Awaken the Power Within You

 

“According to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the practice of meditation adds no special powers at all. All the powers are always present within us, but they are lying blocked (Sutra IV.3). When a farmer wants to irrigate his field , he does not create water, nor does he push it into the field. He simply raises the sluice gate that was blocking the flow, and the field is automatically irrigated. The blocks we have placed in our minds are simply removed in meditation so that the inner forces begin to function, and all our faculties come to their fullest possible growth.”

-Pandit Usharbudh Arya (who later became Swami Veda Bharati), Mantra & Meditation, in the Forward, pages xv - xvi

Connecting with Spirituality, Karen Berg

 I received this from Karen Berg of the Kabballah Center and thought it was a good thing for all of us to remember.

In Unity

John

Connecting with Spirituality

Friday August 15, 2014

In this world, people are judged by race, money, status, religion, and a thousand other criteria that society imposes on us. As spiritual human beings, however, we need to push ourselves to have a different consciousness.

Spirituality is believing that everyone has the right to draw spiritual energy and to bring that energy into their lives and the lives of others. Spirituality is understanding that the Light force of the Creator transcends the physical world. Spirituality is realizing that the Light exists in each and every one of us. Spirituality is about caring for the welfare of others and not just looking out for ourselves. 

When this is our consciousness, we can arrive at a place where we have a sense of unity with our neighbor and the blessing of Light in our lives and in the world.

The Wonderful Spirit That Is In You.

"Something in you knows that you are greater than anything you have yet experienced or expressed. This inner knowing, this feeling of potential greatness, is the spirit of God in you trying to break through. It is like sunlight that may be temporarily hidden behind clouds; but the clouds cannot take away the light. Nothing can erase or lessen the bright, glorious, wonderful spirit that is in you."

Martha Smock

Spirit Responds to You!

“Spirit responds to

your willingness, your readiness,

and your consciousness..”

John Zenkewich

God's ideas are yours, James A. Decker

As you consider your goals, wishes or dreams for 2014 I trust you will find James Decker's words of help.

Here's to your "Year of Radical Living!"

Without any previous experience whatsoever, with nothing to your credit but faith in God, you get the ideas that will change lack to abundance, failure to success, poverty to riches, in harmony to harmony, a dull, humdrum existence to an exciting, thrilling, new way of life.

Try it. Try it right now. Use whatever affirmation you wish to turn your mind to God: "God the good is all there is," or "God is," or "thy will be done." Once you are free of the little, inconsequential, conflicting fragments that habitually pass for thoughts in the minds of most of us, apply your real thoughts consciously to whatever you want to achieve. Perhaps you will get a brilliant, thrilling idea within a few minutes. Perhaps the idea you confidently seek will spring into your consciousness tomorrow morning, after your subconscious mind has put in its work tonight.

All you have to do now, all you ever have to do, is to start thinking, with faith that you are attuned to the infinite mind of God. When you do this you cannot fail; you can only succeed; you can go in only one direction -- forward; your life will know no more of lack, but only prosperity; you will exchange disharmony, worry, envy, fear, and all the other troubling, upsetting emotions for the perfect balance of a life that is in divine order and adjustment. All this you will achieve, because God's ideas are yours.

Happy New Year! This is the Year!

This Is The Year

by Russell Kemp

Wonderful, wonderful, fortunate you, 

This is the year that your dreams come true!

 This is the year that your ships come in;

 this is the year you find Christ within. 

This is the year you are glad to live; 

this is the year you have much to give.

This is the year when you know the truth; 

this is the year when you find new youth.

This is the year that brings happiness; 

this is the year you will live to bless.

Wonderful, wonderful, fortunate you, 

this is the year that your dreams come true!

If you are really thankful, What do you do?

If you are really thankful,

What do you do?

You share.

                                                                                   W. Clement Stone

Unity's Most Basic Principles - Myrtle Fillmore::

"I do not believe in evil. I believe in Good. I do not believe in sin. I believe in Truth. I do not believe in want. I believe in Abundance. I do not believe in death. I believe in Life. I do not believe in ignorance. I believe in Intelligence. There are no discords in my being. Being is peace. My faith, understanding and love are becoming one.

 ‘What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.’"

Myrtle Fillmore

Me or Not Me?

I think you will enjoy this video which expresses the Unity philosophy beautifully though not "officially" a Unity talk and from another culture and spiritual tradition.

Enjoy Here's the link if the video doesn't appear.
 http://youtu.be/dXAPiksRS_M

Three Stages of Spiritual Practice

Three Stages of Spiritual Practice


Stage 1 Preparatory Stage. The student thinks that she is practicing, but actually she is preparing herself for the practice. Her  practice consists of collecting the necessary means and resources to begin and to stay on the path.

Stage 2:Intermediate stage: A student is fully equipped with all the resources he needs to practice. His time and energy are not involved in collecting means and learning methods, rather he spends his time in practice.


Stage 3 - achievement: At this stage, a student experiences the Truth. She may have only a momentary glimpse of the Truth, but at least it is a direct experience, which helps her understand the greatness of the Truth. Now, her practice consists of trying to maintain that state. As her practice matures, she becomes an adept; then she need not try, for the experience of Unity is maintained effortlessly and spontaneously. 

You really do not need to know many things, 

but you need to practice what you know.