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FROM THE HEART get. When you are in harmony with life, you need not worry or
struggle to protect yourself, for all of life bows in deference to
the presence of the divine.
Alan Cohen is author of A Course in Miracles Made
Easy; mastering the Journey from Fear to Love. A Course in Miracles offers a profound poetic image (in Work-
Join Alan and friends in Hawaii, Feb 26 - March 2 book Lesson 156) describing how loved and powerful you are,
for a rare retreat, Unplugged. Put your devices simply by virtue of who you are:
aside for a few days, liberate yourself from tech-
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so holy that the world is sanctified because of you. All things
DOGS KNOW HEART that live bring gifts to you, and offer them in gratitude and
gladness at your feet. The scent of flowers is their gift to you.
My dog loves to play in the morning. He jumps in The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their
my lap and wants to lick and wrestle, which I am arms to shield you from the heat, and lay their leaves before
entirely unable to resist. Yet when I am meditat- you on the ground that you may walk in softness, while the
wind sinks to a whisper round your holy head.
ing, he simply lies down and waits for me to finish.
Something in him understands meditation and respects it. He This touching passage tells me that life loves to love you, and
gets the (okay, I’ll say it) vibe. The universal intelligence in as you love yourself, you are aligned with your purpose and
him is connected to the universal intelligence meditating in the purpose of everything that lives. It’s not egotistical to
and through me, and the two create a lovely respectful dance have rewarding, fulfilling relationships, and to expect things
together. I like to think that people are at least as smart as to go right. Several years ago Dee and I were traveling through
dogs, and something inside each of us recognizes and respects England and had an appointment to meet my friend Robert
wisdom, beauty, and authentic love. When you are connected Holden and his wife for dinner. When the couple did not show
to higher power, doors open in miraculous ways. I saw a video up at the restaurant at the appointed time, I telephoned
of Mother Teresa on a mission to rescue a group of children Robert, and to my surprise I found him home. When I re-
from a children’s hospital in war-torn Beirut. Although fac- minded him of our date, he apologetically told me that he had
tions were shooting at each other constantly, when Mother made a mistake and thought our meeting was for the follow-
Teresa announced that she was going into the city to remove ing evening. “That’s okay,” I told him, seeking to soothe his
these children, the parties declared a cease-fire. At the ap- sense of error. “These things happen.” Robert thought for a
pointed time, Mother Teresa and a group of her nuns drove moment and replied, “Not to us!” I had to laugh as I absorbed
two trucks into the quieted city and freed the children. The his point: Robert lives in the expectation of good, flow, and
moment she and the kids were clear, the factions went back success, and when something happens that seems to contra-
to fighting. dict well-being, it is a real anomaly. Contrast this attitude with
the expectation that things generally go wrong except when
This noble example tells me two things: (1) War is a choice they occasionally go right, and you will see why some people
and can be stopped at will; and (2) The spirit’s commitment continually succeed and others continually fail.
to peace is more powerful than the ego’s commitment to war.
When authentic peace shows up in the face of conflict, peace Things are supposed to go right, and when we line our minds
ultimately prevails because peace springs from love and war and hearts up with this vision, they do. Coaching clients often
springs from fear, and love is always stronger than fear. ask me about how to find a happy relationship, marriage, or
life partner. I tell them that when you sincerely love yourself,
When Ram Dass visited India, he met a yogi, Hari Dass Baba, you are in the perfect position to meet someone who agrees
who had been silent for many years and taught Ram Dass with you. So the path to finding a mate is not anxious search-
a brief lesson each day by writing an aphorism on a small ing and manipulating, but calm knowing who you are and what
chalkboard. One day the lesson was: “Yogi in jungle need not you deserve. Mother Teresa knew so surely that those children
fear. Snakes know heart.” A major truth in a condensed nug- deserved to be safe from war, that even people steeped in fear
and war were moved to agree with her and act on the truth
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