"If your mind is active in the service of God then that's as good as it not being active."- Rupert Spira. Nikki sits down with spiritual leader and philosopher (and one of her living teachers) Rupert Spira, to discuss the role of devotion and prayer on the non-dual path. He speaks about the difference between the knowledge, 'I Am' and the experience, 'I Am,' and the highest Truth that there is only God's Presence shining in us, as our experience as our Self. He then leads a deep meditation into the 'I Am,' reminding us, "All that is necessary is to sound the Divine Name, I Am, once, silently, within oneself." If you've been trying to access the Love beyond the mind, this is an episode that you should listen to twice. Each word is Presence. His words flow from The Word. And the Word is Grace.  "Breath is one of the most transparent, the most silent experiences there is.  But our Beingness is even more silent, even more transparent, even more empty than the breath." "The shining of God's Presence in us as us is not really the shining of God's Presence in us because there is no 'us' apart from God's Presence in whom God's Presence might shine.  There is only God's Presence shining in us as our experience as our Self." "The ultimate form of prayer is the awareness of being. It's the highest prayer, the ultimate devotion in which there is no person left,  just God's infinite being aware of itself." "In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!" - Philippians 2:5-8 Rupert Spira's, 'The Heart of Prayer' on Amazon