"Thus revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said, that "its beauty is immense," man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh, and be less astonished at particular wonders; he will learn that there is no profane history; that all history is sacred, that the universe is represented in an atom, in a moment of time. He will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches, but he will live with a divine unity. He will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life and be content with all places and with any service he can render. He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart."

–Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Oversoul"

Here is the link to watch one of my favorite Master Teacher Videos called The Story of Compensation, featuring the illuminating essay "Compensation" by Ralph Waldo Emerson,  "The Ruins of the Heart" by Persian poet Rumi, and much more!  Click on the link above and scroll down to the bottom of the page to find it. 

"Our gratitude will pave the way to Him, and shorten our learning time by more than you could ever dream of. Gratitude goes hand in hand with love, and where one is the other must be found. For gratitude is but an aspect of the love which is the Source of all creation. God gives thanks to you, His Son, for being what you are; His Own completion and the Source of love, along with Him. Your gratitude to Him is one with His to you. For love can walk no road except the way of gratitude, and thus we go who walk the way to God."

-A Course in Miracles, Lesson 195 - Love is the Way I Walk in Gratitude

Here is the link to listen to an online class I did last month on Love. 
Click on the link below and scroll down a bit.  You can also check out some other amazing podcasts here including Eckhart Tolle on Oprah…enjoy! 

Love, Kristen
http://acourseinmiracles.podbean.com/

"The Soul’s apparent imprisonment becomes so suffocatingly unbearable that it - by the Master’s grace - literally tears itself free; and the feeling of exultation is as powerful as was its feeling of suffocation.

The experience of both imprisonment and release is of Illusion; but the experience of the final Freedom is of Reality. The emancipated Soul then experiences continuously and eternally its own infinite freedom. The world exists only as long as the Soul experiences bondage; when the Soul realizes itself as Reality the world vanishes - for it never was. And the Soul experiences itself as being Infinite & Eternal."

-Meher Baba
The Everything and the Nothing

You who have spent your lives in bringing truth to illusion, reality to fantasy, HAVE walked the way of dreams. For you have gone from waking to sleeping, and on and on to a yet deeper sleep. Each dream has led to other dreams, and every fantasy that SEEMED to bring a light into the darkness but made the darkness deeper. Your GOAL was darkness, in which no ray of light could enter. And you sought a blackness so complete that you could hide from truth forever, in complete insanity. What you forgot was simply that God CANNOT destroy Himself. The light is IN you. Darkness can COVER it, but CANNOT put it out.

Not one light in Heaven but goes with you. Not one ray that shines forever in the Mind of God but shines on you. Heaven is JOINED with you in your advance to Heaven. When such great light has joined with you, to give the little spark of your desire the power of God Himself, can YOU remain in darkness? You are coming home together, after a long and meaningless journey which you undertook apart, and which led nowhere. You have FOUND each other, and will light each other’s way. And from this light will the great rays extend back into darkness and forward unto God. To shine away the past, and so make room for His Eternal Presence, in which everything is radiant in the light.

-A Course in Miracles, Chapter 18 - The Passing of the Dream

“Father,You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love Itself. There is no Source but This, and nothing is that does not share Its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love Which holds all things within Itself. Father, Your Son is like Yourself. We come to You in Your own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.”

My brothers, join with me in this today. This is salvation’s prayer. Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us?

*Jesus - A Course in Miracles, Lesson 264

"The heavens are pure and clear without shadow of strain, out of space and out of time. Nothing corporeal is found there. Their revolutions are incredibly swift and independent of time, though time depends on them. Nothing hinders the soul so much in attaining to the knowledge of God as time and place. Therefore, if the soul is to know God, it must know Him outside time and place, since God is neither in this or that, but One and above them. If the soul is to see God, it must look at nothing in time; for while the soul is occupied with time or place or any image of the kind, it cannot recognize God. If it is to know Him, it must have no fellowship with nothingness. Only he knows God who recognizes that all creatures are nothingness.

I say moreover: If the soul is to know God it must forget itself and lose itself, for as long as it contemplates self, it cannot contemplate God. When it has lost itself and everything in God, it finds itself again in God when it attains to the knowledge of Him, and it finds also everything which it had abandoned complete in God."

–Meister Eckhart’s Sermons,
(14th Century Master and Professor)

Tonight  at 8:00pm (USA Central time) is the 4th week of Eckhart Tolle’s live, interactive class on Oprah’s online show on  www.oprah.com .  I highly recommend watching this live or downloading and watching later.  Also, both of his books are a must read!  Such a fresh, simple and true experience of awakening to God’s Presence.

