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The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
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“Only by stretching do you grow.
Semper Gumby! "Always Flexible”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
Semper Gumby! "Always Flexible”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“The soul has no "shoulds", "musts", or "have-tos." It doesn't need rules because it knows only connection and flows with what is.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“All [things in the world, good and bad] arise from [Source, from] one indivisible field, one Wholeness. Nothing is left out. [...]
When you flow with what life puts in your path [and resist nothing], you take in every bit of [life, and of Source], bumps and all. In allowing the entirety of what presents itself, fullness replaces the emptiness. Disappointments, failure, rejections - all are part of a tapestry that no longer has holes in it. [...]
When you [make peace with and accept life in its fullness, good and bad], you find what you've unwittingly been looking for all along: wholeness.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
When you flow with what life puts in your path [and resist nothing], you take in every bit of [life, and of Source], bumps and all. In allowing the entirety of what presents itself, fullness replaces the emptiness. Disappointments, failure, rejections - all are part of a tapestry that no longer has holes in it. [...]
When you [make peace with and accept life in its fullness, good and bad], you find what you've unwittingly been looking for all along: wholeness.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“You came here [to this life] to enjoy the fullness of the creative experience. [Both smooth and rough patches]. In the process, any growth you experience adds to the growth of humanity as a whole.
What better way could there be for humans to evolve than in an environment of [contrasting experiences; dark and light] where free will stretches and pulls against rigid rules? This creative tension results in an inner urge to progress ever onward, ever upward, through winding curves and over the occasional whoop-de-doos.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
What better way could there be for humans to evolve than in an environment of [contrasting experiences; dark and light] where free will stretches and pulls against rigid rules? This creative tension results in an inner urge to progress ever onward, ever upward, through winding curves and over the occasional whoop-de-doos.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“All good stories follow a similar storyline:
The protagonist embarks on an adventure that leads him or her into the unknown. Along the way, the main chracter encounters challenges and temptations. He or she is helped by mentors or guides who gift them with insights and revelations. In the end, they experience triumph and transformation.
This popular pattern is known as "the hero's journey", and it is what your soul came here to experience. [...]
[Before you came into this life, as a soul,] you chose this role and the other actors with whom you would interact. You agreed to the overall plot and to specific milestones within the story, but for much of it, the details are unscripted. You are free to choose your reactions and responses to every new experience. That's what makes it so exciting for the soul and you, the hero of this story.
The problems occur when [...] ]you forget you are a soul playing a temporary human role and] you allow the role to define who you are. [...] This is like a method actor who begins to beleive he or she IS the character they are portraying.
The idea is to] maintain soul awareness and step out of character every so often [and re-connect with the soul and its wise understanding of the world].”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
The protagonist embarks on an adventure that leads him or her into the unknown. Along the way, the main chracter encounters challenges and temptations. He or she is helped by mentors or guides who gift them with insights and revelations. In the end, they experience triumph and transformation.
This popular pattern is known as "the hero's journey", and it is what your soul came here to experience. [...]
[Before you came into this life, as a soul,] you chose this role and the other actors with whom you would interact. You agreed to the overall plot and to specific milestones within the story, but for much of it, the details are unscripted. You are free to choose your reactions and responses to every new experience. That's what makes it so exciting for the soul and you, the hero of this story.
The problems occur when [...] ]you forget you are a soul playing a temporary human role and] you allow the role to define who you are. [...] This is like a method actor who begins to beleive he or she IS the character they are portraying.
The idea is to] maintain soul awareness and step out of character every so often [and re-connect with the soul and its wise understanding of the world].”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“When you entertain thoughts of those with whom you're entangled - whether in a body or not - your thougths excite the shared energetic field that your interactions over time have created. If the person you're thinking about is sensitive, they will pick up on your energetic signature and think of you in return.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“[The ordinary, everyday quiet, calm sense of Presence/ Being/ Awareness in the stillness, in the Now, behind everything, IS "God" / Source / Infinite Intelligence / Omnipresence / Omniscience.]
I realized this sense of simply "being" is ordinary and easily overlooked.
What is extraordinary is the fact that "this" somehow knows every hair on my head and those of over seven billion of my fellow human beings.
"This" is undivided wholessness. [...]
"This" is the space in between your thoughts, and it is the source of your thoughts.
It is ever-present, timeless and formless. It is self-aware. It is whole, complete and indivisible.
This part of you is the same in me and everyone you have ever met and will ever meet.
"This" is the meeting place that kindred spirits refer to when they greet each other with the Sanskrit salutation and say, "Namaste". Said with meaning, the heart opens to the mutual message in this one, simple word: "I honor the place in you that is of love, of light, of truth and of peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are one."”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
I realized this sense of simply "being" is ordinary and easily overlooked.
What is extraordinary is the fact that "this" somehow knows every hair on my head and those of over seven billion of my fellow human beings.
"This" is undivided wholessness. [...]
"This" is the space in between your thoughts, and it is the source of your thoughts.
It is ever-present, timeless and formless. It is self-aware. It is whole, complete and indivisible.
This part of you is the same in me and everyone you have ever met and will ever meet.
"This" is the meeting place that kindred spirits refer to when they greet each other with the Sanskrit salutation and say, "Namaste". Said with meaning, the heart opens to the mutual message in this one, simple word: "I honor the place in you that is of love, of light, of truth and of peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are one."”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“What is the same in every human being and doesn't change? [...]
That you exist.
The words we use to express this concept are "I am."
"I" is the pronoun we use to reference the self.
