by Robert Perry | Oct 15, 2009 | Blog
I had a thought bubble up in meditation yesterday: I can stop worrying about me. I’m not what you might call an active worrier. I don’t dwell on and mull over worried thoughts. But I do carry worry about a lot of things: the people in my life, the Circle,...
by Robert Perry | Oct 8, 2009 | Blog
I have been practicing about the idea of giving for the last couple of days, and I just wanted to share some of my thoughts about the topic. I have this sense that if I really took off all the inner inhibitors I have around giving, all trace of reluctance, my life...
by Robert Perry | Oct 1, 2009 | Blog
I have been noticing with dismay that my Workbook-style practice, after all these years, is still something of a chore, and as a result, is still spotty. On the positive side, it is a fundamental part of my day. While at my desk I practice a number of times an hour...
by Robert Perry | Sep 24, 2009 | Blog
[Please note: ACIM passages quoted in this article reference the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) Edition.] I am doing a lesson I absolutely love today. Not that I am sticking with it all that well. But I still want to write a post about it, and maybe that will help...
by Robert Perry | Sep 18, 2009 | Blog
I have been thinking a great deal about love lately, about its centrality in the Course, and about how easily we forget that centrality. We Course students talk a lot about forgiveness, but much less, it seems to me, about love. I think that is probably because the...
by Robert Perry | Sep 11, 2009 | Blog
I have been thinking lately about the spiritual life. How do I conceive of it? What is my basic attitude toward it? I find that I am very slowly inching my way along a spectrum between two poles. At one end of the spectrum, I see the spiritual life as an unreasonable...
