“Unless you hurt yourself, you could never suffer in any way.”
When I first read this in A Course in Miracles, I knew it was true and I also knew that hardly anyone would like to hear this truth.
The Pill the Size of a Bus
ACIM tells us nothing outside of us can hurt us. Nothing we don’t wish to have happen can happen. I know-it’s a massive pill to swallow. Bus-sized, as I like to say.
But here’s the thing: You don’t have to understand HOW this is true. You just have to be willing to consider it might be.
My Suffering Story
It used to be that I spent a fair amount of time suffering. Confusion, sadness, anger, fear-these were my paradigms. I was attracted to darkness because, in some ways, I thought I WAS the darkness.
Every spiritual book I read, every workshop I attended, I’d judge everyone there. Too spiritual. Not spiritual enough. Better than me. Worse than me. Judge, judge, judge, judge, judge.
And then I would wonder why I suffered. I didn’t realize my judgments were the cause. They were the mechanism I was using to keep separation active and alive in my mind.
The End of the Pain Train
Here’s what I discovered: Every moment of suffering came from choosing ego over Spirit. Every. Single. One.
Not because God was punishing me. But because I was literally choosing thoughts that hurt.
The moment I became willing to see this-really see it-I could choose differently.
Your Get-Out-of-Suffering-Free Card
Next time you’re in pain, try this: “Holy Spirit, I am only interested in the truth that sets me free. Whatever is the root cause of this upset, I’m ready for healing now.”
Don’t analyze your pain. Don’t figure it out. Just be willing to let it go. That’s the fastest path to healing.
Freedom Is Your Birthright
In our Quantum Counseling Training Intensive, we learn not just to free ourselves from suffering, but to guide others to this same freedom.
Because once you know suffering is optional, you can’t unknow it. And once you’re free, you naturally want everyone else to be free too.
God’s will for you is perfect happiness. Your only job? Stop choosing otherwise.
The way out of suffering isn’t complicated. It’s a choice. And you can make it right now.
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