Steps to Knowledge tells us there is Knowledge (inner guidance) and there is looking good. You make choices or statements based on your minds framework, your preferences, your ideals.. OR you follow what is true, and make decisions based on what endures. Tolle states this below, using more words. “demanding recognition for something you did and getting angry or upset if you don’t get it; trying to get attention by talking about your problems, the story of your illnesses, or making a scene; giving your opinion when nobody has asked for it and it makes no difference to the situation; being more concerned with how the other person sees you than with the other person, which is to say, using other people for egoic reflection or as ego enhancers; trying to make an impression on others through possessions, knowledge, good looks, status, physical strength, and so on; bringing about temporary ego inflation through angry reaction against something or someone; taking things personally, feeling offended; making yourself right and others wrong through futile mental or verbal complaining; wanting to be seen, or to appear important.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Check out Step 16: Beyond my Mind is Knowledge. Do you have an experience of speaking from your True Self? stepstoknowledge/steps/Step16-Beyond-my-mind-is-Knowledge.htm
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:29:56 +0000