First, thanks Sheila. I see a lot of truth in "The Four Agreements".
I'd like to share some CITATIONS from the Course for you newcomers.
First, about, "I made you. It is in the Course.": "...What if you
recognized this world is an hallucination? What if you really
understood you made it up?" (T443) About God making the world and
people, not!: "The reality of death if firmly rooted in the belief
that God's Son is a body. And if God created bodies, death would
indeed be real. But God would not be loving." (M66-67) "The world you
see is an illusion of a world. God did not create it, for what He
creates must be eternal as Himself." (CL85) About God creating any
part of the world, not!: "There is no world! This is the central
thought the Course attempts to teach." (W243) About the unseen,
unconscious mind controlling bodies, as if they were ROBOTS, but
cleverly masking this control through the forces of the
universe: "The body appears to be largely self-motivated and
independent, yet it actually responds only to the intentions of the
mind." (PRxii) About unconscious guilt being the driving force behind
this world: "Guilt asks for punishment, and its request is granted.
Not in truth, but in the world of shadows and illusions built on
sin." (T554) About non-duality. Duality = 2. (This is for you
mathematicians out there.) Non-duality = 1, which is non-twoness.
Thus oneness means no division. Duality (2) = DIVISION. Thus oneness
= NON-DUALITY. Two or more (division) = ego. "The ego is the part of
your mind that believes in division. How could a part of God detach
itself without believing it is attacking him?" (T84) The
solution? "Forgiveness is the central theme that runs throughout
salvation, holding all its parts in meaningful relationships, the
course it runs directed and its outcome sure." (W324) Love and peace,
Gary.
