The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.
Eckhart TolleYou are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.
Eckhart TolleHumans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change?
Eckhart TolleInstead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?
Eckhart TolleA powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you experiment with this from time to time. For example, when someone criticizes you, blames you, or calls you names, instead of immediately retaliating or defending yourself – do nothing. Allow the self-image to remain diminished and become alert to what that feels like deep inside you. For a few seconds, it may feel uncomfortable, as if you had shrunk in size. Then you may sense an inner speciousness that feels intensely alive. You haven't been diminished at all. In fact, you have expanded. You may then come to an amazing realization: When you are seemingly diminished in some way and remain in absolute non-reaction, not just externally but also internally, you realize that nothing real has been diminished, that through becoming “less,” you become more. When you no longer defend or attempt to strengthen the form of yourself, you step out of identification with form, with mental self-image. Through becoming less (in the ego’s perception), you in fact undergo an expansion and make room for Being to come forward. True power, who you are beyond form, can then shine through the apparently weakened form. This is what Jesus means when he says, “Deny yourself” or “Turn the other cheek.
Eckhart TolleRiječi stvarnost svode na nešto što ljudski um može shvatiti, a to nije
osobito mnogo. Jezik se sastoji od pet temeljnih zvukova koje stvaraju
glasnice. To su samoglasnici a, e, i, o, u. Drugi zvuci su suglasnici koji
se stvaraju pritiskom zraka: s, f, g i ostali. Vjerujete li da bi kombinacija
takvih temeljnih zvukova ikada mogla objasniti tko ste vi, krajnju svrhu
svemira i l i čak ono što su stablo i l i kamen u svojoj biti?
Ne tražite sreću. Ako je tražite, nećete je naći, jer je traženje suprotnost
sreći. Sreća uvijek vješto izmiče, ali slobodu od nesreće možete
postići ovoga trenutka suočavajući se sa stvarnošću, umjesto da o
njoj izmišljate priče.
Everything is honored, but nothing matters.
Eckhart TolleProšlost u vama živi u obliku uspomena, ali uspomene same po sebi
nisu problem. Zapravo kroz uspomene možemo učiti iz prošlosti i prošl
ih pogrešaka. Tek kad uspomene, odnosno misli o prošlosti, potpuno
ovladaju vama, pretvaraju se u teret, postanu problematične i postanu
dio vašega osjećaja vlastitog identiteta. Vaša osobnost, uvjetovana prošlošću,
tada postaje zatvor. Uspomene su vam prožete osjećajem vlastite
osobnosti, a kroz priču opisujete sebe onakvim kakvim se smatrate.
To »malo ja« je privid koji prikriva vaš istinski identitet bezvremene i
bezoblične Prisutnosti.
U prošlosti se nikada nije dogodilo ništa što bi vas moglo spriječiti
da sada ne budete prisutni. A ako vas prošlost ne može spriječiti da
sada budete prisutni, kakvu onda moć uopće posjeduje?
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