Being loved and loving unconditionally.

The protection of God then dawns upon it (the mind), assuring it that it is perfectly safe forever. The perfectly safe are wholly benign. They bless because they know that they are blessed. Without anxiety the mind is wholly kind, and because it extends beneficence it is beneficent. Safety is the complete relinquishment of attack. No compromise is possible in this. Teach attack in any form and you have learned it, and it will hurt you. Yet this learning is not immortal, and you can unlearn it by not teaching it. T-6.111.3:3-10

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

When a person knows that they are loved unconditionally by God they feel safe forever. There is nothing to fear and therefore nothing to attack. By loving others unconditionally we enhance our own experience of being loved unconditionally by our Transcendent Source.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. In applying this principle we look for the perfect in ourselves and in every other person. Having looked for it we will find it and when we find it peace and joy arise.

Today it is suggested that we reflect and acknowledge the unconditional love of God in ourselves and others and when we experience it to give thanks.

Maya or veil of tears

 

Do you believe this?

Perhaps the world is a humongous hallucination and we are simply watching the shadows on Plato's cave walls. This raises the philosophical epistemological question of how do we know what we know? Our physical senses lie to us all the time. Can we trust them? The bumper sticker is "Don't believe everything you think."

The mystics teach that the only truth is the non dual Oneness of God. Everything else is an illusion, what the Buddhists call "maya." St. Paul wrote that we look through the glass darkly. Christians have called the hallucination, or illusion if you prefer, this "veil of tears."

Do you experience the unconditional love of God?

The only safety lies in extending the Holy Spirit, because as you see His gentleness in others your own mind perceives itself as totally harmless. Once it can accept this fully, it sees no need to protect itself. T-6.III.3:1-2

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The Holy Spirit is the unconditional love of God. When we extend this unconditional love to others we experience it  in ourselves. And when we experience the unconditional love of God in ourselves we no longer fear anything and we drop our defenses which includes the desire to attack others.

The Universalists, in a Calvinistic time, were the first to preach the unconditional love of God. At the time it was very counter cultural and unfortunately even in our modern times still is. In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person.

Today it is suggested that we reflect on being loved unconditionally by our Transcendent Source from Whom we are created and extend this unconditional love to everyone with whom we interact today.

Knocking on the door of the Holy Spirit

That is why you must teach only one lesson. If you are to be conflict-free yourself, you must learn only from the Holy Spirit and teach only by Him. You are only love, but when you deny this, you make what you are something you must learn to remember. I said before that the message of the crucifixion was, “Teach only love, for that is what you are.” This is the one lesson that is perfectly unified, because it is the only lesson that is one. Only by teaching it can you learn it. “As you teach so will you learn.” If that is true, and it is true indeed, do not forget that what you teach is teaching you. And what you project or extend you believe.T-6.III.2:1-9

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The primary teaching of A Course In Miracles is to ask on a regular basis “what would Love have me do?” We alone often don’t know the answer so we ask the Holy Spirit to help us. Jesus said, “Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be open to you.”  So, instead of thinking we already know the answer we should seek, and instead of shutting the door we need to knock and ask that it be opened for us.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This free and responsible search requires that we humbly ask our Higher Power for help.

Today it is suggested that we ask for the Holy Spirit’s guidance throughout the day by asking “What would Love have me do?”

Rosh Hashana beings tonight 09/25/22

 

This video comes from the Calm In The Chaos Interfaith Center.

Join the Spiritual Reading Book Club

 There is a new book club forming on Amazon Book Clubs called the "Spiritual Reading Book Club". The first book we are reading is The Twenty One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence by Cindy Wigglesworth. We will be discussing this book through October 31, 2022.

The club is also looking for suggestions to read in future months.

You can explore the club and join if you wish by going here.

Thank you for your interest,

David Markham

Looking for love in all the wrong places.

The word “knows” is correct here, because the Holy Spirit still holds knowledge safe in your mind through His impartial perception. By attacking nothing, He presents no barrier to the communication of God. Therefore, being is never threatened. Your Godlike mind can never be defiled. The ego never was and never will be part of it, but through the ego you can hear and teach and learn what is not true. You have taught yourself to believe that you are not what you are. You cannot teach what you have not learned, and what you teach you strengthen in yourself because you are sharing it. Every lesson you teach you are learning. T-6.III.I:3-10

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The passage above is difficult to understand if the student does not understand the metaphysics of the Course. The Course teaches that the ego is not real. The only reality is the non dual Oneness of God. This non dual Oneness which our ego has separated itself from does not remember the non dual Oneness and therefore mistakenly teaches that the things of the ego are real while the things of God are not. However, the Oneness of God is never threatened and nothing in the world of the ego can change that. We learn what we teach and so if we teach the things of the ego we learn more about the world of the ego and if we teach the things of God we learn more about the Oneness of God.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us covenant together to affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning and so much of this search is focused on the world of the ego rather than on the things of God. Most UUs know nothing about the non dual Oneness of the Kingdom of God and are looking for love in all the wrong places.

Today it is suggested that we take a few minutes to depart from the world of the ego and enter into the nondual Oneness of which we are a part.