Heart-Centred Living

Freiburg. 3/4/5 July: Fri [6pm to 9pm] Sat [10am to 6pm] and Sun [10am to 5pm]

Bonn. 27 and 28 June: Sat [10am to 6pm] and Sun [10am to 5pm] 

"God is but Love, and therefore so am I".

"Teach only love, for that is what you are".

"Your task is not to seek for love, 
but merely to seek and find all of the barriers 
within yourself that you have built against it"

From A Course in Miracles

Extending simple kindness, gentleness, compassion and forgiveness to yourself and others leads to the full heart. Practising these is a movement in the opposite direction to the ego and thus undoes the separation allowing to return the memory of God and who you really are.

The bottom line is that kindness and gentleness to all people, regardless of their situation, should be our guiding principle.

Dr. Kenneth Wapnick (www.facim.org)

The Course does not ask us to unconditionally love. To try that would only increase our level of guilt for failure would result. True love awaits us at the top of the spiritual ladder back home. We are either spontaneously capable of unconditional love like Jesus or not. There is no effort involved as it will naturally be there once the false idea of separation is gone. Until that wonderful day dawns we can make an effort to give kindness and gentleness instead of anger and judgement and we have the Holy Spirit to teach us how to do it. Effort is required until we reach the stage of no effort.

The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. It is possible even in this world to hear only that Voice and no other. It takes effort and great willingness to learn. It is the final lesson that I (Jesus) learned, and God's Sons are as equal as learners as they are as Sons.  A Course in Miracles T-5.II.3.7-11

As our heart grows we will need the wisdom that awareness brings. An open heart just wants to give, but balance is needed. For example, a healer who cannot say no will eventually experience burnout. The Holy Spirit will guide us to who needs our help - He is the one who chooses which miracle we need to perform and to whom. We must remain vigilant to hear His guidance for us. Humility teaches us that He knows best and increasingly we pass decisions to Him. As our insight grows we realise "I need do nothing" (T-18.VII) and let Him lead the way.

Love begins when thinking ends.

Meister Eckhart