Our teacher this week is Eckhart Tolle, but to drive his message home today, I’ve included a thought from Alan Watts as well: "Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed." - Eckhart Tolle "You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the … Continue reading Come and soak in the bathtub of your soul.
A silent meditation for today......... You don't need to stop all of your thinking, but you can slip into a space that is deeper than the thinking and simply be the observer of the thinking... In this place you will find that you're unattached - this doesn't mean that you are separate from everything, but … Continue reading You ARE the universe experiencing itself.
My mind is racing! Is this an experience that you are familiar with? When we have a really busy mind, the worst thing we can do is add more thinking. Anxiety and stress is associated with racing thoughts, which is a high and fast brainwave state. In this mind space we often struggle to think … Continue reading My mind is racing!
We don't talk about rising into love, but falling... We "fall" into love because it requires a surrender. Love asks of us to let go of the need to control, the need to force an outcome. Love is not something we need to search for to find, it is the truth of who we are, … Continue reading To experience love, you’ll have to fall…
Right here, right where you are right now, is where you hold the power... Right now is the only place where you can spend your energy productively, not in some future moment. If your happiness is always around some distant corner in the future, guess what... you're never going to catch up to it! If … Continue reading The Eternal Now: Your Ultimate Destination
We live in a world of taking action! Of getting things done! And of course, we don't get closer to any destination without the action of taking steps forward. But we can also see how easy it is to run around like a headless chicken, taking steps that lead nowhere, not making any progress at … Continue reading When you swim, you don’t grab a hold of the water…
A bit of brain science for you today. Does your mind sometimes go "off task?” And when it does, do you struggle to get your mind back on track and stay focused? Today’s first thought by Alan Watts mentions that the whole secret to life is the ability to remain on task, and also to … Continue reading Does your mind sometimes go “off task?”
It's Monday! We're at the start of a new week, let's see what this week has in store for us... Our teacher for this week is Alan Watts. He was an English writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience. He wrote more … Continue reading You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Even if you play it wrong… just play!
