Eckhart Tolle. May 2026

Tolle. May 2026

Pause. Silence. Are you here?  

Be here. Be present. Ensure you are here.
There is only the present moment.
Undeniable existence of time.  In change, in deterioration, in growth.
What transcends your dimension of self?
Common word, I. Identity. Self. Aliveness. Inner. Me. Experience. Ego. Physical body. (Image, figure, function/ capacities, clothes, knowledge, selfies).  I get amplified with attention through technology.

We have become a fiction the mind has created.  That is what is now meant by I, me. I eat, I go, I achieve, I… in service of the fictitious self.
Always comparative. Ego. Must find superiority. Creates the drama to realise itself. Competitive. Always ranking. Makes a judgement to restore and repair it’s elevated sense of self.

Trapped in identity, image of self to be triumphant. Fears insufficiency. Becomes a victim of other people, happily or insecurely.

Danger is victimhood now incorporated into one’s sense of identity, one’s egoic unconscious patterns, an individual or culture.
A victim is morally superior to the victimiser or group of aggressors.  Always comparative. Become victim identity. Trapped in this false identity which produces suffering, unhappiness, pain of an underlying unease that not quite right/living/ enough. Develops enemies to exist. Our unconscious is shown through our opinions and an attack of opinion feels like an attack on this unconscious embedded self.  An insanity built in. In this framework, to love self is to need to have enemies.

We have become a thought construct, mental conception in a physical body. Fictitious but real to the self. Thought bombs when all bound together with many thoughts. Thinking happens to them, not true self doing the thinking.
Thinking narratives that talks, comments, to the negative and comparative, fear of losing,
Thinking narrative fell in love and then fell out and found its enemy.

Witness your inner states. Thoughts, emotions, sensations, etc.

Life continually challenges us, obstacles exist. We become our own greatest hindrance. Suffering exists. Ego at mercy of future is anxiety, another victimhood of thoughts.
Unconscious egoic state experiences suffering from what it feels itself about what are encountering. When irritation arises, is it the situation or my assessment to the situation?
What is truly so bad?

Breathing, accepting, surrendered to the present moment. What is. No longer arguing with the is of the moment. Voice in head is not who we are. So if we are not this construct or narrative or reactions or image, then who am I!?

Awareness, awakening to self, to present moment, witness, sign posts in life, stillness, moments is still presence. Alert, aware of senses,  i am. The way, the truth, the life, the is.  The deep i am, the divine, to realise the i am. Jesus example of way to i am just like the Universal Christ. Buddha, Divine, God within.

Life to awaken to divine within. Einstein said, to know the mind of God, the rest is details. Not to lose in doing. To be in the underlying presence of divine in our being. Thinking in service to this knowing.

We are not just human of past and future but a human being, the is in addition. Acknowledgments of own and others’ being by listening fully, being fully present, must see in self to see in another.
Connect on the being level, ego only finds separation.
Quality of interaction changes. Affection ensues. In the being we are alive, full.
Not every language has word for human being.  We are human beings not human doings. 
Bible story of Martha and Mary. Concern not about the many, concern about the one thing that is needed. Not to be busy, to be present. Being dimension is primary to the doing. These are to be together, not to be stressed, that distances us, separates us from what is. Be active and present in the doing to be, for the moment, complete. Being flows into the doing, time collapsed. No moment is of greater value.

Karma yoga, fullness of attention in the spiritual practice of doing, of action. Acceptance to do willingly, aligned in present, no suffering because not comparative. Quality of doing greatly enhanced.
Can lose self in doing or being.
Enjoy, embrace, accept what you are and do and experience.
If upset, change inner or walk away.

And Vertical dimension. Intersection is present moment. What is present to be aware of, give attention to something opens us to this dimension. What is, present moment, conscious action, honouring this, starting with senses and breath.

Not to have an antagonist relationship with what is. That would be crazy. But normal today is crazy.
To be in beauty before notice it.  As soon as thought comes in, Beauty gets diminished into narrative or conceptualisation.
As soon as child learns the name of the bird, they will never see the bird again. The veil that separates is the mental concept.
Acknowledge it’s being and experience it. Let it be.
Not create conceptualisation. Do so when speak if it.

Present moment, sense perception. Stillness and consciousness.
Anchor in vertical while perceiving in the horizontal.

Silent power. Alert, still presence.
This is the world. It is in me, you, everywhere. Logos, divine reason within all consciousness of all life forms. Incarnation is divine. Tao.  Spirit. . The soul of the world.

Purpose of life is to realise beauty in self, inight of surrender, give it attention and affection, believe world is consciousness like radio to music.

AI not producing, it is a vehicle for consciousness. Stay present.  Go beyond thinking to awareness.

SUMMARY

Continuous acknowledgement of the present moment, being ourselves, transcendent I.

How do what you do is primary.

Bring presence in what doing.

Who and how more important than what.