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Volume 23 Number 3 September 2012 AMOR FATI1 The Birth of Gratitude Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. Introduction: Stoic Antecedents to A Course in Miracles Over the years I have written and spoken about the Platonic and neo-Platonic antecedents to A Course in Miracles.2 In the current article I expand the range of these philosophical predecessors to include the ancient schools of Stoicism, that we may see how their astoundingly contemporary principles are reflected in the Course. Specifically, I shall discuss the application of these Stoic teachings to the exigencies of our daily living, in harmony with my ongoing discussion in other writings of the practical applications of the Course’s fundamental non-dualistic principles. To begin, the philosophy of Stoicism has been pejoratively distorted by the popularization of the term to mean someone who can endure pain in an almost insensitive or cold manner. Its Greek and Roman roots, however, are quite different, reflecting the same content of the well-known line from A Course in Miracles: “Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world” (T-21.in.1:7). Very succinctly stated, the essential tenets of Stoicism were that the goal of virtue and happiness (virtually synonymous to the Greeks) was attainable only through the mind’s accepting what is uncontrollable, our no longer believing, to quote the Course, “that [we] are at the mercy of things beyond [us], forces [we] cannot control” (T-19.IVD.7:4). Stoicism originated with Zeno (334-262 BC), who taught from the porch/colonnade (stoa in Greek) of the Athenian Agora, and found two of its greatest exponents in the former Greek slave Epictetus (55-135 AD) and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD). In modern times, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche gave it consummate 1. From the Latin, meaning “love of fate.” 2. See, for example, my Love Does Not Condemn: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil According to Platonism, Christianity, Gnosticism, and “A Course in Miracles” as well as CD-107 “Shadows of Limitation.”

expression in his doctrine of Amor Fati, referred to several times in his writings and representative of his basic outlook on life. Here are brief statements from each that serve to introduce one of the central themes of this article, the heart and soul of A Course in Miracles: the mind’s the thing (to paraphrase Hamlet), not the world. We begin with Zeno: It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious (source unknown).

Epictetus defined a true Stoic this way: …one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy (The Discourses of Epictetus, XIX).

From the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, “This is a misfortune” but “To bear this worthily is good fortune.” You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Finally, two quotes from Nietzsche, first The Gay Science: Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

And from “Why I Am So Clever,” a section of Ecce Homo: My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it…but love it (section 10:[2]).

This Stoic wisdom of living harmoniously in a disharmonious universe means not giving the circumstances of our

Amor Fati: The Birth of Gratitude (continued) First our brothers, and then God Himself. Like Job, our wrong minds exclaim: “Curse God (for our fate) and die!” And after making the world of specific bodies, we use as our rallying cry from birth on: “Curse our brothers (for our fate) and have them die instead of us!” Jesus describes our unhappy lot in life in a telling description from the workbook (W-pI.166.5-6), here paraphrased and embellished: We hate our fate (odium fati), blaming everyone and everything for our unhappiness and pain as we senselessly wander through the labyrinth of darkness we call our lives. We are aware of the futility we see about us, perceiving how our little lot dwindles as we travel on to nowhere, from nowhere, through nowhere—all alone in our impoverished misery. We seem to be sorry figures, weary, worn, in threadbare clothing, and with feet that bleed from the rocky road we walk along in defeat and hopelessness. Not a person lives who cannot identify with this pathetic parody of the Christ Whom God created Son, for it is this self we embrace in our odium fati. We glorify our misery so we may, to cite the ego’s raison d’etre for existence, denounce the world and its inhabitants by saying: “Behold me, brother, at your hand I die” (T-27.I.4:6). This reason for being is the hallmark of the ego’s thought system of hate, and I would argue is the most difficult aspect of A Course in Miracles for its students. It touches upon the core of all special relationships: that by attacking others we fulfill our wrong-minded desire to escape the horrifying burden of guilt we carry over the ontological belief that we separated from our Creator and Source. Hurling our brothers over the precipice of sin (T-24.V.4), we revel in the magically insane belief that we have avoided the selfinduced immolation of our sin-laced individuality. The perversity of this madness reaches its zenith in the decision we all make that we would go to any lengths, up to and including suffering and death, to prove that another is guilty of the sin we secretly harbor within the deeper recesses of our minds. Yet, paradoxically, what poses as odium fati is really “amor” fati, but for all the wrong reasons. It is the consummation of our specialness, for we love our fate as abused, persecuted, and suffering victims. This experience allows us in fevered dreams of madness to once more triumph over our brothers, the world, and ultimately (and exultingly) over God. We have defied the Creator by defiantly “proving” the reality of separation, yet escaping His wrathful punishment that now rightfully belongs to another. The mind’s guilt has now been perceived outside in the world, leaving us with the self-concept of the face of innocence (T-31.V.2:6). It is our suffering at the hands of another, in whatever form, that establishes our sinlessness for all to see. Following the ego’s reigning dictum of hate—one or the other, kill or be killed (M-17.7:11)—another’s guilt proves we are innocent of all sin, and this person deserves the punishment that we secretly believe is our just desert.

