Daily Devotional: GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki

"Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now." -Eckhart Tolle The Only Step: FEEL LOVE.  In feeling Love you automatically forgive, you naturally let go, you heal... you HAVE.   Love holds onto nothing but Love. Love carries nothing but Love.  Where Love is consciously, only Love manifests.  Remember this Love.  Feel this Love....

Today's Quotes: "I live and move in and by the Holy Spirit. I have Christ mind and vision. I see God in everyone and everything, because I feel It in myself. I am the child of a rich Father and I have come Home. I let God live my life. "   -from my iPhone notes in January 2018  "You have to want God the way a drowning man wants air."  -Bhagavan Das  "The Saint who is in this State, sees both the r...

(Some language ❤️) Listener question via IG DMs- "I listened to your podcast this morning (as I always do) and I can't find it... the love that is supposed to be there and wash over me.  All I feel is sadness, to the point where my heart aches all day and I want to curl up on my bed and just disappear.  I could just give up but there is a strand of something that keeps me here.  I keep writing, I...

 As Rumi said, "close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there", and get into this meditation on the presence of God.   When you remember Him, He comes. When you remember Love, only Love is (t)here.    “I am within My world, yet am I not known. I am My world, yet must I stand silently by, while man, who was created to manifest Me, thinks that he himself is that which works and plays, loves, hates and c...

"I realize that stress is only fear. I release all fear. I am at peace. I am safe and secure. Freedom from stress is my divine right. I let go of all tension. I use my breath to relax. I breathe deeply and peacefully. I feel my muscles relax. I flow with life easily and effortlessly. All is well in my world." -Joan Borysenko  "When we have awareness of the silent side, abundance is increased in th...

"Transform me Lord, so that when people see me, they see you."  -@HerTrueWorth via IG St. Francis' Peace Prayer- Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring love. Where there is offense, let me bring pardon. Where there is discord, let me bring union. Where there is error, let me bring truth. Where there is doubt, let me bring faith. Where there is despair, let m...

"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 thi...

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 nikki@curlynikki.com Support the show Beginning Aug 7, 2023 - 'GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki' will host pre and post roll ads within the back catalogue.

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 g...

"The 'problem' with most people who believe in God, is that they also believe in the devil.  That's believing in two powers rather than only one!" -Gil Michaels  "'...error is not real and it has no power.'  That is an incomplete statement because error does have power until it comes into contact with an illumined consciousness.  We should first complete the sentence by saying, 'error is not power...

A mini meditation to find the Silence that the mind swims in.   "I Am Nothing, appearing to be something, and now enjoying both." -Mooji "Nothing is dreaming It is something." -Mooji  "Realize 'I Am' and do not think 'I Am'."  -Ramana Maharshi "Man is free to free himself from body identification and that is the only freedom he has." -Ramana Maharshi  I Love you and I’m with you! Nik nikki@curlyni...

"I can see angels sitting on your ears,  Polishing trumpets, replacing lute strings, stretching new skins on the drums and gathering wood for the evening’s fire. They all danced last night but you did not hear Them." -excerpt from 'I Can See Angels' by Hafiz  "To be present for God’s touches, Francis found that having the right word turning over and over again on the tongue could make all the diff...

It's my ex-hubby's year to Love on the kids for the holidays, so after a tearful goodbye yesterday, I wanted to share how I still managed to lean into Love (this will be my first Christmas morning without them), and will continue to as I navigate this life thing.    "Follow the stream of Love you already know, no matter how small it is." - St. Francis of Assisi "As a drop of water poured into wine...

"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 Bonus Quote: "If we take into our meditation the question, "what is God?" ultimately we shall be led to the secret of prayer, and when we have achieved correct prayer, meditation, or communion, we shall be led to a God-experience, which is a 'pea...

Because I feel Go(o)d now, I trust my future will be, too. Repeat these words, feelingly: The past is over. Only Go(o)d lies before me now. Only Love lies before me now.  Only Love is here.  And I Am That.  "The future is made up of only one substance and that is the present moment. By taking care of the present, you are doing everything you can to assure a good future."  - Thich Nhat Hanh "Our fu...

Meditation from Eva Bell Werber's, Voice of the Master - MISSION "This morning in the quiet I would speak to you of that inner realm where you find me, the Beloved of Your Heart. It is a place of such utter joy that only those who have touched it can comprehend. So many of my children are seeking-are are searching, high and low, are hungry for that which you know is here, close within you. You mus...

Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator." -Dudjom Rinpoche "Carry your meditation as the eternal present and saturate your everyday life with it. " -N. Senzaki “At the beginning of my spiritual practice in the monastery, I used the hours set aside for private prayer to simply think about God. I wanted God’s reality to imprint itself on my min...

“Once I asked Maharajji how it is possible for a man to remember God all the time. He told me the story of Narada (the celestial sage) and the butcher: Vishnu (one of the aspects of God) was always praising the butcher and Narada wondered why, since the butcher was always occupied and Narada spent twenty-four hours a day praising Vishnu. Vishnu gave Narada the task of carrying a bowl of oil, full...

What is within you?  A book? A  new invention? A business?  It can only come forth in proportion that you remember to feel the Love that is within you, first.  "God, may I trust where my own path is meant to take me, knowing that I'll never get there by trying to be someone else."  - @Dayal. Gauranga via IG "By following your natural duty you can achieve perfection,  Hear from me how."  -Bhagavad...

Today's Quotes:  "In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside you." -Deepak Chopra  (on seeming chaos) "...whatever happens to me  is quickly transformed into heavenly activity."  - Herb Fitch  You're so bright, you blind even yourself"  - Unknown on IG  Today's Practice: Sway, only so you can stay conscious of the Stillness.  Chant a mantra, only so you can stay conscious AS the Sil...

"Fill your lungs deeply with God so that you can breathe Christ into the world."  -Caryll Houselander "What can be a greater vision than this: to see the invisible God in a visible person?" -Pachomius  "Whether I be in the temple or the balcony, in the camp or in the flower garden, I tell you truly that every moment my Lord is taking His delight in me."  -Kabir "I walked around the temple, enjoyin...

"Sometimes God challenges you to find strength you don’t have. Only like this will you go beyond your imagined limits. You must be pushed so far that you are forced to be humble. Only then, when your pride and arrogance are crushed, will you discover muscles that are not yours. You will find and use the muscles of God. When you completely abandon yourself, your ego, this miracle becomes possible."...

"When we know who we are, we're everybody and we're free."  -Krishna Das "Toss attachment for body aside, realizing I am everywhere.  One who is everywhere is joyous." -Osho, The Book of Secrets  (On letting go of attachment)  "You will not ask “how.” If your house is on fire you will not ask anyone, you will not go seeking a master to ask how to come out of it. If the house is on fire you will si...

"It's normal to not always feel in alignment.  That's not the goal. The goal is to recognize the misalignment and take action to bring yourself back into harmony." - Shakira Maria via IG Feel Your Body As Empty - A Meditation "Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin – empty. Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin…but inside, everything empty. This...

"God's presence is so close; it is just as though somebody is playing hide-and-seek with you in a dark room. Though you do not see the person, you feel that he is there. That is how God is, just behind the darkness of your unseeing eyes."  - Yogananda "But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul."  -Deuteronomy 4:29  "H...