A short reading today in “A Course In Miracles”. Which is like a day off - A national holiday! But it is still super juicy nonetheless. My willingness to practice what is presented to me determines my level of success. In this case it’s forgiveness and freedom of the mind.
A short reading today in “A Course In Miracles”. Which is like a day off - A national holiday! But it is still super juicy nonetheless. My willingness to practice what is presented to me determines my level of success. In this case it’s forgiveness and freedom of the mind.
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Mischa Z: 00:03 A course in miracles, chapter 30, the new beginning introduction, anybody who's been listening to the podcast for a bit knows that I am a big, big, super big fan, super duper big fan of A Course In Miracles. A C I M for short, a C I M. And so I am currently reading a course in miracles, combined, combined volume. That's composed of the preface, the text, the workbook for students, the manual for teachers, the clarifications of terms and the supplements. I did the workbook for students, which was amazing. And I'll do it again, but it's basically 365 exercises one a day for a year and are some highly recommended, thumbs up, go get a course in miracles. Don't think, go get we'll find, think about it, but I would just say, go get it and start on that ASAP. So one of the things about a course in miracles is as I'm reading through the text, the text portion I can read the text portion is composed of chapters, and then each chapter has multiple sections.
Mischa Z: 01:42 So I try to read a section a day in the morning and it can take anywhere from a half an hour to an hour usually. And it's anywhere from two to four pages, super deep, super heavy, super weighty, like dence. The word I'm thinking of. It's very dense, dense content and does a great job of connecting me spiritually and just, you know, setting the tone for the day and getting the may thinking about, you know, the, the, the things bigger than myself. Um, get me out of my selfishness, um, stuff like that. And it's really cool. I need it in my life. I came to a point in my life where I need that to, to connect with something bigger than myself every day, preferably first thing in the morning, usually with some prayer and meditation, and then I dive into the course in miracles and every now and then the section will be five or six pages.
Mischa Z: 03:02 It's like, oh my God, what an order. I can't go through it through it. What a daunting prospect. And um, every now and then I will get a very short day. Today's a short day, chapter 30, The New Beginning. So it's, the very beginning of chapter 30. And there's always an introduction at the beginning of each, at the beginning of each chapter. And the introduction is usually a page or less. This introduction is simply a long paragraph. So this morning I was like, oh my God, the introduction, because I just read the introduction one day. And then I start on the section one, the next day, section two, the next day you get it. And that's how I've been doing it through the whole, the whole text portion. And I'm on page 625 of the text. So this isn't just like a new rule I made up this morning. No, it's been a rule. And in place, it's like a, it's like a national holiday. That's what introduction day is. It's like a national holiday. And if you've made it this far in this episode, which I really hope you have, I wanted to read the introduction because the introduction is, JUCIY, here we go.
Mischa Z: 04:28 "The new beginning now becomes the focus of the curriculum. The goal is clear, but now you need specific methods for attaining it. The speed by which it can be reached, depends on this one thing alone, your willingness to practice every step, each one with a little help. Every time it is attempted and together will these steps lead you from dreams of judgment, to forgiving dreams and out of pain and fear. They are now not new to you, but they are more ideas than rules of thought to you as yet. So now we need to practice them a while until they are the rules by which you live. We seek to make them habits now. So you will have them ready for whatever you need." And what a great day off.
Mischa Z: 05:46 I very much liked the sentence, "The speed by which it can be reached, depends on this one thing alone, your willingness to practice every step". And I just, I like that. I, I find that so many things in life, it's like, here's the steps to success, whatever that means, you know, here's your steps to completing this task. Here's your steps to achieving this goal, whatever, do the steps you'll get the result. And I love how that is what it's telling me right there. Like, Hey, guess what? The freedom that you seek is there for you depending on my willingness to practice every step. And then I also loved that the sentence paragraph one sentence five, “And together will these steps lead you from dreams of judgment, to forgiving dreams and out of pain and fear”. And my guess is many people who listened to this will go that's who ha that's silliness. Like I don't want to be out of my, for my dreams of judgment to forgiving dreams, but I do. I do, as I record this right now in this moment, Mischa wants that. I want to be led from dreams of judgment. I want to be led to forgiving dreams and out of pain and fear. And I believe that that is a worthy goal to achieve.
Mischa Z: 07:29 Um, what else can I say in that regard? Uh, do I need to talk any more about this? Um, do do do now. I need to practice them awhile. Oh, so the very last sentence, “We seek to make them habits. Now you, so you will have them ready for whatever you need, for whatever, for whatever need, you will have them ready for whatever need. And I love the, "for whatever need". It's pretty broad. That leaves a lot of space for application of said steps. Um, oh my gosh. I am so excited for the, for the further rest. Oh man. I can't even believe I've made it to page six hundred and twenty five, three pages a day. One section a day. Ah, life is good. I do very much love and enjoy the "A Course In Miracles". I would encourage anybody to get it. Have a great day.