April 4
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Any pain we feel comes from identifying with the ego.”
“While it may baffle us, the Course says all pain comes from the ego. This is a powerful statement. Can it really be true? What about the injury we sustained while biking or the migraine that followed something we are? Surely those examples aren’t ego controlled. The ego doesn’t distinguish between physical or emotional manifestations.
It’s helpful to remember what Jesus said about his crucifixion. He saw the wounds but didn’t identify with them. With God’s help he looked beyond them and forgave those who wounded him. Thus, he felt no pain. The same can be true for us. Where we put our attention is what we will know, feel, and teach.
The level of pain in our lives is our easiest indicator of how ego-aligned we are. The ego is never satisfied. It will always want more money, more friends, more control over others, more success, more attention. That it will go to any length to get what it thinks it deserves is our setup for pain. In some form the pain will come. In some form it will remain until we identify, instead, with the Holy Spirit.”
“Nothing will cause me pain today
if I look at my life from the perspective of my guardian Spirit.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “When human beings stand by one another, testify to their faith, and witness each other’s pain, miracles happen. If we are loved enough, we are emotionally healed and spiritually made whole.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Empathy is not a behavior; it’s an inner necessity. It isn’t necessary to speak to other people or to agree with them or to cheer them up or to spend more time with them. But it is necessary to identify with them, to love them as myself. If I can identify with my pets and plants, I can certainly identify with other human beings. I know what it’s like to feel understood.”
Wayne Dyer, Manifest Your Destiny: “This is the process of unbonding from those wounds and no longer hanging onto them as prized possessions…letting go of the language of blame and self-pity and no longer leading with one’s wounds and injuries from the past…privately forgiving and not asking anyone else to understand…leaving behind the eye-for-an-eye attitude that only makes for more pain and need for more revenge, and replacing it with an attitude of love and forgiveness.”
Paul Ferrini, Love Without Conditions: Fear is but the lack of love. Scarcity is but the lack of abundance. Resentment is but the lack of gratitude. Something cannot be lacking unless it was first present in abundance. Without presence, absence has no meaning.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“A wellspring of divine ideas flows from the Christ within me.
I am prospered.”
“If my thoughts are turning over and over on a negative topic or in a repetitive, unproductive pattern, I’m not making any progress. Revisiting the same problem with a sense of worry can drag me down mentally and physically. A spiritual transformation is then needed.”
“Through the Christ Spirit within, transformation is possible at any time. I replace any stagnant beliefs and thoughts with fresh spiritual insights and divine ideas that nurture and sustain me.”
“I can have a spiritual transformation whenever I make a conscious connection with the Christ Spirit within me. Through meditation and prayer, I open a wellspring of divine ideas that prospers and blesses me.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 94
“I am as God created me.”
Truly my favorite lesson, well at least this week. This lesson, this message, this affirmation, is stated so many times within the Course and for a very purpose. It is as simple a statement and yet even though we utter this phrase so often, we fail to accept it. By acceptance we proclaim that we are not this body we think we are, but we are the image and likeness of God. We are One with God and we are One with each other. We are separated beings but One with God. Not only am I just as God created me, but I am where God created me!
Namaste - Ron
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Any pain we feel comes from identifying with the ego.”
“While it may baffle us, the Course says all pain comes from the ego. This is a powerful statement. Can it really be true? What about the injury we sustained while biking or the migraine that followed something we are? Surely those examples aren’t ego controlled. The ego doesn’t distinguish between physical or emotional manifestations.
It’s helpful to remember what Jesus said about his crucifixion. He saw the wounds but didn’t identify with them. With God’s help he looked beyond them and forgave those who wounded him. Thus, he felt no pain. The same can be true for us. Where we put our attention is what we will know, feel, and teach.
The level of pain in our lives is our easiest indicator of how ego-aligned we are. The ego is never satisfied. It will always want more money, more friends, more control over others, more success, more attention. That it will go to any length to get what it thinks it deserves is our setup for pain. In some form the pain will come. In some form it will remain until we identify, instead, with the Holy Spirit.”
“Nothing will cause me pain today
if I look at my life from the perspective of my guardian Spirit.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “When human beings stand by one another, testify to their faith, and witness each other’s pain, miracles happen. If we are loved enough, we are emotionally healed and spiritually made whole.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Empathy is not a behavior; it’s an inner necessity. It isn’t necessary to speak to other people or to agree with them or to cheer them up or to spend more time with them. But it is necessary to identify with them, to love them as myself. If I can identify with my pets and plants, I can certainly identify with other human beings. I know what it’s like to feel understood.”
Wayne Dyer, Manifest Your Destiny: “This is the process of unbonding from those wounds and no longer hanging onto them as prized possessions…letting go of the language of blame and self-pity and no longer leading with one’s wounds and injuries from the past…privately forgiving and not asking anyone else to understand…leaving behind the eye-for-an-eye attitude that only makes for more pain and need for more revenge, and replacing it with an attitude of love and forgiveness.”
Paul Ferrini, Love Without Conditions: Fear is but the lack of love. Scarcity is but the lack of abundance. Resentment is but the lack of gratitude. Something cannot be lacking unless it was first present in abundance. Without presence, absence has no meaning.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“A wellspring of divine ideas flows from the Christ within me.
I am prospered.”
“If my thoughts are turning over and over on a negative topic or in a repetitive, unproductive pattern, I’m not making any progress. Revisiting the same problem with a sense of worry can drag me down mentally and physically. A spiritual transformation is then needed.”
“Through the Christ Spirit within, transformation is possible at any time. I replace any stagnant beliefs and thoughts with fresh spiritual insights and divine ideas that nurture and sustain me.”
“I can have a spiritual transformation whenever I make a conscious connection with the Christ Spirit within me. Through meditation and prayer, I open a wellspring of divine ideas that prospers and blesses me.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 94
“I am as God created me.”
Truly my favorite lesson, well at least this week. This lesson, this message, this affirmation, is stated so many times within the Course and for a very purpose. It is as simple a statement and yet even though we utter this phrase so often, we fail to accept it. By acceptance we proclaim that we are not this body we think we are, but we are the image and likeness of God. We are One with God and we are One with each other. We are separated beings but One with God. Not only am I just as God created me, but I am where God created me!
Namaste - Ron
3 comments:
I am happy being me! It is so true that people often worry obsessively as well as negatively . Others though, like yourself produce love light and laughter. So there is balance! :)
Thanks again!
Thanks for the compliment. That leaves a very worm fuzzy feeling.
{{{Hugs}}} and love to you
hugs and love to you Jimmy James! :)
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