A NEW BEGINNING
May 7th, 2023 | San Francisco, CA
NOTES ON The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle
CH. 1: You are Not Your Mind
In this chapter the author, Eckhart Tolle, encourages to “not listen with the mind only.”
To not dwell too much on words or their meaning. He addresses himself “-to the knower in you, that dwells behind the thinker.”
This book, perhaps, comes at the perfect time. Afflicted as I’ve become with compulsive thought. Even now, I worry about it. I worry it is robbing me of honesty. Robbing me of my life. I seek a way out, not back. I understand her question now.
And I… am unsure.
“The mind is a tool. To be used when needed, then put down. But ego, or unconscious self-identification with the mind has made this impossible. Led to the creation of a “false self,” One who can only think of happiness in terms of future accomplishments, or be in the present only with correlation to the past.”
-Eckhart Tolle, The Power Of Now
Were I to be brutally honest, I find myself at what I consider to be(if I’m being gracious), a new beginning.
The path I’ve been on, until now, has been a dishonest one. And what I mean by dishonest is simply: It hasn’t been true. I haven’t been true. To myself. To anyone. Or anything.
I have neither held myself accountable, nor truly strived for, anything. And at a stage where everyone I meet unconsciously judges me for my utter lack in things they perceive to be normally already attained at this point in life.
And we all judge.
It is human nature to do so. But man, am I tired of being measured up, and found wanting, for one reason or another. And it is their prerogative to judge, just as it is mine to not care about being judged anymore.
And man, how free would such an existence prove to be?
