The shift to Aware Presence...

You may have overlooked that brief periods in which you are "conscious without thought" are already occurring naturally and spontaneously in your life.

You may be engaged in some manual activity, or walking across the room, or waiting at the airline counter, and be so completely present that the usual mental static of thought subsides and is replaced by an aware presence.

Or you may find yourself looking at the sky or listening to someone without any inner mental commentary. Your perceptions become crystal clear, unclouded by thought.

To the mind, all this is not significant, because it has "more important" ' things to think about.

It is also not memorable, and that's why you may have overlooked that it is already happening.

The truth is that it is the most significant thing that can happen to you.

It is the beginning of a shift from thinking to aware presence.




~ From: Stillness Speaks, by Eckhart Tolle www.eckharttolle.com