GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki: The Rosary

"The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body, to feel it at all times, this will rapidly deepen and transform your life."
-Eckhart Tolle

"The moment you are in touch with your breath, the universe pours into you."
-netz.der.indra

"All your problems arise because you don't stand firm within your Self."
-Amma 

Today's Practice:
Every time you look down at your phone for a sign, look within and feel for the REAL sign.  When you're turned toward and feeling Love in and AS that body, you stop looking around and waiting for permission (like 1/11) to be your best self.  You stop looking for signs of success and you start watching that body step into and celebrate It.  You start watching this Love unfold as the Go(o)d Life. 

I Love you,
Nik
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My life depends on me being Love, because when I'm being Love, I can see through appearances, and when I can see through appearances, they change.  

This is how you see yourself out of any situation you have outgrown.  Not through resistance. When the resistance comes up, immediately see through it, too!  See through every thought, through every emotion, through every person, place, and thing, to the REAL.  And let the REAL manifest and define Itself.  

Note: The REAL feels like the feeling of Love in and as that body.  And you can sense It even when the body is discordant. 

I Love you and I'm with you!
Nik
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Quotes: 

"The two worse feelings in the world  are not having a job and having a job."
-Unknown via IG

" In wealth is the fear of poverty, in knowledge the fear of ignorance, in beauty the fear of age, in fame the fear of backbiters, in success the fear of jealousy, even in body is the fear of death. Everything in this earth is fraught with fear. He alone is fearless who has given up everything."
-Swami Vivekananda

"Do not try to control matter.  Know it does not exist. You control it by knowing it does not exist." 
-Herb Fitch

"Being never came into being because It is eternal.  Therefore nothing in the three-dimensional world ever came into being. It came into appearing. "
-Bob Pilato 

"In 2022, I resolve not to react to appearances, but to see through them." 
-Gil Michaels  

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“Rumi says, ‘The one who brought me here must take me home.’ Who is the one who brought you here? That Grace is calling you home. Where is home, which direction is home? You and home are the same thing.”
-Mooji 

"It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves."
-St. Teresa of Avila 

"Having never left the house you are looking for the way home."
-Nisargadatta Maharj

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.  Help someone's soul heal.  Walk out of your house like a shepherd."
-Rumi 

"We are called into the inner room, and then out again to serve others."
-Carl McColman 

Today's Practice:
Every time you find that place inside that is forever still, you are Home. You are in Heaven.  You can turn any moment into heaven by, 'going into your heart cave' as Ram Dass would say.  Go into your heart cave before you go into your office tomorrow.  Don't leave your heart cave.  Realize you ARE the heart cave, itself.  

“Your homework is to stay home inside your heart.”
- Mooji 

I Love you and I'm with you, 
Nik
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"Just as a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, so the disciplined mind of a yogi remains steady in meditation on the Self."
-Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6:19

Self = God = Loving Awareness = What you truly are 

"As the golden flame of the candle burns steadily, without flicker or wavering, so shall My Flame burn ever more in your heart. It shall burn out all dross of the mortal mind, smallness of nature, meanness of spirit, vindictiveness, jealousy. It shall burn out all carelessness of your habits, in the outer realms of your being. My Law and My Order can then function perfectly in your life. Then and then only will you be a worthy vessel for the inflow of My Spirit. Then and then only can My Spirit flow through you to other of My children. Likewise shall all disease be burned from the physical body, that nothing shall interfere with My Plan for your life. As the sigh of your spirit disturbs the flame and makes the candle drip, so the faintest wavering of your feet from the path of attainment causes a less steady burning of My Flame in your heart, and My Work goes on in imperfection. Oh, My Beloved, how necessary that you live with the eye single, to the high purpose of your calling. But you have many helpers. No soul who enters the path is left to walk alone. So go on, day by day, with the light and assurance of My Love in your face. Mighty Ones whom you see not, are by your side. And the forces of darkness shall touch you not."
-Eva Bell Werber, ‘Quiet Talks the Master’

"Dear God, help me to not lose sight of your presence when things are going well."
-Unknown

Today's Practice:
Watch Love the way you'd watch an unexpected lizard friend on the wall of your bedroom! Don't lose sight of It for nothing!

