Sunday Audio - Tucson New Thought

Everything is love expressing itself. Love is not an emotion—it is a state of consciousness. The core of all beings is love, so forgive everything. Love is the fundamental defining factor of the creative source. Love is a synonym for God. God is the source of all flow and creation. It always works perfectly. We are not here to seek some future reward. Personalize the infinite. Seek your soul be remembering who you are.

Give over and allow: that is the nature of creativity. Life wants to happen. The tendency of everything is to grow. Our capacity to choose is a great gift. You have the power. You are the catalyst for change in your life.

What kind of world do you want to live in? What part of you believes you don't live this ideal already? What do you believe, and is it in alignment with the world you want? Do you believe in limitless expression, or are your beliefs holding you back? We blame things outside ourselves. Ignite the divine light within you. Let this light be unconditional.

All of it is God. Why treat it any other way? We need less than we think. How will you choose to interact with the planet? The way we relate is a reflection of our own sense of self-worth. How are we treating others? I am in nature and nature is in me. Why do I believe what I believe? Is what I believe aligned with wholeness? Only erroneous ideas can prevent us from aligning with wholeness.

What would you do if you had the option to live the life of your dreams? Are you holding yourself back based on past paradigms? What are you willing to do to move forward? Things are conditional. All things are temporary, but are rooted in the infinite. So, live life to its most magnificent potential, rooted in source.

Be prepared for where the river takes you. Embrace where it goes. Everything happens for a GOOD reason. Your life was ordained for you by you, and your soul chose to have these experiences in order to achieve a higher level of consciousness. Embrace the moment. Do what is yours to do. You are never alone.

We limit our beliefs to stay safe. Our expression is divinity itself. What wants to be known, and what is the manner of knowing? Jesus' message was love only. We are that which is—divinity. We will shed the physical body but the soul goes on. God knows only life. If you want to be happy, decide to be. Be the thing you desire. Are you willing to be authentic in every area of your life?

What if leaning into it meant letting go? Is what we hold onto serving us? God is the I AM of every person. The I AM is the cause of everything that unfolds in life. How do we take God out of the box? Practice beginner's mind. Lean into curiosity. Choose to experience life fully. Take God out of the box and lean into the question: I know nothing, now, what can I know?

We are always in a moment of decision. Every moment is a moment of genius expressing. What is the authentic creative genius in you? Do you recognize that you are genius? In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts. Genius will abandon you if you don't nurture it. We are the light of the divine. We do not possess genius, it is something we are. How will you express it? Never Underestimate Divine Genius Expressing. It can change your life.

New thought was founded by rebels. Spirits in rebellion. New thought provides a practical approach to God and to life. This is an invitation to action—not just contemplation. Action heals. Inaction stagnates. Powerful prayer impels action. Absent action, prayer doesn't matter. So, what can we do? At a minimum, we can be kind.

If you don't know what you believe look at your life. We create the meaning of our lives. Are you making determinations or are you allowing outside influences to determine your life for you? You create the curriculum of your life. You draw the map as you go. Can you let go of the map? In every single moment we are made new.

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Seeing beauty is a choice. How we see it is the way the world is. You are infinite truth. We are on a pathway of eternal evolution. The awakening of intelligence to itself. Where have you made a demand on the universe? If doubt exists we are living in the relative world. How we choose to see the world is how the world is. And so it is.

Freedom is a choice. You are not bound to any one tradition. Bondage is not God-ordained. You can address the chronic thoughts and beliefs that keep you bound. LENT: Let's Eliminate Negative Thinking.

What is God's will? Infinite freedom. Then why is there suffering? We are love recognizing love. The truth: nothing is separate from the infinite. You as God demonstrate according to your will. Decide to be courageous and beyond bondage. Take responsibility and move forward.

What is it in your heart that says “yes”? The left brain organizes and dominates our experience. The right brain is our source of mystery and joy. We are taught to exercise the left and to ignore the right. Practice living in the mystery. Keep your ending unplanned.

How do we send doubt away? One way is to live life in gratitude. Be grateful of all that you are, your spiritual blueprint, which knows exactly how to heal. True gratitude is a feeling. Change the feeling, change your life. Recognize the gift that you are. What we focus on grows in our experience. The algorithm supports our habits. What does your mind linger on? The algorithm will provide more of the same. But we can empower ourselves to reprogram the algorithm.

