Day 15: 30 seconds of KB 3. 30 seconds of new LB.
Still noticing some subtle signs from others that my stack is working. But I know to just stick with it and even if I don’t get all the internal changes as fast as I want, things are working and shifting for me.
I started listening to Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle yesterday. I’m doing the audiobook. That was the first spiritual book I ever read. So I guess I was lucky that I never got into any culty stuff and never had to fear that, being an introvert helps and hsp. The people I found who I like the most are not people who want you dependent on them, they are the opposite. They want to awaken you to the truth of who and what you are.
In my experience the types who are afraid of everything being a cult, are already conditioned and set in their beliefs. They don’t want anything to possibly shift their version of reality. I’ve always wanted the ultimate reality even if it’s not what I believe. I like to give up those beliefs because I know they’re only limitations. Like I don’t have to believe that the sun will rise tomorrow, because it just does.
One time somebody I worked with was telling me to listen to Alan Watts, and the ego guy walks by and says it sounds like a cult. It’s anything but, but that’s what I mean. Although I myself have held myself back from many great opportunities and experiences because of my own insecurities and limiting beliefs as well. But I think generally people are conditioned and trained to belief in certain things, and oftentimes it is limiting. Yet they’ll argue for it, they call it the agent smith effect. Like it’s not about being stupid, nobody’s going to touch a hot stove on purpose, unless it’s their first time. That is also how we learn, we make mistakes, we take chances. That’s the stuff we overcome to become and do what we want.
So I’m hearing it differently now. I listened to it a few years ago at least like 20 times in a row. It was definitely part of the reason I had some spiritual awakening type experiences. On my first listen this time I just felt kind of good, like I knew it was good. So I plan to listen to it like 10 times in a row and go through what I consider my foundational books that deserve a read every year.
One thing that stuck out was he says constant growth isn’t actually a good thing. It can be destructive or something. And that disillusionment is kind of necessary because it makes you go within and turn back to the spiritual. If life was perfect and I was happy I never would have gotten into listening to the enlightened types.
I had planned on quoting eckhart directly but I don’t feel like going back through the physical book to get the right quotes and sections. But definitely a book that’s helped me and something I’ll listen to or read probably once a year from here on out.