Forgiveness and Relationships Articles

Even When Someone Tries to Rob You These hard economic times are driving many people to do things that they wouldn't ordinarily do. In a story passed on to me by a friend, I read about one man who was so desperate that he tried to rob a convenience store so he could...

How We Can Truly Forgive Others and Set Ourselves Free As every Course student knows, forgiveness is the central teaching of the Course, the royal road from the hell of our suffering to the Heaven of God’s Love. Yet Course-based forgiveness can be difficult to...

We are all familiar with projection, whereby my self-perception becomes projected outward and becomes my perception of others. The following line captures the concept well: And to accept the limits of a body is to impose these limits on each brother whom you see. For...

The whole point of the holy relationship is to undo separateness. The relationship begins in an act of joining and then progresses towards the goal of full, constant, and stable joining. This is how we undo the sense of separateness called the ego-by uniting with...

Section 3 in the Manual, "What Are the Levels of Teaching?" talks about three levels of teacher-pupil relationships, what it calls "teaching-learning situations." What it says about these relationships, however, is so broad that it could be applied to any...

A Course in Miracles makes relationships highly important in its message to us. Indeed, we might go so far as to say that the Course is a course in how to have real relationships. The Course itself was the answer to the search initiated by Helen Schucman and Bill...

We often think of living the Course's ideas in very abstract terms, such as accepting the Atonement for ourselves or realizing "I am as God created me." Yet the Course itself often sees things in extremely concrete terms. One example is in the importance it places on...

In Part I we saw that there is enormous potential in every human encounter—potential for something holy to pass between the two people involved. We also saw that every encounter has been arranged by the Holy Spirit because He saw potential there. And we saw what...

The Importance of Two Minds Joining Healing is an act of thought by which two minds perceive their oneness and become glad. (T 5.I.5:1) For no one alone can judge the ego truly. But when two or more join together in searching for truth, the ego can no longer defend...

Definition of a special relationship We can define a special relationship as one in which: I have a special arrangement (an exclusive relationship) with and receive special treatment from a very special person so that I can feel more special. Just reading this list...

We will begin the longer practice periods today with a short review of the different kinds of "laws" we have believed we must obey….You believe in the "laws" of friendship, of "good" relationships and reciprocity. (W-pI.76.8) This quote is an excerpt from Lesson 76,...

There was an interesting article recently in the New York Times titled "On Forgiveness," in which Charles Griswold explores the "what," "when," and "why" of forgiveness. In the article, he makes two points I want to address. The first is that the contemporary...