Relax in the Perfect Grace of Life

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Universe's grace, God's grace, the Mother, the Father, whatever
your term for a higher power, is that being or
that essence. That Universality's grace is actually why you're here,
and we can find that relaxing into that allows us

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to truly find our peace and truly enjoy the moment,
Enjoy our family, our friends, our hobbies, whatever occupies us
in any given moment can be enjoyed. Even let's dare say,

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coming out of fear, coming out of anger, whatever troubles
we have, that can be enjoyed too if we butt
relax and rely on grace. So let's jump into this
topic together today. Yes, grace is an interesting term. It's

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not one often used nowadays in spiritual circles, but it's
something that I think we should rely on more, at
least come to understand it more so that we can
have an understanding of how God works in any given moment. Yes,
God or the universe, our interconnectedness works through grace. And

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you'll notice if you look outside, animals don't seem to
be caught up in anxiety and fear. They intuitively know
that just rolling through life, rolling with the punches, you
could say, is actually the healthiest, most evolved way to live.

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It's how they got that far human beings. On the
other hand, we've been here for a while as humans,
at least, you know, a few thousand years, let's say,
maybe hundreds of thousands of years, maybe longer, and we've
created civilization. We don't have to carry all the lessons

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we've learned to get here to stay here because we
have safeguards, we have good railing. But unfortunately that means
that although we might be somewhat safe, we can lose
some of the things that allowed us to become human,

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allowed us to enjoy being human, allowed us to really
exemplify what it means to be at the top of
the evolutionary ladder. Yes, we've lost our sense of grace.

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We've lost our sense of relaxation, of finding peace in
whatever is happening. And so what is grace? What is grace?
Grace can be defined a few different ways. Whatever is
in your head about grace, It's probably true you may

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not believe it, But when I think about grace, I
have a concept of God watching out for me, of
Providence lining things up perfectly. Now that doesn't mean it's
lining things up perfectly for my ego or perfectly for

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even this body, you could say, but in a way
it is right, because I believe that God lines things
up for us to grow in the best way that's
possible in this life. For some of us, it may
just be a bunch of hard lessons. We may not

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be on the arc of our journey that's spiraling upwards.
We may be on part of a journey that unfortunately
inspiraling down. And yet even that is full of grace
because it starts to instill in us this sense that
something is wrong and we don't like this spiraling downward.

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Of course, there's times where we're spiraling down and we
think we love it. So you know, there's always a
time for everything, is the Bible says. But as we
learn through many different world religions, God is in tune
with each of our lives, fully conscious of all our issues,

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and ready the day, and we will find our reliance
on that divinity, that higher power that is life itself.
Today we have a lot of new understanding about the
importance of consciousness. If you really think about science, for example,

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you can only say one thing is true in terms
of our experience, and that is that we're conscious. Everything
else is a hypothesis, may have a lot of data
behind it, ninety nine percent probability that you know, when
I dropped the ball, it falls straight down right ninety

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nine point nine nine. Yet every once in a while
something crazy happens and it doesn't right. But even further,
when we drop a ball in a scientific experiment, let's say,
the only thing we can be totally sure about is

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that we were conscious of that experiment. When we lay
out the experiment, it's in our consciousness. We can't escape
it when we record the results of the experiment, even
if a computer's doing it, when we see those results,
when we interact with that computer, we can't prove that
it's happening outside of consciousness, because that's all we experience

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as human beings. Everything is in our conscious life. In fact,
there is no being that's ever experienced the universe outside
of consciousness. You could say there was a ramification that
happened outside of someone's consciousness, but all our experience is
in consciousness, and so in science it would be smart

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of us to say, blanket statement, the one fact is
that I am conscious, I have consciousness, and I'm alive.
And then we extrapolate, Well, there's probably other beings that
have consciousness. We extrapolate there's a material world. Why, Well,

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because I'm conscious of it. I've had experiences of it.
Other people have had experiences of this world. They tell
me about other countries. I've never been there, but I
take it as fact that China exists. Right, And yet
it's still a hypothesis for us personally, And even when

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you go there, it's still a hypothesis because who knows.
Maybe someone stuck you in a really good vr AI
video game a thousand years ago and is forcing you
to live this life. Maybe it's just a hologram, like
some people believe. Maybe it is right, it's a hypothesis,
But the real fact is that we're alive. That's the

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one thing we know, and that's where we should start.
More often, that's where we should start. And as we
contemplate on this one fact that something lives, something experiences,
we start to realize we have more in common with

