Friday, 18 May 2012

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. 





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