The metaphysics of pure non-duality in A Course In Miracles is the general topic of this video – a conversation with Lorri Coburn and Bruce Rawles – although the dialogue covers a number of Course-related topics and favorite quotes, including a smorgasbord of snippets such as these:
- Workbook Lesson 127: There is no love but God’s (ACIM, W-127)
- Workbook Lesson 14: God did not create a meaningless world. (ACIM, W-14)
- Swami Vivekananda
- water molecules in the ocean hallucinating barriers keeping the ocean away
- weekly classes by Dr. Jeffrey Seibert (recommended highly)
- “The power of decision is your one remaining freedom as a prisoner of this world.” (ACIM, T-12.VII.9:1)
- Letting go of our identification with the s.s.s.s. (silly, seemingly separate self)
- “This world was over long ago.” (ACIM, T-28.I.1:6)
- “And you will think, in glad astonishment, that for all this you gave up nothing! ” (ACIM, T-16.VI.11:4)
- willingness and freedom to choose against the insanity of duality
- giving up nothing (ego) to gain everything (the all-inclusive peace of our Inner Kindness Teacher)
- the “not no” practice of ACIM – saying no to ego’s denial of Truth
- Workbook Lesson 6: I am upset because I see something that is not there. (ACIM, W-6)
- Workbook Lesson 14: God did not create a meaningless world. (ACIM, W-14)
- Workbook Lesson 132: “What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs?” (ACIM, W-132.1:1)
- Workbook Lesson 132: “There is no world! ³This is the central thought the course attempts to teach.” (ACIM, W-132.6:2-3)
- I’m the only one who dreamt of leaving perfect oneness.
- applying the pure non-dual metaphysics of “it never happened” to avoid level confusion while finding sustainable peace
- “Heaven is here. ⁵There is nowhere else. ⁶Heaven is now. ⁷There is no other time.” (ACIM, M-24.6:4-7)
“If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we’ve destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.” – Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Here are Course quotes stitched together in this diverse conversation:
“The body’s eyes will continue to see differences.²But the mind that has let itself be healed will no longer acknowledge them.³There will be those who seem to be “sicker” than others, and the body’s eyes will report their changed appearances as before.⁴But the healed mind will put them all in one category; they are unreal.” (ACIM, M-8.6:1-4)
“Teacher of God, your one assignment could be stated thus: Accept no compromise in which death plays a part. ²Do not believe in cruelty, nor let attack conceal the truth from you. ³What seems to die has but been misperceived and carried to illusion. ⁴Now it becomes your task to let the illusion be carried to the truth. ⁵Be steadfast but in this; be not deceived by the “reality” of any changing form. ⁶Truth neither moves nor wavers nor sinks down to death and dissolution. ⁷And what is the end of death? ⁸Nothing but this; the realization that the Son of God is guiltless now and forever. ⁹Nothing but this. ¹⁰But do not let yourself forget it is not less than this.” (ACIM, M-27.7:1-10)
“How can you who are so holy suffer? ²All your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing. ³I have saved all your kindnesses and every loving thought you ever had. ⁴I have purified them of the errors that hid their light, and kept them for you in their own perfect radiance. ⁵They are beyond destruction and beyond guilt. ⁶They came from the Holy Spirit within you, and we know what God creates is eternal. ⁷You can indeed depart in peace because I have loved you as I loved myself. ⁸You go with my blessing and for my blessing. ⁹Hold it and share it, that it may always be ours. ¹⁰I place the peace of God in your heart and in your hands, to hold and share. ¹¹The heart is pure to hold it, and the hands are strong to give it. ¹²We cannot lose. ¹³My judgment is as strong as the wisdom of God, in Whose Heart and Hands we have our being. ¹⁴His quiet children are His blessed Sons. ¹⁵The Thoughts of God are with you.” (ACIM, T-5.IV.8:1-15)
“Fear not that you will be abruptly lifted up and hurled into reality.²Time is kind, and if you use it on behalf of reality, it will keep gentle pace with you in your transition.³The urgency is only in dislodging your mind from its fixed position here.⁴This will not leave you homeless and without a frame of reference.” (ACIM, T-16.VI.8:1-4)
Lorri and Bruce were both presenters at Weekend of Freedom Retreat in Estes Park, Colorado in 2016; here’s a post with a video replay of one of the presentations. You can learn more about Lorri’s work with ACIM at LorriCoburn.com.
