July Global Vision Themes: Video - El tema de julio es Atraído por la visión

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Greetings!

Each month, our Spiritual Leader Dr. Edward Viljoen, films a video to introduce Centers for Spiritual Living’s suggested monthly topics and themes.

July’s theme is Pulled by Vision

The suggested topics for July are:

• "We Hold These Truths..."
• Is Your Commitment Greater Than Your Resistance?
• Free Your Mind and the Rest Will Follow
• Stayed!

Here is the link to July’s 2021 introductory video:

July Global Themes

¡Saludos!

Cada mes, nuestro líder espiritual, el Dr. Edward Viljoen, filma un video para introducir los temas mensuales sugeridos de los Centros para la Vida Espiritual.

El tema de julio es Atraído por la visión

Los temas semanales sugeridos para el mes de julio son:
“Afirmamos estas verdades….”
“¿Tu compromiso es mayor que tu resistencia?
Libera tu mente y el resto seguirá
¡Permanecer!

Aquí está el enlace para el video introductorio de julio:

Introductorio de junio



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June’s theme is The Call of the Soul

 

[Español abajo] Greetings! Each month, our Spiritual Leader  Dr. Edward Viljoen, films a video to introduce Centers for Spiritual Living’s suggested monthly topics and themes.    June’s theme is The Call of the Soul   The suggested topics for June are:  Pushed by Pain Lean Into the Discomfort What’s Evolution Without Love? The Soul’s Call to Freedom   Here is the link to June’s 2021 introductory video: June Global Themes ¡Saludos!   Cada mes, nuestro líder espiritual, el Dr. Edward Viljoen, filma un video para introducir los temas mensuales sugeridos de los Centros para la Vida Espiritual.   El tema de junio es El llamado del Alma   Los temas semanales sugeridos para el mes de junio son: Impulsado por el dolor Apoyarse en la Incomodidad ¿Qué es la Evolución sin Amor? El Llamado del Alma hacia la Libertad   Introductorio de junio

Stepping into the Unknown - Caminando hacia lo desconocido

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April’s theme is Stepping into the Unknown

The suggested topics for April are:
The Path Less Traveled
The Winds of Change
Bless-itation
Stepping Out, Stepping Up

Here is the link to April’s 2021’s introductory video:

April Global Themes

¡Saludos!

Cada mes, nuestro líder espiritual, el Dr. Edward Viljoen, filma un video para introducir los temas mensuales sugeridos de los Centros para la Vida Espiritual.

El tema de abril es Caminando hacia lo desconocido

Los temas semanales sugeridos para el mes de abril son:
El camino menos transitado
Los vientos del cambio
Bendi-ción
Avanzar y mejorar


Aquí está el enlace para el video introductorio de abril:

Introductorio de abril

One Journey, Many Paths - February 2021

 

[Español abajo] Greetings! Each month, our Spiritual Leader Rev. Dr. Edward Viljoen, films a video to introduce Centers for Spiritual Living’s suggested monthly topics and themes.    February’s theme is One Journey, Many Paths   The suggested topics for January are: A Clean Slate, by Cindy Grimes The Infinite Invisible, by Sydney Lehman Steen One Mind, Infinite Connections, by CSL’s Escuela de Liderazgo Espiritual Journey to Freedom, by Celeste A. Frazier Watch February 2021’s video by clicking below:   February Global Themes     ¡Saludos!   Cada mes, nuestro líder espiritual, el reverendo doctor Edward Viljoen, filma un video para presentar los temas mensuales sugeridos de los Centros para la Vida Espiritual.   El tema del mes de febrero es Un Viaje, Muchos Caminos. Los temas para las charlas semanales del mes de febrero son: Borrón y cuenta nueva, por Cindy Grimes El Infinito Invisible, por Sydney Lehman Steen Una Mente, Infinitas Conexiones, por la Escuela de Liderazgo Espiritual de los Centros para la Vida Espiritual  Travesía hacia la Libertad, por Celeste A. Frazie Vea el vídeo de febrero de 2021 haciendo clic a continuación:   Temas Globales de Febrero

VISTA 2021 VIRTUAL CONVENTION

 

Vista Introduction from Centers for Spiritual Living on Vimeo.

CENTERS FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING VISTA 2021 VIRTUAL CONVENTION:

In just a few weeks we will kick off our Virtual Convention VISTA 2021: One Mind. Infinite Connection set to take place February 15-18, 2021.

