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Science of Mind Sundays, September 20
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"being"
“While everybody is nodding off, I find those moments where I see sunsets and sunrises and all the times in between that are fascinating and so beautiful and it’s almost like [being] free.”
~ Julian Lennon, Science of Mind Magazine, Feb. 2014
It’s funny. When I found this quote, I saw the brackets around the “being” implying that the person who added the word, did so for clarity, and maybe he did, and that was Julian’s intent. The quote is obviously out of context, but that doesn’t make it any less powerful either way.
And either way, the meaning is the same. That unconscious place where most people spend most of their lives is just the fine line between sleep and freedom.
Most people never notice the sunrises and sunset and enjoy the incomparable beauty that is there in that moment, let alone see the beauty and the expression of life in the rest of the day. Most people walk through life asleep, and without a conscious thought of the constant change around them. They see their lives as static and uninteresting, a drudgery they endure, but seldom enjoy.
When was the last time you took a moment in a simple take like washing dishes and noticed the way the water flowed over your hand or the way the bubbles have an iridescent property. Or, took a walk and noticed the sound of rustling leaves or, in colder weather, the steam rising from the drains. Have you ever listened to the music that some trees make or flag pole wires, or, in the city, the music the hi-rise buildings make? I often just sit on my back porch in St. Augustine, close my eyes and listen to the wild sounds of nature. I can imagine myself somewhere else, a jungle maybe, listening to the “gronks” of the herons, mixed with the finches, mockingbirds, laughing gulls, and myriad other birds, mixed with the deafening sound of cicadas, crickets, and other critters of the undergrowth amidst the background music of the wind whistling through the longleaf pines, live oaks and cedars.
It is amazing how much life we miss with our headphones or our music cranked up.
~rev jim starke
Science of Mind SUNDAYS is ON!
Hey everyone,
Science of Mind SUNDAYS is ON!
We are shortening it to a one hour book discussion, meditation, interview, workshop, spiritual practice or whatever we happen to be doing in a given week, but it’s all about the Science of Mind!
The start date is September 13th. Figured no one wo
uld show up on Labor Day weekend.
It will be on Sundays at 7:30 pm and we will list the month’s events the month before. We will be using ZOOM as our medium and meeting place for our Science of Mind Sunday meetings, the same technology we use for our classes.
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In the silence I find my Life.
There is an inner insistence toward wholeness and it is this that the moment, the experience of quiet, announces.
~Howard Thurmon, Meditations of the Heart
This I know. In the silence is the peace of the Heart. That Peace is God. That peace is my peace. In the quiet I find my self. The purity of spirit is the essence which God in me. This is my wholeness. As I move into that place, I know that I am more, because I AM. In everything I do, I AM. In the I AM I am whole. I can be no less than that which I AM.
As I know this for me, I know that this is not only my truth, but the truth of all sentient beings. I know that there is no thing that has power greater than I AM, and in that place of unity, there is no other than I AM. Father, Mother, brother, daughter, all are One, and all are Whole.
In gratitude, I give in and allow my good to surround me, envelop me, and take me to my place of bliss and perfection. From here I just sit in silence. Knowing the work is done. I am complete.
and so it is.
Allow the inflow of the new!
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
Howard Thurman
In the quiet of your thoughts, have you ever noticed that there’s a certain knowing the comes to you, that a certain idea is brought forward in your mind, when you allow all things to just refresh themselves and you just release those things which no longer serve you.
It’s the same thing as when I have a problem I can’t solve and I just walk away from it, forget about it, then come back to it from a different perspective, from a different idea, or from different way of thinking and all of a sudden the answer appears from outside the confusion which was there in the beginning which was nonproductive and now there is the answer. It was so easy. I did not see it in the beginning and it suddenly appeared to me because I had a change of mind, a change of thought. I created a void, a place which allowed for the new thought to come into my life. I changed my despair to hope, my fear that there wasn’t an answer into the answer.
And at the same time I know that it wasn’t me the answer came from. It came through me from God, I cleared the way in my mind for the answer to be revealed to me. It was always there because God is always with us and as soon as I cleared the way it was revealed to me.
Next time something in your life seems to be troubling you, let go of it, walk away from it, forget about it, release it from your thoughts, release the idea and just find something else to do, then come back to it with a new mind, with a clear mind, and with a clear thought that the answer is there already and you’ll be surprised. It will be there.