Elizabeth Cronkhite > Quotes

“So it is never a question of whether or not you will seek for peace. The only real question is: Are you going to seek for peace where it is or continue to seek for it where you will never find it?”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, 4 Habits for Inner Peace

“Inner peace is a state of mind and it results when you are aware of the Truth within you.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, 4 Habits for Inner Peace

“you will never understand Truth through the personal intellect. Only by opening your mind to Truth, Which is within your mind always, will you experience It and be at peace.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, 4 Habits for Inner Peace

“your experience of conflict or peace is the result of your choice of thought system and not of what seems to be happening to the personal self.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, 4 Habits for Inner Peace

“Turning inward to Truth and finding Universal Enlightenment Itself is the only way to lasting peace.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, 4 Habits for Inner Peace

“Truth is universal. It is the universality of Truth that makes It True.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, 4 Habits for Inner Peace

“If you feel moved to find inner peace (you may put it a different way - find fulfillment, answers, love, happiness, etc.), a path that will lead you to it will show up. That may or may not be A Course in Miracles as
A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, A Memoir of Christ: A Student of A Course in Miracles Awakens

“The Course offers a two-pronged approach: As you grow your awareness of God within (Christ), you face the guilt and fear that block your awareness of God. With Spirit (the teaching aspect of Christ in your mind), you undo your belief in these obstacles, so you are willing to accept yourself as God created you.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, A Memoir of Christ: A Student of A Course in Miracles Awakens

“The Course teaches that there are only two experiences of consciousness, Love and fear. Love reflects God and is an experience of abundance, wholeness, happiness, peace, and security. In the Course this is called Christ or Holy Spirit. Any other experience is fear, or ego, and is false because it seems to set you apart from God. For the purposes of this book, I use ego-consciousness to refer to the state of fear and ego for its manifestation in an individual mind. I use the term Spirit-consciousness for the state that occurs when ego no longer blocks one’s awareness that God is their Source and Spirit (Christ) is their Identity. Because ego is defined in different ways in different disciplines, I clarify here how I use the term as I understand it from the Course. As part of the material world, a body and personality—person in this book, but just body in the Course—are neutral expressions of consciousness, like a flower or a table or a cat; whether beautiful or ugly, strong or weak, healthy or disabled or disordered. While a person is your undeniable experience of consciousness, it is not your true identity. That is Christ (Spirit). When you identify with a person, it seems to set you apart from God, and you identify with fear (lack, limitation) and that is ego. In ego, you constantly define and defend your person to set yourself apart to make yourself special, which you think will make you feel whole—or at least lack less. You attack others for not appreciating your specialness or for demanding that you appreciate theirs over your own. And you project onto others the guilt you feel for seeming to make yourself not as God created you.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, A Memoir of Christ: A Student of A Course in Miracles Awakens

“There are only two possible experiences in consciousness, Love (Spirit) and fear (ego), and they are completely different experiences of existence. Love comes from God and reflects your Wholeness in Truth (God). Fear is opposed to Love (God) and is a false state of lack.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, A Memoir of Christ: A Student of A Course in Miracles Awakens

“Preface

[Christ] is the only part of you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. (W-pII.6.3)
Imagine sleeping and dreaming and learning in the dream that you are dreaming. But you go on for a long while feeling the dream is real. Then, suddenly, you are aware of the dream as a dream and the dream shifts to reflect your awakened state. This is what happened to me. Only, I wasn't sleeping. Sleeping and dreaming are metaphors for consciousness, or the experience of existence in a material world. As one can only be said to be fully Awake in God, when one's consciousness shifts toward God, it is to an awakened dream that reflects the Wholeness (Oneness) of God. The substance of consciousness has not changed for me. There is still a material world before me. But my experience of existence has changed, and with it my experience of myself and the material world. In a moment I call The Break, I awoke to my reality as God's Extension, Christ, and I now know, not merely intellectually, but truly, that all of consciousness is indeed no more real than a dream.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, A Memoir of Christ: A Student of A Course in Miracles Awakens

“the Course uses your relationships with others as the means to heal yourself.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, A Memoir of Christ: A Student of A Course in Miracles Awakens

“In ego-identification, you have only one problem, the belief that you are separate from God. This is known as the "authority problem", or the belief that you are what you make of yourself (a person), rather than as God created you (Christ/Spirit). This puts you in perceived conflict with God, which is reflected in your conflicts within yourself and with others.”
― Elizabeth Cronkhite, A Memoir of Christ: A Student of A Course in Miracles Awakens