There's nothing new about New Thought. Life wants to thrive. We are here to live in, with as faith. The assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. You are the creator of that which will be, that you are equal to in mind. If you have the proof it's no longer faith. Faith precedes evidence. Our work is to take the leap.

How do you choose to see the world? We will never experience that which we are not willing to express ourselves. As we habitualize the good we experience the good. Two people will experience the same circumstances differently. It is possible to come alive. We have the capacity to change frequencies. To learn how to think is to learn how to live.

In a world full of color it's hard to see black and white. “Word” is the agency by which God reveals itself. We're not talking about language. The capacity for God to show up universally. The infinite must be limited to be understood, creating a paradox. There are no right words, only the right feeling tone. We make declarations into form. We write the unwritten.

To what might we dedicate ourselves? Our perspective determines how we see the light. What causes us to lose perspective and dim the light? Your light is entrusted to you. How do you choose to see and understand community? Forgiveness is the highest form of self-love. We are taught to need after a steady diet of “less than”. Step into a greater sense of knowing who you are.

If your thoughts only land on peace you can change the world. Explore what it means to embrace peace. Allow our common unity to inform your experience. Deepen into feeling. True community requires commitment and openness. Universal peace begins right where you are.

Hope is good, it is better than despair, but it is an unconscious compromise. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Unconscious faith: the things we don't question. Cognitive bias can manifest as a distrust of others. Activate your awareness. Choose to be in the good work. Embrace conscious faith.

Are you going to decide to be happy? Or unhappy? The circumstances conform to your frame of mind. When an idea changes in mind the form always follows. Are you ready to wake up? How might we keep in circulation? By not identifying with our limitations.

God is. We are God. Your thoughts are creative. Spiritual practice. Prayer is communion between God and man. Between God and me there is no ‘between'. Prayer is not a supplication. It is a statement of authority. God is all there is. We are God. God is/we are creating. Prayer is purposeful. God is the only thing that is happening. The work of prayer is to convince ourselves.

What are you proud of? You are a divine being in physical form. You can create anything that you think up. What we think and feel defines us. We work with this question: What would I love to be, do, have, give? Learn to assume the inconceivable. Then, act, knowing things will fall in line.

Idealism and pragmatism. We seek the balance. New thought was never meant to be a religion. Reality is a mental construct. Our minds are creative. Reality is the experience in mind. We decide if life is magnificent, or if it isn't.

The power is in the questioning. There is no destination. Are you willing to expand your image of God? God is the magnificence of who you are. No salvation or punishment. You are your own savior. God is the impulse - you express that impulse. How involved are you in your own life? Life wants to open.

The best gift you can give is your own emotional wellbeing. Work on understanding rather than forgiveness. Your goal is to have that good feeling inside. This is where God is. Your work is to heal yourself. Find God within.

Justice, not peace, is the opposite of violence. We come here seeking to understand something deeper. Spiritual self-sufficiency is personal. Tap into the inner self. Personal, Spiritual, Self-Sufficiency Technique. 1. Self-reflection. 2. Explore your beliefs. 3. Develop a practice. 4. Be willing to seek guidance. 5. Connect with others.

Who do you know yourself to be? That's where we begin today. It's Pride weekend in Tucson, and today's message was partially inspired by this quote: “Queer People don't grow up as ourselves we grow up playing a version of ourselves that sacrifices authenticity to minimize humiliation and prejudice. The massive task of our adult lives is to unpick which parts of ourselves are truly us and and which parts were created to protect us.” -Alexander Leon, a queer writer. So... once again: Who do you know yourself to be?

What do you believe is impossible? Something has convinced you so. Nothing is impossible. Belief is an invitation to explore. In the exploration there are principles. God is the principle, the fundamental truth, the foundation. Principle is the “I am” in every person. We are the music of the divine. We have left out feeling, our heart energy. We are the warmth of God. We are the seed, the ordinary miracle. We are love.

We seek the release of discord. Sometimes we need to be reminded. The intellect is not the causative factor. We use it to get to the quality (feeling) that is driving experience. So, change your feeling to change your life. We view falling ill as a failure. We must deepen into self-perception. Sometimes the cure doesn't look like we think it should. We get to own our own magnificence. Life could be a dream when we synthesize the relative and the absolute.

