GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki

In every moment, you're either remembering God, or you're not.  You're either feeling Love, or you're not.  Keep riding the feeling of Love and watch the view change. 

“If you close our eyes, you will see that after your thoughts, behind your mind, behind your identity, there’s something there.  There’s a Presence.  We like to call that Presence, me, ‘I am there.’ And if you close your eyes, you will see that it’s like a person in the room.  The room isn’t empty.  There’s ‘somebody’ in the room—we call it ‘me’. That’s your life energy.  That’s the very thing that’s alive inside you.  And this aliveness is what some people call Consciousness, and what some have called God.  It’s permanently switched on and It wasn’t born when the body was born.  It’s always happy.  It doesn’t need anything more to become happy.  But Maya doesn’t let us look at this ‘something’, since it’s a delusion that the physical world is ultimate reality. 

So Naam (mantra or repetition of God’s names) is saying, “don’t look at the material world, there’s something behind the material world.  Focus on that.  Focus on where the material world came from.”  Naam Simran is constantly reminding us, “don’t get lost in the game.” And you notice that this game is very easy to get lost in.  Why? Because Maya is a very tasty wine.  We are drinking this wine all the time, we are swimming in this wine.  And every now and then, we remember a bit of Naam and we get out of the system, but then we forget and we go back in the system, and then we remember again.  Over and over.  This is why Naam Simran is a 24 hour practice.  24 hours a day what you’re meditating on is, “This is not real. This is not reality. Ram Naam is the real reality, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru—that which is behind Maya is the reality, Maya itself is not the reality.” - @nanak.naam

I love you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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'The Sure Presence' by Eva Bell Werber via In His Presence (1946)

"All about you is seeming reality.  It is so much easier to dwell in this confusion of mind than it is to rest back in the quiet garden of spirit.  You must constantly exercise and practice the Presence until of all things, It is the most real. 

Watch carefully for directions.  Keep your soul atuned for My voice.  It is subtle, low, and sweet, yet with what great sureness can It guide you. It will clarify the things which seem to confound you and over which you seem of yourself to have no control.  You will know then that the way you walk is the way I choose for you and that which before seemed so real will fade away in the light of My truth and wisdom.  

Rest now for a moment in My arms of love. Feel the tender touch of My hand upon your head, then go forth to bear My radiance to all your world. "

Stay in conscious remembrance of God's hand... of this Love, today and always, and watch miracles become the norm.  

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

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Today, focus on the emotion, not the reason for it. 

1. Look at it, with your inner eyes. Is it big? Small? What shape is it? What color is it? How far up from the ground is it? How far down from the ceiling is it? Is it rough or smooth? Is it transparent or cloudy? etc.  Even if your eyes are closed, look at it, unblinking, fully alert, like in this episode.  
2. Listen to it-- not for words or for a story about why it has come.  It's silent. You're silent. Listen to the silence in and around it.  Be the silence.  
3. Feel it fully without any need for context, explanation, or label. 

This is surrender.  This is letting it go.  This negative energy has only come because it's ready to be seen through, to be dropped.  Sitting with it this way is the ascension, it's the level up. It then reveals the Love it was made of.  And you stay in the Love.  You stay as the Love.  And you repeat this process every time more of the 'past' comes up to be released.  Keep rising.  Keep releasing.  Keep rising.  I'm with you. 

I love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com 

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 Today's Quotes:

"I am surrounded by the Love of God." 
- A Course in Miracles Lesson 264

"Stillness is the highest level of intensity.  When there is stillness within you, your body, mind, and energies will be exuberantly intense." 
- Sadhguru 

Today's Practice:

Keep remembering that you are surrounded by the Love of God, until it is revealed that you are the Love that's doing the surrounding.   You are the Love that pervades and appears as the body. You are the Love that the world appears to take place in.  Be this Love, consciously. 

I love you, 
Nik 

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One of my favorite spiritual messengers, Rupert Spira, penned a DELICIOUS poem at the top of the year, and he gave me his blessing to share it with you! 

Lockdown Nights in Oxford by Rupert Spira, author of Being Myself

 "Last night I walked the streets of Oxford with Kabir
The night before it was Jesus
And the night before, Rumi visited, uninvited!

Every night a different companion but always the same Friend
Why go anywhere when the Beloved always comes to you?

I pointed out the smiling houses to Kabir
(Have you noticed that houses have a face?)
‘It is I who am smiling’, he said.

‘I am happy to see you’, I said to Atmananda the next night
‘You are happiness itself’, he replied.

I stood outside a chapel
And listened to a choir with Brother Lawrence
‘Our love for God is God’s love for us’, he said.

And the next night, Meister Eckhart,
‘There is a huge silence inside each of us
That beckons us into itself’
‘Know nothing’, Socrates said the following night
‘Be everything’, added Parmenides.

I showed Plotinus the gardens
But he said, ‘I see only one thing’
I talked with the Buddha
But he remained silent
I was silent with Moses
But he started to sing

I uttered the word ‘I’
But Balyani held his hand to my mouth
I asked Huang Po if he could hear the stream
‘There is only the hearing’, he said.

I found William Blake naked in the park
‘Do you see how, through perception, the infinite gives birth to itself?’
he asked

‘He’s right’, Ramana said,
‘The universe is born every moment
Through the portal I Am’
And later, when I suggested we rest,
‘I am always at rest’, he smiled

‘Thine this universal frame,
Thus wondrous fair,
Thyself how wondrous then?’
Milton asked ecstatically as we looked at the sky

‘Everything shines with being’, Wordsworth said
I offered Jesus a drink
‘I am the water of life’, he said.

I walked in silence with Francis
‘My silence is my question’, I said
‘My silence is my answer’, he replied
I walked alone one night
With the world for my Friend

The next night I found Hafiz drunk on a bench
‘Come taste this wine!’ he called
Shams came to join us
‘I am looking for the Friend’, he sighed.

