“The ancient Sages of India called ananda – the bliss of Being. But don’t look for it as if you were looking for something. You cannot pin it down and say, “Now I have it” “The initiation of the awakening process is an act of grace. You cannot make it happen nor can you prepare yourself for it to accumulate credits toward it. There isn’t a tidy sequence of logical steps that leads toward it, although the mind would love that. There is nothing you can do about awakening. Whatever you do will be the ego trying to add awakening or enlightenment to itself as its most prized possession and thereby making itself more important or bigger. Instead of awakening, you add the concept of awakening to your mind, or the mental image of what an awakened or enlightened person is like, and then try to live up to that image. Living up to an image that you have of yourself is inauthentic living - another unconscious role the ego plays. “As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.” „You cannot make the egoless state into a future goal and then work toward it. All you get is more dissatisfaction, more inner conflict, because it will always seem that you have not arrived yet, have not „attained“ that state yet. When freedom from ego is your goal for the future, you give yourself more time, and more time means more ego. Look carefully to find out if your spiritual search is a disguised form of ego.“ Eckhart Tolle
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:02:14 +0000
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