Favorite Quote

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Permalink Reply by Yollana Shore on May 23, 2008 at 10:36am

Hi John! Would you like to start us off?

I have posted a great excerpt from the book on my site here: http://growthbooks.com/2007/11/18/extract-from-a-new-earth-by-eckha...

But I think the stuff that really touched me was some of the things Eckhart wrote about parenting. It was clear and true. Now, I'll have to go find my copy to tell you what he said...

Permalink Reply by Weekend Workshops on May 23, 2008 at 12:18pm

I like many of Eckharts quotes and here is one that struck a note for me:

"Your sense of who you are determines what you perceive as your needs and what matters to you in life"

I believe that I am always looked after but until recently I am not sure that my actions reflected this belief. For example when my marriage ended and when the property developer I had invested a significant amount of money turned out to be a fraud, I felt many things but not looked after. However I can now see that it was part of a grander plan, that I was being looked after and I am now grateful for those events. Now when something happens in my life that I would have previously judged as bad I now know that at some level I am being looked after and with that knowledge I am always able to find the gift because I know that I am always, always looked after.

Permalink Reply by Yollana Shore on May 23, 2008 at 1:38pm

Thanks John, that's a beautiful example of how a book - even a line in a book - can change the way we live our lives. How lucky we are to live in such times when we have the time and space to access great teachings like this.

Permalink Reply by Gary on June 11, 2008 at 10:34pm

I don't know that it was a quote as such, but the concept that our purpose in this physical existence is simply to evolve.
Our conscious and Ego play the ying and yang without one or the other we can not evolve. once I came to that realization, that every moment was simply an opportunity to gain experience and therefore there can not be good or bad, it is only experience, it freed me to live each and every moment for what it is, without judgment, to detach and observe.