A universal assembly for true discernment
This evening (or tomorrow morning):
Read NTI James 5 in full.
Tomorrow:
Please read quotes 1157-1160 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Resting in the Self is supreme good.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Please read The Only Choice is Where from The Teachings of Inner Ramana and contemplate it with your inner teacher. Follow inner prompting regarding the best way to contemplate the reading with the inner teacher. If you don’t feel a specific prompt, ask the inner teacher to share whatever is most important for you to know, see or realize regarding this message.
If prompted, review the tip from Day 323.
I want only God now.
I want nothing else.
I ask you, Universe, to help me.
I am not afraid to ask.
I understand you are benevolent-love.
I ask benevolent-love
to help me awaken
to only love,
and I trust you.
Amen.
~A prayer of awakening
A Parable of a Woman and Five Sons
There was a woman who had five sons. All of her sons were comic book fans, so she took them to Comic-Con. Each boy dressed as his favorite comic book character and spent the entire day at Comic-Con pretending to be the character he dressed as.
When they arrived home that evening, each boy ran off in a different direction, continuing to play the character he’d played all day. As the woman walked through the house looking for her sons, she came across her youngest son first. She said, “Go into your bedroom and change out of your costume. When you are done, come into the kitchen for chocolate cake and milk.”
A few minutes later, the woman came across her eldest son. She said, “Go into your bedroom and change out of your costume. When you are done, come into the kitchen for chocolate cake and milk.”
The woman continued through the house in this way until she found each of her five sons, saying to each of them, “Go into your bedroom and change out of your costume. When you are done, come into the kitchen for chocolate cake and milk.”
The last son that the woman found loved cake the most, so he changed his clothes the fastest. He ran into the kitchen and saw a round chocolate cake cut into six slices. The boy said, “Mom, since I was the fastest can I have two pieces of cake?”
“No,” the woman said, and she gave her fast son one piece of cake and a glass of milk.
Next the eldest son came into the kitchen. He looked at the five remaining slices of cake and said, “Mom, since I am the oldest, can I have two pieces of cake?”
“No,” the woman answered, and she gave her eldest son one piece of cake and a glass of milk.
Two more boys came into the kitchen and the woman served cake and milk to each of them. Finally, the youngest boy came into the kitchen. He was only four years old, and so he had worked very hard to take his costume off all by himself. “Momma,” the youngest said, “Since I worked the hardest, may I have the extra piece of cake?”
“No,” the woman answered. “Each one of you took off your costume, so each one of you get the same amount of cake.”
Why didn’t the woman give the extra piece of cake to the fastest boy, the eldest boy or the boy who had worked the hardest? It is because each one was her son. The differences made no difference.
There are apparent differences among us. Some of us gain wisdom quickly. You could say we are fast, like the woman’s fastest son. Some of us have been on the spiritual path for many years. You could say we are the elders, like the woman’s eldest son. Some of us are very committed and work very hard at awakening. We are a lot like the woman’s youngest son. However, we are all already consciousness, so our apparent differences make no difference at all.
Today’s reading focuses on letting go of the differences we see in one another. That doesn’t mean that differences won’t appear. It means that differences are appearance only.
When we focus on differences, we focus on appearances as if they are reality. When we let our sight soften around differences, and we look for sameness—for the fact of each human, in which there is no difference at all—we open to reality.
(Before reading from NTI today, read Matthew 20:1-16 in the Bible.)
Trust in your Self.
Trust in you.
Trust your guidance.
Trust in Love.
Trust everything that comes your way.
Trust, for trust is not fear.
~From our Holy Spirit
In this program, we watched and discussed a selected TED talk. TED talks follow a unique format. Speakers at TED events have a maximum of 18 minutes to share their messages, which are delivered in highly polished, succinct speeches. TED talks are delivered by people from all walks of life on a multitude of subjects. A great many of these talks are about the insights gained by ordinary people–insights gained through extraordinary experiences or based on their contemplation of the ordinary events of their lives. Either way, their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma, but through experience.
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The title of this Ted talk is “How Beauty Feels” by Richard Seymour.
A story, a work of art, a face, a designed object — how do we tell that something is beautiful? And why does it matter so much to us? Designer Richard Seymour explores our response to beauty and the surprising power of objects that exhibit it.
This group was facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert.
In this program, Reverends Jacquelyn Eckert and Glen Ganaway review and discuss A Course In Miracles from a non-dual, interfaith perspective. The two of them discuss the main themes and key principles of the Course and how they are lived in our shared lives.
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Following the recent Awakening Together online weekly retreat that took place on Thursday evenings with Regina Dawn Akers, those who participated in the retreat will share their deepest contemplations that were based on various teachings of Dr. David R. Hawkins that Regina shared with the participants.
Also, the participants will be sharing how this profound clarity currently is guiding their Awakening journey to the True Self. This program will be taking place in the Sanctuary on Sunday, February 27th from 1:30-2:30 pm ET/11:30 am-12:30 pm MT. Anne Blanchard will be the facilitator.
Please come and listen in and/or share as well what inspiration comes forth as you participate in the discussion.
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This evening (or tomorrow morning):
Read NTI James 4 in full.
Tomorrow:
Please read quotes 1153-1156 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
The wayfarer does not despair at the sight of the long road ahead but takes one step at a time.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
