“I don’t have time for presence.” That is the message in the background that sends me chasing my tail through my day. “Productive, productive, must be productive…” “I don’t have time to just BE! I have things to DO!” (I detect a note of self-importance there.) Looking through Eckhart Tolle’s Practicing the Power of Now, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Practicing The Power of Now’
August 17, 2010 – No Time for Presence
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Eckhart Tolle, Practicing The Power of Now, Presence, time on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
January 1, 2010 — Waking Up Hurts
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Eckhart Tolle, peace, Practicing The Power of Now on January 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There is one element Eckhart Tolle didn’t point out that is an integral element of this whole waking up process: it hurts. He does point out that sleep can lead to so much pain that the only options are to die or to wake up. ”Some pain bodies drive their hosts to suicide.” (I think [...]
March 8, 2009 – WONEI
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Bleeding Sun, Eckhart, Hafiz, kombucha, Practicing The Power of Now, Presence, WONEI on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been failing largely to practice PRESENCE in the past 20′ish hours. I’ve been stricken with a spell of Weekness-Oriented Neurohormonal Imbalance (WONEI…a phrase from one of my teacher’s books, Bleeding Sun). Honestly I can’t remember precisely what it means, but it sure feels like WONEI. (And WONEI feels like it sounds.) I think it [...]
February 11, 2009 – Crush
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Awakening, crush, Practicing The Power of Now on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, what is the relationship between “Awakening” and a “crush”? Lucky for me (yeah, right!), I had the opportunity to find out. First, let’s say my biggest lesson here is that I’m super tricky. I completely tricked myself into believing I was doing everything to “stay present” – during a lul in orbiting crush objects [...]
February 1, 2009 — No Resentment, No Blame, No Fault
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Practicing The Power of Now, responsibility on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had an epiphany (one of the bazillions) reading this passage in Practicing the Power of Now the other day: …if you are one of the many people who have an issue with their parents, if you still harbor resentment about something they did or did not do, then you still believe they had a [...]
November 16, 2008
Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Eckhart Tolle, ego, George W. Bush, Practicing The Power of Now, the end of the world, the power of now on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Preliminaries: I’ve decided to start noting at the beginning and perhaps at the end of each post where I am at in terms of my self-perceived level of awakening. Let’s try a scale of 0 – 10, with 0 (for shits and giggles) being George W. Bush, and 10 being Eckhart Tolle. At the moment [...]