world power to affect our mind’s happiness or peace, and instead saying Yes to the mind’s power to love in the face of the world’s hate, despair, and death. All this is quite comparable to A Course in Miracles, though without the nondualistic metaphysics that would be the foundation for the true Stoic response to the otherwise meaningless dream we call life. The similarity between the two thought systems— separated by over two thousand years—is striking, not only in content but often in the very words themselves. But the ego speaks first, and so we begin the article proper with the ego’s resentful attitude toward life and the harsh vicissitudes of our living here, hardly the attitude of gratefulness that Jesus tells us in his course is a prerequisite for awakening from the dream (e.g., W-pI.195). One final and cautionary word, however, before we embark on our mini-journey to the truth. The reader needs to remember, as has been clearly implied in the present introduction, that this truth comes from the mind of A Course in Miracles to the mind of its students. The Course encourages us to recognize that we are, in fact, decision-making minds and not the bodily person that is the illusory identity of our everyday experience. Otherwise, these concepts will seem to make no sense at best, and appear harsh and insensitive at worst. Consider how a body would read a line like this: “He [the right-minded person] laughs as well at pain and loss, at sickness and at grief, at poverty, starvation and at death” (W-pI.187.6:4). As Jesus reminds us, thoughts are dangerous only to bodies (T-21.VIII.1:1-2). Minds are impervious to illusions, and—again—we are minds, and can be taught that the self resides above the world’s battleground of bodies at war with each other. Thus we can meet suffering with the gentle laughter of recognition that heals (W-pI.187.6:5), the recognition that returns the cause of suffering to the mind, where alone resides the undoing of guilt’s pain-filled effects: It is not easy to perceive the jest when all around you do your eyes behold its heavy consequences, but without their trifling cause. Without the cause do its effects seem serious and sad indeed. Yet they but follow. And it is their cause that follows nothing and is but a jest (T-27.VIII. 8:4-7).

With this caution duly noted about the mistake of bodily identification, we are ready to listen to the ego’s complaints about the austere world and our cruel fate in living here. Odium Fati (Hatred of Fate) We all wander in this world, not only “uncertain, lonely, and in constant fear” (T-31.VIII.7:1), but certain we are correct that we are, and have always been unfairly treated. Why else would we, having left Heaven, choose to be born as a body except to prove we are innocent victims of a cold, cruel, and uncaring world? Indeed, it is the ego’s secret wish to prove our existence but hold someone else responsible for it.

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Amor Fati: The Birth of Gratitude (continued) you literally scream, ‘I want it thus!’” (T-18.II.4:1). I want it thus is our justified scream whenever our perceived needs are not met—as children in little bodies, or as children in adult bodies—thinking we are perfectly within our rights to feel bitter over our unfair treatment. Therefore Jesus cautions all his little siblings, in words more than familiar to students of A Course in Miracles: “Beware of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated” (T-26.X.4:1). “How silly,” he would continue, “to persist in wearing the shabby clothes of a needy child when you can stand up tall with me and remember who you are!” Gratefully we read these words of encouragement from our elder brother:

Nevertheless, this dream (odium fati) is only a mask drawn across the face of what the Course calls the secret or first dream (T-27.VII.11-12; The Gifts of God, p. 120): the ego’s “amor” fati. After all, the ego loves to hate, its underlying and perennial goal being murder. Its curses of fate conceal the underlying attraction to pain as the motivation behind its life in the body. Purpose is everything, we are taught (e.g., T-4.V.6:8-11), and the purpose behind the body as an instrument of physical and psychological pain is to demonstrate our existence, at the same time that we make another the agent who is responsible for our suffering. This agent can be the hateful macroorganisms we call homo sapiens, the virulent microorganisms known as viruses or bacteria, our heredity, or the multitudinous worldly events that impinge upon our innocent and vulnerable selves. The good news within this cesspool of guilt and death is that while the ego thought system is fool-proof, it is not “God-proof” (T-5.VI.10:6). Always present within the dream is the Holy Spirit’s golden thread of hope, the thought of Atonement we carried with us when we separated, and which reminds us we but sleep, all the while we are awake in God (T-10.I.2:1). Within every seemingly separated fragment of the Sonship is a built-in limit to pain, a limit on our ability to miscreate (T-2.III.3:3). When the tolerance for pain reaches its zenith and our limit, we cry out: “There must be a better way” (T-2.III.3:5-6); there must be another way of looking at the world of relationships, the world of bodies. This allows Jesus to change our nightmarish dreams of guilt, suffering, and death to the happy dream of forgiveness and peace. Odium (“amor”) fati happily now becomes a genuine amor fati.

