A Simple Daily Practice
Lesson 5 and Lesson 34 are the only two lessons in A Course in Miracles that you need to remember and practice. Apply these any time that you do not feel loving toward all your relationships and yourself. Ask yourself frequently how you feel throughout the day. Being self … [Read More...]
The Essential Metaphysics of A Course in Miracles: 4 classes
Without understanding the non-dual metaphysics of A Course in Miracles it is impossible to apply the workbook lessons that will change your mind and the way you see the world. In this series of 4 classes you will learn what the course means by “mind training”, how … [Read More...]
All Would Be Love
“…you believe that without the ego all would be chaos. Yet I assure you that without the ego, all would be love.” T. 15. V. 1: 6-7 If we would lay aside our need to be somebody—all ideas about our self and all ideas we hold about the person before us—we would find … [Read More...]
Only the Mind is Real
“Only the mind is real because only the mind can be shared.” (T-6. V.A. 3:2-3). The body is neutral. Think of it as a mindless puppet and you are the one who pulls the strings. The puppet only responds to the decisions of the mind. The body has no thoughts, feelings or … [Read More...]
The Difference between Translation and Interpretation
Once a week I have the delightful opportunity to read for a blind man. Robert, a seeker of truth since his early 20’s, is now 86. His most prized possession is a library containing the works of the world’s greatest mystics, theologians, philosophers, and teachers. At my … [Read More...]
The Essential Metaphysics of A Course in Miracles
Without understanding the non-dual metaphysics of A Course in Miracles it is impossible to apply the workbook lessons that will change your mind and the way you see the world. In this series of 4 classes you will learn what the course means by “mind training”, how to … [Read More...]
Back Again
I think my last blog post was about a year ago. Blame it on broken links, many changes in Wordpress and a serious lack of technical skills on my part. I recently decided to renovate Becoming Learners Together with the help of Bruce Rawles, an amazingly skillful webmaster and all … [Read More...]
What is healing?
“The Holy Spirit speaks to you. He does not speak to someone else.” Text. 576 Only you can be healed. You are a mind, not a body and not a brain. “At no instant does the body exist at all.” The body is a dream figure in a mind that has not yet awakened … [Read More...]
Self Sabotaging Behavior
Once we heed the call to wake up from the ego thought system we begin to see the world differently. It becomes a classroom in which everything can be used to learn to make a different choice that will lead us out of the dream of separation instead of deeper into it. Until we … [Read More...]
The Abundance of God
"Whatever suffers is not part of me." Lesson 248 What is in pain is but illusion in my mind. No matter what befalls you in life: sickness, poverty, aloneness, abandonment, betrayal—you cannot suffer because love accompanies you. Love is total. If there is suffering, there … [Read More...]
Making Our Weak Commitment Strong
"An untrained mind can accomplish nothing." The ideas shared in lessons 181 to 200 of A Course in Miracles are designed to help us in “firming up our willingness to make our weak commitment strong.” In other words, we know we want to change our minds, but we are dealing … [Read More...]
A Little Willingness
"Salvation is easy just because it asks nothing you cannot give right now." - A Course in Miracles, Text. 382 It is of enormous relief to know—finally, and with certainty—what our only function is. We should be looking one another in the eye and winking the “we’ve got a … [Read More...]
Don’t Take Yourself So Seriously
"Humility will never ask that you remain content with littleness. But it does require that you be not content with less than greatness that comes not of you." - A Course in Miracles, T. p. 381 Here are some suggestions to get over yourself: 1. Do not compare yourself to … [Read More...]
The Teacher
"Resign now as your own teacher, for you have been badly taught." To the one who takes pride in the quality of their dream I say, I will wait until you change your mind. This is not said to be cruel. It is simply a waste of time to talk of waking when it is sleeping that is … [Read More...]
Your Way Will Be Different, Part two: Out of the comfort zone. Help is available.
If you want to be like me, I will help you, knowing we are alike. If you want to be different I will wait until you change your mind.” - Jesus, A Course in Miracles T. 145 You may not be willing yet to be shown another way because you are not so sure it offers more than what … [Read More...]
“Your way will be different”
“Your way will be different……. A holy relationship is a means of saving time. One instant spent together with your brother restores the universe to both of you.” A holy relationship! This is the means A Course in Miracles has given us for returning to the home … [Read More...]
Perfect Happiness
"God's will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go against His Will? In a world of separate bodies going their separate ways, the self-centered point of view, aka ego, has its own plans for happiness. Attached to personhood, residing in the body, life … [Read More...]
There Is No Peace Except the Peace of God
"There is no peace except the peace of God, unless you seek for misery and pain." Lesson 200 The lessons of A Course in Miracles are a song that comes from the heart of Love to the heart of one that sleeps. They are meant just for you its reader and no one else, as … [Read More...]