This 10 week online class is such a perfect opening for A Course in Miracles and exposure of the great Awakening to millions of minds, still sleeping in the pain of the world.   This is a whole new continuum indeed!  The Light has come.  Heartfelt thanks to Oprah and Eckhart for helping to usher in the Light of the World for this present continuum of time/space.  

In this short clip below, Oprah talks about why she chose Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth as her Book Club selection. It’s great and only takes 4 minutes.

Click here to watch:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tv6Caz4YLw

This article is re-printed from our original Endeavor Academy "Out of Time Journal."  It is one of the most reasonable, eye-opening, ah-ha pieces ever written, in my mind.  Thanks to Master Mitch for his undeniably crystal clear expression!  It is indeed the truth that sets us free…This world is not left by death, but by Truth.

"In this world, there appears to be a state that is life’s opposite. You call it death.  It is the one sure thing an inhabitant of this world can count on. All of your apparent successes and failures, your loves, your hates, your losses, your gains, depend on this one inevitable fact. In a world of uncertainty and chaos, it is the one guarantee you have - the barometer for your life; the clock that ticks away in the back of your mind.

At this time, and all over this world, there is increasing documentation of encounters with death. Filling our bookstores and television programs are reports from hundreds of people, from all walks of life, describing virtually the same occurrence:A sense of being dead, of peace and painlessness, looking down upon yourself and traveling through a tunnel to a light so bright and beautiful.

"Freedom from the chains of the physical body, seeing your life flash before your eyes. A sense of oneness and complete understanding. Meeting loved ones that had passed away long ago. A feeling of being taken care of and loved simply as you are, without question or judgment. Finally, a reluctance to return from this light, from this experience of indescribable love."

Near-death? Beautiful light, love, oneness, understanding, peace and joy! Does this speak to you of death, the great unknown, the one thing feared by all humans? The one experience you spend your whole life warding off. The aim of all medical and scientific research, to extend the human existence as long as possible to avoid this moment. This moment of what? This moment when you experience "an entrance into a splendorous light-filled realm in which time and space no longer exist."

Only if life is considered to be sickness, pain and loneliness could death be described as something so incredible, so desirable. Perhaps life is not the condition in which you currently find yourself. Perhaps life is not a condition at all, and these delightful descriptions of "near- death" are moments of recognition of the reality of eternal life.

Is it not madness to think of life as being born, aging, losing vitality and dying in the end? At the moment of your supposed birth into this world, you are only dying. From day one you begin the process of getting old.

You thread your timid way through constant dangers, alone and frightened, hoping at most that death will wait a little longer before it overtakes you and you disappear.

Death, a moment you can approach but never reach, simply because it is impossible.

It is time for you to take a look at what you call life and what you call death and see that you have been completely mistaken about both. That the world in which you find yourself at this moment is what the idea of death is, and that life is real, beautiful, whole and eternal. That death is not the opposite of life but simply the denial of it, and these near-death experiences are moments when you release this idea of death and enter into the reality of your eternal life.

You can be assured that what you fear is not death, which is your own unreachable escape from yourself. What you fear is your own salvation! Life is what you fear! When the pressure of your self-identity gets too much for you, you collapse under the gravity of your own resistance. You find yourself soaring through a tunnel toward a beautiful light, warm and familiar, that calls you. So much like coming home, where you know you belong, only to return again to this chaotic world of loneliness and death.

Death, an instant of relief from the pain of self-identity. A momentary distraction from the unbearable guilt of self-construction. A moment that you keep reliving again and again and again. A single moment between which appears to you a lifetime. Sometimes you stretch it to seem as if it’s thirty years or one hundred years or just minutes. It does not matter, it is still only a single instant. A transient moment in which you stopped by to deny who you are.

Each day, and every minute of each day, and every instant that each minute holds, you but relive the single instant when the time of terror took the place of love. And so you die each day to live again, until you cross the gap between the past and present, which is not a gap at all. Such is each life; a seeming interval from birth to death and on to life again, a repetition of an instant gone by long ago that cannot be relived.
And all of time is but the mad belief that what is over is still here and now. "
-A Course in Miracles

-Master Mitch

With all my gratitude to Bastiaan for expressing the essence of my own mind and heart in this exquisite article.  Enjoy!  Happy Easter. He is risen…we are risen Indeed!!!

