Seeds for the Garden of your Mind

October 31

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Death is not real.”

“What can it mean that death is not real? We look around and see dying plants every day. We’ve no doubt been to many funerals and have had many discussions about death with friends and family. How can we believe that something which captured our attention and participation so significantly is not real? Are we all insane? The unexpected response is, yes. We are.

Most of us need a more elaborate explanation though. Death only appears to be real in this illusory world, which the Course tells us isn’t real. We’ve created it as a silly act of defiance and now, with the ego’s help, we preserve it. Because it isn’t finally real, nothing we see here lasts. Thus, death seems to occur. The illusion is therefore supported.

What does any of this matter? Do we really care what’s real and what isn’t? If we want to get back home, if we want to experience real peace and joy, it does matter that we understand this principle. The easiest path to understanding it is to seek God’s help. We know where that’s found, don’t we. All things will become clear when we are ready for the answers.”

“If someone speaks to me of death today,
I’ll listen instead, to the Holy Spirit’s voice.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Miracles are when we ask God what we can do for Him. Miracles shift us from a “get” to a “give” mentality.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “The perfect outcome can be sought only in the future – where it is destined to remain. Whenever I find myself looking to the future to be complete, I will remember that God doesn’t ask me to make myself worthy. If I knew how to prepare myself to receive God, my knowledge would already be perfect. It is in recognizing that I don’t really know anything for sure that I open my mind to the divine.”

Wayne Dyer, “Eventually, but most assuredly, you will bring hope to that imagined despair, and by doing so you will have taken another step toward knowing that there truly is a spiritual to every problem.”

Paul Ferrini, “Having a goal means nothing if you are not committed to it. If you are not willing to put the full force of your being behind that goal, then your dreams are not going to become reality.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“I am a precious and unique child of God.”

“What a joy it is to know that God has created each of us to be special and unique! As it is with winter snowflakes, each one of us is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind creation.”

“Pure joy comes with celebrating our unique differences. Each individual we meet has the potential to express all manner of God-given gifts, and we can help support and encourage the expression of such gifts.”

“Beauty comes in many different shapes, colors, and sizes, and God treasures each of us, just as we are. This world remains complete and whole as we live our lives remembering that we are precious and unique children of God, created to express God’s love in our own individual and diverse lives.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 304

“Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.”

Namaste - Ron