Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

January 25

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Our desire to understand anything is the first important step.”

“There are numerous elements in the Course’s teachings that baffle us. When we’re informed that this world we think we see is not real confusion sets in big time. What is this that we see? The world outside of us mirrors the world we think we want to see: we project it. In the process, we project the people we see too. The key element here is who we put in charge of the projection: the ego or the Holy Spirit. If the ego is relied on, we’ll see conflict and pain. If the Holy Sprit speaks, we’ll know forgiveness and love.

It’s not beyond us to have total understanding of this process. The real gift is that we’ll have exactly the world of experiences we really deserve when we seek the Spirit’s view.”

“I can live in darkness today or
I can take the mysteries to the light of the Holy Spirit.
My understanding of this life will grow.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “All thoughts are equally a part of the mind. Notice how difficult it is merely to think in peace about any individual who comes to mind. Still, that must be my aim if I am ever to experience consistent mental wholeness. My tendency is to disown the negative parts of my mind because it’s uncomfortable to admit what they say about me. Yet I think what I think by choice. All of it is my mind. My motivation to learn how to react peacefully to those who people my thoughts should be enormous – once I consider the effects of my attitudes have on me.”

Wayne Dyer, There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem: “We are all blind in many ways. It is through our figurative blindness that God’s work can be displayed in our life.”

Paul Ferrini, Reflections of the Christ Mind: “My teaching may be simple, but it will require all of your attention, all of your energy, all of your commitment. To intend to “be equal with” each person in your experience is a revolutionary teaching. It is a teaching that will take you a lifetime of practice to master.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“I live in harmony with all in my home,
community, and world.”

“We see and hear stories of conflict between people and among people; however, this is not the way life has to be or was created to be. Each of us can be peacemaker and peacekeeper in our homes, communities, and world.”

“We have two great powers available to us: the power of prayer and the power of our own thoughts. A prayerful mind and prayerful thoughts brings us closer to an awakening of peace and harmony in our circle of family and friends.”

“We have the God-given abilities to love and to live in harmony with others. Living in harmony becomes a reality as we practice being peacemakers and make conscious choices about the way we live. Let us love one another unconditionally – as God loves us.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 25

“I do not know what anything is for.”

Perhaps I will be jumping ahead here, but this thought will come again and again and again in the Course. It is not a statement of ignorance but rather a declaration of giving over to God all the things I think I believe in. Anything I see is but an illusion that I have given meaning to. An illusion is nothing and I have given “meaning” to nothing. I truly do not know what anything is for – this is a dream filled with dreams within dreams. I will stop pretending I know what everything is for.

Namaste – Ron