Walk you in glory, with your head held high, and fear no evil.… Let us not let littleness lead God’s Son into temptation. His glory is beyond it, measureless and timeless as eternity (T-23.in.3:1; 5:1-2).

This, then, is our choice: littleness or magnitude, the gore of the ego’s thought system of murder, or the glory of God’s innocent Son. How we look at our world reflects the decision our mind has made through which eyes we shall see the world: the eyes of gratitude or those of bitterness: “Vision or judgment is your choice, but never both of these” (T-20. V.4:7). We learn to be grateful for our unkind fate because what occur in our lives are the classrooms we have chosen for ourselves. If there is no world out there (e.g., W-pI.132.4-6), and all this is merely our dream, how can our minds not be responsible for the circumstances and events that seemingly befall us? Who else could be? Does one blame an actor if one does not like the tragic denouement of a Eugene O’Neill play? Or hold a puppet responsible for the violence on stage when it strikes another puppet dead? The fact of the matter is that the decision-making mind has written the scripts we call our lives, or better, the observing mind has chosen which ancient scripts—written before time seemed to be—we will review (W-pI.158.4). Stated another way, before we choose to be born, we research the holographic contents of the mind—its repository of guilt, judgment, and death—for whatever aspects of the dream will best serve the ego’s purpose of proving our existence for all to see, at the same time parading our innocence before a world we have laced with our projected guilt. Given this, could we possibly justify the bitter complaints about our unhappy lot in life? It is our dream, and as the dreamer, how we perceive the world around us can only be caused by the mind’s decision. Recall these trenchant words from the text:

Amor Fati: Gentle Acceptance Lesson 268 (“Let all things be exactly as they are”), if understood correctly, points to this shift from the arrogance of our bitterness to the humble gratitude that marks our salvation. As we say to our God: Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it.… What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are? Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues (W-pII.268.1:2-3,6; 2:1).

The lesson itself refers to our reality as God’s one Son, but in the call to us not to be blasphemous, Jesus is implicitly asking us to see the world we perceive either as reflecting reality’s love, or calling for it. This change in how we perceive ourselves is characterized by changing our attitude from resentment to acceptance, bitterness to gratitude. Our ego reactions are like those of little children who throw temper tantrums when they do not get their way: “Dreams are perceptual temper tantrums, in which

Once you were unaware of what the cause of everything the world appeared to thrust upon you, uninvited and unasked, must really be. Of one thing you were sure: Of all the many causes you perceived as bringing pain and suffering to you, your guilt was not among them (T-27.VII. 7:3-4).

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Amor Fati: The Birth of Gratitude (continued) Guilt, which really means the decision-making mind’s choice to believe in guilt, is the cause of our dreams of suffering and death. This vitiates the ego’s feeble attempts to hold another accountable for our experience—whether, again, we accuse a person, damaged chromosomes, poisonous germs, or the toxic world itself—for all along our suffering has been the mind’s choice. Only we can give power to other dreamers to affect us; they themselves have none. It is merely the mind’s belief that gives illusion the strength to change us (see, for example, T-4.VI.1; T-7.VIII.5-7). Read further how Jesus removes our delusions of projection onto others for what is in truth our responsibility for being unhappy:

Learning this, we do not give the world’s dream (our “fate”) power to affect our mind’s love and peace. We stand tall, above the world’s battleground of guilt and hate, fear and pain. This is the true meaning of strength: You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you.… Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power (T-31.VIII.2:3,5).

Under Jesus’ kind and gentle tutelage we learn to love our classroom, not because we masochistically enjoy suffering, but because our life experiences alone hold the key that will lead us on the path that bridges the gap between hell and Heaven. Who, knowing this, could not exuberantly embrace such an opportunity, loving it for its capacity to lead us home? Only the insane, who still believe that the dualistic world of bodies and seeming events is real, for its underlying cause—the belief in the reality of separation and guilt—is “possible of both accomplishment and real effects” (T-27. VIII.6:3). Amor fati! That is the joyful cry of all those who seek to end the ego’s nightmare and awaken from its dreams of suffering and spite. We happily accept the life we chose because it is the way home, and we gladly receive its lessons, as painful to the body as they may be. Where once we saw a curse, we now feel the comforting wings of blessing hover over us as we join Jesus on the journey home:

The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself.… For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is your dream (T-27.VIII.10:1,5-6).

