Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

November 17

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“We never really left the Real World.”

“When we hear that this is not the Real World, we are prone to ask, “Where is the Real World if not here, after all?” The answer is just as mysterious. The Course says we never actually left the Real World except in our minds, one part of our minds, in fact. Where we are now is in the company of the ego and the world it created. Because of the ego’s hold on us, we have unwittingly blocked out the memory of the Real World. The truth is that they Real World is still very much alive although seemingly lost to us.”

“The way we typically look at the circumstances and the people around us, it’s hard to believe that they aren’t all that exists. Many may not grasp this concept for years. That’s okay. All we have to grasp, or at least accept, is the knowledge that what we see and who we see have been determined by the ego. If we want a different picture, we can’t settle for the ego’s world as our home.”

“Which world I inhabit today depends on my choice.
Only one world promises peace.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Without a sense of connection to deeper, more noble ideas, we are doomed to a desperate struggle for things that fill us up: the job, the relationship, the looks, the body. We are tyrannized by a belief that we are inadequate.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “I seek your peace. If I am unhappy, I can restore my happiness by silently saying to whomever is before me: ‘I seek your peace. What am I not giving you? What can I give you now?’ But if I am happy and want to be unhappy, I can think instead: ‘I seek my personal pleasure. What am I not getting from you? What do I need from you now?”

Wayne Dyer: “Severe drug addicts and alcoholics often must face what is called an intervention before they finally make the decision to become free. An intervention is a direct confrontation by family and friends in which the addict is forced to hear the truth.”

Paul Ferrini: “My disciples do not chastise people for forgetting. They simply remind them gently, over and over again, that they are capable of giving and receiving love.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“Divine love heals me and
inspires me to greater understanding and peace.”

“Paul and Silas of the New Testament knew the truth of their freedom in God even while imprisoned. When they were in prayer, an earthquake suddenly opened the jail doors, but they did not rush out. They stayed, believing that through the grace of God they would be free. And they were, that very day.”

“As with the men in story, I have the freedom that the grace of God brings me wherever I am, whatever the circumstances. God’s grace is love that guides me and provides me with all that I ever need.”

“God’s grace is love that is continually flowing through me, healing me at depth and inspiring me to greater understanding and peace. I am an expression of the love of God in the world.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 321

“Father, my freedom is in You alone.”

Namaste - Ron