Center for Spiritual Living Midtown

The Enlightenment Series Week Three – “I See the God In You

“Whenever we are faced with a situation that cries out for something compassionate to be done, we will always be most effective if we allow our head and our heart to work together. That’s because our emotions, those powerful expressions of our humanity and our spirituality, are most powerful when they are directed by intelligent thought. In almost every case, what we should be dealing with is not so much the suffering itself, as much as the root cause of the suffering. That may not sound at first like the most compassionate solution, but if our actions end the suffering, that’s far better than a more surface solution.”

The Enlightenment Series Week Two – “Integrity: The Right Best Thing To Do”

Lying is an affirmation, to ourselves, that we know we did the wrong thing, and that we’re afraid of the consequences of what we did. Enlightened people, on the other hand, are smart enough to tell the truth because they know that the Truth sets us free. It keeps things out in the open. It lets everyone know exactly where things are, so any problems that exist get cleared up as soon as possible. It allows healing to begin, and growth to occur. This is true in business. It’s also true in our relationships. But most important of all, it’s true about how we create our every experience

The Enlightenment Series.” Week One – “Clarity: I Can See Clearly Now - Rev Paul Gonyea

Some people think of work as something they have to put up with, in order to be able to do the things they love. They spend the hours from 8-5, or whenever they work, wishing they were somewhere else doing something else with somebody else. Some of them do it for thirty years or more. Then they retire, and they sit on the couch and watch television shows about other people who are going to interesting places, and doing exciting things. And eventually…they die. That’s perfectly all right, if that’s all they want out of life, but I’m guessing that you and I want a good deal more.”

Living Your Life’s Work

Some people think of work as something they have to put up with, in order to be able to do the things they love. They spend the hours from 8-5, or whenever they work, wishing they were somewhere else doing something else with somebody else. Some of them do it for thirty years or more. Then they retire, and they sit on the couch and watch television shows about other people who are going to interesting places, and doing exciting things. And eventually…they die. That’s perfectly all right, if that’s all they want out of life, but I’m guessing that you and I want a good deal more.”

The Hero Within

There is a hero within each one of us that is awaiting to come forward. There is a hero in our love life, our careers, our bodies, and in our financial affairs, but if the hero is not called upon, the hero sits idly by. Learn to announce the hero within you and see what heroic lives you will lead.

The Playful Power of Imagination -Rev Paul Gonyea

“The most powerful use of imagination doesn’t always come from a desire to be rich and famous and powerful; more often than not, it comes from a simple desire to create something new and better — not just to create “things,” but to create a greater expression of Life. It’s this “something” in our nature that looks at an acorn and sees an oak tree, or maybe even a whole forest of oak trees. It’s that passion for life, combined with our ability to think things through, combined with our ability to use intelligence and logic and experience and knowledge that gives us this power we have to create the possible from the impossible, to bring forth the known from the unknown.”

The Way to Be Alive!

_{The way to be ALIVE is to give the world the very best you can offer… And when you look close, the very best you can offer has nothing to do with the circumstances around you, but the underlying Truth of who you are. So when you let go of all the circumstantial reasons of why you are not achieving the LIFE you really want to live, then does the TRUTH of you have a chance to come forward for you to REALLY BE ALIVE!}

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.