Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

July 24

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Inner peace isn’t related to outer circumstances.”

“Typically, whatever series of events occurs or is expected to occur over the next few hours of the day influences how we’ll feel about ourselves, about the men and women joining us today, about the potential for a successful outcome regardless of the endeavor. It seems not only reasonable but tacit to plan accordingly. After all, don’t causes have their effects?

Not so, says Jesus, in the Course. They are one. Whatever is happening on the material place has no authentic connections to the inner spiritual plane. The ego may tie them together momentarily, but then, we’re no longer reflecting the Spirit’s point of view. The ego is calling the shots.

It’s a wonderful piece of news that no matter how dire the circumstances, we can function unruffled. It’s possible to master this approach to life. Perhaps it’s our assignment to be the “way shower.”

“I am as peaceful as I want to be today.
Nothing that happens has to interfere with this.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom:     “The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined.”

Hugh Prater, Morning Notes:          “Comfort with myself, not war with myself, is the agent for change. The world believes that if something needs to change, something more needs to be done. It believes that peace occurs when we are preemptive, that personal change occurs when we are proactive, and that love is a matter of winning and losing. But real change comes from letting go of what I think has to be changed. It may or may not involve increased activity, but it always involves becoming inwardly calm and quietly listening.”

Wayne Dyer:     “Approach any experience of injury, whether it be in yourself or others, with a mind-set of high hopes and possibilities for release from that injury.”

Paul Ferrini:          “One should not have to sacrifice becoming an authentic person in order to create a shared purpose with another. Nor should one have to sacrifice creating a shared reality in order to pursue one’s own creative potential.”
  
Unity’s Daily Word:

“One with the presence of God and one in spirit with all people,
I am forgiving.”

“Each time I forgive, I eliminate the experience of negative energy that is generated by blaming or faulting myself or another.”

“In prayer and contemplation, I release any resentment toward others and any regret or guilt toward myself for things I have done or left undone. Having released all critical, unforgiving thoughts from my mind, I make room for peace, love, and good to fill my life.”

“My ability to forgive myself and be in balance spiritually is deeply related to my willingness to forgive others. And that willingness to forgive others is deeply related to my awareness that I am an expression of God’s love and power.”

“One with the presence of God and one in spirit with all people, I am forgiving.”

A Course in Miracles:          Lesson  205

“I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.”
“I want the peace of God.”

Namaste - Ron