Spiritual Living Podcast Archive

By Centre for Spiritual Living, Edmonton

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October 09, 2011 Gratitude as the Doorway
When we are grateful or thankful, we are lifted up to a higher realm of
consciousness. Expressing and focusing on gratitude and appreciation is one of
the most powerful things we can do.
Steve Jobs made an enormous impact on the world. He taught that, "You have to
trust in something---believing that the dots will connect.... If you haven't
found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle... Stay hungry. Stay foolish.... Your
time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Ernest Holmes
said, "There isn't anything to do. There's something to _know_."
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35min
October 02, 2011 Spiritual Makeover: Part 1
Our lives are either an expression of our spiritual magnificence or a
reflection of our unhealed past. Do we consider ourselves a "finished product"
or in the process of a makeover? Daniel Pink's book,
[_Drive_](http://www.danpink.com/drive), suggests three areas to focus on:
1. Autonomy---to direct our own lives
2. Mastery---to desire to get better and better at what we do
3. Purpose---to be in service to something larger than ourselves
In speaking to author Chip Conley, the 17-year old King of Bhutan said that in
his country they don't measure Gross Domestic Product. They measure Gross
National Happiness. He said, "We cannot create happiness for one other. We
create the conditions for happiness to occur." Rev. Patrick concludes with a
[profound quote from Robert F. Kennedy.](http://www2.mccombs.utexas.edu/facult
y/michael.brandl/main%20page%20items/Kennedy%20on%20GNP.htm)
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35min
September 25, 2011 Tamed and Untamed Emotions
Reading from [_The Mandala of Being_](http://www.richardmoss.com/), Rev.
Patrick quotes Richard Moss about our emotions:
> "We are enlightened only to the degree that we are able to fully experience
and not become identified with and captured by our emotions.
>
> "We evolve in consciousness by turning toward our immediate experience and
learning to be present yet non-reactive."
Tamed emotion is simply the emotion that we are used to. It is that which we
can identify and name. Untamed emotion is a feeling that we cannot readily
separate ourselves from. Drowning, desolation, disillusion, terror,
annihilation, suffocation, free-floating anxiety. Yet even in the experience
of untamed emotion, there is a place within all of us that is untouched, that
feels good at all times. That is our centre, our grounding, the Divine Grace.
"Yesterday ended last night. Only the negative should go. Take time to look
and think. The past is great with good, and to meet your past, that is fine,
but you can never return. The world will not do you any good. It is too easy
to go the world's way. Stand still and know what the world doesn't know." --
Raymond Charles Barker
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35min
September 18, 2011 Who We Really Aren't
Core issues from our childhood can give us a road map of how we operate in the
world. For example, chaos and feeling like a victim can lead to anger and then
feeling lost. We can use affirmative prayer to counteract that old belief and
clear our consciousness, such as, "I release my belief in chaos. I release my
belief in anger..." This helps us rediscover who we really are and who we are
not!
Jill Conner Browne, in [_The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of
Love_](http://www.sweetpotatoqueens.com/) says, "Life is too short and too
long to spend it being miserable. Life may indeed be short but it is, for a
fact, wide. It's high time we started settling for more!"
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33min
September 04, 2011 Celebrating Work
On this Labour Day Sunday, Rev. Patrick leads us through a celebration of
work. He first examines the Path of Wrong-Headedness, using a work story from
the early life of our founder, Ernest Holmes. He then discusses our life
journey and our life purpose.
Our journey is really about finding our own way in the world. And as we
discover our path, we find that everything is shaped for us.
As we consider where we find ourselves now, and where we have come from, it is
best to realize that our journey is our journey---_We could have come no other
way._
So what is our purpose? Surprisingly, it may not be connected to our career.
As an example of a life purpose, some have been called to "work to give the
best to the world, with no thought of reward. To teach and demonstrate living
from Spirit."
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44min
August 28, 2011 Heart Warriors
Rev. Patrick speaks on the importance and power of forgiveness, and prepares
us for the September 11 "Peace in the Park" event. Forgiveness is not for the
enemy---it is for us.
In addition, the other side of forgiveness is atonement. As spoken by Desmond
Tutu, forgiveness makes the future possible, while atonement makes the present
possible.
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39min
August 14, 2011 Awakening to Reality
I want to know, and _know_ I know.
In _The Essential Ernest Holmes_, we read, "It is the divine spark that
impregnates everything, and is buried in everything. And it contains within
itself the upward push of evolution. This evolutionary process impels things
upward and onward, from lower to higher levels of intelligence. Everything has
within it that intelligence as unconscious or subconscious memory."
We each have a unique presentation of the Cosmic Whole that seeks expression
through us.
"Life is infinite energy, coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is
the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is
goodness, truth, wisdom, beauty, energy, and imagination. Our highest
satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible life."
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40min
August 07, 2011 Stillness Speaks
[Rev. Connie Phelps](http://stirredbyspirit.com/) talks about her life
journey, including her experiences in Africa. Stillness is one of those
experiences and spiritual practices that allowed her to _be_ in Africa.
Spirit is always talking to us, through us, and as us, if we but take the time
to listen to It. We must allow It to expand us, be us, live us, and reveal
what it is that needs to be revealed by means of us.
Our teaching is simple and universal. It is applicable to every person.
Stillness is the means by which we can relate this teaching to every person no
matter their background.
As Ernest Holmes taught, listening helps us to understand that what is
happening in our lives is happening _for_ us rather than appears to be
happening _to_ us.
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31min
July 31, 2011 The Poetry of David Whyte
Poetry is the experience. Great poetry is timeless, it crosses all cultures,
and it speaks to that longing that we all have in common. -- David Whyte.
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself, saying things you didn't know
you knew. We need to overhear the tiny but very consequential things we say
that reveal ourselves to ourselves.
We are desperate for a sense of belonging, a moment of eternity. _Belonging_
is the ability to live in the world without fear. _Belonging_ is belonging to
oneself.
Can we be people whose belonging is stronger than our fear?
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40min
July 24, 2011 Making Relationships Work as Never Before
This week's talk by guest speaker Rev. Gail Muzio (Schultz) encourages us to
focus on our relationships as an art form, and even includes pertinent kissing
advice.
We are our children's model for spirituality. We are our children's model for
relationships. So are we good teachers? Do we hold relationships as a top
priority in our lives?
What if "making relationships work as never before" were an art? (1) Are we
willing to learn that art? (2) Are we willing to apply what we've learned in
that art _daily_? (3) Are we willing to live _as love_?
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43min

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