Center for Spiritual Living Midtown

Up in the Air - Rev. Angela Harmon

Up In the Air, whether you are flying, or feeling like you life is changing around you and you don't have control. Take the time to get centered and Pray.

How Can You Tell It’s Intuition?

If you read about people who are very well-known in many different fields (science, medicine, philosophy) who have made great discoveries, you will find that almost all of them did not make these decisions in the traditional way. Instead, they used a part of their mind that was much more circular than linear; they used what Eric Butterworth called “concentric thinking.” Most of us call it “intuition.” In almost every case, when they were asked about their thought process, they were completely unable to explain how they came up with the perfect answer at exactly the right moment. In some cases they had even given up on the possibility of finding an answer, when the right answer just ……showed up

Made for the Skies….…Crammed in a Cage - Rev David Barrett

During the month of July we speak of Freedom and Independence, and while we speak of these things, we FEEL bound, we feel dependent in our everyday lives. We think the binding and the dependence comes from outside sources like our bosses or our situations……. Come Sunday to hear where it ACTUALLY comes from, and what the TRUE answer is to live a Life of Freedom and Independence.

Dance Like No One Is Watching - Rev Paul Gonyea

As far as I’m concerned, we take ourselves way too seriously. We get attached to looking a certain way, and being a certain way, and being thought of in a certain way. And we are very, very careful to protect our precious self-image. Part of that self-image includes our beliefs about how life is supposed to be lived, in every tiny detail, and that often includes how we think other people are supposed to live their lives, too. When other people are not doing the things we think they’re supposed to be doing, or when they’re not doing them in the way we think they should be done, we express our disapproval, sometimes openly but usually in more subtle ways. And subtle disapproval is the worst.

Dance Like No One Is Watching - Rev Paul Gonyea

As far as I’m concerned, we take ourselves way too seriously. We get attached to looking a certain way, and being a certain way, and being thought of in a certain way. And we are very, very careful to protect our precious self-image. Part of that self-image includes our beliefs about how life is supposed to be lived, in every tiny detail, and that often includes how we think other people are supposed to live their lives, too. When other people are not doing the things we think they’re supposed to be doing, or when they’re not doing them in the way we think they should be done, we express our disapproval, sometimes openly but usually in more subtle ways. And subtle disapproval is the worst.

The Way of the Spiritual Path part 2 0 - Rev Ursula Lentine

Learn about the patterns and meaningfulness of what happens in a reality that sometimes does not make sense. The Spiritual Path has a Way unto itself. When we understand the Way, life suddenly becomes easier and more playful instead of confusing and chaotic.

The Way of the Spiritual Path part 2 0 - Rev Ursula Lentine

Learn about the patterns and meaningfulness of what happens in a reality that sometimes does not make sense. The Spiritual Path has a Way unto itself. When we understand the Way, life suddenly becomes easier and more playful instead of confusing and chaotic.

Just Give Me A Sec - Rev. David Barrett

The World seems to always be making demands on us, and once in a while we ask people to “Give me a sec”, give me one second to complete what I am doing and I can then help you. Well, this week, the world time keepers give us one extra second….. what will you do with the extra second? Sleep it away, or change the world?

Go ask your Mother - Rev Paul Gonyea

What many chronically unhappy people express as irrational fear or justifiable anger towards their creator, because something in their life turned out badly, is actually fear or anger over their own perceived inability to control their life. They feel powerless. The problem is, as long as these people continue to focus on God as an unfair Father who keeps treating them badly, it gives them an external target for their frustration, which means they don’t have to take any responsibility. That’s why they spend so much time worshiping at the altar of victimhood. If they’d only stop being so spiritually paranoid, they might begin to realize that this Power can’t do anything TO them that it doesn’t do THROUGH them

Balancing Acts

When we remember that the world is created from the inside out, from the invisible to the visible, from thought to thing, we stop giving so much attention to the way things are at any given time because we realize that we can change them. In other words, by focusing on the one and only thing that we can control, which is what we are thinking in the present moment, we stop getting rattled when things go wrong. We stop getting upset because people aren’t behaving a certain way, or frustrated because the solution that shows up looks different than we expected. We simply start seeing something new in our consciousness, which sets the Law in motion, creating something different in our experience.