You are leaving behind the deadening world of mental abstraction, of time. You are getting out of the insane mind that is draining you of life energy, just as it is slowly poisoning and destroying the Earth. You are awakening out of the dream of time into the present. More.
Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.
Find the "narrow gate that leads to life." It is called the Now.
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems 0 most life situations are - but fibd out if you have any problem at this moment. Not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now.
Do you have a problem now?
When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.
Touch something - anything - and feel and acknowledge its Being.
It's not really the church of Oprah per se, but this is an interesting debate. Hysteria (the commentators voice has an...er...interesting urgency), hype, or a few kernels of wisdom, a glimmer of truth between the karma and the dogma. You decide (well, you will anyway).
A good triathlete friend of mine, Daniel, a long time ago, when I first moved to South Korea, recommended I read a book with a mysterious title: The Power of Now. It is one of those rare books which do change your life - it has and still changes my life and I still refer to it often (except right now, once again someone else has my copy) - which you end up giving away and buying again and again.
Eckhart Tolle has written a new book; I'm reading it now. It's called The New Earth. I highly recommend both, starting with The Power of Now. You can order the Power of Now here (Amazon also rates it very highly).
A New Earth is interesting. Listening to Tolle speak (he enunciates calmly and meticulously, speaks slowly and carefully and thoughtfully, in a German-American-British accent), it was strange for me to observe him observing the same thing I had observed in the bible. That Adam and Eve's discovery of 'good and evil' was really a mythological story about human beings becoming self-aware, developing discernment (being conscious even of the fact that they were naked, and of some other presence in the garden).
Consciousness begets consciousness, though if we try very hard, and are distracted enough, well, it begets fixation, obsession, indulgence, vanity and all the stuff the ego wants to bother with. Because we were all children once, we have the ability to remember both the mythic journey of man, and also our own spiritual journey in this lifetime. All there is, is this Isness. All we have is the Now. That makes all we say, and do, and think, and determine - precious, and vital, fragile and intransigent. It makes who we are and who we choose to be as important and meaningful as it is. Itis all quite beautiful, quite magnificent, and quite terrible - this continuum that we are a part of (unless we imagine we are apart from it, as we may be apart from ourselves, or unless we cannot imagine ourselves to be a part - connected to- anything).
clipped from www.nickvanderleek.com
clipped from www.nickvanderleek.com
