Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

February 2

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“I am not separate from others. I only think I am.”

“It seems foreign to think of ourselves as One with others. How can we see others unless they are separate from us? Many of the lessons of the Course require faith. In time, we will recognize the truth of these lessons. We will also learn we can live in this world with ease.

We need to remember that whatever we do to others we do to ourselves. If I snap at you, I get stung. If I gossip about you, I feel untrustworthy. If I hit you, I injure my sense of self. Everything I do boomerangs back to me.

The concept of our connectedness is elusive. Probably the best way to grasp the idea is by noticing exactly how we feel each time we interact with other people. However we receive them, we receive ourselves. By loving them, we feel loved. By honoring them, we feel honored. By forgiving them, we become forgiven.”

“Today I will treat others as I want to be treated.
After all, we are One and the same.”

Marianne Williamson: “You awaken to your own perfection through your desire to see the perfection in someone else.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Discouragement is not helpful. Discouragement is love of the ego because it turns to the ego for its sense of reality. Spirit will not and cannot confirm ‘low spirits.’ Discouragement is never necessary. And it isn’t much fun. But the answer is not to fight it. If I fight it, I make myself a victim of my own mind, which is impossible. When I am discouraged, no matter how slight the feeling, I will be still a moment and find the place in me where I am whole. I will let my mind fall gently back into place. Then, I will start over by doing just one thing without discouragement.”

Wayne Dyer: “Without rancor, I simply allow the other person to be right, which is all their ego really wants.”

Paul Ferrini: “No one on earth has a better answer for you than the one you will find through trust in yourself and me.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“I am alone with God and will all humanity.”

“I realize the power of words that give expression to divine ideas, whether I speak them aloud or hold them within my mind and heart. Those ideas are the spiritual building blocks I use to co-create my experiences and my world.”

“With expressions of integrity, compassion, creativity, and courage, I help create a world that reflects these qualities. Creativity flows as I maintain the integrity of what I say with like-minded actions.”

“I choose and use generous, positive, and constructive language. And as I do, I build within myself a generous, positive, constructive consciousness.”

“In meditation and prayer, in conversation and writing, I affirm my oneness with God and with all humanity.”

A Course in Miracles:
Lesson 33

“There is another way of looking at the world.”

This is a major theme of the Course. There is always another way of looking at my world. I can always change my thought – change my sight of my world. I do not have to see anything less than joy and peace – it is my choice. Am I exercising my choice right now?

Namaste - Ron