The following are sentences I highlighted
in a 45-minute blog post with David Hoffmeister’s
“The Meaning Of Relationship”

“Disillusionment ¹⁾ is not an experience of True Knowing, Wisdom, and Understanding.”

“We are together going to discover and release the false belief of attempting to know and figure out the world and the cosmos, or in this case the meaning of relationship in this world.”

“You say ‘problems arise in a relationship,’ so you’ve defined the problems as something wrong within the relationship as you perceive it.”

“You believe that a change in form is necessary for there to be a feeling of connectedness.”

“So the problem as you see it is defined in terms of form and the solution to the problem is defined that way too. Did those definitions and that method of problem solving ever work for you? Did you find the lasting happiness and harmony you sought for in that perception of relationship?”

“It’s like we were missing the boat in finding the problem and so we were missing the boat and solving the problem, but we didn’t even know that.”

“At some point longevity made no difference at all.”

“It is seeing the disillusionment of the pattern of trying to use relationships to solve a perceived inner lack, an emptiness that was unresolved. It is a pattern of looking to forms and situations and outcomes to resolve the feelings of emptiness or lack of connection and intimacy.”

“We are together on the verge of learning that forms and outcomes and situations are the past, so when I want to fix somebody, when I want to change somebody, when I want a situation to change, a behavior to change, I am actually hoping to change the past to resolve an inner conflict. The belief is that a change in form is a real change and will really resolve the conflict.”

“Well everything is truly perfect As Is right now, yet feelings of emptiness, feelings of lack of connection, and feelings of lack of intimacy are all only symptoms of the belief that things would be better off if they were different than they are.”

“The world of images is the past, and the desire to change the images is the desire to change the past.”

“This is a reflection of the belief that one can only find what one seeks if something changes in form.”

“It is the demand that the past be different instead of opening to the healing idea that only a change of mind is necessary to resolve the apparent conflict.”

“It is essential to begin to realize that the resolution of all conflict is within the mind.”

“The apparent problem is resolved as it is brought to the inner Solution, and that is why everything is truly perfect As Is right now.”

“There appear to be illusory thoughts in mind that weren’t Created by God and that seem to be projected or to ‘go out’ apart from the Mind of God.”

“All perception is unreal in that sense because it has no divine origin.”

“This apparent cosmos of galaxies and stars and creatures is the belief that it is possible for there to be ‘some thing’ other than God, other than Eternal Love.”

“All personal relationships are the past.”

“The ego is trying to convince the sleeping mind that happiness can be found on the movie screen or in the dream.”

“In this world perfection is illusive, for there never was a perfect person or a perfect family or a perfect marriage or a perfect relationship.”

“We can begin to see that the way relationship is defined is the problem.”

“Bodies seem to join and to separate, but True Union is Eternal.”

“True Wholeness is the ever accessible Divine Mind Which transcends the belief in separation and the body entirely.”

“Wholeness is the experience of the Living Moment.”

“What the world calls ‘relationship’ is not real relationship at all.”

“The deceived mind looks to form, to the past, to fill the void it feels. The deceived mind has denied the perfection of this very instant, and attempts to change the form until it finds the ideal, the perfect form of happiness. This is looking for Love where It can never be found.”

“It takes willingness and attentiveness to examine beliefs closely. You begin by just noticing the thoughts, the thoughts that seem to fill your consciousness everyday, and you will gain some idea of how body related they are.”

“Has there ever been a lasting peace and security in ‘knowing’ the past or attempting to ‘figure out’ the future? What self concept has ever brought you a lasting experience of connectedness?”

“Anything that seems to exist in form, in and of itself apart from the rest of the cosmos, is the self concept.”

“Seek and do not find is the game of the world.”

“So opening to the State of Mind which transcends the self concept is truly a miracle. You begin by watching your mind so you can start to notice the attachment to the things of the world, then you sink beneath those thoughts to the Divine Light within.”

“There is a Silence within in Which the world disappears completely.”

“To forgive is practical, and to forgive is to expose the false as false by watching the mind and releasing thoughts and beliefs that have no basis in Reality.”

“It is important not to despair.”

“It is important not to be discouraged as erroneous thoughts surface.”

“Seeing their unreality is the true release. Such is healing.”

“You will discover that every question is really a question of identity and is based on what you believe to be true about yourself and the cosmos.”

“Clarity is instantaneous, it’s not something that takes time to realize. Removing the blocks or obstacles to clarity is the task at hand.”

“But are you willing to question what you believe and your perceptions of yourself and the world?”

“It is not possible to be one self at times and another self at other times. You must come to the point where you can identify the content of the false as false and see that the trivial thoughts and the emotional upset of any kind or degree are not and never have been the Real You.”

“These trivial thoughts are clung to and justified and defended by a deceived mind that believes the solution to a feeling of inner emptiness can be found among them. Yet this deceived mind is itself trivial stuff, for it is not real and it is not Who You are, the I Am Presence.”

“Believing that anything exists apart from this Moment, such as the belief in a self (a person) that has to stop thinking all this trivial stuff by force and effort if necessary, is simply a false belief that has no reality. God created You as Love and therefore You cannot be two selves, a person on a time line and an Eternal Spirit. Spirit (Love) has no opposite. This very moment is Life ItSelf. There is nothing else. You can only truly experience ‘What Is’ right now! Your Real Relationship is in God this very moment, and this Relationship is the only Real Relationship, for Divine Mind (Love) has no opposite.”

“Yes!!! The Truth is Divinely Simple. It is the Silence, the Stillness of Life in Divine Mind. It is Spirit. It is Everlasting Happiness and Freedom and Joy! Letting go of the ego (deceived mind) is releasing all erroneous thoughts, including the belief in a self that could ever think such thoughts. Only the Idea of Christ, a Pure Thought in the Mind of God, is true. And You are That. That is All there Is.”

“Effort itself is an illusion. It takes no effort to Be What You are right Now.”

“Awakening is the experience of your Reality Now. Awakening is the release of the concept that there are two selves, a letting go of the belief that observed and observer are separate, that subject and object are separate. All strain comes from comparison, and all comparison presumes a split that is not real.”

“The split was but an error in mind.”

“You are not multiple selves, just One. And your Real Self, the One Spirit, is indivisible. Such is the simple Truth. Awakening is Inner Harmony and You simply cannot ‘oppose’ anything. There is no one and no thing ‘else’ for You to oppose, You Being Pure Oneness. One Self is Reality.”

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1) [Disillusionment is a necessary step in shedding false beliefs, but it is not the endpoint. True wisdom and understanding come after you release both the illusion and the attachment to needing to “figure out” or control the world through those false beliefs.]