Even as we carry on to review and practice the teachings of A Program in Miracles, we open ourselves to a greater connection with life. We start to see beyond the surface, recognizing the wonder and perfection in most things. This trip isn't without issues, but it's profoundly rewarding. It is a journey of awareness, wherever every stage provides people nearer to the reality of who we are.

One of the biggest strategies we try to keep is really a feeling of autonomy and pride. The concept or emotion that you are crucial in a few particular way, that you will be liked by a specific person, that someone is providing you specific interest, these are some of the ego's really delicate secrets. We want to cover our Divine Self and are playing each one of these foundation for the awakening mind games, which seem to be very upsetting. It is quite gloomy and it really does not get everywhere, so we try to obtain leftovers of unique love, attention and recognition to prop ourselves up.

We function so hard at getting “better people”, at getting higher intelligence and more skills. We wish to be liked more and be much more popular. The whole self-help market is focused on improving the self to help you develop into a greater you. That is yet another key we secretly enjoy on ourselves, thinking we've to keep rotating our wheels trying to become better. This self-improvement game is yet another key we are able to to learn to release of. It's very calming whenever you start to understand that you may not need to become much better than you presently are. You had been made perfect. It's not through self-improvement that you will find peace but through self-acceptance.

As I worked with A Course in Wonders, I possibly could note that there clearly was a concern with heavenly enjoy in my own mind. I noticed this is the ego's fear of losing itself. The ego is scared to be subjected and being seen as a smoke of nothingness. That is worries of intimacy. We discuss that concern in associations, which is sometimes projected as concern with sexual closeness, but it is really an anxiety about losing our individuality, our disguise of individuality. It's driving a car of having swept away with a fantastic enjoy, a love therefore strong that nothing of us will even envision something as glorious and strong!