Your Attempts to Reach God, Are God's Attempts to Reach You #GMweekends

Click here to see pics and footage from our Meditation Meetup on Saturday. Even though it appeared that we would be rained out, we weren't. Listen to learn and feel how I managed that all-too-familiar anxiety like a G.  From the episode-  That home you live in has not yet been built. That device you're listening to this voice on has not yet been invented. You have yet to be born. That's a beautiful way of saying nothing ever happened. Nothing ever happens. Me praying for the rain to clear, for that little symbol of a cloud with a lightning bolt over the 8 am hour to disappear,  that's not prayer.  Prayer is, 'thank you, Father, there is no weather app, no phone, no weather, no world, no Nikki here to be worried, no other power out there to be threatened by.  Nothing is here.  When I feel Love, I know nothing is here but that Love.  And then sometimes that manifests as no storm, no rain, or powerful words that help, or seem to heal, but only because the Knowledge is there that (t)here is no one there to heal.  Here, is no one but Christ.  But You.  Open your I and See.  I Love You,  nik  "Why let daily things bother you? Have you forgotten how it is in time? Your father has never met your mother. The elaborate orchard garden you live in has not yet been planted." - Rumi Jesus didn't say "believe in Me", He said, "believe like Me." - Neil Douglas Klotz "12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard him say it." - Mark 11 12-14   Clearwater Beach Meditation link- https://www.instagram.com/p/C8zt98hRc1Q/

You spend time with God by listening. Think of that image of Dolores from Disney's 'Encanto', with her hand up to her ear. That. Just listening. This listening is continuous, that's mediation. When you're listening you're not thinking, that's meditation. And then in the quiet listening, Love is felt. You hear God's silence, and then you feel God's Love. You're gifted His Peace, and then you notice that that too, is continuous! No matter what comes (or goes), this Peace stands. All you have to do is remember to listen for the feeling of Peace, and then that Peace dissolves everything that isn't Peace... help comes, because God is. I Love you, Nik [email protected] Today's Quotes: "...continuous reaching toward the center of our being, will eventually result in the experience of the Christ. In that moment, we discover the mystery of spiritual living: We do not have to take thought for what we shall eat, what we shall drink, or wherewithal we shall be clothed; we do not have to plan; we do not have to struggle. only Christ can live our life for us, and we meet the Christ within ourselves in meditation. The degree to which we attain the experience or activity of the Christ, the presence of the Spirit of God in us, determines the degree of individual unfoldment." -by Joel S. Goldsmith via Practicing the Presence, Chapter 7 "I am the spaces between my thoughts." -via @daytohaveaday via IG “If a man wants to be used by God, he cannot spend all of his time with people.”  -A. W. Tozer "Does a young woman forget her jewelry? Does a bride hide her wedding dress? Yet for years on end my people have forgotten me." -Jeremiah 2:32   Getting in the Gap- by Wayne Dyer  Support the show

When you're remembering Love, it's only because Love is remembering you. Holding you. Healing you. Being you. You reaching for God is like a fish reaching for water. We're in It. He's everywhere. Thank God. I Love you, Nik [email protected] Bonus episodes every week: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings _______________________ Today's Quotes:  "All your attempts to reach Me, are in reality My attempts to reach you." -Rumi "Sweet is the memory of Jesus, giving true joys to the heart; but sweeter beyond honey and all else is His presence."  - from Aldous Huxley's 'The Perennial Philosophy' Support the show

And if you're looking around right now, ungrateful, unimpressed, close that body's eyes, and feel what God has brought you to.  You've come to Love.  That prayer you've been praying,  you're realizing it's been answered,  that God has been here,  that you've been saved,  again.  Every time.  So stop worrying.  I Love you,  nik  Support the show! ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "Look at how far God has brought you." - @holstrength  Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. Rumi: Tbe Big Red Book Morning breeze, bring news of beauty, but slowly, please. Let the fresh fragrance stay. "Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming." "The universe was created out of joy and that is why you find temporary joy in the fleeting things of the world. Without joy life is an ordeal. So you must attain to that great Joy that has brought forth the world and is the essence of your own being. This is exactly what is discovered when the mind becomes still." "Q: I find concentration difficult. M: Go on practicing. Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength, i.e. it gives up its weakness for stray thoughts. When attention is directed towards objects and intellect, the mind is aware only of these things. That is our present state. But when we attend to the Self within, we become conscious of It alone. It is therefore all a matter of attention. Our mind has been attending to external things for so long, that the latter have enslaved it and drag it hither and thither. If the mind wanders, we must at once realize we are not the body and inquire, 'Who am I?' and the mind must be brought back to realize the Self. Thus all evils are destroyed and happiness is realized. Absence of mental activity is solitude." - Nisargadatta Maharaj, Conscious Immortality, It's All A Matter of Attention 

