Seeds for the Garden of your Mind

June 6

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Healing occurs when pain has lost its value.”

“It’s common to resist the idea that “those who want to be healed, will be.” As hospitals really full of people who have chosen to be sick? The Course says yes.

Accepting responsibility for some experiences is tolerable. For instance, why would we deny that our balance is impaired if we consume too much alcohol, or that running a red light can trigger an accident? However, admitting we’re responsible for every aspect of our lives, each joy and every sorrow, is unbearable at first. Fortunately, we don’t have to accept and understand overnight how our material world unfolds. Absorbing the news that we do reap what we have sown comes in stages.

But how does this explain healing, or the lack thereof? Monitoring our thoughts about the significant issues as well as the picayune ones enlightens us about our health. If we let the ego determine how we react, we can be certain it will try in some fashion to control the actions, and emotions of others. Our “weakened” condition is a tool the ego has valued too often. Laying it aside, for good, will change our health forever.”

“If my mind is at peace, I will be well today.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Where two or more are gathered in God, His light within us accelerates and intensifies. Nothing is more powerful than an agreement between two people. The more a thought is shared, the stronger it becomes.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Love sees without interpretation. Most of the time I don’t truly see other people. I see them in relationship to me. I first look at myself, then at the other person. Real loves removes comparisons from the process and sees others directly. It doesn’t filter what another person does through the ego’s perennial question, “How do I feel about that?” It bypasses the distorting lens of my temporary needs and ever-shifting self-image and sees other individuals from within them.”

Wayne Dyer: “One of the most loving things you can do in response to hate is to silently send that person a blessing and remove yourself from the energy field of fear and hatred. Gently leaving without screaming or cursing or even loudly responding, sends a message to the hater that you love yourself too much to be his or her victim.”

Paul Ferrini: “You cannot stop hate by fighting it with revenge. Every act of violence begets a counter-act. By now you should know this.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“Divine order is bringing about positive results in my life each day.”

“Even though his own brothers plotted against Joseph by selling him into slavery, Joseph emerged as a man of power and wisdom, preparing Egypt for the famine that was to come – all in divine order.”

“Divine order is more powerful than any negative intent. And I give thanks for God’s good at work in my life. This is a message of hope that supports me as I go through my life experiences. At times it may seem that circumstances are working against me, but I know that no person or circumstance of ill intent can prevail in the presence of God.”

“Those challenges that at one time may have seemed like mountains have melted away. I understand they were only bumps in the road on my way to fulfilling my hopes and dreams.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 157

“Into His Presence would I enter now.”

Namaste – Ron
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Lesson 157

“Into His Presence would I enter now.”

What a beautiful expression for being in the now – the present moment. His Presence is within the silence within me. His Presence is forever part of and the whole of me. I have only to go there and experience the Presence of God. I have only to still my mind – to silence the noise – and I am there and that is the now.