Stillnes Speaks by Eckhart Tolle (review) - Chapter #42
by Miguel on 25/12/09 at 9:38 pm
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.
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Most people’s lives are run by desire and fear.
Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less.
These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.
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Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.
It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor — it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don’t matter absolutely.
There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.
Score: 8/10
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cay
Dec 26th, 2009
video-arte conceptual?
feliz navidad Miguel! veo que tiempo de reflexión con tanto frío no me extraña!
Miguel
Dec 26th, 2009
Cay! Puedes llamarlo asi
Si me ponia a hablar no iba a hacer justicia a la esencia del libro. Feliz Navidad!!
Bec
Dec 26th, 2009
Feliz Navidad Miguel. A Surprisingly effective video…good way to illustrate a concept.
Miguel
Dec 26th, 2009
Glad the concept worked. Merry Christmas to you too Bec!
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