PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 2nd, 2008 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH
"Here is a spiritual practice that will bring
empowerment and creative expansion into your life. Make list of a
number of everyday routine activities that you perform frequently.
Include activities that you may consider uninteresting, boring,
tedious, irritating, or stressful. But don't include anything that you
hate or detest doing. That's a case for either acceptance or for
stopping what you do. The list may include traveling to and from work,
buying groceries, doing your laundry, or anything that you find tedious
or stressful in your daily work.
Then, whenever you are engaged in those activities, let them be a vehicle for alertness. Be absolutely present in what you do and sense the alert, alive stillness within you in the background of the activity. You will soon find that what you do in such a state of heightened awareness, instead of being stressful, tedious, or irritating, is actually becoming enjoyable. To be more precise, what you are enjoying is not really the outward action but the inner dimension of consciousness that flows into the action. This is finding the joy of Being in what you are doing. If you feel your life lacks significance or is too stressful or tedious, it is because you haven't brought that dimension into your life yet. Being conscious in what you do has not yet become your main aim."
Eckhart Tolle, in "A New Earth"
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Then, whenever you are engaged in those activities, let them be a vehicle for alertness. Be absolutely present in what you do and sense the alert, alive stillness within you in the background of the activity. You will soon find that what you do in such a state of heightened awareness, instead of being stressful, tedious, or irritating, is actually becoming enjoyable. To be more precise, what you are enjoying is not really the outward action but the inner dimension of consciousness that flows into the action. This is finding the joy of Being in what you are doing. If you feel your life lacks significance or is too stressful or tedious, it is because you haven't brought that dimension into your life yet. Being conscious in what you do has not yet become your main aim."
Eckhart Tolle, in "A New Earth"
For more information regarding this book, visit Amazon.
A FREE service since its inception, "Ponder on This" benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including "links" to Amazon.com and other Web sites where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it. In all instances these links are provided as a convenience, and do NOT generate any type of compensation for Pondercentral.
Individuals interested in a direct subscription to "Ponder on This" are requested to please click here or feel free to forward to a friend.
Posted by Jeff Maziarek at 6/1/2008 6:00 PM 
Categories: Ponder on This Daily Inspiration, Present Moment Awareness
Categories: Ponder on This Daily Inspiration, Present Moment Awareness
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