June 19
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Our minds wander thoughtlessly.”
“To daydream isn’t bad. Some of our most creative ideas come to us when our thinking is unfocused. Let’s not relinquish monitoring our thoughts, however, because many of them are not beneficial, particularly when the ego is doing the thinking.
How can we tell who is in charge of our thinking? Perhaps prior to our coming to the Course, we never suspected that we had two “personas” behind the curtain of our mind. But it hasn’t taken much reflection to see how different we think and behave in some instances than in others. What’s going on?
The difference in how we act and think is owing simply to our choice of “thinker.” When we let the ego think, we feel only fear and behave accordingly. When we rely on the Holy Spirit, our actions are loving and forgiving. We experience no strife when It’s in charge. Why would we ever let the ego speak for us? That’s the insanity of this world.”
“My journey into the Real World beckons today.
I will follow in the steps of the Holy Spirit.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Knowing who you are and why you came here – that you are a child of God and that you came here to heal and be healed – is more important than knowing what you want to do. What you want to do is not the important question. The question to ask is, “When I do anything, how should I do it?” And the answer is, “Kindly.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “The images my mind keeps returning to inform me of what I rely on. There are no purely random thoughts and I should remain aware of the drift of my thinking. To resent, to long for, or to regret, is to place my trust in the wrong reality. I adopt a set of laws that are wholly unlike divine law. In this way I live in a purgatory of my own making. Although this choice doesn’t control the experience other people have, I can’t help but offer them a more difficult life.”
Caroline Myss: “We want constant proof that God hears our prayers and monitors our physical survival, but we do not really want to make eye contact with the divine because of the consequences: After encountering God, we would have to live a relentlessly conscious, compassionate life, and we would have to overlook the behavior of people in our world who continue to live as we once did, consciously unconscious, and treat them with understanding and compassion.”
Eckhart Tolle: “You need to make other wrong in order to get a stronger sense of who you are. Not only a person, but also a situation can be made wrong through complaining and reactivity, which always implies that ‘this should not be happening.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“I am nourished by the joy of God that feeds my soul.”
“I live in a world of God’s creation that offers many reasons and occasions to experience joy. A breath of fresh air, a hug from a loved one, a movie or a book of inspiration – any of these can call forth the gladness of my soul into expression.”
“My deepest joy, however, is my relationship with God, and I experience such soul satisfaction in thinking of and communing with God. I find joy in enriching my soul with prayer. Reflecting on a lifetime of prayer, I have clarity of purpose that can never be taken away from me.”
“The people and circumstances that seem to create my joy are, in reality, reflecting what I already have in the deepest part of me. Realizing this, I am grateful for the joy of God that feeds my soul.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 170
“There is no cruelty in God and none in me.”
Namaste - Ron
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Our minds wander thoughtlessly.”
“To daydream isn’t bad. Some of our most creative ideas come to us when our thinking is unfocused. Let’s not relinquish monitoring our thoughts, however, because many of them are not beneficial, particularly when the ego is doing the thinking.
How can we tell who is in charge of our thinking? Perhaps prior to our coming to the Course, we never suspected that we had two “personas” behind the curtain of our mind. But it hasn’t taken much reflection to see how different we think and behave in some instances than in others. What’s going on?
The difference in how we act and think is owing simply to our choice of “thinker.” When we let the ego think, we feel only fear and behave accordingly. When we rely on the Holy Spirit, our actions are loving and forgiving. We experience no strife when It’s in charge. Why would we ever let the ego speak for us? That’s the insanity of this world.”
“My journey into the Real World beckons today.
I will follow in the steps of the Holy Spirit.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Knowing who you are and why you came here – that you are a child of God and that you came here to heal and be healed – is more important than knowing what you want to do. What you want to do is not the important question. The question to ask is, “When I do anything, how should I do it?” And the answer is, “Kindly.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “The images my mind keeps returning to inform me of what I rely on. There are no purely random thoughts and I should remain aware of the drift of my thinking. To resent, to long for, or to regret, is to place my trust in the wrong reality. I adopt a set of laws that are wholly unlike divine law. In this way I live in a purgatory of my own making. Although this choice doesn’t control the experience other people have, I can’t help but offer them a more difficult life.”
Caroline Myss: “We want constant proof that God hears our prayers and monitors our physical survival, but we do not really want to make eye contact with the divine because of the consequences: After encountering God, we would have to live a relentlessly conscious, compassionate life, and we would have to overlook the behavior of people in our world who continue to live as we once did, consciously unconscious, and treat them with understanding and compassion.”
Eckhart Tolle: “You need to make other wrong in order to get a stronger sense of who you are. Not only a person, but also a situation can be made wrong through complaining and reactivity, which always implies that ‘this should not be happening.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“I am nourished by the joy of God that feeds my soul.”
“I live in a world of God’s creation that offers many reasons and occasions to experience joy. A breath of fresh air, a hug from a loved one, a movie or a book of inspiration – any of these can call forth the gladness of my soul into expression.”
“My deepest joy, however, is my relationship with God, and I experience such soul satisfaction in thinking of and communing with God. I find joy in enriching my soul with prayer. Reflecting on a lifetime of prayer, I have clarity of purpose that can never be taken away from me.”
“The people and circumstances that seem to create my joy are, in reality, reflecting what I already have in the deepest part of me. Realizing this, I am grateful for the joy of God that feeds my soul.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 170
“There is no cruelty in God and none in me.”
Namaste - Ron
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