(I notice it doesn't say don't ever use violence, and feel guilty if
you DO. It allows for it, if you sometimes feel the need, and says how
to best handle it, once you have)

Tao Te Ching

30th Verse

One who would guide a leader of men in the uses of life

will warn him against the use of arms for conquest.

Weapons often turn upon the wielder.

Where armies settle,

nature offers nothing but briars and thorns.

After a great battle has been fought,

the land is cursed, the crops fail,

the earth lies stripped of its Motherhood.

After you have attained your purpose,

you must not parade your success,

you must not boast of your ability,

you must not feel proud;

you must rather regret that you had not been

able to prevent the war.

Who created the world? The answer to that question
is of paramount importance to understanding A
Course in Miracles. Yet, it seems at times that
trying to gain a clear picture of what the course
proposes is a lot like trying to herd cats. The
big question for me is this: What was going on in
Heaven when a"tiny, mad idea entered".

The Course tells in its own words and in its own
way just what occured at the separation. But it
talks about it entirely in terms of thoughts, in terms
of abstractions. Nothng wrong with that especially
for a Course that maintains that all is thought. So
instead of relating what we were 'doing' it talks
about what and how we were thinking and then
goes onto outline the ramifications of those
thoughts.

Four things occured at the moment of separation.

The following is a meditation based on chapter 23.I..
I guess its the whole Course in a nut shell.
oneLove, maz

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De oorlog tegen mezelf.
[ niet tegenwerkende daarboven gehouden ik ]

Zie ik niet in dat het tegendeel van broosheid en zwakte
zondeloosheid is? Onschuld is kracht, en niets anders is sterk.
Wie zonder zonde is kan niet bang zijn,
want elke vorm van zonde is zwakheid.

Het vertoon van kracht
waarvan de aanval zich graag bedient
om broosheid te verbloemen, verhult die niet,
want hoe kan wat onwerkelijk is verborgen worden?