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"It is said that a soul who never meditates, never prays, and doesn't even believe  in the infinite silence as the home of God, will still reap the benefits of the Great Presence if he or she leads a sincere life full of gratitude." - Dr. Bruce Davis

"All I know is Love, and I find my Heart infinite and everywhere." - Hafiz

All I Know Is Love by Sivani Mata  - Song on Apple Music

"Love is the way I walk in gratitude." - ACIM Lesson 195

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

"Our gratitude will pave the way to Him, and shorten our learning time by more than you could ever dream of. Gratitude goes hand in hand with love, and where one is the other must be found. For gratitude is but an aspect of the Love which is the Source of all creation. God gives thanks to you, His Son, for being what you are; His Own completion and the Source of love, along with Him. Your gratitude to Him is one with His to you. For love can walk no road except the way of gratitude, and thus we go who walk the way to God." (https://acim.org/acim/en/s/603#10:1-6 | W-195.10:1-6)

Know only Love today.  
Feel only Love.
Taste only Love.
See only Love. 

Which means to stop and become aware of this Love that we practice, while simultaneously aware of human emotions like anger, frustration, or happiness.  It means to stop and become aware of the feeling of Love while tasting food.  It means to pause and feel Love while seeing the world, to feel Love where you see the world.  To know only Love IS, where the world is appearing.    This remembrance IS gratitude.  You're grateful that you know the Truth, the Essence, the 'stuff' that makes up the world and your experience.  This is the bridge. The path.  "Love is the way I walk in gratitude."

I Love you, 
Nik 

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... from thoughts. We're fasting from thinking, today.  Just for 60-seconds.  Try it with me, and I promise you'll instantly drop weight and feel Light.  ;) 

Today's Quotes:

"The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.  Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it.  Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing  presence." 
- Eckhart Tolle

"What is meditation? The suspension of thoughts." - Ramana Maharshi  

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." 
- Robert Louis Stevenson 

"At first, effort is needed to remind yourself of this.  But later on, it becomes natural and continuous. The work you do will go on of its own accord, and your Peace will remain undisturbed." - Ramana Maharshi   

"Stop leaving and you will arrive. 
Stop searching and you will see.
Stop running away and you will be found."
-Lao Tzu 

"By means of an extremely courageous intellect make the mind motionless little by little; fix the mind firmly in Self and never think of any other thing." - Bhagavad Gita 

Today's Practice:

Whenever you get time today, sit in a quiet space and fast from thinking.  Observe the Silence that is present even when thoughts are happening, and gently, but diligently keep shifting your attention back to the Silence.  Keep flexing that muscle until you can see that even the shifting is being witnessed.  There's an awareness of 'your' efforts to pivot out of thinking and back to the Silence.  Bonus points for abiding in and AS this Loving Awareness.   Be your Self.  It is thought-free, naturally.  It is Love. 

I Love you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com 

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"The only proof of His existence is union with Him." - Mandukya Upanishad

"You have the innate power to  discern that a presence is arising within you that is not the mind. The Divine is giving you a kiss from within and even a lightly blown kiss form God will be enough to stir you into embarking upon the search for freedom.  That kiss will set your heart on fire!" - Mooji

"Like a pair
of mismatched newlyweds,
one of whom still feels very insecure,
I keep turning to God,
saying,
"Kiss me."
-Daniel Ladinsky, The Gift

"You go often into the silence, but have you developed anubhava ["direct experience" of God"]? He was reminding me to love eGod more than meditation. 'Do not mistake the technique for the goal." - Quote via Kriya Yoga  Expose by Santata Gamana (taken from Autobiography of a Yogi)

I Love you and I'm with you in This, as This, always.  Let's stay focused on the 'goal', let's BE the 'goal'. 
Nik
Nikki@curlynikki.com

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I don't do resolutions, but if I did, I would resolve to 'keep God in mind, every minute'.* To not forget Love for even a second! Join me in this... quiet revolution. 

Today's Quotes:

* Neem Karoli Baba

"He who perceives me everywhere  and beholds everything in Me, never loses sight of Me, nor do I ever lose sight of him." - Sri Krishna 

“We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.” - Brother Lawrence

"At all times the repetition of the Lord’s Name should be kept up. Through the practice of the Name enjoyment, liberation, peace, all these will blossom forth. With firm faith, implicit confidence and devotion, casting away pride, adhere to the Name and you will see that all your work will be done; as it were, of itself. " - Anandamayi Ma

"Place the name of Rama as a jeweled lamp at the door of your lips and there will be light, as yo will, both inside and out." - Tulsi Das

"Chanting replaces other thoughts with that particular mantra. Just as saline water loses its salty taste by constantly adding fresh water, through constant repetition of a mantra, the number of thoughts can be reduced. In due course, all thoughts can be eliminated except one, that is God. Love will spring through japa if one has complete faith and intent to reach the goal. Mantra japa, done with the proper understanding of this principle will ultimately take us to the Source. At this point, the seeker realizes that the form he has been meditating on, as well as all other forms that exist within himself, are the manifestations of the Self." - Amma

Quotes from HERE!  I've had this page bookmarked for years. 

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You've been offered a new job! It's a different position...a witnessing one, a Loving one.   You will continue to work your present job, for now, but from now on, you'll do it from and AS "Loving Awareness".  You'll  watch that body work. You'll watch it from and AS  the position of Joy.  And that Joy will radically transform the work that body does, how it serves, who it serves... this Joy will take shape as an entirely new life.  A life in Its own image.

"The real work is to feel the silence in everything that we do." - Dr. Bruce Davis

"The love in the silence has specific plans for us. With our hearts open, the voice of the stillness inside us speaks clearly to trust this love, our true guide and employer. People who are tested in their work are being challenged in their belief in how present the silence is and how much it provides and cares for them. The struggle for survival is moved by the fear that we are all alone and the world is against us. The love in the quiet reminds us that we live in God’s midst, which is full of purpose and meaning and caring. It is through living in the monastery without walls that our worries about survival give way to trust in the silence. The sacred moments melt our fears, giving way to a practical life full of the joyous essence.

We are each called to a work that gives fulfillment. Fulfilling work separate from a life full of silence is not possible. We are called to work for the silence, in the silence, with the silence, and feel the love of the silence working through us."
-Dr. Bruce Davis,  Monastery Without Walls: Daily Life in the Silence 

The deeper the self realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux. " 
- Yogananda 

"Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job?" 
-Hafez

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

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Today's Quotes:

"As long as you think someone else is responsible for the way you are, you cannot become the way you want to be. " 
- Sadhguru 

"Be so rooted in yourself that nobody's absence or presence can disturb your inner Peace." 
- Unknown 

"The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race." 
- Bob Marley 

“Even if I am with a million people, I am always alone. I do not see people as people. I see them as myself.” 
- Sadhguru 

Today's Practice:

Think and FEEL this mantra-- "Rooted in Love, everything I need comes to me."

Recognize that no one (and that includes the one you think you are) has the power to distract you from your true Self, from Love.  This Love is the only Presence, It's the only Power, and as you stay rooted in and AS This, the one you thought you were, and everyone in your field of awareness begins to grow and flower.  Today, we stay consciously rooted, without distraction, and let the Go(o)d we've been seeking come to us. 