But the problem remains: we do not know we are dreaming! How can we change a situation that we believe was not caused by us, and that moreover is the result of forces we clearly cannot control? Recall the Course’s words about the ego’s plan to defend ourselves from the truth that we are a decision-making mind, which can choose at any instant to remember its reality as non-corporeal spirit: Who but yourself evaluates a threat, decides escape is necessary, and sets up a series of defenses to reduce the threat that has been judged as real?…your plan requires that you must forget you made it, so it seems to be external to your own intent; a happening beyond your state of mind, an outcome with a real effect on you, instead of one effected by yourself (W-pI.136.4:1,3).

What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?… While you made plans for death, He led you gently to eternal life (W-pI.135.18:1,4).

And what is the Holy Spirit’s “plan” to lead us from hell to Heaven? It is nothing more or less than helping us not indulge our bitterness about life. While on one level of the collective mind we are responsible for our dreams, as I have been saying here, on the practical level of our everyday experience it is more helpful to consider that we are responsible for the way we see the world. Watching the news, for example, I am responsible only for my reactions to events, not the events themselves. We are taught that perception is interpretation and not fact (see, for example, M-17.4), and learn to recognize the lesson that inherent in all our experiences is the choice between the Holy Spirit’s interpretation and the ego’s. That and only that gives meaning to what is otherwise a totally meaningless world. Being responsible for what we see (T-21.II.2:3) means that we accept full responsibility for our responses to, or interpretations of events, knowing on another level that we right-mindedly put them in our dream for the specific purpose of learning the lessons that would deliver us from all dreams. It is important to note that the Course’s principles, the application of ancient Stoic wisdom, does not mean we do

The obvious question remains: how do we get from here to there, from our experiences as victimized bodies attacked by a cold and cruel world external to us, to a decision-making mind that delights in feeling so unfairly treated by forces seemingly beyond its control? Amor fati is the answer. We learn that the world is not a prison, “a dry and dusty [place], where starved and thirsty creatures come to die” (W-pII. 13.5:1), but a classroom in which we can gratefully learn the lessons of happiness that will happily bring us to the happy dreams of forgiveness, past which is the reality of love beyond all dreams, even those of forgiveness. We do not join the world’s dreams of suffering and death, but rather see them as decisions of a delusional mind that we now choose against: Accepting the Atonement for yourself means not to give support to someone’s dream of sickness and of death. It means that you share not his wish to separate, and let him turn illusions on himself. Nor do you wish that they be turned, instead, on you (T-28.IV.1:1-3).

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Amor Fati: The Birth of Gratitude (continued) not do things or respond to events. The issue is never what we do, but with whom we do it. Joining with Jesus, meaning we no longer identify with the ego and its thought system of bitterness and despair, leads to the mind’s quiet center that lovingly guides our behavior. From “I Need Do Nothing”:

Our self-pitying, temper-tantrum-throwing egos now exposed, we can no longer believe the lies that would convince us, again, that we are at the mercy of things beyond us, forces we cannot control (T-19.IV-D.7:4). It is but ourselves we crucify (W-pI.196), and since our minds have chosen dreams of crucifixion in which they conceal the underlying dream of being the crucifier of others, these same minds can choose the happy dreams of gratitude that become the means of awakening. These dreams offer the forgiveness that relieves others of the burden of guilt we placed upon them when we sacrificed their holiness, achieving the goal set in feverish dreams that we could claim the holiness as our own alone. But now we assume the mantle of gratitude, that God’s holy blessing would rest on all His Sons, leaving no one outside Christ’s comforting shelter, the Self that God created one with Him:

This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent. For from this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly (T-18.VII.8:3-4).

Again, Jesus is never saying in his course to deny the world or our experiences here (“a particularly unworthy form of denial” (T-2.IV.3:11), or not to react to them. Rather, when we do respond, we take as our own his non-judgmental vision that embraces every part of the Sonship, without exception. “We are not entitled therefore to our bitterness”

Give thanks as you receive it. Be you free of all ingratitude to anyone who makes your Self complete. And from this Self is no one left outside (W-pI.197.9:1-3).

At the end of the text, Jesus talks to us about temptation: Be vigilant against temptation, then, remembering that it is but a wish, insane and meaningless, to make yourself a thing that you are not.… It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty, and bound by what it orders him to feel (T-31. VII.14:1; T-31.VIII.1:2).

