Welcome Seekers!

The Book, A Course in Miracles is such a gift, the pages overflow with wisdom and guidance to managing life on this beautiful, albeit confusing planet. A group to gather like-minded individuals who know there's more to life than the eye can see. Goal is for the group to be more than just a bunch of people sitting around debating what the words mean, but rather get out in social situations (dinner, walks, get-togethers) and discuss how to apply "The Course" in everyday living. Highly recommend reading books or listening to CDs by the author, Gary Renard, he simplifies the message in "The Course" and has some amazing insights.

Here's a passage that I'd like to hi-light:

From Chapter 3: The Innocent Perception

The fundamental question you continually ask yourself cannot properly be directed to yourself at all. You keep asking what it is you are. This implies that the answer is not only one you know, but is also one that is up to you to supply. Yet you cannot perceive yourself correctly. You have no image to be perceived. The word "image" is always perception-related, and not a part of knowledge. Images are symbolic and stand for something else. The idea of "changing your image" recognizes the power of perception, but also implies that there is nothing stable to know.

Knowing is not open to interpretation. You may try to "interpret" meaning, but this is always open to error because it refers to the perception of meaning. Such incongruities are the result of attempts to regard yourself as separated and unseparated at the same time. It is impossible to make so fundamental a confusion without increasing your overall confusion still further. Your mind may have become very ingenious, but as always happens when method and content are separated, it is utilized in a futile attempt to escape from an inescapable impasse. Ingenuity is totally divorced from knowledge, because knowledge does not require ingenuity. Ingenious thinking is not the truth that shall set you free, but you are free of the need to engage in it when you are willing to let it go.

Prayer is a way of asking for something. It is the medium of miracles. But the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness, because those who have been forgiven have everything. Once forgiveness has been accepted, prayer in the usual sense becomes utterly meaningless. The prayer for forgiveness is nothing more than a request that you may be able to recognize what you already have. In electing perception instead of knowledge, you placed yourself in a position where you could resemble your Father only by perceiving miraculously. You have lost the knowledge that you yourself are a miracle of God. Creation is your Source and your only real function.

What is key here is forgiveness, but not in the sense that we've all been trained to think about forgiveness (forgiving others for things "done" to us, forgiving ourselves for things we've "done"). The only thing we have to forgive is the thought that we could be separate from our Source. There was a mad little thought at the beginning of time that created the ego and all the illusions the ego has made. Correct the thought, the mistake and KNOW that the only thing to forgive is this thought, that you could be separate from your Source.