I Love you, 
Nik 

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Let's recognize and look out of your single eye, today! You always, already are... you just think you're not.

Today's Quotes:

"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." - Matthew 6:22

"The sense of being, of the "I Am" is a sense of location here, present inside this body, but not bound by this body." - Mooji

Today's Meditation:

"We don’t realize how deep our learned assumptions are embedded.  Could all this really be a projection of consciousness?  Is it really just a matter of how it has been interpreted?  Dare we recognize that consciousness is not some quality or power that we “own” and exercise individually, and that everything, including our precious self, is nothing but consciousness?   

Now, stand up with the book in your hand.  Going only by what you see, here and now, not what you think or believe or remember...

Look at your feet.
Now move your gaze up your body.
Look at your ankles,
Your knees,
Your hips,
Stomach,
Chest,
Can you see any further up your body?

Going by sight alone, not what you believe or feel, can you accurately describe what you see where your head is supposed to be?

 We were taught that we are our body and that somehow, by some mysterious, unknown process consciousness has appeared in it.  We have assumed this for so long that we don’t even question it.  Isn’t it time we looked to see for ourselves?  Does consciousness appear in our body or is it our body that appears in consciousness?   

See for yourself right now.  Put down this book, look down at your body and ask yourself, “Is consciousness appearing in my body or is it my body that is appearing in this consciousness?”  Don’t go by your learned assumptions; just look openly and honestly, as if for the first time.

Then ask, “Could this body even appear without consciousness?  Could anything appear without this consciousness here?”

What are we then?  Are we our body as we have been told or are we consciousness, as we can directly observe for ourselves?  So, what then is our body?  Could it be consciousness also?"

Sharp, Galen. What Am I? A Study in Non-Volitional Living (p. 88). Tandava Press. Kindle Edition.

Today's Practice:

Check out Headless.org's experiments -- Richard Lang provides some gems that walk you through what I shared in the meditation (via video!).  You'll be guided to the first person experience... the same one you have when you're wearing a VR headset.  Stay as the first person today, until you see that you're no person.  Just Love aware of Itself as this moment, including the person.  

I Love you, 
Nik
Nikki@curlynikki.com

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"As I flow with  Life, I easily release all struggle. Only good comes to me now." - Louise Hay 

"No effort is required to keep things at room temperature.  Similarly, no effort is required to merge with the Supreme Truth. Your mind is doing all possible efforts to avoid the Truth."
- @ImmortalTalks via IG

"You don't have to always transcend.  You can also just be nothing." - Mooji 

"I am Loving Awareness"- Ram Dass

When you become aware of Love, you are aware as That- your identity has automatically  shifted from being the body to being aware of the body.  That's effortlessness.  Sitting on the couch twiddling your thumbs waiting on God to dawn on you, is not effortlessness.  Whether the body is doing nothing or doing something ,  it's 'doing' and as long as you think you're the body, you're doing, too.  You're not that. You're "Loving Awareness." Stop playing and be what you are! 

I Love you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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In today's quick episode and guided meditation, I share a Q&A from my new app, Go(o)d Friends, and a powerfully uncompromising mantra, 'None Else',  inspired by Isaiah 45.  

Today's Quotes: 

"I am the LORD, and there is none else." - Isaiah 45:5 

"There is nothing else besides Me, Arjuna.  Like clusters of yarn-beads formed by knots on a thread, all this is threaded on me." - Bhagavad Gita 7:7

"Seeing God is as difficult as seeing the white cinema screen when a 3D movie is playing  on it."  - @ImmortalTalks via IG

Q:  "In difficult moments I am practicing using the technique of remembering/reminding myself that this isn’t real and in pleasant moments saying “this is love appearing as…” . I know everyone’s path is different but am I correct in this approach?"

A: "Yes, mostly! A ‘quicker’ way to get to this realization is to see that no matter what’s on scene, it isn’t real. Not the good or the bad. Only the LOVE (that you practice feeling) is real. And this practice of felt-Love and knowing that IT is and nothing you see is, quickly begins to sink in and is realized in all its glory.

‘Love appearing as’ is a wonderful and beautiful practice but like everything, it’s not entirely true. Love appearing as the peaceful ocean outside my window feels true until a hurricane rolls in. Is that Love appearing? It’s the same ocean scene… but now it’s raging. Love never actually creates or appears. It just is. A truer practice would be to say, ‘tho I see this peaceful or raging ocean, I see nothing. Only Love is here.’ And you feel that.

My mantra until it sank in was, ‘not good humanhood or bad humanhood, Christhood.’ So where I’d see good and bad humans… judgments and concepts… the mind… I’d feel the ONE… the Truth. The Love. I’d feel Love where I saw the worldly concept of good and bad stuff and rest there, AS that Love. 

Resting in that neutral space brings about what you’ve been seeking. You’ll recognize you are what you’ve been seeking. And It’s beyond anything that I can attempt to put into words. Everything I say is a diversion from truth. Every word takes you further away and here we are… my thumbs still going haha!

I love you so much and I’m with you. Keep watching that body like you’re watching a movie. Keep remembering that nothing you see is there. Only Love is and feel It. The rest is Grace."

Only this one invisible presence is here.  The presence I thought I was, is actually His... it never was 'me'.  It was always only Love, and I Am That. 

Only Love is left.  Only Love is here.  

I Love you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quote:

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." -Rumi

Today's Practice:

This Love you feel? It's always been God.  It was never 'them',  never another person that caused you to feel this way.  Feel into this.  Know this deeply.  And let It Love you.  Let It show up as a beautiful Bae Window ;) in your life.  Enjoy the window.  But don't forget that you're the Light.  You're the Love. You're the warmth.  It's always been God.  It's always been you. 

I Love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com 

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Today's Quotes: 

"The person who makes all cares into one care, the care for simply staying present, will be cared for by that presence which is creative Love." - Kabir Helminski 

"An instant of time, half of the instant of time, half of the half instant of time, is enough to free yourself." - Kabir 

"You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.“ - Ramana Maharshi.

Make the main thing the main thing and the other things will get sorted, naturally.  Stay focused on Love and Love will focus on and care for you... until no 'you' is left.  No relationship between you and Love.  No distinction. No separation. Just Love. 

I Love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Spoiler: "Continual protection, warmth, and well-being" are the benefits of knowing Love!  The trick is shifting into the awareness of It and STAYING (t)here.  Until even the shifting is witnessed from the Love that you are.  And once you build this momentum, It builds a new life for Itself as you, with service as the foundation.

"Becoming fully human is effortless once you reach momentum—when you become aware of your Eufeeling (Love) automatically when needed. For instance, when you are first introduced to Eufeeling, even though it has been with you your whole life, it takes a little conscious direction on your part to become aware of it. This will not always be the case. In fact, in a very short time you will be aware of Eufeeling whenever you think of it. It is like putting on a coat on a chilly day. When you first put the coat on, you can feel its weight and warmth. After some time you forget about the coat and go about your business. But the coat is always with you, keeping you warm. Whenever you like, you can have the thought, Am I wearing my coat, and is it keeping me warm? Immediately your awareness effortlessly shifts to your coat and you know it to be there. Then you become aware that the coat is keeping you warm. The coat is like pure awareness, and the warmth is Eufeeling. Once your mind is accustomed to it, which could be almost immediately, it skips becoming aware of the coat and just becomes aware of the warmth—the reason you put the coat on in the first place.

Now let’s say that you are used to living in the tropics but find yourself stranded in a secluded cabin in the deep north in winter. You come back from a walk and find that the lock to your cabin is frozen, and the key will not turn. This could be dangerous, and you immediately experience a flurry of anxious thoughts about your possible demise. Despite your envious tan, the thought of becoming a human Popsicle is not at all appealing. You become quite agitated and start running around pounding on doors and windows trying to get into the safety and warmth of your cabin. Then you remember that you are not wearing a Tommy Bahama pink-flamingo-patterned shirt but an arctic-proof coat to protect you against the cold. You realize that you are actually quite warm, and your mind begins to calm down. In that calmness you remember that you have a lighter in your coat pocket. You remove the lighter and heat your key and insert it into the lock. The warm key melts the ice and the lock turns, welcoming you into the warmth of your cabin.

Okay, I know this is an absurd analogy, but it will help to make my point about momentum. Becoming aware of your coat and the warmth it provided was calming for you. Your mind settled down and was able to think more clearly. Spontaneously you remembered the lighter in your coat pocket, and the solution to your problem was at hand.

If you do not do Quantum Entrainment (Awareness aware of Itself) and are not aware of Eufeeling, it is like living in the arctic in a short-sleeved flamingo shirt all the time. Because you are underprepared, you are faced with one problem after another and live mostly in some state of agitation. You are completely at the mercy of the elements and sooner or later will end up looking like a flamingo-flavored Popsicle.

When you first start doing QE and becoming aware of Eufeeling, it is like you live in your flamingo shirt but put on your coat when you have a challenge confront you. You forget you have a coat until you have a problem. When you reach momentum, it is like you are always wearing your coat. You reap the benefits of continual protection, warmth, and well-being."

Excerpt from Dr. Frank Kinslow's

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Repeat and FEEL these words:

Love is flowing through me.
Love is flowing through my body.
Love is flowing through my mind.
Love is flowing through my heart.
Love is flowing through my life.
This flow of Love is healing my life. 
It's changing my life. 
As I feel this flow now, everything is new. 
Everything is changing, 
Nothing is the same. 
Love is my life. 
Love is my life. 

Today's Quotes:

"And God said, 'Love your enemy', and I obeyed Him... and loved myself." - Khalil Gibran 

"Love, like life, flows
through the heart. 
Feel the thrill of the flow
and say nothing." - Rumi 

Today's Practice:
Say less, today.  Feel more, today.  Do what you have to do, today, but don't stop feeling the flow.  This flow is the presence of change. It's the presence of God. It's the presence of your miracle.  It's the presence and evidence of your new life. Your true life.  #RebornOfTheSpirit 

I Love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quotes:

"Unless you realize and feel God's presence, or unless you actually feel the nothingness of that which is presenting itself as the appearance, the healing will not take place."
- Joel Goldsmith

Dr. Michael Beckwith's 4 Stages of Spiritual Progress (To Me, By Me, Through Me, AS Me)

1. Victim Stage (to me)
"Something is happening to me. I'm a victim. I live believing that something outside of me determines my destiny, my happiness, my success, and my well-being."

2. Manifestation Stage  (by me)
"I learn to manifest.  I use my mind, my conversation, and spiritual practices... to manifest the kind of life that I can imagine."

3. Surrender Stage (through me)
"I'm yielding. I'm surrendering.  I'm allowing, because I've come to an awareness that the order that we all depend on is none that I make.  That order already exists, and I'm yielding to it, I'm surrendering to it."

4. Oneness (AS me)
In this stage, the line of separation is dissolved, and we feel our oneness with all of life with no filter.

Bonus Quote:
"When the feeling "I am doing" is lost, nothing affects a man.  Unless one realizes the Self, the feeling "I am doing" will never vanish."
-Ramana Maharshi

Today's Practice:

Which stage are you hanging out in?  Be honest with yourself, and then practice dropping your 'self' by feeling Love until only this ocean of Love is left.  That's the 4th stage, the Go(o)d one. 

I Love you,
Nik

Resources:

The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence  (free PDF)

The Practice That Changed My Life (My mantra/japa practice )

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Today's Quote:

"Even when a wave thinks it's a wave, it's just Water.
Even when I think I'm a person, I'm still just Love."
-Krishna Das, One Track Heart 

Bonus Quotes:
"Your true personality begins to develop when you are able, by deep intuition, to feel that you are not this solid body, but are the divine eternal current of Life and Consciousness within the body." - Yogananda

“Sustained effort ends in effortless being. What has been attained by constant practice is finally transcended. Then comes spontaneity.” ― Sri Anandamayi Ma

Excerpt from Journey with the Master by Eva Bell Werber:

"My Child, as we pause to talk together, it will often be that interruptions will come and you will for a moment feel as if you are leaving Me, your Inner Guide,  and stepping back into world consciousness.  But do not feel thus, nor allow this thought to disturb you.  Know that you cannot leave your true Self. There will always be affairs on the earth plane which will knock on your door and require your immediate attention.  Be prepared to care for these things and if necessary, answer their bidding,  Do not be impatient, for it is by this very impatience that you will step from the higher consciousness into the lower.  It is only as you allow these things to annoy and distress you that you build the bridge over which your feet will carry you away from Soul Consciousness.  If you will handle whatever interrupts you, from your Soul plane,  you will find, as we resume our lesson, that our contact has not been lost but strengthened instead." pg. 29-30

Right now, it may be hard to remember that you're Love.  But pretty soon, with some effort, and the Grace of God, you won't be able to forget It.  And It. Changes. Everything.  #TheRemix 

I Love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Feeling Go(o)d is your real job, your true employment.   

“Somebody, somewhere is depending on you to do what God has called you to do."
- @25bwb 

“He who knows God knows everything.” 
– Maharajji 

“Stay quietly at one place and do your spiritual practice. Then the treasure that you have gained will find an outlet through you and communicate itself to others of its own accord.” 
– Ananadamayi Ma 

 “Once you are in touch with your awareness, you don’t have to try to accomplish anything.  You don’t even have to wish or dream, because the best possible thing that can happen to you will happen.” 
-Sadhguru, ‘Inner engineering’

Bonus Quote:

"My vocation is love. In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and then I will be all things.”
- St. Thérèse de Lisieux

Today's Practice: 
Get quiet so you can hear the call.  It sounds like silence and feels  like a Go(o)d feeling.   You answer the call by consciously, constantly listening for It, feeling  for It.  And then you watch It show up as your true work, as service to 'others', as the Go(o)d Life you deserve. 

I Love you, 
Nik

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This quick but powerful meditation was inspired by Sailor Bob Adamson's book, "What's Wrong With Right Now?", and his directive to 'full stop'. 

Full Stop. 
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Hear those words as the final thought, the final pointer before  the SILENCE that follows it. 

Everything is still... frozen... even the breath, even the mind. 

And simultaneously notice what your body feels in that instant. 

Peace. 

Love. 

Stay in the 'stop'.

Only there's no 'you'  to 'stay' in the stop. 

There's only God in the stop. 

Only Awareness .  

Only Grace. 

Only Love. 

Your new life is born of this stop, of the Love in the stop. 

