A Return to Love

The ego is our self-love turned into self-hatred.

are our wounds—the places where we feel we can’t love any more, can’t connect any more deeply, can’t forgive past a certain point.

I have written it with an open heart. I hope you’ll read it with an open mind.

energy that had

been turning darker and more self-destructive every day.

the changes it produced inside of me were positive. I felt happy. I felt like I was beginning to calm down.

The ego is our mental power turned against ourselves

been different, we’d be brimming with self-love. But if you take a close look at how our parents treated us, whatever abuse they gave us was often mild compared to the way we abuse ourselves today

We think we’re separate because we have bodies, when in truth, we have bodies because we think we’re separate. The Course says that the body is “a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and complete idea.”

If we hold grievances against our father, then if we are a woman, we will not be able to escape projection of guilt onto other adult men who come into our lives; and if we are a man, we will not be able to escape self-condemnation as we grow into our manhood

Whether we like it or not, our mother is our primary image of an adult woman, and our father is our primary image of an adult man