Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

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And what emerges then is essence identity.  One could call that.  Essence identity in some spiritual traditions is denied.  They say there no identity any more, they say there is no self anymore.  Hinduism the ancient teachings say, you will then find the self.  But they are not in contradiction it is just a different way of using words.  It's the illusory nature of identifying with any form. 

August 26th

The timeless unknown

It is sometimes said in  

non-duality meetings or books that there is nothing you can do to bring about enlightenment (i.e., Oneness) or that there is no one there to do anything.  The words non-duality, Onenes , and enlightenment are just empty images pointing to the fact that life is already happening.  It's already happening now.  There is no path to what already is.  The person who would set out to do something is a dream of thought, a dream of time, arising in the unknown, the timeless.

Within that dream, the notions of choice, control, and cause and effect arise.  But when the dream is seen through, what is realized is what already is.  No choice and no control.  How can one control or bring about what is already happening?  What is realized cannot be grasped or explained by the intellect because the intellect is merely an expression of it.  Clear concepts and unclear concepts are both 'This.'  There is nothing that This is not. 

This is thetimeless unknown from which time and knowing arise and fall.  It cannot be realized throughthought and time because thought and time are just temporary imagesarising and falling.  They are part of the dream.  Yet This is so immediately here.  It is absolutely real.  It is all there is.  You are not a person who is separate from it and who can then somehow find it.  You are it.  Now.

Michael Brown

From PART V: 2. 

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Let us explore facilitation accordingly. To accomplish this we can examine the role of an authentic facilitator as an outer agent entering our space to serve us. This enables us to shed more light on what we are referring to when we use the words facilitator or facilitation in the context of our intent to enter present moment awareness.  

Chapter 85

'I am': The Foundation of all Experience

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Q: Are there entities in reality?

M: Identity is Reality, Reality is identity. Reality is not shapeless mass, a wordless chaos. It is powerful, aware, blissful; compared to it your life is like a candle to the sun.