Because we all share one mind, because there are no private thoughts, all that judgmental thinking is a disturbance to everyone in the world.

This is why we seek not to change the world, but to change our mind about the world. This is the teaching of A Course in Miracles.

A Course in Miracles students are peace activists. We’re activists for Love, for peace, for harmony, for Joy, for freedom, for clarity, for wisdom, for wholeness, for beauty, for truth, for true prosperity and abundance.

This is what we are.

If our peace is disturbed, we’re thinking thoughts that aren’t actually true – and we can change our mind.

A Course in Miracles tells us: “God offers the world salvation. Your judgment would condemn it.”

When I’m disturbed, I know it’s because I shut the Higher Holy Spirit Self out. I shut the higher self out. The I Am Presence, the guardian angel – whatever we’d like to call it – I shut it out. Now I can invite it back in. Peace will return. The consequences will be healed. They’ll be transformed.

I’ve experienced this. It’s tremendous.

When we forgive ourselves, when we forgive others, this is the way out of the guilt and the shame and the blame.

It’s not helpful to people to say, “I don’t know why you’re upset – this world isn’t even real.” That doesn’t help them. Trying to convince them or being patronizing – none of that brings peace.

Only Love is the healer.

Having compassion. Compassion is understanding.

What’s ours to do is to know the truth about our brothers and sisters. To know that there is that within them which knows the truth, just like there’s that in us that knows the truth. We’re speaking to the knower who knows within – that Higher Holy Spirit Self in each one of us.

They can choose to listen or not. That’s their choice. When they choose not to listen, we can hold the highest and best for them.

Our Change Your Mind About the World program starting Saturday, May 30 is all about learning to see these worldly events correctly – as opportunities for healing rather than reasons for despair.

Let’s roll up our spiritual sleeves together and clear our minds of the insanity!

SATURDAY:   Change Your Mind About the World – Are you upset by what you see in the world – join with Alan Cohen, James Twyman, Michael Mirdad, Lisa Natoli and me – we’re bringing the darkness to the light together.  Click here for more info.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE:  Not Perfection with Michael Mirdad  PREMIERS TODAY Most of us who love A Course in Miracles have done it: tried to work the lessons harder, study more, finally get forgiveness right. Underneath the effort, there’s often a quiet shame that we’re still not living it well enough. I felt that for years. This week I sat down with Michael Mirdad, and we kept circling something ACIM says about all that striving, something most of us read right past. What if we’ve misunderstood what’s actually being asked of us?