The Grace Has Descended

Who's getting on your nerves lately? What was your last interaction with them like? Feel back into your body posture. How were you standing? How were you sitting? Where were you clenching? What emotion were you holding, tightly? I know it felt like that emotion had a hold on you, but it's always the other way around. Just as these thoughts that are not yours are always flowing through, and you're grasping at them, holding them, believing them, claiming them as who and what you are-- that emotion was just flowing through too.  With much practice, I found that I'm able to wake up in those moments of tightness, and just feel, just be with the tightness, without labeling it, without judging it, without giving it a cause, or trying to remedy it, trying to quell it. Sometimes I close my eyes on the interaction for a second, just to be with the feeling. The interaction is only happening so that you may feel that feeling finally and ask, "Is Love here, too? And feel That. Feel what's just beyond that strong, seemingly negative emotion. I feel My refuge. Feel It with me.  I Love You nik  Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "Take refuge in the Guru, His power will flow into you." - Amma "Take safe refuge in the all-loving Lord!"- Alan Jacobs  "Then you have to jump back into yourself and take refuge in your self. When you take refuge in your self you become happy. When you take refuge in your self you have peace. When you take refuge in your self you have harmony, you have joy. It's a mystery to me why people would take refuge in the outside world, in person, place or thing, when you know the outside world is subject to the law of change, and is never the same continuously. So whatever you take refuge in becomes a disappointment, whether it's a person, place or thing." -Robert Adams "What I am finding is that when I settle back into emptiness, tension in the physical and emotional body decreases, and that this can be done in the middle of a tense personal interaction. That is, when I find myself getting upset or uptight, the unpleasantness of that becomes a sort of Pavlovian trigger reminding me of the dimension of inwardness. I'm not sure I even have a choice at that moment. I just find myself back here. The disagreement may continue, but I am not nearly as compelled to defend or assert "my" side of it. Realize I'm talking about very mild forms of disharmony. There are obviously nightmares that won't be dissipated by a shift of perspective. But being empty may still be the sanest and safest (because fearless) stance to take in such a situation. Some time ago I read about the experience of a Tibetan monk who was tortured horrendously over a period of years in a Chinese jail. He said that he survived psychologically by taking refuge in the Void and praying for the salvation of all sentient beings. J. via Headless.org

Love is seeing you. It's saying, 'it won't be long now. Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won't be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! -Amos 9:13-15 The Message (MSG) You just keep remembering where those things are coming from. You give thanks deeply, because you know Who they're coming from.  Like Rumi says, 'Do you want the sweetness of food or the sweetness of the one who put sweetness and food? The one who brought you here is still here. Give up fear. Give up this idea of lack, how can you lack when He's here? How can you hunger when He's here? How can you be lonely when He's here? That's all hypnotism. Everything that would have you believe He's not here, is hypnotism.  (everything that would have you believe that He is here, is also hypnotism, but we'll save that for another seeming day!)  I Love you nik  Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "Meditate and become absorbed so that people will sense the 'ras' (Divine sweetness) in you, then you will have success." - Anandamayi Ma "As the heavenly water begins to surge from the spring deep inside us, it spreads and expands our whole inner being and gives rise to ineffable blessings. The soul herself cannot even understand what is unfolding here. She senses a certain fragrance, we could say, as if within the depths of her being there were burning coals sprinkled with sweet perfumes. We cannot see the light or locate the source of the fire, but the sweet-smelling warmth permeates the whole of the soul and maybe even spreads into the body. Try to understand what I'm saying. We don't actually feel heat or smell an aroma. The experience is far more delicate than that. Even if you have not gone through these things yourself, you must know that they really do happen. The soul perceives and understands this more clearly than my mere words could ever express. No matter how intensely we may crave spiritual delight, we cannot acquire it through our own efforts. It is not forged of the same metal that we are but is made from the purest gold of divine wisdom." - St. Teresa of Avila "Divine God and Guru, Give me the patience To wait quietly For spiritual sweetness." - Isha Das "To the degree that love for the Lord warms the human heart, one finds in the Name of Jesus a sweetness that is the source of abiding peace." - St. Seraphim of Sarov "You must learn to repeat the blessed Name of Rama with sweetness and such devotion that the birds and beasts will pause for a moment to listen to you; the very trees will bend their leaves towards you, stirred by the divine melody of that Name. And when you are able to do this, I tell you, I will come all the way on foot from Bombay as on a pilgrimage to hear you. In His sweet Name lies a power which can cure all our ills." - Sivananda  "...Then silence, and now more silence A mouth is not for talking. A mouth is for tasting this sweetness..."- Rumi "Do you want the sweetness of food or the sweetness of the one who put sweetness in foods..." - Rumi 