"Am" is the verb that references a state of being.
"I am" indicates self-awareness of being.
In the space between all words, all thoughts, all memories, what do you know with certainty? "I exist and I am aware of it."
When stating, "I am", all self-aware beings are referring to an identical experience. [...] No matter one's age or life history, "I am" - the awareness of being - is a shared phenomenon.
[This is] the part of you beyond your story.
Think of "I am" like the vast open sky. Any words that follow "I am" are clouds. They arise within the sky, temporarily changing the appearance of it, but they have no effect on the sky's basic existence.
Who are you beyond your story? You are the open sky my friend - the presence and expression of an immense Awareness that knows it exists.
Because this is a shared presence, it's more fitting to refer to this as the Absolute Self (with a capital S) as opposed to the temporary, limited sense of "my" self with a story. [...]
In the Bible, in the Book of Exodus, the story goes that when Moses asked for God's name, the first response he received was, "I AM that I AM."
So we have the Absolute "I AM" that is everywhere, all-knowing, and all-powerful. And we have over seven billion relative beings also claiming "I am." The difference between relative awareness and Absolute Awareness is the individual stories or exeriences that arise in the one I AM Awareness, like clouds in the sky. The Self is the sky. The selves are the clouds. You are not apart from the sky. You are intimately part of it as a self-aware expression fo self-awareness.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
That you exist.
The words we use to express this concept are "I am."
"I" is the pronoun we use to reference the self.
"Am" is the verb that references a state of being.
"I am" indicates self-awareness of being.
In the space between all words, all thoughts, all memories, what do you know with certainty? "I exist and I am aware of it."
When stating, "I am", all self-aware beings are referring to an identical experience. [...] No matter one's age or life history, "I am" - the awareness of being - is a shared phenomenon.
[This is] the part of you beyond your story.
Think of "I am" like the vast open sky. Any words that follow "I am" are clouds. They arise within the sky, temporarily changing the appearance of it, but they have no effect on the sky's basic existence.
Who are you beyond your story? You are the open sky my friend - the presence and expression of an immense Awareness that knows it exists.
Because this is a shared presence, it's more fitting to refer to this as the Absolute Self (with a capital S) as opposed to the temporary, limited sense of "my" self with a story. [...]
In the Bible, in the Book of Exodus, the story goes that when Moses asked for God's name, the first response he received was, "I AM that I AM."
So we have the Absolute "I AM" that is everywhere, all-knowing, and all-powerful. And we have over seven billion relative beings also claiming "I am." The difference between relative awareness and Absolute Awareness is the individual stories or exeriences that arise in the one I AM Awareness, like clouds in the sky. The Self is the sky. The selves are the clouds. You are not apart from the sky. You are intimately part of it as a self-aware expression fo self-awareness.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“Each of us serves as the physical arms, legs and voice for the Guiding Organizing Designing (GOD) Source of all that is.
I credit Gary E. Schwartz Ph.D of the University of Arizona for this excellent acronym, featured in his 2006 book The G.O.D. Experiments: How Science is Discovering God in Everything, ncluding Us.
This intelligent Force that animates our body, mind and spirit is not apart from us, but we are a part of it. Put another way: none of us is the entirety of God, but God is the entirety of us.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
I credit Gary E. Schwartz Ph.D of the University of Arizona for this excellent acronym, featured in his 2006 book The G.O.D. Experiments: How Science is Discovering God in Everything, ncluding Us.
This intelligent Force that animates our body, mind and spirit is not apart from us, but we are a part of it. Put another way: none of us is the entirety of God, but God is the entirety of us.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“We as a species are out of balance. To find peace and tranquility and for our lvies to flow like water, we need to spend less time in our logical, reasoning human mind and become reacquainted with the feeling-knowing part of ourselves: the soul.
As we do so, we will begin to enjoy the fruits of living an awakened life. By balancing the head with the heart - the human nature with soul awareness- we embrace who we really are and why we're here. [...]
This eternal part of you is eager to integrate its presence into your daily life so that you can flow through your days with greater ease.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
As we do so, we will begin to enjoy the fruits of living an awakened life. By balancing the head with the heart - the human nature with soul awareness- we embrace who we really are and why we're here. [...]
This eternal part of you is eager to integrate its presence into your daily life so that you can flow through your days with greater ease.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“The profound symbolism of the eye [is] as the bridge between the light you can see and the light that burns within you.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“Your true Home is not a place but a state of being.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“Are you familiar with the phrase "to grok"?
It comes from the 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. The main character is a human raised on Mars whose English language is peppered with Martian words. "To grok something" means to wrap your head around a concept.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
It comes from the 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. The main character is a human raised on Mars whose English language is peppered with Martian words. "To grok something" means to wrap your head around a concept.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“LIFE: This is an acronym. [...]
It stands for Love In Full Expression.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
It stands for Love In Full Expression.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“It has been scientifically proven that hearing stories of others' experiences not only expands your own beliefs but also opens you to having similar experiences.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“Ego is the aspect of your human self that supports the story. If you had no story [of who you are], you would have no ego.
You need ego to operate in your role as an individual. Its task is to differentiate your story from other people's stories. [...]
If you sense defensiveness or fear [in response to certain ideas about yourself or "how life works"]... that's [often] ego protecting itself.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
You need ego to operate in your role as an individual. Its task is to differentiate your story from other people's stories. [...]
If you sense defensiveness or fear [in response to certain ideas about yourself or "how life works"]... that's [often] ego protecting itself.”
― The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
