Mari Perron Conversation
I wrote an article once and on the page listed five of the spiritual books that most influenced me. Among these was A Course of Love. The Author of this book Mari Perron (which is actually now the first in a trilogy) saw my article and emailed me.
We exchanged a few emails and became friends. It turned out that though we started in very different ways, our journey was taking us down a similar path. So I thought it might be useful for you, if I could extract some of the wisdom of Mari in an interview.
You’ll have to excuse my coughing and spluttering, it was recorded when we both had colds, but it was the only time our schedules could make.
Let me know if you find the conversation useful and if you would like more?
Mari has a discussion group at yahoo about A Course Of Love and teaches at Paltalk
Here’s the audio to download or to listen online;
I’ve only listened to the first 12 minutes (no time till the weekend for the full 90 mins.), and already I have an insight that explains something I’ve been missing.
Part of my struggle has been doing something with the insights that should be game changers, but often don’t move me ahead in a way I would expect. In other words; knowing what’s wrong and still staying stuck with it.
Just a comment from Rob about 10 mins. into the recording cleared up why that cycle exists for me. Listen yourself, but in summary he noted that ‘if you have nothing more important to strive for in your life, than to understand and remove the negatives, the mere desire to change won’t be strong enough to outweigh that motivation’. I took that to mean that you have a better chance of “moving on”, when you are careful to make what’s ahead more important than what’s behind.
I’ve spent far more time looking back. It’s no wonder it’s become far greater than the life I want. I just have never put any meaningful and persistent action into chasing it in concrete ways. In thinking I needed to figure out and rectify first, I was never developing the foundation to build the life I wished for on.
It seems logical that if ones primary focus is where you want to go and who you want to become, that the past which often seems to have so much power, would play a lesser role in the perception of self.
I’ve got to chew on this.
I’m glad you got that, Brian. It’s so important to have a vision. Something that goes beyond your sense of self.
Without that, your world is shrinking and so problems seem bigger because relative to your sense of the world they take up a larger proportion the world you see. That’s how they get out of perspective.
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Some real truths in here and I am so glad that "expressing" other ideas has finally been addressed.
One part where Mari speaks about remaining your self is so on the nail.
You dont lose your self in the Christ Mind
You just dont have the story you had before – ie what we learnt here, and you are simply your loving beautifull SELF as you always were
But thats still the YOU sitting here now – just unlimited and Eternal with no need of a PC hehe
Cant wait for the book to arrive now
Hurrah and thank you Rob and Mari