Friday Offerings
a course in miracles made easy
Friends.
It’s Friday and that means it’s time for my “Friday Offering” where I give you a quote from a book that I’m reading with no commentary from me.
Here you go (this one is a little longer, and very important) …
While it is important to examine the ways your acts have caused pain to others, it is even more important to examine the pain that has caused you to commit those acts. When you are free of pain you are incapable of inflicting pain. Thus, we heal suffering at its root, not its symptoms. All society healing begins with self-healing.
It is tempting to try to fix other people rather than face and heal our own fears and judgments. When you accept your own innocence, you will know precisely how to deal with difficult people. Under the cloud of judgment, you cannot see anyone clearly. As you establish yourself on higher ground, you gain the leverage to lift those who are trapped. Don’t wait for others to get their act together before you do. Your act will influence theirs.
Inner peace is your strongest platform to create global transformation. Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Teresa never made evil their enemy. They didn’t fight people. Instead, they made a stand for kindness and equality, and subsequently advanced society in ways that angry people could never achieve. For them, peace was not simply the goal. Peace was the road to all worthy goals.
- Alan Cohen, A Course in Miracles Made Easy
Lots to chew on here.
Much love, my friend. May the Spirit or God or the Universe or your own Amazing Intution use these words to stir up something radical inside of you.
Glenn || SUPPORT / ART STUDIO
I have it began it a year or so ago, and lost steam. I thought reading these precursors first may help.
I am in the process of reading this book now. Very thought provoking. His new Book "Miracles Actually: Snapshots at the Intersection of Heaven and Earth was the first book of his I read, it is good as well. Thanks Glenn for your Friday Offerings.