"The origins of the symphony can be traced back to the Baroque sinfonia. During the Baroque period, the sinfonia was used as an orchestral overture to an opera, oratorio, or cantata. After the symphony had broken out of its Baroque-shell, it became a whole art form within its own right. The symphony is an extensive possibility of conceptual expression within high light frequencies.

I want to invite you to discover with me the divine direction of these movements within one creative event. The first movement is the expression of the coming into space/time, the second movement the performance of being here, and the last movement orchestrated as the restoration of communication and act of ‘going home’. Now is the time of prophecy fulfilled. Now it is time to joyfully look at the final, glorious act of your inevitable homecoming.

The last movement in the Savior’s Symphony is inevitably the fulfillment of his part in salvation, the gathering of all parts in a singularly expressed desire to ascend to a new sphere of celestial order, in which you experience yourself as the Love in which you were created perfect by God. The Savior now is fulfilled. He has done his part to the outmost reaches of his capability. He assimilated all parts necessary to bring forward a symphony designed to leap out of all restrictions and being transposed to the recognition of the occurrence of his own resurrection. The Savior now comes to the humble insight that the “triumph” over death and separation didn’t come to him as a reward for single handedly and successfully having pieced everything together. Communication happens the moment of the actual transcendence of the inherent limitations of all separate parts of a system in their failure to remain within the illusion of being disengaged.

A single pillar of light now dawns upon center-stage creating a vortex of descending and ascending harmonies intensively drawing on the instrumentalists’ ability to remain present with the musical score assigned to them each individually. A force so much larger than the whole constellation now starts to instigate a shaft of light and irrevocably attract to itself all of the now activated matter in its proximity that no longer rightfully holds the free-willed privilege to ever return to its former denser ‘life’ form. A quasar-occurrence symphonically catalyzed now irreversibly starts to bend the whole continuum. An entire universe inexplicably comes to fruition like some wildflower. A whole intricate plateau of encapsulated phantom space/time existence transforms into an expansive surge of anti-matter. A solid and dense continuum starts to bend and curve rapidly revealing its perfect ability of becoming an exit-wormhole for a material universe that never existed.

The end of time and space as we ‘knew’ it becomes the inauguration of eternity through the infinite amplitude of one single moment in which every particle in its local universe participates in its highest possible excited state to make the evolutionarily destined and vertically directed quantum leap. Only to discover this unbelievable transformation is the one and only creative activity that takes place throughout the whole expanding universe. Where everything was boring before, now pure Love and excitement become the only possible option that you can enjoin with your mind. You can choose to recognize the quasar of your own departure right here and now!"

-By Bastiaan Berende

*For an immediate taste of music that is written beyond the stars…and will spark the pure Light experience of your own Awakening…visit:   http://www.miraclesmusic.com/

With All the Love in the Whole Universe!!! Kristen

My body disappeared because I had no illusion about it. The last one had gone. It was laid in the tomb, but there was nothing left to bury. It did not disintegrate because the unreal cannot die. It merely became what it always was. And that is what “rolling the stone away” means. The body disappears, and no longer hides what lies beyond. It merely ceases to interfere with vision. To roll the stone away is to see beyond the tomb, beyond death, and to understand the body’s nothingness. What is understood as nothing must disappear.

I did assume a human form with human attributes afterwards, to speak to those who were to prove the body’s worthlessness to the world. This has been much misunderstood. I came to tell them that death is illusion, and the mind that made the body can make another since form itself is an illusion. They did not understand. But now I talk to you and give you the same message. The death of an illusion means nothing. It disappears when you awaken and decide to dream no more. And you still do have the power to make this decision as I did.

God holds out His hand to His Son to help him rise and return to Him. I can help because the world is illusion, and I have overcome the world. Look past the tomb, the body, the illusion. Have faith in nothing but the spirit and the guidance God gives you. He could not have created the body because it is a limit. He must have created the spirit because it is immortal. Can those who are created like Him be limited? The body is the symbol of the world. Leave it behind. It cannot enter Heaven. But I can take you there any time that you choose. Together we can watch the world disappear and its symbol vanish as it does so. And then, and then — I cannot speak of that.

A body can not stay without illusion and the last one to be overcome is death. This is the message of the crucifixion; There is no order of difficulties in miracles. This is the message of the resurrection: Illusions are illusions. Truth is true. Illusions vanish. Only truth remains.

These lessons needed to be taught but once, for when the stone of death is rolled away, what can be seen but an empty tomb? And that is what you see who follow me into the sunlight and away from death, past all illusions, on to Heaven’s gate, where God will come Himself to take you home.

-Jesus Christ
From the Original Text
of A Course In Miracles
(Urtext)