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Rhoda Makled @ Awakening Together
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.
In this episode we contemplated, 'Awakening Together Core Value #3', "We accept one true Self, which is one Presence or Being, non-dual, without beginning or end, and absolutely changeless. We live this value by practicing letting go of the belief in the individual self as who we are.".
In this episode we contemplated, 'Awakening Together Core Value #3', "We accept one true Self, which is one Presence or Being, non-dual, without beginning or end, and absolutely changeless. We live this value by practicing letting go of the belief in the individual self as who we are." and "Thought of Awakening" #103.
In this episode a quote from Angelo DiLullo's, "Awake", "Separation can never be found outside of thought.", and "Thoughts of Awakening" #97, 98 & 99 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Nisargadatta was contemplated, "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 or Brahman, or what you like, is real." "Thought of Awakening" #97, was also contemplated.
In this episode "Thought of Awakening" #95, was contemplated.
In this episode, "NTI" Matthew, Chapter 13, "Your choice is the key to this scripture. All that you do, you do by your choice. To deny this is to deny the essence of who you are. And yet, many deny themselves and believe they are victims of their own distractions.", and "Thought of Awakening" #89 & 90 were contemplated.
In this episode, "Thought of Awakening" #89 was contemplated, "To let go of illusion let go of your thoughts that judge the experience. Experience the experience and do not deny it, but also do not categorize it or make decisions about what it is. Observe your experience in innocence and curiosity realizing that innocence is a fresh and undecided point of view.".
In this episode a quote from Regina Dawn Akers, "Out of The Stillness", #658b, "Why don't we stop believing in ego and be done with it? Why do we spend years on the spiritual path, loving spiritual concepts, yet continuing with ego still intact? Because we love our sense of self." and "Thought of Awakening" 84, 85 & 86 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Regina Dawn Akers', "Out of The Stillness", #658a, "I have noticed a dense feeling that I can observe. It is the feeling 'I am this person.' It's difficult to describe. It is not the body. Compared to the body, this sense would be called formless, yet it is a dense sense. It is like a formless form." and "Thought of Awakening" #86 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Dr. David Hawkins, "The self identifies not only with the mind but also with its content - which becomes "my" memory, "my" feelings... . Identification presumes ownership and authorship; thus the ego sees and believes itself to be a personal, separate causal agent and the inferred source of its own existence." and "Thoughts of Awakening" #83 & 84 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from "NTI", Ephesians, "You perceive yourself as a person, but you are not what you perceive yourself to be." and "Thought of Awakening" #83 were contemplated.
During this episode a quote from Father Thomas Keating was contemplated, "We can only receive God. So that puts the spiritual journey in a very simple but clear light. This is not about getting something; it's about receiving something so that the initiative has already been put in place. You already are something wonderful, an image and likeness of God, a light that never goes out and that is possibly eternal, but which has been placed in this mysterious situation of a body in an evolving universe.".
During this episode the quote, "As we understand ourselves, so we see the world." from Rupert Spira and "Thought of Awakening" #78 & 79 were contemplated.
In this episode a quote from Margaret Coble was contemplated, "We need a program by which we become realized in the totality of our Being, not merely with manifestation. We must consciously include the vast realm of the unmanifest! This is the great imbalance in humanity today." "Thought of Awakening" #77 was also contemplated.
During this episode a quote from Helen Hamilton's, "Dissolving The Ego", Chapter 7, "The stillness watches all movement that appears within it but is itself unmoving." and "Thought of Awakening" #76 were contemplated.
In this episode Thought of Awakening #72 and a quote from Inner Ramana, "When the mind forgets reality and sees the unreal as real, fear is a necessary component." were contemplated.
In this episode Thought of Awakening #71, "Trust the Awakening process. It is what it may not always seem to be." and a quote from Inner Ramana, Exposing The Attachment to Mind, "You have identified with the mind, which is an error, because you are before mind." were contemplated.
In this episode Thought of Awakening #70 and a quote from Inner Ramana were contemplated, How to awaken from the dream, Part Two, "Devotion is willingly awakening to what has always been by leaving everything else behind." .
In this episode Thought of Awakening #69 and a quote from NTI Matthew, Chapter 12 were contemplated, "The truth is not something that can be seen, except if one chooses to see it. When one chooses to see what is, he shall.".
During this episode a quote from "Inner Ramana" was contemplated, "Your choice is where, but not what. ... This is why knowing your Heart is your only business.", and Thought of Awakening #68, "All I want to do is want God. Everything else will take care of itself.".
In this episode Awakening Together's Core Value #3 was contemplated, "We accept one true Self, which is one Presence or Being, non- dual, without beginning or end, and absolutely changeless. We live this value by practicing letting go of the belief in the individual self as who we are." and "Thought of Awakening" #64.