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What Eckhart Tolle’s Realization Shows Us
For Eckhart Tolle, being an academic meant the mental realm was predominating where there was a lot of emotional turbulence, especially to do with things like anxiety and depression. He said that on the night of realization he was suicidal. That night, this is the...
Ending the Filters of Experience
The experience of the personal realm is a frequency-based experience. There are some quite clear programs in the human realm: Things like blame and shame, inferiority, superiority. Or the idea that things don't work out for us. There's a whole list of them. Feeling...
How Realization Happens
Realization happens in a way that’s different from what we expect. There’s an expectation that once there is realization, there will be bliss, stability, peace, happiness—walking on clouds. But it isn’t quite like that. What is possible is that, as we become more...
Limitations We Subscribe To
In an ultimate sense, everything is perfect, because everything is the infinite being, perfectly manifesting the intentions that are appearing within the infinite being in a phenomenal sense.So when you know that, you realize that you can move back into your true...
You Are Not Your Programming
All experiences are just experiences. There could be the experience of eating food or going for a walk, or an experience of expansion beyond the boundaries of the body, stillness in the midst of activity, or the arising of bliss. They all have content, but realization...
Sovereignty, Equality, and Realisation
In some eastern traditions, gurus seem to offer the best opportunity for realisation. But it's usually necessary to surrender to gurus. Some western spiritual teachers also like to maintain a hierarchy. When we have a guru, we can play the game of adoration. It can be...
Ask David: What Is the Nature of Practice?
Here’s a question I received at a recent online event: Q: When there's a consistent practice but still a sense of not quite getting there, what might be overlooked about the nature of realization? A: Practices can give us insight, or they can give us an experience. If...
Where Does Intelligence Come From?
There are two sources of intelligence available to humans. You could say that the source coming through the body of wisdom is God, or infinite intelligence. Everything coming through the body of wisdom is a combination of infinite intelligence with infinite love and...
Where the Limitations Are
If you have a conversation with people, you can detect where the limitations are. It's mainly around three main areas.One is the way language is keeping people locked in identification with individuality. They're saying, “Oh, I’m having a dreadful time, I’m having...