A Course In Love

In this first lesson, you will begin to contemplate stillness. You will start to take rest from the many things happening around you; the decisions moment-to-moment and all of the noise. This lesson explores how all of the seeking, learning and thinking can also come to a stillness. And that just for this time, you can be still, and know something deeper. In this audio, you will also set intentions for the journey of a Course in Love. Note: In all lesson quizzes, there are no wrong answers. These quizzes are simply to help you reflect and ground in key points.

This calming meditation brings your attention to the space of the heart and the stillness that naturally resides there. In this space, one can find an essence of acceptance and peace, a steady place of love. Here, there is this naked pure innocence and also profound wisdom. This centering meditation will help you to pause, align and allow yourself to act from this place of purity — your deep heart.

This lesson explores the deepest prayer as the "prayer of the heart." At the center of most spiritual and religious paths is prayer, a way to communicate with the Divine and to be alone with the Beloved. Lesson 2 considers how, in the deep quiet and listening of the heart, prayers are already known and received. "Prayer of the heart" can be seen as an anchor that comes from the ground of one’s being and provides a peace that passes understanding.

In this meditation, you are guided into a calm and quiet place within. The power of the stillness of the heart is great. As you access this place, you can discover a sanctuary of peace within. Here is where your deepest, most sincere prayers are welcomed, heard, known, and met. They are met by the Presence of Love. This guided meditation will bring you into the experiential reality of “be still, and know.”

This lesson will invite you to explore the calling in your heart. We all have a call in our hearts, a call that leads us to seek a deeper Love. It’s this inner calling that can bring you to look beyond what the outside world has to offer. This lesson provides a soothing and introspective environment to explore "the calling of your heart" within yourself.

This centering meditation experientially explores the calling of the heart. Ultimately, everything discussed in this course is about an inner experience. So too, this meditation is about the inner knowing of your own heart. This meditation can be listened to anytime, beyond this course, to rekindle and remember your calling. The more we are in touch with the honest yearning of our hearts, the more we authentically meet the Beloved.

This lesson explores what it means to live your life like a prayer; to go through each moment with the humility and surrender of the love that is at your core. You may find that doing so is less about an idea in your head and more of a union in your heart. Most of all, we see that prayer is accessing the presence of divine peace. Prayer goes both inwards and outwards — but first inwards.

This meditation focuses on connecting with the Presence of Pure Love. You are guided to come inside and find stillness. Coming into your heart of hearts, you can discover a timeless place of Love. The human soul is widely regarded as designed for communion - an intentional, intimate connection with God and with other people. This meditation includes plenty of silence and spaciousness with some gentle commentary to support this loving awareness.

This lesson begins to more thoroughly explore how to know and answer the inner call of love, the deeper prayer of the heart, and draw towards communion. Inspired by the Stages of Prayer as outlined by St. Teresa of Avila, this lesson introduces the Stages of Love that will form the structure of this course. In this lesson, you will begin to contemplate four of the five stages in this course.

This meditation guides you into a beautiful stillness that invites the expanse of peace. By softening into a warmth of love, a sense of calm and relaxation washes over. As you practice melting into a loving feeling of peace, a deeper stillness may emerge for prayer, reflection, and connection.

This lesson is on the first stage of love: stillness. In stillness, you are invited to focus on the simplicity of finding a quieter place within yourself. In doing so, you can begin to focus entirely on slowing down and stilling the noise within your mind. Stillness can be likened to a body of water; visualizing the choppy waters of your own mind and heart coming to a calm place.

This special meditation centers on the awareness to "be still and know." In the stillness, you can find a place of profound knowing. It’s not an intellectual knowing, but a silent knowing of the heart; a wisdom that passes beyond logic. This meditation demonstrates that it doesn’t take long to find this stillness and that basking in the light of peace is near at all times.

This lesson is on the second stage of love: silence. This lesson brings the realization that underneath all of the noise of life, and the noise inside, is a profound silence. This silence is the context in which we meet, know, and feel the Presence of God. There may still be noise all around, yet in this holy silence you can encounter the living Presence. By allowing yourself to be still and come into a deeper awareness of silence, you're able to rest. Here, you can discover a wellspring of patience and kindness.

This guided meditation is about entering the silence that belongs to love, the deeper context of life. In this meditation, a peace arrives almost unnoticed. It is simply there as you become quieter. Entering into the silence is something your body and being already know how to do; how to rest back and relax into loving stillness and peace.

This lesson is about the love we can encounter in the silence. It’s about meeting the Sacred. This session guides you in turning to face and to feel the Presence that is already here. It’s something that’s beyond language and beyond conditions of the body. It’s a Presence that is available to everyone regardless. This third stage of love explores how, in the silence, you can discover, not an emptiness, but an overwhelmingly beautiful Presence of Love. It’s nothing you need to create, earn or make happen. You already innately belong.

This guided meditation is on entering the silence that reveals the sacred. You are gently guided to come into an inner stillness where you may encounter that which is here; that which has always been here. A love that is forever. Listen and quietly rest in the arms of Love.

This session in itself was a surrender, as the step of “surrender” spontaneously made its way into the stages mid- recording! This session was originally supposed to be on the (now) 5th stage of love: service. Yet this session instead explores an essential part of the inner mystical experience of love: surrender. The beauty, grace, and exquisite wonder of the Presence of the Sacred naturally lead one to surrender. Letting go and softening in the Presence of Love becomes a natural response.

This meditation guides you deeper into the experiential reality of surrender. In softening and letting go, a profound calm can wash over you. From a quiet place of being aware of the Sacred, surrender naturally unfolds in the field of Love. Relax into this soothing meditation.

This lesson is about being moved and animated by the Presence of Love in service. The final of the “stages” of love, service, is an expression of love in action. It is the way we are moved and breathed in prayerful action. Service can look a myriad of ways, and it ultimately comes down to the orientation of one’s heart. In what ways do you find you come alive?

This meditation is about being an instrument; being moved by the Presence of Love into action in your life. By bringing an awareness of stillness and turning inwards, you again enter the sacred inner space of silence and prayer. In this place of meeting the Divine, a deeper quiet emerges. From the stillness comes the awareness for action, for service. “Make me an instrument of Thy peace, of Thy love.”

A lesson on the stages of love with a simple version when practicing out in the world. This session talks about ways to simplify the practice and to make it your own. You are made in the image of Love, of God. You are a unique and sacred expression of love.

This meditation is centered on deepening and expanding in love. We begin by stilling and coming into a deeper silence. Awareness of the Sacred brings surrender. And finally, the heart expands towards service. This meditation will take you through the stages of love simply and profoundly.

The final lesson in this course, yet the greater Course in Love of your own life continues. Every day of our lives is a gift to grow, learn, and expand in love. It’s on the playing field of our real lives that we can practice both an inner cultivation of love and also the ability to bring love into our noisy and often challenging real-life circumstances.

A meditation on the deep and beautiful love that blossoms within you. This meditation will bring awareness to your heart, the place where prayer and meditation begin. Accessing this great place of love within you, there is a natural stillness and quiet. A silent awareness of the power of Love. We cannot think our way to the Divine, but we can know through Love.