Awakening

"Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you are awake you recognize yourself as the awareness

behind it....Awareness takes over from thinking.  In stead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes

the servant of awareness...another word for it is presense: consciousnes without thought.

 

The initiation of the awakening process is an act of grace.  You cannot make it happen nor can you prepare

yourself for it or accumulate credits toward it.  There isn't a tidy sequence of logical steps that leads toward it, 

although the mind would love that.  You don't have to become worthy first.  It may come to the sinner before it

comes to the saint, but not necessarily.  That's why Jesus associated with all kinds of people, not just the 

respectable ones.  There is nothing you can do about awakening.  Whatever you do will be the ego trying to add

awakening or enlightenment to itself as its most prized possession and thereby making itself more important

and bigger.  Instead of awakening, you add the concept of awakening to your mind, or the mental image of what an

awakened or enlightened person is like, and then try to live up to that image. 

 

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living---another

unconscious role the ego plays."

                                                  Eckart Tolle

 

We are all one and part of the whole like a cell is to the human body. Is one cell more important than the other?