What Is It like to Be Consistently Happy?
Opening Session – the Happy Dream Online Retreat—What Is It like to Be Consistently Happy?
Our interpretation of the world brings us happiness or unhappiness. Enjoy David Hoffmeister engaging the participants on his favorite topic: consistent happiness.
Gold Nugget:
“Somebody told me recently, a friend of mine was saying that he was even questioning some of Eckhart Tolle’s teachings where he was talking about the oneness using suffering in a beneficial way. And that’s what your question is, is like, Wait a minute, that doesn’t make sense. Love, joy, happiness, oneness, what does that have to do with hell? What does that have to do with suffering? And when you said, ‘God puts us through, you know, these kinds of lessons, tribulations, struggles, you know, for what? Why? Why would God do that?’
The good news is God doesn’t have anything to do with the struggles and the tribulations. They are all generated from the ego. God didn’t create time and space. God didn’t create bodies. God didn’t create persons or personalities. God is just pure Love, pure spirit. And the teachings of the Course are ‘Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.’ In-2:2-4 So what seems to be trials, lessons is simply a faulty belief that has been repeated over and over. In fact, Jesus tells us, history wouldn’t even exist if you didn’t keep making the same mistake in the present. If you didn’t keep choosing ego, you wouldn’t suffer. That makes sense. That’s divine reasoning. The ego is a death wish; you choose it, you suffer, not in reality, but in your awareness.”
Recorded at the Tabula Rasa Online Retreat The Happy Dream on May 6, 2022
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