Miracles and Intimacy | Marianne Williamson

Swine Flu_Practical Application of "A Course in Miracles"

The light of understanding.

 

“There is one mind common to all individual men.  Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.  He that is once admitted to  the  right  of  reason  is  made  a  freeman  of  the  whole  estate.    What  Plato  has  thought,  he  may  think;  what  a  saint  has  felt,  he  may  feel;  what  at  any  time  has  befallen any man, he can understand.  Who hath access to this Universal Mind, is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.” ~Emerson

Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way. (ACIM, T-2.III.3:6)

 

To be fatigued is to be dis-spirited, but to be inspired

My brother, choose again.

 

“I Am Here Only to Be Truly Helpful”

…I should like to review a prayer from the early part of the text:

Where did the writing come from?

“I don’t know how to explain this,” I said in a shaky voice, “and it’s very hard to describe. But, well …” I hesitated a moment, and then went on breathlessly, “I saw a great light, and waves and waves of love came out of it, and when I opened my eyes I loved everybody. It’s all gone now, and I don’t understand what happened.”
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“Be Healed That You May Heal”

 

About 500 B.C. it was written: "It easily happens that a man, when taking a bath, steps upon a wet rope and imagines that it is a snake. Horror will overcome him, and he will shake from fear, anticipating in his thought all the agonies caused by the serpent's venomous bite. What a relief does this man experience when he sees that the rope is no snake! The cause of his fright lies in his error, his ignorance, his illusion. If the true nature of the rope is recognized, his tranquility of mind will come back to him; he will feel relieved; he will be joyful and happy.

The Latin word aperio, meaning "to open," is the source of the month of April's name

 

since plants begin budding in this month.
A Course in Miracles uses the term "budding" in only one instance: