From my heart to yours…

Dear Member/Friend,

This is our purpose: "Creating a Path of Spiritual Realization through Teaching Truth, Healing Hearts, Living Love, Empowering Dreams." This has always been our truth. Now here it is in empowering words for us to carry in our hearts and remind ourselves should we experience temporary spiritual amnesia. Typing away I inadvertently spelled Loving instead of Living. It brought to my attention that we truly are a Center of Creative Loving as well as Living, not Center for, but Center of. For implies the future, "maybe, maybe not." Of says right here and right now. Isn't that what life is all about? Our purpose here on earth is to love and be love to the best of our ability in the moment. Not only the people who are easy to love, also those who are more difficult. Perhaps those who appear to be different. Often the most challenging situations: people, places, things are our greatest teachers. We are here as spiritual beings…being whatever it is we are here to be. The truth is always…God is love and so are we. We're created from that original paradigm out of God itself!

Recently returned from Asilomar, it is still much on my mind. We sang a song called "And So Are We" written by an incredible musician, Daniel Nahmod. Here are some of the beautiful words…

Whoever we think we are
Wherever we think we're headed
Whatever we're going through right now
There's a truth behind it all
About the stuff we're really made of
And that greatest truth of all is that
In His Image, God has made us
And if that's true, then just think about
What it says for me and you

God is light…and so are we
God is love…and so are we
God is life…and so are we
It's truth that cannot be denied.
God is power…and so are we
God is peace….and so are we
God is beauty and joy...and so are we
That's the truth of ourselves
And the truth of all mankind

Notable Quotes from Asilomar…

• I want to hear John Travolta being interviewed and asked "Scientology, is that something like Science of Mind ?"
• You don't have to go anyplace except out of your comfort zone.
• Re :SOM: If you don't think it's mainstream you just haven't gotten wet yet
• All judgment is self judgment
• Our fear makes us feel something is more powerful than we are
• Nothing rattles my cage unless I'm inside shaking it
• This church is about healing
• Faith is a belief that there is an answer to prayer
• We are trans-denominational
• God is the love we feel between us
• You can't find God unless there is something in you willing to see it
• Get waiting out of your consciousness
• Time cannot create what consciousness has not developed
• It's a magical world we live in and we are the magicians
• Music: blending of the mind with the heart
• Stop searching for truth, just let go of your opinions
• We're not here to tolerate any thing, we're here to embrace it
• Healing can only come through forgiveness
• Don't build a wall around your soul
• What we are looking for cannot be found in the intellect
• You have made a journey to a place within yourself called God…

and so much more!!!

This is a smidgeon of the immense spiritual smorgasbord offered up for one's selection at this wonderful, life transforming experience called Asilomar. "Refuge by the Sea." Teaching Truth, Healing Hearts, Living Love, Empowering Dreams. It's all there…it's all here, too. Yours for the knowing. Truth doesn't change, we do. What a glorious revelation.

Together…on the path of spiritual realization,

Rev. Doris