GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki

Love is seeing you.

It's saying, 'it won't be long now. Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won't be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! -Amos 9:13-15 The Message (MSG)

You just keep remembering where those things are coming from.

You give thanks deeply,

because you know Who they're coming from. 

Like Rumi says, 'Do you want the sweetness of food or the sweetness of the one who put sweetness and food?

The one who brought you here is still here.

Give up fear.

Give up this idea of lack,

how can you lack when He's here?

How can you hunger when He's here?

How can you be lonely when He's here?

That's all hypnotism.

Everything that would have you believe He's not here,

is hypnotism. 

(everything that would have you believe that He is here, is also hypnotism, but we'll save that for another seeming day!) 

I Love you

nik 

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"Meditate and become absorbed so that people will sense the 'ras' (Divine sweetness) in you, then you will have success."
- Anandamayi Ma

"As the heavenly water begins to surge from the spring deep inside us, it spreads and expands our whole inner being and gives rise to ineffable blessings. The soul herself cannot even understand what is unfolding here. She senses a certain fragrance, we could say, as if within the depths of her being there were burning coals sprinkled with sweet perfumes. We cannot see the light or locate the source of the fire, but the sweet-smelling warmth permeates the whole of the soul and maybe even spreads into the body. Try to understand what I'm saying. We don't actually feel heat or smell an aroma. The experience is far more delicate than that. Even if you have not gone through these things yourself, you must know that they really do happen. The soul perceives and understands this more clearly than my mere words could ever express. No matter how intensely we may crave spiritual delight, we cannot acquire it through our own efforts. It is not forged of the same metal that we are but is made from the purest gold of divine wisdom." - St. Teresa of Avila

"Divine God and Guru, Give me the patience
To wait quietly
For spiritual sweetness." - Isha Das

"To the degree that love for the Lord warms the human heart, one finds in the Name of Jesus a sweetness that is the source of abiding peace." - St. Seraphim of Sarov

"You must learn to repeat the blessed Name of Rama with sweetness and such devotion that the birds and beasts will pause for a moment to listen to you; the very trees will bend their leaves towards you, stirred by the divine melody of that Name. And when you are able to do this, I tell you, I will come all the way on foot from Bombay as on a pilgrimage to hear you. In His sweet Name lies a power which can cure all our ills." - Sivananda 

"...Then silence, and now more silence
A mouth is not for talking.
A mouth is for tasting this sweetness..."- Rumi

"Do you want the sweetness of food
or the sweetness of the one who put sweetness in foods..." - Rumi 

Today's Practice:
Every time you find that place inside that is forever still, you are Home. You are in Heaven.  You can turn any moment into heaven by, 'going into your heart cave' as Ram Dass would say.  Go into your heart cave before you go into your office tomorrow.  Don't leave your heart cave.  Realize you ARE the heart cave, itself.

I Love you and I'm with you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com 

“Rumi says, ‘The one who brought me here must take me home.’ Who is the one who brought you here? That Grace is calling you home. Where is home, which direction is home? You and home are the same thing.”
-Mooji

"It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves."
-St. Teresa of Avila

"Having never left the house you are looking for the way home."
-Nisargadatta Maharj

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.  Help someone's soul heal.  Walk out of your house like a shepherd."
-Rumi

"We are called into the inner room, and then out again to serve others."
-Carl McColman

“Your homework is to stay home inside your heart.”
- Mooji 

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Today, every time you notice a thought about something desired, something missing... something needed, inwardly repeat- 'thank you Father, I already Am.' And then feel the shoulders relax, the face smile, the whole being relax, and melt. This 'pulls the chair out from beneath the mind' and you fall into Loving Remembrance, Joyful Realization.  You already, always have been That.  Keep feeling It, and you'll see It.  

I Love you,

Nik

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"The only realization needed: 'thank you, Father, I already Am."
-Joel Goldsmith

"Pulling out the chair
Beneath the mind
And watching you fall upon God--

"What else is there
for Hafiz to do
That is any fun in this world. "
-Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky

"The object of our love is Love Itself."
-Ram Dass

"The greatest work there is for you to do, My Beloved, is to do nothing. Only let the Glory of God shine through the human vessel. Learn to let the spirit flow through all you do and say. Why need you be tense, or eager, or anxious as to how you can serve? Why should you ever watch for opportunity to serve Me? If you will relax, at all times, if you will dwell in the Center of your being, and rest in the consciousness of the Divine Presence you shall make no false moves nor mistakes. How sweet should be this thought to you, that you need take no active part aside from the still knowing that your Father has control over all situations and where ever you are at this moment, and where you shall go and what you shall do through the day is all controlled by the Father under the law of Divine love. So rest, relax, be very still, that you may have the surety of this guidance through all the hours of the day before you."
-Eva Bell Werber. Voice of the Master

It may not look like much right now,

but It feels like much,

doesn't it?

You have to trust (t)His Feeling beyond feelings, this Primal Feeling.

You are re-familiarizing yourself with this Peace that you thought was impossible until your prayer was answered.

You keep closing your heart and looking,

waiting for a reason to open your heart,

 or to keep it open.

But the reasons come after you open. 

The answered prayer comes after you open.

And you will close back up a million times today.

But each time is an opportunity to notice and open again,

knowing that, 'When I'm open, I am That. It is here. It is done, already'.

This is the Way.

Can you remain open while holding this Joy,

allowing this Joy to hold you open?

Let those words go past your mind.

Let them go past 'you',

as Joy is holding you open for everything that's meant for you. 

I Love you,

nik 

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"This was a sacred moment during which they strove to commune with the soul of the text and of wisdom. They let themselves be imbued, and passed through by this soul. They captured its energy in order to keep it inside themselves, and learn to carry it in life. They used this energy to heal the sick. The Virgin was particularly gifted at making this energy descend into her abdomen, and at keeping it for a very long time. She would say,
"What is essential is not finding the Light, but being in the Light, and keeping it within.
The technique also consisted in calling upon the Angel of joy, drawing joy inside oneself, and, finally, transmitting it in purity." - Mary, the Essene Virgin

What is essential is not finding the Light but being in the Light and keeping It within. 

"From the Place of Light I came forth, from you, Bright Habitation.
I come to touch hearts, to measure and try all minds, to see in whose heart I dwell.
Whoever thinks of me, of him I think; whoever calls my Name, his name I will call.
Whosoever prays my prayer from the earth, his prayer I will offer from the Place of Light." - The Canonical Prayer Book of the Mandeans 

Relax...

into your Self, 

into this (eternal) Moment,

into the season, in your life.

I know you're ready to be seen,

to be revealed,

to be found,

to be elevated,

to be loved the way you love.

I know.

But you have to let God reveal you.

You have to remain quiet,

still on the inside,

Loving without an object,

present without a body,

without any other intention than,

God, let me be Me, without me. 

Please accept me. 

I Love you,

nik

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"Bring awareness to fearful thoughts. Simply be aware of fear and feel it. When you have felt the fear fully say, I am ready to move through my fear now Father, please help me. And be willing to receive the help you asked for. You will receive the help you asked for. When you ask for help you acknowledge that there's a power greater than your fear. You also indicate your desire to work with that fear and conflict in your life. When you ask for help recognize that you're asking that your thoughts be changed. So affirm this-Father I'm willing to change my mind about this situation. Please help me see this not through the eyes of fear but as you see it. Help me see this with equal love for myself and all other. This is a powerful prayer. Stay with it. Rest in its strength and its peace. And let God answer you in every word, every gesture and every action."- Paul Ferrini, Loving Without Conditions 

"Stop remembering what God has forgotten." -@trustgodbro 

You have to find this Love every morning,

as if you've never found It before. 

You have to find Love every moment,

as if you've never practiced before, 

every single seeming moment,

you have to hit that reset button.

