Spiritual Living Podcast Archive

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June 30, 2013 Saying Yes to Today
Every day we will be providing a bigger concept of life. And in that inner
growth we have an enlarged power to speak forth into the Creative Mind. The
result will be that we will get a fresh impulse and be doing a bigger thing
for ourselves. Growth and realization are always from within and never from
without.
Old thoughts must be destroyed and new must take their place. Every time the
old thought comes, we must look it squarely in the face and declare that it
has no part in our mind. It has no power over us. We must state the Law and
rely on it to the exclusion of all else.
Daily try to see more and to understand more. Let us feel every day that we
are being especially looked after.
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39min
June 23, 2013 Saying Yes to Transformation
Our lives are the result of what we say "Yes" to. It's important that we say
yes to transformation. The transformation is not adding anything to ourselves,
it's simply allowing the revelation of our true self.
Ernest Holmes said that one of the most difficult things to believe is that we
are always a success. We are always achieving the goal that we set up in
thought. We need not worry or wonder if we will succeed, but to direct our
intention to that which we really desire to succeed in.
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32min
June 16, 2013 It's Not for Nothing
This Father's Day, Rev. Connie Nissen speaks about the walls we put up in
consciousness, and she gives us meditation exercises to help break them down.
Many of us carry a hole in our heart in the shape of the father. A common
story told is, "If my father had just been there, I think I would be better
than I am now." But Joseph Campbell wrote, "Where we stumble, therein lies our
treasure." The fatherless sons, telling that single story, may feel valueless.
But we know these feelings create our experience, that our thoughts and
beliefs are creative things.
Our feelings are our most genuine path to knowledge---knowledge about
ourselves. In examining our thoughts and feelings, we can figure out what is
poison and what is medicine, what inspires and wakes us up and what keeps us
running in circles. We can inform ourselves in a conscious way so that we can
tell a new story and make a different choice.
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39min
June 09, 2013 Saying Yes to Possibility
Do we know our true nature? That we are Divine? Life is a projection of
reality, depending on which stage of consciousness we are in.
According to the Vedanta, there are six states of consciousness:
1. Deep sleep
2. Dreaming
3. Waking state, but still dreaming
4. Soul begins to awaken
5. Cosmic consciousness, or co-creation
6. Ever-present, witnessing awareness
As our soul begins to awaken, we may enter the fifth state through the
spiritual practice of surrender, forgiveness, and gratitude. Our prayer work
becomes a way of life. Our consciousness is the Thing itself---we are the
temple.
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39min
June 02, 2013 Saying Yes to What
Rumi wrote, "When we see ourselves, we will be the ideal of ourselves." This
is about seeing ourselves in the true way that we are.
The Hindu Vedanta gives five reasons for our suffering:
1. Not knowing the true nature of reality
2. Clinging to the insubstantial
3. Aversion to fear
4. The identification with the false self, the ego
5. Fear of death
But what we stand for is "That"---the indescribable nature of who we are.
The pertinent question is, "Do we make ourselves available to our true
nature?"
* Let us recognize the divinity in all people.
* Let us fall in love with the Universal Love.
* Let us realize divinity through control of the mind.
* Let us realize divinity through knowledge.
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37min
May 26, 2013 Up-Leveling Our Lives
Rev. Patrick continues his talk from last Sunday on the book _The Five Levels
of Attachment_.
The journey is about up-leveling our lives. The key to all transformation is
awareness. We must remember to proceed with two things: self-respect and self-
love. Let us find the capacity right now to love and respect ourselves.
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52min
May 19, 2013 How We Get Attached
Rev. Patrick looks at the [_Five Levels of Attachment_ by Don Miguel Ruiz,
Jr.](http://www.hierophantpublishing.com/the-five-levels-of-attachment/):
1. **The Authentic Self:** Is knowledge controlling us or are we controlling knowledge?
2. **Preference:** We use knowledge as a tool by which we engage our preference in life.
3. **Identity:** We identify ourselves with knowledge, although we use it to see and understand the world.
4. **Internalization:** Our identity in the form of our knowledge gives us the rules and guidelines by which we must live our life.
5. **Fanaticism:** Our knowledge controls our every action.
How do we move out of these levels of attachment?
Fanaticism is a loss of humanity. We lose our compassion and our willingness
to see another's point of view. So the way out of fanaticism is to move
towards more compassion: Love for ourselves and love for others. The way out
of internalization is to just stop believing in our own separateness from
others. The way out of identity is to realize that we can take off our mask at
any time. The way out of preference is to realize that we can disengage from
our preferences at will.
In this moment, we can find a place to love ourselves, and it's not contingent
on us making changes, for that would lead to a conditional relationship with
ourselves. Let us take the mask off and just love ourselves in this moment.
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38min
May 12, 2013 The Divine Feminine
The Divine Feminine is the goddess tradition, which has been our story since
before history. This tradition symbolizes balance, healing, renewal, and
restoration.
Our steps along the path of the Divine Feminine are simple:
1. We agree that we are on this journey of consciousness, which is awareness of our divinity.
2. We build that awareness through meditation, contemplation, forgiveness, and gratitude.
3. We need to ask for guidance.
4. We need to listen for the answer.
In love, understanding, compassion, insight, intuition, creativity,
forgiveness, healing, and wisdom, we always reach for the highest thought
possible. Let us take our God-given talents and express them and use them.
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45min
May 05, 2013 A Life of Prayer
_God is able to make all grace abound toward us; that we, always having all
sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work._
The enemy of prayer is inertia---resistance to change. If we'd like change to
occur in our lives, then pray, pray, pray. It is the inertia within our
consciousness that makes us feel like not praying. _A life of prayer takes
courage and a willingness to change._
The great paradox of prayer is that when we need it the most, we don't feel
like doing it. Yet, when we feel inspired and everything seems to be working
in our lives, we tend to feel we don't need to pray either. The root of this
paradox is the erroneous belief that prayer is a tool to solve problems.
Prayer is something much greater than this---_Prayer is a way of life._
Let us pray every day whether we need it or not.
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46min
April 28, 2013 The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley
The simplest thing we teach is that the only moment is now. The hardest thing
we teach is being in the present moment, because life is so full of
distractions.
Between this thought and the next thought is where we find our Connection.
That is why practicing meditation is so important.
We all long for a greater experience of the Infinite, a greater experience of
God, a greater experience of Wholeness. We need to become that clean, hollow
vessel. This means looking at things in our lives that are limiting our
experience.
The portal to the present moment is gratitude. Let us find things around us to
be grateful about. Learn to be happy with less.
Ernest Holmes put it simply: "Through the process of thinking, we are either
repelling or attracting the life we want to live."
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41min

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