A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (The Marianne Williamson Series)

The perfect you is the love within you. Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounded Michelangelo’s perfect statue.

A Course in Miracles likens us to ‘sunbeams’ thinking we’re separate from the sun, or waves thinking we’re separate from the ocean.

“feel your anger,” “feel your shame.” But we need support in feeling our positive feelings just as much as we need support in feeling our negative ones. It is the experience of genuine emotion of any kind that the ego resists. We need support and permission to feel our love, to feel our satisfaction and to feel our happiness.

Love isn’t love until it’s unconditional.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God. Their genius then, is actually expression and not creation. That’s why great art strikes us with the shock of recognition, the wish that we had said t

knew she thought of support as agreement from others that her boyfriend was guilty. Support for the belief in guilt is extremely easy to find. But real support is when we help one another see beyond someone’s errors, to drop our judgments and see the love that lies beyond.

The desire to serve God creates the means by which we do so.

Give all your gifts away in service to the world.

The Course tells us we decide what we want to see before we see it.