Not sure if anyone will care, but I have to share these because I feel it's contributed so much to my life and the people I know. Today, for whatever reason, I've seen a lot of people struggling emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. If you're reading this and you are struggling, I hope these inspire you and guide you the way they have me.
(And of course they're from Tolle's A New Earth Inspiration cards-buy them, immediately)!!
There are several others, but these seemed most appropriate for the circumstances I've witnessed today.
(And of course they're from Tolle's A New Earth Inspiration cards-buy them, immediately)!!
- Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they can no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.
- The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality, the miracle of life that continuously unfolds within and around you.
- Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.
- Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away.
- At the heart of the new consciousness lies the transcendence of thought, the newfound ability of rising above thought, of realizing a dimension within yourself that is infinitely more vast than thought. You then no longer derive your identity, your sense of who you are, from the incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciousness you take to be yourself.
There are several others, but these seemed most appropriate for the circumstances I've witnessed today.