When the ripple realizes it is also and more fundamentally the ocean, then it is not only a realization of the ripple but of the ocean too, through the ripple.
-Eckhart Tolle
Wow! That is beautiful eh?
As we awaken, and begin to see ourselves beyond thinking, and beyond the identification we have with these egos...these false selves...these pseudo images that are merely surface reflections of the mind...we begin to see, amazingly, that we are a part of something so much greater. Being a part of it means we are it.
Beneath all this mind stuff, our labels, our stories, our history and this crazy idea we have of future...we are simply present. This still and spacious presence which Tolle refers to in the video, Freedom from the False Self , as essence is who we truly are. Essence has no form, no problems, no past or future...it simply is now. Essence is the Life that beats and breathes within us as we manifest so briefly in human form.
All beings have this essence for it comes from One Source of universal essence. The essence of who we are is consciousness, so we are consciousness. All Life is a manifestation of One consciousness... what many of us refer to as God. We are all pieces of a greater whole.
God is like the sun that creates all Life and we are rays of that sun. God is like the ocean that sustains and maintains all Life and we are the ripples.
We are merely, yet so awesomely, manifestations of that One Source of consciousness. That is, I believe, why we are here...to allow this consciousness to manifest, expand and evolve. That is what Life is ...a never -ending, unfolding process of evolution.
How absolutely cool is that?
Eckhart Tolle (Feb 2, 2020) Freedom From the False Self. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_DKenOqjJ4
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