You are Chosen

Affirm: I Am chosen.

My past couldn't have been any other way.

My future will be what I choose today,

and today, I choose Him.

I chose this Love.

I choose this Peace

I choose this Sound--

to let It inform my thoughts,

to let It inform my actions,

to let It inform me that It is more real than the world.

Where you're sitting or standing,

where you're breathing,

is Holy Ground.

Drop your head down to your heart

and Hear.

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I Love you,

Nik

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QUOTES

"Your life is perfect..

It is a perfect plan and it is

a spontaneous miracle every moment."

-SriSri Ravi Shankar via IG @sarikajgd

"The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it."

-Leonard Ravenhill via IG @WorshipBlog

"Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest!"

-Kahlil Gibran

"God's answer is some form of peace. All pain Is healed; all misery replaced with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake."

-A Course in Miracles LESSON 359

"Live in such a way that you're constantly free from the past and unbothered by the future. Observe the voices in your head, but don't join the conversation. Be the silent detached awareness, and your mind will slowly quiet down."

-Via IG @LessonToSelf

"In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't."

-Adyashanti

"I was afraid of being rejected

Until I learned to never reject myself

I was afraid of being abandoned

Until I learned to never abandon myself

...

I was afraid of the darkness

Until I remembered that I was the Light

And I was afraid of life

Until I remembered who I was."

-Excerpt from Tahlia Hunter

"We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us."

-Rumi

"He's not an "I told you so" kind of God

He's a

'Come here

Welcome home

I'll keep you safe

I'll keep you warm

Let me hold you

Let me heal you

I love you

I have so much for you I am not mad at you

Trust me

I will never leave you

My grace will never run out

Stay with me'

Kind of God.

At this very moment, go to Him in your heart and He will meet you there with His Peace."

-@HerTrueWorth

You can call off the search.

(T)here is no other Voice but this One.

There is no other Silence.

There is no other God.

There is no other awakening experience.

When your mind is telling you that you're not 'there' yet,

you're hearing it from 'there'.

This is It.

You're hearing THE Voice.

You are the Voice.

This Silence is what you are.

This silence is what I Am (is).

Affirm that, 'This Silence is what I Am."

The first few times with words, and then drop the words.

Your whole being is singing, SHREEMing, 'I Am' without words...

being the silence I Am,

being the Love I Am,

being That, I Am. (Exodus 3:14)

I Love you,

nik

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QUOTES

Meditation excerpt from the 'Little Book of Life and Death' by Douglas Harding

"There is no instrument other than deep meditation that can detect the presence of that almighty Grace within. Still the body, withdraw the energy from the senses into the brain, calm the heart: Christ will be there; you will feel the divine joy of the Infinite Christ."

-Yogananda

Reading from, 'Voice of the Masters' by Eva Bell Werber

"Everyday I say to myself, today I will begin." - St. Anthony of the Desert

Today, we begin. This very moment, we begin... remembering that we ARE what's appearing as this moment, we are the substratum of the Now, we are the Christ. We celebrate the birth of Jesus today, the birth of the awareness of the Christ among us, and now, the birth of our awareness of the Christ within us.

Repeat this mantra by Herb Fitch, "I am not man or woman, I live the day as I, Spirit", and notice how you're already, effortlessly detached from the body. There's some space (t)here, naturally. You, as Awareness, don't have to try to detangle your Self from the body, you already are the witness. You already are Love. Be That, by feeling It and remembering to feel It all day. "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being." (Gospel of Thomas)

Merry Christmas! I Love you,

Nik

nikki@curlynikki.com

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You’re feeling absolutely fantastic this morning! But not for the reason you think. You don’t feel good because it’s Christmas Eve. You don’t feel good because you know what’s under the tree, or even because you’re off work or have no professional Zoom meetings tomorrow (likely for a whole week!), or that your favorite food is being prepared, or that your playlist is FIRE and the Temptations are going in on ‘Silent Night’.

All of these things may very well seem to be happening, but they’re not causing that quiet-Joy you’re aware of. You’re just presently in alignment... allowing yourself to feel good, to experience God. You’re currently BEing your true Self! This is your natural state— one of uncaused joy, ease, love, relaxation and peace. What people call ‘The Christmas Spirit’ is your original nature, and you can feel this way even on your first day back to work, if you give yourself permission.

God didn’t come closer this morning, and It won’t get further away next week. We just changed the way we are living in this moment. And now we must keep living this way... remembering to recognize that the Light is ALWAYS on inside. That we are this Light.

If you can stop waiting for special occasions to remember this background Joy, to feel Go(o)d, to be yourSelf, your life will change drastically from the inside out and very rapidly. I promise you. #MerryChristmas

With you in and AS Christhood,

@curlynikki

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QUOTES

"We all think of the Lord when troubled,

never when at peace.

But if we held our faith during peace,

there would be no trouble."