I Love you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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"Pray until your situation changes." - unknown

I'd say 'feel Love, and don't stop feeling Love until your situation changes, and then, keep feeling Love.'

Check out this Q&A from Joel Goldsmith I read during today's episode, and feel your way into the forever Saturday and stay (t)here with me. 

I Love you, 
NIk 

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Today's Quote:

"In his book 'Going on Being', the Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein writes about the tremendous importance of recognizing this inner well-being, and he illustrates it by telling the story of the Buddha.

Following the teachings that were available to him at the time, the Buddha-to-be had been doing such intense practices that he was basically starving himself to death. His austerity was so severe that when he went to scratch himself, his skin would come off, and when he went to the bathroom, he would fall over and not be able to get up for long periods of time.

Feeling that he was close to death, he thought, I can’t do any harder practice, and yet I haven’t found what I’m looking for. "Could there be another way to enlightenment?" Just at that moment he remembered a time when he was a boy, sitting in the cool shade of a tree as his father worked nearby. At that time, quite spontaneously, with no effort, he’d entered into a meditative state of deep happiness. As the memory of this warm, pleasant state flooded him, he wondered, "Might this be the way to enlightenment?"

He investigated the nature of the happy feeling and saw that it didn’t come from outside of himself, nor did it come from the cessation of some painful experience.  He recognized that this kind of pleasure was a quality of things as they are, that this feeling of well-being was natural, and innate to our true nature."
- Krishna Das, "Chants of a Lifetime"

Today's Bonus Quote:

"The game isn’t to end up a good meditator; but to end up free.
The game isn’t to end up a good Buddhist; it’s to end up Buddha.
The game isn’t to end up a good Christian; but to end up Christ.
The game isn’t to end up loving; it’s to end up being love."
-Ram Dass

Today's Practice:

Make this  innate well-being your weekend plans.  Make It your entertainment.  Make It your "to-do ".  Make feeling It your everything, and you'll remember that since It IS everything, you need nothing. 

ACIM said, 'There is no will but God's', and God's will for you is this well-being. 

I Love you, and I'm with you in well-being, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quotes:

"Let me not trust in my mind, let me relax in God." - Joel Goldsmith 

It is necessary to close the eyes to all appearances, judging neither good nor evil- acknowledging only that it is, and in this way, something rather like a vacuum is created within your own being, and into that place of stillness and peace Truth reveals itself as the harmony into the situation " - Joel S Goldsmith 

"But He said to them, 'I have food to eat of which you do not know.'" - John 4:32 

Today's Practice:

Stay aware of your daily bread. Your hidden manna. Your Spiritual identity.  Rest the mind, and relax in God.  Relax in Love.  Relax into the rhythm of your heart beat. Into the rhythm of your breath. Into the rhythm of God's name.  Stay in the rhythm of Love.  It's all Go(o)d here.  

I Love you, 
Nik
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"If you'll see all things are now, you don't become.  You simply select the state that you would occupy.  Occupying it, you become it now:  it's already a fact, every aspect of that state in its most minute detail. It's worked out and taking place.  You, by occupying the state, still seem to have to go through the action of unfolding that state- but the state is really now already complete finished and taking place. So right now you can choose the Being you want be." 
- Neville Goddard

"Learn to be peaceful, and thousands around you will find salvation." 
- St. Seraphim  of Sarov 

Note: Because they are you. The inner is the outer. 

You turn to the God state, the Love Channel, NOW, and you don't turn it off.  No matter who wants to borrow your remote or press your buttons... you stay on This channel. You stay in Love and watch the programming switch up- less nail biters, more feel goods. Less Dexter, more Bob Ross.  You tune into a more fruitful, abundant story line where God is playing every character, writing all the lines, and watching the show. 

I Love you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com 

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We're leveling up on "keeping our cups full".  We have no cups.  We aren't a cup.  The cup is an illusion.  We are the Fullness. We are the Source.  We are the Substance.  We are Love. And as long as we're being That, our seeming cup will appear full enough to have an abundance to share. 

Today's Quote:

"Imagine that being in this love is like relaxing endlessly into a warm bath that surrounds and supports your every movement, so that every thought and feeling is permeated by it. You feel as though you are dissolving into love. This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It’s like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune in to that flow, you will feel it in your own heart—not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, “I am.”"

-Ram Dass, Be Love Now

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Tell me you Love your Mom without telling me you Love your Mom...

Tell me you Love God without telling me you Love God...

Tell God you Love God without telling God you Love God... 

Skip ALL words.  
Don't turn to thinking.  
Go straight to the feeling.  
Jump straight into the Love. 
Swim in that Ocean of Love. 
Float in that Ocean of Love.  
Dissolve in that Ocean of Love.  
Be that Ocean of Love. 
Love.  

I Love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com 

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Today's Quotes:

"This heart is not an emotional state; emotions come and go. It is also not referring to the physical pump that resides in the chest. The heart is an abode, our home, the place in each of us where we know who we actually are. This abode is deeper than thoughts and deeper than emotions. And that presence, of course, is our own presence: who we actually are underneath who and what we think we are, underneath the inner dialogue that’s always going on about everything." 
- Krisnna Das,  Chants of a Lifetime

"Flowers don’t need to read a manual on how to bloom in the sunshine." 
- Krisnna Das,  Chants of a Lifetime

Note: Sunshine = Self-Awareness = Awareness of Awareness = Awareness of Self

"The Heart means the very core of one's being without which there is none whatever." 
- Ramana Maharshi 

"What is the heart, a flower opening ." - Rumi 

Today's Practice:

Feel your way into God's signature fragrance, today.  It's actually your natural fragrance.  It's just been seemingly drowned in the musk of the world.  Allow It to pervade your Being.  Allow It to entirely fill and be the rooms you watch that body walk into, today.  Only that fragrance is (t)here.  Only Love is here.  

I Love you, 
Nik
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"Wow! After we met I learned many things from you.  I chant Ram Ram daily. You changed my life, you taught me how to hold [Love] in the worst of times no matter what. I can't believe what's going on! Miracle! That's why today I share my story with you. Really you are great."
- S.S. in India

I didn't change his life.  His spiritual practice did.  It changed mine, too.  I share my experience with japa, HERE.

In August 2020, after he wrote to me about his emotional and financial struggles, I responded-

"Stop worrying.  Go chant.  And don't stop chanting.   When you're scared and worrying, chant more.  When you notice you forgot to chant, pick It back up.   You'll keep forgetting and that's okay.  But don't fall into worrying,  just stop and chant."

I also told him to "keep noticing that Love is present, even when S.S. is shaking and crying, It's (t)here.  You don't have to create It.  You are It.  Keep doing Japa (aloud or silently) and it'll help you remember that your problems are false and only Love is real.  It'll help you stay focused on the Love, even when the trembling is present.  Feel the warmth, feel the glow.  Turn to It. It's holding you. Maharajji, your Satguru, is holding you."   

He did just that and he continues to do so, as he leads his now successful business and runs for public office! He's peaceful and joyful and has a new baby girl... and is aware that this new, happy dream (the one that replaced the nightmare), is happening within the sound of the chant.  It's all happening in the Name. In the Word.  And so the chant goes on, on repeat!

