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A Thought: Spiritual Practice
Practice: “the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it.” Knowing and practicing are different. The first implies a state of attainment and authority. The second means the opposite, making room for self-forgiveness; it values progress over perfection. Self-tolerance gives birth to other tolerance—these two work…
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SELF WILL
I maintain my father’s blog, and on Wednesdays, I post paintings from long ago, i.e., Way Back When Wednesdays. It is neither here nor there, except that it got me reflecting on some of my old images. That leads me to think about Nola Mae and my favorite photo of her. For those of you…
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DitchedSamaritan.Com
The Ditched Samaritan Blog… …is a personal art project where I combine my lifelong spiritual disciplines of 12-Step & A Course in Miracles practices with Art. The goal of this project, or more accurately, this practice, is to continuously, incrementally improve myself and, thereby, my usefulness to others. I have chosen the parable of The…
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Beyond Appearances
“Prepare you now for the undoing of what never was. If you already understood the difference between truth and illusion, the Atonement would have no meaning. The holy instant, the holy relationship, the Holy Spirit’s teaching, and all the means by which salvation is accomplished, would have no purpose. For they are all but aspects…
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Is This What I Would See?
There is a little park not far from where I live. It has only two picnic tables beside a mountain creek. The early morning light illuminated these two baby honeysuckle vines reaching up to the sky. In another day or so, they will be too long to grow up and return to earth. I created…
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ACIM# 56; Above all else, I want to see
Above all else, I want to see. Recognizing that what I see reflects what I think I am, I realize that vision is my greatest need. The world I see attests to the fearful nature of the self-image I have made. If I would remember who I am, it is essential that I let this…
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Starting; March 22, 2021
In the Manual for Teachers, ACIM calls on students to join and not separate; it is actually a pre-requisite to practice: a teacher’s… “qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere, he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else’s. Once he has done that, his…
