Seeds for the Garden of your Mind

November 16

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Knowledge is not the goal of the Course. Peace is!”

“Knowledge has value, but it won’t guarantee happiness if we continue to filter our experiences through the eyes of the ego. The ego’s purpose is to push us to be more aggressive and controlling in all our relationships. Peace is never that outcome.

If peace is this Course’s goal, how can we be certain of attaining it? The steps to take are simple. Every encounter is an opportunity. First, when someone engages us in conversation, if we feel any inkling to judge them negatively, immediately ask the Holy Spirit to help us see them differently. Next, ask the Holy Spirit to give us the words to say or the feelings to project. Then wait for the words and the feelings to come. They will. Always. Our impatience may push us to act too soon, however. We’ll have to be vigilant.”

“I welcome all opportunities for knowing and conveying peace today.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “The more time we spend with the Holy Spirit, the greater our capacity is to focus on love.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Today I will see no one unlike myself. I am vigilant to note every little mistake made by my family, friends, and everyone else who crosses my mind. Yet if I wish to see the perfection in others, I must first acknowledge the imperfections in myself. It should be clear that I will never know oneness until I experience equality with those around me. Face it, we’re all pretty screwed up, and it’s just plain silly to value one form of insanity over another. Nothing justifies believing that I know more or am further along than someone else, because inequality is spiritually impossible.”

Wayne Dyer: “Most addictions are supported and maintained by denial, which is the monster hiding in the darkness afraid to be seen in the light. Eating disorders are almost always practiced in the safety of the darkness, behind closed doors.”

Paul Ferrini: “My disciples teach love by being loved. They teach love by accepting others as they are.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“I live confidently and freely,
For God is with me as my help in every need.”

“Looking back over my life, I remember countless times when my faith sustained me through difficult situations. My faith in God’s presence and power brought light to shine in the darkest of nights. My faith brought peace that quieted all anxiety. Remembering these times encourages me to live confidently and freely now. God is with me as my help in every need.”

“Like a gardener tending a garden of beautiful flowers, I tend my thoughts, weeding out any that are unlike the nature of God expressing itself through me. I replace these weed-thoughts with loving, fearless, faith-filled thoughts.”

“My faith is in God. I have no fear, for God is with me as my constant guide.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 320

“My Father gives all power to me.”

Namaste - Ron