Category: LIFE

Eckhart Tolle’s thoughts on the Ego. This is a good reminder to carry into our daily lives:

The Ego’s patterns dissolve when you don’t oppose them internally. Opposition gives them renewed strength. You can then accept family’s behavior with compassion, without needing to react to it, and without personalizing it.

Be also aware of your unconscious assumptions or expectations that lie behind your old habitual reactions to them. The more shared past in a relationship, the more present you need to be, otherwise you will be forced to relive the past again and again.

Ancient Greek translates “sin” as to miss the mark. So to sin means to miss the mark or miss the point of human existence. It means to live unskillfully, blindly, and thus to suffer and cause suffering.

The ego wants more than it wants to have. Once it has, then it continues wanting more.

Original sin is that disconnectedness, that forgetfulness of our oneness with The Source.

-Eckhart Tolle

The paradox is that the foundation for Greatness is honoring the small things in the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of Greatness. Everyone’s life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The present moment is always small in the sense that it is always simple, but concealed within it lies the greatest power. Like the atom, it is one of the smallest things, yet contains enormous power.

In everything you do, try to find one of these three states: acceptance, enjoyment, enthusiasm. One of the greatest diseases of our culture is the ‘wait to live’ syndrome. Waiting for something to have meaning when in fact meaning is something we get out of being, not doing.

-Eckhart Tolle