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 Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Sep 29, 2016 | The Embrace
The Politics of Acceptance By Michael Mark It’s that time again here in the US. I’m increasingly confronted by discussions of politics. They’re coming into the home, the office, the car. With the menu, the memo, the mail. And why not? We’re...
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 Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Sep 13, 2016 | The Embrace
Expanding Our View of Ourselves . . . with Yes By Mari Perron, First Receiver I’m in a “yes” year. I came up with the idea of having a year in which I’d say “Yes” to all that this Course would bring me before I heard that Shonda...
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 Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Aug 8, 2016 | The Embrace
My Wild Ride By Paula Payne Hardin The ad for A Course of Love shimmered on the page in October 2014. Within a few days the book was delivered to my home—and so began a wild year for me! A year I wouldn’t trade for anything. A year of facing my life at a deep...
