Daily Devotional: GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki

Today's Quotes: "The more fearful a person is, the more he uses his mind. The more fearless a person is, the more he uses his Heart."  - Teal Swan  "The spiritual work is like jumping out of an airplane and after you get out of the airplane, you see you have no parachute on.  But then you finally figure out it's okay because there is no ground." - Ram Dass  "Don't lose heart.  God helps those who...

You're actually NOT frustrated, you're just feeling the pain of believing that Peace isn't here... that Love isn't real.  You've forgotten God, and have named that feeling, 'frustration.'  The moment you remember God, Its Peace first comforts you, and then, shortly after, blossoms forth as rest, solutions, abundance.   I Love you and I'm with you,  Nik nikki@curlynikki.com Quotes: "There will be p...

Love is saying, "I Am always in communion with you. Once I take a hold of your hand, I never let go, even when you let go of mine.” (Krishna Das quoting Maharajjii) Listen to THIS EPISODE if you haven’t yet (further elaboration on the Thread of Love that was woven through this episode, as well). "The Lord of the Universe When we praise Him, He is here. When we forget Him, He is here. When we die,...

"Customary prayer makes one superior to God because it tells God what it wants and usually when it wants it. It sets up the ego because it dares to try to influence God in one’s behalf or in behalf of another. But in the silence of meditation, the prayer is: 'I do not ask You to serve my purpose, to do my will or my wish or my bidding. I am Your servant—do what You will with me. Teach me, feed me,...

Today's Quotes: “The Way It Is" There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever le...

...I didn't know what the next moment held, but I knew that if I held on to the remembrance of Love, I'd be Go(o)d, whatever that looked like.   I'm deeply thankful to be here with you this morning.  I love you and I'm with you, eternally.  I Love you,  Nik  Nikki@curlynikki.com "There is only God and to realize that, is the only thing that has to be done."  - Anandamayi Ma "Suffering is sent to r...

"Liberation is only to remain aware of the Self."  - Ramana Maharshi  "I am not talking about Joy as the ultimate possibility in your life; I am talking about Joy as the 'A' of your life, not the 'Z' of your life."  - Sadhguru  "You have escaped the cage.  Your wings are stretched out.  Now fly."  -Rumi  Today's Practice: Freedom is staying aware of the Love you can feel in and AS this moment.  No...

"People say, 'what should I do with my life?'  The more interesting question is, 'how do I cultivate the quietness of my Being, where what I should do with my life becomes apparent.'"  -Ram Dass  God is saying, "it's not your life, tho... it's Mine."  :)  So chill!  Find your Self, your purpose, your best life through giving Love your attention, and It'll give you the world.  “Fear not, little flo...

Presence is all that I know. Love is all that I feel.  God is all that I experience.  Right where I used to experience Mondays, I experience Love, inspiration, joy, new life.  Only Love is here, and sometimes, I call it Monday.  Today's Quotes: "Be here fully, and then whatever is needed in your life comes.  It comes out of the power that dwells in the present moment.  There is an enormous power h...

Note: Effective ways (covered in previous episodes) to 'pause' thinking is to stare straight ahead, unblinkingly, and/or to suddenly stop breathing for a few seconds (on the inhale or exhale-- doesn't matter).  Ramana Maharshi said these act like temporary reins or brakes on thinking, revealing the Love that's always (t)here.  Then, when blinking and breathing resume, you stay with the Love, unwav...

Today's Quotes:  "Remember that finding God will be the funeral of all sorrows."  - Sri Yukteswar Giri via Autobiography of a Yogi “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” -Chinese Proverb  “St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood...

Only Silence is here. Not Silence and the present moment, or Silence and God, or Silence and Love, or Silence and you.   They're all One.  The present moment IS Silence.  Silence IS God.  God IS Love.  Love IS you.  There's only the One presence here, and It's silent and loving, and some call It God, and some call It 'the Now', and some call It 'Awareness', and you call It 'Self'.  But It's just S...

 Today's Quotes: "Your consciousness of Truth does not mean your ability to recall Truth; it means your immediate awareness of Truth-- the Truth of which you are conscious this very moment." - Bob Pilato   “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” -John 16:33 "The entire spiritual life is based...

