Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

July 20

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Honesty inspires peacefulness.”

“We all desire peace, but we don’t always practice peacefulness. We may argue or pout. We may plot to control or confuse others. We may even engage in sinister activities. But the fact of the matter is, we’d rather be at peace. We just aren’t very good at accomplishing it.

Making the decision to be lovingly honest is the key to peacefulness. How do we do it? It’s not difficult, but it does require that we acknowledge how quickly the ego interferes in our lives. The ego has a vested interest in our dishonesty. If the ego is in control, and that’s always its intent, it stops at nothing to stay in control. Taking into account what may be the best outcome for everyone concerned is never of interest to the ego. The ego seeks self-gratification only. Peace doesn’t live there.

Asking for help from the Holy Spirit is the only way to develop real honesty. It can be immediate but most of us will have to ask many times. In fact, we’ll have to first be willing to ask. Let’s not give up.”

“The opportunity to be honest, thus peaceful,
will present itself many times today.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom:     “Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions. We are happy to the extent that we choose to notice and to create the reasons for happiness. Optimism and happiness are the results of spiritual work.”

Hugh Prater, Morning Notes:          “God knows the question before I ask. Do I really think God needs my explanation? Simply be deciding to relax into my better nature, and to rest there happily, I put myself into the care of the most benevolent power there is. God doesn’t have to provide the answer; God is the answer.”

Wayne Dyer:          “… the opposite of love is fear, and a belief in fear is a belief in the second power of disease.”

Paul Ferrini:          “If you do not do what is necessary to create and maintain your happiness, who will do it? Do you expect your partner to do it? Of course not! You must make your own choices. You are responsible for your own happiness.”  

Unity’s Daily Word:

“I embrace change and the opportunities for good that it offers.”

“When conditions around me are not what I think they should be, my first thought might be to resist a situation or try to change it. If this becomes a common way of responding, life may become a struggle in areas where there could have been an easy flow or even an exciting adventure.”

“God’s presence is always supporting me and helping me  grow through any challenge. I don’t resist the changing state of affairs in the world and in my life because I know that opportunities for good come with change.”

“I release any tendency to resist and open my heart to the presence of God. God’s presence invites me to embrace life and to know that all is well.”

A Course in Miracles:          Lesson  201

Review Lesson 181
“I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.”
“I trust my brothers, who are one with me.”

Namaste – Ron