The Lavender Light

Resistance and Abundance

August 14, 2008 on 10:11 pm | In Growth Ramblings | 1 Comment

I’m reading, and listening to, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.  This is an incredible work as is his next book, A New Earth.

The interesting thing to me is the discussion about resistance to the present moment by focusing so much on the past or future that you neglect the now.  He says to take glancing looks at the past and future but live in the now rather than living in the past and future and taking glancing looks at the now.  Release the resistance to now, this present moment.

This immediately confused me as I focus intently upon what I’m intending to create in the future but on the other hand made complete sense. If you’re not satisfied with now, you’re not feeling abundant about now..how can you ever be abundant in the future?  Focusing on the future implies that now isn’t good enough but now is all we ever have.  In the world of spirit, there is no past or future there is only now.

Spirit, which is the essence of who we are, is permanent.  The world of form is impermanent in every regard.  Nothing really exists outside our core of being.  It’s all transient, changing from one form to another.  Focus on the inside and the outside will take care of itself.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again……hmmmmmmmm.

I’ve manifested things in my life that I’ve focused upon without strain or effort.  In fact, I would say that I’m far more successful in manifesting when I focus on it intensely then let it go.  I may come back to it briefly from time to time but I don’t let it occupy my every thought.  I go about my day as I do with my to do list checking things off as they are accomplished and the thing I have previously focused on either shows up or an idea occurs to me to phone someone; it always seems to work that way.

Every attention must be given to the now if you are to achieve any goal.  Thinking intently about the future so much that you neglect to act in the now will only result in your not achieving your goal.

Matthew 6:34: Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself…..

One day at a time?  I am not a religious person but this quote, if interpreted with a clear head, points to this.  Take no thought for the morrow…

I highly recommend Eckhart’s books.  They speak to me very deeply.  There is an inherent truth, a universal truth, in them that I know is true for me.  They feel as if they are the back bone of every other teaching I’ve studied over the years.  The world has waited a long time for the teaching of these truths in this way.  I personally endorse his work.

This is so interesting, isn’t it?