There is nothing you see that isn't Me.  I AM (is) what you really want.  Rumi said you, "sound the drum of nothing",  until you feel something,  a stirring,  and then it's settled.  When you say, 'thy will be done',  or 'Jesus you take care of it',  He says, 'I already did.'  You're Welcome.  I Love you,  nik  Support the show! ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "Your awarness and my awareness are God's awareness. If you are lodged in your awareness and I am in my awareness, there is only one awareness in the room." - Ram Dass "If you want something, release the wish, and let it light on its desire, completely free of the personal ." - Rumi "You are where you have always been. It is your body that moved till it reached this ashram." - Ramana Maharshi  "Jesus you take care of it." - Father Dolindo, Surrender Novena 

Sit up taller,  until You are taller than that body.  Beyond that body.  What can you hear? What can you see? You are being led by the Silence, by the Sound in (and AS) the Silence, by the Sweetness, back to where you came from. And while you effortlessly abide back here, that body moves forward into the Light, into its purpose, into trials that it will triumph over, into what it was made to do, who it was made to be, which is Christ in this world. God in this world. Can you treat everyone you meet today like they are Jesus in disguise? Jesus in different costumes?  Some old, some young, some with floppy ears and wagging tails, some with beaks, some with gray hair, some with brown hair, some with attitudes, some with smiles... If you can treat each of these as if they are Jesus,  you become more like Him. Like The Christ He is beyond 'Jesus'.  You walk like that. You live like that. Death dies like that.  I love you,  nik  Support the show! ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "Now, at this time, you are not able to hear his True Name, but the name that is given to him is Jesus the Messiah." - Acts of Thomas; cf. AAA p.294 "The Messiah is Among You" --Matthew Kelly "The whole purpose of life as I see it now is to practice the presence of God at every conscious moment. I used to think that such a state of mind or soul would be conferred suddenly when I succeeded in reaching samadhi or union. Now I realize that it is a habit that has to be trained into me, and that samadhi is not to be the cause of this perpetual enjoyment but the result and crowning achievement of it. More frequently now my mind is drawn to that very deep state where the presence of God is explicit, incontestable... Sometimes His presence comes with such a quiet and tender sweetness that I find myself weeping with gratitude. When you surrender to that absolute stillness, that all-pervasive beneficent light, that inexpressibly sweet, sweet bliss, there is no doubt, no doubt at all, in your heart or in your mind, that you are experiencing God." - Nancy Mayorga "There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God... Ah! if we but knew the need we have of the grace and assistance of God, we would never lose sight of Him, no, not for a moment." - Brother Lawrence  "Only from the heart can you touch the sky." - Rumi

"Surrender is not surrendering control.  Surrendering is surrendering to the Control that's already built into you."* Surrendering to The Plan that's already built into you-- His Plan that's manifesting through you.   Knowing that He is among you,  in the midst of you,  changes you,  and everything around you. You see clearly that there is no 'you'.  Only Love,  fully operating. Nothing happening,  gloriously, perfectly.  I Love you, nik  p.s. My Silence is never not here for you to borrow, to match, to mimic until you see your own clearly. Relax into your own. That Silence becomes your Home. And then It becomes a home. It takes the shape of one. Listen.  Support the show! ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings *"You don't have to make things happen.  Surrender is not surrendering control. Surrendering is surrendering to the Control that's already built into you. That's why you go with the flow. The current already knows where you need to go. You don't need to make things happen. Believing that you need to make things happen is resistance to the current. Everything that's relevant for you is already contained within the current's energy. Just go with the flow. Your life will unfold naturally. You will respond to it in a positive way. Synchronicity will abound. Everything that needs to happen in your life, that's relevant for you to experience, will happen in perfect timing. You don't need to make it work. Let it work." - Bashar  "Father, I am Thy name hallowed; I am Thy kingdom come; I am Thy will realized; I am on Earth as I am in heaven." - The Essene Mary "t is my will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting." -1 Timothy 2:8 W"hat are you trying to control that God wants you to surrender?"- @Craigroeschel "When you have emptied all the content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time, you find yourself, because you are nothing but that pure space, that virgin space within you. Unburdened by anything, that contentless Consciousness, that's what you are! Seeing it, realizing it, one is free, one is freedom, one is joy, one is Bliss. You are absolutely free only when there is no identity left. You are neither a Christian nor a Hindu nor a Mohammedan; you are neither an Indian nor a Japanese nor a German; you are neither a man nor a woman. You are pure Consciousness, and that Consciousness is eternal."- Osho  ~ Osho 

