by Mari Perron | Feb 9, 2015 | A Course of Love
2.1 What love is cannot be taught. It cannot be learned. But it can be recognized. Sometime last month I read that the sun was at its closest point to the earth but that it doesn’t feel that way because of the angle. The sun’s proximity would be hard to believe (here...
by Mari Perron | Feb 1, 2015 | A Course of Love
If you cannot claim at least a small amount of love for your own Self, then neither can you claim your power, for they go hand-in-hand. There is no “common good” as you perceive of it, and you are not here to assure the continuance of society. The worries that would...
by Mari Perron | Jan 25, 2015 | A Course of Love
We are not leaving the Self to explore, because the Self is the source and cause of exploration as well as the source and cause of discovery. And yet the Self is far more than you have experienced as yourself in the past. The Dialogues, 14.2 Sunday is my day of rest....
by Mari Perron | Jan 19, 2015 | A Course of Love
You were your Self before you began your learning, and the ego cannot take your Self from you but can only obscure it. (Prelude, P:43) I started a post—one of my posts about nothing in particular—early this morning. It’s now nearly eleven o’clock p.m. and I’ve just...
by Mari Perron | Jan 11, 2015 | A Course of Love
“God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything….” Richard Rohr In the second half of life, we leave behind the self we made, for the Self God made, the original self. We move out of the shallows and into the depths. We leave the old familiars and...