Today's Quotes:

(on ceaseless praying) “Then I felt a slight pain in the heart and such love toward Jesus Christ that I wished I could throw myself at His feet, lovingly embrace them, and thank Him for this great consolation which He gives in His mercy and love to His unworthy and sinful creatures through His name. Then I experienced a kind of blessed warmth in the heart which spread throughout my whole breast.”
― The Way of a Pilgrim

"When a saint like Sri Ramakrishna tells us that “every repetition of the Divine Name must have an effect,” we have to take his word for it, but our faith is based on an understanding of the greatness of the being who said it. We recognize that he has found what we’re looking for and is simply telling us where to look and how to get there. This gives us enough faith or confidence to sit down and do the practice."
-Krishna Das, Chants of a Lifetime

"There is a charm, a magic power, in Thy name.  It catches hold of people and turns them into Gods. "
- Swami Ram Das, The Divine Life

Grab these books, and amala, and start, ASAP! Results come fast and furious!

The Way of a Pilgrim
Chants of a Lifetime by Krishna Das
The Essential Swami Ram Das 

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Today's Quotes:

"Don't worry about your problem. Don't worry about the worst thing in the world.  Find the best thing in the world, and It will take care of everything.  Find the Self." - Mooji

Excerpt from 'Silence of the Heart' by Robert Adams--

"It starts within your heart, and begins to spread all through your body, encompassing your body. Your body merges with it, and it continues to spread until all of us in this room have become it. We are no longer human.  We have become it. It keeps on expanding an d expanding until the entire world is it . It keeps on expanding until all the galaxies, planets, stars, and solar systems are it.  It keeps on expanding, expanding until the entire universe is it.  There is no longer anything that is separate  from it. Everything is it. We may call it consciousness, the Self, absolute reality,.  This is it. This is your real nature.  
...
The  world and all its manifestations cannot fool me any longer. The universe with its planets and galaxies and solar systems cannot fool me any longer.  I can see through these things to the source.  I can feel the source because I am the source. I have always been the source.  There was never a time when I was not.  As far as thoughts are concerned, they do not exist. They can no longer bother me or make my life miserable.  As far as others are concerned, there are no others. There is only the source.  I can no longer be deceived,  There is no thing that has ever transpired in my life that can hurt me.  I forgive everyone and everything, and especially myself.  I am the power, and the presence, and the glory. If I am that, so is everybody else.  So is everything else. " 

"Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out." - Mooji

Today's Practice: 

Don't take anything personal today.  There's no person here, no buttons to be pushed, and no person over there to do the button pushing.  Anger will still come, thoughts will still come, but they are not you.  You are Love.  And you can be Love while noticing anger and thoughts of judgement and assessment.  Just keep some attention on Love... on the flame, like nothing else matters.  And pretty soon you'll see that by focusing on the Light, everything... EVERYTHING becomes Light.  Only Love is here. 

I Love you, 
Nik
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Today's Quote:

Repeat, "I meditate everyday. Going within allows me to hear what Love wants me to know." 

Note: Remember my definition of meditation is marinating in this felt-Love.  When you feel Love, the mind falls quiet, naturally.  And then you can FEEL Love, and that Love  guides you, it moves you, it thinks and acts through you. 

"Speak Father, your servant heareth." -Joel Goldsmith via 1 Samuel 3:10 

Note: my interpretation, "Speak Love, I'm here."

“I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.” -  Einstein 

Today's Practice:

Whatever issue or problem you have, even if the 'issue' is that you don't know what to do next, or what your 'purpose' is... just for today, don't call on anyone, don't call on Google just yet, call on Love.  Feel for Love, and therefore Be Love.  And the needed answers will come from out of nowhere... from out of now-here... beyond the body and the mind.  The Love that announces Itself IS the solution, the answer. This Love IS your purpose.  

I Love you, 
Nik 

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A reading from Eva Bell Werber's 'Journey With the Master' and then a chat on how this inner experience  becomes the outer one.  

"God's grace appears as the form necessary to the situation." - Joel S. Goldsmith 

Today's Practice:
Smile. Feel Love. This felt-Love, this inner Reality, becomes your outer one. The seeming two, are really only One. 

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I had a call with a listener on Wednesday evening and considering we're all One, I figured you'd benefit greatly from our convo.  He's a talented performer that feels 'stuck' in the hospitality field.  He wants to be on stages full-time, but that looks and feels impossible right now.  We talked about his  'escape route', and how the only way out is in... Love... through Love.  I break It down and make It... 'easy'? Lol.  Simple, at least.  I share how to find this felt-Love and then a couple of ways to  'stay in It' while the changes come into view.

Powerful Quotes to marinate in:

“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.” - Ram Dass

(Note: feeling Love, being Love, is the automatic 'giving up' of the desire for power or change, etc. )

"Til the false is seen as false, truth is not.' - Jiddu Krishnamurti

(Note: feeling Love is the automatic 'seeing through' or feeling through, to the Truth.)

 "Conquer yourself and the whole universe is yours." - Vivekananda

(Note: You 'conquer yourself' the minute you're  feeling Love... and when you're feeling Love, you're automatically being Love... you are 'absent from the body and present as/with the Lord', and that's when you recognize that the whole universe is yours... that you're not in it, it's in you.)

"Faith has the power to turn A into B.  But there is an important step involved: First A vanishes into nothingness* and then B emerges out of it." - @ImmortalTalks on IG

(Note: Trying to figure out how to  vanish 'stuff' into nothing? Listen to THIS ONE.)

I Love you and I'm with you,
Nik

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Today’s Quotes:

“God’s in, I’m out.” – Unknown

“Look closely at cloth,
you see only threads.
Look closely at creation,
you see only Self.

As sweetness
pervades sugarcane juice,
I am the essence of creation.”
 – Ashtavakra Gita

“You get a car, and you get a car!” – Oprah

Today’s Practice:

Raise your right hand to chest level and hold up your index finger, like Neem Karoli Baba, in this photo.   Feel the Love it's pointing to.  And then, if you can, point that finger at objects in the space you’re in and know, ‘that’s Love, and that’s Love, and you’re Love, and you’re Love, too!’ Know everything as modifications or interpretations of the One Love, even that body doing the pointing! Only Love is here and in this moment, It's appearing as 'you' reading these words.  And now, as 'you' smiling, and relaxing your shoulders.  Stay in this knowing, today.  

