Spiritual Practice | Awakening, Certainty, Christ-Identity, Dedication and Devotion, Ego, Empty Your Mind, Face of Innocence, Hypotheticals, Jesus, Mind Training, Miracles, Movie-Watching, Practical Steps, Pride, Resistance, Right Mind and Wrong Mind, Roles, Self-Concepts, Series Awakening from the Dream Online Retreat - Being of True Service—a Direct Path to Awakening, Signs and Symbols, Time and Space, Unwinding from the World, with Friends
Let Go of Dualistic Thinking and Let Our Eyes Be Single – David Hoffmeister shares that it is essential to accept the dismantling of the self-concept, and to be gentle and kind with yourself as these self-concepts fall apart and fall away. Whatever we give to the Holy Spirit is taken away from the ego. And we are asked to remember true prayer is to forget the things we think we need. This will put an end to the need for external validation.
True Healing | Beliefs and Concepts, Cluelessness, Collaboration, Communication, Comparison, Face of Innocence, Holy Relationship, Non-Compromise, Non-Judgment, Pornainen Finland, Practical Steps, Real Thoughts, Series Finland Retreat 2016, Special Relationship, True Forgiveness, with Friends
Releasing All Judgments – Allowing the healing, allowing the help. David shares the point, the meaning of forgiveness (seeing the false as false). Forgiveness is quiet and does nothing. It looks and waits and watches and judges not. Both the “good” memories and the “bad” memories are the same, since they serve only to cover over the present. By hiding and protecting dark thoughts and memories, they are kept. In exposing darkness, darkness disappears, for nothing is kept from the healing light of the Holy Spirit. Participants open up and share their issues in this profound healing session.
True Healing | Beliefs and Concepts, Christ-Identity, Deception, Ego, Empty Your Mind, Face of Innocence, Identity Confusion, Idols, Ireland, Personality Self, Self-Concepts, Series Quantum Love Tour Europe, Spiritual Journey
All the emotions are being generated by clinging to a false self, by trying to protect a false identity. The way out is to pay close attention and notice when the contraction would come up. This way you can start seeing things in a helpful perspective. And you will see that every emotion relates to an identity attachment. This is a journey of emptying the mind, for it requires questioning every value that you hold. Not one can be kept hidden, or it will obscure your learning. Practicing this will lead towards the experience of consistent joy and peace of mind.
Spiritual Practice | Deception, Distractions, Dublin Ireland, Ego, Face of Innocence, Guidance, Idols, Listen and Follow, Series Classics, Sin, True Comfort, Trust
David Hoffmeister tells us that the clever one, or ego, which he refers to as an ingenious puff of nothingness, created a world to distract us from who we really are, and can be overcome simply by listening to and following the Holy Spirit.
Modern Mysticism | Addictions, Black Mountain North Carolina, Dark Night of the Soul, Desire, Dismantling, Ego, Face of Innocence, Guidance, Littleness, Miracles, Separation, Series Joy and Peace, Suffering, Time and Space, True Forgiveness, Trust
Just like the fig leaves that were used to hide Adam and Eve’s “private parts” in the Bible story, this entire cosmos was made up as a “cosmic fig leaf” to hide your seemingly private mind from the Light of God! Although many spiritualities teach that this world was a Divine Creation of God, A Course in Miracles makes it very clear that God had nothing to do with this world. Go deeply into the metaphysics of the Course with this Enlightenment ACIM talk.
