How to Experience Being a Miracle Worker?
ACIM Conference 1st Full Talk – Practical Application of the Course—How to Experience Being a Miracle Worker?
David Hoffmeister emphasizes the need for practicing the principles of A Course in Miracles as consistently as you can. Apply the Lessons without exception, while watching your mind and giving all your emotions and feelings over to the Spirit. He then answers questions from the audience about spiritual community, relationships, and how to live the Course’s teachings in a practical way.
Gold Nugget:
“For example, usually monks and nuns take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. I see poverty as not so much poverty is defined on the continuum of the world. But poverty to me is non-possession. As we go more fully into that vow of poverty and non-possession, you start to see that there’s a freedom, there’s the hope of unconditional love, as you go closer to the purity of what that vowel stands for. Not that to say that you should think of it in terms of form, because it has to be in the mind, where you come into that emptiness that Buddha and Jesus talked about.
And then with chastity, to me, that is purity of thought. It is a purification that the Holy Spirit is working on in the mind. And that purification is really the purification of level confusion, of thinking and assigning and projecting meaning and causation to forms, whether it’s to people, or to money, or to governments, or structural systems in society, and all types of things. There’s a purification when you go down into that chastity that takes you also down into the stillness of a quiet mind, the quiet, tranquil mind.
And then obedience is not an obedience to a person, or to the monsignor, or to the sister, or the person who’s in charge of a particular system, because that’s still at the personal level. But the obedience is really to your intuition, to your higher Self, to the Spirit within you. As you become really obedient to listening and following that Presence, it, again, takes you down to the same place of stillness, peace, and freedom.”
Recorded at the ACIM Conference on February 24, 2018 at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco, California
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