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Audio Recordings
So for starting out this journey below find the document which contains the links to the first 189 audios of the lessons. You can download it here and save it so you can listen every day or whenever you feel is right for you.
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June 2026
Jun 1 - Lesson 111 Jun 2 - Lesson 112 Jun 3 - Lesson 113 Jun 4 - Lesson 114 Jun 5 - Lesson 115 Jun 6 - Lesson 116 Jun 7 - Lesson 117 Jun 8 - Lesson 118 Jun 9 - Lesson 119 Jun 10 - Lesson 120 Jun 11 - Lesson 121 Jun 12 - Lesson 122 Jun 13 - Lesson 123 Jun 14 - Lesson 124 Jun 15 - Lesson 125 Jun 16 - Lesson 126 Jun 17 - Lesson 127 Jun 18 - Lesson 128 Jun 19 - Lesson 129 Jun 20 - Lesson 130 Jun 21 - Lesson 131 Jun 22 - Lesson 132 Jun 23 - Lesson 133 Jun 24 - Lesson 134 Jun 25 - Lesson 135 Jun 26 - Lesson 136 Jun 27 - Lesson 137 Jun 28 - Lesson 138 Jun 29 - Lesson 139 Jun 30 - Lesson 140 |
July 2026
Jul 1 - Lesson 141 Jul 2 - Lesson 142 Jul 3 - Lesson 143 Jul 4 - Lesson 144 Jul 5 - Lesson 145 Jul 6 - Lesson 146 Jul 7 - Lesson 147 Jul 8 - Lesson 148 Jul 9 - Lesson 149 Jul 10 - Lesson 150 Jul 11 - Lesson 151 Jul 12 - Lesson 152 Jul 13 - Lesson 153 Jul 14 - Lesson 154 Jul 15 - Lesson 155 Jul 16 - Lesson 156 Jul 17 - Lesson 157 Jul 18 - Lesson 158 Jul 19 - Lesson 159 Jul 20 - Lesson 160 Jul 21 - Lesson 161 Jul 22 - Lesson 162 Jul 23 - Lesson 163 Jul 24 - Lesson 164 Jul 25 - Lesson 165 Jul 26 - Lesson 166 Jul 27 - Lesson 167 Jul 28 - Lesson 168 Jul 29 - Lesson 169 Jul 30 - Lesson 170 Jul 31 - Lesson 171 |
August 2026
Aug 1 - Lesson 172 Aug 2 - Lesson 173 Aug 3 - Lesson 174 Aug 4 - Lesson 175 Aug 5 - Lesson 176 Aug 6 - Lesson 177 Aug 7 - Lesson 178 Aug 8 - Lesson 179 Aug 9 - Lesson 180 Aug 10 - Lesson 181 Aug 11 - Lesson 182 Aug 12 - Lesson 183 Aug 13 - Lesson 184 Aug 14 - Lesson 185 Aug 15 - Lesson 186 Aug 16 - Lesson 187 Aug 17 - Lesson 188 Aug 18 - Lesson 189 Aug 19 - Lesson 190 Aug 20 - Lesson 191 Aug 21 - Lesson 192 Aug 22 - Lesson 193 Aug 23 - Lesson 194 Aug 24 - Lesson 195 Aug 25 - Lesson 196 Aug 26 - Lesson 197 Aug 27 - Lesson 198 Aug 28 - Lesson 199 Aug 29 - Lesson 200 Aug 30 - Lesson 201 Aug 31 - Lesson 202 |
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Staying Committed to Your Daily Lessons 📖✨
The daily lessons of A Course in Miracles are designed to rewire your perception and undo old conditioning. But like any transformation, consistency is key. Here are some practical tips to help you stay on track:
✅ Even if you can’t do all of the reminders, at least read the lesson once first thing in the morning. Just setting the intention for the day makes a difference.
✅ Create a routine that works for you. Whether it's reading in bed before getting up, during your morning coffee, or on a lunch break, commit to a rhythm that feels doable.
✅ Shift your mindset from "I have to do my lessons" to "I WANT to do my lessons." This is not a chore; this is your awakening.
✅ Plan ahead. If you know you’ll be traveling or have a busy day, decide in advance when and how you’ll fit in your lesson. Maybe it’s on a plane, in the car, or during a quiet moment between activities.
✅ Make it visual! Take a screenshot of the daily lesson and use it as your phone wallpaper so you’re reminded throughout the day.
✅ Use the worksheet! 📄✨ A student Lori created a fantastic worksheet to help track your lessons and reflections—download it and use it as a tool for deeper integration. (It's Below) ⬇️
💡 More Ideas to Stay on Track:
➤ Use App or Set an alarm ⏰ or a calendar reminder to revisit your lesson throughout the day.
➤ Write the lesson down in a notebook or sticky note and place it where you’ll see it (bathroom mirror, car dashboard, desk).
➤ Record yourself reading the lesson and listen to it throughout the day. 🎧
➤ Use a buddy system—check in with a classmate about how the lesson is unfolding for you both.
➤ Remember: It’s okay to miss a day. If you do, just pick up where you left off—no guilt, no judgment, just continue.
The most important thing? Keep going. Even when you don’t fully understand a lesson, even when resistance comes up. The shifts are happening—often in ways you can’t yet see.
💫 You’ve got this! 💖
Daily Worksheet
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🌟 Awakened Living — Session 2: Lessons 1–7
February 17, 2026
⚠️ No recording this week — Max forgot to hit record. It won't happen again!
The full synopsis below has everything you need.
The full synopsis below has everything you need.
🔑 Overview
This session covered the first seven lessons of A Course in Miracles. We moved slowly and let each lesson build naturally on the last — because that's exactly how they're designed. The central thread running through all of them: you do not see reality as it is. You see a world constructed through past-conditioned meanings, projected thoughts, and inherited beliefs. The lessons aren't asking you to agree with this yet. They're just asking you to notice it.
A key reminder that came up again and again: the real work is not happening in your understanding. It's happening at an experiential level — beneath the words, in how your body, emotions, and day-to-day life begin to shift. Let the work do you, not the other way around.
📖 The Seven Lessons — What We Covered
Lesson 1: Nothing I see means anything
The invitation here is beginner's mind — what Zen calls shoshin, what Jesus called becoming like a child. We arrive at everything with a head full of prior associations, categories, and judgments. This lesson asks you to consciously suspend those and look at things as if for the first time. Tempa beautifully described how doing this exercise created a quality of freshness — a genuine desire to actually see, rather than simply recognize. The nothing of meaning is, paradoxically, where everything real lives. ✨
Lesson 2: I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me
Not only does nothing mean anything inherently — every meaning you do see is one you have assigned, often unconsciously, often from the past. Amy had a powerful realization applying this physically: turning around in her kitchen, she understood that 'behind me' literally was the past — and that all her meanings lived back there. The lesson extends to other people too: the meanings you give to human beings are just as constructed as the meanings you give to objects. 🪞
Lesson 3: I do not understand anything I see
You've given everything a meaning — and you don't even fully understand the meaning you've made. There's a real freedom in this, and also a humility. Christina had a breakthrough here: recognizing that all her people-pleasing at work changed nothing — the outcome was the same either way. That energy can go elsewhere now. As she put it herself: the quieter she is, the more she is received. Think about how much energy it takes to keep the ego's belief system running. That energy is now available for something else. 💡
Lesson 4: These thoughts do not mean anything
What's true of external things is equally true of thoughts. The meaning you assign to something and the thought you have about it feed each other — but neither is the truth. Tempa shared that she was in the middle of painful thoughts about her daughter and while she could see them doing the damage, she couldn't yet release them — and that's completely okay. The awareness itself is the work. As Max noted: what used to take Tempa weeks to move through now takes hours. That's the practice working. 🌱
💛 Important: There is nothing in ACIM that says emotions are bad. Feel your feelings. This work only asks you to recognize that it is your thinking that amplifies and perpetuates them.
Lesson 5: I am never upset for the reason I think
One of the most powerful lessons in the entire year. When you are angry, sad, anxious, or triggered, the presenting reason is almost never the real reason. The real reason lives in older territory — unmet needs, old fears, deep beliefs about love and safety. Kristine named how hard this one hits right now with everything happening in the world — getting triggered by current events and trying to ask herself: what am I really upset about underneath this? Learning to ask that question is learning to be your own therapist.
And remember: there are no small upsets. The irritation about your coffee and the grief about your childhood belong to the same family. When you're stuck — write. Dig. Don't just ride the surface of the story. 🔍
Lesson 6: I am upset because I see something that is not there
You are not responding to reality. You are responding to your projection of reality — built from past experience, expectation, fear, and meaning-making. Christina described a moment at work where she was convinced a younger coworker was micromanaging her — ego fully activated — and then the whole scenario lasted five minutes and everyone moved on. She had been upset by something that wasn't really there. Almost always, beneath difficult behavior in others: fear, sadness, or a call for love. 🕊️
Lesson 7: I see only the past
This is the capstone of the first seven lessons — and it explains all of the above. Every perception you have, of people, situations, yourself, is filtered through the accumulated database of your past experience. You are not seeing what is in front of you. You are seeing what the past has trained you to see.
Karylle shared a beautiful example: when her dad passed in 2023 and the family had to clear out his house, she was able to apply these early lessons — this doesn't mean anything, I'm giving it the meaning — and let things go without the family drama that so often comes with that process. It made everything easier. 🙏
Tempa also brought up that this applies to positive memories too — something at Trader Joe's triggered a warm memory, and Max pointed out that even assigning something as 'good' is still a past-constructed meaning. The goal isn't to lose your joy. It's to recognize where it's coming from.
The practical invitation: start saying "In the past, I used to..." Because everything that isn't happening right now is the past. Stop dragging it into the present. 🗝️
✅ Recommendations Moving Forward🔹 Keep doing the lessons daily. Don't stop on a lesson to "get" it — the next lesson will explain it. Trust the scaffolding.
🔹 Don't force agreement. You don't have to believe any of this. Just do the exercises. Let the work do you.
🔹 Set practice period reminders. Starting soon, the lessons ask for multiple practice periods per day. Use your phone or a reminder app — you'll want that support.
🔹 Sit down, shut up, ask what's the truth. When you're triggered or spinning, pause. Don't follow the story. Ask: what is actually happening here?
🔹 Journal when you're stuck. Writing helps you go below the surface of a thought or feeling and find what's really there.
🔹 Everything is okay here. Whatever is coming up for you — fear, confusion, joy, grief — it's all part of the process. Nothing has gone wrong.
🔹 Say "in the past, I used to." Practice locating old patterns and stories in the past tense. It creates space for something new to arrive.
🔹 Catch upsets early. A small annoyance and a big rage have the same root. When you notice a small irritation, that's your window — inquire before it escalates.
This session covered the first seven lessons of A Course in Miracles. We moved slowly and let each lesson build naturally on the last — because that's exactly how they're designed. The central thread running through all of them: you do not see reality as it is. You see a world constructed through past-conditioned meanings, projected thoughts, and inherited beliefs. The lessons aren't asking you to agree with this yet. They're just asking you to notice it.
A key reminder that came up again and again: the real work is not happening in your understanding. It's happening at an experiential level — beneath the words, in how your body, emotions, and day-to-day life begin to shift. Let the work do you, not the other way around.
📖 The Seven Lessons — What We Covered
Lesson 1: Nothing I see means anything
The invitation here is beginner's mind — what Zen calls shoshin, what Jesus called becoming like a child. We arrive at everything with a head full of prior associations, categories, and judgments. This lesson asks you to consciously suspend those and look at things as if for the first time. Tempa beautifully described how doing this exercise created a quality of freshness — a genuine desire to actually see, rather than simply recognize. The nothing of meaning is, paradoxically, where everything real lives. ✨
Lesson 2: I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me
Not only does nothing mean anything inherently — every meaning you do see is one you have assigned, often unconsciously, often from the past. Amy had a powerful realization applying this physically: turning around in her kitchen, she understood that 'behind me' literally was the past — and that all her meanings lived back there. The lesson extends to other people too: the meanings you give to human beings are just as constructed as the meanings you give to objects. 🪞
Lesson 3: I do not understand anything I see
You've given everything a meaning — and you don't even fully understand the meaning you've made. There's a real freedom in this, and also a humility. Christina had a breakthrough here: recognizing that all her people-pleasing at work changed nothing — the outcome was the same either way. That energy can go elsewhere now. As she put it herself: the quieter she is, the more she is received. Think about how much energy it takes to keep the ego's belief system running. That energy is now available for something else. 💡
Lesson 4: These thoughts do not mean anything
What's true of external things is equally true of thoughts. The meaning you assign to something and the thought you have about it feed each other — but neither is the truth. Tempa shared that she was in the middle of painful thoughts about her daughter and while she could see them doing the damage, she couldn't yet release them — and that's completely okay. The awareness itself is the work. As Max noted: what used to take Tempa weeks to move through now takes hours. That's the practice working. 🌱
💛 Important: There is nothing in ACIM that says emotions are bad. Feel your feelings. This work only asks you to recognize that it is your thinking that amplifies and perpetuates them.
Lesson 5: I am never upset for the reason I think
One of the most powerful lessons in the entire year. When you are angry, sad, anxious, or triggered, the presenting reason is almost never the real reason. The real reason lives in older territory — unmet needs, old fears, deep beliefs about love and safety. Kristine named how hard this one hits right now with everything happening in the world — getting triggered by current events and trying to ask herself: what am I really upset about underneath this? Learning to ask that question is learning to be your own therapist.
And remember: there are no small upsets. The irritation about your coffee and the grief about your childhood belong to the same family. When you're stuck — write. Dig. Don't just ride the surface of the story. 🔍
Lesson 6: I am upset because I see something that is not there
You are not responding to reality. You are responding to your projection of reality — built from past experience, expectation, fear, and meaning-making. Christina described a moment at work where she was convinced a younger coworker was micromanaging her — ego fully activated — and then the whole scenario lasted five minutes and everyone moved on. She had been upset by something that wasn't really there. Almost always, beneath difficult behavior in others: fear, sadness, or a call for love. 🕊️
Lesson 7: I see only the past
This is the capstone of the first seven lessons — and it explains all of the above. Every perception you have, of people, situations, yourself, is filtered through the accumulated database of your past experience. You are not seeing what is in front of you. You are seeing what the past has trained you to see.
Karylle shared a beautiful example: when her dad passed in 2023 and the family had to clear out his house, she was able to apply these early lessons — this doesn't mean anything, I'm giving it the meaning — and let things go without the family drama that so often comes with that process. It made everything easier. 🙏
Tempa also brought up that this applies to positive memories too — something at Trader Joe's triggered a warm memory, and Max pointed out that even assigning something as 'good' is still a past-constructed meaning. The goal isn't to lose your joy. It's to recognize where it's coming from.
The practical invitation: start saying "In the past, I used to..." Because everything that isn't happening right now is the past. Stop dragging it into the present. 🗝️
✅ Recommendations Moving Forward🔹 Keep doing the lessons daily. Don't stop on a lesson to "get" it — the next lesson will explain it. Trust the scaffolding.
🔹 Don't force agreement. You don't have to believe any of this. Just do the exercises. Let the work do you.
🔹 Set practice period reminders. Starting soon, the lessons ask for multiple practice periods per day. Use your phone or a reminder app — you'll want that support.
🔹 Sit down, shut up, ask what's the truth. When you're triggered or spinning, pause. Don't follow the story. Ask: what is actually happening here?
🔹 Journal when you're stuck. Writing helps you go below the surface of a thought or feeling and find what's really there.
🔹 Everything is okay here. Whatever is coming up for you — fear, confusion, joy, grief — it's all part of the process. Nothing has gone wrong.
🔹 Say "in the past, I used to." Practice locating old patterns and stories in the past tense. It creates space for something new to arrive.
🔹 Catch upsets early. A small annoyance and a big rage have the same root. When you notice a small irritation, that's your window — inquire before it escalates.
The shamanic journey music we mentioned
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 3: Lessons 8–14
February 24, 2026
🔑 Overview
This week we moved through Lessons 8–14, and the scaffolding of the Course continued to do exactly what it's designed to do: each lesson builds on the last until something clicks open. The thread running through all seven this week is this — the world you see is not happening to you. You are projecting it. Your mind, preoccupied with the past, is throwing its meanings, fears, and stories onto a screen and then reacting to what it sees there as though it were real.
The good news: when your words have been erased, you will see His. That's the whole game. That's why we're here.
And yes — we did hit record this week. ✅
📖 Lessons 8–14 — What We Covered
Lesson 8: My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts
This isn't a judgment — it's a description of how the mind works. The mind is a meaning-making machine, and all its meanings come from the past. Meet someone once who disappoints you, then again, then again — and suddenly that becomes a category of people you've decided on. You are never encountering anything fresh. You are always filtering through what has already been decided.
Max used a brilliant example from science: real scientific thinking tries to disprove the theory, not confirm it. But most of us walk through life doing the opposite — gathering evidence for what we've already decided is true. That's not thinking. That's an echo chamber. And our minds do it constantly, about everything from politics to relationships to ourselves. 🔬
"Your mind cannot grasp the present, which is the only time there is. It therefore cannot understand time, and cannot, in fact, understand anything." — Lesson 8
Lesson 9: I see nothing as it is now
Because the mind is preoccupied with the past, it cannot see what is actually in front of it. You see your projection of what you think something is — not the thing itself. This is the ego's fundamental operating mode.
Kristine read the passage that stopped everyone in their tracks: "Each small step will clear a little of the darkness away, and understanding will finally come to lighten every corner of the mind that has been cleared of the debris that darkens it." As Max put it — you're just cleaning out the boxes in the attic, one at a time. You don't have to leap from here to enlightenment. Just huh, huh, huh. Click, click, click. ✨
Christina quietly had a miracle mid-session: she canceled a client appointment because she was tired, felt guilty for about five minutes, and then chose to let it go and rest. Old pattern — dissolved. New meaning — chosen. That's it. That's the work.
Lesson 10: My thoughts do not mean anything
Amy brought this one home beautifully. Every holiday, she plans everything — the perfect Easter basket, the glow-in-the-dark egg hunt, the cookies started months in advance — and every time the reality doesn't match the fantasy, she's exhausted and deflated. As Max pointed out: you are forsaking yourself to have the illusion of control. And beneath that? Scarcity. The belief that if I don't fill this hole, no one will. The thought that there is even a hole to fill.
There is no hole. There is only what your thoughts have made the meaning that there is one. 💡
And the kicker: you are not your thoughts. There is an experience of anxiety happening, but you are not anxious. There is an experience of anger happening, but you are not angry. That little shift in language — there is anger happening rather than I am angry — changes everything.
Lesson 11: My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world
Max had one word written at the top of this lesson: Victimhood. The ego's position is that the world is doing this to you — the politics, the chaos, the people around you. But the Course flips it completely: your thoughts determine the world you see. Not the other way around.
Kristine put it plainly: we always think it's me against the world, that the world is determining what we perceive. But it's really our thoughts. The world doesn't cause your suffering. Your interpretation of the world does. 🌍
Lesson 12: I am upset because I see a meaningless world
This is where it gets both harder and more liberating. All the attributes you give the world — frightening, sad, violent, insane — are given by you. The world is meaningless in itself. And yet Amy sits at work with Fox News blasting in the muster room and manages to be Gandhi on the bus, lesson of the day on a sticky note on her computer, doing her practice while the world does what it does. 🙏
The passage Amy read stopped the room:
"Beneath your words is written the word of God... The truth upsets you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see His. That is the ultimate purpose of these exercises."
