GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki: The Rosary

In every moment, you're either remembering God, or you're not.  You're either feeling Love, or you're not.  Keep riding the feeling of Love and watch the view change. 

“If you close our eyes, you will see that after your thoughts, behind your mind, behind your identity, there’s something there.  There’s a Presence.  We like to call that Presence, me, ‘I am there.’ And if you close your eyes, you will see that it’s like a person in the room.  The room isn’t empty.  There’s ‘somebody’ in the room—we call it ‘me’. That’s your life energy.  That’s the very thing that’s alive inside you.  And this aliveness is what some people call Consciousness, and what some have called God.  It’s permanently switched on and It wasn’t born when the body was born.  It’s always happy.  It doesn’t need anything more to become happy.  But Maya doesn’t let us look at this ‘something’, since it’s a delusion that the physical world is ultimate reality. 

So Naam (mantra or repetition of God’s names) is saying, “don’t look at the material world, there’s something behind the material world.  Focus on that.  Focus on where the material world came from.”  Naam Simran is constantly reminding us, “don’t get lost in the game.” And you notice that this game is very easy to get lost in.  Why? Because Maya is a very tasty wine.  We are drinking this wine all the time, we are swimming in this wine.  And every now and then, we remember a bit of Naam and we get out of the system, but then we forget and we go back in the system, and then we remember again.  Over and over.  This is why Naam Simran is a 24 hour practice.  24 hours a day what you’re meditating on is, “This is not real. This is not reality. Ram Naam is the real reality, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru—that which is behind Maya is the reality, Maya itself is not the reality.” - @nanak.naam

I love you, 
Nik 
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'The Sure Presence' by Eva Bell Werber via In His Presence (1946)

"All about you is seeming reality.  It is so much easier to dwell in this confusion of mind than it is to rest back in the quiet garden of spirit.  You must constantly exercise and practice the Presence until of all things, It is the most real. 

Watch carefully for directions.  Keep your soul atuned for My voice.  It is subtle, low, and sweet, yet with what great sureness can It guide you. It will clarify the things which seem to confound you and over which you seem of yourself to have no control.  You will know then that the way you walk is the way I choose for you and that which before seemed so real will fade away in the light of My truth and wisdom.  

Rest now for a moment in My arms of love. Feel the tender touch of My hand upon your head, then go forth to bear My radiance to all your world. "

Stay in conscious remembrance of God's hand... of this Love, today and always, and watch miracles become the norm.  

With you in and AS this Love, 
Nik 
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Today, focus on the emotion, not the reason for it. 

1. Look at it, with your inner eyes. Is it big? Small? What shape is it? What color is it? How far up from the ground is it? How far down from the ceiling is it? Is it rough or smooth? Is it transparent or cloudy? etc.  Even if your eyes are closed, look at it, unblinking, fully alert, like in this episode.  
2. Listen to it-- not for words or for a story about why it has come.  It's silent. You're silent. Listen to the silence in and around it.  Be the silence.  
3. Feel it fully without any need for context, explanation, or label. 

This is surrender.  This is letting it go.  This negative energy has only come because it's ready to be seen through, to be dropped.  Sitting with it this way is the ascension, it's the level up. It then reveals the Love it was made of.  And you stay in the Love.  You stay as the Love.  And you repeat this process every time more of the 'past' comes up to be released.  Keep rising.  Keep releasing.  Keep rising.  I'm with you. 

I love you, 
Nik
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 Today's Quotes:

"I am surrounded by the Love of God." 
- A Course in Miracles Lesson 264

"Stillness is the highest level of intensity.  When there is stillness within you, your body, mind, and energies will be exuberantly intense." 
- Sadhguru 

Today's Practice:

Keep remembering that you are surrounded by the Love of God, until it is revealed that you are the Love that's doing the surrounding.   You are the Love that pervades and appears as the body. You are the Love that the world appears to take place in.  Be this Love, consciously. 

I love you, 
Nik 

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One of my favorite spiritual messengers, Rupert Spira, penned a DELICIOUS poem at the top of the year, and he gave me his blessing to share it with you! 

Lockdown Nights in Oxford by Rupert Spira, author of Being Myself

 "Last night I walked the streets of Oxford with Kabir
The night before it was Jesus
And the night before, Rumi visited, uninvited!

Every night a different companion but always the same Friend
Why go anywhere when the Beloved always comes to you?

I pointed out the smiling houses to Kabir
(Have you noticed that houses have a face?)
‘It is I who am smiling’, he said.

‘I am happy to see you’, I said to Atmananda the next night
‘You are happiness itself’, he replied.

I stood outside a chapel
And listened to a choir with Brother Lawrence
‘Our love for God is God’s love for us’, he said.

And the next night, Meister Eckhart,
‘There is a huge silence inside each of us
That beckons us into itself’
‘Know nothing’, Socrates said the following night
‘Be everything’, added Parmenides.