You have to become conscious again.

You're always either unconscious or conscious,

unenlightened or enlightened,

not feeling Love or feeling Love,

 carrying baggage or not.

Recognizing that there is no baggage to put down.

Nothing to let go of. 

No one to forgive.

Nothing to do.

And yet, things get done.

And people and situations are forgiven.

But it's all happening through you by the Christ in You.

I Love You

nik

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"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done." - C.S. Lewis 

"Allow My healing force to pour through your hands. Then shall all the Glory of the Father be a living fire about you. Nothing that happens in the outer realm shall penetrate that holy flame. You shall dwell as a thing set apart, even as one of the candles in the Holy temple shall you be guarded. As you express the Life of your being to all you meet, great floods of power shall pour into you again, and you shall walk and not be weary, run and faint not.
So open yourself, cleanse yourself, that I, the Lord of your soul, shall manifest My Glory through you, My human vessel of expression." - Eva Bell Werber, Voice of the Master

"And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting."
- Acts 2:2

"You are the notes, and we are the flute.
We are the mountain, you are the sounds coming down.
We are the pawns and kings and rooks you set out on a board: we win or we lose.
We are lions rolling and unrolling on flags.
Your invisible wind carries us through the world" - Rumi

"What I thought was me is not me and only That (substance) is me." - Herb Fitch 

Right now you're aware of one of your bodies speaking,

and another one of your bodies listening.

Right now, some of your bodies are walking down the street outside.

Some of your bodies are in offices already.

Some of your bodies are in traffic.

Some of your bodies are still sleeping.

Some are just rising,

some are seated in meditation right now,

eyes closed in a cave.

They've been there for decades, centuries, aeons,

 in the Himalayas.

Some are chanting,

some are crying,

some of your bodies are singing,

some are doing yoga.

You're the Love that they're meditating in,

the Love they're meditating on.

You're the Love they're walking through,

 the love They're walking on. 

 The ground you're standing on is Holy.

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"l am a forest fire
And I am the fire, and I am the forest
And I am a witness watching it
I stand in a valley watching it" -Burning Hill by Mitski 

"Give a specific period to this each day, and do not let yourself watch for results. In due time, fruitage will appear in some form of harmony within yourself, your home, your family, or your business, art, or profession.
As fruitage appears, raise your consciousness to take in the weather, elections, national, and international relationships. Remember that none of these subjects enters your thought while in meditation. You may not even think of peace on earth. Just be still. Listen with the invisible ear for the inaudible Word. You are thus ushering in the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.
All power is in the hands of the Infinite, the Eternal, and it operates through grace. How do you make this come true? By knowing it. This truth cannot make you free without you knowing it." - Joel Goldsmith, The Government of Eden 

"Blessed are the man and the woman
who have grown beyond their greed and have put an end to their hatred and no longer nourish illusions.
But they delight in the way things are
and keep their hearts open, day and night.
They are like trees planted near flowing rivers, which bear fruit when they are ready.
Their leaves will not fall or wither.
Everything they do will succeed." - Psalm 1 

"Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, 'For my sake, the entire world was created." -Baal Shem Tov

As long as you're hearing This,

feeling This,

being This,

This is all that manifests. 

This is all you see--

His Original Creation.

You are seeing more and more of It.

"You are the son of the richest man."* 

You are not a beggar.

You are a King, a Queen. 

That's not a begging bowl in those hands.

Those hands are stretched out to Bless,

not to receive blessings.

You are the Blessing. 

I Love You 

I Am You

nik 

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*Srila Prabhupada 

"You can't bear fruit if you don't spend time with the Source of it." - @Happyandhealthypodcast 

"The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.” -Numbers 6:24-26 NIV

"Listen and be still! If you could see and know the physical person of Christ Jesus, could go to those who are sick or in need of any kind; if you could see those Holy Hands upraised in healing, how firm would be your faith. But listen, that same Christ is within your consciousness; the Holy Spirit pervades all things. So can you not have the same faith, that when you speak to Him, He hears, just as He did when in the body of flesh? The body had nothing to do with it. It was only the instrument for the Divine flow of Life, even as you are the instrument. As you open your being to this sweet consciousness of the Abiding Christ, even so shall the greater works, long ago promised, be fulfilled through you." - Eva Bell Werber, Quiet Talks with the Master 

Today’s Quote:

“Due to divine reasons, my light cannot be dimmed.” 
– author unknown via @rachnasometimes_education

Today’s Practice:

Your Light cannot be dimmed by anyone, including ‘you’ and your fluctuating moods and thoughts.  Find this Light inside and recognize It as un-flickering and inextinguishable.  Find this inner smile, and see that you can smile without smiling.  You can feel this Light even when you're upset.  Stay AS this inner smile today. 

I love you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Pretend you're standing in front of a window with a clear view out at a mountainous  forest.  It's a gorgeous day. The colors are vibrant and crisp.  Now, shift your attention to your reflection in the window.  The view is still there, but now it's in the background, and your reflection is in the foreground. Even if there was a war outside your window, it would be no more difficult to become aware of your reflection... of your innate Peace, that's also present.  No matter what's on view (and it is constantly changing!), don't lose sight of your Self. Don't forget Love.  Don't make the view and its alternating,  alluring beautiful and terrifying images more important than your awareness of Love.  Truly, only Love is here.  And you are That.  Feel It.  Be It. 

I Love you,
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quote:

"At every moment, we are free to allow experience to veil our innate Peace or to remain transparent to it. " - Rupert Spira 

You need something right now, right? 

You're waiting for something other than God, right?

Praying for something other than God, right?

But God only gives God. 

Give thanks. 

"Count your blessings, knowing you can't count that high."*

Count it all joy - when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.**

God is still God. 

Which means you're still good. 

Smile. 

Breathe. 

I Love You

nik

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*Counting My Blessings - Song by Seph Schlueter 

**James 1:2-4

"A hand lifted to Alläh is never let down."
-@trustingservant via IG 

"Great name of yours is upon me, you who lack nothing, you Self-Generated One, who are close to me.
I see you,
you who are invisible to all.
Who can comprehend you?
Having known you,
I have now mingled with your constancy.
I have armed myself with the armor of light.
I have become bright.
The Mother was there for the lovely beauty of grace.
So I have stretched out my two hands.
have been formed in the circle of the riches of light." - The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, Nag Hammadi Scriptures 

"Pray simply: "Lord, grant me
Your grace!"
When there is a dark cloud of
sorrows approaching you,
pray: "Lord, grant me Your
grace!"
And the Lord will make that
thunderstorm pass you by."- St. Nectarius of Optina 

You are not the same one that started this episode.

Your life will never be the same--

the Love will be,

God Is, 

but your world is new.

It's healed. 

It's prosperous. 

It's joyous. 

It has begun. 

I love you 

I am you

Nik 

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"She has found her rising.
She has come to rest in the one who is at rest.
She has reclined in the bridal chamber.
She has eaten of the banquet for which she has hungered.
She has partaken of immortal food.
She has found what she has sought. She has received rest from her labors, and the light shining on her does not set. To the light belongs the glory and the power and the revelation, forever and ever. Amen." - Authoritative Discourse, Nag Hammadi scripture 

"If you are truly watchful, each thought will dissolve at the moment that it appears." - Sri Annamalai Swami 

The scriptures of the world say that we are made in God's image. If this is so, why don't we know that we are taintless and immortal, as He is? Why aren't we conscious of ourselves as embodiments of His spirit? Again, what does scripture say? "Be still, and know that I am God." "Pray without ceasing." By regular practice of yoga meditation with steady attention, the time will come when you suddenly say to yourself, "Oh! I am not this body, though I use it to communicate with this world; I am not this mind, with its emotions of anger, jealousy, hatred, greed, restlessness. I am that wonderful state of consciousness within. I am made in the divine image of God's bliss and love." - Sri Daya Mata

You have to train your attention.

