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I recently read an op-ed piece by David Brooks in the NY Times, entitled "Genius: The Modern View." He opened by saying that we have this view that genius comes from a rare person possessing a kind of divine spark, some innate talent that the person was born with. He...

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time with Helen's original dictation, material that got edited out of the published Course. Through it all, there is one message that is coming through loud and clear. That is the need to stay on top of it all the time. Let me try to...

Robert's Thursday teachers' class on "The Teacher of God is one who listens" has rekindled my motivation to be more diligent in listening to the Holy Spirit, both in my everyday life and in my teaching. I'd like to explore and discuss with you the topic of listening in...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] Today I'm doing one of my favorite lessons as a way to practice my 3 circles idea from the other day. The lesson is an expansion of Lesson 109 from the review of...

These lines from Helen's early dictation have been staying with me for the past week: "There is a way of speeding you up. And that is by leaving more and more time for Me. So you can devote it to miracles." Time is a big issue for me. I seem to have so little of it....

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] For several weeks I have been feeling discouraged and frustrated, because I have not been hearing guidance or receiving answers to some burning questions I have....

I said I had further thoughts about Easter and here they are. What I realized was that I have been trying to make a very basic decision for years and have been unable to make it. The decision has been an answer to a question: Where does the power lie? Does it lie in...

Easter weekend crept up on me this year. But now that it's here, I just wanted to ask all of you what it means to you, and share a bit about what it means to me. Once I became a (sort of) committed Christian in my teens, I discovered a had a great amount of feeling...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] In my recent CCC blog, "An unexpected holy instant experience," I mentioned having been inspired by the Manual reading on "How Do God's Teachers Deal with [Their...

While dropping off to sleep the other night I had a powerful and sweeping insight. It was strictly theoretical, and not particularly inspiring, but it's one of those insights that will stay with me permanently. And it has already fueled a great deal of practical...

[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] An experience I had during Robert's CCC holy instant class yesterday filled me with an excitement and a sense of increased energy, which stayed with me all...

I was reading EnlightenNext magazine (used to be What Is Enlightenment?). In it there was a description of an experience of God's Love a woman had under totally normal circumstances---she wasn't meditating or praying. Here is the account: "Suddenly she was sucked away...