One Good Question
When you were broken open, what was at the center?
Today, we are on lesson 16 of A Course in Miracles, it talks about what we are projecting on the world.
We’re all walking around like little Pandora’s boxes, pretending we’re fine. But when life cracks us open, grief, love, failure, awe spill out, and suddenly we see what we’ve been storing. Lesson 16 reminds us that there are no neutral thoughts. Every thought is either feeding love or feeding fear. Whatever is inside us is always broadcasting.
The Manual for Teachers says honesty is not about perfection; it’s about consistency. And consistency is not just thinking loving thoughts, or saying loving words, or doing loving things. It’s when your thoughts, words, and actions are all in alignment with love. That’s integrity. That’s the work. And that’s why you can’t skip self-love. You cannot give what you do not have. You cannot extend what you refuse to offer yourself.
So here’s the experiment:
One Good Question
When you were broken open, what was at the center?
Can you answer in one sentence?
Or a few words?
I’ll start: when I was broken open, what I first found was comparison. It was painful. Then I found curiosity, willingness, compassion, and then beauty. Finally, I found something that still delights me: a fierce fire of Self-advocacy. It was so fierce that it made me laugh thinking about it, and then I woke up.
Because once you free what is inside you, you are free.
Now it’s your turn. Who lives on the. inside?
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
―Gospel of Thomas
When I was broken open, I found grief first, and beneath it a steady tenderness that had been waiting longer than the pain.
Yes, such a great lesson, and I love the Gospel of Thomas.
You are lucky, you found only compaison. I had a package, lol!