A Program in Miracles and the Wonder of Love
We function so very hard at becoming “greater people”, at gaining better intelligence and more skills. We wish to be enjoyed more and be much more popular. The entire self-help market is dedicated to increasing the self to help you develop into a greater you. That’s another strategy we secretly play on ourselves, thinking we have to keep spinning our wheels wanting to become better. This self-improvement sport is yet another secret we can to understand to let it go of. It is very soothing when you start to realize that you don’t need certainly to become any benefit than you currently are. You were developed perfect. It’s perhaps not through self-improvement that you will find peace but through self-acceptance.
As I worked with A Course in Miracles, I really could see that there is a concern with divine love within my mind. I realized this was the ego’s anxiety about dropping itself. The vanity is afraid of being ACIM and being viewed as a smoke of nothingness. That is worries of intimacy. We talk about this fear in relationships, which may also be predicted as anxiety about sexual intimacy, but it’s actually an anxiety about dropping our individuality, our mask of individuality. It’s the fear of getting taken away by a wonderful love, a love therefore effective that nothing people will even imagine anything as wonderful and effective!
For me, these will be the major secrets, since it does not start out with this good awareness. It generally begins with sensation like you’ve done something wrong, whether you have masturbated, stolen anything, mistreated somebody, or there’s anything in your head that you have judged as therefore hideous that that you do not actually need to manage it, you would like to overlook about this and drive it out of awareness.
Underneath all those memories and ideas, may be the belief that we are separated. This is actually the “secret” we hide. It really is an impossible belief, but we think that it is correct; We have judged it as horrible and have forced it out of awareness. All unconscious shame originates from this opinion in separation. And as you truly give yourself over to the miracle, you feel dozens of hidden values and techniques are being rinsed out and you finally face that hidden belief in divorce!