You dont need to trust another human being...the trust is a state of consciousness and it is in Life
Eckhart Tolle
I was contemplating those words this morning as I sat here with my tea in the early hour, trying to grab a few minutes of precious peace before my grandchildren arrive for the day. I listened to a podcast and heard these words as if for the first time. Sigh! It wasn't the first time, was it? I may have thought that thought, explored that thought, wrote or spoke about that thought, but it doesn't seem valid until I hear someone like Eckhart Tolle share it. Where did he get this thought?
He got it from the same place I got it...from the place all thought comes from. It is One mind...we are sharing and occassionally dipping into or getting spontaneous inputs from ...him on the west coast of this vast country we share...me on the east. Same mind, same thought....different outputs. I may speak or write about that thought and get 15 people hearing it over a few months...he may speak about it and get 15 k hearing it over a few hours. Sigh! Don't get me wrong ...I am not begrudging him his audience. He earned it. (I am afterall a part of his audience. :) ) Nor am I saying I need more than 15 listeners because I do not. I get great satisfaction when I see that number 15...and find myself thinking..."awe...my work of outputting is done with this thought that was inputted into this thinking human I call 'me'," kind of thing. The thought comes in (possibly from words I heard him share before)...I process it through writing and speaking...it goes out...as simple as that. That's the work.
Who owns the thought? We all do...whether we heard it or not.
Anyway, I like these words about relationships and the unskillfulness of placing so much expectation and trust on others to serve the personality's never ending neediness. Others don't make us feel better...we just open to feeling better or close into feeling worse in the presence of others and erronously assume they were the ones that did the opening and closing. We erronously assume the special relationship will fix our sense of not being enough. That, I discovered the hard way, is not how it works.
Most curious of all is the concept of the self which the ego fosters in the special relationship. This "self" seeks the relationship to make itself complete. ...Each partner tries to sacrifice the self he does not want for one he thinks he would prefer. ACIM Chapter16: V: 7
It is the state of consciousness we must learn to relate to and that state trusts the process of Life not the ego. Hmm!
All is well in my world.
ACIM
Eckhart Tolle (July, 2025) Embracing Impermanence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiKFwiYZvAA&t=660s
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