Tolle video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz7L1emXhbk

The above is a link to an Eckhart Tolle video that I stumbled upon last night.  It really helped shift my perspective and get me into a better place.  I don't know if you will have the same reaction.  I think we all grow at our own pace.  Maybe you will find something in it that I didn't.  Or maybe you will find nothing at all.  At the very least, I find it relaxing to listen to Eckhart speak.

One of the things that he spoke of that was helpful in me dis-identifying with my ego was the idea that we are just here to awaken, that it is a universal impulse.  We are not here to improve our life situation nor are we hear to improve the world.  I often get caught up in this idea of who I am and who I will become and it does nothing but complicate things for me and keep me in thought.  

"You can choose to be free of thought when thought is not needed" - Tolle

It is amazing how little thinking is actually required in a day.  

He also talks about creating space for people you have relationships with.  Being the space they don't have because they are trapped within thought.  This is something that could easily be incorporated by the ego, by thinking your job was to help other people, building your ego up with your "successes".  However, if you are doing it "right" (in quotes because it is a oxymoronic idea) the space you provide is quite pleasurable and useful in your own spiritual "goals", another word that deserves quotes.

So, I just wanted to share that I feel like I am in a much better place today then I was recently.  I feel like I've gotten over a hump.  That said, I noticed a slide back today as well.  Which still means I'm in a better place, because I noticed it.  :)

-Smile!