This gratitude is born of the recognition that it is only the mind’s purpose that ascribes meaning to the events and circumstances of our experience. Suddenly our lives have significance, for we remember that we are here to learn that we do not live in this joyless place but in the Heaven where God put us in our creation (T-6.II.6:1-3).

To be a body means that we choose to identify with its purpose: choosing a life as the eternal victim, a self-concept buttressed by our warranted bitterness in having to suffer at the merciless hands of a world hellbent on hurting us. Yet Jesus specifically cautions us against such paranoia, explaining that our thoughts of hurt and retaliation are unjustified:

Amor Fati: Gratitude to Ourselves Yet it is not God or Jesus who need our gratitude, but we. The true meaning of feeling grateful is that we give thanks to our decision-making minds for choosing to learn the lessons of forgiveness for what never happened, that we may come home at last. For this reason Jesus says to us:

Today we learn to think of gratitude in place of anger, malice and revenge. We have been given everything. If we refuse to recognize it, we are not entitled therefore to our bitterness, and to a self-perception which regards us in a place of merciless pursuit, where we are badgered ceaselessly, and pushed about without a thought or care for us or for our future (W-pI.195.9:1-3; italics mine).

I do not need gratitude, but you need to develop your weakened ability to be grateful, or you cannot appreciate God. He does not need your appreciation, but you do. You cannot love what you do not appreciate…(T-6.I.17:1-3).

We cannot love what we do not appreciate! We appreciate not only our brothers who show us both the wrong- and right-minded contents of our split mind by walking the same path we do, but even more importantly we come to recognize the power of our minds that we appreciate above all else. Free from the burden of living in an unfair and unkind world, we are ultimately able to choose the love we foreswore when we chose the ego’s special love and hate over the Love of our Source, deciding for nothing instead of the Everything of our Self. The same power of mind that chose to hurt and hate— ourselves, God, and the world—we reclaim as our own, and so we are released from the shackles of guilt to choose again: “Such is the Holy Spirit’s kind perception of specialness; His use of what you made, to heal instead of harm” (T-25. VI.4:1).

An earlier lesson spells this out even more clearly, so clearly in fact that only the ego’s use of its most primitive and potent defense of denial can counteract the lesson’s lightfilled truth by hiding it under a thundercloud of forgetfulness. This truth asks the question: How can our lives be seen as tragic when, in fact, it was our decision-making minds that chose them? Yet is he really tragic, when you see that he is following the way he chose, and need but realize Who walks with him and open up his treasures to be free? This is your chosen self, the one you made as a replacement for reality.… How could you then proclaim your poverty in exile?… Where is self-pity then? And what becomes of all the tragedy you sought to make for him whom God intended only joy? (W-pI.166.6:3-7:1; 8:2,4-5)

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Amor Fati: The Birth of Gratitude (continued) We begin such reclamation by shifting our perception of the ones we sought to keep outside the circle of Atonement (T-14.V):

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.… I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him (Book Two).

Then let our brothers lean their tired heads against our shoulders as they rest a while. We offer thanks for them. For if we can direct them to the peace that we would find, the way is opening at last to us. An ancient door is swinging free again; a long forgotten Word re-echoes in our memory, and gathers clarity as we are willing once again to hear (W-pI.195.7).

Whether enjoined by a Roman emperor or our elder brother, our eyes gladly open every morning to a day of gratitude, born of the thought of the thousand years we save on our journey by the simple embrace of the happy thought that our reactions to events seemingly outside us come only from the mind’s decision. We are made loose of our projected hate, leaving only the love that created us. The world no longer greets us with the ravages of fate, but welcomes the kind forgiveness of our special partners as our hearts rejoice in a humble song of gratitude, sung for us here by Jesus:

That Word of Atonement has long been buried in our decision-making minds, protected by the ego’s persuasive arguments of the reality of our mindless (read: bodily) state. But now, through the gentle guidance of our gentle teacher, we have been led from perceptions of a cruel fate that justifies our hate, to seeing the world as the loving means for our return. Joyously we walk through the ancient door that leads from the world to the mind, and to the home we only dreamed we left. Without skipping the steps of this return that would have us deny our hate-filled feelings and experiences of pain, the hallmarks of odium fati, we rejoice in the healed perception of a world made clean of our projections. Gratitude fills our hearts as the mind that had chosen wrongly has been liberated by our forgiveness, finally able to accept its rightful place as shaper of our destiny, the home of the gift of gifts: amor fati. The world is transformed into a joyful place in which the erstwhile objects of our anger are “suddenly transformed from enemy to savior; from the devil into Christ” (W-pI.161.12:6). We stand apart from the temporal-spatial world of bodies and see the truth only in what frees us from the tyrannical, guilt-driven forces of the ego, and perceive the false in anything that roots us in dreams of fear and death. Listen again to Marcus Aurelius, who foreshadows by two millennia the lessons of the workbook, and whose teachings are so similar in meaning to Jesus’ words from the text: “When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter” (T-8.III.4:1): *

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Father, we thank You for these gifts that we have found together. Here we are redeemed. For it is here we joined, and from this place of holy joining we will come to You because we recognize the gifts You gave and would have nothing else (The Gifts of God, p. 119).

