Seeds for the Garden of your Mind

May 23

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Seek to know peace, nothing more.”

“When we’re in conflict, we cry out for detailed solutions to our problems. We become apprehensive when we are unable to imagine what the situation needs. We fret and analyze and ask other people’s opinions, but we still worry. Generally we assume a complicated answer is necessary.

The Course suggests we are making things too hard for ourselves. No matter what we think, we seldom need long, drawn out solutions. We don’t need the collective advice of many people. We don’t need to seek one specific answer through prayer. We need peace; within it, miraculously, lie all answers.

The blessing for us is that peace is always available. It’s never more than an instant away. In the quiet spaces of our minds, it waits to be called. Searching our minds for complex solutions to daily problems will never provide the answers we deserve. Seeking to know nothing but peace will always satisfy us.”

“The answers I seek are seldom where I look.
I’ll try being quiet today.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Human strength alone is incapable of working miracles. The name of the Father, the living light, the love in our hearts, is the only conduit for spiritual victory.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Anxiety does not improve relationships. Anxiously trying to please is another way of trying to change someone. It also makes me a victim. I believe that I can’t accept their present attitude toward me. And I think that acceptance is the enemy. But acceptance doesn’t make me more vulnerable since it does not preclude a change of heart; it precludes remaining in conflict.”

Wayne Dyer: “If harmony is the nature of things, and it is all held together in perfect unity by the invisible power, then it seems sensible to say to yourself, I too want to be in that peace since it is my nature to be in agreement with, rather than against the peace of God.”

Paul Ferrini: “When you look with your heart, you feel your friend’s pain and confusion. You feel compassion for the universal experience of suffering, which you both share. From that compassion, love is born – not the love that wants to fix or change others, but the love that accepts, affirms, reaches out, befriends and empowers.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“My mind and body express the radiant life of God.
I am whole.”

“When I see a perfect plan of life expressed in creation, I am reminded that perfection is also being expressed by me.”

“Observing a mighty oak tree standing tall during a threatening wind, I see an expression of strength and perfection, all according to a divine plan for life. As a creation of God, I, too, reflect wholeness and strength when faced with a challenge to my health and well-being.”

“I stay strong in my faith that the power of God is active in me even during times of apparent weakness. As an outgrowth of my faith, I recognize that health is my natural state of being. I am an expression of the purity and power of the life of God.”

“Filled with ever-renewing life, I reflect the perfection of God within. My mind and body express the radiant life of God. I am whole.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 143

Review Lessons 125 – 126

“In quiet I receive God’s Word today.”
“All that I give is given to myself.”

“My mind holds only what I think with God.”

Namaste – Ron
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Lesson 143

Review Lessons 125 & 126
“In quiet I receive God’s Word today.”
“ All that I give is given to myself.”

In the quiet of the moment – in the stillness of my soul – in the sanctuary of Spirit – I am aware of God’s Word – I am aware of what is being experience by me in the presence of my truth. And I remember the Lesson of the Holy Spirit – “To have, give all to all.” All that I have – all that I AM – I extend to all.