I Love you,
Nik 

**Love Your Breath meditation inspired by Ram Dass

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"Hold on. Stay Strong. Trust God."  
- @Bible_verses_kj on IG 

"Grace has the ability to change anything at any time."
-Ravi Shankar

Breathe and go with the flow of Grace. Even if you can't see it yet, everything is new. For now, just feel the Newness, even if you can only feel 5% of It.  Trust that It's carving out a niche for you. A holy space for you to continue to grow and begin to thrive in.  
Don't stop... you're (t)here. Just keep pausing and becoming still enough to notice the presence of God all around you.  God is here, smile.  Radiate Him.  

I'm with you and practicing, too!
Nik  

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"We should always be confident that this chanting is not a vibration of this material world.  It is imported from the spiritual world.  It is completely spiritual."
- Narottama dasa Thakura

"Only God's name is real."
-Larry Brilliant
 
"It's all illusion except the name of the Lord."
-The Ramayana
 
"Rams' form left this world, Krishna's form left this world, but the Name stays.  By reciting His Name, everything is achieved. Everything is achieved." 
-Maharajji (Maharajji constantly chanted Ram all of his waking hours)

"Kalau nasty eva nasty eva na-sty eva gatir anyatha", or, "in this age, there is no other alternative, no other alternative, no other alternative than to chant the holy name of the Lord (Hare Krishna)." - Caitanya Mahaprabhu via Srila Prabhupada

"National duties, social duties, and humanitarian duties are obligatory only to those who are bereft of spiritual duties.  As soon as man takes his birth on earth, he has all these obligations to the great sages that left behind vast treasure houses of knowledge to guide him through life, to forefathers, family members, the government, and so forth and so on.  But as soon as one engages himself in the one single obligatory duty- the duty of spiritual perfection- then he automatically liquidates all other obligations without having to make separate efforts."
-Stephen Knapp

Books-
Polishing the Mirror by Ram Dass
The Mantram Handbook by Ekwath Easwaran

Documentaries-
American Yogi, Hare Krishna, Becoming Nobody, and Windfall of Grace (starring K.K. Sah from Monday's episode!)
 
Listen to some of these previous episodes on mantra and my personal practice --
1.How do you do it? Feel sad and still be Love?
2. The Practice the Changed my Life
3. Experience Love's Presence Instantly
4.Transform  Y

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Today's Quotes:

"God
Disguised
As a myriad of things and
Playing a game
Of tag

Has kissed you and said,
"You're it---

I mean, you're Really IT!"

No
It does not matter
What you believe or feel

For something wonderful,

Major-league Wonderful
Is someday going
To
Happen. "
- Daniel Ladinsky, from 'You're It' in "The Gift, Poems by Hafiz"     

"I became conscious of being (feeling) it. 
I am still conscious of being it.
And I shall continue to be conscious of being it until that which I am conscious of being is perfectly expressed. "
-Neville Goddard

"By changing the way you feel you can change the way things turn out."
-Abraham Hicks

"Actually the only freedom you have is not to react to conditions and to turn within, to see the truth. Everything else is preordained. Whatever appears in your life is destined to be.  It is your reaction to what appears that matters to you, what's going to happen to you next." 
-Robert Adams

"The secret is to allow the world to show you what it will, and for you not to react to anything."
-Robert Adams

Today's Practice:
Every time you  see something disturbing today (a headline, an email, an annoying someone), or feel some inner upset, pause and remember, 'I'm It'.  You've been tagged.  You've been chosen to remember that things aren't as they appear.  You become the witness of the inner or outer disturbance AND witness to the Love that's also present.  Feel Love in that body while the disturbance appears to be (t)here.  This is the first and last step.  

