Years ago someone gave me a deck of cards of quotes from Eckhart Tolle. They are from his first and less familiar book, Stillness Speaks (2003). The quotes are in categories such as Who You Truly Are, Silence & Stillness and my favorite and/or what I need the most depending on the day, Beyond the Thinking Mind.
While Echkart Tolle is often more deep, dense and difficult than my pedestrian mind can absorb, a few quotes actually make me chuckle such as
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for your self then you are probably creating suffering in others.
If this doesn’t remind you of yourself, then I’m almost positive there’s a family member who does, whom you might have even spent time with last week sharing a holiday meal with.
But back to why I bring these cards up….. Recently I was telling my husband how “weird” it is that I keep picking this one particular card. I then shuffle the deck 3 times, cut it twice then spread the cards out face down in a fan and lo and behold I pick the card AGAIN.
Mastery of Life is the opposite of control.
What are the odds out of a deck of 50 that I repeatedly pick that card one of every 7-10 times? And even weirder I pick it within minutes of talking about it? Coincidence? Chance? I’m not so sure.
Like physical pain, which is simply a message your body is telling you to pay attention to, I believe a repeated message like this is something to pay attention to.
As many things as I think I’ve released and let go of, such as not always being a back seat driver or letting my teens “fly” and make some mistakes, clearly I am a work in progess.
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