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What has struck me as not right with prayer, especially when I attempted church attendence a few years back is that it seemed backwards in the way it was approached. I don't think we should pray for God to do something for us or to change things or to somehow come to us. I think Anna said it so well...

And now, before we close, we really must acknowledge that the thesis presented in this book is outrageous and, very likely, absurd. Certainly, theologians and other biblical scholars will find our interpretation of the Genesis story and of those passages of the Gospels we addressed to be pure nonse...

I have started ACIM and how interesting that you have talked about this more subtle fear. I have experienced it today while reading and it is like you said, a feeling that you are veering too far away from what you have been conditioned to, whatever that may be. I think W4QTV was touching on this sa...

On the inner, my experience has been that true seekers welcome the opportunity to call God by different names, to search for God down unfamiliar paths, to reach for God by new practices. I like this encouragement you give to seekers. I think an obstacle for many to do this is the practice of Christ...

While studying a few years ago, I stumbled over this, what is The Logos. I read and looked up and tried every angle to figure out what Logos means. Your quote is very illuminating: Thus, when I read that first sentence in John, what I hear in my mind is, “In the beginning was the Concept of Creation...

Oh, and I wanted to say, that I came home and started reading again and the word surrender came up. I know it was discussed in another thread. Allowing what is happening to happen and not fighting against it is surrending to the moment. It was a little different view that sort of jolted me tonight a...

The book I'm reading right now is teaching about staying in the present. Attempting to do this at work the last few days, I've had some success and some lapses. What I have discovered through my struggles with this is how much I'm fighting against the present moment. As I'm more aware of this work, ...

I have come to many of the same conclusions that all of you are talking about. Firstly, I agree completely with the idea that we do not have to try to discern whether something is inspired or not, we find out by the results of following it. I also apply S Weil's idea to ACIM which is that there are ...

You all are making way too much sense. The story of the beginning by ZF is spell binding and as I read it everything started to come together, started to fit together, started to feel right. I'm finishing Tolle's book and then I will read the book you offer online. That is truly wonderful to offer t...

When asking the question how could God watch us suffer and say She is entertaining herself...I think I understand the who of me that was asking it.

All of you have shared some extremely perceptive views. What may also be of importance on this thread about walking the walk is that we can know something with our mind and then we can know it with our whole Being. Simone Weil stated it so well, but I can't find the quote. Something like experiecing...

I'm not embarrased for my searching and I don't think any of us should be. I do not understand what our purpose could possible be if what you say is correct? I understand that what we label as good and bad is just our perspective, but isn't there a Truth/Love/Goodness that isn't relative? Isn't this...

You’ve illuminated the ego quite well in what you have said, Anna, and I especially like the comment: “Satan is clever, and becomes even more clever the closer we are to banishing him from our lives.” In one of those special coming together of events, three days off of work and the arrival of the bo...

Perhaps what is scared and is feeling that she will be yanked apart is the ego, because the road I'm on is sure threatening the ego. I know the quiet part of me will always be okay. I assume you are past this time, but the ego part of me, which you label as an illusion is rearing up its head in the ...

ZF has written some great stuff, I need to read through it a few more times to let all of it sink in. I also like the quote about faith Enigma. I do know it states how I often feel. W4, I relate A LOT to what you're saying. Maybe I'm reading it differently but what you have written, about the troll ...