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The Gifts Forgiveness Offers

Posted by Ricardo Hidalgo on Thursday, March 8, 2012, In : Well-being

Here is a beautiful description from A Course in Miracles of the gifts forgiveness offers. There is nothing you could want that forgiveness cannot give.

Forgiveness offers:
•    Peace
•    Happiness
•    A quiet mind
•    A certainty of purpose
•    A sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world
•    Care and safety
•    The warmth of sure protection always
•    A quietness that cannot be disturbed
•    A gentleness that never can be hurt
•    A deep, abiding comfort
•    ...
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Overcoming Fear Through Forgiveness - The End of the Road

Posted by Ricardo Hidalgo on Sunday, March 4, 2012, In : Awakenings

This is a powerful passage from A Course in Miracles that shows us a way out of our terror. At the end of our journey we must "raise our eyes and look on terror", but we can do this with no fear at all when we see each other for what we truly are and thereby forgive each other. May this move you as it did me.

“Forget not that you came this far together, you an you brother…. The Guide Who brought you here remains with you, and when you raise your eyes you will be ready to look on terro...
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Applying the Three Principles to Anger Management

Posted by Ricardo Hidalgo on Sunday, February 12, 2012, In : Well-being

Where does anger come from? No, not from what happens, but from what we think about what happens; from our opinion about what happens. Without an opinion, what happens is just what happens. As Shakespeare said, “There is nothing good or bad. Thinking makes it so.”

All experience comes through the three principles - mind, thought, and consciousness. No mind, no experience. No thought, no experience. No consciousness, no experience. Until people realize this fact they feel like helple...

The Lesson Miracles Were Sent to Teach

Posted by Ricardo Hidalgo on Sunday, February 5, 2012, In : Awakenings

More deep wisdom from A Course in Miracles clearly describing the lesson that miracles were sent to teach:

"The miracle returns the cause of fear to you who made it. But it also shows that, having no effects, it is not cause, because the function of causation is to have effects. And where effects are gone, there is no cause. Thus is the body healed by miracles because they show the mind made sickness, and employed the body to be the victim, or effect of what it made. Yet half the lesson wi...
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