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Pastimes : Metaphysics and Spiritual Practices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Harmattan who wrote (158)	11/17/1997 10:06:00 PM
From: Carol	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 650

The first moment I opened A Course in Miracles I was drawn by its flawless beauty and poetry and heart, but stung fast by its insistance on hard work. A Course in Miracles is an elegant spiritual discipline both user-friendly and palpably practical, which focuses on our true identity, true silence, and true forgiveness. In the process of teaching those lessons ACIM demands something we may not want to give: a stunningly high level of devotion. In short, A Course in Miracles takes no prisoners. You either get down to learning the wide, wordless beauty of Love and the inescapable naughtiness of the ego, or you stay trapped in the back of the class with other ACIM students who try to evade the nature of our Real Identity, and the nature of Real Love. Let me tell you: many's the day I have spent in the back of the class. Wanting to toss A Course of Miracles into the trash. But, you see, I didn't. Or maybe I should say it another way: It didn't let me. Of course, mistakes are permitted when you study the deep, rich pages of A Course in Miracles, Permitted! They are profoundly expected. The silent angelauthor of ACIM tells us our entire identity is a mistake and that our world is a dream. It follows, then, that all thoughts relating to our sly, temporal identity are mistakes by default. And our task, as fumbling initiates of A Course in Miracles? To learn how to See behind the dream; to learn how to Hear the still, small voice of God humming like faint strains of Bach in the depths of our Real Heart. That's the assignment in a nutshell. A Course in Miracles urges us to learn to listen to the sweet, divine music within daily, hourly, minutely, secondly -- as we breathe, as we move, as we walk, as we speak, as we pray and we are Home free. I have A Course in MIracles by my bedside. I have A Course in Miracles at my desk. I have A Course in Miracles in my briefcase. But most of all, 14 years after I discovered it, I have A Course in Miracles in my heart. by Elsa Joy Bailey