course which mirrors mine. When I discovered i was reading spiritual books and listening to all the teachings I could find on the course ,i was using them as a form of resistance,but still continued on. This post is the essence of the course nothing less. Thanks again Sean
Thanks, Sean . . . I appreciate you sharing and being here. Resistance is no joke! And our good intentions are often just forms of resistance that we refuse to investigate. I wish I was a quicker learner but I'm grateful I don't give up and am grateful too for the folks who travel with me. We are in this together.
Love,
Sean
The ultimate goal is to remember ourselves as God created us......
Yes . . .it is the resolution of a spiritual identity crisis . . .
Healing is described as a journey and curriculum, but in truth, it happens in an instant when individuals remember their true selves.
Thanksgiving week…as I prepare the anticipated meal, I am mindful of the undoing as well as the doing. 🦃
Blessings to you and yours 🍂🍁
Thanks for sharing & being here, Annie . . . yes the intertwining doing and not doing . . . Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times to feel that flow! I hope you and your family are well 🙏
Love,
Sean
Thank you, Sean.
Thanks for being here 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
Excellent article Sean we are always infinite eternal existence in every moment and to meditate on the heart we can become Self (God) realized🙏
Oh yes! Thank you for being here, Lorraine 🙏
Love,
Sean
SEAN, thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow if the Holy Spirit ever speaks to me it’s thru
people like you.
Thank you very much. Love,
Jack.
You're welcome and thanks for being here, Jack. I hope all is well on your end . . .
Love,
Sean