Aim to Heal NOT to Hurt!

Janice Campbell http://www.receiveyourlife.com The Importance of Knowing Your Soul Desires

"People always assume that freedom consists in getting something desirable from the exterior world, when in fact it consists exclusively of getting rid of something undesirable in the interior world." VH

http://www.gratefulness.org/ Brother David Steindl‑Rast O.S.B. an inspiring thinker about gratitude.

“Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? ~Jack Kornfield

Gemma Stone: radical self-love {aka the key to everything good}

"The purpose of stories, illustrations, parables is to enable the listener, the audience to go from the familiar to the unfamiliar, from the known to the unknown. You know what a river is. You know what a building is. You know what a tree is. You know what a canyon is. Familiar sights, they're known to your mind. So when you hear a story about a river or a tree, you can put the two together. You can see when you're told that a tree must be watered, it must be given sunshine, very easily and automatically you sense the illustration that this is what we have to do in the inner spiritual life.

So that’s one purpose, simply to shift from what you already know which is easy to understand to something that is not so easy to understand. And the familiar makes the unfamiliar understandable. That’s one reason.

Another reason, as you have seen in many of the stories and illustrations we’ve had is to put yourself in the place of the central figure. And as you've heard these parables, stories, you have sensed have you not, that’s me. That’s me who’s lost out in the desert. That’s me who’s out in a ship and there’s no steering wheel on it and I seem to be at the mercy of the storm and of the currents. We know this is a spiritual class, so we say, “That’s me out on that boat.” And then the solution comes, the man builds his own steering wheel or hoists the sail which guides him back to port.

And there’s one thing about all our illustrations in this class which should make you very happy, which is that they all have a happy ending. Because at the end of every story, Truth says, 'This is it. Now you've heard an illustration. You've been given truths. Now all you have to do is do the work connected with it.'" VH

The body is the central figure in the dreaming of the world. There is no dream without it, nor does it exist without the dream in which it acts as if it were a person to be seen and be believed. It takes the central place in every dream, which tells the story of how it was made by other bodies, born into the world outside the body, lives a little while and dies, to be united in the dust with other bodies dying like itself. In the brief time allotted it to live, it seeks for other bodies as its friends and enemies. Its safety is its main concern. Its comfort is its guiding rule. It tries to look for pleasure, and avoid the things that would be hurtful. Above all, it tries to teach itself its pains and joys are different and can be told apart. ACiM - Text Chapter Twenty-seven - The Healing of the Dream - Section 8 - The "Hero" of the Dream

Aim to Heal NOT to Hurt! ~ PVRguy

There is a central theme that unifies each step in the review we undertake, which can be simply stated in these words: 

My mind holds only what I think with God. ACiM - Workbook Lesson - Fourth Review - Introduction

Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source. This central theme is often stated in the text … ACiM - Workbook Lesson 132

Forgiveness is the central theme that runs throughout salvation, holding all its parts in meaningful relationships, the course it runs directed and its outcome sure. ACiM - Workbook Lesson 169

These practice sessions, like our last review, are centered round a central theme with which we start and end each lesson. It is this:

I am not a body. I am free.

For I am still as God created me. A Course in Miracles - Workbook Introduction to Sixth Review

Falsehoods: false Masters + false Adepts = false Teachers.