Spiritual Living Podcast Archive

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December 05, 2010 Mystery
This week's talk focuses on Laura Berman Fortgang's book [_The Little Book on
Meaning_](http://thelittlebookonmeaning.com/).
"To attempt a meaningful life is to embrace that which can only be measured
within ourselves."
We are attached to our labels. But we are not our labels. We are the Infinite,
individually expressed!
"We are not the pain. We are not the tragedy. We are the soul, and the soul is
eternal."
Let us have practices in our lives that make us feel better. Let us keep our
conversations in heaven. Let us find the perfect. Surrender. Find the perfect.
See what arises.
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38min
November 28, 2010 Healing is a Revelation
In this week's talk, Rev. Patrick compares the practice of affirmative prayer
with Dr. Ihalekala Hew Len's practice of cleaning. It is a practice of taking
100% responsibility in all things and in all situations by saying, "I love
you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you."
The "I love you" is the recognition of the Oneness of Life, common to all,
which we recognize as the first step of an affirmative prayer.
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33min
November 21, 2010 Direct Contact with the Infinite
Sometimes we are tempted to just wait for inspiration before taking any
action. If we intend to meditate every day but are having a hard time actually
doing it---perhaps waiting for inspiration---it can help to act from a place
of devotion instead of dedication. Think of beauty instead of intellect.
Choose to be an artist instead of a fundamentalist.
Steven Pressfield, author of [_The War of
Art_](http://www.stevenpressfield.com/the-war-of-art/), says "the more
important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more resistance we
will feel towards pursuing it." So what are we really afraid of? Pursue it,
not like an amateur waiting for the fear to be gone before taking any step,
but like a professional, knowing that there will always be fear, but doing it
anyway.
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36min
November 14, 2010 How Much GOOD Can We Handle?
The process of spiritual growth is not about shifting or changing anything---
but of revealing. The perfection that we are, collectively and individually,
already exists. Our opportunity for life is that each day is not about
perfection, but simply about progress.
Simply accepting that life is difficult means that we can transcend the
influence of this truth over us. Life is no longer difficult---it's just life.
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36min
November 07, 2010 Ancient Wisdom, New Thought
Rev. Patrick begins with the story of Phineas Quimby, a healer and philosopher
who formulated the beginnings of the New Thought movement. Quimby stated that
"Mind is matter in solution. Matter is mind in form." He was the first to
teach the Christ Principle and the Science of Christ. Quimby reasoned that
since dis-ease is a belief or an opinion, it can be changed through changing
the belief or the opinion.
Next, Rev. Patrick focuses on the present-day [Bruce
Lipton](http://www.brucelipton.com/), a developmental biologist who teaches
about the biology of belief. Lipton used to think that we were born with a
certain set of genes, and that was fixed. But he found that what influences a
cell is perception and environment. In humans, perception is our belief. So
our thinking creates seeds of possibility to change our perception by changing
our belief. This is exactly what Quimby was teaching in the 1800s.
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36min
October 31, 2010 Life in the Zone of Genius
We either live life by inspiration, or by default.
Rev. Patrick examines how we live our life of genius. We begin with the
affirmation: "I commit to living in my zone of genius, now and forever."
We're born with the capacity---beyond the rational mind---to imagine, to have
intuition, to have memory, to have will, and to have the power of perception.
We need to start to relate to that part of us that is eternal, infinite. _We
must pay attention to what we're paying attention to._ This is the commitment
to living in the zone of genius.
Rev. Patrick closes with the ultimate success mantra:
> _I expand in abundance, success, and love every day, as I inspire those
around me to do the same._
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33min
October 24, 2010 A Solid Foundation
The world needs awake people. Inspired by the chapter "Building a New Home in
Your Zone of Genius" in the book [_The Big Leap_](http://www.thebigleap.net/),
Rev. Patrick guides us to discover and create our zone of genius.
We begin to find our genius by asking the following questions: What do we love
to do most? What work do we do that doesn't seem like work? In our work, what
produces the highest ratio of abundance and satisfaction to the amount of time
spent? And finally, what is our unique ability?
In the development of our genius, we can use these steps as taught by Emma
Curtis Hopkins:
1. **Think it through.** (_"What is our genius?"_)
2. **Write it down.**
3. **Use our word.** (Working with the phrase: _"I commit to living in my zone of genius, now and forever."_)
4. **Take the action.**
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29min
October 17, 2010 Spaciously Spacious
We belong. Rev. Patrick reminds us of our teaching that _There is one Life,
Spirit's Life, my Life, right here, right now._ It is coming back, it is
healing that separation. If we understand who we are and whose we are, we come
home. Our vow is to be honourable and true to the best persons we can be, to
ourselves, first and foremost.
The great mistake is to act this drama---this life---as if we were alone. When
we feel like we don't belong, we feel isolated because we're separated. But as
Ernest Holmes showed us, we can know: There's one Life, and that's my Life! We
are not alone. We belong.
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38min
October 10, 2010 Trapped in Excellence
The Thanksgiving message, of course, is about gratitude! Rev. Patrick shares
seven characteristics of evolved people, including "evolved people give thanks
for what most people take for granted." Also "evolved people give without
agenda," and "evolved people understand the value of downtime." We can
practice _letting_ rather than _getting_... stepping into the ocean of life.
Rev. Patrick quotes a [David Whyte](http://www.davidwhyte.com/) poem "Four
Horses."
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34min
October 03, 2010 Will, Willing, or Willingness?
Rev. Patrick re-introduces _The Big Leap_, a book we had studied back in
January. Its major theme is the moving out of our level of incompetence to our
level of competence to our level of excellence and into our level of genius.
* Will: An attitude of "must" and "should". "White-knuckling" the situation.
* Willing: Giving it a try. Seeing what happens.
* Willingness: The readiness, the enthusiasm, the keenness, the promptness, the haste, the swiftness, the dispatch, the speed.
Everything starts with willingness. Are we willing to feel good in our lives
all the time? The only way to move out of our level of excellence and into our
level of genius is through a big leap of consciousness. If we simply focus for
a moment, we can always find a place in us that _feels good right now_. And
allowing that feeling to exist and to expand in us, is the process that starts
the big shift in our consciousness.
Ask yourself this week, "Am I willing to feel good in my life all the time?"
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40min

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