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David Hoffmeister
“Turning something over to the Holy Spirit is a leap of faith that lets go of attempting to control outcomes. The core of alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, smoking and a host of things the world calls addictions is control. The little willingness the Holy Spirit asks is the key to letting go of the attempt to manage the body and the world, which is the insane attempt to maintain a self-concept image that God did not create. An idea to contemplate from the Course is this: "Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world." The requirement is to change your thinking, not to focus on behavior and form. Behavior flows from thought, and transformation of the mind is synonymous with changing thought patterns from ego-based to Spirit-based.”
David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

David Hoffmeister
“When you feel angry or frustrated at a brother for using a particular defense -- being controlling or whatever it is -- you are failing to forgive yourself for the very same attempt; you still believe that the defense has a reality. You are seeing it out there but when you start to pull it back to your mind, you start to see the control in yourself. The guilt from transferring it from one seeming person/body to another seeming person/body is enormous. Instead of blaming your brother, the blame gets turned onto your own seeming body, but it is still the same error. We have to see that I am mind; this identity that I took off of my brother but still saw in myself is also just a construct in my mind. Otherwise, what good is the transfer?”
David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

David Hoffmeister
“Relationships without a Divine Aim always "break up," for they are based on nothing. Divine Purpose could be described as forgiveness -- the undoing and releasing of the ego. Belief in the ego prevents awareness of True Union and Intimacy. The underlying fear of Intimacy and Union is the ego's fear of loss of itself, the 'personal self' and the 'personal world.”
David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

David Hoffmeister
“Only love can be shared, and the attempt to 'share' an illusion is literally impossible.”
David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

Brian Kolodiejchuk
“Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love. … The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.”
Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner

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