Deep Intimacy is the Requirement
To live through Divine Principle is to know and have intimate relationship with your source of life... your dearest beloved and most trusted friend.
Many people, even those who claim to be spiritually awake, are without this endearment. This is the main reason why we lack anything. To be estranged from our Creator, is simply not to be operating from the wholeness of life.
In place of this intimacy, our intelligence is often asserted to understand evolutionary concepts. We can only go so far with the ambiguous mind, and eventually, the door closes and we cannot make the destined leap into a more expanded dimension.
Much deepening is required in the feeling body to really know our one true guardian, referred to by many as the 'I AM Presence'. This is the flame of life that is individualized within each of us as the nucleus of our entire being. It is this that we have been seeking to return for millennia of lifetimes, the great God Self, which never misuses life's energy.
When we know and experience ourselves as one with this eternal identity, all doubt vanishes and we live in sacred rhythm with the universal flow of abundance. Seeming miracles begin to happen including instant manifestation and a greater sense of 'knowing'.
Through constant adoration given to this abiding and imperishable Presence, we come to unquestionably understand the Law of Supply.
Defining Divine Intimacy
Divine intimacy can be defined as the deeply reverent and loving relationship that we have with the Great Presence that produces and sustains our life. This reverent love expresses itself as a steadfast commitment to be in union with this abiding spirit above all else.
Having an intimate relationship with the Divine Presence can be like having the most wonderful parents you could possibly imagine. Anything can be shared with this Presence without judgment or rejection. Every need is fulfilled in perfect timing.
There is never a feeling of abandonment or loneliness because this loving intelligence is always with you, encouraging you into your highest potential. This intimacy can be felt deep in our feelings, as an unwavering sense of trust and knowing.
Divine intimacy is not to be confused with the common understanding of what it means to be intimate. Instead of seeking outside the self, we are going deep into the core of our being to have the direct experience of communion with our benevolent source of life.
There is an infinite amount of love available to us in every moment. To realize this love is the profound gift of divine intimacy.
Intellectualizing the Divine Presence: An Obstacle to Intimacy
One of the biggest challenges that some of us face in our bewildered wondering is the 'intellectualizing' of divinity versus the authentic experience of it.
There is still adherence to dogma and its many speculations of truth about the idea of Unity Consciousness and what it means to be Self-realized.
While spiritual teachings and philosophies are helpful to advance our intellectual understandings, they are not able to provide us with a tangible experience of the supreme energy that is truly taking care of us. In fact, we run the risk of becoming overly dependent on external information in lieu of a deep and intimate relationship with the one true source of wisdom.
The all-knowing Presence will never be revealed through the human intellect. To try and do so will only leave us defending personal beliefs based upon the theories and ideas of others.
This is why we are emphasizing the extraordinary importance of developing this deeper level of internal intimacy. Without it, there is only the intellectual reason of the sense-bound mind. This excessive dependence on the intellect catapults the feeling body straight into egoistic emotion, resulting in a dismal cloud of distorted perception.
To circumvent this distortion, we must free the heart and the mind from the dualistic influences of attraction and aversion. Only then will we be able to cleave through the illusion that keeps us locked out of the bliss that comes from knowing our true divine nature.
How to Develop Divine Intimacy
* Matured Devotion is the Key that Unlocks the Door
Our goal in developing divine intimacy is to establish an unwavering focus of love with our Creator, as an individualized Presence. This single pointed focus requires that we offer ourselves completely, in full humility, to this greater aspect of Self.
Deep devotion, free of glamourized ideals, is the key that unlocks the door to true intimacy. In cultivating devotional maturity, we discover that the Divine Presence is quick to remove our shortcomings and misguided desires. All negativity trying to enter into our lives is instantly overcome when we make the choice to seek the Divine first.
This type of devotion manifests in many forms including deep meditation, ecstatic dance, sacred chanting, singing, writing poetry, informal conversations with the Presence, communing with nature. These forms of creative expression keep the devotion interiorized as a direct experience versus giving power away to external things.
Wherever you feel the most intimately connected to Spirit, this is your space to commune in perfect freedom.
As the flame of devotion reaches out to enfold our entire life in holy communion, our love for life's greatest Principle takes center stage in our daily affairs. We are absorbed in this greater love, whether we are doing the dishes, going to work or spending time in silent meditation.
Empty of self and wearing only our ruby flippers, we dive deeper and deeper into the sea of devotion... to be guided, ever so gently home into the eternal moment, where the limitless love of the Presence abides.
* Start the day with love.
* Fill the day with love.
* Spend the day with love.
* End the day with love.
* Meditation - Entering the Temple of Inner Silence
Concentrated meditation with the 'Presence' of being is one of the ways that we can bypass the entrapments of the sensory mind. Simply quieting ourselves anchors this connection. Eternal Spirit speaks to us through silence.
