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For my friends: I have this impulse that tells me I should put down these two paragraphs from Eckhart Tolle’s Book The Power of Now, which I am reading at present.

“You are cut off from Being as long as your mind takes up all your attention. When this happens- and it happens continuously for most people- you are not in your body. The mind absorbs all your consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff. You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your whole identity, as it is no longer rooted in Being, becomes a vulnerable and ever-needy mental construct, which creates fear as the predominant underlying emotion. The one thing that truly matters is then missing from your life: awareness of your deeper self- your invisible and indestructible reality.

To become conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey. It will free vast amounts of consciousness that previously had been trapped in useless and compulsive thinking. A very effective way of doing this is simply to take the focus of your attention away from thinking and direct it into the body, where Being can be felt in the first instance as the invisible energy field that gives life to what you perceive as the physical body.”

For more check out the article at: http://members.surfeu.fi/wpk/links/Tolle/prac5.htm