That is why we are doing this. All of it. Right there.
Lesson 13: A meaningless world engenders fear
Why does meaninglessness scare us so much? Because as Karylle pointed out — when you get past the meaninglessness, you see pure potentiality. And that vastness is actually more frightening than the familiar darkness. As Marianne Williamson famously said: we are more afraid of the light than the dark. The dark is what we know.
Max connected this to Plato's cave — the shadows on the wall have all the meaning, they are the known world, and to turn away from them toward the light takes real courage. The ego rushes in to fill any void with new meaning, new stories, new fears — because if the void is just allowed to be, the ego's impotence becomes obvious.
Kristine raised something important: in spirituality, the ego itself can become another devil to fight — something big and dark that you're constantly battling. But the Course isn't asking you to fight anything. The ego is nothing. You created it. And you can stop feeding it. 🔥
Karylle read this passage, which is worth sitting with:
"If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes that it does not possess and crowd it with images that do not exist."
Lesson 14: God did not create a meaningless world
The capstone. And the most radical statement yet.
God did not create that war, so it is not real. God did not create that disaster, so it is not real.
Max pulled Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning off the shelf — because this is exactly what got Frankl through Auschwitz. In the most unimaginably brutal circumstances, he understood that no one could take his inner freedom, his choice of meaning, away from him. The world can do anything it wants to the body. It cannot touch what you are. 📖
Amy read the passage that contains the whole teaching:
"What God did not create does not exist. And everything that does exist, exists as He created it. The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist.
✅ Recommendations Moving Forward
🔹 Keep doing the lessons daily. We're at 15 now and they're starting to get more layered. Keep your notes. Bring your aha moments.
🔹 Get the app if you don't have it. The lessons are now asking for multiple practice periods throughout the day. Let it remind you.
🔹 Notice your echo chamber. When you find yourself gathering evidence for what you've already decided — about a person, a situation, a political view, yourself — pause. Ask: am I trying to disprove this, or just confirm it?
🔹 Try "there is anger happening" instead of "I am angry." Create a little distance between you and the experience. You are not your thoughts. You are not your feelings. They are passing through.
🔹 A miracle is a shift in your perception. That's Amy's takeaway and it's the whole thing. Every time you change the meaning of something — every time you choose differently — that's a miracle. You're already doing it.
🔹 Tempa's takeaway this week: "I don't know." Max loved it. Sit with not knowing. It's closer to the truth than anything else.
This week we moved through Lessons 8–14, and the scaffolding of the Course continued to do exactly what it's designed to do: each lesson builds on the last until something clicks open. The thread running through all seven this week is this — the world you see is not happening to you. You are projecting it. Your mind, preoccupied with the past, is throwing its meanings, fears, and stories onto a screen and then reacting to what it sees there as though it were real.
The good news: when your words have been erased, you will see His. That's the whole game. That's why we're here.
And yes — we did hit record this week. ✅
📖 Lessons 8–14 — What We Covered
Lesson 8: My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts
This isn't a judgment — it's a description of how the mind works. The mind is a meaning-making machine, and all its meanings come from the past. Meet someone once who disappoints you, then again, then again — and suddenly that becomes a category of people you've decided on. You are never encountering anything fresh. You are always filtering through what has already been decided.
Max used a brilliant example from science: real scientific thinking tries to disprove the theory, not confirm it. But most of us walk through life doing the opposite — gathering evidence for what we've already decided is true. That's not thinking. That's an echo chamber. And our minds do it constantly, about everything from politics to relationships to ourselves. 🔬
"Your mind cannot grasp the present, which is the only time there is. It therefore cannot understand time, and cannot, in fact, understand anything." — Lesson 8
Lesson 9: I see nothing as it is now
Because the mind is preoccupied with the past, it cannot see what is actually in front of it. You see your projection of what you think something is — not the thing itself. This is the ego's fundamental operating mode.
Kristine read the passage that stopped everyone in their tracks: "Each small step will clear a little of the darkness away, and understanding will finally come to lighten every corner of the mind that has been cleared of the debris that darkens it." As Max put it — you're just cleaning out the boxes in the attic, one at a time. You don't have to leap from here to enlightenment. Just huh, huh, huh. Click, click, click. ✨
Christina quietly had a miracle mid-session: she canceled a client appointment because she was tired, felt guilty for about five minutes, and then chose to let it go and rest. Old pattern — dissolved. New meaning — chosen. That's it. That's the work.
Lesson 10: My thoughts do not mean anything
Amy brought this one home beautifully. Every holiday, she plans everything — the perfect Easter basket, the glow-in-the-dark egg hunt, the cookies started months in advance — and every time the reality doesn't match the fantasy, she's exhausted and deflated. As Max pointed out: you are forsaking yourself to have the illusion of control. And beneath that? Scarcity. The belief that if I don't fill this hole, no one will. The thought that there is even a hole to fill.
There is no hole. There is only what your thoughts have made the meaning that there is one. 💡
And the kicker: you are not your thoughts. There is an experience of anxiety happening, but you are not anxious. There is an experience of anger happening, but you are not angry. That little shift in language — there is anger happening rather than I am angry — changes everything.
Lesson 11: My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world
Max had one word written at the top of this lesson: Victimhood. The ego's position is that the world is doing this to you — the politics, the chaos, the people around you. But the Course flips it completely: your thoughts determine the world you see. Not the other way around.
Kristine put it plainly: we always think it's me against the world, that the world is determining what we perceive. But it's really our thoughts. The world doesn't cause your suffering. Your interpretation of the world does. 🌍
Lesson 12: I am upset because I see a meaningless world
This is where it gets both harder and more liberating. All the attributes you give the world — frightening, sad, violent, insane — are given by you. The world is meaningless in itself. And yet Amy sits at work with Fox News blasting in the muster room and manages to be Gandhi on the bus, lesson of the day on a sticky note on her computer, doing her practice while the world does what it does. 🙏
The passage Amy read stopped the room:
"Beneath your words is written the word of God... The truth upsets you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see His. That is the ultimate purpose of these exercises."
That is why we are doing this. All of it. Right there.
Lesson 13: A meaningless world engenders fear
Why does meaninglessness scare us so much? Because as Karylle pointed out — when you get past the meaninglessness, you see pure potentiality. And that vastness is actually more frightening than the familiar darkness. As Marianne Williamson famously said: we are more afraid of the light than the dark. The dark is what we know.
Max connected this to Plato's cave — the shadows on the wall have all the meaning, they are the known world, and to turn away from them toward the light takes real courage. The ego rushes in to fill any void with new meaning, new stories, new fears — because if the void is just allowed to be, the ego's impotence becomes obvious.
Kristine raised something important: in spirituality, the ego itself can become another devil to fight — something big and dark that you're constantly battling. But the Course isn't asking you to fight anything. The ego is nothing. You created it. And you can stop feeding it. 🔥
Karylle read this passage, which is worth sitting with:
"If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes that it does not possess and crowd it with images that do not exist."
Lesson 14: God did not create a meaningless world
The capstone. And the most radical statement yet.
God did not create that war, so it is not real. God did not create that disaster, so it is not real.
Max pulled Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning off the shelf — because this is exactly what got Frankl through Auschwitz. In the most unimaginably brutal circumstances, he understood that no one could take his inner freedom, his choice of meaning, away from him. The world can do anything it wants to the body. It cannot touch what you are. 📖
Amy read the passage that contains the whole teaching:
"What God did not create does not exist. And everything that does exist, exists as He created it. The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist.
✅ Recommendations Moving Forward
🔹 Keep doing the lessons daily. We're at 15 now and they're starting to get more layered. Keep your notes. Bring your aha moments.
🔹 Get the app if you don't have it. The lessons are now asking for multiple practice periods throughout the day. Let it remind you.
🔹 Notice your echo chamber. When you find yourself gathering evidence for what you've already decided — about a person, a situation, a political view, yourself — pause. Ask: am I trying to disprove this, or just confirm it?
🔹 Try "there is anger happening" instead of "I am angry." Create a little distance between you and the experience. You are not your thoughts. You are not your feelings. They are passing through.
🔹 A miracle is a shift in your perception. That's Amy's takeaway and it's the whole thing. Every time you change the meaning of something — every time you choose differently — that's a miracle. You're already doing it.
🔹 Tempa's takeaway this week: "I don't know." Max loved it. Sit with not knowing. It's closer to the truth than anything else.
🎬 Two Videos for This Week
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🌍 The History of Human Scarcity — A sharp, accessible breakdown of how 10,000 years of agrarian civilization created the scarcity-based power structures we're still living inside. Why the Epstein files, the consolidation of power, the control of resources — none of it is new. It's the oldest story in the world, playing out again. Watch this. It will reframe everything.
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✨ Eric Dane's Last Words — Kristine brought this up as her takeaway from today and it's perfect. A man facing death with more aliveness in his eyes than most people find in a lifetime. What he says about the soul, about what can and cannot be taken from you — it's pure Course in Miracles without him ever knowing it. Watch it and then watch it again.
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🌟 Awakened Living — Session 4:
Lessons 15–21 March 3, 2026
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 15–21 are all building toward one thing: seeing differently. Not looking away from what's hard — the world is giving us plenty of material right now — but developing the capacity to stand in the eye of the tornado and not be consumed by it. That's the internal revolution these lessons are calling for.
The big ideas this week: your thoughts are not neutral, not idle, and not private. Everything you see has been colored by meanings you assigned — consciously or not. And your thinking ripples outward into a shared experience. Which means changing how you see things is not a small act. It matters. 🌀
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy set a timer and did every single practice period for Lesson 20 (I Am Determined to See) without missing one. That's the whole assignment right there. She also noticed that doing the lessons for the second time, she reads slower, takes them in differently — she literally sees them differently. The corkscrew is working. 🌀
Kristine named something brave: a week full of fury — about her niece, about the world, about the Epstein files — and then realizing mid-lesson that the fury lives in her, not out there. That's radical responsibility. That's the work. 🔥
Karylle had a heavy week of spiraling thoughts and found her way back by doing exactly what the lesson asked: slow down, stop brainstorming every possible catastrophe, and see it differently. She also caught Marianne Williamson highlighting this exact lesson in a webinar the same day. The synchronicity was not lost on her. 🙏
Tempa gave everyone a gift — her takeaway for the whole week was one word: REFRAME. A single word she can call on the moment she notices herself going sideways. That's power. 🔑
Amy's takeaway? Trust. She's getting it as a tattoo?! 😄
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Make I am determined to see things differently your mantra. Morning, triggers, news feed — all of it.
🔹 Use a timer for your practice periods. It works.
🔹 When you're spiraling — one word: Reframe.
🔹 The corkscrew is moving. You're not going backward. You're going deeper.
Lessons 15–21 are all building toward one thing: seeing differently. Not looking away from what's hard — the world is giving us plenty of material right now — but developing the capacity to stand in the eye of the tornado and not be consumed by it. That's the internal revolution these lessons are calling for.
The big ideas this week: your thoughts are not neutral, not idle, and not private. Everything you see has been colored by meanings you assigned — consciously or not. And your thinking ripples outward into a shared experience. Which means changing how you see things is not a small act. It matters. 🌀
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy set a timer and did every single practice period for Lesson 20 (I Am Determined to See) without missing one. That's the whole assignment right there. She also noticed that doing the lessons for the second time, she reads slower, takes them in differently — she literally sees them differently. The corkscrew is working. 🌀
Kristine named something brave: a week full of fury — about her niece, about the world, about the Epstein files — and then realizing mid-lesson that the fury lives in her, not out there. That's radical responsibility. That's the work. 🔥
Karylle had a heavy week of spiraling thoughts and found her way back by doing exactly what the lesson asked: slow down, stop brainstorming every possible catastrophe, and see it differently. She also caught Marianne Williamson highlighting this exact lesson in a webinar the same day. The synchronicity was not lost on her. 🙏
Tempa gave everyone a gift — her takeaway for the whole week was one word: REFRAME. A single word she can call on the moment she notices herself going sideways. That's power. 🔑
Amy's takeaway? Trust. She's getting it as a tattoo?! 😄
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Make I am determined to see things differently your mantra. Morning, triggers, news feed — all of it.
🔹 Use a timer for your practice periods. It works.
🔹 When you're spiraling — one word: Reframe.
🔹 The corkscrew is moving. You're not going backward. You're going deeper.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 5:
Lessons 22–28 March 10, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
The theme threading through Lessons 22–28: you built the prison, and you hold the key. What you see is a form of vengeance. Attack thoughts — on the world and on yourself — are the bars. And Lesson 23 makes it plain: the only way out of fear is to give them up. Not force them away. Give them up. 🗝️
💬 How the Course Actually Works
We opened this session with a question: why do we breathe at the beginning of class? The answers were good — to get grounded, leave the trash at the door, quiet the mind. All true. But here's the deeper reason: there's nowhere to get to. No here, no there. Just what is. When you're trying to control the illusion, you're already inside it. The breath isn't about escaping the noise. It's about remembering you don't need to.
This is also a good place to say: you don't have to do the work. Let the work do you. The more the character tries to control the process, the more it stays in charge. The Course even says you can actively resist what's being given to you — just do it anyway. Just show up.
And if you've missed lessons? Don't spiral. Keep going. There's no Course in Miracles police. What matters is you don't give up. Consistency over perfection, every time. 📖
🤝 On Community
This group holds each other. That's not a small thing. When one person is going through it, the rest of us step up — not to fix it, not to have the perfect answer, but to say I've been there too. Tempa shared that her husband died in 2008 and raised her kids alone through some really hard years. Karylle navigated a long birthday call with a cousin stuck in her story, and chose love over engagement. These are people doing the real work, in real life. That's who you're doing this with. 🙏
The only problem is I think I have a problem — and that's my problem. Write it down. Tattoo it to the back of your eyeballs. It creates space. Objectivity. A little breathing room to see the situation without the character deciding what it all means.
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Christina came to class exhausted and carrying a serious family crisis — son at her place, court the next morning. She showed up anyway. And by the end, the hat was off and the smile was out. Her takeaway: Acceptance. Not the label, not the dot — the whole white blank slate. 🌸
Kristine's takeaway was simple and true: a little willingness is all that's needed. You don't have to believe it. You don't have to be ready. Just willing.
Tempa shared this image of matches — some burning, most not — as her visual for Lesson 23. Do I really want to jump into that fire? You don't have to. You can stand over here and let it burn. 🔥
Karylle watched the lessons play out live in a real conversation — and chose to see things differently rather than go in. That's the corkscrew moving upward. 🌀
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 The only problem is I think I have a problem — and that's my problem.
🔹 Attack thoughts toward yourself are still attack thoughts. Give those up too.
🔹 Do the lessons even if you're falling asleep. Just read them. The work is doing you.
🔹 Look ahead: Lesson 31 — I am not the victim of the world I see. Start letting that land early
The theme threading through Lessons 22–28: you built the prison, and you hold the key. What you see is a form of vengeance. Attack thoughts — on the world and on yourself — are the bars. And Lesson 23 makes it plain: the only way out of fear is to give them up. Not force them away. Give them up. 🗝️
💬 How the Course Actually Works
We opened this session with a question: why do we breathe at the beginning of class? The answers were good — to get grounded, leave the trash at the door, quiet the mind. All true. But here's the deeper reason: there's nowhere to get to. No here, no there. Just what is. When you're trying to control the illusion, you're already inside it. The breath isn't about escaping the noise. It's about remembering you don't need to.
This is also a good place to say: you don't have to do the work. Let the work do you. The more the character tries to control the process, the more it stays in charge. The Course even says you can actively resist what's being given to you — just do it anyway. Just show up.
And if you've missed lessons? Don't spiral. Keep going. There's no Course in Miracles police. What matters is you don't give up. Consistency over perfection, every time. 📖
🤝 On Community
This group holds each other. That's not a small thing. When one person is going through it, the rest of us step up — not to fix it, not to have the perfect answer, but to say I've been there too. Tempa shared that her husband died in 2008 and raised her kids alone through some really hard years. Karylle navigated a long birthday call with a cousin stuck in her story, and chose love over engagement. These are people doing the real work, in real life. That's who you're doing this with. 🙏
The only problem is I think I have a problem — and that's my problem. Write it down. Tattoo it to the back of your eyeballs. It creates space. Objectivity. A little breathing room to see the situation without the character deciding what it all means.
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Christina came to class exhausted and carrying a serious family crisis — son at her place, court the next morning. She showed up anyway. And by the end, the hat was off and the smile was out. Her takeaway: Acceptance. Not the label, not the dot — the whole white blank slate. 🌸
Kristine's takeaway was simple and true: a little willingness is all that's needed. You don't have to believe it. You don't have to be ready. Just willing.
Tempa shared this image of matches — some burning, most not — as her visual for Lesson 23. Do I really want to jump into that fire? You don't have to. You can stand over here and let it burn. 🔥
Karylle watched the lessons play out live in a real conversation — and chose to see things differently rather than go in. That's the corkscrew moving upward. 🌀
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 The only problem is I think I have a problem — and that's my problem.
🔹 Attack thoughts toward yourself are still attack thoughts. Give those up too.
🔹 Do the lessons even if you're falling asleep. Just read them. The work is doing you.
🔹 Look ahead: Lesson 31 — I am not the victim of the world I see. Start letting that land early
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 6:
Lessons 29–35 March 17, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🎉 30-Day Mark
You hit it. That's real. Give yourself a round of applause — this is not nothing. 👏
🌹 Rose & Thorn — Where We Are at 35 Days
We opened with a check-in: what's your rose, and what's your thorn? Here's what came up.
Amy's rose: at work, she's in her bubble. Max in her ear, post-its up, lessons in. Her thorn: home is where the chaos lives — and last night included a meteor over Cleveland, a car wreck, and a nursing home escape. You can't make it up. The lesson is happening whether you want it to or not.
Kristine's rose: first thing every morning, she looks forward to the lesson. Her thorn: afternoons and family moments — the ego gets loud and the lesson slips away. But she said it herself: she's aware. That's the whole thing.
Tempa's rose: this year is a big improvement over last. The lessons are sticking more. Her thorn: slow mornings. But showing up, whenever you show up, counts.
Christina's rose: the seeds are planting. She already knows she's coming back for year two. Her thorn: the ego is fighting harder now — but as Max reminded her, that's not the ego getting louder. That's you noticing it for the first time. Big difference. 🌱
Karylle's rose: more moments of peace. More quiet mind. The "oh no, oh no" is turning into "who cares." Her thorn: some lessons she reads and genuinely doesn't get them. That's okay. Consistency is the key. Just keep doing it.
Reminder: Bring your questions and confusions to the group. That's what it's here for.
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 29–35 are saturated with God — God is in everything I see, God is in my mind, I have invented the world I see, I am not the victim of the world I see, there is another way of looking at the world, I could see peace instead of this, my mind is part of God's. These lessons are building toward something. The Course is not being subtle.
The thread running through all of it: you are not looking at the world, you are projecting it. You made it up. Which means you can give it up just as easily. As Lesson 32 says: you will see it while you want it. When you no longer want it, it will not be there for you to see. Simple. Not always easy. But it is a choice.
