"Nice people are always happier than mean peopple. To expand and extend the love in my heart creates in me an innocent vision. It doesn't reform other egos, but it does see beyond them. This seeing is not mere illumination, like shining a flashlight on a trash heap. Spiritual sight is spiritual reality. What is seen in love is at one with the seeing. Nothing has more substance and presence than accurate perception. Ego perception is arbitrary and unstable, but to look gently is to begin to see heaven at hand." - Hugh Prather
ACIM students become "far more separate and egocentric with many losing the ability to carry on a simple conversation" and Prather and his wife "...ended up less flexible, less forgiving and less generous than we were when we first started our Path!" (Hugh Prather, What is the Course? Will it Exist in the 21st Century?")