Allow everything to be as It Is

There is a sentence that sounds almost too simple to be true:

Allow everything to be as it is.

Not fix it, not understand it, not spiritualize it. Just… allow.

For the ego, this sentence feels like a threat, because if everything is allowed to be as it is, what exactly is left for control, improvement plans, inner management and spiritual self-correction? And yet, this quiet allowance is very close to the heart of A Course in Miracles.

The Course never asks us to change the world, it asks us to change our mind about the world. And that begins with not fighting what appears.

When ACIM speaks about forgiveness, it does not mean overlooking behavior or pretending nothing happened. It means something far more radical: To see what is happening without adding a story of attack or defense.

Forgiveness, in the Course, is the release of interpretation.

The world we think we see is already filtered through judgment.

By the time something “happens,” we have usually already decided what it means, who is wrong, and what should not have occurred.

Allowing everything to be as it is does not mean you approve of everything.

It means you stop arguing with the fact that it appeared.

The resistance is never to the event itself. It is always to the meaning we gave it.

The Course reminds us again and again that nothing in the world has meaning in itself. Meaning is given by the mind.

That includes: discomfort, confusion, fear, irritation, sadness and yes, even spiritual disappointment (Especially that one ).

When we say “this should not be happening”, we quietly assume we know how reality should unfold. That assumption is the ego’s throne.

Allowance removes us from that throne.

There is a beautiful paradox here. The moment you truly allow what is present, it begins to loosen. Not because you pushed it away, but because you stopped holding it in place with resistance.

This is why the Course emphasizes looking, not fixing: “Be willing to look at what you have made.”

Looking is already a form of allowance, and looking without judgment is the beginning of healing.

Many students secretly fear that allowance means passivity.

They think: if f I allow everything, won’t I become indifferent?

But allowance is not resignation…..it is honesty !

It says: this is what is arising in my mind right now.

No makeup or spiritual perfume or quick transcendence.

And from that honesty, a different Teacher can speak. This teacher, the Holy Spirit, does not correct what we deny, He reinterprets what we are willing to look at.

Even our resistance itself is meant to be allowed.

The Course never says: Do not resist. It says: Notice that you resist and notice without guilt. Guilt is never the solution. It is the ego’s favorite glue.

So if you notice: I don’t want this to be happening, I am afraid, i feel stuck, I don’t understand…… Perfect !!

That noticing is already the practice.

There is quiet humor in all of this. We spend years trying to become peaceful…by arguing with the present moment. We try to reach stillness…

by fighting what is already here.

And now the Course says: You are already safe! You are just mistaken

about where you are.”

Allowance does not make you smaller, it makes you spacious.

To allow everything to be as it is does not mean you stay in illusion.

It means you stop demanding that illusion behave differently.

And in that stopping, something else becomes clear.

Not the world or the story, but the quiet awareness in which it all appears.

That awareness is not disturbed. It never was and it does not need improvement.

So perhaps allowance is not a technique, it is a reminder. A reminder that peace is not at the end of correction, but at the end of resistance.

Or, as the Course might say in its own way:

“You do not need to make anything happen. You only need to stop deciding against what already is.”

And that, surprisingly, changes everything.

With love and light,