Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

October 10

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Do we really believe God is cruel?”

“If we believe God created this world, we’d have to hold Him accountable for the war, child molestation, mass murder, earthquakes, insanity, poverty. We’d have to assume He is exceedingly cruel if we assume anything at all. That isn’t a comforting idea. In fact, it’s frightening. What will He do next if He’s responsible for all this heartache?

A Course in Miracles says God doesn’t cause any disturbance. But if He didn’t, who did? The Course’s answer is not comforting because it places responsibility wholly on us. We can’t imagine why we’d ever want to wreak havoc on a unsuspecting world.

Perhaps we’ll never understand it, but let’s accept that we have a deluded ego that’s holding us and everyone else hostage for as long as we listen to it. Taking the chance to not listen allows us to hear the truth about ourselves, our companions, our world.”

“If the world I see today looks mean and bleak,
I am letting the ego be my eyes.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “The difference between a friendship and a romance can be illustrated with the image of a long-stemmed rose. The stem is the friendship; the blossom is the romance.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “I will listen to my peace, not to my ever-changing ego emotions. If I continue responding to the world in the old conflicted ways, I remain its victim, and my feelings of defeat and sorrow deepen with age. In just a little over a hundred years, the seven billion people now on this planet will all be dead. More will come to take their place, but their fate will be the same. My commitment to this world is therefore to a dream of quick and certain destruction. There is a way out, but am I willing to do what needs to be done? Am I willing to listen to and obey the part of my mind that is already awake?”

Wayne Dyer, “Rather than your normal reaction to despair, of being inactive, speaking in terms of hopelessness, complaining and fault-finding, feeling self-pity and pessimism, create of picture of how you would like everything to work out and firmly make a commitment to act as if what you want is already here.”

Paul Ferrini: “I have asked you to be in this world but not of it. What does this mean? It means that you choose work that you can do joyfully in the spirit of love. That way your labor becomes a gift.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“My spirit soars, for I am free.”

“My day is full with possibility, and my first choice of the day is to pray. In prayer, I free myself to choose wisely.”

“As I enter into the silence, I picture colorful balloons, tethered to my wrist and ready to soar. I reach for the balloon labeled “free to forgive” and set this balloon into flight. I pray for those with whom I may have had an issue and wish them well. I release the balloon labeled “free to unclutter” and make a note of the things I can give away that might bring joy to others. As I release the ‘free to love’ balloon, I bless in prayer those special people who have touched my life profoundly.”

“I have set my day’s course. My spirit soars, for I have chosen to be free.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 283

“My true identity abides in You.”

Namaste - Ron