Today's Practice: Every time you find that place inside that is forever still, you are Home. You are in Heaven.  You can turn any moment into heaven by, 'going into your heart cave' as Ram Dass would say.  Go into your heart cave before you go into your office tomorrow.  Don't leave your heart cave.  Realize you ARE the heart cave, itself. I Love you and I'm with you,  Nik [email protected]    “Rumi says, ‘The one who brought me here must take me home.’ Who is the one who brought you here? That Grace is calling you home. Where is home, which direction is home? You and home are the same thing.” -Mooji "It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves." -St. Teresa of Avila "Having never left the house you are looking for the way home." -Nisargadatta Maharj "Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.  Help someone's soul heal.  Walk out of your house like a shepherd." -Rumi "We are called into the inner room, and then out again to serve others." -Carl McColman “Your homework is to stay home inside your heart.” - Mooji  Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings

Today, every time you notice a thought about something desired, something missing... something needed, inwardly repeat- 'thank you Father, I already Am.' And then feel the shoulders relax, the face smile, the whole being relax, and melt. This 'pulls the chair out from beneath the mind' and you fall into Loving Remembrance, Joyful Realization.  You already, always have been That.  Keep feeling It, and you'll see It.   I Love you, Nik [email protected] Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "The only realization needed: 'thank you, Father, I already Am." -Joel Goldsmith "Pulling out the chair Beneath the mind And watching you fall upon God-- "What else is there for Hafiz to do That is any fun in this world. " -Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky "The object of our love is Love Itself." -Ram Dass "The greatest work there is for you to do, My Beloved, is to do nothing. Only let the Glory of God shine through the human vessel. Learn to let the spirit flow through all you do and say. Why need you be tense, or eager, or anxious as to how you can serve? Why should you ever watch for opportunity to serve Me? If you will relax, at all times, if you will dwell in the Center of your being, and rest in the consciousness of the Divine Presence you shall make no false moves nor mistakes. How sweet should be this thought to you, that you need take no active part aside from the still knowing that your Father has control over all situations and where ever you are at this moment, and where you shall go and what you shall do through the day is all controlled by the Father under the law of Divine love. So rest, relax, be very still, that you may have the surety of this guidance through all the hours of the day before you." -Eva Bell Werber. Voice of the Master

It may not look like much right now, but It feels like much, doesn't it? You have to trust (t)His Feeling beyond feelings, this Primal Feeling. You are re-familiarizing yourself with this Peace that you thought was impossible until your prayer was answered. You keep closing your heart and looking, waiting for a reason to open your heart,  or to keep it open. But the reasons come after you open.  The answered prayer comes after you open. And you will close back up a million times today. But each time is an opportunity to notice and open again, knowing that, 'When I'm open, I am That. It is here. It is done, already'. This is the Way. Can you remain open while holding this Joy, allowing this Joy to hold you open? Let those words go past your mind. Let them go past 'you', as Joy is holding you open for everything that's meant for you.  I Love you, nik  Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "This was a sacred moment during which they strove to commune with the soul of the text and of wisdom. They let themselves be imbued, and passed through by this soul. They captured its energy in order to keep it inside themselves, and learn to carry it in life. They used this energy to heal the sick. The Virgin was particularly gifted at making this energy descend into her abdomen, and at keeping it for a very long time. She would say, "What is essential is not finding the Light, but being in the Light, and keeping it within. The technique also consisted in calling upon the Angel of joy, drawing joy inside oneself, and, finally, transmitting it in purity." - Mary, the Essene Virgin What is essential is not finding the Light but being in the Light and keeping It within.  "From the Place of Light I came forth, from you, Bright Habitation. I come to touch hearts, to measure and try all minds, to see in whose heart I dwell. Whoever thinks of me, of him I think; whoever calls my Name, his name I will call. Whosoever prays my prayer from the earth, his prayer I will offer from the Place of Light." - The Canonical Prayer Book of the Mandeans   

Relax... into your Self,  into this (eternal) Moment, into the season, in your life. I know you're ready to be seen, to be revealed, to be found, to be elevated, to be loved the way you love. I know. But you have to let God reveal you. You have to remain quiet, still on the inside, Loving without an object, present without a body, without any other intention than, God, let me be Me, without me.  Please accept me.  I Love you, nik Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "Bring awareness to fearful thoughts. Simply be aware of fear and feel it. When you have felt the fear fully say, I am ready to move through my fear now Father, please help me. And be willing to receive the help you asked for. You will receive the help you asked for. When you ask for help you acknowledge that there's a power greater than your fear. You also indicate your desire to work with that fear and conflict in your life. When you ask for help recognize that you're asking that your thoughts be changed. So affirm this-Father I'm willing to change my mind about this situation. Please help me see this not through the eyes of fear but as you see it. Help me see this with equal love for myself and all other. This is a powerful prayer. Stay with it. Rest in its strength and its peace. And let God answer you in every word, every gesture and every action."- Paul Ferrini, Loving Without Conditions  "Stop remembering what God has forgotten." -@trustgodbro 