Kristine used Lesson 34 in real time this week — caught herself trying to control people she loves, remembered she doesn't want that done to her, and chose peace instead. That's the lesson living outside the page. 🕊️
Tempa's image of the matches — some burning, most not — was her visual for Lesson 23, carried into this week: Do I really want to jump into that fire? You don't have to. Stand over here. Let it burn.
🧠 Two Things to Sit With
Non-locality. We did an exercise — close your eyes, go somewhere incredible. Christina went to an oasis in Lima, Peru. Amy walked a creek in the woods. Kristine found a fairy glen. Karylle went to the Isle of Wight. Tempa stayed home with her cats — and that was perfect too.
You just experienced non-locality. You went there without your body's eyes. Lesson 30 says it directly: Real vision is not limited to concepts such as near or far. This is not metaphor. This is what the Course is pointing to.
What is God? There's no right or wrong answer, and your answer is going to change. That's how you know the work is working. The Course is a nondual teaching — meaning only one. Not a God and a you. Just one. God is in the coat hanger, the door, the wastebasket. Sit with that. Write about it if you want. Just don't let your concept stay frozen.
These are seeds. Let them grow. 🌱
💬 Breakout Room Question — Lesson 31
Where in your life right now are you handing your peace over to something outside yourself — and what would it feel like to take it back?
Pairs: Christina + Kristine / Karylle + Tempa
What came back from the room:
Christina: we're not as alone in our stories as we think. She and Kristine are running very similar ones. Talking about it out loud changes something. And as a bonus — she found her people. 😄
Kristine: it all comes down to forgiveness. All around. For everyone.
Karylle: let go of the need to be right. Get rid of the story in your head.
Tempa: I am in charge of protecting my peace. Some days better than others — especially with the state of the country right now. But she's working at it.
💬 Bonus Question — Lesson 34 (We didn't have time for this one, but it's good!)
What is one situation you've been carrying this week where, if you're honest, you've been choosing the story over the peace?
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 We breathe to remember that we can. Not to escape. Not to fix. Just to remember.
🔹 You invented the world you see. You can give it up just as easily.
🔹 When you want only peace, you will see only peace.
🔹 Two things to keep in the back of your mind: non-locality and what is God?
🔹 Use the ACIM app for your daily reminders — the link is on the resource page. Christina, this one's for you. 😄
You hit it. That's real. Give yourself a round of applause — this is not nothing. 👏
🌹 Rose & Thorn — Where We Are at 35 Days
We opened with a check-in: what's your rose, and what's your thorn? Here's what came up.
Amy's rose: at work, she's in her bubble. Max in her ear, post-its up, lessons in. Her thorn: home is where the chaos lives — and last night included a meteor over Cleveland, a car wreck, and a nursing home escape. You can't make it up. The lesson is happening whether you want it to or not.
Kristine's rose: first thing every morning, she looks forward to the lesson. Her thorn: afternoons and family moments — the ego gets loud and the lesson slips away. But she said it herself: she's aware. That's the whole thing.
Tempa's rose: this year is a big improvement over last. The lessons are sticking more. Her thorn: slow mornings. But showing up, whenever you show up, counts.
Christina's rose: the seeds are planting. She already knows she's coming back for year two. Her thorn: the ego is fighting harder now — but as Max reminded her, that's not the ego getting louder. That's you noticing it for the first time. Big difference. 🌱
Karylle's rose: more moments of peace. More quiet mind. The "oh no, oh no" is turning into "who cares." Her thorn: some lessons she reads and genuinely doesn't get them. That's okay. Consistency is the key. Just keep doing it.
Reminder: Bring your questions and confusions to the group. That's what it's here for.
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 29–35 are saturated with God — God is in everything I see, God is in my mind, I have invented the world I see, I am not the victim of the world I see, there is another way of looking at the world, I could see peace instead of this, my mind is part of God's. These lessons are building toward something. The Course is not being subtle.
The thread running through all of it: you are not looking at the world, you are projecting it. You made it up. Which means you can give it up just as easily. As Lesson 32 says: you will see it while you want it. When you no longer want it, it will not be there for you to see. Simple. Not always easy. But it is a choice.
Kristine used Lesson 34 in real time this week — caught herself trying to control people she loves, remembered she doesn't want that done to her, and chose peace instead. That's the lesson living outside the page. 🕊️
Tempa's image of the matches — some burning, most not — was her visual for Lesson 23, carried into this week: Do I really want to jump into that fire? You don't have to. Stand over here. Let it burn.
🧠 Two Things to Sit With
Non-locality. We did an exercise — close your eyes, go somewhere incredible. Christina went to an oasis in Lima, Peru. Amy walked a creek in the woods. Kristine found a fairy glen. Karylle went to the Isle of Wight. Tempa stayed home with her cats — and that was perfect too.
You just experienced non-locality. You went there without your body's eyes. Lesson 30 says it directly: Real vision is not limited to concepts such as near or far. This is not metaphor. This is what the Course is pointing to.
What is God? There's no right or wrong answer, and your answer is going to change. That's how you know the work is working. The Course is a nondual teaching — meaning only one. Not a God and a you. Just one. God is in the coat hanger, the door, the wastebasket. Sit with that. Write about it if you want. Just don't let your concept stay frozen.
These are seeds. Let them grow. 🌱
💬 Breakout Room Question — Lesson 31
Where in your life right now are you handing your peace over to something outside yourself — and what would it feel like to take it back?
Pairs: Christina + Kristine / Karylle + Tempa
What came back from the room:
Christina: we're not as alone in our stories as we think. She and Kristine are running very similar ones. Talking about it out loud changes something. And as a bonus — she found her people. 😄
Kristine: it all comes down to forgiveness. All around. For everyone.
Karylle: let go of the need to be right. Get rid of the story in your head.
Tempa: I am in charge of protecting my peace. Some days better than others — especially with the state of the country right now. But she's working at it.
💬 Bonus Question — Lesson 34 (We didn't have time for this one, but it's good!)
What is one situation you've been carrying this week where, if you're honest, you've been choosing the story over the peace?
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 We breathe to remember that we can. Not to escape. Not to fix. Just to remember.
🔹 You invented the world you see. You can give it up just as easily.
🔹 When you want only peace, you will see only peace.
🔹 Two things to keep in the back of your mind: non-locality and what is God?
🔹 Use the ACIM app for your daily reminders — the link is on the resource page. Christina, this one's for you. 😄
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 7: Lessons 36–42 March 24, 2026 🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 36–42 are the holiness block, and Max wants you to notice something right away: the Course doesn't say God's holiness blesses the world. It says my holiness. That's not a small distinction. That's the whole teaching.
Holiness = Wholeness (W-H-O-L-E). Not a state God grants you from up there. Not something you earn. Your wholeness. Your oneness. The Course is not saying you're a little persona trying to bless the world from a position of lack. It's saying you are at the same level as what we call God — intertwined, inseparable. That's the radical claim here.
The lessons this week: My holiness envelops everything I see. My holiness blesses the world. There is nothing my holiness cannot do. My holiness is my salvation. I am blessed as a son of God. God goes with me wherever I go. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. 🌟
The thread: there is no God up there and you down here. There is no hierarchy. There is only one. Nowhere where you end and God begins, nowhere where God ends and you begin. When you start to feel that — not believe it, feel it — that's your power. That's the penthouse view. 🏙️
🌍 The World as Our Classroom
Max brought his Lebanese friends into the conversation — a large, well-off family that has had to abandon their home and run to the hills because of what's happening in the Middle East right now. Over a million people displaced. The question he put to the group: if God goes with you wherever you go, does that include them? It has to. If the Course isn't helping us look at that, it's not doing its job.
The ego world runs on insanity — the Course uses that word deliberately. It doesn't make sense, and trying to make it make sense is the trap. What we're building here is a foundation that isn't at the ground level. That's the work.
Also: Max shared that Mel Schilling — a relationship expert on Married at First Sight Australia — passed away this week at 54. A reminder that the appreciation of each moment is not a nice idea. It's the whole thing. 🕊️
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Christina put Lesson 37 to work at the job this week. There's a man she'd been stuck in a story about. Instead of feeding it, she just kept repeating: my holiness blesses that man. The egoic yuck dissolved. That's the lesson living in real time. 🙌
Christina also applied I need do nothing to the ongoing situation with her son. The door is open. The love is there. But his life is his ride. That's unconditional love, and the Course got her there.
Amy showed up to class sick, lying down with nausea, and still contributed. Her reflection on God was beautiful: from the man upstairs with a white beard, to God as both male and female, to God as spirit and breath — everywhere. And her takeaway landed for everyone: there is nowhere where you end and God begins, and nowhere where God ends and you begin. 💫
Tempa came with a question about suffering and what it means — watching what's happening in the world, wondering how it fits. The conversation that followed touched on Viktor Frankl, the soul choosing its experiences, and the idea that even in the deepest tragedy, raising the consciousness of love is what's happening.
Karylle was present but under the weather — feeling better soon, Karylle! 🙏
📘 Special Assignment:
Manual for Teachers, Section 24
The Course addresses reincarnation directly in the Manual for Teachers, Section 24. It's only two pages. Max recommends everyone read it this week. It won't tell you what to believe — it will shift how you think about the question. That's enough.
🌀 Looking Ahead:
Lessons 43–49The God lessons continue. God is my source. God is the light in which I see. God is the mind in which I think. God is the love in which I forgive. God is the strength in which I trust.
And then Lesson 48: There is nothing to fear.
Keep your concept of God loose. Let it move. That's how you know the work is working. 🌱
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Holiness is wholeness. You are not separate from the source of it.
🔹 My holiness blesses the world — use it when the ego gets loud. Christina can tell you it works.
🔹 Rewatch this session. There was a lot in it. On a walk, doing dishes — just let it run.
🔹 Read Manual for Teachers, Section 24 on reincarnation. Two pages. Worth it.
🔹 Keep sitting with your concept of God. Let it change. That's the assignment.
🔹 There is nothing to fear is coming. Start letting that land early.
Lessons 36–42 are the holiness block, and Max wants you to notice something right away: the Course doesn't say God's holiness blesses the world. It says my holiness. That's not a small distinction. That's the whole teaching.
Holiness = Wholeness (W-H-O-L-E). Not a state God grants you from up there. Not something you earn. Your wholeness. Your oneness. The Course is not saying you're a little persona trying to bless the world from a position of lack. It's saying you are at the same level as what we call God — intertwined, inseparable. That's the radical claim here.
The lessons this week: My holiness envelops everything I see. My holiness blesses the world. There is nothing my holiness cannot do. My holiness is my salvation. I am blessed as a son of God. God goes with me wherever I go. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. 🌟
The thread: there is no God up there and you down here. There is no hierarchy. There is only one. Nowhere where you end and God begins, nowhere where God ends and you begin. When you start to feel that — not believe it, feel it — that's your power. That's the penthouse view. 🏙️
🌍 The World as Our Classroom
Max brought his Lebanese friends into the conversation — a large, well-off family that has had to abandon their home and run to the hills because of what's happening in the Middle East right now. Over a million people displaced. The question he put to the group: if God goes with you wherever you go, does that include them? It has to. If the Course isn't helping us look at that, it's not doing its job.
The ego world runs on insanity — the Course uses that word deliberately. It doesn't make sense, and trying to make it make sense is the trap. What we're building here is a foundation that isn't at the ground level. That's the work.
Also: Max shared that Mel Schilling — a relationship expert on Married at First Sight Australia — passed away this week at 54. A reminder that the appreciation of each moment is not a nice idea. It's the whole thing. 🕊️
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Christina put Lesson 37 to work at the job this week. There's a man she'd been stuck in a story about. Instead of feeding it, she just kept repeating: my holiness blesses that man. The egoic yuck dissolved. That's the lesson living in real time. 🙌
Christina also applied I need do nothing to the ongoing situation with her son. The door is open. The love is there. But his life is his ride. That's unconditional love, and the Course got her there.
Amy showed up to class sick, lying down with nausea, and still contributed. Her reflection on God was beautiful: from the man upstairs with a white beard, to God as both male and female, to God as spirit and breath — everywhere. And her takeaway landed for everyone: there is nowhere where you end and God begins, and nowhere where God ends and you begin. 💫
Tempa came with a question about suffering and what it means — watching what's happening in the world, wondering how it fits. The conversation that followed touched on Viktor Frankl, the soul choosing its experiences, and the idea that even in the deepest tragedy, raising the consciousness of love is what's happening.
Karylle was present but under the weather — feeling better soon, Karylle! 🙏
📘 Special Assignment:
Manual for Teachers, Section 24
The Course addresses reincarnation directly in the Manual for Teachers, Section 24. It's only two pages. Max recommends everyone read it this week. It won't tell you what to believe — it will shift how you think about the question. That's enough.
🌀 Looking Ahead:
Lessons 43–49The God lessons continue. God is my source. God is the light in which I see. God is the mind in which I think. God is the love in which I forgive. God is the strength in which I trust.
And then Lesson 48: There is nothing to fear.
Keep your concept of God loose. Let it move. That's how you know the work is working. 🌱
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Holiness is wholeness. You are not separate from the source of it.
🔹 My holiness blesses the world — use it when the ego gets loud. Christina can tell you it works.
🔹 Rewatch this session. There was a lot in it. On a walk, doing dishes — just let it run.
🔹 Read Manual for Teachers, Section 24 on reincarnation. Two pages. Worth it.
🔹 Keep sitting with your concept of God. Let it change. That's the assignment.
🔹 There is nothing to fear is coming. Start letting that land early.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 8:
Lessons 43–49 March 31, 2025
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 43–49 are the God lessons, and they need to be marinated, not just read. God is my source. God is the light in which I see. God is the mind in which I think. God is the love in which I forgive. God is the strength in which I trust. There is nothing to fear. God's voice speaks to me all through the day.
Here's the key: the Course isn't talking about a God up there and a you down here. There is no separation. Nowhere where you end and God begins. Nowhere where God ends and you begin. So when the lesson says God is the strength in which I trust, it's pointing at something radical — your character's strength is unreliable, but life itself never is. Try replacing the word God with the word life and see what happens. Life is the strength in which I trust. Life is your safety. Life has no exceptions. 🌿
The first 100 lessons are foundational — meaning, past, future, separation. Now we're moving into how you and God are actually connected. This is where the marination gets deeper. The longer you let it sit, the more it gets into the DNA of what you are.
💬 The Marination
Tempa put it perfectly — she's been in a crock pot with this course for 10 years. And that's exactly it. You can read these lessons, you can check them off, or you can let them marinate. Surface level is fine for a while. But the deep marination is when it stops being a concept and starts being a felt reality. That's what we're building here, one session at a time. 🍲
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy came to class sick, lying down with nausea, and still showed up. During the week, she had a panic attack in the middle of the night — and something in her said: you don't need to be afraid, it's just anxiety, it won't hurt you. She breathed through it. She regulated. That's the Course doing its job. Her takeaway for the session: God is life. Three words, whole teaching. 💫
Tempa found a book on her shelf she'd had for years — a guide to deflecting verbal conflict. She laughed when she picked it up, because she realized she doesn't need it anymore. That person who couldn't hold her ground, who would fall apart when someone came at her — she's not that person anymore. The Course got her there. Her takeaway: Life has my back. 🌿
Kristine had a real breakthrough this week sitting with the concept of God. She realized the God of the Old Testament isn't her God at all, and she got stuck on what word to even use instead — Creator? Source? Supreme Being? And then it landed: it doesn't matter what you call it. It's the feeling. The presence. The connection. That's it. 🙏
Karylle had a beautiful moment with a new family member — someone she didn't grow up knowing and therefore carries no story about. Instead of building one from old family history, she said: don't let the story define what this person could be for you. I called it exactly right, if I do say so myself! : you don't know the truth of anyone you're projecting onto. Start fresh. Her takeaway: Fear condemns and love forgives. ❤️
Amy's son — fifteen years of tension, and at the Easter egg hunt this weekend, he held her a little tighter and said he loved her. That's forgiveness landing in real life. 💛
📘 Lesson 48 — There Is Nothing to Fear
I read this one out loud, and it deserves its own moment. The key line from paragraph 3:
"The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength."
When you're afraid, you're trusting the character. And the character is working from its past, its perceptions, its story. You can love that character — and also recognize it's not the whole truth of what you are. Fear is the ego being afraid of fear. The way out isn't to fight it. It's to trust something bigger than the character. Life itself. 🕊️
🔄 Entering the Review
Starting this week, you're in Review One (Lessons 50 onward). Read the introduction to the review section and follow what it says — don't improvise or skip the instructions. The review is designed deliberately. Trust the process. 📖
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Replace the word God with life in your lessons this week and notice what shifts.
🔹 Let the lessons marinate. Read them slow. Sit with them. Write about them if you can.
🔹 "The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength." Remember that one.
🔹 Fear condemns. Love forgives. Five words. Carry them.
🔹 Read the Review introduction carefully and follow its instructions.
🔹 Keep sitting with your concept of God. Let it keep changing. That's the sign it's working.
Lessons 43–49 are the God lessons, and they need to be marinated, not just read. God is my source. God is the light in which I see. God is the mind in which I think. God is the love in which I forgive. God is the strength in which I trust. There is nothing to fear. God's voice speaks to me all through the day.
Here's the key: the Course isn't talking about a God up there and a you down here. There is no separation. Nowhere where you end and God begins. Nowhere where God ends and you begin. So when the lesson says God is the strength in which I trust, it's pointing at something radical — your character's strength is unreliable, but life itself never is. Try replacing the word God with the word life and see what happens. Life is the strength in which I trust. Life is your safety. Life has no exceptions. 🌿
The first 100 lessons are foundational — meaning, past, future, separation. Now we're moving into how you and God are actually connected. This is where the marination gets deeper. The longer you let it sit, the more it gets into the DNA of what you are.
💬 The Marination
Tempa put it perfectly — she's been in a crock pot with this course for 10 years. And that's exactly it. You can read these lessons, you can check them off, or you can let them marinate. Surface level is fine for a while. But the deep marination is when it stops being a concept and starts being a felt reality. That's what we're building here, one session at a time. 🍲
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy came to class sick, lying down with nausea, and still showed up. During the week, she had a panic attack in the middle of the night — and something in her said: you don't need to be afraid, it's just anxiety, it won't hurt you. She breathed through it. She regulated. That's the Course doing its job. Her takeaway for the session: God is life. Three words, whole teaching. 💫
Tempa found a book on her shelf she'd had for years — a guide to deflecting verbal conflict. She laughed when she picked it up, because she realized she doesn't need it anymore. That person who couldn't hold her ground, who would fall apart when someone came at her — she's not that person anymore. The Course got her there. Her takeaway: Life has my back. 🌿
Kristine had a real breakthrough this week sitting with the concept of God. She realized the God of the Old Testament isn't her God at all, and she got stuck on what word to even use instead — Creator? Source? Supreme Being? And then it landed: it doesn't matter what you call it. It's the feeling. The presence. The connection. That's it. 🙏
Karylle had a beautiful moment with a new family member — someone she didn't grow up knowing and therefore carries no story about. Instead of building one from old family history, she said: don't let the story define what this person could be for you. I called it exactly right, if I do say so myself! : you don't know the truth of anyone you're projecting onto. Start fresh. Her takeaway: Fear condemns and love forgives. ❤️
Amy's son — fifteen years of tension, and at the Easter egg hunt this weekend, he held her a little tighter and said he loved her. That's forgiveness landing in real life. 💛
📘 Lesson 48 — There Is Nothing to Fear
I read this one out loud, and it deserves its own moment. The key line from paragraph 3:
"The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength."
