The Discovery of Inner Space

First, What a meeting last week! 50 people joining together to share the Sacred State of Presence! What a gift it is to be a part of such an enlightened community. I'm truly grateful.

Second, I am very enthusiastic about February as we will be having two meetups.

First, on the 19th we will be joining to discuss and hopefully experience what Tolle refers to as "Inner Space." Then on the 26th, we will be coming together to explore how to apply these teachings in our intimate relationships at our Enlightened Relationships Meetup.

For more info on these meetups visit
www.meetup.com/bellevuetollegroup


This is an exciting time for this growth of this community, and the growth of Awakened Awareness on our planet.

"Most people's lives are cluttered up with things: material things, things to do, things to think about. Their lives are like the history of humanity, which Winston Churchill defined as "one damn thing after another." Their minds are filled up with the clutter of thoughts, one thought after another. This is the dimension of object consciousness that is many people's predominant reality, and that is why their lives are so out of balance. Object consciousness needs to be balanced by space consciousness for sanity to return to our planet and for humanity to fulfill its destiny. The arising of space consciousness is the next stage in the evolution of humanity." pg 227 of A New Earth

Knowing the Universe as Yourself

Join us as we discuss this further this Thursday at Bellevue Unity Church at 7:00pm. The links below will take you to the meetup pages.

www.meetup.com/bellevuetollegroup

Higher Order

Behind the sometimes seemingly random or even chaotic succession of events in our lives as well as in the world lies concealed the unfolding of a higher order and purpose. This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying "The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place." We can never understand this higher order through our thinking about it because whatever we think about is content; whereas, the higher order emanates from the formless realm of consciousness, from universal intelligence. But we can glimpse it, and more than that, align ourselves with it, which means be conscious participants in the unfolding of that higher purpose. (A New Earth pg 194)

Join us on January 22, 2009 at Bellevue Unity Church as we continue to discuss this as well as other themes from Tolle's book, A New Earth

For more information visit the meetup site at www.meetup.com/bellevuetollegroup

As Without so Within

When you look up at the clear sky at night, you may easily realize a truth at once utterly simple and extraordinarily profound. What is it that you see? The moon, planets, stars, the luminous band of the Milky Way, perhaps a comet or even the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy two million light years away. Yes, but if you simplify even more, what do you see? Objects floating in space. So what does the universe consist of? Objects and space.

If you don't become speechless when looking out into space on a clear night, you are not really looking, not aware of the totality of what is there. You are probably only looking at the objects and perhaps seeking to name them. If you have ever experienced a sense of awe when looking into space, perhaps even felt a deep reverence in the face of this incomprehensible mystery, it means you must have relinquished for a moment your desire to explain and label and have become not only aware of the objects in space but of the infinite depth of space itself. You must have become still enough inside to notice the vastness in which these countless worlds exist. The feeling of awe is not derived from the fact that there are billions of worlds out there, but the depth that contains them all...

There is something within you that has an affinity with space; that is why you can be aware of it. Aware of it? That is not totally true either because how can you be aware of space if there is nothing there to be aware of?

The answer is both simple and profound. When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself--the inner space of consciousness. Through you, the universe is becoming aware of itself! (A New Earth pg 218)