There is a tendency in most people (me) to not take the reviews very seriously. They seem like fluff, like filler, like 10 days when I can take a holiday from the lessons.
But they are very important, so please do them as instructed.
Practice all day long, in whatever situation you find yourself in:
6. I am upset because I see something that is not there.
7. I see only the past.
8. My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
9. I see nothing as it is now.
10. My thoughts do not mean anything.
You can even write the 5 lessons down on a piece of paper and carry them around in your pocket, so you don’t forget.
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Lisa,
Last night I copied your response to my questions and took them to my bedroom where I do all my Course stuff. I was working with it for two or three hours last night and thought I would tell you what happened.
I made notes where I needed further clarification. There were three areas but instead of hitting you with all three I decided to focus on one and see how that went. You had Love written down quite a few times. There is a tendency when reading to just kind of skim over what is being said. From the Course I have slowed to a crawl and read trying to get to the core of what is being said. I wanted to know that about Love. To bring the Course definition of love over to this side, the world, and see what it means and how it is applied. Love is bandied about so freely and easily that I have become skeptical/jaded. What I was going to ask you is what is love? Not the flowery words and adjectives but what does it mean beyond words. The core. The nuts and bolts. As I was sitting there with my coffee and papers strewn about the bed I felt the Holy Spirit inside me (a first, but it couldn’t be anything else) and I thought this is your chance to write down what is happening, to answer your own questions. So I concentrated on it and this is what I came up with last night.
The feeling of the Holy Spirit was in the core of my chest area, shaped like a cylinder about three inches in diameter. It went from my pelvis to my shoulders and then stopped feeling like a cylinder and just went up my throat into the bottom part of my mouth. It was a pleasant sensation of pressure towards the outside of my body. I was concentrating on this so that I could write it down. I looked down on your message and saw ‘I Love You, lisa.’ What I felt was an expanding of this inner feeling that engulfed the thought of lisa. NOT the person lisa but the thought. The feeling didn’t seem to be about people per se. Loving Joe or Mary, not that kind of thing. But it was clear that it could and would engulf any and everything. This was not burning bush stuff but very very subtle. I felt what the Course means by Oneness.
What I got from this is that Love is the experience of the Holy Spirit. It’s not something I can create via the ego. So I don’t have to struggle to make it happen. Just do the leg work so I’m in the right place at the right time. I’m three years into the Course. I would want to know that if I was reading this. I wanted to get this down because my search in the Course seems to be about getting to the core of what is being taught. At some point words no longer work but I wanted to try anyway.
Thanks much
w.
Will – Amazing. Yes. That’s it. it’s not human love, it’s something else entirely — and yet we appear to express it body to body, but it’s all encompassing. It’s something so large and magnificent that words fail me entirely. You expressed it best – answering your own question: LOVE IS THE CORE.
Love is what everything is, and has nothing to do with my own limited ideas as i was taught here in the world.
Love is. God is. I am.
I love you.
It took me a while to have the courage to say it loud, to express it, to send it out to others, but more and more I see that’s what I am, it’s what I do, it’s who I am, and I have no other emotion.
So I extend it, because there’s no stopping it. Love is a force, and when you let the dam gates open – letting go of fear – it flows on its own. It has a life of it’s own, and I can’t control it (thankfully).
In total simplicity, I am grateful for your presence in my awareness.
Hi Lisa,
wow I cannot remember if I put my reply in yesterday. I wrote something to you but I am not sure about this. Yesterday I had a , I cannot even write this. On Thursday I slept and slept and could not wake up… thankyou for sharing that in your blog. It feels so good to hear someone so real…As for me, so far I cannot put thoughts together here.. will try later.
Love Jayme