“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 3, 2008
A New Earth, Chapter 1: The Flowering of Human Consciousness
Tomorrow evening kicks off the webinar with Eckhart Tolle and Oprah at 7pm MST. Check the website to arrange to be a part of this truly groundbreaking 10 week series. Each week is focused on a chapter, and the first sets out the book’s purpose:
“Can human beings lose the density of their conditioned mind structures and [...]
March 2, 2008
yogaeveryday.gather.com
You can find our dedicated group for discussion of Eckhart Tolle’s new book A New Earth at yogaeveryday.gather.com.
The cool thing about joining the group – aside from being quick & easy – it becomes a co-blog. You can comment on what others write or make your own article (blog) reflecting how you are digesting your experience.
Look for [...]
March 2, 2008
Dharma Now.
Self-possessed, resolute, act
without any thought of results
open to success or failure.
This equanimity is yoga.
Bhagavad Gita
Eckhart Tolle refers to the ego using others as reflectors, turning them into objects and trapping the mind in the false succession of past and future. In yoga and other Eastern systems they refer to the dharma.
The ego structure disappears as [...]
March 2, 2008
You are This Beautiful Place
As I was resting and recouping one day, allowing the mind to empty and relax (it wants to, you know , I realized…
I am just in this really beautiful place.
I am in this beautiful place.
I am this beautiful place.
I.
Beautiful Place.
You are, too.
March 2, 2008
Awareness & Thinking: A User’s Guide to Recursive Consciousness
Something Tolle said from the very beginning rubbed the trained Philosopher in me the wrong way: Stop Thinking. That’s like blasphemy for someone who deals in definition, analysis and understanding. Or so I initially reacted.
Tolle makes a deeply subtle distinction between thinking and awareness that helps to illuminate the nature of reflective, or recursive, consciousness. [...]
March 1, 2008
Happy New Year!!
So how’s yours going? It’s New Year in March here at the Love, Truth, Beauty: Here, Now home. Why? Well, because I took the first two months off, because we’re past Chinese New Year (I just threw that in…), and because among the reviews I have for you is a reflection and Oprah! sponsored discussion [...]
