by Mari Perron | Feb 15, 2016 | A Course of Love
These words of love… do not enter your body through your eyes and take up residence in your brain, there to be distilled into a language that you can understand. As you read, be aware your heart, for this is where this learning enters and will stay. Your heart...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Feb 10, 2016 | The Embrace
A Cup of Tea — With Milk, Sugar, and the Spacious Self By Derek Neilson [Editor’s note: The “spacious Self” is an important element of Jesus’ message in A Course of Love, one he does not mention until the final part of the book, in The...
by Mari Perron | Feb 8, 2016 | A Course of Love
To have experienced only separation is to have known only half of any experience. After I completed A Course of Love, what consumed me for a long while was a desire to understand my own experience. I don’t remember precisely when this began, and admit there may have...
by Mari Perron | Jan 31, 2016 | A Course of Love
If I speak with human tongues and angelic as well, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and, with full knowledge, comprehend all mysteries, if I have faith great enough to move mountains, but have not love, I am...
by Mari Perron | Jan 24, 2016 | A Course of Love
The learning that occurs during the time of tenderness is learning from love. No lessons learned without love touch your heart. No lessons that do not touch your heart will accomplish anything. The purpose of the final lessons are both unlearning and moving...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jan 22, 2016 | The Embrace
Exactly What I Needed By Barry Cosme On November 13, 2015, Barry Cosme, a longtime student of A Course in Miracles, posted the following review of A Course of Love on Amazon.com. He graciously gave permission for it to be reprinted here. This book (ACOL) was the...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Jan 7, 2016 | The Embrace
Dropping From a Tree Into the Arms of God By Douwe vanderZee For more than a decade, I regularly played with children. The term ‘original play’ was coined by Dr. O. Fred Donaldson, who discovered that what little children – and animals – do is...
by Mari Perron | Jan 3, 2016 | A Course of Love
Creation balanced with rest is the pattern that has been taken to extremes within your world. You think of birth as creation and death as rest. You do not realize that your nature, and the nature of your life, like that of all around you, is governed by seasons...
by Mari Perron | Dec 27, 2015 | A Course of Love
Last week I wrote of the Christmas season’s capacity to take me out of ordinary time: “Being out of ordinary time is like visiting another state of being. Some would have us believe this only happens in meditation, or formal practices of some kind. But life is full of...
by Contributing Authors-ACOL Readers | Dec 23, 2015 | The Embrace
The Greatest Leap of All By Mari Perron It was meaningful to me in 1998, as it still is now, that A Course of Love first began to come to me as the season of Advent began . . . the season that marks the Second Coming of Christ and the end of Ordinary Time. In the...
