Which is the Real Sacrifice?, revisited

First published on March 31, 2006:

http://acimmentor.blogspot.com/2006/03/which-is-real-sacrifice.html


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Distinction: Peace vs. Boredom, revisited

http://acimmentor.blogspot.com/2006/03/distinction-peace-vs-boredom.html


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The Course and Jesus, revisited

From March 6, 2006:

http://acimmentor.blogspot.com/2006/03/course-and-jesus.html


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The Time Saving Tools of the Course, revisited

From February 28, 2006:

http://acimmentor.blogspot.com/2006/02/time-saving-tools-of-course.html

When the Course Becomes an Idol, Revisited

First posted February 27, 2006:

http://acimmentor.blogspot.com/2006/02/when-course-becomes-idol.html

"Creation" Revisited

"Creation"

http://acimmentor.blogspot.com/2006/01/creation.html

Ego and ACIM Groups

I hear from students who are disappointed to go to A Course in Miracles study groups or other gatherings, live, online, or over the phone and encounter a lot of posturing, conflicting personal selves. Somehow, they expect Course groups to be different from other gatherings; they expect other students to supply the Love and Light that they feel they lack. Of course, it does not matter whether you are with Course students or non-Course students, because, in any situation, you can only get what you put into it, without exception. Your experience always comes from within you; there is no world outside of your mind. The images that you perceive (the sounds that you hear, the material forms that you touch, etc) are neutral in themselves; you decide what they mean to you.

If you want to join a group or organization, Course-related or otherwise, the question to ask yourself is, why? If it’s to supply a lack, you will be coming from your identification with a personal self. You will be looking to other personal selves to supply your lack, and you will inevitably feel that others have failed you. But if you are there to learn from the Holy Spirit, then you will listen for the Holy Spirit and dismiss the rest. These experiences are automatic to the thought system that you choose. If you come from the personal mind, you will clash with other personal selves; if you come from the Holy Spirit, you will learn from the Holy Spirit, and overlook all of the personal blather.

‘Only what you have not extended to any situation can be lacking.’ (MACIM-17.7.4)

Your response to anything teaches you which thought system in your mind that you are choosing. Your experience is always the effect of this choice; it never comes from something that seems outside of you.

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