A Course of Love,Used

A Course of Love is a living course that leads to the recognition, through experience, of the truth of who we really are as human and divine beings a truth much more magnificent than we previously could imagine. In the absence of knowing who we truly are, humans are doomed to continually recreate a world of suffering.The purpose of this Course is to establish your identity. . . . You become confused between the personal self and a true Self only because you have not as yet identified your true Self. Once you have identified your true Self all such confusion will end. (C:27.4, 5)ACOL can be quite challenging because it is a radical departure from ordinary experience. It can lead to wonderful revelations, but may also lead to an awareness of our habitual limitations, which can be a painful discovery. ACOL is a call to move into loves embrace, into union with the One. Central to ACOL is the direct knowing of Union, or God. Direct knowing of God follows from naturally from knowing who we really are as both human and divine. ACOL?Reveals a way of direct knowing through wholeheartedness, the union of mind and heart?Takes us beyond learning to present moment discovery?Brings an experience of the essential Oneness of all, through holy relationship with everything?Brings emotional freedom by integrating suppressed feelings?Readies humankind to be the second coming of Christ and to create a new worldThough it stands by itself, ACOL is complementary to A Course in Miracles. It was received by Mari Perron over three years. Like ACIM, ACOL presents itself in the Voice of Jesus. Many students of ACIM recognize the Voice.ACOL is often experienced as more of a transmission than a text. It keeps on revealing more, even to those who have read it numerous times before. Many readers find it to be truly alive.Despite its name as a course of love, ACOL does not teach love. Love cannot be taught but only recognized. ACOL leads to the rediscovery our shared heartbeat, a union with One and a relationship with All.And despite its name as a course, it does not call for effort but for awareness. While you continue to put effort into learning what cannot be learned, as you continue to see yourself as a student seeking to acquire what you do not yet have, you cannot recognize the unity in which you exist. (C:20.9)ACOL invites the reader to recover a memory that your heart has never lost. The goal is beyond learning, or awareness through a receptive heart. The goal is direct knowing through realizing ones true identity.ACOL is for people of diverse spiritual backgrounds, including those unfamiliar with A Course in Miracles. However, ACOL says there is a close relationship between the two Courses:A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love work handinhand because the change of thinking taught within A Course in Miracles was a change of thinking about yourself. It attempted to dislodge the egomind that has provided you with an identity that you but think you are. A Course of Love then followed in order to reveal to you who you truly are. (T2:4.3)