You have to find this Love every morning, as if you've never found It before.  You have to find Love every moment, as if you've never practiced before,  every single seeming moment, you have to hit that reset button. You have to become conscious again. You're always either unconscious or conscious, unenlightened or enlightened, not feeling Love or feeling Love,  carrying baggage or not. Recognizing that there is no baggage to put down. Nothing to let go of.  No one to forgive. Nothing to do. And yet, things get done. And people and situations are forgiven. But it's all happening through you by the Christ in You. I Love You nik Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done." - C.S. Lewis  "Allow My healing force to pour through your hands. Then shall all the Glory of the Father be a living fire about you. Nothing that happens in the outer realm shall penetrate that holy flame. You shall dwell as a thing set apart, even as one of the candles in the Holy temple shall you be guarded. As you express the Life of your being to all you meet, great floods of power shall pour into you again, and you shall walk and not be weary, run and faint not. So open yourself, cleanse yourself, that I, the Lord of your soul, shall manifest My Glory through you, My human vessel of expression." - Eva Bell Werber, Voice of the Master "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting." - Acts 2:2 "You are the notes, and we are the flute. We are the mountain, you are the sounds coming down. We are the pawns and kings and rooks you set out on a board: we win or we lose. We are lions rolling and unrolling on flags. Your invisible wind carries us through the world" - Rumi "What I thought was me is not me and only That (substance) is me." - Herb Fitch   

Right now you're aware of one of your bodies speaking, and another one of your bodies listening. Right now, some of your bodies are walking down the street outside. Some of your bodies are in offices already. Some of your bodies are in traffic. Some of your bodies are still sleeping. Some are just rising, some are seated in meditation right now, eyes closed in a cave. They've been there for decades, centuries, aeons,  in the Himalayas. Some are chanting, some are crying, some of your bodies are singing, some are doing yoga. You're the Love that they're meditating in, the Love they're meditating on. You're the Love they're walking through,  the love They're walking on.   The ground you're standing on is Holy. ************** Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "l am a forest fire And I am the fire, and I am the forest And I am a witness watching it I stand in a valley watching it" -Burning Hill by Mitski  "Give a specific period to this each day, and do not let yourself watch for results. In due time, fruitage will appear in some form of harmony within yourself, your home, your family, or your business, art, or profession. As fruitage appears, raise your consciousness to take in the weather, elections, national, and international relationships. Remember that none of these subjects enters your thought while in meditation. You may not even think of peace on earth. Just be still. Listen with the invisible ear for the inaudible Word. You are thus ushering in the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. All power is in the hands of the Infinite, the Eternal, and it operates through grace. How do you make this come true? By knowing it. This truth cannot make you free without you knowing it." - Joel Goldsmith, The Government of Eden  "Blessed are the man and the woman who have grown beyond their greed and have put an end to their hatred and no longer nourish illusions. But they delight in the way things are and keep their hearts open, day and night. They are like trees planted near flowing rivers, which bear fruit when they are ready. Their leaves will not fall or wither. Everything they do will succeed." - Psalm 1  "Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, 'For my sake, the entire world was created." -Baal Shem Tov

As long as you're hearing This, feeling This, being This, This is all that manifests.  This is all you see-- His Original Creation. You are seeing more and more of It. "You are the son of the richest man."*  You are not a beggar. You are a King, a Queen.  That's not a begging bowl in those hands. Those hands are stretched out to Bless, not to receive blessings. You are the Blessing.  I Love You  I Am You nik  ************** Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings *Srila Prabhupada  "You can't bear fruit if you don't spend time with the Source of it." - @Happyandhealthypodcast  "The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.” -Numbers 6:24-26 NIV "Listen and be still! If you could see and know the physical person of Christ Jesus, could go to those who are sick or in need of any kind; if you could see those Holy Hands upraised in healing, how firm would be your faith. But listen, that same Christ is within your consciousness; the Holy Spirit pervades all things. So can you not have the same faith, that when you speak to Him, He hears, just as He did when in the body of flesh? The body had nothing to do with it. It was only the instrument for the Divine flow of Life, even as you are the instrument. As you open your being to this sweet consciousness of the Abiding Christ, even so shall the greater works, long ago promised, be fulfilled through you." - Eva Bell Werber, Quiet Talks with the Master   

Today’s Quote: “Due to divine reasons, my light cannot be dimmed.”  – author unknown via @rachnasometimes_education Today’s Practice: Your Light cannot be dimmed by anyone, including ‘you’ and your fluctuating moods and thoughts.  Find this Light inside and recognize It as un-flickering and inextinguishable.  Find this inner smile, and see that you can smile without smiling.  You can feel this Light even when you're upset.  Stay AS this inner smile today.  I love you,  Nik  [email protected] Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings