Among the biggest secrets we try to keep is really a sense of autonomy and pride. The concept or feeling that you're important in some special way, that you're loved by way of a special person, that somebody is giving you special attention, they're a few of the ego's very subtle secrets. We want to hide our Divine Self and are playing all these different games, which seem to be very upsetting. It is pretty depressing and it really doesn't go anywhere, so we try to get scraps of special love, attention and recognition to prop ourselves up.Acim

We work so very hard at becoming “better people”, at gaining greater intelligence and more skills. We want to be liked more and become more popular. The entire self-help industry is dedicated to improving the self so you can develop into a better you. That is another trick we secretly play on ourselves, thinking we have to keep spinning our wheels trying to become better. This self-improvement game is another secret we are able to to learn to release of. It is very relaxing once you start to realize that you do not need certainly to become much better than you already are. You were created perfect. It is not through self-improvement that you find peace but through self-acceptance.

As I caused A Course in Miracles, I possibly could observe that there was an anxiety about divine love within my mind. I realized this was the ego's fear of losing itself. The ego is afraid to be exposed and being regarded as a puff of nothingness. That is the fear of intimacy. We discuss this fear in relationships, which might be projected as fear of sexual intimacy, but it is really an anxiety about dropping our persona, our mask of individuality. It is the fear of getting swept away by way of a glorious love, a love so powerful that none people may also imagine something as glorious and powerful!

For me personally, those would be the big secrets, as it doesn't begin with this great awareness. It always starts with feeling like you've done something wrong, whether you've masturbated, stolen something, mistreated somebody, or there is something in your thoughts that you've judged as so hideous that you do not even want to handle it, you only want to forget about any of it and push it out of awareness.

Underneath those memories and thoughts, may be the belief that we are separated. This is actually the “secret” we hide. It truly is an impossible belief, but we believe it is true; We've judged it as horrific and have pushed it out of awareness. All unconscious guilt originates from this belief in separation. And as you actually give yourself over to the miracle, you're feeling those hidden beliefs and secrets are increasingly being washed away and you finally face this hidden belief in separation!

A Course In Miracles is a book which brings you tools to reverse all fearful thoughts and beliefs. Using these tools makes it possible to get the complete sense of freedom and peace you've been yearning for.