Sydney Harbour from McKell Park, Yesterday
From the Course in Miracles:
Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.II.2:6-7)
And from Eckhart Tolle:
The purpose of the world is for you to be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen. And then once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering.
… It’s welcoming this moment, embracing this moment, and that is the state of surrender. That is really all that’s needed. The only difference between a Master and a non-Master is that the Master embraces what is, totally. When there is nonresistance to what is, there comes a peace. The portal is open; the unmanifested is there. That is the most powerful way. We can’t call it practice because there’s no time in it.
… the way I perceive the world is like ripples on the surface of being. Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being … There’s a vast stillness and there’s a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn’t separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.
(Eckhart Tolle, from Ripples on the Surface of Being)
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Correction: he did not allow them to fast
“Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the Bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the Bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.”
I wondered if you have read in the bible that Jesus did allow his disciples to fast whilst he was with them on this earth? I understand what you have so beautifully written, but do you think that if there is someone very special that you leave them completely to suffer/grow or yourself to do so?
I think that in the end we have to fulfil our own purpose in this life – whether that’s leaving or staying. In stillness, what is our purpose?