Spiritual Living Podcast Archive

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July 17, 2011 John O'Donohue's Anam Cara
Rev. Patrick shares an excellent affirmative prayer: **If it is right, make it
easy. If it is wrong, make it obvious.** As we learn things intellectually and
speak to Source, we must open up to the deeper Love, and learn to love
ourselves. The beautiful and profound wisdom of John O'Donohue's book _[Anam
Cara](http://www.johnodonohue.com/books)_---which means "soul friend"---
reminds us of deep truths about love.
Excerpts from _Anam Cara_:
"You can never love another person unless you are equally involved in the
beautiful but difficult work of learning to love yourself."
"When love awakens in your life in the night of your heart, it is like the
dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is
intimacy. Where before there was fear, now there is courage. Where before in
your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm and grace. Where before
you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with yourself. When
love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning."
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44min
July 10, 2011 Socrates. Why?
Ten or twenty years from now, the questions that you choose to live will have
become the shape of your life.
In this week's talk, Rev. Patrick uses Socrates and his method of inquiry to
encourage us to live in the question. Socrates was all about the question. He
wanted people to think. He encouraged the inquiry. Why do we make the
decisions we make? Why do we come to the conclusions we do? Why do we respond
to things the way we do?
Socrates held that the unexamined life is not worth living. Our challenge,
then, is to live an examined life.
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39min
July 03, 2011 Free at Last
"Find me one person who can get his own littleness out of the way and he shall
reveal to me the immeasurable magnitude of the Universe in which I live." --
Ernest Holmes
[Dr. Rev. Sue Rubin](http://www.truthtidbits.com/), in her wonderfully
expressive way, reminds us that the Law is impartial, automatically responding
to what we know about ourselves. Our beliefs become our experiences, and in
every word we say to ourselves and each other, we communicate with Spirit. She
speaks of the [lessons found in a unique YouTube
video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf9WvEAXsls) about the words we use.
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31min
June 26, 2011 Get Unrealistic
Prosperity, abundance and success come from accessing the space between our
thoughts and being willing to stretch ourselves and "fail better". [Timothy
Ferriss](http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/) says, "success can be measured in
the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have." The
Prosperity Plus class teaches that the first form of prosperity is peace of
mind, the second is our physical body, and the third is our relationships.
Samuel Becket says, "you won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting
the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better."
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41min
June 19, 2011 Adventure Deficit Disorder
Looking at mentors on Father's Day, people like Ernest Holmes, John Bradshaw,
Howard Thurman and Robert Kennedy Jr. inspire us to live life fully, be
informed, and make a difference in our world. Howard Thurman, one of Martin
Luther King Jr's teachers said, "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what
makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who
have come alive."
Great moments in life don't take place in the light, but in coming from the
darkness into the light.
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37min
June 12, 2011 What Do We Want? Ignore the Question.
If we don't love it, we won't do it.
Do perfectly all that you can do now. The doing to perfection of one thing
invariable provides us with the equipment for doing the next larger thing,
because it is a principle inherent in Nature that life continually advances.
Every person who does one thing perfectly is instantly presented with an
opportunity to begin doing the next larger thing.
Doing big things begins with asking for them properly. So we need to ask the
right question. It's not "What do we want?", it's "What excites us?" "What
brings us to life?"
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40min
June 05, 2011 Capturing a Bigger Idea
Using bubble-making technology as a metaphor, Rev. Patrick discusses the
seeking and capturing of "a bigger idea" as the extension of progress, the
moving forward of growth.
From _Ideas of Power: The Holmes Papers_, we learn: Every thought is a prayer.
And that is good. We centre our thinking. We learn to accept. Remember that
there is a power greater than we are which reacts. A principle that responds.
Let us grasp Its utmost simplicity: We are thinking centres in a universal
mind that receives the impress of our mind and acts upon it. Every thought is
a prayer. We can stop, we can change, we can alter, we can move it gradually,
sequentially, and inevitably to a new experience.
In other words, "That thought's not working for me. I need a bigger idea."
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45min
May 29, 2011 What if Life Got Easier? (An Easier Way to Live)
Soul is our connection with Spirit, with God.
Few people have actually experienced their souls because they assume that the
task would be difficult, arduous, and just more work to add to their daily
lives. But experiencing our soul is the easiest thing we can do. "Ask and you
shall receive. Knock and the door will be open."
The starting point, says Ernest Holmes, is a love that cannot hurt, and a
faith that will not be denied.
The force of _conditioning_ pulls us toward a life of effort and struggle; the
force of _soul_ pulls us toward a life that is effortless. Most of society
accepts that life is difficult, so the first force has many allies behind it,
making it seem overwhelmingly strong. In contrast, the soul's force is so
incredibly subtle and intimately experienced within us. The soul _is_ us. It
is who we are. The power of transformation exists, and it operates from the
centre of our own being. It is an infinite goodness that wants to be
expressed. And it can only be expressed through us.
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37min
May 22, 2011 Resurrecting the Soul (Bringing Spirit Down to Earth)
Let us realize that we are on a spiritual journey to higher consciousness, and
embrace it. Expand our awareness through contemplation, meditation, and other
means. Ask for guidance, simply and sincerely, and wait for it to appear. And
finally, trust our finest instincts.
Great relief comes when the soul becomes the practice of life.
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41min
May 15, 2011 Time and Time Again (Asset or Liability?)
The surest way to escape the clutches of time is to keep evolving.
Awareness can change any energy pattern at will. If we show up awake and
aware, and we're in the present moment---if we're in the Being, if we're in
co-creation---there is a Divine Intelligence that is in and through and as all
of life. And once we develop the vocabulary and the openness to that guidance,
then what wants to happen has a better chance; it is not random. This process
occurs to remind us over and over again, until we finally pay attention.
Let us work toward the enlargement of our consciousness: "Each day, I allow my
consciousness to range in the field of greater possibilities." What wants to
happen here?
Expectancy always speeds progress, so live in the expectancy!
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39min

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