I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
The process of miraculous change is twofold._ One: _I see my error or dysfunctional pattern. _Two:_I ask God to take it from me. _The first principle without the second is impotent. _As they say in Alcoholics Anonymous, your best thinking got you here. _You're the problem but you're not the answer. The second principle isn't enough to change us either._The Holy Spirit can't take from us what we will not release to him. _He_won't work without our consent. _He cannot remove our character defects without our willingness,_because that would be violating our free will. _We chose those patterns, however mistakenly, and he will not force us to give them up. _In asking God to heal us, we're committing to the choice to be healed.
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
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The process of miraculous change is twofold._ One: _I see my error or dysfunctional pattern. _Two:_I ask God to take it from me. _The first principle without the second is impotent. _As they say in Alcoholics Anonymous, your best thinking got you here. _You're the problem but you're not the answer. The second principle isn't enough to change us either._The Holy Spirit can't take from us what we will not release to him. _He_won't work without our consent. _He cannot remove our character defects without our willingness,_because that would be violating our free will. _We chose those patterns, however mistakenly, and he will not force us to give them up. _In asking God to heal us, we're committing to the choice to be healed.
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