Eternal and New

[Julieanne]

‘The secret of life is to ‘die before you die’ – and find that there
is no death.’

Eckhart Tolle

I recently spoke to someone who is suffering from a terminal illness.
She had asked why should she bother to study or save money or work
towards building a better future for herself, in fact why should she
do anything when she was not going to be here much longer?

I asked her ‘Why would anybody bother?’

Life is not about death. We will all pass – it is inevitable. Not
knowing how long we have to experience this life is what keeps us
going. There is a quiet sense of immortality that resides in us,
although our focus on it is in different places. Life is found in
living, not in the expectation of inevitable death. If we all focussed
on the fact that we would die at a certain age, how would it change
our perspective on life and the way we live it?

When Tolle is speaking about death in the above quote he is initially
speaking about the death of the ego. The ego distracts us from our
true self and the present moment. When we are able to disidentify with
the ego we are left with our true self – our eternal nature – and we
come to realise that in truth there is no death of what is real –
there cannot be, and anything that is not of our true self is not
real.

This idea brings with it questions about perception, illusions and
most significantly the illusion of separation. Past and future will
maintain the illusion of separation from our true self which is why it
is beneficial to consider the power that can be found in the present
moment.

Whatever is eternal cannot die. So with the death of the illusion of
death, and in this instance time, all that remains is the realisation
that there is no death. Our true and real self is eternal in nature.
Our essence is eternal in nature. Our source is eternal in nature. We
are not real in the past, we are not yet in the future the only time
we are our true self is in the powerful present moment which is
eternal in nature also. It is always the present moment.

So when you think about Tolle’s quote above, the easiest way to
understand his idea is to live for today – truly live for today,
squeeze as much out of it as possible... and even more powerfully,
remember to live for the Now!


Happy Manifesting!

Julieanne



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