In 2019 we had over 125 communities and an additional 100 individuals & focus ministries connect globally through the use of technology. In 2021, we have already taken our reach even further with new expanded possibilities and connection.

VISTA 2021 is our 4-Day Virtual Convention creating global connection beyond the limitations of physical time and space. As we all adjust to the expansion of virtual communication, we’ll come together to be lifted up in a deeper connection. Join us for inspiring talks and conversations, live music performances, and interactive workshops designed to set you up for success - ALL live-streamed from around the globe into the comfort of your home or community.

Let's come together as One Mind and Infinite Connection to light up the world!

Participation in VISTA 2021 is easy and offers a variety of options:

• Participate & watch the programming LIVE!

• View recordings of sessions at your leisure

• Interact with attendees through live discussions, Q&A, & polls

• Engage your community and leadership with a group registration pack.

Keep checking back to this website for additional updates on programming, music, speakers, and more!

A Moment of Peace for our Nation and our World

Rev. Edward Viljoen, DD (Hon.) Spiritual Leader, Centers for Spiritual Living

Meditation adapted from Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind

A moment of peace for our nation and our world.

Peace Is the Power at the Heart of God

My peace is found at the heart of God. The heart of God, for me, is found at the very center of my being. It does not matter how closely the confusion of the outer world presses against me, I am not even disturbed by the confusion in my immediate environment. I know that the only way to counteract confusion is to bring peace into play. "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you." These words of assurance stay with me, and I hear them re-echoing in the depths of my being.

I surrender all of my fears-those nameless fears which have beset me for such a long time, dulling my pleasure and clouding with misery and apprehension all of my days. I am now through with fear. What, indeed, is there for a divine and immortal being to fear. Certainly not people, for as I am a divine and immortal being, so is every man, and every man is my brother. I recognize the one Life Principle, working in and through and inspiring the motives of everyone I contact.

My Peace Is Found at the Heart of God

January 2021 Timeless Wisdom, Evolutionary Vision

Each month, our Spiritual Leader Rev. Dr. Edward Viljoen films a video to introduce Centers for Spiritual Living’s suggested monthly topics and themes.

January’s theme and the theme for 2021 is Timeless Wisdom, Evolutionary Vision.

The suggested topics for January are:

· (1/3) Timeless Wisdom, Evolutionary Vision

• · (1/10) Grounding Beyond the Beginning
• · (1/17) Here and Now
• · (1/24) Looking Ahead
• · (1/31) Looking Above

To see the video on Vimeo in English, click here or scroll to the bottom of this message.

¡Saludos!

Cada mes, nuestro Líder Espiritual, el Rev. Dr. Edward Viljoen, filma un video para presentar los temas mensuales sugeridos por los Centros para la Vida Espiritual.

El tema del mes de enero y del año 2021 es: Sabiduría eterna, Visión evolutiva.

Los temas sugeridos para enero son:

• (1/3) Sabiduría eterna, Visión evolutiva
• (1/10) Enraizado más allá del principio
• (1/17) Aquí y ahora
• (1/24) Mirando hacia el futuro
• (1/31) Mirando hacia arriba Vea el video de enero de 2021 haciendo clic abajo:

(10) Video para el mes de enero del 2021: Sabiduría eterna, Visión evolutiva - YouTube

Global Themes January 2021 English from Centers for Spiritual Living on Vimeo.

Making Magic / Haciendo Magia

Think of each day as a holy opportunity to celebrate. Particularly in a month like December, when there are so many sacred days from various spiritual traditions. The idea of making every day worthy of honoring spiritual inspiration seems apt and even significant, even the days that are not ‘red-inked’ on our calendar.

Every day, it turns out, can be made to be significant.

December 2020 Monthly Theme: Celebrating Divine Truth
December 27, 2020 – Making Magic

Tema del mes: Celebrando la Verdad Divina
Semana 4: Haciendo Magia

Cultivating the Light / Cultivando la luz

It is interesting to me that Light plays such an important role in touching our hearts…

• Whether a candle on a cake,
• A fire in the darkness
• Or the glow on the face of a saint…

Light has marked occasions of human significance since time began.

• Bonfires celebrated winter solstice rites..
• In Praise of ancient Gods, fires were lighted:
• At Hanukkah, Jews lighted, and still do, candles in a menorah in memory of the miracle of many centuries ago...
• Christians, as a sign of the presence of holiness.

If you like, you might even use a candle to help the process. Light a candle every morning. For five minutes be still and look at it. And in your mind state FIRMLY Spirit is the light of intelligence in my life.

