When I became a mother, I was given the opportunity to be exposed to classic “baby” literature. You know, Goodnight Moon, Guess How Much I Love You, The Wheels on the Bus, and, of course, Runaway Bunny. Most parents know Runaway Bunny, and they always nod with a knowing smile when the title is mentioned. After I read it (which takes about two minutes), I understood why they smiled…
Our goddaughter, Lauren, recently got married. When these special occasions occur, if you’re like me, a flood of memories comes to mind of when they were little. Thinking back on Lauren’s life, I was reminded of the following story that not only spoke to her insight at such a young age but also to an important lesson we can all learn from…
“I can be free of suffering today”
For most of us, this is a joyous statement and one we want to embrace and experience. It would seem unthinkable that anyone would not want to be released from suffering. And yet, all we need to do is look around the world, see all the suffering and pain, and wonder whether this thought is realistic or even desirable…
Ram Dass was born Richard Alpert into a wealthy Boston family and received his PhD in psychology from Stanford. In the 1960s, while teaching at Harvard, he spent much of his time studying psychedelics with fellow psychologist Timothy Leary. Their goal was to understand the mind-body connection using these drugs. Harvard found their work too controversial, and both were fired.
Alpert and Leary parted ways. Leary became a well-known figure in the 1960s counterculture, popularizing catchphrases like…
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“Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself.”
These beautiful and reassuring thoughts begin Workbook Lesson 264 from A Course in Miracles. And, these are more than just thoughts; they are affirmations of faith…
I watched as the hummingbird, with decisive precision, grace, and speed, retrieved the nectar from one flower and then the next. He was an amazing example of accuracy. Not one movement was extraneous; each had a purpose, and that purpose was clear to see. My attention was then turned to a big, black, bumbling bug that appeared to be a bee of some sort. It looked as if his radar was a little off-kilter as he approached flower after flower in off-angled attempts to withdraw his morning breakfast. Bumping into a fence here and a leaf there, not quite landing on the flower in the perfect position and having to try it again, it seemed like he was the exact opposite of the magnificent hummingbird. But was he…
The power of A Course in Miracles is its focus on hope and healing in a world of such division. It reminds us that no matter how much pain and suffering we may be personally experiencing or how dangerous we feel our world is right now, “vision already holds a replacement for everything” we think we are going through. It tells us that the power of God’s love is far greater than the hate of this world or of those in power, because God’s love pulls us all together in truth. A world of hate, attack, fear, and grievances cannot stand in the face of…
From the perspective of A Course in Miracles, when we dwell in fear, we are deceiving ourselves about our reality. As we are told in the Course, if there could be an opposite to love, it would be fear; however, what is all-encompassing (love) can really have no opposite. Therefore, when we dwell in fear, we are denying not only our reality of love but our real power. We are living a lie, and the lie is costing us…
Back in the early 90s, my husband Paul had the opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall in New York City. I remember buying him a T-shirt at the time that, on one side, asked, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” On the other side, it said, “Practice, practice, practice.”
You probably guessed that’s what it said, and most of us would agree that’s what it takes to achieve things in this world. It takes practice because we don’t naturally have those skills unless we practice. But from the perspective of A Course in Miracles…