All of Life’s events are lessons. Suffering is inevitable if we don’t learn the intended lessons. All lessons point to increasing awareness. Awareness of self, which means our thoughts, emotions, assumptions, tendencies and desires. We ought to welcome trials because they eventually lead to self-discovery and therefore life-fulfillment.
For unknown reasons we’ve decided to reduce our divine purview to what we currently experience through our bodies. We’re convinced that we’re what our bodies are. What if that wasn’t the case? What if a greater perspective and experience were possible just by a change in our perception? And what if that change was the easiest and most natural thing to do?
A miracle is the experience of God’s loving presence. It’s the experience of primal reality. Such is the underpinning of all seeming objects and events that we can ever experience. It’s the very substance of everything and therefore everyone. It’s realized when our chattering mind is completely still even if it’s for just a moment. In that moment of realization all is quiet, still, peaceful, wholesome and complete. Nothing’s left to be said or to be done.
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Many wonder about the definition of a ‘Miracle’ from the perspective of A Course in Miracles. The Text and the Lessons in the book have various definitions. In fact the entire book repeats essentially the same message in a myriad different ways. The message is that what we understand to be us and the world around us is not what it appears to be. In truth we’re ever in the presence of our creator, but we’ve decided to not experience this reality for some reason. That presence is love itself. Which is why I ‘love’ the above definition of a miracle. A miracle is knowing that all that we are and which we experience is an expression of love. It’s a ‘shift in perception’ that helps us embrace reality.
A Course in Miracle’s stated goal is to help train our mind and to gently guide us to self-knowledge. Who or What am I? Through 365 daily practical lessons and a large tome that makes up the Text, the Course helps us experientially answer these questions…