-Kabir Ke Dohe via IG

“This is the supreme meditation, this is the supreme worship: the continuous and unbroken awareness of the indwelling presence, inner light or consciousness. While doing whatever one is doing— seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing or talking— one should realize one’s essential nature as pure consciousness. Thus does one attain liberation.”

- The Yoga Vasistha

Whatever you're feeling... it's okay. It's just inner weather. You couldn't be feeling any other way. Breathe. Sway. Let's chat about how to take Shelter and ride it out, together.

God is here, even now. Feel It and know.

I Love you,

Nik

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Lovingly affirm:

"I am immersed in the flame-

The flame of time,

The flame of love,

The flame of life.

The universal fire flows through me."*

The Living God is appearing as you and every seeming thing.

I feel Light(er) when you get this.

And you're getting this.

I Love you,

nik

"Everything exposed to the light itself becomes light" (Ephesians 5:13). In prayer, we merely keep returning the divine gaze and we become its reflection, almost in spite of ourselves (2 Corinthians 3:18). The word prayer has often been trivialized by making it into a way of getting what we want. But I use prayer as the umbrella word for any interior journeys or practices that allow us to experience faith, hope, and love within ourselves. It is not a technique for getting things, a pious exercise that somehow makes God happy, or a requirement for entry into heaven. It is much more like practicing heaven now.

+Adapted from The Naked Now: Learning to See

as the Mystics See, pp. 22-23.

"Live for a few days in the meditation,

"I am immersed in the flame-The flame of time, The flame of love, The flame of life.

The universal fire flows through me."

Step into that fire. wholeheartedly,

Starting with the big toe,

Then, surrendering everywhere.

Only the not-self,

Which doesn't exist anyway,

Burns away.

Attend to this continually And awaken into tranquility.

Your essence is renewed in the flame, For it is flame and knows itself as flame Since the first heartbeat of creation.

Imagine the entire world consumed by flame.

Stay steady, do not waver,

As fire transmutes form into light.

The soul reveals itself."

To itself as Radiance.- the Radiance Sutras

A meditation to help you IMMEDIATELY surrender negative thoughts. It's useful not just during 'formal' meditation, but in every moment you find yourself fearful or worried. You shift from being aware of being 'you', to being aware AS the Christ Light that you truly are. You shift out of your mind, and into the mind that was in Christ. Into the no-mind of the Buddha. How does that mind sound? Is it thinking about your troubles, your past, your future? Or is It silent... steady? How does It feel?

Stay (t)here.

I Love you,

Nik

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Today's Quotes:

"Constantly have this mind among yourselves which was in Christ Jesus."

-Philippians 2:5-11

"Just as a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, so the disciplined mind of a yogi remains steady in meditation on the Self."

-Bhagavad Gita

"People come to me to ask for blessings, they don't understand the knowledge that one is not the body, but the consciousness within, is the blessing."

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Having realized that I am with, and yet beyond the world, I became free from all desire and fear. I did not reason out that I should be free, I found myself free, unexpectedly, without the least effort. Spontaneity became a way of life, the real became natural and the natural became real. And above all, infinite affection, love, dark and quiet, radiating in all directions, embracing all, making all interesting and beautiful, significant and auspicious."

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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What do you hear when thinking stops?

When wanting stops?

Ask yourself that question and linger in the silence behind the question.

Who am I when I want nothing?

...

Before I went to India,

I was told in a very Divine way by someone sent to me,

to come there with an empty heart,

and an empty mind,

not wanting anything,

not desiring anything,

not craving anything,

not seeking solutions or answers,

not seeking anything,

not expecting anything at all.

And I felt it.

I heard that message so clearly.

And of course, the mind came up and I said, "Well, how do I do that? How do I go about doing that?"

And he said, "just Love God."

The Loving replaces the wanting.

It eclipses it.

You just keep quiet.

You go where there are not words,

and you find the Love (t)here,

and you place your attention (t)here.

The wanting may still be (t)here,

but your attention is on the Loving,

it's on the having.

He said, "You come like that,

you come empty and open,

and you'll get everything you want.

Everything you wanted.

That's the secret.

I love you

nik

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"Give me grace to see beyond this moment here. to believe that there is nothing left to fear. that You alone are high above it all." - @proverbs_31life

"I am where there

are no words." -Ramana Maharshi

"Examine everything in life & say THIS IS NOTHING,, & what remains is love,,& that is everything..." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"The great void is subject to destruction, the AJAPA ([mantra repeated mentally] Simran without tongue, Name remembrance which goes on automatically) is also subject to destruction. The region of Unstuck Melody is similarly subject to destruction. Kabir says only those who are lovers of Ram [God] shall not die. They have become forever immortal." - Kabir

Passages from the Radiance Sutras

"Desiring and knowing, Knowing and desiring.

Just for a breath,

Forget what you want.

Forget what you know.

Receive the real teaching."

"Radiant One, inquire:

Before desire arises in me, who am I?

Before I know anything, who am I?

Seek always the intimate joy Of your original Self,

And move through this world in freedom."