Living the Course Articles

Mother Teresa garnered the respect of the world by reaching out to the most underprivileged, marginalized members of society. No matter what one's formal beliefs, or what one does with one's life, such behavior compels admiration. We innately sense something noble and...

The Golden Rule (commonly expressed as “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”) is held as an ideal the world over. Its presence is documented in all the world’s great religious traditions. Yet what, we may wonder, is its place in A Course in Miracles?...

I did a class on a central aspect of transcending the ego---the realization that we are not on our own. To set this up, I defined the ego as “the mind’s belief that it is completely on its own” (T-4.II.7:4). What does it mean to believe you are on your own? A...

We at the Circle of Atonement are very pleased to announce our new Story Project, where we will be publishing real-life stories that exemplify Course principles. As we all know, the Course is a very abstract document. It speaks of realities that are fundamentally...

While I was at my Unity church recently, I noticed a line prominently written on a whiteboard by an unknown hand. It said this: "Nothing is more important than to flow my energy and feel good." This prompted in me a long series of thoughts on the question: What is the...

More and more psychological studies are discovering what many of us are slowly discovering for ourselves and A Course in Miracles is trying to teach us: Happiness comes not from achieving worldly goals, but from becoming better, more loving human beings. A new study,...

One of the distinctive features of A Course in Miracles is how extreme and absolute its worldview is. You can see this, for instance, in its depiction of human nature. It presents two sides to human beings which could not possibly be more different from each other....

Tiger Woods is much in the news today, and not for his golf game. As just about everyone knows by now, on the heels of a strange auto accident outside his home, Woods has been accused of having numerous extramarital affairs with a list of women that seems to grow by...

It is common in alternative spiritual circles to glorify the emotions at the expense of the mind. "Get out of your head and into your heart," as the saying goes. In many versions of this view, raw emotion is primary; pure feeling, which exists prior to and independent...

I just read a remarkable and inspiring book called Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time. This book tells the story of Greg Mortenson, a mountain climber whose failed attempt to climb K2 led to the discovery of his life's mission:...

My fiancée, Patricia, who has a Mexican Catholic background, recently asked me what the Course says about the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments were an important part of her faith growing up, and she wanted a Course perspective on them. The more I thought about...

Positive thinking is all the rage in America these days, especially in alternative spiritual circles. As Atul Gawande states in a recent New York Times article, "the prevailing wisdom is that thinking positive is the key—The Secret, even—to success." Gawande goes on,...