You have to own your attention, 

and put away your childish things, 

stop distracting yourself from this Real Work. 

You have to stop scrolling

you have to stop bingeing,

you have to stop gossiping, 

and you know that. 

But I can't change you,

Maharaj says, 'All I can do is Love you',

and that Love,

(y)our love changes you,

and you notice less screen time.

You'll notice better content choices,

you'll notice better food choices,

you'll notice more positive thoughts automatically. 

My hands are outstretched to you, now.

I'm praying that He may still that mind

that fear that has been with you for so long,

that he may take it. 

It's gone.

And whenever you think it's back,

 just hear inside, "It's gone."

It's all gone. 

I Love You

nik 

Gaze of Grace (docu about Ramana Maharshi) 

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Be the dot on the 'i' today,

be up (t)here,

you're everywhere, 

but keep your attention up (t)here.

Notice how quiet it is up (t)here.

You're above thoughts up here.

See?

When you're up here you can feel the vibration instantly.

that breeze, the Holy Spirit instantly,

You're in a position to give this love instantly,

no matter who it is you think you're seeing.

No matter what it is you think you're hearing,

you're loving and that's your power.

Like Sri Mataji says, whenever you remember me, I will be by your side with all my powers.

That's my promise to you.

I love you, 

I am you, 

nik

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QUOTES:

"This Lord is to be worshipped by one's own consciousness, not by material substances - by waving of lamps, lighting incense, offering flowers or even food or sandalpaste. He is attained without the least effort; he is worshipped by self-realisation alone. This is the supreme meditation, this is the supreme worship: the continuous and unbroken awareness of the indwelling presence, inner light or consciousness. While doing whatever one is doing - seeing. hearing. touching. smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing or talking - one should realise one's essential nature as pure consciousness. Thus does one attain liberation." - The Yoga Vasistha (the Supreme Yoga) 

"Just because you know how Faith works doesn't mean you know how God is going to do your miracle." - Mark Hankins

"I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."- Galatians 2:20

"... your light, give me your mercy! My Redeemer, redeem me, for I am yours; the one who has come forth from you. You are my mind; bring me forth! You are my treasure house; open for me! You are my fullness; take me to you! You are (my) repose; give me the perfect thing that cannot be grasped!

I invoke you, the one who is and who pre-existed in the name which is exalted above every name, through Jesus Christ, the Lord of Lords, the King of the ages; give me your gifts, of which you do not repent, through the Son of Man, the Spirit, the Paraclete of truth. Give me authority when I ask you; give healing for my body when I ask you through the Evangelist, and redeem my eternal light soul and my spirit. And the First-born of the Pleroma of grace -- reveal him to my mind!
Grant what no angel eye has seen and no archon ear (has) heard, and what has not entered into the human heart which came to be angelic and (modelled after the image of the psychic God when it was formed in the beginning, since I have faith and hope. And place upon me your beloved, elect, and blessed greatness, the First-born, the First-begotten, and the wonderful mystery of your house; for yours is the power and the glory and the praise and the greatness for ever and ever. Amen.

Prayer of Paul (the) Apostle.
In Peace.
Christ is holy.

-Prayer of the Apostle (Nag Hammadi) 

Affirm: "I am submerged in eternal light.

It permeates every particle of my being.

I am living in that light.

The Divine Spirit fills me within and without." - Yogananda 

Only the fullness of Love is here,

appearing as that (all that you see before you, including 'you', that body, the phone, the whole scene, pan out!). 

What can you sense,

hear,

behind that?

What Breeze is blowing through that?

Let that be enough. 

I Love you

nik 

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QUOTES:

This is going to be a great week. Your mind will be at rest, you will receive good news after good news, your body will be motivated, and your goals will be met with progress. Drink water, take deep breaths, and remember who you are. You are primed for stillness and success. Claim your birthright." -@sourcemessages

"For me, every hour is Grace." - @worshipblog

Today's Quotes:

"You have to see the invisible in order to do the impossible." - Dr. Michael Beckwith

"The universe is saying: Allow me to flow through you unrestricted and you will see the greatest magic you have ever seen." - Klaus Joehle

"Praying for a change in your life, well maybe it's gon' come tonight." - Kanye West

Today's Practice:

In your journal write, "The moment I feel Love, I Am ___________." The 'blank' is your desired reality.  Trust that when you are consciously feeling Love, you are Love, and that Love will take the form of that desired reality or something even more in alignment than you can presently imagine.   Don't be attached to outcomes, just trust that It will provide. It always has and It always will, and now, the process is conscious.

Keep relaxing into Love, today. Keep breathing into Love, today.  Allowing It to flow unrestricted, absolutely nothing is impossible, and with Love, "everything is achieved." - Neem Karoli Baba

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Know that Love is here.  Know that everything is changing.  Know that It, what's meant for you, is happening! And there's nothing you or anyone can do to stop It. It's all flowing from you, and that flow sounds like silence and feels like relaxation, like Love.  Step into your destiny by resting in and AS this Love.

“When I run after what I think I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;
if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me, and without pain.
From this I understand that
what I want also wants me,
is looking for me and attracting me.
There is a great secret here
for anyone who can grasp it.”
- Shams-i Tabrizi

“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”
-Robert Browning

The vibration, (t)His Love you feel, must be shared. It must be expressed. Ask Him how, but in the meantime, give It silently. Feel It where you see those who are suffering.  Feel It while looking at those who are joyous. Feel It without no breaks, no brakes. And It will fulfill you and the whole world appearance.

I love you,

Nik

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QUOTES:

"It is difficult to clear the mind. How is it done?

Through the grace and blessings of Christ.

Then the mind will be empty." - Maharajji 

"When someone asks what there is to do, light the candle in his hand.
Like this.
How did Joseph's scent come to Jacob?
How did Jacob's sight return
Huuuu.
A little wind cleans the eyes.
Like this." - Rumi

Read more about my time with Sister Grazielle, HERE!

and Here!

Right now you're seeing the dark veil.

You're seeing darkness where only Light is, 

thoughts where only Silence is.

Keep choosing the Silence.

See that you have a choice to make this effortless effort over and over again.

Like to sit down into the Silence over and over again. 

To sit up into the Silence over and over again.

To breathe into It.

To thank It.

Not with words, but with more Silence.

For you to become more and more silent,

more and more still.

And that stillness, not necessarily meaning of the body, but of those thoughts, 

of those doubts- they're all about the world.

When you bring your mind to God,

He holds it still.

He holds you still in Him. 

We practice meditating until the real meditation comes.

Maharajji would say, you chant from until the real Ram sounds.

I'm hearing the real Ram now,

the Ramming.

The Father Speaking

blessings upon you.

He's raining down blessings upon you.

Put your hands out in front of you,

palms up and receive.

I Love You

I Am You

nik 

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"Whoever cannot find God in their heart, seeks God in a temple. Whoever cannot find love within, seeks love from others. If you realize that, all seeking stops. There is nothing to be found outside. Only pain. And that precisely what the pain is trying to teach us. To look within." - @michalism

"Light is always within us. When the mind is settled, we see that Light. When this state is developed, we see it everywhere, even with open physical eyes. You see the dark veil, and the Light within that. In the Light you see the blue sky and the golden center shining resplendently -- in the still pose of mind; and when you try to make and use your own efforts, your mind's still pose is disturbed, and you lose it. We need not make any efforts. Our clutching will stand in the way and retard our progress. We should, however, make effortless effort." - Kirpal Singh 

"Give up the mind that wants to meditate

and calm down.

Focus on nothing at all.

Disturbing thoughts and lazy indifference

are not liberation.

