Our relationships are our best tool in healing our mind of all false beliefs. Buddha taught that the fastest path to awakening was the middle way, the life of a householder – someone who is NOT an ascetic, a nun or a monk, but living with others and fully immersed in the density of life.
A Course in Miracles has a similar view. Jesus tells us that our brothers and sisters are our salvation.
Living with people, working with people, dealing with people, it brings up all of our false beliefs, our fears and worries, the shame and the guilt – all of it.
When we’re triggered into upset and emotion, then healing is very near, if we’re willing to choose it.
Part of choosing the healing is to be loving and compassionate – often we’re called to be generously loving and compassionate with people who aren’t being loving and compassionate.
And this is why, for most of us, including me, relationships are the most challenging part of our existence. AND we’re having a relationship with EVERYONE because we’re one with them. Oh, boy!
Yes, it seems incredibly challenging at times.
Sometimes it seems unbearable.
It can feel impossible not to judge.
You know what’s ACTUALLY challenging and unbearable? It’sour false beliefs!
The truth is liberating, and our opinions are confining.
We think we’re upset by other people, but we’re upset by our thoughts about them. When we choose unloving thoughts, we’ve betrayed ou
Now is the time to set ourselves free through the active practice of forgiveness which is non-judgment. The world is offering us so many opportunities to practice non-judgment.
I love what Jesus says in A Course in Miracles, “Many are called but few are chosen” should be, “All are called but few choose to listen.”
ALL are called.
We are called!!!
We are called to be the healing balm in a fitful world – to see the world correctly and to be the cause of it’s healing!
It all begins with our willingness to cultivate an ability to be the compassionate listener. This is the topic on my radio show today. In my year-long Masterful Living Course we actively develop the capacity to be the compassionate listener – the listener who can have loving understanding and be a healing presence int his world.
I know you are ready and willing to be an actively healing presence in this world.
Forgiveness is the way.
Forgiveness is non-judgment. Forgiveness is loving understanding WITHOUT condoning. Forgiveness isn’t saying we approve, it’s saying we cannot judge and will not judge because to judge is to condemn and we cannot possibly know what anything is for when we condemn.
It’s simple, but it’s not easy. Still, it’s well worth the effort! My life has healed so greatly because of my willingness to practice compassionate listening. Please join me!
COMING SOON: Are you interested in becoming a Quantum Counselor or maybe just developing your relationship skills? You might be interested in my Spiritual Counseling Training Intensive starting this Friday, November 5. If you have an interest, but you aren’t sure, you can book a FREE Exploratory Call with one of the Quantum Counselors and they can answer any question you may have.
MY LATEST ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: We’re still challenged to get it uploaded. I hope that will happen today. My topic is Fear & Weakness Transformed. Looking at one of the most basic teachings of A Course in Miracles to help us rise above the battlefield of fear and hopelessness.
