To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside.
- A high degree of alertness is required.
- Be still. Look. Listen.
- Be present.
Another way of finding inner space is becoming conscious of being conscious.
- Say or think “I Am” and add nothing to it.
- Be aware of the stillness that follows the I Am.
- Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness.
- It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.
- It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.
You do not awaken spiritually until the compulsive and unconscious naming ceases, or at least you become aware of it and thus are able to observe it as it happens.
- It is through this constant naming that the ego remains in place as the unobserved mind.
- Whenever it ceases and even when you just become aware of it, there is inner space, and you are not possessed by the mind anymore.
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Presence is a state of inner spaciousness.
- You are still, alert, and open to what is.
- You bring a new dimension into the situation: space.
- Then you look and you listen.
- Thus you become one with the situation.
When instead of reacting against a situation, you merge with it; the solution arises out of the situation itself.
- Actually, it is not you, the person, who is looking and listening, but the alert stillness itself.
- Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you.
- Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole.
- When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.
- There is nobody who raises his arms in a gesture of triumph shouting a defiant “Yeah!” There is no one who says, “Look, I did that.”
All creativity comes out of inner spaciousness.
- Once the creation has happened and something has come into form, you have to be vigilant so that the notion of “me” or “mine” does not arise.
- If you take credit for what you accomplished, the ego has returned, and the spaciousness has become obscured.
Discover inner space by creating gaps in the stream of thinking.
- Without those gaps, your thinking becomes repetitive, uninspired, devoid of any creative spark, which is how it still is for most people on the planet.
- You don’t need to be concerned with the duration of those gaps.
Be aware of you breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember.
- Do that for one year, and it will be more powerfully transformative than attending any courses. And it’s free.
craving and resource from “A New Earth” – Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose – by Eckhart Tolle
