A Guide to Spiritual Practice with Awakening Mind:
A Guide to Spiritual Practice with Awakening Mind:
Spiritual practice is the key to Awakening. We practice with vigilance for right-minded thinking. Peace of mind is our one goal.
1. Volunteers
Awakening Mind does not involve the concept of membership, and therefore relies entirely upon volunteers for every aspect of its community. Volunteers receive no financial compensation and no perks or tangible rewards for their devotion to Awakening. The benefits given and received are entirely spiritual and always purely and simply a state of mind.
2. Non-Profit
Awakening Mind is completely non-profit. The purpose for this community is experiencing present inner peace through forgiveness, and thus there is no incentive to grow larger or attain money, power, possessions, or property. Present peace is content with the present moment and therefore unconcerned with the past or future.
3. Intuitive
Awakening Mind encourages everyone to develop intuitive listening to their inner Guide and to trust and depend upon this guidance for decisions in everyday living. How one feels is a barometer for discerning that which is intuitively helpful, and peace is its own reward.
How do I receive guidance from the Holy Spirit?, you might ask. Watch this video to learn all about that:
• I Need Guidance - How to Receive Guid...
4. Divine Providence
Awakening Mind nurtures the awareness and experience that trust would settle every problem now. Trust in divine providence, the Holy Spirit, and Christ is the means given by God to answer every seeming problem that arises in perception. Friends in the community are always referred and directed to the Voice for God within and toward the recognition that God is the Creator, Source, click here and Provider.
5. Non-Judgment
All comparisons, opinions, and assumptions naturally give way to intuitive guidance as a practical alternative to conflict. Guidance is always respected and following inner guidance is always encouraged. The outcome of listening to and following the Holy Spirit and Christ is always peace, Love, happiness, freedom, and joy. There need not be any exceptions to trusting inner guidance and living a life of integrity, non-judgment, honesty, and harmony.
6. Generosity
To give is to receive. Awakening Mind honors the divine law of Love. Freely you have received, now freely give. Generosity flows naturally from trust. Giving is an attitude that extends Love and continuously receives …