When you're afraid, you're trusting the character. And the character is working from its past, its perceptions, its story. You can love that character — and also recognize it's not the whole truth of what you are. Fear is the ego being afraid of fear. The way out isn't to fight it. It's to trust something bigger than the character. Life itself. 🕊️
🔄 Entering the Review
Starting this week, you're in Review One (Lessons 50 onward). Read the introduction to the review section and follow what it says — don't improvise or skip the instructions. The review is designed deliberately. Trust the process. 📖
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Replace the word God with life in your lessons this week and notice what shifts.
🔹 Let the lessons marinate. Read them slow. Sit with them. Write about them if you can.
🔹 "The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength." Remember that one.
🔹 Fear condemns. Love forgives. Five words. Carry them.
🔹 Read the Review introduction carefully and follow its instructions.
🔹 Keep sitting with your concept of God. Let it keep changing. That's the sign it's working.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 9:
Review One + Lessons 50–57 April 7, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
We finally read the Review introduction together, and it's worth sitting with what it actually says. The review isn't a break. It's not going back to catch up. It's the Course trusting that the first 50 lessons have already gotten a foothold in your mind, and now it's asking you to let them marinate at a deeper level.
A few things from the introduction worth holding onto this week:
The review says you don't need a special, quiet setting to do this work anymore. That's the point. The purpose of your learning is to bring the quiet with you — not to escape to it. This connects directly to something I shared about Gandhi: when asked where his favorite place to meditate was, he said the busiest bus in Calcutta. That's the goal. Not isolation. Presence in the middle of everything.
And this line from paragraph 5 stopped several of us: "There is no limit to where you are, so that your peace is everywhere as you are." That's non-locality. That's everything we planted a few weeks ago now showing up in the text. Your peace isn't somewhere you go. It's everywhere you already are. Everywhere and nowhere at the same time. 🌀
The review also tells you clearly: if one of the five daily lessons stands out more than the others, concentrate on that one. Don't make this dogma. Don't let your ego turn the review into boot camp. He even writes "if possible" when suggesting the ideal conditions. That's your clue. This isn't about perfection.
💡 Lesson 50 — I Am Sustained by the Love of God
Before we read the introduction, Kristine brought this one to the room and it deserved the space it got. The lesson lists everything we put our faith in — pills, money, prestige, influence, being liked, knowing the right people — and calls them exactly what they are: forms of nothingness. Illusions that will fail you. Every time.
This isn't saying success or money are bad. It's saying if you think that's what's going to open the door to peace and freedom, you're placing your faith in the wrong thing. Tiger Woods is a perfect example — built up to the highest level of worldly success, and it meant nothing in terms of actual peace. That's not a judgment. It's the lesson walking around in real life.
The anchor: you are sustained by life itself. Not by what you accumulate. Not by what you achieve. Life is doing the sustaining. You don't have to. 🌿
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy wiped out spectacularly in the hallway at work — stepped on a shiny advertisement, did a split, pulled her quad, bent her wrist, and yes, it was caught on camera. She showed up to class anyway. Her takeaway: Peace is a part of me, and it is everywhere and nowhere. Iconic. 💫
Kristine is heading to Sedona in two weeks and is facing her travel fears head-on. She also walked in with three copies of Miracle Mindset and cannot wait to read them. Her takeaway was moved by Tempa's story: God puts you in places to meet people who need what you have. If you wouldn't have talked to her, you would have missed your chance to be an angel to her. 🙏
Tempa had a moment at Ulta that became the highlight of the session. She ended up in a conversation with a 21-year-old whose trans brother had moved to Canada after their parents didn't accept him. They talked for an hour and a half. A 70-year-old and a 21-year-old, finding meaning in each other. That is Lesson 53 — A meaningless world engenders fear — lived out in real time. The world isn't meaningless. You just have to be willing to show up in it. Her takeaway: Life has my back. 🌿
Karylle came to class still fighting her cough but showed up anyway. And then she did something kind — she gently flagged a typo on page 373 of Miracle Mindset. One letter. And what the group got to watch in real time was my Virgo ego react, catch itself, and become the lesson of the night.
The defensiveness, the self-criticism, the "you shoulda caught that" voice — all of it surfaced right there on screen. And instead of hiding it I named it: that's not about Carol, that's about this character. That's what I mean when I say I can't ask you to do this work if I'm not doing it myself. The ego doesn't discriminate. It shows up for teachers too. The difference is just whether you see it — and what you do when you do.
Carol did nothing wrong. She did something kind. And my Virgo needed a moment to remember that. That's the Course in action — not in the lessons, but in the room. 🙏
My takeaway: Humility is one of the greatest things you can have.
Christina couldn't be with us last night but was in our thoughts. Sending love. 💛
🏗️ The Scaffolding Metaphor
Tempa offered the image of the night and I don't want to let it go by. She said doing this work is like watching a building covered in scaffolding. You can't tell what's happening inside. And then one day they take it all down and the building is gorgeous.
That's exactly what this is. The deconstruction process. We're not building anything. We're taking the scaffolding down to reveal what's already been marinating inside. And just like restoring an old painting — the care, the patience, the reverence — you bring it back to its original state. That's what these 365 lessons are doing. 🎨
🔄 Breakout Room — What Stood Out in the Reviews
Pairs: Kristine + Tempa / Karylle + Amy
Kristine worked with Lesson 56 — the attack thoughts one. Her insight: attack thoughts aren't just outward, they're shielding hidden vulnerability. When the world feels like it's attacking, you start projecting that onto the people closest to you too.
Tempa took Lesson 53 — A meaningless world engenders fear — and connected it directly to her Ulta encounter. The antidote to a world that feels meaningless isn't argument. It's connection. She found it with a stranger in a beauty store.
Karylle brought Lesson 52 — My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts — into a real moment with an old friend whose birthday it was. The past doesn't have to define what someone could be for you right now. Start fresh.
Amy landed on Above all else I want to see things differently — and noticed that the short review comments under each lesson hit differently now than they did the first time. You wouldn't get what those condensed lines mean without having done the lesson first. The review reveals what was already planted. 🌱
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 The purpose of your learning is to bring the quiet with you — not to escape to it.
🔹 If one of the five daily review lessons stands out, concentrate on that one. This isn't dogma.
🔹 There is no limit to where you are, so that your peace is everywhere as you are. Sit with that.
🔹 Try replacing "act as if" with "be as if" — until the thing you're practicing becomes the thing you actually are.
🔹 You're finishing the reviews and moving into Lessons 61–64 this week. New territory. Keep going.
🔹 Humility is a superpower. When your ego gets called out — catch it, name it, own it. That's the work.
We finally read the Review introduction together, and it's worth sitting with what it actually says. The review isn't a break. It's not going back to catch up. It's the Course trusting that the first 50 lessons have already gotten a foothold in your mind, and now it's asking you to let them marinate at a deeper level.
A few things from the introduction worth holding onto this week:
The review says you don't need a special, quiet setting to do this work anymore. That's the point. The purpose of your learning is to bring the quiet with you — not to escape to it. This connects directly to something I shared about Gandhi: when asked where his favorite place to meditate was, he said the busiest bus in Calcutta. That's the goal. Not isolation. Presence in the middle of everything.
And this line from paragraph 5 stopped several of us: "There is no limit to where you are, so that your peace is everywhere as you are." That's non-locality. That's everything we planted a few weeks ago now showing up in the text. Your peace isn't somewhere you go. It's everywhere you already are. Everywhere and nowhere at the same time. 🌀
The review also tells you clearly: if one of the five daily lessons stands out more than the others, concentrate on that one. Don't make this dogma. Don't let your ego turn the review into boot camp. He even writes "if possible" when suggesting the ideal conditions. That's your clue. This isn't about perfection.
💡 Lesson 50 — I Am Sustained by the Love of God
Before we read the introduction, Kristine brought this one to the room and it deserved the space it got. The lesson lists everything we put our faith in — pills, money, prestige, influence, being liked, knowing the right people — and calls them exactly what they are: forms of nothingness. Illusions that will fail you. Every time.
This isn't saying success or money are bad. It's saying if you think that's what's going to open the door to peace and freedom, you're placing your faith in the wrong thing. Tiger Woods is a perfect example — built up to the highest level of worldly success, and it meant nothing in terms of actual peace. That's not a judgment. It's the lesson walking around in real life.
The anchor: you are sustained by life itself. Not by what you accumulate. Not by what you achieve. Life is doing the sustaining. You don't have to. 🌿
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy wiped out spectacularly in the hallway at work — stepped on a shiny advertisement, did a split, pulled her quad, bent her wrist, and yes, it was caught on camera. She showed up to class anyway. Her takeaway: Peace is a part of me, and it is everywhere and nowhere. Iconic. 💫
Kristine is heading to Sedona in two weeks and is facing her travel fears head-on. She also walked in with three copies of Miracle Mindset and cannot wait to read them. Her takeaway was moved by Tempa's story: God puts you in places to meet people who need what you have. If you wouldn't have talked to her, you would have missed your chance to be an angel to her. 🙏
Tempa had a moment at Ulta that became the highlight of the session. She ended up in a conversation with a 21-year-old whose trans brother had moved to Canada after their parents didn't accept him. They talked for an hour and a half. A 70-year-old and a 21-year-old, finding meaning in each other. That is Lesson 53 — A meaningless world engenders fear — lived out in real time. The world isn't meaningless. You just have to be willing to show up in it. Her takeaway: Life has my back. 🌿
Karylle came to class still fighting her cough but showed up anyway. And then she did something kind — she gently flagged a typo on page 373 of Miracle Mindset. One letter. And what the group got to watch in real time was my Virgo ego react, catch itself, and become the lesson of the night.
The defensiveness, the self-criticism, the "you shoulda caught that" voice — all of it surfaced right there on screen. And instead of hiding it I named it: that's not about Carol, that's about this character. That's what I mean when I say I can't ask you to do this work if I'm not doing it myself. The ego doesn't discriminate. It shows up for teachers too. The difference is just whether you see it — and what you do when you do.
Carol did nothing wrong. She did something kind. And my Virgo needed a moment to remember that. That's the Course in action — not in the lessons, but in the room. 🙏
My takeaway: Humility is one of the greatest things you can have.
Christina couldn't be with us last night but was in our thoughts. Sending love. 💛
🏗️ The Scaffolding Metaphor
Tempa offered the image of the night and I don't want to let it go by. She said doing this work is like watching a building covered in scaffolding. You can't tell what's happening inside. And then one day they take it all down and the building is gorgeous.
That's exactly what this is. The deconstruction process. We're not building anything. We're taking the scaffolding down to reveal what's already been marinating inside. And just like restoring an old painting — the care, the patience, the reverence — you bring it back to its original state. That's what these 365 lessons are doing. 🎨
🔄 Breakout Room — What Stood Out in the Reviews
Pairs: Kristine + Tempa / Karylle + Amy
Kristine worked with Lesson 56 — the attack thoughts one. Her insight: attack thoughts aren't just outward, they're shielding hidden vulnerability. When the world feels like it's attacking, you start projecting that onto the people closest to you too.
Tempa took Lesson 53 — A meaningless world engenders fear — and connected it directly to her Ulta encounter. The antidote to a world that feels meaningless isn't argument. It's connection. She found it with a stranger in a beauty store.
Karylle brought Lesson 52 — My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts — into a real moment with an old friend whose birthday it was. The past doesn't have to define what someone could be for you right now. Start fresh.
Amy landed on Above all else I want to see things differently — and noticed that the short review comments under each lesson hit differently now than they did the first time. You wouldn't get what those condensed lines mean without having done the lesson first. The review reveals what was already planted. 🌱
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 The purpose of your learning is to bring the quiet with you — not to escape to it.
🔹 If one of the five daily review lessons stands out, concentrate on that one. This isn't dogma.
🔹 There is no limit to where you are, so that your peace is everywhere as you are. Sit with that.
🔹 Try replacing "act as if" with "be as if" — until the thing you're practicing becomes the thing you actually are.
🔹 You're finishing the reviews and moving into Lessons 61–64 this week. New territory. Keep going.
🔹 Humility is a superpower. When your ego gets called out — catch it, name it, own it. That's the work.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 10: Lessons 57–63 + Review One
April 14, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
We read Lesson 61 together — I am the light of the world — and it's one of those lessons that, the first time you read it, your ego either recoils or puffs up. Neither reaction is the point. The point is that it's simply a statement of truth. Not pride. Not arrogance. Not self-deception. It refers to you as you were created. It simply states the truth.
The lesson makes a distinction worth sitting with: true humility is not insisting you cannot be the light of the world. That's actually arrogance — because it's saying God got it wrong. True humility is accepting the function that's been assigned to you. And what's that function? We already know — Lesson 62 told us. Forgiveness. You forgive until you don't have to anymore. Because eventually there's nothing left to forgive.
And then this, from paragraph 3, which Amy had underlined: True humility requires that you accept today's idea because it is God's voice which tells you it is true. It's a gift being handed to you. The humble response is to receive it. 🌟
The other thread running through the whole session was the question of guilt versus compassion. When we see what's happening in the world — people displaced, bombed, suffering — it's natural to feel. The course isn't asking you to stop feeling. It's asking you not to turn your compassion into guilt, because guilt and sacrifice are the two things that keep you furthest from the kingdom. Feel the empathy. Let it fuel something. Don't let it become a reason to believe you don't deserve to be happy. Because your happiness, your peace, your light — that's not taken from anyone. It's added to everyone. 🕊️
🌊 The River
Tempa found it. Here's the quote she shared with the group, from Dikini Spirit on Blue Sky:
"A river does not force its way to the sea. It does not worry about the rocks in its path. It does not stop flowing because the terrain gets difficult. It simply moves. It finds the path of least resistance and follows it. Not because it is lazy, but because it trusts the landscape to guide it."
That's the course. That's Bruce Lee's be water. That's what happens when resistance goes down and trust goes up. The water doesn't sit there contemplating the rock. It just goes. And the Holy Spirit — in the Course's language — is that vibrational force that keeps whispering: just go with it. Let it go. Just go with it.
And Karylle brought it home with her memory of standing at the Continental Divide in Glacier Park — watching the water split at the top of a waterfall, one stream going east, one going west. No control. No prediction. Just the water doing what the water does. Get in your boat and go. 🏔️
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Kristine shared something that's been quietly building for a while — a sense that everything feels a little fake. Not in a bad way. Just, like, the TV shows, the noise, even some of the things she used to want. She's watching it from a slightly different altitude now, and she can't always explain it. Her sister-in-law is feeling it too. That's not a problem. That's the scaffolding coming down. 🏗️
Amy used I am the light of the world in real time this week — not as a concept, but as something she's walking around with. Running down the stairs at work and it's just there. That's the marination doing its job. She also brought something real and raw about her daughters — one who doesn't drink at all, one who started at twelve, one reading her Bible every day, one a complete atheist. Same family, same wound, completely different responses. And her point was beautiful: you already are the light of the world. You don't have to quit drinking, start believing, deserve anything. You already are. 💫
Tempa is so much better than last week with the reviews — she took the advice to pick one lesson and focus on it instead of trying to do everything, and the overwhelm lifted. She also connected There is nothing to fear directly to her own life: her fear has genuinely lessened. She's not the same person she was when she started this work ten years ago. The course got her there, and she knows it. 🌿
Karylle called an old friend she'd had complicated history with — heart pounding, attack thoughts flooding in before she even dialed. And then she just called. Said hi. Asked how she was. Listened. Told her: the only thing we take from the past is the love that was shared there. The friend said she loved her back. Fifty years of a story, and Karylle chose to start fresh. That's every lesson from 50 to 63 walking around in real life. ❤️
💡 On False Humility vs. True Humility
This came up in the reading and it's worth holding separately. The ego mistakes humility for self-debasement — for shrinking, for refusing the gift. But that false humility is its own form of arrogance. It's saying: God assigned me this function, and I know better.
True humility is the opposite. It's accepting the compliment. It's letting someone pay the check. It's saying yes to the good that's being offered instead of deflecting it. Relief is the vibration of life — and false humility is a dam in the river. It stops the flow.
You have to be vulnerable to realize you're completely invulnerable. Nothing can actually touch what you are. 🙏
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 I am the light of the world. Say it. Not with arrogance, not with false modesty. Just let it be true.
🔹 Forgiveness is your function. Let Lesson 62 keep working in you as you move into this week's lessons.
🔹 Feel your compassion. Don't let it turn into guilt. Those are not the same thing.
🔹 Relief is the vibration of life. When something releases — even slightly — that's it. That's God right there.
🔹 Be water. Trust the landscape. Stop contemplating the rock.
🔹 You don't need a function until you realize you don't need a function. Until then — just keep going.
We read Lesson 61 together — I am the light of the world — and it's one of those lessons that, the first time you read it, your ego either recoils or puffs up. Neither reaction is the point. The point is that it's simply a statement of truth. Not pride. Not arrogance. Not self-deception. It refers to you as you were created. It simply states the truth.
The lesson makes a distinction worth sitting with: true humility is not insisting you cannot be the light of the world. That's actually arrogance — because it's saying God got it wrong. True humility is accepting the function that's been assigned to you. And what's that function? We already know — Lesson 62 told us. Forgiveness. You forgive until you don't have to anymore. Because eventually there's nothing left to forgive.
And then this, from paragraph 3, which Amy had underlined: True humility requires that you accept today's idea because it is God's voice which tells you it is true. It's a gift being handed to you. The humble response is to receive it. 🌟
The other thread running through the whole session was the question of guilt versus compassion. When we see what's happening in the world — people displaced, bombed, suffering — it's natural to feel. The course isn't asking you to stop feeling. It's asking you not to turn your compassion into guilt, because guilt and sacrifice are the two things that keep you furthest from the kingdom. Feel the empathy. Let it fuel something. Don't let it become a reason to believe you don't deserve to be happy. Because your happiness, your peace, your light — that's not taken from anyone. It's added to everyone. 🕊️
🌊 The River
Tempa found it. Here's the quote she shared with the group, from Dikini Spirit on Blue Sky:
"A river does not force its way to the sea. It does not worry about the rocks in its path. It does not stop flowing because the terrain gets difficult. It simply moves. It finds the path of least resistance and follows it. Not because it is lazy, but because it trusts the landscape to guide it."
That's the course. That's Bruce Lee's be water. That's what happens when resistance goes down and trust goes up. The water doesn't sit there contemplating the rock. It just goes. And the Holy Spirit — in the Course's language — is that vibrational force that keeps whispering: just go with it. Let it go. Just go with it.
