Motivational Inspirational quote

Eckhart Tolle, from The Power of Now

 

“Until my thirtieth year, I lived in a state of almost continuous anxiety interspersed with periods of suicidal depression. ...One night not long after my twenty-ninth birthday, I woke up in the early hours with a feeling of absolute dread. I had awoken up with such a feeling many times before, but this time it was more intense than it had ever been. ...everything felt so alien, so hostile, and so utterly meaningless that it created in me a deep loathing of the world. The most loathsome thing of all, however, was my own existence. ...I could feel that a deep longing for annihilation, for nonexistence, was now becoming much stronger than the instinctive desire to continue to live. ...I could feel myself being sucked into a void. It felt as if the void was inside myself rather than outside. Suddenly there was no more fear, and I let myself fall into the void. I have no recollection of what happened after that. ...I was awakened by the chirping of a bird outside the window. I had never heard such a sound before. My eyes were still closed, and I saw the image of a precious diamond. I opened my eyes. The first light of dawn was filtering through the curtains. Without any thought, I felt, I knew, that there is infinitely more to light than we realize. ...Tears came into my eyes. I got up and walked around the room. I recognized the room, and yet I knew that I had never truly seen it before. Everything was fresh and pristine, as if it had just come into existence. I picked up things, a pencil, an empty bottle, marveling at the beauty and aliveness of it all. That day I walked around the city in utter amazement at the miracle of life on earth, as if I had just been born into this world. ...[Later] a time came when, for a while, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.”

        

Eckhart Tolle, from The Power of Now

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Motivational Inspirational quote (s) excerpted from:

THE WAY OF WONDER: a return to the mystery of ourselves

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