‘I love these night-time walks’, I said to Anandamaya Ma
‘Love only love’, she said
I listened to barking dogs with Abinavagupta
‘Know only knowing’, he said
‘I am…’
‘Shhh! Don’t add anything to it’,
Sri Nisargadatta exclaimed.

I danced down the street with Mozart
I prayed in every step with Bach
I leaned with Primo Levi against a wall
Watching friends and lovers and strangers
‘Each of us’, he said ‘bears the imprint
Of a friend met along the way;
In each the trace of each’

Yeats joined us
‘There are no strangers here’, he said
‘Only friends we haven’t yet met’
And Rembrandt agreed
‘If you look at anyone for long enough’, he said
They will eventually become your friend’

I watched the sun set with Shelley one night
‘The One remains, the many change and pass’, he said
And then, as the moon arose,
‘Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragm

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Today's Quote:

"The most important spiritual growth doesn't happen when you're meditating or on a yoga mat. It happens in the midst of conflict-- when you're frustrated, angry, or scared and you're doing the same old thing, and then suddenly you realize you have a choice to do it differently." - Anonymous from IG

Today's Practice:

Make the choice to be woke in the game.  Know that Love is the essence of every scene, of every situation, of every character,  even yours.  Feel Love and watch the game change.  

I love you, 
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com 

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Remembering God is our main business, and that remembrance handles all of our other business!  So all of the senses must be employed toward that end.

Up next, the sense of smell.   Allow a fragrant oil (I like Jasmine Absolute in Jojoba Oilfrom Whole Foods) to jog your memory to reach for God, to stay tapped into Love.  Or light an incense to help you stay aware of the Light in your heart.  Let the worldly perfume guide you to your inner, "hidden perfume".  Do what it takes to BE who you are.

Today's Quote:

"You contain within your innermost being many qualities of which you are unaware.  These are like unto beautiful bottles of rare perfume which you have put away in closets and forgotten."-   excerpted from Journey with the Master by Eva Bell Werber (The Hidden Perfume) 

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Today's Quotes:

"Your work is to relax and allow.  To relax and allow, no matter what." - Abraham Hicks

"Sit in meditation not to make something happen, but to stay out of the way of what is happening." - Dr. Michael Beckwith

Today's Practice:

Stop doing 'manifestation' practices today and relax into that place inside that is already, always relaxed.  Allow Love to dissolve your desires. Allow your Go(o)d to come.  Surrender to Love and trust It to become all that you need and more.  

I love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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In this bonus episode, I share the power of listening to today's full length episode (Beyond Time), while walking.  The contrast of your body being in motion, and the still Center that you are, is apparent, if you know where and how to look!

Today's Quotes:

"Here's the trick-- the magic of finding your soul and filling your heart: Once you find space, peer intently into it as if it was a thick fog, and you're waiting to see what will come out of it. Look into the depth and breadth of every space, and pay close attention to not only what you see, but also to what you feel.  That's right, find your Eufeeling (Love) in the space between two objects.  It will melt your heart. -  Frank Kinslow, The Kinslow System

"Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it." - Ram Dass

Osho's Don't Blink practice

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Listen to the full version of Herb Fitch's 1979 talk, Beyond Time!  Life. Changing. Wisdom. Drink It in.  Get drunk on It!  Thank me later :) 

And then listen, and re-listen to this episode (and share it!) until you recognize that you can't be anything but this Love, but the Kingdom.  You ARE the Throne of the Eternal Now.  You always, already were That.  You never stopped being That.  Even while you appear to be this-- this body-- reading these words, your'e still only That. Only Love.  And you're remembering to remember. And because of That, everything is changing.  Flowing beautifully. Grace is here. 

For extra points listen to this while walking— notice what doesn’t move while the body is in motion. Stay as That. 

I love you, 
Nik
Nikki@curlynikki.com 

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Today's Quotes:

“This love and life are not different. 
This love and God are not different. 
This love and consciousness are not different. 
This love and the Absolute are not different.”
— Mooji, White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master 

“I AM come here within you to be your life everlasting. I AM to resurrect you out of any tomb into which you may have fallen: the tomb of sin, the tomb of disease, the tomb of poverty, the tomb of unhappiness. Into whatever tomb you have fallen, I, your Christ-self, am here to resurrect you, to bring you back to the Father’s house so that you will “die” to that flesh and blood and bone belief, and actually witness your Self as you are, the Christ, the perfect son of God, the perfect offspring of the perfect Substance, Life, and Being.”
— The Altitude of Prayer by Joel S. Goldsmith

"He is the wisest who seeks God.  He is the most successful who has found God."
- Yogananda  

Bonus Quote:
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.”
— Rumi

Today's Practice:

Be the Love, watch the body.

or 

Feel the love in the body and don't stop feeling the love. 

You've got the key in your pocket. Take it out and USE IT. 

I love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quotes: 

"When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace.  You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace.  It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form.  That is the joy of Being-- of being who you truly are." 
-Eckhart Tolle 

"God plus mind is man. Man minus mind is God." - Anonymous 

"Let it burn." - Usher 

Today's Practice:

Like a windshield – “Simply noticing is like being the clear glass on a car windshield.  The clear glass windshield simply provides the view.  The clear glass never comments on the view.  When driving down the street, does a clear glass windshield ever say, “I would prefer another scene.  Choose somewhere else to drive, please!”? A clear glass windshield never adds to or complicates what comes into its field of view by also thinking about the view.  The clear glass doesn’t project judgment or story on the view, and see only that. In other words, things can be seen as they really are.  Simple noticing is the same—it is the pure, raw awareness of perceiving. Clear awareness is silent seeing. Right now, look out at the scene like a clean, clear windshield.”- excerpt from Peter Francis Dzubian’s , 'Simply Notice'

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Your manifesto... your mantra... your re-birth:

I am so thankful that I am now consciously aware of my Inner Power.  This natural feeling of Love is my constant reminder of who walks with me.  I fear nothing.  I am Loved, confident, and free.  When I feel this current of inner Bliss, I am feeling God's infinite Wealth flowing to me now, and forever.