If we are constantly active with turbulent emotions and noisy thoughts, we drown out the gentle response of the silent Presence. This response reaches out to us over the inner landscapes as intuitive thoughts, feelings and divine vision. Inwardly calm, we are like a radio antenna or satellite, picking up the more subtle impressions.
The first sign that the Divine Presence is communing with us during meditation is through the emergence of an unwavering sense of peace. This peace IS Holy Spirit. This peace lives within us at all times, we simply have to turn into it and allow it to express itself.
Meditation is the persistent knock at the door of the temple of inner silence. Keep knocking with heart-felt devotion and you WILL receive an answer. Treat this time with the most sincere appreciation and reverence.
Your life is guaranteed to change in the most profound ways.
* Daily Communion with the Divine
Divine Intimacy means to be in constant communion with the all-pervading spiritual presence that supplies everything that we have and are. Sometimes, though, there is confusion as to how to truly recognize the Presence at work in our lives.
In daily communion, we occupy the vacant spaces between our material responsibilities with thoughts of the divine nature. It is actually a state of consciousness. In this background vibration of knowing, we love this Presence and even talk to this Presence, as it is revealing Itself to us all of the time.
All outer supply, and literally, everything happening in our life, is a manifestation of Source. This means that when we eat, talk with our friends, perform our daily activities, there is an element of communion at play as we partake in the joy of appreciating the outer dimension of this spiritual influence.
If we were to observe this more closely, we may understand that the very appearance of our fulfilling moments is HOW the Divine Presence responds to our thoughts and feelings by revealing it's all-pervading power of supply in our lives.
The soul is in constant communion with divinity, responding only to perfection. From time to time we have glimpses of this in our life, receiving exactly what we needed at exactly the right time with little to no effort, as though by seeming miracle.
Our joy now is to realize this kind of communion is available to us in every moment. It is when we are at-one with our Presence in daily communion that we are led down the path of non-stop opening doors.
Synchronicity is the Language of Presence
Behind each door is a new opportunity to expose the universal intelligence at work in our life. The cosmic play of the human experience can be highly exhilarating when we learn to decipher the language of the Great Presence speaking to us through the backdrop of daily happenstance.
Synchronicity is one of the most discernible ways to witness the brilliant brushstrokes of the Divine Mind. This often manifests as a stream of perfectly organized 'coincidences' that emerge at 'just the right time' to guide us into some next phase in our life that we never would have been able to initiate on our own. With our hand on our heart we proclaim, "Oh my goodness, this is just TOO perfect! It's just what I needed!"
Overhearing a conversation as you wait in line with just the right information you needed, glancing at a license plate that happens to be from a new travel destination you were JUST thinking of, receiving an email about that very same travel destination within the same week... so many synchronicities abound in our life.
These divinely inspired events defy the logic of the linear mind. Yet, whenever they appear, we know intuitively in our hearts that we are somehow being guided by an unseen power that is infinitely wiser than we can imagine. Trust in the synchronicity! We are guided every step of the way.
To surrender into the flow of synchronicity is to live in harmony with Divine Principle. To actively participate in the process of bringing forth synchronicity requires faith.
This is to have complete reliance upon that which moves in the deepest side of your nature and what has been referred to before as, the God within. This Presence is the inward action of love from which the great Principle flows.
In Summary
During this focus our innermost core is being revealed. All is being laid upon the altar of devotion as we enter into intimate relationship with the Divine Presence.
We are recognizing that the desire behind all desires is this Presence. All our external longings are an expression of our deepest longing to return to Source. We are programmed to REMEMBER.
The interiorization of our consciousness is a vital component in the process of Self-realization. With the attention removed from the physical senses, we sip the nectar from the expanded consciousness. We then perceive the energy that exists behind all creation as purposed transcendence and the love that exists within us as Divine Immanence.
We are not giving any more energy to a perceived lack or a seeming inability to commune with the influential spiritual essence within us.
Make up your mind right now that you will have intimacy with this eternal consciousness. Let your mind be consumed with thoughts of Divine Presence. Let your heart be consumed with love for Divine Presence. Allow your life to be set aflame with steadfast devotion to realize this Presence acting in your life.
The Presence is right here, right now, with us in every moment. There is nowhere to go and nothing to do except turn into this awareness. We have but to simply accept this love as already ours.
Through constant communion, we live in harmony with the Principle. The source of all good responds to our loving inquiry by sending synchronicities to illuminate the path of least resistance. All blundering through the swamp of the material world ceases as we allow ourselves to be led from one opportunity to the next.
Having intimacy with our Creator is the true meaning behind prosperity. To realize this is to be given the keys to the unlimited treasures of the golden kingdom.
Receive this most generous gift now.
This spiritual principle centers upon the establishment of our most significant relationship; that which we share with the Divine Presence in tandem with the greater knowing that we are this Presence. 
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