I’m just noting something: that when I look at people walking down the street from a place of stillness and peace, I see each one as a human being, built around a heart, actually. I can feel their humanness. This is distinctly contrasted with my “normal” way of viewing random people: short, fat, ugly, or [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Presence’
April 16, 2012 – People Walking Down the Street
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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 »
“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, [...]
March 21, 2010 – Suffering
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Eckhart Tolle, pain, Presence, suffering on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In an emotional storm a week ago, I had the experience of being “helpless against my emotions.” In that I was emotionally suffering (and suffering and suffering), I could see I wasn’t handling this very well. I was beset with mind-made drama and knowing that wasn’t enough to make it stop or alleviate the intensity [...]
November 29, 2009 — Knowing
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Eckhart Tolle, Presence, Samuel Sagan on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More and more my Eckhart Tolle and meditation school studies seem to meld in me, resulting in additional gains in consciousness, such that I can scarcely attribute a new, helpful manifestation to one and not the other. A recent development that has my attention is a newly found ability to “tune in” to a situation [...]
November 11, 2009 — Bubbles
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Eckhart Tolle, Presence, silence on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Finding again that when I get busy I am less likely to really show up, but with one critical emergent element: I find that stillness these days is closer at hand. It doesn’t mean that I don’t make little slips here and there (permanent marker on the cream colored arm chair…oops!), but there’s a quality of…quietness [...]
November 1, 2009 – Money and Time
Posted in Spirituality, tagged budgeting, Getting Things Done, money, Presence, time, Tolle, Your Money or Your Life on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve started reading Getting Things Done, by David Allen, and Your Money or Your Life, by a few people apparently… Anyway, I am liking the resonance of Tolle’s Presence principal with the general impetus of becoming more conscious about how I spend my money and my time. In particular with Getting Things Done, David Allen [...]
October 26, 2009–Family
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged health insurance, Presence on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Visiting my mom and one of my sisters this weekend, I took the opportunity to flex my Presence muscles. On the whole, I did better over the weekend than I have on this busy Monday. It’s interesting to feel individuals (who happen to be family members) from a place of curiosity. I think that’s often what’s [...]
September 13, 2009 – Am I awake yet?
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Eckhart Tolle, Oprah, Presence on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ok. On the one hand, my meditations and related practices have been exceptionally powerful lately. It occurred to me the other day that I meditate not to “get something out of it” per se, but rather, for the experience itself. This is especially true as of late. Of course, meditation is also an essential part [...]
April 5, 2009 – Pugs and Presence
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brady, dogs, Oprah, Presence, pugs on April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had the great joy of pug-sitting this weekend for my dear friend. Overall, I terribly horribly hopelessly adore the little pig bugs. However, just like children, dear doggies try ones patience…frequently. In the past, I’ve become QUITE agitated with Oprah or Brady…you turn your back on Oprah and she hops into the garbage [...]
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 [...]
