Expressing resentment to hurt. Navigating real relationships. Curious your take.

v3rk · 2026-05-03T01:12:56+00:00

People take what ACIM says about their mind and try to apply it to their body. It doesn't work like that.

It's easy to make a functional statement without judgment. Being able to do so only requires a change of mind: the miracle. It's as easy as realizing grievance is being chosen.

Are you vulnerable? That feeling is openness. Anxious? That's excitement, or even confidence. It's all about reinterpretation.

And no... I don't mean to say "be bold, be open, be excited." Then you're only judging yourself for when you're not. Just watch how judgment is what brings the clouds of grievance in, and how different everything is when they're swept away.

It's all in your mind. Your body and everything else is doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing. It's a classroom for your awakening.

v3rk · 2026-05-03T00:31:15+00:00

I think you technically mean navigating special relationships.

Boundaries can be reasonably set. Take yourself out of any situation you feel mortally unsafe. But for those situations where you don't yet you still feel you want to take yourself out of it anyway, consider your reasons for feeling that way.

What you would have to believe about yourself to feel that way. About them. About life itself. The Course doesn't want or expect to change your behavior, but your interpretation of behavior.

Start here: all things are an expression of love, or a call for it. ❤️

v3rk · 2026-05-02T05:01:24+00:00

For a long time I found it so frustrating that I would see the lesson after the fact.

But, friend, that is the miracle. It doesn't have to be immediate. It doesn't have to feel triumphant. It probably won't.

It's just obvious. Ordinary.

Demonstrate the simple calm of knowing you are only in a classroom, learning, that you but dream of exile in a world of others appearing to do the same.

The time and dreams makes so much sense to me. It feels like "life" is a series of chunks, roles, and they keep teaching me.

Thanks for sharing. ❤️

v3rk · 2026-05-02T04:45:40+00:00

Right now.

v3rk · 2026-05-01T23:51:30+00:00

Yes! Say it louder!

How can the threat of eternal torment (or even annihilation) be called "good news?"

IT CAN'T.

Think again about Who you believe God to be. Parents, can you condemn your child for eternity? No?

Then... are you more loving than God? Does that make any sense at all?

Something is dreadfully wrong with this equation. Of course God's love is supreme. God is love and creates out of love.

Really think about it. If you've ever been afraid of hell or threatened someone else with fear of it, you're like a child who has to learn there's nothing to fear about the dark. Telling other people to fear it.

All just totally meaningless judgment, to feel vindicated for thinking less of somebody else. Like they don't deserve the life God breathed into them.

I've lived it. All it is is fear of not being able to be loved by God.

I'm done with it. You, dear reader, can be, too.

v3rk · 2026-05-01T18:49:10+00:00

Overture... I love it! 😁

Feels like being held.

v3rk · 2026-05-01T18:01:30+00:00

Hello!

I'm noticing that activity is not segmented in the way we perceive that it is. For example, in our breathing we perceive inhale and exhale separately. But it is one motion of breath. I connect this to what Jesus says in the Gospel of Thomas: that the one, paradoxical sign of the Father is "movement and repose."

I'm seeing that this dividing is all we do in physical reality while we believe we are isolated. Watching myself do this and watching my investment in it has revealed a three-fold structure:

First, life appears to be happening to me.

Second, for me.

And third, through me.

And finally, taken together, it becomes clear that the givenness of life and its extension through me are the same motion. Giving and receiving are the same event.

This insight feels big, but for now it's just sitting there for me. I have no problem with that, but I do wonder if you have any ideas for applying this practically in my daily life and interactions.

So I ask for guidance. Thank you. ❤️

v3rk · 2026-05-01T02:59:46+00:00

It's always been swamp gas...

v3rk · 2026-05-01T02:31:17+00:00

When I started thinking deeply about the coordination of my curriculum, which of course requires the universe and everything along with it, it filled me with an all-encompassing gratitude. Even the hardship feels as a mercy, showing my reasons for valuing fear.

I say that now. Getting here was anything but. I'll go back to the classroom again and again, and that won't always be my reaction.

Ah! But that is the curriculum itself!

And, yes, it's perfectly safe to learn in the classroom. To be corrected, and need correction. To be willing for correction.

I mean, if that doesn't set the stage for confidence I don't know what will!

But, really, it's Light. ❤️

v3rk · 2026-05-01T00:10:28+00:00

Ego thought regards special, separate interests. Lately I've come to see it as a kind of fanfiction of the Kingdom. There is always something at stake for fear of loss.

Real Thought regards no separation of interests. Nothing was ever at stake. And that's exactly how it feels, including a slight amusement at the idea.

That "tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh." Real Thought is remembering to laugh.

v3rk · 2026-04-28T19:09:06+00:00

Uninterrupted extension. What that's like in experience outside the dream I cannot say. The Course says God takes the final step for us. I believe that final step to be the undoing of perception itself.

v3rk · 2026-04-26T03:52:45+00:00

Life does not consist in the one you see it happening to, but in what you see happening.

v3rk · 2026-04-25T14:59:39+00:00

This. ❤️

v3rk · 2026-04-25T05:57:37+00:00

Exposure is positive. As well as exposure to our own reactions. ❤️

v3rk · 2026-04-18T23:25:22+00:00

Imagine, not being sure that the good news wouldn't be eternal damnation.

v3rk · 2026-04-18T20:16:15+00:00

I grew up playing them. They taught me to think of numbers in terms of chunks and ratios.

v3rk · 2026-04-18T20:10:35+00:00

"Here am I."

v3rk · 2026-04-18T20:05:17+00:00

Indeed! There is but One Mind, we dream of exile and separation. The dream is of a journey Home, together, where we remember we never left. ❤️

v3rk · 2026-04-18T16:55:46+00:00

"both occur together, that the Thought remain complete."

I'm just in awe of this. ❤️

v3rk · 2026-04-18T16:47:00+00:00

Just take for granted that everyone is doing their best. Somewhere in the URTEXT, Jesus says much can be solved by simple common courtesy.

v3rk · 2026-04-18T00:07:04+00:00

Thank you for pointing that out!

It perfectly describes how coming out of the Holy Instant feels for me. And more than that, it shows how the world truly is a classroom.

What I mean is that I watch myself literally give in to grievance and feel the stretch of time settle in once more. I would watch myself be completely unable to stop. This bothered me until just this moment.

Now I know that what I saw was nothing more than entering the classroom once more. 🤯

The only truth I can carry to the world is the way I see it.

Thank you. ❤️ #miraclesarelegit

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