Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.

~Commentary on Experience~

 How does one choose a different experience? One must understand that experience does not come from form or circumstances within the world. Experience comes from one’s understanding or interpretation of circumstances.

In other words, experience does not come from That Which Is. Experience comes from how one chooses to see that which is in appearance  now.

Experience is a temporary manifestation. Experience is never lasting. It is not eternal. But experience can be a communication of the eternal when the eternal is all that is desired to be seen.

When one has an experience that is not communicating the message of eternal love, freedom and gratitude, one must realize that through that which is eternal, one is choosing to see a different manifestation.

Since all manifestations are temporary, it requires only a change in desire in order to see there is a different way to see.

~From our Holy Spirit~

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 216

This is the meaning of “let go.”

When you are having an experience
that is not communicating God,
you are blocking the experience of God
by holding onto your choice
for another experience.

Let go.

Release that which you are believing.
Do not fear that which you are feeling.
Relax into the experience as it is,
and let go.

When you let go fully
and free fall into an experience without fear,
the experience must pass
because you are no longer
holding it in place.

~From our Holy Spirit

The Dyad Practice that normally takes place in the Sanctuary from 1-3 pm ET will be canceled for today. Anne Blanchard is currently unavailable and cannot facilitate the program. The program will resume next Saturday, September 25th from 1-3 pm ET. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Please read and contemplate the following commentary in the same way that you read and contemplate the Thought of Awakening. The commentaries are designed to enrich your understanding of the Thoughts of Awakening.

~Commentary on Happiness ~

 ‘A means’ is a roadway. It is the way you travel to get to a final destination.

When seen this way, what, then, is truly desired? Is it the roadway that is desired or is it the destination?

A roadway can be said to be desired, but only as a means to the end. The true desire is the end, or the destination.

If the true desire is the destination of happiness, which roadway do you wish to follow? Is it the roadway that seems to promise the end, but then only leads to another, possibly longer, roadway? Or is it the roadway that forgets all other roadways and leads determinedly to the end result?

There is a direct roadway to true happiness, and that roadway is simply this:

Do not forget what you truly seek. Know that what you want is love, and love loves all things, so love does not seek special circumstances in order to know and love itself.

~From our Holy Spirit

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 215

Peace comes from desire.
Lack of peace also comes from desire,
through your desire
to choose fear and noise.

Rest in this realization.
Rest in the acceptance of your truth.

Rest in the realization
that your exact experience
is chosen by you now.
And so, since this is true,
you may now choose
a different experience.

~From our Holy Spirit

The Group Awareness Contemplation program that takes place in the Awakening Together Sanctuary weekly on Tuesdays, will now have a new start time of 5:30 pm ET/3:30 MT.

The Group Awareness Contemplation program provides an opportunity for participants to share a group experience of Awareness and is facilitated by Rhoda Makled. This practice is powerful, joyful, enlightening, and encourages an Awareness based meditation practice. The basic instruction for the practice is that participants get centered and describe, out loud, how awareness appears to them. Regina will provide further instruction at the beginning of each week’s program.

If you plan to attend, please be on time so as not to disturb other participants.

Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT for the Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

Title: “Unconditional Love is Obtainable”

Description: In his book, Transcending the Levels of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment, Dr. David Hawkins writes, “Unconditional Love is the goal of the majority of spiritually-committed people and especially of serious spiritual devotees and aspirants. … In the world’s overall population, [Unconditional Love] is reached by 0.4 percent of the populace. However, Unconditional Love is a practical and reachable goal and not just an idealized, wishful condition for those who seriously choose it as an inspirational, devotional goal. … In highly motivated, spiritually disciplined groups, approximately fifty to fifty-five percent of the people in the group reach the goal of Unconditional Love… The goal of Unconditional Love is reachable by very simple means, but to bring about results, they have to be lived continually on a daily basis.” In this homily, Regina will look at the “very simple means” that Dr. David Hawkins points to and ask, “How can Awakening Together be one of the ‘highly motivated, spiritually-disciplined groups’ that supports attaining Unconditional Love?

Reading: Yvonne Unger will read NTI 1 Corinthians, Chapters 12 & 13.

 

*Weekly gathering is held every Sunday morning at 10:15 am ET/8:15 am MT in the Awakening Together Sanctuary. Join us after the Gathering for our Fellowship Time, hosted by Rev. George Maddox.

Enter Sanctuary Here

 

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Join us at 1:30 pm ET/ 11:30 am MT for Freedom Practice Sangha – Facilitated by Anne Blanchard

Following the recent Awakening Together online retreats it has become clear that many feel called to dive into intensive follow-up work. While the practice of unearthing and looking directly at our individual beliefs is primarily solitary in nature, we all recognize that the sharing of that work with others who are undergoing the same process can be enormously beneficial and supportive. This will be a time of sharing our inquiries, insights, and challenges, listening to others, or just knowing that we are in community as we find that undefended place within ourselves that longs to be free.

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Join us at 5:00 pm ET/ 3:00 pm MT for The Mighty Companions

Revs. Glen Ganaway and Yolanda Mapes, who are interfaith ministers, share a delightful, funny, and inspiring hour of A Course in Miracles. Come join in on the fun, the laughs, and the music while unlearning the ego through the lessons and chapters of ACIM.

 

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Join us at 6:00 pm ET/ 4:00 pm MT for Something Genuine with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert facilitates this program, in which Awakening Together members and friends join together to watch and discuss TED talks that reveal the Truth of ourselves and our universe based on the actual experience of ordinary people. Their insights are genuine—not based upon theory or dogma—and give us a “man on the street” perspective on what we are coming to learn through Awakening Together.

 

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Join us at 7:00 pm ET/ 5:00 pm MT for The Guiding Light with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers

Regina Dawn Akers reads selections from the book Perfect Brilliant Stillness by David Carse. The purpose of this inspired book study is to learn to stop focusing on words and concepts. Join Regina as she dives deep into this enlightened book study which isn’t a book study at all! Here’s a link to the book here: Get the book for free

 

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Join us at 7:30 pm ET/ 5:30 pm MT for a Live Satsang with Dorothy Hunt

Dorothy Hunt serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request of Adyashanti.  She is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy and practiced psychotherapy from 1967 to 2020. She is the author of Leaves from Moon Mountain, Only This!, and Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness as well as articles on Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy in various books and journals.

Dorothy has a long and deep connection to the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and the path of Self-Inquiry, as well as the nondual teachings of Zen, Advaita, and Christian mystics.  In meeting Adyashanti, she was invited beyond identification with either the absolute or relative, finding freedom in what is awake in each of us regardless of the changing faces of experience.

Dorothy offers online Satsang, retreats, and private meetings. She is a mother and grandmother. You can find out more about Dorothy on her website: www.dorothyhunt.org