I love you,  
Nik
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Today’s Quotes:

“Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.”
– Braynt Mcgill

“Dada, if you do not make it empty, how are you going to fill it up again?”
– Maharajji

“… become nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything.”
– Rumi

“If you think you are big, you become small.  If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited.”
– Sadhguru

“The longer you can linger in that field of infinite possibilities as an awareness—aware that you are aware in this endless black space—without putting your attention on your body, on things, or on people, places, and time, the longer you invest your energy into the unknown, the more you are going to create a new experience or new possibilities in your life.  It’s the law.”
– "Becoming Supernatural" by Dr. Joe Dispenza

“Come to Nothing, find everything.”
– J.C. Amberchele

Bonus Quotes:

“By allowing ourselves to relax, we begin to naturally fall into a state of subtle gratitude and humility.  Similarly, relaxation fills us with strong feelings of peaceful resignation, of momentarily not seeking or wanting anything.  In such a comfortable state of not trying, ironically, we become the human definition of natural wealth, and are much more capable of receiving what we desire.”
– Relax More, Try Less: The Easy Path to Abundance by Tim Grimes

Definition of Awareness from Michael Langford:  "When you wake up from sleep, awareness is that consciousness that woke up from sleep.  Thoughts come and go.  The background of awareness does not come and go.  The background of awareness is continuous during all of your waking hours until you go back to sleep again.  Awareness is you, your consciousness, just your awareness that is looking through your eyes right now.  The words awareness, consciousness, attention, observing, watching, looking, seeing all have the same meaning here.  Awareness is that which is conscious of thought or conscious of the absence of thought. Both when there are thoughts and when there are no thoughts the background of awareness is aware. "

Today’s Practice:

Try the meditation I share from Michael Langford’s, “The Direct Means to Eternal Bliss” called the “Abandon Release Method”(pg. 72) of letting go of everything except for your awareness.  Stay as that formless, bodiless, timeless awareness, today.  Be in the world as That, today, watching the appearance of the body in the world.   And from that Awareness, you'll watch the appearance of the Christ, of Love, of infinite  abundance. 

I Love you, 
Nik  
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This short but powerful meditation is inspired by Ram Dass' book, Paths to God, in which he shares the way that Muktananda would meditate on his spiritual guru, Nityananda. 

Today's Quotes:

“Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Kali, or Allah, you actually worship the one Light that is also in you, since It pervades all things.” – Anandamayi Ma 

"God is in all men, but not all men are in God. This is why we suffer." - Ramakrishna 

Today's Practice:

Imagine God or your favorite spiritual messenger is seated in front of you.  Breathe them into your heart.  Breathe in their Light. Breathe in the Love that they are.  Become aware of this Love filling your entire being.  And then move, speak, and act from this Love.  Keep returning to this felt-Love.  Let It be your new baseline.  Be this Light, today and always.  

I Love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

p.s. This Light makes the body relax and at the same time, sit or stand up straighter.  It makes it sway with a smile on its face.  It makes it want to do Go(o)d deeds for 'others'.  It makes that body love everyone.  

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In today's bonus episode I share a listener's email about her stolen car and how she used the situation as an invitation to practice Love.  I also share a similar personal experience from 2018 and a recent, anger provoking one from this past weekend.  

Today's Quote:

"You have to ask yourself the question, "who am I?"   This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems." - Ramana Maharshi 

If you treat every seeming problem as an opportunity to 'let go', as an opportunity to practice abiding in Truth, then that Truth will be expressed as a solution. Some way, some how, every time, you remember that it's all Go(o)d, and then, It Is. 

I Love you and I'm with you, 
Nik

p.s. Got Go(o)d News? Got an example of how this Love is moving in your life? Email me and I'll share, here! Let's keep each other inspired!  nikki@curlynikki.com  

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Today's Quote:

"To be conscious of the breath means that no thoughts can be allowed, because thoughts will distract your attention. Buddha never says, "Stop thinking." He says, "Breathe consciously." Automatically, thinking will stop; you cannot both think and breathe consciously. When a thought comes into your mind, your attention is withdrawn from the breathing. A single thought and you have become unconscious of the breathing process.

Buddha used this technique. It is a simple one, but a very vital one. He would say to his bhikkhus, his monks, "Do whatsoever you are doing, but do not forget a simple thing: remember the incoming and the outgoing breath. Move with it, flow with it."

The more you try to do it, the more you endeavor to do it, the more conscious you will become. It is arduous, it is difficult, but once you can do it, you will have become a different person, a different being in a different world." - Osho 

Today's Practice:

Allow everything that happens today to happen in the flow of your breath.  Stay conscious of your breathing today.  Don't forget to feel for it.  Make it primary, and everything else secondary.  It's your anchor.  It's always here.  Always now.  Just as God Is.  Just as Love is.  Just as you are.  You are breathing life into your new life. Trust this. 
Smile. 
Give thanks. 

I Love you, 
Nik
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Cue "Everything We Need" by Kanye West ... for real, play this song before or after catching up with me, to catch up with and Be Love. 

"We begin after the storm inside..." - Anthony Clemons (from "Everything We Need")

Reflect on the feeling of Freedom.  
Then drop the word and stay with that wordless Go(o)d feeling... the presence of Freedom. The "I Am" that I Am, the "I Am" that you are.
Feel It, and know It to be all things.  
The more you practice being aware of It, the more you love It, the more you trust It, thank It, sing to It, smile to It... the more you'll see It showing up as everything you need and more. 
Smile. 
Breathe. 
Don't leave this knowing, today.
Don't forget God, today.    
Be Love, now to be free, now.  

I Love you, 
Nik
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Today's Quotes:

"You didn't come this far to only come this far." - Unknown 

"How to get rid of the lower self: The blossom vanishes of itself as the fruit grows, so will your lower self vanish as the divine grows in you.”—Ramakrishna

"What is happening to you is nothing less than death and rebirth. What is dying is the entire way in which you understood “who you are” and “how it all is.” What is being reborn is the child of the Spirit for whom things all are new. This process of attending an ego that is dying at the same time as you are going through a birth process is awesome. Be gentle and honor him (self) who is dying as well as him (Self) who is being born."- Ram Dass, 'Be Here Now'

Bonus Quote:

"When you have started on the path to God, proceed, do not stop. He will take care of you."  
- Neem Karoli Baba

Today's Practice:

The one that didn't want to get out of bed this morning? The one that's uninspired and not excited about a new week... don't try to fix that one. Don't try to change that one.  See through that one.  Feel through that one, to the real One, to the Truth, to Love.  

When you stay aware of the real One, a new concept of 'you' is born.  A doper version of 'you' is born.  That's the discomfort you're feeling.  Expect it.  Give thanks for it. Breathe through it. Smile through it. You remembered what you are and your new life is here. 

I Love you, 
Nik
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Today's Quotes:

"These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form.  These are the words with which temptation ends, and guilt, abandoned, is revered no more. These are the words which end the dream of sin, and rid the mind of fear.   These are the words by which salvation comes to all the world.

Shall we not learn to say these words when we are tempted to believe that pain is real, and death becomes our choice instead of life?  Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage?  These are words which give you power over all events that seem to have been given power over you. ⁴You see them rightly when you hold these words in full awareness, and do not forget these words apply to everything you see or any brother looks upon amiss." - A Course in Miracles Lesson 193

"All the negatives of your life are like riding down the road spiked with nails.  Every day is another road, and the way you ride down that road is to realize one divine life without opposite.  I am looking at a road that is not there." - Herb Fitch

"You see the world
And you try to dissolve it.
But the master has no need to
He is without desire. 
For though he sees,
He sees nothing."
-The Ashtavakra Gita, Heart of Awareness

"Every appearance that comes to us from morning to night, or from night to morning, regarding the human scene needs treatment... Do not be satisfied to accept even a good human appearance, but translate that, too, into the spiritually real of which the good is but the form." - Joel Goldsmith

Today's Practice:

Keep remembering, 

"I will forgive, and this will disappear."  

I will feel Love, and this will disappear. 

I will know 'only Love is here', and this will disappear. 

I will know 'only God is here', and this will disappear. 

I will forgive my misperception of God's presence, and this will disappear. 

