Your Daily Devotional: GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki

When that body slouches, it's like it's slouching into forgetfulness. It's slouching into worry. It's slouching into overthinking. Sit back up straight, like you’re on your Throne, and be Greatness. In this posture, that body is like an antenna, receiving, remembering Greatness, remembering its Divine Essence, remembering Truth. Remembering that everything it encounters is also Greatness, is one with Greatness. That there is nothing but Greatness. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quotes: Have trust in God and the most difficult tasks become easy. For success, hard work alone is not enough. God's grace is essential." -Maharajji "When things in you move, you don't have to move with them." -Adyashanti

You're back! But you have to keep coming back. In the midst of your day, in the midst of that impulse to scroll your phone, in the midst of your worry sessions, you must surrender to this process that's unfolding, that's happening to you. God is doing something extraordinary through you-- that's the tension you feel. That's the anxiety you feel. It's not because of anything that appears to be happening in your life. It's the growth happening in Here. Fix your eyes, Here. Even when you're seeing what's around you, it's like you're looking inside. You're feeling inside. You're hearing inside. You've changed, inside, even though the mind disagrees. God knows, and you'll see. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed." - Alice Walker, Living by the Word "God did not bring you to this wilderness to leave you. But to lead you to a better life." -via IG @LaurenFortenberry "Something really beautiful happens when you're in the middle of your pain and you choose to surrender everything to God." -via IG @goforspiritual "We're not pretending to be joyful or hiding behind rose-colored glasses we're smiling faithfully and truthfully in every season because we know Him and His way of working in the unseen." -@wildflowerpages via IG "When we fix our eyes on God and watch Him work, the Lord will help us not to be shaken or unsettled." -Karen Ehman

*God is saying, 'It's the Love that counts. It's the Love that matters. It's the Love I hear. It's the Love that prays, that breathes.' Right now, breathe like you know who you are, like you know whose you are. Smile, like you know where you're going. You don't... you're walking by faith not by sight, but you're making it. He's made a Way. Just breathe, in every step. Just breathe, in every seeming moment today, in every email you open, in every anxious thought, just breathe. HE KNOWS. I Love you and I'm with you, [email protected] p.s. 'Temptation' = EVERY thought, not just the 'bad' ones. Try this for a day and see how BIG the Quiet 'grows' :) I Love you again, again! ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quotes: "For I know full well the plans I have for you, plans for your welfare and not for your misfortune, plans that will offer you a future filled with hope. When you call out to me, come forth, and pray to me, I will listen to you. When you search for me, you will find me. When you seek me with all your heart, I will allow you to discover me, says the Lord. I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile." -Jeremiah, Chapter 29, verses 11-14. The Catholic Bible "Be silent. Be still. Alone. Empty. Before your God. Say nothing. Ask nothing. Be silent. Be still Let your God look upon you. That is all. God knows. God understands. God loves you With an enormous love, And only wants To look upon you With that love. Quiet. Still. Be. Let your God - Love you." - Edwina Gateley "Our Father (Abba), who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done. On earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. -The Lord's Prayer "Make of your life an offering! Make of your life a prayer! Be awake to the life that is loving you and sing your prayer, laugh your prayer, dance your prayer, run and weep and sweat your prayer, sleep your prayer, eat your prayer, paint, sculpt, hammer and read your prayer, sweep, dig, rake, drive and hoe your prayer, garden and farm and build and clean your prayer, wash, iron, vacuum, sew, embroider and pickle your prayer, compute, touch, bend and fold but never delete or mutilate your prayer. Learn and pray your prayer, work and rest your prayer, fast and feast your prayer, argue, talk, whisper, listen and shout your prayer, groan and moan and spit and sneeze your prayer, swim and I hunt and cook your prayer, digest and become your prayer, release and recover your prayer, breathe your prayer, BE YOUR PRAYER." -By Alla Renee Bozarth, Life Prayers "When I received Holy Communion, I said to Him, "Jesus, I thought about You so many times last night. And Jesus answered me, "And I thought of you before I called you into being. Before I made the world, I loved you with the love your heart is experiencing today and, throughout the centuries, My love will never change." -St. Faustina's Diary "When I expected disappointment- love was all I heard." -Lyrics: Greater Still by Brandon Lake

God responds to your prayers in many ways, the first response being Joy and inner Peace. His Peace. Today I share about my current read/listen, 'Autobiography of a Yogi', and how we're divine roomies in "this place where every thought and breath starts", where every prayer is expressed and answered. In this place where you practice being Love until Love is all that's left. I Love you, Nik ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Had I not read 'Autobiography of a Yogi', I would not have had a life." -George Harrison "The moment you sing in gratitude, in glory of the Divine, it immediately dawns in you and fills you up again." -Ravi Shanka "If you repeatedly call on Him with ever deeper concentration, He will answer your prayer. A joy and peace will strike your heart. When that comes, you know that you are communing with God. To utter God with devotion, and increase the concentration and devotion with each repetition of His name, is to plunge the mind deeper and deeper in the ocean of His presence until one reaches the fathomless depths of divine peace and ecstatic joy, the sure proof that one's prayers have touched God." -Yogananda "A subsistent inner happiness unconditioned by any external influence is evident proof of the responding prsence of God." -Yogananda "From where every thought and breath start. You are that timeless Presence." -Ramana Maharshi

Praying is remembering God. Putting yourself in touch with God. Feeling Its always-on, always-present Love for you... ceaselessly. Today we choose to stay aware of God, of Love, of the Unchangeable, knowing that since It and the changeable are one, the changeable will appear to harmonize. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Don't panic- pray. Don't worry- worship. Don't give up- keep going. Dong break- take a breath. Don't quit- pause and reset. Don't blow up- bless them Don't overthink- be open to solutions. All we get is time and choices, use it wisely. At this moment you have a chance to make a choice that creates change." - @Lawofattractionlive via IG "The unchangeable can only be realized in silence. Once realized, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected." -Nisargadatta Maharaj "From Joy I came, for Joy I live, in Joy I melt." -Yogananda "Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with God, that is the state of meditation." -Sathya Sai Baba "The real in us is silent, the acquired is the talkative." -khalil Gibran

To make it more specific to your situation, swap out 'success' for 'business,' swap out 'success' for 'love,' swap out 'success' for 'readership,' swap it out for 'audience,' swap it out for 'family.' As my silence grows, my success grows. As I grow more and more silent, I grow more and more in alignment. I grow more and more on purpose, in passion. In Love, I bloom. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quotes: p.s. I snapped a picture of the bracelet I found. See it Here! "The Silence in you is the key to Me." "If God is not changing your situation, maybe He's changing your Heart." -Maharajji "If you want to build a great life, slow down. Anyone can caffeinate & push hard toward their next goal. But it's not sustainable. Long-term energy comes from alignment. And alignment requires feeling the subtle difference between energy created from anxiety & energy created from inspiration." -@CoryMuscara "The basic paradox: Everything is a mess, yet all is well." -Ezra Bayda "Peace is the first glimpse of the inner Kingdom of God." -Yogananda "And when she could no longer hear God's voice over the world's yelling and endless expectations. She got quiet with herself. She took her stillness to God. And His voice alone led her out of the wilderness." -@laurenfortenberrywrites via IG "Perhaps what you want is your destiny." -@her. written.thoughts via IG "Sometimes, the biggest, bravest step of faith is to STAND STILL." -@AutumnMiles via IG "Nonattachment is a pivotal practice going forward for you. The easiest way to enjoy life is to accept what makes its way to you, embrace it, enjoy it, and let it go when and if it needs to. Trying to hold on to things and people is a trait you picked up when you were in survival mode. The good things in your life were far and few between so you felt the need to grasp and hold on to what was good. That's no longer needed. You have one good thing lined up after the next. Focus on your continued expansion & evolution. -Via IG @ Sourcemessage "The escape is through the Sound Current." -Hazur Baba Sawan Singh "Always listen to the inner Sound during meditation every day: "If you listen for ten minutes, or five minutes, or four minutes, or two minutes, or even one minute, with love and devotion, millions of sins and obstacles will be removed." -Baba Jaimal Singh

Wake somebody up with that question today. Wake yourself up with that question today. Am I having fun? while you're sending those emails, while you're making that daily commute, and then shift into the Fun. Sit up into the Fun, into the Smile. Keep finding your smile. Keep smiling your smile. Keep giving your smile, while you feel God Smiling back, Hint: Your smile is His. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quotes: "The world exists as you perceive it. It is not what you see... but how you see it. It is not what you hear...but how you hear it. It is not what you feel...but how you feel it." -Rumi "A Prayer Against Fear God, too often, I find myself overwhelmed by circumstances that are beyond my control. Too often, I am easily distracted by things that don't matter. I know that as I step into a new season I will face obstacles that make me want to give up. When this happens, give me the faith I need to cling to the truth: that Your peace and protection aren't based on my feelings or circumstances but on Your character and faithfulness. In Jesus' name, Amen.' -IG @youversion "You are part of something bigger than yourself. You are part of the body of Christ." -IG @youversion "What I need: will find me. What is mine: will never deny me. What is current: is necessary for this time in my life." -IG @womenontopp "Let that which He has ordained from all ages happen to me." -St. Faustina's Diary "I emerge from the secret place lighter." - IG @wildflowerpages "If you feel far from Allah, who moved?" - IG @alhvmdulilvh

I asked for a sign and got an actual one! There’s nothing this Love can’t do. I love you, Nik ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quote: Lyrics to 'All You Need is Love' by the Beatles "There's nothin' you can do that can't be done Nothin' you can sing that can't be sung Nothin' you can say, but you can learn how to play the game It's easy Nothin' you can make that can't be made No one you can save that can't be saved Nothin' you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time It's easy All you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, love Love is all you need All you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, love Love is all you need There's nothin' you can know that isn't known Nothin' you can see that isn't shown There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy All you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, love Love is all you need All you need is love (all together now) All you need is love (everybody) All you need is love, love."

