Teacher By Being
How gentle a teacher Eckhart Tolle is. How easily and yet demanding he puts forth his inspiration. How ancient the meanings. How he wishes us all to be teachers by Being. (p307) If I can begin to live in a sacred manner, more and more each day, week, month, then I can come closer to Being. It does not happen overnight, for sure…or week, or month…or maybe even year. All I can do is retrace my missteps and find my way back to Egoless living. My intention is good.
“The meek are the egoless…those who have awakened to their essential true nature as consciousness and recognize that essence in all “others,” all life-forms. …embody awakened consciousness that is changing all aspects of life on our planet…including nature, because life on earth is inseparable from the human consciousness that perceives and interacts with it. That is the sense in which the meek will inherit the earth… you are it!” (p 309)
I will miss the study of this book. I have never allowed a book to affect and change me more. I am all I do, if this is it, then let me be just that.
I am so greatful to Eckhart Tolle and Oprah for turning me onto Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and her beautiful book “”My Stroke of Insight”". Her story is amazing and her gift to all of us is a book purchase away I’m happy to say.
Dr Taylor was a Harvard brain scientist when she had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having”", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can! Thank you Dr. Taylor, and thank you Eckhart and Oprah.