
Movie "The Giver" Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Movie Workshop from the "Holy Relationship" online retreat
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Podcast
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The Ego Invented Defense Mechanisms
If you start to associate the darkness with the ego, why would you want to listen to it any more? The very thing that's producing the darkness and the guilt is the ego. We need toociate pain and pleasure with the ego - joy and peace of mind with the holy spirit. I don't want to be tricked by these genius ego defense mechanisms that try to minimize pain without letting it go. That's defence mechanisms are their attempt to minimize it and keep it. And jesus is like, how about we let it arise and release it? That’s the plan that will take you back to eternity, let it arise, feel the feelings and then let them go.
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