"To sum up: Enjoyment of what you are doing, combined with a goal or vision that you work toward, becomes enthusiasm. Even though you have a goal, what you are doing in the present moment needs to remain the focal point of your attention; otherwise, you will fall out of alignment with universal purpose. Make sure your vision or goal is not an inflated image of yourself and therefore a concealed form of ego, such as wanting to become a movie star, a famous writer, or a wealthy entrepreneur. Also make sure your goal is not focused on having this or that, such as a mansion by the sea, your own company, or ten million dollars in the bank. An enlarged image of yourself or a vision of yourself having this or that are all static goals and therefore don't empower you. Instead, make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. Instead of seeing yourself as a famous actor and writer and so on, see yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel how that activity enriches or deepens not only your life but that of countless others. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, (2005)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Now
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Now
170 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Now →
Related Quotes
"A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingd…"
"Economics is on the side of humanity now."
"Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I know Myself as simply me. I burn with love Unto myself, and bury me in love."
"What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all pos…"
""I exist" does not follow from "there is a thought now." The fact that a thought occurs at a given moment does not en…"
"Initiation leads to the mount whence vision can be had, a vision of the eternal Now, wherein past, present, and futur…"
"The majority of us control our physical bodies consciously, making them carry out our behests upon the physical plane…"
"I, who have not cried since my childhood, I cry now like a child because of all that I shall never have. I cry over l…"
"I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope."
"dreamtree,truthtree tree of jubilee:with aeons of (trivial merely)existence,all when may not measure a now of your tr…"