Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

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Q:  So, then a couple of things.  The body, if you want to call it that becomes everything.

ET:  There's no longer a distinction between inner and outer.  I'd mentioned earlier this morning, it's almost a sense that there's nothing outside of you when there's no longer the separation through mental concepts, which is form, the clarity of perception, is no longer the 'me' and the world.  This the fluidity.  It's all me.

September 8th

Aliveness in the body

Noticing what is happening in the body does not simply awaken you to the life all around you.  It awakens you to the realization that you are life itself.

The aliveness in your body is there to wake you up out of the dream of a separate self.  Feel the sensations throughout the body no matter what you are doing.  Notice that there is always a sense of aliveness within.  Aliveness cannot be found in time or manufactured.  It is what is already happening within the body right now.

If anger or fear arises, notice it without judgment.  If judgments about these emotions arise, simply notice them also.  Notice that these thoughts and emotions are harmless when they are seen the moment they arise.

This is not a prescription to engage in a spiritual practice.  This is an invitation to notice what is already being done.  Are you 'doing' emotions?  They are arising involuntarily and spontaneously, aren't they?  If you had a choice, would you choose fear or anger?

Are you 'doing' aliveness?  The aliveness in your body, from your feet to your head, is just happening.  You aren't bringing it about.  Simply notice the aliveness that is already happening.  Notice that this aliveness is everywhere, not just in the body.  In that noticing, life is waking up to itself as One Life.

Michael Brown

From PART V: 2. 

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When in the healing industry or the business of spirituality we do our best to portray an untarnished reputation of goodness, and what we think is compassion, because these are good business ethics. The catch-22 is, the moment we turn healing, or any aspect of our spirituality, into an industry or business, we turn our inner propensity for being a prophet to others into making a profit out of others, and hence render ourselves immune from being authentic, let alone facilitators.     

Chapter 85

'I am': The Foundation of all Experience

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[A day comes when the entire enterprise is seen as false and given up. The central point is no more and the universe becomes the centre.] 

Q: Yes, maybe. But what am I to do now?

M: Assiduously watch your ever-changing life, probe deeply into the motives beyond your actions and you will soon prick the bubble in which you are enclosed. A chic needs the shell to grow, but a day comes when the shell must be broken. If it is not, there will be suffering and death.