Use this one, or write your own and read it in front of the mirror until you tap into that Go(o)d feeling, and then try to stay feeling It for as long as you can.  Keep remembering It. Keep remembering that  your good rides in on this feeling.  This God feeling becomes your good life. 
I love you,
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

Join our community of Go(o)d Friends to deep dive into today's practice with us!

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Today's Quotes:

"The sun hears the fields
talking about effort
and the sun smiles,
and whispers to me,

'Why don't the fields just rest,
for I am willing to do everything
to help them grow?'

Rest my dears, in prayer."
- St. Catherine of Siena

"(God) is giving everything, all the time and we are taking so little .  What can I learn in this very moment if I am really like a flower open to the sun?"
- from 'Windfall of Grace'

Today's Practice:

Be like a flower.  Grow in grace, like a flower.  When it's time, you'll bloom.  Be patient. Rest.  Smile.  Sway. Trust the process. Trust this Love.  Let It live and prosper you.  

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

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Reset with me.  Rest as the Love we are... in this 'I Am' that you are.  In this I Am that I Am, too.

This guided meditation comes from excerpts from Srimati Margaret Coble's book, 'Self Abidance'.

I love you, 
Nikki
nikki@curlynikki.com 

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

Today's Practice:

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 Meditation is a reading from Brian Tom O'Connor's Awareness Games.

Today's Quotes:

"In other words, the background is what objects appear in, silence is what sound appears in, mind is what thoughts appear in, space is what the body appears in, "I" is what "me" appears in, and now is what time appears in. "
- Brian Tom O'Connor via Awareness Games

"You are confused, because you believe that you are in the world.  Not the world in you.  Who came first-- you or your parents?  You imagine that you were born at a certain tine and place, that you have a father and a mother, a body and a name.  This is your sin and your calamity."
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Before Abraham was, I Am."
- John 8:48-59

Today's Practice:

1. Notice your whole, entire body.
2. Imagine that you have a bigger body that surrounds your entire body. 
3. Be that bigger body.

Live from and AS the bigger body, witnessing the regular body, its thoughts, and its world from this expanded (and more natural) perspective.  This is very similar to the practice from the panning out episode-- just approached from a different angle!  Get back, or hover above, or pan out, or live in the bigger body, or live as the spiritual body--- do what it takes to continuously recognize that you are more than that body! 

I love you!
Nik 

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Today's Quotes:

"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 a blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out." - Mooji

"Try not to resist the changes that come your way.  Instead let life live through you.  And do not worry that your life is turning upside down.  How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?" - Rumi

"This being human is a guest house.  Every morning a new arrival." - Rumi

"Don't freak out." - Neem Das in Peace in the Pandemic

"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival." - Rumi 

Today's Practice:

No matter what comes, don't freak out.  Feel Love. Trust Love.  It's all Go(o)d... even when It doesn't appear to be.  Only Love is here. 

I Love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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A standing meditation to remind you to get excited about your future 'nows'.  SMILE. SHIFT. STAY. 

"At any moment God can shift you from waiting on It, to walking in It. " - IG unknown author

That moment is now. Love chose you. Give thanks. 

I love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com 

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Today's Quote: "Let a new life happen to you." - Naayirah Waheed 

Today's Practice: You 'let a new life happen' when you shift your attention  to your mantra, to Silence, to Love. The moment you shift, you are living in the new reality. Stay (t)here and you'll begin to see It take shape.   Your new life starts, now.  And now. And now.  Every time you remember to shift, you are living in the new life.  Watch what happens from here. 

I Love you!
Nik

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Today's Quotes:

"Where you focus makes all the difference. Shift your focus and everything changes in an instant.  It doesn't matter for how long or how hard you have been asking (for what you want).  Things can change in the next second, the next minute, the next day or the next week... once you live these truths." - Richard Dotts 

"Think of God alone. Dismiss every thought from your mind.  You will see God before you and all your problems will be solved." - Shivapuri Baba

Today's Practice:

If 'letting go' is too heavy of a lift, try letting it be... or better still, shifting, from the disturbing thought to something else.  It's as simple as moving your attention from your hand to your breath.  In truth, there's nothing to let go of, and no one (t)here to do the letting go.  There's only Love. Only Light.  Shift into the Light. Stay (t)here. 

I love you, 
Nik 

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Let's tap into true rest-- the place inside that is never drained, the place inside where you are always, already at rest, and blissfully so.

Excerpt from A Course in Miracles Lesson 109--

"We ask for rest today, and quietness unshaken by the world’s appearances. We ask for peace and stillness, in the midst of all the turmoil born of clashing dreams. We ask for safety and for happiness, although we seem to look on danger and on sorrow. And we have the thought that will answer our asking with what we request.

“I rest in God.” This thought will bring to you the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safety and the happiness you seek. “I rest in God.” This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you, whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth in everyone and everything there is. Here is the end of suffering for all the world, and everyone who ever came and yet will come to linger for a while. ⁶Here is the thought in which the Son of God is born again, to recognize himself.

“I rest in God.” Completely undismayed, this thought will carry you through storms and strife, past misery and pain, past loss and death, and onward to the certainty of God. There is no suffering it cannot heal. There is no problem that it cannot solve. And no appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in God.

