Just a Yogi

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13 hours ago | [YT] | 4

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Hurt:

so perhaps the most tenderly expressed lessons of A Course in Miracles, beautiful and loving words we gently say to ourselves with such deep conviction - that I will not hurt myself again today. Finally, nearing the end of the lessons we come to the crux of the matter. We've been hurting ourselves, holding a false claim against the world, believing that anything exists outside us that could ever bring us harm. This is a story told by the ego, a belief in blame and judgement projected upon others, but only really festering deeply within ourselves.

our salvation from this harm is forgiveness.

this is where we turn to the Holy Spirit for help, that part of our mind that only sees the loved shared between us, indeed, that's all it ever recognizes. It's here ask for our story to be reinterpreted in a truthful way, our perceptions healed. We harm only ourselves with our judgments, all of our blame is returned to us, and our every resentment is a self-inflicted wound.

I will not hurt myself again today.

and that's the entity of A Course in Miracles, it's the lesson a Buddha, and every great master. Our story of the world, our false perceptions of others - traps us in self created misery.

so with deep conviction, and ever so tenderly,

we say together,

I will not hurt myself again today.

~

I love you, Eric

22 hours ago | [YT] | 148

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1 day ago | [YT] | 8

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The art of smiling:

my own smile has grown more gentle, an easiness present, as if a heaviness of self-disappointment has now been lifted. I've always been my own harshest critic, never needing someone else's harsh judgement, yet readily believing it if it came my way. There's an art to true forgiveness, and through the years I've polishing my craft. Small things at first, slights that would seem to linger, little mistakes I've made that seemed to snowball in importance through the years. I'm an artist now, not perfect, but I have the tools of transformation at hand, recognizing the raw material my life has given me and using them to shape the beauty of that gentle smile.

forgiveness truly does offer every I want.

I'm an artist at last.

~

I love you, Eric

1 day ago | [YT] | 99

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2 days ago | [YT] | 12

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Of steps and choices:

my own sense of free will has been narrowed to the scope of two choices, each unfolding very differently in the possibilities of their outcome, and only one of them based entirely on the reality of love. A Course in Miracles reminds me that the script is written, meaning that my welfare is assured in heaven, and indeed, salvation has already occurred. This isn't a metaphysical statement, heaven isn't a distant achievement granted by a capricious God - it's here, now, and as Saint Catherine of Siena beautifully stated: every step of the way to heaven is heaven. So my only real choice is in choosing a step towards heaven or the illusion of distance between myself and God.

yet the script has been written.

I'm already home.

and my every step is a mindful prayer...that this is so.

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I love you, Eric

2 days ago | [YT] | 181

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Great talk with Bruce Rawles

3 days ago | [YT] | 10

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Special function:

it's still unfolding, or perhaps being revealed is more apt to say - this my own special function, what A Course in Miracles describes as one's particular function for the salvation of the world. That sounds like a very heady title, and of course salvation is, indeed, a very large task. But my own role isn't so overwhelming, not really, none of us are given a function that is too large for us to perform. We are only asked to heal each other, we're asked to forgive and perform the miracle of extending love through every difficult encounter. We're also given something very specific for us to do, a role uniquely ours, turning a special talent into a tool for performing miracles. What I'm doing now, creating content on a small YouTube channel, bringing voices together for their own special function to be heard - this is it for me, or at least this portion of the plan that's been revealed. At the age of 60, with a long career of stumbling through life...this feels right.

perfect even.

as if I finally said yes to a question long asked.

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I love you, Eric

3 days ago | [YT] | 143

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Aware:

there's no battle here, only mindfulness, a gentle noting of where the ego leads me, and then an even gentler return to the Holy Spirit's choice of love. This is a lifelong meditation, an easy vigilance that allows awareness to play it's natural role. My choices don't have to be perfect, but I'm more apt now to notice just before the ego becomes involved, providing a course correction that offers me a more peaceful resolution. So awareness removes me from the battlefield of the mind, reduces conflict to an easier point of smiling at my own folly.

I know what each choice provides.

aware of my options.

I'm mindful.

and ultimately...simply I'm more forgiving.

~

I love you, Eric

4 days ago | [YT] | 136

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Forgiving the dream:

because it's a quantum world, nothing's solid past my touch, and the reality of the world dances just beyond my understanding. I have no idea if this world is an illusion, maya as the ancient yogic seers and Buddhist masters called it, or if it's the dream described in A Course in Miracles. Certain aspects of science seem to agree, likening reality to a quantum soup of pure consciousness, waves of energy ready to collapse upon determination. Philosophers too have weighed in with their speculations, from Plato's Cave to David Chalmers simulation theory. Of course there are strong arguments against all this as well, being considered the hard problem of conscious itself.

my own answer is forgiveness.

this is where I play a scientist in my own dream, a living laboratory that only seeks to understand itself as love. My life has been a great experimenter, from plant medicines that have caused reality to shift to pure imagination, to deep states of meditation where my mind grows so quiet that I am sure that only silence is the reality of the world. None of this proves anything and fortunately I'm not looking for proof - truthfully, I'm not looking for anything, no longer a seeker, and no questions left to answer.

forgiveness offers everything I want.

and this is a quantum style of forgiveness, shifting my perspective right within the present moment, healing long ago past events, even ancient ones, and writing new scripts for a future not yet here. Life is a dream for me because every so often I am revealed as the dreamer, time collapsing into a single holy instant where only love is real, life rolling through an ecstatic wave like state, and there's a certainty to my purpose...I am here only to be truly helpful.

I am here to love.

forgiving the dream that always seems to pull me in a separate direction.

I'm here to mend the world.

awakening,

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I love you, Eric

5 days ago | [YT] | 272