~THE BEGINNING OF FREEDOM IS THE REALIZATION THAT YOU ARE NOT "THE THINKER". THE MOMENT YOU START WATCHING THE THINKER, A HIGHER LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS BECOMES ACTIVATED. YOU BEGIN TO REALIZE THAT THERE IS A VAST REALM OF INTELLIGENCE BEYOND THOUGHT, THAT THOUGHT IS ONLY A TINY ASPECT OF THAT INTELLIGENCE. YOU ALSO REALIZE THAT ALL THE THINGS THAT TRULEY MATTER- BEAUTY, LOVE, CREATIVITY, JOY, INNER PEACE- ARISE FROM BEYOND THE MIND.
YOU BEGIN TO AWAKEN." ~Eckart Tolle
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Everything that happens, happens exactly the way it is supposed to happen, and the proof is IT HAPPENED! The universe rearranges itself to accomodate your perception of reality! Thats a mouthful! Try not to understand it intellectually just let it sink in. I Love my little girl Jacqueline Skye!! I try to learn somthing from everyone I meet. I forgive and forget because resentment is poision to your soul. I try to live in the moment and love everything good or bad. I am a hopeless romantic and also intriged by the strange and uncommon. I will do just about anything to help someone and I am very giving. I am a good listener and a loyal friend. I miss NY but I love the sunshine state. I love yoga and meditation and in the last year I would say I learned more about myself then I have in the last 30 yrs. And of course this is not who "I AM" just my story...When good things happen to people I can't help but smile. Try to make someone smile everyday!! THE POINT OF LIFE IS TO AWAKEN FROM THE ILLUSION OF DUALITY..WE ARE NOT THE MIND OR BODY....NO WORDS CAN DESCRIBE WHAT WE ARE, ONLY POINT TO IT...Awakening, enlightenment, or self-realization is knowing yourself at the deepest level of your being.
It is knowing who you are beyond all your beliefs and ideas about who you are, beyond the story you have fabricated in your mind about who you are.
It is seeing through the I itself, the me that you have taken yourself to be for most of your life.
Then the work is to fully embody that knowing, to be it, so that you directly experience yourself as one with the beauty, harmony, and flow of the universe.The Consciousness Practice:Whenever suffering or upset arises, look for the story you are telling yourself that keeps the emotion alive.
Then breathe, and be very present.
Notice how you can look at the story, so you cannot be it. You are what is looking: clear, vibrant, present-time consciousness.
Get this, and a shift happens.
The story loses its power over you, and your energy is freed up.
Eventually, you will question the very me you take yourself to be.
You will see that it is just a story too (the story-teller) and that your true nature is the luminous, ever-present consciousness behind everything.
To know this, to find your identity not in stories but in the moment-by-moment flow of being, is true freedom.
Then life is always rich in love, meaning, and purpose.
When you no longer hold onto any image or concept of self, because you have seen that it is all a self-generated fiction anyway, there is nothing in your consciousness to resist what is happening, and so, no anxiety, fear, or suffering.
Meaning and happiness no longer depend on beliefs, outer conditions, economic status, or anything else.
They come from within, from the fullness and radiance of being itself.
Your ego, your personal history, and the power of your mind are available when needed, but they do not get in the way.
Changes of the kind that throw most people into crisis cease having the power to upset you, other than momentarily.
If upset does occur, you do the Consciousness Practice above, and you recover your clarity and equanimity quickly.
The authenticity, spontaneity, and sheer goodwill you then bring to each moment will inspire the highest and best in others.
More and more you see them as an expression of the same light in you.
In this way, you contribute to the healing of our world.------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------Master Your Mind
©Jim Dreaver, 2006
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