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A Course in Miracles: Lesson 10

Lesson 10 My thoughts do not mean anything. Today’s lesson is very profound and invites courage to take the responsibility for our own thoughts.  But we are more than ready to take on today’s work.  This is why:  ten days in, let us recap specific lessons that have led us to this one in particular: […]
9 years ago

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 8

Lesson 8 My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. Starting to read this lesson, I found my mind going back and forth from thinking of the past and then projecting into the future.  It was a mental game of ping pong in my head and only when the ball hit the net was I in […]
9 years ago

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 7

Lesson 7 I see only the past. Today is our first official lesson about time and calls upon us to notice how we perceive each item that catches our eye and how we label each object based on past experiences. I see only the past in this blanket. I see only the past in this […]
9 years ago

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 6

Lesson 6 I am upset because I see something that is not there.   To “linger” means to stay in a particular state for a while, most often longer than necessary.  The rock group, The Cranberries, sang of just this word in the 90’s hit, Linger.  The edgy sound of the guitar at the beginning, […]
9 years ago

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 5

Lesson 5 I am never upset for the reason I think. If my thoughts do not mean anything, then how could I truly know what I am upset over? Thus, am I really even upset?  Today’s lessons help us uncover just that.  In the practice periods we are called to examine the mind for what […]
9 years ago

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 4

Lesson 4 These thoughts do not mean anything.  They are like the things I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place]. I honor the time I have taken in silence and on retreats, in particular to Vipassana Centers for a ten-day sit.  I can recall meditations where I have […]
9 years ago

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 3

Lesson 3 I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place]. Meditation is a very useful practice where one can learn to retrain the mind and break the habit of blind reaction.  Often when thoughts arise we immediately react, even without notice.  Physiologically our blood […]
9 years ago

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 2

Lesson 2 I have given everything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me. We take another step beyond yesterday’s lesson of “Nothing I see in this room means anything,” in which for the most part, can be taken at face […]
9 years ago

A Course in Miracles: Part I, Lesson I

A Course in Miracles:  Part 1, Lesson 1 Lesson 1 Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything. Welcome to A Walk in Miracles! During this journey, we will approach and explore each lesson in the book A Course in Miracles as a mindful walk we take daily, […]
9 years ago

A Walk In Miracles: The Introduction

A Course in Miracles, or The Course as it is also referred, is considered a channeled text and labor of love of two Professors of Medical Psychology at Columbia’s University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, Helen Schulman and William Thetford, published in 1976.  It was channeled through Helen, “three startling months […]
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