Explelling a Belief around Private Opinions. By: David Hoffmeister.

[Jhon Dolton]

Among the biggest secrets we try to help keep is just a sense of autonomy and pride. The theory or feeling that you will be important in a few special way, that you will be loved by a special person, that somebody is providing you special attention, they are a few of the ego's very subtle secrets. We are attempting to hide our Divine Self and are playing each one of these different games, which seem to be very upsetting. It is pretty depressing and it really doesn't go anywhere, so we try to obtain scraps of special love, attention and recognition to prop ourselves up.

We work so hard at becoming “better people”, at gaining greater intelligence and more skills. We wish to be liked more and become more popular. The whole self-help industry is dedicated to improving the self to help you turn into a better you acim audio. That is another trick we secretly play on ourselves, thinking we have to help keep spinning our wheels trying to become better. This self-improvement game is another secret we can to learn to let it go of. It is very relaxing once you start to realize that you do not need to become much better than you already are. You had been created perfect. It is not through self-improvement that you find peace but through self-acceptance.

As I caused A Course in Miracles, I possibly could note that there is an anxiety about divine love in my own mind. I realized this is the ego's concern with losing itself. The ego is afraid of being exposed and being viewed as a puff of nothingness. That is driving a car of intimacy. We discuss this fear in relationships, which is sometimes projected as concern with sexual intimacy, but it's really an anxiety about dropping our persona, our mask of individuality. It is driving a car to getting swept away by a glorious love, a love so powerful that none folks can also imagine something as glorious and powerful!

For me, those would be the big secrets, because it doesn't start off with this great awareness. It always starts with feeling like you've done something very wrong, whether you've masturbated, stolen something, mistreated somebody, or there is something in your mind that you've judged as so hideous that that you don't even want to handle it, you would like to forget about any of it and push it out of awareness.

Underneath all those memories and thoughts, may be the belief that individuals are separated. Here is the “secret” we hide. It is actually an impossible belief, but we believe it is true; We have judged it as horrific and have pushed it out of awareness. All unconscious guilt comes from this belief in separation. And as you actually give yourself to the miracle, you are feeling all those hidden beliefs and secrets are now being washed away and you finally face this hidden belief in separation!

A Course In Miracles is a book which brings you tools to reverse all fearful thoughts and beliefs. Using these tools makes it possible to find the complete sense of freedom and peace you've been yearning for.