"Step out onto the path of service, but remember-do not fail to take the time each day for a loving worship and adoration of the King of your life. Then shall you be fitted and worthy for the work which you are to do." -Eva Bell Werber, Voice of the Master Today, every time you're troubled by a thought, remember where that thought is taking place. It's taking place in the ocean of Love. Hear this Silence. Feel this Love. And you'll see that even that disturbing thought, its essence is Love. And because you recognize it, it turns back into Love, it turns back into silence, where it becomes a more beautiful thought. One that says, "you're not upset, you just forgot that you're submerged in Love," or "how can I serve you", or "how can I help this one"? These are the thoughts you have when you recognize that God is in you and you are in God. This is the new you. The God you. I Love you, Nik ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings

Everything you see is sacred. Everything you taste is sacred. Everything you smell is sacred. Everything you hear and touch, sacred. Hafiz said, 'everything you do is sacred." In this Silence we practice, you are sacred. And in this sacredness there's nothing but Grace. Receive It by staying open to It, by feeling It... by giving It. The more you give, the more you have. I Love you, Nik [email protected] Support the show, please! ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! ________________________________ Today's Quotes: "The Love that meets your need is the Love that's flowing out through you right now." -Joel Goldsmith "There is a tendency to doubt your growth in the midst of a big leap forward; hold steady and allow yourself to bloom." -Yung Pueblo "A great silence comes over me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language." -Rumi "When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited." -Ramakrishna

When the heart is warm with Love, the head is automatically cool. Your response is chill. Your thoughts are chill. Sometimes, it's like they're saying- "Thank you for giving me this Love as a reminder of Your presence. Thank you for giving me this opportunity, this moment, to remember you." And you can take as many of these moments as you need during the day. Every time you close your eyes and go within, that's the Sabbath. That's true rest. That's the absence of desire (aka the feeling of lack), and the presence of all things GoOD. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! ________________________________ Today's Quotes: "The only real rest comes when you're alone with God." -Rumi Heart As Wide As The World by Krishna Das “Holding me in your arms’ vast embrace Only love shining in endless space All I need is to be with you All my prayers have been heard All I want is to rest inside Your heart as wide as the world I looked away Your beauty too much to bear Where could I run? Your eyes, I found them everywhere All I want is to sing to you The song that no one has heard All my life has lead me to A heart as wide as the world Shree Raam Jai Raam Jai Jai Raam“ “No matter how turbulent the situation, Lord Shiva’s head and inner realm remains peaceful. Though the head is cool, the heart is always warm with compassion for the world. What we need is a cool head and a warm heart. But what we see in the world today is the very opposite: most people are hot-headed and cold-hearted. Everyone’s head is heated up by worldly thoughts, and the heart has become frosty with selfishness. If our head is cool, we can face the most adverse circumstances peacefully and turn it to our advantage." -Amma 2017 via @Sherenevismaya on IG "We must have one purpose alone: to seek the realization of His presence, His power, and His grace. When we emerge from these periods, usually we find that the “things” are added unto us: whatever knowledge we need to carry on our business, whatever physical strength or moral support." -Joel Goldsmith, 'A Parenthesis in Eternity' "A life built upon Sabbath is contented because in rhythms of rest we discover our time is full of the holiness of God." -Shelly Miller

It's all Prayer, when you stay aware of God's Presence, when you're constantly calling His Name inside. Not because He's not there, and you're wanting Him to come to you, but because He is there and you're wanting your attention to stay there, to stay Here, on Him. On Love. On Silence. On God, this works. T R U S T. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quotes: "You can talk to me when your heart is heavy. You can come to me when your thoughts are loud. Your heart is safe here. You are safe here." -@poetstribe via IG "Things still control you. Situations still cause you to react. All that has to go. To become free you have to be empty, no preconceived ideas, no concepts, no judgments, no human knowledge. You have to be completely empty. When you're empty you're like space." -Robert Adams "O Holy Trinity, One and Indivisible God, may You be blessed for this great gift and testament of mercy. My Jesus, to atone for blasphemers I will keep silent when unjustly sI reprimanded and in this way make partial amends to You. I am singing within my soul an unending hymn to You, and no one will suspect or understand this. The song of my soul is known to You alone, O my Creator and Lord! I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. He has been tutoring me from my most tender years." -St. Faustina (Diary) "Give up everything to Him, resign yourself to Him, and there will be no more trouble for you." -Bhagwan Sri Ramakrishna "It's impossible to truly relax until we relax control." -Nicola Jane Hobbs "Jesus infinitely outweighs everything." - @Faithfulfootprints "Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." -Matthew 20: 26-28 "We are asleep until we fall in Love." -Leo Tolstoy "Do ordinary things with extraordinary love." -Saint Teresa of Calcutta

The tears you cry are not because you're lost, they're because you're found. You are found in Him. Love sees you, and you cry when you look away. You cry when your mind tells you that Love is not (t)Here. You cry when you see and hear things that aren't truly (t)Here. But when you're fully Here, like you are right now, you find Him, again. And you hear It. I Love you, Nik [email protected] p.s. I shared this on the forum a few days ago-- "What am I up to? Oh nothing, just reading and randomly came upon the Aramaic (and Arabic) word ‘rahm’ pronounced Raam (our mantra) that means ‘womb’. In Aramaic it’s root means ‘mercy and love from our inner womb’, or ‘love that births rays from the deepest place within us’… Ra= a fresh ray of light Am= from the Mother Chant and be Mary 😉 ! I love you" ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear His voice, you must listen with all your heart. To love Him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life He meant you to live, unless you live from the heart |I John Eldredge To maintain a close relationship with Jesus, I must remain in His Presence often. Without Him, I can do nothing. Like a branch that cannot bear much fruit unless it remains on the vine. Jesus, give me strength to - remain kind. remain soft. remain humble. remain myself." -@claremsf via IG "Listen, and see if you remember an Ancient Song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since." -A Course In Miracles "Homeless are they Who would abide alone, apart from Me. Yet would I call them home. My Voice I send To sing in soundless places. Hear from Me The Song a Father sings to you, His child; A Melody from far beyond the world. Step back and listen, for He comes to bless And tell you that you are not comfortless Ripening in a healthy way are those who radiate womb-like love from the deepest place inside. They shall be reborn within Love's creative stream." -The Gifts of God

R E L A X God is circling around you, that temple, that tower. He's aware of your situation, of every thought, every fear. You had gone astray, lost in what you're not, and who you're not, but you're back. How does it feel to know who you are? To know whose you are? Shift into this felt-Knowing, this Silence. Stop leaving, and expect miracles. I Love you, Nik ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: **My favorite icon of Jesus (on my nightstand, the pic I went to lay the communion in front of! )- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Pantocrator_%28Sinai%2 **My favorite Maharajji picture (on my stand)- https://maharajji.love/files/images/Maharajji_solo_color/#/view/ID216434 "Hidden power" - Baba Ram Singh ji "A hand unseen is behind this creation, and every pair of eyes is looking towards that hand which is not seen. Wherever one looks, one is looking for that hand which is behind and unseen. You look at a flower and appreciate the flower and behind the flower, there's that beauty, that truth which could bring this beauty. If this flower does not remind you of the eternal beauty, of the eternal truth, then it has not fulfilled its purpose. So behind every activity, pleasant, unpleasant, chaotic, harmonious, is one Divinity." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "All I know and all I can say is, God is preparing me for something. I am necessary." - via IG @Ceexnotes "One of the proofs that our Simran is being done correctly is that, in any kind of difficulty, we first remember Simran." -Baba Ram Singh "I woke up and decided I will not stress over things that are out of my control. People will be people. Jobs will be jobs. But one thing I know for sure is... God will be God and... He's got me." -via IG @amazinggracecoffe "The only comfort we can find is by saying: "Allah is aware of my situation."" -via IG @noorsayingss "God will speak clearly, guide deliberately, and liberate completely as you know and experience his heart more fully." -via IG @NeilVermillion "I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still con't know if lam a falcon, or a storm, or a great song. -Rilke "Trusting the reality of reality itself." -Neil Douglas Klotz "Anything CAN happen BECAUSE He is the God of miracles." -Via IG @letsgrowsisters

One step at a time... One prayer at a time... Feeling the Softness behind every step, behind every prayer. I Love you, Nik ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Joy is the grace we say to God. " -Ray Bradbury via @monkindocs via IG "Me: "God, how will I do it? God: "One prayer at a time?" -@Laurenfortenberrywrites via IG "I tell you inside you there is an angel. You simply have to realize that you are angel. You have the power to do what you want to do . Know this and relax." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Love Itself is the actual form of God." -Ramana Maharshi One knowing and feeling behind everything." -Neil Douglas Klotz "The mind is here to keep you earthbound. When you stop thinking, the mind becomes the infinite, becomes God, becomes boundless space, nirvana, pure awareness. It doesn't really become that. You've always been that. The mind merely disappears, as a mind, and your true nature is expressed." -Robert Adams "Establish peace within yourself. Healing is not difficult when we know that we are not trying to heal a body, improve or change man. We are only trying to establish in our consciousness the awareness of the peace that is already there. Do not seek healing, seek peace; the healing is the added thing." -Joel Goldsmith "Human thought, with its judgment and resistance, is not only superfluous, but it keeps us entombed in the turmoil of the dream. Divine Thought allowed, by the stillness of mind, lifts us into the altitude of perfect Reality. Stay Risen, in the Deep Silence of My Peace Stay Risen..." -Octavia Williams