I showed Plotinus the gardens
But he said, ‘I see only one thing’
I talked with the Buddha
But he remained silent
I was silent with Moses
But he started to sing

I uttered the word ‘I’
But Balyani held his hand to my mouth
I asked Huang Po if he could hear the stream
‘There is only the hearing’, he said.

I found William Blake naked in the park
‘Do you see how, through perception, the infinite gives birth to itself?’
he asked

‘He’s right’, Ramana said,
‘The universe is born every moment
Through the portal I Am’
And later, when I suggested we rest,
‘I am always at rest’, he smiled

‘Thine this universal frame,
Thus wondrous fair,
Thyself how wondrous then?’
Milton asked ecstatically as we looked at the sky

‘Everything shines with being’, Wordsworth said
I offered Jesus a drink
‘I am the water of life’, he said.

I walked in silence with Francis
‘My silence is my question’, I said
‘My silence is my answer’, he replied
I walked alone one night
With the world for my Friend

The next night I found Hafiz drunk on a bench
‘Come taste this wine!’ he called
Shams came to join us
‘I am looking for the Friend’, he sighed.

‘I love these night-time walks’, I said to Anandamaya Ma
‘Love only love’, she said
I listened to barking dogs with Abinavagupta
‘Know only knowing’, he said
‘I am…’
‘Shhh! Don’t add anything to it’,
Sri Nisargadatta exclaimed.

I danced down the street with Mozart
I prayed in every step with Bach
I leaned with Primo Levi against a wall
Watching friends and lovers and strangers
‘Each of us’, he said ‘bears the imprint
Of a friend met along the way;
In each the trace of each’

Yeats joined us
‘There are no strangers here’, he said
‘Only friends we haven’t yet met’
And Rembrandt agreed
‘If you look at anyone for long enough’, he said
They will eventually become your friend’

I watched the sun set with Shelley one night
‘The One remains, the many change and pass’, he said
And then, as the moon arose,
‘Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragm

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Today's Quote:

"The most important spiritual growth doesn't happen when you're meditating or on a yoga mat. It happens in the midst of conflict-- when you're frustrated, angry, or scared and you're doing the same old thing, and then suddenly you realize you have a choice to do it differently." - Anonymous from IG

Today's Practice:

Make the choice to be woke in the game.  Know that Love is the essence of every scene, of every situation, of every character,  even yours.  Feel Love and watch the game change.  

I love you, 
Nik 
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Remembering God is our main business, and that remembrance handles all of our other business!  So all of the senses must be employed toward that end.

Up next, the sense of smell.   Allow a fragrant oil (I like Jasmine Absolute in Jojoba Oilfrom Whole Foods) to jog your memory to reach for God, to stay tapped into Love.  Or light an incense to help you stay aware of the Light in your heart.  Let the worldly perfume guide you to your inner, "hidden perfume".  Do what it takes to BE who you are.

Today's Quote:

"You contain within your innermost being many qualities of which you are unaware.  These are like unto beautiful bottles of rare perfume which you have put away in closets and forgotten."-   excerpted from Journey with the Master by Eva Bell Werber (The Hidden Perfume) 

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Today's Quotes:

"Your work is to relax and allow.  To relax and allow, no matter what." - Abraham Hicks

"Sit in meditation not to make something happen, but to stay out of the way of what is happening." - Dr. Michael Beckwith

Today's Practice:

Stop doing 'manifestation' practices today and relax into that place inside that is already, always relaxed.  Allow Love to dissolve your desires. Allow your Go(o)d to come.  Surrender to Love and trust It to become all that you need and more.  

I love you, 
Nik
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In this bonus episode, I share the power of listening to today's full length episode (Beyond Time), while walking.  The contrast of your body being in motion, and the still Center that you are, is apparent, if you know where and how to look!

Today's Quotes:

"Here's the trick-- the magic of finding your soul and filling your heart: Once you find space, peer intently into it as if it was a thick fog, and you're waiting to see what will come out of it. Look into the depth and breadth of every space, and pay close attention to not only what you see, but also to what you feel.  That's right, find your Eufeeling (Love) in the space between two objects.  It will melt your heart. -  Frank Kinslow, The Kinslow System

"Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it." - Ram Dass

Osho's Don't Blink practice

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Listen to the full version of Herb Fitch's 1979 talk, Beyond Time!  Life. Changing. Wisdom. Drink It in.  Get drunk on It!  Thank me later :) 

And then listen, and re-listen to this episode (and share it!) until you recognize that you can't be anything but this Love, but the Kingdom.  You ARE the Throne of the Eternal Now.  You always, already were That.  You never stopped being That.  Even while you appear to be this-- this body-- reading these words, your'e still only That. Only Love.  And you're remembering to remember. And because of That, everything is changing.  Flowing beautifully. Grace is here. 

For extra points listen to this while walking— notice what doesn’t move while the body is in motion. Stay as That. 

I love you, 
Nik
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