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When you say Being, are you talking about God? If you are, then why don't you say it?
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it
sometimes, but I do so sparingly. By misuse, I mean that people who have never even
glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction,
as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew
what it is that they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic
delusions, such as "My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false," or Nietzsche's
famous statement "God is dead."
This incessant mental noise prevents you
from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being. It also creates a
false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.
The compulsive
thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an
insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the everincreasing
fragmentation of the mind.
- Eckhart Tolle
Music by Fusam
Words by Eckhart Tolle
Thanks go to Diana Vagasi.
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When you say Being, are you talking about God? If you are, then why don't you say it?
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it
sometimes, but I do so sparingly. By misuse, I mean that people who have never even
glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction,
as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew
what it is that they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic
delusions, such as "My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false," or Nietzsche's
famous statement "God is dead."
This incessant mental noise prevents you
from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being. It also creates a
false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.
The compulsive
thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an
insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the everincreasing
fragmentation of the mind.
- Eckhart Tolle
credits
from
Nothingness Washing Over Me,
released April 19, 2013
Music by Heny Maatar aka Fusam
Words by Eckhart Tolle
Thanks go to Diana Vagasi.
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