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 “The wisdom to know the difference.”
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 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 you don't … Continue reading Nirvana is exactly where you are, provided you don’t object to it.
Taking action! Getting things done! But how do I take action wisely? How do I spend my energy on only the things that make me more effective without spending one drop on wasted action? How do I see with clarity what is the next step to take? Surrender... Surrender is not giving up, but it … 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 then you struggle to stay focussed? Meditation can help. "This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it … 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... "Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is." - Alan Watts "The future is a concept, it doesn't … Continue reading You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