Remain unstained by thoughts and circumstances.

Rest relaxed in the uncontrived nature of mind,

free of elaboration or alteration.

For the benefit of one and all,

simply preserve peerless awareness." - Dakini Sukhasiddhi

It's more like you become conscious of the person.

You become the Awareness of the person, 

the fullness of Love that's really (t)here,

not the person.

But you still appear as the person.

He's blessed you in a way that you can't see yet,

but you can feel It. 

I can feel It. 

I can feel You-

that your life will be unrecognizable...

give it to Him, to Love, to your Self. 

Give yourself back to your Self. 

Say feelingly, 'I surreder all ', 

and then surrender the one who said it. 

I Love You 

I Am You

nik 

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QUOTES:

"When you find Christ, you are satisfied, you desire nothing else, you find Peace. You become a different person." - St. Porphyrios 

"Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, rain, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in." - CS Lewis via @worshipblog

"The truth was a mirror in the hands of God.

It fell, and broke into pieces.

Everybody took a piece of it,

and they looked at it and

thought they had the truth." - Rumi

Can you hear your Name being called?

Not that the name your parents gave you,

but the Name you were given before your parents were born,

before your great-grandparents were born,

before your great, great, great great grandparents were born.

The Name you were given in the beginning.

The Name He spoke that is still sounding.

Can you hear? That's just beneath my words.

Behind your thoughts,

behind your effort to hear.

Relax, effort,

relax into (y)our Name.

The sound of Silence, 

this Magnificence that you are. 

"I am the magnificence and glory of the radiant ones. There is nothing beyond Me in this creation."- Sri Krishna 

"No matter where you are, no matter how difficult things might appear to be, you are always being moved toward magnificence. Always." - Rhonda Byrne 

The Practice:

Today, know that the reason you're still in that place or at that job is because God has a purpose for you (t)here. You're (t)here for a reason.  And that reason is for you to see Him, where you see them-- to do like Hafiz says, and 'turn every one of them back into God'. If you're on a Zoom call, stare at each box, at each face, until you can hear Silence, until you can sense Love where that box is, where that face is. And do that for every face. Make it a game. Those 2 hours will fly by, and everyone in the meeting will be blessed and will be changed because you showed up as the Light. You didn't match the seeming energy. You are the Source of energy. You find Peace where you are and that's how you are free to move on to the next level, to the next challenge. And when you get to the next challenge, you find Peace where you are, again. 

I Love you, 

nik

"The calling out IS the response."- Krishna Das 

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If you find yourself overwhelmed by anxiety at night, this episode is for you. Go read Psalms 62: 5-12, And then come back here and listen. 

Every time a thought comes,

a fear comes,

a desire comes,

a doubt comes,

a worry comes,

begin to hear--

Our Father...

He is Silence. 

and in (t)His Silence, 

He gives, 

Perfectly. 

I Love You,

nik

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Bodhisattva Prayer for Humanity

"May I be a guard for those who need protection

A guide for those on the path

A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood May I be a lamp in the darkness A resting place for the weary.

A healing medicine for all who are sick

A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles And for the boundless multitudes of living beings May I bring sustenance and awakening

Enduring like the earth and sky

Until all beings are freed from sorrow And all are awakened."

"In the darkest time of your life, you will find only Me.

Rest all will leave you, but I will be there." - God (via @Mersai)

"Lord God,

Create in me a servant heart

So that I may bow to the truth

That will liberate me." - Isha Das 

Finding and knowing this Love ends your worries, ends your suffering… ends the limited and distorted concept of 'you'.  And in its place, the Grace of felt-Oneness... Wisdom... Purpose.. Joy... I Am.   

I Love you and I'm with you,  
Nik
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Today's Quotes:

"Remember that finding God will be the funeral of all sorrows." 
- Sri Yukteswar Giri via Autobiography of a Yogi

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
-Chinese Proverb 

“St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.”
-Thomas Keating, Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit

"You are so near that I cannot see You.  Like a fool I keep looking around." 
-Rumi

Take a vacation from yourself by being your Self.  Bask in the sun of the Self and immediately know everything AS that One.  As Love.  You're not trying to practice or trying to remember this, you immediately feel and know Love here, there, and everywhere.  

When you scroll IG, you know that where the phone, the hand, the feed, and the profiles appear to be, only Love is.  Where the world is, including the body you call 'you' appears to be, know only Love is (t)here.  Here, everything is holy.  Everything is sacred.  Every day is a miracle. Every day is vacation.  Every day is Saturday.  This is an immediate recognition.  An instant retreat.  Stay here.

I Love you, 
Nik
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Today's Quotes:

"Your consciousness of Truth does not mean your ability to recall Truth; it means your immediate awareness of Truth-- the Truth of which you are conscious this very moment."
- Bob Pilato

 “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
-John 16:33

"The entire spiritual life is based on the rejection of appearances."
-Joel Goldsmith

 “All evil vanishes from life for him who keeps the sun in his heart.” 
-Ram Dass 

Keep relaxing and noticing that you're already above thought,

that you've already surrendered,

that your very beingness is the state of Surrender. 

When you get caught up in thought today,

thoughts about the future,

thoughts about what appears to be lacking or missing still,

 hold your breath just for a second

and look around the environment that body is in.

Experience that moment without the overlay of thought.

The noise of the mind is like watching a show with someone that's constantly trying to guess the plot.

Stop trying to guess.

Stop trying to predict.

Just watch and notice how silent that moment is without 'you'.

Notice how you can't even say that's you in the scene.

In that moment, there's just the happening.

It's just Love appearing to happen. 

And that, too. That thing you hope is happening?

That you've been waiting to happen?

This is how it happens,

with these seeming limitations,

with these feelings,

these thoughts of doubt,

with these obstacles.

Let it play out.

Keep saying I trust you.

I trust in you, God, 

I love you. 

Nik 

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"When you start becoming sensitive to your agendas-to the subtle but pervasive strategies of bartering, begging, and bullying life to give you what you want--this is the time to willingly surrender the agenda."- Amoda Maa

"They are the chosen ones who have surrendered

Once they were particles of light, now they are the radiant sun!"- Rumi

"Things are going to happen so much better than you expect them to. Know that in this moment, your vision is limited by the growth & experiences you've had up until now. And while your vision is limited, your energy certainly isn't. You're on a path to opening up whilst surrendering. That combination is the concoction to unexpected blessings and what you perceive to be miracles. It's unfolding just as it should. Maintain the flow." -@sourcemessages

"Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God." - Krishnamacharya 

By His Grace,

you've reached the other side. 

You may not see it now, 

but you have changed. 

And that's all that's necessary. 

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"I know that I know

and that I don't know.

But I forget.

I see that I am blind and I see the blinding light in everything, but I forget.

I see what I know

I think

I know what I see.

But sometimes

I forget.

And This is the Way

It should be.

At the end of every forget

I remember."

-Lonny Brown via Be Here Now

"It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you." - Nisargadatta Maharaj

"The ego is like one's shadow thrown on the ground.

If one attempts to bury it, it will be foolish.

The Self is only one.

If limited, it is the ego.

If unlimited, it is Infinite and is the Reality."

Talk 46, Ramana Maharshi

"We are either moving toward God or away from God.

There is nothing in between. You cannot be neutral about God." -@marcusmecum

Affirm: "I no longer have to make something happen. 

I no longer have to worry about tomorrow. 

I no longer have to concern myself with what other people are doing, 

I can let go of all of this, 

and I will be taken care of." - Robert Adams 

Open your hands in front of you. 

God is giving you what you need. 

His Light. 

Her Heart. 

Your Self. 

God's Presence includes all the added things. 

Don't worry. 

I Love you, 

nik

p.s. Widen your desire to include the world, not just you and your crew. And watch how you and your crew are provided for in the bigger vision. 

