Accepting Holy Spirit’s Means of Success
As If There Is No World—Accepting Holy Spirit’s Means of Success
In this gathering, David shares a humorous dialog with Jesus and explains how he was spoken to and then spoken through by Jesus. David invites us to live as if there is no world and trust our intuition and merge with Spirit. Many topics are covered in the Q&A session, including the forgiveness story with his dad and origins of the Course.
Gold Nugget:
“Everything is an opportunity to tune in to guidance; everything is an opportunity to just be in that receptive flow, of just seeing the perfection of all things. Because really, in the present moment, when you really relax into that flow, nothing can go wrong, even microphones or whatever. You know, it’s just you kind of flow along. And nothing disturbs you; nothing could be better; nothing could be different. You don’t have those thoughts of Well, we could have been better if this hadn’t happened, or those thoughts about the traffic or all those kinds of things. Really, that’s the whole point of alignment and attunement; is not to try to change the world, or trying to come up with better configurations in the world, but just to think into this peaceful perspective of the world, where you feel just the love, and you have this full appreciation with everything and everyone. And that’s really what you might say success is, or if you want to call it spiritual success, that’s that state of mind, starting to realize you have one hundred percent responsibility for your state of mind. And that’s also an experience that there’s nothing outside of you. So you’re not going to be trying to work on the world and keep shaping the world to make a better world. And that’s a great teaching from A Course in Miracles. Jesus says, ‘seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.’ T-21.In.1:7 So that means you can put your full attention on forgiveness. And that’s really what Jesus came here to teach us; is how to forgive.”
Recorded at the Joy and Peace Are My Inheritance Gathering on April 24, 2015 at Circle of Miracles in New Britain, Pennsylvania
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