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The Embrace #114: Doing by Being: A New Activism

I grew up thinking that things should be achieved with effort and dedication. I learned in the past that merit and striving had an intrinsic capacity to add value to my actions. “If I do it with sacrifice, somehow it will be worth more.”

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The Embrace #50: From Thinking Love to Living Love

The Embrace #50: From Thinking Love to Living Love

  From Thinking Love to Living LoveBy Don TurnerImagine that we, you and I and any number of friends, are all sitting in the most beautiful meadow without a care in the world. A spiritual Light and Love imbues us. Such beauty! Such peace! Here we can speak freely...

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The Embrace #47: Truth Makes Free Even in Prison

The Embrace #47: Truth Makes Free Even in Prison

  Truth Makes Us Free - Even in PrisonBy Sebastian BlaksleyI have had the unthinkable experience of having to go to two penitentiary institutions in Buenos Aires in order to visit some friends and family. I go weekly. At the beginning it was a shock. The prison...

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The Embrace #44: Art of True Response

The Embrace #44: Art of True Response

  The Art of True Response By Karči Cole Kňazovický The Art of True Response is the ability to truly communicate with oneself first and therefore with others. This ability has been largely lost. Many are not really in touch with themselves or with a true part of...

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The Embrace #49: Searching for the Whole Self

The Embrace #49: Searching for the Whole Self

  Searching for the Whole SelfBy David BasioveI have been to the mountain top, and I have seen the promised land. — Martin Luther King Jr.Dr. King’s immortal words take on special significance for readers of A Course of Love that have had the mountain top...

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The Embrace #46: A Gift of Spacious Presence

The Embrace #46: A Gift of Spacious Presence

  A Gift of Presence: Spacious PresenceBy John Mark StroudHere I AM sitting in front of my computer staring at the blank white screen, reveling in its empty beauty. I feel the gentle rhythm of the body’s breath coming and going. I hear the sounds of water...

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The Embrace #43: Ascension

The Embrace #43: Ascension

  Ascension By Eric Huysmans Ascension. Enlightenment. Overcoming duality. For many of us this is the Big Goal. I realize this now. But once it was different. As a teenager I started to read Jung and Blavatsky. It was fascinating. But I did not understand it, I...

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The Embrace #48: Is the World Real or Illusory?

The Embrace #48: Is the World Real or Illusory?

  Is the World Real or Illusory?By Christina StruttIt would be so easy to choose one answer over the other. The world must be either real or illusory! Yet my experience dictates otherwise, and my heart insists on another way. So here I share a third choice...

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The Embrace #42: The Scam

The Embrace #42: The Scam

  The Scam By Paula Hardin This happened to me. Likely it has happened to you. You find you are a victim of a scam. I first posted this event on ACOL’s Facebook page, the “ACOL Companion Group. I depended on this companionship site for support as I began to...

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