A Christmas Message: Your Purpose Is to Be Loved By Laurel Elstrom Editor's note: the following message was received in meditation. Do you not realize that your entire purpose is to be loved? Will you allow creation to love you? You think that you lack love, that love...

Donald Trump: Man of My Dreams By Paula Payne Hardin November 13, 2016 What could my inner dreamer be saying by sending me a series of five startling—even shocking—dreams over the year preceding the election of Donald Trump? Dreaming is rare for me these days but I...

The Election: Moving from Shock to Love By Michael Mark Voting this year felt like trying to distill years of carefully-gathered hope and passion into a single, oval-shaped grunt. It was like trying to create a landscape painting with a single prick of ink. It's not...

Matthew, the Hurricane, Meets A Course of Love By Paula Payne Hardin  October 14, 2016 There is an afterglow bathing my community of Vero Beach, Florida. The Category 4 hurricane named Matthew, due to make a direct hit sometime during the night of October 6 through 7,...

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 saturated by it right now....

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 Rhimes had already coined the phrase a...

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 level,...

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 native South Africa. When we...

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...