Center for Spiritual Living Midtown

The most dangerous thing in most spiritual communities isn’t heresy. It’s the performance of certainty by people who stopped believing years ago and never told anyone. This talk breaks that silence. Bring your contradictions, your collapsed frameworks, your faith that no longer fits the old container. The Divine isn’t threatened by your doubt. The only question is whether we can finally stop pretending it isn’t there.

Many of us learned that spiritual maturity means presenting the confident self—the peaceful self, the faithful self, the “I’ve got it together” self, the “It’s All Good” self. Yet our lived experience tells a fuller story. Alongside clarity there are questions; alongside faith there are moments of uncertainty.
This week’s theme invites us to “debut the doubting self.” But perhaps the deeper invitation is this: to allow every part of ourselves to belong to the One Life that we are.

Self-doubt is one of the most universal human experiences, and often one of the most hidden. As we open our monthly theme of Divine Doubt, this talk explores how self-doubt, when rejected, can lead to disconnection, but when embraced with awareness, can become a powerful starting point for growth. Through the lens of Religious Science, we’ll look at how thought shapes experience and how bringing compassion and curiosity to our doubt can deepen our connection to ourselves, our community, and the Divine.

Quite often, we speak of love as a fleeting feeling, but what if love were not a fleeting feeling, but a daily practice that offers a chance to reveal who and what we truly are? How often and what would it mean for us to practice love as a sacred path to our true divine revelation? Are you ready to revamp, renew, and reapply a more powerful, authentic, and divine form of love? 

Live – Laugh – Love

Turns out money can’t buy Happiness.

When we live from our heart we begin to realize we are not separate, we have a divine connection. The universe doesn’t care about our achievements, what we call our successes. The universe cares about our heart, and how well we have loved.

Easter comes to us at a time of the year when we are seeing renewal in nature. What about the renewal within us? If you put yourself into the Easter story from a metaphysical perspective, we ask what is the nature of the stone that keeps you entombed? Like Jesus, that stone cannot continue to hold me back.

Norman Vincent Peale coined this term, describing an approach to life that focuses on what is possible, rather than obstacles, fostering resilience, creativity, and a feeling that all good is possible.

We know that our thoughts are creative, but do we allow Spirit to do the work in creating our most amazing life, or do we get involved with ideas of lack, limitation, IMpossibility, and “yes, but…”

Oh, how we love to fantasize, dream and talk about how we’d change the world “if only…” everything outside of us would only change first! Today, we’re deep diving in to the basics of spiritual law and how the creative process works. It all seems so straightforward when we hear or read about it.  So, why do we have such a difficult time putting it into practice?  Guest speaker and musical artist Rev. Kit Holmes will offer some helpful perspectives! 

 

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Have you ever felt spiritually clear and connected, only to wonder later where that feeling went? In this talk, we explore the dance between the ego’s story of “I had it, I lost it” and the deeper truth of our being. As we release conditioned identities and rest in present-moment awareness, we discover something profound: what we are seeking was never missing. The Self we truly are has always been here.