Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

August 25

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“The physical world is a product of the ego.”

“For some, this one of the most difficult of all the Course principles. Initially, it even seems frightening. How can we be responsible for the countless tragedies that occur daily around the world? How can earthquakes and famine be products of the ego? Don’t they have a reality of their own? Aren’t men and women and children really dying?”

“The best way for us to look at these situations and perhaps understand them within the context of the Course is to focus first on small examples of how our minds create our reality. If I expect an argument with a spouse over an issue that concerns us both, it’s likely that I’ll broach the topic defensively, just waiting for disagreement. Not surprisingly, my action triggers just what I expected. If multitudes of people are fearing and expecting earthquakes and famine, rather than thinking about and creating loving circumstances, the negative energy for devastation may be put in motion.”

“Thoughts manifest themselves. We can see this in the mundane. With effort we’ll be able to glimpse that it may work this way in the extraordinary as well.”

“I need to carefully notice what I’m thinking today.
It defines how I see my experiences.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “We’re afraid of either failure or success. If we’re closer to success, we’ll fear success. If we’re closer to failure, we’ll fear failure. The issue isn’t success or failure. The issue is the presence of fear, and its inevitability wherever love is absent.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Happiness is easy. It’s letting go of unhappiness that’s hard. We’re willing to give up everything but our misery. A hundred times a day our love of happiness is cut short by our even greater fear of it. A happy thought is inevitably followed by a ‘realistic’ one. If we find ourselves laughing with abandon, singing in the shower, or whistling loud enough to be overheard, for some nagging reason we feel we must resume a ‘serious’ state of mind. And yet it’s happiness that is truly practical and serious. It positively affects our mental and physical health, our relationships with friends and family, our job performance, not to mention our relationship with God. Happiness connects us with Reality; unhappiness disconnects us.”

Wayne Dyer: “As you know, the problems are illusions to begin with.”

Paul Ferrini: “it would be easy for the potter to reject the clay as inferior and unworthy of him. But were he to do so, his life would have no meaning. He is not defined by the clay, but by what he choose to do with it.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“The presence of God enfolds me and comforts me.”

“In the silence of God’s loving presence, I listen and I hear God’s message to me: ‘Beloved, I am here with you now and forever. Do not fear or give in to doubt, for I am the light that is guiding you through the darkest of nights and encouraging you on safe pathways.”

“My spirit is the spirit of unconditional love that can will enable you to overcome whatever may seem to be challenging you now or in the days to come.”

“My comfort is peace that surpasses all understanding. Let My peace infuse you with the assurance that you have a life filled with love and hope, regardless of what has happened.”

“Remember, dear one, that I always with you and you can rely on Me.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 237

“Now would I be as God created me.”

Namaste – Ron