Meditate Like Oprah & Maya Angelou - Become a Quiet Vessel
GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki
Nikki Walton
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🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Today's Quotes: "When we plug the battery into the charger, it doesn't chatter away about how much it needs charging... it simply and quietly accepts the inflow of energy. And when we pray, Jesus is telling us, we should get into the depths of our being, and shut out the concerns of the world, and "pray to the Father in secret".
As we grow in understanding of the Truth of our relationship with God, as we begin to see ourselves in the light of our divinity, prayer becomes an experience in the silent. We put the words of entreaty, of supplication, even of adoration behind us. Our heart speaks in the language of the soul. We praise God through our feeling of gratitude. We worship through our spirit of reverence. We ask for help through our receptive mind and heart. We affirm the Truth of being by meditating quietly upon it."
-Eric Butterworth, excerpt from 'Discover the Power Within You: A Guide to the Unexplored Depths Within'
"A true Christian is a true Hindu, and a true Hindu is a true Christian." - Swami Vivekananda
Bonus Quote:
“Along this path of knowledge, I find that prayer and meditation are elemental. Guidance comes from those practices. Sometimes in meditation one really tries to think of nothing. I do, anyway. I try not to have any focus or use any focus to get away from everything. I try to make myself a quiet vessel, a quiet pool where ideas can rise."
- Maya Angelou
Today's Practice:
Today, I want you to prioritize the Silence. Make yourself the ‘quiet vessel’ and ‘get out of your own way’, so that you may hear the feeling of Love and unfold Its unique path for you. Take 5-10 minutes today to sit on the charger :) You got the juice!
Click this LINK for info about Maya Angelou's meditation practice, and more info about Oprah Winfrey's first introduction to spirituality through Eric Butterworth! There's also a link in there to the 6 minute meditation I referred to!
I love you!
Nik
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:28.3 | Good morning to you. |
| 0:31.2 | So a couple of years ago, I hit gold, like spiritual journey path, gold, and came upon |
| 0:39.2 | a talk where Oprah revealed one of her earliest spiritual teachers, one of the first books |
| 0:45.3 | that she said changed her life and introduced her to the idea that the kingdom of God |
| 0:51.4 | was within her, that the presence was within her. |
| 0:55.2 | And she said the book is called Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth. |
| 1:02.1 | And he was a pastor and I, a very well known pastor and I googled him and found the book |
| 1:08.2 | of course in the 40th anniversary of the book. |
| 1:12.2 | Maya Angelou wrote the intro, like the forward. |
| 1:15.8 | And I'm like, Oprah and Maya, I'm on it. |
| 1:20.4 | I got it immediately, but also during that Google search came up across like a six minute |
| 1:26.5 | long meditation that he delivered with somewhere on YouTube and it was super powerful. |
| 1:32.6 | And I took notes and shared it on Instagram. |
| 1:36.2 | And I want to share a bit of what he said with you now. |
| 1:40.0 | Get comfortable. |
| 1:41.8 | This is a Christian based meditation. |
| 1:44.9 | The Swami Vivekananda says a true Christian is a true Hindu and a true Hindu is a true |
| 1:50.4 | Christian. |
| 1:51.4 | It's all one. |
| 1:52.4 | It's all one. |
| 1:53.9 | Good Buddhist, good Christian, good Hindu. |
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