A lesson in wholeness and gratitude from A Course in Miracles
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The grasses they are speaking The holy world is wide Communicating with you Your own dear breadth of mind
The universe is watching And loving all you do The spirit’s soul, perfection, whole Is loving only you
Every breath you follow To your sacred unity Extends from deep within you And blesses all you see
In every footstep you’re renewed Releasing all to Him Who’s heart, its rhythmic beating song Gathers you deep within
“All things that live bring gifts to you, and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet. The scent of flowers is their gift to you. The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their arms to shield you from the heat, and lay their leaves before you on the ground that you may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper round your holy head.”
A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 156 — I Walk with God in Perfect Holiness
“Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.”
A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 326 — I Am Forever an Effect of God
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Dear John By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on For so long Dear John
Dear John By which I mean the fear that has been so strong In my mind So long
Dear John By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on For so long So long
Dear John By which I mean the body I’ve been speaking from The idea in my mind that kept my fear strong So strong So long
Dear John By which I mean the planet I’ve been living on The beings I’ve shared ideas of identity through physicality With for so long So long
If you look at me quantumly you’ll see I’m gone Was never here I’m gone
The love we’ve shared in truth is all that’s still strong Ideas of physicality are long gone Long gone Dear John
And I’ve come here to share a new idea so strong in me It’s so strong To tell you if you’re fearful or you’re lonely That it won’t be long
I’ve come to share my certainty that truth is all that’s left of me That I was wrong I’ve come to share my certainty that we were only ever free To love and loose the bounds of time From all that we had thought we’d seen Dear John, dear John
And now we dance forever to the songs we wrote together in eternity We’re free, dear John Dear John, we’re free Dear John
Dear John If you look through the eyes that can see quantumly You’ll see, we’re gone With love, Dear John
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I willingly slip into the waters that run Deep within the self that I’ve begun to get to know Deep within the self I choose to be As I learn to let go of the dreaming of duality
And this time I let myself fall Welcome the comfort of the arms that aid my understanding You are my canvas covered walls You are the structure that gives shelter where I’m standing And each time you call I’ll be there in leaps and bounds will fly across the heather For our laughter says it all The love that I’ve found here rips apart my twisted tether and I’m free
I’m free
I willingly slip into the riches that hide Deep within this force of light, the power of my mind Deep within the self that I am shown As I raise my eyes and take this power as my own
From this time I decide to be Everything that I’ve discovered in the light of love’s direction Now I accept that I am free And I believe all that I see within the light of love’s reflection Each time you need me I’ll be here in love with every joy and every sorrow For I have faith in the love I breathe And I offer it up anytime for you to borrow for it’s free
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A silent smile within the heart A grace that lets the waters start to run An opening upon my brow And my body is alive again With the pulsing energy of your release
A gentle opening within, The centre breaking open To admit an aurora of heavenly sensations
Light fills my body Drenching my heart, my throat, my bodily mind Deposing my form and loosening binds to all that I believed myself attached to Just one instant before
Vibrations become me My whole experience My whole identity Relieved from the suffering of separate responses And separate forms
Breathe in gratitude Breath becomes light Energy dethroning form Visceral, thick, flowing through extremities Expanding their walls Searing within Revealing depths of unhidden space
I can meet you here I can invite you deep into this circumstance Deep into this sphere of relief, of releasing mind I can see you, vivid and alive, shining within the greater mind that we share Shining upon me, in all the glory misinterpreted through separate mind As distinct from what I am
It is in our shared mind, The mind that encompasses the whole, That is the whole The mind that, in singularity, is my mind This is where I find you This is where I receive you And this is where I adore you, Forever, in this timeless instant of eternal communication In my desire to be free
That perfect moment in the depths of the full moon when you realise that everything is alive
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Times when the veil is thin And all of life breaks open within The light in the sky is a thunderous din As she wakes me from slumber to welcome her in
All is wild and alive The attributes of an opening mind The raining of stars in a heart that’s revived From deep tender longing to finally arrive
Solid, beating, tranquil, true Right in the centre that forms the root From which the highest certainty rules Directing the mind that inherently values
Her pulsing, gentle, articulate beat The accompanying tide at her moonlit feet That gives and receives through her rhythmic, sweet Impossibly powerful, full, mystique
The heart of heaven is felt within Her rising, beautiful, star-filled brim Expanding as the enchanted sing The angels’ chorus, enlightened, begins
I wake and feel the thinning veil Rent and ripped in tatters and tails Spinning useless upon the gales Of an open mind, released from its trails
I wake and feel the parted seams Releasing me to beyond my dreams As the wildest gentlest shining gleams Reflect within my heart as it beams
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All I can tell you is that I’ve tried To quell this energy, to stem this tide I’ve spent a lifetime alone with these words Wondering if they’ll be written or heard
All I can tell you, all that I know Is that these shoots have been dying to grow And now their trouble is quelled and dismayed Shelved and uprooted, dismissed and betrayed
All I can tell you, all that I see Now I’m allowing this water to bleed Stream through the cracks of my travestied crimes Soulful expressions of opening mind
All I can tell you is that I’m free From my desires and grave inconsistencies All that I’ve misunderstood and denied Previous decisions, washed out with the tide
All I can tell you, all that I know Is that the seeds have already been sown There’s no returning, there’s no going on To a life I have lived many times and is done
All I am learning now, through this dismay Is that the form of things is my delay All I’ve discovered is all that I need A space beyond time that is welcoming me
All that is opening, all I can tell Is that this newness will counter the spell Of the becoming that I tried to be In the dark depths of illusory dreams
All I can tell you about where I’ve gone In the deep spaces, discovering my songs Is the magnificence, far beyond words Finding the phrases that want to be heard
All I can tell you is that I’ve tried To quell the certainty swelling inside But I have failed, it has risen right through Every expression of wholehearted truth
With my decision to be who I am All that I wanted before is closed down All that I wanted and all that I’ll be Is right here right now in this instant with me
Holly Rose Thomas 