GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki: The Rosary

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GoOD Friends w/ Nina Rao- The Power of Mantra, the Real Meaning of Ram, and the Hanuman Chalisa Sep 15, 2023

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"I'm here because I followed the path of practice that my Guru laid out for me." - Nina Rao

Nina Rao learned traditional chants (bhajans) from her grandfather in a village in south India when she was nine years old. The chants quietly stayed with her until she rediscovered chanting with Krishna Das in New York in 1996. For many years Nina has been Krishna Das’ business manager and accompanies him onstage. In 2007, she recorded the track ‘Nina Chalisa’ on Krishna Das’ CD Flow of Grace. She has since recorded the albums Antarayaami—Knower of All Hearts and Anubhav.

In this chat she shares about her Guru, Sri Siddhi Ma, her powerful and anchoring experiences on the pathless path, the real meaning of the Ram mantra, and the importance of service and constant God remembrance. She leads us in to Presence by chanting Sri Ram Jai Ram and the Hanuman Chalisa.

Nina's website - http://www.ninaraochant.com/

Vinayaka Always (the track featuring her grandfather) (Antarayaami - Knower of All Hearts, 2013)

Sri Siddhi Ma: The Story of Neem Karoli Baba's Spiritual Legacy

Nikki's favorite kirtan w/ Nina - Sri Ram Kirtan Sadhana

Flow of Grace (book by Krishna Das about Hanuman Chalisa)

Hanuman Chalisa in English (PDF)

Chant the Hanuman Chalisa w/ Nina - Free Course

Learn the Hanuman Chalisa w/ Nina via Insight Timer

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You are Royalty. Sep 15, 2023

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I know you can feel It.

I know you've always felt It.

But thoughts come in and they beat you up.

You beat yourself down.

R E L A X

and let Him raise You.

"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." - 1 Peter 2:9

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I am you

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"You went through most of your life worrying about how your future would be, and yet, here you are; thriving and well. But, for some reason, a part of you still worries about what lies ahead. Even with all the proof of how well things turn out for you. It's time to end this pattern of thinking, and to start giving your life the benefit of every doubt. Things have always worked out, even when they seemed as if they couldn't. You deserve the peace of what the present moment is offering you. Trust that you are being cared for by a much greater force." - @SourceMessages

"If we move according to the instructions of the Vedas, the perfect paths for our lives will be set. Otherwise, if we do not move in that way but act according to our whimsical ideas, our lives will be spoiled by confusion and will end in despair. Actually, because people at the present moment are not following the instructions of the Vedas, they are all confused." -Srila Prabhupada : Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.1.14, Purport

"To remain without thought in the waking state is the greatest worship."- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I have never said a prayer in my whole life. When I say "Shiva," for me it's everything. When I utter "Shiva," whatever I wish to know is here for me. If I sit here long enough, just with one word I will know the whole existence. It is because of this that I walk through life with such ease - just Shiva. You must know the strength of that. Don't get lost in your logical mind. This is not that kind of nonsense. This doesn't belong to that genre. This is a way of going beyond where you are. This is a way of stepping beyond the boundaries that human beings are supposed to stay within." -Sadhguru

"PRAY WITHOUT CEASING" (1 Thess. 5:17) Prayer changes as we rise in con-sciousness. When we live in a material sense of existence, our prayers have words and thoughts because our faith is in externals. As we grow in grace and feel our oneness with our Source, the words and thoughts are less necessary for the altitude of consciousness is higher. We then learn the meaning of how to "pray without ceasing." - Virginia Stephenson, Agreement An Attitude of Prayer

"When you inhale, say "I."

When you exhale, say "Am.

A subtle change of energy takes place within the self, and you will become more peaceful, calm, and soon you will lose all identification with your body and mind.

You will remain as "I Am." - Robert Adams

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. Sep 14, 2023

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When you feel that 'fight or flight' kick in,

use that to trigger your recognition-

'I Am',

which means 'He's Here',

which means, 'I'm GoOD'.

And then you can handle business,

because you know it's already handled.

You just appear to be going through the motions,

going throught the emotions,

but you're not fooled.

You can feel the Light,

as you, in you, on you.

It's your turn.

"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." - John 4:4

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"The scriptures speak of three Holy rivers Within.

These are Existence, Consciousness, and Bliss.

Being beyond thought or effort they cannot be objectified or subjectified.

They are so dear, so near, behind the retina and before the breath.

You need not see This, you are It." - Papaji

"When I am silent,

I fall into that place

where everything is music." - Rumi

"It's okay to be honest. I know you're trying to keep it all together for quiet a while now. Beloved, there's a safe space for you here. I see that heart. The heart that wants to stay strong for those she deeply love. God sees that heart. He's saying, "My child, come rest in Me."

