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A COURSE of LOVE the COMPLETE COURSE the INTERSECTION When you remove yourself from the self-held position of "meaning giver," you let things be what they are and, allowed to be what they are, their meaning is naturally revealed. What this takes is a pass-through approach and a relinquishment of the idea of bringing things to a stop where they can be examined under a microscope quite apart from their relationship to you or to anything else. 22.15Imagine yourself brought to such a halt and examined apart from everything else within your world. Anyone wanting to learn anything about you would be wiser to observe you as you are within your world. Would you still be the same person in a laboratory? Are you still who you are when another takes you into his or her mind and assigns meaning to you? 22.16You have made of yourself a laboratory where you bring everything for examination, categorization, testing, and filing away. This is the scenario that separates you from everything else within your world. Everything has meaning only according to what it means to you and not as what it is. 22.17Obviously two kinds of meaning are being talked about. The first we talked of earlier as the finding of truth. The second is what we are talking of here, the finding of a definition, a personal meaning. Can you see the difference? 22.18The personal and individual is the "I" we are dispelling. Think a moment of how you tell a story or report on events that have taken place within your life. You personalize. You are likely to report on what a certain set of circumstances meant "to you." This kind of thinking is thinking with the small "I." "I saw." "I felt." "I thought." "I did." The individual, personal, separated self is at the center of all such stories. One quite literally cannot conceive of the story without the "I." Yet this you must learn to do, and this task is given you as an exercise. 22.19Begin to imagine life passing through you rather than getting stopped for examination at its intersection with you. Begin to imagine seeing the world without the emphasis on your personal self. Begin to form sentences and eventually to tell stories without the use of the "I" pronoun. This will seem, at first, as if it is depersonalizing the world and making it less intimate. It will seem as if you are shirking some primal responsibility to assign meaning to everything. Rather than resisting this, strive to cease giving meaning. Start quite simply. Go from the broad to the specific. For example, when you walk out your door in the morning you might generally think, "What a lovely day." What this sentence says is that you have immediately taken in your surroundings and judged them. It is a lovely day "to you." The day has all or most of the requirements you find pleasing in a day. Replace such a thought with: "The grass is green. The birds are singing. The sun is warm." Simple reporting. 22.20When you are asked questions such as, "How was your day?" respond as much as possible without using the words I or my. Quit referring to people and things in terms of ownership, saying "my boss," "my husband," "my car." 22.21This removal of the personal "I" is but a first step to returning you to the consciousness of unity, a first step in going beyond meaning as definition to meaning as truth. As odd and impersonal as it will seem at first, I assure you the feeling of impersonality will be replaced quickly with an intimacy with your surroundings that you never felt before. 22.22This intimacy itself will allow you to see your "self" as an integral part of all that exists within your world rather than as the small and insignificant personal self you generally accept as your "self." By eliminating the personal, the universal becomes available. As the universal becomes available, you will have no desire for the personal. Even so, you will find that what you consider your individuality or uniqueness is very much intact, but that it is different than you have always imagined it to be. You will find that you fulfill a grand purpose, and have a wonderful part to play in a grand design. You will not feel cheated by losing your separated self. You will feel free. 22.23 http://acourseoflove.com/ - Main site http://www.cygnus-books.co.uk/features/course_love_perron.htm - excerpt http://tinyurl.com/6qaky - more The inner light can answer any of this world's queries and resolve any of its problems. Beyond all of these concerns, the inner light will show you who you are and your relationship to all...and bring you an understanding of love and peace that transcends ordinary human thought processes. Discover what it truly means to "love one another" and to "see peace."
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