May 7
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Our pain has value.”
“We find it difficult to accept that pain can have value. Surely we don’t want the migraine headache, the mysterious illness, the broken heart. Our wise teachers suggest that the ego creates and hangs on to pain to get its needs met.
We’re learning now that our unmet needs are really our unneeded desires. What we think we need and what we actually need are seldom the same.
The Course says all we need is love. Our attempts to get love from relationships or through possessions fail, so we seek sympathy and attention for our pain and call this love. The ego stops at nothing to get what it wants, even sacrificing our health.
Our pain will leave us when we focus forgiveness and giving only love to others. Removing the focus from ourselves miraculously cures us by healing how we think. This will do for us what no amount of ego efforts can do.”
“I can decide I don’t need whatever ails me today.
The ego does me no favors.”
From Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “It is not the body that gets sick, but the mind. It is not the body but the mind that is in need of healing, and the only healing is a return to love.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “There is only one kind of love – the uncalculating kind. Love is simply the desire that those around me experience happiness, peace, and fulfillment. But it’s not part of the that desire that I must receive credit for the efforts I make or that my motives must be interpreted accurately. The desire for credit is unmitigated ego. Love is the willingness for each individual to find his or her own way and the trust that Something wiser than us is watching over us.”
Carolyn Myss: “Even as we crave spiritual intimacy with the divine, however, we also have deep fears about God, and the ways that an encounter with the divine will change our lives. We long for guidance but are terrified of revelation. We pray to know God but fear God’s answers.”
Eckhart Tolle: “Is it wrong them to be proud of one’s possessions or to feel resentful toward people who have more than you? Not at all. That sense of pride, of needing to stand out, the apparent enhancement of one’s self through ‘more than’ and diminishment through ‘less than’ is neither right nor wrong – it is the ego.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“I am generous, peaceful, and compassionate.”
“My heart is a powerful center for receiving God’s love and sharing this sacred expression of caring for others. With each realization of God’s presence, I open myself to a fresh infilling of love.”
“From my heart of love, the qualities of generosity, peace, and compassion flow out to others. As I think, speak, and act from the love of my heart, I connect with others at a deep spiritual level. I perceive the best in them and let them know how much joy their expressions of love bring to me.”
“Love is a sacred bond that all in the universal family of God share. Stronger than any challenge, more powerful than any misunderstanding, God’s love unites all. We are one spirit, one heart.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 127
“There is no love but God’s.”
Nothing but Love exists; nothing but God exists. I can speak of love as it appears in my world I make, but that love is not even close to the Love of God. It is the Love of God by which I AM sustained. It is by the Love of God that I AM that which I AM. Only God exists; only Love exists. There is nothing else.
Namaste - Ron
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Our pain has value.”
“We find it difficult to accept that pain can have value. Surely we don’t want the migraine headache, the mysterious illness, the broken heart. Our wise teachers suggest that the ego creates and hangs on to pain to get its needs met.
We’re learning now that our unmet needs are really our unneeded desires. What we think we need and what we actually need are seldom the same.
The Course says all we need is love. Our attempts to get love from relationships or through possessions fail, so we seek sympathy and attention for our pain and call this love. The ego stops at nothing to get what it wants, even sacrificing our health.
Our pain will leave us when we focus forgiveness and giving only love to others. Removing the focus from ourselves miraculously cures us by healing how we think. This will do for us what no amount of ego efforts can do.”
“I can decide I don’t need whatever ails me today.
The ego does me no favors.”
From Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “It is not the body that gets sick, but the mind. It is not the body but the mind that is in need of healing, and the only healing is a return to love.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “There is only one kind of love – the uncalculating kind. Love is simply the desire that those around me experience happiness, peace, and fulfillment. But it’s not part of the that desire that I must receive credit for the efforts I make or that my motives must be interpreted accurately. The desire for credit is unmitigated ego. Love is the willingness for each individual to find his or her own way and the trust that Something wiser than us is watching over us.”
Carolyn Myss: “Even as we crave spiritual intimacy with the divine, however, we also have deep fears about God, and the ways that an encounter with the divine will change our lives. We long for guidance but are terrified of revelation. We pray to know God but fear God’s answers.”
Eckhart Tolle: “Is it wrong them to be proud of one’s possessions or to feel resentful toward people who have more than you? Not at all. That sense of pride, of needing to stand out, the apparent enhancement of one’s self through ‘more than’ and diminishment through ‘less than’ is neither right nor wrong – it is the ego.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“I am generous, peaceful, and compassionate.”
“My heart is a powerful center for receiving God’s love and sharing this sacred expression of caring for others. With each realization of God’s presence, I open myself to a fresh infilling of love.”
“From my heart of love, the qualities of generosity, peace, and compassion flow out to others. As I think, speak, and act from the love of my heart, I connect with others at a deep spiritual level. I perceive the best in them and let them know how much joy their expressions of love bring to me.”
“Love is a sacred bond that all in the universal family of God share. Stronger than any challenge, more powerful than any misunderstanding, God’s love unites all. We are one spirit, one heart.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 127
“There is no love but God’s.”
Nothing but Love exists; nothing but God exists. I can speak of love as it appears in my world I make, but that love is not even close to the Love of God. It is the Love of God by which I AM sustained. It is by the Love of God that I AM that which I AM. Only God exists; only Love exists. There is nothing else.
Namaste - Ron
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