Quotes:

“I am the Light that is over all things. I am all: from Me all came forth, and to Me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find Me there. I am the Light of the world; anyone who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light of Life. Walk while you have the Light, so darkness won’t overpower you. Those who walk in the dark don’t know where they are going. Since you have the Light, believe in the Light, so you will become Children of the Light."

“[In the Beyond?] if they ask you, ‘Where have you come from?’ say to them, ‘We have come from the Light, from the place where the Light came into being by itself, established [itself], and appeared in their image.’ If they say to you, ‘Is it you?’ say, ‘We are its children, and we are the chosen of the Living Father.’” - Sant Mat (Gospel of Thomas and Faith-Wisdom) https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/the-sermon-on-the-light-the-light-motif-in-gnostic-and-other-western-sacred-texts-7dc3199d64bf

I can see miracles in You. 

Love is how You fulfill them. 

Chin up, 

palms up, 

straight up, 

Attention. 

I Love You, 

Nik 

"Straight body, straight breath, straight attention, straight awareness of consciousness (remembrance of God)." - Ganesh Baba 

The Promise is on the other side of forgiveness. 

You're not seeing It yet because you haven't forgiven yet. 

YOU MUST FORGIVE.

Yourself, others... for not recognizing that You, Yourself are the 'others'. 

Loving is forgiving. 

"Love is the bridge between you and everything." -  Rumi

I Love you, 

nik

"His love comes forth, so to speak, from himself and enters into our midst." - Benedict 16th

"He was crucified so that his spirit could spread thoughout the world. He sacrificed his body for the dharma. He never died, he never died. He is Atman (the Soul), living in the hearts of all." -Neem Karoli Baba

"On my second trip to India in 1970, during my time with Maharaiji, he would say to me simply, "Love everyone." And all I could say was, "I can't do that, Maharajji." That was because I was identified with my ego, which could not possibly love everyone. He would come up to me, nose to nose, and repeat, "Ram Dass, love everyone." Over time this instruction took hold. My identification with ego shifted, and my perspective changed to one that came from my spiritual heart or soul. From the point of view of my soul, I was able to look at everyone as souls, and I loved each one of them. Maharajji's instruction led me to perceive myself and everyone else as loving souls. Ego is here, in your head, which is who "I think I am." If you see those thoughts and then go down to the heart, the spiritual heart, down there you say, I am loving awareness. I am loving awareness. I am loving awareness. Whisper it: I am loving awareness. Everything is love. Everything is a manifestation of love. Table. Tree. Yourself. Universe. The universes. They're all made up of love. And once you bathe in that love, you dive into an ocean of love. Oh, it feels so wonderful! Love. Compassion. Love. Compassion. We meet in that love. We meet inside. Inside our spiritual heart. In Hinduism it's called the atman. It's God, guru, and self together inside. I'll see you inside." - Ram Dass Maui, July 2014

Love is saying-  Everything brought you to this moment,

for you to hear this message,

for you to receive this certainty,

before you go back out into the appearance, the field of uncertainty.

For you to feel this confidence,

to be this Confidence,

even while you appear to be unsure,

even while in the storyline, you're doubting, you're stumbling, you're falling.

In your Heart, simultelsouly,  there's a knowing that you're carried.

That all you have to do is relax and allow,

let go and receive.

Stand up and know you're not alone,*

know that you have Me by your side,

in front of you,

in back of you,

within your Heart-

that's My Home.

I'm always within

and I Am  all you need.

The 'I Am', this felt-Love, the way you know you're alive,

is all you need. '

I Love you,

Nik
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Today's Quotes:

"What if today is the day? The day.  The day that you've been waiting for. The moment that changes your life forever."
-@saralandon via IG

"In India, there is a proverb, 'If God is happy with you, He gives you a lot, and if He is very happy with you, then He gives you a slap also'.
This is because every time God gives you a slap, He turns you away from the material world towards Himself; He wants to draw you to Himself.
Drop everything and look at Him. That is why He gives you the slap because He is too compassionate and too happy."
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Love is the religion
and the universe is the book."
-Rumi

"What the universe manifests for us is much more exciting than what we are trying to manifest."
-Adyashanti

"God's Spirit of life approaches us so silently that we do not become aware of the presence immediately."
-St Sophrony

"How does one make muddy water clear?
Be still. and the water will clear in time.
How does one become still?
Let everything happen, and stillness appears.
-Tao Te Ching, i5 (trans. Marshall Davis

"Stand up! You are a warrior. You are not alone, you have Me by your side, I'm all you need."
-@neemkaroli_babaofficial__ 

Life is easy when you're flooded with Love.

Life is beautiful when you’re a GoOD person.

Life is a constant miracle when you’re conscious of God being you.

I Love you and I'm with you,

Nik

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Today's Quotes:

"You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. 
Come merge with me, 
leave this world of ignorance, 
Be with me, 
I will open the gate to your Love."
-Rumi  

"All nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny."
-Yogananda

"Don't pay more attention to the outside world than necessary, but concentrate more on the inner springs of joy."
-Satya Sai Baba

"I was, when you were not. I am, while you are. I shall be when you cease to be." 
-Shirdi Sai Baba 

I'm back! A little earlier than expected on this GoOD Friday! In today's episode, I share about what I've been up to, what Krishna Das told me that day we hung out together, and I share a powerful practice that you can start and continue for the rest of the day. It's harvest season, now...early, and forever. 

I Love you and I'm with you!
Nik 

p.s. Shout out Beyoncé and her new album Cowboy Carter for the inspired title, 'II Hands II Heaven'. 

Today's Quotes:

"1. I am the true Vine and my Father is the Worker. 2.*Whichever branch that does not produce* fruit by me, He cuts* it off. And the one that produces fruit, He prunes* it, so that it brings* much fruit. 3. "You are already* cleansed, because of the Milta I presented* you. 4. "Graft* yourselves onto me, and I onto you, for the branch cannot bring* fruit by* itself, if it is not grafted* to the vine; likewise you also, if you do not adhere to me. 5. "I am the vine and you are the branches. Whoever adheres to me and I to them, they shall bring much fruit. Because without me, you cannot do anything. 6. "For if a person* does not adhere to me, they are cast out. Like a branch that withers, [which they cut off and throw into the fire to burn. 7. "And for those of you who adhere to me and my words take hold* in you, whatever you wish* to ask for, you shall have. 8. "By this the Father is glorified, that you bear* plentiful fruit. And that you become my disciples. 9. "Just as my Father has loved me, I too shall love you. Nourish* [yourselves] with my love* 10. "If you observe* my commandments, you will be nourished* by my love; Just as I guarded the commandments of my Father and have become strengthened by His love. 11. "I gave you these words so that my happiness is [expressed] through you and that happiness becomes* your happiness as well. 12. "This then is my commandment, that you love one another* just as I loved you. 13. "There is no greater love than this..." - John 15 1-13 (Aramaic Scripture by Victor Erickson) 

Affirm: "I carry Light and Silence."*

I keep my eye on the feeling of Love,

and this eye doesn't blink,

It doesn't lose sight of this Feeling beyond feelings,

of this Faith beyond appearances.

It's opened.

And It opens.

It's blessed.

and It blesses.

Loving is the Reaping.

Faith is my blessing.

