Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

January 31

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“The body is used by the ego or the Holy Spirit to communicate.”

“We say the body isn’t real and then we proceed to affect it by the mind. How can this be? When we mean when we say the body isn’t real is that it reflects what the mind projects. It doesn’t exist independently. It has no intrinsic, unchanging properties. It does communicate quite emphatically and prolifically, however. And that’s because the mind, from either the Holy Spirit’s perspective or the ego’s, is communicating through the body all the time.

How might we see this from a practical standpoint? We can all recognize when someone (some body) physically attacks another body. What has occurred is that the ego has made a suggestion to the mind that the body fulfilled. The body didn’t devise this action. It does only what it’s told to do.

On the other hand, when we note someone smiling and looking beyond an attack statement, we can be certain the Holy Spirit is acting. We are never at a loss to understand the cause of another’s behavior. We must see ours likewise.

“My body reveals who is doing my thinking.
Today’s experiences will unfold accordingly.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Date to be ordinary. God is One. I experience God by experiencing equality: the sameness in another person and the divinity in all living things. Today I will dare to turn my back on the world’s shrill urgings that we should each strive to be the best. Instead, I will embrace my ordinariness. I will be normal and equal. I will have no ‘spiritual’ posture, tell no ego-enhancing ‘spiritual’ stories, think no separating ‘spiritual’ thoughts. I did not create myself, and today I will relax into who I already am.”

Wayne Dyer, There’s a Spiritual Solution for Every Problem: “Little baby steps at first. Remind yourself that all those who had this power…began their journey by reminding themselves, in moments of strife, that they were first and without a doubt divine spiritual beings, connected rather than separated from their source.”

Paul Ferrini, Reflections of a Christ Mind: “It is in your thoughts that you choose to walk with me or to walk away from me. If you would be like me, you must learn to think like me. And if you would think like me, you must place every thought you think in my hands.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“God’s grace moves in and through my life –
keeping me steady and serene.”

“The winter season brings many opportunities for recreation. As a participant or as a spectator, I become keenly aware of the benefits of physical grace – the poise that athletes such as skaters demonstrate as they maintain balance while gliding across the ice.”

“Gliding through slippery situations in life can be a challenge as well. So when I find myself amidst uncertainty, I affirm that spiritual grace is active in all that concerns me. God is the stabilizing force that keeps me centered and aware. I am able to take any missteps in stride, carrying on with dignity and self-respect. The grace of God is moving in and through my life – blessing me and keeping me steady and serene.”

A Course in Miracles:
Lesson 31

“I am not the victim of the world I see.”

I refuse to be a victim of my own world. The very thought is a great example of the insanity of my world. My world is made by me, by the projection of my thoughts. How ridiculous to make me a victim of my own thoughts, and yet that is exactly what I have done. I could never be a victim of someone else’s thoughts, only mine. Now I have come to realize how absurd that is and I will no longer willing take on that role.

Namaste - Ron