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Releasing the Belief in Private Thoughts. By: David Hoffmeister

One of many biggest secrets we try to help keep is a sense of autonomy and pride. The idea or feeling that you will be important in a few special way, that you will be loved with a special person, that somebody is providing you special attention, these are some of the ego's very subtle secrets. We are trying to hide our Divine Self and are playing all these different games, which appear to be very upsetting. It's pretty depressing and it really doesn't go anywhere, so we try to obtain scraps of special love, attention and recognition to prop ourselves up.a course in miracles

We work so very hard at becoming “better people”, at gaining greater intelligence and more skills. We want to be liked more and be much more popular. The entire self-help industry is centered on improving the self to help you turn into a better you. That's another trick we secretly play on ourselves, thinking we have to help keep spinning our wheels trying to become better. This self-improvement game is another secret we could to master to let it go of. It's very relaxing once you start to understand that you do not need to become much better than you already are. You were created perfect. It's not through self-improvement that you find peace but through self-acceptance.


 


As I worked with A Course in Miracles, I possibly could observe that there is an anxiety about divine love in my mind. I realized this is the ego's fear of losing itself. The ego is afraid to be exposed and being viewed as a puff of nothingness. That's worries of intimacy. We discuss this fear in relationships, which might be projected as fear of sexual intimacy, but it's really an anxiety about dropping our persona, our mask of individuality. It's worries of getting swept away with a glorious love, a love so powerful that none of us will even imagine something as glorious and powerful!

For me, those would be the big secrets, as it doesn't begin with this specific great awareness. It always starts with feeling like you have done something very wrong, whether you've masturbated, stolen something, mistreated somebody, or there's something in your head that you have judged as so hideous that that you do not even want to handle it, you only want to forget about it and push it out of awareness.

Underneath those memories and thoughts, could be the belief that individuals are separated. This is the “secret” we hide. It really is an impossible belief, but we believe that it is true; We have judged it as horrific and have pushed it out of awareness. All unconscious guilt comes from this belief in separation. And as you probably give yourself over to the miracle, you feel those hidden beliefs and secrets are being washed away and you finally face this hidden belief in separation!

A Course In Miracles is a guide which brings you tools to reverse all fearful thoughts and beliefs. Using these tools makes it possible to get the complete sense of freedom and peace you've always been yearning for.

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