Ask the Son.  Ask Me--  acknowledge Me.  And you don't have to thank Me with words, just Recognize that it's Me.  Just beyond these words. Just past your boss, just beyond their words. Just past that phone,  or that computer, or that book, or that tree. It's Me.  There is no question.  Only the Answer.  Listen.  I Love you, nik  Support the show! ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings "God Alone." - St. Louis De Montfort  "If you have complete faith, there are no questions. If you have no faith there is no point in asking any questions because how can there be any faith in the answer you receive? If you have faith in God when you know someone is taking care of you, what is the need for questions? If you have taken the Karnataka Express to Bangalore, there is no need to ask at every station, "Where is the train going?" When someone is taking care of your desires, why go to an astrologer?" - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Celebrating Silence "The Assisi Experience A letter from St. Clare of Assisi to St. Francis Dear Francis, I must share something very sacred with you. Don't tell a single soul. I am sure you, only you will understand. Speaking of bread, recently this has been happening quite often. A neighboring farmer suddenly appears with fresh bread for us. He seems to arrive on the very days when our cupboards are quite bare. Somehow he knows just when we are getting hungry. But the moment we sit down and begin to eat this bread, I swear to you Francis, it is not bread! It is the actual love of our Lord. There are no words. Our bodies, hearts, and souls are overtaken! There is a presence which can only be described as love more pure then pure. I just sit there in awe and of course, tears. Many of the sisters have the same experience. The others cannot help but feel the peace that is suddenly in the room. We don't tell anyone. But I can share this with you, Franics. Thank you dear Francis. Thank you that I can share so completely. Your Clare."--  Historical fiction from The Love Letters of St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi by Bruce Davis, available on Amazon  "One flower cannot ask another flower for the sunshine - for the other flower cannot give it. But the sun is there and it shines upon all flowers. Therefore, do not look to another for help - for the help is there and available for you to use. Avail yourself of it."- Seth, The Early Class Sessions, Book 1. ESP April 8, 1969

A short and powerful meditation on the 'I' that you are, and how knowing It, is the deepest, most regenerative rest possible.  When you know that only It is here, there's nothing left to think or worry about because whatever you're thinking or worrying about, isn't there... where it appears to be Love is. Bliss is.  The Bliss that you're sitting in right now.  The spacious and loving 'I' that you'll be walking through later. Feel This and be free. And here's a bonus activity from Wayne Dyer: "Think of the five words -- "I am that I am." In your mind, place a comma after the word "that." Let "that" represent for you what you would like to manifest, or become as a person. I can't stress this enough -- write down on paper precisely what that represents for you. Whatever constitutes your wish, write it down and in your mind, call it "that." For example, "that" could mean your perfect health or abundance or a specific job or a happy, loving partnership. Write it down and be specific. And as you close your eyes in meditation, let your inner mantra be "I am that." For example, "I am perfect health," "I am abundance," "I am in possession of the job I seek."    You take it a step further and let 'that' be... THAT... the All  that is being everything and nothing.  And then let THAT become what It's destined to be. That's trust. Surrender. I Love you, Nik [email protected] support the show!: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings _______________________ Today's Quotes:    "Who am I ? Feel your reality in the stillness,  in the quietness,  where there is no mind,  no thought, no words,  who are you then? You just are.  I Am. I Am.  I Am not this. I Am not that.  I Am.  I Am that which has always been, I Am that which will always be,  I Am That I Am. " -Robert Adams        "I  exist’ is the only permanent self-evident experience of everyone. Nothing else is so self-evident as ‘I am’. (…) So to do self-enquiry and be that ‘I am’ is the only thing to do. ‘I am’ is reality. I am this or that is unreal. I am is truth, another name for Self." -Ramana Maharshi "Deep rest is bliss, and bliss is the understanding that only God exists.  Knowing that only God exists is the deepest rest possible." -Ravi Shankar Support the show

"Since the Kingdom of God is within me, all power is within me." - Joel Goldsmith (Invisible Supply) Bonus Quote: "Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time.  In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God. Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols; pills, money, “protective” clothing, influence, prestige, being liked, knowing the “right” people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness that you endow with magical powers. All these things are your replacements for the Love of God. All these things are cherished to ensure a body identification. They are songs of praise to the ego. Do not put your faith in the worthless. It will not sustain you. Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances.  - ACIM Lesson 50 Today's Practice: Every time you notice worry thoughts today, let go of them by immediately remembering the mantra, "all power is within me", allowing the words to guide you back to the Peace, the Love, Power, Itself. Use this mantra to help you FEEL through to the Truth of every moment.  Only Love is here.  There can't be a problem AND Love.  There are no problems in the Kingdom.  There's only God, only Love, only the One.  Relax your shoulders as you're reading these words and know that you are the Kingdom.  You are safe. All is well.   Bonus Practice: Take out a cute notebook and pen and write down everything in your life that is not power.    Keep adding to that list until you can see and know and FEEL that Love is the only Power and that all seeming other powers dissolve in the presence of this Love.  Love is truly all we need. Let's stay plugged in, today.   Support the show! ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings