“The secret to happiness is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” Socrates
Archives for January 2016
Minutes for the Member Board of Trustees Meeting, 1/4/16
Click the link below to read the minutes from this meeting.
(To learn more about the Member Board of Trustees, click here.)
January 19, 2016 Daily Quote
“I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color — something which exists before all forms and colors appeared… No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.” Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki
January 18, 2016 Daily Quote
Awakening Together Satsang with Timothy Conway #3
Timothy Conway has been our Satsang guest twice before. As Timothy’s website says, “This Timothy Conway fellow is a story within a dream… A mere, mortal figment pointing you back to the immortal Divine Dreamer, Your Real Self, the One Who Alone IS.”
Although this Satsang touched on many topics, Timothy spoke at length about the merits of veganism.
About Timothy:
After a sudden, vivid, and completely life-changing spiritual awakening in his 16th year in February 1971, occurring not by efforts or drugs (never took any drugs), but entirely by Divine Grace, an exploding open of the heart-mind with the nondual realization that “God alone is Real, HERE and NOW, and we—the personified manifestations of God— are all truly made of Divine Spirit, Love, Joy, and Peace”—his life has been gratefully devoted ever since then to freely sharing, with anyone sincerely interested, the profoundly healing and empowering truth of Infinite Open Awareness, the “real Reality” right HERE (closer than the mind), and right NOW (always the true Reality before you can even think about this Self).
After awakening, Timothy immersed himself in the study of spiritual teachings that point toward truth, which gives him the ability to speak of his experience using the language and symbols of many different teachings. He also spent time studying directly with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, who he refers to as his mentor.
Timothy’s clarity is expressed lovingly. He encourages a healthy relationship with spirituality, one that recognizes the absolute as truth yet interacts gently and compassiontately with the relative self and world.
Timothy’s website: enlightened-spirituality.com.
Timothy’s books are available here.
ACIM Workbook Lesson 17 – Meditation with Karen Worth
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
I see no neutral things
Weekly Gathering, 1/17/16
Making the Inner and Outer Life One
Rev Regina Dawn Akers shares how ‘falling in love’ helps us bring our entire being into harmony with our true nature.
Sonja Spahn reads “Recognition of the Truth is Not the End of Ego” by Mooji.
Barbara Deurwaarder serves as the Sanctuary Administrator.
January 17, 2016 Daily Quote
ACIM Workbook Lesson 16 – Meditation with Karen Worth
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
I have no neutral thoughts
Monthly Satsang – Timothy Conway
Join Regina Dawn Akers in the Awakening Together Sanctuary this Sunday evening at 8 PM Eastern with her Satsang Guest Timothy Conway.
“This Timothy Conway fellow is a story within a dream… A mere, mortal figment pointing you back to the immortal Divine Dreamer, Your Real Self, the One Who Alone IS.
After a sudden, vivid, and completely life-changing spiritual awakening in my 16th year in February 1971, occurring not by efforts or drugs (never took any drugs), but entirely by Divine Grace, an exploding open of the heart-mind with the nondual realization that “God alone is Real, HERE and NOW, and we—the personified manifestations of God— are all truly made of Divine Spirit, Love, Joy, and Peace”—this life has been gratefully devoted ever since then to freely sharing, with anyone sincerely interested, the profoundly healing and empowering truth of Infinite Open Awareness, the “real Reality” right HERE (closer than the mind), and right NOW (always the true Reality before you can even think about this Self).
With years of further immersion in this Great Way of nondual or mystical spirituality, inFall 1980 there occurred the first of several long trips to Asia and Europe (and various parts of the USA) to meet and learn from many of the leading sages, saints and adepts of our era. After spending a brief time as an ordained Buddhist monk in upper Burma under the renowned arhat (perfect master) Taungpulu Sayadaw, India and her greatest living sages beckoned… and through their influence (Divine Grace), any last questions or confusions dropped. Very soon during that winter of 1980-1, i was encouraged to begin sharing the nondual or advaita spiritual perspective by sage Annamalai Swami (a spiritual son of Ramana Maharshi) and by the great liberated guru Nisargadatta Maharaj of Bombay, and by several other sages, including Yogi Ramsuratkumar of Tiruvannamalai and Mother Krishnabai of Anandashram.”
Timothy teaches and holds weekly Satsang in Santa Barbara, California.
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