Within the third article within the series around the "miracle" and also the "mind," we will bring kindness and unkindness in to the discussion about specialness. Inside A Course in Miracles (ACIM), kindness is connected with humbleness and learning and unkindness is by using arrogance and specialness. The miracle-minded clearly choose humbleness, learning and kindness meaning they'll eventually learn how to forgive all specialness that is what maintains the separation from God. Belief in separation pertains to everybody who's the main one Boy perceiving Themself separate and various fragments. All unkindness comes from the anxiety within the mind whenever we repress our fear and guilt rather of forgiving our specialness desires. We blame and project it onto other people who are actually part of us the truth is.
There's two books by Kenneth Wapnick on, "The Healing Power Kindness." Volume 1 is on, "Releasing Judgment" and Volume 2 on, "Forgiving Our Limitations." For me, these ought to be needed studying and ongoing study for anybody who's a significant Course student. The next passage states everything:
Whenever you put aside the brilliant metaphysics of the Course in a course in miracles and it is sophisticated mental insights, the program might be pared lower to 1 simple rule: Be kind. If you're not kind, then not just are you currently not practicing the program, there's no method for you to even start to comprehend it. Regardless of how brilliant knowing about it of their metaphysics might be, if you're not being kind toward someone else, you aren't doing what this program is asking (The Healing Power Kindness, Vol.1: Releasing Judgment by Kenneth Wapnick, p. 10, underline mine).
Regardless of this admonition, we insist upon being unkind:
This lack of ability to really practice A Training Course in Miracles' kind concepts of forgiveness they study, or even educate, has possibly been probably the most serious failing among its students. This book's follow up, "Couple of Decide to Listen," discusses how students frequently hide their thought system of specialness underneath the guise of spiritual counseling or friendship. The lack of simple kindness is, regrettably, unmistakable to any or all except the program student making the spiritual pronouncements (The Content Of The Course in Miracles: Each One Is Known as, p. 306).
The non-dualistic concept of kindness can't be understood here within the expertise of dualism as long as specialness is continuously selected since the ego arises from an unkind thought against God and Paradise. Our unwillingness to acknowledge this concerning the ego, and just what everything thought system is able to do, is one thing that hinders our progress using the Course. We have to be prepared to check out the ego using the Holy Spirit - the real Teacher - and take that darkness to Him for forgiveness. Nothing could be hidden and that is right out the Course.