I Love you,
Nik

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Today's Quotes:

"Faith is your blessing. You are blessed."
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Unless you give up the idea that the world is real,
your mind will always be after it."
-Sri Ramana Maharshi

"You need not aspire for or get any new state.
Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all."
-Ramana Maharshi

"The final reality is the Light and Love of God. Root yourself in that final reality always and at every moment, and evil will crumble around you."
- Mother Meera

"Believing we are 'human beings', rather than 'spiritual', is the disease itself."
-Joel Goldsmith

"Whether in daytime or in nighttime
I always carry inside a light.
In the middle of noise and turmoil
I carry silence.
Always
I carry light and silence."
- Anna Swir

"She does not need to live in fear because God is working within her."
-@Girlsavedbygrace  via IG

"There are no obstacles on the path of a person who is constantly aware of God. For him, all situations are regarded as favourable!
-Amma

"Call out for God but let the call come from your heart."
-Amma 

There is nowhere where God is not,

where Joy is not,

where Abundance is not.

You just have to know where to look,

how to look,

how to shift.

And as you shift, the world shifts.

Everything is changing, thanks to you.

Thank YOU.

Keep going.

I Love you!

Nik

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Today's Quotes:

"At times it's difficult to see your transformation while you're going through it. It's only after you've broken through your shell that it hits you: you're responding differently, you're smiling deeply, money is flowing to  you more easily, your relationships are improving or ending, the lens in which you view your experience is adapting to your upgrades. This will be one of the biggest chapters to your evolution. One shift at a time is altering your entire world.
-Pedro de Santos via IG @sourcemessages

"They can't see how beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that.”
-Naya Rivera

"Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent."
-Rumi (via Daniel Ladinsky's 'Love Poems from God')

"One day He did not leave after kissing me."
-Rabia  (via Daniel Ladinsky's 'Love Poems from God')

"Sing my tongue; sing my hand; sing my feet, my knee, my loins, my whole body. 
Indeed I am His choir."
-St. Thomas Aquinas  (via Daniel Ladinsky's 'Love Poems from God')

What's got you worried today?

Speak it into the Silence.

That's how you surrender it.

That's how you give it to God--

you give it to the Silence.

And then you just keep hearing the Silence,

you keep listening to the Silence,

the same way you were listening to the words of your worry,

you listen to the Beauty of the Silence,

you become the Beautiful Silence.

And then, worry becomes Prayer,

and the mountain moves.

I Love you,

Nik

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Today's Quotes:

"The basic condition for us to be able to hear the call of beauty and respond to it is silence."
-Thich Nhat Hahn

"The position that you're in should excite you.
Think about it for a moment: the hardest parts are over. Why?
Because you had to endure playing catch up. You had to negate what was holding you down and holding you back this entire time.
What you're left with is nothing but space & opportunity with which to build up on this open canvas. The decision is yours, and quite frankly, you already decided. You didn't start on this path just to get this far.
This is when the fun begins. This is when fulfillment consistently finds you. This is when those wings begin to expand."
-@SourceMessages via IG

"Wherever you are, love is your sole refuge. Fill your hearts with love, and let love be the guiding principle in all your activities when you return home. When you have love in your heart, you do not need to worry about anything. God will always be with you, in you, around you and will look after you in all respects."
-Satya Sai Baba Divine Discourse - April 13, 2005

"To seek is to abandon the here and now.
To wake up is to abandon the search."
-Alexander den Heijer @purposologist

"God desires to give us everything, that is, the fullness of the Divine Life. We just have to be empty enough to receive it."
-@isha_das_craig_bullock via IG

"You're being guided, strengthed, and wisdomed from within."
-Joel Goldsmith

"Children, you should develop an attitude of bowing down to anything and everything. Keep the plate of food in front of you and bow down to the food before eating, and bow down to the plate after eating. An attitude to prostrate to anything at any time should come. In this way, an awareness, 'for what am I doing this?' will arise. Thus we should build up good character. Prostrate to the cloth you will wear. Bow down to the water with which you will take a shower. During these occasions of bowing down, you will have a pure resolve to see the same Consciousness in everything whether with form or without. While doing so, you are in fact remembering God."
-Amma

"Dead promises must resurrect. The dry bones must come to life. He's breathing over the dead area. One breath. One touch. One moment and it all changes. Through this might wind he is breathing life. New life. New season. New births. Hallelujah."
-@Godlywaiting via IG

We set out on this path listening to God,

remembering God the way God remembers us,

until we remember that God is us.

That's what we are here for.

That's what we're here to practice.

That's what we are here to 'win',

and you've won.

So keep winning.

I Love you,

Nik

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Today's Quotes:

'In the silence is where all the power is. In the silence is where all the answers are."
-Robert Adams

"When the mind becomes empty, then any wish or desire that you have at that time instantly manifests. This is a great secret." 
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Once you are on this path, there's only victory. Know that you are the ultimate winner."*
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you  nearer to God, nearer than any prayer."
-Swami Vivekananda

"Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God."
-Neem Karoli Baba / Maharajji

As you read these words, listen for your heart beating.

And as you read this line, become aware of your breath.

And as you read this line, become aware of Love,

no matter how subtle,

no matter how Light,

in your hands, in your feet, in your chest.\

You're feeling the password right now.

I'm sharing It with you right now.   

But it's not a word.

It's a feeling. A GoOD one.

And when you're aware of It, you gain access to the eternal silence beyond the heart beating,

to the blissful stillness beyond the breath, to the Love beyond thoughts.

Give this password to every inner and outer barrier today.

Feel Love.

And go beyond.

I Love you and I'm with you,

Nik

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Today's Quotes:

"Keep the Lord's name as constant as breathing."
-Sai Baba

"If you give yourself one complete minute of focused presence, to simply stop; even to listen to your heart beating, it will take you out of your head and introduce you to the moment which is complete in itself. It is not on the way to another moment. It is not a bridge to another opportunity. It is the timeless perfection. So stop and sink into this timeless moment."
-Mooji

"I have also given you the password, Love. When you come to barriers across your way, use the word freely and forcefully and nothing shall hinder your progress. You will be shown flowers of attainment which will bloom for you as you do well the tasks of the day, as you live largely and freely as a child of the Father who holds all good in His hands for you."
-Eva Bell Werber, Journey With the Master  

Confine yourself to the bliss of Presence.

Confine yourself to the security of God's lap.

Don't leave It for any seeming thing,

because there's nothing but It.

I Love you,

Nik

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Today's Quotes:

"Confine yourself to the present moment."
-Marcus Aurelius

"Sending  love to everyone who wants to do better but can't find the energy to make the necessary changes. Sending love to everyone who wonders if their exhaustion is permanent. Sending Love to everyone who's tired of feeling stuck."
-@michellcclark via IG

"Just because you're struggling doesn't mean you're failing."
-@Lisettedesigns_ via IG

"O Rama, 
If you thus overcome this sorrow of samsara (birth and death), you will live here on earth itself like a god, like Brahma or Vishnu! 
For when delusion is gone and the Truth is realized by means of enquiry into Self-nature, when the mind is at peace and the heart leaps to the Supreme Truth, when all the disturbing thought-waves in the mind-stuff have subsided and there is unbroken flow of peace and the heart is filled with the bliss of the absolute, when thus the Truth has been seen in the heart, then this very world becomes an abode of bliss."
- Sage Vasishta.

Let It surface--

your Smile,

the Silence,

(t)His Love,

the Breakthrough.

They're all Here.

They're all One.

They're all You.

Let It surface.   

I Love you,

Nik

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p.s. In today's episode, I  shared the tremendous practice, the game-ending practice-- Self-Inquiry. Stay absent from the body and present with the Lord for the rest of the day, and watch what happens :

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"Don't let temporary circumstances make you think that you're not blessed."
-@Refresehedquotes

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
-12 Corinthians 4:18

"Don't beg.
Don't chase,
Don't be needy,
Relax.
when you relax, it'll come to you."
-Osho

"When you start to get delivered from where you've been, your social circle is the first to respond."
-@RealSweetSpot via IG

"No man discovers anything big unless he makes himself small."
- Fulton Sheen

"The next breakthrough that's coming is God's way of reminding you that NOTHING is impossible for Him."
-@InstaGod

"Why beg from a man, what can he give? God and the saints are all powerful but no one has to beg anything from them. They know and so they themselves give what is appropriate."
- Maharajji

"Spiritual practice is a staircase by which the devotee climbs to God, and God climbs down to the devotee. Carry on your spiritual practices regularly, while conducting your daily life and activities in such a way that you always benefit others. Spiritual practices will not only give you liberation but wealth and honor also. Become powerful and live out your life." 
-Maharishi

"The things that are closest to our hearts are the things we talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you will talk about him."
-A W Tozer

"Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love. Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it"
-Rumi

"Love is already here."
-April C. 

