Jesus said those two simple words, take heart, twice in A Course of Love. Take heart is like an endearment. “Take heart,” we’ll say, when someone is down or needs encouragement. Take heart…things will work out all right. It’s kind of like saying “Keep the faith,” or “hang in there.”
Here, in A Course of Love, take heart is much more elegant than that, and yet the sweet encouragement of those two words, however simply said or meant, remains.
We’ve done the mind learning. We’ve learned to respect it greatly and to pay little attention to our hearts.
Now…it’s time to come home to our hearts.
Each of us, and every one of us the world over, are in need of all the love our hearts can receive and give…give and receive. When we free ourselves to offer our own unique expressions of love, we come to home to the center of who we are.
The great aim of A Course of Love is wholeheartedness, which is described, sort of technically, as mind and heart in union. But we each know wholeheartedness to express so much more. Like the words take heart, wholeheartedness brings to mind an experience…maybe the way we experience another person, or a way we experience ourselves when we’re able to throw ourselves into life: laughing, loving, praying, consoling, with the great abandon of one whose attention isn’t split. We’re fully present as who we are. When you think of it that way, mind and heart in union are not so technical.
A Course of Love was given to be for the heart what A Course in Miracles is for the mind.
I did a video a while back that tells a little of the background of this Course. I framed the video around the four books: A Course in Miracles and the three books of this course for the heart:
- A Course of love
- The Treatises of A Course of Love
- The Dialogues of A Course of Love
You can watch it here: A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love
Welcome. Let’s take this journey home together.