It is Just Common Sense to be Decent
Liz here was only twenty when she became a student of A Course in Miracles so she felt that she could not have already learned ideas presented in the Course . If she came across something she already knew she felt it must mean something “higher” or “deeper” than what she had already learned. But she was mistaken. She had not yet learned that we don’t all learn things in the same order. A person at twenty could already have learned something that someone else doesn’t learn until they are fifty. The most significant example of this is the idea that what you give you receive. Liz had already realized the reason she was a nurturer was that she felt love when she was loving, not when others loved her. Really, what she felt when she engaged in actions considered nurturing was satisfaction, but this is one of those “good” feelings that we call “love”. However, when she read the idea that one will experience whatever idea or attitude they proje...