May 8
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Attaining the Real World is a long process.”
“The Real World isn’t a place even though we speak of it as though it were. It’s a state of mind, a peace-filled, loving state of mind. We shouldn’t be surprised that it eludes us. We have had extensive experience inhabiting the more conflicted, anxious state of mind. Our discomfort there has often been great but always familiar. It’s hard to leave the familiar.
Part of our difficulty as newcomers to the Course is in understanding how we can get from one state of mind to the other. Many of us are accustomed to thinking we can’t change. Many of our acquaintances are as stuck as we are. Often, we assume that something monumental must occur for us to see our lives differently. Indeed, that might help, but fortunately, it’s not necessary.
Moving from one state of mind to the other happens in a flash, but we seldom reside in the Real World long. The ego has such a strong hold on us. Wanting peace has to be more attractive to us than wanting power. Some days it is.”
“ I can experience a peace-filled world today.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “”God’s will is that we be happy. God’s will is that we forgive ourselves. God’s will is that we find our place in Heaven now.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “A gentle vision makes a gentler world through which to walk. Judgmental people are obviously unhappy, but why do I find that insight so difficult to apply to my own judgments? What do I think is so desirable about dislike and ill will? Do I believe they make me superior? Or that they give me an advantage over nice people? Or that they will lead to a satisfying measure of revenge? Let me at least acknowledge that I remain stirred up and in distress as long as I hold a grudge. Let me also admit that I alone must feed a grievance in order to keep it alive.”
Carolyn Myss: “We…instinctively know that answering a call requires that we have some experience of being reduced to ashes – whether that is by releasing old world or grudges and allowing them to die and be replaced by forgiveness, or by starting over a career or relationship in a new place or grieving the death of a loved one and rising out of that into a new life.”
Eckhart Tolle: “The ego isn’t wrong; it’s just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don’t take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“Through the grace of God,
I am serene and at peace.”
“Today I have responsibilities to fulfill and tasks to complete, both large and small. However, through all, God’s grace is continually blessing me. Because I know this is true, I am able to lay aside any anxiety and move forward with God as my source of guidance and serenity.”
“No matter how many times I try to go it alone or fall short of the results I desire, there is the sacred assurance of God’s grace. I am received with love and uplifted with strength every time I return my awareness to the presence of God.”
“Centered in this awareness, I enjoy whatever is before me to do and find fulfillment in carrying through with it. Through the grace of God, I am serene and at peace.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 128
“The world I see holds nothing that I want.”
Within the world I see, there appear to many things that I have given value to, but in truth, there exists nothing that I want. Actually, nothing is within the world I make, for this world I make is an illusion – a projection of my thoughts. Nothing in my world can give to me that which the truth of me has not already experienced. In truth I have all and know all and am all. I lack nothing, want nothing, and desire nothing. Oddly enough, that is precisely what is in my world – nothing.
Namaste - Ron
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Attaining the Real World is a long process.”
“The Real World isn’t a place even though we speak of it as though it were. It’s a state of mind, a peace-filled, loving state of mind. We shouldn’t be surprised that it eludes us. We have had extensive experience inhabiting the more conflicted, anxious state of mind. Our discomfort there has often been great but always familiar. It’s hard to leave the familiar.
Part of our difficulty as newcomers to the Course is in understanding how we can get from one state of mind to the other. Many of us are accustomed to thinking we can’t change. Many of our acquaintances are as stuck as we are. Often, we assume that something monumental must occur for us to see our lives differently. Indeed, that might help, but fortunately, it’s not necessary.
Moving from one state of mind to the other happens in a flash, but we seldom reside in the Real World long. The ego has such a strong hold on us. Wanting peace has to be more attractive to us than wanting power. Some days it is.”
“ I can experience a peace-filled world today.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “”God’s will is that we be happy. God’s will is that we forgive ourselves. God’s will is that we find our place in Heaven now.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “A gentle vision makes a gentler world through which to walk. Judgmental people are obviously unhappy, but why do I find that insight so difficult to apply to my own judgments? What do I think is so desirable about dislike and ill will? Do I believe they make me superior? Or that they give me an advantage over nice people? Or that they will lead to a satisfying measure of revenge? Let me at least acknowledge that I remain stirred up and in distress as long as I hold a grudge. Let me also admit that I alone must feed a grievance in order to keep it alive.”
Carolyn Myss: “We…instinctively know that answering a call requires that we have some experience of being reduced to ashes – whether that is by releasing old world or grudges and allowing them to die and be replaced by forgiveness, or by starting over a career or relationship in a new place or grieving the death of a loved one and rising out of that into a new life.”
Eckhart Tolle: “The ego isn’t wrong; it’s just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don’t take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“Through the grace of God,
I am serene and at peace.”
“Today I have responsibilities to fulfill and tasks to complete, both large and small. However, through all, God’s grace is continually blessing me. Because I know this is true, I am able to lay aside any anxiety and move forward with God as my source of guidance and serenity.”
“No matter how many times I try to go it alone or fall short of the results I desire, there is the sacred assurance of God’s grace. I am received with love and uplifted with strength every time I return my awareness to the presence of God.”
“Centered in this awareness, I enjoy whatever is before me to do and find fulfillment in carrying through with it. Through the grace of God, I am serene and at peace.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 128
“The world I see holds nothing that I want.”
Within the world I see, there appear to many things that I have given value to, but in truth, there exists nothing that I want. Actually, nothing is within the world I make, for this world I make is an illusion – a projection of my thoughts. Nothing in my world can give to me that which the truth of me has not already experienced. In truth I have all and know all and am all. I lack nothing, want nothing, and desire nothing. Oddly enough, that is precisely what is in my world – nothing.
Namaste - Ron
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