“The pain-body, which is the dark shadow cast by the ego, is actually afraid of the light of your consciousness. It is afraid of being found out. “
– Eckhart Tolle (1948 – ) German spiritual author
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HAVE THE WILLINGNESS TO FACE IT – “We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we haven’t the will to do this, we ask until it comes.” (The Big Book, p. 76)
OR BE BLINDED BY THE SELF – “After all, in our active addiction, our self- centeredness protected us from feeling guilt and enabled us to continue our drug use without regard for those around us. Our denial protected us from seeing the wreckage of our lives.” (It Works, & Why, pp. 45-46)
Eckart Tolle Brief Bio (2:51)
This Wreckage – Gary Numan live (7:46)
Eckhart Tolle Pain Body Discussion (10:05)
When was the last time your own shadow or ego resulted in actions that masked your own pain, lately?
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.
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