A Course of Love: Combined Volume Paperback – November 24, 2014

This book is a blessing and help and the greatest gift. I send so much gratitude and blessings to Mari Perron. Thank you for helping this life-transforming gift come to us I also send a heartfelt thank you to our Brother.

I am one of the founding members of Course in Miracles Society [CIMS] publishers of A Course in Miracles: Workbook for Students/Manual for Teachers and have been a Course student since 1983. For me, A Course of Love: Combined Volume is a GIFT from the Right Mind that we all share, given to everyONE of us who opens their Heart to its message. It is not for everyone, however, since it requires a degree of relinquishment, much like A Course in Miracles. It requires that you come from the “not-knowing” place, releasing all prior thoughts and concepts, and begin with an empty slate.It is a gift given by Love to Love --- not to tag along with any previous offering, but to add to the store of GIFTS we are receiving joyfully, as we open the way to LOVE.This GIFT is for everyOne, including those who have embraced the Principles of A Course in Miracles as a remembrance of what they have always known in their Heart of Hearts, the very center of their Soul.With this offering from Mari Perron, students of A Course of Love, as well as students of A Course in Miracles, are in receipt of LOVE from their very Source, as it clears away the mists of misperception and brings exquisite clarity.In Lesson 188, we read: “3 The peace of God is shining in you now and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing and leave a blessing with it which remains forever and forever. What it gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give and you who have received.”How beautiful this RENEWAL is of the world we made. The peace of God “brings renewal to all tired hearts and lights all vision as it passes by.” [ACIM W.188] And this is what is also expressed in the Treatises of A Course of Love. “Thus are we one in a relationship of love and peace that is our eternal home. Welcome home my brothers and sisters in Christ. Welcome home.” T1:10.15The essence of this renewal is the claiming of our power as the Son of God, just as our Elder Brother Jesus came to do. And this is expressed so beautifully in THE PRELUDE of A Course of Love:“Knowing your Self as who you really are is the only thing that will allow you to quit fearing your power. Jesus accepted his power and so brought the power of heaven to earth. This is what the Christ in you can teach you to do. This is miracle-mindedness. This is love.” C.P.37How wonderful that A Course of Love looks on relationship in the same way it is looked upon in A Course in Miracles, as it tells us: “Reality, the truly real, is relationship.” And in ACIM we learned:64 This is the function of your holy relationship. For what one thinks the other will experience with him. What can this mean except your minds are one? Look not with fear upon this happy fact and think not that it lays a heavy burden on you. For when you have accepted it with gladness, you will realize that your relationship is a reflection of the union of the Creator and His Son. From loving minds there is no separation. And every thought in one brings gladness to the other because they are the same. Joy is unlimited because each shining thought of love extends its being and creates more of itself. There is no difference anywhere in it, for every thought is like itself. ACIM OE T.22.VII.64How blessed we are to have A Course of Love – It is truly a gift from Love to Love.

If You are tired of looking, seeking, learning, striving for differences and specialness This Is the Book for You ❤💥☮🌎🙏🏾If You KNOW Who You are and You still find YourSelf tired of seeing what You see,And Know that A New World 🌎 is not only Possible,But that IT is You Who is The Creator of the New World ❤The Created, The Creator ☮One in Being.A Course in Miracles opened a door and threatened the ego.And when I read It I felt as if (literally) My World, the perception I had held and cherished for so long was cracking, shaking and falling down ha ha 😂 It was like a dream being shattered by Reality.A Course in Miracles says that The Course can be summed up like this:"Nothing Real can be threatened.Nothing unreal can exist.Herein lies the peace of God."Boom 💥I was on a ACIM conference call and heard someOne say they took and break and read A Course of Love ❤️Me being aware that I AM Love immediately looked for it on The Kindle app.I had been studying ACIM and knew and felt in My Heart and Soul, My Mind that It was TRUTH.When ACOL came I was on Lesson 153 in ACIM God is but Love and therefore so Am I.This was actually a review and it said by the end of this review You will know that This is True.Sitting on the deck in back on a warm beautiful day I felt this overwhelming sadness. This "feeling" of separation from My Creator.Feeling that, but Knowing with All that I Am this was not true.For How can One exist if not in some Relationship with Its Source...Impossible.My prayer was Lord I want to experience MySelf AS MySelf.My True Self.My Christ Self.A Child of God.A Course of Love came ❤EveryThing that has come to Me has come to Me by My very Own Desire ❤This is the book that stopped the Looking ❤For at what point do You stop when You have found what You were looking for.I was looking for Truth.Looking for God.My Purpose.Who I Am.This requires Acceptance.I Am Woman. I Am GodI Am One in Being with God.Thus, I Am One with EveryThing and EveryOne ❤Anyway, blah blah ❤

This is an AMAZING book. I did look at some of the "negative" reviews, and all the "one star" reviews seemed to be based upon a comparison with a Course in Miracles. I actually became a student of ACIM in about 1991, so about 25 years ago, and had my own miraculous experiences. Eventually I came to a point in my life where I had one goal: reunion with God. And as the Course in Miracles was about letting go, I found myself at the point of asking: what happens when there is nothing left, nothing left that you want in this world, but you're still here. It actually is a place of depression, when there's nothing left you want. Wow!! I was blown away by what came to fill my life, to transform it. A Course in Love has been a truly wonderful 'learning aid" as I go through my own "unlearning" under the guidance of spirit. It wasn't my primary tool, but it absolutely corresponded to everything I was "unlearning", the new way that I was being re-introduced to creation. I absolutely view this as a worthy sequel to ACIM. "Clinging" to ACIM is still holding onto something of the old world. ACOL will taste like new wine in old wine skins--i.e. it won't taste "right". Neither of the new nor of the old. A split mind. Anyway, this review is for those who might be encouraged to explore a little further, who might benefit from that little bit of a lead, who are standing in that dark place where the weak light of the old ways no longer work, wondering what comes next. Love is all there is. Love is all there is. And it is creative.