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Bring In Your Awareness: When you see the difference between our voice and the reality of the situation, that’s the beginning of awakening. This is often a moment—a flash that sizzles and disappears. Initially we still lose ourselves again, and the old thoughts arise, but gradually, we gain awareness, and the dysfunctional thoughts subside. It’s a gradual transition, this bringing in of our awareness, because the ego doesn’t want to change. It doesn’t want to disappear, so it will give us plenty of reasons why we cannot be present.
Lay Down Your Weapons: Our challenge will be to become more aligned internally with the present moment. Fighting with our ego by will just makes it stronger. By declaring war on it, we make an enemy. A simple example: We wake up in the morning, and it’s raining and gray, and the mind says, “What a miserable day,” and this is not a pleasant thought. You likely feel some emotion: dread, disappointment, unhappiness. We suddenly realize that our judgment of what kind of day it will be is based on a mental habit, an unconscious default. That simple awareness creates space for a new thought to emerge. We can look again out the window without that preconception and just see the sky. It’s gray. There’s some sunlight filtering through the sky. There are, perhaps, raindrops falling. It’s not actually miserable at all. It has a certain beauty. Then suddenly, we’re free. We’re no longer imposing something on reality, and we’re free to enjoy what, previously, we had rejected.
Let Rama say something regarding herself:
My life has changed with this quote:
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level” – Eckhart Tolle
Everytime I read it I feel it is a beautifully worded sentence.
The first time I felt the true essence of it was when I needed to take charge of my life. I am a daddy’s girl and I lost him when I was completely unprepared for. The anger, disappointment, frustration took me to a different path of hatred. The way my life was progressing downwards, I probably put blame on circumstances or others to make me feel lighter. I couldn’t understand that I was hurting my close ones with my behavior. That’s when I came across this sentence and I felt it was written for me. I have to change!
This alertness for myself and acceptance of circumstances transform my anger and hatred into enthusiasm.
I have to accept the life as is and find out ways I can share the my joy with others and that brought awareness for myself. That gave me direction to find the true purpose of life. Slowly things started falling into place. And here I am… with this wonderful group of people.
So friends… Meet yourself first…. Be self aware!!!
