When you choose to study something in depth you sometimes have to look where you’ve never looked before. I feel I can’t really ignore things I am learning even though some actually shake me up a bit.
A Course In Miracles is a truly fascinating and very deep learning experience. Despite what you may know about it, it is very less religious than it is a book all about psychology, human nature, and mind training.
The end of the text contains a deep discourse about “the self” and how and why we all have made up the image that we label our “self.” The course, of course, reminds us over and over that nothing here in this world is real. That bold and startling bit of information also applies to our “selves.”
It goes on to detail how everybody here projects a “face of innocence” that is subjected to hundreds of little insults and attacks every day, to the point that this innocent “self” then points an accusing finger at the world saying in essence “I am what you made of me.” From the chapter titled “Self Concept vs Self:”
“Here is the central lesson that ensures your brother is condemned eternally. For what you are has now become his sin. (You blame him -H) For this is no forgiveness possible. No longer does it matter what he does, for your accusing finger points to him, unwavering and deadly in its aim. It points to you as well, but this is kept still deeper in the mists below the face of innocence.”
The Course, simply put, teaches that since the world is not real, all we need to do is forgive everyone for what none of us has done. The more I try to incorporate that into my daily routine, the better my business and my day goes. But when I am smiling I can’t help but think about what the course is saying about the “self” I project for the rest of the world to see, and whether there may be more than meets the eye to all of us.
The Face Of Innocence – Is That You?