December 2020 Monthly Theme: Celebrating Divine Truth
December 20, 2020 – Cultivating Light

Tema del mes: Celebrando la Verdad Divina
Semana 3: Cultivando la luz

Preparing the Way / Preparando el camino

Whether you are in a northern or a southern climate, you know that during the winter months, the nights get longer and colder and it is not unusual for people to look forward to the return of the light and its warmth. The winter months, associated in some climates with hibernation and renewal, can be an opportunity for spiritual practitioners to go within, rekindle their inner light, and prepare the way for another spring.

December 2020 Monthly Theme: Celebrating Divine Truth 

• December 13, 2020 – Preparing the Way

Tema del mes: Celebrando la Verdad Divina

• Semana 2: Preparando el Camino

Videos - December 2020 Monthly Theme: Celebrating Divine Truth / Celebrando la Verdad Divina

December 2020 Monthly Theme: Celebrating Divine Truth
December 6, 2020 – Welcoming the Shadow


Tema del mes: Celebrando la Verdad Divina
Semana 1: Dando la Bienvenida a la Sombra

Jacob Liberman wrote that “A shadow is produced when an object blocks light. Whenever we block the light guiding our life, we create a shadow. Only when we are transparent and in alignment with the source of light, as when the sun is directly overhead, does the shadow magically disappear.”

In our spiritual culture, one of the ways we explore both the shadows and the light is through one-on-one spiritual coaching with licensed practitioners who have been trained to work with clients to identify blocks and provide spiritual mind treatment to address them. If you are not in an area where a licensed practitioner is available, you may consider visiting our world ministry of prayer where you can submit a request for spiritual mind treatment.

November 29, 2020 - The Grateful and Cheerful Receiver - El receptor agradecido y alegre

Giving and receiving connected; you might even say they are the same thing. We can’t have one without the other. So good cheer is as essential in receiving as it is in giving.

Here’s the thing, some of us are better at giving, and others are better at receiving. Some of us practice being good givers to hide the discomfort we feel around receiving. And others of us receive in a way that – well, to be frank – is more like demanding or taking. The point is, if you are like me and everyone else, there is probably an area in your giving and receiving where you can do better, and good cheer is a clue.

To bring good cheer into your receiving, consider the practices suggested in this week's video.  Follow the links below to view them in English or Spanish:

• November 29, 2020 –  The Grateful and Cheerful Receiver
  
  
• Semana 5: El receptor agradecido y alegre

November 22 - Are You Motivated to be a Compassionate Conduit?

A conduit is a channel that carries something like water or electricity.

The conduit is not the source of the water or electricity; it is the channel through which the water or electricity flows.

Thinking of electricity as an illustration of the Divine is very helpful to me in my studies of Science of Mind. Electricity is inherently neutral. It has no regional, religious, racial, gender bias. It respects no person more than another, no being more than another. It just is. 

I think of electricity as being everywhere, and it always was everywhere, but not visible, not useful, until it was channeled and directed for a specific purpose. And of course, using electricity requires an understanding and respect for the laws that govern it.

To see this week's videos in English or Spanish, follow the links below:

• November 22, 2020 – God is Not Motivated if You Aren’t 

• Semana 4: Dios no está motivado si tu no estás

November 15 - How Engaged is God as Us? ¿Qué tanto está comprometido Dios con nosotros?

Whether I am aware of it or not, I am a spiritual being, and the Divine is 100% ready, willing, able, and available to express through my words, to create through my actions, to love through my heart.

Maybe you can think of a time when you were less engaged in your spiritual life? I can. And maybe you can remember a time when you turned back to that spiritual something that lives in you? I can. And when I did, the miracle of miracles is that It, the Divine, was exactly where it always was, in the same state it always was, 100% ready, willing, and able to flow through the channel I opened in me.

To see this week's videos in English or Spanish, click the links below:

• November 15, 2020 – How engaged is God as us?

• Semana 3: ¿Qué tanto está comprometido Dios con nosotros?

November 8 - What is God Giving You? ¿Qué te está dando Dios?

Imagine with me a scene in which you become annoyed by something that happens. A good example that triggers me is someone who cuts me off in traffic. 

When I've been annoyed by such a situation, I believe my justified annoyance comes from the inconsiderate driver, which may be the case. Still, if I can pause in my thinking while driving safely, I may notice that my annoyance arises without complete knowledge of what is happening in that other car that cut me off. 

