Please read quotes 941-944 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Wake up, know yourself, be yourself.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 269
What is the Body?
Our special theme says, “You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be, you will believe that it is one with you.”
What do you believe makes you safe? Do you trust the mind that tells you how things should be and should not be? Are those judgments your guide to safety? Or do you trust life-awareness-presence, which simply is with whatever appears to be?
Please contemplate these questions today.
My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face.
It is common to believe that a person is not demonstrating Christ if s/he is rude and unhelpful. It is extremely common to believe that the person who shoots and kills several people is not demonstrating Christ.
How can we be expected to see Christ’s face in people like these when they clearly demonstrate the wrong mind instead of the Christ mind?
The answer lies in choosing the Loving All Method over the judging mind.
We each will see based on the mind we see through. If we see through the judging mind, we will see good and bad—things that seem Christ-like to us and things that don’t. However, if we see with life-awareness-presence, we see life-awareness-presence in everything, and that is Christ.
Notice that today’s lesson asks for our mistakes to be revealed. Anytime we do not see with the Loving All Method, a mistake in our mind is there to be revealed. That means that if we see something we feel we cannot love, accept or emotionally allow, we are in our wrong mind.
If you discover that you are in your wrong mind today, apply the Loving All Method to that. Love, accept or emotionally allow the fact that you have slipped into the wrong mind. That doesn’t mean that you should indulge the wrong mind. When you shift to the Loving All Method, you shift out of indulgence into the right mind’s perception of the mistake. It might feel like stepping back from the wrong mind without judging it. It might feel like resting and letting the wrong mind unwind or settle down. Although the wrong mind may remain present in awareness for a time after shifting to the Loving All Method, you should be able to feel a difference regarding your inner way of being with it.
If you have 30 minutes for meditation, I recommend this meditation today:
The Guiding Light ~ Bernadette Roberts #24: In Her Own Words
Regina Dawn Akers reads selections from books by Bernadette Roberts. The purpose of this inspired book study is to learn from one who walked through the final doorway to no self, no world, no God–Only Reality.
This evening’s audio is a recording of Bernadette Roberts sharing about the “knowing self” and the “feeling self,” which make up consciousness.
11/24/2019 ~ Movie Watchers Discussion Group: Shallow Hal
This month’s movie discussion group was facilitated by Ron Raitz.
This movie starring Jack Black as Hal Larsen, a shallow man rapidly approaching middle age whose superficiality can be attributed to his father’s deathbed admonition to only date young, beautiful women. Hal and his best friend, Mauricio (Jason Alexander), have taken the advice to heart, but Hal finds all of his physically impressive girlfriends consistently lacking in other qualities that would make them ideal mates. When he bumps into self-help guru Tony Robbins (playing himself), the motivational entrepreneur is intrigued by Hal’s predicament and hypnotizes him so that he’ll only see the inner beauty of women. Hal is quickly smitten with Rosemary Shanahan (Gwyneth Paltrow), a blonde Peace Corps volunteer who’s tenderhearted, funny, and intelligent. She is also gorgeous and meets Hal’s basic criteria of outer perfection, but what he doesn’t realize is that Robbins’ spell is working and he cannot see that Rosemary actually weights 300 pounds. When Mauricio is finally able to snap Hal out of his charmed state, Hal’s in love with the inwardly perfect woman and must overcome his obsession with beauty.
Kate Brennan ~ Giving Up Kate!~ “Hooked on Love” – 11/24/19
Kate shares her experience as she goes about the business of giving up her ideas about herself and the world on her journey toward purification and awakening. Kate shares with wisdom and humor and allows us a glimpse into the beautiful and sometimes messy blossoming of life examined with an eye on Truth.
11-24-19 Weekly Gathering: “Who or What Are You?”
Weekly Gathering with George Maddox, LM
Title: “Who or What Are You?”
Description: Using this question from the Dyad process we explored our essential nature.
Reading: Nyki Dobson read The Way of Mastery, pgs 2-4. Lesson 1: The Way that Calls You Home.
Take a Look at the 2020 AT Shuttle Schedule
The shuttle schedule for shuttles between the Colorado Springs Airport (COS) and the Awakening Together Retreat House has been set. Shuttles coincide with our 2020 retreats. To see the shuttle schedule and to get information about shuttles from the Denver airport, click the picture of the AT Van.
Note: You can find the shuttle schedule anytime at awakening-together.org under Retreats & Classes, Retreats at the Retreat House.
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #284
Please read quotes 937-940 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Don’t look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 268
What is the Body?
Our special theme says, “The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. Now is the body holy. Now it serves to heal the mind that it was made to kill.”
This is what I wrote this morning as I contemplated that excerpt from our special theme:
I am free to let my brother be as he is, and to love him without interference. What would interfere with my open love? Believing judgments would interfere; holding expectations would interfere; being self-centered and self-absorbed would interfere with my open love for my brother. Therefore, I am free not to believe the judgments that appear in this mind. I am free not to expect anything from my brother. I am free to remove attention from my mind and pay attention to who ever (or whatever) is in front of me.
I realize that what I have written may seem different than the words that are written in the special theme. In my experience, that sometimes happens when I contemplate the written word with the right mind.
For me, “extends his hand” is an image that represents open love. “Help him walk along the road” is an image that represents allowing him to walk his path his way, without interference from me. “Now is the body holy” represents peaceful presence rather than a mind that thinks it knows how everyone (and everything) else should be. Being in peaceful presence returns me to the remembrance of myself as presence, which the judging mind was made to hide.
Let all things be exactly as they are.
Today’s lesson confirms the interpretation I received from my contemplation of today’s special theme. Although the words contemplated from the special theme could have been interpreted differently, … for example, one might think that s/he is to help others along this path by teaching them to follow this path, … the lesson is clear that acceptance and allowance are the right-minded way to be. Since “fixing” a brother is not the same as allowing him to be as he is, only one of those two interpretations can be right-minded. The other demonstrates how the wrong mind thinks.
As you go through the day today, focus on the Loving All Method, especially with the people that you encounter in person, through television or online media, and in your thoughts.
If you have 30 minutes for meditation, I recommend this meditation:
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #283
Please read quotes 933-936 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Action is a proof of earnestness. Do what you are told diligently and faithfully and all obstacles will dissolve.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
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