Awakening to True Happiness Archives with David Hoffmeister
The Inward Journey
05-31-17 The Inward Journey The ego in us always wants to see the cause of our problems as outside of ourselves and beyond our ability to change. But truth would teach that the cause of everything we perceive is within our own mind and nowhere else. The violence we...
What’s My Purpose?
05-17-17 What’s My Purpose? When caught up in our ego thinking it can feel as though we have no purpose. That is because the ego's purposes for us are all meaningless, yet are disguised as being meaningful. Making more money, trying to succeed, and attempting to...
Let It Go
05-03-17 Let It Go Everything that is needed for us to awaken to our True Nature is always here and now. Whatever needs to happen for us to go deeper in the practice of forgiveness will always reveal itself. It may take the form of issues with family, friends, our...
Devotion and the Key to Happiness
04-19-17 Devotion and the Key to Happiness Description: When setting out on the path of Self-discovery, it can seem like a daunting task of undoing all that we thought we knew. We have lots of preconceived ideas about ourselves and the world, and we are now being...
The Happy Dream
04-05-17 The Happy Dream Description: We try and find happiness in relationships, jobs, and money, but all the while it seems just out of reach. So we continue to plan, hoping to find what we are looking for. But even our plans conflict because there always seem to...
Toward a Rapid Awakening
03-22-17 Toward a Rapid Awakening Description: Your spiritual awakening can be relatively rapid, and two of the fastest ways are through silence and relationship. Spending time in silent prayer or meditation is a great way to stir up everything up in the mind that was...
Love is Our Source
03-08-17 Love is Our Source The goal of spiritual practice is to be in the flow of presence, to be tuned into Spirit. Decision-making becomes simple and easy when this is the case, for we can ride the intuitive flow of our heart and trust in our Spirit-Given destiny....
Awakening Through Desire
02-22-17 Awakening Through Desire The speed of our awakening is not determined by anything but our DESIRE to go Home. Surrendering to Spirit will always be interpreted by the ego as a sacrifice of power, yet in truth we are being restored to the full power of the...
Let Spirit Decide
02-08-17 Let Spirit Decide Description: The goal of spiritual practice is to be in the flow of Presence, to be tuned into Spirit, and wiling to listen to and follow the intuitive flow. Decision-making becomes very simple and easy when we let Spirit be in charge. As...
The Power Is in Your Mind
01-25-17 The Power Is in Your Mind In this talk, mystic David Hoffmeister shares about the concept of true versus false empathy that is spoken about in A Course in Miracles. To see your brother with true empathy requires a willingness to overlook the perception of...
Practicing A Course in Miracles
01-11-17 Practicing A Course in Miracles Description: Forgiveness is the core practice of A Course in Miracles, which offers us a program of healing the mind. Similar to other programs of healing, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, the Course requires that we first...
The Illusion of Personhood
01-07-17 Title: The Illusion of Personhood Love is Who We Are, and Love does not possess. In the modern-day spiritual classic A Course in Miracles (ACIM), it is revealed that the world we perceive is an illusion — a dream made to hide our true Self as Spirit. Here...
Quantum Physics & Spirituality
12-28-16 Quantum Physics & Spirituality Quantum physics shows that, ultimately, there is no objective world, and that all of consciousness is subjective. Further back in the mind is the Observer, the Witness Self, the One Who knows that everything is connected....
Following Spirit’s Guidance
12-21-16 Following Spirit's Guidance In this talk, David shares on the topic of spiritual guidance and how important it is to follow it. Guidance is like a stream of consciousness that is always available. It seems to be dualistic (i.e. "do this and not that"), but...
Allowing Emotions
12-14-16 Allowing Emotions At a retreat in Australia, David shares the importance of allowing emotions to arise on the spiritual journey for authentic healing to occur. The ego will do anything to distract away from upsetting emotions and keep the mind in an endless...