The first law of nature is order. We work hard at being at ease. We are conditioned to work hard toward something we already have. Remember who you are, and everything else flows. The choices we make today inform our tomorrow. The more we try to figure it out, the less we are in the flow of life. We complicate this process needlessly.

What is your core belief? How do you imagine your spiritual community? Core beliefs can include love, creativity, connection. At Unity we encourage and teach spiritually-based life skills. People come to spiritual communities seeking God. What they find is their authentic self. We are in a liminal space between worlds. We must co-create the next world. We are on a teeter totter between what was and what will be.

When you smile you raise your “face value”. Find your embodied joy and allow that to bring a smile to your face. It's all an inside job. Goals are met when we live our purpose. When we answer the question: “Why do we be?” Stay rooted in the being-ness. Show up happy. You just decide. Limitations feel safe. They give us something to overcome. But what if we got rid of all of it? What does spiritual truth mean? Anything that un-limits you.

What is more important in our experience of life? The spiritual truth, or the frames and structures we build? What comes first... the truth or the frame?

No matter what, our life provides. Life can split us up. You are invited into the creation and re-creation of community. Be the wholeness right where you are. Life is an exercise in the discovery of wholeness. Is there any aspect of you that is lacking or missing? How do we encourage belonging? Active and consistent sharing, free from fear. The space between us is an illusion.

In what ways are you infinite? True healing is the revelation of wholeness. The fundamental truth is wholeness. we are all mystics. Transformation is work, but it need not be difficult. It depends on your beliefs. Our realization takes the time it takes. It can be instantaneous—or not. How might you realize your wholeness? One tissue, or the whole box?

Where do you seek God? There is one unseen cause. We are finding God always and it is a decision to recognize it. We inhabit a tiny, pale blue dot in a vast universe. The whole would be lacking without you. Are you limited or infinite? If the universe could not exist without you, what would you do? Why do we allow suffering? We could decide to end this erroneous belief.

How do we move from intellect to embodiment? You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe. The field of infinite possibility. We begin to do things differently based on who we are being. We are invited to be love, not do love. You can be spiritual and challenged. Accept and grow through challenge.

How do you see the world? Are you in awe of what you see? You get to choose how you experience the world. If you're not in awe, you're not paying attention. Why try to fit in when you can stand out? Be FOR something and against nothing. We can only change our relationship to the conditions, not the conditions themselves. Create space, free from judgement, and choose to be FOR something.

Is God descriptive or prescriptive? Do you live in a prescribed fear of God? If we are God, we are describing ourselves. Do you acknowledge God as you? Are the positive attributes of God yours to live fully in your own life. Language limits us. How do you describe your own wholeness, limited only by our own self expression. That which we seek is doing the seeking. The more authentic and free we are the more can actively express our truth.

How might you experience God, the essence of your being? If you are waiting for life, it's passing you by. What path will you take? What is your camino? Be where your feet are. Your pace may be the most important thing. It will determine who you encounter on the way.

What am I ready to heal today? Ask yourself: What's mine to do? Life will open doors for your haling. Your job is to walk through them. One of the worst things we can do in our spiritual growth is sit on the fence. When confronted with an opportunity, ask yourself: Is it a calling? Does it feel good? Are doors opening?

How do we know how to be a spiritual being having a spiritual experience? A tomato seed won't grow into a pumpkin. There is intelligence at work. You are an expression of this intelligent mystery. Step into your “discomfort zone”. Instead of living in the mystery, we live in our stories. What if we brought more awe and wonder into our lives? Commit to change, then align your attitudes. It takes courage to let go and let God.

What is spiritual power and how do we bring it forth? Our ability to change and build consciousness. To heal, change your environment, and draw your good. We find our power in the silence. We embody and demonstrate in our lives. Sometimes we force things. Sometimes we experience self-doubt. When we come from the center we achieve balance. Enter into the silence, then, the power of purpose drops in.

We seldom know when the last time will be. Treat each interaction with others as if this is the last opportunity you will see them. Also, treat these interactions as if this is the first time you have done so: with the enthusiasm of something new. Similarly, treat yourself as if this is your last day, but also the first day, of the rest of your life. Ask yourself: what is mine to do? Tomorrow may be too late.