I read this article the day it came out, but it just sounded like blab, blab, blab...I put it aside, then picked it up again this morning and every word sang to me as if the article was written to me personally. I have been watching patterns of the ego/mind, but getting caught in not knowing what to do next, as I read your words...there is nothing to do, just stand back and see the falsity of old conditioning, allowing space for Grace to shine.
I absolutely love this paragraph you wrote..."We don't earn the healing. It is not a personal accomplishment. Healing is a natural effect of giving attention, of coming to the intensity of watchfulness so that the programming and conditioning no longer runs us. It's there, fine, but we are not being dragged along, forced by its energies to participate in chaos and destruction, bound to the suffering of separation.".....Thank you Sean.
Thank you, Glenda! This made me happy. I appreciate it very much.
I have this same experience a lot - something doesn't resonate one day - or even at one phase of my life - and then all of a sudden it does. It reminds me that the external is always a picture of an inside condition.
Thanks for being here and for sharing . . . very grateful to be on this path with you 🙏🙏
Sean, from your former posts it seems like you are about to celebrate your one year anniversary of posting about ACIM on Substack. Congratulations! Forgive me if I missed more of your past episodes.
I just started doing the same thing in a different way in January and every posting still feels like a major accomplishment. It took me a long time to figure out how I wanted to use the platform but slowly I am getting the hang of it. I also really like the graphics you are using with each post. I have not figured that aspect of Substack out yet.
Thank you for reading and sharing, Roxanne. I'm glad you're writing publicly about the course - I think it's a great way for us to learn together and share together. I have met a lot of thoughtful and helpful friends along the way :) Thank you for being here and sharing the light. I'm very grateful.
Thank you Sean for helping me remember that those early workbook lessons are so powerful in their simplicity. I still get a chuckle thinking that I could breeze through them when I first read the Course some 50 years ago. For me they were, and continue to be essential in getting to 'don't know'.
You're welcome, April. They are treasures, for sure. Thank you for phrasing this the way you did - "getting to "don't know.'" Such a vital part of the practice. Thank you.
Thank you Sean. Ah, yes the grind. The grind has been on my mind a lot lately. Thank you for the encouragement to just observe it and not fight it. I think I shall apply lesson 28 to my garden today. To the garden in the extreme heat in Florida and pray for overcast. But to be thankful for the extreme heat in the meantime. Yeah the grind goes on.....
Part of the challenge with writing a post like this is that it does not follow through to Lessons 29 and 30, which is the promise that when we DO make the commitment Lesson 28 invites us to make, we shall become enabled to see God in all things and know that we are doing so because God is in our mind. So "the grind" has value in that way.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel - or in the garden, as it were.
It's been hot here too though I suspect nothing like what you encounter. Still, gardens are a blessing in so many ways. Enjoy your time there!
Murry Bowen described the differece between being "reactive" and "responsive." Jesus said to be "in the world but not of the world." Michael White describes beautifully the difference between perception and interpretation. Mindfulness is thinking about what you think.
The ideas about what you think about what you think about the table seem very helpful. We are conditioned to interpret our perception of the table in certain ways that we get from our culture. When we say "table" do you think of a piece of furniture or a depiction of data in columns and rows? Maybe both and even more like the level of water in a natural container like a pond or lake.
The human mind, consciousness, is a wonderful thing and it is good to know what makes one tick. Thinking about what we think is called "contemplation" in some religious traditions. Thank you for sharing your contemplation.
I read this article the day it came out, but it just sounded like blab, blab, blab...I put it aside, then picked it up again this morning and every word sang to me as if the article was written to me personally. I have been watching patterns of the ego/mind, but getting caught in not knowing what to do next, as I read your words...there is nothing to do, just stand back and see the falsity of old conditioning, allowing space for Grace to shine.
I absolutely love this paragraph you wrote..."We don't earn the healing. It is not a personal accomplishment. Healing is a natural effect of giving attention, of coming to the intensity of watchfulness so that the programming and conditioning no longer runs us. It's there, fine, but we are not being dragged along, forced by its energies to participate in chaos and destruction, bound to the suffering of separation.".....Thank you Sean.
Thank you, Glenda! This made me happy. I appreciate it very much.
I have this same experience a lot - something doesn't resonate one day - or even at one phase of my life - and then all of a sudden it does. It reminds me that the external is always a picture of an inside condition.
Thanks for being here and for sharing . . . very grateful to be on this path with you 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
Sean, from your former posts it seems like you are about to celebrate your one year anniversary of posting about ACIM on Substack. Congratulations! Forgive me if I missed more of your past episodes.
I just started doing the same thing in a different way in January and every posting still feels like a major accomplishment. It took me a long time to figure out how I wanted to use the platform but slowly I am getting the hang of it. I also really like the graphics you are using with each post. I have not figured that aspect of Substack out yet.
Many blessings on your continued work,
RoxanneACIM
Thank you for reading and sharing, Roxanne. I'm glad you're writing publicly about the course - I think it's a great way for us to learn together and share together. I have met a lot of thoughtful and helpful friends along the way :) Thank you for being here and sharing the light. I'm very grateful.
~ Sean
As always Sean, thank you. And thank you for walking the walk together. Much love
You're welcome and thanks right back. Hope all is well, Dee 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Thank you Sean for helping me remember that those early workbook lessons are so powerful in their simplicity. I still get a chuckle thinking that I could breeze through them when I first read the Course some 50 years ago. For me they were, and continue to be essential in getting to 'don't know'.
You're welcome, April. They are treasures, for sure. Thank you for phrasing this the way you did - "getting to "don't know.'" Such a vital part of the practice. Thank you.
~ Sean
Thank you Sean. Ah, yes the grind. The grind has been on my mind a lot lately. Thank you for the encouragement to just observe it and not fight it. I think I shall apply lesson 28 to my garden today. To the garden in the extreme heat in Florida and pray for overcast. But to be thankful for the extreme heat in the meantime. Yeah the grind goes on.....
You're welcome, Rebecca. The grind :)
Part of the challenge with writing a post like this is that it does not follow through to Lessons 29 and 30, which is the promise that when we DO make the commitment Lesson 28 invites us to make, we shall become enabled to see God in all things and know that we are doing so because God is in our mind. So "the grind" has value in that way.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel - or in the garden, as it were.
It's been hot here too though I suspect nothing like what you encounter. Still, gardens are a blessing in so many ways. Enjoy your time there!
And thank you for reading and sharing 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Sean, thanks for the reminder that in this world, release is a radical way to see. We all need help in choosing to return to stillness.
You're welcome, Jim. As you know, you remind me of the same, so thanks and gratitude right back.
~ Sean
Murry Bowen described the differece between being "reactive" and "responsive." Jesus said to be "in the world but not of the world." Michael White describes beautifully the difference between perception and interpretation. Mindfulness is thinking about what you think.
The ideas about what you think about what you think about the table seem very helpful. We are conditioned to interpret our perception of the table in certain ways that we get from our culture. When we say "table" do you think of a piece of furniture or a depiction of data in columns and rows? Maybe both and even more like the level of water in a natural container like a pond or lake.
The human mind, consciousness, is a wonderful thing and it is good to know what makes one tick. Thinking about what we think is called "contemplation" in some religious traditions. Thank you for sharing your contemplation.
Thank you, David. It's good to hear from you. I l hope all is well on your end.
~ Sean