The Power of Now – Journal

Journey With Eckhart Tolle

“The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some super-human accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with being.”

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Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now Journal.

December 31, 2022

Enlightenment is the freedom from the control of my ego (my inner self, protector, and self-appointed manager of my thoughts.) I take my power back and become the manager of my thoughts. I am not swayed to and fro by the vicissitudes of my thoughts.

I AM FREE once I cement the habit of referral to my inner power (my Super Coach – God-within-me). I am no longer a slave to useless thoughts that lead to futile actions and develop into unproductive habits.

My relationship with my Super Coach is a state of consciousness that is the ultimate in sustainability. My relationship with SC provides me with everything I need in my life. I receive wise counsel, protection, valuable information, comfort, peace, also psychological and mental health. These are a few marvelous attributes flowing from my SC; there are many others to add to this list.

I understand that the function of my ego is to warn me of any dangers to myself, and it does so on the principle of fight or flight, and for this, I’m grateful. In other words, my ego takes action as a warning in problematic or insignificant situations. This process is not harmful; otherwise, why would I have an ego? What is damaging is my poor choice of response when being warned by my ego. Poor decisions come about when I hand over my power to my ego. If I relinquish my control, I am a slave—subjective to my ego. I have noticed that my ego provides a comment on every situation I face in life. The difference nowadays is before acting on a circumstance arising in my life, I confer with Super Coach and then take action. I am no longer subservient – I am free, and this fills me with joy and peace.

You can arrest power from the ego when you are in a natural state of ‘felt oneness with being.’ For me, the oneness with being is a spiritual state not arising from sensory perception; but from my spirit, not my senses.

I never entered this state through learned behavior; it came to me through awakening my consciousness to the Spirit within me. No one could teach me oneness with my being; I just became aware of the state one day.

In my case, I can offer no formulae to arrive at this state, but I would venture to suggest, as in my case, I had a burning desire to feel this oneness with being before the experience came to me.