I recently finished reading “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” by Eckhart Tolle, as I know many of you have or are in the process of reading. Here is a passage from the book which I would like to share:
“If you are not spending all of your waking life in discontent, worry, anxiety, depression, despair, or consumed by other negative states; if you are able to enjoy simple things like listening to the sound of the rain or the wind; if you can see the beauty of clouds moving across the sky or be alone at times without feeling lonely or needing the mental stimulus of entertainment; if you find yourself treating a complete stranger with heartfelt kindness without wanting anything from him or her . . . it means that a space has opened up, no matter how briefly, in the otherwise incessant stream of thinking that is the human mind. When this happens, there is a sense of well-being, of alive peace, even though it may be subtle. The intensity will vary from a perhaps barely noticeable background sense of contentment to what the ancient sages of India called ananda — the bliss of Being.”
The more often we are able to arrive at this space, the easier it becomes and the more happiness, joy and bliss will fill our lives.
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Dear tania, I think Mr. Tolle get it to the point. Thank you .
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Beautiful! I believe that we can live constantly in this place. Even in stressful times. I find for myself that it’s about what I choose to identify with. The main reason I am here is to experience bliss, to see the flowers, talk to the woman next to me in the grocery line, smile at a child, to taste, smell, see and feel all the beauty and love that is in this world…even with all of it’s chaos and harshness. There are miracles and beauty everywhere.
Eckhart Tolle grasps the power and magic of simplicity in words. He rminds us to peel away the unnecessary layers of nothingness we have created to distract ourselves from truth.
This is a great book indeed. At first I thought “I don’t need to read this, I’m already enlightened what is this book going to teach me that I don’t already know?”
Boy, was I wrong. I know everything he speaks of, but I love the way Tolle words it. It’s a way for the average person to understand.
BTW, my website is back online, but not after losing all my posts and data.