Do you ever have the thought, “I feel like I’m getting nowhere” or, “What is the point of all of this?” You are recognizing that you’ve got amnesia! The addiction of time and all its imaginings made a seeming escape so deceiving we’ve forgotten the original separation! The Holy Spirit is the only one that can lift us out of the maze. It’s not always pretty as we are weened off our drug. But the Holy Spirit’s way is through teaching us that joy can be seen as the constant, even if we still think we are not quite there yet. David Hoffmeister suggests we need a support group for linear time addiction, just as someone addicted to a drug needs support. “Hi, my name is so-and-so, and I believe I am a linear being!”
Addictions
Repeating Life Patterns
At times it feels as though we have an addiction to our repeating life patterns. It can seem like a bad habit—we find ourselves speaking and thinking in a certain pattern over and over. We have an addiction to a repeating story. Healing has to go beyond the stories that you make up about yourself and others. In reading “A Course in Miracles,” one realizes that intimacy goes much deeper than the stories. Stories are often used to get attention, for control, pride, or to feel better than others. You can let go of the old purpose for telling the story and find a new purpose for using words.
New Perspective: Reverse Your Thought System
Have you been asking for a new perspective, a new way to see situations and people in your life? David Hoffmeister shares that you are addicted to a thought system and at any moment you can choose to ween yourself off of it. This points you in a whole new direction! We are addicted to judgment, the ego device that perpetuates the illusion of linear time. To heal this addiction to judgment we need the holy instant and our mighty companions. Build a link with your Internal Teacher.
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