Spiritual Living Podcast Archive

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February 15, 2015 The Being of Getting Our Needs Met
We cannot transform what we do not acknowledge. In _Undefended Love_ by Jett
Psaris and Marlena S. Lyons, and _Breathing Underwater_ by Fr. Richard Rohr,
we learn about our personality preoccupations and strategies, comprising what
is called our defended personality. Simply, these are survival strategies
that, without our conscious attention, become addictions.
The strategies include doing everything perfectly, taking care of everybody,
working hard, searching for what's missing, withholding ourselves, avoidance,
controlling, being constantly on guard, self-distraction through constant
activity and open-endedness, working to create a just world, trying to put the
world in order, etc.
If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only end up with a
better-disguised ego. We must be willing to go deeper. Having another good
idea from the mind is not the answer. We must start incorporating the heart
intelligence and the intuitive intelligence into our approach to life.
One of the challenges with spiritual practice is that it will move us into a
state of Grace. Grace is always a humiliation for our ego. We need a _vital_
spiritual experience---a spirituality that reaches to the hidden levels and a
deeper and wider perspective, an openness, a willingness. To finally surrender
ourselves to healing, three spaces must be opened up within us: our
opinionated head, our closed-down heart, and our defensive and defended body.
...more
45min
February 08, 2015 Our True Essence
"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through
you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this
expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any
other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it." -- Martha
Graham
We can choose through our own perception how we will receive the gifts of love
from our Divine Source. This Infinite Divine Presence---that is a Principle---
is always seeking a greater yet-to-be _in us_. So to perceive our True
Essence, let us quiet our minds, open our hearts, relax the tension in our
bodies, and relax the resistance to our feelings.
...more
30min
February 08, 2015 Our True Essence
"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through
you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this
expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any
other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it." -- Martha
Graham
We can choose through our own perception how we will receive the gifts of love
from our Divine Source. This Infinite Divine Presence---that is a Principle---
is always seeking a greater yet-to-be _in us_. So to perceive our True
Essence, let us quiet our minds, open our hearts, relax the tension in our
bodies, and relax the resistance to our feelings.
...more
30min
February 01, 2015 Love is a Way of Being
Love is not an activity or a behaviour---it is a way of being. As we relate to
others, the deeper we know ourselves, the deeper we grow in our capacity to
know others.
We can only love what we know; and we can never know completely what we do not
love.
Love is a mode of knowledge.
...more
39min
February 01, 2015 Love is a Way of Being
Love is not an activity or a behaviour---it is a way of being. As we relate to
others, the deeper we know ourselves, the deeper we grow in our capacity to
know others.
We can only love what we know; and we can never know completely what we do not
love.
Love is a mode of knowledge.
...more
39min
January 25, 2015 Tending the Garden
From Fr. Richard Rohr, we learn the following about the hero's journey. Out of
a formless, uninitiated life, there somehow comes a call for each one of us,
taking the form of a longing, a loneliness, a desire, or the knowledge that
there must be more, a falling apart of the game that once sustained us. This
is the beginning of the hero's journey. Enlightenment is not so much knowing
as unknowing. It is less learning as unlearning. It's a second chance and a
chosen naivete without losing and without forgetting the contradictions and
complexities that are in between.
It is more surrendering than concluding. It is more trusting than fixing, in
all gratuitous grace for which we can only give thanks. All that we can do is
stay on the journey to listen to its lessons, both agony and ecstasy, and ask
for the most rare and crucial of gifts, which is openness, trust, and faith.
These are the steps of faith:
* Are we willing to listen to our inner guidance to give us the information we need?
* Are we willing to allow ourselves to experience new possibilities and a new deepening of who we truly are?
* Are we willing to know that this is the year that the deepest desires of our heart really can manifest?
...more
33min
January 25, 2015 Tending the Garden
From Fr. Richard Rohr, we learn the following about the hero's journey. Out of
a formless, uninitiated life, there somehow comes a call for each one of us,
taking the form of a longing, a loneliness, a desire, or the knowledge that
there must be more, a falling apart of the game that once sustained us. This
is the beginning of the hero's journey. Enlightenment is not so much knowing
as unknowing. It is less learning as unlearning. It's a second chance and a
chosen naivete without losing and without forgetting the contradictions and
complexities that are in between.
It is more surrendering than concluding. It is more trusting than fixing, in
all gratuitous grace for which we can only give thanks. All that we can do is
stay on the journey to listen to its lessons, both agony and ecstasy, and ask
for the most rare and crucial of gifts, which is openness, trust, and faith.
These are the steps of faith:
* Are we willing to listen to our inner guidance to give us the information we need?
* Are we willing to allow ourselves to experience new possibilities and a new deepening of who we truly are?
* Are we willing to know that this is the year that the deepest desires of our heart really can manifest?
...more
33min
January 18, 2015 Planting the Seed
The gifts of heaven are the benefits that come when we open ourselves to the
single greatest truth that those before us knew: There is a larger world
behind the one that we see around us every day. This larger world loves us
more than we can imagine, and it is watching us at every moment, hoping that
we will see hints of it in the world around us.
...more
36min
January 18, 2015 Planting the Seed
The gifts of heaven are the benefits that come when we open ourselves to the
single greatest truth that those before us knew: There is a larger world
behind the one that we see around us every day. This larger world loves us
more than we can imagine, and it is watching us at every moment, hoping that
we will see hints of it in the world around us.
...more
36min
January 11, 2015 Selecting the Crop
Continuing his discussion of Dr. Eben Alexander's experience of heaven, Dr.
Patrick looks at ways we can open up to the experience of the Infinite.
Before meditation, we can _set an intention_ that is not based on current
conditions. In doing so, we invite the possibilities instead of constraining
the outcome. In _gratitude_, we open the doorway to the sacred. Through
_allowing_, life will happen for us, and we need not force it.
We can think differently about our experience of stress. We can view it as our
body helping us rise to a particular challenge. Stress is not just functioning
in a survival mode---it is our body's way of managing our energy.
Five questions to consider for growing a new life experience:
* Is our crop really determined by our past growing season?
* Have we made stress our enemy or our ally?
* Are we opening to life more and more?
* Do we believe there is something more for us to discover?
* Will the crop that we choose produce a harvest that is in alignment with the gifts we are here to share?
...more
37min

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