This concept might be a bit out there to a conventional mind. But I’ve been studying Eckhart Tolle’s teachings a lot lately and are really deep in these teachings. I wanna remember them as the tempo of everyday life gets back into our consciousness.
There’s so many things that we do and consider “normal” that really are quite insane.
We set up an arbitrary deadline at work and get sick over meeting it.
We fill our lives up with so many things, some important, some meaningless to us and some just because we have always done them, and then we act as if we don’t have a choice.
We read the news about all the horrible things happening in the world and fill our minds with terror but stay in inaction, not doing what we can to help.
We care so much about what other people will think of us (without ever really knowing what the do think, if at all) but have no idea what we think ourselves.
We eat meat from slaughter houses for breakfast, lunch and dinner but buy beautiful necklaces for our dogs and go out of our way to make them as happy as possible.
We treat our bodies like crap and then check into a hospital when we get sick and get pills that cover the signals of our screaming body and not deal with the imbalance that is the root problem.
We run around all day doing things and staying busy and claim we don’t have time to sit down and meditate for ten minutes.
We follow leaders blindly that have a strong and convincing voice without ever really listening to our own inner guidance system.
I could probably go on and on but I won’t. I think you get what I’m trying to say.
Maybe you now think, well, I don’t have a choice, this is what we do, it’s normal human behavior. And, yes, I agree, it is normal. And that’s the point. Just because it’s normal doesn’t mean it’s not insane.
I’m not asking you to change everything and go weary from questioning everything that you ever do. But I am asking you to think for yourself. To sometimes not think at all. And to remember, that we humans, are a particular species that do a lot of strange things. But I do believe that more and more of us are waking up. And with hightenend consciousness comes wiser choices and a new paradigm for human kind. Are you with me?
With all my love,
Helena