At a recent art exhibit opening, a star of the HBO series, The Sopranos, was present as he is a fervent admirer of the artist whose work was on display and an owner of several of the pieces. Such fun to watch his passion and appreciation for this wonderful artist’s work (Francesco de Mura). So - a great reminder to assess your own passion level and move toward full-out loving and expressing in all areas of life. And a thought to keep close in your heart: Our Creator passionately loves “showing u...
Oct 09, 2016•9 min
Well, whoever would have guessed that the lowly pressure washer could teach us a lesson. Just as a layer of mildew grows on driveways and other surfaces in humid climates, a layer of fear, confusion, and distress grows over our eternal peace of mind that is always, already present in our lives. Neither driveway nor happiness is disturbed by these temporary surface coverings. Happily - that pressure washer removes mildew instantly/completely and releasing our grievances leads to happiness and saf...
Aug 26, 2016•10 min
Once again, we can delight in the fact that thousands of years of profound metaphysical teaching and more recent discoveries in quantum physics have joined hands. So it’s time to reeducate ourselves, to realize everything we experience originates in the mind. No small task!! To move in the direction of experiencing the perennial truth of Oneness, we are instructed to think of everything from the inclusive standpoint of “we,” rather than the exclusive ego position of “I.” “We” vibrates at a highe...
Jul 31, 2016•10 min
Many creatures physically back up or run away when threatened, and at least psychologically, we have been conditioned to do the same. The conventional wisdom is to avoid, close down, contract, hate, object to, or resist the threatening element. This ALWAYS makes things worse in the long run. No matter how difficult or distressing a situation, it will ALWAYS change for the better if we open up to it, expand, accept and love all that is involved. 100% of the time! Any time we choose, we can start ...
Jul 13, 2016•10 min
July 4, 1988 was Bill Thetford’s (co-scribe of A Course In Miracles) Independence Day from this world. Bill steadily applied the universal principles set forth in the Course, and by the end of his life, had successfully released all his grievances and experienced joy beyond description! And he has led the way for all of us. So today we renew our commitment to ourselves, know the path he took is within our reach, steadily untangle ourselves from our own egos, and follow in his footsteps toward re...
Jul 05, 2016•11 min
My first real job out of college required more than I thought it was possible to deliver, but when you make a commitment, resources show up, you take one day at a time, and quite miraculously, it all works out and feels great. And since that position involved working with teenagers, it cemented my love affair with them that lasts until this day. So here’s to celebrating and encouraging the teenager in all of us - willing to explore how life works, open to learning and seeing what’s around the co...
Jun 12, 2016•10 min
From the perspective of numerology, 33 is the most influential of master numbers and represents “offering guidance to the world.” So what is that guidance for our modern world? One of the most critically important points for all of us to understand - our world reflects our attitude, thoughts, beliefs, and unexamined ideas. Although the world seems huge, objective and powerful, it really is our mindset looking back at us - exact to the last detail, and we’re the ones with the power! What could be...
May 29, 2016•10 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Our outer lives are mirrors of our inner attitudes. Notice the characteristics of the image in a mirror - it looks back at us but does not initiate. It takes no time nor effort on our part to appear when we stand in front of it, or change in response to our prayers or demands. In the same way, our world appears in effortless response to what we believe, request, and pay attention ...
May 08, 2016•10 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook We’ve been told from many sources that we can re-create our past history because our past actually no longer exists. Any moment is literally a new beginning. That means we can “remember” a past with only kind and supportive people being present for us. No villains or enemies. Notice how suspicious and unwilling the ego mind is to recreate a past without pain and difficulty. Ask yo...
Apr 22, 2016•12 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Children love coloring on a new clean piece of paper. They finish one drawing and are happy then to move on with a new different sheet. We can learn from them. Each day is literally a new clean unblemished canvas for drawing the life of your choosing. We can be as excited as children in creating a new happier experience with no requirement to bring yesterday’s pictures along. They...
Apr 10, 2016•11 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Happy Easter! And how can we not talk about resurrection, as that’s the central topic of this day. But here, it’s about our own coming back to life. So this is for everyone, not just those who subscribe to a certain religion. We deaden ourselves when we close down and want to live the ego-driven, separated, “It’s all about me” life. We’ve been duped into believing this brings safe...
Mar 27, 2016•10 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Beautifully trained musicians and other performers can teach us something as they let life flow through their talent and not be impeded by it. We can also use our special talents, not in service to the ego, but to extend the joyful qualities of life to others, thereby strengthening those same qualities in ourselves. A major law of life is that what we give or offer to others is in...
Mar 13, 2016•8 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook We all want to feel safe and loved, and for a great many people, nothing is as reassuring as a beautiful dog looking at you intently and lovingly, conveying “I’m here; you’re safe!” Dogs do not judge or withhold their affection and attention based on our behavior. They see beyond mere form and we are invited to follow their lead as they demonstrate unconditional acceptance, provid...
Feb 21, 2016•9 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook We’re off back through time for a quick trip to Thebes, Egypt to be reminded of the fact that there is one unified Source of all that is. What’s more, in his life-changing spiritual revelation, Amenhotep IV, who later changed his name to Akhenaten in honor of this one Source - Aten - experienced this Source as light. And here today, in A Course In Miracles (and other spiritual tex...
