by Mari Perron | Mar 15, 2015 | A Course of Love
What has happened here is that words have been put on the feelings and remembrances that you have within your minds and hearts and have been sharing in this dialogue. Dialogues, Day 20.4 It started a week ago with a book review headline: “Lethem’s ‘Lucky Alan’...
by Mari Perron | Mar 8, 2015 | A Course of Love
[I]f you have been religious, abandon not your churches, for you will find within them now, direct experiences of sharing. If you have found guidance and comfort in the written word, abandon not the written word, for the written word will now elicit direct...
by Mari Perron | Mar 2, 2015 | A Course of Love
As air carries sound, as a stream carries water, as a pregnant woman carries her child, this is how you are meant to carry what you have been given. What you have been given is meant to accompany you, propel you, and be supported by you. You are not separate from what...
by Mari Perron | Feb 23, 2015 | A Course of Love
Cabin Sunday, February 22, 2015 Finally reading Joyce Carol Oates again. She speaks of the euphoria of work. This is why I read her. Because she speaks of the euphoria of the writing life (and at times of what keeps it from being euphoric). I’m only here as light is...
by Mari Perron | Feb 16, 2015 | A Course of Love
Simply stated, miracles are a natural consequence of joining. (C:10.11) I have been sitting, the last few days, with a friend who has been in a crisis situation. As it began to ebb a little, even though much uncertainty still surrounded it, he spoke of it as a...
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...
