Brent Haskell > Quotes

“The Course tells us not to value this world. It is important to realize that not to value does not mean not to love. In fact, just the opposite is true. It is not possible to truly love another being unless you do not value the relationship. The reason becomes clear when you realize that love is freedom, as we learn in the Course. If you value a relationship with someone else, then you have made that person part of who you are, and you NEED that person. Whenever you need someone, you automatically resist any changes in that person which affect your relationship. In essence, you desire to deny freedom to the person you claim to love. It is not possible to truly love another unless you grant that person complete freedom. God knows that, and created us totally free.”
― Brent A. Haskell, Journey Beyond Words (Miracles Studies Book): A Companion to the Workbook of the Course

“Consciousness, the level of
perception, was the first split introduced into the mind after the separation, making the mind a perceiver, rather than a creator. Consciousness is correctly identified as the domain of the ego.”
― Brent Haskell, The Other Voice: A Companion to the Text of The Course Chapters 1-15

“Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught,
nor one belief you ever learned from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God." (13)”
― Brent Haskell, The Other Voice: A Companion to the Text of The Course Chapters 1-15