Feb 14, 2016•9 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Who doesn’t love a day at a spa - feeling relaxed, comforted, and without a care in the world! That can be our default way of living once we’re willing to clear out old ideas that do not serve and that keep us afraid and stuck. A good place to begin is with our presumptions about cause and effect. What we experience at any given moment has its cause in that moment, not in the past...
Jan 30, 2016•8 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Thirty years ago this weekend a group of 85 American "citizen diplomats" entered the Soviet Union and the adventure of a lifetime. One of many highlights was experiencing " reverence" first hand at a Russian Orthodox seminary, powerfully reminding us that choosing to revere all things is our highest and most rewarding calling. See How Life Works takes you by the hand and encourage...
Jan 16, 2016•13 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook At the beginning of each new year, diets loom large - no pun intended - on many people's minds. In addition, this year calls for a new "believing/thinking" diet. The #1 internet search on January 1 was "how to reduce stress." You've come to the right place because our videos are designed to do just that - and lots more! So enjoy your newly baked kale chips with a healthy dose of S...
Jan 09, 2016•13 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook We’re all advised to clean out and make a new start this time of year, but committing to WAKE up would be even more amazing! Even in the dreaming or hallucinating state we’re in, according to all teachings of non-duality, there is much we can do to advance toward a more delightful, peaceful, and abundant “happy dream.” Please join with us in this new year as we re-commit to practi...
Jan 02, 2016•13 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook When we were young and the facts of the world presenting themselves, we associated ideas in ways that were false. For instance, we might have believed all cats were “girls” and all dogs were “boys” because we didn’t know any better. Those misconnected dots we easily discarded as we matured. However, we also connected dots back then about ourselves, our worth, and basic nature that...
Dec 19, 2015•8 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Life is constantly presenting us with reminders of our loveliness and purity when that’s what we choose to notice. In this case, the presentation was at the top of Vail pass in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Come along on a winter camping trip to remember once again our purity and innocence, veiled from us (no pun intended) by our fear. Each new moment is as pristine as the new-...
Dec 04, 2015•10 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook For thousands of years, the seers, mystics, and poets among us have passed on their revelatory experiences of seeing the world only as light. They ALL agree that our seeming travails witness only to the darkness that represents lack of awareness in our own minds and not to the ultimate truth. Enjoy the words of the Danish philosopher and author, Martinus, as he beautifully restate...
Dec 02, 2015•12 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Find out why the Pentagon’s budget can never be balanced and why we, when we operate as little individual “departments of defense” aren’t balanced either. But we can, and must, eventually choose peace over conflict and union over separation - the only sane choice. Of all the things for which we can be thankful, chief among them should be our ever-present option to change our minds...
Nov 22, 2015•9 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Many people are wandering the planet in exile looking for a home and such has been the case since ancient times. We internally feel in exile also, moving through the circumstances of our lives trying endlessly to find the comfort and belonging of Home. Today, see how we have never actually wandered away nor been banished, but have only narrowed our focus to “It’s all about me!” A ...
Nov 14, 2015•11 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Learning comes in surprising ways and places. In this particular case, the unlikely country of Romania was our “classroom.” After attending a retreat workshop on healing relationships, our wild ride - and it was VERY wild - through the countryside began. Please join us on our whirlwind adventure where we experienced in no uncertain terms that with the right attitude, you can sail ...
Oct 27, 2015•14 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Pretend you don’t have any power. Then take from someone else in order to have. This creates upset since it’s contrary to our basic nature that only wants to give. Then decide that they, not you, are responsible for the upset, they must want to harm you, and now they have become the enemy. The more enemies we have, the more powerless we feel, and the more desperately and insanely ...
Oct 25, 2015•11 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Joy is our birthright, an attribute of our very being, and - most important - always present. Our lack of experience with joy does not denote it’s absence, but our focus elsewhere, our preoccupation with ego demands. Young children, before layers of programming and conditioning, are naturally joyful. In this way, they are our teachers and remind us of what’s possible. Adults are b...
Oct 14, 2015•13 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Sometimes circumstances arrive as challenges for our growing and stretching and sometimes they come as recognizable gifts, proving that we determine our experience by operating out of love or fear, being open or closed, choosing peace or upset. And our choice is contagious. Most communication with others is on an energy level, rather than through verbal or physical means. And so i...
Oct 01, 2015•11 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook One of life’s most important lessons is discovering that opportunities, information, and support arrive once you commit to following your guidance, and usually not before. Commitment unlocks the door to moving forward. The occasion of teaching my first A Course In Miracles class afforded this and other valuable and unforgettable lessons in seeing how life works - what happens when...
Sep 26, 2015•18 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook We can partner with anything, any situation, or anyone in growing, learning our lessons, and changing our minds. And we need not go beyond our own back yards for that perfect opportunity. My “partner in salvation” was a big snake and he/she taught me a great deal. And the lesson to be learned, over and over, is not to judge, condemn, or hurt anything as we do so at our own peril. ...
Sep 12, 2015•10 min
Get your Free copy of “The Best Guide Ever to A Course in Miracles” by Carol Howe, https://www.carolhowe.com/p/ebook Those who are to meet, will meet - and always for mutual healing. And all things become a rich adventure when that idea becomes deeply anchored. Come along on a trip to Washington, DC for an unexpected and wonderful experiment in following your guidance - strange though it may be, the help that always shows up when you do, and the life-changing experience of treating one’s self an...
Sep 05, 2015•11 min
