Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Raven's notes on Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Webcast 3 on A New Earth

Become comfortable with not defining yourself.

Continuous identification with the movement of thoughts gives rise to a separate entity, that which we call the ego

What we react to in others we strengthen in ourselves

Ego = No space between you and the thought

Once you label another human you desensitize yourself to the humanity, the essential aliveness of who they are

All ego is arising from unconsciousness

You are not what awareness is perceiving, you are the awareness itself

For most humans their teacher is suffering.

When you believe your opinion you then must defend it to maintain your existence

Enjoying this moment as it is is all you can truly do

You can only really enjoy the forms if you are detached from them, otherwise their constant change causes you to suffer

Our power arises from being more yourself not taking on any role

Change only begins with you

To get out of the mind get into your body

Compulsive thinking has no purpose, it does not produce change

You can only be an agent of conscious change if you have changed, otherwise you only ad to the chaos

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

The greatest gift we can give others is presence

If you strengthen one polarity you automatically strengthen the other

For most people their daily reality is a reflection of their predominant state of consciousness

Things are more likely to work out harmoniously when you are at peace

Awareness and ego are incompatible

The universal impulse is the evolution of consciousness

Now is the hidden exit out of the ego

No thought you have about something is a realization

A belief is a thought, a realization is a feeling

You are the consciousness in which the form is arising

Eternity is not endless time, it is the dimension of timelessness

The essence of being animates the form, it was never the form.
You can see this in a dead body. Its obvious the essential beingness we associated with the person is no longer there, so who they are was never the body, it was whatever was animating it

Its not about getting rid of the ego it is about recognizing what it is, unconsciousness.

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