“You must realize it is your desire to make of yourself your own creator that has caused all your problems. This is the authority problem. It is pervasive in the life of your physical form and in the life of your mind. It is only your heart that does not consider this an issue of concern. This is another reason we appeal to the heart. (A Course of Love, 1.11)”
Affirmation: “Listen to my heart today.”
Reflections:
1 – Did We Make Ourselves?
We sometimes, when especially trapped by egoic thinking, believe that we made ourselves, that we are our own creator. This is an understandable belief, because we are told in many places (especially in Jane Roberts’s Seth books) that we “create our own reality.” We do, in all likelihood, make the world that we see. It is a tenet of A Course in Miracles that projection makes perception. And another tenet: “There is no world!”
2 – We Are Never Told that We Created Ourselves
But we are not ever told that we created ourselves. In some of our grandiosity, we may think this, and it is a major stumbling for some of us. We think that somehow the world evolved with us ourselves somehow creating ourselves. This could not be farther from the truth. We may find it difficult that we could make the world of illusion, the universe of illusion, in which we live. Traditional religion sees a guiding hand behind all of this. But nowhere, in no religion, are we taught that we created ourselves of our own volition. Yet we somehow believe this, sometimes.
3 – Made the World but Not Ourselves?
Do we understand this how we could make our world and not ourselves? Of course not. And we do not have to rely on exhortations to have “faith.” We can simply entertain the possibility that these interpretations of illusion are accurate. If we do accept that what we are seeing is an illusion, and a dream, then we do not have to try to make sense of everything that we see. None of us accords much credence to the fantastical things that happen in our nighttime dreams.
4 – Are We Real?
We may even doubt, sometimes, that we are real, and instead think that we too are as illusory as the world in which we find ourselves. But when we look out, projecting from within, we need to know that there is an invisible divinity within. We are not in touch totally, for we are human. But the divine is within, and we project the perceptions outwardly that we see.
5 – Our Heart Does Not Fret about These Matters
But our heart does not worry about such things. This passage makes that clear. And, if we disregard the body and the mind for a bit, we will see that we really don’t care to get involved in controversies that body and mind would have us seek out.. Our heart knows that love is the only true answer–that, and the forgiveness that brings us to accept our brothers and sisters, and to correct our own mistakes and thereby forgive ourselves as well.
6 – Listen to Your Heart
So let’s listen to our hearts today. What does our heart say to do or say? We will find ourselves easily in a forgiving spirit if we listen to our heart.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
May I listen with my heart today. May I rest in the understanding that You have given me (I believe) that while the world is illusory, I am not. There is a divinity in back of all this illusion, and though this is my interpretation, not stated precisely in either A Course in Miracles or A Course of Love, this belief is one that I find comforting and palpable. Thank You for granting to my questioning mind this level of understanding.
But, as I told You, I will listen to my heart today. I will leave aside metaphysical interpretations that perhaps cannot be accepted by everyone who reads this blog. May we join together in common ground that celebrates the wonders of You and this world, however difficult, in which we find ourselves. This world’s beauty is unmistakable, and it is this in which my heart finds resonance.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 