Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolleis a German-born resident of Canada, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose. In 2011, he was listed by Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world. In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle "the most popular spiritual author in the United States"...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth16 February 1948
CityLunen, Germany
CountryGermany
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.
If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.
Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.
Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises,
Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.
Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.
The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all – from the most simple task to the most complex.
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.
Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.