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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 9:43am On Aug 05, 2015
mnwankwo:


Hello MizMycoli. Thanks for the thread. The fundamental issue that one has to clarify is to "define" what consciousnesses is and ascertain if there are gradations of consciousnesses or if consciousnesses is one and the same. Is the consciousness that is in GOD the same as the consciousnesses that are in human beings? Do bacteria, viruses, etc "have" consciousnesses? Are all consciousnesses eternal or are there gradations of it that began at point? These questions are important if an inference is to be made on whether all truth slumber in us, awaiting awaking or if some truth lie above us and can only come to us by the grace of GOD via revelation or if some truth are completely beyond us that we will never know of it either by personal experiencing or by revelation. Stay blessed

I want to believe that there are different level of consciousness.
Then there is enlightenment. Enlightenment is simply coming into and abiding in the state of "feelingrealization" of our being.

"Being" here refers to the ever present, eternal one life...beyond the plethora of forms of life that are subject to birth and death.
It is not something that can be understood using the intellect.

Some people refer to this "Being" as God...

But then again, we most likely confuse this God/Being with some mental idol which we've been trained to believe in all our lives.
Some of us who have never glimpsed into the sacred, who have no idea what infinite vastness lies behind the word "God" use it with so much conviction, or even argue against it as if we know what we are really on about.

To your question....

1. I believe that we are not separate from God. I believe that his being and ours are intertwined.
For it is written....."in him we move, in him we live, in him we have our being"
For so long we were made to believe that the human spirit and God's are separate entities, but that in itself is a lie which this book seeks to deconstruct.

2. Whether we agree or not, everything created, everything which has life has a consciousness, for it is written......
And the church is his body; it is made full and complete by Christ, who fills all things everywhere with himself."

3. You should ask yourself.....what is the point of bringing a truth to fore if you are not prepared to handle it.
Christ in you is truth! Except you are saying that you only have a part of Christ in you.
It's like a paradox. He is You, Yet greater than you.
So it therefore adds up that all the truth we can know or experience already abides in us.
Though we will never fully know, but I believe that as we progress in this journey of life, certain truths will be brought to our immediate consciousness which will resonate with what is already within us.

It is one thing to believe that As Christ is, so am I....it is another to know and actually live it.
The truth is always before us, question is how much of this truth are we willing to reach for, how much of it are we willing to live out in this cosmos, moment by moment?
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by Nobody: 10:18am On Aug 05, 2015
My question:
Why are you re-hashing the book seeing as you have already given us the download link?


Hubris.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 10:27am On Aug 05, 2015
https://www.nairaland.com/2500091/power-now-eckhart-tolle-book/1#2500091.33

That ^^ wasn't a rehashing.
Those are my thoughts, majorly.

It's like a journal.
I would read the book and discard of it.
But some salient points which I feel could serve as a reminder and a tool for encouragement is what I'm preserving here.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 10:59am On Aug 07, 2015


CHAPTER 1
YOU ARE NOT YOUR MIND.



The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. Put accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you don't use it at all.

It uses you. This is the disease.‎ You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 3:11pm On Aug 07, 2015
I have observed that people who carry a lot of anger inside without being aware of it, and without expressing it are more likely to be attacked verbally or even physically, by other angry people and for no apparent reason. They have a strong emanation of anger that certain people pick up subliminally and that triggers their own latent anger - ET.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by Specialist900(m): 10:29pm On Aug 08, 2015
MizMyColi:
I have observed that people who carry a lot of anger inside without being aware of it, and without expressing it are more likely to be attacked verbally or even physically, by other angry people and for no apparent reason. They have a strong emanation of anger that certain people pick up subliminally and that triggers their own latent anger - ET.
hmm. I'm trying to understand the last sentence
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 11:00pm On Aug 08, 2015
Specialist900:
hmm. I'm trying to understand the last sentence

Good Evening Dearsmiley

It's like this....

If I am having inner anger and I carry it about in my daily relations....
Chances are that vitriol amd bile will be cast at me by other angry folks, ad s result of the negative energy I'm emitting, you get?

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by Specialist900(m): 7:06am On Aug 09, 2015
MizMyColi:


Good Evening Dearsmiley

It's like this....

