A universal assembly for true discernment
Expansion is the realization of truth over illusion. It is the putting aside of limits, which never existed. It is seeing beyond false identity into the unknown and ungraspable, which is you. You are not to be controlled or limited, not even by you. You are to be discovered, and discovery happens through allowing the mystery.
~ Thoughts of Awakening
Within you there is a place where I am and you are and there is no difference between us. This is a state of oneness, where the two are joined, and they are the same one. There is no loss in this state of awareness. There is only more. This is why I have asked you to inquire deep and broad. Within depth, there is expansion.
~ From the Inner Guide, Thoughts of Awakening
Rest the mind frequently today, as often as you remember, and notice as you take a moment to do nothing and to think nothing that you exist. Just notice this. Notice that nothing needs to be done for this one magnificent fact to be true. Nothing needs to be thought to realize this truth. The fact of existence already is. It is now. It is true. It is complete. And take a moment to thank your Father for the gift of existence.
~ Thoughts of Awakening
The Heart that is beyond words is not beyond you. It is only thought that would tell you so. It is only thought that can deceive. Put aside thought, if only for a moment, and then ask, “Am I, when thought isn’t?” Surely you will notice that you are not dependent on thought. Then ask, “Am I, when thought is?” Surely you will notice that whatever you are, it is present both with and without thought.
~ Thoughts of Awakening
Being A Happy Learner
Jacquelyn Eckert, licensed minister, teaches us how to let go of resistance and become the “happy learner.”
Tom Conway, reads from “A Course In Miracles”.
Barbara Deurwaarder serves as the Sanctuary Administrator.
Chicken Soup For The Soul
David ‘Dov’ Fishman, minister, shares from his experiences of stillness that the Soul knows no difference between “having” and “being”. The Soul honors only the laws of God.
Share Murphy shares from her experience of listening to Brent Haskell and allowing love into her life, regardless of the stories we create. She shares from a wide variety of insights gained from her studies to be an Awakening Together minister.
Barbara Deurwaarder serves as the Sanctuary Administrator.
This was our second Satsang this year with Timothy. Tonight we discussed several common topics of confusion including:
~ Effort on the spiritual path versus ‘no effort’ or ‘just stop’ in order to awaken
~ Relationship between awakening and improvements in health and the world condition
~ Allowing all things to be as they are versus taking action, including a discussion on raising children
About Timothy:
After a sudden, vivid, and completely life-changing spiritual awakening in his 16th year in February 1971, occurring not by efforts or drugs (never took any drugs), but entirely by Divine Grace, an exploding open of the heart-mind with the nondual realization that “God alone is Real, HERE and NOW, and we—the personified manifestations of God— are all truly made of Divine Spirit, Love, Joy, and Peace”—his life has been gratefully devoted ever since then to freely sharing, with anyone sincerely interested, the profoundly healing and empowering truth of Infinite Open Awareness, the “real Reality” right HERE (closer than the mind), and right NOW (always the true Reality before you can even think about this Self).
After awakening, Timothy immersed himself in the study of spiritual teachings that point toward truth, which gives him the ability to speak of his experience using the language and symbols of many different teachings. He also spent time studying directly with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, who he refers to as his mentor.
Timothy’s clarity is expressed lovingly. He encourages a healthy relationship with spirituality, one that recognizes the absolute as truth yet interacts gently and compassiontately with the relative self and world.
Timothy’s website: enlightened-spirituality.com.
Timothy’s books are available here.
How to Live in the World and Let Go of it Too
Regina Dawn Akers, minister, shares simple clarity about how to live in the world while simultaneously detaching from it completely.
David Hemphill reads from The Teachings of Inner Ramana.
Barbara Deurwaarder serves as the Sanctuary Administrator.
Regina Dawn Akers shares on the following topics during this member meeting:
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Finding the Present
Jay McCormick, licensed minister, shares how letting go of what we think we know about people, places, and things is essential to discovering what is right now, in the moment. Love is what is found in the moment.
Sabrina Reyenga shares in inspirational reading from A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, section VI.
Barbara Deurwaarder serves as the Sanctuary Administrator.