An Invitation
Have you ever wanted to seriously immerse yourself in A Course in Miracles because you know that your peace lies in understanding and applying what it says? Have you ever wanted to see the real world that the Course promises and you just don’t quite understand it’s method … [Read More...]
It Never Happened
"As long as there is a 'you' doing or not doing, thinking or not-thinking, meditating or not meditating, you are no closer to home than the day you were born." Wei Wu Wei I have been lit up from the inside since "the clearing". There is whole-hearted joy without … [Read More...]
Who Is Looking?
What would you be willing to give to absolutely know, without a shadow of a doubt, that a happy outcome to all things is sure? That there is nothing to fear? That there is no need to feel loss, pain, or suffering? That there is no death? This knowledge is your inheritance. It … [Read More...]
The Myth of “Personhood”
The problem with being human is that everything seems to be personal when it is not. Suffering is the result of the personal self interpreting things in terms of itself: if it benefits “me”, it’s good; if it doesn’t benefit “me” it’s bad. To the … [Read More...]
Gratitude: Part two
We are thankful for one thing alone: God has given the gift of love to each of us. The ego is grateful because He has favored us in some special way while others suffer. Salvation is an equal playing field on which everyone has been given everything. (There is … [Read More...]
Gratitude: Part one
"Love makes no comparisons. And gratitude can only be sincere if it be joined to love." First, I want to make sure that we know what the ego is and the way that it sees the world. The ego is the belief in separated, locatable self. The mind mistakenly identifies with the … [Read More...]
Miracles Are Natural
"Miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong." First, let’s be clear what a miracle is not. A miracle is not an extraordinary external phenomenon like a vision of Jesus in a cloud. It’s not having a check show up in the mail that … [Read More...]
Save Yourself; Bless the World
“Let Him teach you what you need to learn to lay all fear aside, and know your Self as love, which has no opposite in you.” Please consider this today. There is a Presence that surrounds you, which is your Self. It is constantly informing you of your True Nature … [Read More...]
A Happy Outcome to All Things Is Sure
The impossible is the thing you need forgiveness for. The never done is overlooked, and sins forgotten which were never real. A happy outcome to all things is sure. Certainty is yours because forgiveness is the only function given you by God. It is simultaneously your reason … [Read More...]
What’s Valuable?
“Nothing is so easy to recognize as truth.” Regardless of what state I am in right now there is a river of peace underneath all of it. It goes with me wherever I go, in spite of everything going on in my ordinary life. It is not subject to any of it. It cannot be … [Read More...]
There Is No Death
"Death is a decision not to decide." I was on an interview yesterday with friends and Course teachers Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Viera, authors of Take Me To Truth. The interviewer was Carrie Triffet author of Long Time No See. (Both highly recommended reads). Carrie asked … [Read More...]
Is It Healing or Fixing?
“You can’t fix what isn’t real. What’s real doesn’t need fixing.” When you see a problem in someone else—sickness, mood, disposition—it is your mind that is in need of healing, not the one in whom the problem appears to reside. There is only one … [Read More...]
The Seeker
There is something about a true spiritual seeker that sets them apart from everyone else, namely they are interested in going beyond what they presently know about themselves. They are willing to pull up the anchor of history—their name, place, career, roles, and … [Read More...]
Three Things
I am not a scholar of A Course in Miracles. For a while I thought I might be but that's not "the way of Lyn". I'm glad to get that out of the way. The scholar for the Course, in my opinion, is Dr. Kenneth Wapnick. His brilliance and dedication to the principles of the … [Read More...]
School of Reason
"Above all else I want to see." Like any course the Course in Miracles offers an opportunity to learn something that is considered to be of value. The similarities probably begin and end there. Unlike most educational opportunities it is not aimed at improving who you are or … [Read More...]
The True Shape of Being
The shape of our character in the dream is the expression of our intimate inner conversations. Nothing borrowed will do. The true shape of our own being must be the result of the laborious excavations of our depths and the treasures we find there. In our giving … [Read More...]
The Decision Maker
Tonight Deepak Chopra is speaking to 2400 people in Calgary on non-violence. His goal is “to have at least 100 million people join him in a vow of non-violence in thought, speech and action”. This is a worthwhile goal and I support it. But let’s be clear what that would … [Read More...]
Teaching Love
It's Valentine's Day! Teaching love would be an appropriate thought for today. What does it mean to teach love? A Course in Miracles tells you to teach only love for that is what you are. You can’t teach anything else without being false. I started thinking about … [Read More...]
Invitation to Love’s Presence
“Undoing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence” is the curriculum of A Course in Miracles. It is a required course….undoing the blocks, that is. Only the time we take it is voluntary. Everyone, without exception, wants to feel love’s presence informing … [Read More...]
Becoming a Learner
The pleasure of helping others learn started in first grade. I attended a one-room schoolhouse/church/town library combined in rural New Hampshire. A huge black wood-burning stove was the unifying amenity in an otherwise stark room that housed 21 students, grades 1 through 4, … [Read More...]
