Awakened Doing

We are in the midst of a momentous event in the evolution of human consciousness, but they won't be talking about it in the news tonight.

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from A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
by Eckhart Tolle
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Awakened Doing is the alignment of your outer purpose - action - with your inner purpose - awakening and staying awake. Joining these two, we align our lives with the creative power of the universe. Our state of consciousness thus becomes the primary factor - the situation and what we do become secondary. Actions no longer arise from the reactive force of ego but from the alert attention of the awakened consciousness.

Three Modalities of Awakened Doing:

Acceptance

“For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and I do so willingly.”

Performing an action in the state of acceptance means you are at peace while you do it, and that you have chosen to take responsibility for your state of consciousness.

Enjoyment

“The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.”

Joy is the dynamic aspect of Being - it blossoms when we decide to make the present moment, not the past or future, the focal point of our life. As we awaken to our life’s purpose, enjoyment replaces ego-driven wanting as the motivation behind our actions.

Enthusiasm

“Enthusiasm means there is deep enjoyment in what you do plus an added element of a goal or vision that you work toward.”

When a sense of goal is added to enjoyment, a creative tension is generated which adds enormous intensity and energy to what you do. Enthusiasm knows where it is going while remaining deeply at one with the present moment, the source of its aliveness, joy and power.

Enthusiasm is the power through which our creative energy expresses itself in the physical dimension. That is the creative use of mind, and it involves no wanting or grasping. You cannot manifest what you want - you can only manifest what you already have.

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Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it,
and it will be yours - Jesus Christ

We are both the Cosmic Force and the Vehicle - Genpo Roshi
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