We perform so difficult at getting “better people”, at getting larger intelligence and more skills. We wish to be liked more and be much more popular. The whole self-help industry is focused on increasing the home to help you become a better you. That is still another technique we privately enjoy on ourselves, thinking we have to keep spinning our wheels trying to become better. That self-improvement game is yet another key we can to learn to let go of. It’s really relaxing when you start to realize that you may not need to become any better than you previously are. You were created perfect. It is not through self-improvement that you discover peace but through self-acceptance.

As I caused A Class in Wonders, I could see that there clearly was a concern with heavenly enjoy in my own mind. I realized this was the ego’s anxiety about dropping itself. The pride is afraid to be exposed and being seen as a puff of nothingness. That’s the fear of intimacy. We discuss that concern in relationships, which is acim sometimes projected as anxiety about sexual intimacy, but it’s really an anxiety about dropping our individuality, our disguise of individuality. It is driving a car of having swept out by a glorious enjoy, a enjoy therefore strong that none people can also imagine anything as glorious and effective!

For me, those are the huge techniques, because it does not begin with this particular great awareness. It generally starts with feeling like you have done something amiss, whether you’ve masturbated, taken anything, mistreated some body, or there’s anything in your mind that you have judged as therefore hideous that you don’t even need to handle it, you only want to forget about it and push it out of awareness.

Underneath all those memories and ideas, could be the belief that people are separated. This is the “secret” we hide. It truly is an impossible opinion, but we believe that it’s correct; We have evaluated it as dreadful and have sent it out of awareness. All unconscious shame comes from that opinion in separation. And as you really give yourself to the miracle, you are feeling all those hidden values and techniques are being washed out and you ultimately face that concealed belief in separation!