To go from desperation to inspiration is allowing yourself to be done through by Spirit. In his book Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” This certainly applies to the human condition, which is a projection of the ego, or the belief in separation from God. Everyone who believes they are in this world has a deep, unconscious fear of God, which is experienced as a fear of future consequences.
In David’s life, he began to recognize how much his life and his behaviors were motivated by this fear of consequences and how this was leading him nowhere. He refers in this video to the main character in Defending Your Life (a 1991 comedy by Albert Brooks), who must move through his fear and begin living his life based on inspiration. This is what David had to do in his own life, and what all of us must ultimately learn as well.
Filmed on February 12th, 2016 at La Casa de Milagros in Chapala, Mexico.