“The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence.” — Eckhart Tolle
The above quote to many may seem extremely convoluted in presentation, and conflicted in comprehension. It is not always an immediate point of connection that we are in the present moment, watching ourselves think. The process was not part of our orientation or environment as children, except for a very select few. To even recognize an activation of consciousness early in our development, was not considered a priority for the most part. We were given skill sets that promoted survival, security, educational pursuits, health concerns, and role models to emulate involving success. All perfectly acceptable and relatively understandable in the basic sense. However, as this life journey unfolds we become so preoccupied with the ends justifying the means, and Lao Tzu suggests . . . “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
There exists a skill set, that I had the privilege to incorporate into my being at a very early age. This skill set involved as the Science of Mind depicts, “When you step back from the personal experience of the drama, and notice yourself engaging in the battles – while witnessing yourself making choices – you will come to realize you are an observer. You’ll become more conscious in your choice to engage or trust a higher perspective to emerge . . . you are the observer of your thoughts.” It was through a great deal of patience, understanding, trial, error and conscious choice of will that both my parents used what I have come to learn is ego displacement, that I became the observer of my thoughts, which led me to comprehend that I was not the conversations in my mind, but the conscious being who is noticing them. I didn’t consciously absorb what was evolving in those early years. As for each of us, it is with the unfolding of time, that the touchstone of who we are becomes as that brilliant diamond through the ensuing facets of our life’s journey.
Becoming conscious of your own thoughts and the observer of your life, is beyond comparison once you cross that threshold. Experiences are uniquely different for all of us, which bring uncompromising challenges, fulfilling opportunities, overwhelming successes, colossal failures, changing lifestyles, miraculous healing and the enlightenment of continued hope through unyielding trust that instills a sense of peace. Living with a sense of vulnerability, gratitude, humility and wholeness is in itself beyond transformative, which manifests an experience of empowerment. We have learned by happenstance in some instances bringing us to the edge of that precipice of choice, where Howard Thurman suggests as an exacting lazer beam of light . . . “There is something in every one of you that waits and listens to the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.” JLR