GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki: The Rosary

Today's Quotes: 

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside you."
-Deepak Chopra 

(on seeming chaos) "...whatever happens to me  is quickly transformed into heavenly activity." 
- Herb Fitch 

You're so bright, you blind even yourself" 
- Unknown on IG 

Today's Practice:
Sway, only so you can stay conscious of the Stillness.  Chant a mantra, only so you can stay conscious AS the Silence.  This contrast makes it easy to recognize your Self. In any moment of perceived minor or major, inner or outer chaos today, stop, breathe, and hear these words:

This is temporary. Love will guide me through it. 
Love is carrying me through it.  
This felt-Love is helping me see through the illusion of it. 
It's not actually here. 
Only Love is. 

Smile and carry on.  The seeming solutions to the seeming problems are born in Silence... they come from the Stillness.  Keep witnessing the swaying,  Keep hearing the chanting.  Keep being the Love. 

I Love you, 
Nik 
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"Fill your lungs deeply with God so that you can breathe Christ into the world." 
-Caryll Houselander

"What can be a greater vision than this: to see the invisible God in a visible person?"
-Pachomius 

"Whether I be in the temple or the balcony, in the camp or in the flower garden, I tell you truly that every moment my Lord is taking His delight in me." 
-Kabir

"I walked around the temple, enjoying this ecstasy. When I noticed that the intensity came down a little bit, all I had to do was inhale deeply into my heart and it came back up. It was so great. I thought, How compassionate is the Lord! Not only does he give the ecstasy, but he gives the method for keeping it. Oh, how sweet life is! It went on like this for days." 
-Krishna Das, Chants of a Lifetime (p. 123). Hay House. Kindle Edition.

Bonus Quote:
"Caught in the storm, battered by waves
The ship of my life was blown off course
By the winds of selfishness . . . My breath rises within me,
the breath of the heart.
The sweet breath.
The sacred breath leads me in. Now the winds begin to die down
and the waters grow calm.
I have found a haven for my heart,
In the Harbor of the Name. "
— Krishna Das, Chants of a Lifetime (pp. 160-161). Hay House. Kindle Edition

Today's Practice:
Keep breathing your way into Love today using uneven breath counts (in for 5, out for 7), which silences the mind so you can feel Love for every breath... during every breath... AS every breath.  Conscious breathing is one way to feel Go(o)d, and wherever you're feeling this formless Love, you'll see and experience It in form.  

I Love you, 
Nik
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"Sometimes God challenges you
to find strength you don’t have.
Only like this will you go beyond
your imagined limits.
You must be pushed so far
that you are forced to be humble.
Only then, when your pride
and arrogance are crushed,
will you discover muscles that are not yours.
You will find and use the muscles of God.
When you completely abandon yourself, your ego,
this miracle becomes possible."
-Mooji

"Repeat this under your breath:
It is no longer ________ (your name) who lives, but Christ who lives in  _________ (your name) who is going to boldly face and conquer any kind of problems." 
-@ThePrayingFashionistas via IG 

Today's Practice:
Every time you become aware of a worry thought about tomorrow or next week, pause and pray.  

Pause by listening for Silence instead of to the worry thought.  Remember that you're not thinking that worry thought.  That thought isn't yours.  You're simply listening to it... and you can choose to believe it or not.  You can choose to claim it or not.  You can choose to listen to Silence instead! 

And you pray by recognizing and feeling Go(o)d in the Silence.  You pray by repeating (hearing or becoming aware of) the above mantra, the truth that it isn't you that must face these problems, but God in you.  You pray by remembering that God in you has no problems, knows no problems, sees no problems. You pray by reaching and feeling for even 2% of the Love that is fully present in and AS that moment and by watching your experience of the moment and the seeming moment itself, shift. 

The awareness to pause and pray is the miracle, and it manifests as such. 

I Love you, 
Nik 
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"When we know who we are, we're everybody and we're free." 
-Krishna Das

"Toss attachment for body aside, realizing I am everywhere. 
One who is everywhere is joyous."
-Osho, The Book of Secrets 

(On letting go of attachment)  "You will not ask “how.” If your house is on fire you will not ask anyone, you will not go seeking a master to ask how to come out of it. If the house is on fire you will simply get out of it. You will not lose a single moment. You will not search for the teacher, you will not consult the scriptures. And you will not try to choose in what ways one has to come out, what means have to be adopted, and which door is the right door. These things are irrelevant when the house is on fire. When you know what attachment is, the house is on fire. You can put it aside.  There is no need to ask how. It is absolutely a fire, a hell. You can jump out of it. 

This sutra says: 'Toss attachment for body aside, realizing I am everywhere.'  And the moment you toss aside the attachment, you will realize you are everywhere. Because of this attachment you feel you are limited by the body. It is not the body which is limiting you; it is your attachment to it. It is not the body which is making a barrier between you and the reality; it is your attachment to it. Once you know what the attachment is not there, there is no body to you. Rather, the whole existence becomes your body; your body becomes a part of the total existence. Then it is not separate."
-Osho. The Book of Secrets (p. 929). Osho International. Kindle Edition. 

Today's Practice:
Rock and sway between these two mantras today- 'I am nowhere'. 'I am everywhere'.  They're both true.  The moment you make the felt-connection with Love, you are beyond the body.  You are no longer attached to it.  You're free and that freedom feels like Joy.  You are everywhere, and nowhere.  You are everyone and no one.   You are the invisible,  formless, boundless Love appearing as the  countless visible forms.  And because you know This, because you ARE This, that body smiles.  Love is felt as its very being.  

