09-21-2014, 04:25 AM
Folk-love asks:
Dunno about you, but I live with a crazy roommate. It angers easily, it thinks negatively, it expects disasters, it’s depressed and frightened, and it never shuts up.
I live in the country, and when I walk the dog on a beautiful day, I can easily find myself in a fury fighting with someone who done me wrong when I was 14 years old. (In my 60’s now.)
That constant “mind thought” and emotion is not me.
I am not that that anger, and I am not that thought.
I am the one who can observe that “mind thought” and detach from it.
“Oh, okay, you feel like going there and freaking out, well go right on ahead. I choose not to join you. I’m doing something else, I’m thinking something else, I’m feeling something else, I expect the light to shine about me, and I’m calming down.”
The weight off my shoulders is tremendous. There is no fight, I just detach.
I am not that negative psychotic . . . though if I choose to let go of my awareness, it is soooo easy to think that I am terrified or furious or depressed.
Tolle’s a brilliant writer, he’s helped me tremendously. And when I am present, I easily and calmly manage to get a lot of good work done.
Quote: Don't we have to use our minds to understand our minds, or can we simply practise presence, connect with our true self, and have the answers flood magically to us without putting in any effort in mind?
Dunno about you, but I live with a crazy roommate. It angers easily, it thinks negatively, it expects disasters, it’s depressed and frightened, and it never shuts up.
I live in the country, and when I walk the dog on a beautiful day, I can easily find myself in a fury fighting with someone who done me wrong when I was 14 years old. (In my 60’s now.)
That constant “mind thought” and emotion is not me.
I am not that that anger, and I am not that thought.
I am the one who can observe that “mind thought” and detach from it.
“Oh, okay, you feel like going there and freaking out, well go right on ahead. I choose not to join you. I’m doing something else, I’m thinking something else, I’m feeling something else, I expect the light to shine about me, and I’m calming down.”
The weight off my shoulders is tremendous. There is no fight, I just detach.
I am not that negative psychotic . . . though if I choose to let go of my awareness, it is soooo easy to think that I am terrified or furious or depressed.
Tolle’s a brilliant writer, he’s helped me tremendously. And when I am present, I easily and calmly manage to get a lot of good work done.
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