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every other being, including God, than we ever thought. In fact,
our consciousness defines our experience. A lot of things come in.
Our body changes, our mind changes, but consciousness is steady,
and that is the one thing we share. And the

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reason I'm talking about consciousness like this because when we
start to understand our interconnectedness, maybe it's through an understanding
of quantum physics, which tells us the material world isn't
even actually material until interacted with with consciousness. But when

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we understand that, we start to see, oh, there is
a shared beingness, there's a shared quality, there's a shared
truth reality that I share with every being, every other being.
And the more we meditate on this, the more we

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see that we're just here watching a mind with its
hang ups, with its judgments, with its reactions, watching a
mind experience a body, a world, a universe. But really
we are that light, that consciousness, and really all we

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have to do, and all we really are doing, is
resting in our consciousness. Even when a mind, our mind
is anxious or fearful, scared, feeling isolated or separate. It
often in life we feel like our minds, feel like
they have good reason to feel separate, to feel anxious.

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But in reality, it's that consciousness that we all share
that defines our true being. And so as we meditate
on this fact, the only true truth thing, one true
thing we can ever say about life, the only thing
where we can be sure of anyway that we are conscious,

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that we are alive. We start to see that really
all we have to do is rely on the grace
of consciousness, rest on the truth of consciousness, of life,
of God. And funny enough, all those fears and anxieties

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we watch start to disc paper when we take that
step back and realize we are not that anxious, fearful, judgmental, angry,
belittling the meaning, the means, humiliated, scared, whatever mind. That

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mind actually becomes empowered because it's like putting all your
baggage on a puppy. Right, puppy is totally healthy, totally beautiful,
but it's weighed down by some huge bags the wonder
that puppy struggles. There is nothing wrong with the puppy.

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It's not that it should be so strong already it's
two months old. Let's say that it can pick up
this backpack. Oh how dare you, puppy? Get it together?
And yet that's how we treat our minds. Our minds
are that puppy truly like a puppy that we've buried

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with too much weight because we think it's us and
we're told we should do better, and that we're wrong,
and that we're this and that and all these things.
We tell ourselves this all the time. Not pretty enough,
not smart enough, not strong enough, not fast enough, not

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tall enough, not short enough, not skinny enough, not thick enough.
You know, today there's a gamut of things that we
can be beating ourselves up. Maybe we're feel too old,
maybe we're too young to do the things we want
to do. Whatever it is and experienced and then so

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much more right. We lay all these things on this
puppy that is our mind, and then we beat ourselves
up for not being able to carry it. So that's
what distance does. It gives us a better viewpoint of
what's been going on in our life, what's been going

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on in this mind's life. It's been using this energy
that we are, that consciousness, and it's been running these
destructive little patterns over and over again, building up giant
mechanism that does nothing but create anxiety here and reactivity
and so many hurtful things for us and for others.

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And that's what it means to lean on grace, to
lean on our reality, the one really real thing, because
it's always here. They say God is the alpha and omega.
What's first and less in everyone's life, it's consciousness. For

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us in our experience, it's consciousness. You could say, well,
these cells were here first, But if there's no consciousness,
there's no life. It's never started, it's never ended. Right,
that baby comes out Unfortunately without consciousness, that spirit is
doing another journey which has a start in an end

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because of consciousness, not in this life, but somewhere else.
And so we define alpha and omega in our own
lives with consciousness. We skip the parts of the stories
we don't see right, We say, oh, well, can you

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tell that part? You were there for it. And so
grace is really just finding the peace, the truth of
life and staying closer to it, not identifying as that
overburdened puppy, but actually starting to let these baggages. Let's say,

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these bags, these weights come off our mind and they
naturally do so, and Grace is allowing them to do so,
not fighting them, not fighting that puppy or the bags.
When you kick a bag that's on a puppy, it's
not doing anything for that puppy, I promise. See we

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all know this, right, But letting that puppy squirm its
way out. Sometimes, yeah, loosening things up, not spending so
much weight and attention on something naturally lightens. You may
feel opportunities to do that for yourself, but in reality,

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just letting those things fall away, which does most of
the work, because we are the ones constantly putting those
weights back on our minds. And so grace is a
natural outcropping of that because as we let go of

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controlling and defending and fighting all the things in our head,
as we start to come back to what we truly are,
allow our minds to see what we truly are, they
become free and we start to relax to what God

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is leading us into earth, what life is doing, because
we're not so fearful, and even if there's fear, it's
passing and we don't identify with it. We don't identify
as the angry guy or the guy who doesn't know
he's the angry gay who just thinks everyone's wrong all

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the time. Right, I'm not angry, it's everyone's just always
messing up around me. Right. We can feel like that
sometimes the earth is just so messed up. There's a
lot going on that's pretty messed up. But we're here
to solve these issues to learn from the problem. And

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that's why allowing our anger and fear to dissipate can
be fun. It's still there, but we're not in it,
we're not of it, and it's way lighter and getting
even lighter. And then we find that grace just happens.

