Speaker Spotlight – Anne Blanchard
Anne teaches weekly in the Sanctuary on Wednesdays from 1:30pm to 2pm ET. Her program is called “Unfiltered”. Anne shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity, Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface.
Anne is also one of our new Board of Trustee members.
Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi, #50 ~ What is Reincarnation?
09-02-18 Weekly Gathering: “Know Thy Self”
Topic: “Know Thy Self”
Rev. Joanne Schneider talks about watching our mind and our body shows us our belief in the world. Belief in the world is our hindrance to awakening. By looking at our beliefs with our Heart, we can practice discernment and choose again. Thus we will return to our Heart’s Desire, to know thy Self.
Reading: Rev. Rebecca Gibson read NTI Colossians 4
Thoughts of Awakening # 222
The truth of your Self is within.
It may seem hidden from you,
but it is not hidden.
It is within
and it is you,
as close as your own heart.
Even closer.
As close as your breath.
If your own truth is so close,
so inseparable from your own nature,
why is it that you cannot sense it…
cannot seem to know it?
It is because you are choosing to know
something else as your self.
Look at your choice.
See what you are choosing and ask,
“Am I willing to place this aside
in order to know something more?”
~From our Holy Spirit
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 222 – Meditation with Karen Worth
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 222
The truth of your Self is within.
It may seem hidden from you,
but it is not hidden.
It is within
and it is you,
as close as your own heart.
Even closer.
As close as your breath.
If your own truth is so close,
so inseparable from your own nature,
why is it that you cannot sense it…
cannot seem to know it?
It is because you are choosing to know
something else as your self.
Look at your choice.
See what you are choosing and ask,
“Am I willing to place this aside
in order to know something more?”
~ From our Holy Spirit
Tips from Regina ~ Day 222, NTI 2 Thessalonians 1
On Day 217, we saw that the ‘I am bad’ belief incites denial and repression instead of healing. The goal of NTI 2 Thessalonians is to help us transcend the ‘I am bad’ belief so we can heal (let go of the false and realize the true) more quickly and more effectively. When this stumbling block is out of the way, the road is clear to find our way to awakening more easily (assuming our desire for truth remains strong).
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
Thoughts of Awakening # 221
It is time to look inward
at the mind, the heart, and the soul,
and ask, “What am I?”
This is a question
that should not be answered too quickly,
for if an answer is given
that the mind can understand,
that is not the answer at all.
If an answer is given
that can be explained fully with words,
that is not the answer at all.
Search deep within your inquiry
and also search broadly.
Do not limit your answer
to what can be understood
or taught.
Do not limit your answer
to any idea that has an ending
or definition.
Limit your answer
only when defining what you are not.
When defining what you are,
know that the inquiry continues forever.
~From our Holy Spirit
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 221 – Meditation with Karen Worth
Find a place where you will be undisturbed. If it is comfortable, put on headsets or earbuds. Relax, and enjoy this meditation.
Thoughts of Awakening Quote 221
Hour Meditation Thoughts of Awakening Quote 221
It is time to look inward
at the mind, the heart, and the soul,
and ask, “What am I?”
This is a question
that should not be answered too quickly,
for if an answer is given
that the mind can understand,
that is not the answer at all.
If an answer is given
that can be explained fully with words,
that is not the answer at all.
Search deep within your inquiry
and also search broadly.
Do not limit your answer
to what can be understood
or taught.
Do not limit your answer
to any idea that has an ending
or definition.
Limit your answer
only when defining what you are not.
When defining what you are,
know that the inquiry continues forever.
~ From our Holy Spirit
Tips from Regina ~ Day 221, Commentary on Awareness
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 Awareness~
Awareness is not judgment. Judgment is a thought that at its basic root sends a message saying, “This must be this way or something is terribly wrong.”
Judging sets up duality. It is the world of right and wrong, good and evil, good and bad. With duality there are right choices and wrong choices, and you can be worthy or unworthy, innocent, righteous or very guilty.
Judgment sets up a world of comparison of this and that, higher and lower, better and worse. It makes the world of joy and sorrow, happiness and pain, security and suffering. And judgment, as the king of the world, defines what is good and what is pain, so that you become a slave unable to be consistently happy in a world of this and that.
But all of this…everything that is created in a world of judgment…is illusion. The answer, which frees you from illusion’s images, is the simple truth of awareness.
Awareness is attention without judgment. It is observation with curiosity and without conclusion. It is perpetual openness. In awareness there is no pain, no suffering, no guilt, and no bad, because there is no judgment, no definition, that would make these things possible.
~From our Holy Spirit
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
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