#nicole garrett

"The definition of greatness is your willingness and capacity to serve." 

Impermanence is nipping at my heels. I ain't getting any younger and people die all the time. I don't have time to waste a minute here and a minute there checking email and facebook as a "break." And I don't need to search for my thing, for the way creative energy wants to flow through me. I know what my talents are after years of searching. Now is the time for execution so that my human life can be used to manifest the mysterious and resplendently beautiful spirit of the universe here on earth as my gift to all that is.

Now is the time for action. 

Be patient. Things that feel unsettled right now don't need to be resolved right now. Trust who you are. Trust the wisdom you are tapping into. Relax. Practice not being attached to your desired outcome. Keep your focus on the now moment and the future will take care of itself.

5 of 365 : My Year With A Course In Miracles

4 of 365 : My Year With A Course In Miracles

3 of 365 : My Year With A Course In Miracles

Lesson 3 : "I do not understand anything I see in this room."

We are clearly being guided along a path that is completely obliterating our belief that we understand the things in our environment that we thought we understood. This is yet another concept that is tough to wrap our brains around. But I already know from the introduction to the ACIM workbook that the whole first half (roughly 133 lessons) is about dismantling the perceptions we currently hold as true. I'm so early on in the lessons that I have to go on faith that this will make more sense as I go along. 

How can I not understand anything that is in the room with me? It's my bedroom?? I put most of the stuff there and use it. I KNOW what the bed is. So what is meant by I don't understand it? The only way I can make any sense of it is to accept the idea that there is a level of perception in which this is true. And this is a level that I am mostly unfamiliar with.

I am good at acknowledging the mystery of reality. It is clear that on some level I have no idea what the hell is going on. I mean, come on people, humans? plants? bugs? food? planets? suns larger than ours? What the hell, eh? We study these things, point to them, talk about them. But really...where the hell did they all come from? How do humans emerge from an earth that at some point wasn't even in existence??!! 

It's enough to explode the brain.

What I like about the structure of this workbook is I feel like for the first time in my life, my hand is being held along a path of unfolding understanding. I'm so flippin' excited to see where this goes!!

2 of 365 : My Year With A Course In Miracles

LESSON 2 : "I have given everything I see all the meaning it has."

And we continue with the dismantling of our perceptions of reality. To acknowledge that I have given meaning to everything I see is to open up to the idea that, because I am human and therefore limited in some ways, the meaning I have given to everything could also be limited.

1 of 365 : My Year With A Course In Miracles

Lesson 1 : "Nothing I see in this room means anything."

Radiant beauty is ageless and it vibrates from the people who have it through the way they choose to live. I believe chronological age has less to do with how beautiful we feel than what we believe, how we view reality and the nature of our creativity. The only reason age is relevant to us is that, as humans, we use it to gauge where we are on the path to eventual death which generally helps us figure out what we should be doing at any given stage. For me, 50 is the literal half way point since I plan to live to be at least 100. Since I’ll be turning 50 on my next birthday now seems like a good time to figure out how I want to live the 2nd half of my life keeping in mind that my primary objective is living in a perpetual state of happiness which, I might add, I believe is completely possible.

True happiness is not dependent on external circumstance so my intention to live in the deepest happiness does not mean that I expect all things will go the way I want them to. But it does mean that I intend to act with grace and from wisdom in all situations. I would like to point out that many, many, many times in my life so far I have definitely NOT lived this way and I am challenged often to do so now. Even though I am closer to living with grace and wisdom now than at any other time in my life, I’m motivated to accelerate the learning curve. No need to wait any longer. 

I have recently been very inspired by the wisdom in A Course In Miracles and was amazed to find that it comes with a workbook of 365 lessons, one a day for a year. While I am interested in many paths of wisdom, because this one comes with a structure to help retain and apply the knowledge, I figured it would be a good practice for me in preparation for my 50th birthday. My hope is that the structure of the workbook will assist the accelerated evolution I’m interested in. And if the videos I post of my lessons inspire and help others, even better.

Here is lesson 1 of 365 in which we begin the process of dismantling our perceptions of what we believe to be reality.

peace, nic