We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us recievers of its truth, and organ of its activity...we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was reminded of these words today when I was listening to Eckhart Tolle speak about breath awareness being the most essential practice that can take us to this space of "immense intelligence". It is a space we never leave though we are pulled away from that truth by our content of consciousness.
Tolle reminds us to look at this space as
...consciousness without the content of consciousness...a room with all furniture removed.
I love that idea of just resting in the space...undisturbed by the content of consciousness...this busy mind that so often gets lost in the self created drama of "little me". 'This human', I remind myself again and again, is not who I am so its drama is irrevalent. We are all just conduits for this truth of consciousness to pour through and as body we are the organ of its activity. We are that consciousness, not the body or the personality it is in. We all want to fall back into that conscious space whether we know we do or not. We know this "little me" is in the way.
There is an unconscious desire in every human being to be free of the self.
Most of us are not truly experiencing each moment as the Self , this consciousness that we are. We walk around serving this little self instead...doing, thinking, chasing, and or pushing away truth. We collect knowledge but we know nothing.
[As a society] we have a lot of knowledge but no knowing....we have lost touch with the Source, God if you like,
Falling back into the space, into this lap of intelligence will remind us of what is important and what is known...the Source of all.
All is well in my world.
Eckhart Tolle ( July 2, 2024) The Most Powerful Spiritual Practice for Daily Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfvovzMMxLI&t=731s
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