My annoyance arises from what I make the situation mean. And at that moment, I find myself disconnected from a greater possibility that Life Itself produces. Would I have the same response if I knew the driver was hurrying to take a pregnant person in labor to the hospital? And, because I don't know the driver's heart and motive, why am I choosing the meaning that leads to annoyance?

To see this week's videos in English or Spanish, follow the links below:

• November 8, 2020 – What is God giving you?

• Semana 2: ¿Qué te está dando Dios?

November 2020 Divine Authority to Choose - La capacidad Divina para elegir

It seems to be that through our ability to choose, we are sometimes more and sometimes less in alignment with that creative Power flowing through us. 

It is one thing to know we are vehicles through which divine Creativity may be expressed, and it is another thing to rise, choose, and act on that knowledge. We do so through kindness, philanthropy, and good works in the world. By acting, we set up a generative force of circulation and move even closer to our ultimate fulfillment of using the creative power of our minds to channel and magnify the ultimate goodness, the Divine. The more we act in the world, the greater our capacity to be a conduit of the infinite, creative Power.

To view this week's videos in English or Spanish, follow the links below:

• November 1, 2020 – Divine Authority to Choose

• Semana 1: La capacidad Divina para elegir

October 25, 2020 – Bridges That Last - • Semana 4: Puentes que perduran

"No greater good can come to you than to know that the Power already within you is the power to live, the power to create. Not only to create for yourself, but for others -- the power to do good, the power to heal, the power to prosper. You are to realize that the Power within you is a Divine Authority. It is a dispenser of the Divine Gifts. It is a giver of life, of joy. It proclaims the Kingdom of Heaven, the harmony of the soul, and the unity of all being."  

Dr. Ernest Holmes 

The key words in that are “not only to create for yourself, but for others,.”

The power we have to do good

The power we have to reveal wholeness

The power we have to prosper

Is not for ourselves alone, but for others.

October 25, 2020 – Bridges That Last 

Semana 4: Puentes que perduran

October 18, 2020 – Bridge Over Troubled Water - • Semana 3: Un puente sobre aguas turbulentas

To explore our connections to each other requires that we embrace an important idea, that there is something in you that is just like it is in me. That though we may be different, and those differences to be appreciated, raised up, and celebrate, nevertheless, there is something that is in you just the same way that it is in me.

This week the content creators invite us to explore the role that forgiveness work plays in taking down barriers that prevent us from seeing each other through the filter of shared experience.

They present us with these compelling questions:

• Is there an area in my life where I withhold love and caring?
• Is there something that is calling for forgiveness?
• What would happen if I were to set aside real or imagined injury and behaved as I did before?
• What would happen if I was to return to the love that was the original source of this connection?
• Would I be willing to listen and hear what is said with an open mind and an open heart?

To see the video in English or Spanish, click the link below:

• October 18, 2020 – Bridge Over Troubled Water

• Semana 3: Un puente sobre aguas turbulentas

October 11, 2020 – Inextricably Connected - Semana 2: Inexorablemente conectados

Dr. David Suzuki, the environmentalist describes it as a web of life, that must become the foundation of the way we live, and he says that

We must work from dominance to partnership

From fragmentation to connection

From insecurity to interdepencence.

I get that.

And an elder of the Chippewa Tribe, Sun Bear, said it like this: "I do not think the measure of a civilization Is how tall its buildings of concrete are. But rather how well its people have learned to relate To their environment and fellow humans."

To see the video in Spanish or English, click the link below:

October 11, 2020 – Inextricably Connected

Semana 2: Inexorablemente conectados

October 4, 2020 – Just Like Me = • Semana 1: Igual que yo

Centers for Spiritual Living provides content for our Centers and Study groups worldwide In the form of suggested monthly themes. This month’s content is brought to us by our Virtual Ministries and Focus Ministries and the topic is Cosmic Connections.

Rev Donna N. Smith, and Rev. Ann Thacker propose this idea:

“Knowing that we are each a reflection of the Infinite Self, we can move towards an understanding that everyone around us reflects ourselves. And just like me, everyone is doing the best they can, with what they have, in the time that they have. When we can find compassion for ourselves in doing the best that we can, we are able to transfer our compassion to those around us.”

What a beautiful and challenging idea for these times. Can I make more generous assumptions about other people. Can I make those generous assumptions based on the idea that we are connected on a cosmic level? Can I stay in true to that idea that we – spiritually speaking – share the same heritage?

To see the video in English or Spanish, click on the link below.

• October 4, 2020 – Just Like Me
• Semana 1: Igual que yo