My “Practicing the Power of Now” little supplementary book is quite full of green highlight marks. This is one I have returned to frequently as of late: “To become conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind.” pg. 59 – 60 Here is the part where I could blather blather blather about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Being’
March 22, 2009 – “…reclaim consciousness from the mind.”
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Being, consciousness, Power of Now on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
November 23, 2008 — Shopping
Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Being, clothes, conscious, fluorescent lights, higher consciousness, peripheral awareness, ross dress for less, second-hand, shopping, the power of now on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
1 – 10 Scale of Awareness: 4.25 Today, I went shopping. Ross “dress for less,” believe it or not. I’ve been telling myself to do more second-hand store shopping, but today I went for close by and cheap, as opposed to far away, hit and miss, and cheap. However, as I usually find clothes shopping [...]
September 21, 2008
Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Being, blog, Eckhart Tolle, Presence, the power of now on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have lots of ideas. I come up with this and that brilliant scheme to make the world and my life better. But, I have not organized any of them into serious execution. From a place of Presence, what does this look like? It looks like non-presence. Rather than Being, I am thinking about how [...]
September 8, 2008
Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Being, normalness, Present, the power of now on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was quite a pleasant-busy-Monday. I noticed a clear drop in my vigilance with remaining Present. I’ve noticed this before: a marked negative correlation between the ease in my life and my attention to Being. This does not bode well for leading a pleasant existence. But then again, how boring would “a pleasant life” be?! [...]
September 5, 2008
Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Being, consciousness, Eckhart, human, the power of now on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Picking up The Power of Now (yet again, a friend’s copy!) this afternoon, I was struck by the very first line, and had trouble paying attention past that, stuck as I was: “I have little use for the past and rarely think about it…” Being human, I instantaneously compared my own way of being to [...]
