Choosing for Peace
Q&A with David Hoffmeister—Choosing for Peace
David Hoffmeister delves into the heartfelt questions of the participants in this online event. A wide variety of deep topics are covered, including getting to the bottom of choice and exposing sneaky ego tricks that attempt to hide rage and pride. The feeling of connection, transparent sharing, and pouring out of the heart present in this beautiful question-and-answer event are deeply moving. Whatever issues are on your heart, if you feel drawn to this talk, it will surely answer the prayer of your heart and address some of your deepest metaphysical questions!
Gold Nugget:
“Jesus says that the right mind is a choice and the wrong mind is a choice, and you have engaged in one or the other in every moment. He doesn’t even address the question of who is making the choice. Because he knows, of course, it’s just the mind, and the mind is not separate from either choice. He knows that the Holy Spirit or the ego is the choice. And there is no third aspect doing the choosing, which would imply that there is something apart from the two choices. So, he’s teaching us the difference between the two choices because there are many differences between these two choices. The Holy Spirit can be shared, and the other, the ego, cannot be shared. When you attempt to share an ego thought, it’s the sharing of nothing. The thought doesn’t go anywhere. The thought doesn’t produce anything. The thought doesn’t mean anything because you cannot share nothing. But the Holy Spirit can be shared. This is why the focus is on choosing the Holy Spirit. It’s a choice of purpose in the mind, and it’s actually extremely simple. When the mind thinks, What is the part that chooses? that’s like an ego intellectual question that doesn’t have an answer, and it’s not even a real question. It’s coming back to, What is my choice right now? What is my state of mind that I choose right now?
If you had a red car and a blue car and you say, Who is the one that chooses between the red car and the blue car? Jesus is saying, That’s not a question. Because only the ego chooses between forms. We are asked to choose a purpose in our mind, and that purpose is always available to us. The miracle inspired by the Holy Spirit is always an option. As we practice this option, we come to realize that the right mind is the only choice available. We can start to realize there were no other options. And that’s when we realize what the correction is. It’s like an ‘aha’ moment, Oh, that was the only choice always! And that is a choice of purpose. Even in the morning when you wake up, it’s very helpful to think, What purpose will I serve right now? And even when we’re tempted to think of a choice in form, we can remind ourselves, It’s the purpose that is really the choice. Which voice do I choose to listen to? What state of mind do I choose to have? As we practice with this, we start to feel that everything else is just part of a given.”
Recorded at The Heart of Mysticism Online Event on October 10, 2021 (with Spanish translation)
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