It is the voice and his gentle explaining that hits my heart again and again. This is a book to be listened to if one is sensitive to sound. They do not teach that there is great power in listening and Eckhart has that ability to teach through sound just as Patricia Sun does. I have been blessed to find these two teaching souls in this life.
I have been a searcher on and off since 17 after reading in my psychology course the concept of "Self Actualization" as Maslow described it. I realize now that my path was set from that spring day in 1967. What power one sentence or one thought can have to set the course of a life. My life. Only recently have I understood the connection between innocence and actualizing. One can only understand one's spirit through the eyes of innocence. In pulling up my emotional pain which had settled so long in my body I saw through innocence how it happened to me and how I allowed the suffering to stay. As Eckhart says "The emotional pain body" of both my own life and also that of humanity had entwined my soul. Releasing this sorrow released my spirit further.
"Enlightenment is a very individual process, because of its individuality, it has created many problems. First, there are no fixed stages through which a person necessarily passes. Every person passes through different phases, because each person in many lives has gathered different kinds of conditionings.
"So it is not a question of enlightenment, it is a question of the conditionings, that will shape your way. And everybody has different conditions so no two persons' paths are going to be the same. That's why I insist again and again. There is no superhighway, there are only footpaths- and that too, not ready-made. Not that you find them already there and you have just to walk on then- no. As you walk, you make them. Your very walking makes them".
Osho
And along your path you will meet others. This is the joy of connection. We are all one.
Since writing this article a few years ago Eckhart Tolle has come out with a new book called "A New Earth" and I recommend it.
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