This is the day of peace. You rest in God, and while the world is torn by winds of hate your rest remains completely undisturbed. Yours is the rest of truth. Appearances cannot intrude on you. You call to all to join you in your rest, and they will hear and come to you because you rest in God. They will not hear another voice than yours because you gave your voice to God, and now you rest in Him and let Him speak through you.  Continue here.  

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Today's Quotes:

"There is a Power that will light your way to health, happiness, peace, and success if you will but turn toward that Light."
– Yogananda

“The light of the world comes and goes, it is unstable. The Light that is eternal can never be extinguished. By this Light you behold the outer light and everything in the universe; it is only because It shines ever within you, that you can perceive the outer light. Whatever appears to you in the universe is due solely to that great Light within you, and only because the Supreme Knowledge of the essence of things lies hidden in the depths of your being is it possible for you to acquire knowledge of any kind.”
– Ananadamayi Ma

"The Light inside, the Love inside of us, is always present.  It can't be anywhere else.  God lives inside of us as who we really are.  Not as "God": Some Other Thing.  As who we are.  Not somebody else. Not something else."
- Krishna Das, Chants of a Lifetime

"Waking State - Movie playing, lights off
Dream State- Movie playing, lights off
Deep Sleep- Movie not playing, lights off
Turiya- Movie playing, lights ON

Turiya is pure consciousness-- the background that underlies and pervades the three common states of consciousness (waking state, dreaming state, and dreamless deep sleep)."
--'Turiya, The God State' by Santata Gamana

Today's Practice:
Stay aware that you're aware.  Stay aware that you're in the movie theatre watching, with the lights on, so you won't be fully absorbed into the storyline.  Watch the movie of your life like Michael Jackson in THIS GIF.  The Light is here, and you are That.  

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Today's Quotes: 

“I am as God created me. I am His son eternally.” – A Course in Miracles

“You feel unsettled because you know you are meant for more.” -Unknown via IG

“Happiness is revealed when we allow awareness of being to outshine awareness of objects.” – Rupert Spira

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." - Matthew 6:33

The parable of the prodigal son-- Luke 15:11–32

Today’s Practice:

Do what you do that keeps you on your throne. Sway, smile, listen to this episode again, sing, chant… chant the name of God and know It to be your name, too.

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Today's Quote:

"Tonight, give thanks to those who have done you wrong. They have unknowingly made you strong." 
- Unknown 

"Resentments. They all have their cheap little payoff, that little inner satisfaction. Let’s not pretend that it’s not there. There is a weird, quirky pleasure when we hang on to pain. It certainly satisfies our unconscious need for the alleviation of guilt through punishment. We get to feel miserable and rotten. The question then arises, “But for how long?”  
- David R. Hawkins

Today's Practice:

Pause in the midst of a familiar train of thought about who or what is bothering you.  Scan your body.  Let go of the tension you find. Letting go of the tension on the inside is the healing.  You'll begin to experience a constant, conscious Peace inside, and harmony outside until you see that there is no inside and outside. Only Peace. Only Harmony, Only this Love. 

REMEMBER: Feeling Love is the 'let go'.  When you keep feeling Love, you keep letting go into Love. And when only Love is left, what appears can only be in the image of that Love.  You realize life is really Go(o)d.  

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Today's Quotes:

"Brahman is to be meditated upon as the source of all thought and life and action. He is the splendor in wealth, he is the light in the stars. He is all things.  

Let a man meditate upon Brahman as support, and he will be supported. Let him meditate upon Brahman as greatness, and he will be great.  Let him meditate upon Brahman as mind, and he will be endowed with intellectual power.  Let him meditate upon Brahman as adoration, and he will be adored.  Let him worship Brahman as Brahman, and he will become Brahman." 
- Taittiriya Upanishad translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester 

"Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life." 
- Lahiri Mahasaya 

Brahman definition via WIKI- The ultimate reality underlying all phenomena.  Brahman connotes the highest Universal Principle, the Ultimate Reality in the universe. In major schools of Hindu philosophy, it is the material, efficient, formal and final cause of all that exists. It is the pervasive, infinite, eternal truth and bliss which does not change, yet is the cause of all changes.

Today's Practice:

Get into Love and feel and know It to be _______.  Then wear the feeling like a cloak and don't take it off ever haha.  If you keep It on, It becomes your life.  

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Today's Quotes: 

“We feel harassed physically, 
confused mentally, 
and weary for peace. 
This is how to relieve such a situation:

The program of Yoga, Self-Analysis and meditation—
a shifting of the focus of attention 
from the object to the subject, 
from the gross to the subtle,
from the outer to the inner, 
from matter to Spirit, 
from multiplicity to Oneness. 

Go daily into deep meditation. 
Dive deep beneath the waves of the mind
into the ocean of Being
where Oneness, Peace, 
and prefect Harmony prevails. 
Gradually learn to abide there.” 
–Srimati Margaret Coble, ‘Self Abidance’

“The simple truth here is that your conscious attention, once focused on the inner feeling of yourself, will destroy whatever is false in that feeling.  Since emotion or unhappiness is the falsehood in you (because it turns to pain) it is gradually dissolved or destroyed.  What is left behind is the true—your joyous, natural, vibrant self, your happy body. This can never be annihilated because it alone is real in you.” – from Barry Long’s book ‘Only Fear Dies’

“Silence is the altar of Spirit.” -Yogananda

Today's Practice:

Abide in that place inside that is still, unmoving, effortlessly quiet, and Loving. Stay aware as that which isn't moving or talking when the body is moving and talking.  Keep returning to the hub, to the Center.  Breathe your way into the Center. Use a mala to help keep your attention in the Center instead of only in the world.  Do what it takes until your attention and the Center are recognized as One. 

