How Can I End the Cycle of Guilt and Attack?
“Purpose Is the Only Choice” Online Retreat—How Can I End the Cycle of Guilt and Attack?
David shares in this online retreat when you realize that “The script is written” (W-158.4:3) and there is no choice in form, you realize that you can only decide between the ego’s purpose of death or the Holy Spirit’s purpose of forgiveness, and realizing that you are the dreamer of the dream and not the dream figure. “Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.” T-21.In.1:7 When we join with the Holy Spirit in our mind, we slowly loosen our attachment to the images of the world, the roles we play, and the hooks we thought we were hung up on. The key is this moment. The key is to want the holy instant more than anything else.
Gold Nugget:
“Only the loving thoughts are true. And everything else is an appeal, an overwhelming appeal for healing and help. And that if that’s the one scrap, if that’s the one piece that you can join with, everything else is an appeal for healing, for help. It starts to ease the mind just with that little crack, because this is the crack that starts to loosen it for you, Frank, for Holly, for Silvia, for Daniela, for everyone who’s joined together in this prayer. That is the little crack that says there must be something beyond attack. Let me use this moment. Let me use this tiny crack in my awareness and my consciousness, this tiny opening, a sliver of an opening, to be carried beyond belief and attack. Because in the end, it’s not what seems to happen to bodies or what bodies seem to feel in the end. It’s like it’s this crazy, insane belief and attack.
And I know for myself, when I had these intense experiences—I’ve had some very, very dark experiences in my life where I felt like I was dying. I felt like I wanted to die. I felt like there was no escape. Like I was stuck between a rock and a hard place, and I couldn’t see anything else. I couldn’t see a way out. That I was reminded again, very softly, very gently, it was a decision. Not a decision for the situation. No, it was a decision of purpose in my mind. The ego’s decision of hatred. There’s another way; there’s another choice. And then I would be instructed, ‘Just think of anyone, any place, any time where I shared such a moment of happiness and glee, playfulness, sparkle, shine, love, and just let my mind open to that love.’ And remember just to walk through that crack. And remember too that’s a decision too, that is available to me, always available, always present, so loving.”
Recorded at the Awakening from the Dream Online Retreat – Purpose Is the Only Choice on November 2, 2019
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