And Karylle brought it home with her memory of standing at the Continental Divide in Glacier Park — watching the water split at the top of a waterfall, one stream going east, one going west. No control. No prediction. Just the water doing what the water does. Get in your boat and go. 🏔️
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Kristine shared something that's been quietly building for a while — a sense that everything feels a little fake. Not in a bad way. Just, like, the TV shows, the noise, even some of the things she used to want. She's watching it from a slightly different altitude now, and she can't always explain it. Her sister-in-law is feeling it too. That's not a problem. That's the scaffolding coming down. 🏗️
Amy used I am the light of the world in real time this week — not as a concept, but as something she's walking around with. Running down the stairs at work and it's just there. That's the marination doing its job. She also brought something real and raw about her daughters — one who doesn't drink at all, one who started at twelve, one reading her Bible every day, one a complete atheist. Same family, same wound, completely different responses. And her point was beautiful: you already are the light of the world. You don't have to quit drinking, start believing, deserve anything. You already are. 💫
Tempa is so much better than last week with the reviews — she took the advice to pick one lesson and focus on it instead of trying to do everything, and the overwhelm lifted. She also connected There is nothing to fear directly to her own life: her fear has genuinely lessened. She's not the same person she was when she started this work ten years ago. The course got her there, and she knows it. 🌿
Karylle called an old friend she'd had complicated history with — heart pounding, attack thoughts flooding in before she even dialed. And then she just called. Said hi. Asked how she was. Listened. Told her: the only thing we take from the past is the love that was shared there. The friend said she loved her back. Fifty years of a story, and Karylle chose to start fresh. That's every lesson from 50 to 63 walking around in real life. ❤️
💡 On False Humility vs. True Humility
This came up in the reading and it's worth holding separately. The ego mistakes humility for self-debasement — for shrinking, for refusing the gift. But that false humility is its own form of arrogance. It's saying: God assigned me this function, and I know better.
True humility is the opposite. It's accepting the compliment. It's letting someone pay the check. It's saying yes to the good that's being offered instead of deflecting it. Relief is the vibration of life — and false humility is a dam in the river. It stops the flow.
You have to be vulnerable to realize you're completely invulnerable. Nothing can actually touch what you are. 🙏
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 I am the light of the world. Say it. Not with arrogance, not with false modesty. Just let it be true.
🔹 Forgiveness is your function. Let Lesson 62 keep working in you as you move into this week's lessons.
🔹 Feel your compassion. Don't let it turn into guilt. Those are not the same thing.
🔹 Relief is the vibration of life. When something releases — even slightly — that's it. That's God right there.
🔹 Be water. Trust the landscape. Stop contemplating the rock.
🔹 You don't need a function until you realize you don't need a function. Until then — just keep going.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 11: Lessons 64–70 April 21, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 64–70 are all orbiting the same sun: forgiveness. Let me not forget my function. My only function is the one God gave me. My happiness and my function are one. Love created me like itself. Love holds no grievances. My grievances hide the light of the world in me. My salvation comes from me.
Every single one of those is saying the same thing from a different angle. Your function is forgiveness. Not waiting to be forgiven — offering it. The ego waits for the apology. The ego needs the other person to say they were wrong. The Course is pointing the other direction entirely: you are released when you forgive. You don't forgive to do them a favor. You forgive because holding a grievance cuts you off from everything. From life itself. From pure potentiality. From who you actually are.
And then we read Lesson 68 — Love Holds No Grievances — together, and it just landed. The language is worth sitting with:
"To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind."
And then this: "It is certain that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt. It is certain that those who forgive will find peace. It is sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are. It is certain that those who forgive will remember."
Forget who they ARE. Not what they are — who. He doesn't use that word lightly. 🕊️
🌍 The World as Our Classroom — Again
Amy brought up something that came up on Insight Timer this morning — watching what's happening in the Middle East, in Lebanon and Gaza, the suffering that's so raw and so visible. And the question underneath it all: how do you hold this without either denying it or drowning in guilt?
Viktor Frankl's answer in Man's Search for Meaning was the same as the Course's: it's not what happens to you, it's the meaning you give it. That doesn't make the tragedy less real. It makes you more useful to it. Compassion that tips into guilt helps no one. The ego denies, changes, or controls. The Course says: let it be what it is, and shift from within. That shift ripples. 🌿
🏠 Little Houses
Karylle brought in a song — Little Houses by Doug Stone — that became a perfect teaching moment. The lyric: "Love grows best in little houses with few walls to separate." She told the story of a family she knew — doctor, nurse, close-knit, Catholic community — who moved to a bigger house and slowly drifted apart. Got divorced. He later told her he wished they'd kept the small house.
And that's the Course's point on separation, lived out in real life. The more we expand outward to fill space, the more the ego separates. The families with nothing, all living in three rooms — they stay bonded. More stuff, more space, more separation. More separation, more suffering. Every time. 🏡
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy said something quietly extraordinary this week — she's been floating. Not in a checked-out way. In the way where the separation lines between things start to dissolve and everything feels like puzzle pieces fitting together. She described it as the tick of a clock bringing things closer. That's the rising of what Eastern philosophy calls the kundalini — consciousness moving from here to up here, like a periscope. You start perceiving from a different altitude. You can't plan for it. You just notice one day that you're seeing differently.
She also named what she's doing with Sharon at work — no reason was given for the silence, no apology offered, and Amy is just there going: none of it matters, I wish you peace. That's not apathy. That's Lesson 63 walking around in real life. The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. That's Amy. 💫
Karylle opened up about her ex-husband — divorced in 1986, forty years ago — and the grief of it came up as fresh as yesterday. She sat with it honestly: she still loves him, she still doesn't understand why he walked away, and she still has that little voice that says yes you do care, you dumbass. And then she landed on it: it didn't happen to me, it happened for me. She had a whole different life because of it. And her sister recently apologized for things Karylle doesn't even remember anymore. The past thoughts aren't as preoccupying. The lessons are working. And she ended it perfectly: if I had it all to do over again, I wouldn't change a thing. ❤️
💡 On Forgiveness — What It Actually Is
This came up so clearly last night that it deserves its own space.
Most people think forgiveness means saying it's okay when it wasn't. That's not forgiveness. Forgiveness is: they did what they did. Can I sit with that? Can I allow it to have happened? I didn't die. I'm okay. Can I live with that?
The ego wants the apology. The ego wants the other person to acknowledge what they did, take it back, make it right. And sometimes you never get that. And asking why questions to substantiate a negative result almost always keeps you stuck — because even if you get an answer, it's probably not the one you wanted anyway, and it doesn't change what happened.
What actually changes things is the willingness to move on without the answer. To forgive your timeline. To forgive the past version of yourself that made choices you'd make differently now. That's where the freedom is. 🗝️
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Forgiveness is your only function. If you don't know what to do — forgive.
🔹 Holding a grievance cuts you off from life itself. It's not punishing them. It's punishing you.
🔹 Asking why questions to substantiate negative results almost always keeps you stuck.
🔹 It didn't happen to you. It happened for you.
🔹 Those who forgive will find peace. Those who forgive will remember who they are.
🔹 Love grows best in little houses. Don't let more space create more distance.
Lessons 64–70 are all orbiting the same sun: forgiveness. Let me not forget my function. My only function is the one God gave me. My happiness and my function are one. Love created me like itself. Love holds no grievances. My grievances hide the light of the world in me. My salvation comes from me.
Every single one of those is saying the same thing from a different angle. Your function is forgiveness. Not waiting to be forgiven — offering it. The ego waits for the apology. The ego needs the other person to say they were wrong. The Course is pointing the other direction entirely: you are released when you forgive. You don't forgive to do them a favor. You forgive because holding a grievance cuts you off from everything. From life itself. From pure potentiality. From who you actually are.
And then we read Lesson 68 — Love Holds No Grievances — together, and it just landed. The language is worth sitting with:
"To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind."
And then this: "It is certain that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt. It is certain that those who forgive will find peace. It is sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are. It is certain that those who forgive will remember."
Forget who they ARE. Not what they are — who. He doesn't use that word lightly. 🕊️
🌍 The World as Our Classroom — Again
Amy brought up something that came up on Insight Timer this morning — watching what's happening in the Middle East, in Lebanon and Gaza, the suffering that's so raw and so visible. And the question underneath it all: how do you hold this without either denying it or drowning in guilt?
Viktor Frankl's answer in Man's Search for Meaning was the same as the Course's: it's not what happens to you, it's the meaning you give it. That doesn't make the tragedy less real. It makes you more useful to it. Compassion that tips into guilt helps no one. The ego denies, changes, or controls. The Course says: let it be what it is, and shift from within. That shift ripples. 🌿
🏠 Little Houses
Karylle brought in a song — Little Houses by Doug Stone — that became a perfect teaching moment. The lyric: "Love grows best in little houses with few walls to separate." She told the story of a family she knew — doctor, nurse, close-knit, Catholic community — who moved to a bigger house and slowly drifted apart. Got divorced. He later told her he wished they'd kept the small house.
And that's the Course's point on separation, lived out in real life. The more we expand outward to fill space, the more the ego separates. The families with nothing, all living in three rooms — they stay bonded. More stuff, more space, more separation. More separation, more suffering. Every time. 🏡
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy said something quietly extraordinary this week — she's been floating. Not in a checked-out way. In the way where the separation lines between things start to dissolve and everything feels like puzzle pieces fitting together. She described it as the tick of a clock bringing things closer. That's the rising of what Eastern philosophy calls the kundalini — consciousness moving from here to up here, like a periscope. You start perceiving from a different altitude. You can't plan for it. You just notice one day that you're seeing differently.
She also named what she's doing with Sharon at work — no reason was given for the silence, no apology offered, and Amy is just there going: none of it matters, I wish you peace. That's not apathy. That's Lesson 63 walking around in real life. The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. That's Amy. 💫
Karylle opened up about her ex-husband — divorced in 1986, forty years ago — and the grief of it came up as fresh as yesterday. She sat with it honestly: she still loves him, she still doesn't understand why he walked away, and she still has that little voice that says yes you do care, you dumbass. And then she landed on it: it didn't happen to me, it happened for me. She had a whole different life because of it. And her sister recently apologized for things Karylle doesn't even remember anymore. The past thoughts aren't as preoccupying. The lessons are working. And she ended it perfectly: if I had it all to do over again, I wouldn't change a thing. ❤️
💡 On Forgiveness — What It Actually Is
This came up so clearly last night that it deserves its own space.
Most people think forgiveness means saying it's okay when it wasn't. That's not forgiveness. Forgiveness is: they did what they did. Can I sit with that? Can I allow it to have happened? I didn't die. I'm okay. Can I live with that?
The ego wants the apology. The ego wants the other person to acknowledge what they did, take it back, make it right. And sometimes you never get that. And asking why questions to substantiate a negative result almost always keeps you stuck — because even if you get an answer, it's probably not the one you wanted anyway, and it doesn't change what happened.
What actually changes things is the willingness to move on without the answer. To forgive your timeline. To forgive the past version of yourself that made choices you'd make differently now. That's where the freedom is. 🗝️
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Forgiveness is your only function. If you don't know what to do — forgive.
🔹 Holding a grievance cuts you off from life itself. It's not punishing them. It's punishing you.
🔹 Asking why questions to substantiate negative results almost always keeps you stuck.
🔹 It didn't happen to you. It happened for you.
🔹 Those who forgive will find peace. Those who forgive will remember who they are.
🔹 Love grows best in little houses. Don't let more space create more distance.
🌟 Awakened Living -Session 12: Lessons 78–84 + Review Two
May 5, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 78–84 are all asking the same question from different angles: what are you choosing to see? Every decision you make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle. Grievances are the dark shield — held up before your eyes, blocking what's actually there. Lower the shield and the miracle was waiting in the light the whole time.
We read Lesson 78 together and this paragraph landed hard:
"Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. And as I raise it up before my eyes, I will not see the miracle beyond. Yet all the while it waits for me in light."
That's the scales on the eyes — the same image from the Bible. Your grievances, your prejudices, your already-decided story about what something means — those are the scales. Remove them one by one. Like stacking glasses on top of each other and then taking them off, one at a time. Each time, you see a little clearer. 👓
We also read from Lesson 79 — Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved — and this line from paragraph 8:
"All that is necessary is to entertain some doubt about the reality of my vision of what my problems are."
Just some doubt. Not certainty. Not a breakthrough. Just the willingness to consider: what if this isn't actually the problem? What if my version of it is the problem? That's the opening. 🗝️
📖 Review Two Introduction — The Real Practice
We read a section of the Review Two introduction that I want you to sit with:
"Regard these practice periods as dedications to the way, the truth, and the life. Refuse to be distracted and sidetracked into detours, illusions, and thoughts of death. You are dedicated to salvation. Be determined each day not to leave your function unfulfilled."
The Course is a lot of concepts and ideas. But this is where it asks you to actually practice. The lessons are not just things to read — they're things to do. Take your ten minutes. Sit quietly. And when the distracting thoughts come — thank you for sharing, I'm doing this — and come back. Your will has power over all fantasies and dreams. Trust it.
And the reason we breathe at the start of every class? Because the other part of this work is to shut up and listen. There is a message waiting for you. It belongs to you. You want it. Be quiet enough to receive it. 🌬️
💡 The Q-Tip
Carry a Q-tip. It stands for: Quit Taking It Personally.
It ain't about you — and at the same time, it's entirely about you, because every difficult person and every hard situation is giving you an opportunity to change the way you see. Christina's difficult coworker isn't there to ruin her day. He's there to help her practice. And she's getting very good at practicing. 🌱
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Kristine came back from Sedona a different person. Not just inspired — decided. She's putting her house on the market and moving there. She experienced the vortexes for herself and stopped being skeptical. She had a meaningful connection with another woman on the retreat and realized something important about what she wants next. And she's getting a tattoo: Living as Light. A desert flower and a vortex on her arm, so she can look at it every day and remember: that's my function. I am the light of the world — and she finally believes it, not from the ego up, but from somewhere deeper. ✨
Christina showed up after missing a few sessions and reminded everyone why she's in this. She almost quit more than once. Exhausted from graveyard shifts and raising her granddaughter, some weeks the group is just too much. But she keeps going, and the proof is showing up in her life — strangers at work are handing her cards telling her she brings light to their table. She didn't notice it herself. The cards did. That's the Course working. 🌟
Amy is navigating something hard with her daughter this week, and the lessons are doing exactly what they're supposed to do. She's not bypassing the pain — she's using it. Forgiveness of the situation, forgiveness of herself for having judgments, and compassion for someone whose suffering she now understands more deeply. She said it simply: the lessons helped me work through it on my end. That's the whole assignment. 💙
Tempa came in carrying real anger about what she watched on the news — a Black woman in Texas in tears at a polling place with two voting machines while another district had plenty. She named it, held nothing back, and that's exactly right. Spiritual bypassing is not what we do here. You look at the insanity of the world, you let yourself feel it, and then you ask: can I be open to a miracle instead of staying in the grievance? Not bypassing. Not pretending. Opening. 🕊️
Tempa also shared something personal and brave — a Jekyll-and-Hyde attorney boss back in 2006 who went off on her so badly she had a breakdown and missed four months of work. She had grounds for a grievance and chose not to file it. Not because it didn't happen. Because she chose her peace over being right. And now, almost twenty years later, if she ran into him on the street, she could handle it. That's what the work does. Sometimes miracles take a while. 🌿
Karylle came to class and showed up fully — and her takeaway was one word: Recognize. 🌸
🏠 The Miracle at Home
I want to name something from my own week, because it's the whole teaching. Moving into the new apartment — which is genuinely beautiful, free laundry, perfect air units everywhere, the renovation is stunning — and my Virgo is in the corner cataloguing every box that wasn't unpacked yet, every piece of furniture that hadn't arrived, every thing that wasn't exactly where it was supposed to be.
And then I caught it. I have the miracle. What am I holding a grievance about? Everything I prayed for is sitting right here and the character is standing in the corner going, but the wardrobe. That's the lesson. That's always the lesson. You don't need to replace the miracle with a grievance. You already have the miracle. 🌀
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Every decision is a choice between a grievance and a miracle. Which one are you raising up before your eyes?
🔹 Entertain just some doubt about your version of what the problem is. That's enough to open the door.
🔹 Q-tip. Quit taking it personally. It ain't about you — and it's entirely about you.
🔹 Regard your practice periods as dedications. Be quiet. Listen. There is a message waiting.
🔹 When it gets loud: bathroom, door closed, three minutes, breathe. Come back. Okay.
🔹 Next Tuesday is Lesson 91 — Miracles are seen in light. Keep going.
Lessons 78–84 are all asking the same question from different angles: what are you choosing to see? Every decision you make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle. Grievances are the dark shield — held up before your eyes, blocking what's actually there. Lower the shield and the miracle was waiting in the light the whole time.
We read Lesson 78 together and this paragraph landed hard:
"Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. And as I raise it up before my eyes, I will not see the miracle beyond. Yet all the while it waits for me in light."
That's the scales on the eyes — the same image from the Bible. Your grievances, your prejudices, your already-decided story about what something means — those are the scales. Remove them one by one. Like stacking glasses on top of each other and then taking them off, one at a time. Each time, you see a little clearer. 👓
We also read from Lesson 79 — Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved — and this line from paragraph 8:
"All that is necessary is to entertain some doubt about the reality of my vision of what my problems are."
Just some doubt. Not certainty. Not a breakthrough. Just the willingness to consider: what if this isn't actually the problem? What if my version of it is the problem? That's the opening. 🗝️
📖 Review Two Introduction — The Real Practice
We read a section of the Review Two introduction that I want you to sit with:
"Regard these practice periods as dedications to the way, the truth, and the life. Refuse to be distracted and sidetracked into detours, illusions, and thoughts of death. You are dedicated to salvation. Be determined each day not to leave your function unfulfilled."
The Course is a lot of concepts and ideas. But this is where it asks you to actually practice. The lessons are not just things to read — they're things to do. Take your ten minutes. Sit quietly. And when the distracting thoughts come — thank you for sharing, I'm doing this — and come back. Your will has power over all fantasies and dreams. Trust it.
And the reason we breathe at the start of every class? Because the other part of this work is to shut up and listen. There is a message waiting for you. It belongs to you. You want it. Be quiet enough to receive it. 🌬️
💡 The Q-Tip
Carry a Q-tip. It stands for: Quit Taking It Personally.
It ain't about you — and at the same time, it's entirely about you, because every difficult person and every hard situation is giving you an opportunity to change the way you see. Christina's difficult coworker isn't there to ruin her day. He's there to help her practice. And she's getting very good at practicing. 🌱
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Kristine came back from Sedona a different person. Not just inspired — decided. She's putting her house on the market and moving there. She experienced the vortexes for herself and stopped being skeptical. She had a meaningful connection with another woman on the retreat and realized something important about what she wants next. And she's getting a tattoo: Living as Light. A desert flower and a vortex on her arm, so she can look at it every day and remember: that's my function. I am the light of the world — and she finally believes it, not from the ego up, but from somewhere deeper. ✨
Christina showed up after missing a few sessions and reminded everyone why she's in this. She almost quit more than once. Exhausted from graveyard shifts and raising her granddaughter, some weeks the group is just too much. But she keeps going, and the proof is showing up in her life — strangers at work are handing her cards telling her she brings light to their table. She didn't notice it herself. The cards did. That's the Course working. 🌟
Amy is navigating something hard with her daughter this week, and the lessons are doing exactly what they're supposed to do. She's not bypassing the pain — she's using it. Forgiveness of the situation, forgiveness of herself for having judgments, and compassion for someone whose suffering she now understands more deeply. She said it simply: the lessons helped me work through it on my end. That's the whole assignment. 💙
Tempa came in carrying real anger about what she watched on the news — a Black woman in Texas in tears at a polling place with two voting machines while another district had plenty. She named it, held nothing back, and that's exactly right. Spiritual bypassing is not what we do here. You look at the insanity of the world, you let yourself feel it, and then you ask: can I be open to a miracle instead of staying in the grievance? Not bypassing. Not pretending. Opening. 🕊️
Tempa also shared something personal and brave — a Jekyll-and-Hyde attorney boss back in 2006 who went off on her so badly she had a breakdown and missed four months of work. She had grounds for a grievance and chose not to file it. Not because it didn't happen. Because she chose her peace over being right. And now, almost twenty years later, if she ran into him on the street, she could handle it. That's what the work does. Sometimes miracles take a while. 🌿
Karylle came to class and showed up fully — and her takeaway was one word: Recognize. 🌸
🏠 The Miracle at Home
I want to name something from my own week, because it's the whole teaching. Moving into the new apartment — which is genuinely beautiful, free laundry, perfect air units everywhere, the renovation is stunning — and my Virgo is in the corner cataloguing every box that wasn't unpacked yet, every piece of furniture that hadn't arrived, every thing that wasn't exactly where it was supposed to be.
