Eckhart Tolle - what more is there to say. This is it, said better than anyone else.

So progress has at least achieved one thing: it has developed a youtube algorithm that eventually recommended this video. Well I have read and heard a lot of stuff, and searched in my own life and had a few insights and here is a man explaining what the crowning achievement is. The extinction of self and the emergence into the eternal and blissful indissolvable and perfect now.

I note how poverty for those who have returned to the homeland of the self means nothing. The true sustenance we seek is within, but our return home is blocked by egotistical desire to conquest the world and ignorance that running into the kaleidoscope of sensory phenomena and thoughts that spring up eternally is actually forgetting the present and the peace at the heart of our lives from where we come at every moment.

I have said it, but its funny how you don't always even understand the depth of your own words, let alone the depths of others. Strong feelings are what throw us out of the now. Very pleasant feelings may make us leave the peace of our present now as we feel inadequate without these feelings and so we go in search. The addict feels without this feeling they cannot exist, but it leads them out of the now in missing the experience in the past and looking forward to it in the future. Likewise very horrible feelings are the opposite. We cannot bear to stay in the present with these feelings and we wish for the future to come to free us. We live in fear of the bad feeling coming and refuse to stay in the present in case it comes for us. We destroy our lives so that we never have to come home to ourselves and face sharing the present now with this feared feeling. This is why often great loves, when they fail lead to great despair because during the process of loving we were drawn away from our self, and when the love is gone we find ourselves lost in a barren land far from home. Looking into the future and dreaming of the past we keep ourselves away from the reality of now and the perhaps frightening gaze of now. But if we make resolution to be good, to be upright and to be able to stand with our own selves so that we can start to love ourselves then we can return home and rest blissfully with what we truly are, peacefully just being as Tolle himself did.

I don't really need to say anything other than justify why Tolle is on this blog, he has perfected this and says it the best...