Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

October 3

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Who needs forgiveness today?”

“We sometimes find ourselves surrounded by friends and colleagues who irritate us. It’s normal to gravitate toward men and women who frequently incite our anger. There’s an explanation for this. The Course teaches that everything we observe and feel about others is a direct projection of our own shortcomings. This is not an easy principle to accept, particularly when there is so much in others that engenders our irritation. It helps to learn that our sole purpose here is to know forgiveness. It’s evident, pretty quickly, that we need to forgive ourselves.

If we weren’t so disgusted with ourselves, we’d not be so eager to bring others down too. The obvious first task is to be more tolerant of our own failings, acknowledging that to be human is to be imperfect. Next, we must forgive ourselves. This isn’t easy, but with the help of the Holy Spirit, we can come to believe that we deserve love. After developing compassion for ourselves, we’ll be able to feel it for others. It doesn’t just happen; we have to work at it. But a transformation is guaranteed and eventually everyone “looks” okay.”

“I will be surrounded by folks who deserve forgiveness today.
Who I see is who I am!”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Relationships are eternal. They are of the mind, not the body, since people are energy, not physical substance.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Simply start over. I want to know in advance every detail of my future course. Whether considering a new job, new friendship, new computer program, or simply ordering something new from the menu, I think I am due an exact accounting of the results before I begin. Since this is impossible, I never start. This is especially detrimental when I make a spiritual mistake and get bogged down over what went wrong instead of simply beginning again. To start over I must be will to take myself as I am, to work with what I have, and to do so in the present. Mistakes need only be corrected.”

Wayne Dyer: “Through raising your own awareness you can live without being attached. An attached love creates despair because you are placing the source of your fulfillment and happiness on someone else. If they refuse to cooperate in the way that you feel they must, then you move into despair.”

Paul Ferrini: “When faced with your absolute, uncompromising commitment to yourself, others either join you or move swiftly out of your way…Clarity emerges as the clouds of self-doubt and attachment are burned away by the committed, radiant Self.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“As a radiating center of the Christ Presence,
I attract love, peace, and joy.”


“The blessings of Spirit make our lives full and complete. Love, joy, peace, and prosperity are drawn to us through the law of attraction. As radiating centers of the Christ Presence, we draw God’s blessings to us just as a magnet draws iron.”

“The law of attraction works simply, yet powerfully and flawlessly. Our part is to become what we wish to attract. Because we express God’s love openly and generously, we attract love, compassion, and kindness. As we act in ways that are supportive of others, we find that we ourselves are supported. The very act of uplifting others uplifts us.”

“Joy, peace, and generosity are ever present in our lives because we radiate these qualities to the world in which we live.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 276

“The Word of God is given me to speak.”

Namaste – Ron