And then I caught it. I have the miracle. What am I holding a grievance about? Everything I prayed for is sitting right here and the character is standing in the corner going, but the wardrobe. That's the lesson. That's always the lesson. You don't need to replace the miracle with a grievance. You already have the miracle. 🌀
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Every decision is a choice between a grievance and a miracle. Which one are you raising up before your eyes?
🔹 Entertain just some doubt about your version of what the problem is. That's enough to open the door.
🔹 Q-tip. Quit taking it personally. It ain't about you — and it's entirely about you.
🔹 Regard your practice periods as dedications. Be quiet. Listen. There is a message waiting.
🔹 When it gets loud: bathroom, door closed, three minutes, breathe. Come back. Okay.
🔹 Next Tuesday is Lesson 91 — Miracles are seen in light. Keep going.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 14: Lesson 91 + Review Two Complete May 12, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above
🎉 The Reviews Are Done
We finished Review Two this week. Give yourself a real moment with that. You've done 91 lessons. You've been at this since January and you're still here, still doing it, still showing up. That's not nothing. That's everything. 👏
🔑 What We Worked On
Lesson 91 is a landmark — Miracles Are Seen in Light — and it does exactly what it says. The miracle is always there. Not sometimes. Not when you're good enough. Always. Its presence or absence has nothing to do with whether you deserve it. And its absence is not the result of your failure to see it. That line is important. Don't let your ego turn the darkness into a reason to beat yourself up.
The teaching this week: you can't see the miracle in the dark. Not because the miracle isn't there, but because your awareness of it is blocked. The good news is that it doesn't take a floodgate moment to open it up. It takes a crack. A little willingness. The tiniest shift — maybe there's another way — is enough to let the light in. And once light enters, darkness cannot stay.
He uses duality in this lesson on purpose: I am not weak but strong. I am not helpless but all-powerful. I am not limited but unlimited. I am not doubtful but certain. I am not an illusion but a reality. I cannot see in darkness but I see in light. This is not Law of Attraction. This is the Course using contrast to dismantle what you think you are, so what you actually are can be revealed to you. You are not a problem to be solved. You never were. 🌟
🎥 The Mumbai Video
I was watching a travel blogger on YouTube — a guy from New Zealand who goes to some of the most intensely poor neighborhoods in the world — and he was in the slums of Mumbai. People living in and around enormous trash dumps, sifting through rubbish all day. And they were happy. Genuinely, radiantly happy. Kind and warm and laughing and saying, would I ever leave? Never. I love it here.
Three minutes of that video and you're like: I have no problems.
That's Lesson 91 in action. The miracle isn't in the conditions. It's in the seeing.
▶ Watch the Mumbai video here
https://youtu.be/x2fMvRF6H-8?si=-k3yDZUAngf0x5G0
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy's son is valedictorian. This is the kid she couldn't get out of bed in high school — the one she will frankly admit she helped get through online classes just so he could graduate. And now he's a commercial electrician, valedictorian of his program, walking on Thursday. She called it exactly right: miracles. 💫
Amy is also holding space for her daughter and her family with everything that's happening there. She's not reacting, not drowning, not forcing forgiveness. She's sitting with it, looking toward the light, filling in the blank in the lesson with the name of the person she's working to forgive, saying it over and over. And Sharon at work? Starting to come around. The Cymbalta is helping. Amy keeps calling her a teacher. She's right. 💙
Christina checked in after some weeks away and showed up fully. Her light is visibly shining — coworkers are handing her cards saying she brings light to their table. Her boss calls her hun. She's making genuine female friendships, the kind she's been looking for for a long time. And when the dark thoughts come at work, she catches them now: I know what you're doing up there. That's not me. She sends love instead. That's the work landing. 🌟
Kristine got her tattoo. Living as Light. A desert flower and a vortex on her arm — and she showed it to the group right as we were reading Lesson 91. Karylle spotted it and the timing was perfect. We were literally talking about light when it arrived on screen. 🌸
Tempa is navigating real family tension — her granddaughter Katie's estrangement, the upcoming graduation where they'll be in the same room, the fear of a public scene. She talked about it honestly, sat with the fear, and by the end of the conversation said: I already feel better just processing it out loud. She also reminded everyone of something true: I can't force another person to turn their light on. I can only mind my own. 🕯️
Karylle had the week's quiet teaching moment — she wanted a phone upgrade, backed out of the claim when the offer wasn't right, waited, and the next day got the better phone. Then she said: I just stopped and waited. I felt like it was time. That's I make no decisions by myself walked out into a real Tuesday. 🌀
💡 What Am I?
This is the question the lesson ends on, and it's worth sitting with. In contemplation work, people always ask who am I? — but the Course asks what am I? And that shift opens something. Who keeps it personal. What blows the walls off.
You're not a body. You're not your history, your failures, or your successes. You're not a problem to be solved. You're something else. And the more you choose the light — the more you say I love my life even when you don't feel it, the more you look for the strength that's already in you — the more that something else starts to reveal itself.
As Christina put it: When I shine my light, it brings a lot of darkness out of other people, and it domino effects. That's it. That's the whole teaching. 🌟
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 The miracle is always there. Its absence is not the result of your failure to see it.
🔹 You cannot see in darkness. Choose the light — even if it's just a crack. Even if it's just maybe there's another way.
🔹 You are not a problem to be solved. What you think you are is a belief to be undone. What you really are will be revealed.
🔹 Watch the Mumbai video. Three minutes. Let it do what it does.
🔹 What am I? Sit with that question. Don't answer it. Just sit with it.
🔹 I am not weak but strong. I am not helpless but all-powerful. Say it out loud. Even if you don't believe it yet. Especially then.
We finished Review Two this week. Give yourself a real moment with that. You've done 91 lessons. You've been at this since January and you're still here, still doing it, still showing up. That's not nothing. That's everything. 👏
🔑 What We Worked On
Lesson 91 is a landmark — Miracles Are Seen in Light — and it does exactly what it says. The miracle is always there. Not sometimes. Not when you're good enough. Always. Its presence or absence has nothing to do with whether you deserve it. And its absence is not the result of your failure to see it. That line is important. Don't let your ego turn the darkness into a reason to beat yourself up.
The teaching this week: you can't see the miracle in the dark. Not because the miracle isn't there, but because your awareness of it is blocked. The good news is that it doesn't take a floodgate moment to open it up. It takes a crack. A little willingness. The tiniest shift — maybe there's another way — is enough to let the light in. And once light enters, darkness cannot stay.
He uses duality in this lesson on purpose: I am not weak but strong. I am not helpless but all-powerful. I am not limited but unlimited. I am not doubtful but certain. I am not an illusion but a reality. I cannot see in darkness but I see in light. This is not Law of Attraction. This is the Course using contrast to dismantle what you think you are, so what you actually are can be revealed to you. You are not a problem to be solved. You never were. 🌟
🎥 The Mumbai Video
I was watching a travel blogger on YouTube — a guy from New Zealand who goes to some of the most intensely poor neighborhoods in the world — and he was in the slums of Mumbai. People living in and around enormous trash dumps, sifting through rubbish all day. And they were happy. Genuinely, radiantly happy. Kind and warm and laughing and saying, would I ever leave? Never. I love it here.
Three minutes of that video and you're like: I have no problems.
That's Lesson 91 in action. The miracle isn't in the conditions. It's in the seeing.
▶ Watch the Mumbai video here
https://youtu.be/x2fMvRF6H-8?si=-k3yDZUAngf0x5G0
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy's son is valedictorian. This is the kid she couldn't get out of bed in high school — the one she will frankly admit she helped get through online classes just so he could graduate. And now he's a commercial electrician, valedictorian of his program, walking on Thursday. She called it exactly right: miracles. 💫
Amy is also holding space for her daughter and her family with everything that's happening there. She's not reacting, not drowning, not forcing forgiveness. She's sitting with it, looking toward the light, filling in the blank in the lesson with the name of the person she's working to forgive, saying it over and over. And Sharon at work? Starting to come around. The Cymbalta is helping. Amy keeps calling her a teacher. She's right. 💙
Christina checked in after some weeks away and showed up fully. Her light is visibly shining — coworkers are handing her cards saying she brings light to their table. Her boss calls her hun. She's making genuine female friendships, the kind she's been looking for for a long time. And when the dark thoughts come at work, she catches them now: I know what you're doing up there. That's not me. She sends love instead. That's the work landing. 🌟
Kristine got her tattoo. Living as Light. A desert flower and a vortex on her arm — and she showed it to the group right as we were reading Lesson 91. Karylle spotted it and the timing was perfect. We were literally talking about light when it arrived on screen. 🌸
Tempa is navigating real family tension — her granddaughter Katie's estrangement, the upcoming graduation where they'll be in the same room, the fear of a public scene. She talked about it honestly, sat with the fear, and by the end of the conversation said: I already feel better just processing it out loud. She also reminded everyone of something true: I can't force another person to turn their light on. I can only mind my own. 🕯️
Karylle had the week's quiet teaching moment — she wanted a phone upgrade, backed out of the claim when the offer wasn't right, waited, and the next day got the better phone. Then she said: I just stopped and waited. I felt like it was time. That's I make no decisions by myself walked out into a real Tuesday. 🌀
💡 What Am I?
This is the question the lesson ends on, and it's worth sitting with. In contemplation work, people always ask who am I? — but the Course asks what am I? And that shift opens something. Who keeps it personal. What blows the walls off.
You're not a body. You're not your history, your failures, or your successes. You're not a problem to be solved. You're something else. And the more you choose the light — the more you say I love my life even when you don't feel it, the more you look for the strength that's already in you — the more that something else starts to reveal itself.
As Christina put it: When I shine my light, it brings a lot of darkness out of other people, and it domino effects. That's it. That's the whole teaching. 🌟
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 The miracle is always there. Its absence is not the result of your failure to see it.
🔹 You cannot see in darkness. Choose the light — even if it's just a crack. Even if it's just maybe there's another way.
🔹 You are not a problem to be solved. What you think you are is a belief to be undone. What you really are will be revealed.
🔹 Watch the Mumbai video. Three minutes. Let it do what it does.
🔹 What am I? Sit with that question. Don't answer it. Just sit with it.
🔹 I am not weak but strong. I am not helpless but all-powerful. Say it out loud. Even if you don't believe it yet. Especially then.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 15: Lessons 92–98 May 19, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 92–98 are some of the boldest claims the Course makes. Not about what you should become or how hard you should try — about what you already are. Right now. As you sit here.
Light and strength are one. Light and joy and peace abide in me. I am as God created me. I am one Self united with my Creator. Salvation comes from my one Self. I am spirit. I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.
The thread running through all of them: the deconstruction work of the first 90 lessons was clearing the ground. This is what was underneath all along. You are not a problem to be solved. You never were. The truth of who you are does not live in time. And that truth has been trying to get through to you this whole year. 🌟
📖 Lesson 93 — The First Paragraph
We read this one aloud together and it deserves its own moment on the page:
"I think I am the home of evil, darkness, and sin. I think if anyone could see the truth about me, I would be repelled, recoiling from myself as if from a poisonous snake. I think if what is true about myself were revealed to me, I would be struck with horror so intense that I would rush to death by my own hand, living on after seeing this being impossible."
Light and joy and peace abide in me — and that is how it opens. Not by accident. The Course is naming what the ego has been whispering to you your entire life. You are fundamentally bad. Something is wrong with you. You have to fix it, fix it, fix it.
And it's not subtle. Most people won't admit that's what's running underneath. But you know it is. You've felt it. That voice that says you're too much, not enough, broken somewhere that can't be repaired. That's what we're working on here.
The question we took into the breakout room: What would have to change in the way you see yourself if this paragraph is true? And what would have to change if it's false?
The beautiful thing is the answer is almost the same either way. 🗝️
💬 Breakout Room — Lesson 93
The three of you went in together and came back with this:
Kristine's takeaway: those evil thoughts, those dark narratives the ego runs — they're a joke. A frickin' joke. And the alternative to running from them isn't to fight them. It's to love it all. Though the real question worth sitting with: is "love it all" or "fuck it all" still dualistic thinking? Are we still doing all-or-nothing? That's worth staying with.
Karylle came back to the lesson after a tense moment at home this week and landed on this line: We side with truth and let the illusions go. That was all she needed. She grabbed the book, read it, and the whole thing shifted. That's the Course doing what it's supposed to do — not as a concept, but as a tool you reach for in real time. 📖
Amy's takeaway was simple and true: letting go of fear, and finding the way to see the light. She also noted something quietly profound — that when you give yourself to this work, you're not just giving it to yourself. There's only one of us here. Your work is all the work. Everything else follows. 💫
🕯️ Lesson 97 — I Am Spirit
We closed with this one, and it's worth sitting with the whole week.
The ego will never accept I am spirit. Never. It wants to believe it is the body, the character, the history, the relationships, the bank account, the mistakes. It wants to be the thing that has to be fixed. And that's exactly why this lesson is so important — because it keeps saying: no. That's not what you are. That's a belief to be undone. What you really are will be revealed.
Paragraph 4 is the one to carry this week:
"You are the spirit in whose mind abides the miracle in which all time stands still. The miracle in which a minute spent in using these ideas becomes a time that has no limit and that has no end. Give him these minutes willingly, and count on him who promised to lay timelessness beside them. He will offer all his strength to every little effort that you make."
Every little effort. Not the perfect effort. Not the fully committed effort. Every little effort has his full strength behind it. A crack is enough. A minute is enough. Five minutes in the morning is enough.
The truth of who you are does not live in time. A body lives in time. Spirit does not. That's the Jesus story. That's the ankh. That's what every tradition has been trying to say. You are not the character. You are not the body. You are something completely different than you thought you were. 🌀
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Amy chose light over darkness this week by showing up for her daughter in Cleveland even when she didn't want to go — navigating the marathon, the heat, a panic attack, two and a half miles on foot with a grandson in tow. She didn't let it get her down. That's the work walking around on a Saturday morning. 💪
Karylle had a genuinely scary week — a medication mix-up while caring for Julian, a tense moment, a $33,000 Medicare letter arriving out of nowhere. And what did she do? She came upstairs, grabbed the book, read the lesson, and found her way back. She also discovered that you don't have to pay a government bill all at once — $200 at a time works just fine. Grace showed up in a lot of places this week. ❤️
Kristine shared that the light lessons have become her mantra — and showed off the tattoo again, Living as Light, this time letting everyone see the detail. She also talked about reconnecting with bhakti practice — mantra, devotion, singing — and setting a new 90-day commitment to do it first thing every morning. Using time as a teaching tool, not letting time use you. That's the whole teaching. 🌸
Kristine is navigating a frustrating situation with her tax return — over two months, nothing wrong on it, no resolution. And instead of staying in the anger spiral she keeps coming back to: let it go, it'll come when it's supposed to, God's got it. She's choosing peace in one of the most practical, annoying ways life can test you. 🕊️
We're sending love to Tempa who had her hernia surgery this week, and to Christina who we missed last night. 💛
💡 On Time
This came up so clearly in the reading of Lesson 97 that it deserves its own moment.
There is no age. There is no time. The truth of who you are abides in the holy instant — not in the past, not in the future, not when you're dead, not when you finally get it right. Right now. The holy instant is the only thing happening. A body lives in time. Spirit does not. That's why we breathe at the start of every class. That's why the silence might be the most important part. The time spent in timelessness is more effective than all the words.
Give God the first five minutes. He will be in charge of your thought forms for the rest of the day.
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Give the first five minutes of your morning to God. Five minutes. That's all. Let him be in charge of the rest.
🔹 I am the spirit in whose mind abides the miracle in which all time stands still. Say it. Let it land.
🔹 The dark voice that says you are the home of evil and sin — that's a lie. A joke. And the answer isn't to fight it. It's to let the light in.
🔹 Every little effort you make has his full strength behind it. You don't have to do it perfectly. Just do it.
🔹 Lesson 106 is coming next week. It's one of the best. Do your work and let it find you.
🔹 Side with truth. Let the illusions go. That's it. That's enough.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 16: Lessons 99–105 May 26, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🎉 100 Days
You passed 100 lessons. Give yourself a real round of applause — that's not nothing. Most people who start this course don't make it here. You did. 👏
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 99–105 are all orbiting the same sun: your function is joy, God's will for you is perfect happiness, and suffering is not what life asks of you — it's what the ego convinces you is inevitable.
Salvation is my only function here. My part is essential to God's plan for salvation. God's will for me is perfect happiness. I share God's will for perfect happiness for me. God being love is also happiness. I seek only what belongs to me in truth. God's peace and joy are mine.
The thread: after 100 lessons of deconstruction, the Course is now making it plain. Stop pushing the rock up the hill. Stop choosing against your own happiness. Stop making guilt and sacrifice your operating system. You don't have to suffer. That's a big revelation for most people — because the world has been telling you otherwise since you were a child. 🌿
💡 The Impossible Becomes the Thing You Need Forgiveness For
This line from Lesson 99 really stood out:
"The impossible becomes the thing you need forgiveness for and salvation from."
Here's what it means: a miracle seems impossible, right? And the Course says there's no order of difficulty in miracles. So what you actually need forgiveness from — what you need to be saved from — is the whole concept of impossible. Nothing is impossible. Everything is pure potential. When you truly forgive the impossible, you are free to expect miracles. As Audrey Hepburn said: nothing is impossible — the word itself says I'm possible. 💫
🌸 Lesson 100 — Your Joy Must Be Complete
This is the one that lands hardest if you let it:
"Without your joy, His joy is incomplete. Without your smile, the world cannot be saved. While you are sad, the light which God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless, and no one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours."
Your job — your actual function — is to be joyful. Not performing joy, not bypassing the hard stuff, but choosing happiness as an option even when the ego says you can't. Be careful here though: the ego will read this lesson and immediately turn it into a reason to beat yourself up for not being happy enough. Don't do that. Happiness is always an option — always available — but the ego will never tell you that.
