You have found. You've come to the end of that life- the one you lived without Him. The one you lived without knowledge of who you are. The one you lived without this felt-presence of Love constantly, here. When you're chanting, you're chanting to feel this Love. When you're praying, you're praying to feel this Love. It's holding you. The practice is keeping you still long enough to become aware of this Love, to vibrate differently. It's not the words,  it's the Word. It's not the chant, it's the chance to be in Love's Presence consciously for more than a second. That's the path and the point.  It's what breathes in your ear,  'hey,  slow down.  Calm down. You've already arrived. Act like it. You're already loved. Act like it.' I Love You I Am You nik To claim your free gift, leave a review on Apple Podcasts, screenshot it and send it to me at nikki@curlynikki.com!  Join us on Patreon to support the show, and tune into and participate in live video Q&As with me!  Support the show राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम "For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God." -John Ortberg "Pain made me pray, but prayer made me powerful." -mr.papz "Life is a gift to love God." - Radhanath Swami "That many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end." - Brother Lawrence "He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away." - Psalms 1: 3-5 "All powers are hidden within the Self and they manifest when you connect to your consciousness." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "People come to me and ask for blessings; they don't understand that the knowledge that one is not the body, but the consciousness within, IS the blessing." -Nisargadatta Maharaj "There may be thousands of reasons to feel down and depressed, but we have to move with the conviction that 'I am not going to let the world around me bury me as long as I am alive'. This is spirituality..." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "My God, you are always close to me. In obedience to you, I must now apply myself to outward things. Yet, as I do, I pray that you will give me the grace of your presence. And to this end I ask that you will assist my work, receive its fruits as an offering to you, and all the while direct all my affections to you." -Brother Lawrence, Carmelite monk and author of Practicing the Presence of God.