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The life that we live starts to fall into place
more and more beautifully because we've learned the biggest lesson.
So if God doesn't have to put as many, you know,
stones in our eyes so that we can learn to
take care of our eyes. God doesn't have to put

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as many obstacles in the past so we can learn
to drive our vehicle better. God doesn't have to put
so many issues for the one who's not in those
issues anymore. Because really, these problems in our lives are
meant to teach us to come back to God, to

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come back, not just the faith, not to the idea
of God. That's why Christ and so many others talk
turning within, turn around. Is that word repent, turn within,
turn one hundred and eighty degrees because why Heaven is

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within us. We say it all the time here in
spiritual sunshine, because we have that light within the Father
is at hand. The Mother, the Divine Mother is our lives,
our Earth, our universe, her grace envellops us. We're hugged

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all the time. Literally, escape air and see how long
you last escape space, and see if you can escape gravity.
See how fun it is to always be without gravity.
I mean it could be pretty fun. You start to
lose your muscle and all these things happen. You have

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to recreate gravity in a way. So, in a way,
we're always hugged heat. We're in some level of heat.
Otherwise we're dead. Right, We're always being hugged, and yet
we don't feel it for what it is because we
don't give the universe it's due. We don't give the

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Divine Mother, Mother, Earth, God's creation, God herself manifest around us,
our acceptance because we're stuck in our puppy problems that
we made for ourselves by thinking we are our puppy.
Weirdly enough, that's how weird it is to think we're

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our minds when we're the ones watching it. It's a
simple truth. We watch other people's minds in a way.
We see their face, reactions, we see their thoughts. We
watch the Earth's mind in a way we see all
the natural events, see the universe's mind. We have astrology,

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which weirdly tends to coincide with major events. Maybe not
as I said before the daily horoscope, but major things
tend to follow major astrological signs. Funny enough, we see
the universe's mind, and yet we don't identify with it

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because we haven't been talked to. We can't escape the
universe's mind, just like we can't escape our body. We're
always watching it, we're always in it, so to speak.
We're in it in our bodies, in our atmosphere, in
the universe. But we limit how far out our identification goes.

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And when we have close family or people we love,
we start to accept them as part of one of us.
Our identification grows. When we have a team we love,
grows to them to some degree, and like ourselves, we
beat them up in our heads when they're not doing
so hot. Right, So as we start to understand that, yes,

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we identify as consciousness, but then you could say, also
identify or see that we're one, or that our minds
and our hearts and our our bodies and even this
consciousness is one with this universe. And then we can't help,

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but rely on it and trust it because we start
to see connections and how things fall into place. You
probably have noticed it in your own life, how things
fall into place, how such beautiful things that are miraculous
come together so perfectly. You know it's meant just for you.

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And yet a day later, we don't rely on that trust,
we don't say, well, look how perfect it was, then
probably still perfect because whatever did it, then, why would
it leave me? I'm still the same, you know, messed
up kids I was yesterday. No, because we know people die,

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and we know people get hurt, and we get hurt,
and we think that's everything, but it's not. Perhaps the
moment we die was perfect for us. Perhaps all these
moments we live, which includes the moment we die and after,

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are also perfect for us so that we can grow strong.
All those weights have been piled on, and you know what,
that puppy still comes out pretty strong. But let's lay
off the little one, you know, a little bit, and
let that puppy have It's fun knowing that there's a

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big brother, a big sister looking out for him for her.
That big brother, that big sister is the same universal consciousness,
that same life that God said is within each of us,
that same Heaven made manifest in a way made shining,

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and we don't know it because we haven't learned to
know it. We haven't spent the time getting to know
our true selves. So that's the great gift that is
ahead of each of us, coming to spend time with
our true selves, not the issues of the mind, not
what the mind thinks we are. That's the beauty of

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this life and the next life and whatever comes after.
Everything that we experience, there's always an after. It's meant
to shine for us. It's meant to show us our
connectedness with others. It's meant to show us God. It's
meant to show us that we can rely on Great

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thank you for joining us. We are all spiritual sunshine
Pisti