What Is the Key to Undoing the Doer?
“Undoing the Doer” Online Retreat: Second Session—What Is the Key to Undoing the Doer?
In this talk, David Hoffmeister shares it’s all about the love, nothing but the love! He encourages us to shoot for the happy dream and teach what we would learn moment by moment. If we have fear, it is the ego recoiling. David reassures us that every single step is designed to strengthen the belief in love!
Gold Nugget:
“It’s guidance that is perfectly timed by the Spirit, that has transcended time and space and knows exactly what you’re to do, where you’re to go, what you’re to say, that’s in your mind telling you, when you have thoughts, how to deal with these thoughts, that’s teaching you, instructing you internally how to forgive. And if you’re too resistant to hearing that voice, then you have the Course. The Course is a beautiful direct pathway, where you’re given exactly what you need. And he says this course has everything that you need. He also says that the Course is only one path of many, but he says this is a course in saving time. And he does say this course has everything that you need. I would say that’s a reflection of him saying, Spirit, Jesus saying, I have everything that you need. I can guide you and direct you beyond time and space. I can take you out of the maze of duality and multiplicity. I can bring you home to Heaven because I’ve done it. I’m speaking to you from Heaven, or through the Holy Spirit. Now, the voice of Jesus and the Holy Spirit are one, are completely unified. And I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say.
So the key thing I think here is in undoing the doer, is we’re not on here to talk about a bunch of different formulas. We’re not here to talk about a bunch of different factors. We’re here to say that you have a very powerful mind. And you can be guided precisely, specifically by Jesus, by the Holy Spirit to unwind from all ego thoughts and beliefs and reach a place of Atonement! And that this is the most important thing! Everything else pales if you just connect with that guidance. And you follow that, you are home free! There is nothing the ego can do to prevent you from waking up to know who you are, to know thyself, to know God, to know Oneness. But it requires that you listen and follow. And that’s what everything our community’s about. Everything’s about witnessing that is possible. Coming to that happiness, coming to that joy, coming to that surrender!”
Recorded at the Awakening from the Dream Online Retreat – Undoing the Doer on January 5, 2019
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