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Rhoda Makled @ Awakening Together
In this episode we contemplated, Regina Dawn Akers, The Flow, "The flow isn't just an idea. It is a fact. It is reality. Nothing happens or is experienced outside the flow. Nothing is independent. Nothing can be done differently than how the flow would have it done. Options do not exist outside the reality of the flow, and any option chosen within the flow is of the flow.", and Thought of Awakening #188, 189, 190, 191, 192.
In this episode we contemplated, Thought of Awakening #183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189.
In this episode we contemplated, "The power of your wanting must first be recognized. You must accept its strength and not its weakness. You must perceive that what is strong enough to make a world can let it go, and can accept the correction if it is willing to see it was wrong.", and Thought of Awakening #188.
In this episode we contemplated ACIM, 'Responsibility of Sight', "Whenever you question your value, say: God Himself is incomplete without me. Remember this when the ego speaks, and you will not hear it.", and Thought of Awakening #185, 186, 187.
During this episode we contemplated, ACIM, 'The Responsibility for Sight', "Undoing is not your task, but it IS up to you to welcome it or not. Faith and desire go hand and hand, for everyone believes in what he wants... What you desire, you will see.", and Thought of Awakening #183, 184, 185, 186, 187.
In this episode we contemplated "ACIM", 'The Responsibility for Sight', "Undoing is not your task, but it IS up to you to welcome it or not. Faith and desire go hand and hand, for everyone believes in what he wants... What you desire, you will see.", and "Thought of Awakening" #182, 183, 184, 185.
In this episode we contemplated a quote from Dr. David Hawkins, "Joy does not come from out there, from form or appearances. Joy comes continuously from the awareness of the Source of your own existence.", and "Thought of Awakening" #182 & 183.
In this episode we contemplated, "Thought of Awakening" #181.
In this episode we contemplated a quote from Angelo DiLullo's, "Awake", page 421, "What would it feel like to let go right now ... [w]hat if you give over your will to living truth right now?", and "Thought of Awakening" #180.
In this episode we contemplated a quote from Rupert Spira, "There is an aspect of your experience that is always present, whatever else may come or go. It does not need to be created or achieved. It is not the result of effort or belief. It is simply the quiet fact of being." and "Thought of Awakening" #177.
In this episode we contemplated "NTI" Romans, Chapter 10, "When you find resistance in your heart and your mind, put not your trust there. When you find resistance, remember what you truly want.Rest, so that resistance will pass over you. When you find willingness, clasp hands with your Holy Spirit in joy!Walk forward in trust and willingness. This is your desire awakened and it is leading you Home.". A quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj, "There is nothing wrong with any state you find yourself in. You are the light in which the states appear and disappear." "Do not undervalue attention. It means interest and also love. To give attention to something is to give it life." and "Thought of Awakening" #176 & 177.
In this episode we contemplated from Nisargadatta Maharaj's, "I Am That", Chapter, 22, page 69, "Questioner: How are we to distinguish the inner from the outer in actual experience?Nisargadatta: The inner is the source of inspiration; the outer is moved by memory. The source is untraceable, while all memory begins somewhere. Thus, the outer is always determined while the inner cannot be held in words. The mistake of students consists in their imagining the inner to be something to get hold of, and forgetting that all perceivables are transient and, therefore, unreal. Only that which makes perception possible -call it Life, Brahman or whatever you like- is real."
In this episode we contemplated Nisargadatta, "Truth is simple. Why do you complicate?" and "Thought of Awakening" #174.
In this episode we contemplated a quote from Adyashanti, "What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is. If you gave up the need for control and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arises.", "NTI" Matthew 12, "The truth is not something that can be seen, except if one chooses to see it." and "Thought of Awakening" #172.
In this episode we contemplated, "NTI" Acts, Chapter 13, "Remember what you truly want, for what you truly want must be your guiding light because you are free. Remember your freedom and hold up your light. All shadows must step aside and let you pass. For nothing can be an obstacle to the desire and true Will of the Son of God.", and "Thought of Awakening" #170.
In this episode an excerpt from "ACIM", Lesson 109 and "Thought of Awakening" #169 were contemplated.
In this episode we contemplated, "NTI" Revelation, Chapter 1, "You will never be asked to take a single step alone, but you must always be willing to take the lead by deciding the purpose and calling it out to Us.", Inner Ramana, "Full-Time Inquiry for Self.", and "Thought of Awakening" 168.
In this episode we contemplated a quote from Sunny Sharma, "Recognize yourself as the wordless seeing prior to thoughts coming and going.", and "Thought of Awakening" 166.
In this episode, "NTI" 2 Thessalonians, Chapter 1, "The secret to awakening is to awaken to You. It is to accept the blaze within as you.", and "Thought of Awakening" 141 & 163 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Dr. David Hawkins, "Ego/mind thinks, consciousness/field knows, and Self is.", and "Thought of Awakening" 161 were contemplated.
