We help another person access their highest by accessing our own.

Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

This process can be so painful that we are tempted to go backwards. It takes courage—this is often called the path of the spiritual warrior—to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

I’m willing to see this situation differently.”

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

The ego is simply where a glitch occurred, where the wires got crossed, where love became blocked.

If our goal is to get the job, then that’s fine if we do, but if we don’t get the job, we’ll feel depressed. If we make peace our goal, then if we get the job, that’s great, but if we don’t, we’re still peaceful.

We can make mistakes,’ to be sure, and we obviously do. But God’s attitude toward error is a desire to heal us. Because we ourselves are angry and punishing, we have concocted the idea of an angry, punishing God.

I now established a new groove, a new set of possibilities.