Seeds for the Garden of your Mind

August 29

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Our fear of love attracts the ego.”

“It seems contradictory that we fear love, particularly in light of how skillfully we create special relationships in our attempts to receive love. In reality, we make hostages of our lovers to prevent the rejection we think we deserve.

The ego has a heyday when we enter into relationships. It never loses our partners unconditionally. It never really loves at all, in fact. Through control and guilt, it works overtime trying to prevent our companions from having a life of their own. Such would mean we’d been rejected, not loved, and that’s our worst fear.

How can we break this unhealthy pattern of living? Before studying the Course, we no doubt thought we couldn’t. And even now we backslide often. But we are learning some simple tools. We can’t feel or offer love except with the Holy Spirit’s help. Letting the ego say or decide anything for us will never result in our knowing love.”

“The ego is waiting to pounce on everybody today.
Loving and being loved is another option I can choose.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom:          “When we remain ignorant of the forces swirling around us, we suffer the consequences of all unconsciousness, remaining at the effect of forces over which we seem to have no control.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes:          “My ego chatters like a monkey, but its thoughts fade in importance when I am still. My ego is like every other ego – it is capable of almost any bizarre thought. I don’t have to speak ‘honestly’ about these thoughts. In fact, they are so random and contradictory it would be impossible to voice them all without sounding like a babbling idiot, which I often sound like anyway. Instead, if I gently sink below all the chatter into my God-given, God-sustained quietness, I become this other thing that is not my ego.”

Wayne Dyer:     “The moment you attempt to persuade others of the righteousness of your way of thinking, you stop the process of faith and manifestation.”

Paul Ferrini:               “Just being in your life is the molding process. Even when it seems that you are resisting your life or denying what is happening, the clay is still being worked. You can’t be alive and not be engaged in creating a work of art.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“The Christ Presence within me is a center of ever-renewing life.
I am healed.”

“Jesus was once approached by a centurion who was concerned about his servant who  was ill. Jesus was willing to visit the man’s home to heal the servant, but the centurion assured Jesus: “Only speak the word, and my servant will be healed.”

“When I speak the word of faith, something happens within me too. I declare wholeness within my soul, and healing takes place somewhere in me or in my life. I affirm oneness with God and with all people, and new possibilities become apparent as attitudes and situations begin to shift.”

“The Christ Presence within me is a center of ever-renewing life. Healing is the response to the faith-filled thoughts I hold in mind and the words I speak.”

A Course in Miracles:          Lesson   241

“This holy instant is salvation come.”

Namaste – Ron