I love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quote: 

“To be led by the Holy Spirit, you must be full of the Holy Spirit.” -Samuel Deuth 

Today's Practice:

Keep up the 24- Hour Kingdom Challenge (see previous episode) by remembering to feel Joy, to feel Love, to meet only Love, to see only Love, to taste, touch, and hear only Love.  Only Love is here, and you are That. 

I love you, 
Nik 

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“What if the doctor told you that you have 24 hours to live and the one thing that could save you, is that for the next 24 hours you have to get into the Kingdom and stay there? If you were told you cannot move into doubt, depression, worry, or fear for more than 5 minutes… it would be a challenge to you, but you would surely give it your best effort.

If getting into Joy was a life or death situation, you would find you could do it.  You would shift immediately into Gratitude.” – Lisa Natoli 

“Know this: When you say, ‘I’, the true meaning of ‘I’ is Joy, It is Happiness, It is Life—and It’s also the witnessing of Life.” - Mooji

I love you and I'm with you in Joy!
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today’s Quotes:

“Do not despair in any situation. Have faith NOT in the capacity of friends and family to help you out, but in the capacity of God. God will show you the right path.” 
– Pandit Shriram Sharma 

"You have no idea how good things actually are right now.  You just haven’t reached that moment in time that the gift is revealed.  

In full faith believe that your beautiful destiny is unfolding on this beam of God Light you can feel.  It’s coming into view in proportion that you can stay aware of It.  It’s rearranging your life, dropping the ish, and replacing it with sugar, effortlessly. " 
-Note from my phone, Sept 2018

“Much prayer—much power.  Little prayer—little power.  No prayer-- …” – Toure Roberts

Today’s Practice:

Every time you're in the midst of needing someone to respond to you or do something for you, remember in that moment that you don't need anything but God.  That remembrance is the true miracle that shows up as the seeming material one. Rest. Abide. Trust in this Love. 

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A DM interchange with a reader from 2018:

Them:... (screenshot didn't have their original question)
Me: Instead of giving attention to inner and outer circumstances, feel for the Love that's also present. 
Them: Wow, that's powerful
Me: When I typed 'present' it autocorrected as 'preset'.  That's true, too.  The Love is preset. Everything else is an overlay. 

Today's Quotes:

"You'll get your 'stuff' when you realize you are worthy of feeling good all of the time. Not some of the time. All of the time." - Abraham Hicks

"When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited." - Sri RamaKrishna 

Today's Practice:  

Remember and relax into your Preset. Relax into the Present.  Relax into Love. It's easy to feel Go(o)d when you recognize that Go(o)d is what you are.  Be your Self, today. And recognize that same Self in and As everyone you meet.  Keep feeling Go(o)d and you'll see nothing but That all around you.  Everything is new.  

I love you, 
Nik 

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Keep remembering Lesson 34 from 'A Course in Miracles'--

"I could see Peace instead of this."

or

"I can replace my feelings of depression, anxiety, or worry (or my thoughts about work), with Peace." 

Then, you feel the relief that this thought points to, trusting this inner relief to take the form of outer relief.  Trusting that It's all Go(o)d.  Trusting that your constant returning to and feeling This, will take shape as the seeming world around you. 

I love you, 
Nik

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Today's Quotes:

“You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides Him from you.” -Yogananda

“Don’t lose yourself in thoughts and feelings.  Let them lose themselves in you.” – Rupert Spira 

Today’s practice is from Yogananda’s 'Man’s Eternal Quest': 

“Whenever you feel afraid, put your hand over your heart, next to the skin; rub from left to right, and say, "Father, I am free. Tune out this fear from my heart-radio. " Just as you tune out static on an ordinary radio, so if you continuously rub the heart from left to right, and continuously concentrate on the thought that you want to tune out fear from your heart, it will go; and the joy of God will be perceived.”

When you're feeling upset, try this practice to get back to feeling Go(o)d.  

When you are feeling good, try this practice to increase your awareness of the all-ness of God, of Love.  Tune into Love and stay on Its station. There's only Go(o)d content here! 

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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

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Todays' Quotes: 

“The meditation of suffering is the meditation of: I am this body, I am this story, I am these thoughts, and I am these emotions. The meditation of freedom is the meditation that lacks a meditator.” -Wu Hsin

“I am not in form.”- Herb Fitch 

 “I live without inhabiting myself.” – St. John of the Cross

 “Why do you stay in prison when the door Is wide open?”- Rumi

 “Don’t take shape”- Mooji

 “Worldly people go outward, but you must go inward like the tortoise, withdrawing within your shell.” – Maharajji 

 “To be absent from the body and present with the Lord.” – 2 Corinthians 5:8

 “Do not be fooled any longer. Do not believe what your eyes show you. What your ears make you hear. What your senses want you to believe. Go beyond that. It may take some effort, it may take some time. Yet you must do whatever you must do to free yourself from the pull of the world.

 If you are ready you will know what to do. If you are ready you will know what to do. if you are busy, busy, busy with other things then the world will grab you and make you believe this and make you believe that, put you through all kinds of experiences where you will cry and scream and get violently upset. At other times you will be happy and you will think everything is going your way. It will alternate. You will be like a yo-yo going up and down. You have within yourself the equipment necessary to transmute yourself. It comes as standard equipment at birth. It's within you. You're using it the wrong way. You're using it to externalize the world. Where what you really want to do is to dive within yourself and internalize the world, by pulling the whole universe back within yourself where it came from. You reverse the procedure. You pull back everything within yourself. It came out of yourself, it has to go back in yourself. That is salvation.”- Robert Adams

 Today’s Practice: 

Look out and inwardly recite the mantra, “I am not in form.” Know and FEEL the truth of this until you no longer need the words.  Practice being conscious that you are not the body.  Practice being aware of the Silent-Love inside.  Because when you become aware of the Silent-Love, you are already beyond the body.  You recognize that you ARE the Silent Love.  You recognize that you were never trapped in that body.  You were never bound.  You have always, already been free.  You have always, already been Love.  Abide here. Practice feeling this with me, today and always.  Until we see beyond days…beyond the illusion of time. 

