Enlightenment!

 

I have been "absent" for a few days as I have been studying and resting.  I recently heard of a book called "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle.  It re-awakened something in me I had forgotten.  It also helped me understand how to explain this truth I have come to know.

 

I know this is a particularly long entry and it is also a rare one as I do not often talk about myself.  That is not the purpose of this journal.  I do believe however it is important for those who come here to know me and where my coaching comes from.  So, should you find interest, please continue.

 

The story I share with you now is to illustrate what Mr. Tolle's book is about.  I share it only because it was a gift given to me and one I would like to share with you.

 

I was a very small child.  The smallest in my class.  I was also always the "new kid" as I had to change school's two times a year.  I got beat up and teased a lot.

 

When I was six I received a particularly brutal beating on the play ground.  In actuality it was a fenced in parking lot with a black top surface.  On this occasion the play ground was in Florida and in Florida they reinforce their black top with crushed shells.  It makes the surface sturdy, but jagged and sharp.  If you fall, at the very lest you are going to need Band-Aid's on your knees and hands.

 

I was in the center of a group of kids and they were hitting me and kicking from one side of the circle to the other.  When they grew tired of this, one boy grabbed both my feet and one boy grabbed my hands and they started swinging me like they were going to toss a me.  I remember the last time someone did this to me.  My sister and her husband and "tucked" me into bed this way, it was great fun.  This however was different.  There would be no soft landing.

 

I remember crying and begging them to stop, wishing they would stop, praying they would stop.  As the boys were swinging me something happened.   I wasn't angry.  I felt sad and overwhelming pity for the children who were tormenting me.  I knew that it wasn't truly them who were doing this to me. Through all of this, only their humanity shone through.

 

They eventually decided not to toss me, and just dropped me instead, which I was grateful for, but more so, I was thankful that awakening.  That first time I was able to be in the  moment and realize that I didn't have to let it change me.

 

Through out my life there were more times when I had moments like these, and many times I was given the gift of seeing that awakening in another person.

 

The book "A New Earth" reminded me of many of the truths that I had come to know when I was young.  I hadn't forgotten them nor did I stop applying them, I just didn't realize all of the times and places and situations I could apply them to.  I look forward to a fuller awakening and enlightenment and hope that many will join me.

 

It is the path to peace.

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