THE SHADOW OF OUR HUGE, HEAVY GUILT BEGINS TO FLOATS AWAY – “Memories of the past no longer hold us back … .” “We are free to dream and to pursue the fulfillment of our dreams. Our lives stretch out before us like a limitless horizon.” (It Works, How & Why, p. 69)
“The storms of the past are receding. The skies are brightening. And the horizon is beckoning once more.”
– U.S. Pres. Barack Obama (1961 – ) Energy speech 12/8/09
Eckart Tolle Brief Bio (2:51)
This Wreckage – Gary Numan live (7:46)
Eckhart Tolle Pain Body Meditation (6:22)
When was the last time your own shadow ego rose up and caused you to be shocked by how much anger was seething underneath?
The Dog and The Shadow :
A big dog stole a piece of bone from a kitchen. It began to run very fast. It came to a stream. The stream was bridged by a plank. As he walked across the plank, he saw a very strange sight.
The water in the stream was clear and quiet. It saw another dog with another bone in its mouth in the water.
“Ho!…” said the dog.
“What is this? Another dog with a piece of bone down in water? With a much bigger piece than mine! I will take it from the dog.”
But the dog did not realize that the dog in the water was its own reflection.
He opened its mouth to catch the piece of bone from the dog in the water.
Alas! Down fell his own dinner with a loud splash…The gentle waving movement of the water cleared. The dog was staring up out of the water with empty jaws.
It was his shadow that he saw all the time and the shadow of his piece of bone too.
FEATURED POST FROM THE ZONR VAULT – “I like Tolle’s emphasis on the “story” we carry as an obstacle to being fully present. We don’t wish to shut the door on the past, but to be free as described in the Promises. Forgive and remember can work better than attempting to forget what it was like and what happened. What is it like now? It’s informed by story but not limited or defined by it. That’s progress.” (Tom 11/22/2011)