Discover the mindblowing lessons of one of the greatest living spiritual masters.
This year, I have discovered a disturbing book.
But it is not just a book but a magical and powerful artifact.
It should be read more carefully.
The best way to interact with the book is as follows,
- Read a meditation.
- Close the book.
- Reflect on what you have read.
- Stop thinking about it and go about your life.
- Take an afternoon walk without technology, enjoying nature.
- Discover how a voice inside you magically emerges from the depths of your subconscious and completes the text of the book you entered hours ago in your mind.
The book is called Stillness Speaks and is by Eckhart Tolle.
Here, I share with you the most disturbing messages that my subconscious voice whispered to me after reading Eckhart Tolle’s alarming phrases.
On the one consciousness
“You are that consciousness disguised as a person.” — Eckhart Tolle.
Thinking deeply about this, I feel like a fly on the wall. I am a writer, and my job is to observe reality. But that reality is embodied by different versions of myself. If Tolle’s theory is accurate, all of us would have the same consciousness disguised as other people.
The disguise (the circumstances and experiences of each one) changes, but the essence (the consciousness that gets into each body) is the same.
Therefore, it’s disturbing to think that I am writing these lines to communicate with myself disguised as another person.
If Tolle is correct, you are me, and I am you, even if our disguises differ.
Application to your life
Stop judging people because you are judging yourself when you do so. People are disguises in which your conscience is embodied.
Treating others as you would like is the most practical and efficient spiritual lesson.
Everyone has circumstances and pasts that make them one way or another.
The trick to being more empathetic is to understand that if you were born with the same circumstances and environment as me, you probably wouldn’t be very different from me, and vice versa; I wouldn’t be very different from you.
That’s why you have to have leeway with people.
On happiness.
“Any annoying sound can be as useful as silence.” — Eckhart Tolle.
After reading that sentence by Tolle, my whole body felt rejected. And I began to question Tolle.
“How is it possible that annoying noise can be useful to you?”
But having been on the spiritual path for some time, I know that what you reject confronts you because it is often true, and your confirmation biases want you to deny it.
So, after calming down, I realized that the most significant spiritual achievements of the last decade have come into my life after accepting the noise.
Understanding noise is physical noise and any situation or person that irritates me.
Personal example,
My mother’s tone made me cranky not so many years ago. I denied her nature. I wanted her to behave how I wanted her to act, not how she was. I was irritated by everything she said; I thought she spoke without thinking. I thought she spoke loudly to annoy me or to impose her reason.
I would get frustrated until that noise became music to my ears, as I accepted my mother as her HYPER EXTROVERTED nature.
Since then, my mother is my GURU 🙂
She taught me humility, to stop being a know-it-all, and to respect the nature and essence of others. She taught me to love. And by loving well, I discovered true happiness.
Application to your life
The path to personal heaven (that happy place we all seek) is the one that runs along paths riddled with obstacles; it is never the highway free of problems.
So, although it is counter-intuitive, a rocky road plagued with discomfort can be and is the entrance to your paradise on earth.
Watch who confronts you. Who is your noise? And learn the lesson behind that discomfort, and you will arrive at a happier place.
On Intelligence
“True intelligence acts silently. It is in stillness that we find creativity and problem solving.” — Eckhart Tolle.
Does spending much time alone with yourself make it easier to access your subconscious self?
Well, if you deepen your introspection, you can end up frequenting the collective unconscious and rummaging through it like a customer searching through sale clothes in a February sale.
And there, in the collective unconscious’s infinite storehouse, you can find long-forgotten truths and resurrect them.
This is called creativity. To rescue what has always existed in the plane of ideas and incarnate it in this 3D reality.
That is why, for Albert Einstein, imagination was more important than knowledge. To imagine is to find the elements in the collective subconscious or world of ideas with which to shape the solutions needed for a given problem.
Application to your life
I know it’s unsettling to let go of the helm and stop controlling everything.
I’m a control freak. I understand that. But you have to do it once in a while.
As Eckhart Tolle proposes in his book, it is in the peaceful stillness, devoid of aspirations and desires, where universal intelligence manifests itself and suggests epiphanies.
Those eureka moments can solve any problem, no matter how complex.
I know it’s scary, but you must cultivate spaces of time in which you let yourself flow and let go of control so that universal intelligence can guide you.
If your ego is in control, the universe can’t access it, and it can’t whisper great ideas to you, as it does when you take a relaxing shower 🙂
A virtual hug
AG
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