THE MAIN PRINCIPLE of A Course in Miracles, and key to the peace of God, is this: “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.” Love is the all-encompassing reality of God and thus can have no opposite. The absence of love, which is fear, is mere illusion. Love is the only eternal truth, while fear is a hallucination of the mortal mind.
Williamson, Marianne. The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles (The Marianne Williamson Series) (p. xi). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
A Course In Miracles is based on a non dual philosophy. “God” is the All. God is the ocean. Everything else are droplets. Human beings and the phenomena we call “life” are merely projections we humans have made up and are temporary illusions which come and go like the shadows in Plato’s cave.
The separation which begins for each of us at birth fills us with fear of punishment for separating ourselves from our home. We, whether we are aware of it or not, are always yearning to get back home where there is peace and happiness.
The lessons of life occur to help us to remember from whence we have separated ourselves as separate selves and to which we are destined to return. What is required for the return is the giving up of the separate self we have created and struggle to maintain. This separate self is named the “ego”.
As real as the ego seems to us, it is only a temporary illusion with which we play as we attempt to learn our lessons and remember, deep down, what we are made of.
What am I without my ego? No body. No feelings. No thoughts. No personality. No social status. No possessions. The “witness” is the part of ourselves that can watch our body change, our thoughts change, our feelings arise and subside, our earthly circumstances come and go and change in what seems like willy nilly ways. We can make all the money in the world and accumulate the most precious possessions and when we die we can’t take any of it with us. So what is this witness that can watch all these changes in our experience of our ego? What do you call this part of consciousness?
According to A Course In Miracles once we give up all the illusions of our ego and ego itself what is left is only Love which has no opposite.
So the Buddhist monk gave the hot dog vendor $5.00 for a $2.50 hot dog with everything. When the vendor did not give the monk his change the monk asked the vendor, "Sir, where is my change?" The vendor said, "Dear monk, you should know better than anyone that change comes from within."
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