Keep forgiving yourself for judging by appearances.  Keep forgiving yourself for believing in this world.  You forgive the instant you remember God... the moment you pause and feel for the Silent-Love. Forgiveness is allowing the Love you are to flow into the scene... into the world appearance.  Feeling Love while moving through the world disappears problems. Love is the solution you've been looking for.  It is the miracle.  And It is you.  Which means It's here, now.  Smile :)  

I Love you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Repeat: “This box is now too small for the person I’ve become.  I’m giving myself permission to live a bigger life that includes sudden miracles, and unexpected blessings.  I deserve this newfound state of freedom where my soul is unobstructed.  I am open, willing, and ready to let my spirit explore the endless ways in which I can be happy and at peace.  I am putting this box aside. I’ve outgrown my past.” 
- via IG @lawofattractionlive 

“Destroy your house, and with the treasure hidden in it,
You will be able to build thousands of houses. 
The treasure lies under it; there’s no help for it;
Hesitate not to pull it down; do not tarry!” 
- Rumi

"In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” 
- John 14: 2-6

**This "I" = the impersonal, invisible Christ = Love  = Awareness = your true Self**

When you're feeling Love, that's "putting the box aside", that's, "destroying your house", that's knowing that where you are, He is, and that He is you. This Love is risen and conscious as Itself where you appear to be, and the forecast is sunny with a GO(O)D chance of sudden miracles! Let's go! 
 
I love you and I'm with you in This Place where the past is not and never was, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com 

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Today's Quotes:

"He who has realized one's own Self, he does not get afraid of anybody."- Swamii Lakshmanjoo

“Q: How to get rid of fear?
A: What is fear?  It is only a thought.  If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear.  Who sees the second (anything external)? First the ego arises and sees objects as external.  If the ego dose not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second (nothing external).  For anything external to oneself implies the seer within.  Seeking it there will arise no doubt, no fear—not only fear, all other thoughts centered around thee ego will disappear along with it.”
 – Ramana Maharshi 

"This is the supreme meditation, this is the supreme worship: the continuous and unbroken awareness of the indwelling presence, inner light or consciousness." - Yoga Vasistha  

“Fear thou not, for I Am with thee; be not dismayed; for I Am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness…” 
– Isaiah 41: 10-14 

“But he said onto them, “It is I, be not afraid.” 
– John 6:20

Today's Practice:

When you notice fear, stop. Pause. And try the Abhaya Mudra, and become aware of the Love, the Peace, that announces Itself within you.  Stay in this Peace. It's the 'I Am' that knows no fear, It is the same 'I Am' that is going before you to smooth the crooked places and prepare mansions.  Don't forget to feel This.  Make your felt remembrance of This primary, like there is no secondary.  (spoiler: 'cause there isn't)

I love you, 
Nikki
nikki@curlynikki.com

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"1. Shut your eyes. 

2. Notice your consciousness (*that which wakes up in the morning and remains aware until you go to sleep.  Consciousness is not any of the things or experiences perceived, It is that which is aware of the things or experiences.  It is also aware of the absence of things or experiences.) 

3. Love your consciousness (*with the same Love, the same feeling we felt for a loved one*).

4. Turn your attention away from the world, body and thoughts and towards loving your consciousness.

Every time you notice you are thinking, turn your attention away from thought, and back towards loving your consciousness.  Love your consciousness, not your thoughts."

and/or 

"1. Shut your eyes. 

2. Notice that you are aware. (Awareness = Consciousness = Attention = Love)

3. Love that awareness. 

4. Cherish that awareness. 

Every time you notice a thought, turn your attention away from the thought, and continue loving your awareness.  Do not love your thoughts.  Love your awareness.”

– How to Live a Life That Knows Only Love (quotes compiled by Michael Langford)

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

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Today's Quotes:

"The eyes of a saint are always concentrated on the supreme Self.  The minute he is aware of himself, sainthood is lost.”- Maharajji , Neem Karoli Baba 

"Please examine where your attention is at this moment.  You are listening to me. That is the focus of your attention. You are also peripherally aware of your surroundings, other people, and so on. Furthermore, there may be some mind activity around what you are hearing, some mental activity.  Yet there is no need for any of this to absorb all your attention.  See if you can be in touch with your inner body at the same time.  Keep some of your attention within.  Don’t let it all out." 
– Eckhart Tolle

"Why do you consider nonessentials so important? Most people concentrate on breakfast, lunch, and dinner, work social activities, and so on.  Make your life more simple and put your whole mind on the Lord." 
– Yogananada 

“Whatever outer work you must do, do it; but train your mind in such a way that in your subconscious mind you remember God.” 
- Maharajji , Neem Karoli Baba 

Today's Practice:
Consciously try to simplify your life. Your wardrobe. Your hair styles. Your food choices.  And watch Love further simplify your life, clearing the road, creating a new path, a new lane for you to thrive in.  A lane just for you, to win in, while remembering and being Love.  

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Today's Quote:

"I Am doing everything
I have been doing everything
I will keep doing everything."
-God 

The I Am 'IS' doing everything... :) 

“Whoever works for God, his work will be done by itself." 
- Neem Karoli Baba 

Excerpt read from 'A Course in Miracles Made Easy' by Alan Cohen

"I sought Him.  I found Him as myself. My voice rang forth a call for Him.  I myself gave the response.  I gazed everywhere and saw myself.  I give and talk to myself, love and serve myself; for, there is none but I." - Swami Ramdas, Divine Life

Today's Practice:

Look around and FEEL only God.  Practice feeling God where you appear to be and where you see others.  Practice knowing that you're only ever talking to God, you're only ever seeing God, you're only ever serving God in the form of your sister, brother, mother, father, employee, and employer.  You're only ever working for God.  And that work does itself. 

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

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If you're physically safe and able to, play this one when you find yourself in the room with your moody and/or argumentative partner.  Play this when that familiar strong energy (that label frustration, anger, lack of appreciation, or jealousy) has come up in you and you're ready to see through it. 

Just keep one ear bud in and hit play.  See through this moment.  See through the anger.  See through them to the Love that's truly there.  
You are That.  
They are That. 
All of this is That. 
The moment you recognize this, even for a split second, you've won.  

If you want to see something different, you have to BE different, first.  To see your reflection change, you have to change, first.  This isn't about 'them'.  It never has been.  Choose Love in a moment like this for the first time, and you'll consciously BE this Love, forever.  

Welcome to your new life.  Welcome to the Go(o)d Life. 

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


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Today's Quote AND Practice:

'Be honest with your Self'  by Robert Adams 

"How do you arrive at the Self?
Well here is another interesting way of getting to that.
If you get up in the morning, if you feel a little depressed or out of sorts, if you do this, you will start to laugh at yourself and you will feel better.
It will make you happy all day.
And here's what you do.

As soon as you get up say to yourself,
"I am not my arms, I am not my legs, I am not my torso,
I am not my head, I am not my bones, I am not my blood,
I am none of these things.
For most of these things are functioning without my knowledge.
My heart beats, I didn't tell it to beat.
I have to go to the bathroom,
I didn't give my body permission to go to the bathroom.
The body wants to eat, it gets hungry.
I never told my body to be hungry.
It appears as if I have nothing to do with my body at all".