Witness as Love smiles that face, relaxes that body, and stirs up Peace and calm-confidence.  This is what 'It' feels like.  When  you're feeling It, you're being It, and soon you'll be seeing the fruits of 'It' in and as the world. 

You're IT, 
Nik
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 Let's chant together --  "Aditya Hridyam Punyam Sarv Shatru Bena Shenam"

This Sanskrit mantra is from the Ramayana and it means, "All evil vanishes from those who keep the sun in their heart." I've shared it before in passing.  

In this case, 'evil' means something that distracts you from or makes you feel separate from Love.  This could be anything from thoughts, or your job, to an unhealthy relationship, or bad habits, etc.  And trust that whenever something falls away, something that is Go(o)d,  something that is of this Love, something in alignment with all that you are, falls in its place!  

While chanting (reading along with) the Sanskrit words, FEEL your intention to serve God... to be an instrument of Love.  Hold your heart, or namaskar, or sway... feel that as you speak the words you are in the presence of God. Would your mind wander into the past or future if you were sitting in the presence of God? Right.  Stay where your feet appear to be and chant this mantra while radiating Love, while feeling Him, while feeling your new life. 

I Love you,
Nik
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Bonus Quotes and Material:

"Keep God in your heart like you keep money in the bank."
-Maharajji

"Love is essentially self communicative; Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it."
-Meher Baba via, 'Be Here Now'

Listen to these previous episodes on mantra and my personal practice --
1.How do you do it? Feel sad and still be Love?
2. The Practice the Changed my Life
3. Experience Love's Presence Instantly 

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How to activate a miracle? Activate felt-Love by being the witness.  

Yesterday I flew out in the morning from Florida to Missouri to pick up the kiddos, with the intention of flying back to Florida on the same day.   I left at 8am and we were back by 10pm-- no delays, Go(o)d music, Go(o)d books, and cat naps all the way!  In the face of every seeming hiccup, I'd: 
 
1.  Notice it. 
2.  Close my eyes for a second and listen for the Silence. (#HardReset).
3. Notice what's noticing the Silence and the hiccup. 
4. Abide (t)here as the Loving-Still-Witness.
5. Remember that the hiccups only come to keep me aware as Love.  Hiccups are Grace, too.

We are home safe and I didn't even miss a recording for you!   

Keep hard resetting.  Love works.

I Love you,
Nik
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Today's Reading--

"Be Still! Not as any stillness you have ever known before. The stillness which lies at the bottom of the ocean, eternally quiet, yet eternally vibrant and alive with infinite activity. Only by attaining this super-stillness can the full realization of former talks be attained. You must learn to keep this stillness, to retreat into it at any moment, whenever any confusion arises in your physical or mental world. Thus shall all difficulties solve themselves by My Power working through you. Learn to BE STILL instantly and watch God's Power work! In this potent stillness are all demonstrations made."
-Eva Bell Werber, Quiet Talks the Master

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Repeat, feelingly:  
"I know all the power I need to live a successful life is within me.
I relax my entire body.
I cast all burdens on the Christ. (aka Love, Source, God, etc)
I go free.
I claim and feel the Peace of God flooding my mind, heart, and whole being.
I know the quiet mind gets its problems solved.
I am at Peace."
-Unknown author

The Hollow Bamboo Game  by Ram Dass

A quiet mind is all you need.  All else will happen rightly once your mind is quiet."
-Nisargardatta Maharaj  
      
"When I remember God, He takes care of everything." 
-Maharajji aka Neem Kaorli Baba 

Today's Practice:
1. Become like a hollow bamboo... an empty reed... a flute... 
2. Become aware of the emptiness, the space and silence within you-- hollow bamboos don't think. 
3. Notice the fullness of Love in the emptiness. 
4. Know this Love as God. As your true Self.  As the solution to every problem.  

I Love you and I'm with you, 
Nik
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