A universal assembly for true discernment
Topic: “Be Thee Imitators of God”
Description: Rev. Regina discussed “imitation” as a step towards realizing our genuine true Self, because when we “imitate” God, we are being our Self. It isn’t imitation at all!
Reading: Rev. Joanne Schneider read an excerpt from The Short Path to Enlightenment by Paul Brunton.
Led by Rev. Carrie Rae Christiansen
Each Tuesday, 10 pm ET,
Directly Following Gentle Healing
Submit a prayer request for prayer circle
(Please submit requests by 2pm ET on Tuesday.)
NTI Philippians says, “‘I pray for you’ means, I know who you are, and I know who I am, and I know what we are together. ‘I pray for you’ means, I know we are not separate, but connected through God, which is mind and spirit. ‘I pray for you’ means, I recognize our oneness, and I recognize that as I ask for you, I too shall receive. ‘I pray for you’ is a statement of faith that all you see and sense and experience is not all there is. It is a statement of realization that effect is the result of intent, and intent can be affected by you.”
Compassion is realizing the answer is present even though the one with a prayer request may not sense the answer. Our role in response to a prayer request is to be silent in love, not denying the experience of form and not seeing it as reality. As we hold this space, we speak to the universe in recognition of the call for help while also recognizing the loving universe is fully present.
Prayer circle is in harmony with Awakening Together’s fifth core value:
We accept all forms as temporary appearances permitted through enduring awareness of Self. We live this value by honoring all appearances and all experiences while continually reflecting on changeless truth.
Prayer circle is a concentrated opportunity to practice this core value.
You are invited to join us for Prayer Circle.
The choice for peace
sees the Heart.
This is how you know
you have chosen peace.
It is as if you see
the Heart in everyone you meet
and in everyone you think of.
It is as if you see
through the Heart
into the world,
so although the world has not changed,
you know only its Heart.
This way of seeing
is peace,
and it comes through your decision
to listen only
to the Voice of Peace.
~From our Holy Spirit
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 208
The choice for peace
sees the Heart.
This is how you know
you have chosen peace.
It is as if you see
through the Heart
into the world,
so although the world has not changed,
you know only its Heart.
This way of seeing
is peace, and it comes through your decision
to listen only
to the Voice of Peace.
~ 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 the Wish to be Independent~
The wish to be independent is the wish for “me” who is separate from “you” and whose key interests may be different. We may at times find similarities among our varied interests, but this is rare and never long-lasting, for always “my” key interest is to look out for “me.”
And can there be any question that this thought must eventually lead to conflict and to pain?
Yet this is the thought you listen to, and the choice you make, whenever you choose to worship the wish to be independent.
~From our Holy Spirit
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
The choice for peace
is the choice of the Heart.
Therefore, realize
that you want to surrender
and you want to obey.
This is your truest wish.
When the independent thought
rises up
and asks you to listen to it,
remember that you want
to listen to love,
and there is no love
in independence.
~From our Holy Spirit
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 207
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 207
The choice for peace
is the choice of the Heart.
Therefore, realize
that you want to surrender
and you want to obey.
This is your truest wish.
When the independent thought
rises up
and asks you to listen to it,
remember that you want
to listen to love,
and there is no love
in independence.
~ 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 the World~
The world is filled with distraction. It is filled with things to do, issues to think about, and things to say. The world is filled with distraction, because it is programmed by the idea of independence. The idea fuels the world, and the world fuels the idea.
This, again, explains the reason for obedience. The world is caught in the loop for independence, which is also the loop of conflict, which is pain. When you react to the world with your thinking and your doing and your saying, you continue to feed this loop. Yet that is your habit today.
To break a habit takes obedience. And it is your Heart’s desire to break this habit. Breaking this habit is your contribution to peace.
To break the habit of independence, conflict and pain, one must learn not to listen to himself or his thinking, because it is a part of the world…a part of this loop.
One must instead choose to listen to a Voice that is not part of this world…not part of the loop…and take all direction from it.
The mind will resist the suggestion to take “all direction” from a Voice that is not of this world, but that resistance comes from the desire for independence, which is also the cause of conflict and pain.
~From our Holy Spirit
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
To want to lead
is to want to remain independent.
This is also to choose conflict,
which is pain.
To willingly surrender into following
is to choose love
and harmony
and oneness.
This choice is peace.
~From our Holy Spirit
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 206
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 206
To want to lead
is to want to remain independent.
This is also to choose conflict,
which is pain.
To willingly surrender into following
is to choose love
and harmony
and oneness.
This choice is peace.
~ From our Holy Spirit