Only Love is here. 

I love you,
Nik  

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Today's Quotes:

"Life is this simple.  We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent. And the Divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true."
-Thomas Merton
 
"Q: Who am I ?

RM: The gross body which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, viz. sound, touch, colour, taste, and odour, I am not; the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the organs of speech, locomotion, grasping, excretion, and procreation, which have as their respective functions speaking, moving, grasping, excreting, and enjoying, I am not; the five vital airs, prana, etc., which perform respectively the five functions of in breathing, etc., I am not; even the mind which thinks, I am not; the nescience too, which is endowed only with the residual impressions of objects, and in which there are no objects and no functioning’s, I am not.

Q: If I am none of these, then who am I?

RM: After negating all of the above-mentioned as ‘not this’, ‘not this’, that Awareness which alone remains - that I am.

Q: What is the nature of Awareness?

RM: The nature of Awareness is existence-consciousness-bliss

Q: When will the realization of the Self be gained?

RM: When the world which is what-is-seen has been removed, there will be realization of the Self which is the seer."
- from Who Am I? Nan Yar? Teachings of Ramana Maharshi PDF

"You are the Brahman in totality, nothing more. Unfortunately, you have conditioned yourself to believe that you , the Brahman are the body. Now you know that you are not the body."
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

"To live under Grace, you must consciously negate the laws of the world and the world's dominion over you, and by an activity of consciousness become aware of the law of God operating in your experience.
...
To "pray without ceasing" is just another way of keeping your mind stayed on God and acknowledging Him in all your ways.  Many passages in the Bible indicate that in proportion as you dwell "in the secret place of the most High", none of the evils of the world can come nigh your dwelling place.  In spite of God's Omnipresence, a thousand can fall at your left and ten thousand at your right, but it will not come nigh the dwelling place of the person who dwells and lives consciously in the realization of God' Presence, God's Power, and God's Grace.  If you are to make the transition from being a person whose life is not God-governed to one whose life is God-governed there is a price to be paid. I can tell you that for the first year or two the price is high and the way is hard.  It means consciously remembering the Presence from morning to night." - Joel Goldsmith 

Today's Practice:

Neti Neti in the style of Ramana Maharshi.  Look out and recognize that everything that you think is you, is not.  Everything that you think is here, that you think is truth, is not.  Only this Love is you.  Only this Love is real.  Only this Love is here. 

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Listen to this as a reset button for your day. Recenter.  Re-anchor.  Turn back to Love. Let It replace you. 

I Serve Through You (I like to read it, 'I' or 'God' Serves Through You')

"My Beloved, unless you are receptive I have no way of expressing my consciousness through you.  I function through your entire being.  I shall always function through you even after you lay aside the physical form.  You shall raise your consciousness to the knowing that I am all Reality and great things shall be accomplished through you, My instrument.  Obstacles shall fall from you as the leaves which have no further purpose fall from the trees in autumn.  

Dwell close by My side, rest in a new found restfulness and each step on the path shall be made clear.  Thus shall I be able to express My consciousness through you and we shall truly work together and dwell together in loving service." 
- Eva Bell Werber, In His Presence 

"Be a beholder and be aware of God as being you." - Virginia Stephenson 

"God isn't out there somewhere, separate from you.  Your eyes are His eyes, your awareness is His awareness, your sense of being, of presence, is His presence. In fact, Awareness/Presence is what God Is: pure, empty, silent awareness, capacious of all that appears, and all that appears does so in the only place it could appear, which is right Here where you are, where He is. "
-J. C. Amberchele 'Coming to Nothing and Finding Everything'

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"You've got to be centered in God, that's your number one priority.  That's all you've got to do at all times- to be centered in God and everything must come your way, it's a law.  Spirit draws unto Itself.  Spirit will employ you because Spirit is you. But if you're not Spirit or if you disclaim being Spirit or if you act like a human and not Spirit, how can Spirit serve?"
-Herb Fitch

"Your Heart knows the way. Run in that direction."
- Rumi

"Things that excite you are not random. They are connected to your purpose. Follow Them."
- Deepak Chopra

"There's so much peace in knowing that you will not miss out on what's meant for you."
-unknown on IG

The Kanye West song I mentioned, 'Come to Life' from Donda (track 22).

Today's Practice:
Take out your notebook and write down your 'thing'.  That thing you can't stop talking about. That thing you would do for free.  And start doing some form of it today.  Begin unfolding your Soul's purpose.  Come to Life. Come to Love. Tell Divine Love, tell God that you're ready. 

Say, "I'm ready." 

I love you, 
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Maintaining our relationship with Divine Love, all of our human relationships will either evolve or dissolve. 

From a 2017 @Curlynikki IG post:

 When She notices Bae’s bad mood:

She remembers, that at a higher level, she asked for this.  She remembers that he is her spiritual practice, and therefore, she sees him as this moody-ass angel that’s forcing her into inner Peace, permanently.  He’s a beacon to call her Home to the only place where there is genuine, unconditional Love-- within. 

She knows that he can’t provide her with Love — That is what she is, but she used to forget that and when she did, she felt cut off, separate and like a victim.  Just as he can’t make her happy, he can’t make her sad.  She now takes radical responsibility for her moods.

