Trust, Follow, Be Taken Care Of
From Concern to Laughter—Trust, Follow, Be Taken Care Of
Join David Hoffmeister as he looks at the importance of trust and following guidance as a means to the end. Other themes include fear of hurting other people’s feelings, control, releasing family people-pleasing, and releasing false responsibilities to give way for our true responsibility—our state of mind. Near the end of the session, everyone listened to the song “You Raise Me Up,” and tears of concern and release were felt. Laughter erupted and the Spirit poured through with deep healing and bursting, cascading laughter.
Gold Nugget:
“I had to learn very early that I could not hurt anybody’s feelings. If I was sharing something, and they got a frown on their face, or they started shaking their head going, ‘No, that’s terrible,’ I had to be reminded that our feelings are always coming from a choice. And that the more I would learn to choose with the Holy Spirit, the happier I would become and the happier I would perceive the whole world, until I would realize that the world is not apart from my mind. If I am happy, the whole world is happy. If I am sad, the whole world is sad. Why would God set up a system where some could be happy and some could be sad? That made no sense to me at all. And how could some succeed and some be victims? How could some win and some lose? And the Holy Spirit said, ‘Yes, that is a crazy world that God did not create and God does not know anything about.’
So I was told, ‘David, if you believe that you can hurt other people’s feelings, you are holding on to the ego’s perception of the world.’ Why would God create you to be a being that could hurt other people’s feelings? That is just completely loco. And so we have to see that when we take responsibility for our own mind, we are really sending a blessing to the whole world. There are many great teachers, like Krishnamurti, who said, ‘I am the world. The world is me.’ It was a beautiful high teaching that the world is not apart from our consciousness. And once we begin to realize this, we put effort into our state of mind. We also realize that our peace of mind is our responsibility. We cannot wait on the conditions of the world to be just right for us to be peaceful. We cannot try to heal the world until we have accepted healing in our own mind. And this is what you learn as you start to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit.”
Recorded at the Why Wait for Heaven Retreat on January 28, 2014 at La Casa de Milagros in Chapala, Mexico (with Spanish translation)
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