"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb

Here are a few words each one of us need to think and reflect upon,

Do you carry feelings of guilt about something you did–or failed to do–in the past? 

This much is certain: you acted according to your level of consciousness or rather 

unconsciousness at that time. If you had been more aware, more conscious, you 

would have acted differently. 

Guilt is another attempt by the ego to create an identity, a sense of self. To the ego, 

it doesn’t matter whether that self is positive or negative. What you did or failed to 

do was a manifestation of unconsciousness–human unconsciousness. The ego, 

however, personalizes it and says, “I did that,” and so you carry a mental image of 

yourself as “bad." 

Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts 

on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all 

guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary 

stage that we are now growing out of? 

Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they know not what they do,” also apply to 

yourself. 

- by Eckhart Tolle 

(Stillness Speaks)

From Stillness Speaks - Echart Tolle

Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in 
which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without 
that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. 
You are that awareness, disguised as a person. 


The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of 
external silence is inner stillness. 


Whenever there is some silence around you — listen to it. That means just notice it. 
Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within 
yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence. 
See that in the moment of noticing the silence around you, you are not thinking. 
You are aware, but not thinking. 

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still 
alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective 
human conditioning. 

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Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, 
how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.