Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

September 6

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Only loving thoughts are true.”

“The Course clearly delineates between the truth and everything else. Using this principle to measure all actions clarifies and interprets all the circumstances that involve us. Our response to any situation or person need never vary. Attack is never appropriate regardless of how the experience has manifested.

It’s not easy to accept that the mean-spirited actions of others are their calls for healing and help. And the ego quickly justifies our own mean reactions. Let’s not judge ourselves negatively for that. Instead, let’s be aware of our negative thoughts and actions. Then we need to ask to feel another way about the individual who has triggered the feeling. Forgiveness will always be possible if we ask for it.

There is a simpler way to live than most of us enjoy. It results from our willingness to let the Holy Spirit decide all actions, think all thoughts, make all plans. We’ll never need to seek healing and help if we live in this manner.”

“Can I hold only loving thoughts today?
There is a way and it’s open to me.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom:     “Pray for your friends, but by all means, pray for your enemies. And don’t pray that they’ll change; pray that you might change – from an accusatory mind to a loving one.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes:          “Attacking back, even if only mentally, duplicates the original mistake. As people go through the day, they can’t help but teach. For instances, as we shop in a grocery store, we encounter individuals teaching consideration, impatience, good humor, preoccupation, self-importance, forbearance, irritation, and so on. If our mind is still, reading other people’s attitudes is no more difficult than reading the individual mindsets of pets at an animal shelter. So no matter how much I would like to believe that I am keeping it to myself, for me to be judgmental teaches my faith in the value of making judgments, as does being dejected, cynical, fearful, and so one. Mind matters. It’s impossible to engage in a high-minded counterattack.”

Wayne Dyer:     “There is no despair in the world. You cannot bring home a bucket full of despair, there are only people thinking despairing thoughts.”  

Paul Ferrini:               “Whatever gift you have to give is the perfect one. It does not matter if it is not the one you thoughts you would have or the one you wanted. When you embrace the gift, the purpose of your life reveals itself.”  

Unity’s Daily Word:     

“Wherever my path may lead,
God is my constant companion.”

“There may be a time in my life’s journey when I come to a crossroads, an intersection where two or more paths are before me. With each path leading in a different direction, it’s up to me to choose which one I take. I may not know what adventures lie in store for me along any given way, but I can be sure that God will be my constant companion.”

“I give thanks that whichever path I choose to take will present opportunities to meet wonderful friends and loving companions. There will be lessons to be learned and beautiful discoveries to be made.”

“As I listen to the still, small voice of God with my heart, I step forth with confidence and trust.”

A Course in Miracles:          Lesson 249

“Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss.”

Namaste – Ron