Explore spiritual teachings, real-life stories, and practical tools to help you forgive, release, and return to peace. Rooted in A Course in Miracles, compassionate spirituality, and soul-centered healing.
Gary Renard is one of the easiest to understand A Course in Miracles teachers. This 14 minute video explains the Course view on forgiveness. If you have not been exposed to Course teachings before, hold onto your hat! Gary jumps into the kind of deep metaphysical thought that take most students years to understand. Gary always leaves me wanting more!! More knowledge, more understanding, more application of what I know to be the truth in my life.
For practical and easy tips on how to apply forgiveness to our daily lives:
I thank you God for this
most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue
dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. --e. e. Cummings
The Promise of the Happy Dream
A Course of Miracles promises that the more you forgive, the happier your life will be. In fact, over time, as you begin to forgive everyone and every difficult event or circumstance in the world around you, you will actually begin to live what the Course calls the "happy dream".
Forgiveness as the Path to Peace
Forgiveness is much easier than you may think. In fact, once you get in the habit, it actually becomes pleasurable. There's really no reason to live a life of fear, anxiety, upset or lack when the possibility of the "happy dream" life is such an easy alternative. It doesn't happen over night, of course, but a few years of significant forgiveness work will improve your life immeasurably.
Seeing the World Through Heaven’s Eyes
In A Course in Miracles, the “happy dream” is not a fantasy world or a denial of pain — it’s a state of mind where forgiveness has cleared away fear and guilt. When we forgive, we begin to see the world differently. Instead of focusing on what’s wrong, we start to notice the light in others, the beauty of the moment, and the quiet joy that comes from inner peace. The “happy dream” is what life looks like when we’ve stopped defending against love. It’s a gentle, forgiving perception of everything and everyone, a world softened by grace.
My book, Forgiveness is the Key to Happiness, offers heartfelt guidance, spiritual tools, and real-life practices. Read it on Amazon →
Let daily affirmations support you too — discover the Forgiveness Metta Card Deck for a gentle morning practice of peace and release.
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Let these tools light your path — because forgiveness sets you free.
— Sue Pipal
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