GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki: The Rosary

“Do not despair in any situation. Have faith NOT in the capacity of friends and family to help you out, but in the capacity of God. God will show you the right path.” 
– Pandit Shriram Sharma 

"You have no idea how good things actually are right now.  You just haven’t reached that moment in time that the gift is revealed.  

In full faith believe that your beautiful destiny is unfolding on this beam of God Light you can feel.  It’s coming into view in proportion that you can stay aware of It.  It’s rearranging your life, dropping the ish, and replacing it with sugar, effortlessly. " 
-Note from my phone, Sept 2018

“Much prayer—much power.  Little prayer—little power.  No prayer-- …” – Toure Roberts

Today’s Practice:

Every time you're in the midst of needing someone to respond to you or do something for you, remember in that moment that you don't need anything but God.  That remembrance is the true miracle that shows up as the seeming material one. Rest. Abide. Trust in this Love. 

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"To be conscious of the breath means that no thoughts can be allowed, because thoughts will distract your attention. Buddha never says, "Stop thinking." He says, "Breathe consciously." Automatically, thinking will stop; you cannot both think and breathe consciously. When a thought comes into your mind, your attention is withdrawn from the breathing. A single thought and you have become unconscious of the breathing process.

Buddha used this technique. It is a simple one, but a very vital one. He would say to his bhikkhus, his monks, "Do whatsoever you are doing, but do not forget a simple thing: remember the incoming and the outgoing breath. Move with it, flow with it."

The more you try to do it, the more you endeavor to do it, the more conscious you will become. It is arduous, it is difficult, but once you can do it, you will have become a different person, a different being in a different world." - Osho 

Today's Practice:

Allow everything that happens today to happen in the flow of your breath.  Stay conscious of your breathing today.  Don't forget to feel for it.  Make it primary, and everything else secondary.  It's your anchor.  It's always here.  Always now.  Just as God Is.  Just as Love is.  Just as you are.  You are breathing life into your new life. Trust this. 
Smile. 
Give thanks. 

I Love you, 
Nik
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Do a new thing, today.
Chant the Name.
Change your life.

I Love you and I'm with you,
 Nik
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Today's Quotes:

"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."
-Isaiah 43:18-19

"It takes very, very, VERY, good karma for a person even to want to know God."
-Yogananda

"Any work you do while keeping constant remembrance of god is of the same value as meditation. To constantly remember God is not your habit.  To cultivate it, japa (repeating a mantra or name of  God) is the prescription."
-Amma

"When I am with you, everything is prayer."
Rumi

It's like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune in to that flow, you will feel it in your own heart—not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, ‘I am’.”
-Ram Dass

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"The Kingdom of God is spread upon the earth, and men do not see it.'* The Kingdom isn't far away.  The Kingdom is right here and right now. The challenge of Jesus' message is that it constantly asks of us: Can you see it? Can you see the Kingdom right now? Right in the midst of this very moment in the midst of this very life that often seems mundane and ordinary-- can you see eternity? Have you allowed yourself and your world to be rendered transparent to the underlying divinity that shines through it?   - from Adyashanti's, 'Resurrecting Jesus' 
*The Gospel of St. Thomas 113

"By and by your consciousness will become more and more centered in the eyes. You will just be aware; there will be no thinking.  Eyes cannot think. When the whole consciousness is centered in the eyes, the mind has no energy left for thinking.  There is no mind-- only the eyes exist-- so there is no thinking." - Osho

Today's Practice:
Take a few moments to notice that when you're not blinking, you're not thinking.  And notice what you FEEL in that pause.  Love.  Become a transparency for that Love to shine through, for the Kingdom to reach out and through and touch others.  Text someone a message of gratitude, today.  Be Love, today, and remember that the Kingdom is not only where you reside, It's what you are.

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When the heart is warm with Love, the head is automatically cool.   
Your response is chill.
Your thoughts are chill.
Sometimes, it's like they're saying- 
"Thank you for giving me this Love as a reminder of Your presence.
Thank you for giving me this opportunity, this moment, to remember you."

And you can take as many of these moments as  you need during the day. 
Every time you close your eyes and go within,
that's the Sabbath.
That's true rest.
That's the absence of desire (aka the feeling of lack),
and the presence of all things Go(o)d.

I Love you,
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As you read these words, shift from that weak signal to having ALL your bars. A strong connection feels like Love, radiating. It feels like a straighter spine. A smiling face. Belly breaths. It feels like... Home. Welcome back :) 

READ THAT JOEL GOLDSMITH QUOTE! xx

I Love you,
Nik
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Today's Quotes:

"Hope, expectancy, and what the world calls faith—this all has to do with a future tense. God has no way of operating except now, a continuing now. “Now is the appointed time,” and this takes away from us the false sense of faith that God will meet our rent on the first of the month. 