If I am having inner anger and I carry it about in my daily relations....
Chances are that vitriol amd bile will be cast at me by other angry folks, ad s result of the negative energy I'm emitting, you get?
got it now. Thanks

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 10:26pm On Aug 09, 2015
Stop feeding your pain-body.

It would normally arise in you at moments when you have cause to relive some emotionally traumatising experience of the past.

Once pain takes over you, you want more pain, though you may say you don't desire pain, but look more closely at your feelings, you will discover that you are angling for more pain, at yourself, and others.
It is a rather unconscious act, for no sane person desires to inflict pain on themselves, how much more others.

Pain can only feed on more pain.
Pain cannot feed on joy or love, it is indigestible.

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 10:34pm On Aug 09, 2015
For example, if Anger is the pre-dominant energy vibration of the pain body, and you think angry thoughts based on what someone did to you or what you are going to do to him or her, then YOU have become unconscious and the pain body has become YOU.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by neocortex: 2:52pm On Aug 10, 2015
mnwankwo:


Hello. Thanks for your reply. My brief answer to your questions are penciled below:
1. God is LIFE, the the eternal source for all that is, the creator of all the worlds and its self-conscious, conscious and unconscious inhabitants.
2. The eternal living POWER who in his incomprehensible grace created me, and imbued me with the talents to find and experience supreme happiness in his wonderful creations
3. I am a servant of God and his son Jesus Christ. But I do not adhere to any religion, Christianity or otherwise. God is God and no religion, sect or philosophy can lay claim to "owning" God. Is it not an irony, even sacrilegious for creatures to claim that the creator (God) belongs to them. All creatures have the potential or talent to find the living God. Stay blessed.

It isn't ironic,
god has always been personal , tribal or ethnical right from the beginning of time e.g
Yahweh, Baal , Osiris and Obatala were all god of their people who serve a special
purpose in their adherents lives.
It is the act of enforcing a universal god that have brought untold hardship and
misery upon humans.

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 10:36am On Aug 14, 2015
Have you noticed that you have this need to always be right?
You should have a rethink. It is a form of violence.

You need to watch out for any tendency to mindfully defend an entity or image with some voracious passion. If you take a step back and watch your mind in that particular state of unconsciousness, you will be able to dis-identify from such tendencies, as your consciousness of being from which love, joy, peace and everything good flows from.

This is the end of all arguments and POWER GAMES, which are so corrosive to relationships.

Remember this always, Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available to you now.‎
‎‎

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 10:40am On Aug 14, 2015
You can state dearly and firmly how you feel or what you think, but there will be no aggressiveness or defensiveness about it.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by Nobody: 11:14am On Aug 14, 2015
I don't get this,what are we discussing here?

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 11:23am On Aug 14, 2015
starlingslimnet:
I don't get this,what are we discussing here?

Kindly read the OP.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 12:25pm On Aug 14, 2015
‎You need to understand that You are not your mind.
Stop identifying with it.
Identifying with your mind creates a false self - The Ego, as a substitute for your true self rooted in Beng/God. By so doing, you become a branch cut off from the divine.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by Nobody: 12:50pm On Aug 14, 2015
MizMyColi,

thanks for opening this thread. I am a big fan of Mr Tolle. I have read all his books.

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by Nobody: 12:56pm On Aug 14, 2015
MizMyColi:

Kindly read the OP.
Kindly summarize the OP for me
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 2:19pm On Aug 14, 2015
Mindfulness:
MizMyColi,

thanks for opening this thread. I am a big fan of Mr Tolle. I have read all his books.

Hmmmm
That's cool!

And I was beginning to feel alone in the NL universe.
I'm reading mine slowly, slowly.
Pondering and knowingly leaving it for some days before picking up again.

Transformation is a process that must occur.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 2:20pm On Aug 14, 2015
starlingslimnet:
Kindly summarize the OP for me

It's an excerpt from a book I'm reading.

You should read the original post.
It's not long.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by Nobody: 2:29pm On Aug 14, 2015
MizMyColi:


Hmmmm
That's cool!

And I was beginning to feel alone in the NL universe.
I'm reading mine slowly, slowly.
Pondering and knowingly leaving it for some days before picking up again.

Transformation is a process that must occur.

Transformation is already taking place. wink

The Power of Now is also available on youtube in form of an audiobook and many other videos on which he is appearing. Enjoy the moment wink

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 9:08pm On Aug 29, 2015
Thought to share this as a screen shot.

Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by Jamean(f): 11:56pm On Aug 29, 2015
Mizmycoli the Idealist

Thumbs up sister.. your thoughts and quests for Utopia is praiseworthy.

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 11:59pm On Aug 29, 2015
Jamean:
Mizmycoli the Idealist

Thumbs up sister.. your thoughts and quests for Utopia is praiseworthy.
smiley
Thanks Sis.
Utopia's for everyone.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by McSterling(m): 6:55am On Aug 30, 2015
MizMyColi:

smiley
Thanks Sis.
Utopia's for everyone.
How feasible is utopia? We can't have it here.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by Nobody: 7:51am On Aug 30, 2015
Favorite part of the book smiley

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by beejaay: 8:29am On Aug 30, 2015
MizMyColi:
Phew! Phew!
I'm doing this....finally.
I've had the thought of opening this thread since today, and I kept shifting it forward.

I thought to myself that since I have a hard back journal and a smooth biro for writing, an online journal is not necessary.

But then it occurred to me that lives could be touched and changed forever, just by sharing my gleaning and insights from the book.

Then again, I was worried of how consistent I'd be....
I want to write about my learnings from this book on this thread, not because I'm playing to the gallery, but because I'm truly inspired.

I have barely gone past page 6 and I feel this surge of peace...I feel like I'm coming home, to my true self, to whom I'm meant to be (One with my creator, my environment, and all that is contained therein).

Oh, please feel free to come around when you can and share insights too on topics revolving around the theme of this book.

http://www.datafilehost.com/d/a7359fb5

*Deep Sigh*
Well.....here we go.
Let light and love see us through this transformational journey.
the book helped my journey when i was going through religous tumor inside.it actually makes me realize that observation is far more important than anythings.the book is by far one of the best for me after tao te ching.good u found it miz

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 8:45am On Aug 30, 2015
McSterling:
How feasible is utopia? We can't have it here.

It's all in the mind my dear."heaven" can be seen and felt in the here and now.

Many people are now learning to live in the present moment. Away from the dictates of time, and the mind.

All we have is now.
In the now.
All is well, our needs are taken care of.
We are not beguiled by the antics of memory and anticipation.

Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by beejaay: 8:49am On Aug 30, 2015
mnwankwo:


Hello MizMycoli. Thanks for the thread. The fundamental issue that one has to clarify is to "define" what consciousnesses is and ascertain if there are gradations of consciousnesses or if consciousnesses is one and the same. Is the consciousness that is in GOD the same as the consciousnesses that are in human beings? Do bacteria, viruses, etc "have" consciousnesses? Are all consciousnesses eternal or are there gradations of it that began at point? These questions are important if an inference is to be made on whether all truth slumber in us, awaiting awaking or if some truth lie above us and can only come to us by the grace of GOD via revelation or if some truth are completely beyond us that we will never know of it either by personal experiencing or by revelation. Stay blessed
here goes the labelling again.u cnt live in the now if u still disturb urself with labels.label seek an end to a means and nt an end in itself.enlightment is ntin more but accepting things as they are without grudge.

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Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 8:51am On Aug 30, 2015
beejaay:
the book helped my journey when i was going through religous tumor inside.it actually makes me realize that observation is far more important than anythings.the book is by far one of the best for me after tao te ching.good u found it miz

Thanks a lot.
I'm glad I found it at the time I did.
I'm getting more grounded in presence.
Learning how not to listen to the dictates of my mind.
Living in the now.
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by beejaay: 8:54am On Aug 30, 2015
MizMyColi:


Hmmmm
That's cool!

And I was beginning to feel alone in the NL universe.
I'm reading mine slowly, slowly.
Pondering and knowingly leaving it for some days before picking up again.

Transformation is a process that must occur.
after a while on this journey,u will suddenly see no reason to respond or react to issues here,u will see them for what they are and u stop being judgemental.living in the now for a minutes is more profound and unquantifiable to any description of joy from anywhere or thing,not even the heaven description
Re: The Power Of Now By Eckhart Tolle - Book Club/Spiritual Journal by MizMyColi(f): 8:55am On Aug 30, 2015
MzNelly:
Favorite part of the book smiley


It feels like I've caught a rhema.

Silence without, stillness within.
You have entered the unmanifested.

Reminds me of a place in scripture - "stand still and know that he is God".

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