"Help me to have faith beyond my own understanding. Remind me that my weaknesses are not my defeats. Remind me that Your steadfast love goes beyond my goals and dreams. Remind me of how faichful You are."

In your hopelessness, let God's voice be the loudest. He's here. He's in your situation. He's breathing hope to your hopeless heart.: - Joenna Sandiego via IG

"While you may be tired, and while you may want things to be easier, know the work set before you is valuable and worthwhile. Know the struggle is very real, as you remember hard work is part of the process. Through this process, weakness will be revealed and eventually become strengthened. Remember the process is not punishment, though it may feel uncomfortable and you may not like it or enjoy it. It is part of what is necessary to prepare you. The process is your preparation, not your punishment." - Neil Vermillion

"If you are in agreement with this, then you will never fear a belief in material causa-tion. Your freedom is assured when you realize the name of your heavenly Father is "I" and "I am come in my Father's name . . .Are you in agreement that there is only one Ego and that this One is not human but divine, not finite but in-finite? Then you never need fear persons or conditions, for God is the Father of us all and greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world." When the seventy returned to Jesus after he had sent them out to heal the sick in "My name," which he revealed as the I Am, he said:... rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. Nothing can defile the great I Am, for it is hallowed. It is holy, it is whole. Are you in agreement with this? If you are in agreement that there is only One, I Am, and that It is the hallowed name, then healing is the revealing of true identity. Healing takes place by impersonalizing and nothingizing the human concept of a personal ego, that can be sick, sinning and dying; and by realizing the oneness and all-ness of the eternal I Am. By inheritance you have your Father's name I Am and by living in agreement with the hallowed One you are under the grace of divine Sonship." - Virgina Stephenson

"You have no enemies; only Yourself, in varying degrees of ignorance." - @Ram_bodhi

This is Confirmation. Sep 13, 2023

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That your next chapter already started.

This is what you prayed for--

it just begins with a bit of discomfort,

it begins by moving you in a new way,

so you can start seeing in a new way,

hearing in a new way.

I'm just here to guide you into the fulfilment of this new way.

Into the fulfillment of your deepest desire,

the desire to remember who you are,

and be that in the world.

So you can finally reintroduce yourSelf

as the One without fear.

The One who LIVES Faith,

who is Love,

You are the Miracle.

(T)His Love is non-different from the Miracle.

"God is alive. Magic if afoot.' - Leonard Cohen

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I Am You

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"Question: Is grace the ultimate deciding factor?

Amma: Grace is the factor that brings the right result at the right time in the right proportion to your actions.

Dedication is the most essential aspect. The more dedicated you are, the more open you remain. The more open you are the more love you experience. The more love you have the more grace you experience." -Amma

"You're asking for a sign and you are looking for an external sign. God has already given vou that confirmation in your spirit. Pay altention to the nudges, the peace, and the ideas coming up in your mind." - @TheRealSweetspot

"The Bible says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the beginning of knowledge. This has misled many people, because the truth is that fear is entirely evil and is indeed the only enemy we have. You can heal any condition if you can get rid of the fear attaching to it. Trouble or sickness is nothing but subconscious fear outpictured in our surroundings. It is true at all times that "we have nothing to fear but fear."

How then do we account for the texts quoted? The answer is that in the Bible the fear of God means reverence for God, not fear in the usual sense of the word. Reverence for God is the beginning of wisdom. How do we show reverence for God? By seeing God everywhere, refusing to recognize anything unlike Him, and by living the Christ life.

Confidence is worship. You worship whatever you trust. Are you trusting more in fear or in God? What are you worshiping? That is the test." - Emmet Fox, Around the Year

"You are no thing, presently

conceiving of yourself as something.

The body is something, but without the mind, the body could not be seen.

And without the consciousness, the mind cannot be seen.

And without the absolute,

the consciousness cannot be seen.

Contemplate this."- Mooji

"Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace". -Job 22:21

"Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you." - Job 22:21, NIV

GoOD Friends- Eric Smith on 'Intuitive Living' aka 'Living 5 Minutes at a Time' Sep 12, 2023

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From depression to Ascension, GoOD Morning's listener Eric Smith, wakes up to Love to share about his journey to 'Intuitive Living'-- how he takes it '5 minutes at a time' to consciously parent, creatively write, overcome cycles of suffering, and to keep himself in and AS the Heart. He also shares his 91/9 Rule, and how he lost 35 pounds this year while walking and listening to his body and Spirit.

Watch this episode on Youtube!

