Special 30 Minute Holiday Meditation with Eckhart Tolle

There is a part of you that is always aware, ever observant and literally is the essence of you. You’re an energetic, light being and you’re contained inside a physical body. You need your physical body to be here on the earth plane. You have physical senses that you’re aware of and spiritual senses that you may take for granted or not be aware of yet.

Have you ever had a thought or a feeling and then felt guilty about the way you felt? Most people have at one time or another. Thoughts pop into and out of our minds all the time. Sometimes they are relevant to what we are doing, sometimes not; sometimes those thoughts are productive and at other times, our thoughts have nothing positive about them at all, in fact they might be destructive. So if they are only thoughts, why do we feel so bad about them?

For city dwellers, coming home from work and fighting traffic is stressful. If only there was a place of solitude to unwind. A relaxing drive in the country would be great, but it is not the weekend yet. There is an easy solution to finding that inner peace. And the answer lies in your own back yard.

I used to be a worrier. Through the years of study, meditation and prayer I’ve learned to trust in the process of life. I’ve discovered that I am strong and capable of handling life as it comes. I have gained confidence with each situation that I have handled well. I’ve learned from those that I haven’t.

At any given moment in our lives if we want to ascertain what we desire we must make a leap of faith. Whether it is in relationships, for work or just for our basic needs we step in to the unknown hoping that we would be rewarded for doing so. For most people this is a rare thing to do for others it isn’t. However what we must all learn to do is make this a part of us.

It’s going to surprise you. This mantra is not know by many. For long it has been kept secret. Those who have been given this incredible mantra have, if they use it, increased the joy and peace in their life. Many cannot see the value of this mantra and so have not reaped the benefits.

When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying. Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: ‘We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we turn now to the Gentiles.

When we’re found boasting unlike Paul – i.e. of our strength, feats, know-how, adequacy, faith et cetera – we’re ironically showing everyone our weakness. The fact is we truly desire affirmation, for we’ve not allowed God to affirm us as God is so apt at doing when we ask. We, in these moments, have failed to live our faith.

Citizenship is about belonging; it defines where we belong and how we belong. It helps form for us the very real identity of ourselves as we ‘pertain’ to our varying life situations. A BETTER citizenship is available than any on earth!

Obedience bemuses; its lustre, elusive. When we least want to obey, but do so, we can still gain. Where all power to obey is lost, however, then we stand only to lose.

Wisdom constructs often work in paradoxes, ironies and reversals. Get to the ‘obvious-in-hindsight’ wisdom and it always seemed like such a strange journey. There is a key reversal we need to explore to get our faith to work.

Jesus’ healing power is not only known and revered in the gospels, but throughout church history unto life in the present moment. This is beyond Jesus to the Holy Spirit.