“Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.” Tara Brach (Radical Acceptance)
Truth Teachings from Eastern Wisdom – 1/23/17
The Fourth Niyama: Svadhyaya (Self Inquiry)
What is the difference between self-inquiry and Self-inquiry? Working our way to the question, Who Am I?
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January 23, 2017 Daily Quote
“You can do anything with the thoughts of your mind. They are yours and under your control. You can direct them, coerce them, hush them, or crush them… When you fully apprehend this, and begin to exercise your God-given dominion, you begin to find the way to God, the door to God, the door of mind and thought.” Charles Fillmore (Prosperity)
Common Ground Mini-Series: Martha Creek –Part 3 of 4
SELF DIFFERENTIATED LIVING AND LEADING
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This 4-week training is open to anyone on a path of self-realization with an interest in developing awareness and skills in the following areas:
- Persons follow an inner compass. They are guided by their own clear and coherent beliefs, principles and life goals.
- Persons take responsibility for self. They are aware of their own feelings, and neither blame others for them nor require others to share those feelings. They ask themselves regularly “What can I learn from this situation?”
- Persons respond to anxiety. They anticipate and recognize heightened anxiety (due to change, loss, crisis, etc.) and accept periods of tension as they address issues and complete tasks.
- Persons are challenged. They allow persons to work through times of stress or pain. They tolerate the discomfort that can go along with the stresses and strains of both significant mission and individual growth.
- Persons respect boundaries. They recognize and respect where one person ends and another begins. Agreed upon roles, structures and procedures are respected. Individual thoughts and feelings are respected. There is little pressure to “Go Along” with the group.
- Persons stay in contact. They resist tendencies to distance or cut off from those with whom there is disagreement. They work together for a sufficient amount of time to maintain relationships.
Martha also addresses some things to QUIT including:
8 Quits
1) Quit Being Afraid of What Others Think
Anchor your wholeness in the love of God/Creator. Quit relying on the approval and acknowledgment of others for your sense of self worth.
2) Quit Lying
Live truly free to unrelenting honesty with yourself, God and others. Quit pretending everything is fine, when it is not and change your life.
3) Quit Dying to the Wrong Things
Receive the many gifts god has provided for you that nurture and delight your soul. Quit dying to those things that bring you life.
4) Quit Denying Anger, Sadness and Fear
Embrace your God given humanity by paying attention to your “difficult” emotions and discerning how God wants to come to you through them. Quit ignoring feelings.
5) Quit Blaming
Take responsibility for your own life and happiness. Quit giving away your God given personal freedom and power.
6) Quit Overfunctioning
Don’t do for others what they could and should do for themselves. Quit trying to control people and situation.
7) Quit Faulty Thinking
Choose to live in reality and truth rather than with distorted thinking. Quit making assumptions that will leave you powerless and in unnecessary pain.
8) Quit Living Someone Else’s Life
Take up the challenge of living your God given, unique, unrepeatable, life and destiny.
Martha’s website: marthacreek.com
Awakening Together Weekly Gathering – 1-22-17
Discovering the root of the “I am bad” belief.
Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert discusses how the “I am Bad” belief is both rooted in and supported by the fundamental belief in separation from God.
Toni Fields read from The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament Matthew, Chapter 27.
Lyn Johnson served as Musical Director and Barbara Deurwaarder served as Sanctuary Administrator.
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January 22, 2017 Daily Quote
“Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk pain.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
January 21, 2017 Daily Quote
“Life is the energy of love, fully embodied and eager to manifest itself in the world. Everything else life does is merely a prelude to, and a platform for, love’s boundless and eternal self-expression.” Eileen Workman (social media post)
January 20, 2017 Daily Quote
“Bring your attention to the fact that awareness is only aware. In that sense, it is unconditioned. Awareness is just aware. At any time during the day, you can touch into this ground and bring consciousness to it. You can make the choice to be aware of it. An important thing is the willingness to make a choice. Whether there is a chooser or not, there the experience of choice.” Adyashanti (“The Way of Liberating Insight” study course)
Growing with NTI – 1/19/17
The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI) is a scribed interpretation of the New Testament that teaches oneness as the only truth and surrender as the practice that leads to spiritual enlightenment. NTI has been described as a loving approach to letting go of ego. It leads us to direct experience of truth by teaching us how to release the obstacles that block that experience.
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January 19, 2017 Daily Quote
“Meditation is not just a retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is the way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.” Gary Snyder (Just One Breath; The Practice of Poetry and Meditation)
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