Spiritual Living Podcast Archive

By Centre for Spiritual Living, Edmonton

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November 17, 2013 We Can All Be Mystics
This mystical experience of the awareness of the Divine within us sometimes
happens in glimpses, like getting a peek through the window of the possibility
that life holds for us. But it takes doing our spiritual work, our
preparation, to release ourselves from the obstacles of our error of belief,
to clear the path, that that which is always within us may flow freely through
us. And it's not by our choice---we don't choose what day the snow arrives---
which day Spirit chooses to enter and fill us with that bliss of Its being.
But it is our task to prepare ourselves, to be that open, hollow vessel that
Spirit may enter, may be felt and known by us in a way greater than we have
ever imagined before.
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33min
November 10, 2013 A Conversation with Our Youth
On the theme of what we really want for our children, Rev. Connie Nissen
focuses on the Centre's youth programme by interviewing two youth leaders and
a parent/advisor.
The youth ministry in our Centre and around the world has become a youth-led
ministry. The youth are helping each other learn to value themselves, to be
risk takers, to be self-reliant, to be free from stress and anxiety, to have
peaceful lives, to celebrate the present moment, to experience a lifetime of
wellness, to be creative, to fulfill their higher needs, and to feel a sense
of purpose in their life.
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41min
November 03, 2013 Priming the Pump
Like a mechanical pump which must be primed, so are our lives. We have to
"give something up," such as when one pours water into the top of a pump to
prime it. What does this mean in our spiritual lives?
It means we choose to pick things up energetically from a Higher Source. It
means we take time to learn and to look at things until they have no more
power over us. It means we do the releasing work we must do in order to grow.
It means in order to have financial abundance, we tithe.
The key, as it is with everything, is the attitude, or consciousness, we act
from.
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42min
October 27, 2013 Believing in a Greater Future
As thinking beings, we have the capacity to futurize, to forecast events in
our lives. But often, this gives us a constant state of stress, because our
forecasting is one of doom and gloom, and this can lead to disease in our
lives.
The challenge is to believe in a greater future compared to where we've come
from.
If we have memorized negativity, lack and limitation, then those become our
way of being. The shift requires willingness to step into a new possibility.
If we don't take responsibility for our lives, who will? This requires more
than positive thinking.
We must have willingness to look inward, and to feel the discomfort and feel
the fear that is alive there. Only then can we start to erase the old ideas
and begin creating new ones.
Imagination is everything. Every great person believed in a future, and they
began to emotionally embrace that future before it showed up.
If we tap into our inner life, and we have the courage to follow that inner
life, we will always be on the very edge of our existence, on the leading edge
of consciousness.
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40min
October 20, 2013 Where Do Our Mindsets Come From?
In her research on success and achievement, psychologist [Carol
Dweck](http://www.mindsetonline.com/) delineates two mindsets that we can
embody: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset.
Where do our mindsets come from? Mainly from teachers, parents, and coaches.
For example, we receive messages about success from our parents. Parents think
they can hand kids permanent confidence by praising their brains and talents.
The problem is it doesn't work. It makes children doubt themselves as soon as
anything is hard or anything goes wrong. Instead, let us teach our children to
love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
The goal is to love learning. To eventually learn and think for ourselves.
Thoughts create. So to change the conditions of our life, we need to change
our thinking---change our awareness and attitude.
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41min
October 13, 2013 Celebrating our Capacity for Change
This week, Rev. Patrick explores ideas around healing. For years, we have
lived in wrong thought. Our thinking is undisciplined, so we fall into old
patterns of experience. Hence we need spiritual practice. For example, with
meditation, we are able to sit with what is bubbling up for us and look at it.
Furthermore, through gratitude, we are able to shift our thoughts in a new
direction.
We are not alone. Our bourgeoning gratitude allows us to be supported by the
resources that are around us, seen and unseen. Life is really our champion.
Wherever good is being expressed on the planet, we celebrate it and we are
there with it.
Let us be most grateful for the capacity for change---whatever conditions
exist in our life right now, we are not stuck there. That is the power of
gratitude.
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42min
October 06, 2013 Nine Life Lessons
In this week's talk, Rev. Patrick draws from [Tim Minchin's commencement
address at the University of Western
Australia](http://www.timminchin.com/2013/09/25/occasional-address/).
Have a passionate dedication to short-term goals. Work with pride on whatever
is in front of you. Make it your aim to make someone else happy. Realize the
enormous gift that life is. Keep moving. Question opinions, including your
own. Define yourself by what you love. Respect those with less power than you.
Don't rush: You don't need to know what to do for the rest of your life. Fill
your life with as much as you can. Learn as much as you can about as much as
you can. Take your good where you find it and leave the rest alone. Take pride
in whatever you're doing.
Realize that your divine inheritance is self-sufficiency. It is also
perfection, peace, and wholeness. And this must include abundance, self-
expression, accomplishment, and happiness.
Therefore, realize that God's will for your life is wholeness, peace, poise,
power, and self-expression.
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42min
September 29, 2013 Six Tools for the Spiritual Journey
Preparation is an important part of the spiritual journey. So in today's talk,
Rev. Patrick outlines six tools that help us to prepare: Meditation,
education, circulation, service, affirmative prayer, and celebration.
Were we to fully undertake these practices, we would live today in a sense of
confidence, peace, and joyful expectancy.
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44min
September 22, 2013 Our Changeless Reality
Spirit is Changeless Reality. That which we call personality is the instrument
through with Spirit operates. But Spirit can operate _for_ the individual only
by operating _through_ him/her. The degree to which we open ourselves to that
activity is the degree to which we experience shifts and changes toward our
desired outcome.
The view we adopt for ourselves determines the way we lead our lives. With a
fixed mindset, we believe that our qualities are permanent, unchangeable. This
creates an urgency to prove ourselves over and over again. But with a growth
mindset, we believe our basic qualities can be cultivated through our efforts.
We can grow through application and experience, through years of passion,
toil, and training.
Why waste time proving over and over how great we are when we could just get
on with self-improvement?
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45min
September 15, 2013 From Scared to Sacred
Our teaching is mystical and practical. It must be practical because mysticism
is about living the Divine.
In his own life, [Carmien Owen](http://www.knowtheflow.ca/) has begun engaging
with the news as a spiritual practice, to apply the principles of our teaching
to what others observe in the world. For example, regarding the latest major
conflict in the news, he concludes: To presume that there must be violence to
end violence in Syria, is to see Syrians as lesser than they truly are.
When following the news, or in discussions with others, it is helpful to
realize that truth comes from within, opinion comes from without.
Blessed are those who have not seen but _know_. Transcend _belief_ and move
toward _conviction_ and have that certainty. When we have realization, we
abandon into God, recognizing Oneness, recognizing that this is an invitation
to a divine and mystical experience.
We have a knowing that it is for us to embody peace and universal love.
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31min

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