Can you feel Love moving through you? Nothing else is needed. If you just sat with this, feeling this fullness, being this fullness, your day will happen in this fullness, your destiny will unfold in this fullness, seemingly quicker. The things you've been waiting for begin tapping you on the shoulder like, 'where have you been? I've been here!' But you were lost in thought. You were lost in the illusion of lacking what's always Here. You couldn't see what was Here, but your 'I' is open now. Look, and you will find. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "When we say Jesus we aren't just talking about a man who lived 2000 years ago, but to a certain possiblity within every human being." -Sadhguru "a tree is the same through sun and rain this we must learn through pleasure and pain - @draino via IG "Realm of the Unseen My daughter, there is a great realm, the realm of the unseen, where you shall more and more function. There you shall find your strength, your fullness of life, your work. This does not mean that you shall not also function on the side of the visible, but that first everything shall take place for you on that other, unseen, side. You actions shall be directed from this unseen side. Such beauties, such love, such utter sweetness shall then fill your days that you will feel transported to a heavenly glory even while performing the humblest tasks. This realm is only found by the practicing of My Presence, and day by day, it shall grow more and more accessible to you." -Eva Bell Werber, Quiet Talks with the Master "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

Until now you were sleep walking. Sleep praying. But it's a new dawn. Welcome to the GoOD life, to your life in God, in His Name, in the Sun. You're remembering-- that you don't need anything you Have 2. that hearing the Name, (t)His Silence, or this Divine Tone in the Silence, IS praying 3. that hearing It while 'asking' is Alchemy 4. that you don't even have to 'ask', because at all times, you're hearing what He's giving 5. that there's no hearing outside of This. 6. that there's no living outside of This. 7. that Love's always on. Oh, It's on. 🚀 I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "First, He prepares the ground, and then He plants the Seed of the True Name." -Guru Nanak "I am learning to be gentle to be patient to not light fires when I cannot see the stars." - @william.bortz via IG "People who shine from within don't need a spotlight." -via FB Thoughts Wonder "When we pray for others the entire Universe prays for us." -Amma "A blessing may come to you because you wished it for someone else." - @Path2paradise via IG "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it." -John 14:13-14 "Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full." -John 16:24 "Only one name is not pronounced in the world the name the father gave the son. It is the name above all: it is the father's name. For the son would not have become father if he had not put on the father's name. Those who have this name understand it but do not speak it. Those who do not have it cannot even understand it." -Gospel of Phillip "Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "By silence or stillness is meant in this context not emptiness but fullness, not an absence but a presence. True silence of the heart is an attitude of waiting upon God, of listening to Him, of responding to His love. It is not just the cessation of speech, a pause between words, but rather communion and dialogue. "This silence," says Ignatius, "is at the same time a conversation, yet without thoughts, above every thought." -Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia via On the Prayer of Jesus "It's okay, that you don't know how it will happen quite yet. The momentum is in place. The river is moving. The charge is alive. This constant unfolding. Stay with it. Stay in it." - @VictoriaEricksonWriter via IG "When it's God it flows, and when it's you, it's forced." -@Sardinebread via IG "You are now being your highest vibration." -Quornesha GoOD Mornings episode-- "Affirm: I Am a Star"

If you lie down, Love will raise you up... you will rise in Love, in Freedom, in Victory. Try meditating in corpse pose, today. Try surrendering, today. Try saying 'yes' to Loving Silence, today. Stop trying and do, today. Stop doing and BE, today. There's a place inside (and out) that's already surrendering, no matter the position the body is in. There's a place inside (and out) that's already Silent-Love, no matter the state the mind is in. Be That, today and always. I Love you, Nik [email protected] Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "The silence is another way of saying to keep your mind stayed on God all the time. God is the silence and you are that. Feel the silence right now. You can feel it. It's a thing of beauty. You know when you're getting into the true silence, you begin to become happier, and happier, and happier for no reason. It makes no difference what's going on in the world. The world is in one place and you're in another place. In the deep silence you are identifying with the substratum of creation. Always remember to go into the silence. A sage is always in the silence. A sage may be talking, listening, partaking of activities, but to the sage there's only silence." -Robert Adams "I have never known Truth to fail, never known any 'problem' that didn't vanish, once I was wholly honest with Omnipresent Awareness. Do not just declare words, as if reciting a formula, but absolutely admit Love is pure, single, unadulterated-- thus unchallenged, unopposed Authority." -Aiken "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." -Lao Tzu "Whatever happens, hold onto God's feet without loosening the grip even slightly." -Amma

Being Aware, how you are right now, doesn't stop the loop, but it allows you to switch tracks. It enables you to hit play on a new story, on a new song. It's still God's Song, but you couldn't hear this one before. You had to rise. You had to sit up taller, to hear this Track. to live this Track. Can you feel It? Listen... I Love you, nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Now you're on the right track!" -Maharajji "Be still awhile and let God love you. For just a moment, don't think about methods, or achievements, or past mistakes. Let God heal your heart, soothe your worries, and be your rock. Seek to utterly depend on Him." -Eva Koleva Timothy via @claremsfItalitha IG "You didn't miss God. The bigger the destiny. The longer the process. Dogs can have babies in a few months. Elephants take two years to carry full term. What you're carrying is just more significant than you think!!! - @toracesolomon via IG "The Lord said to me, "I know vou aren't sure of the next move of what to do, don't look, just listen, because MY SPIRIT IS THE MAP!" - @autumnmiles via IG "The thought, I'm still on the road, but I'm getting closer day by day' seems very encouraging, but as long as you believe this voice, it will divide you and send you on a journey of near misses." -Mooji

But you have to keep feeling the Miracle instead of the resistance. You have to keep feeling where you are instead of where you were, instead of where you are afraid you might end up. Knowing that where you are now is only an appearance. You're Home, now. You're in God, now, but because you can't see, you see an office, you see an apartment you don't want to be in anymore... but that only appears to be (t)here, that body only appears to be (t)here, the thoughts only appear to be (t)here. Love is Here and the Miracle happens POWERFULLY when you know/feel this, Now. and Now, and Now, and Now. :) It's a feeling You're chanting/recognizing... now, and now, and now, and now. A miracle You're causing/witnessing... now, and now, and now. I Love you, Nik ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Nothing happens next, this is it." -Zen master "If you will stop looking where it isn't, and start feeling for it where it is, your doubt will go away." - Abraham Hicks "To the girl waking up and falling asleep with anxiety each day, declare this truth over yourself: Though things feel out of control, God is still in control." -@proverbs31ministries "A mysterious power will take care of everything for you. This only happens when you understand, I am not the doer. As long as you believe you are the doer, you have to struggle, you have to fight, you have to compete and you have to straighten things out. But as soon as you realize, I am not the doer. I didn't ask to be born, I didn't have to go through this position, to have the parents I had, to grow up where I grew up, this is all karmic. The same power that took care of this will take care of you now. Will put you in your right place. Will take care of your finances, your health and everything else. Your job is to focus your attention on the Self." -Robert Adams "If it's not God's time, you can't force it. When it is God's time, you can't stop it." -@SardineBread

Seeking the Silence behind your thoughts, today, and the Love behind your body, you arrive at your Self. When you seek the Eternal Day behind 'Monday', the Timelessness behind time, you arrive at your Self. Nothing can touch you here. No one can 'block' you here, because there's nothing but You here. There's nothing but Love here, and this Divine Love is presently, right now as you're reading these words, becoming all the Go(o)d things you need. Watch :) I Love you and I'm with you! Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Seek the Father behind all fathers And the Mother behind all mothers. Seek the only Beloved behind all loved ones And the friend behind all friends Of many lives lived on this mystery-earth. Search for the Brain behind all brains And the Mind behind all minds, The Hand behind all hands And the Feet behind all feet. Seek the Blood behind all bloods, The Breath behind all breaths, The Wisdom behind all wisdom And the Joy behind all joys. Find the Love behind all loves, The Life behind all living things." -Yogananda "Divine Love is the magnet that draws to me all Good." -Yogananada "You are a magnet. Not a claw." -@TinySpiritualPoems on IG "You are what you're seeking." -Mooji

Once you have God, you have everything you need. You no longer have 'needs'. You just 'have'. You just 'are'. Because God is where you are. And the first proof of God where you are, is the GoOD feeling. The Glow. Love. Let It flow forth. I Love you and I'm with you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: Referenced Episode 235- 'Whenever you're not glowing today, catch your Self, and Glow' "God has proven that when He is with me all the 'necessities of life" become unnecessary. In that consciousness you become more healthy than the average person, more joyous, more bountiful in every way. Don't seek little things; they will divert you from God. Start your experiment now: make life simple and be a king." -Yogananda "To be able to realize that [God is your individual consciousness] enables you to sit back as comfortably, as joyously and confidently as a baby sitting on its mother’s lap...In this attitude and altitude you eventually hear your own consciousness saying to you, “I am your bread, I am your meat, I am your wine and your water. Fear not, I am with you. Be not afraid, it is I. I will never leave you.” -Joel Goldsmith “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty." -John 6:35 "Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous." -Isaiah 41:10 "As soon as you opened your mouth And I heard your soft Sounds, I knew we would be friends The first time dear pilgrim,I heard your laugh I knew it would not take me long To turn you back into God." - Hafiz via Daniel Ladinsky "(Upon meeting with Love) Even the beggar becomes a king, the lame persons are able to walk or even fly, the blind is able to see this universe, and many of the difficult writings of the destiny which are at the forehead of a person can be wiped out. Even the fundamental essence of a person or a personality or a being can be made to change." -Mukunda

Someone asked me over the weekend what my main mantra is, and what their mantra should be. This is my answer. ❤️ Note: the most powerful mantra is the one you chant and keep chanting. The one that helps you keep recognizing the unbroken mantra of Silent-Love that's always, already here. Feel It, feel It, feel It, or hear It, hear It, hear It... hold on to the path you're on because it is your destiny and is leading you to your destiny. You've made it (!!!!), and you'll make it. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "The first rule to amass inner and outer wealth is: before all else, have awareness of Eufeeling (GoOD feeling)." -Dr. Frank Kinslow, The Kinslow System "When nothing anyway belongs to you, what is it that you want to give up? Just relax and have faith. That's surrender." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Try to remain in the inner stillness of the soul. That is where your real home is." - Sri Daya Mata "Thank God today for removing you from the situations that you weren't strong enough to remove yourself from... Focus on Jesus, not the storm. Focus on Jesus, not the anxiety. Focus on Jesus, not the pain. Focus on the Jesus, not the struggle. Focus on Jesus, not the enemy. Focus on Jesus, not the world." -by KJ via @Living_Christian "Everyone here is Absolute Reality, Pure Awareness. This is your real nature. Right now, not some time in the future. Not when you get enlightened. But right this minute. This is what you are. Why will you not accept it? When you think about yourself, do you think you're a puny human that has to struggle for existence and fight for survival? As long as you believe this, that's the way it's going to be for you. But as soon as you accept the truth about yourself, that you are a delight, Divine Sat-Chit-Ananda, you will be free. You simply have to accept this. There are no rituals you have to go through. There are no prayers you have to chant. You simply have to awaken to your true nature, Pure Awareness, Nirvana, Bliss, Consciousness. This is what you are right at this moment." -Robert Adams ("Silence of the Heart") "The next chapter of my life is called... I told y'all ___! Respectfully." -@Bigluvnhollywood via IG

Today we're staying focused on Exuberance until we see that there's not 'focus' AND 'exuberance'. There's really only One. Only Exuberance. Only Exuberant-Focus. Silent, alert, attention... the feeling of staring without blinking, or listening for a very faint sound. This is your natural state and when you're being that, you feel Go(o)d, and then, "whatever you need will just happen."* I Love you and I'm with you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: *"Whatever you need will just happen if you keep your energies exuberant and focused.!" -Sadhguru Link to episode about 'being still in Love... being Still and knowing God'-- How to Let Go and Let God- The Real Meaning of Surrender

Every time you feel Peace, you're free. Every time you feel Peace, maya, the illusion, can't see you. Your old triggers can't find you. Your old karmas can't find you. You become invisible to them. Because you're so BRIGHT ... when you're like This. "You blind everyone, even yourself. " That's why you can't see anything, that's why the view ahead looks empty, that's why it appears dark... trust me that It isn't. Trust Him. He's touched you, and like it says in John, "one thing I do know: I was blind and now I see." "I was one way, and now I'm completely different. And the thing that happened in between was Him." Love and Look. Look and SEE. Everything is changing. Nothing is the same. I Love you, Nik [email protected] Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "The story is always old. The silence is always brand new." -Jeff Foster "Keep going. No matter how stuck you feel. No matter how bad things are right now. No matter how many days you've spent crying. No matter how hopeless and depressed you feel. No matter how many days you've spent wishing things were different. I promise you won't feel this way forever. Keep going." -@Poetstext "Inhale: I am done holding this breath. Exhale: I deserve to exhale." -@BlackLiturgies "All is well, and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes. None have ever been made, none are being made, and none will ever be made." -Robert Adams "Your entire being is like a tree. Your family and friends only touch specific parts of it - mostly the fruits, maybe some branches . A large part of you remains untouched You feel like a machine, you feel dead inside. You shout , snap, and sulk at random things, or silently suffer. How to tell them that you want your entire being acknowledged? Or maybe you yourself have forgotten your entire being. That's why you need a person or a deity, a mortal or immortal, who is like air, who doesn't want anything specific from you , who touches every inch of your being, who makes you feel alive." - @ShunyaSouls via IG "You're so bright you blind even yourself." -Unknown “Matthew, you didn't lose any time. It just got rearranged. You're gaining it all back now.” -The Chosen on Amazon Prime "I was one way, and now I'm completely different. And the thing that happened in between was Him." -The Chosen on Amazon Prime

You're going to look back and appreciate these days. These apparent 'slow' or 'no momentum' days. So relax into that Gratitude, now. Relax back into Love, now. Notice that when you're caught in a thought train, you're not aware of Love. But when you become aware of Love, you're no longer caught. You see that you were never caught. You were never in the train... you were watching it. Watching this life unfold. Watching 'the more' unfold from Here, (w)here you're Reigning, and Resting. I Love you, Nik ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "I just felt God softly say to me, "there's more". There may be some of you who are at a point in life where you feel like what you see is it. Like there is nothing past what you see now, but God says "there's more." Hang in there and keep seeking God because what you see now isn't all that there is or will be, there's more!! I don't know why exactly it is those words popped into my spirit, but hopefully they mean something to someone, including myself! God Bless you!" -Derrika Danielle via IG @TheRealSweetSpot -Romans 5: 3-13 -Mary Magdelene 2019 Film "Make the conscious choice to move the attention of your anxious heart away from the waves and direct it to the One who walks on them and says, 'It's me... Don't be afraid'.. Look at him and say, 'Lord, have mercy: Say it again and again, not anxiously but with confidence that he is very close to you and will put your soul to rest." - Fr. Henri Nouwen via IG @claremsf "Recognize what is before your face and that which is hidden from the you will be revealed to you. For there is nothing hidden which shall not be made manifest, nor buried which shall not be raised." -Gospel of St. Thomas "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All." -Gospel of St. Thomas "When you understand that God is never late, you wait differently." -@amazinggracecoffee via IG "Being never came into being because It is eternal. Therefore nothing in the three-dimensional world ever came into being: it came into appearing." -Bob Pilato -"...with or within my light, sound, name and vibration." -Neil Douglas Klotz, The Aramaic Jesus "Thoughts are nearly always on a journey into a past or future, but our essential nature of pure Awareness never takes the journey with them." -Rupert Spira, The Ashes of Love "Never forget God. Never forget your real Source. Never move away from the real center within you." -Amma "Be here now" -Ram Dass

You're growing into your future. The one you thought you were just imagining, hoping for, but now know is Promised. It is written. No matter what comes. No matter what apparent failure happens on your way to It. It's yours. It's finished. And from this Vibration, from this posture, sitting up taller, shoulders down and back, stomach soft, breathing soft, soft smile, feeling the weight of this phone in your hands, you Watch. I Am Watching, too I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Every time you remember, FORGIVE again." -Ash Elisé @imashelise 'Let the first words out of your mouth, while you are still on your pillow, be a cry to God: "I need you again today." -John Piper "You are reimagining a life for yourself there's no real blueprint for and i'm really proud of you for that." -Joél Leon "Pray every prayer as if it's your last." -@thedesiroyal "...for it is Written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy." -I Peter 1:16 "Holiness-- A quality of divine innocence or purity, untainted by the slightest sin or impurity. Holiness is characterized not by separation from the impure (as in some traditional notions), but by the willingness to love and share and unite with all beings. Holiness is the fundamental and changeless nature of all that God creates." -ACIM "Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven." -ACIM "For you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children o of Light." -Ephesians 5:8

Looking, wanting, praying, waiting... This is all we do, until we are called to Be. The Silence has called you into Itself, beyond your problems, beyond your needs, beyond your prayers. And It's holding you (t)here, softly, as you become more like It, Holy. As you begin to appreciate It, fully. As you begin to Love It as It Loves you, to call on It, as It called you. LIGHTS ON. You were calling yourSelf. Only You are here. I Love You, nik [email protected] p.s. You can 'turn on the Love' anytime, not just while praying or chanting. Turn It on while you're working, while you're eating, while you're watching a show. Let the Light in and watch things change. ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "All powers are hidden within the Self and they manifest when you connect to your consciousness." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "May all that has been reduced to noise in you, become music again." -unknown via FB There is only one step, no other steps." -J Krishnamurti "God can do more through your surrender than you can with your control." -@RealSweetSpot via IG "God is not just found in your blessings, answered prayers, and miracles. God is also in the waiting. He's in your moments of silence. He's in the seeking, asking, and surrendering. He's in the hard times. Even if you don't see or feel it, the Lord is with you and He will never forsake you. He will never change." -@joenasandiego via IG "To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear." -Mark Nepo

Love's always carried you through before, why do you doubt It this time? Why do you doubt Me this time? Have courage, and B R E A T H E with Me. Exhale, while knowing that this anxiety you're feeling... it's what change feels like. It's how the beginning feels. The worst is behind you. Keep breathing. I Love you, Nik ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Aditya Hridayam Punyam Sarva Shatru Vinashanam" (all evil vanishes in life from the one who keeps the sun in his Heart) -Ramayana via Ram Dass "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me." -The Jesus Prayer via This Book "The Jesus Prayer is work common to angels and humans. With this prayer people attain to the life of the angels in a short time. The prayer is the source of all good works and virtues and drives the dark passions far away from man. In a short time it makes a man capable of acquiring the grace of the Holy Spirit." -Saint Paisius Velichkovsky "Mantra gives you the power and choice to switch on your inner-peace, at any time." - @NanakNaam via IG "Letting go is leaving behind things from the past that are still trying to control how you feel in the present. "Leave behind what no longer feels right. You did your time with that part of yourself, learned some lessons, and grew from it. Now you can take what you've learned and go into your next phase with a fresh mind that sees clearer, makes better choices, and feels more confident trusting your instincts. Rediscover yourself often. Leave behind the ideas, habits, and stories that don't define you anymore. This creates the space for you to keep growing, learning, and moving towards what feels meaningful, inspiring, and healing." - @HeyCoryAllen via IG "I am capable of changing destiny. There is no power in the world that can go against what I have said. I can lower the exalted and raise the humble." - Love speaking through Sri Neem Karoli Baba "His Will and He Will The life of a seeker continuously circles between the tangents of struggle and relief. The benchmark of truth for every sadhak is that Everything is His Will and He Will take care of everything. Struggle is when the seeker's mind distances itself from the above fact and relief is when he surrenders every passing event of his life to "His will and He Will." -@pulkitagarawal via IG "An awake heart is like a sky that pours light." -Hafiz "It is in Love that we are made. In Love we disappear." -Leonard Cohen "One of the proofs that our Simran is being done correctly is that, in any kind of difficulty, we first remember Simran." -Baba Ram Singh

The more often you remember 'Love appearing as this', the more Love moves to the foreground, and 'this' moves to the background. The more you'll realize it was this Love you've been getting ready for, that you've been getting set for, this Love that's been here all along-- It's the staring point, the finish line, and the whole track. And if you can carry It today, and pour It, carry, and pour, It will become a steady flow, a steady flow, that carries you. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Today's Quotes: "It's hard to hear god's voice when you've already decided what you want Him to say." -Derricka Danielle via IG @therealsweetspot "Just as the hem of Jesus' garment flowed healing virtue, so even the borders of the inner kingdom flow with a glory impossible to describe- but very easy to experience. " -Abbot George Burke "The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God's realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His Love." -Corrie Ten Boom via IG @worshipblog "Your ego can only exist if you are tense. If you are relaxed existence is, you are not." -Osho "The blessing God has for is where He is and He is with you." -Derricka Danielle via IG @therealsweetspot "I found happiness because I desire nothing. It's a happiness I never knew existed. In the past, happiness was, 'Oh I bought a dress!' 'Oh I have this car!' It was all material things. Now I get up in the morning and meditate. Inside, a feeling of wellness where you're sitting there, just where you want to be. There's nothing you want. People think when you're on stage, that they are your glory days. The lights, the clothes... They were not my glory days. These, now, are my glory days." -Tina Turner "This is not about becoming a more Aware person than the person next to you. This is about realising you are not a person, there is no person next to you, and there is nothing other than Awareness." -Pat Nolan "Can't you see it's all perfect?" -Maharaji

My life depends on me being Love, because when I'm being Love, I can see through appearances, and when I can see through appearances, they change. This is how you see yourself out of any situation you have outgrown. Not through resistance. When the resistance comes up, immediately see through it, too! See through every thought, through every emotion, through every person, place, and thing, to the REAL. And let the REAL manifest and define Itself. Note: The REAL feels like the feeling of Love in and as that body. And you can sense It even when the body is discordant. I Love you and I'm with you! Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Today's Quotes: Quotes: "The two worse feelings in the world are not having a job and having a job." -Unknown via IG " In wealth is the fear of poverty, in knowledge the fear of ignorance, in beauty the fear of age, in fame the fear of backbiters, in success the fear of jealousy, even in body is the fear of death. Everything in this earth is fraught with fear. He alone is fearless who has given up everything." -Swami Vivekananda "Do not try to control matter. Know it does not exist. You control it by knowing it does not exist." -Herb Fitch "Being never came into being because It is eternal. Therefore nothing in the three-dimensional world ever came into being. It came into appearing. " -Bob Pilato "In 2022, I resolve not to react to appearances, but to see through them." -Gil Michaels

The title is kind of a misnomer, because you aren't actually 'in' the body to begin with. You're simply aware of the body... aware of the sense of having a body. But what is it that's aware? What's aware of these words right now? What's aware of the questions your mind is throwing out right now? This awareness is what you've been looking for, and It's actually what you're looking with. This awareness is the way 'out' of ordinariness and into the extraordinary. Let's open the door, together. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Today's Quotes: "You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." -C.S. Lewis "Know with surety that the physical body is but the cloak I wear about My shoulders." -Love speaking through Eva Bell Werber in 'Voice of the Master' "Man was given choice to see Me and know Me and to feel My presence, or to go on in his blind human way knowing Me not. I would have all men to know Me, the Life force within them." -Love speaking through Eva Bell Werber in 'Voice of the Master' "Without the knowledge of the knower, there can be no peace." -Nisargadatta Maharaj "The sense of being, of the "I Am" is a sense of location here, present inside this body, but not bound by this body." -Mooji "Love Itself is the actual form of God." -Ramana Maharshi

...is to remember that you're never not having the God Experience. And while you allow my voice to remind you of that, all you ever need is your heart beat, or your breath, or your mantra... Let everything you're not, remind you of everything You are. I Love you, Nik ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "You Are All Gods. If you only knew that behind the wave of your consciousness is the Sea Of God's Presence You must look within. Don't concentrate on the little wave of the body with its weaknesses, look beneath." -Paramahansa Yogananda "I believe many of us go through life sucking on pacifiers. Oh, we don't see them because they are in our bank. Or they're parked in our garage. Or we live in them. Don't put your hope into things that change- relationships, money talents, beauty, even health. Set your sights on the one thing that can never change: trust in your heavenly Father." -via IG @patridance_starfire144 The Holy Spirit is more real to me then you are! -Kathryn Kuhlman "When people smile, it doesn't mean they are doing good, it means that they have chosen to smile. If someone's happy, that doesn't necessarily mean everything is going right in their life. It just means they've chosen to shift their attention to their blessings and derive the strength to face and fight their problems." -Gaur Gopal Das "Let your heart constantly beat with the thought, "God, God, God" - God all the twenty-four hours of the day, God as Love, God as Light, God as Omnipotence, God as Omniscience, God as Peace, God as unlimited Happiness, God as infinite Blessedness, God as an all-seeing Presence, God as an all-loving Father, God as an indestructible, Eternal, Absolute Truth, God as Beauty, Protection, Strength. Let your heart constantly beat with these words. This is the shortest way to God-experience." - Swami Omkarananda "Learn to live in such a way that those who know you, but don't know God, will come to know God because they know you." -St Teresa of Calcutta "This peace that the Teacher offers us is a seed. After it has taken root in good soil, it still must grow. We are not yet in peace, for this peace is a process of becoming, a work that we accomplish—or rather that we allow to be accomplished—within us. Nowhere else will it be found, and no one can sell or rent it to us. There may well appear merchants of happiness with pacifiers that can calm the troubles of our days and nights for a while. But there are no merchants of beatitude. There is only a Presence that is to be discovered, and allowed to grow, in the very core of ourselves." -Leloup, Jean-Yves. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (p. 69). Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. Kindle Edition.

'If riches increase, set not your heart on them."* When opportunities come, when all the doors are thrown open, because of how you've opened yourself to Grace, set not your heart on them. Keep your heart Here. Remembering that God is your provider, not what He has turned into, what he seems to become. The riches don't provide, the opportunities don't provide, they appear because of Him. Because of This... that you're hearing in abundance, that you're feeling in abundance. It's always Here, and when you live out from this, you'll always Have. I Love you, Nik ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Lead me to the rock that is higher than I."* -Psalm 61:2 "There is really only one problem, distraction. And therefore only one solutions, mindfulness." -Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche "My most frequent complaint toward my partner or loved one reveals my greatest emotional need, not their greatest flaw." -Anonymous via @Mikefoster2000 "Forgive them, all of your thems. The more thems you can forgive, the lighter you'll feel." - via IG @Mikefoster2000 "Ask yourself: where am I Answer: here Ask yourself: what time is it? Answer:Now Say it until you can hear it." -Ram Dass "In a conversation between St. Seraphim of Sarov and Motovilov in the middle of a cold and snowy forest, the latter asked the saint, "How can I discern for myself the true manifestation of the Spirit of God in me?" The old St. Seraphim firmly took Motovilov by the shoulder and said, "We are both in the Spirit of God now, my dear.Why don't you look at me?" Motovilov replied, "| cannot look, Father, because your eyes are flashing like lightning. Your face has become brighter than the sun, and my eyes ache with pain."St. Seraphim said, "Don't be alarmed, your God-lovingness! Now you yourself have become as bright as I am. You are now in the fullness of the Spirit of God yourself; otherwise you would not be able to see me as I am." -via IG @annapolozicons "Stop focusing on the forms and focus on what's inside." -Rumi

