Seeds for the Garden of your Mind

November 27

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Separate interests are relinquished in holy relationships.”

“Even the most casual of experiences with other human beings are not without reason, not accidental. When we first come to the Course, this seems like a silly idea. How can the chance encounters on the bus or at the grocery really matter? But they do.

Likewise, the horrendous experiences have played their part, drawing us to another person for a lesson we each need. When the outcome has been violent, we abhor the idea that it served a purpose. How can our “education” be so intentionally painful?

What we are struggling to learn is that no encounter has to be painful. Problems result when two egos collide rather than join. The option to join was always there but wasn’t seen. The Holy Spirit was always available to give us another perspective. It just wasn’t sought.

It helps to remember that we aren’t our bodies. The Spirit is never injured by injustice. The more able we are to align with the Spirit, the less we’ll encounter pain of any kind.”

“I am as pain-free as I decide to be today.
Other people cannot hurt me without my consent.”

Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Where we apply our dollars intelligently to the people who take care of children, we would spend millions of dollars less on the damage done to society by wounded adults. Wounded children become wounded adults, and wounded adults can destroy a planet.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Blessings are never comparative. The lesson that all criticism attacks the criticizer is difficult to learn. It appears to undercut the way humans maintain their sense of self-worth – which is that one is thought more highly of when one sees to it that someone else is thought less highly of. This is called succeeding or winning, yet it defeats the soul. The only true blessings we can receive have been given to all. Otherwise, we hold them for a moment only, even as we watch them slip through our hands.”

Wayne Dyer: “Keep your thoughts centered on light and what you want, rather than on dark and what you don’t want.”

Paul Ferrini: “Whatever is not loving must be forgiven; and what is forgiven becomes love’s patient blessing on an imperfect world.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“The love of God is expressing through caregivers
in compassionate, tender ways.”

“Dear God, I pray for caregivers, for they are Your love in action, supporting others along their way to healing and renewal of mind and body. With spiritual vision, they are able to interpret the expressions on faces of infants and adults who have needs but are unable to express them in words.”

“”Caregivers see past what may seem impossible to overcome, to the truth of Your presence within all in their care. They are loving friends who give a tender touch and offer a strong shoulder to lean on wherever, whenever needed. They brighten the day, inspiring those they care for with faith and love.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 331

“There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.”

Namaste - Ron