May 23
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Seek to know peace, nothing more.”
“When we’re in conflict, we cry out for detailed solutions to our problems. We become apprehensive when we are unable to imagine what the situation needs. We fret and analyze and ask other people’s opinions, but we still worry. Generally we assume a complicated answer is necessary.
The Course suggests we are making things too hard for ourselves. No matter what we think, we seldom need long, drawn out solutions. We don’t need the collective advice of many people. We don’t need to seek one specific answer through prayer. We need peace; within it, miraculously, lie all answers.
The blessing for us is that peace is always available. It’s never more than an instant away. In the quiet spaces of our minds, it waits to be called. Searching our minds for complex solutions to daily problems will never provide the answers we deserve. Seeking to know nothing but peace will always satisfy us.”
“The answers I seek are seldom where I look.
I’ll try being quiet today.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Human strength alone is incapable of working miracles. The name of the Father, the living light, the love in our hearts, is the only conduit for spiritual victory.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Anxiety does not improve relationships. Anxiously trying to please is another way of trying to change someone. It also makes me a victim. I believe that I can’t accept their present attitude toward me. And I think that acceptance is the enemy. But acceptance doesn’t make me more vulnerable since it does not preclude a change of heart; it precludes remaining in conflict.”
Caroline Myss: “Perhaps you feel a mysterious stirring deep within you, a restlessness or anticipation that you don’t understand. Perhaps you have a sense that you need to get in harmony with an unseen order – it could be the beginning of your mystical birth.”
Eckhart Tolle: “Resistance is an inner contraction, a hardening of the shell of the ego. You are closed. Whatever action you take in state of inner resistance (which we also call negativity) will create more outer resistance, and the universe will not be on your side; life will not be helpful. If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“God is the ever-renewing spirit of life that is within my loved one.”
“In a sacred prayer time, I reach across the miles to embrace a loved one who is grieving a loss or to bless a friend who starting a new career. I pray: “Thank You, God, for blessing my loved ones. As I enfold each of them in prayer, I am faithfully entrusting them in Your care.”
“My prayers support family and friends who are facing a busy day at work or school. I relax knowing that I am helping them through both challenges and opportunities.”
“Even though I am not physically able to be with my loved ones every moment, God is – as the ever-renewing spirit of life. God is present within and enfolding my friends and family throughout the day. Indeed, God is comforting, sustaining, guiding, and loving each of us throughout every event and moment of the day and night.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 143
Review Lessons 125 & 126
“In quiet I receive God’s Word today.”
“ All that I give is given to myself.”
In the quiet of the moment – in the stillness of my soul – in the sanctuary of Spirit – I am aware of God’s Word – I am aware of what is being experience by me in the presence of my truth. And I remember the Lesson of the Holy Spirit – “To have, give all to all.” All that I have – all that I AM – I extend to all.
Namaste - Ron
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Seek to know peace, nothing more.”
“When we’re in conflict, we cry out for detailed solutions to our problems. We become apprehensive when we are unable to imagine what the situation needs. We fret and analyze and ask other people’s opinions, but we still worry. Generally we assume a complicated answer is necessary.
The Course suggests we are making things too hard for ourselves. No matter what we think, we seldom need long, drawn out solutions. We don’t need the collective advice of many people. We don’t need to seek one specific answer through prayer. We need peace; within it, miraculously, lie all answers.
The blessing for us is that peace is always available. It’s never more than an instant away. In the quiet spaces of our minds, it waits to be called. Searching our minds for complex solutions to daily problems will never provide the answers we deserve. Seeking to know nothing but peace will always satisfy us.”
“The answers I seek are seldom where I look.
I’ll try being quiet today.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Human strength alone is incapable of working miracles. The name of the Father, the living light, the love in our hearts, is the only conduit for spiritual victory.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Anxiety does not improve relationships. Anxiously trying to please is another way of trying to change someone. It also makes me a victim. I believe that I can’t accept their present attitude toward me. And I think that acceptance is the enemy. But acceptance doesn’t make me more vulnerable since it does not preclude a change of heart; it precludes remaining in conflict.”
Caroline Myss: “Perhaps you feel a mysterious stirring deep within you, a restlessness or anticipation that you don’t understand. Perhaps you have a sense that you need to get in harmony with an unseen order – it could be the beginning of your mystical birth.”
Eckhart Tolle: “Resistance is an inner contraction, a hardening of the shell of the ego. You are closed. Whatever action you take in state of inner resistance (which we also call negativity) will create more outer resistance, and the universe will not be on your side; life will not be helpful. If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“God is the ever-renewing spirit of life that is within my loved one.”
“In a sacred prayer time, I reach across the miles to embrace a loved one who is grieving a loss or to bless a friend who starting a new career. I pray: “Thank You, God, for blessing my loved ones. As I enfold each of them in prayer, I am faithfully entrusting them in Your care.”
“My prayers support family and friends who are facing a busy day at work or school. I relax knowing that I am helping them through both challenges and opportunities.”
“Even though I am not physically able to be with my loved ones every moment, God is – as the ever-renewing spirit of life. God is present within and enfolding my friends and family throughout the day. Indeed, God is comforting, sustaining, guiding, and loving each of us throughout every event and moment of the day and night.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 143
Review Lessons 125 & 126
“In quiet I receive God’s Word today.”
“ All that I give is given to myself.”
In the quiet of the moment – in the stillness of my soul – in the sanctuary of Spirit – I am aware of God’s Word – I am aware of what is being experience by me in the presence of my truth. And I remember the Lesson of the Holy Spirit – “To have, give all to all.” All that I have – all that I AM – I extend to all.
Namaste - Ron
1 comment:
I shall work on acceptance.
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