If things in your life aren't going good right now... good. Things always get worse before they get better. Like any renovation or spring cleaning you've ever witnessed, dust gets stirred up, things get pulled out, stuff gets thrown away... sorted. Space is made. Be thankful for this Space. Even though It looks empty. He'll make It full again. It already is, but your eyes can't see. Trust. And bear witness. I Love you, Nik p.s. Love isn't a feeling, It's beyond. Feelings are distortions of Love. ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "The Name is unseen because it is the enigma of the unseen, which comes to ears that are full of Him. Our Father's name is unutterable, but known through His Son. The Name is Great. Who will be capable of uttering His holy Name? Only our Father, who owns the Name, and his sons, in whom the Name lives. Since our Father is unborn, He alone is the One who created for Himself the Name, before He created the Aeons, so that His Name as Father might rule as Lord. That is His Name in Truth, stable in control, through His flawless force." -The Gnostic Gospels, Alan Jacobs "Way Maker Miracle Worker Promise Keeper Light in the Darkness" -@worshipblog via IG "God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain." -C. S. Lewis via @worshipblog IG "My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth. - John Piper, Finally Alive via IG @worshipblob "What you hear clearly between your two ears. shout from the roof tops." -The Gnostic Gospels, Alan Jacobs "Note to self: Don't seek to be relevant, or liked, seek to be undeniable. Seek to be compassionate. Seek integrity. Seek humility. Seek Light." -@worshipblog via IG “I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity.” -Rumi "You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last..." -Jesus (John 15:16)

Why are you so tired, when 'I' perform(s) that which is given you to do? It's My responsibility, My battle, not yours. That's My meeting. That's My commute. That's Me stirring in you. Love stirring. That's why I gave you this day-- to pray ceaselessly, to feel My Love constantly, no matter what you think you're feeling, no matter what you think you're seeing, no matter what you think you're hearing... You're silently knowing-- only God is here, only Love is here, and I Am that. "I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name." -Exodus 33:17 I Love you, Nik [email protected] p.s. I = God = Love = Invisible, Formless, Faceless You = Me There's only That. ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quotes: "You will get a result for your hard work. Proceed with the thing, you will reach a high position. Trust me." -Maharajji "Lord, I don't want to be paralyzed with uncertainty. Help me to follow your voice even when I have questions. Please direct me as I move forward, and keep me in the middle of your will." -Chris Tiegreen "Trust in and rely confidently on the Lord with all your heart And do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know and acknowledge and recognize Him, And He will make your paths straight and smooth [removing obstacles that block your way.]" -Proverbs 3:5-6 AMP "Doubt is an unstable state where your foot is neither on this shore nor on the other. This leads to tension. One way or the other, take a direction and regain your footing. Have you noticed that you usually doubt the things that are positive in your life? You don't doubt negative things so much. You doubt a person's honesty, and you believe in his dishonesty. When someone is angry with you, you have no doubt about his anger. But when someone says he loves you, a doubt creeps in: Does he really love me? When you are depressed, do you ever think: Am I really depressed? No, you accept your depression as a fact. Yet when you are happy, you doubt: Am I really happy; is this what I really wanted? You doubt your capability, but never your weakness. Look at this tendency to doubt the positive things in your life. Doubt the negative and put your trust in the positive. Put doubt in its proper place and doubt the doubts." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, A Note to a Sincere Seeker "There is a breakthrough breaking through. The atmosphere is heavy with blessings and the Lord is saying, "Any moment now! Stay in position! Prepare!" Do not back track! Deny the enemies lies and tactics. This is your time!" -@Godlywaiting "Old feelings will resurface. Old thought patterns will resurface. Things you thought you got over will come back up. But who you are in relation to them is what changes. You don't have to hold so tight like you once did. You have a greater capacity now. You have the chance in the moment of extreme discomfort, to know yourself beyond it. These things don't come back up as a punishment. It's to show you who you really are. Be still. Be gentle with yourself. You're doing amazing!! I love you!!" -@sistercody via IG "Just because 'seeming' challenges come up, does not mean that you're not Self-Realized, or Spiritually Enlightened." -Ray A. McCloud

He chose you. Love chose you to wake up. It chose you to pray ceaselessly. To Hear, ceaselessly. Your silence is prayer. Your mantra is prayer. This Love you feel is prayer. Your tears are prayers. And in every moment they're answered, 'Here I Am'. I Love you, Nik [email protected] ******God is afoot! I’m writing, and working on something BIG (and very useful) for your practice! I’ll share #ListenerFavorite episodes until I return with new ones in Spring! Look out for announcements soon! Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "All night, a man called 'Allah' Until his lips were bleeding. Then the Devil said, 'Hey! Mr Gullible! How comes you've been calling all night And never once heard Allah say, 'Here, I am'? You call out so earnestly and, in reply, what? I'II tell you what. Nothing!' The man suddenly felt empty and abandoned. Depressed, he threw himself on the ground And fell into a deep sleep. In a dream, he met Abraham, who asked, 'Why are you regretting praising Allah?' The man said, 'I called and called But Allah never replied, 'Here I am.' Abraham explained, 'Allah has said, 'Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you. All your attempts to reach Me Are in reality My attempts to reach you. Your fear and love are a noose to catch Me. In the silence surrounding every call of 'Allah' Waits a thousand replies of 'Here I am.'" -Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (r.a.) "To run, you must first walk. To walk, you must first stand. To stand, you must first crawl. To crawl, you must first be held. Start where you are." - @corymuscara "When you feel your peace slipping away and anxiety rushing in, stand firm and remember that Jesus has given you His peace." -Joyce Meyer "Your tears are prayers, too. " -@speakholyspirit "God will give you a Peace that makes no sense." - @michelles_losing_it "The principal thing is to stand before God with the mind in the heart, and to go on standing before Him unceasingly day and night, until the end of life" -(Bishop Theophan, quoted by Kallistos Ware in The Power of the Name: The Jesus Prayer in Orthodox Spirituality) "When you are tempted, recognize that a crown is being prepared for you." -St. John Chrysostom

The only way to fix anything is to say, "I Love You" to the Divine. Look past your intentions. Past what you 'think' is here, to the Sound of Silence, the Sound of Grace, of Reality. I Love You I Am You nik Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "All day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade." - Rumi "The Long Drought Is Over My Beloved has come home with the rains, And the fire of longing is doused. Now is the time for singing, the time of union. At the first thunderclap, Even the peacocks open their tails with pleasure and dance. Giridhara is in my courtyard, and my wandering heart has returned. Like Hilies that blossom under the full moon's light, Iopen to him in this rain: every pore of my body is cooled. Mira's separation and torment are over. He who comes to those who love has remembered his promise." - Mirabai "When you say I and I say that is the same I." Jai Ram Ransom, It All Abides in Love "How can someone outside me be able to be in me? Only if the are me. So who was I? I asked myself these questions and came to understand that this is the reality of the atman, the Self. And it's the ser that everyone has. It's my true Self and your true Self- the individual, inner Self. This atman is one with God. It is and partakes of the nature of God, and it is that place inside of you and me that is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. It is the omkar of the nada, the voice of God, the hum of creation. When I listen to the music inside my head, that fine ringing in my ears known as the nada (which everybody hears is the omkar. The omkar is what our soul rides on. It is the sound current of God; this is the sound of the ingoing and outgoing breath. The atman dwells in the heart as the sound of "Om." When I'm very till, in solitude, when there are no other sounds present, I hear the ound of Om." - Bhagavan Das, 'It's Here Now, Are You?' "Leave aside every other thought, Just say Hari! Hari! Have faith in Him and cross the sea of the world." - Anandamayi Ma "In prayer, we rest in God's being, in praise, we celebrate God's being." -The Heart of Prayer, Rupert Spira "Ananda, the pleasure and bliss of Consciousness, will arise in you like an atomic explosion, and you will see how the whole wide world is a manifestation of That." - Nisargadatta Maharaj

You came for the Real not the fake. You came for the Kingdom, not the symbols of It. While you are truly blessed by worldly success, you're more blessed and excited because you know (you are) the Source of it. That's what keeps this Light on, here-- the Source of the miracles, the Source of the stuff, not the stuff. That's what gets me up every morning. That's what inspires me to share each day. I'm grateful for the words that come, but the Silence they come from... I give all the praise, all the glory. What will that Silence become in your life? Listen... and see :) Watch what happens. I Love you, Nik [email protected] Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life- this is what you are here for." -Ravi Shankar "Love Existed Before Heaven or Earth." - Hafiz "Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise; O soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice." -Lord Alfred Tennyson "The one who listens to Me, will be happy." - and other select Passages from Proverbs 8 from the Bible

When I sit down in the morning to chant, I'm sitting down to feel Love. When I' sitting down to record for you, I'm sitting down to feel Love. When I'm doing yoga or breathing exercises, I'm doing it to feel Love. When I'm doing any spiritual practice, ever, I'm only doing it as a way to feel Love. The practices will "get you in the room with Christ. But only Love will keep you (t)here."* Everything I do, I do for Love... to remember It, to feel It, to know It as my Self. I Love you, Nik SUPPORT THE SHOW! ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings ________________________________ Today's Quotes: "The most subtle aspect of my teaching is Love. The circle around that subtle point, in order to realize it, is the spiritual practices such as meditation, repetition of the name of the Lord, talking with good people, directing the mind away from harmful thoughts, and so on. In themselves, these spiritual practices are of no value. The only thing of real value is Love itself." -Satya Sai Baba "The true mystic is not a devotee lost in ecstatic communion with the One, or a reclusive saint who avoids others. The true mystic lives alongside other people- coming and going, eating and sleeping, buying and selling, marrying and chatting-- but not for a moment does he forget God." -Abus Sa'id lbn Abi-l-Khayr "The yogi medicine puts you in a room with Christ. But it can’t keep you there. The only thing that can keep you there is love."* -Maharajji "Q: I have been practicing japa and meditation for a long time, but there is not enough progress. Amma: You should also love God. Without love no amount of japa and meditation will bear fruit. When your love for God becomes very strong, all the bad vasanas (mental tendencies) within you will automatically drop away. Rowing a boat against the current is difficult, but if there is a sail it becomes easy. Love for God is like a sail that helps the boat go forward. When two lovers are sitting together, they won't like it when anyone comes near them. A real sadhak has the same attitude. He doesn't like anything that isn't related to God. Living with the thought of God always in his mind, he can't bear any obstacles that come between himself and God. Compared to his love for God, everything else is worthless to him. Son, one should have true lakshya bodha (one-pointed focus on the goal). Only then can one's sadhana (spiritual practices) become deep. When someone sets out with a strong desire to reach a certain place, no obstacle can stop him. If he misses the bus, he will take a taxi. But if he lacks interest, he may decide to go home if he misses the bus, thinking he can try again the next day. Children, without intensity in sadhana it is difficult to reach the goal. Before you sow the seed you have to prepare the land, clearing it of grass and weeds. Otherwise it is difficult for the seeds to sprout. In the same way, we can enjoy the bliss of the Self only if we clear the mind of all external things and direct it to God." -Amma

In a dream I was shown that when I'm chanting "Hare Rama Hare Krishna", it's like I'm riding in the chariot that's being guided by Krishna, that has Hanuman flying over it, protecting it. And as long as I'm chanting the Mantra, as long as I'm hearing the Mantra, hearing the silence behind it simultaneously (the sound of the Real Mantra beyond it, simultaneously), God is here. It's always here. But the Mantra keeps me aware of the Reality. And then I'm back to chanting, back to hearing, back to feeling, back to clapping, singing, knowing: I have no problem. I am not broken. I am not worthless. I am (worth) Love. I am worth rest. I am worth kindness. I am worth protection. I am worth You, God. "Unknown I will walk by your side and guard you with invisible arms." - Yogananda I Love You I Am You nik CHANT WITH ME: Hare Krishna Mahamantra Sing my favorite Hare Krishna "Don't consider chanting the name to be a mere practice. The Name itself is God." -Muktananda "Creation was spoken with one sounc BE The two letters, B and E to record it came after. The meaning of the sound and its resonance are one. There's no way to ever say this in so many words! And no place to stop saying it." - Rumi "Love has taken away my practices and filled me with poetry. I tried to keep quietly repeating, No strength but yours, but I couldn't. I had to clap and sing. I used to be respectable and chaste and stable, but who can stand in this strong wind and remember those things? A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice." -Rumi "What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our real nature, both are chains, one iron, one gold." - Vivekenananda "Since your physical body itself is composed of the very energy that drives the universe, then there is nothing about you which that energy is unaware of. Simply repeating these ideas to yourself can result in release of tension and an acceleration of the healing process. The unconscious levels of the self are only unconscious front your own viewpoint. They are quite conscious in actuality. These portions can also be communicated with. Relax yourself as much as possible..." - Seth "Keeping your mantra going keeps you going." - Bhagavan Das "The effect and the potency of the mantra can never be fully measured, because mantra is nothing but the verbal form (sound form) of supreme god. So, its limitless, immeasur-able, and it cannot be explained by words or thoughts, cannot be fully contemplated by mind, it can only be experienced and because it cannot be expressed through words, thoughts or actions it is termed as the secret. The oneness (non-dual nature) of the mantra, the one who chants, and the one who is attained through the mantra (the supreme absolute god) is the greatest secret."- Koushik K. "The holy name of the Lord and the Lord are nondifferent; therefore, when a devotee chants Hare Krsna, Krsna, and His internal potency are dancing on the tongue of the devotee." -Srila Prabhupada

What's the sound of one hand clapping? That's the sound of success. If you want more of it, you have to hear more of This. You have to hear the Silence beyond the world clapping, beyond the desire you hold of hearing the world clapping for you. You have to hear God clapping. He already is. He's always been clapping. You keep bowing. I Love You I Am You nik "Don't sing the sadness anymore." - Rumi "The Divine Mother revealed to me in the Käli temple that it was She who had become everything. She showed me that everything was full of Consciousness. The Image was Consciousness, the altar was Consciousness, the water-vessels were Consciousness, the door-sill was Consciousness, the marble floor was Consciousness -all was Consciousness. "found everything inside the room soaked, as it were, in Bliss-the Bliss of Satchidananda. I saw a wicked man in front of the Kāli temple; but in him also I saw the Power of the Divine Mother vibrating. "That was why I fed a cat with the food that was to be offered to the Divine Mother. I clearly perceived that the Divine Mother Herself had become everything-even the cat. The manager of the temple garden wrote to Mathur Babu saying that I was feeding the cat with the offering intended for the Divine Mother. But Mathur Babu had insight into the state of my mind. He wrote back to the manager: 'Let him do whatever he likes. You must not say anything to him." - Sri Ramakrishna "Everything is clapping today. Light, sound, motion, all movement." - Hafiz "Don't sing the sadness anymore. Call out that you have been given both the answer and an understanding of the question." - Hafiz "If I meet a wolf, he turns into a kind friend. If I am lowered into a well, it becomes a garden. A stony miser comes to me and starts giving his wealth away. Don't offer me money. I have a teacher whose fragrance brings statues to life." -Hafiz "Jesus promised to send to his disciples the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, to speed them on their way to Self-realization. An advanced devotee can hear the sound of Aum in his body and can see its light in his spiritual eye. After he has become acquainted with these two limited manifestations, in the bodily sound and in his spiritual eye, then, by further spreading of his consciousness in Omnipresence, he sees his small spherical eye of light expand into a cosmic sphere whose luminosity conflagrates the whole universe. Similarly, as the devotee listens to Pranava, the holy sound of Aum, he forgets the restrictions of the human body and of space and can feel the Aum of his body vibrating into a perception of his cosmic body. He feels his consciousness vibrating everywhere with the ever expanding Aum sound. In ecstasy he suddenly sees his body as an atom or cell in the cosmic body.All aspiring yogis who would be performers of the inner holy rites of consuming restlessness and delusion in the fire of ecstasy, givers of unconditional devotion to God, and cultivators of true perception through Self-mastery, must begin their progress on the spiritual path by first chanting Aum, and then communing with Aum by hearing this sacred Word-symbol of God present right within the body-temple." - Yogananda

What stage are you in right now? What stage is this in the story of you, in the story of your unfoldment? Can you kiss it, the way God is kissing you? Can you look at it, the way God sees it? You have to keep discriminating between the real and the unreal. This, that you find yourself in was not sent to hurt you. It was sent to heal you. It was sent to help 'you' find 'You'. Relax more. Soften, even more. That's how you kiss the stage. That's how you allow the stage to make room for the next. In this relaxation, in this step back, this step away from the one you thought you were, "right action arises by itself."* Miracles, find you. Hafiz says, "I don't want to step so quickly over this sacred place on God's body. That is right beneath your own foot." Slow down. Bow down. I Love You I Am You nik Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: *Lao Tzu "The deeper meaning of "name" is a reference to Cosmic Vibration (the Word, Aum, Amen. God as Spirit has no circumscribing name. Whether one refers to the Absolute as God or Iehovah or Brahman or Allah, that does not express Him. God the Creator and Father of all vibrates through nature as the eternal life, and that life has the sound of the great Amen or Aum. That name most accurately defines God. "Those who believe on his name" means those who commune with that Aum sound, the voice of God in the Holy Ghost vibration. When one hears that name of God, that Cosmic Vibration, he is on his way to becoming a son of God, for in that sound his consciousness touches the immanent Christ Consciousness, which will introduce him to God, Cosmic Consciousness." - Yogananda, The Yoga of Jesus "A man sees a thing in one way through reasoning and in an altogether different way when God Himself shows it to him."-Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna "Discouragement is not from God." - St. Ignatius of Loyola "You don't criticize the moon for not shining the same each night you don't look up at it and say you're not trying hard enough because the moon doesn't have to be full and bright every night to be loved and neither do you." -Ida Banks "Let the mess inside your head settle. breathe. it's going to be okay." -Shweta "A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is Divine." -Sri Meher Baba "I do not Want to step so quickly Over this sacred place on God's body That is right beneath your Own foot As I Dance with Precious life Today." - Hafiz (translated by Ladinski) "READ THE GOSPEL ATTENTIVELY AND YOU WILL SEE THAT JESUS SACRIFICED EVEN CHARITY FOR PRAYER. AND DO YOU KNOW WHY? TO TEACH US THAT, WITHOUT GOD, WE ARE TOO POOR TO HELP THE POOR. ST. TERESA OF CALCUTTA "There really was such a thing as sickness, then there would have to be a lot of fighting to become healed. But since sickness doesn't really exist, by giving this up, by surrendering this feeling, this thought that there is sickness or lack or limitation or anything else, the One Power, the One Perfection, the One God, the One Reality, the One Pure Awareness shines through, and takes over, and you are made Whole." - Robert Adams

"Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are." - Jesus (John 17:11) If you're ready for your next level, your new chapter, you have to take God's Name and start, now. You have to take your prayer beads, and know that one end is in your hand, and the other is in God's, and start now. Love, now, on every bead. You don't even need a mantra that is verbal, that is language, just that touch, Just (t)His sound, Her sweetness. I Love You I Am You nik Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth." - John 17:11-19 "The best sign of you progressing in your meditation is something which is very self-evident. First is the experience of great bliss; and the second is the actual experience of your being, not just a little thing but a throughout expansion of your being in all ways and in all forms. When we have a real experience of the conscious self, it needs no external evidence because it's a total certainty; it's as certain as you are sitting here now!" - @srim_official "Even if all the doors are closed... A secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet... But so many paradises are at the end of this path. -Shams Tabrizi

As long as you can feel, "God, (Y)our Silence is enough, (Y)our Grace is my sufficiency." Then It is. And It will be. Everything is better. Everything is better. Accept It now, understand it later.* I Love You I Am You nik Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Love said to me there is nothing. that is not me. Be silent." - Rumi "Sarva khalvidam brahma" [Chandogya Upanishad 3:14] "Indeed, all this manifested universe is Brahman' - look with that feeling. - Brahmanda Saraswati "Peace I leave with you; my peace I you I do give you. I do not give to you as the world Rather, gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled is doing and do not be afraid." - John 14:27 "Keep in mind three laws while meditating - I am nothing, I need nothing, I am going to do nothing. If you have these three principles, you will be able to meditate." -Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar *2 Corinthians 12:9 *Qadr, @strivingsouls

Better days are Here. BECAUSE WE'RE HERE. Because you can hear this Silence. Because you can feel this Love. Because you can chant His Name. He IS His Name. And you're finally praying in It, and Nothing is the same. I Love you, Nik [email protected] Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Better days are ahead." -God -Neil Vermillion "This is how you pray continually - not by offering prayers in words, but by joining yourself to God through your whole way of life, so that your life becomes one continuous and uninterrupted prayer." - St Basil the Great "You just do the work of Lord Rama and chanting His name, I will take care of everything else." -Maharajji "Do not fear adversity before you this day, nor the uncertainty in your horizon. Do not reject the revelation I give you simply because it does not look the way you thought it would look. Do not run from the call upon our life, even though it is more costly than you want it to be. Do not run from me, for in all these things I will remain faithful, and I will not only guide, but also strengthen and empower, you as I protect and instruct you day by day in the development of the call upon your life..." -Neil Vermillion via email "Kabir says: Student, tell me what is God? He is the breath inside the breath." -Kabir "I love it when God interrupts my thoughts and reminds me that the battle is not mine, but His." -via Twitter @IsraeMbonyi "Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who brings sleep to my eyes, slumber to my eyelids. May it be Your will, Lord my God and God of my ancestors, that I lie down in peace and that I arise in peace. Let my sleep be undisturbed by troubling thoughts, bad dreams, and wicked schemes. May I have a night of tranquil slumber. May I awaken to the light of a new day, that my eyes may behold the splendor of Your light. Praised are You, Lord whose glory gives light to the entire world." -Shema (bedtime prayer) "You're in one season and if you don't quit, one day you are going to wake up in a new season your hard work your discipline your sacrifices and your faithfulness are never wasted With God, a wiating season is never a wasted season. " -@Craiggroeschel

God has sent (t)His Love for us to follow out of the illusion. So don't let anything distract you from this Love. Not yourself, not your thoughts, or anyone else. Nothing is worth it. Nothing, this No Thing, this Silence is worth it. It's worth your attention. It made you worthy. It made you Holy. It has given you a Purpose. And right now It looks like whatever you are called to do 'today'. The pressure is not on you, the Presence is on you.* Affirm: The Presence is on me, in me, for me. And then just do it. Don't think about it. Just do it. Just watch It accomplish everything. I Love you, Nik [email protected] Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Pressure on you, Presence on me." -Gabriel Lopez @gods.best.friend "I have been asked many times, "How do you stop thinking?" And I have found one way. The minute I can look at any person or condition and know that it is neither good nor evil, my thought stops, and my mind becomes quiet. That is the end of it because then there are no thoughts left for me to think about it: I do not think good of it and I do not think evil of it. All I know is that it is, and then I am back at the center of my being where all power is." -Joel S Goldsmith "Unless you give up the idea that the world is real, then your mind will always be after it." -Sri Ramana Maharshi "The kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth but people don't see it." -The Gospel of Thomas “It seemed as if Maharaj-ji was about to answer, but instead his eyes closed and he sat there completely still, completely silent. It felt like he'd totally disappeared. In all the time I'd been with him, I'd only seen him sitting motionless like this a couple of times before. It was extraordinarily powerful, as if the whole universe had become silent. Then a tear came down his cheek. We were in awe. After a couple of minutes, his eyes half opened and, with great emotion, he quietly said, 'He lost himself in love, that's how he meditated. He was one with all beings. He loved everyone, even the people who crucified him. He never died. He is the atman [soul]. He lives in the hearts of all. He lost himself in love." -Krishna Das "God is in me, God is with me. God is for me." -@Sardinebread

You stopped running. I see you. The world is swirling around you, but you're still, you're silent, you're calm, you're Home, we're being Heaven on earth right now. And our work is to continue to be that Heaven, to continue to be (t)His Light, His Face. I see You everywhere. And I love You. And I bless You. And I Am blessed by You. Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "After you see the face, concerns change." - Rumi "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott "The same way we are not created to rely on yesterday's food and water for today's physical nourishment, we cannot rely on yesterday's time spent in prayer and the word for today's spiritual nourishment. You must feast daily." - @faithfulfootprints via IG "...Prayer is our primary duty. Prayer is the reason why God has placed us on earth. - Pere Jacques "See the face that was my home. My loving says, I will let go of everything for that. My soul begins to keep rhythm, as if music were playing. Mv reason says, What do you call this cypress-energy that straightens what was bent double? All things change in this presence. Armenians and Turks no longer know which is which. Soul keeps unfolding inward. The body leaves the body. A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you." - Rumi, The Big Red Book "There is something here that is somehow a part of your calling, your mission in life. It's glorifying God in your unique way. It won't always be clear, but if you continue day after day to move according to His promptings, one day you'll look back, amazed at how God used you to be a light in this world. What are you passionate about?"- Sister Mary Scholastica, O.C.D. "If you're looking for an escape today, run to Jesus. And you will no longer find yourself escaping but resting."- Selah

"He is before all things, and by Him all things hold together." -Colossians 1:17 Hold fast to (t)His Sound, like it's His Feet, like it's Her Throne. Don't let go. When you stay Here, when you stay hearing this, you can begin anything, you can create everything. That desire becomes not a desire, but The Promise It originally was. The Foretelling of what's here, that can't yet be seen. But I'm hearing It. I'm feeling It. I'm thanking God for It, for you. Please stop pretending to worry. Pretend Faith, today I love you I am you nik Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "You were worried. You still didn't realize who you have on your shoulders, protecting you." -Maharajji "Love is the glue that holds the universe together. Don't become unglued." - @meditationswithsteve via IG "There is a divine armor around you that is protecting you; you have nothing to worry about. Know this and keep walking ahead in life with satisfaction, confidence, joy, patience, fullness, and faith."-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "The stars come up spinning every night, bewildered in love. They would grow ired with that revolving if they weren't. They would say, How long do we have to do this? God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the breath originated, and let your note be clear. Do not try to end it. Be your note. I will show you how that is enough. Go up on the roof at night in this city of the soul. Let everyone climb on their roofs and sing their notes. Sing loud." - Rumi, The Big Red Book "You're not supposed to get anything out of abiding in I amness. It's purpose is to desolve that which thinks it needs Something." - @peterstoughton1 "The cloud has no destination which it must reach. It is purposeless. In much the same way, when there is no longer a sense of worry, a concern for what comes next, one can walk without needing to arrive." -Wu Hsin

It's in the the Breath of the Lord, the Energy, the Atmosphere, the Feeling of the Lord. She has raised you. That's what you are feeling. You were growing, (un)learning, healing, changing. You're ready now. I Love you I Am You nik Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings __________________________________________ Today's Quotes: "When you place Krishna first, you will never be last. We will always win, with Him first. We're never last or left empty-handed, Sarvatah pâni-padam tat (BG 13.14). Krishna has got hands and legs everywhere. Wherever He will order, the things will come. Simply we have to become sincere; then everything is there. If you are actually engaged in the service of Krsna, all your necessities will be supplied by Krsna." - Srila Prabhupada "l am filled with you, skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There is no room for trust or lack of trust, nothing in this existence but that existence." - Rumi, The Big Red Book "Why let daily things bother your 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. The work is always inside you...... You are inside meaning, not words. You are the heart itself, not any language of the heart. You are the essence within the universe, not the universe. You are neither absence nor existence. I am blessed with faith and cursed with forgetfulness. Clear, but streaked with mud. Mature, growing older, and still a baby." Rumi, The Big Red Book Read More Quick LinksGet Embed PlayerDownload Audio File "Our help is in the name of the Lord..." - Psalm 124:8 Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare" - @clarocruzkpd via IG "I have many names and faces. Beyond those names and faces, I am your loving mother always. I come to you in light and darkness, through joy, and even, my beloved, through loss and tragedy. I am always your loving mother. I am seeking you. If you can know this, then great peace and spiritual power shall be yours and you will help me bring love to this world. Remember me. I am your loving mother always." - Alana Fairchild "Your needs are unreal and your efforts are meaningless" -Nisargdatta Maharaj "When you realize you're irritated, half-smile at once. Inhale and exhale quietly, maintaining the half smile for three breaths." -Thich Nhat Hanh "Floating in God's ocean of living water you are free to walk on the waves that once tried to cover you." - there is beauty still, @wildflowerpages