You go further.
You say to yourself, "How about the world? I am not the world.
The world didn't exist a few moments ago when I was asleep.
Now that I am awake I think about the body, the world, God, work, food, bathroom.
All these things happen when I wake up.
Well if I'm not those things, who am I"?
Who is the 'I' that is experiencing all this? I don't know".

Be honest with yourself.
Don't say, "Oh the 'I' is consciousness".
That's the worst thing you can ever do.
Is to memorize certain words or phraseologies
and use them at your own time.
When you ask the question,
"Then who is experiencing the body?
Who is experiencing the world?"
Be honest with yourself and say, "I don't know? "It's a mystery".

Well then to whom is it a mystery to?
To me.
It therefore seems that if everything is a mystery to me...
'Me', 'me', 'me'.
If I got rid of the 'me', there would be no mystery.
Now how do I get rid of the 'me'?
Who is the 'me'? The 'me' is another word for 'I'.
I believe that everything is a mystery.
I have nothing to do with my body or the world".

So you get back to 'I'.
"Who is this 'I'? I don't know "It's a mystery".
There is the mystery again".
So I'll ask again, "For whom is the mystery for? For me.
Who am I? I don't know "It's a mystery".
For whom is the mystery for?"
As you keep talking to yourself this way,
something wonderful is going to happen.

Your question will begin to slow down and you will feel yourself becoming happy. 
You may even start laughing at yourself.
And your mind will become quieter and quieter and quieter.  
You will begin to feel enormous joy."

I love the You that's appearing as 'you', 
Nik

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Today’s Quotes: 

“To desire any thing or any person is to remain on the wheel of human existence.  What you really should want, and all you can legitimately try to demonstrate, is a greater awareness of the Christ.  If you had the realization of God’s presence, you would have infinite good; but when you seek a demonstration of something other than the presence of God, you are merely trying to demonstrate limitation, and you will succeed in doing just that.” 
– Joel Goldsmith  

“If there is Love in your heart it will guide you through life.  Love has its own intelligence.” 
– Sadhguru 

“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj 

Today’s Practice:

Move as the more confident, lovingly aligned ‘you’ today, until you see that in essence, there is no ‘you’, only Love.  Only Love is here. 

And I Love that Love in you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quote:

“The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies.  This, if any, is the original sin.” 
-Swami Vivekananda 

"When we come to Earth
They call it a birth
 When we leave, 
They say we die. 

But we really don't come, 
And we really don't go. 
We just dream our lives
But why?

To awaken as Bliss
From all of this, 
Joyous that all is
'I'"
Ron's Memories (via a review section under a book on Amazon)

Today's Practice:

Keep attention beyond the senses, beyond the dream, on the 'I Am'.  It sounds like silence and feels like Bliss.  Stay aware as That.  Stay aware that the dream is a dream.  And allow this awareness to shift the dream.  When you're aware as Bliss, the body feels It, the body is a manifestation of It, and the old storylines are dead. 'History has ended'.  And you're watching that body move and BE in a new and powerful way.  Don't judge by appearances today or ever again.  Know your Self as Bliss and watch the beautiful dream unfold in its own 'time'.  

I Love you!
Nik  
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quotes:

"The more you let your thoughts dwell on Him, the more you will find yourself improving in health, body and mind."
- Sri Anandamayi Ma

" You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you."
- Isaiah 26:3

“Thy God whom thou servest continually; he will deliver thee.  -Daniel 6:16

The story of Daniel is the story of every man. It is recorded that Daniel, while locked in the lions' den, turned his back upon the hungry beasts; and with his vision turned toward the light coming from above he prayed to the one and only God. The lions who were purposely starved for the feast, remained powerless less to hurt the prophet.

Daniel's faith in God was so great that it finally brought about his freedom and his appointment to a high office in the government of his country. This story was written for you to instruct you in the art of freeing yourself from any problem or prison in the world. Most of us on finding ourselves in the lions' den would be concerned only with the lions, we would not be thinking of any other problem in the whole wide world but that of lions; yet we are told that Daniel turned his back upon them and looked toward the light that was God. If we could follow the example of Daniel while threatened with any dire disaster such as lions, poverty or sickness, if, like Daniel, we could remove our attention to the light that is God, our solutions would be similarly simple.

For example, if you were imprisoned, no man would need to tell you that what you should desire is freedom. Freedom or rather the desire to be free would be automatic. The same would be true if you found yourself sick or in debt or in any other predicament. Lions represent seemingly unsoluble situations of a threatening nature. Every problem automatically  produces its solution in the form of a desire to be free from the problem. Therefore, turn your back upon your problem and focus your attention  upon the desired solution by already feeling yourself to be that which you desire. Continue in this belief, and you will find that your prison wall will disappear as you begin to express that which you have become conscious of being.”
— Your Faith Is Your Fortune by Neville Goddard

Today's practice:

Stay focused on the Light, today.  And let It guide you to the felt-remembrance that you're the Light, Daniel, the lion, and the den.  There's nothing to fear. It's all Go(o)d.  Only Love is here. 

With you in and AS this Love, 
Nik 

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"Jesus said the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom' he would have said, 'dimension'.  And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness of spaciousness.  So if we retranslate the words of Jesus into more modern terms, it would be 'the dimension of spaciousness is within you." - Eckhart Tolle

"Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 18:3

"A child and a Sage (janani) are similar in a way.  Incidents interest a child only so long as they last. It ceases to think of them after they have passed away. So then, it is apparent that they do not leave any impression on the child and it is not affected by them mentally.  So it is with a Sage." - Ramana Maharshi 

"Whatever happened, had to happen.  Don't sit and think: "I could have done this or that.' It is of no use.  Move on. " Ravi Shankar

Stay here, in the Kingdom, and Love will make you a King, protecting you so that you may protect and heal 'others', all while knowing that nothing is actually happening. Only Love is here.  

I love you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quote:

"You cannot be changed, ‘you’ must be exchanged." - Mooji

"When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self judgement and aggression.  We keep the war against ourselves alive." - Jack Kornfield 

Today's Practice:
Don't try to fix yourself.  Watch yourself.  Observe yourself, and the real Self steps in.  Love changes you.  Love heals you. Love replaces you.  And then you'll watch and observe healthier lifestyle choices as a natural side effect of conscious Oneness (alignment) with this Love.  

Love is moving you. 
Love is announcing itself in you. 
Love is choosing through you. 
It's using you. 
It's being you. 
When you feel Love, you automatically get out of the way.  You are automatically replaced and only Love is left. 

I Love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Catch yourself when you're aware of thoughts that sound like, "things will be better, tomorrow", or "I'll be good after today...let me just get through today".  That's the same as saying, "I'm not good now... I can't feel good, I can't feel the presence of God, until tomorrow, until later."  And you know that's not true, you can only be aware of and AS God, now.  

When you become aware of thoughts like this, especially on days like these, when you're racing to the end of office hours, trying to get to your weekend, stop. Catch yourself breathing.  Feel for your heartbeat. Feel for God where you are and watch your world take on Love's image. Don't put off your felt-oneness with Love another second.   There is no other second. There is no 'tomorrow'.  When it seems to arrive, it'll be 'now', too.  Feeling Go(o)d now ensures that your future 'nows' will be Love.  I pray a sweet little prayer in this episode. Pray it with me.    

With you in and AS this Love,
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com  

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