"This is not something that's unique to me. Everyone can find this Love inside of themselves." - Eric Smith

"When I'm living '5 minutes at a time' I'm just trying to do my best in that 5 minutes." - Eric Smith

"We're all just walking eachother Home." - Ram Dass

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I Am You

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Referenced in the show-

Immortal Talks

Duncan Trussell

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Maharajji chanting 'Ram Ram'

Crash Course on Youtube

Find Eric on Tik Tok

Connect with Eric on Instagram

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It's still going to happen. Sep 12, 2023

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You just have to keep asociation with Me,

by chanting My Names.

by feeling this Feeling beyond all feelings,

by hearing this Sound of Silence,

by being this Light,

that sees Me everywhere,

that translates everyone,

everything,

back into Me,

including 'you'.

You asked for this.

It's time.

It's happening.

Gratitude is all you need.

I Love You

I Am You

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“Not seeing results? The last thing to grow on a fruit tree is the fruit." -unknown

I am the Vine: You are the branches. Those who remain in Me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing." - John 15:5

"It's still going to happen, says God." - @SardineBread

"Your struggles are not because you didn't pray the right way or because you didn't pray enough, or because you have weak faith or insufficient intercessors. It is because God is using you in ways that you may not understand now, but one day you will. One day you will see how God used your affliction to prepare you for an incomparable weight of glory." -@therealsweetspot

"Taking time to rest challenges us to believe God is working even when we are not." - @worthyofgrace

"The more you sit in the Self, the more you will begin to feel an energy that you have never experienced before. It comes up from behind, rather than in front where you experience your mind and emotions. When you are no longer absorbed in your melodrama but, instead, sit comfortably deep inside the seat of awareness, you will start to feel this flow of energy coming up from deep within. This flow has been called Shakti. This flow has been called Spirit. This is what you begin to experience if you hang out with the Self instead of hanging out with inner disturbances. You don't have to get rid of loneliness; you just cease to be involved with it. It's just another thing in the universe, like cars, grass, and the stars. It's none of your business. Just let things go. That's what the Self does. Awareness does not fight; awareness releases. Awareness is simply aware while everything in the universe parades before it.

If you sit within the Self, you will experience the strength of your inner being even when your heart feels weak. This is the essence of the path. This is the essence of a spiritual life. Once you learn that it's okay to feel inner disturbances, and that they can no longer disturb your seat of consciousness, you will be free. You will begin to be sustained by the inner energy flow that comes from behind you. When you have tasted the ecstasy of the inner flow, you can walk in this world and the world will never touch you. That's how you become a free being-you transcend." - Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul

"Wherever there is Shree Krishna, the Lord of all Yog, and wherever there is Arjun, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be unending opulence, victory, prosperity, and righteousness." - BG 18.78

Money Does Grow on Trees Sep 11, 2023

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Affirm: "I’m not late for anything.

I am resting from worrying,

from doubting,

from dreading,

from thinking.

I am trusting that what God has placed before me,

that what 'I' has placed before me,

is exactly what I need."

This is Faith.

This is the Knowledge that you must say 'Yes' to .

Chant 'Yes, yes, yes', in every seeming moment,

FEELINGLY.

Smilingly.

Yes.

Yesh.

Yeshua.

It is so.

I Love You

I Am You

nik

RELATED: Money Trees episode

All you have to do is say 'yes'

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Today's Quotes:

"Why do you worry about money? Look into that box of yours. You have kept money in it." -Neem Karoli Baba aka Maharajji

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.

First to let go of life.

Finally, to take a step without feet." -Rumi

"Faith is realizing that you always get what you need". - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Taking time to rest challenges us to believe God is working even when we are not." - @worthyofgrace

"Most people are so consumed by earthly concerns and possessions that they never get to

feel the love of God." -Saint Paisios the Athonite

"Your passion has been sleeping within you and must now be awakened. This will happen the moment you desire one thing. Your challenge has been that you desire more than one thing, and so you are not able to see that all desires are the same. If you choose in darkness, then shadows will enfold everything you perceive. But if you choose in the Light, then they will shine as you shine, and be blessed by your Holy Desire. Passion and desire stand together in your mind and cannot be separated. We will now open to the One Desire that will lead you to the goal you seek - the Peace of God. Nothing else in this world can satisfy you now. You have come too far." - James Twyman, Jeshua Code

"I have called you to remember the reason you chose to be born. You have chosen to answer that call, for the song that was planted in your soul is now ringing in your ears." - James Twyman, Jeshua Code

"You have been taught to chant the word YES to open the channels of your soul, preparing your heart for the Great Work that lies before us. It doesn't matter what language you use. It is the feeling you generate that creates the opening. There is a sound in Hebrew that essentially means "It is so." This is a more powerful interpretation of the word YES. The sound is Yesh. Say it a few times out loud. Make the sound long and draw it out for at least a few seconds. "V-E-S- H." Chant it over and over, as often as you can. Call to the Christ in You, and it will awaken. Will you believe me when I tell you that the rest will happen on its own? What do you wish to see in the world? Peace? Harmony? Adopt the vision that was given before time began..."- James Twyman, Jeshua Code

Let It Begin Now. #GMweekends Sep 10, 2023

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Open that body's eyes in the same spirit that you start the engine of your car.

