A Course in Miracles Straight Talk: Let It All Go
Get ready for an A Course in Miracles straight talk from David Hoffmeister, a heart-to-heart communication about the core of true letting-go. You are being called back home to God. There is no need for delay, compromise, or distraction of any kind. Accept this loving gift from the Spirit now and let everything else pass you by.
Gold Nugget:
“You don’t have to worry about what to eat, what to wear, where to go. You don’t have to worry about how to survive, you don’t have to worry with those questions through the day, ‘What will I do? What shall I do?’ You will be instructed as part of unwinding the do-er, as part of dismantling the ego and its self-concept, all the way down to the roots, and loved every single step of the way. Every single seeming step of the way, of unwinding, of undoing, you are loved as an eternal creation of God.
In the words of Grace Slick, ‘Let the world around us just fall apart, baby, we can make it if we’re heart to heart.’ Just think of God singing that to your mind, God knowing you for the love that you are, for the innocence, God knowing you as an eternal creation, perfectly spirit, always, forever, eternal. And letting go of everything, every single thought that would arise that would contradict who you are as a divine being, as a perfect, loving, spiritual child of God. Let those thoughts come, don’t hold them down, don’t repress them, don’t deny them; Let them come, and let them go.
Awakening isn’t a matter of time, it’s a matter of desire, it’s a matter of willingness. That you have! You have the desire, you have the willingness. ‘Let thine eye be single’ is what Jesus taught us in the New Testament of the Bible. Let your experience of the world be unified, where everyone is a blessed brother, blessed sister in Christ. You’re not fooled by the form, you’re not fooled by the appearance. You know the truth in your heart. Nothing can stop you from extending that truth.”
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