Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

December 27

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“We will all share a common vision in the end.”

“Our destination is the same. No matter who we are, we are on a journey that’s bringing us all together in the end. How can that be? We look so different. Our beliefs are often at odds. Our dreams for the future don’t match. But the Course tells us, “We are going home, and no one gets there until we all get there.”

We manage this shared journey by helping each other seek a holier vision of each experience that troubles one of us. On any one day, some one of us can see “the better way” more clearly than others. Thus, our assignment is to listen when we are stuck, to offer love and clarity when we feel it, to remain quiet when we can’t say something helpful.

Knowing that we are ultimately headed in the same direction fosters trust in one another and can make us more willing to help others. Occasionally we still feel jealous and antagonistic, but that’s because the ego hasn’t yet been buried. Give us time.”


“I can help someone who has a cloudy perspective today.
My own will be enhanced likewise.”

Marianne Williamson: “Relationships are eternal; separation does not mean separation of our souls. Someone’s leaving sometimes feels like the greatest pain we have ever suffered. But our relationships do not die; they just change form. Faith means knowing that no one is every really gone.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “All that is needed is a leap in faith. I freely given my faith to rumors, stories in the news, and the latest nutritional supplement. Why not give it to what I profess to believe? Why not think, act, and feel as if I have a Friend, and that Friend is here, and that Friend can be trusted – with my life, my relationships, and my redemption?”

Wayne Dyer: “When you understand the nature of your sadness you can acknowledge it, accept it, honor it, and do anything else with it that you choose, including paying homage to it and building a shrine to it. But in the end, when you want to dissolve it, bring in …joy and you can give it a big, wet kiss goodbye as it floats out of your life. Sadness cannot survive with…joy.”

Paul Ferrini: “I assure you that you will not increase your happiness just by increasing your material possessions. You increase your happiness only by increasing your energy, your self-expression and your love.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“I celebrate a world of diversity in unity.”

“God has created a world of beauty and awesome wonder. I celebrate this world by nurturing it as I would a sacred garden. I join the family of God around the world in peace, love, and oneness.”

“It has been said that to light even one candle is to overcome the darkness. As we use one candle to light another and then another, we light up our world in celebration of our diversity in unity.”

“One by one, we each bring our own unique qualities to the whole. We love and support one another. As we continue to believe in one another and hold to our faith in God, our world comes together in peace. From this unity purpose, we make peace on earth a reality for all.

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 361

“This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge.
For I would follow You,
certain that Your direction gives me peace.”