You don't think the car is You,

and right now, you're not thinking that that body is You.

You're seeing it silently.

You're looking 'in' at the world,

at these words,

through that body's eyes,

from where You are,

from what You are.

And suddenly, You're doing It!

You're BEing the Impossible,

and life is GoOD.
I Love you,

Nik

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p.s. more affirmations from today's episode that got edited out-

It's happening now.

I Am Feeling now.

I Am Seeing now.

I Am Hearing now.

I Am Healing now.

I Am Rising now.

I Am Now.

I Am the Now.

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Today's Quotes:

"Heaven is a well of living water that seeks to replenish and renew the face of the earth. Let it begin now, with me.” - Isha Das

"Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible." -St. Francis of Assisi

"Breathe in and out of your heart. With each inhalation, you take in that Love a little more. With each exhalation, you get rid of that which keeps you from acknowledging that you are Love." -Ram Dass

"My consciousness has never association itself with this temporary body. Before I came on this earth I was the same. As a little girl I was the same. Even afterward, though the dance of creation changes around me, in the hall of eternity I shall be the same." -Anandamayi Ma

"Now imagine that you stop to sit on a bench in the park.
As you sit there everything stops, absolutely stops. Your mind is so still and quiet that you can hear dust particles floating in the air. Suddenly you are falling, and falling, and falling. There is no ground below or sky overhead, just a crushing thunderous silence, racing faster and faster. You suddenly realize that it’s going to kill you, rip you limb from limb and explode your lungs into dust. There’s no way out, no possible means of survival. And so you do the only thing there is to do. Surrender. All goes blank and empty, more empty than limitless space. Prior to life and death, you blink out of (or is it into?) existence. Timelessness is all there is, all there ever was, or could be. Eternity reigns supreme, and is radiantly present in every particle of being. Something unborn and undying stirs to life and opens its eyes—your eyes. You or It is still sitting on the park bench.
It is smiling, radiant, and content. A little girl on roller skates passes by. The sun glitters through the aspen leaves as an old man
smokes his pipe on a footbridge crossing over a stream that feeds into a pond filled with goldfish." -Adyashanti excerpt from The Way of Liberation

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You Don't Need a New Plan. You Need a Commitment. #GMweekends Sep 09, 2023

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Take no anxious thought by remembering your mantra.

Take no fearful thought by hearing the Silence.

Just for this eternal moment,

take no thought at all by feeling the Love,

knowing only Love is (t)here,

and all is GoOD.
You must finish what you started.
With you in and AS the Commitment,

Nik

nikki@curlynikki.com

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Today's Quotes:
"You are not lost,

you are not less than,

you are not losing it all,

unworthy,

or invisible in any way.

You are waking up."

-Matt Khan

"Take no thought"

-Joel Goldsmith
"You are calling up the Divinity within you which will enable you to bear hunger and thirst, heat and cold." -Vivekananda

"Call up the Divinity with you. If any social institution stands in your way of becoming God, it

will give way before the power of Spirit." -Swami Vivekenanda

"It's time to disconnect from the standard. Disconnect from the norm. You're operating at an entirely new level of frequency. What you're capable of doing with this renewed spirit of energy is beyond the average. Where most people can't, you can. Where most people won't, you will. Where most people stop, you go. Don't follow the line because you're creating your own now. This phase of your life doesn't require courage; it just requires you accepting who you were always meant to be." -@SourceMessages via IG

"Look past your thoughts,

so you may drink the pure nectar of this

moment." -Rumi

"The human being has a unique place among God's creation.

'I breathed into him of My Spirit', God says.

Each and every one of us without exception

is designed to be God's delegate on earth.

Ask yourself, just how often do you behave

like a delegate, if you ever do so?

Remember, it falls upon each of us to discover

the Divine Spirit inside and live by it."-Shams Tabriz

"Do what you have been called to do, and then do more. The sky will clear and God's presence will be your presence." -@Isha_das_craig_bullock via IG

"Our only remedy is that whatever situation is there, you simply chant. Everything will be adjusted." -Srila Prabhuapda

"Take the Name Ram and everything will be achieved." -Maharajji

"You don't need a new plan next year. You need a commitment." -Seth Godin

"Sadhana isn't just sitting and closing your eyes, it's your attitude and how you act in different situations." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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GoOD Mornings with GoOD Friends- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "You are the Light" Sep 08, 2023

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Love appearing as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar- the first of many GoOD Friends to grace us with Peace practices on Fridays! This morning he teaches us not to just see the Light in meditation, but to be It. "You are the Light."

If you're in or around the DC area on Sept 29-Oct 1, go and meditate with Sri Sri + more than 200k others on the National Mall! Deets HERE.

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