How Can I Have Fun with Spiritual Awakening?
Into the Kingdom Retreat, Day 3: The Power of Thought—How Can I Have Fun with Spiritual Awakening?
David Hoffmeister shares about the previous night’s movie, Yesterday, and reminds us about the Beatles’ influence on our mind and John Lennon’s extension of love through the music. David also shares his own journey with Jesus and A Course in Miracles. He emphasizes the importance of purpose and talks about how we are getting ready to move into a new phase and how to use the symbols for Awakening. David gives a beautiful context for the Living Miracles spiritual community and how it was founded, as well as how he received guidelines for the community in the form of “No people-pleasing and no private thoughts.”
Gold Nugget:
“Why aren’t you connecting with the Holy Spirit and coming from a place of love and letting that be your motivations? Thinking miraculous thoughts. Jesus tells us ‘What you do comes from what you think,’ (T-2.VI.2:7) so you want to be having miraculous thoughts, because they’re going to inspire your actions, and your behaviors are going to flow from those thoughts. It’s not the other way around! You know, your behaviors don’t change your mind; you change your mind, and then your behaviors can seem to shift and change when you’ve made that attitude adjustment in your mind. Because the mind is causative. You have to always remember: behaviors are not causative; they are effects! Mind and thoughts are causative. That’s so important. This is like giving a full context for what the true meaning of what people-pleasing is, because as long as you try to understand it from a superficial level, at just the level of persons and behaviors, then it’s not understandable. But once you get into ‘say what you mean and mean what you say,” you have integrity. How can you have integrity if you don’t have an integrated mind, if everything is occurring in your mind and all of the levels of your mind aren’t integrated into a miracle, into a divine flow? Then you have no chance of having integrity because your actions will sometimes seem to be different from what you’re thinking or feeling!”
Recorded at the Into the Kingdom Retreat on October 9, 2019 at Kasteel de Berckt in Baarlo, the Netherlands
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