A universal assembly for true discernment
Please read and contemplate quotes #309-312 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
Do understand that what you think to be the world is your own mind.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
I don’t know about you, but I am excited for the new start that begins tomorrow … our first lesson after the second review period. My heart is beating excitedly with joyous anticipation of the journey ahead.
We are all currently working with our spiritual aspiration. After we watch the Meta-Secret film and listen to “The Secret Holy Spirit Style,” we will focus within and receive our own visualization plan. The purpose of the visualization plan is to promote our spiritual aspiration.
A Course in Miracles tells us:
“The value of deciding in advance what you want to happen is simply that you will perceive the situation as a means to make it happen.”
In other words, as we become crystal clear on what we want and focus on what we want, we will see clearly our part in achieving it. However, that’s not all there is to it. In the Meta-Secret film we were told to expect quantum leaps. Those are the miracles that we are entitled to. As we envision our spiritual aspiration and as we do our part to achieve our spiritual aspiration, the deeper part of our Self rises to join with us, and shifts occur that are beyond our little efforts.
This will happen!
So as I said, my heart beats excitedly with joyous anticipation of the journey ahead. We can’t imagine it, but it is coming because we are inviting it
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Craig Holliday continues his examination of what it means to be both free and human.
Please read and contemplate quotes #305-308 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
I am trying to wake you up, whatever your dream.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
For most of us, the spiritual path is a path of hills and valleys, of what might feel like successes and failures. There are times when we feel like we aren’t doing good enough. Maybe we plan not to get angry, and then we get really angry. Maybe we plan to remember our Course lesson throughout the day, and then we forget about it for most of the day. Maybe we plan to meditate, and we fall asleep. Maybe it’s something else, but it seems there are opportunities to judge ourselves as not doing well enough.
One of my favorite quotes is from the movie, “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.” Here’s the quote:
“Everything will be alright in the end, so if it’s not yet alright, it’s not yet the end.”
I noticed there was a similar quote near the end of the meta-secret film we are watching this week. In that movie one of the speakers said, “Failures are not final.”
That’s really an incredible concept, if you contemplate it. It means that if we haven’t achieved the successful end, we are simply still in process. We are learning, growing, and moving toward our goal.
There is great power in trusting everything, in trusting the entire process exactly as it happens for us.
This time-lapse video of flowers blooming is a great symbol of the awakening process. Notice how some of the flowers open up right away, some seem to open and close as part of the blooming process, and others bloom one layer at a time. Also notice that no matter what the process looks like for these flowers, each and every one of them blooms. Once the process starts, the end is certain.
Notice how perfect and beautiful the blooming process is for every one of these flowers. Our processes are just as perfect just as they are happening. I like watching this video in full screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW_AsV7k42o&feature=youtu.be
Regina Dawn Akers reads the November 8, 1980 conversation in Consciousness and the Absolute: The Final Talks of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Please read and contemplate quotes #301-304 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
I am offering you exactly what you need — awakening.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
In ACIM, Chapter 29, entitled “The Awakening,” we are told…”dreams are dreams; and that escape depends, not on the dream, but only on awaking.” Last week we had a tip that pointed out some of the horrendous events going on in our world. Escape as pointed out in this passage depends on our ability to wake up.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that circumstances will change in the world because we’ve awakened, but we no longer have to suffer the guilt and the blame and the unworthiness for the perceived split, for the perceived injustices. There will be a physcological release or relief from knowing that this isn’t our true reality; it is not our brother’s reality either.
While circumstances may not change, it is quite possible that some of the horrible circumstances will change. In Regina’s “Awakening at Home” audio she related some stories from Peace Pilgrim’s book about events where circumstances did change as a result of Peace Pilgrim’s awakened mind. In one event, a man offered her a place to sleep with the intention of raping her and in another, a man’s intention was to beat a little girl. In both of these events, the men had a change of mind because of their interactions with the awakened Peace Pilgrim.
Though circumstances may or may not appear to change as we awaken, what they mean has changed. Again from ACIM Chapter 29, “Perceptions are determined by their purpose, in that they seem to BE what they are FOR. A shadow figure who attacks becomes a brother giving you a chance to help if this becomes a function of the dream. And dreams of sadness thus are turned to joy… He [who] perceives its function, [] can utilize all dreams as means to serve the function given Him. Because He loves the dreamer, not the dream, each dream becomes an offering of love.”
Awakening brings such possibilities.
Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert shares with honesty and passion about the ups, downs, and all-around of the spiritual journey. Jacquelyn is transparent as she shares about the impersonal awakening process we all experience. She moves us with stories from her own journey, with direct insight from inner wisdom and with guidance from spiritual masters, both contemporary and legendary.
Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity.
Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface.