I Love you, 
Nik 
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"It's normal to not always feel in alignment.  That's not the goal. The goal is to recognize the misalignment and take action to bring yourself back into harmony." - Shakira Maria via IG

Feel Your Body As Empty - A Meditation
"Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin – empty. Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin…but inside, everything empty. This is one of the most beautiful techniques. Just sit in a meditative posture, relaxed, alone, your backbone straight and the whole body relaxed – as if the whole body is hanging on the backbone. Then close your eyes. For a few moments go on feeling relaxed, more relaxed, becoming calmer and calmer and calmer. Do this for a few moments, just to be in tune. And then suddenly start feeling your body is just walls of skin and there is nothing inside, there is no one inside, the house is vacant. Sometimes you will feel thoughts passing, clouds of thoughts moving, but don’t think that they belong to you. You are not. Just think that they are roaming in a vacant sky – they don’t belong to anyone, they don’t have any roots. Really this is the case: thoughts are just like clouds moving in the sky. They don’t have any roots and they don’t belong to the sky, they simply roam in the sky. They come and they go and the sky remains untouched, uninfluenced. Feel that your body is just walls of skin and there is no one inside. Thoughts will still continue – because of old habit, old momentum, old cooperation, thoughts will go on coming. But just think that they are rootless clouds moving in space – they don’t belong to you, they don’t belong to anybody else. There is no one to whom they can belong – you are empty. It will be difficult, but because of the old habits, nothing else. Your mind would like to catch some thought, be identified with it, move with it, enjoy it, indulge in it. Resist! Just say there is no one to indulge, there is no one to fight, there is no one to do anything with this thought. Within a few days, a few weeks, thoughts will slow down, they will become less and less. The clouds will start disappearing, or, even if they come, there will be great gaps of cloudless sky when there will be no thought. One thought will pass. Then another will not come for a period. Then another will come and then there will again be an interval. In those intervals you will know for the first time what emptiness is. And the very glimpse of it will fill you with such deep bliss you cannot imagine. Really it is difficult to say anything about it, because whatsoever is said in language will refer to you, and you will not be there. If I say that you will be filled with happiness it will be nonsense. You will not be there, so how can I say you will be filled with happiness? Happiness will be there. Just within the four walls of your skin, happiness will be there, vibrating – but you will not be there."
-Osho. The Book of Secrets (pp. 1272-1273). Osho International. Kindle Edition. 

I Love you and I'm with you, 
Nik 
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"God's presence is so close; it is just as though somebody is playing hide-and-seek with you in a dark room. Though you do not see the person, you feel that he is there. That is how God is, just behind the darkness of your unseeing eyes." 
- Yogananda

"But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul." 
-Deuteronomy 4:29 

"He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.  I will say of the Lord, 'He is my refuge and my fortress;  My God, in Him I will trust." 
- Psalms 91 

Today's Practice: 

1. In every new scene... kitchen, bathroom, office, hallway, etc.  STOP SUDDENLY. 
2. Close your eyes. 
3. Know by feeling, that Love is (t)here.  Allow It to rise up into your awareness . Breathe It in. 

Love is always fully present, fully found.  It's you that's hiding.  It's you that's distracted.  It's you that forgets.  When you think you're 'you', Love is lost.  When you remember that you are Love,  you're found in and as It.  Stay here.  Keep playing. Keep finding your Self in every moment.  

I Love you, 
Nik 

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“Don’t hold back your love, your joy, and your exuberance. Only what you give becomes your quality, not what you hold back.” - Sadhguru 

Give so much Love, today.  Check out this quick meditation from ACIM Lesson 108- 

"Today we practice with the special case of giving and receiving. We will use this simple lesson in the obvious because it has results we cannot miss. To give is to receive. Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:

To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.

Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours. You might, for instance, say:

To everyone I offer quietness.
To everyone I offer peace of mind.
To everyone I offer gentleness.

Say each one slowly and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. And it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. You will find you have exact return, for that is what you asked. It might be helpful, too, to think of one to whom to give your gifts. He represents the others, and through him you give to all.

Our very simple lesson for today will teach you much. Effect and cause will be far better understood from this time on, and we will make much faster progress now. Think of the exercises for today as quick advances in your learning, made still faster and more sure each time you say, “To give and to receive are one in truth.”  -  A Course in Miracles, Lesson 108 

I love you and I’m with you,
Nik 

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Hear and feel the Silence that is God's voice.  Only this Love can quiet your mind. 

"Peace to my mind.  Let all my thoughts be still. -  ACIM 221

"Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. I come in silence. In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice.   My Father, speak to me today.  I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.

Now do we wait in quiet.  God is here, because we wait together. I am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear.  Accept my confidence, for it is yours. Our minds are joined. We wait with one intent; to hear our Father’s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of what we are, and to reveal Himself unto His Son."
- ACIM Lesson 221

"There is a silence into which the world can not intrude.  There is an ancient Peace you carry in your heart and have not lost." - ACIM 

I Love you, 
Nik
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"You are forgetting how far you've come." - Unknown via IG

"Our eyes, looking outside us, fail to see Him, 
If you really want to see Him, close your eyes." - Sufi Ayaz 

"And Love says, 'I will, I will take care of you,' to everything that is near." 
- Hafiz via Daniel Ladinsky in, The Gift 

"You cannot fight darkness. You have to light up, and the darkness will disappear."
-Sadhguru 

Today's Practice:

Grab your phone and scroll back to this day in your phone from last year.  Thumb through the pics, screen shots, and notes.  Thumb through the evidence of how far you've come.  And then, close your eyes and FEEL how far you've come.  Feel how accessible this Peace, this contentment, this Love is.  This Love is gratitude, It's the bridge that allows you to see the changes outside, that you first felt on the inside.  It's the bridge that reveals that the outside and the inside are actually one. There's only This.  Only Love is True, and It appears as the seeming cause and the effect.  It appears as your progress.  It appears as your world. 

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!  

I Love you, 
Nik
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