GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki: The Rosary

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Your Tears Are Prayers, Too. #GMfaves Feb 06, 2024

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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
nikki@curlynikki.com

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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

Affirm: "The Long Drought is Over" Feb 05, 2024

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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

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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

This is What You Came For #GMweekends Feb 04, 2024

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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
nikki@curlynikki.com

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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

The Only Thing of Real Value is Love Itself #GMweekends Feb 03, 2024

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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

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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

Keeping your Mantra going keeps you going. Feb 02, 2024

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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

Don't sing the sadness anymore... Feb 01, 2024

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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

Without God, we are too poor to help the poor. Jan 31, 2024

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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

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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

Pray: "God, keep me in Your Name." Jan 30, 2024

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"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

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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

Accept it now, understand it later. Jan 29, 2024

Show notes

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.

Accept It now,

understand it later.*

I Love You

I Am You

nik

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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 ahead." -God #GMweekends Jan 28, 2024

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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
nikki@curlynikki.com
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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

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