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Gratitude is a gift.
It is the natural extension of love.
To love is to extend,
and to be grateful is to love.
Gratitude extends.
It increases.
This is what it does.
So gratitude is your extension of yourself
within all of that which you are.
~From our Holy Spirit
By Karen Worth
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 212
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 212
Gratitude is a gift.
It is the natural extension of love.
To love is to extend,
and to be grateful is to love.
Gratitude extends.
It increases.
This is what it does.
So gratitude is your extension of yourself
within all of that which you are.
~ From our Holy Spirit
NTI Colossians combines the teaching of NTI Ephesians and NTI Philippians, while bringing more clarity to both.
NTI Ephesians taught that you are the process of creation, and your way of being is creative spirit. Whatever you accept as true is given through spirit to all of consciousness and is experienced by consciousness in the Fourth Principle of God, the realm of manifestation.
NTI Philippians taught that your creative spirit isn’t the result of your purpose alone. Your purpose (motive) combined with believing attention (faith) creates the way of being that is creative spirit. NTI Philippians recommended you watch the body to see if the motive and faith it follows is the motive and faith that you want as your creative spirit. It also recommended that you stand firm with the purpose of the Heart.
NTI Colossians points to what we are beyond the creative principle, which is life-awareness. It reminds us that our truth is the truth of everything. It’s not just that I am life-awareness and an insect is life-awareness too. The insect and I are the same life-awareness.
In other words, NTI Ephesians pointed to the Third Principle of God as what we are. NTI Colossians begins there, and then points directly at the First Principle of God as our actual reality.
To say we are merely the Fourth Principle of God, manifestation, is a mistake. To say we are the Third Principle of God, the creative principle, is more correct. To say we are the Second Principle of God, consciousness, is closer to truth. To say we are the First Principle of God, life-awareness, is truth. To say we are all four principles simultaneously is the essence of truth, since all four principles are made up of the First Principle of God.
In NTI, the First Principle of God is called Life. The Second Principle of God is called spirit. The Third Principle of God is called creation. The Fourth Principle of God is called form. You are all of them, because you are Life, which is the source and the essence of them all.
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Kathy Smith explores the quotes from Experience Your Perfect Soul and shares from her contemplation of them.
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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.
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Listening to the Heart
is not a special talent
that some have and others don’t.
Listening to the Heart
is one talent given to all.
When you hear your brother
speak from his Heart
and you recognize it,
you are listening to yours.
When you hear your brother
speak from his Heart
and you want to follow it,
you are desiring to follow yours.
Recognize the Heart as one Heart,
and be grateful whenever you hear its song.
Through your gratitude for it,
you tune in with it,
and once you are in tune,
you will hear it more.
~From our Holy Spirit
By Karen Worth
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 211
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 211
Listening to the Heart
is not a special talent
that some have and others don’t.
Listening to the Heart
is one talent given to all.
When you hear your brother
speak from his Heart
and you recognize it,
you are listening to yours.
When you hear your brother
speak from his Heart
and you want to follow it,
you are desiring to follow yours.
Recognize the Heart as one Heart,
and be grateful whenever you hear its song.
Through your gratitude for it,
you tune in with it,
and once you are in tune,
you will hear it more.
~ From our Holy Spirit
Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.
~ Commentary on Desire ~
Listening is a habit that is cultivated through desire. By desiring to listen and follow, one begins to listen and follow. Through desiring to listen and follow more, one begins to increase the habit of listening and following.
Desire is worth cultivating. Spending time focusing on one’s desire to listen and follow is helpful to the practice and the habit, because all practice and all habit follows desire.
Remember your desire in the mind. Have gratitude for your desire in the heart. Trust your desire in the moment. All of this will cultivate the desire, and the desire shall blossom into a lovely new habit.
~From our Holy Spirit
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Regina Dawn Akers guides a group of committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy and love.
The reading tonight was from The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira, p. 210-214, A Knowing Space.
Homework for the upcoming week:
Homework Assignment A: Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Homework Assignment B: Thoughts of Awakening, 211-217 including Commentary on Desire (with 211), Commentary on Gratitude (with 213), Commentary on Happiness (with 215), & Commentary on Experience (with 216)
Homework Assignment C: Read NTI Colossians 1-4. (No NTI reading on days 211, 213, 215, or 216).
