Tag: arguing

• Peace In the Present Moment

  A book by Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle

  “The most important, the primordial relationship in your life is your relationship with the Now, or rather with whatever form the Now takes, that is to say what is or what happens. If your relationship with the Now is dysfunctional, that dysfunction will be reflected in every relationship and every situation you encounter. The ego could be defined simply in this way; a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment. It is at this moment that you can decide what kind of relationship you want to have with this present moment.”
  Eckhart

  “If your relationship with the Now is dysfunctional, that dysfunction will be reflected in every relationship and every situation!” I know this is true.

  The word dysfunctional almost covers up what is actually happening, it is like a cover deflecting the actual event.

  People fail to notice that by not being with what is actually happening, they are having a dysfunctional relationship to what is, no matter what it is and that alone makes them dysfunctional.

  They are not functioning as one with reality.

  I love how simple he breaks down dysfunction.

  In my head it was all one big vast tangle mess, when it happens little at a time.

  A moment in time presenting itself to you and you changing it into what you need it to be…

  What is so exciting about all of this is that you can stop the dysfunction by greeting what is as it is Now.

  Dysfunction begins each moment in time you fail to see the beauty of what is.

  The darkest beauty as well as its opposite.

  “The simple truth of it is that what happens is the best thing that can happen. People who can’t see this are simply believing their own thoughts, and have to stay stuck in the illusion of a limited world, lost in the war with what is. It’s a war they’ll always lose, because it argues with reality, and reality is always benevolent. When you argue with reality, you lose – but only 100 percent of the time.”
  Byron Katie

  November 9, 2010

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• The Land of Pretend.

  “Notice When Your Thoughts Argue With Reality”

              Byron Katie

   

  I know as I approach working full time, my head has to be on board; my thoughts have to agree with where I am.

   

  If I am riding around in the mail car, ‘wishing’ I were at home, it will be hellish working. My attitude at work will be affected by how I am thinking, and my demeanor will reflect my thoughts.

   

  Tossing mail will not make me suffer, but the thought that I should not be tossing mail while I am tossing mail, will.

   

  It is amazing it is never where you are that makes you suffer, but ‘thinking’ you shouldn’t be there that does.

   

  Accepting where you are at all times seems like a no brainer, but Notice When Your Thoughts Argue With Reality.

   

  Notice how many times a day you say, ‘I should be…, this shouldn’t be, I wish it didn’t, I don’t want….

   

  Those little phrases are the doorway to hell or illusion.

   

  Each time something happens and your first thought is, ‘it shouldn’t be, you are attaching to a thought that is arguing with reality.

   

  “It shouldn’t be is a thought…it is a ticket out of what is.  It is hailing you to come on board, to leave the scene of what is, to walk away, to escape into the land of pretend.

   

  August 19, 2010

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