Your True Being is Fearless

Once you know with absolute certainty

That nothing can trouble you but your own imagination

You come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas

And live by Truth alone.

~~Nisargadatta~~

An Eye for an Eye

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

~~Gandhi~~

Television Commercials

Why are there commercials on television, altogether?

If you take an economics course, they'll tell you that we have a market system, and a market is based on informed consumers making rational choices.

But when you look at a television ad, is the ad trying to make you an informed consumer, who's going to make a rational choice? Everybody knows that's complete garbage.

The purpose of the commercial is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices.

~~Noam Chomsky~~

Listen to Chomsky's talk on corporations

I Think, Therefore I Am

Ego arises when your sense of Beingness, of 'I Am', which is formless consciousness, gets mixed up with form. This is the meaning of identification. This is forgetfulness of Being, the primary error, the illusion of absolute separateness that turns reality into a nightmare.

The seventeenth-century philosopher Descartes, regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, gave expression to this primary error with his famous dictum (which he saw as primary truth): "I think, therefore I am." This was the answer to the question "Is there anything I can know with absolute certainty?" He realized that the fact that he was always thinking was beyond doubt, and so he equated thing with Being, that is to say, identity -- I Am -- with thinking. Instead of the ultimate truth, he had found the root of the ego, but he didn't know that.

~~~Eckhart Tolle~~~

The Consumer Society

"Paradoxically, what keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work: The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming."

~~~Eckhart Tolle~~~

An Optical Illusion of Consciousness

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us "the universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical illusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening the circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

~~~ Albert Einstein ~~~

Internal Change Must Precede External Change

The history of Communism, originally inspired by noble ideals, clearly illustrates what happens when people attempt to change external reality -- create a new earth -- without any prior change in their inner reality, their state of consciousness. They make plans without taking into account the blueprint for dysfunction that every hunman being carries within: the ego.

---Eckhart Tolle--