Seeds for the Garden of your Mind

May 8

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Attaining the Real World is a long process.”

“The Real World isn’t a place even though we speak of it as though it were. It’s a state of mind, a peace-filled, loving state of mind. We shouldn’t be surprised that it eludes us. We have had extensive experience inhabiting the more conflicted, anxious state of mind. Our discomfort there has often been great but always familiar. It’s hard to leave the familiar.

Part of our difficulty as newcomers to the Course is in understanding how we can get from one state of mind to the other. Many of us are accustomed to thinking we can’t change. Many of our acquaintances are as stuck as we are. Often, we assume that something monumental must occur for us to see our lives differently. Indeed, that might help, but fortunately, it’s not necessary.

Moving from one state of mind to the other happens in a flash, but we seldom reside in the Real World long. The ego has such a strong hold on us. Wanting peace has to be more attractive to us than wanting power. Some days it is.”

“ I can experience a peace-filled world today.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “”God’s will is that we be happy. God’s will is that we forgive ourselves. God’s will is that we find our place in Heaven now.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “A gentle vision makes a gentler world through which to walk. Judgmental people are obviously unhappy, but why do I find that insight so difficult to apply to my own judgments? What do I think is so desirable about dislike and ill will? Do I believe they make me superior? Or that they give me an advantage over nice people? Or that they will lead to a satisfying measure of revenge? Let me at least acknowledge that I remain stirred up and in distress as long as I hold a grudge. Let me also admit that I alone must feed a grievance in order to keep it alive.”

Wayne Dyer: “Knowing that you have just as much to teach me as I to teach you, affirms for me that I am not better than any person out there on this entire planet. Yet at the same time I know that I am better than I used to be.”

Paul Ferrini: “Have the courage to admit your mistakes so that you can forgive them and release yourself from pain, struggle and deceit. There is no mistake that cannot be corrected. There is no trespass that cannot be forgiven.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“I envision all the children of the world
living in a loving, nurturing environment.”

“Whether I have children of my own or spend time with the children of a friend or family member, my life is enriched by my interactions with children. What a privilege it is to watch them learn and grow and become unique individuals who express their own thoughts and ideas.”

“In children, I see the future come to life before my very eyes! Every child on earth is an integral piece of the puzzle that, when finished, will make a complete picture of the world of tomorrow.”

“I give thanks for children everywhere and pray for them as they prepare to lead us into the future. I envision these children filled with the light of God and surrounded by a loving, nurturing environment where they can spread their wings and soar.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 128

“The world I see holds nothing I want.”

Namaste - Ron

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Lesson 128

“The world I see holds nothing that I want.”

Within the world I see, there appear to many things that I have given value to, but in truth, there exists nothing that I want. Actually, nothing is within the world I make, for this world I make is an illusion – a projection of my thoughts. Nothing in my world can give to me that which the truth of me has not already experienced. In truth I have all and know all and am all. I lack nothing, want nothing, and desire nothing. Oddly enough, that is precisely what is in my world – nothing.