Opening the Mind, Heart and Body to the Ultimate Mystery

We surrender to the attraction of our interior silence, tranquility and peace. We sink into the Ultimate Mystery, that which is beyond words, thoughts and emotions.

Join us as we invite you into present moment awareness through meditation, sharing, sacred songs and prayers. Randee Vasilakos, RScP, assists and is available for prayer throughout the morning.

Saturday, October 29, 2016
9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Meditation Mount
10340 Reeves Road
Ojai, CA 93023

For Info, contact Rev. Karen Wylie at 310.968.8928
By Love Offering: ($10.00 Suggested)

Thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
Holy Bible, Psalm 18:28

This morning’s readings brought me to consider the suffering some of us have experienced as part of this human journey. My heart opened wide as I thought about the healing that happens when we realize that in the midst of all that, we are so loved and cared for by that which created us. There is potential then for great forgiveness and understanding.

Yes, there is suffering but also there is enormous love and guidance for each of us as we weather and rise from the darkness and despair. That is what I’m so grateful for this day and every day. When our desire for something different and better is strong, we are ushered from the darkness into the light by a great force of goodness within us. The journey awakens us in a way we could never have reached otherwise. We look back on our suffering as the way, the truth and the life.

The suffering is over but we are brought to a place of compassion, understanding and forgiveness that we could not have attained otherwise. There is the power within us to rise from the ashes, to create a better life. When we recognize that power and choose it, there is no negative force that can stop our spiritual evolution. That’s how powerful the Love Intelligence is that governs this universe.

The same nature and characteristics of God are within us. When we choose to live from this understanding, we are powerful beyond measure. We are then lifted into the light; darkness disappears. Love will be our compass and will light our way.

How grateful I am to have chosen the light. How grateful I am for all my experiences—good and bad—which have shaped my becoming! How grateful I am to be living as love itself, waking into the light every day.

Affirmation
God is my rock, my salvation. I choose to live from the love and light within me. I am filled with thanksgiving!

Rev. Karen Wylie

We already live in a Perfect Universe, but It needs to be mentally seen and spiritually experienced before It can become a part of our everyday life.
Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind

I am the seer in the midst of changing scenery. Everything may change but a part of me remains changeless. I do not fight against change for I know it is an inevitable part of life and may be the very thing that brings me to a greater understanding and knowing within myself. I am an ever-growing conscious participant in this, my earthly dance.

My passion for life is unbounded because I see the infinite possibility in all things. I am not afraid to live to the fullest because I know that I am supported in a loving universe. I see it, believe it and experience it.

I willingly let go of opposition. Today, I oppose nothing. I live in non-resistance. I find a greater truth when I refuse to oppose. I see with clarity what is before me and in that, I become a beneficial presence for healing and resolution.

The light within me draws light unto itself. I am grateful to live in the light. The light dispels the darkness. I’m constantly choosing how I respond to the ups and downs of life, knowing that by my choice, I’m creating my experience, good or bad.

I am empowered by my choosing. Do I want peace or do I want struggle? Do I want conscious communion or do I want separation? Do I want love or do I choose fear? Do I make my decisions based on my own inner wisdom, or do I succumb to the influence of those who I believe are more powerful than I?

I am the seer in the midst of an ever-changing world. I am the master of my own fate. I am a place where love reveals itself. I choose peace. I am.

Affirmation
My life overflows with goodness, grace, abundance, love, peace and prosperity! I am grateful for my ability to see so clearly!

Rev. Karen Wylie

Sometimes we get a little stuck, but there is always that perfect flow of nature that is for us, never against us.

When we trust the dynamic flow, we have access to all the innate, unlimited power of the universe.

Join us as we invite you into present moment awareness through meditation, sharing, sacred songs and prayers. Randee Vasilakos, RScP, assists and is available for prayer throughout the morning.

Saturday, August 20, 2016
9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Meditation Mount
10340 Reeves Road
Ojai, CA 93023

For Info, contact Rev. Karen Wylie at 310.968.8928
By Love Offering: ($10.00 Suggested)

…all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Holy Bible, Matthew 28:18

Most of us are adrift. We are not using our God-given talents. We are not allowing the wind to fill our sails. Have you ever seen a sailboat going at full speed? It is surging ahead in the dynamic flow of nature. If you are not sure whether you want to go right or left, you just lie there in the doldrums, your sail luffing, going nowhere fast.

We are like the sailboat. We need to get on course, head for our dreams and desires and quit getting in our own way with all our mind chatter about why it won’t work out. We need to trust the dynamic flow. Life is filled with course corrections, just as it is in sailing. Too much to the left and we stall; too much to the right and we may even turn completely around, going backwards instead of forward. But when you trim those sails just right, you move through the water, nothing stopping you, having access to all the innate, unlimited power of the universe.

It’s exhilarating getting out of your own way. What’s exhausting is sitting there in the doldrums with your sails flapping as you are trying to figure everything out, to make something happen because you are pretty sure you have to do it all yourself—you have to know the “how,” not just the “what.”

Just know the “what,” set your sails and get your little mind out of the way. Look around you, enjoy the beauty everywhere and see your goal in the distance. You are soon flying; you get there before you know it.

