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Authentic Spiritual Conversations

This is a group for anyone interested in sharing their unique spiritual journey with like-minded friends. All are welcome to join in this gentle and relaxed setting of learners. This group is about being and expressing our authentic Self in the company of others. In these groups, we create a safe space where members can explore what feels spiritually real, core, and alive in fellowship with other spiritual seekers and practitioners from a variety of spiritual paths. Members are free to explore their spiritual questions, doubts, practices, and deepest longings in a space where everyone’s needs are gently held as important and sacred.

If you are interested in exploring your own truth and taking responsibility for your own path, consider joining in a conversation where your uniqueness can be nurtured and you can feel safe to be seen and blossom. Click here to see more information about the meeting now being held in Astoria, Oregon.

What is the connection between Authentic Spiritual Conversations groups and CGI Fellowship?
Authentic Spiritual Conversations groups are independent, self-managed groups. Each group may organize itself uniquely to meet their needs and chooses the topics that they are interested in discussing. Clearly, anyone can start a group and have authentic spiritual conversations. The groups that have been formed by or with the support of CGIF are compatible with CGIF values, principles, and intentions. CGI Fellowship has established broad values which help to create an environment that encourages authentic self-expression. No one is expected to believe a specific doctrine in order to be accepted by the group. Actually, group members hold a variety of beliefs, and all are welcome.

Are you interested in facilitating an ASC group? CGI Fellowship offers start-up support for Authentic Spiritual Conversations group meetings. We also offer training and certification in ASC group facilitation. For more information or for support in establishing a group in your area, contact info@cgifellowship.org or call 916-307-9790.

“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

“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

“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

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

Don Miguel Ruiz

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

“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

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

Dog Devotion

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

Kabir

“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

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

“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

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

Talmud

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

Rumi

“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

“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

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