Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.
Eckhart TolleRead
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that clarity of mind allows one's true essence to shine through.
Eckhart Tolle emphasizes the importance of mental clarity and lightness in achieving a state where one's true self can be revealed. When the mind is free from heavy, dense thoughts, it becomes more transparent, allowing the inner spirit to shine vividly and positively influence the world around us, similar to how a flower is both delicate and beautiful.
In practice
In a meditation workshop to highlight the importance of mental clarity.
Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the bodyβs ability to heal itself.
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.
The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.
Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?" I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me. "What?" "That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.
Take what's useful, discard what is not.
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