Life is like sailing. Sometimes we do get a little stuck, but there is always that perfect flow of nature that is for us, never against us. We want to get in harmony with it and ride, baby, ride!

Affirmation
I set my sails for love, peace, joy, freedom and prosperity, and I ride, baby, ride!

Rev. Karen Wylie

Feeling trapped? Feeling limited? Healing happens not in the known, but in the unknown.

Come experience the unlimited freedom of connection to your true spirit! You are invited into present moment awareness through meditation, sharing, sacred songs and prayers. Randee Vasilakos, RScP, assists and is available for prayer throughout the morning.

Saturday, July 16, 2016
9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Meditation Mount
10340 Reeves Road
Ojai, CA 93023

For Info, contact Rev. Karen Wylie at 310.968.8928
By Love Offering: ($10.00 Suggested)

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 1:22

Every time we interact with another, we are giving Spirit another opportunity to know itself, to love itself and to nurture itself. Those around us are here to help us learn, and the closer they are to us, the more courageous the possibility of our intimacy with them.

Do I dare reveal my true self to this one who appears to love me so completely? The more I can speak my truth from the loving place within me, the greater our intimacy grows. Nothing is there then to come between us; no negative thoughts are hidden. There is no secret agenda, no confusion, and we have an opportunity then to show up fully alive, fully clear and present, fully available to the love and joy which is our essential nature.

This is the greatest gift of all—to learn to be courageously intimate with the self and all others. This is true freedom. This is not easily attained—one has to have a certain level of self-awareness, but this is the gift that comes with self-awareness. We are no longer interested in our private trysts with separation—even from the one we’ve been married to for years.

We want to come out of hiding and we can do that because we’ve come to a level of self-love and self-appreciation that we can dare to be ourselves. We have fallen in love with the part of ourselves which is the very Spirit of Love within. It is that love that we wish to share with the world and those eyes we wish to look through in our seeing what’s before us.

Being me—now that is true freedom! The love grows within and expands out into the world, and I walk in clarity and courageous intimacy. I am free to be the fullness of who I am!

Affirmation
I walk in the light and love of God, courageously intimate with myself and all others!

Rev. Karen Wylie

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to step a step without feet.
Rumi

So much of the time we think our good is somewhere down the line, in the future…that we will be “living our purpose” at some time in the future.  Well, surprise.  You are living your purpose right now…each word out of your mouth, each action you take.  That is why you must be impeccable with your word as Don Miguel Ruiz so beautifully has pointed out to us. 

I heard someone say recently that all the qualities of God that you so aspire to—those qualities that you want to experience in your life are verbs—actions, not nouns.  If you want to experience peace in your life, you must be peace.  If you want abundance, you must live abundance.  Abundance is all around you, awaiting your recognition of it.  You begin to live the qualities of God, moment-by-moment, day-by-day.

You say when my ship comes in, I’ll be happy.  No, be happy NOW!  Find things to be happy about now.  The Love Intelligence that is everywhere present is constantly flowing.  You are to learn to flow with it—not against it.  That’s when your “ship comes in”…not some time in the future, but right NOW!

You are so loved!  That’s a promise. You live in a loving, giving universe.  When you get in harmony with it and let go of all your tales of woe and reasons you can’t have it all, you will see that it is here now.  You are the creator of your experience.  That is hard to hear if your life looks bad.

Be love and experience it everywhere.  Be joy and watch how much fun shows up in your life.  Quit with the pity party and your old story.  Dance yourself into a new way of being.  The world is waiting for you to shine.  Do it NOW!

Affirmation
My life is filled to overflowing with love, peace, joy, abundance, and all good things!  I see it NOW!

Rev. Karen Wylie

A Spiritual Retreat

I Am
I Create
I Celebrate

Friday, November 4 through Sunday, November 6, 2016

Rev. Jennifer Berkeley and Rev. Karen S. Wylie bring a sacred synergy as they work together, combining years of experience and depth of New Thought and Ancient Wisdom teaching and activity. Every moment and breath of this weekend brings you closer to oneness with yourself, nature , your practice and life.

“This is my third year attending and every year it gets even better as I go deeper. The grounds, accommodations and food are just amazing and the activities are truly life-changing. One of the best retreats I have ever attended.”

Special Guest: Eridania Garcia, EFT Practitioner

For reservations, contact Janet Squilanti at or visit rocklandcsl.org/news-events.
Triple rooms and Saturday Day Pass Available. (Doubles and Singles MAY BE available upon request and confirmation)
$100.00 non-refundable deposit to hold space due at time of registration.
Retreat is held at the Edith Macy Center in Briarcliff Manor, NY

This is love to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First to let go of life.
Finally, to step a step without feet.
~ Rumi

Grace comes from letting go of false beliefs and limitations to move into the Divine flow that is always happening. You are invited into present moment awareness through meditation, sharing, sacred songs and prayers. Randee Vasilakos, RScP, assists and is available for prayer throughout the morning.

Saturday, June 18, 2016
9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Meditation Mount
10340 Reeves Road
Ojai, CA 93023

For Info, contact Rev. Karen Wylie at 310.968.8928
By Love Offering: ($10.00 Suggested)