Center for Spiritual Living Midtown

How I spent my Summer Vacation - Rev Paul Gonyea

If you look in a classroom of kindergartners, you’ll see these fantastic little beings who are just exploding with spontaneity and excitement. They’re amazed by a paper airplane, or a goldfish in a bowl. They’ve got this beautiful sense of innocence, bubbling up right below the surface, and it just fills your heart to watch it. We let them act that way because they’re still babies, they don’t know any better. But the older they get, the less freedom we give them to be themselves. In fact, if they act that way in high school, we send them to the principle’s office, where they’re usually punished and told to act like responsible adults. Do you see anything wrong with this picture?

Consider the Source - Rev Angela Harmon

Oftentimes we talk with others about our problems or the problems in our world. Sometimes the advice helps, sometimes it hinders. Watching the news, television shows and movies can also influence our point of view.
Being bombarded with commercials, advertisements, even billboards about what’s best for us, how do we sort through all the different opinions? What should we listen for?

Think about where you seek guidance. How do you determine what’s best for you and yours? How do you find a reliable source? We need to learn to consider “God” as our Greatest Source. The Science of Mind principles allow us to sort through, attract and benefit from our best resources, creating the ability to duplicate (over and over gain) our best life formula, uniquely designed for us by the Source of all Good.

A Leisurely Walk Through Life. - Rev Paul Gonyea

On any given day, if you look around, you can see people who are gliding through Life with great ease. And right behind them, dragging themselves along one step at a time, are people for whom life is a constant struggle. What we have to remember is, they’re all living the same Life, because there’s only one Life. We all have the same number of hours in the day. We’re all made out of the same stuff. We all have access to the same infinite source of ideas. And we all have the power to choose. The only reason our Life experiences are different is because we’re not all living Life the same way.

The Spiritual Path, Part 3 – Practical Purification - Rev Ursula Lentine

On the Spiritual Path, when we’re trying to wrap our brain around so many different concepts, it can be difficult keeping our priorities straight. Understanding the metaphysical laws and principles, taming the ego and interacting with others can be mentally and emotionally challenging. Where do we find the practical, hands-on applications to navigate the path? If you’d like to gain a greater understanding of the Spiritual Path and how to operate on a higher level, join Reverend Ursula Lentine to learn some simple actions steps we can take to get us from where we are to where we want to go.

God Isn’t Mad at Anybody - Rev. Paul Gonyea

“I don’t think many people feel that God is mad at them personally. However, I do believe there are more and more people who think that God either is, or should be mad at the same people they themselves are mad at. The problem is, it’s a very short leap between that belief and the belief that we are justified in hating, punishing or controlling those people who we believe are making God mad. In other words, some people have somehow decided that they are entitled to be the instrument of ‘God’s righteous anger’. This idea has been around a long time, but it still appears to be alive and well. And unfortunately, there is no end to the cruelty, prejudice, separation and pain that can come from this kind of thinking. That’s where most of the violence we’re seeing today is coming from.

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - Rev Paul Gonyea

Because we (wrongly) perceive our life as a constant and uninterrupted flow, and because we almost never pay attention to what we’re thinking, our thoughts usually drift aimlessly between the past and the future. We see yesterday as the cause of today, and today as the cause of tomorrow. And we see ourselves as simply the carrier of the thoughts and the experiencer of past events. But the unbroken chain of causation that we think we see is no more a smooth and constant flow than a movie we see on the silver screen

Manifest Your Destiny - Greta Counts

‘Manifest Destiny’ represented a great time in American history of the ‘collective belief’ in a mission to grow and expand.  The unfoldment of this expansion is a perfect example of the human potential that exists in each one of us.  As individuals we can direct the creative process with intention to manifest our heart’s desires of health, wealth, love and success.  Join Greta Counts in an “active” pursuit of personal expansion to integrate the philosophy, attitude and belief inspired by Manifest Destiny.

Finding Your Inner Hero - Rev Paul Gonyea

"In the eyes of most people, a hero is someone who does something that they could never see themselves doing. But a heroic act doesn't always have to be a dramatic, flaming, rooftop rescue. It also includes those quiet acts of everyday heroism that don't show up in the newspaper: the mother or father who stays up all night with a sick child; the single parent who goes to work every day to support his or her family; the person who quietly but firmly refuses to go along with something unethical or unjust. All these things require great courage and noble abilities. And they are all completely possible for anyone who has the spiritual awareness and uses their inner strength to accomplish them." ~Paul Gonyea

Dreaming of America - Rev. Paul Gonyea

“I believe the reason this country has become, and remains, such a powerful presence in the world is not because of any physical characteristics. It is because we represent an idea. And that idea, if you think about it, is a Divine idea. The word “divine” simply means, if you look it up in the dictionary, “coming from God.” Which means, in terms of the way WE describe God — as a perfect Loving Intelligence, creating the world through us, in accordance with consistent and unchanging physical and spiritual laws — that the principles upon which this country was founded were nothing more or less than spiritually grounded ideas and beliefs and desires that supported our inherent desire to live life in a better and greater way.”~Paul Gonyea

Easy Like Sunday Morning Living! - Rev Angela Harmon

I instantly liked the song ‘Easy Like Sunday Morning’ by Lionel Richie, released in 1978. It was a reminder to relax and enjoy life. Along life’s way one can get off course, which can be gauged by asking things like, ‘Am I enjoying life? How do I make life more enjoyable? How do I have more fun, or how do I approach life easier right now? Is something or someone pushing my buttons? How do I stop the alarm from sounding? How do I deactivate the button that’s been pushed?’ Through heightened self-awareness, aligning with higher self and active practice of the SOM principles, being easy (peaceful) becomes a way of living.