Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

June 19

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Our minds wander thoughtlessly.”

“To daydream isn’t bad. Some of our most creative ideas come to us when our thinking is unfocused. Let’s not relinquish monitoring our thoughts, however, because many of them are not beneficial, particularly when the ego is doing the thinking.

How can we tell who is in charge of our thinking? Perhaps prior to our coming to the Course, we never suspected that we had two “personas” behind the curtain of our mind. But it hasn’t taken much reflection to see how different we think and behave in some instances than in others. What’s going on?

The difference in how we act and think is owing simply to our choice of “thinker.” When we let the ego think, we feel only fear and behave accordingly. When we rely on the Holy Spirit, our actions are loving and forgiving. We experience no strife when It’s in charge. Why would we ever let the ego speak for us? That’s the insanity of this world.”

“My journey into the Real World beckons today.
I will follow in the steps of the Holy Spirit.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom:     “Knowing who you are and why you came here – that you are a child of God and that you came here to heal and be healed – is more important than knowing what you want to do. What you want to do is not the important question. The question to ask is, “When I do anything, how should I do it?” And the answer is, “Kindly.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes:          “The images my mind keeps returning to inform me of what I rely on. There are no purely random thoughts and I should remain aware of the drift of my thinking. To resent, to long for, or to regret, is to place my trust in the wrong reality. I adopt a set of laws that are wholly unlike divine law. In this way I live in a purgatory of my own making. Although this choice doesn’t control the experience other people have, I can’t help but offer them a more difficult life.”

Wayne Dyer:     “When you get to know the people who seem to be filled with hate, you’ll discover that they want the same things you do. They want to feel loved, and their external manifestations of hatred are nothing but a cry for love.”

Paul Ferrini:          “You must realize that relationships can be addictive. They can offer you the opportunity to escape from self, to avoid feeling your feelings.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“I am living in God’s world,
which is supported, balanced, and grounded in love.”

“We are enriched by the love of our Creator – for we are living in a world that is supported, balanced, and grounded in love. From every corner of God’s world, life emerges, and we are granted a glimpse of the beauty of God’s creation.”

“Each day we experience the balance of time – the day representing our time for activity and the night, a time for rest. And through the process of birth, both in nature and in the world of ideas and creativity, we experience the Creator before our eyes and in our hearts.”

“We are one with our Creator and with one another. As we participate in life in loving, giving, and supportive ways, we impact and influence our world. Through God’s loving support and presence, we are essential contributors to the world in which we live.”

A Course in Miracles:          Lesson  170

“There is no cruelty in God and none in me.”

Namaste - Ron

Lesson 170

“There is no cruelty in God and none in me.”

If you were to ask what is contained in God, the answer would be, of course, Love. In the presence of Love, fear cannot be. Cruelty is fear, a “gift” from the ego so that we may forever believe we are separate from each other. God is Love and so AM I. Only Love exists and nothing else is real. God contain only love, and so do I. As God is, I AM.