Center for Miraculous Living, LLC

Walking the path of A Course in Miracles to end suffering and awaken one another to holiness, equality, and worth.

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Welcome to the Center!

Something brought you here.

Maybe you have a growing sense that the life you’ve been living—the one built around achievement, approval, and keeping up appearances—isn’t delivering the goods. You might be thinking there must be more to life. Perhaps you’ve been trying the “self improvement” thing, yet your efforts keep being thwarted by a lifelong habit of self-sabotage. Maybe you are tired of being defined and effected by the past, the actions of others, and life circumstances beyond your control.

It could be that you’ve been a student of A Course in Miracles for a while and you’re looking to more consistently follow its path. You might be hoping to join with others who walking the same path as you. Maybe you have had difficulty with some of the key concepts in the Course and are hoping to find clarity.

No matter what brought you here, you’re in the right place.

What the Course teaches—and what we have found to be true—is that what seems like a problem with the past, other people, and the world is really a problem with your limited and distorted perception of the past, others, and the world. You have been mistaken in your perception of things outside of yourself because you also have a sever case of mistaken identity. You have forgotten who you are (on a deeper, essential, spiritual level) and think you are what you are not. This forgetting and all that comes with it is the cause of every form of suffering you experience.

The Path We Walk Together

A Course in Miracles offers a way out of our current condition—not by transcending or changing the world, but by changing the way we perceive it. The central means the Course gives us for this is a practice of forgiveness unlike anything found in traditional religion or psychology. We call it miraculous forgiveness.

Miraculous forgiveness doesn’t minimize what happened or pretend it didn’t matter. It goes deeper—looking beyond the false and mistaken identity of the person we’re forgiving in order to perceive who they truly are. And what makes it miraculous is this: in the moment we perceive the truth in another, we begin to perceive it in ourselves.

“Everyone you see in light brings your light closer to your own awareness.” (CE T-13.VI.10:3)

This is not a solitary path. The Course is clear that we need one another—”mighty companions” [CE M-4.I.6:11]—to walk with us. The Center for Miraculous Living exists to be part of that companionship for you: through individual sessions, study groups, workshops, and teachings rooted in the ideas and practices of the Course.

What Is Miraculous Forgiveness?

At the heart of the Center’s work—and at the heart of A Course in Miracles—is a practice the Course calls forgiveness. But this is not the kind of forgiveness with which most of us grew up.

Ordinary forgiveness says: what you did was wrong, but I’ll let it go. Miraculous forgiveness goes much further. It recognizes that what we believe we see in others—their guilt, their darkness, their attack—reflects the false perception of the ego.

By learning to look beyond that false perception to the truth of who the other person is, something unexpected happens: the same truth begins to dawn in our own awareness. The Course puts it simply:

“Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want, and everything I give I give myself. This is salvation’s simple formula.” (CE W-297.1:1-2)

This is why forgiveness is the central practice of the Course—not as a moral obligation, but as the most direct path to the healing of our minds—a path we walk together.