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Sunday Morning Weekly Interspiritual Celebration of Spirit Service!

Do you long for the kind of connection where you can explore what feels spiritually alive for you?
Do you want to be able to talk authentically about your spiritual experiences, challenges, questions and deepest longings in a space that feels safe?
Do you want to help create a space where everyone’s needs and differing beliefs are respectfully honored, and you don’t feel alone?

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Exciting news regarding our Common Ground Interspiritual Fellowship Celebration of Spirit in Astoria.

We have started a Sunday morning spiritual fellowship that is not defined by any particular belief system, especially intended for the “spiritual but not religious,” as well as those who draw from more than one faith tradition. At CGI Fellowship, members have an active voice in creating the kind of worshipful environment that expresses their values and supports their spiritual practices. Through open dialogue, participants have the opportunity to safely express their truth as well as their questions, doubts, and explorations. Such a shared exploration requires individuals to draw from their own sources of “authority” and to listen openly to what each other person contributes. Through the dialogue process, participants have the opportunity to develop the listening skills that create a safe space for others in the group who may have different beliefs, points of view, and practices. You are invited to participate in helping to create an ongoing spiritual conversation among like-minded people that supports your continuing spiritual development and understanding. See our discussion of The Evolution of Religious Institutions here.

The weekly group discussions will be focused around a different topic each week where the emphasis is on empathic listening and supportive dialogue. Participants will be invited to share their personal understanding, experience, and practices related to the topic of discussion. This interspiritual fellowship will not promote any specific doctrine or system of belief and is instead based on principles, including the principle that “We each have a right to define our own spiritual path and we respect the right of others to define their own spiritual path.” All faiths, including “spiritual but not religious,” agnostic, atheist, as well as traditional faiths are welcome to the planning meeting and to the future weekly services.

The welcoming folks at the First United Methodist Church of Astoria are supporting us by allowing us to rent space in their building! Our “pre-launch” services will begin August 27, 2017. The “official” launch is currently scheduled for October 1st. We’ll hold services each Sunday between the pre-launch and the official launch and use that time to iron out the wrinkles. You are more than welcome to join us! Here are the details:

Sunday Morning Celebration
Sundays 9:30 – 10:30 am
Wesley Room (use building entrance on 11th)
Astoria First United Methodist Church
Franklin Ave. & 11th St., Astoria, OR

“Let me be Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Mohammedan, or Sufi; I care not what my religion, my race, my creed, or my color be, if only I can win my way to Thee! But let me be none of these, if it enmesh me in labyrinthine ways of religious formalities. Let me travel the royal road of realization which leads to Thee.” Paramhansa Yogananda

Yogananda

“Throw off all thought of imaginary things and stand firm in that which you are.” Kabir

Kabir

Prayer of all healers and lightworkers:
“I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.” ACIM

A Course of Miracles

Everything in your story is constantly changing, including the story you tell about who you are.

Don Miguel Ruiz

“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing – that when we look for what’s best in a person… we are participating in something sacred.” Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers

“When the Buddha taught, he … taught that there is a kind of innocent misunderstanding that we all share, something that can be turned around, corrected, and seen through, as if we were in a dark room and someone showed us where the light switch was. It isn’t a sin that we are in the dark room. It’s just an innocent situation, but how fortunate that someone shows us where the light switch is.” Pema Chodron

Chodron

“If you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.” St. Bartholomew

St. Bartholomew

“The power of the words I AM can change how you see yourself and how you see others. We have been conditioned to believe that who we are is ordinary—that who we are is what we have, what we do, what people think of us, what we own, and none of this is who we really are. Who we are is infinite light divine creation, and that creation is within all of us.” Wayne Dyer

Dyer

May my focus on the light within be as dedicated as the attention my dog gives to his tennis ball. Unknown

Dog Devotion

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
Thomas Merton

Merton

“If the you of five years ago doesn’t consider the you of today a heretic, then you are not growing spiritually.” Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.” Rumi

Rumi

“We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.”
The Talmud

Talmud

Truth, or awakening, is simply the recognition of what is already perfectly in place. It is not a doctrine and it is not a creation. It is the most profound and joyous discovery a human being will make. Mooji

Mooji

“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.”
H.H. the Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow

Sunday Morning Weekly Interspiritual Celebration of Spirit Service!

Exciting news regarding our Common Ground Interspiritual Fellowship Celebration of Spirit in Astoria.

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