We conclude with a reprise of Nietzsche’s words from Ecce Homo, calling us once again to hear the ancient Voice of wisdom: My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it…but love it (section 10:[2]).

Jesus calls us similarly: “Choose me as your teacher and let me teach you that your life is a classroom, that you may learn to embrace the circumstances of your life in gratitude. Come to me and accept the lessons that will take you home on the wings of forgiveness, with the song of love in your heart.” Joyously we listen at last, coming to love the world we conceived in hate, a world that in the end has brought us to the Love that conceived us in Its Love. We are nothing but this Self of Love, for amor fati has transformed us into amatores dei (lovers of God): our reality as God’s Son, the Christ He created as one with Him in perfect Joy.  *

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A Talk Given on A Course in Miracles Ending Our Resistacne to Love The Healing Power of Kindness - Vol. 1: Releasing Judgment The Healing Power of Kindness - Vol. 2: Forgiving Our Limitations Parents and Children: Our Most Difficult Classroom (2-Volume Set) From Futility to Happiness: Sisyphus as Everyman The Stages of Our Spiritual Journey Ending Our Escape from Love: From Dissociation to Acceptance of ACIM Healing the Unhealed Mind

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WEB SITE—www.facim.org Browse our Web site, including our online bookstore where you are able to purchase Foundation for A COURSE IN MIRACLES® publications, as well as A Course in Miracles and the supplements; register for the Temecula Center programs; add your name to our e-newsletter mailing list; read past articles from The Lighthouse, as well as the most recent newsletters in their entirety; find program schedules for both the Temecula Center and the La Jolla branch; consult our teaching aids, including our online excerpts series, and links to our Question & Answer site, as well as our YouTube videos, and to make donations to the Foundation..

EXCERPTS SERIES Our current series is “The Happy Dream,” a Seminar held in 2005. The presentation focused on the ego’s dreams (the mind’s secret dream of sin, guilt, and fear, and the world’s dream of victims and victimizers) and the undoing of these dreams by the Holy Spirit’s happy dream of the miracle and forgiveness.

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TRANSLATION OF BOOKS Most of the Foundation books and a number of CDs have been translated into German. For information, please contact: Greuthof Verlag und Vertrieb GmbH • Kybfelsenstraße 41 • D-79100 Freiburg • Germany • Tel. 761-388 45 996 • FAX 761-388 45 997. Many of the Foundation books have also been translated into Spanish including The Arch of Forgiveness, Parents and Children: Our Most Difficult Classroom, The Healing Power of Kindness–Vol. 1: Releasing Judgment, The Healing Power of Kindness–Vol. 2: Forgiving Our Limitations, and The Stages of Our Spiritual Journey. Spanish translations can be ordered from our Web site (www.facim.org/bookstore) or by phoning our order department at 951.296.6261, ext. 30. You may also phone our order department for more information about translated books in Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Romanian, Slovene, and Swedish.

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POLICIES AND GENERAL INFORMATION FOR THE TEMECULA CENTER REGISTRATION

the office Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Pacific time to verify your acceptance into a program.

• Pre-registration is encouraged for all programs, and REQUIRED for the five-day Academy class taught by Kenneth Wapnick.

• It is important that you double-check the registration information sent with your confirmation letter to ensure the accuracy of the information. In the event the program you register for is filled, your registration form and fee will be returned to you, unless you have requested that your name be placed on a waiting list. Thus, you may be confirmed either as a participant or as being on the waiting list.

• We accept registrations by mail, FAX, telephone, and on our Web site at www.facim.org. • If you register by mail or FAX, please allow enough time for your registration form to reach us and the confirmation form to reach you in return. • If you register by phone, please have your credit card ready when you call.

REGISTRATION CHANGES & CANCELLATIONS • We charge a $20.00 fee for all registration changes, including cancellations, so please review the program schedule carefully.

• Payment for programs must be made in full at the time of registration—by check, money order, credit card, or PayPal ([email protected]). International students may also use wire transfer, which will incur a $15.00 fee (call our office for information). Your check or money order should be made payable to ITIP-ACIM (in US funds only, drawn on a US bank). There will be a $20 fee for any check returned to us for insufficient funds.

