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The Embrace #45: The ACOL Conference – Try A Direct Encounter
The ACOL Conference - Try a Direct Encounter By Michael Mark It can be hard to explain just how or why a particular source of wisdom moves us as it does. Challenges with anxiety and self-doubt earlier in my life, coupled with a deep-seated desire to make...
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...
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...
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...
The Embrace #41: One Course + One Course = One Course
One Course + One Course = One CourseBy Jimmie Lewis“Until you have truly recognized unity . . . you continue to perceive of yourself as a learning being. This is the only reason for this continuation of the coursework provided in A Course in Miracles.”...
The Embrace #40: The Bull and Me
All of us at Take Heart Publications, publisher of A Course of Love and related material, appreciate you as an email subscriber to our monthly newsletter, “The Embrace.” We want to stay in touch and hope that you do, too; but if you wish not to receive emails...
The Embrace #39: My Necklace of Pearls
My Necklace of Pearls, and Drumming to the Heartbeat of the World By Coralie Pearson, Lead Translator of ACOL into Spanish The world is not a collection of cement buildings and paved streets nor of cold, heartless people who would as soon do you harm as good....
The Embrace #38: The Miracle of Dialogue
The Miracle of Dialogue By Michael Mark In A Course of Love we are told that “Creation is a dialogue.” This dialogue is ongoing and all around us, but to participate in it fully, and thus transform ourselves and the world which is our extension, we must...
The Embrace #37: Navigating By Heart
Navigating By Heart By Laurel Elstrom On a break between meetings, my phone rang. Caller ID told me it was Joe, a former friend who had caused considerable pain and disappointment in the past. I paused. Should I pick up? “Don’t answer,” the mind said. “That guy...