The way you have no doubt that you're alive?

You have to have THAT kind of faith that God is providing for you.

Can you have no doubt about that?

No doubt that you're being guided?

No doubt you're being sheltered, protected?

When you get quiet,

when you 'be still and know' that you're aware,  that you're alive,

you're simultaneously acknowledging  the presence of God.

The aliveness and the  presence of God are One.

The "I Am" and the presence of God are One.

Your presence is His.

In that moment, just as you don't doubt that you're alive,
you also don't doubt that you're being carried.

I Love you and I'm with you,

Nik

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"He keeps on losing himself, but he does not know that he is losing himself and does not know even when he is completely lost. For when he is lost, he is God; not even that he is God, but that God is God.
Oneness of God consciousness, one eternal existence, oneness of eternal life, oneness of absolute Being; only the One remains. And then the varieties of life are like the varieties of the waves in the eternal ocean of love of God."
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Art and Science of Being, Transcendental Meditation

"If you gather your will to the point of wakeful absence of thinking, everything you engage in will work out perfectly. Simply make way for the intelligence beyond the mind and let the creator play you like a flute."
-Bentinho Massaro

"Walk this earth for one purpose only; to show forth God's glory."
-Joel Goldsmith

Hollow Bamboo Episode  

You don't have to force your way into this Silence.

You don't have to force your way into this Love.

You don't have to force a manifestation.

R E L A X,

into the Force.

That tension you were feeling was the false force,

this Stillness that you've softened into,

this Love,

is THE Force.

It's God.

And God isn't a He, She, or It.

God is an experience--

not something you  have to force,

just something you have to feel,

and not stop feeling,

no matter what else  you feel,

forever.

I Love you,

Nik

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p.s. Maya = illusion

Samadhi = highest state of meditation/Oneness

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" Fret not where the road will take you.
Instead concentrate on the first step.
That is the hardest part and that is what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow.
Don't go with the flow. Be the flow. "
-Shams Tabrizi

"That one thing is everything.
Your body is God. 
Your breath is God. 
Your thoughts are God. 
The good is God. 
The bad is God.
There is nothing other than that one thing....
then the duality vanishes.
You and I vanish...
that's Samadhi."
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Where God guides,
He provides" (Isaiah 58:11)
-via IG @SheRises

"Rahme is an active force transforming the world around us. When we experience the state to which this Beatitude points, our rebirth allows those whom we love to freely rebirth themselves as well.
Ripening in a healthy way are those who radiate womb-like love from the deepest place inside.
They shall be reborn within Love's creative stream."
-The Aramaic Jesus, Neil Douglas Klotz

"For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." 
- Yoda

"Close your eyes. Feel it. The light...it's always been there. It will guide you." 
-Maz Kanata

"If you're feeling negative emotion, it means you're telling yourself a lie."
Abraham Hicks

"See I am all in you, and all for you."
-Luisa Piccarreta

In moments when you feel pressed,

close your eyes,

and let the Word(s), 'I can of my own self do nothing'

direct you to the Nothing inside.

Look at It.

Hear It.

Feel It.

The No Thing that does Everything.

Right in that Place that you're attending to now,

that you're actually being now,

is where you must come back to often during the day.

You must retreat here for at least 1-2 minutes every hour.

This is how you keep from breaking down.

This is how you keep letting go.

This is how Love lifts you.

I Love you,

Nik

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"You must not break down so easily."
-Maharajji

"If you want good things, have belief. 
If you want better things, have patience.
If you want best things, surrender to Lord Shriram."
-Maharajji

Even when it seems as if God isn't answering you, He is. 
You may be looking for a simple yes or no, but God always faithfully answers: abide."
-@Amy_klutinoty IG

"As you place yourself in willful dependency on God, he will not disappoint you. In moments when you feel pressed to, and even beyond, your limits, do not panic, nor be afraid"

"Do not fear vou will expire as vour resources become depleted, but understand these are the valuable moments in which you will begin to experience me. You will experience me in the times you are in greatest need, and it will shape you and mark you for the rest of your life. You will not forget these times because you will be desperate in your heart, mind, and circumstances. But know, though you are desperate you will not be disappointed, for you will not put your hope, trust, or dependence upon yourself, circumstances, or your resources, but upon me. (1)

In this you will learn to move beyond your present limits. You will advance to the edge of your limits, but will encounter me in these limits and will begin to understand how to move beyond them. You will allow yourself to overcome, to understand, and to manifest and possess, what you previously could not. While this experience and process will certainly be uncomfortable, know it will grow you and produce good fruit in your life over the course of time."
-Neil Vermillion

"Think how it changes the nature of your prayer when you stop looking out or up. Close your eyes and gently, "Look down within," and feel. "Right here, closer to me than breathing, is the very source of everything I shall need in my outer life. There is even the "good pleasure" to give me the entire kingdom."
-Joel Goldsmith, Consciousness Transformed

"Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him, and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly."
-St. Ignatius Loyola

In the presence of God your mind is silent.

In the presence of God your mind IS Silence.

God heard your prayers before you were born.

Your True prayer, the one behind the words--

to be happy,

to give love,

to be loved,

to be Love.

He's not asking you to do anything but trust.

Give this silence, this stillness your attention,

and It will give you everything.

I Love you,

Nik

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"Give me your plans and I will give you success.  Remember, that your success might not look the way you planned, but it will be more than you asked if you trust me."
-Via @godsholyscriptures  on IG

"You are like a mirage in the desert, which the thirsty man thinks is water; but when he comes up to it, he finds it is nothing.  And where he thought it was, there he finds God."
-The Koran  

For a better morning,

listen for God’s voice first.

For a better night,

listen for God’s voice last.

For a better life,

listen for God’s voice all day.*

Shhhh…

It sounds like the constant feeling of Love.

Don’t think about that last sentence. Just read it again, and FEEL the Silence. Hear the Love. Smile. Relax your shoulders. Sway.

Unexpected blessings happen here.

I Love you and I'm with you,

Nik

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"For a better morning,
talk to God first. 
For a better night,
talk to God last.
For a better life,
talk to God all day. " *
- Via IG  @womenofpray

"Praying is talking to God, asking God to give me this, to give me that.  But meditating is telling God, "here I am,  ready to listen."
-Ravi Shankar

"Silence is God's language. Everything else is poor translation."
-Rumi

"Free yourself from your own thoughts."
-Rumi 

You might not be able to see the sun/Son yet,

or hear It,

but you can feel It,

you can feel Him,

while you look out at the seeming others and know,

they're Him,

which means they're perfect.

And any problem that is perceived,

is misperceived.

That they don't have to become more loving, more positive...

but that you must abide in that Place inside,

of that Source of Love,

of Compassion,

of clearness of Purpose, first.

That, you must be GoOD first.

It's time.