• Five-Day Academy Class: To avoid a $50.00 cancellation fee, your cancellation must be received at least 21 days prior to the start of a 5-day Academy class. WALK-INS • While walk-in registrations are accepted for all programs EXCEPT the five-day Academy classes, pre-registration is encouraged, as classroom seating cannot be guaranteed.

CONFIRMATIONS • Confirmation information will be given over the phone if your registration form does not reach us in time for a letter to be sent to you. In this instance, you may call

• Payment by cash or US check only at the door.

LODGING ACCOMMODATIONS IN TEMECULA Best Western Country Inn (1mile / 951.676.7378) offers students attending classes at the Foundation discounted rates: Sun-Thurs $65.00, Friday $95.00, and Saturday $109-$129. RESERVE EARLY!!! La Quinta Inn & Suites 951.296.1003 (.4 mile) $75 weekday rate and $99 weekend rate Holiday Inn Express 951.699.2444 (1.2 mile)

Many food establishments are nearby in Temecula.

Marriott Fairfield Inn & Suites 951.587.9800 (.5 mile)

Motel 6 951.676.7199 (2.6 miles)

Embassy Suites Hotel 951.676.5656 (2.8 miles)

Extended Stay-Kitchenettes 951.587.8881 (.9 mile)

Quality Inn (formerly Comfort Inn) 951.296.3788 (.4 mile)

Receive a 10% discount when you identify yourself as a student attending class at the Foundation.

For a list of additional lodging accommodations in the surrounding area (10-45 minutes from Temecula), please call our office at 951.296.6261 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. PT, Monday through Friday.

OASIS OF PEACE BOOKSTORE Our bookstore, Oasis of Peace, is open 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Please note that the bookstore will also be open weekend days when programs are being held at the Foundation.

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FALL–WINTER 2012-2013 SCHEDULE INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING INNER PEACE THROUGH A COURSE IN MIRACLES Temecula Center • Faculty: Dr. Kenneth Wapnick

Pre-registration is encouraged for all programs, and REQUIRED for the 5-day Academy classes taught by Kenneth. SEMINARS Time: 2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. • Fee: $30.00 2013

2012 S-9

A COURSE IN MIRACLES AS A WORK OF ART: HEARING AND READING ITS MESSAGE

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“THE LITTLE THINGS OF GOD”

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THE MINDLESS MADNESS OF MISCREATION Saturday, February 9

Saturday, December 8

Morning Discussion and Evening Study Groups on A Course in Miracles The Foundation conducts weekly ninety-minute discussion and study groups on the Course (except on November 21, December 26, January 2, 2013, and days when an Academy class is in progress). These Wednesday sessions (11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.) are facilitated by the Foundation Staff. There is a $5.00 fee per session.

Morning Excerpts Study Group on A Course in Miracles The Foundation conducts a weekly ninety-minute (11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.) study group that focuses on themes drawn from excerpts of various printed and audio publications of the Foundation. These Thursday sessions (except on Thanksgiving, December 27, January 3, 2013, and days when an Academy class is in progress) are facilitated by the Foundation Staff. There is a $5.00 fee per session.

KENNETH WAPNICK SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT Emeryville, CA: Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge • 1800 Powell Street • Emeryville CA 94608 Date: Thursday October 11, 2012 Time: 6:00–8:30 p.m. Fee: $40.00 Sponsored by: Center for A Course in Miracles Registration: Online at www.centerforacim.org or by mail a 1151 Harbor Bay Parkway, Suite 105, Alameda, CA 94502. For further information, please contact Maria Young at 510.306.5203, or email: [email protected]. Walk-ins welcome; $45 at the door (cash or check only). 10

ACADEMY CLASSES Faculty: Kenneth Wapnick, Rosemarie LoSasso, Loral Reeves, and Jeffrey Seibert Times: 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

A-6 THE EGO’S “GILDED THREADS OF SELF-DESTRUCTION” Dates: October 7 – 9 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day. A-6D1 October 7 Fee: $40.00 A-6D2 October 8 Fee: $40.00 A-6D3 October 9

Fee: $40.00

The ego thought system is a fabric of guilt and fear, woven by “gilded threads of self-destruction” that do not appear to be what they are. The ornately seductive forms that specialness takes conceal the true nature of the ego’s gift of death. We are taught that the ego’s “sole intent is murder” (T-23.III.1:5), and the ultimate object of its hate is ourselves. The class will explore the multitudinous forms of our special relationships and how they are undone by the Holy Spirit’s golden threads of forgiveness.

