“Can the universe not be on my side? It is not possible. It can only be possible if there are fundamentally two beings in the infinite vastness of the One. But there are not. There is only the infinite vastness of the One, expressing itself, so it is always on its own side.” ~ Bentinho Massaro
Minutes for the Member Board of Trustees Meeting, 9/21/15
Click the link below to read the minutes from this meeting.
(To learn more about the Member Board of Trustees, click here.)
October 5, 2015 Daily Quote
“Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn’t something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you consciously accept the moment you are in, when you don’t fight the present reality with thoughts of how you’d like it to be otherwise, or what you’re afraid the next moment might bring, when you don’t resist with justification or regret or blame of self or other.” ~ Jan Frazier
Update on the Retreat Center Campaign
Hi Everyone,
I wrote to you a couple of months ago about a property available in the Spanish Peaks region south of Pueblo, Colorado. Many of you responded that this property would make a perfect location for our retreat center. That property sold this week. It is no longer available.
We are still raising money for a retreat center near Pueblo. There are usually fewer properties available during the fall and winter months. More properties come on the market in the spring and summer. That means that now is the perfect time to raise money so we can be ready when the next perfect property becomes available!
For your information, here are links to some of the properties that are currently available in the Pueblo area. I’m sure you will see there are always potential properties available:
Beautiful home, hot tub on back deck, potential to easily add more bedrooms, 40 acres
Great mountain views in three directions, 35 acres
Five bedrooms, beautiful home, wind turbine & solar panels, 40 acres
Please continue to donate to the Retreat Center Fundraising Campaign. Right now we have nearly $37,000, which means we are seeing enthusiasm and receiving donations. However, we need to raise more money before we have the amount we need to purchase a property. We are hoping to purchase a property without a mortgage, so we can keep the cost as low as possible for you when you come.
Donate Now
to raise money for an Awakening Together Retreat Center.
All Donations are Tax Deductible in the USA.
Love, Regina
October 4, 2015 Daily Quote
“It is very important for the sake of your own well-being that you are able to stand your ground vibrationally. If you let skeptics and less liberated people’s ideas convince you of their reality, you have just handed over your power to create an amazing life to those world views with which you don’t resonate to begin with. Don’t accept any idea that does not seem absolutely exhilarating to you.” ~ Bentinho Massaro
Unfolding Detachment, by Liz Cronkite
Once upon a time as this mind’s awareness of Truth grew the natural result was that this mind came to experience that it was “in the world but not of the world”, as the popular phrase goes. This meant that it felt that it was still a self operating in the world but that it had a growing awareness that its interest was really in Truth. It was a lot like being at a party but standing on the edge of the room and watching the party rather than fully participating in it.
Then this mind attained an experience of detachment that was “not in the world but aware of the world”. This meant that it no longer lived through the self to fulfill a sense of lack but that there was still a world in its awareness. This was a lot like being outside of the house in which a party was occurring but still being aware that there was a party.
Now this mind is attaining an awareness that it is “not in a world but aware of a meaningless idea of a world”. This is like being in a quiet place and remembering that once it had an idea, far distant now, of a party that was only ever an idea.
In the A Course in Miracles community there is a lot of talk about “observing the world” and “observing your thoughts”. This practice comes naturally as a mind’s awareness of Truth results in it experiencing itself as apart from the world and its own thoughts about the world. At first this detachment is vague but grows as one’s awareness of Truth grows. This first experience of observing helps a mind to gain an awareness that the ego’s (personal thought system’s) thoughts are not the mind. Since the mind can observe them, the mind cannot be them. This practice results in the first two experiences described above. It is done by mind as a “decision maker” or “learner”. This is when it still makes sense to mind that it has a choice between Truth and illusion. Mind seems to be making a choice, or a decision, to detach from the thought system (ego) about a self. Mind is becoming aware, very dimly at first but stronger as time goes on, that the self and its world is not reality.
Beyond the decision maker or learner-mind is Mind Itself. Mind Itself observes it all: the ego, the world, the decision maker, the mind’s growing awareness of Truth. The Observing Mind is always present. It is not something that a mind practices; It is something that a mind allows. This leads to the latter experience described above.
October 3, 2015 Daily Quote
“Circumstances take their cue from your beliefs, so if your belief system says that your beliefs should take their cue from your circumstances, then you are stuck in an infinite reflection loop that does not change very much; your world won’t budge.” ~ Bentinho Massaro
October 2, 2015 Daily Quote
“Life is made already. There is nothing to be done. Nothing need be done to make a life into fruit–delicious, drippy fruit. … Eat it. Let it drip all over you. You cannot touch anything that it does not get all over. You cannot open your mouth that it does not pour out.” ~ Jan Frazier
October 1, 2015 Daily Quote
“Fearlessness is a flimsy commodity if it depends upon a known outcome.” ~ Jan Frazier
Weekly Gathering, 9/27/15
Looking at the Part of Ourself that Doesn’t Want to Awaken
Rev Regina Dawn Akers shares how the tools given for awakening are used by resistance. Resistance turns those same tools into opportunities for distraction. She recommends an inner non-judgmental assessment that will help us use spiritual tools and time effectively for the purpose of awakening.
Karen Worth read Freedom from the Maze by Michael Langford.
Barbara Deurwaarder served as Sanctuary Administrator.
Listen to I Shall Not Want by Audrey Assad:
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