Seeds for the Garden of your Mind

November 28

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Why are we afraid of the Truth?”

“It probably doesn’t seem like we are afraid of the truth. In fact, we heap praises on Truth seeking, our own and others. But in the context of the Course, we are afraid of Truth. That’s why we have created this hostile, violent, and sometimes indifferent world.

The key question, of course, is what’s there to be afraid of? Our answer is the wrath of God. In our ego-directed, insane minds we think we deserve to be punished for leaving the Real World. Our leaving killed God, we think, and now we have to pay. This “truth” will destroy us, so we have hidden from it.

The Course tells us a different story. We’re told God still exists. We never really left His presence. We don’t need this world of illusions we created. They only serve to keep us from our real self and from God. There is nothing to fear “at home.” Our memory of it here, if we can conjure one up, will make us peaceful and unafraid.”

“Today’s truth is the same as yesterday’s.
God does not wish us harm. He waits for us to come home.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “The most positive breakthroughs of our times are internal. Both men and women are becoming more authentic and powerful, as the light within us grows and intensifies.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “The goal of happiness and the means of happiness must be congruent. It’s possible to be ‘open and honest’ with individuals without attacking them – but that’s seldom how honesty and openness are practiced. If ‘honoring our feelings’ is the goal, it’s also possible to beat pillows, scream into the wind, go for a walk, meditate, describe the sensations to ourselves in detail, or release our bodily tensions in some other harmless way. It’s curious that we think that in order to be true to our self, we must hurt someone else. Pain, including our own, never promotes peace.”

Wayne Dyer: “Empathy is a wonderful high energy quality and I encourage you to extend thoughts of compassion and love to those who are experiencing darkness.”

Paul Ferrini: “Teachers who tell you what to do are betraying their spiritual immaturity. A wise teacher asks good questions, but give very little advice.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“With a joyful soul,
I accept and give thanks for the goodness of God.”

“Divine ideas create a feast that continually feeds my soul. The enrichment that divine ideas of life, love, and understanding bring me breaks forth in a joy that further strengthens me in mind, body, and spirit.”

“My joy is in knowing that God loves me and in experiencing the wonder of life that God created me to experience. As I speak and sing words of praise to God, wave after wave of gladness washes over me. Any hint of discontent is cleared from my mind. My world sparkles with possibility.”

“Giving praise from a heart of joy awakens me to even more to be joyful about. I recognize blessings that I might have previously overlooked. With a joyful soul, I accept and give thanks for the goodness of God.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 332

“Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.”