Seeds for the Garden of your Mind

May 15

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Every problem is due to unforgiveness.”

“Automobile accidents, overdue bills, unemployment, skin cancer – how can all these problems be attributed to unforgiveness? Those who are wiser than we, however, proclaim that unforgiveness is the root of every problem.

Perhaps we don’t have to understand the subtlety of the statement right now. Certainly, the ego won’t concur with it, but the ego has led us astray myriad times before. That’s its job. Let’s accept, for today at least, that we need to work on forgiveness throughout our relationships. This includes our current ones along with those that have long since passed. Forgiveness can only make our lives less stressful.

We have all experienced the relief that comes from mending the fence with a co-worker or spouse. Let that awareness convince us that all relationships, all experiences in fact, would feel softer, more loving, if we were in a state of love and gratitude and forgiveness.”

“Today it’s time to practice forgiveness.
Every tomorrow will profit from it.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “The new frontiers are internal ones. The real stretch is always within us. Instead of expanding our ability or willingness to go out and get anything, we expand our ability to receive what is already here for us.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “The world doesn’t work. Trying to make it work is the root of my distress. No matter what circumstances I find myself in, my ego is never entirely at peace. If I could change ‘just this one thing’ about the situation, it would be acceptable. But that assumes everything else will remain the same. If one thing changes, the situation as whole must change, because its very meaning depends on contrast and comparison. So after I change ‘this one thing,’ something new arises that is equally preoccupying. This dynamic will end only when I stop making control my priority.”

Wayne Dyer: “When you come to the realization that you can choose peace even in the most trying of moments you become an agent of God.”

Paul Ferrini: “Don’t play at being a victim. It is a game of mirrors, in which the one who trespasses on you is but a reflection of your own lack of self-worth, as you are the reflection of his. Holding grievances against him will not help you.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“The love of God within my heart
enlightens my choices and harmonizes my thoughts.”

“For a few moments each day, I let my attention rest on my heart of love and silently declare: I am an expression of God’s love.”

“This simple act is a reminder that through unqualified, unconditional love, God has given me life and sustains me with all I need to live life fully.”

“Love has powerful, magnetic properties, which draw good from every direction. Love in me attracts the best from others and best outcomes from all circumstances. The more love I give, the more love I receive.”

“I see the people and events before me through eyes of love, and Spirit inspires me to think, speak, and act in loving ways.”

“The love of God lives within my heart, enlightening my choices and harmonizing my thoughts.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 135

“If I defend myself I am attacked.”

Namaste – Ron
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Lesson 135

“If I defend myself I am attacked.”

Attack is a word of the ego world, not of my truth. Only in the world I make with thoughts shared with ego, do I have to concern myself with a defense of any kind. With the help of Spirit, I see that even my defenses are not necessary as they are against no one but myself. I can only be attacked in my mind. Is there a defense for that? Not really, only a change of thought. There is nothing I need defend myself against, other than me.