I'm reading Eckhart Tolle's new book, A New Earth.
The book, in my estimation, is worth the price just for one particular idea found a little over halfway through.
In a section on abundance he wrote,
"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. You are withholding it because deep down you think you are small and that you have nothing to give."
p. 190
This is similar to Gandhi's idea: "Become the change you desire to see in the world."
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The spaces in my life where I have scarcity, sure enough, are related to the areas where I'm not sharing--sharing the very dynamic I believe to be missing from my own life. Life does seem to respond to me the way I respond to it. If I share, life shares. If I hoard, life dries up. The karma, the sowing and reaping, here is startling but real.
Of course, I must also move as far away as possible from the mentality that thinks, "OK, I did something to bring what I'm missing into the world, now where's my reward for doing so." This may be more of a trap then total selfishness, because the good I did is attached to a very specific "something" I want.
What if we could give without worrying about how it will be returned. It will be returned, no doubt. But, how wonderful to be free from demanding it be returned a certain way by a certain time.
so... today give what you believe you are missing.
Dave
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