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 Peace~

The world is a reflection of the mind, but I do not ask you to give thought to this. I ask you to give acceptance. For when you give thought to the simple ideas I teach, you also add confusion to what was not meant to be understood, but meant only to be.

The world is a reflection of the mind.

Now that you accept this fact, most likely without understanding, you can use this fact to see which voice you listen to in the mind.

Are you upset by what you see? If so, you are listening to the voice for independence, and you are wanting everything to be the way the voice for independence states it must be. This is not being. This is demanding and controlling, and in demanding and controlling there can never be peace.

If you are overjoyed by what you see…if you are grateful with no desire to interfere or change a thing…you are listening to the Voice of Peace, and so you are peace and peace is what you know. This is like music that has no sound, and yet the music never stops playing.

Be only honest with what you see. This is all that is asked as you look at a reflection. And then if it is not peace, turn immediately to Me. And if it is peace, enjoy the beauty of your song.

~From our Holy Spirit

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Thoughts of Awakening # 209

The goal that you seek
determines the experience that you have.
But be not confused by the goal,
for there are only two goals you can seek.

You can seek independence,
which is conflict,
or you can seek listening,
which is harmony and peace.

~From our Holy Spirit

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 the Wish to be Independent~

 The wish to be independent is the wish for “me” who is separate from “you” and whose key interests may be different. We may at times find similarities among our varied interests, but this is rare and never long-lasting, for always “my” key interest is to look out for “me.”

And can there be any question that this thought must eventually lead to conflict and to pain?

Yet this is the thought you listen to, and the choice you make, whenever you choose to worship the wish to be independent.

~From our Holy Spirit

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Thoughts of Awakening # 208

The choice for peace
sees the Heart.

This is how you know
you have chosen peace.

It is as if you see
the Heart in everyone you meet
and in everyone you think of.

It is as if you see
through the Heart
into the world,
so although the world has not changed,
you know only its Heart.

This way of seeing
is peace,
and it comes through your decision
to listen only
to the Voice of Peace.

~From our Holy Spirit

Join us at 10:15 am ET/ 8:15 am MT for Our Weekly Sunday Gathering with Rev. George Maddox

Title: “Finding the Peace that Passes All Understanding”

Description: Happiness and satisfaction never arises from the conditions in your life or the conditions in the world.  How do we find that “peace that passes all understanding”? We will explore the basic truth as discussed in NTI  Chapters 1-3, as well as some thoughts from Eckhart Tolle as a guide to understanding our own awakening process.

Reading: Joe Schmitz will read from NTI Chapters 1-3.

 

*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 Audrey Whitehead.

Enter Sanctuary Here

 

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Join us at 1:30 pm ET/ 11:30 am MT for Freedom Practice Sangha

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. This program will be facilitated by Anne Blanchard.

 

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Join us at 5:00 pm ET/ 3:30 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. Look where the pointers point! Be still and realize Perfect Brilliant Stillness just as it is. 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 the Quarterly Member Meeting

Agenda items for our quarterly member meeting:

• New Ministers will be ordained.
• Rev. Jacquelyn will present the quarterly financial report.
• Rev. Jacquelyn will share information about the Online Retreat Facilitator Certification Program.
• Rev. Jacquelyn will discuss our virtual classroom (Zoom-based) MPP Curriculum starting in September.

 

*Sanctuary now closes at a new time of 9 pm ET.

Here are direct links to join us in the Sanctuary:

Awakening Together Internet Broadcast: Listen Live on AT Radio

 

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 the World~

 The world is filled with distraction. It is filled with things to do, issues to think about, and things to say. The world is filled with distraction, because it is programmed by the idea of independence. The idea fuels the world, and the world fuels the idea.

This, again, explains the reason for obedience. The world is caught in the loop for independence, which is also the loop of conflict, which is pain. When you react to the world with your thinking and your doing and your saying, you continue to feed this loop. Yet that is your habit today.

To break a habit takes obedience. And it is your Heart’s desire to break this habit. Breaking this habit is your contribution to peace.

To break the habit of independence, conflict and pain, one must learn not to listen to himself or his thinking, because it is a part of the world…a part of this loop.

One must instead choose to listen to a Voice that is not part of this world…not part of the loop…and take all direction from it.

The mind will resist the suggestion to take “all direction” from a Voice that is not of this world, but that resistance comes from the desire for independence, which is also the cause of conflict and pain.

~From our Holy Spirit

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Thoughts of Awakening # 207

The choice for peace
is the choice of the Heart.

Therefore, realize
that you want to surrender
and you want to obey.
This is your truest wish.

When the independent thought
rises up
and asks you to listen to it,
remember that you want
to listen to love,
and there is no love
in independence.

~From our Holy Spirit