5-DAY ACADEMY 7 PROGRAM IS CLOSED. WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. PLEASE CALL OUR OFFICE TO PUT YOUR NAME ON THE WAITING LIST

A-7 FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING Dates: November 5 – 9

Fee: $175.00

No registration for individual days.

Drawing upon Wordsworth’s famous Ode, “Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” the class will discuss the core of the Holy Spirit’s correction: forgetting the ego illusory thought system we have remembered, and remembering the loving reality we have chosen to forget. Forgiveness is the means He uses to help us look at our projections, based always on a non-existent past we hold in memory, allowing us to undo the sin that never was. Our minds, liberated from the ego’s thought system of separation and guilt, are able at last to remember the Love that created us and that we are.

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A-1 GUILT AND JUDGMENT: OUR SAVIORS FROM SALVATION Dates: January 13 – 15 9 Fee: $100.00 for entire program; $40.00 for each individual day. A-1D1 January 13 Fee: $40.00 A-1D2 January 14 Fee: $40.00 A-1D3 January 15

Fee: $40.00

In its perverse insanity, the ego has convinced us that guilt is our savior from the Atonement, and in turn, judgment of others saves us from our guilt. Yet we are taught by Jesus that self-blame (guilt) and blame (judgment) are the same (T-11.IV.4-5), and so they have the same correction: forgiveness. Forgiveness of ourselves and others, therefore, is the true savior, which is reflected by shifting perceptions of our special relationships, letting miracles replace all grievances (W-pI.78) and kindness take the place of attack.

ALL Academy 2 classes will be taught by Kenneth Wapnick PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

A-2 WEEDING OUR GARDEN REGISTRATION ENDS WHEN CLASS FILLS. WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED . Dates: March 11 – 15 Fee: $175.00 No registration for individual days. The class draws its inspiration from one of Hamlet’s soliloquies, in which the Danish prince says: ’tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed. These five days will focus on the importance of weeding our mind’s garden so that its guilt, fear, and specialness are undone. Forgiveness is the means the Holy Spirit uses to uproot the thoughts that do not belong, allowing His thought of Atonement to flower in our minds, its gentle fragrance of correction free to embrace the Sonship in its kindness and love. 11

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You may use the same form if you are attending with another student. Registrations without the correct amount of money accompanying them will be returned. PERSON 1:

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REGISTRATION FORM (continued) CALCULATE YOUR PAYMENT

SCHEDULE OF RATES

AMOUNT HERE:

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WALK-IN REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

SEMINARS (2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.) • Fee $30.00

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FALL–WINTER 2012-2013 SCHEDULE INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING INNER PEACE THROUGH A COURSE IN MIRACLES La Jolla Branch 7843 Girard Avenue, Suite E  La Jolla, CA 92037  858.551.1227

FACULTY: ROBERT AND KATHLEEN DRAPER LECTURES Classes are held each Thursday (except Thanksgiving) from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The fee for these lectures is $5, payable at the door.

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SUNDAY WORKSHOPS

Monday: 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. or Tuesday: 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Pre-registration is required at the La Jolla Branch. Call: 858.551.1227.

10 a.m. – 1 p.m. • $15 fee No registration required.

“INTIMACY: LOVE WITHOUT NEEDS”

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INFINITE” FW-8

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“ON BECOMING THE TOUCHES OF SWEET HARMONY”

“THE NEW INTERPRETATION” Date: November 18 2013

“THE INHERITANCE OF GOD’S SON”

Dates: Nov. 5 – Nov. 12 (Mon.) Nov. 6 – Nov. 13 (Tue.) Fee: $10.00 plus CD set Registration ends: October 25

“THE ONLY REAL RELATIONSHIP”

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“SPECIALNESS AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR L OVE” Date: January 27

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THE LIGHTHOUSE (09/12) Foundation for A COURSE IN MIRACLES® 41397 Buecking Drive Temecula, CA 92590-5668

TRAVEL INSTRUCTIONS The Foundation is located just off I-15. • From the north: Take the CA-79 N/Winchester Road exit and stay in the far right lane. Turn right onto Winchester Road/CA-79, again staying in the far right-hand lane. Turn right onto Jefferson Avenue, which is the first stop light. Continue straight on Jefferson (heading north) for two long blocks until you reach Buecking Drive. Turn right onto Buecking Drive. The Foundation is the second building on the left. • From the south: Take the CA-79N/Winchester Road exit, turning left onto Winchester Road. Get into the far right lane and turn right onto Jefferson Avenue, which is the second stop light. Continue straight on Jefferson (heading north) for two long blocks until you reach Buecking Drive. Turn right onto Buecking Drive. The Foundation is the second building on the left.