In this episode we contemplated, "Thought of Awakening" 160, "I rest in God" means "I know there is nothing to fear.""I am willing to rest now" means "I trust I shall learnthere is nothing to fear."A desire not to rest comes from the belief in fear.Each way of thinking is a phase. The last is sleeping.The second is a bridge, and the first is a signof the fully awakened mind."We also contemplated, "Thought of Awakening" 139, 140, 141, 146, 147 & 160.
In this episode, a quote from Helen Hamilton's, "Dissolving The Ego", Chapter 14, "We can learn to focus attention on the field itself rather than on the thoughts occurring in it.", and "Thought of Awakening" 138, 155, & 159 were contemplated.
In this episode, "Thought of Awakening" 139, 145, 146 & 156 were contemplated.
In this episode we contemplated "Thought of Awakening" 145, 146, 153, 154, 155.
In this episode a quote from Adyashanti, "What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is. If you gave up the need for control and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arises.", and "Thought of Awakening" 154, were contemplated.
In this episode we contemplated, "Thought of Awakening" 12 & 153.
In this episode, we contemplated, "Thought of Awakening" 152.
In this episode we contemplated, Corinthians, 13:7-8, "Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.", and "Thought of Awakening" 145, 146, 147 & 149.
In this episode a quote from Jean-Pierre De Caussade's "Abandonment to Divine Providence", "If we have abandoned ourselves to God, there is only one rule for us: the duty of the present moment." and "Thought of Awakening" 147 & 148.
In this episode we contemplated, "NTI", Corinthians 13:7-8, "Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails." and "Thought of Awakening" 138, 139, 145, 146 & 147.
In this episode a quote from Fr. Thomas Keating, "Like boats or debris floating along the surface of a river, our thoughts and feelings must be resting on something. They are resting on the inner stream of consciousness, which is our participation in God's Being.", and "Thought of Awakening" 139 & 146 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Fr. Thomas Keating, "Many people are so identified with the ordinary flow of their thoughts and feelings that they are not aware of the source from which these mental objects are arising.", and "Thought of Awakening" 139 & 144, were contemplated.
In this episode "Thought of Awakening" 138 to 142 were contemplated.
In the episode we continued our contemplation on "Thought of Awakening", 138, 139, 140 & 141.
In this episode "Thought of Awakening" 138, 139 & 140 were contemplated.
In this episode "Thought of Awakening" #138 & 139 were contemplated.
In the episode, "NTI", 2 Timothy. and "Thought of Awakening" # 138 were contemplated.
In this episode we contemplated a quote from Dr. David Hawkins, "Identification solely with the content of con- sciousness accounts for the experience of self as limited. In contrast, to identify with conscious- ness itself is to know that one's actual Self is unlimited. When such circumscribed self- identifications have been surmounted so that the sense of self is identified as consciousness itself, we become 'Enlightened.'", and "Thought of Awakening" 135.
In this episode a quote from "NTI" 2 Peter, Chapter 3, "You are eternal, and that which is changeless is eternal with you, because that which is changeless is what you are." , and "Thought of Awakening" #129 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Joseph Campbell, "When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die." , "NTI" Hebrews Chapter 1 & 2 and "Thought of Awakening" #133 & 134 were contemplated.
In the episode a quote from John Mark Stroud, "I exist, I choose, I experience." , "Thought of Awakening" #131 & 132 and "NTI" Hebrews, excerpts from Chapter 3 & 4 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from John Mark Stroud , "I exist, I choose, I experience." and "Thought of Awakening" #131 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Dr. David Hawkins, "Eventually even the illusion of witness/observer dissolves into awareness/ consciousness itself, which is discovered to be non-personal and autonomous." and a quote from Angelo DiLullo's, "Awake", "Everything in immediate experience is on fire with the radiance of living truth at this very moment." were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Helen Hamilton's, "Dissolving The Ego", Chapter 12 was contemplated, "The fact is that you are conscious now or else you would not be able to read this. Consciousness comes before anything else is able to be observed. Confirm this fact for yourself.".
In this episode a quote from Terence McKenna was contemplated, "Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.".
In this episode a quote from Dr. David Hawkins book, "Letting Go", 'The rationalizing mind prefers to keep the true causes of emotion out of awareness and utilizes the mechanism of projection to do this.' and "Thought of Awakening" #114, were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Angelo Dilullo's, "Awake", pg. 131, "There is only this body-world-universe seamlessly self-expressing and dissolving with perfect clarity and precision." and "Thought of Awakening" #113 were contemplated.
In this episode 'Awakening Together Core Value 3', and "Thoughts of Awakening" #1, #2 & #111 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Nisargadatta, "Keep on remembering: I Am neither the mind nor it's ideas. Do it patiently and with conviction." and "Thought of Awakening" #109 & 110 were contemplated.
In this episode we contemplated, "Thought of Awakening" #107, and 'Awakening Together Core Value #5'.
In this episode we contemplated, 'Awakening Together's Purpose and Core Values 1 - 5'. and "Thought of Awakening" #105.