It helps us to realize that God does not operate in the future, because that takes away from us the false sense of expectancy and the false sense of faith it gives us. “I will never leave you nor forsake you,” so omnipresent I is a continuing experience, but not one that begins tomorrow. If faith has anything to do with anything beyond this moment it is not faith at all. You may say that you will not have fruit on your fruit trees until next month; but I say to you—if the law is not operating in your trees now, there never will be fruit. It is only the operation of the nowness that brings fruit in its season. It is what is happening in the tree now that determines the fruit to be on the tree. So it is, that which is taking place in our consciousness now determines the fruitage in our bodies, in our pocketbook, in our family, in our life—next week, next month, next year. "
- Joel Goldsmith 'Consciousness Transformed' (pp. 114-116). Acropolis Books, Inc..

"This life is about finding a way to be in the world that connects you to your Soul."
-Ram Dass 

"And now these three remain: faith, hope, love, but the greatest of these is Love."
-1 Corinthians 13:13

"The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all moments."
-Thich Nhat Hanh 


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“This love and life are not different. 
This love and God are not different. 
This love and consciousness are not different. 
This love and the Absolute are not different.”
— Mooji, White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master 

“I AM come here within you to be your life everlasting. I AM to resurrect you out of any tomb into which you may have fallen: the tomb of sin, the tomb of disease, the tomb of poverty, the tomb of unhappiness. Into whatever tomb you have fallen, I, your Christ-self, am here to resurrect you, to bring you back to the Father’s house so that you will “die” to that flesh and blood and bone belief, and actually witness your Self as you are, the Christ, the perfect son of God, the perfect offspring of the perfect Substance, Life, and Being.”
— The Altitude of Prayer by Joel S. Goldsmith

"He is the wisest who seeks God.  He is the most successful who has found God."
- Yogananda  

Bonus Quote:
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.”
— Rumi

Today's Practice:

Be the Love, watch the body.

or 

Feel the love in the body and don't stop feeling the love. 

You've got the key in your pocket. Take it out and USE IT. 

I love you, 
Nik
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"I release all inner resistance and doubt.  I trust my inner power." - Louise Hay

Today, when you notice that familiar resistance to feeling Love, don't force It... simply invite It in.  It's a light intention.  A gentle turning toward and recognizing.  And in the instant you remember to turn, you are immediately aware of It, as It. Love wasn't covering Its face, we were covering ours.  Let's take our hands down from over our eyes, and  look... feel. 

There, Love is! 

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Nik
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“You must remember that the Name represents God within you. So you repeat any Name you hold dear and fill yourself with Divine ecstasy. This is the easiest and best method by which you can purify yourself. Think of God and you become the image of God. Take the holy Name and you become holy.
- Ramdas

"The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute."
-Mahrajji

"If you do Japa mantra you will always be benefited. You will never lose anything."
-Anandamayi Ma

"Those who sing the praises of Him are no longer ordinary men trapped in the world."
-Anon

"That student onto who the Lord becomes merciful chants the Lord's name and wins the game of life."
-Guru  Ram Das Ji

"Knowingly or unknowingly, consciously or unconsciously, in whatever state we utter His name, we acquire the merit of such utterance." - RamaKrishna

"By Reciting His name, everything is achieved." -Maharajji

“By the power of the Name of God, one shall come to know what one does not know. One shall see what cannot be seen. One will be able to speak what cannot be spoken. One shall meet what cannot be ordinarily met. Incalculable will be the gain of uttering the Name.” - #Tukaram

“Gazing upon this world, you are fooled. It is not worth even half a shell. Only the name of the Lord of the Universe is permanent.”
-Gurbani

"After no great lapse of time I had the feeling that the prayer had, so to speak, by its own action passed from my lips to my heart. Further there came into my heart and precious warmth. None of these things made me feel at all cast down. It was as though they were happening to someone else and I merely watched them. The prayer brought sweetness into my heart and made me unaware of everything else."
- The Way of A Pilgrim

-Excerpt about Mantras from the book I've mentioned before, Polishing the Mirror (the one that sold me on the practice back in 2013)

-How to use a Mala

-I use Tulsi wood beads to chant, like these or these.

-Interviews I've conducted on  japa-
Nanak Naam
Krishna Das

-Books
Chants of a Lifetime by Krishna Das
The Way of a Pilgrim
The Essential Swami Ramdas
Polishing the Mirror by Ram Dass

-Songs featuring the Mahamantra
Brindavan Hare Ram (the one I was singing before I started chanting it)
Township Krishna

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Becoming the Witnessing Consciousness is a very subtle shift,  that in the beginning brings about very subtle changes... so subtle you won't notice them until people start bringing them to your attention.

"You look happier."
"You look younger."
"You're so easy to talk to you, I love your energy."

But It's God's Light they're feeling.
It's God they're seeing.
It's God they're hearing.
And they don't know.
You know. 
You know what Is,
You have what Is.
You're aware of what Is, aware of God,
between the space of where you are and where you want to be,
trusting that as long as you continue to practice feeling Go(o)d, the work you're doing, the work you're watching, becomes your path. 

I Love you,
Nik
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Today's Quotes:     

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."
-Ernest Hemingway 

"Fear not, for I have redeemed you, I've called you by name, you're mine."
-Isaiah 43:1

"Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established."
-Proverbs 16:3

"Start from where you are, not where you wish you were. The work you're doing becomes your path."
-Ram Dass  

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