In reality there are no ‘others’— just more of her Self.  She knows that just as she is God appearing as _____ (your name here), he is God appearing as moody Bae.  She sees him in his Perfection (in Love) even when he’s acting out, and maybe he’ll begin expressing that Perfection... or maybe he won’t be in her life anymore.  Either way, her only goal is to stay woke in the dream of life at all times. She doesn’t match his low mood in hopes that she’ll guilt him into acting nice. She knows better. It’s never worked before and it won’t start working now.  Instead, she finds her inner Beauty, the Presence, the real Self, and gives it her attention.  In the midst of the turbulent energy of anger or resentment, Love is there, waiting to be remembered.  Even if she can only feel a tiny bit of It, she’s won. #BeHerNow

Bonus Quotes:

"Shine the warm light of awareness on your thoughts and feelings." -Thich Nhat Hanh

"In the sunlight of awareness Everything becomes sacred."- Thich Nhat Hanh

Today's Practice:

When your partner is actively dark clouding, become aware of the dark cloud you experience inside, in response to theirs.  Notice that even though the cloud seems to be present within you, so is the Sun.  Give your attention to the Sun, to Love.  Be that Love. Abide as this Love.  

Their 'dark cloud' is only a call for you to go further into the practice.  Deeper into your Self.  It's a blessing in disguise.  And the more you abide in Love, refusing to step off your throne for anything and anyone, the more you begin to see It reflected outwardly as healthy and fulfilling relationships. 

Everything is changing. 

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

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Today's Quotes:

"The moment you see through the appearances of material concepts, you experience the Joy that is everywhere.  You feel it within yourself. " 
- John Stephenson 

"We have to develop the divine vision which sees through the negative and positive and instantaneously becomes aware of Divine Perfection seated on every throne.  This is how we bring the Light of God into this physical world, by recognizing It in the invisible. We all have that possibility, and if we are ready, we can call It our responsibility.  As a bearer of the Light we have to see the Light.  At first , we have to feel the Light, so we intuit the Light before we even see It. And when we see It, turns out to be different than physical Light.  It is the Light of wisdom." 
-Herb Fitch 

"Dive deep into the inner Peace, not in the sea of diversity. " - The Yoga Vasistha 

Bonus Quote:

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 (from an Amazon review beneath a book called 'Turiya the God State) 

"What you have called the body does not exist in the eyes of the sage." 
-The Yoga Vasistha 

"When there is the notion of reality (permanence) in unreal phenomena, there is bondage."
-The Yoga Vasistha 

Today's Practice:

See everything as a rainbow... as temporary, impermanent, fleeting.  Recognize that not even the most beautiful appearance is the source of the Joy that you truly are.   Look through the appearances today, and feel Truth. Let that feeling (silent-Love) of Truth become the appearance of the miracle you've been seeking. 

(Final thought--There's actually no one here to see through anything, and no illusion that needs to be seen through.)

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"Get close to Me. Get close to Me! Do what you can. Do what you have to. Do what it takes.
Say a rosary. Kiss a stone. Bow to the East. Chant a chant. Swing a pendulum. Test a muscle.
Or write a book.
Do what it takes.
Each of you has your own construction. Each of you has understood Me—created Me—in your own way.
To some of you I am a man. To some of you I am a woman. To some, I am both. To some, I am neither.
To some of you I am pure energy. To some, the ultimate feeling, which you call love. And some of you have no idea what I am. You simply know that I AM.
And so it is.
I AM.
I am the wind which rustles your hair. I am the sun which warms your body. I am the rain which dances on your face. I am the smell of flowers in the air, and I am the flowers which send their fragrance upward. I am the air which carries the fragrance.
I am the beginning of your first thought. I am the end of your last. I am the idea which sparked your most brilliant moment. I am the glory of its fulfillment. I am the feeling which fueled the most loving thing you ever did. I am the part of you which yearns for that feeling again and again.
Whatever works for you, whatever makes it happen—whatever ritual, ceremony, demonstration, meditation, thought, song, word, or action it takes for you to “reconnect”—do this.
Do this in remembrance of Me."
--Excerpt from: "Conversations with God, Books 2 & 3: An Uncommon Dialogue" by Neale Donald Walsch

"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

What are the most useful methods of the spiritual game to you?  Shoot me an email (nikki@curlynikki.com) or a DM on IG @curlynikki! 

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Today's Quotes:

"Under the anger, 
under the fear,  
under the despair, 
under the broken heartedness, 
there is a radiance
that has never been harmed, 
that has never been lost, 
that is the Truth of who you are."
-Gangaji 

"When you feel this Light, That is you, and everything else that you thought was you, is not you."
-Herb Fitch 

Today's Practice:
Know this Radiance as your Self, and know that "everything else that you thought was you, is not you."  When you're feeling It, you're being It.  Set that alarm! Keep listening for Silence, keep feeling the Love, the Light in the Silence.  All you have to do is turn toward It, and stop turning away.  Keep turning toward It, until the 'you' that's doing the turning is dissolved, too.  

I love you, 
Nik
@curlynikki
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quotes:  "When we plug the battery into the charger, it doesn't chatter away about how much it needs charging... it simply and quietly accepts the inflow of energy. And when we pray, Jesus is telling us, we should get into the depths of our being, and shut out the concerns of the world, and "pray to the Father in secret".

As we grow in understanding of the Truth of our relationship with God, as we begin to see ourselves in the light of our divinity, prayer becomes an experience in the silent.  We put the words of entreaty, of supplication, even of adoration behind us.  Our heart speaks in the language of the soul.  We praise God through our feeling of gratitude.  We worship through our spirit of reverence.  We ask for help through our receptive mind and heart. We affirm the Truth of being by meditating quietly upon it."

