“You cannot fight the ego and win, just as you cannot fight darkness and win. What you need is the light of consciousness. You are that light.” Eckhart Tolle The book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle is one of the books I most often recommend to people who are going through periods of great […]
“If there’s no joy, ease, or lightness in what you’re doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. “How” is always more important than the “what”. See if you can give more attention to the doing than the result you […]
But what does it actually mean to be present? And how is it that “being present in pain” leads to an “expansion of boundaries,” and even to knowing the limitless? What Marina Abramović recreates in her art is the same thing Eckhart Tolle speaks about in his books—indeed, in exactly the same combination: presence in […]
I know quite a few people who are not simply looking for a good job. I know people who are searching for their calling. These are people with a passion for life, capable of taking risks in order to follow their hearts. Carrying within themselves the flame of Promethean fire, these freedom-loving and deeply humane […]
“Many people long for the freedom and expansion that prosperity promises. Others already enjoy the relative freedom that comes with prosperity and discover that even that is not enough to endow their lives with meaning. There is no substitute for finding true purpose. The true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on […]
A parable retold and interpreted by Eckhart Tolle, which illustrates through an example how we can practice the conscious “diminishing of the ego” in our lives. “The Zen master Hakuin lived in a town in Japan. He was highly respected, and many people sought his spiritual guidance. It happened that the teenage daughter of his […]
Here is an idea from Eckhart Tolle on how to consciously practice the sadhana of disappointment, which I find deeply inspiring. “A powerful spiritual practice is to consciously allow the diminishment of the ego when it happens and to not try to restore it. I recommend that you experiment with this from time to time. […]
“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is a clear conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth. Not the ultimate truth of who […]
“There is no need to investigate the unconscious past within yourself, except when it manifests in the present moment as a thought, an emotion, a desire, a reaction, or an external event that happens to you. Whatever you need to know about your unconscious past, the challenges of the present will bring it to light. […]
“As long as the egoic mind is running your life, you cannot truly be at ease; you cannot be at peace or fulfilled except for brief intervals when you obtained what you wanted, when a desire has just been fulfilled. Since the ego is a derived sense of self, it needs to identify with external […]
“Negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.” — Eckhart Tolle
“If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.” Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”
