“I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.” ~ WOODY ALLEN
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healing That Begins in the mind I call "mine”
I am "officially" a home-maker and writer. I normally enjoy washing the dishes to wash the dishes and playing w/ my children and my friends. For those of you who may be getting to know me right now I will share all the juicy details if you promise to keep them a secret... (Hmmm..lol ) ...SO my name is Renee' Groot. I was born and raised in New Mexico. I traveled a little while growing up and I've lived in a couple of places "in the States" and decided a couple years ago to return home to reconnect with friends and family. All in all this has turned out great and I am meeting new friends around the globe and locally through MYSPACE and MEETUP which are changing the way I view friendship along with many other things! A GINORMOUS thanks is due to TOM along with everyone who I have met and reconnected with on Myspace. I may sound like a nerd but I am really glad I found it when I did!!
I am also very thankful for having what may be best described as "a feeling that something is missing" because it has led me to discoveries about myself that have been transformational to say the least. I began looking into spirituality a couple of years after graduating from high school and realizing that I did not really have a sense of belonging to anything...this can be great for some people, but in my case it was scary and I wanted a place to fit in and a way to communicate that I felt was potentially on a deeper level than "usual"
I began looking into many different spiritualites and ended up hearing about the course from Eckhart Tolle's book The Power of Now...
If you would like to discuss the Course, or anything really, please do not hesitate to contact me . . . or hesistate but still contact me :P
“A tranquil mind is not a little gift” –ACIM
First you will dream of peace, then you will awaken to it.
Abide in peace, where God would have you be. And be the means whereby your brother finds the peace in which your wishes are fulfilled. Let us unite in bringing blessing to the world of sin and death. For what can save each one of us can save us all. There is no difference amoung the Sons of God. The unity that speacialness denies will save them all, for what is one can have no specialness. And everything belongs to each of them. No wishes lie between a brother and his own. To get from one is to deprive them all. And yet to bless but one gives blessing to them all as one. . www.acim.org . The acceptance of guilt into the mind of God's Son was the beginning of the separation, as the acceptance of the Atonement is its end. A COURSE IN MIRACLES
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*IT IS IMPORTANT to state that A Course in Miracles presents an entirely new and different theology that cannot be blended in with any other. This does not mean that the Course is necessarily better (or worse) than any other spirituality, but it does reflect the fact that it is unique and different, and radically so. (The Message of a Course in Miracles Vol. 2)
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. Although Christian in statement, the Course deals with universal spiritual themes. It emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum. There are many others, this one differing from them only in form. They all lead to God in the end.
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.. END YOUTHINK.COM QUIZ RESULTS --> The God of resurrection demands nothing, for He does not will to take away. He does not require obedience, for obedience implies submission. He would only have you learn your will and follow it, not in the spirit of sacrifice and submission, but in the gladness of freedom. (T.p.208)
The escape from darkness involves two stages: First, the recognition that darkness cannot hide. This step usually entails fear. Second, the recognition that there is nothing you want to hide even if you could. This step brings escape from fear. When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be willing to enter into communion but will also understand peace and joy. (Text P.11)
"Be Kind, for Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle" . Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he percieve. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause. (ACIM T21.1.1-8)
Our basic problem is understood by A Course in Miracles as unconscious guilt, the hidden belief in sin, and nothing brings this to the surface more quickly than another person. It is in our relationships, as we all know, that our buttons get pushed the most strongly, and our sleeping guilt, now aroused, is inevitably projected onto others. Thus we are provided with the opportunity of forgiving it. If we see our guilt in another person, we can then deal with what has been unconscious in ourselves. (A.V.I.p.111)
If you allow yourself to become preocupied with the temporal, you are living in time. As always, your choice is determined by what you value. Time and eternity cannot both be real, because they contradict each other. If you will accept only what is timeless as real, you will begin to understand eternity and make it yours. (W-p.184.14:1)
Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. (Lesson 134 in ACIM)

Nothing more fearful than an idle dream has terrified God's Son, and made him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his Father, and made war upon himself. So fearful is the dream, so seeming real, he could not waken to reality without the sweat of terror and a scream of mortal fear, unless a gentler dream preceeded his awaking, and allowed his calmer mind to welcome, not to fear, the voice That calls with love to waken him; a gentler dream, in which his suffering was healed and where his brother was his friend. God willed he waken gently and with joy, and gave him means to waken without fear (T-27.VII.13:3-5)
Our Love awaits us as we go to Him, and walks beside us showing us the way. He fails in nothing. He the End we seek, and He the Means by which we go to Him. (W.302.2:1)

"I hope the exit is joyful; and I hope never to return." ~F.KHALO
! For more light on the subject of the mind and living kindness visit The Foundation for Inner Peace Website at www.acim.org