I Love you,

Nik
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*Reading from 616A: 1951 First Seattle Series, The Practitioner of Spiritual Healings by Joel Goldsmith

"In hard times, inner changes must precede changes to outer circumstances."
-Michael Meade

"By becoming still in the face of the appearance, you make it possible for the light of consciousness to dispel the illusion that is appearing.
Thus you gradually remove finite concepts from your mind and allow its ever-present unconditioned state to come into focus."
-Bob Pilato

"The key to 'figuring it out' is not trying so hard."
- Abraham Hicks

"There is really only one problem, distraction. And therefore only one solution- mindfulness."
-DJKR

"The source is within you.
And this whole world is springing from it."
- Rumi

"The whole universe is full of this voice, if you can but open your (inner) ear and listen to it. The most important facts that should be understood about the Sound Current are that it is God Himself and that it is now within every human being. It is the Supreme Creator, manifested and manifesting. It is not only an emanation of God, but it is God Himself. God is not static. He is superlatively dynamic, and the Sound Current is His dynamic energy and intelligent life force in a continuous process of manifestation. It is the omnipresent form of God which flows into and through everything from the highest to the lowest, and surrounds and pervades everything in the universe. "The Audible Life Stream is the everlasting form of the Lord, and is always within every one of us," says the Master Sawan Singh.
But while the Holy Word is within each one of us, we cannot hear its melodies or see its light because we are spiritually deaf and blind. It is to this fact that Jesus referred when he said. "They seeing see not; and hearing they hear not." (Matthew
13:13)
- Shah Niaz via Yoga and the Bible

"If there is no thought, there is no me, and if there is no me, there is neither thought nor desire nor fear. The whole intent and purpose of self-inquiry is to focus the attention intensely and ceaselessly on the sense of I so that the spurious imposter me and it's identifications are exposed as nonexistent."
-Ramesh Balsakar

And in the end,

which is the beginning,

you'll see that there never was a path to contentment,

or steps made on it,

or breaths taken in it.

or persons met along it.

There's no one here to recognize Love;

to practice It, or to turn toward It.

Only Love is here.

And that's the final Truth.

I Love you,

NIk

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"Rama, 
there are four gate-keepers at the entrance to the Realm of Freedom, moksha. 
They are 
self-control,
spirit of enquiry, 
contentment and 
good company. 
The wise seeker should diligently cultivate the friendship of these, or at least one of them. "
-Yoga Vasistha

"When you know you are part of the divine plan, you stop demanding. Then you know everything is being done for you."
-Ravi Shankar

"You are lost only because you are searching."
-UG Krishnamurti

"The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it."
-Nisargdatta Maharaj

"We all feel that health is the natural state of the body. Why do we not feel that happiness is the natural state of the mind?"
-Rupert Spira 

Feel God saying- 'that thorn in your side (that job, that illness, that person),

is to bring you closer to Me,

to lock you inside of Me,

inside of My Love,

inside of My Healing,

inside of My Will,

so that you'll stop leaving.

Don't let the appearance of this world make you forget that you're in Me.

That I'm all around you.

Just listen,

when the noise becomes too much,

listen for Me.

When you listen to sound,

the very listening is Me.

The Silence and Sound are not separate.

The Formless and Form are not separate.

I Am not separate from you.

Surrender.

Soften.   

Relax into Me--

the fulfillment of your greatest Desire.'

I Love you,

Nik

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"Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our lives. Put your attention on the highest."
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"I am love; if you come close to me, something will start dancing in your heart. Allow it."
-Osho

"Am I not here? I who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I t the source of your Joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need something more? Let nothing else worry you, disturb you."
-Virgin of Guadalupe to Juan Diego, December 12, 1531-From the Original Nican Mopohua recorded by Antonio Valeriano.

"Jesus is the beginning, the means and the end of all desires.
As I was concerned about the state of my soul, all of a sudden my adorable Jesus came and told me:"My daughter, do not be concerned, for I alone am the beginning, the means and the end of all your desires." With these words I calmed myself in Jesus. May everything be for the glory of God, and may His Holy Name be blessed."
-Luisa Piccarreta, Book of Heaven

"The path is simple: organize your heart around love and your mind around truth.  This how we live a divine life."
-Isha Das

"When you listen to sound
the very listening is the
silence. Silence and sound
are not separate."
-J Krishnamurti

"If it's from God, it'll come with His Peace."
-IG @faithfulfootprints

"It is by God's Grace that we think of God."
-Ramana Maharshi

"Do not fear anything; nothing will happen to you against My Will."
-Jesus to St. Faustina in Her Dairy

"Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
-2 Corinthians 12 

Feeling the breeze, think, "God is breathing on me."

Feeling the sun, think, "God is shining on me."

Feeling the water, think, "God is cleansing me.'

Feeling the Love, think, “God is blessing me.”

Use every moment of every day for remembrance of God, and you'll come to see that it's actually Him remembering you.

I Love you,

Nik

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"I know God breathed on me"- Kanye West

"Problems are the denial of the presence of God." - Herb Fitch 

Things have already 'come together',

'unfolded',

'fallen into place',

but they will appear to take time in your experience.

It's all here, always now,

the storm and the rainbow,

but the purpose of your experience is to live moment to seeming moment,

in and AS this Love.

That's what you're missing.

As often as you notice you forget to consult with Me,

to listen for Me before acting,

you forget to be this Love.

If you could just Love more,

you would see more of what's already Here.

You would stop trying to paint your own doors on walls,

and finally, look and see My doors standing wide open for you.

Pass through.   

I Love you,
Nik
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"What is yours will know your face."
-John Boroughs

"If I can't stop thinking, maybe I can just let my thoughts go by without getting all caught up in them. Feel the breeze on your face or your neck? See how it's going by? You're not all hung up with it. You don't have to see where each breeze goes. You don't have to look quickly to see if it hit those trees over there. It's breezes, and they're just going by. Make your thoughts like those breezes, those little breezes…..just going by."
- Ram Dass

"Who am I?
I am myself a word spoken by God.
Can God speak a word that does not have any meaning?"
-Thomas Merton

"Your name is blessed. Your home is blessed. Your career is blessed. Your family is blessed. I speak nothing but blessings over your life. This is your time to be blessed."
-@godlovessyou via IG

"The present moment is not linear, it is spherical. When you go deep in meditation, you experience this and realize that everything is in this moment."
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Seth: "Now, do not walk so heavily the paths of earth. Walk lightly. The weight you carry is not physical. It is not physical pounds that weigh you down. Your own identities will enlighten you. There is no need for you to concentrate so avidly and exclusively upon the physical paths. You have walked other paths

You [this seemed directed to Rachell have cultivated other gardens. There are joys that can lighten your burden. It is not your ego that you fight, although you have a model of an ego. You fight a memory that lingers on the outskirts of your mind. A transgression already forgiven - a storm already passed - a dark cloud already punctured. Now, you are naturally as free as air. The rest is a facade to hide the memory. Now, consciously you will not understand what I am telling you but unconsciously you will. The transgression has already been paid for. The penance is finished.

When you realize that you are free you will be able to enjoy your freedom

Now, what brings you here? Knowledge that you do not realize that you possess, yet you do possess it. I look back again at your past histories and to your probabilities and futures in your terms, and my, how you change. You would not know yourselves. Be good of heart.
You have more staying power than you know and you [Amelia] should realize that you are also here for a reason and that you build more that garden roads."
-ESP 1968.10.22 (EC1)

:Till the false is seen as false, Truth is not."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti 

When that body slouches,

it's like it's slouching into forgetfulness.

It's slouching into worry.

It's slouching into  overthinking.

Sit back up straight,

like you’re on your Throne,

and be Greatness.

In this posture, that body is like an antenna, receiving, remembering Greatness, remembering its

Divine Essence, remembering Truth.

Remembering that everything it encounters is also Greatness,

is one with Greatness.

That there is nothing but Greatness.

I Love you,

Nik

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Have trust in God and the most difficult tasks become easy.  For success, hard work alone is not enough.  God's grace is essential."
-Maharajji

"When things in you move, you don't have to move with them."
-Adyashanti