"COMPLAINING AND REACTIVITY ARE FAVORITE MIND PATTERNS THROUGH WHICH THE EGO STRENGTHENS ITSELF. FOR MANY PEOPLE, A LARGE PART OF THEIR MENTAL-EMOTIONAL ACTIVITY CONSISTS OF COMPLAINING AND REACTING AGAINST THIS OR THAT. BY DOING THIS, YOU MAKE OTHERS OR A SITUATION "WRONG" AND YOURSELF "RIGHT". TROUGH BEING "RIGHT", YOU FEEL SUPERIOR, AND THROUGH FEELING SUPERIOR, YOU STRENGTHEN YOUR SENSE OF SELF. IN REALITY, OF COURSE, YOU ARE ONLY STRENGTHENING THE ILLUSION OF EGO.""To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognizing what is primary. Then you can deal with what is secondary with great ease. It is not saying, "I'm not dealing with things anymore because there is only the Now." No. Find what is primary first, and make the Now into your friend, not your enemy. Acknowledge it, honor it. When the Now is the foundation and primary focus of your life, then your life unfolds with ease""DO YOU TREAT THIS MOMENT AS IF IT WERE AN OBSTACLE TO BE OVERCOME? DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE A FUTURE MOMENT TO GET TO THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT?
ALMOST EVERYONE LIVES LIKE THIS MOST OF THE TIME. SINCE THE FUTURE NEVER ARRIVES, EXCEPT AS THE PRESENT, IT IS A DYSFUNCTIONAL WAY TO LIVE. IT GENERATES A CONSTANT UNDERCURRENT OF UNEASE, TENSION, AND DISCONTENT. IT DOES NOT HONOR LIFE,WHICH IS NOW AND NEVER NOT NOW.""Ultimately you are not taking responsibility for life until you take responsibility for this moment--- NOW. This is because Now is the only place where life can be found."
(Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle)Embrace the Precious Present Moment Today!!!!
Quote by Mark Soloman. Its so real to me:"I write this letter to you on the verge of walking through a new, open door. I have no idea how long this door has been standing open, with all the nonsense that i've been spending my time attending too, I wouldn't even have noticed until now. I am leaving behind a room that i have spent too much time in, and i don't think i could write this if i had any intention but to leave. This room, and the world that it represents, is a dead place. There's no good reason to be here, in fact to stay would be unhealthy. It would be dishonest, it would lack the credibility that you deserve from me and then what would we have? More filler, more lies, more empty promises. I am a little uncertain of some things, but of the fact that we don't need any more Bullshit- I could not be more certain.You see this is a letter of resignation. I am saying good-bye. Good-bye to all of you who like this old room, who can still live here and feel okay, still feel anything at all but the need to leave. I suppose this is a letter of warning, too. This old room is going to be the end of you; I do really believe that, if you choose to stay. This room is not a place that encourages or even values the things we are supposed to hold as precious and sacred. You should get out now, save what is worth saving- if in fact you can find anything of the sort- and get out. Get out and help with he gasoline and matches.""Having said all that, I want to say that this is also a letter of hope. This old room is not a room at all, but a waste heap. It's a mire for pigs to wallow and root and suffer in. Hate to admit it, but the pigs here are you and I. But this is a letter about the hope that comes when you wake up one day and realize that although you have wasted so much of the precious time you've been given burying the "talents" (Matthew 25:25) that God has given you in this mire, you don't have to stay here one moment longer. you can actually do something about the sinkhole you've slipped so far down into.It's that kind of hope that is very much like the relief that you might feel once you realize you've been backing the wrong side. And knowingly that side, knowing how that side treats all those guilty of treason, you find that it not only feels right to turn your back on it but it feels even better to join the other side and start fighting the true good fight. Because the fact is : the site you've been backing is bad, probably evil.It's a letter of hope and, believe it or not: joy. Can joy find a place in so much hurt, so much bitterness, and so much division? Yes it can. Imagine how a slave might feel if he were to find out he's been free all along. I am free, I was a slave but now I'm free. I can find Joy in that, and I truly hope that this letter will help some of my fellow slaves find joy as well.There is Joy out there it's rare- but when found it's refined and held high as gold. Here, in this dusty, dry old room, joy has been marketed, prostituted , and sold for a shameful pittance. " from the book Simplicity.
