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...
by Mari Perron | Jul 18, 2016 | A Course of Love
Philosophy applies thought to mystery and that is why philosophy becomes such a muddle of words. It is difficult for you to accept that what you most need to know cannot be achieved through the same methods you have used in order to know about other things. And,...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jul 15, 2016 | The Embrace
In Memoriam – A Final Article from Douwe: Untangling Life’s Traffic Jams By Douwe vanderZee Editor’s note: We are deeply impacted to learn that our “elephant whisperer” friend, Douwe vanderZee passed away in an automotive incident in his...
by Mari Perron | Jul 10, 2016 | A Course of Love
The mourning and the manifestation of the new. I learned yesterday morning that my friend Douwe van der Zee has died. (I wrote of him on May 8th. He’d come from South Africa to meet with as many from the ACOL and ACIM communities as he could, beginning with the ACIM...
by Mari Perron | Jul 4, 2016 | A Course of Love
“I know everybody’s in a bad mood about the country. But the more time you spend in the hardest places, the more amazed you become. There’s some movement arising that is suspicious of consumerism but is not socialist. It’s suspicious of impersonal state systems but is...
by Mari Perron | Jun 26, 2016 | A Course of Love
“What we casually refer to as “normal” behavior is really a state of arrested development.” Gregg Levoy, Vital Signs For at least a month, Saturdays have been the hottest day of the week. It as if the heat builds and builds, flames out on Saturday, and starts from...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jun 24, 2016 | The Embrace
Depression, Acceptance, Transformation By Douwe vanderZee From as far back as I can recall, I suffered from a virtually constant underlying anxiety. I felt very alone, and had difficulty communicating. I longed for meaningful relationships, but seemed unable to...
by Mari Perron | Jun 19, 2016 | A Course of Love
A gift has been given. What is your response? T1:2.15 When we are young, being highly sensitive is seen as a liability. Well . . . this often doesn’t get much better as we mature! Sensitivity can be felt like something waiting to bring us down. There was a boy in my...