As I always say: I don't do guilt. And when guilt shows up, I ask — wait, why is this here? What's happening? That's the practice. 🕯️
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Kristine got her vintage buttons. She wrote down in March — during the E Squared exercise — that she wanted to find a jar of vintage buttons, just like her grandmother's. Forgot all about it. This week, a friend she barely talks to mailed her a package out of nowhere. Inside: vintage buttons. She was floored. That's the Course and the law of attraction saying the same thing: stop grasping, stay open, and things arrive when you stop needing them to arrive on your timeline. The humility and willingness to not know where it comes from — that's the whole teaching. 🎁
Christina is unfolding in ways that are showing up everywhere at work. The man she used to struggle with is now eating lunch at the table, laughing, hugging. A Hindu coworker told her flat out that he'd never experienced that kind of love and friendship and didn't know how to handle it. A stranger at a bus stop walked up and said I love you out of nowhere. And she received it — grabbed her heart and said it back. That's the lesson: as we receive them, they increase. Giving and receiving are one. The lighthouse doesn't chase the ships. It just shines. 🌟
Amy chose light over darkness this week by getting herself to Cleveland for her daughter even when she didn't want to go — navigating the heat, a panic attack, two and a half miles on foot with a grandson. She showed up anyway. That's willingness in action. 💪
Karylle had a genuinely hard week — Emma in the hospital, getting up early for the dogs and school runs, a tense moment around the Lyft/Uber suggestion that she caught herself reacting to and then named: I'm creating a story. And then she let it go. Also: Julian is doing well. Grace showed up in small ways all week. ❤️
Tempa is recovering from surgery and moving carefully — frustrated by the tightness and the small steps, but she's here and she showed up. Her takeaway said everything: it's okay to be happy. 🌿
🎁 Receiving Is One of the Biggest Things You Can Do
This came up so clearly in Lesson 105 it deserves its own space.
"God's gifts will never lessen when they are given away, but they increase thereby."
Real giving entails no loss. When someone can't receive a smile, a kindness, a look of love — that's not about you. It's about how dense their illusion is right now. You keep loving anyway. Not preaching, not prophesying, not going on a salvation tour. Just being the safe place. The non-threatening presence. The lighthouse.
And the flip side: learn to receive. When someone loves you, let it in. Grab your heart. Say it back. That's the practice. 🙏
🌀 A Note on the Lessons Coming Up
Review Three starts Monday. Please read the introduction before you begin — every review introduction is specific and sets the tone. We'll read it together in class next week.
And this week's remaining lessons are beautiful. I rest in God. Let me be still and listen to the truth. Just do your work and let them find you.
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 You passed 100 days. Let that land. You did something most people don't do.
🔹 It's okay to be happy. Happiness is always an option. Always. The ego is lying when it says otherwise.
🔹 When guilt shows up — catch it. Ask where it's coming from. You don't do guilt.
🔹 Stop grasping. Stay open. The buttons will come.
🔹 Giving and receiving are one. Practice receiving this week. Let the love in.
🔹 Read the Review Three introduction before Monday's lesson. We'll go over it together next week.
You passed 100 lessons. Give yourself a real round of applause — that's not nothing. Most people who start this course don't make it here. You did. 👏
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 99–105 are all orbiting the same sun: your function is joy, God's will for you is perfect happiness, and suffering is not what life asks of you — it's what the ego convinces you is inevitable.
Salvation is my only function here. My part is essential to God's plan for salvation. God's will for me is perfect happiness. I share God's will for perfect happiness for me. God being love is also happiness. I seek only what belongs to me in truth. God's peace and joy are mine.
The thread: after 100 lessons of deconstruction, the Course is now making it plain. Stop pushing the rock up the hill. Stop choosing against your own happiness. Stop making guilt and sacrifice your operating system. You don't have to suffer. That's a big revelation for most people — because the world has been telling you otherwise since you were a child. 🌿
💡 The Impossible Becomes the Thing You Need Forgiveness For
This line from Lesson 99 really stood out:
"The impossible becomes the thing you need forgiveness for and salvation from."
Here's what it means: a miracle seems impossible, right? And the Course says there's no order of difficulty in miracles. So what you actually need forgiveness from — what you need to be saved from — is the whole concept of impossible. Nothing is impossible. Everything is pure potential. When you truly forgive the impossible, you are free to expect miracles. As Audrey Hepburn said: nothing is impossible — the word itself says I'm possible. 💫
🌸 Lesson 100 — Your Joy Must Be Complete
This is the one that lands hardest if you let it:
"Without your joy, His joy is incomplete. Without your smile, the world cannot be saved. While you are sad, the light which God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless, and no one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours."
Your job — your actual function — is to be joyful. Not performing joy, not bypassing the hard stuff, but choosing happiness as an option even when the ego says you can't. Be careful here though: the ego will read this lesson and immediately turn it into a reason to beat yourself up for not being happy enough. Don't do that. Happiness is always an option — always available — but the ego will never tell you that.
As I always say: I don't do guilt. And when guilt shows up, I ask — wait, why is this here? What's happening? That's the practice. 🕯️
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Kristine got her vintage buttons. She wrote down in March — during the E Squared exercise — that she wanted to find a jar of vintage buttons, just like her grandmother's. Forgot all about it. This week, a friend she barely talks to mailed her a package out of nowhere. Inside: vintage buttons. She was floored. That's the Course and the law of attraction saying the same thing: stop grasping, stay open, and things arrive when you stop needing them to arrive on your timeline. The humility and willingness to not know where it comes from — that's the whole teaching. 🎁
Christina is unfolding in ways that are showing up everywhere at work. The man she used to struggle with is now eating lunch at the table, laughing, hugging. A Hindu coworker told her flat out that he'd never experienced that kind of love and friendship and didn't know how to handle it. A stranger at a bus stop walked up and said I love you out of nowhere. And she received it — grabbed her heart and said it back. That's the lesson: as we receive them, they increase. Giving and receiving are one. The lighthouse doesn't chase the ships. It just shines. 🌟
Amy chose light over darkness this week by getting herself to Cleveland for her daughter even when she didn't want to go — navigating the heat, a panic attack, two and a half miles on foot with a grandson. She showed up anyway. That's willingness in action. 💪
Karylle had a genuinely hard week — Emma in the hospital, getting up early for the dogs and school runs, a tense moment around the Lyft/Uber suggestion that she caught herself reacting to and then named: I'm creating a story. And then she let it go. Also: Julian is doing well. Grace showed up in small ways all week. ❤️
Tempa is recovering from surgery and moving carefully — frustrated by the tightness and the small steps, but she's here and she showed up. Her takeaway said everything: it's okay to be happy. 🌿
🎁 Receiving Is One of the Biggest Things You Can Do
This came up so clearly in Lesson 105 it deserves its own space.
"God's gifts will never lessen when they are given away, but they increase thereby."
Real giving entails no loss. When someone can't receive a smile, a kindness, a look of love — that's not about you. It's about how dense their illusion is right now. You keep loving anyway. Not preaching, not prophesying, not going on a salvation tour. Just being the safe place. The non-threatening presence. The lighthouse.
And the flip side: learn to receive. When someone loves you, let it in. Grab your heart. Say it back. That's the practice. 🙏
🌀 A Note on the Lessons Coming Up
Review Three starts Monday. Please read the introduction before you begin — every review introduction is specific and sets the tone. We'll read it together in class next week.
And this week's remaining lessons are beautiful. I rest in God. Let me be still and listen to the truth. Just do your work and let them find you.
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 You passed 100 days. Let that land. You did something most people don't do.
🔹 It's okay to be happy. Happiness is always an option. Always. The ego is lying when it says otherwise.
🔹 When guilt shows up — catch it. Ask where it's coming from. You don't do guilt.
🔹 Stop grasping. Stay open. The buttons will come.
🔹 Giving and receiving are one. Practice receiving this week. Let the love in.
🔹 Read the Review Three introduction before Monday's lesson. We'll go over it together next week.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 17: Lessons 106–110 + Review Three Introduction June 2, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🎉 110 Days
You're here. Still doing it. Still showing up. That matters more than anything else on this page. 👏
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 106–110 brought us to the same place from five different angles: stop reacting, stop running, be still, rest, receive. Be first, do second. When you actually stop — even for three minutes — everything shifts.
Review Three starts now. Two lessons a day, five minutes twice a day, a moment on the hour and half hour. That's it. Don't make it bigger than it is.
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Christina is living the lessons at work in real time — a coworker came looking for her specifically because he needed compassion. Out of everyone there, he came to her. The lighthouse doesn't chase the ships. 💫
I had dinner with a friend who snapped at the waitress, and I caught myself wanting to rush in and fix it. I didn't. I smiled at the waitress on my way to the bathroom and kept walking. That's let me be still lived out at a Tuesday night dinner table. 🌸
Karylle had a hard week with Emma in the hospital, and in the middle of it learned something about receiving — the potstickers came late and got taken off the bill, and Michelle said: you're overthinking it. She accepted the gift, tipped anyway, and had a lovely evening with Sophia. Receiving is the practice. ❤️
Amy showed up barely sleeping and under the weather, lay on the couch while the lesson played, and drifted off. That counts. You were still. You listened. 💙
Tempa is recovering slowly and came with her usual honesty. Her takeaway said it all: I am the turtle. Slow, steady, consistent. It pays off. 🐢
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Be first, do second. Before the next action — am I responding or just reacting?
🔹 Five minutes twice a day. That's the whole assignment.
🔹 To give and receive are one. What are you giving yourself today?
🔹 Rest in God — not to escape what's happening, but to deal with it from a different level.
🔹 The turtle wins. Always.
You're here. Still doing it. Still showing up. That matters more than anything else on this page. 👏
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 106–110 brought us to the same place from five different angles: stop reacting, stop running, be still, rest, receive. Be first, do second. When you actually stop — even for three minutes — everything shifts.
Review Three starts now. Two lessons a day, five minutes twice a day, a moment on the hour and half hour. That's it. Don't make it bigger than it is.
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Christina is living the lessons at work in real time — a coworker came looking for her specifically because he needed compassion. Out of everyone there, he came to her. The lighthouse doesn't chase the ships. 💫
I had dinner with a friend who snapped at the waitress, and I caught myself wanting to rush in and fix it. I didn't. I smiled at the waitress on my way to the bathroom and kept walking. That's let me be still lived out at a Tuesday night dinner table. 🌸
Karylle had a hard week with Emma in the hospital, and in the middle of it learned something about receiving — the potstickers came late and got taken off the bill, and Michelle said: you're overthinking it. She accepted the gift, tipped anyway, and had a lovely evening with Sophia. Receiving is the practice. ❤️
Amy showed up barely sleeping and under the weather, lay on the couch while the lesson played, and drifted off. That counts. You were still. You listened. 💙
Tempa is recovering slowly and came with her usual honesty. Her takeaway said it all: I am the turtle. Slow, steady, consistent. It pays off. 🐢
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Be first, do second. Before the next action — am I responding or just reacting?
🔹 Five minutes twice a day. That's the whole assignment.
🔹 To give and receive are one. What are you giving yourself today?
🔹 Rest in God — not to escape what's happening, but to deal with it from a different level.
🔹 The turtle wins. Always.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 18: Review Week + Connection Night
June 9, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Did
This night wasn't about lessons. It was about the thing the lessons are actually pointing to — the healing of separation. At-one-ment. Coming back together.
After sharing and breathing, Amy, Tempa, and Kristine went into a room together for 35 minutes with no agenda. Just connection. That's the course lived out in real time. 🤝
Karylle was at Universal Studios — we saw the posts! Christina was watching on replay. You were with us. 💛
✨ What Was Shared Before The Breakout
Amy got the first bedroom next door completely finished — new floors, new beds, curtains on the way. And she's heading to a Bigfoot festival on Friday and a rattlesnake roundup on Saturday. Living her best life. 🐾
Tempa is reading Still Christian: Following Jesus Out of American Evangelicalism and finding her own experience reflected back at her. Sometimes the most healing thing is realizing you're not crazy and you're not alone. 📖
Kristine has tickets to see Lee Harris in Dallas on Thursday — going by herself, in the heat, and she bought the ticket so she's going. That's it. ✨
A quick reminder that we're not experiencing miracles on a daily basis as a sign that something's wrong — we are. Pay attention. They're everywhere. 💫
💬 When We Came Back
Full disclosure — my internet went out while you were in the breakout room, and I came back assuming it was still recording. It wasn't. So whatever magic happened in that room and when you returned stays between you three. 😄
What I do remember is that the energy when you came back was warm and full — and there was some very generous praise directed my way that I will absolutely not be arguing with.
You know who you are. Thank you. 💫
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Keep going with your review lessons. Short, sweet, consistent.
🔹 Connection is the work. Don't underestimate what tonight was.
🔹 At-one-ment. Say it slowly. At. One. Ment. That's what we're doing here.
This night wasn't about lessons. It was about the thing the lessons are actually pointing to — the healing of separation. At-one-ment. Coming back together.
After sharing and breathing, Amy, Tempa, and Kristine went into a room together for 35 minutes with no agenda. Just connection. That's the course lived out in real time. 🤝
Karylle was at Universal Studios — we saw the posts! Christina was watching on replay. You were with us. 💛
✨ What Was Shared Before The Breakout
Amy got the first bedroom next door completely finished — new floors, new beds, curtains on the way. And she's heading to a Bigfoot festival on Friday and a rattlesnake roundup on Saturday. Living her best life. 🐾
Tempa is reading Still Christian: Following Jesus Out of American Evangelicalism and finding her own experience reflected back at her. Sometimes the most healing thing is realizing you're not crazy and you're not alone. 📖
Kristine has tickets to see Lee Harris in Dallas on Thursday — going by herself, in the heat, and she bought the ticket so she's going. That's it. ✨
A quick reminder that we're not experiencing miracles on a daily basis as a sign that something's wrong — we are. Pay attention. They're everywhere. 💫
💬 When We Came Back
Full disclosure — my internet went out while you were in the breakout room, and I came back assuming it was still recording. It wasn't. So whatever magic happened in that room and when you returned stays between you three. 😄
What I do remember is that the energy when you came back was warm and full — and there was some very generous praise directed my way that I will absolutely not be arguing with.
You know who you are. Thank you. 💫
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Keep going with your review lessons. Short, sweet, consistent.
🔹 Connection is the work. Don't underestimate what tonight was.
🔹 At-one-ment. Say it slowly. At. One. Ment. That's what we're doing here.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 19: Lessons 121–126 June 16, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 121–126: Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Forgiveness offers everything I want. I thank my Father for his gifts to me. Let me remember I am one with God. In quiet I receive God's word today. All that I give is given to myself.
The thread: forgiveness isn't saying what happened was okay. It's accepting what is — or what was — without needing it to be different. That's it. And it's not for them. It's always for us. 🕊️
When things aren't flowing, when peace feels far away — ask: who or what am I not forgiving? You'll know the answer immediately. It's almost always yourself.
💡 Alchemy
Forgiveness is alchemy. It's changing one thing into another — and it only requires a shift in perception. They don't have to change. The situation doesn't have to change. You change how you see it, and the miracle happens. Changing water into wine. Changing lead into gold. It's the same mechanism. You have all the power you need, right here. 🌀
And this: do not attempt to change the world. Attempt to change your mind about the world. As many people as there are in the world, there are that many worlds going on. It's all an inside job.
The line from Lesson 125 that says everything: This world will change through you.
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Kristine opened the session with something real — a family blowup with her sister-in-law that came completely out of nowhere, in front of everyone, after months of pent-up tension finally finding a target. Kristine stayed calm and didn't defend. She's not all the way through it yet — she's honest about still being a little pissed — but she understands what's underneath it. That understanding is the first step. You're never angry for the reason you think. 🌸
Amy has forgiven her daughter Carly. Two to three weeks of silence, a text that went for the jugular, and Amy chose to unblock her, show up, and be the support person anyway. That's the work. That's what love actually looks like. 💙
Tempa is working on forgiving Katie — slowly, honestly, without rushing it. Her line was perfect: there's no reason not to forgive her. I am her mother. And she noticed something shifting — moving from anger toward sadness when she thinks about people who seem to need constant validation to feel okay. That shift from anger to sadness is a sign something is changing. Keep going in that direction. 🌿
Karylle found the line in the text that everyone was looking for — "he does not realize that he makes the world, for there is no world outside of him" — Chapter 12, Section 3, Paragraph 6. Karylle knows her Course. ❤️
Christina is just forgiving. Keep forgiving. That's it. That's the whole thing. 💫
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 When things feel off — who or what am I not forgiving? Ask it. You'll know.
🔹 Forgiveness is not saying it was okay. It's accepting what happened without needing it to be different.
🔹 You don't have to forgive all the way. Just understanding what someone is going through is the first step.
🔹 It's all an inside job. Change your mind about the world, not the world itself.
🔹 Lessons 127–133 are coming. Lesson 132 is one of my favorites of the entire year. Do your work and let it find you.
Lessons 121–126: Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Forgiveness offers everything I want. I thank my Father for his gifts to me. Let me remember I am one with God. In quiet I receive God's word today. All that I give is given to myself.
The thread: forgiveness isn't saying what happened was okay. It's accepting what is — or what was — without needing it to be different. That's it. And it's not for them. It's always for us. 🕊️
When things aren't flowing, when peace feels far away — ask: who or what am I not forgiving? You'll know the answer immediately. It's almost always yourself.
💡 Alchemy
Forgiveness is alchemy. It's changing one thing into another — and it only requires a shift in perception. They don't have to change. The situation doesn't have to change. You change how you see it, and the miracle happens. Changing water into wine. Changing lead into gold. It's the same mechanism. You have all the power you need, right here. 🌀
And this: do not attempt to change the world. Attempt to change your mind about the world. As many people as there are in the world, there are that many worlds going on. It's all an inside job.
The line from Lesson 125 that says everything: This world will change through you.
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Kristine opened the session with something real — a family blowup with her sister-in-law that came completely out of nowhere, in front of everyone, after months of pent-up tension finally finding a target. Kristine stayed calm and didn't defend. She's not all the way through it yet — she's honest about still being a little pissed — but she understands what's underneath it. That understanding is the first step. You're never angry for the reason you think. 🌸
Amy has forgiven her daughter Carly. Two to three weeks of silence, a text that went for the jugular, and Amy chose to unblock her, show up, and be the support person anyway. That's the work. That's what love actually looks like. 💙
Tempa is working on forgiving Katie — slowly, honestly, without rushing it. Her line was perfect: there's no reason not to forgive her. I am her mother. And she noticed something shifting — moving from anger toward sadness when she thinks about people who seem to need constant validation to feel okay. That shift from anger to sadness is a sign something is changing. Keep going in that direction. 🌿
Karylle found the line in the text that everyone was looking for — "he does not realize that he makes the world, for there is no world outside of him" — Chapter 12, Section 3, Paragraph 6. Karylle knows her Course. ❤️
Christina is just forgiving. Keep forgiving. That's it. That's the whole thing. 💫
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 When things feel off — who or what am I not forgiving? Ask it. You'll know.
🔹 Forgiveness is not saying it was okay. It's accepting what happened without needing it to be different.
🔹 You don't have to forgive all the way. Just understanding what someone is going through is the first step.
🔹 It's all an inside job. Change your mind about the world, not the world itself.
🔹 Lessons 127–133 are coming. Lesson 132 is one of my favorites of the entire year. Do your work and let it find you.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 20: Lessons 127–133
June 23, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 127–133 are some of the biggest of the year. There is no love but God's. The world I see holds nothing I want. Beyond this world there is a world I want. It is impossible to see two worlds. No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. I loose the world from all I thought it was. I will not value what is valueless.
