ACIM

About ten years ago, I was in a weekly Course in Miracles study group at Unity of Boulder, and I absolutely thrived on the new experience of being able to discuss such radical ideas with other like-minded people. About half way through the year-long course, my interest petered out. Which was fine with me -- I just figured I had gotten what I needed for the moment, and lots of the principles had become part of my inner landscape. I happily moved on to other studies, and thankfully there are now gobs of people in my life with whom I can discuss radical ideas til the cows come home.

Recently, I've felt myself being drawn back to the Course. The same barriers that had prohibited me from embracing it fully back then were still present; the Christian lexicon, a masculine God, etc. But I found myself feeling very determined to figure out a way to access this material that would work for me. And then I came across the transcriptions of Ken Wapnick's lectures at http://www.facim.org/acim/ex-series.htm. Voila! It was much easier for me to understand the meaning without getting hung up on the form.

So here are a few quotes from Ken that I really enjoyed:

My failure to understand what love is does not change love. My attacks on love do not change love. Love simply waits patiently within my mind until I return to it.
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The example is very helpful to remember as well when we find ourselves tempted to tell people the "truth" and hit them over the head with it. Rather, what we want to do is love them. We do not want to hit them over the head with the "truth," which is always form. Love is never form. Truth is never form -- it is content. It is expressed in form, but the form is not the love. Whether I am teaching you directly what A Course in Miracles is saying or I am going shopping with you, knowing full well what the meaning of the shopping is for you, if love is in my heart, that is the message that you will receive. And that is the message that I will be offering. I can only do that if I first join with love in my own mind.
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Again, we are not asked to deny what we see. We are simply asked to put everything into one of two categories -- either an expression of love or a call for love.