“Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity” [AUDIOSTR]

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

Based on a line from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the workshop focused on the contrast between the ego’s and the Holy Spirit’s ways of looking at life’s trials. Where the ego sees justified punishments for sins, the Holy Spirit sees opportunities for learning that nothing in the world has power to take away the Love and the peace of God that are within us. An important corollary to this theme is accepting our own lack of acceptance of the Holy Spirit’s vision—the essence of forgiveness: not taking the tiny, mad idea seriously, nor its many and varied expressions within the dream. (Edited transcript of this workshop included in Volume Two of The Healing Power of Kindness.)