He's better at this creation stuff...

If you've read any of the 11 (now 12) posts on this blog you will know that I have read Eckhart Tolle's, A New Earth. I'm rereading and digesting (this means reading with a highlighter in hand) for a second time. (If you've not tackled it I can't even give a summary. I'm not sure I get it myself. )

My highlighter found this quote (page 278 for the diehards); "Whenever there is inspiration, which translates as "in spirit" and enthusiasm, which means "in God"; there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of."

So, I'd like to think that when I am driven by some force to literally create something, I'm on a direct conference call with the "big dude".


As a child of a very religious family (I'm not kidding-we're talking nuns and priests.) There was a picture hanging on our dining room wall. I'm not a religious person, but a believer nonetheless, and this is still the image I conjure when I think of him. (especially if him and I are on the above mentioned call for any length of time..)




So, I created.

(Sew Everything Workshop by Diana Rupp...."Flouncy Tank Top")



Apparently, he too, was busy. (I found his handiwork in my backyard today.)



Well, he one-upped me. Show off.

Chapter 4 Reflections

I've read Eckhart Toile's "A New Earth" and now I've been listening to the podcasts whenever I have a free moment to multi-task.

I took notes on Chapter 4-I have 5 post-it notes scribbled with statements that meant something to me in the course of the conversations.

I have asked life (repeatedly-like every 30 minutes) to show me what it wants from me. My ego is so completely annoyed at the waiting game. I have learned that sometimes, when the AHA moment occurs, the moment when you realize why this, that sometimes it isn’t exactly as I had planned. So enjoying today and waiting for tomorrow become this ridiculous push/pull melodrama in my head. I want to know there is an end to this waiting and confusion, that life is trying to teach me something, so I can take two steps ahead and pass go. But I find I’m wasting each day wondering when and how long it will take me to get there. I should lie down on the square, look up and just be ok with it.

Here are my scribbles:

-Human is FORM-Being is FORMLESS. Human alone is never enough.

-“His desire to win drains him of his power.”

-You don’t live your life, your life lives you.

-Life is the dancer, we are the dance.

-It is the totality of the essence of all life form.

-Energy can not be destroyed, just transformed.

-Every human being has to endure a certain amount of suffering.

-It is suffering which drives you deeper.

-Pets are guardians of being.

-Ego at play is when you feel a sense of superiority OR inferiority.

-Whatever you fight, strengthens. Whatever you resist, persists.