by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Apr 5, 2016 | The Embrace
Sex and the Course: A Personal Perspective By Laina Orlando A major event gripped the social world in 2015—the sensational transgender transformation wherein Bruce Jenner died and was resurrected as Caitlyn Jenner. It reminded me of my own transformation through a...
by Mari Perron | Apr 3, 2016 | A Course of Love
Our hearts . . . go out to the world, to the suffering, to the weak of body and of mind. Our hearts are not so easily contained within the casing of our flesh and bone. Our hearts take wing with joy and break with sadness. Not so the brain that keeps on registering it...
by Mari Perron | Mar 28, 2016 | A Course of Love
You can only be who you are by sharing who you are. C:31.17 Today is Easter. It’s early evening and I sit looking out the window on greening grass (where only days ago was snow), on a backlit sky, glowing with light (that eluded the day), and on the treetops across...
by Mari Perron | Mar 21, 2016 | A Course of Love
Realize that I love your smile, your teeth, the hair upon your head, the warm, smooth shape of your skull. Realize that I love your hands and that as you take another’s hand, you hold my own, and that I am with you as well as within you. Realize that I love all that...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Mar 18, 2016 | The Embrace
To Give or to Receive? That is Love’s Question By Laurel Elstrom It was Valentine’s Day. My partner hadn’t met my expectations. I watched my own wounded reaction, knowing it was ridiculous and not helpful. Yet the recognition that I thought I had...
by Mari Perron | Mar 6, 2016 | A Course of Love
This is not to say that you will find this Course or the end of learning to be easy. Yet it is your difficulty in giving up your attachment to learning through the application of thought and effort that creates the perception of this Course’s difficulty. Thus it is...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Mar 2, 2016 | The Embrace
My Meeting with Mari By Celia Hales The year was 2004, three years after Mari Perron had published the first part of A Course of Love with New World Library. Like Mari, I was living in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. And, like Mari, I was a seeker. My story about...
by Mari Perron | Feb 28, 2016 | A Course of Love
Help is here. Be what you have been called to be. Open your dwelling place to your true Self, your true identity. Imagine this opening and this replacement occurring with every fiber of your being. Imagine the separate self being enfolded, embraced, and finally...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Feb 22, 2016 | The Embrace
A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love — A Reflection By Douwe vanderZee It seems the controversy about the relationship between A Course of Love (ACOL) and A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is gaining momentum. Numerous comments have been posted on Amazon, but...
by Mari Perron | Feb 21, 2016 | A Course of Love
The embrace has returned you to attunement with the heartbeat, the music of the dance. You have not known what you do or what to do only because of fear, only because you have been out of accord with the one heartbeat. The world, the universe, is your partner—and only...