It's a BEING practice, not a thinking one.  Today's Quotes:  "If materialistic world is noise, spirituality or religion is music.  Most people just keep shuffling between noise and music.  To discover the eternal silence, you have to realize that the music is just refined noise." - @immortaltalks on IG  “Father, there is little to tell. My consciousness has never associated itself with this tempor...

If I Am here, God is also here, Now.* If I Am here, Love is also here, Now.  If I Am here, the Love of my life is also here, Now.  I Am the Love of my life.   The 'I Am' is God.   The  'I Am'  is the Moment.   The  'I Am' is Now.   The  'I Am' is the only Presence.   The  'I Am'  is the presence of my seeming Lover and everything else.  I will focus on the "I Am" and what I need will come into foc...

Today's Quote:  "Take your questions to a deeper place than the anxiety to figure something out." -Adyashanti  Today's Practice: When you notice a question or an issue today, PAUSE and find the deeper place.  Feel the Silence of the deeper place.  Hear the Love in the deeper place, AS the deeper place.  Through this Pause, answers and solutions flow. Through this Pause, wisdom dawns.  Pause... and...

Today's Quote: "God remains an illusion until you have realized Him, and once you realize God, the world becomes an illusion." - unknown  Bonus Quote:  "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." - Matthew 6:33 Today's Practice:  Don't pray for what you desire, pray for release from the desire itself.  Pray for relief from the needin...

"Imagine an ocean of consciousness.  Instead of an ocean of water, this is an ocean of consciousness.  Almost all of the waves on this ocean of consciousness have developed the habit of never looking down.  They only look out horizontally. Because they only look out horizontally, all they see are what appears to be billions of separate waves. They assume that there is no ocean, only separate waves...

Love your anger, Love your fear, Love your good thoughts, Love your bad thoughts. Love everything, and you'll find that everything dissolves in this Love, and only Love is left. Today's meditation is called 'The Loving All Method' from How to Live a Life That Knows Only Love, compiled by Michael Langford . "Whoever sees me sees Him who sent me." - John 12 : 44-45 "May My Peace arise... within you....

God's Voice, this Silent-Love, is the soundtrack of your life.  Keep listening for It, feeling for It.   Take this mantra: "God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day." - Lesson 49 ACIM "It is quite possible to listen to God’s Voice all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way. The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God, wheth...

"What does self-knowledge taste like, feel like? I assume it is not completely flavourless! The Self knows itself, of its own accord, without the intervention of any means. It cannot be described because it is not in the realm of comparison or complementarity. You cannot smell incense burning nor see the leaf of a plant without using the corresponding sensory organ, but consciousness knows itself...

Instead of avoiding or trying to cover the Silence by reaching for creature comforts today (idle chatter, unnecessary busyness, etc), reach for the Comforter in the Silence.  Sit in the big Quiet and feel for the Love inside.  Touching this place inside is the end of loneliness.  It's the end of fear.  It's the end of your perceived separation from God, from your Self.   Reach for the Comforter, a...

Today's Quotes: "One who is able to withdraw the senses from their objects, just as a tortoise withdraws its limbs into its shell, is established in divine wisdom." - Bhagavad Gita 2.58 "If you feel nothing at all, it is only an intermediary stage that will go after sometime.  Think that blessing rains down on your head from above.  The head is your root and the body, the tree. When the root is we...

A personal story and meditation to help you recognize Grace in disguise.   Just as I don't need traffic to stop, you don't need _________.  We just need to see through the world-- ourselves and our needs-- and let Grace do what It do.     "All heaven is, is consciousness unfolding... as thee need appears.   It makes no difference whether you need health, wealth, or ideas, you go to God only for Gr...

It's Now.  It's Presence.  And sometimes, we call it Friday,  and we allow ourselves to feel Go(o)d.  We allow ourselves to be our Self.  What people call 'that Friday feeling', that relaxation, that Peace, this Joy, is our truest Self... the present moment... NOW.  And we can feel It even on Monday, if we allow It. If we remember It. If we practice It.  Today's Quotes: "God’s voice thunders, and...