We spent most of the session on Lesson 132, and even then we only scratched the surface. It could genuinely be a 10-week course on its own. 🌀
💡 Lesson 132 — I Loose the World From All I Thought It Was
This is the lesson. The one that contains everything.
The opening paragraph makes a claim that the ego will resist with everything it has: "It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt you, or disturb your peace, or upset you in any way."
No belief is ever true. A belief is just a thought you keep thinking — red is good, red is good, red is good — until it becomes the lens through which you see everything. The moment you're willing to ask maybe, the whole thing can shift. And that shift is the miracle.
Paragraph 2 is where it gets radical: "Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind." That's it. Change the source of the thought, and you free the past, the future, and the world along with it.
Paragraph 3 read in first person stopped everyone: "I have enslaved the world with all my fears, my doubts and miseries, my pain and tears... and keep the world a prisoner to my beliefs." Reading it as I instead of you — that's where it lands. 🔑
And this from Jed McKenna, which fits perfectly: I mastered the world when I let go of all control, and then I realized I had all control.
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Christina came to class carrying the inner teenager — exhausted from graveyard shifts, feeling overwhelmed by the longer lessons. And then she shifted on her own, right there: take what I can and leave the rest. Half is better than none. The lessons aren't going anywhere. That's not quitting. That's wisdom. And she's applying the work at Walmart in real time — no more "I told you so," no more needing the gold star. Just helping people and moving on. Unconditional. 💫
Kristine shared that people have been coming to her with their anger and hatred for months and she's been resisting it. The teaching: what you resist, persists. Nothing outside you is not also inside you. There's no why — just a pointer. And she put it better than anyone: anytime your thoughts are running crazy, if you just shut up and concentrate on your breath, everything is wonderful in the now. That's the whole lesson in one sentence. 🌸
Karylle watched Cristiano Ronaldo score twice at the World Cup and saw something she hadn't seen before — the pure love of the game, the cockiness gone, just a 40-year-old man playing because he loves it. Ten years of I hate that guy softened in one afternoon. She didn't decide to forgive him. She just saw something real in the present moment, and the past loosened its grip. That's Lesson 132 walking around on a soccer field. ❤️
Tempa connected the lesson to her own life — how college cracked open her first beliefs, how the course cracked them open further, and how she's finally at a place where she can step back from a difficult moment and say: that's probably not about me. Years of work. One sentence. That's the corkscrew moving. 🌿
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 A miracle is a change in perception. Just one. Just a little shift. That's enough.
🔹 It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing outside your mind can hurt you. Sit with that.
🔹 Read Lesson 132 in the first person. Feel the difference.
🔹 You've been initiated. Lessons 134–139 are intense and beautiful. Keep going.
🔹 Loose the world. Let your beliefs run free. See what's actually there.
Lessons 127–133 are some of the biggest of the year. There is no love but God's. The world I see holds nothing I want. Beyond this world there is a world I want. It is impossible to see two worlds. No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. I loose the world from all I thought it was. I will not value what is valueless.
We spent most of the session on Lesson 132, and even then we only scratched the surface. It could genuinely be a 10-week course on its own. 🌀
💡 Lesson 132 — I Loose the World From All I Thought It Was
This is the lesson. The one that contains everything.
The opening paragraph makes a claim that the ego will resist with everything it has: "It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt you, or disturb your peace, or upset you in any way."
No belief is ever true. A belief is just a thought you keep thinking — red is good, red is good, red is good — until it becomes the lens through which you see everything. The moment you're willing to ask maybe, the whole thing can shift. And that shift is the miracle.
Paragraph 2 is where it gets radical: "Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind." That's it. Change the source of the thought, and you free the past, the future, and the world along with it.
Paragraph 3 read in first person stopped everyone: "I have enslaved the world with all my fears, my doubts and miseries, my pain and tears... and keep the world a prisoner to my beliefs." Reading it as I instead of you — that's where it lands. 🔑
And this from Jed McKenna, which fits perfectly: I mastered the world when I let go of all control, and then I realized I had all control.
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Christina came to class carrying the inner teenager — exhausted from graveyard shifts, feeling overwhelmed by the longer lessons. And then she shifted on her own, right there: take what I can and leave the rest. Half is better than none. The lessons aren't going anywhere. That's not quitting. That's wisdom. And she's applying the work at Walmart in real time — no more "I told you so," no more needing the gold star. Just helping people and moving on. Unconditional. 💫
Kristine shared that people have been coming to her with their anger and hatred for months and she's been resisting it. The teaching: what you resist, persists. Nothing outside you is not also inside you. There's no why — just a pointer. And she put it better than anyone: anytime your thoughts are running crazy, if you just shut up and concentrate on your breath, everything is wonderful in the now. That's the whole lesson in one sentence. 🌸
Karylle watched Cristiano Ronaldo score twice at the World Cup and saw something she hadn't seen before — the pure love of the game, the cockiness gone, just a 40-year-old man playing because he loves it. Ten years of I hate that guy softened in one afternoon. She didn't decide to forgive him. She just saw something real in the present moment, and the past loosened its grip. That's Lesson 132 walking around on a soccer field. ❤️
Tempa connected the lesson to her own life — how college cracked open her first beliefs, how the course cracked them open further, and how she's finally at a place where she can step back from a difficult moment and say: that's probably not about me. Years of work. One sentence. That's the corkscrew moving. 🌿
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 A miracle is a change in perception. Just one. Just a little shift. That's enough.
🔹 It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing outside your mind can hurt you. Sit with that.
🔹 Read Lesson 132 in the first person. Feel the difference.
🔹 You've been initiated. Lessons 134–139 are intense and beautiful. Keep going.
🔹 Loose the world. Let your beliefs run free. See what's actually there.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 21: Lessons 134–140 + Review Four June 30, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
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🔑 What We Worked On
Lessons 134–140 are some of the most intense of the year. Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. If I defend myself, I am attacked. Sickness is a defense against the truth. When I am healed I am not healed alone. Heaven is a decision I must make. I will accept the atonement for myself. Only salvation can be said to cure.
The thread: everything comes back to trust. The bottom line of everything in this course — and in life — is the development of trust. When you stop planning, defending, and resisting, you find out that everything was already fine behind the scenes. That's the teaching. 🗝️
💡 Lesson 134 — Let Me Perceive Forgiveness As It Is
Forgiveness and pardon are not the same thing. Pardoning says: I know you did something wrong, but I'll love you anyway. That's not forgiveness. That's conditional love dressed up as spiritual generosity.
True forgiveness says: there is nothing wrong. Ever. It's not about pretending something didn't happen — it's about accepting it without needing it to be different. And as paragraph 12 puts it so beautifully:
"He does not have to fight to save himself. He does not have to kill the dragons which he thought pursued him... His step is light, and as he lifts his foot to stride ahead, a star is left behind to point the way to those who follow him."
That's what we're doing here. Every time we return to love, every time we have a revelation, we leave a star behind for whoever comes next. 🌟
💡 Lesson 135 — If I Defend Myself I Am Attacked
The healed mind does not plan. It carries out plans it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own.
And this — the line that says everything: "Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal."
That's the whole teaching. You are your own worst enemy, and you're not trusting that it's all already happening. The ego plans to protect itself, but every defense you raise makes the threat more real. What you resist, persists. What you defend against, attacks.
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. What a relief it is. 😄
💡 Lesson 136 — Sickness Is a Defense Against the Truth
This is the one people want to throw the book at. And that's okay — it means it's working.
The short version: if you think you are a body, you're operating from the dot. Sickness only happens in the mind. Not because sick people did something wrong — guilt is exactly what this lesson is not about. But because your perception of what's happening shapes everything about how you move through it.
The people who get a life-threatening diagnosis and say okay, this is what's happening tend to live longer than the ones who say I'm finished. That's not a coincidence. Who but yourself evaluates a threat, decides escape is necessary, and sets up defenses to reduce what has been judged as real?
You are not your MS. You are not your cancer. You are not your depression. There is depression happening. There is illness happening. But I am not my illness — and that distinction is everything. 🌿
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Christina showed up tired from graveyard shifts, body sore, mind scattered — and instead of fighting it, she said: if my mind is doing its thing, let it go. If my body's sore, let it be sore. I'm not the body, I'm not the mind. That's true forgiveness in action. Allowing everything to be what it is. And then she read paragraph 10 of Lesson 134 and said: I didn't even think this kind of life was possible. That's the work working. 💫
Kristine noticed that for months people have been coming to her with their anger and resentments, dumping it all at her feet. The teaching: what you resist, persists. There is no why — just a pointer and a direction. And she named it perfectly: anytime your thoughts are running crazy, if you just shut up and breathe, everything is wonderful in the now. 🌸
Tempa opened the session weeping after hearing The Shores of Avalon — and said something quietly profound: sometimes I get tired of being brave. That landed for everyone. Bravery takes energy, and when it's done, there's a relief. The Course isn't asking you to be endlessly brave. It's asking you to trust that the shore is already there. 🌊
Karylle is holding a lot right now — Emma back in the hospital, Julian and Sophia to care for, the IHSS system to navigate. And she landed on the most important line of the whole session: behind the scenes, everything is fine. That's the truth. Everything else is what's going on. The truth is fine. ❤️
Tempa shared the story of adopting Abby — how the Guatemala adoption fell through, how devastating it was, how it turned out to be exactly right because they got a newborn instead. Her plans failed. God laughed. And Abby came. That's Lesson 135 lived out over decades. 🌿
We're sending love to Amy, who was out this week. Come back soon! 💛
📌 Coming Next Week — Lesson 139
Next Tuesday, July 7th, we're going deep on Lesson 139: I Will Accept the Atonement for Myself.
This is one of the most important lessons in the entire course. Please read it before we meet. We'll also touch on 138 — Heaven Is a Decision I Must Make — which is one of the most purely nondual lessons he wrote.
Everything's all right. Yes, everything's fine. 🎶
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Forgiveness is not pardon. Pardon says something was wrong and you're overlooking it. Forgiveness says there is nothing wrong.
🔹 The healed mind does not plan. It listens and carries out what it receives.
🔹 You are not your illness, your depression, your anger. There is something happening. You are not it.
🔹 Behind the scenes, everything is fine. That's the truth. Everything else is what's going on.
🔹 Read the Review Four introduction. Do your lessons. They're short — let them do their work.
🔹 Read Lesson 139 before next Tuesday. We're going deep on it.
Lessons 134–140 are some of the most intense of the year. Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. If I defend myself, I am attacked. Sickness is a defense against the truth. When I am healed I am not healed alone. Heaven is a decision I must make. I will accept the atonement for myself. Only salvation can be said to cure.
The thread: everything comes back to trust. The bottom line of everything in this course — and in life — is the development of trust. When you stop planning, defending, and resisting, you find out that everything was already fine behind the scenes. That's the teaching. 🗝️
💡 Lesson 134 — Let Me Perceive Forgiveness As It Is
Forgiveness and pardon are not the same thing. Pardoning says: I know you did something wrong, but I'll love you anyway. That's not forgiveness. That's conditional love dressed up as spiritual generosity.
True forgiveness says: there is nothing wrong. Ever. It's not about pretending something didn't happen — it's about accepting it without needing it to be different. And as paragraph 12 puts it so beautifully:
"He does not have to fight to save himself. He does not have to kill the dragons which he thought pursued him... His step is light, and as he lifts his foot to stride ahead, a star is left behind to point the way to those who follow him."
That's what we're doing here. Every time we return to love, every time we have a revelation, we leave a star behind for whoever comes next. 🌟
💡 Lesson 135 — If I Defend Myself I Am Attacked
The healed mind does not plan. It carries out plans it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own.
And this — the line that says everything: "Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal."
That's the whole teaching. You are your own worst enemy, and you're not trusting that it's all already happening. The ego plans to protect itself, but every defense you raise makes the threat more real. What you resist, persists. What you defend against, attacks.
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. What a relief it is. 😄
💡 Lesson 136 — Sickness Is a Defense Against the Truth
This is the one people want to throw the book at. And that's okay — it means it's working.
The short version: if you think you are a body, you're operating from the dot. Sickness only happens in the mind. Not because sick people did something wrong — guilt is exactly what this lesson is not about. But because your perception of what's happening shapes everything about how you move through it.
The people who get a life-threatening diagnosis and say okay, this is what's happening tend to live longer than the ones who say I'm finished. That's not a coincidence. Who but yourself evaluates a threat, decides escape is necessary, and sets up defenses to reduce what has been judged as real?
You are not your MS. You are not your cancer. You are not your depression. There is depression happening. There is illness happening. But I am not my illness — and that distinction is everything. 🌿
✨ Moments That Stood Out
Christina showed up tired from graveyard shifts, body sore, mind scattered — and instead of fighting it, she said: if my mind is doing its thing, let it go. If my body's sore, let it be sore. I'm not the body, I'm not the mind. That's true forgiveness in action. Allowing everything to be what it is. And then she read paragraph 10 of Lesson 134 and said: I didn't even think this kind of life was possible. That's the work working. 💫
Kristine noticed that for months people have been coming to her with their anger and resentments, dumping it all at her feet. The teaching: what you resist, persists. There is no why — just a pointer and a direction. And she named it perfectly: anytime your thoughts are running crazy, if you just shut up and breathe, everything is wonderful in the now. 🌸
Tempa opened the session weeping after hearing The Shores of Avalon — and said something quietly profound: sometimes I get tired of being brave. That landed for everyone. Bravery takes energy, and when it's done, there's a relief. The Course isn't asking you to be endlessly brave. It's asking you to trust that the shore is already there. 🌊
Karylle is holding a lot right now — Emma back in the hospital, Julian and Sophia to care for, the IHSS system to navigate. And she landed on the most important line of the whole session: behind the scenes, everything is fine. That's the truth. Everything else is what's going on. The truth is fine. ❤️
Tempa shared the story of adopting Abby — how the Guatemala adoption fell through, how devastating it was, how it turned out to be exactly right because they got a newborn instead. Her plans failed. God laughed. And Abby came. That's Lesson 135 lived out over decades. 🌿
We're sending love to Amy, who was out this week. Come back soon! 💛
📌 Coming Next Week — Lesson 139
Next Tuesday, July 7th, we're going deep on Lesson 139: I Will Accept the Atonement for Myself.
This is one of the most important lessons in the entire course. Please read it before we meet. We'll also touch on 138 — Heaven Is a Decision I Must Make — which is one of the most purely nondual lessons he wrote.
Everything's all right. Yes, everything's fine. 🎶
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 Forgiveness is not pardon. Pardon says something was wrong and you're overlooking it. Forgiveness says there is nothing wrong.
🔹 The healed mind does not plan. It listens and carries out what it receives.
🔹 You are not your illness, your depression, your anger. There is something happening. You are not it.
🔹 Behind the scenes, everything is fine. That's the truth. Everything else is what's going on.
🔹 Read the Review Four introduction. Do your lessons. They're short — let them do their work.
🔹 Read Lesson 139 before next Tuesday. We're going deep on it.
🌟 Awakened Living — Session 22: Lesson 139 Deep Dive July 7, 2026
🎙️ Recording available — link above.
🔑 What We Worked On
Lesson 139 — I Will Accept the Atonement for Myself — is the Course making its most direct claim: stop looking. Stop searching. Stop doubting. The atonement isn't something you earn or achieve. It's already here. The only reason you need it is because you keep denying what you already are.
"Atonement remedies the strange idea that it is possible to doubt yourself and be unsure of what you really are. This is the depth of madness."
That's it. The depth of madness is not knowing what you are. And the tragedy is that most characters spend their whole lives running from the very thing that's already true about them. As the temple of Apollo in ancient Greece said two words above its entrance: Know thyself. 🌀
💡 The Doubter and the Denied
Paragraph 4 names the mechanism clearly: "He merely states that he is not himself, and therefore, being something else, becomes a questioner of what that something is."
What do people do their whole lives? They search for their purpose. They try to find meaning. They run from one thing to the next. And underneath all of it is a simple unwillingness to be the thing they already are. The ego always operates from fear, from the past, from worst-case projections. That's the only problem. And it's not even real.
The opposite of allowing is doubt. You're not allowing the truth of what you are to flow — you're like, maybe I'm not good enough, maybe I should be different, maybe I need to find the answer. There is no answer. There's no there there. There is no secret. There is nothing to find. 🗝️
💡 To Be Alive and Not Know Yourself
"To be alive and not know yourself is to believe that you are really dead."
Zombies. Walking around, running their stories, completely convinced that the story is the truth. That's most of the world. Not because they're bad or wrong — but because they were never taught another way.
Some people read all the books, try everything, explore every modality — and still don't really want to know. Because knowing means the story goes. And they'd rather have the story. Don't take my victimhood away from me. That's real. And it's something to notice in yourself gently, not with guilt. 🌿
✨ Where Everyone Is — Six Months In
We did a beautiful check-in this session, and it's worth noting where this group is.
Christina has peace in her life now. Real peace. She said it simply and it landed for everyone. She's running on very little sleep, working graveyard, and she showed up anyway — and the lesson she's living at work is quietly extraordinary. She helped two coworkers who'd argued find their way back, didn't say I told you so, didn't need the gold star. Just loved them and moved on. That's unconditional. 💫
Kristine got triggered on a Facebook post about dogs and went in hard — then caught herself mid-argument going: wait, am I not doing the exact same thing I'm accusing her of? She deleted it. She caught the three fingers pointing back. That's the work. Not perfection — catching it. And she offered something quietly profound in the lesson reading: I will perceive forgiveness, colon — as it is. Just as it is, is forgiveness. 🌸
Karylle does the lesson first thing every morning now. It's on her phone, it's always there. When chaos hits, she opens the book and takes a breath. Every time she reads a lesson she gets something different out of it. That's the marination doing its work. ❤️
Tempa is carrying grief — her cousin passed this week — and she's been off kilter. She showed up anyway. And she said something that everyone who's been on this path for a while knows to be true: a few years ago I was afraid to find out what I really was. I was afraid they'd find out I was awful, or dumb, or not enough. The course cracked that open. And now she can catch herself going down a rabbit hole and just — stop. That's everything. 🌿
We're missing Amy — she's taking a break from the Friday class and hasn't been feeling well. Sending lots of love. 💙
💡 Trust Yourself
The kids in the cafeteria experiment in the 1960s — given complete freedom to eat whatever they wanted — spent the first week eating nothing but cake and candy. By the end of the month, they'd naturally settled into a balanced diet. No one told them to. Their own intelligence took over once the rules were gone.
That's what accepting the atonement means in practice. Trust yourself. Follow what brings you joy right now. The next thing will show itself. You don't have to force, manipulate, or manufacture the feeling. Your natural instinct isn't to eat cake forever. And your natural state isn't suffering. Trust that. 🌱
✅ Take Into the Week
🔹 You are yourself. That's it. Period. Full stop. Stop trying to be something else.
🔹 Uncertainty about what you really are is self-deception on a vast scale. You already know.
🔹 There's no answer, no secret, no there there. The atonement is already here.
🔹 Trust yourself. Follow what brings you joy. Your natural intelligence will find its balance.
🔹 I love me and there's nothing you can do about it. Write that down.
🔹 Lesson 153 is coming — In My Defenselessness My Safety Lies. One of the biggest. Let it find you.