#A Course In Miracles

[respite-in-god]

Hatred is the opposite of understanding. In fact, hatred is the *refusal* to understand. Part of understanding is to feel compassion. Have you ever felt the anger evaporate the moment you *understood* something or someone you hated?

This applies to self-judgement: if you hate yourself, that means you don't understand yourself. Hatred is a distortion of the truth. You can't see yourself clearly through hating eyes. Let go of self-judgement to heal.

[cosmicportal]

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”

- a course in miracles

[exploreknowledgehub]

With English subtitles

A Course in Miracles Lesson 1 - Nothing I See Means Anything

A Course in Miracles - David Hoffmeister says:

"As we apply workbook lesson number one (“Nothing I see means anything”) to the perception of the world, this is the beginning of retraining our mind to see the world in a completely different way. This is the beginning of allowing the Holy Spirit to wash the mind free of judgments and preferences, hierarchies of thought. Free of belief that some things we perceive are more important than other things. This is the beginning of mind training; a very devoted practice to forgiving the world and awakening from the dream of sickness, pain, suffering and death. Of awakening from fragmented perception to true perception, and beyond to the Reality of the Kingdom of Heaven."

This recording of David Hoffmeister took place on July 30th 2015.

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ACIM lesson 1 Nothing I see means anything - A Course in Miracles (also referred to as ACIM or the Course) is a 1976 book by Helen Schucman

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[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

[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.

[dunyevi-erkekler]

[amokedas]

[persephonerising18]

An excerpt from “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”

Don’t let the terms used in this book deter you, this book is not focused on one religion.

[icarus-suraki]

I have a small(ish) collection of witchcraft books, all of which I got for free when someone dropped them off as a library donation (we weren't going to add them to the collection, so I just took 'em). And I keep debating about passing them on to whoever might want them because, like, I'm not doing anything with them. They're just hanging out and taking up space. Most of the titles are still in print. A lot of them are basic Llewellyn publications. One is just a basic Big Blue Buckland. A number of them are by Cunningham or Campanelli (and Silver Ravenwolf lmao). So it's not like they're rare books.

But then I'll flip through one just to see if it should stay or go and I'll come across the most ridiculous made-up nonsense Golden Bough "secret European witch cult" sacred feminine bullshit that I have seen in many a year and I'm like "Fuck. Now I want to keep it."

[nondualcafe]

ACIM, Text-5.V “The ego’s use of guilt.”

Notes on the ego vs the Holy Spirit.

[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

[respite-in-god]

Unconditional love is the answer

The thought of practicing unconditional love towards oneself feels unfathomable sometimes. If you want to hate yourself, the ego will always invent some justification for doing so. It doesn't even have to be a concrete reason; it can just be a nebulous cloud of self-hatred, and if someone asks you WHY you feel that way, you can't really answer. The ego's whole existence is to judge, judge, judge, and it all falls apart if its judgements are demonstrated to be wrong. The ego fears being wrong and it will virulently defend the pain it causes you to hate yourself (and others), despite the immense relief forgiveness would give. Forgiveness is to realize the ego is wrong, and to surrender its unloving judgements to God, in exchange for God's true sight, which alone is true, and is only Love.

To practice unconditional love, one must see the ego for what it is; allow God to show it to you without judgement, and realize these unloving thoughts are not your true identity. They are not "your" thoughts. The ego's fear can't transfer to you if you don't identify with it. It may screech with rage at the thought of forgiveness, but ultimately it can't take the decision away from you.

Don't punish yourself for not experiencing unconditional love yet, or capitulating to the ego sometimes, and making mistakes. Your True Identity remains exactly how God created you; forever worthy of limitless love, unchanging and untarnished, no matter what your mind and body have done or didn't do in this material world. It's just a matter of not wanting the pain anymore, realizing the pain is valueless, getting sick of walking in the same circles, thus having no desire for the ego that you would feel guilty about anymore, anyway.

So, the thought of vengeance is still appealing. So what? That's just the ego's distortion. Punishing distortion is pointless. Even judging vengeful thoughts as "bad" is the ego again, chasing its own tail, keeping you going in circles. Observe the vengeful thought without judgement, interference, or identification, and ask God to help you see it clearly.

[saktirising]

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

- a course in miracles

[maha-mauna]

Some people say that life is not so bad because it’s just a dream. Not true. This dream is as good as reality to you. You experience the pain and the misery it causes. Sure, there’s no one behind the eyes of others, but for you - it’s real. If you have to work 10 hours per day and you get extremely tired and feel barely alive - to you that’s perfectly real. The fact that it’s a dream doesn’t change the suffering. Those people will not awaken if they maintaing this attitude - how can you let go of this world if you cover up the horror part of it? That’s what Ken says about awakening - when you clearly see the consequence of choosing the ego - that’s when you will be able to choose differently. And to see the consequences you have to look at your experience and be honest - I am miserable. Even though this is a dream - I am not taken care of, I am a slave, no one loves me, people are stupid, and there’s no chance of anything changing. Now from this perspective it’s possible to awaken.

[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

[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.