Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

February 5

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“The Holy Spirit is always present.”

“We can always count on the Holy Spirit to direct our thoughts and actions. However, we must be vigilant about asking for this guidance. We need to remember that the ego wants to be our director too. How do we know which “voice” we are listening to? The answer is always the same. If the act we are about to take or the words we are about to say are not purely loving, we aren’t attuned to the Holy Spirit. It’s just that simple.

Each day we are bombarded by opportunities to interact with other people who help us get in touch with our spiritual needs. Even the most difficult relationships offer us opportunities to grow and heal. Every person around us helps us return “home” to the realm of the Holy Spirit. In that realm, there is only love, nothing more. Our companions here, now, are the links to the realm of love.

“I can have constant contact with the Holy Spirit
if I am aware of the ego’s attempts to control me.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “The point of love is to make us grow, not to make us happy.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Adding light to darkness solves the problem of darkness. My thoughts constitute the happiness or misery in which I live. When I battle my thoughts, I split my mind and put myself in a firefight with shifting realities. However, I can safely leave all conflicted thoughts in place if I merely add God to them. No matter how strident my ego, it can’t completely drown out God’s quiet reassurance. Today, all I need do is worry in peace, be discouraged in peace, be confused in peace, and so on. There is always music behind the discord, if I choose to hear it.”

Wayne Dyer: Let go of your obsession with the past and with trying, and instead remain relaxed and casual and in the moment, noticing your life force minus your judgments and explanations.”

Paul Ferrini: “Surrendering to me is unlike any act of surrender you can know in the world. For the world would use your surrender harshly to control you, but I would use it gently to release you from falsehood and give you back your true Self.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“My life is enriched
by the fullness of God’s love.”

“As I watch children go about their day, I see characteristics of freedom, faith, and receptivity naturally flowing. Children trust that all needs will be met and their dreams will be fulfilled. They expect good before they have it in their hands, and they are receptive to gentle guidance and new ideas. This is the attitude I adopt as I go about my day with expectancy and faith.”

“With a receptive mind open to divine ideas, I become like a child and see good in all that surrounds me. I know that the abundance and love of God are flowing to me and through me.”

“God guides me and nurtures me, and I am inspired to experience a life enriched by the fullness of God’s love.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 36

“My holiness envelops everything I see.”

When I remember that I am One with God – that I am complete (whole) as God created me, then I can experience that “holiness” in all I look upon. My world can be seen as holy, when I remember I am One with God.

Namaste - Ron