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Welcome back from all the Holiday activities. I trust you had a great time, and are like me, looking forward to a GREAT NEW YEAR! Full of change!
Well...that is what we have for you here at Center For Spiritual Living - Fremont.
Beginning this month, the Triune will be delivered by EMail...so be sure your address is correct! A few copies of the Triune will be available for those without computer access, but we are GOING GREEN!
Also, if you misplace the file....you can always go to our website,
www.CSL-Fremont.org and check out the Triune there! As soon as it is ready to print, it goes on the website.
So...let's see what some changes are...just consider this...give yourself one last present for the year...the GIFT OF CLASSES. Give yourself One YEAR to try everything we have to offer, and see if you experience any changes in your life!
Don't fight it...just let it happen!
CHOOSE A BETTER LIFE FOR YOU!!!
M.d.
Sunday Services for January!
Jan 11 9:30 How It Works - Rev. Dr. Cynthia Cavalcanti-Neale
11:30 How It Works - Dr. Jay Scott Neale
Featured Artist: Amy Meyers
Jan 18 9:30 What It Does - Rev. Lacy Atkinson 11:30 What It Does - Rev. Dr. Cynthia Cavalcanti-Neale
Featured Artist: Spiritual Dimensions
Jan 25 9:30 How to Use It - Rev. Darlene Sykes
11:30 How to Use It - Dr. Jay Scott Neale
Featured Artist: Eli Herrera
Wednesday Evening
Forum at the Center
All Wednesday Evening Services Begin at 7:30 PM
Topic for January: Poets, Saints, and Poet-Saints
Jan 7 "The Last Flower" by James Thurber - Dr. Jay Scott Neale
Jan 14 Saint Francis of Assisi: The Man, the Myths, and the Metaphysics
- Rev. Dr. Cynthia Cavalcanti-Neale
Jan 21 The Poetry and Philosophy of Rumi - Rev. Darlene Sykes
Jan 28 Walt Whitman- Rev. Dr. Cynthia Cavalcanti-Neale with
Special Guest Speaker Elizabeth Morris
REVEREND DARLENE SYKES TO BE ORDAINED January 30, 2009
Rev. Darlene Sykes' ordination will be the party to begin the year of change!
Clear your calendar for this event...we are dedicated to making this a celebration of OPULENCE, Rev. Dar's motto!
This is a very special event in a ministers life, and we at the Center for Spiritual Living - Fremont...intend to make this a celebration to last throughout the years! This will be the standard upon which all other ordination parties will aspire!
We know we have the best...so we want to celebrate our prosperity!
Mark you calendars for Friday night, January 30th, at the Center!
CHRYSALIS- THE DANCE OF THE SOUL CLASS (For Women only!)
To begin January 16th!
Join Linda Anson and Lygia Byrd as they present "Chrysalis" The dance of the Soul.
Dare to see and experience yourself as you are. Move and be moved, connect gracefully and intimately with others, to feel vibrantly alive and available for what life brings our way. Allow the meaning you see coming up in you to reveal their actual nature.
Journaling will follow the dance session. You will need a notebook and pen. With practice and persistence we strengthen our inner most wisdom.
Mr. Ernest Hawkins, father of Rev. Dar, made his transition on Friday, December 19th. He was 87 years old.
In the words of Rev. Dar, "He lived a good life! And we're very proud of all that he accomplished and all that he taught us. And we know that loving hands have already met him in his new experience."
Many of you have met Rev. Cheryl Hawkins, a Pastor in Chicago...who is Rev. Dar's sister. We are all thankful for the insightful daughters Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins raised, not only for us to enjoy and learn from but to change the world!
What a legacy he has given us!
And aren't we lucky that we get to enjoy Rev. Dar every week!
We are all very thankful for these wonderful gifts!
ECKHART TOLLE'S NEW BOOK!
A Happier You
By Eckhart Tolle
(An exerpt)
The greatest goal you can set this year is to make peace with your life, no matter your circumstances. These 10 powerful insights from Eckhart Tolle will get you started.
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is. There is the situation or the fact, and here are my thoughts about it. Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact. Facing facts is always empowering.
See if you can catch the voice in your head, perhaps in the very moment it complains about something, and recognize it for what it is: the voice of the ego, no more than a thought. Whenever you notice that voice, you will also realize that you are not the voice, but the one who is aware of it. In fact, you are the awareness that is aware of the voice. In the background, there is the awareness. In the foreground, there is the voice, the thinker. In this way you are becoming free of the ego, free of the unobserved mind.
Wherever you look, there is plenty of circumstantial evidence for the reality of time-a rotting apple, your face in the bathroom mirror compared with your face in a photo taken 30 years ago-yet you never find any direct evidence, you never experience time itself. You only ever experience the present moment.
Why do anxiety, stress, or negativity arise? Because you turned away from the present moment. And why did you do that? You thought something else was more important. One small error, one misperception, creates a world of suffering.
People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness. They don't realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe. It changes constantly. They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn't have or as deficient because of something that has not happened but should have. And so they miss the deeper perfection that is inherent in life itself, a perfection that lies beyond what is happening or not happening. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is untouched by time.
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.
Equating the physical body with "I," the body that is destined to grow old, wither, and die, always leads to suffering. To refrain from identifying with the body doesn't mean that you no longer care for it. If it is strong, beautiful, or vigorous, you can appreciate those attributes-while they last. You can also improve the body's condition through nutrition and exercise. If you don't equate the body with who you are, when beauty fades, vigor diminishes, or the body becomes incapacitated, this will not affect your sense of worth or identity in any way. In fact, as the body begins to weaken, the light of consciousness can shine more easily.
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you and allowing that goodness to emerge.
If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.
Exerpted from Oneness with All Life by Eckhart Tolle. Published by arrangement with Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. Copywright © 2008 by Eckhart Tolle
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Sincerely,
Mona Dawn Edwards
Center for Spiritual Living - Fremont, CA
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