May 15
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Every problem is due to unforgiveness.”
“Automobile accidents, overdue bills, unemployment, skin cancer – how can all these problems be attributed to unforgiveness? Those who are wiser than we, however, proclaim that unforgiveness is the root of every problem.
Perhaps we don’t have to understand the subtlety of the statement right now. Certainly, the ego won’t concur with it, but the ego has led us astray myriad times before. That’s its job. Let’s accept, for today at least, that we need to work on forgiveness throughout our relationships. This includes our current ones along with those that have long since passed. Forgiveness can only make our lives less stressful.
We have all experienced the relief that comes from mending the fence with a co-worker or spouse. Let that awareness convince us that all relationships, all experiences in fact, would feel softer, more loving, if we were in a state of love and gratitude and forgiveness.”
“Today it’s time to practice forgiveness.
Every tomorrow will profit from it.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “The new frontiers are internal ones. The real stretch is always within us. Instead of expanding our ability or willingness to go out and get anything, we expand our ability to receive what is already here for us.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “The world doesn’t work. Trying to make it work is the root of my distress. No matter what circumstances I find myself in, my ego is never entirely at peace. If I could change ‘just this one thing’ about the situation, it would be acceptable. But that assumes everything else will remain the same. If one thing changes, the situation as whole must change, because its very meaning depends on contrast and comparison. So after I change ‘this one thing,’ something new arises that is equally preoccupying. This dynamic will end only when I stop making control my priority.”
Caroline Myss: “Once you are called, you have no choice but to follow. Perhaps once you are called, heaven h as already made the choice for you and you can only surrender to this divine summons, even if that is the last thing you would consciously choose to do. The call awakens you to what is beyond.”
Eckhart Tolle: “How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego’s sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“God’s spirit is active in the minute details
and the grand plans of my life.”
“I know better than to waste time and energy worrying about my future when I can only truly live in the present. Because I have faith in God for both the present and the future, I am free to enjoy those now moments in an awareness of God.”
“I pause and gently wave all worry thoughts away, replacing them with my faith in God that the answer to prayer is taking place. I know that no negative concern, large or small, can interfere with my peace of mind. I pray daily and often with an unwavering faith that all needs are being met.”
“Faith takes practice, so I am patient with myself. As I exercise my faith, it grows stronger. Knowing God’s spirit is moving through the minute details and the grand plans of my life, I am at peace.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 135
“If I defend myself I am attacked.”
Attack is a word of the ego world, not of my truth. Only in the world I make with thoughts shared with ego, do I have to concern myself with a defense of any kind. With the help of Spirit, I see that even my defenses are not necessary as they are against no one but myself. I can only be attacked in my mind. Is there a defense for that? Not really, only a change of thought. There is nothing I need defend myself against, other than me.
Namaste - Ron
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Every problem is due to unforgiveness.”
“Automobile accidents, overdue bills, unemployment, skin cancer – how can all these problems be attributed to unforgiveness? Those who are wiser than we, however, proclaim that unforgiveness is the root of every problem.
Perhaps we don’t have to understand the subtlety of the statement right now. Certainly, the ego won’t concur with it, but the ego has led us astray myriad times before. That’s its job. Let’s accept, for today at least, that we need to work on forgiveness throughout our relationships. This includes our current ones along with those that have long since passed. Forgiveness can only make our lives less stressful.
We have all experienced the relief that comes from mending the fence with a co-worker or spouse. Let that awareness convince us that all relationships, all experiences in fact, would feel softer, more loving, if we were in a state of love and gratitude and forgiveness.”
“Today it’s time to practice forgiveness.
Every tomorrow will profit from it.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “The new frontiers are internal ones. The real stretch is always within us. Instead of expanding our ability or willingness to go out and get anything, we expand our ability to receive what is already here for us.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “The world doesn’t work. Trying to make it work is the root of my distress. No matter what circumstances I find myself in, my ego is never entirely at peace. If I could change ‘just this one thing’ about the situation, it would be acceptable. But that assumes everything else will remain the same. If one thing changes, the situation as whole must change, because its very meaning depends on contrast and comparison. So after I change ‘this one thing,’ something new arises that is equally preoccupying. This dynamic will end only when I stop making control my priority.”
Caroline Myss: “Once you are called, you have no choice but to follow. Perhaps once you are called, heaven h as already made the choice for you and you can only surrender to this divine summons, even if that is the last thing you would consciously choose to do. The call awakens you to what is beyond.”
Eckhart Tolle: “How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego’s sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“God’s spirit is active in the minute details
and the grand plans of my life.”
“I know better than to waste time and energy worrying about my future when I can only truly live in the present. Because I have faith in God for both the present and the future, I am free to enjoy those now moments in an awareness of God.”
“I pause and gently wave all worry thoughts away, replacing them with my faith in God that the answer to prayer is taking place. I know that no negative concern, large or small, can interfere with my peace of mind. I pray daily and often with an unwavering faith that all needs are being met.”
“Faith takes practice, so I am patient with myself. As I exercise my faith, it grows stronger. Knowing God’s spirit is moving through the minute details and the grand plans of my life, I am at peace.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 135
“If I defend myself I am attacked.”
Attack is a word of the ego world, not of my truth. Only in the world I make with thoughts shared with ego, do I have to concern myself with a defense of any kind. With the help of Spirit, I see that even my defenses are not necessary as they are against no one but myself. I can only be attacked in my mind. Is there a defense for that? Not really, only a change of thought. There is nothing I need defend myself against, other than me.
Namaste - Ron
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