Being the knowing creates a clear space of loving presence that allows all things and all people to be as they are.
- No greater catalyst from transformation exists.
To relinquish judgment does not mean that you do not recognize dysfunction and unconsciousness when you see it. It means “being the knowing” rather than “being the reaction” and the judge.
- You will then either be totally free of reaction or you may react and still be the knowing.
- the space in which the reaction is watched and allowed to be
- Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.
- Instead of reacting to delusion, you see the delusion yet at the same time look through it.
- If you practice this, your partner cannot stay with you and remain unconscious.
You do not need to wait for the world to become sane, or for somebody else to become conscious, before you can be enlightened.
- You may wait forever.
Re-source: Re-present
be entitled or appointed to act or speak for (someone)
An emotion usually represents an amplified and energized thought pattern.
- The thought feeds energy to the emotion, which in turn energizes the thought pattern, and so on.
- The harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain.
- Emotion literally means “disturbance.”
- Latin emovere, meaning “to disturb”.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
- Even our desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment of completion in the future.
- So don’t seek to become free of desire or “achieve” enlightenment.
- Become present.
Unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, and phobia – This kind of fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.
- You are here and now, while your mind is in the future.
- This creates an anxiety gap.
craving and resource from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle
