by Mari Perron | Oct 3, 2016 | A Course of Love
We dwell in the reality of the One Heart, creation’s birthplace, birthplace of the new. I.11 The situation of violence throughout the world, the feelings of being powerless to change anything, of being caught in deception, make me go, “No, no. I don’t want to look at...
by Mari Perron | Sep 25, 2016 | A Course of Love
Remember that you are tired of learning. You are tired here, after your climb. You simply want to rest and have whatever transformation is to come to you to come. If you could indeed give in to this desire fully, it would speed the transformation along quite nicely....
by Mari Perron | Sep 18, 2016 | A Course of Love
Become the author of your own life. Live it as you feel called to live it. D:4.24 I have been reading and re-reading Thomas Merton for over a decade, but I recently found a quote from him I’d never seen, one that describes love and its affects in a way that fits me...
by Mari Perron | Sep 11, 2016 | A Course of Love
[I]f you were to think now of a person whom you know who has died, you would not be likely to think of them much differently than they were in life, even while you are able to imagine them being peaceful and free of the constraints of the body. This is as good an...
by Mari Perron | Sep 4, 2016 | A Course of Love
“Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics...
by Mari Perron | Aug 21, 2016 | 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 | Aug 14, 2016 | A Course of Love
There is no right or wrong within creation but there are stages of growth and change. Humankind is now passing through a tremendous stage of growth and change. Are you ready? T3:12.11 I awoke this morning with the words “surrender” and “growth” ringing within me....
by Mari Perron | Aug 7, 2016 | A Course of Love
For ages man has thought that spiritual joy diminishes physical joy. While there is no physical joy that is limited to the physical—no joy felt by the physical form alone—the joy that comes of things physical can certainly still be experienced and expressed. This is...
by Mari Perron | Jul 31, 2016 | A Course of Love
Such is the world that God did create: A world so lovely and so peaceful that when you see it once again you will cry with joy and forget your sadness in an instant. There will be no long remembering of regrets, no feeling badly for all the years in which you saw this...
by Mari Perron | Jul 24, 2016 | A Course of Love
You will never fully understand what unity means, but you will come to feel what unity means, and this I promise you. This is what we work toward in this Course, for once you have experienced the feeling of unity, you will need no understanding of it. C:13.1 (emphasis...
