This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from being.
The compulsive thinker lives in a state of apparent separateness
- in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict,
- a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.
Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and the continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking. What an incredible liberation this is!
Identification with your mind-
- comes between you and yourself
- between you and your fellow man and woman
- between you and nature
- between you and God.
Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance.
- The disease is that you believe that you are you mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.
You are not your mind!
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The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.
- You then 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 truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind.
- You begin to awaken.
Listen to the voice in your head, be there as the witnessing presence.
- When you listen to that voice, listen to it impartially. Do not judge.
- Do not judge or condemn what you hear, for doing so would mean that the same voice has come in again through the back door.
As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence – your deeper self – behind or underneath the thought, as it were.
- The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it.
- This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.
craving and resource from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle
