There’s this profound notion about life, love and truth.

This idea goes back into my teenage years when I was first starting to read spiritual books. Now I am 28 and I’ve read my fair share of books on spirituality.

One of the first authors that I got familiar was Eckhart Tolle, he has written the books A New Earth and The Power of Now among some others like Stillness Speaks.

Anyhow. I stumbled upon this topic through Tolle first and he is known for writing beautiful things about the human experience and the truth about presence and in A New Earth he talks of a new humanity that lives in presence and doesn’t do violence or any of that stuff.

So he talked about this new way of being which he realized by going through deep suffering himself in midst of which he almost harmed himself, or committed suicide.

He taught this valuable lesson about being human to me and it was something along the lines of that ‘We are here, not from here’.

So I am having still a little bit of a hard time articulating this since I’ve not written on it before but it’s something to ponder really and it is one of the deepest and wisest things still to this day for me.

The Innocence of Existing

So I think it really relates to this thing which is that the world is tough and we live in a tough world but truth, love and consciousness are truly soft.

It’s like we’re these really sensitive things that are born into tough circumstances.

So I am trying to write about this but it’s so hard to put this into a metaphor but I am trying my best.

Determinism

I don’t think that anyone could really say that we chose to exist. We were simply born without any questions asked into this world and now the world is this brutal place at worst.

So Eckhart’s conclusion was this really compassionate thing to me. Compassion arises when we realize that our souls are pure and any being that is conscious of the real nature of things would obviously be a being that is conscious about innocence in a big way.

It’s similar to what Jesus Christ taught I am pretty sure.

So we really are in this world, but we are from a very different world.

Use this as a thought experiment;

Would you choose to have a world where there is no violence or suffering?

Consciousness

Every conscious being out there which is what we are, would choose a world where there was no violence or suffering.

So is it really a choice to live in this crazy world?

It truly is not. We were not given a choice about the way circumstances are.

This is really something that I’ve come to become more aware of, is that people, animals, everything out there is just innocent in it’s nature.

So that’s what the statement means that ‘We are in this world but we are not from this world’.

Because if we as conscious beings were actually given the power to make the world a peaceful, loving and completely free of violence and suffering, every being that is conscious and present would make that choice.

So yeah. I hope this all makes sense because let me tell you this realization has really shaped my spirituality ever since first reading it over 10 years ago.

Isn’t it really beautiful to know that most of us are just awesome and good in our nature in that way, although the world isn’t always good.

Real Kindness

If you’re familiar with Eckhart then you might know that he’s a really kind man, and that comes from his years of experience and going through tremendous hardship in his life. I really like the guy for that reason and I think he’s an incredible spiritual teacher.

He is one of my earliest inspirations in wanting to become a writer myself and one thing he taught me is laughter because as he would say, the universe is really magical.

Ultimately the Tantrika realizes that even death can not stop him or her.

-Christopher Wallis