-Eric Butterworth, excerpt from 'Discover the Power Within You: A Guide to the Unexplored Depths Within'

"A true Christian is a true Hindu, and a true Hindu is a true Christian." - Swami Vivekananda

Bonus Quote:

“Along this path of knowledge, I find that prayer and meditation are elemental. Guidance comes from those practices. Sometimes in meditation one really tries to think of nothing. I do, anyway. I try not to have any focus or use any focus to get away from everything. I try to make myself a quiet vessel, a quiet pool where ideas can rise."
- Maya Angelou

Today's Practice:

Today, I want you to prioritize the Silence. Make yourself the ‘quiet vessel’ and ‘get out of your own way’, so that you may hear the feeling of Love and unfold Its unique path for you. Take 5-10 minutes today to sit on the charger :)  You got the juice! 

Click this LINK for info about Maya Angelou's meditation practice, and more info about Oprah Winfrey's first introduction to spirituality through Eric Butterworth!  There's also a link in there to the 6 minute meditation I referred to!  

I love you!
Nik 
nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quotes:

"The Kingdom of God is spread upon the earth, and men do not see it.'* The Kingdom isn't far away.  The Kingdom is right here and right now. The challenge of Jesus' message is that it constantly asks of us: Can you see it? Can you see the Kingdom right now? Right in the midst of this very moment in the midst of this very life that often seems mundane and ordinary-- can you see eternity? Have you allowed yourself and your world to be rendered transparent to the underlying divinity that shines through it?   - from Adyashanti's, 'Resurrecting Jesus' 
*The Gospel of St. Thomas 113

"By and by your consciousness will become more and more centered in the eyes. You will just be aware; there will be no thinking.  Eyes cannot think. When the whole consciousness is centered in the eyes, the mind has no energy left for thinking.  There is no mind-- only the eyes exist-- so there is no thinking." - Osho

Today's Practice:
Take a few moments to notice that when you're not blinking, you're not thinking.  And notice what you FEEL in that pause.  Love.  Become a transparency for that Love to shine through, for the Kingdom to reach out and through and touch others.  Text someone a message of gratitude, today.  Be Love, today, and remember that the Kingdom is not only where you reside, It's what you are.

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CROWN CHECK.

Breathe.

Smile.

Love's got you.

Welcome back to your Self. 

God is pretending to be the world, but It's still only God.  Remember this while interacting with seeming others... It's all YOU.

So soften... be gentle.  It's all Go(o)d.  Only Love is Here and It's rearranging everything.  Relax into It.   

"Unable to perceive the shape of you i find you all around me
your presence fills my eyes with your Love
It humbles my heart for you are everywhere."
- Hakim Sanai

"The way to You
lies clearly in my heart
and cannot be seen or known to the mind.
As my words turn to silence,
Your sweetness surrounds me."
- Hakim Sanai

"Filling Up My Eyes" Lyrics
You’re filling up my eyes
Filling up my eyes
No form with which to hide you
Now everywhere I find
You say, “Live just like the sky”
I live like I was blind
Now everywhere I find you
Now everywhere I find you

Filling up my eyes
I'm here
Everything is changing
but I am here
I'm here
I see it rearranging
Endless is your love
Your love is life
Your love is life
Life can't die

Life can never die
Endlessly am I
No place for me to hide, Lord
My presence is my life
As constant as the sky
I choicelessly abide
For this I cry, Lord
I am alive
I am alive.

-Mooji Mala, Filling Up My Eyes

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"I honor that place in you, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us." 
- Ram Dass

"Do not be concerned about your relationships with people.  Consciously maintain your relationship with God, and this will take care of everything else." 
-Joel Goldsmith, The Infinite Way 

"The river that flows in you also flows in me." -Kabir 

"Meditate like Christ. He lost himself in the ocean of Love." - Neem Karoli Baba 
 
Silently say 'Namaste' to everyone you see, today, remembering (FEELING) Ram Dass' definition of it--  "I honor that place in you, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us."  

Feel the river of Love in you when you're on the way to the office.   Feel the current of Love  while looking at your coworkers, your family, and everyone you meet (including animals!).  Keep feeling this gentle river of Love flowing within you and don't stop feeling It.  Feel It until you lose yourself in the Ocean of Love.  

Keep flowing, my friend,
Nik   

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Remember, you aren't aware of the Light, you ARE the Light.  :)  And today we do a meditation that is a waking, moment to moment practice, to incorporate this Truth.  Walk this day, as the flame that you are! Feel the inner body, the vibration of Love, and BE THAT. Don't be aware of THAT.  Identify as THAT.  As Osho says, you are the flame, and that body (and the world) is the aura around it.   

Previous practices mentioned today--

The Inner Body Practice

The Diamond Light Body Meditation

Today's Quote:

"All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion." - Ram Dass

Today's Meditation:

“While waking, moving, eating, working, remember yourself as light, as if in your heart a flame is burning, and your body is nothing but the aura around the flame. Imagine it: in your heart a flame is burning, and your body is nothing but a light aura around the flame; your body is just a light around the flame. Allow it to go deep within your mind and your consciousness. Imbibe it. It will take time, but if you go on thinking about it, feeling it, imagining it, within a certain period you will be able to remember it the whole day. While awake, moving on the street, you are a flame moving. No one else will be aware of it in the beginning, but if you continue it, after three months others will also become aware. Only when others become aware can you then be at ease. Don’t say anything to anyone. Simply imagine a flame, and your body as just the aura around it—not a physical body, but an electric body, a light body. Go on doing it.”

— Meditation - The First and Last Freedom: A Practical Guide to Osho Meditations

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Stop. 
Smile. 
Breathe, boo. 
Were you meditating on the world or on the Word, just now?
When you're feeling Love inside, hearing Silence inside, no matter what the body is up to, that's meditating on the Word.  That's meditating on Love. That's hearing (feeling) God's voice.  Our work is to make God's voice, this Love, louder than the world. 

Take a break from adulting for a minute, or 7 lol, and listen to these excerpts from Eva Bell Werber's 'Working With Me' in Journey with the Master.  

I love you and I'm with you, 
Nik 

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