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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 #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 #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 #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 #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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The Embrace #41: One Course + One Course = One Course

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.”...

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The Embrace #40: The Bull and Me

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...

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The Embrace #39: My Necklace of Pearls

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....

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The Embrace #38: The Miracle of Dialogue

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...

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