Missing Something?

If you do not know who you are at the essence level, you are a problem to yourself [and others].
-Eckhart Tolle

There is something missing here! There is something frightening!  There is something 'wrong'!

As long as we see ourselves only on the surface layers of our existence, as bodies and minds full of thinking, we will have the sense there is something missing, frightening and wrong with and in the world around us.

Many, many of us operate only on the surface layer.  We are so distracted and hypnotized by the busyness of the physical world with all its moving and "separate' forms that we cannot see, recognize or accept our true essence that lies at a deeper level beneath all that. We cannot feel that below this constant flux of form is a stillness that is us.  We cannot see that beneath body lines and the sharp borders of matter everything is actually One, a One that we are connected to.

As long as we operate on this level we are a problem for our selves and for others.  We will sense the truth as something "missing" but so caught up in external craziness we will look to the external world for that missing something never finding it.  So far from the peace that is us, we will feel frightened by the noises, the constantly changing nature of this busy outer existence.  We will sense and know that it is all "wrong" as we learn to judge like the world of mind judges. We will act out! We will feel lost, incomplete, afraid and wronged....until we recognize who we are.

That is where stillness comes in.  It is when we take moments of our day to pull away from the noise and the busyness to spend in stillness and silence that we learn to reconnect with that essence. The more we connect with that essence, the less real and frightening the outer world seems.  The more we are aware of this essence, the more we know how whole and complete we actually already are and the more perfect and right life becomes. We are no longer a problem to ourselves or others.

All is well!


Eckhart Tolle ( Aug., 2019) Our Essential Nature and Awakening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ETelbX32eQ

Note: I had a compulsion to go back to September 4th's entry from last year for some reason.  Ironically, I was writing about this exact thing.  Go figure
https://dale-lynwritin.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-quest-for-happiness.html