“No Man Is an Island”: Our Common Purpose [BOOK]

This book consists of edited transcripts from a one-day Workshop, "No Man Is an Island": Our Common Purpose and a Seminar, "Friends Have All Things in Common," both of which are included in the MP3 audio recording "No Man Is an Island": Our Common Purpose.

Our natural state as spirit is perfect oneness, one of the Course's definitions for Heaven. Unknown to us in this world, oneness can nonetheless be reflected here by our awareness of the shared interests of every seemingly separated member of the Sonship. Our only purpose in the world, therefore, is the common one of learning to let go of judgment, the ego's weapon that keeps us separated from each other. Only thus can we remember our Father's Judgment that we are His unseparated Son. We can therefore say that the only meaning to be found in an inherently meaningless world is our shared purpose of awakening from the ego's dream of separation and condemnation. Returning to our right minds—the Holy Spirit's quiet center—we learn that we all, without exception, share the same need because we share the same split mind: the ego's guilt, the Holy Spirit's forgiveness, and the power to choose between them. Thus do we all walk Jesus' path of non-judgment—together—returning home as God's one Son.

The edited transcripts are not verbatim to or constitute the whole of the edited MP3 audio recording of the title listed above.