August 21
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“We can’t give our thoughts away.”
“Our thoughts determine who we are. We may want to push thoughts on others, and no doubt try. But they are still ours. What we can do, however, is change our thoughts. We never have to keep holding a thought we don’t want.
Let’s say we think a friend has been disparaging us behind our back. We are obsesses with worry and maybe anger. We’re afraid of a confrontation, so we keep mulling it over in our minds. How can we get beyond this thought short of approaching our friend? Not surprisingly, the Course has a solution: Recognize that thoughts which “attack,” whether real or imagined, are a call for love.
Perhaps we aren’t willing to offer love or forgiveness when we feel someone has hurt us, but we can decide to give up our own attack thoughts with the help of God. We give them up in the process of changing them, and we change them by asking for a better vision of the situation. A more positive perspective may not come immediately, but that’s because the ego still wields control. Be patient and ask again.”
“I will look at what I’m thinking today and
make better choices if I’m not happy.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Peace isn’t determined by circumstances outside of us. Peace stems from forgiveness. Pain doesn’t stem from the love we’re denied by others, but rather from the love that we deny them.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Since at our core we are the same, understanding another person is essentially an act of self-acceptance. ‘Trying hard to understand’ someone is the wrong approach to the right goal. Understanding comes from calmness and a quiet, steady vision, which are impossible if I believe in a fractured reality. If ‘my reality’ is unique, understanding the whole is precluded, because there is no whole. And yet, if a single divine truth runs deep in everyone, understanding others is simply a matter of looking within my own heart honestly.”
Wayne Dyer: “The presence of problems and annoyances in life is due to accepting the material world as a higher reality than the world of the spirit.”
Paul Ferrini: “The only prisons in the world are the ones of your own making. Remember…for every prison you create in your mind, there is a key that unlocks the door. If you can’t erase the prison, at least claim the key to the door.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“I give thanks that God is with me throughout all life’s journeys.”
“Life is an ongoing series of journeys. Some are momentous, such as the journey that began when we took in that first breath of life. Many are less dramatic but sill part of the sequence of events that have brought us to where we are today.”
“Looking back over our lives, we can often see a rich choreography, a divine pattern that tells us we have not been traveling alone. God is with us throughout all life’s journeys.”
“Divine appointments bring us together with wonderful companions to share our journeys. Wherever our journeys take us, we can trust God is with u s, guiding and protecting us along our way.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 223
“I give my life to God to guide today.”
Namaste - Ron
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“We can’t give our thoughts away.”
“Our thoughts determine who we are. We may want to push thoughts on others, and no doubt try. But they are still ours. What we can do, however, is change our thoughts. We never have to keep holding a thought we don’t want.
Let’s say we think a friend has been disparaging us behind our back. We are obsesses with worry and maybe anger. We’re afraid of a confrontation, so we keep mulling it over in our minds. How can we get beyond this thought short of approaching our friend? Not surprisingly, the Course has a solution: Recognize that thoughts which “attack,” whether real or imagined, are a call for love.
Perhaps we aren’t willing to offer love or forgiveness when we feel someone has hurt us, but we can decide to give up our own attack thoughts with the help of God. We give them up in the process of changing them, and we change them by asking for a better vision of the situation. A more positive perspective may not come immediately, but that’s because the ego still wields control. Be patient and ask again.”
“I will look at what I’m thinking today and
make better choices if I’m not happy.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Peace isn’t determined by circumstances outside of us. Peace stems from forgiveness. Pain doesn’t stem from the love we’re denied by others, but rather from the love that we deny them.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Since at our core we are the same, understanding another person is essentially an act of self-acceptance. ‘Trying hard to understand’ someone is the wrong approach to the right goal. Understanding comes from calmness and a quiet, steady vision, which are impossible if I believe in a fractured reality. If ‘my reality’ is unique, understanding the whole is precluded, because there is no whole. And yet, if a single divine truth runs deep in everyone, understanding others is simply a matter of looking within my own heart honestly.”
Wayne Dyer: “The presence of problems and annoyances in life is due to accepting the material world as a higher reality than the world of the spirit.”
Paul Ferrini: “The only prisons in the world are the ones of your own making. Remember…for every prison you create in your mind, there is a key that unlocks the door. If you can’t erase the prison, at least claim the key to the door.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“I give thanks that God is with me throughout all life’s journeys.”
“Life is an ongoing series of journeys. Some are momentous, such as the journey that began when we took in that first breath of life. Many are less dramatic but sill part of the sequence of events that have brought us to where we are today.”
“Looking back over our lives, we can often see a rich choreography, a divine pattern that tells us we have not been traveling alone. God is with us throughout all life’s journeys.”
“Divine appointments bring us together with wonderful companions to share our journeys. Wherever our journeys take us, we can trust God is with u s, guiding and protecting us along our way.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 223
“I give my life to God to guide today.”
Namaste - Ron
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