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The Embrace #126: Bitterness, Poison for the Heart

ACIM does speak of bitterness, although not with the sustained attention I discovered ACOL gives it. What most intrigued me was the way ACOL places bitterness in the heart alongside the ego in the mind, a parallel I had never considered before.

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The Embrace #125: Jesus on Elevated Form

The Embrace #125: Jesus on Elevated Form

Ground level seems to symbolize our every-day experience in our physical world. But the whole mountain is real, as real at its base as at the peak. Despite this, I have met many ACIM students that describe “ground level” as imaginary, as an illusion. Even the editor of ACIM, Kenneth Wapnick, was a very strong proponent of this description.

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The Embrace #123: The Extraordinary Power of Blessing

The Embrace #123: The Extraordinary Power of Blessing

While on a retreat recently I had a dream. In this dream I am a guest teacher of some kind for a group of students. …I tell them to go out and practice blessing people, and to come back the next day and share what that experience was like.

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The Embrace #121: Our Dance of Awakening

The Embrace #121: Our Dance of Awakening

Have you felt yourself to be on a roller coaster ride of late? Are you sometimes experiencing brilliant highs of joy and elation and other times deep grief and disillusionment? Are you having moments of sheer bliss and feeling attunement with all love swimming within and around you?

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The Embrace #119: No Order of Difficulty in Miracles

The Embrace #119: No Order of Difficulty in Miracles

Some years ago, I traveled down into Mexico to study Spanish. I had taken an extended leave from my job allowing this opportunity. A lovely Mexican family hosted me. My departure date to return to America had arrived. I was standing in line for check-in at the Morelia airport. When I got up to the ticket counter, the representative asked for my passport.

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The Embrace #118: Our Harrowing Time of Healing

The Embrace #118: Our Harrowing Time of Healing

Last week I returned from the Netherlands where I took part in an event in The Hague organized by Take Heart Publications. There about fifty people gathered from a dozen countries to join together around the theme of Co-Creating Our New Earth.

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The Embrace #117: My Heart is Still Beating, Mama

The Embrace #117: My Heart is Still Beating, Mama

Love never dies. Bodies may pass, be left to rest. But Love never dies. A few years ago, in 2020, I experienced a miscarriage. It was one of the most heart wrenching times of my life, yet it turned out to be one of the most magical, loving, heart-opening experiences ever.

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